id,ParagraphNum,PlainText,character_id,chapter_id
630863,3,"[Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending]",1261,18704
630864,4,"If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.",840,18704
630865,19,"Will you go hunt, my lord?",297,18704
630866,20,"What, Curio?",840,18704
630867,21,The hart.,297,18704
630868,22,"Why, so I do, the noblest that I have:
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought she purged the air of pestilence!
That instant was I turn'd into a hart;
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E'er since pursue me.
[Enter VALENTINE]
How now! what news from her?",840,18704
630869,30,"So please my lord, I might not be admitted;
But from her handmaid do return this answer:
The element itself, till seven years' heat,
Shall not behold her face at ample view;
But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk
And water once a day her chamber round
With eye-offending brine: all this to season
A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh
And lasting in her sad remembrance.",1221,18704
630870,39,"O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame
To pay this debt of love but to a brother,
How will she love, when the rich golden shaft
Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else
That live in her; when liver, brain and heart,
These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill'd
Her sweet perfections with one self king!
Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:
Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.",840,18704
630871,48,[Exeunt],1261,18704
630872,50,"[Enter VIOLA, a Captain, and Sailors]",1261,18705
630873,51,"What country, friends, is this?",1238,18705
630874,52,"This is Illyria, lady.",975,18705
630875,53,"And what should I do in Illyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drown'd: what think you, sailors?",1238,18705
630876,56,It is perchance that you yourself were saved.,975,18705
630877,57,O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be.,1238,18705
630878,58,"True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance,
Assure yourself, after our ship did split,
When you and those poor number saved with you
Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,
Most provident in peril, bind himself,
Courage and hope both teaching him the practise,
To a strong mast that lived upon the sea;
Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves
So long as I could see.",975,18705
630879,68,"For saying so, there's gold:
Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,
Whereto thy speech serves for authority,
The like of him. Know'st thou this country?",1238,18705
630880,72,"Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born
Not three hours' travel from this very place.",975,18705
630881,74,Who governs here?,1238,18705
630882,75,"A noble duke, in nature as in name.",975,18705
630883,76,What is the name?,1238,18705
630884,77,Orsino.,975,18705
630885,78,"Orsino! I have heard my father name him:
He was a bachelor then.",1238,18705
630886,80,"And so is now, or was so very late;
For but a month ago I went from hence,
And then 'twas fresh in murmur,--as, you know,
What great ones do the less will prattle of,--
That he did seek the love of fair Olivia.",975,18705
630887,85,What's she?,1238,18705
630888,86,"A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count
That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her
In the protection of his son, her brother,
Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,
They say, she hath abjured the company
And sight of men.",975,18705
630889,92,"O that I served that lady
And might not be delivered to the world,
Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,
What my estate is!",1238,18705
630890,96,"That were hard to compass;
Because she will admit no kind of suit,
No, not the duke's.",975,18705
630891,99,"There is a fair behavior in thee, captain;
And though that nature with a beauteous wall
Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee
I will believe thou hast a mind that suits
With this thy fair and outward character.
I prithee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid
For such disguise as haply shall become
The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke:
Thou shall present me as an eunuch to him:
It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing
And speak to him in many sorts of music
That will allow me very worth his service.
What else may hap to time I will commit;
Only shape thou thy silence to my wit.",1238,18705
630892,114,"Be you his eunuch, and your mute I'll be:
When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.",975,18705
630893,116,I thank thee: lead me on.,1238,18705
630894,117,[Exeunt],1261,18705
630895,119,[Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA],1261,18706
630896,120,"What a plague means my niece, to take the death of
her brother thus? I am sure care's an enemy to life.",159,18706
630897,122,"By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o'
nights: your cousin, my lady, takes great
exceptions to your ill hours.",738,18706
630898,125,"Why, let her except, before excepted.",159,18706
630899,126,"Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest
limits of order.",738,18706
630900,128,"Confine! I'll confine myself no finer than I am:
these clothes are good enough to drink in; and so be
these boots too: an they be not, let them hang
themselves in their own straps.",159,18706
630901,132,"That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard
my lady talk of it yesterday; and of a foolish
knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer.",738,18706
630902,135,"Who, Sir Andrew Aguecheek?",159,18706
630903,136,"Ay, he.",738,18706
630904,137,He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria.,159,18706
630905,138,What's that to the purpose?,738,18706
630906,139,"Why, he has three thousand ducats a year.",159,18706
630907,140,"Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats:
he's a very fool and a prodigal.",738,18706
630908,142,"Fie, that you'll say so! he plays o' the
viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages
word for word without book, and hath all the good
gifts of nature.",159,18706
630909,146,"He hath indeed, almost natural: for besides that
he's a fool, he's a great quarreller: and but that
he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he
hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent
he would quickly have the gift of a grave.",738,18706
630910,151,"By this hand, they are scoundrels and subtractors
that say so of him. Who are they?",159,18706
630911,153,"They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in your company.",738,18706
630912,154,"With drinking healths to my niece: I'll drink to
her as long as there is a passage in my throat and
drink in Illyria: he's a coward and a coystrill
that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn
o' the toe like a parish-top. What, wench!
Castiliano vulgo! for here comes Sir Andrew Agueface.",159,18706
630913,160,[Enter SIR ANDREW],1261,18706
630914,161,"Sir Toby Belch! how now, Sir Toby Belch!",60,18706
630915,162,Sweet Sir Andrew!,159,18706
630916,163,"Bless you, fair shrew.",60,18706
630917,164,"And you too, sir.",738,18706
630918,165,"Accost, Sir Andrew, accost.",159,18706
630919,166,What's that?,60,18706
630920,167,My niece's chambermaid.,159,18706
630921,168,"Good Mistress Accost, I desire better acquaintance.",60,18706
630922,169,"My name is Mary, sir.",738,18706
630923,170,"Good Mistress Mary Accost,--",60,18706
630924,171,"You mistake, knight; 'accost' is front her, board
her, woo her, assail her.",159,18706
630925,173,"By my troth, I would not undertake her in this
company. Is that the meaning of 'accost'?",60,18706
630926,175,"Fare you well, gentlemen.",738,18706
630927,176,"An thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst
never draw sword again.",159,18706
630928,178,"An you part so, mistress, I would I might never
draw sword again. Fair lady, do you think you have
fools in hand?",60,18706
630929,181,"Sir, I have not you by the hand.",738,18706
630930,182,"Marry, but you shall have; and here's my hand.",60,18706
630931,183,"Now, sir, 'thought is free:' I pray you, bring
your hand to the buttery-bar and let it drink.",738,18706
630932,185,"Wherefore, sweet-heart? what's your metaphor?",60,18706
630933,186,"It's dry, sir.",738,18706
630934,187,"Why, I think so: I am not such an ass but I can
keep my hand dry. But what's your jest?",60,18706
630935,189,"A dry jest, sir.",738,18706
630936,190,Are you full of them?,60,18706
630937,191,"Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends: marry,
now I let go your hand, I am barren.",738,18706
630938,193,[Exit],1261,18706
630939,194,"O knight thou lackest a cup of canary: when did I
see thee so put down?",159,18706
630940,196,"Never in your life, I think; unless you see canary
put me down. Methinks sometimes I have no more wit
than a Christian or an ordinary man has: but I am a
great eater of beef and I believe that does harm to my wit.",60,18706
630941,200,No question.,159,18706
630942,201,"An I thought that, I'ld forswear it. I'll ride home
to-morrow, Sir Toby.",60,18706
630943,203,"Pourquoi, my dear knight?",159,18706
630944,204,"What is 'Pourquoi'? do or not do? I would I had
bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in
fencing, dancing and bear-baiting: O, had I but
followed the arts!",60,18706
630945,208,Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair.,159,18706
630946,209,"Why, would that have mended my hair?",60,18706
630947,210,Past question; for thou seest it will not curl by nature.,159,18706
630948,211,"But it becomes me well enough, does't not?",60,18706
630949,212,"Excellent; it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I
hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs
and spin it off.",159,18706
630950,215,"Faith, I'll home to-morrow, Sir Toby: your niece
will not be seen; or if she be, it's four to one
she'll none of me: the count himself here hard by woos her.",60,18706
630951,218,"She'll none o' the count: she'll not match above
her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit; I
have heard her swear't. Tut, there's life in't,
man.",159,18706
630952,222,"I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the
strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques
and revels sometimes altogether.",60,18706
630953,225,"Art thou good at these kickshawses, knight?",159,18706
630954,226,"As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, under the
degree of my betters; and yet I will not compare
with an old man.",60,18706
630955,229,"What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?",159,18706
630956,230,"Faith, I can cut a caper.",60,18706
630957,231,And I can cut the mutton to't.,159,18706
630958,232,"And I think I have the back-trick simply as strong
as any man in Illyria.",60,18706
630959,234,"Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have
these gifts a curtain before 'em? are they like to
take dust, like Mistress Mall's picture? why dost
thou not go to church in a galliard and come home in
a coranto? My very walk should be a jig; I would not
so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace. What
dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in?
I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy
leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard.",159,18706
630960,243,"Ay, 'tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a
flame-coloured stock. Shall we set about some revels?",60,18706
630961,245,What shall we do else? were we not born under Taurus?,159,18706
630962,246,Taurus! That's sides and heart.,60,18706
630963,247,"No, sir; it is legs and thighs. Let me see the
caper; ha! higher: ha, ha! excellent!",159,18706
630964,249,[Exeunt],1261,18706
630965,251,[Enter VALENTINE and VIOLA in man's attire],1261,18707
630966,252,"If the duke continue these favours towards you,
Cesario, you are like to be much advanced: he hath
known you but three days, and already you are no stranger.",1221,18707
630967,255,"You either fear his humour or my negligence, that
you call in question the continuance of his love:
is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?",1238,18707
630968,258,"No, believe me.",1221,18707
630969,259,I thank you. Here comes the count.,1238,18707
630970,260,"[Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and Attendants]",1261,18707
630971,261,"Who saw Cesario, ho?",840,18707
630972,262,"On your attendance, my lord; here.",1238,18707
630973,263,"Stand you a while aloof, Cesario,
Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd
To thee the book even of my secret soul:
Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her;
Be not denied access, stand at her doors,
And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow
Till thou have audience.",840,18707
630974,270,"Sure, my noble lord,
If she be so abandon'd to her sorrow
As it is spoke, she never will admit me.",1238,18707
630975,273,"Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds
Rather than make unprofited return.",840,18707
630976,275,"Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?",1238,18707
630977,276,"O, then unfold the passion of my love,
Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:
It shall become thee well to act my woes;
She will attend it better in thy youth
Than in a nuncio's of more grave aspect.",840,18707
630978,281,"I think not so, my lord.",1238,18707
630979,282,"Dear lad, believe it;
For they shall yet belie thy happy years,
That say thou art a man: Diana's lip
Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe
Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound,
And all is semblative a woman's part.
I know thy constellation is right apt
For this affair. Some four or five attend him;
All, if you will; for I myself am best
When least in company. Prosper well in this,
And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
To call his fortunes thine.",840,18707
630980,294,"I'll do my best
To woo your lady:
[Aside]
yet, a barful strife!
Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.",1238,18707
630981,299,[Exeunt],1261,18707
630982,301,[Enter MARIA and Clown],1261,18708
630983,302,"Nay, either tell me where thou hast been, or I will
not open my lips so wide as a bristle may enter in
way of thy excuse: my lady will hang thee for thy absence.",738,18708
630984,305,"Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this
world needs to fear no colours.",401,18708
630985,307,Make that good.,738,18708
630986,308,He shall see none to fear.,401,18708
630987,309,"A good lenten answer: I can tell thee where that
saying was born, of 'I fear no colours.'",738,18708
630988,311,"Where, good Mistress Mary?",401,18708
630989,312,In the wars; and that may you be bold to say in your foolery.,738,18708
630990,313,"Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those
that are fools, let them use their talents.",401,18708
630991,315,"Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent; or,
to be turned away, is not that as good as a hanging to you?",738,18708
630992,317,"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; and,
for turning away, let summer bear it out.",401,18708
630993,319,"You are resolute, then?",738,18708
630994,320,"Not so, neither; but I am resolved on two points.",401,18708
630995,321,"That if one break, the other will hold; or, if both
break, your gaskins fall.",738,18708
630996,323,"Apt, in good faith; very apt. Well, go thy way; if
Sir Toby would leave drinking, thou wert as witty a
piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria.",401,18708
630997,326,"Peace, you rogue, no more o' that. Here comes my
lady: make your excuse wisely, you were best.",738,18708
630998,328,[Exit],1261,18708
630999,329,"Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling!
Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft
prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may
pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus?
