Scroop

Scroop
More health and happiness betide my liege
Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him.
King Richard
Mine ear is open and my heart prepared.
The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold.

Cry woe, destruction, ruin, and decay.
The worst is death, and death will have his day.

Say, is my kingdom lost?
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King Richard
Thou chid’st me well.—Proud Bolingbroke, I come
To change blows with thee for our day of doom.—
This ague fit of fear is overblown.
An easy task it is to win our own.—
Say, Scroop, where lies our uncle with his power?
Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour.

Discharge my followers.
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