...the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temple of a king, Keeps Death his court and there the autic ip. Indeed he hath played on this prologue, like a , child on a re breath, a little scene To mouarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks; Infusing him with self and vain...

...have been depos'd, some slain in war ; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd ; Some poison 'd \ breath, a little scene To monarchic, be fear'd, and kill with looks; Infusing him with self and vain...

...daughter; he no want to be king."11 It requires little imagination to appreciate the dangers lurking "within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king," to understand chiefs' fearing a more powerful rival and the constant threat of being hustled into the...

...deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, All murdered. For within the hollow crown 160 That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps death...his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain...

...have been depos'd, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd, Some poison 'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd:...the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court 2 The worst Stuart misreading of all, however, was one which modern historians still make sometimes....

...enemies to Pontius Pilate. To be king, in Richard's rhetoric, is to be marked out for sacrificial death, 'for within the hollow crown | That rounds the mortal temples of a king | Keeps death his court' (3. 2. 156-8): it is the fate, he claims, of all kings, of legitimate monarchy itself; and by that...

...the sad stories and draws a contemptus mundi moral through the image of 'antic Death' keeping court within 'the hollow crown / That rounds the mortal temples of a king' (i60-1). His spirits rise briefly when he is chided by Richmond, but when he learns of the desertion...

...ghosts they have deposed, / Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, / All murthered-for within the hollow crown /That rounds the mortal temples...his state and grinning at his pomp, / Allowing him a breath, a little scene, /To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks; / Infusing him with self and...

...kings: How some have been depos'd, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd, Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd;...temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antick sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To...

...the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed — All murdered; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; . . . — Shakespeare, Richard II THE GREAT KING OF THE RICE CHEST Sado's regency ended in a sealed...