'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'
[Enter OLIVIA with MALVOLIO]
God bless thee, lady!",401,18708
631000,336,Take the fool away.,836,18708
631001,337,"Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady.",401,18708
631002,338,"Go to, you're a dry fool; I'll no more of you:
besides, you grow dishonest.",836,18708
631003,340,"Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel
will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is
the fool not dry: bid the dishonest man mend
himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if
he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Any thing
that's mended is but patched: virtue that
transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that
amends is but patched with virtue. If that this
simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not,
what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but
calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take
away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her away.",401,18708
631004,352,"Sir, I bade them take away you.",836,18708
631005,353,"Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, cucullus non
facit monachum; that's as much to say as I wear not
motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to
prove you a fool.",401,18708
631006,357,Can you do it?,836,18708
631007,358,"Dexterously, good madonna.",401,18708
631008,359,Make your proof.,836,18708
631009,360,"I must catechise you for it, madonna: good my mouse
of virtue, answer me.",401,18708
631010,362,"Well, sir, for want of other idleness, I'll bide your proof.",836,18708
631011,363,"Good madonna, why mournest thou?",401,18708
631012,364,"Good fool, for my brother's death.",836,18708
631013,365,"I think his soul is in hell, madonna.",401,18708
631014,366,"I know his soul is in heaven, fool.",836,18708
631015,367,"The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's
soul being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen.",401,18708
631016,369,"What think you of this fool, Malvolio? doth he not mend?",836,18708
631017,370,"Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him:
infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the
better fool.",728,18708
631018,373,"God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the
better increasing your folly! Sir Toby will be
sworn that I am no fox; but he will not pass his
word for two pence that you are no fool.",401,18708
631019,377,"How say you to that, Malvolio?",836,18708
631020,378,"I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a
barren rascal: I saw him put down the other day
with an ordinary fool that has no more brain
than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard
already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to
him, he is gagged. I protest, I take these wise men,
that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better
than the fools' zanies.",728,18708
631021,386,"Oh, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste
with a distempered appetite. To be generous,
guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those
things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets:
there is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do
nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet
man, though he do nothing but reprove.",836,18708
631022,393,"Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou
speakest well of fools!",401,18708
631023,395,[Re-enter MARIA],1261,18708
631024,396,"Madam, there is at the gate a young gentleman much
desires to speak with you.",738,18708
631025,398,"From the Count Orsino, is it?",836,18708
631026,399,"I know not, madam: 'tis a fair young man, and well attended.",738,18708
631027,400,Who of my people hold him in delay?,836,18708
631028,401,"Sir Toby, madam, your kinsman.",738,18708
631029,402,"Fetch him off, I pray you; he speaks nothing but
madman: fie on him!
[Exit MARIA]
Go you, Malvolio: if it be a suit from the count, I
am sick, or not at home; what you will, to dismiss it.
[Exit MALVOLIO]
Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and
people dislike it.",836,18708
631030,410,"Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldest
son should be a fool; whose skull Jove cram with
brains! for,--here he comes,--one of thy kin has a
most weak pia mater.",401,18708
631031,414,[Enter SIR TOBY BELCH],1261,18708
631032,415,"By mine honour, half drunk. What is he at the gate, cousin?",836,18708
631033,416,A gentleman.,159,18708
631034,417,A gentleman! what gentleman?,836,18708
631035,418,"'Tis a gentle man here--a plague o' these
pickle-herring! How now, sot!",159,18708
631036,420,Good Sir Toby!,401,18708
631037,421,"Cousin, cousin, how have you come so early by this lethargy?",836,18708
631038,422,Lechery! I defy lechery. There's one at the gate.,159,18708
631039,423,"Ay, marry, what is he?",836,18708
631040,424,"Let him be the devil, an he will, I care not: give
me faith, say I. Well, it's all one.",159,18708
631041,426,[Exit],1261,18708
631042,427,"What's a drunken man like, fool?",836,18708
631043,428,"Like a drowned man, a fool and a mad man: one
draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads
him; and a third drowns him.",401,18708
631044,431,"Go thou and seek the crowner, and let him sit o' my
coz; for he's in the third degree of drink, he's
drowned: go, look after him.",836,18708
631045,434,"He is but mad yet, madonna; and the fool shall look
to the madman.",401,18708
631046,436,[Exit],1261,18708
631047,437,[Re-enter MALVOLIO],1261,18708
631048,438,"Madam, yond young fellow swears he will speak with
you. I told him you were sick; he takes on him to
understand so much, and therefore comes to speak
with you. I told him you were asleep; he seems to
have a foreknowledge of that too, and therefore
comes to speak with you. What is to be said to him,
lady? he's fortified against any denial.",728,18708
631049,445,Tell him he shall not speak with me.,836,18708
631050,446,"Has been told so; and he says, he'll stand at your
door like a sheriff's post, and be the supporter to
a bench, but he'll speak with you.",728,18708
631051,449,What kind o' man is he?,836,18708
631052,450,"Why, of mankind.",728,18708
631053,451,What manner of man?,836,18708
631054,452,"Of very ill manner; he'll speak with you, will you or no.",728,18708
631055,453,Of what personage and years is he?,836,18708
631056,454,"Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for
a boy; as a squash is before 'tis a peascod, or a
cooling when 'tis almost an apple: 'tis with him
in standing water, between boy and man. He is very
well-favoured and he speaks very shrewishly; one
would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.",728,18708
631057,460,Let him approach: call in my gentlewoman.,836,18708
631058,461,"Gentlewoman, my lady calls.",728,18708
631059,462,[Exit],1261,18708
631060,463,[Re-enter MARIA],1261,18708
631061,464,"Give me my veil: come, throw it o'er my face.
We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy.",836,18708
631062,466,"[Enter VIOLA, and Attendants]",1261,18708
631063,467,"The honourable lady of the house, which is she?",1238,18708
631064,468,"Speak to me; I shall answer for her.
Your will?",836,18708
631065,470,"Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty,--I
pray you, tell me if this be the lady of the house,
for I never saw her: I would be loath to cast away
my speech, for besides that it is excellently well
penned, I have taken great pains to con it. Good
beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very
comptible, even to the least sinister usage.",1238,18708
631066,477,"Whence came you, sir?",836,18708
631067,478,"I can say little more than I have studied, and that
question's out of my part. Good gentle one, give me
modest assurance if you be the lady of the house,
that I may proceed in my speech.",1238,18708
631068,482,Are you a comedian?,836,18708
631069,483,"No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs
of malice I swear, I am not that I play. Are you
the lady of the house?",1238,18708
631070,486,"If I do not usurp myself, I am.",836,18708
631071,487,"Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp
yourself; for what is yours to bestow is not yours
to reserve. But this is from my commission: I will
on with my speech in your praise, and then show you
the heart of my message.",1238,18708
631072,492,Come to what is important in't: I forgive you the praise.,836,18708
631073,493,"Alas, I took great pains to study it, and 'tis poetical.",1238,18708
631074,494,"It is the more like to be feigned: I pray you,
keep it in. I heard you were saucy at my gates,
and allowed your approach rather to wonder at you
than to hear you. If you be not mad, be gone; if
you have reason, be brief: 'tis not that time of
moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue.",836,18708
631075,500,"Will you hoist sail, sir? here lies your way.",738,18708
631076,501,"No, good swabber; I am to hull here a little
longer. Some mollification for your giant, sweet
lady. Tell me your mind: I am a messenger.",1238,18708
631077,504,"Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver, when
the courtesy of it is so fearful. Speak your office.",836,18708
631078,506,"It alone concerns your ear. I bring no overture of
war, no taxation of homage: I hold the olive in my
hand; my words are as fun of peace as matter.",1238,18708
631079,509,Yet you began rudely. What are you? what would you?,836,18708
631080,510,"The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I
learned from my entertainment. What I am, and what I
would, are as secret as maidenhead; to your ears,
divinity, to any other's, profanation.",1238,18708
631081,514,"Give us the place alone: we will hear this divinity.
[Exeunt MARIA and Attendants]
Now, sir, what is your text?",836,18708
631082,517,"Most sweet lady,--",1238,18708
631083,518,"A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it.
Where lies your text?",836,18708
631084,520,In Orsino's bosom.,1238,18708
631085,521,In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?,836,18708
631086,522,"To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.",1238,18708
631087,523,"O, I have read it: it is heresy. Have you no more to say?",836,18708
631088,524,"Good madam, let me see your face.",1238,18708
631089,525,"Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate
with my face? You are now out of your text: but
we will draw the curtain and show you the picture.
Look you, sir, such a one I was this present: is't
not well done?",836,18708
631090,530,[Unveiling],1261,18708
631091,531,"Excellently done, if God did all.",1238,18708
631092,532,"'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather.",836,18708
631093,533,"'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on:
Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive,
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy.",1238,18708
631094,538,"O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give
out divers schedules of my beauty: it shall be
inventoried, and every particle and utensil
labelled to my will: as, item, two lips,
indifferent red; item, two grey eyes, with lids to
them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were
you sent hither to praise me?",836,18708
631095,545,"I see you what you are, you are too proud;
But, if you were the devil, you are fair.
My lord and master loves you: O, such love
Could be but recompensed, though you were crown'd
The nonpareil of beauty!",1238,18708
631096,550,How does he love me?,836,18708
631097,551,"With adorations, fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.",1238,18708
631098,553,"Your lord does know my mind; I cannot love him:
Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,
Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth;
In voices well divulged, free, learn'd and valiant;
And in dimension and the shape of nature
A gracious person: but yet I cannot love him;
He might have took his answer long ago.",836,18708
631099,560,"If I did love you in my master's flame,
With such a suffering, such a deadly life,
In your denial I would find no sense;
I would not understand it.",1238,18708
631100,564,"Why, what would you?",836,18708
631101,565,"Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night;
Halloo your name to the reverberate hills
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out 'Olivia!' O, You should not rest
Between the elements of air and earth,
But you should pity me!",1238,18708
631102,574,"You might do much.
What is your parentage?",836,18708
631103,576,"Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
I am a gentleman.",1238,18708
631104,578,"Get you to your lord;
I cannot love him: let him send no more;
Unless, perchance, you come to me again,
To tell me how he takes it. Fare you well:
I thank you for your pains: spend this for me.",836,18708
631105,583,"I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse:
My master, not myself, lacks recompense.
Love make his heart of flint that you shall love;
And let your fervor, like my master's, be
Placed in contempt! Farewell, fair cruelty.",1238,18708
631106,588,[Exit],1261,18708
631107,589,"'What is your parentage?'
'Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
I am a gentleman.' I'll be sworn thou art;
Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit,
Do give thee five-fold blazon: not too fast:
soft, soft!
Unless the master were the man. How now!
Even so quickly may one catch the plague?
Methinks I feel this youth's perfections
With an invisible and subtle stealth
To creep in at mine eyes. Well, let it be.
What ho, Malvolio!",836,18708
631108,601,[Re-enter MALVOLIO],1261,18708
631109,602,"Here, madam, at your service.",728,18708
631110,603,"Run after that same peevish messenger,
The county's man: he left this ring behind him,
Would I or not: tell him I'll none of it.
Desire him not to flatter with his lord,
Nor hold him up with hopes; I am not for him:
If that the youth will come this way to-morrow,
I'll give him reasons for't: hie thee, Malvolio.",836,18708
631111,610,"Madam, I will.",728,18708
631112,611,[Exit],1261,18708
631113,612,"I do I know not what, and fear to find
Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.
Fate, show thy force: ourselves we do not owe;
What is decreed must be, and be this so.",836,18708
631114,616,[Exit],1261,18708
631115,619,[Enter ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN],1261,18709
631116,620,Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?,116,18709
631117,621,"By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over
me: the malignancy of my fate might perhaps
distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your
leave that I may bear my evils alone: it were a bad
recompense for your love, to lay any of them on you.",976,18709
631118,627,"No, sooth, sir: my determinate voyage is mere
extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a
touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me
what I am willing to keep in; therefore it charges
me in manners the rather to express myself. You
must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian,
which I called Roderigo. My father was that
Sebastian of Messaline, whom I know you have heard
of. He left behind him myself and a sister, both
born in an hour: if the heavens had been pleased,
would we had so ended! but you, sir, altered that;
for some hour before you took me from the breach of
the sea was my sister drowned.",976,18709
631119,640,Alas the day!,116,18709
631120,641,"A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled
me, was yet of many accounted beautiful: but,
though I could not with such estimable wonder
overfar believe that, yet thus far I will boldly
publish her; she bore a mind that envy could not but
call fair. She is drowned already, sir, with salt
water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.",976,18709
631121,648,"Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment.",116,18709
631122,649,"O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble.",976,18709
631123,650,"If you will not murder me for my love, let me be
your servant.",116,18709
631124,652,"If you will not undo what you have done, that is,
kill him whom you have recovered, desire it not.
Fare ye well at once: my bosom is full of kindness,
and I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that
upon the least occasion more mine eyes will tell
tales of me. I am bound to the Count Orsino's court: farewell.",976,18709
631125,658,[Exit],1261,18709
631126,659,"The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!
I have many enemies in Orsino's court,
Else would I very shortly see thee there.
But, come what may, I do adore thee so,
That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.",116,18709
631127,664,[Exit],1261,18709
631128,666,"[Enter VIOLA, MALVOLIO following]",1261,18710
631129,667,Were not you even now with the Countess Olivia?,728,18710
631130,668,"Even now, sir; on a moderate pace I have since
arrived but hither.",1238,18710
631131,670,"She returns this ring to you, sir: you might have
saved me my pains, to have taken it away yourself.
She adds, moreover, that you should put your lord
into a desperate assurance she will none of him:
and one thing more, that you be never so hardy to
come again in his affairs, unless it be to report
your lord's taking of this. Receive it so.",728,18710
631132,677,She took the ring of me: I'll none of it.,1238,18710
631133,678,"Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to her; and her
will is, it should be so returned: if it be worth
stooping for, there it lies in your eye; if not, be
it his that finds it.",728,18710
631134,682,[Exit],1261,18710
631135,683,"I left no ring with her: what means this lady?
Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!
She made good view of me; indeed, so much,
That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue,
For she did speak in starts distractedly.
She loves me, sure; the cunning of her passion
Invites me in this churlish messenger.
None of my lord's ring! why, he sent her none.
I am the man: if it be so, as 'tis,
Poor lady, she were better love a dream.
Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness,
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.
How easy is it for the proper-false
In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we!
For such as we are made of, such we be.
How will this fadge? my master loves her dearly;
And I, poor monster, fond as much on him;
And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.
What will become of this? As I am man,
My state is desperate for my master's love;
As I am woman,--now alas the day!--
What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!
O time! thou must untangle this, not I;
It is too hard a knot for me to untie!",1238,18710
631136,708,[Exit],1261,18710
631137,710,[Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and SIR ANDREW],1261,18711
631138,711,"Approach, Sir Andrew: not to be abed after
midnight is to be up betimes; and 'diluculo
surgere,' thou know'st,--",159,18711
631139,714,"Nay, my troth, I know not: but I know, to be up
late is to be up late.",60,18711
631140,716,"A false conclusion: I hate it as an unfilled can.
