In Act IV, scene iv of this play, one character addresses the woman she once called "vain flourish of my fortune," now calling her "she that scorned at me, now scorned of me."
In Act IV, scene iv of this play, one character addresses the woman she once called "vain flourish of my fortune," now calling her "she that scorned at me, now scorned of me." That addressee, Elizabeth, is in mourning because of a murder committed by James Tyrrel, an act about which the title character remarks that "sin will pluck on sin." In the opening scene, a character is being sent to prison for having a name beginning with "G," and the protagonist determines to "hate the idle pleasures of these days" because he "cannot prove a lover." His opening monologue also features a complaint that his only pastime is to "descant on [his] own deformity" and a line about the passing of "the winter of our discontent." FTP, name this play by Shakespeare about the last York king.
In Act IV, scene iv of this play, one character addresses the woman she once called "vain flourish of my fortune," now calling her "she that scorned at me, now scorned of me."
The Tragedy of King {Richard III}