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Charlene V. Smith's avatar

As a director, I find Bolingbroke's language when he is exiled of particular interest:

"This must my comfort be:

That sun that warms you here shall shine on me,

And those his golden beams to you here lent

Shall point on me and gild my banishment."

Given the linking of sun with kingship, it doesn't feel accidental.

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Kate Pitt's avatar

Ooo yes! "LENT" feels particularly pointed too.

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