...a dish of wood : My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff: My subjects for a pair of carved saints, And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave. . . (in, iii, 147-54) As Richard reviews the symbols of his office in progression, his thoughts grow...

...for a dish of wood, My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff, My subjects for a pair of carved saints, And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little, little grave, an obscure grave; Or I'll be buried in the King's highway, Some way of common trade where subjects' feet...

...for a dish of wood, My sceptre for a palmer's walking staff, My subjects for a pair of carved saints, And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave; Or I'll be buried in the king's high way, Some way of common trade, where subjects'...

...for a dish of wood, My sc6ptre for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints, And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave Or I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' f6et...

...for a dish of wood, My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff, My subjects for a pair of carved saints, iam obscure grave; — Or I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects'...

...for a dish of wood: My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff: My subjects for a pair of carved saints, And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. The shiver of those anaphoric clauses is followed by a profusion of gruesome images...

...she would once have thought it to summon storms with a wave of her hand. FIFTEEN THE GAP IS THE GRAVE And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave; — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE / GUESS I MANAGED TO SLEEP A LITTLE AFTER ALL. Truth uncoiled...

...for a dish of wood: My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff: My subjects for a pair of carved saints. And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. (III.iii.l47ff.) The shiver of those anaphoric clauses is followed by a profusion of...

...dish of wood, 150 My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff, My subjects for a pair of carved saints, And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little, little grave, an obscure grave; Or I'll be buried in the King's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet...

...Richard, in the Flint Castle scene (3.3), he rushes towards a tragic end, offering, unbidden, to give 'my large kingdom for a little grave, / A little little grave, an obscure grave' (i53-4). His ability to summon up all the possible humiliations that majesty is prone...