| ACT II SCENE IV | 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. | 5 |
| EARL OF SALISBURY | Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman: | |
| | 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; | 10 |
| | The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth | |
| | 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: | 15 |
| | These signs forerun the death or fall of kings. | |
| | 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 | 20 |
| | Fall to the base earth from the firmament. | |
| | 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. | 25 |
| | Exit | |
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