Today’s Totally Random
Lines
O,
pardon me, my liege! But for my tears,
[kneeling]
The
moist impediments unto my speech,
I
had forestall’d this dear and deep rebuke,
Ere
you with grief had spoke, and I had heard
The
course of it so far.
Prince Henry
King Henry the Fourth Part II Act
IV, Scene iv, Line 269
Well we’ve been in this
scene before. This is where Harry is sitting by his father’s deathbed. Thinking
that the king was dead, Harry picks up the crown laying there, puts it on his
own head, and walks out of the room. The king, obviously not dead yet, wakes up
and thinks that his son wished him dead because he’s in a rush to get the crown
for his own. He gives a long speech to this affect and today’s lines are the
beginning of Harry’s explanation to his father.
Pete’s version - Pardon me father. If I hadn’t
been crying I would have stopped you sooner, before you’d spoken with
grief, and before I’d heard all that you’ve said.
So what did the king say that Harry would’ve stopped him? What didn’t he say!
King Henry went on a
rant about how Harry was rushing him into the grave to get his crown, and how
the country was going to go down the crapper with Harry in charge. Speaking of
England, he ends his rant with
O, thou wilt be a wilderness again,
Peopled with wolves,
thy old inhabitants.
Not showing a whole lot of confidence in his son, is he?
1 comment:
I'm not really buying what Harry is selling. He could have shed his tears without plopping the crown on his head in a hurry.
Excellent sticker choice! I do wonder where you've chosen to place it!
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