Richard makes a full circle. He is sent to the Tower of London as a prisoner. He is to remain there. Eventually he tries to escape and then is sentenced to death.

"He was not to die--but rather to pine out a miserable existence--or had the sage onarch any other scheme? The high-spirited Prince was to be cooped up with the Tower- there, where the Earl of Warwick wasted his wretched life" (467).

Richard is now in the presence of the king. The king does not plan on killing Richard, but he wants to make sure everyone knows who is in control. Richard is paraded around and put on display for the public to see his capture and to confess that his is an imposter.

"The appetite was keenest in London; and many tawdry masque and mime was put in motion, to deck the streets through which the defeated youth was to pass. Vainly; he entered London at night, and was conducted privately to Westminster" (429).

Richard is getting close to returing to the king. He arrives at the location he originally attempted an attack against the king. He is willing to turn himself in so long as no one else is blamed for his actions or are seen as an accomplice.

"After three days they drew near Tauton. The Stubble fields, the flowery hedges, the plenteous orchards were passed. From a rising ground they looked upon the walls of the town, and the vacant moor where his camp had stood" (424).

Richard is starting to recognize his fate. As they pass through the Abbey he uses this as an opportunity to reflect on his life and to observe his faith.

"Richard was no whining monk to lament the inevitable, and tamely to await the result. To see an evil was to spur him to seek a remedy: he had given up every expectation of reigning, except such as sprung from his right, and faith in the justice of God" (400).

Richard is being moved and he goes through New Forest on his way to Southampton. He is more desperate as is bondage becomes noticable.

"Clim of the Lyn, my merry man, thou art to track us through the New Forest to Southampton" (400).

"Thus thought Richard; and at that moment, with his limbs aching through their bondage, and with thorbbing temples, liberty in the free forest seemed worth more than a kingdom" (400).

Description: The image shows a pastoral setting with a stream that passes through New Forest.

Richard starts to get a sense of his poisition, recognizing that his resources are near depleted and he is a prisoner.

"Some miles to the east of Yeovil there was a deep stream, whose precipitous banks were covered by a thick underwood that almost concealed the turbid waters, which undermined and bared the twisted and gnarled roots of the various overhanging trees or shrubs" (396).