Is the king dead? the empire unpossess’d?
STAN.
Richmond is on the seas.
K. RICH.
There let him sink, and be the seas on him!
White-liver’d runagate, 296 what doth he there?
STAN.
I know not, mighty sovereign, but by guess.
K. RICH.
Well, sir, as you guess, as you guess?
STAN.
Stirr’d up by Dorset, Buckingham, and Ely,
He makes for England, there to claim the crown.
K. RICH.
Is the chair empty? is the sword unsway’d?
Is the king dead? the empire unpossess’d?
What heir of York is there alive but we?
And who is England’s king but great
York’s heir? Then, tell me, what doth he upon the sea?
