_Boling._ Your will be done: this must my comfort be, That sun that warms you here shall shine on me; 145 And those his golden beams to you here lent[882] Shall point on me and gild my banishment.
_K. Rich._ Norfolk, for thee remains a heavier doom,[883] Which I with some unwillingness pronounce: The sly slow hours shall not determinate[884] 150 The dateless limit of thy dear exile;[885] The hopeless word of 'never to return' Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life.[886]
_Mow._ A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege, And all unlook'd for from your highness' mouth: 155 A dearer merit, not so deep a maim[887] As to be cast forth in the common air, Have I deserved at your highness' hands. The language I have learn'd these forty years,[888] My native English, now I must forego: 160 And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp; Or like a cunning instrument cased up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony: 165 Within my mouth you have engaol'd my tongue,[889][890] Doubly portcullis'd with my teeth and lips;[889][891] And dull unfeeling barren ignorance[889] Is made my gaoler to attend on me.[889][892] I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, 170 Too far in years to be a pupil now: What is thy sentence then but speechless death,[893] Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath?
_K. Rich._ It boots thee not to be compassionate:[894] After our sentence plaining comes too late.[895] 175
_Mow._ Then thus I turn me from my country's light, To dwell in solemn shades of endless night.[896]
_K. Rich._ Return again, and take an oath with thee.[897] Lay on our royal sword your banish'd hands; Swear by the duty that you owe to God--[898][899] 180 Our part therein we banish with yourselves-- To keep the oath that we administer: You never shall, so help you truth and God![899][900] Embrace each other's love in banishment; Nor never look upon each other's face;[901] 185 Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile[901][902] This louring tempest of your home-bred hate;[903] Nor never by advised purpose meet[901] To plot, contrive, or complot any ill[904] 'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land. 190
_Boling._ Norfolk, so far as to mine enemy:--[907] By this time, had the king permitted us, One of our souls had wander'd in the air, 195 Banish'd this frail sepulchre of our flesh, As now our flesh is banish'd from this land: Confess thy treasons ere thou fly the realm;[908] Since thou hast far to go, bear not along The clogging burthen of a guilty soul. 200