Richard II Quote Identification Quiz

“Mine eyes are full of tears, I cannot see.”

“I will undo myself.”

“Throw away respect, tradition, form, and ceremonious duty.”

“The love of wicked men converts to fear; that fear to hate, and hate turns one or both to worthy danger.”

“God’s is the quarrel; for God’s substitute, His deputy anointed in His sight.”

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

“Let heaven revenge, for I may never lift an angry arm against His minister.”

“The blood of English shall manure the ground.”

“Down, down I come, like glistering Phaethon.”

“I live with bread like you, feel want, taste grief, need friends.”

“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”

“I do remain as neuter.”

“He is come to open the purple testament of bleeding war.”

“O, that I were a mockery king of snow.”

“I’ll give my jewels for a set of beads.”

“I am Richard II, know ye not that?”

“We’ll make foul weather with despised tears.”

“Not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm from an anointed king.”

“Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings.”

“Conveyers are you all, that rise thus nimbly by a true king’s fall.”

“This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, this earth of majesty.”

“Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs.”

“The king shall have his own again.”

“O, call back yesterday, bid time return.”

“This England never did, nor never shall, lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.”

“You may my glories and my state depose, but not my griefs.”

“Rude misgoverned hands from windows’ tops threw dust and rubbish on King Richard’s head.”

“My grief lies all within, and these external manners of lament are merely shadows.”

“O villain, villain!”

“Yet looks he like a king.”