Bishop of Carlisle - Scansion

 

                /   x         /    x      /

116        Marry. / God for / bid![1]

 

                  /      x     x     /      x    /        x         /     x     /

117        Worst in / this roy / al pre / sence may / I speak,

 

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118        Yet best / beseem / ing me / to speak / the truth.

 

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119        Would God / that an / y in / this no / ble pre / sence[2]

 

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120        Were e[3] / nough no[4] / ble to / be up / right judge

 

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121        Of no / ble Rich / ard! then / true no / blesse would

 

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122        Learn him[5] / forbear / ance from / so foul / a wrong.

 

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123        What sub / ject can / give sen / tence on / his king?

 

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124        And who / sits here / that is / not Rich / ard's sub / ject?[6]

 

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125        Thieves are[7] / not judged / but they / are by / to hear,

 

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126        Although / appar / ent guilt / be seen / in them;

 

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127        And shall / the fig / ure of / God's ma[8] / jesty,

 

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128        His cap / tain, stew / ard, dep / uty / -elect,

 

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129        Anoint / ed, crown / ed, plant / ed man / y years,

 

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130        Be judged / by sub / ject and / infer / ior breath,

 

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131        And he / himself / not pre / sent?[9] O, / forfend / it, God,[10]

 

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132        That in / a Christ / ian clim / ate souls / refined

 

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133        Should show / so hei / nous, black, / obscene / a deed!

 

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134        I speak / to sub / jects, and / a sub / ject speaks,

 

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135        Stirr'd up[11] / by God, / thus bold / ly for / his king:

 

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136        My Lord / of Here / ford here, / whom you / call king,

 

               x x           /      /         x  x         /        /         x        /

137        Is a[12] / foul trait[13] / or to / proud Here / ford's king:

 

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138        And if / you crown / him, let / me pro / phesy:

 

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139        The blood / of Eng / lish shall / manure / the ground,

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140        And fu / ture ag / es groan / for this / foul act;

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141        Peace shall[14] / go sleep / with Turks / and in / fidels,

 

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142        And in / this seat / of peace / tumult / uous wars

 

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143        Shall kin / with kin / and kind / with kind / confound;[15]

 

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144        Disord / er, horr / or, fear / and mu / tiny

 

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145        Shall here / inhab / it, and / this land / be call'd

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146        The field / of Gol / gotha / and dead / men's skulls.

 

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147        O, if[16] / you raise / this house / against / this house,

 

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148        It will / the woe / fullest / divis / ion prove

 

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149        That ev / er fell / upon / this curs / ed earth.

 

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150        Prevent / it, re / sist it, / let it / not be / so,[17]

 

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151        Lest child, / child's child / ren[18], cry / against / you woe!

[1] Line 116: short line

[2] Line 119: Feminine Ending

[3] Line 120: Pyrrhic

[4] Line 120: Spondee

[5] LIne 122: Trochee

[6] Line 124: Feminine Ending

[7] Line 125: Trochee

[8] Line 127: Spondee

[9] Line 131: Midline stop

[10] Line 131: Alexandrine

[11] Line 135: Trochee

[12] Line 137: Pyrrhic

[13] Line 137: Spondee

[14] Line 141: Trochee

[15] Line 143: Alliteration (“k” sound)

[16] Line 147: Trochee

[17] Line 150: Feminine Ending

[18] Line 151: Repetition: (Child)