t acceptable in a ruler. Richard goes against the proper order of things when he tries to appropriate the titles and lands which Bolingbroke should inherit from John of Gaunt. York tells him that this is wrong because it challenges the rightful succession of kings as well as of other members of the aristocracy:
Take Hereford's rights way, and take from time
His charters and his customary rights;
Be not thyself; for how art thou a king
But by fair sequence and succession? (II.1.195-199)
In other words, if Richard does this thing, he cannot be a king himself because he will have shattered the rule of succession that gave him his power in the first place.
Richard actually has several character flaws that will lead to his downfall. His first is his changeability, whic
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