To be up after midnight and to go to bed then, is
early: so that to go to bed after midnight is to go
to bed betimes. Does not our life consist of the
four elements?",159,18711
631141,721,"Faith, so they say; but I think it rather consists
of eating and drinking.",60,18711
631142,723,"Thou'rt a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink.
Marian, I say! a stoup of wine!",159,18711
631143,725,[Enter Clown],1261,18711
631144,726,"Here comes the fool, i' faith.",60,18711
631145,727,"How now, my hearts! did you never see the picture
of 'we three'?",401,18711
631146,729,"Welcome, ass. Now let's have a catch.",159,18711
631147,730,"By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. I
had rather than forty shillings I had such a leg,
and so sweet a breath to sing, as the fool has. In
sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last
night, when thou spokest of Pigrogromitus, of the
Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus: 'twas
very good, i' faith. I sent thee sixpence for thy
leman: hadst it?",60,18711
631148,738,"I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose
is no whipstock: my lady has a white hand, and the
Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses.",401,18711
631149,741,"Excellent! why, this is the best fooling, when all
is done. Now, a song.",60,18711
631150,743,Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song.,159,18711
631151,744,There's a testril of me too: if one knight give a--,60,18711
631152,745,"Would you have a love-song, or a song of good life?",401,18711
631153,746,"A love-song, a love-song.",159,18711
631154,747,"Ay, ay: I care not for good life.",60,18711
631155,748,"[Sings]
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.",401,18711
631156,755,"Excellent good, i' faith.",60,18711
631157,756,"Good, good.",159,18711
631158,757,"[Sings]
What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.",401,18711
631159,764,"A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight.",60,18711
631160,765,A contagious breath.,159,18711
631161,766,"Very sweet and contagious, i' faith.",60,18711
631162,767,"To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion.
But shall we make the welkin dance indeed? shall we
rouse the night-owl in a catch that will draw three
souls out of one weaver? shall we do that?",159,18711
631163,771,"An you love me, let's do't: I am dog at a catch.",60,18711
631164,772,"By'r lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well.",401,18711
631165,773,"Most certain. Let our catch be, 'Thou knave.'",60,18711
631166,774,"'Hold thy peace, thou knave,' knight? I shall be
constrained in't to call thee knave, knight.",401,18711
631167,776,"'Tis not the first time I have constrained one to
call me knave. Begin, fool: it begins 'Hold thy peace.'",60,18711
631168,778,I shall never begin if I hold my peace.,401,18711
631169,779,"Good, i' faith. Come, begin.",60,18711
631170,780,[Catch sung],1261,18711
631171,781,[Enter MARIA],1261,18711
631172,782,"What a caterwauling do you keep here! If my lady
have not called up her steward Malvolio and bid him
turn you out of doors, never trust me.",738,18711
631173,785,"My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's
a Peg-a-Ramsey, and 'Three merry men be we.' Am not
I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?
Tillyvally. Lady!
[Sings]
'There dwelt a man in Babylon, lady, lady!'",159,18711
631174,791,"Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling.",401,18711
631175,792,"Ay, he does well enough if he be disposed, and so do
I too: he does it with a better grace, but I do it
more natural.",60,18711
631176,795,"[Sings] 'O, the twelfth day of December,'--",159,18711
631177,796,"For the love o' God, peace!",738,18711
631178,797,[Enter MALVOLIO],1261,18711
631179,798,"My masters, are you mad? or what are you? Have ye
no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like
tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an
alehouse of my lady's house, that ye squeak out your
coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse
of voice? Is there no respect of place, persons, nor
time in you?",728,18711
631180,805,"We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up!",159,18711
631181,806,"Sir Toby, I must be round with you. My lady bade me
tell you, that, though she harbours you as her
kinsman, she's nothing allied to your disorders. If
you can separate yourself and your misdemeanors, you
are welcome to the house; if not, an it would please
you to take leave of her, she is very willing to bid
you farewell.",728,18711
631182,813,"'Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone.'",159,18711
631183,814,"Nay, good Sir Toby.",738,18711
631184,815,His eyes do show his days are almost done.,401,18711
631185,816,Is't even so?,728,18711
631186,817,But I will never die.,159,18711
631187,818,"Sir Toby, there you lie.",401,18711
631188,819,This is much credit to you.,728,18711
631189,820,Shall I bid him go?,159,18711
631190,821,What an if you do?,401,18711
631191,822,"'Shall I bid him go, and spare not?'",159,18711
631192,823,"'O no, no, no, no, you dare not.'",401,18711
631193,824,"Out o' tune, sir: ye lie. Art any more than a
steward? Dost thou think, because thou art
virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?",159,18711
631194,827,"Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the
mouth too.",401,18711
631195,829,"Thou'rt i' the right. Go, sir, rub your chain with
crumbs. A stoup of wine, Maria!",159,18711
631196,831,"Mistress Mary, if you prized my lady's favour at any
thing more than contempt, you would not give means
for this uncivil rule: she shall know of it, by this hand.",728,18711
631197,834,[Exit],1261,18711
631198,835,Go shake your ears.,738,18711
631199,836,"'Twere as good a deed as to drink when a man's
a-hungry, to challenge him the field, and then to
break promise with him and make a fool of him.",60,18711
631200,839,"Do't, knight: I'll write thee a challenge: or I'll
deliver thy indignation to him by word of mouth.",159,18711
631201,841,"Sweet Sir Toby, be patient for tonight: since the
youth of the count's was today with thy lady, she is
much out of quiet. For Monsieur Malvolio, let me
alone with him: if I do not gull him into a
nayword, and make him a common recreation, do not
think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed:
I know I can do it.",738,18711
631202,848,"Possess us, possess us; tell us something of him.",159,18711
631203,849,"Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of puritan.",738,18711
631204,850,"O, if I thought that I'ld beat him like a dog!",60,18711
631205,851,"What, for being a puritan? thy exquisite reason,
dear knight?",159,18711
631206,853,"I have no exquisite reason for't, but I have reason
good enough.",60,18711
631207,855,"The devil a puritan that he is, or any thing
constantly, but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass,
that cons state without book and utters it by great
swarths: the best persuaded of himself, so
crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is
his grounds of faith that all that look on him love
him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find
notable cause to work.",738,18711
631208,863,What wilt thou do?,159,18711
631209,864,"I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of
love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape
of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure
of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find
himself most feelingly personated. I can write very
like my lady your niece: on a forgotten matter we
can hardly make distinction of our hands.",738,18711
631210,871,Excellent! I smell a device.,159,18711
631211,872,I have't in my nose too.,60,18711
631212,873,"He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop,
that they come from my niece, and that she's in
love with him.",159,18711
631213,876,"My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.",738,18711
631214,877,And your horse now would make him an ass.,60,18711
631215,878,"Ass, I doubt not.",738,18711
631216,879,"O, 'twill be admirable!",60,18711
631217,880,"Sport royal, I warrant you: I know my physic will
work with him. I will plant you two, and let the
fool make a third, where he shall find the letter:
observe his construction of it. For this night, to
bed, and dream on the event. Farewell.",738,18711
631218,885,[Exit],1261,18711
631219,886,"Good night, Penthesilea.",159,18711
631220,887,"Before me, she's a good wench.",60,18711
631221,888,"She's a beagle, true-bred, and one that adores me:
what o' that?",159,18711
631222,890,I was adored once too.,60,18711
631223,891,"Let's to bed, knight. Thou hadst need send for
more money.",159,18711
631224,893,"If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out.",60,18711
631225,894,"Send for money, knight: if thou hast her not i'
the end, call me cut.",159,18711
631226,896,"If I do not, never trust me, take it how you will.",60,18711
631227,897,"Come, come, I'll go burn some sack; 'tis too late
to go to bed now: come, knight; come, knight.",159,18711
631228,899,[Exeunt],1261,18711
631229,901,"[Enter DUKE ORSINO, VIOLA, CURIO, and others]",1261,18712
631230,902,"Give me some music. Now, good morrow, friends.
Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,
That old and antique song we heard last night:
Methought it did relieve my passion much,
More than light airs and recollected terms
Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times:
Come, but one verse.",840,18712
631231,909,"He is not here, so please your lordship that should sing it.",297,18712
631232,910,Who was it?,840,18712
631233,911,"Feste, the jester, my lord; a fool that the lady
Olivia's father took much delight in. He is about the house.",297,18712
631234,913,"Seek him out, and play the tune the while.
[Exit CURIO. Music plays]
Come hither, boy: if ever thou shalt love,
In the sweet pangs of it remember me;
For such as I am all true lovers are,
Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,
Save in the constant image of the creature
That is beloved. How dost thou like this tune?",840,18712
631235,921,"It gives a very echo to the seat
Where Love is throned.",1238,18712
631236,923,"Thou dost speak masterly:
My life upon't, young though thou art, thine eye
Hath stay'd upon some favour that it loves:
Hath it not, boy?",840,18712
631237,927,"A little, by your favour.",1238,18712
631238,928,What kind of woman is't?,840,18712
631239,929,Of your complexion.,1238,18712
631240,930,"She is not worth thee, then. What years, i' faith?",840,18712
631241,931,"About your years, my lord.",1238,18712
631242,932,"Too old by heaven: let still the woman take
An elder than herself: so wears she to him,
So sways she level in her husband's heart:
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
Than women's are.",840,18712
631243,939,"I think it well, my lord.",1238,18712
631244,940,"Then let thy love be younger than thyself,
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent;
For women are as roses, whose fair flower
Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.",840,18712
631245,944,"And so they are: alas, that they are so;
To die, even when they to perfection grow!",1238,18712
631246,946,[Re-enter CURIO and Clown],1261,18712
631247,947,"O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.
Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;
The spinsters and the knitters in the sun
And the free maids that weave their thread with bones
Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,
And dallies with the innocence of love,
Like the old age.",840,18712
631248,954,"Are you ready, sir?",401,18712
631249,955,"Ay; prithee, sing.
[Music]
SONG.",840,18712
631250,958,"Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
O, prepare it!
My part of death, no one so true
Did share it.
Not a flower, not a flower sweet
On my black coffin let there be strown;
Not a friend, not a friend greet
My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown:
A thousand thousand sighs to save,
Lay me, O, where
Sad true lover never find my grave,
To weep there!",401,18712
631251,974,There's for thy pains.,840,18712
631252,975,"No pains, sir: I take pleasure in singing, sir.",401,18712
631253,976,I'll pay thy pleasure then.,840,18712
631254,977,"Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid, one time or another.",401,18712
631255,978,Give me now leave to leave thee.,840,18712
631256,979,"Now, the melancholy god protect thee; and the
tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for
thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such
constancy put to sea, that their business might be
every thing and their intent every where; for that's
it that always makes a good voyage of nothing. Farewell.",401,18712
631257,985,[Exit],1261,18712
631258,986,"Let all the rest give place.
[CURIO and Attendants retire]
Once more, Cesario,
Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty:
Tell her, my love, more noble than the world,
Prizes not quantity of dirty lands;
The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her,
Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune;
But 'tis that miracle and queen of gems
That nature pranks her in attracts my soul.",840,18712
631259,996,"But if she cannot love you, sir?",1238,18712
631260,997,I cannot be so answer'd.,840,18712
631261,998,"Sooth, but you must.
Say that some lady, as perhaps there is,
Hath for your love a great a pang of heart
As you have for Olivia: you cannot love her;
You tell her so; must she not then be answer'd?",1238,18712
631262,1003,"There is no woman's sides
Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart
So big, to hold so much; they lack retention
Alas, their love may be call'd appetite,
No motion of the liver, but the palate,
That suffer surfeit, cloyment and revolt;
But mine is all as hungry as the sea,
And can digest as much: make no compare
Between that love a woman can bear me
And that I owe Olivia.",840,18712
631263,1014,"Ay, but I know--",1238,18712
631264,1015,What dost thou know?,840,18712
631265,1016,"Too well what love women to men may owe:
In faith, they are as true of heart as we.
My father had a daughter loved a man,
As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship.",1238,18712
631266,1021,And what's her history?,840,18712
631267,1022,"A blank, my lord. She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
We men may say more, swear more: but indeed
Our shows are more than will; for still we prove
Much in our vows, but little in our love.",1238,18712
631268,1031,"But died thy sister of her love, my boy?",840,18712
631269,1032,"I am all the daughters of my father's house,
And all the brothers too: and yet I know not.
Sir, shall I to this lady?",1238,18712
631270,1035,"Ay, that's the theme.
To her in haste; give her this jewel; say,
My love can give no place, bide no denay.",840,18712
631271,1038,[Exeunt],1261,18712
631272,1040,"[Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN]",1261,18713
631273,1041,"Come thy ways, Signior Fabian.",159,18713
631274,1042,"Nay, I'll come: if I lose a scruple of this sport,
let me be boiled to death with melancholy.",391,18713
631275,1044,"Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly
rascally sheep-biter come by some notable shame?",159,18713
631276,1046,"I would exult, man: you know, he brought me out o'
favour with my lady about a bear-baiting here.",391,18713
631277,1048,"To anger him we'll have the bear again; and we will
fool him black and blue: shall we not, Sir Andrew?",159,18713
631278,1050,"An we do not, it is pity of our lives.",60,18713
631279,1051,"Here comes the little villain.
[Enter MARIA]
How now, my metal of India!",159,18713
631280,1054,"Get ye all three into the box-tree: Malvolio's
coming down this walk: he has been yonder i' the
sun practising behavior to his own shadow this half
hour: observe him, for the love of mockery; for I
know this letter will make a contemplative idiot of
him. Close, in the name of jesting! Lie thou there,
[Throws down a letter]
for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.",738,18713
631281,1062,[Exit],1261,18713
631282,1063,[Enter MALVOLIO],1261,18713
631283,1064,"'Tis but fortune; all is fortune. Maria once told
me she did affect me: and I have heard herself come
thus near, that, should she fancy, it should be one
of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more
exalted respect than any one else that follows her.
