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Speeches (Lines) for Groom
in "Richard II"

Total: 4

# Act, Scene, Line
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Speech text

1

V,5,2817

(stage directions). [Enter a Groom of the Stable]

Groom. Hail, royal prince!


2

V,5,2823

King Richard II. Thanks, noble peer;
The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.
What art thou? and how comest thou hither,
Where no man never comes but that sad dog
That brings me food to make misfortune live?

Groom. I was a poor groom of thy stable, king,
When thou wert king; who, travelling towards York,
With much ado at length have gotten leave
To look upon my sometimes royal master's face.
O, how it yearn'd my heart when I beheld
In London streets, that coronation-day,
When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary,
That horse that thou so often hast bestrid,
That horse that I so carefully have dress'd!


3

V,5,2834

King Richard II. Rode he on Barbary? Tell me, gentle friend,
How went he under him?

Groom. So proudly as if he disdain'd the ground.


4

V,5,2849

King Richard II. If thou love me, 'tis time thou wert away.

Groom. What my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say.