From Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Oxford 1911)/Volume 4/The Tragedy of King Richard the Second by Oxford 1911

:O! my liege. :Pardon me, if you please; if not, I, pleas'd :Not to be pardon'd, am content withal. :Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands :The royalties and rights of banish'd Hereford? :Is not Gaunt dead, and doth not Hereford live? :Was not Gaunt just, and is not Harry true? :Did not the one deserve to have an heir? :Is not his heir a well-deserving son? :Take Hereford's rights away, and take from Time :His charters and his customary rights; :Let not to-morrow then ensue to-day; :Be not thyself; for how art thou a king :But by fair sequence and succession? :Now, afore God,—God forbid I say true!— :If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights, :Call in the letters-patents that he hath :By his attorneys-general to sue :His livery, and deny his offer'd homage, :You pluck a thousand dangers on your head, :You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts, :And prick my tender patience to those thoughts :Which honour and allegiance cannot think.

York Monologue from Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Oxford 1911)/Volume 4/The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

Rehearse York's monologue