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Richard II
Title: Richard II
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1297 | Pages: 5.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Richard II
The Vigorous Falcon
BOLINGBROKE .
O, let no noble eye profane a tear
For me, if I be gored with Mowbray's spear!
As confident as a falcon's flight
Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight…
(To John of Gaunt)
O thou, the earthly author of my blood,
Whose youthful spirit in me regenerate
Doth with a two-fold vigour lift me up
To reach at victory above my head,
Add proof unto mine armour with thy …showed first 75 words of 1297 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1297 total…man he had become through confidence, values, and example. I believe this passage confirms his character and ideas already acquired, but not yet convincingly expressed. Bolingbroke's words rung a tune in Richard's ear that I believed ironically presented what he himself in fact lacked to be, England's perseverant, just, and people's king.
This passage explains the determination, confidence, and origins of Bolingbroke's character as a worthy king even before his banishment and crowning.
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