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K. Rich. I am satisfied. Give me a bowl of wine:
I have not the alacrity of spirit,
Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.[1]
In his enquiry as to the sadness of the spirited Lord Surrey, and his observation of the melancholy of so powerful a leader as the Earl of Northumberland, Richard makes exactly the same reference to the disordered state of his own mind, as Macbeth does, while to the Physician he appears anxious only for the recovery of the Queen.
Macb. How does your patient, Doctor?
Doct. Not so sick, my lord,
- ↑ K. Richard, Act v. Sc. 3.
