William Shakespeare, Richard II, ACT V, SCENE IV

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SCENE IV

The same.
Enter EXTON and Servant.

Exton.
Didst thou not mark the king, what words he spake,

'Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?'

Was it not so?

Serv.
These were his very words.

Exton.
'Have I no friend?' quoth he: he spake it twice,

And urged it twice together, did he not?

Serv.
He did.

Exton.
And speaking it, he wistly look'd on me;

And who should say, 'I would thou wert the man

That would divorce this terror from my heart;'

Meaning the king at Pomfret. Come, let's go: (11)

I am the king's friend, and will rid his foe. [Exeunt.

William Shakespeare. W. G. Clark. W. Aldis Wright. The Globe Shakespeare. New York. Nelson Doubleday, Inc.

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