| ACT II SCENE III | A camp in Wales. | |
| [Enter EARL OF SALISBURY and a Welsh Captain] |
| Captain | My lord of Salisbury, we have stay'd ten days, |
| And hardly kept our countrymen together, |
| And yet we hear no tidings from the king; |
| Therefore we will disperse ourselves: farewell. |
| EARL OF SALISBURY | Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman: | 5 |
| The king reposeth all his confidence in thee. |
| Captain | 'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. |
| The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd |
| And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven; |
| The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth | 10 |
| And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change; |
| Rich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap, |
| The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, |
| The other to enjoy by rage and war: |
| These signs forerun the death or fall of kings. | 15 |
| Farewell: our countrymen are gone and fled, |
| As well assured Richard their king is dead. |
| [Exit] |
| EARL OF SALISBURY | Ah, Richard, with the eyes of heavy mind |
| I see thy glory like a shooting star |
| Fall to the base earth from the firmament. | 20 |
| Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west, |
| Witnessing storms to come, woe and unrest: |
| Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes, |
| And crossly to thy good all fortune goes. |
| [Exit] |
