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Richard Clive persisted in regarding the birth of this eldest son as little less than a curse. He could very well have said of Robert what the Queen-mother says of Richard of Gloster, tetchy and wayward was his infancy. Seldom was there born into the world a more stubborn-minded, high-spirited boy.
If one of them had dared I wonder whether the blood would have liquefied. Do you remember, in the 'Nibelungenlied, that Hagen is forced to prove his innocence by touching Siegfried's corpse and fails? That is the point he fails. Our own Shakespeare knew the dodge. When Henry VI was being borne to Chertsey in an open coffin, the Lady Anne made Gloster squirm by her cry: "O gentlemen, see, see!
The teacher who takes it upon himself to get out this text from the text-book of Universal Laws, for the purpose of conducting it to its practical application in human affairs, for the purpose of suggesting the true remedy for those great human wants which he exhibits here, is not one of those 'Milk-livered men, those Moral Fools, that Goneril delicately alludes to, who bear a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; who have not in their brows an eye discerning their honour from their sufferance; who think it enough to sit still under the murderous blows of what they call misfortune, fate, Providence, when it is their own im-providence; who think it is enough to sit still, and cry, Alack! without inquiring what it is that makes that lack; without ever putting the question in earnest, 'Why does he so? His Play is all full of the practical application of the text, the application of it which Gloster sums up in a word
The first indictment they were all three arraigned upon was for felony and burglary in breaking open the house of one William Meak, in the night-time, and taking from thence twelve Gloster cheeses. But the evidence appearing clear only against Sherwood, alias Hobbs, he alone was convicted and the other two acquitted.
And the Duke of Gloster, when counselling in the Tower with his allies, and plotting to strip his young nephew of his crown and honours, says: 'My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there: I do beseech you send for some of them.
Led by one whose qualification for leadership is, that he is 'Madman and Beggar, too, for as Gloster explains it to us, explaining also at the same time much else that the scenic language of the play, the dumb show, the transitory hieroglyphic of it presents, and all the criticism of it,
'Twill be ill taken. And when the king, on his arrival, kept waiting in the court, in his agony of indignation and grief, is told that Regan and Cornwall are 'sick, 'they are weary, 'they have travelled hard to-night, denounces these subterfuges, and bids Gloster fetch him a better answer, this is the worthy man's reply to him
Of course the officers would not put them in with us, for that would be encouraging a renewal of the fight." "My head aches horribly," remarked Richard, Duke of Gloster "I would give my kingdom for a drink!" "And I," observed Shylock "would like a pound of flesh, providing it were beefsteak, for I am almost famished."
The whole story of the base and base-born one, who makes what he calls nature the rude, brutal, spontaneous nature his goddess and his law, and ignores the human distinction; this part was needed in order to supply the deficiences in the social diagrams which the original plot presented; and, indeed, the whole story of the Duke of Gloster, which is from first to last a clear Elizabethan invention, and of which this of Edmund is but a part, was not less essential for the same purpose.
'Business first and pleasure afterwards, you know." "Yes," said Leslie, "as the excellent Duke of Gloster remarked, when he first killed the old King and then murdered the young Princes." "Pshaw!" replied Harding, "I think I may have heard that before." "Very possibly," said Leslie, too much used to slight rebuffs to pay them any great attention.
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