What should I think on't?",728,18713
631284,1070,Here's an overweening rogue!,159,18713
631285,1071,"O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock
of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!",391,18713
631286,1073,"'Slight, I could so beat the rogue!",60,18713
631287,1074,"Peace, I say.",159,18713
631288,1075,To be Count Malvolio!,728,18713
631289,1076,"Ah, rogue!",159,18713
631290,1077,"Pistol him, pistol him.",60,18713
631291,1078,"Peace, peace!",159,18713
631292,1079,"There is example for't; the lady of the Strachy
married the yeoman of the wardrobe.",728,18713
631293,1081,"Fie on him, Jezebel!",60,18713
631294,1082,"O, peace! now he's deeply in: look how
imagination blows him.",391,18713
631295,1084,"Having been three months married to her, sitting in
my state,--",728,18713
631296,1086,"O, for a stone-bow, to hit him in the eye!",159,18713
631297,1087,"Calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet
gown; having come from a day-bed, where I have left
Olivia sleeping,--",728,18713
631298,1090,Fire and brimstone!,159,18713
631299,1091,"O, peace, peace!",391,18713
631300,1092,"And then to have the humour of state; and after a
demure travel of regard, telling them I know my
place as I would they should do theirs, to for my
kinsman Toby,--",728,18713
631301,1096,Bolts and shackles!,159,18713
631302,1097,"O peace, peace, peace! now, now.",391,18713
631303,1098,"Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make
out for him: I frown the while; and perchance wind
up watch, or play with my--some rich jewel. Toby
approaches; courtesies there to me,--",728,18713
631304,1102,Shall this fellow live?,159,18713
631305,1103,"Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet peace.",391,18713
631306,1104,"I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar
smile with an austere regard of control,--",728,18713
631307,1106,And does not Toby take you a blow o' the lips then?,159,18713
631308,1107,"Saying, 'Cousin Toby, my fortunes having cast me on
your niece give me this prerogative of speech,'--",728,18713
631309,1109,"What, what?",159,18713
631310,1110,You must amend your drunkenness.,728,18713
631311,1111,"Out, scab!",159,18713
631312,1112,"Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot.",391,18713
631313,1113,"'Besides, you waste the treasure of your time with
a foolish knight,'--",728,18713
631314,1115,"That's me, I warrant you.",60,18713
631315,1116,"'One Sir Andrew,'--",728,18713
631316,1117,I knew 'twas I; for many do call me fool.,60,18713
631317,1118,What employment have we here?,728,18713
631318,1119,[Taking up the letter],1261,18713
631319,1120,Now is the woodcock near the gin.,391,18713
631320,1121,"O, peace! and the spirit of humour intimate reading
aloud to him!",159,18713
631321,1123,"By my life, this is my lady's hand these be her
very C's, her U's and her T's and thus makes she her
great P's. It is, in contempt of question, her hand.",728,18713
631322,1126,"Her C's, her U's and her T's: why that?",60,18713
631323,1127,"[Reads] 'To the unknown beloved, this, and my good
wishes:'--her very phrases! By your leave, wax.
Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she
uses to seal: 'tis my lady. To whom should this be?",728,18713
631324,1131,"This wins him, liver and all.",391,18713
631325,1132,"[Reads]
Jove knows I love: But who?
Lips, do not move;
No man must know.
'No man must know.' What follows? the numbers
altered! 'No man must know:' if this should be
thee, Malvolio?",728,18713
631326,1139,"Marry, hang thee, brock!",159,18713
631327,1140,"[Reads]
I may command where I adore;
But silence, like a Lucrece knife,
With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore:
M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.",728,18713
631328,1145,A fustian riddle!,391,18713
631329,1146,"Excellent wench, say I.",159,18713
631330,1147,"'M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.' Nay, but first, let
me see, let me see, let me see.",728,18713
631331,1149,What dish o' poison has she dressed him!,391,18713
631332,1150,And with what wing the staniel cheques at it!,159,18713
631333,1151,"'I may command where I adore.' Why, she may command
me: I serve her; she is my lady. Why, this is
evident to any formal capacity; there is no
obstruction in this: and the end,--what should
that alphabetical position portend? If I could make
that resemble something in me,--Softly! M, O, A,
I,--",728,18713
631334,1158,"O, ay, make up that: he is now at a cold scent.",159,18713
631335,1159,"Sowter will cry upon't for all this, though it be as
rank as a fox.",391,18713
631336,1161,"M,--Malvolio; M,--why, that begins my name.",728,18713
631337,1162,"Did not I say he would work it out? the cur is
excellent at faults.",391,18713
631338,1164,"M,--but then there is no consonancy in the sequel;
that suffers under probation A should follow but O does.",728,18713
631339,1166,"And O shall end, I hope.",391,18713
631340,1167,"Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry O!",159,18713
631341,1168,And then I comes behind.,728,18713
631342,1169,"Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might see
more detraction at your heels than fortunes before
you.",391,18713
631343,1172,"M, O, A, I; this simulation is not as the former: and
yet, to crush this a little, it would bow to me, for
every one of these letters are in my name. Soft!
here follows prose.
[Reads]
'If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I
am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some
are born great, some achieve greatness, and some
have greatness thrust upon 'em. Thy Fates open
their hands; let thy blood and spirit embrace them;
and, to inure thyself to what thou art like to be,
cast thy humble slough and appear fresh. Be
opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants; let
thy tongue tang arguments of state; put thyself into
the trick of singularity: she thus advises thee
that sighs for thee. Remember who commended thy
yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever
cross-gartered: I say, remember. Go to, thou art
made, if thou desirest to be so; if not, let me see
thee a steward still, the fellow of servants, and
not worthy to touch Fortune's fingers. Farewell.
She that would alter services with thee,
THE FORTUNATE-UNHAPPY.'
Daylight and champaign discovers not more: this is
open. I will be proud, I will read politic authors,
I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross
acquaintance, I will be point-devise the very man.
I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade
me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady
loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of
late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered;
and in this she manifests herself to my love, and
with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits
of her liking. I thank my stars I am happy. I will
be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and
cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting
on. Jove and my stars be praised! Here is yet a
postscript.
[Reads]
'Thou canst not choose but know who I am. If thou
entertainest my love, let it appear in thy smiling;
thy smiles become thee well; therefore in my
presence still smile, dear my sweet, I prithee.'
Jove, I thank thee: I will smile; I will do
everything that thou wilt have me.",728,18713
631344,1217,[Exit],1261,18713
631345,1218,"I will not give my part of this sport for a pension
of thousands to be paid from the Sophy.",391,18713
631346,1220,I could marry this wench for this device.,159,18713
631347,1221,So could I too.,60,18713
631348,1222,And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest.,159,18713
631349,1223,Nor I neither.,60,18713
631350,1224,Here comes my noble gull-catcher.,391,18713
631351,1225,[Re-enter MARIA],1261,18713
631352,1226,Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck?,159,18713
631353,1227,Or o' mine either?,60,18713
631354,1228,"Shall I play my freedom at traytrip, and become thy
bond-slave?",159,18713
631355,1230,"I' faith, or I either?",60,18713
631356,1231,"Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when
the image of it leaves him he must run mad.",159,18713
631357,1233,"Nay, but say true; does it work upon him?",738,18713
631358,1234,Like aqua-vitae with a midwife.,159,18713
631359,1235,"If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark
his first approach before my lady: he will come to
her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she
abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests;
and he will smile upon her, which will now be so
unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a
melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him
into a notable contempt. If you will see it, follow
me.",738,18713
631360,1244,"To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit!",159,18713
631361,1245,I'll make one too.,60,18713
631362,1246,[Exeunt],1261,18713
631363,1249,"[Enter VIOLA, and Clown with a tabour]",1261,18714
631364,1250,"Save thee, friend, and thy music: dost thou live by
thy tabour?",1238,18714
631365,1252,"No, sir, I live by the church.",401,18714
631366,1253,Art thou a churchman?,1238,18714
631367,1254,"No such matter, sir: I do live by the church; for
I do live at my house, and my house doth stand by
the church.",401,18714
631368,1257,"So thou mayst say, the king lies by a beggar, if a
beggar dwell near him; or, the church stands by thy
tabour, if thy tabour stand by the church.",1238,18714
631369,1260,"You have said, sir. To see this age! A sentence is
but a cheveril glove to a good wit: how quickly the
wrong side may be turned outward!",401,18714
631370,1263,"Nay, that's certain; they that dally nicely with
words may quickly make them wanton.",1238,18714
631371,1265,"I would, therefore, my sister had had no name, sir.",401,18714
631372,1266,"Why, man?",1238,18714
631373,1267,"Why, sir, her name's a word; and to dally with that
word might make my sister wanton. But indeed words
are very rascals since bonds disgraced them.",401,18714
631374,1270,"Thy reason, man?",1238,18714
631375,1271,"Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words; and
words are grown so false, I am loath to prove
reason with them.",401,18714
631376,1274,I warrant thou art a merry fellow and carest for nothing.,1238,18714
631377,1275,"Not so, sir, I do care for something; but in my
conscience, sir, I do not care for you: if that be
to care for nothing, sir, I would it would make you invisible.",401,18714
631378,1278,Art not thou the Lady Olivia's fool?,1238,18714
631379,1279,"No, indeed, sir; the Lady Olivia has no folly: she
will keep no fool, sir, till she be married; and
fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to
herrings; the husband's the bigger: I am indeed not
her fool, but her corrupter of words.",401,18714
631380,1284,I saw thee late at the Count Orsino's.,1238,18714
631381,1285,"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun,
it shines every where. I would be sorry, sir, but
the fool should be as oft with your master as with
my mistress: I think I saw your wisdom there.",401,18714
631382,1289,"Nay, an thou pass upon me, I'll no more with thee.
Hold, there's expenses for thee.",1238,18714
631383,1291,"Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!",401,18714
631384,1292,"By my troth, I'll tell thee, I am almost sick for
one;
[Aside]
though I would not have it grow on my chin. Is thy
lady within?",1238,18714
631385,1297,"Would not a pair of these have bred, sir?",401,18714
631386,1298,"Yes, being kept together and put to use.",1238,18714
631387,1299,"I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring
a Cressida to this Troilus.",401,18714
631388,1301,"I understand you, sir; 'tis well begged.",1238,18714
631389,1302,"The matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but
a beggar: Cressida was a beggar. My lady is
within, sir. I will construe to them whence you
come; who you are and what you would are out of my
welkin, I might say 'element,' but the word is over-worn.",401,18714
631390,1307,[Exit],1261,18714
631391,1308,"This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;
And to do that well craves a kind of wit:
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of persons, and the time,
And, like the haggard, cheque at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practise
As full of labour as a wise man's art
For folly that he wisely shows is fit;
But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.",1238,18714
631392,1317,"[Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, and SIR ANDREW]",1261,18714
631393,1318,"Save you, gentleman.",159,18714
631394,1319,"And you, sir.",1238,18714
631395,1320,"Dieu vous garde, monsieur.",60,18714
631396,1321,Et vous aussi; votre serviteur.,1238,18714
631397,1322,"I hope, sir, you are; and I am yours.",60,18714
631398,1323,"Will you encounter the house? my niece is desirous
you should enter, if your trade be to her.",159,18714
631399,1325,"I am bound to your niece, sir; I mean, she is the
list of my voyage.",1238,18714
631400,1327,"Taste your legs, sir; put them to motion.",159,18714
631401,1328,"My legs do better understand me, sir, than I
understand what you mean by bidding me taste my legs.",1238,18714
631402,1330,"I mean, to go, sir, to enter.",159,18714
631403,1331,"I will answer you with gait and entrance. But we
are prevented.
[Enter OLIVIA and MARIA]
Most excellent accomplished lady, the heavens rain
odours on you!",1238,18714
631404,1336,That youth's a rare courtier: 'Rain odours;' well.,60,18714
631405,1337,"My matter hath no voice, to your own most pregnant
and vouchsafed ear.",1238,18714
631406,1339,"'Odours,' 'pregnant' and 'vouchsafed:' I'll get 'em
all three all ready.",60,18714
631407,1341,"Let the garden door be shut, and leave me to my hearing.
[Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and MARIA]
Give me your hand, sir.",836,18714
631408,1344,"My duty, madam, and most humble service.",1238,18714
631409,1345,What is your name?,836,18714
631410,1346,"Cesario is your servant's name, fair princess.",1238,18714
631411,1347,"My servant, sir! 'Twas never merry world
Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment:
You're servant to the Count Orsino, youth.",836,18714
631412,1350,"And he is yours, and his must needs be yours:
Your servant's servant is your servant, madam.",1238,18714
631413,1352,"For him, I think not on him: for his thoughts,
Would they were blanks, rather than fill'd with me!",836,18714
631414,1354,"Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts
On his behalf.",1238,18714
631415,1356,"O, by your leave, I pray you,
I bade you never speak again of him:
But, would you undertake another suit,
I had rather hear you to solicit that
Than music from the spheres.",836,18714
631416,1361,"Dear lady,--",1238,18714
631417,1362,"Give me leave, beseech you. I did send,
After the last enchantment you did here,
A ring in chase of you: so did I abuse
Myself, my servant and, I fear me, you:
Under your hard construction must I sit,To force that on you, in a shameful cunning,
Which you knew none of yours: what might you think?
