All 9 Uses of
lament
in
The Life and Death of King Richard III
- Set down, set down your honourable load,— If honour may be shrouded in a hearse,— Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament Th' untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.†
Scene 1.2
- Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost, To hear the lamentations of poor Anne, Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughter'd son, Stabb'd by the self-same hand that made these wounds!†
Scene 1.2
- — Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load, Taken from Paul's to be interred there; And still, as you are weary of this weight, Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse.†
Scene 1.2
- But first I'll turn yon fellow in his grave; And then return lamenting to my love.†
Scene 1.2
- My pretty cousins, you mistake me both; I do lament the sickness of the king, As loath to lose him, not your father's death; It were lost sorrow to wail one that's lost.†
Scene 2.2
- — If you will live, lament; if die, be brief, That our swift-winged souls may catch the king's; Or, like obedient subjects, follow him To his new kingdom of perpetual rest.†
Scene 2.2
- Give me no help in lamentation; I am not barren to bring forth complaints: All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes, That I, being govern'd by the watery moon, May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world!†
Scene 2.2
- I am your sorrow's nurse,
And I will pamper it with lamentation.
Scene 2.2 *lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- If yet your gentle souls fly in the air And be not fix'd in doom perpetual, Hover about me with your airy wings And hear your mother's lamentation!†
Scene 4.4
Definition:
-
(lament) to express grief or regret