What
is’t your highness’ pleasure I shall do at Salisbury?
-Sir Richard Ratcliff
King Richard the Third
Act IV, Scene iv,
Line 453
King Richard seems to be a little off
kilter here. He’s telling Catesby to do one thing and Ratcliff another, and he
doesn’t seem to be quite able to keep track of who he’s talking to and what he’s
telling them to do. He tells Ratcliff to go to Salisbury and a minute later when the Ratcliff
asks the king what he wants him to do at Salisbury, Richard asks him why he’s
going to Salisbury. It reminds me a little of the Monty Python and the Holy
Grail scene where the king is telling the guards to stay and keep an eye on the
prince.
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