Have you not set mine honour at the stake
And baited it with all the unmuzzled thoughts
That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving
Enough is shown: a cypress, not a bosom,
Hideth my heart. So, let me hear you speak.",836,18714
631418,1373,I pity you.,1238,18714
631419,1374,That's a degree to love.,836,18714
631420,1375,"No, not a grize; for 'tis a vulgar proof,
That very oft we pity enemies.",1238,18714
631421,1377,"Why, then, methinks 'tis time to smile again.
O, world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
If one should be a prey, how much the better
To fall before the lion than the wolf!
[Clock strikes]
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
Be not afraid, good youth, I will not have you:
And yet, when wit and youth is come to harvest,
Your were is alike to reap a proper man:
There lies your way, due west.",836,18714
631422,1387,"Then westward-ho! Grace and good disposition
Attend your ladyship!
You'll nothing, madam, to my lord by me?",1238,18714
631423,1390,"Stay:
I prithee, tell me what thou thinkest of me.",836,18714
631424,1392,That you do think you are not what you are.,1238,18714
631425,1393,"If I think so, I think the same of you.",836,18714
631426,1394,Then think you right: I am not what I am.,1238,18714
631427,1395,I would you were as I would have you be!,836,18714
631428,1396,"Would it be better, madam, than I am?
I wish it might, for now I am your fool.",1238,18714
631429,1398,"O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
In the contempt and anger of his lip!
A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon
Than love that would seem hid: love's night is noon.
Cesario, by the roses of the spring,
By maidhood, honour, truth and every thing,
I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause,
But rather reason thus with reason fetter,
Love sought is good, but given unsought better.",836,18714
631430,1410,"By innocence I swear, and by my youth
I have one heart, one bosom and one truth,
And that no woman has; nor never none
Shall mistress be of it, save I alone.
And so adieu, good madam: never more
Will I my master's tears to you deplore.",1238,18714
631431,1416,"Yet come again; for thou perhaps mayst move
That heart, which now abhors, to like his love.",836,18714
631432,1418,[Exeunt],1261,18714
631433,1420,"[Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN]",1261,18715
631434,1421,"No, faith, I'll not stay a jot longer.",60,18715
631435,1422,"Thy reason, dear venom, give thy reason.",159,18715
631436,1423,"You must needs yield your reason, Sir Andrew.",391,18715
631437,1424,"Marry, I saw your niece do more favours to the
count's serving-man than ever she bestowed upon me;
I saw't i' the orchard.",60,18715
631438,1427,"Did she see thee the while, old boy? tell me that.",159,18715
631439,1428,As plain as I see you now.,60,18715
631440,1429,This was a great argument of love in her toward you.,391,18715
631441,1430,"'Slight, will you make an ass o' me?",60,18715
631442,1431,"I will prove it legitimate, sir, upon the oaths of
judgment and reason.",391,18715
631443,1433,"And they have been grand-jury-men since before Noah
was a sailor.",159,18715
631444,1435,"She did show favour to the youth in your sight only
to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, to
put fire in your heart and brimstone in your liver.
You should then have accosted her; and with some
excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should
have banged the youth into dumbness. This was
looked for at your hand, and this was balked: the
double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash
off, and you are now sailed into the north of my
lady's opinion; where you will hang like an icicle
on a Dutchman's beard, unless you do redeem it by
some laudable attempt either of valour or policy.",391,18715
631445,1447,"An't be any way, it must be with valour; for policy
I hate: I had as lief be a Brownist as a
politician.",60,18715
631446,1450,"Why, then, build me thy fortunes upon the basis of
valour. Challenge me the count's youth to fight
with him; hurt him in eleven places: my niece shall
take note of it; and assure thyself, there is no
love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's
commendation with woman than report of valour.",159,18715
631447,1456,"There is no way but this, Sir Andrew.",391,18715
631448,1457,Will either of you bear me a challenge to him?,60,18715
631449,1458,"Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief;
it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun
of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink:
if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be
amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of
paper, although the sheet were big enough for the
bed of Ware in England, set 'em down: go, about it.
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou
write with a goose-pen, no matter: about it.",159,18715
631450,1467,Where shall I find you?,60,18715
631451,1468,We'll call thee at the cubiculo: go.,159,18715
631452,1469,[Exit SIR ANDREW],1261,18715
631453,1470,"This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby.",391,18715
631454,1471,"I have been dear to him, lad, some two thousand
strong, or so.",159,18715
631455,1473,"We shall have a rare letter from him: but you'll
not deliver't?",391,18715
631456,1475,"Never trust me, then; and by all means stir on the
youth to an answer. I think oxen and wainropes
cannot hale them together. For Andrew, if he were
opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as
will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of
the anatomy.",159,18715
631457,1481,"And his opposite, the youth, bears in his visage no
great presage of cruelty.",391,18715
631458,1483,[Enter MARIA],1261,18715
631459,1484,"Look, where the youngest wren of nine comes.",159,18715
631460,1485,"If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourself
into stitches, follow me. Yond gull Malvolio is
turned heathen, a very renegado; for there is no
Christian, that means to be saved by believing
rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages
of grossness. He's in yellow stockings.",738,18715
631461,1491,And cross-gartered?,159,18715
631462,1492,"Most villanously; like a pedant that keeps a school
i' the church. I have dogged him, like his
murderer. He does obey every point of the letter
that I dropped to betray him: he does smile his
face into more lines than is in the new map with the
augmentation of the Indies: you have not seen such
a thing as 'tis. I can hardly forbear hurling things
at him. I know my lady will strike him: if she do,
he'll smile and take't for a great favour.",738,18715
631463,1501,"Come, bring us, bring us where he is.",159,18715
631464,1502,[Exeunt],1261,18715
631465,1504,[Enter SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO],1261,18716
631466,1505,"I would not by my will have troubled you;
But, since you make your pleasure of your pains,
I will no further chide you.",976,18716
631467,1508,"I could not stay behind you: my desire,
More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth;
And not all love to see you, though so much
As might have drawn one to a longer voyage,
But jealousy what might befall your travel,
Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,
Unguided and unfriended, often prove
Rough and unhospitable: my willing love,
The rather by these arguments of fear,
Set forth in your pursuit.",116,18716
631468,1518,"My kind Antonio,
I can no other answer make but thanks,
And thanks; and ever thanks; and oft good turns
Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay:
But, were my worth as is my conscience firm,
You should find better dealing. What's to do?
Shall we go see the reliques of this town?",976,18716
631469,1525,"To-morrow, sir: best first go see your lodging.",116,18716
631470,1526,"I am not weary, and 'tis long to night:
I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes
With the memorials and the things of fame
That do renown this city.",976,18716
631471,1530,"Would you'ld pardon me;
I do not without danger walk these streets:
Once, in a sea-fight, 'gainst the count his galleys
I did some service; of such note indeed,
That were I ta'en here it would scarce be answer'd.",116,18716
631472,1535,Belike you slew great number of his people.,976,18716
631473,1536,"The offence is not of such a bloody nature;
Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel
Might well have given us bloody argument.
It might have since been answer'd in repaying
What we took from them; which, for traffic's sake,
Most of our city did: only myself stood out;
For which, if I be lapsed in this place,
I shall pay dear.",116,18716
631474,1544,Do not then walk too open.,976,18716
631475,1545,"It doth not fit me. Hold, sir, here's my purse.
In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,
Is best to lodge: I will bespeak our diet,
Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge
With viewing of the town: there shall you have me.",116,18716
631476,1550,Why I your purse?,976,18716
631477,1551,"Haply your eye shall light upon some toy
You have desire to purchase; and your store,
I think, is not for idle markets, sir.",116,18716
631478,1554,"I'll be your purse-bearer and leave you
For an hour.",976,18716
631479,1556,To the Elephant.,116,18716
631480,1557,I do remember.,976,18716
631481,1558,[Exeunt],1261,18716
631482,1560,[Enter OLIVIA and MARIA],1261,18717
631483,1561,"I have sent after him: he says he'll come;
How shall I feast him? what bestow of him?
For youth is bought more oft than begg'd or borrow'd.
I speak too loud.
Where is Malvolio? he is sad and civil,
And suits well for a servant with my fortunes:
Where is Malvolio?",836,18717
631484,1568,"He's coming, madam; but in very strange manner. He
is, sure, possessed, madam.",738,18717
631485,1570,"Why, what's the matter? does he rave?",836,18717
631486,1571,"No. madam, he does nothing but smile: your
ladyship were best to have some guard about you, if
he come; for, sure, the man is tainted in's wits.",738,18717
631487,1574,"Go call him hither.
[Exit MARIA]
I am as mad as he,
If sad and merry madness equal be.
[Re-enter MARIA, with MALVOLIO]
How now, Malvolio!",836,18717
631488,1580,"Sweet lady, ho, ho.",728,18717
631489,1581,"Smilest thou?
I sent for thee upon a sad occasion.",836,18717
631490,1583,"Sad, lady! I could be sad: this does make some
obstruction in the blood, this cross-gartering; but
what of that? if it please the eye of one, it is
with me as the very true sonnet is, 'Please one, and
please all.'",728,18717
631491,1588,"Why, how dost thou, man? what is the matter with thee?",836,18717
631492,1589,"Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs. It
did come to his hands, and commands shall be
executed: I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.",728,18717
631493,1592,"Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio?",836,18717
631494,1593,"To bed! ay, sweet-heart, and I'll come to thee.",728,18717
631495,1594,"God comfort thee! Why dost thou smile so and kiss
thy hand so oft?",836,18717
631496,1596,"How do you, Malvolio?",738,18717
631497,1597,At your request! yes; nightingales answer daws.,728,18717
631498,1598,Why appear you with this ridiculous boldness before my lady?,738,18717
631500,1600,"What meanest thou by that, Malvolio?",836,18717
631501,1601,"'Some are born great,'--",728,18717
631502,1602,Ha!,836,18717
631503,1603,"'Some achieve greatness,'--",728,18717
631504,1604,What sayest thou?,836,18717
631505,1605,And some have greatness thrust upon them.,728,18717
631506,1606,Heaven restore thee!,836,18717
631507,1607,"'Remember who commended thy yellow stockings,'--",728,18717
631508,1608,Thy yellow stockings!,836,18717
631509,1609,And wished to see thee cross-gartered.,728,18717
631510,1610,Cross-gartered!,836,18717
631511,1611,"'Go to thou art made, if thou desirest to be so;'--",728,18717
631512,1612,Am I made?,836,18717
631513,1613,"'If not, let me see thee a servant still.'",728,18717
631514,1614,"Why, this is very midsummer madness.",836,18717
631515,1615,[Enter Servant],1261,18717
631516,1616,"Madam, the young gentleman of the Count Orsino's is
returned: I could hardly entreat him back: he
attends your ladyship's pleasure.",1050,18717
631517,1619,"I'll come to him.
[Exit Servant]
Good Maria, let this fellow be looked to. Where's
my cousin Toby? Let some of my people have a special
care of him: I would not have him miscarry for the
half of my dowry.",836,18717
631518,1625,[Exeunt OLIVIA and MARIA],1261,18717
631519,1626,"O, ho! do you come near me now? no worse man than
Sir Toby to look to me! This concurs directly with
the letter: she sends him on purpose, that I may
appear stubborn to him; for she incites me to that
in the letter. 'Cast thy humble slough,' says she;
'be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants;
let thy tongue tang with arguments of state; put
thyself into the trick of singularity;' and
consequently sets down the manner how; as, a sad
face, a reverend carriage, a slow tongue, in the
habit of some sir of note, and so forth. I have
limed her; but it is Jove's doing, and Jove make me
thankful! And when she went away now, 'Let this
fellow be looked to:' fellow! not Malvolio, nor
after my degree, but fellow. Why, every thing
adheres together, that no dram of a scruple, no
scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous
or unsafe circumstance--What can be said? Nothing
that can be can come between me and the full
prospect of my hopes. Well, Jove, not I, is the
doer of this, and he is to be thanked.",728,18717
631520,1647,"[Re-enter MARIA, with SIR TOBY BELCH and FABIAN]",1261,18717
631521,1648,"Which way is he, in the name of sanctity? If all
the devils of hell be drawn in little, and Legion
himself possessed him, yet I'll speak to him.",159,18717
631522,1651,"Here he is, here he is. How is't with you, sir?
how is't with you, man?",391,18717
631523,1653,"Go off; I discard you: let me enjoy my private: go
off.",728,18717
631524,1655,"Lo, how hollow the fiend speaks within him! did not
I tell you? Sir Toby, my lady prays you to have a
care of him.",738,18717
631525,1658,"Ah, ha! does she so?",728,18717
631526,1659,"Go to, go to; peace, peace; we must deal gently
with him: let me alone. How do you, Malvolio? how
is't with you? What, man! defy the devil:
consider, he's an enemy to mankind.",159,18717
631527,1663,Do you know what you say?,728,18717
631528,1664,"La you, an you speak ill of the devil, how he takes
it at heart! Pray God, he be not bewitched!",738,18717
631529,1666,Carry his water to the wise woman.,391,18717
631530,1667,"Marry, and it shall be done to-morrow morning, if I
live. My lady would not lose him for more than I'll say.",738,18717
631531,1669,"How now, mistress!",728,18717
631532,1670,O Lord!,738,18717
631533,1671,"Prithee, hold thy peace; this is not the way: do
you not see you move him? let me alone with him.",159,18717
631534,1673,"No way but gentleness; gently, gently: the fiend is
rough, and will not be roughly used.",391,18717
631535,1675,"Why, how now, my bawcock! how dost thou, chuck?",159,18717
631536,1676,Sir!,728,18717
631537,1677,"Ay, Biddy, come with me. What, man! 'tis not for
gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan: hang
him, foul collier!",159,18717
631538,1680,"Get him to say his prayers, good Sir Toby, get him to pray.",738,18717
631539,1681,"My prayers, minx!",728,18717
631540,1682,"No, I warrant you, he will not hear of godliness.",738,18717
631541,1683,"Go, hang yourselves all! you are idle shallow
things: I am not of your element: you shall know
more hereafter.",728,18717
631542,1686,[Exit],1261,18717
631543,1687,Is't possible?,159,18717
631544,1688,"If this were played upon a stage now, I could
condemn it as an improbable fiction.",391,18717
631545,1690,"His very genius hath taken the infection of the device, man.",159,18717
631546,1691,"Nay, pursue him now, lest the device take air and taint.",738,18717
631547,1692,"Why, we shall make him mad indeed.",391,18717
631548,1693,The house will be the quieter.,738,18717
631549,1694,"Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound. My
niece is already in the belief that he's mad: we
may carry it thus, for our pleasure and his penance,
till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt
us to have mercy on him: at which time we will
bring the device to the bar and crown thee for a
finder of madmen. But see, but see.",159,18717
631550,1701,[Enter SIR ANDREW],1261,18717
631551,1702,More matter for a May morning.,391,18717
631552,1703,"Here's the challenge, read it: warrant there's
vinegar and pepper in't.",60,18717
631553,1705,Is't so saucy?,391,18717
631554,1706,"Ay, is't, I warrant him: do but read.",60,18717
631555,1707,"Give me.
