Listen To David Tennant's Richard II Speech 'Of Comfort No Man Speak'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg54V2BFQIkfVx7Xuz0m9VI3JsHR5BMgtz-C3MoYsTbB_XItkTNWy7oUgE5F_VPBhk5kcEhwz_dyFDcdkiqk-wLCn5K0DBfUpOOMnrjP97a8iTdx0Q9Y7t6EEbRmbGAXI4Y5Dp21BUadg4/s1600/r10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg54V2BFQIkfVx7Xuz0m9VI3JsHR5BMgtz-C3MoYsTbB_XItkTNWy7oUgE5F_VPBhk5kcEhwz_dyFDcdkiqk-wLCn5K0DBfUpOOMnrjP97a8iTdx0Q9Y7t6EEbRmbGAXI4Y5Dp21BUadg4/s1600/r10.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />The soundtrack to the Royal Shakespeare Company's Richard II is now available to listen to via Spotify.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can listen to David Tennant's speech 'Of Comfort No Man Speak' from Act 3 Scene II below:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="580" src="https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:track:13Di0zphMl770cb666FP7X" width="500"></iframe><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=400753648428227326" name="144" style="background-color: white;"><br /></a><b>Richard II: </b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No matter where; of comfort no man speak:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's choose executors and talk of wills:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yet not so, for what can we bequeath</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Save our deposed bodies to the ground?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And nothing can we call our own but death</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that small model of the barren earth</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And tell sad stories of the death of kings;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How some have been deposed; some slain in war,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All murder'd: for within the hollow crown</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That rounds the mortal temples of a king</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Allowing him a breath, a little scene,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Infusing him with self and vain conceit,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As if this flesh which walls about our life,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Comes at the last and with a little pin</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With solemn reverence: throw away respect,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tradition, form and ceremonious duty,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For you have but mistook me all this while:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I live with bread like you, feel want,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How can you say to me, I am a king?</span><br /><br />

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