Being king means you don't have to move! Which is the point of the sleeves in the first place!

The verse is sublime, I'll give you that. I s'pose I just become bored easily when everything is so beautiful.

Bah. Now you sound like my students. I think the thing that makes the beautiful verse work is that it's about all sorts of unbeautiful things.

I will probably do the thread this evening once I have gotten to a point where I feel loopy enough to say vaguely uninhibited things about my vaguely unnatural relationship to Richard II.