While talking to a keeper in the forest, Henry VI claims that he has one of these objects in his heart, which is called “content” (“kun-TENT”). A character declares, “With mine own tears I wash away my balm,” and waffles, “Ay, no; no, ay,” when asked about one of these objects in a scene missing from the first three quartos. That character compares himself to a “bucket down and full of tears” and one of these objects to “a deep well / That owes two buckets, filling one another” while telling his “cousin” to (*) “seize” it from one side as he holds the other. A rant on the Welsh coast that claims “within [one of these objects]… keeps Death his court” titles a BBC adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henriad. One of these objects that Richard II had earlier called “hollow” is held by him and Bolingbroke in the Deposition Scene. For 10 points, Henry IV complains, “Uneasy lies the head that wears” what kind of object? ■END■
ANSWER: crowns [accept specific answers like the crown of England; accept The Hollow Crown]
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