THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD I.
ACT I. Scene I. Wellington. A Street. Enter Richard, King of Maoriland and all the Islands adjacent and otherwise solus. {He hasjutt signed the Proclamation Proroguing kh Parliament ) Now is the winter of our discontent, Made glorious summer by this end of talk ; And all the clouds that lowr'd upon our house, In the deep bosom of recess are buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths ; Our bruised votes hung up for monuments ; Our stern divisions changed to merry meetings ; Our dreadful stonewalls to delightful measures. Grim visaged war hath smoothed his Boxer front ; And now, instead of moving barbed Bills To fright the sales of feaiful adversaries, We'll woo the sea to close our eyelids down To the narcotic pleasing of a screw. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, What, though pale Downing Street appear to flout ? Great things are what they are, not what they seem. The Bank's astir, and England's herald gone Where harmless islanders proclaim our praise. A prophecy there is which says, Fiji Of Richard's heirs the appanage shall be. Dive, thoughts, down to my soul : Pirani comes.
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Free Lance, Volume I, Issue 17, 27 October 1900, Page 15
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191THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD I. Free Lance, Volume I, Issue 17, 27 October 1900, Page 15
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