[Reads]
'Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy fellow.'",159,18717
631556,1710,"Good, and valiant.",391,18717
631557,1711,"[Reads] 'Wonder not, nor admire not in thy mind,
why I do call thee so, for I will show thee no reason for't.'",159,18717
631558,1713,A good note; that keeps you from the blow of the law.,391,18717
631559,1714,"[Reads] 'Thou comest to the lady Olivia, and in my
sight she uses thee kindly: but thou liest in thy
throat; that is not the matter I challenge thee for.'",159,18717
631560,1717,"Very brief, and to exceeding good sense--less.",391,18717
631561,1718,"[Reads] 'I will waylay thee going home; where if it
be thy chance to kill me,'--",159,18717
631562,1720,Good.,391,18717
631563,1721,[Reads] 'Thou killest me like a rogue and a villain.',159,18717
631564,1722,Still you keep o' the windy side of the law: good.,391,18717
631565,1723,"[Reads] 'Fare thee well; and God have mercy upon
one of our souls! He may have mercy upon mine; but
my hope is better, and so look to thyself. Thy
friend, as thou usest him, and thy sworn enemy,
ANDREW AGUECHEEK.
If this letter move him not, his legs cannot:
I'll give't him.",159,18717
631566,1730,"You may have very fit occasion for't: he is now in
some commerce with my lady, and will by and by depart.",738,18717
631567,1732,"Go, Sir Andrew: scout me for him at the corner the
orchard like a bum-baily: so soon as ever thou seest
him, draw; and, as thou drawest swear horrible; for
it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a
swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood
more approbation than ever proof itself would have
earned him. Away!",159,18717
631568,1739,"Nay, let me alone for swearing.",60,18717
631569,1740,[Exit],1261,18717
631570,1741,"Now will not I deliver his letter: for the behavior
of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good
capacity and breeding; his employment between his
lord and my niece confirms no less: therefore this
letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no
terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a
clodpole. But, sir, I will deliver his challenge by
word of mouth; set upon Aguecheek a notable report
of valour; and drive the gentleman, as I know his
youth will aptly receive it, into a most hideous
opinion of his rage, skill, fury and impetuosity.
This will so fright them both that they will kill
one another by the look, like cockatrices.",159,18717
631571,1754,"[Re-enter OLIVIA, with VIOLA]",1261,18717
631572,1755,"Here he comes with your niece: give them way till
he take leave, and presently after him.",391,18717
631573,1757,"I will meditate the while upon some horrid message
for a challenge.",159,18717
631574,1759,"[Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, FABIAN, and MARIA]",1261,18717
631575,1760,"I have said too much unto a heart of stone
And laid mine honour too unchary out:
There's something in me that reproves my fault;
But such a headstrong potent fault it is,
That it but mocks reproof.",836,18717
631576,1765,"With the same 'havior that your passion bears
Goes on my master's grief.",1238,18717
631577,1767,"Here, wear this jewel for me, 'tis my picture;
Refuse it not; it hath no tongue to vex you;
And I beseech you come again to-morrow.
What shall you ask of me that I'll deny,
That honour saved may upon asking give?",836,18717
631578,1772,Nothing but this; your true love for my master.,1238,18717
631579,1773,"How with mine honour may I give him that
Which I have given to you?",836,18717
631580,1775,I will acquit you.,1238,18717
631581,1776,"Well, come again to-morrow: fare thee well:
A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell.",836,18717
631582,1778,[Exit],1261,18717
631583,1779,[Re-enter SIR TOBY BELCH and FABIAN],1261,18717
631584,1780,"Gentleman, God save thee.",159,18717
631585,1781,"And you, sir.",1238,18717
631586,1782,"That defence thou hast, betake thee to't: of what
nature the wrongs are thou hast done him, I know
not; but thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as
the hunter, attends thee at the orchard-end:
dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for
thy assailant is quick, skilful and deadly.",159,18717
631587,1788,"You mistake, sir; I am sure no man hath any quarrel
to me: my remembrance is very free and clear from
any image of offence done to any man.",1238,18717
631588,1791,"You'll find it otherwise, I assure you: therefore,
if you hold your life at any price, betake you to
your guard; for your opposite hath in him what
youth, strength, skill and wrath can furnish man withal.",159,18717
631589,1795,"I pray you, sir, what is he?",1238,18717
631590,1796,"He is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier and on
carpet consideration; but he is a devil in private
brawl: souls and bodies hath he divorced three; and
his incensement at this moment is so implacable,
that satisfaction can be none but by pangs of death
and sepulchre. Hob, nob, is his word; give't or take't.",159,18717
631591,1802,"I will return again into the house and desire some
conduct of the lady. I am no fighter. I have heard
of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on
others, to taste their valour: belike this is a man
of that quirk.",1238,18717
631592,1807,"Sir, no; his indignation derives itself out of a
very competent injury: therefore, get you on and
give him his desire. Back you shall not to the
house, unless you undertake that with me which with
as much safety you might answer him: therefore, on,
or strip your sword stark naked; for meddle you
must, that's certain, or forswear to wear iron about you.",159,18717
631593,1814,"This is as uncivil as strange. I beseech you, do me
this courteous office, as to know of the knight what
my offence to him is: it is something of my
negligence, nothing of my purpose.",1238,18717
631594,1818,"I will do so. Signior Fabian, stay you by this
gentleman till my return.",159,18717
631595,1820,[Exit],1261,18717
631596,1821,"Pray you, sir, do you know of this matter?",1238,18717
631597,1822,"I know the knight is incensed against you, even to a
mortal arbitrement; but nothing of the circumstance more.",391,18717
631598,1824,"I beseech you, what manner of man is he?",1238,18717
631599,1825,"Nothing of that wonderful promise, to read him by
his form, as you are like to find him in the proof
of his valour. He is, indeed, sir, the most skilful,
bloody and fatal opposite that you could possibly
have found in any part of Illyria. Will you walk
towards him? I will make your peace with him if I
can.",391,18717
631600,1832,"I shall be much bound to you for't: I am one that
had rather go with sir priest than sir knight: I
care not who knows so much of my mettle.",1238,18717
631601,1835,[Exeunt],1261,18717
631602,1836,"[Re-enter SIR TOBY BELCH, with SIR ANDREW]",1261,18717
631603,1837,"Why, man, he's a very devil; I have not seen such a
firago. I had a pass with him, rapier, scabbard and
all, and he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal
motion, that it is inevitable; and on the answer, he
pays you as surely as your feet hit the ground they
step on. They say he has been fencer to the Sophy.",159,18717
631604,1843,"Pox on't, I'll not meddle with him.",60,18717
631605,1844,"Ay, but he will not now be pacified: Fabian can
scarce hold him yonder.",159,18717
631606,1846,"Plague on't, an I thought he had been valiant and so
cunning in fence, I'ld have seen him damned ere I'ld
have challenged him. Let him let the matter slip,
and I'll give him my horse, grey Capilet.",60,18717
631607,1850,"I'll make the motion: stand here, make a good show
on't: this shall end without the perdition of souls.
[Aside]
Marry, I'll ride your horse as well as I ride you.
[Re-enter FABIAN and VIOLA]
[To FABIAN]
I have his horse to take up the quarrel:
I have persuaded him the youth's a devil.",159,18717
631608,1858,"He is as horribly conceited of him; and pants and
looks pale, as if a bear were at his heels.",391,18717
631609,1860,"[To VIOLA] There's no remedy, sir; he will fight
with you for's oath sake: marry, he hath better
bethought him of his quarrel, and he finds that now
scarce to be worth talking of: therefore draw, for
the supportance of his vow; he protests he will not hurt you.",159,18717
631610,1865,"[Aside] Pray God defend me! A little thing would
make me tell them how much I lack of a man.",1238,18717
631611,1867,"Give ground, if you see him furious.",391,18717
631612,1868,"Come, Sir Andrew, there's no remedy; the gentleman
will, for his honour's sake, have one bout with you;
he cannot by the duello avoid it: but he has
promised me, as he is a gentleman and a soldier, he
will not hurt you. Come on; to't.",159,18717
631613,1873,"Pray God, he keep his oath!",60,18717
631614,1874,"I do assure you, 'tis against my will.",1238,18717
631615,1875,[They draw],1261,18717
631616,1876,[Enter ANTONIO],1261,18717
631617,1877,"Put up your sword. If this young gentleman
Have done offence, I take the fault on me:
If you offend him, I for him defy you.",116,18717
631618,1880,"You, sir! why, what are you?",159,18717
631619,1881,"One, sir, that for his love dares yet do more
Than you have heard him brag to you he will.",116,18717
631620,1883,"Nay, if you be an undertaker, I am for you.",159,18717
631621,1884,[They draw],1261,18717
631622,1885,[Enter Officers],1261,18717
631623,1886,"O good Sir Toby, hold! here come the officers.",391,18717
631624,1887,I'll be with you anon.,159,18717
631625,1888,"Pray, sir, put your sword up, if you please.",1238,18717
631626,1889,"Marry, will I, sir; and, for that I promised you,
I'll be as good as my word: he will bear you easily
and reins well.",60,18717
631627,1892,This is the man; do thy office.,446,18717
631628,1893,"Antonio, I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino.",1015,18717
631629,1894,"You do mistake me, sir.",116,18717
631630,1895,"No, sir, no jot; I know your favour well,
Though now you have no sea-cap on your head.
Take him away: he knows I know him well.",446,18717
631631,1898,"I must obey.
[To VIOLA]
This comes with seeking you:
But there's no remedy; I shall answer it.
What will you do, now my necessity
Makes me to ask you for my purse? It grieves me
Much more for what I cannot do for you
Than what befalls myself. You stand amazed;
But be of comfort.",116,18717
631632,1907,"Come, sir, away.",1015,18717
631633,1908,I must entreat of you some of that money.,116,18717
631634,1909,"What money, sir?
For the fair kindness you have show'd me here,
And, part, being prompted by your present trouble,
Out of my lean and low ability
I'll lend you something: my having is not much;
I'll make division of my present with you:
Hold, there's half my coffer.",1238,18717
631635,1916,"Will you deny me now?
Is't possible that my deserts to you
Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery,
Lest that it make me so unsound a man
As to upbraid you with those kindnesses
That I have done for you.",116,18717
631636,1922,"I know of none;
Nor know I you by voice or any feature:
I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.",1238,18717
631637,1928,O heavens themselves!,116,18717
631638,1929,"Come, sir, I pray you, go.",1015,18717
631639,1930,"Let me speak a little. This youth that you see here
I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death,
Relieved him with such sanctity of love,
And to his image, which methought did promise
Most venerable worth, did I devotion.",116,18717
631640,1935,What's that to us? The time goes by: away!,446,18717
631641,1936,"But O how vile an idol proves this god
Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame.
In nature there's no blemish but the mind;
None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind:
Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil
Are empty trunks o'erflourish'd by the devil.",116,18717
631642,1942,"The man grows mad: away with him! Come, come, sir.",446,18717
631643,1943,Lead me on.,116,18717
631644,1944,[Exit with Officers],1261,18717
631645,1945,"Methinks his words do from such passion fly,
That he believes himself: so do not I.
Prove true, imagination, O, prove true,
That I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you!",1238,18717
631646,1949,"Come hither, knight; come hither, Fabian: we'll
whisper o'er a couplet or two of most sage saws.",159,18717
631647,1951,"He named Sebastian: I my brother know
Yet living in my glass; even such and so
In favour was my brother, and he went
Still in this fashion, colour, ornament,
For him I imitate: O, if it prove,
Tempests are kind and salt waves fresh in love.",1238,18717
631648,1957,[Exit],1261,18717
631649,1958,"A very dishonest paltry boy, and more a coward than
a hare: his dishonesty appears in leaving his
friend here in necessity and denying him; and for
his cowardship, ask Fabian.",159,18717
631650,1962,"A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it.",391,18717
631651,1963,"'Slid, I'll after him again and beat him.",60,18717
631652,1964,"Do; cuff him soundly, but never draw thy sword.",159,18717
631653,1965,"An I do not,--",60,18717
631654,1966,"Come, let's see the event.",391,18717
631655,1967,I dare lay any money 'twill be nothing yet.,159,18717
631656,1968,[Exeunt],1261,18717
631657,1971,[Enter SEBASTIAN and Clown],1261,18718
631658,1972,Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you?,401,18718
631659,1973,"Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow:
Let me be clear of thee.",976,18718
631660,1975,"Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you; nor
I am not sent to you by my lady, to bid you come
speak with her; nor your name is not Master Cesario;
nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so is so.",401,18718
631661,1979,"I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else: Thou
know'st not me.",976,18718
631662,1981,"Vent my folly! he has heard that word of some
great man and now applies it to a fool. Vent my
folly! I am afraid this great lubber, the world,
will prove a cockney. I prithee now, ungird thy
strangeness and tell me what I shall vent to my
lady: shall I vent to her that thou art coming?",401,18718
631663,1987,"I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me: There's
money for thee: if you tarry longer, I shall give
worse payment.",976,18718
631664,1990,"By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise men
that give fools money get themselves a good
report--after fourteen years' purchase.",401,18718
631665,1993,"[Enter SIR ANDREW, SIR TOBY BELCH, and FABIAN]",1261,18718
631666,1994,"Now, sir, have I met you again? there's for you.",60,18718
631667,1995,"Why, there's for thee, and there, and there. Are all
the people mad?",976,18718
631668,1997,"Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house.",159,18718
631669,1998,"This will I tell my lady straight: I would not be
in some of your coats for two pence.",401,18718
631670,2000,[Exit],1261,18718
631671,2001,"Come on, sir; hold.",159,18718
631672,2002,"Nay, let him alone: I'll go another way to work
with him; I'll have an action of battery against
him, if there be any law in Illyria: though I
struck him first, yet it's no matter for that.",60,18718
631673,2006,Let go thy hand.,976,18718
631674,2007,"Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young
soldier, put up your iron: you are well fleshed; come on.",159,18718
631675,2009,"I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now? If
thou darest tempt me further, draw thy sword.",976,18718
631676,2011,"What, what? Nay, then I must have an ounce or two
of this malapert blood from you.",159,18718
631677,2013,[Enter OLIVIA],1261,18718
631678,2014,"Hold, Toby; on thy life I charge thee, hold!",836,18718
631679,2015,Madam!,159,18718
631680,2016,"Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch,
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,
Where manners ne'er were preach'd! out of my sight!
Be not offended, dear Cesario.
Rudesby, be gone!
[Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN]
I prithee, gentle friend,
Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway
In this uncivil and thou unjust extent
Against thy peace. Go with me to my house,
And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks
This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby
Mayst smile at this: thou shalt not choose but go:
Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me,
He started one poor heart of mine in thee.",836,18718
631681,2031,"What relish is in this? how runs the stream?
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream:
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!",976,18718
631682,2035,"Nay, come, I prithee; would thou'ldst be ruled by me!",836,18718
631683,2036,"Madam, I will.",976,18718
631684,2037,"O, say so, and so be!",836,18718
631685,2038,[Exeunt],1261,18718
631686,2040,[Enter MARIA and Clown],1261,18719
631687,2041,"Nay, I prithee, put on this gown and this beard;
make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate: do
it quickly; I'll call Sir Toby the whilst.",738,18719
631688,2044,[Exit],1261,18719
631689,2045,"Well, I'll put it on, and I will dissemble myself
in't; and I would I were the first that ever
dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to
become the function well, nor lean enough to be
thought a good student; but to be said an honest man
and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a
careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter.",401,18719
631690,2052,[Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA],1261,18719
631691,2053,"Jove bless thee, master Parson.",159,18719
631692,2054,"Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for, as the old hermit of
Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily
said to a niece of King Gorboduc, 'That that is is;'
so I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson; for,
what is 'that' but 'that,' and 'is' but 'is'?",401,18719
631693,2059,"To him, Sir Topas.",159,18719
631694,2060,"What, ho, I say! peace in this prison!",401,18719
631695,2061,The knave counterfeits well; a good knave.,159,18719
631696,2062,[Within] Who calls there?,728,18719
631697,2063,"Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio
the lunatic.",401,18719
631698,2065,"Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to my lady.",728,18719
631699,2066,"Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man!
talkest thou nothing but of ladies?",401,18719
631700,2068,"Well said, Master Parson.",159,18719
631701,2069,"Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged: good Sir
Topas, do not think I am mad: they have laid me
here in hideous darkness.",728,18719
631702,2072,"Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most
modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones
that will use the devil himself with courtesy:
sayest thou that house is dark?",401,18719
631703,2076,"As hell, Sir Topas.",728,18719
631704,2077,"Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes,
and the clearstores toward the south north are as
lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of
obstruction?",401,18719
631705,2081,"I am not mad, Sir Topas: I say to you, this house is dark.",728,18719
631706,2082,"Madman, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness
but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than
the Egyptians in their fog.",401,18719
631707,2085,"I say, this house is as dark as ignorance, though
ignorance were as dark as hell; and I say, there
was never man thus abused. I am no more mad than you
are: make the trial of it in any constant question.",728,18719
631708,2089,What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl?,401,18719
631709,2090,That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird.,728,18719
631710,2091,What thinkest thou of his opinion?,401,18719
631711,2092,"I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion.",728,18719
631712,2093,"Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness:
thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will
allow of thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock, lest
thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.",401,18719
631713,2097,"Sir Topas, Sir Topas!",728,18719
631714,2098,My most exquisite Sir Topas!,159,18719
631715,2099,"Nay, I am for all waters.",401,18719
631716,2100,"Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and
gown: he sees thee not.",738,18719
631717,2102,"To him in thine own voice, and bring me word how
thou findest him: I would we were well rid of this
knavery. If he may be conveniently delivered, I
would he were, for I am now so far in offence with
my niece that I cannot pursue with any safety this
sport to the upshot. Come by and by to my chamber.",159,18719
631718,2108,[Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA],1261,18719
631719,2109,"[Singing]
'Hey, Robin, jolly Robin,
Tell me how thy lady does.'",401,18719
631720,2112,Fool!,728,18719
631721,2113,"'My lady is unkind, perdy.'",401,18719
631722,2114,Fool!,728,18719
631723,2115,"'Alas, why is she so?'",401,18719
631724,2116,"Fool, I say!",728,18719
631725,2117,"'She loves another'--Who calls, ha?",401,18719
631726,2118,"Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my
hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink and paper:
as I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to
thee for't.",728,18719
631727,2122,Master Malvolio?,401,18719
631728,2123,"Ay, good fool.",728,18719
631729,2124,"Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?",401,18719
631730,2125,"Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused: I
am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art.",728,18719
631731,2127,"But as well? then you are mad indeed, if you be no
better in your wits than a fool.",401,18719
631732,2129,"They have here propertied me; keep me in darkness,
send ministers to me, asses, and do all they can to
face me out of my wits.",728,18719
631733,2132,"Advise you what you say; the minister is here.
Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore!
endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain
bibble babble.",401,18719
631734,2136,Sir Topas!,728,18719
631735,2137,"Maintain no words with him, good fellow. Who, I,
sir? not I, sir. God be wi' you, good Sir Topas.
Merry, amen. I will, sir, I will.",401,18719
631736,2140,"Fool, fool, fool, I say!",728,18719
631737,2141,"Alas, sir, be patient. What say you sir? I am
shent for speaking to you.",401,18719
631738,2143,"Good fool, help me to some light and some paper: I
tell thee, I am as well in my wits as any man in Illyria.",728,18719
631739,2145,"Well-a-day that you were, sir",401,18719
631740,2146,"By this hand, I am. Good fool, some ink, paper and
light; and convey what I will set down to my lady:
it shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing
of letter did.",728,18719
631741,2150,"I will help you to't. But tell me true, are you
not mad indeed? or do you but counterfeit?",401,18719
631742,2152,"Believe me, I am not; I tell thee true.",728,18719
631743,2153,"Nay, I'll ne'er believe a madman till I see his
brains. I will fetch you light and paper and ink.",401,18719
631744,2155,"Fool, I'll requite it in the highest degree: I
prithee, be gone.",728,18719
631745,2157,"[Singing]
I am gone, sir,
And anon, sir,
I'll be with you again,
In a trice,
Like to the old Vice,
Your need to sustain;
Who, with dagger of lath,
In his rage and his wrath,
Cries, ah, ha! to the devil:
Like a mad lad,
Pare thy nails, dad;
Adieu, good man devil.",401,18719
631746,2170,[Exit],1261,18719
631747,2172,[Enter SEBASTIAN],1261,18720
631748,2173,"This is the air; that is the glorious sun;
This pearl she gave me, I do feel't and see't;
And though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus,
Yet 'tis not madness. Where's Antonio, then?
I could not find him at the Elephant:
Yet there he was; and there I found this credit,
That he did range the town to seek me out.
His counsel now might do me golden service;
For though my soul disputes well with my sense,
That this may be some error, but no madness,
Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune
So far exceed all instance, all discourse,
That I am ready to distrust mine eyes
And wrangle with my reason that persuades me
To any other trust but that I am mad
Or else the lady's mad; yet, if 'twere so,
She could not sway her house, command her followers,
Take and give back affairs and their dispatch
With such a smooth, discreet and stable bearing
As I perceive she does: there's something in't
That is deceiveable. But here the lady comes.",976,18720
631749,2194,[Enter OLIVIA and Priest],1261,18720
631750,2195,"Blame not this haste of mine. If you mean well,
Now go with me and with this holy man
Into the chantry by: there, before him,
And underneath that consecrated roof,
Plight me the full assurance of your faith;
That my most jealous and too doubtful soul
May live at peace. He shall conceal it
Whiles you are willing it shall come to note,
What time we will our celebration keep
According to my birth. What do you say?",836,18720
631751,2205,"I'll follow this good man, and go with you;
And, having sworn truth, ever will be true.",976,18720
631752,2207,"Then lead the way, good father; and heavens so shine,
That they may fairly note this act of mine!",836,18720
631753,2209,[Exeunt],1261,18720
631754,2212,[Enter Clown and FABIAN],1261,18721
631755,2213,"Now, as thou lovest me, let me see his letter.",391,18721
631756,2214,"Good Master Fabian, grant me another request.",401,18721
631757,2215,Any thing.,391,18721
631758,2216,Do not desire to see this letter.,401,18721
631759,2217,"This is, to give a dog, and in recompense desire my
dog again.",391,18721
631760,2219,"[Enter DUKE ORSINO, VIOLA, CURIO, and Lords]",1261,18721
631761,2220,"Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends?",840,18721
631762,2221,"Ay, sir; we are some of her trappings.",401,18721
631763,2222,"I know thee well; how dost thou, my good fellow?",840,18721
631764,2223,"Truly, sir, the better for my foes and the worse
for my friends.",401,18721
631765,2225,Just the contrary; the better for thy friends.,840,18721
631766,2226,"No, sir, the worse.",401,18721
631767,2227,How can that be?,840,18721
631768,2228,"Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me;
now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by
my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself,
and by my friends, I am abused: so that,
conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives
make your two affirmatives why then, the worse for
my friends and the better for my foes.",401,18721
631769,2235,"Why, this is excellent.",840,18721
631770,2236,"By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be
one of my friends.",401,18721
631771,2238,Thou shalt not be the worse for me: there's gold.,840,18721
631772,2239,"But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would
you could make it another.",401,18721
631773,2241,"O, you give me ill counsel.",840,18721
631774,2242,"Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once,
and let your flesh and blood obey it.",401,18721
631775,2244,"Well, I will be so much a sinner, to be a
double-dealer: there's another.",840,18721
631776,2246,"Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play; and the old
saying is, the third pays for all: the triplex,
sir, is a good tripping measure; or the bells of
Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind; one, two, three.",401,18721
631777,2250,"You can fool no more money out of me at this throw:
if you will let your lady know I am here to speak
with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake
my bounty further.",840,18721
631778,2254,"Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come
again. I go, sir; but I would not have you to think
that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness:
but, as you say, sir, let your bounty take a nap, I
will awake it anon.",401,18721
631779,2259,[Exit],1261,18721
631780,2260,"Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me.",1238,18721
631781,2261,[Enter ANTONIO and Officers],1261,18721
631782,2262,"That face of his I do remember well;
Yet, when I saw it last, it was besmear'd
As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war:
A bawbling vessel was he captain of,
For shallow draught and bulk unprizable;
With which such scathful grapple did he make
With the most noble bottom of our fleet,
That very envy and the tongue of loss
Cried fame and honour on him. What's the matter?",840,18721
631783,2271,"Orsino, this is that Antonio
That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy;
And this is he that did the Tiger board,
When your young nephew Titus lost his leg:
Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state,
In private brabble did we apprehend him.",446,18721
631784,2277,"He did me kindness, sir, drew on my side;
But in conclusion put strange speech upon me:
I know not what 'twas but distraction.",1238,18721
631785,2280,"Notable pirate! thou salt-water thief!
What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies,
Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear,
Hast made thine enemies?",840,18721
631786,2284,"Orsino, noble sir,
Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me:
Antonio never yet was thief or pirate,
Though I confess, on base and ground enough,
Orsino's enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither:
That most ingrateful boy there by your side,
From the rude sea's enraged and foamy mouth
Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was:
His life I gave him and did thereto add
My love, without retention or restraint,
All his in dedication; for his sake
Did I expose myself, pure for his love,
Into the danger of this adverse town;
Drew to defend him when he was beset:
Where being apprehended, his false cunning,
Not meaning to partake with me in danger,
Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance,
And grew a twenty years removed thing
While one would wink; denied me mine own purse,
Which I had recommended to his use
Not half an hour before.",116,18721
631787,2305,How can this be?,1238,18721
631788,2306,When came he to this town?,840,18721
631789,2307,"To-day, my lord; and for three months before,
No interim, not a minute's vacancy,
Both day and night did we keep company.",116,18721
631790,2310,[Enter OLIVIA and Attendants],1261,18721
631791,2311,"Here comes the countess: now heaven walks on earth.
But for thee, fellow; fellow, thy words are madness:
Three months this youth hath tended upon me;
But more of that anon. Take him aside.",840,18721
631792,2315,"What would my lord, but that he may not have,
Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable?
Cesario, you do not keep promise with me.",836,18721
631793,2318,Madam!,1238,18721
631794,2319,"Gracious Olivia,--",840,18721
631795,2320,"What do you say, Cesario? Good my lord,--",836,18721
631796,2321,My lord would speak; my duty hushes me.,1238,18721
631797,2322,"If it be aught to the old tune, my lord,
It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear
As howling after music.",836,18721
631798,2325,Still so cruel?,840,18721
631799,2326,"Still so constant, lord.",836,18721
631800,2327,"What, to perverseness? you uncivil lady,
To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars
My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out
That e'er devotion tender'd! What shall I do?",840,18721
631801,2331,"Even what it please my lord, that shall become him.",836,18721
631802,2332,"Why should I not, had I the heart to do it,
Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death,
Kill what I love?--a savage jealousy
That sometimes savours nobly. But hear me this:
Since you to non-regardance cast my faith,
And that I partly know the instrument
That screws me from my true place in your favour,
Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still;
But this your minion, whom I know you love,
And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly,
Him will I tear out of that cruel eye,
Where he sits crowned in his master's spite.
Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief:
I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love,
To spite a raven's heart within a dove.",840,18721
631803,2347,"And I, most jocund, apt and willingly,
To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.",1238,18721
631804,2349,Where goes Cesario?,836,18721
631805,2350,"After him I love
More than I love these eyes, more than my life,
More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife.
If I do feign, you witnesses above
Punish my life for tainting of my love!",1238,18721
631806,2355,"Ay me, detested! how am I beguiled!",836,18721
631807,2356,Who does beguile you? who does do you wrong?,1238,18721
631808,2357,"Hast thou forgot thyself? is it so long?
Call forth the holy father.",836,18721
631809,2359,"Come, away!",840,18721
631810,2360,"Whither, my lord? Cesario, husband, stay.",836,18721
631811,2361,Husband!,840,18721
631812,2362,"Ay, husband: can he that deny?",836,18721
631813,2363,"Her husband, sirrah!",840,18721
631814,2364,"No, my lord, not I.",1238,18721
631815,2365,"Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear
That makes thee strangle thy propriety:
Fear not, Cesario; take thy fortunes up;
Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art
As great as that thou fear'st.
[Enter Priest]
O, welcome, father!
Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence,
Here to unfold, though lately we intended
To keep in darkness what occasion now
Reveals before 'tis ripe, what thou dost know
Hath newly pass'd between this youth and me.",836,18721
631816,2377,"A contract of eternal bond of love,
Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands,
Attested by the holy close of lips,
Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings;
And all the ceremony of this compact
Seal'd in my function, by my testimony:
Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave
I have travell'd but two hours.",913,18721
631817,2385,"O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be
When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case?
Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow,
That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?
Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet
Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.",840,18721
631818,2391,"My lord, I do protest--",1238,18721
631819,2392,"O, do not swear!
Hold little faith, though thou hast too much fear.",836,18721
631820,2394,[Enter SIR ANDREW],1261,18721
631821,2395,"For the love of God, a surgeon! Send one presently
to Sir Toby.",60,18721
631822,2397,What's the matter?,836,18721
631823,2398,"He has broke my head across and has given Sir Toby
a bloody coxcomb too: for the love of God, your
help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home.",60,18721
631824,2401,"Who has done this, Sir Andrew?",836,18721
631825,2402,"The count's gentleman, one Cesario: we took him for
a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate.",60,18721
631826,2404,"My gentleman, Cesario?",840,18721
631827,2405,"'Od's lifelings, here he is! You broke my head for
nothing; and that that I did, I was set on to do't
by Sir Toby.",60,18721
631828,2408,"Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you:
You drew your sword upon me without cause;
But I bespoke you fair, and hurt you not.",1238,18721
631829,2411,"If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have hurt me: I
think you set nothing by a bloody coxcomb.
[Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and Clown]
Here comes Sir Toby halting; you shall hear more:
but if he had not been in drink, he would have
tickled you othergates than he did.",60,18721
631830,2417,"How now, gentleman! how is't with you?",840,18721
631831,2418,"That's all one: has hurt me, and there's the end
on't. Sot, didst see Dick surgeon, sot?",159,18721
631832,2420,"O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes
were set at eight i' the morning.",401,18721
631833,2422,"Then he's a rogue, and a passy measures panyn: I
hate a drunken rogue.",159,18721
631834,2424,Away with him! Who hath made this havoc with them?,836,18721
631835,2425,"I'll help you, Sir Toby, because well be dressed together.",60,18721
631836,2426,"Will you help? an ass-head and a coxcomb and a
knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull!",159,18721
631837,2428,"Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look'd to.",836,18721
631838,2429,"[Exeunt Clown, FABIAN, SIR TOBY BELCH, and SIR ANDREW]",1261,18721
631839,2430,[Enter SEBASTIAN],1261,18721
631840,2431,"I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman:
But, had it been the brother of my blood,
I must have done no less with wit and safety.
You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that
I do perceive it hath offended you:
Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows
We made each other but so late ago.",976,18721
631841,2438,"One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons,
A natural perspective, that is and is not!",840,18721
631842,2440,"Antonio, O my dear Antonio!
How have the hours rack'd and tortured me,
Since I have lost thee!",976,18721
631843,2443,Sebastian are you?,116,18721
631844,2444,"Fear'st thou that, Antonio?",976,18721
631845,2445,"How have you made division of yourself?
An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin
Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?",116,18721
631846,2448,Most wonderful!,836,18721
631847,2449,"Do I stand there? I never had a brother;
Nor can there be that deity in my nature,
Of here and every where. I had a sister,
Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd.
Of charity, what kin are you to me?
What countryman? what name? what parentage?",976,18721
631848,2455,"Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father;
Such a Sebastian was my brother too,
So went he suited to his watery tomb:
If spirits can assume both form and suit
You come to fright us.",1238,18721
631849,2460,"A spirit I am indeed;
But am in that dimension grossly clad
Which from the womb I did participate.
Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,
I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,
And say 'Thrice-welcome, drowned Viola!'",976,18721
631850,2466,My father had a mole upon his brow.,1238,18721
631851,2467,And so had mine.,976,18721
631852,2468,"And died that day when Viola from her birth
Had number'd thirteen years.",1238,18721
631853,2470,"O, that record is lively in my soul!
He finished indeed his mortal act
That day that made my sister thirteen years.",976,18721
631854,2473,"If nothing lets to make us happy both
But this my masculine usurp'd attire,
Do not embrace me till each circumstance
Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump
That I am Viola: which to confirm,
I'll bring you to a captain in this town,
Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help
I was preserved to serve this noble count.
All the occurrence of my fortune since
Hath been between this lady and this lord.",1238,18721
631855,2483,"[To OLIVIA] So comes it, lady, you have been mistook:
But nature to her bias drew in that.
You would have been contracted to a maid;
Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived,
You are betroth'd both to a maid and man.",976,18721
631856,2488,"Be not amazed; right noble is his blood.
If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,
I shall have share in this most happy wreck.
[To VIOLA]
Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times
Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.",840,18721
631857,2494,"And all those sayings will I overswear;
And those swearings keep as true in soul
As doth that orbed continent the fire
That severs day from night.",1238,18721
631858,2498,"Give me thy hand;
And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds.",840,18721
631859,2500,"The captain that did bring me first on shore
Hath my maid's garments: he upon some action
Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit,
A gentleman, and follower of my lady's.",1238,18721
631860,2504,"He shall enlarge him: fetch Malvolio hither:
And yet, alas, now I remember me,
They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract.
[Re-enter Clown with a letter, and FABIAN]
A most extracting frenzy of mine own
From my remembrance clearly banish'd his.
How does he, sirrah?",836,18721
631861,2511,"Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the staves's end as
well as a man in his case may do: has here writ a
letter to you; I should have given't you to-day
morning, but as a madman's epistles are no gospels,
so it skills not much when they are delivered.",401,18721
631862,2516,"Open't, and read it.",836,18721
631863,2517,"Look then to be well edified when the fool delivers
the madman.
[Reads]
'By the Lord, madam,'--",401,18721
631864,2521,How now! art thou mad?,836,18721
631865,2522,"No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship
will have it as it ought to be, you must allow Vox.",401,18721
631866,2524,"Prithee, read i' thy right wits.",836,18721
631867,2525,"So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits is to
read thus: therefore perpend, my princess, and give ear.",401,18721
631868,2527,"Read it you, sirrah.",836,18721
631869,2528,[To FABIAN],1261,18721
631870,2529,"[Reads] 'By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the
world shall know it: though you have put me into
darkness and given your drunken cousin rule over
me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as
your ladyship. I have your own letter that induced
me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt
not but to do myself much right, or you much shame.
Think of me as you please. I leave my duty a little
unthought of and speak out of my injury.
THE MADLY-USED MALVOLIO.'",391,18721
631871,2539,Did he write this?,836,18721
631872,2540,"Ay, madam.",401,18721
631873,2541,This savours not much of distraction.,840,18721
631874,2542,"See him deliver'd, Fabian; bring him hither.
[Exit FABIAN]
My lord so please you, these things further
thought on,
To think me as well a sister as a wife,
One day shall crown the alliance on't, so please you,
Here at my house and at my proper cost.",836,18721
631875,2549,"Madam, I am most apt to embrace your offer.
[To VIOLA]
Your master quits you; and for your service done him,
So much against the mettle of your sex,
So far beneath your soft and tender breeding,
And since you call'd me master for so long,
Here is my hand: you shall from this time be
Your master's mistress.",840,18721
631876,2557,A sister! you are she.,836,18721
631877,2558,"[Re-enter FABIAN, with MALVOLIO]",1261,18721
631878,2559,Is this the madman?,840,18721
631879,2560,"Ay, my lord, this same.
How now, Malvolio!",836,18721
631880,2562,"Madam, you have done me wrong,
Notorious wrong.",728,18721
631881,2564,"Have I, Malvolio? no.",836,18721
631882,2565,"Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter.
You must not now deny it is your hand:
Write from it, if you can, in hand or phrase;
Or say 'tis not your seal, nor your invention:
You can say none of this: well, grant it then
And tell me, in the modesty of honour,
Why you have given me such clear lights of favour,
Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you,
To put on yellow stockings and to frown
Upon Sir Toby and the lighter people;
And, acting this in an obedient hope,
Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,
Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,
And made the most notorious geck and gull
That e'er invention play'd on? tell me why.",728,18721
631883,2580,"Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,
Though, I confess, much like the character
But out of question 'tis Maria's hand.
And now I do bethink me, it was she
First told me thou wast mad; then camest in smiling,
And in such forms which here were presupposed
Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content:
This practise hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee;
But when we know the grounds and authors of it,
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge
Of thine own cause.",836,18721
631884,2591,"Good madam, hear me speak,
And let no quarrel nor no brawl to come
Taint the condition of this present hour,
Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not,
Most freely I confess, myself and Toby
Set this device against Malvolio here,
Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts
We had conceived against him: Maria writ
The letter at Sir Toby's great importance;
In recompense whereof he hath married her.
How with a sportful malice it was follow'd,
May rather pluck on laughter than revenge;
If that the injuries be justly weigh'd
That have on both sides pass'd.",391,18721
631885,2605,"Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee!",836,18721
631886,2606,"Why, 'some are born great, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrown upon them.' I was
one, sir, in this interlude; one Sir Topas, sir; but
that's all one. 'By the Lord, fool, I am not mad.'
But do you remember? 'Madam, why laugh you at such
a barren rascal? an you smile not, he's gagged:'
and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.",401,18721
631887,2613,I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.,728,18721
631888,2614,[Exit],1261,18721
631889,2615,He hath been most notoriously abused.,836,18721
631890,2616,"Pursue him and entreat him to a peace:
He hath not told us of the captain yet:
When that is known and golden time convents,
A solemn combination shall be made
Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister,
We will not part from hence. Cesario, come;
For so you shall be, while you are a man;
But when in other habits you are seen,
Orsino's mistress and his fancy's queen.",840,18721
631891,2625,"[Exeunt all, except Clown]",1261,18721
631892,2626,"[Sings]
When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it raineth every day.
But when I came to man's estate,
With hey, ho, &c.
'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,
For the rain, &c.
But when I came, alas! to wive,
With hey, ho, &c.
By swaggering could I never thrive,
For the rain, &c.
But when I came unto my beds,
With hey, ho, &c.
With toss-pots still had drunken heads,
For the rain, &c.
A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, &c.
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day.",401,18721
631893,2647,[Exit],1261,18721
631894,5,"In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband.",288,18722
631895,6,"And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death
anew: but I must attend his majesty's command, to
whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection.",164,18722
631896,9,"You shall find of the king a husband, madam; you,
sir, a father: he that so generally is at all times
good must of necessity hold his virtue to you; whose
worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather
than lack it where there is such abundance.",652,18722
631897,14,What hope is there of his majesty's amendment?,288,18722
631898,15,"He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose
practises he hath persecuted time with hope, and
finds no other advantage in the process but only the
losing of hope by time.",652,18722
631899,19,"This young gentlewoman had a father,--O, that
'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was
almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so
far, would have made nature immortal, and death
should have play for lack of work. Would, for the
king's sake, he were living! I think it would be
the death of the king's disease.",288,18722
631900,26,"How called you the man you speak of, madam?",652,18722
631901,27,"He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was
his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon.",288,18722
631902,29,"He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very
lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he
was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge
could be set up against mortality.",652,18722
631903,33,"What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of?",164,18722
631904,34,"A fistula, my lord.",652,18722
631905,35,I heard not of it before.,164,18722
631906,36,"I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman
the daughter of Gerard de Narbon?",652,18722
631907,38,"His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my
overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that
her education promises; her dispositions she
inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where
an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there
commendations go with pity; they are virtues and
traitors too; in her they are the better for their
simpleness; she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.",288,18722
631908,46,"Your commendations, madam, get from her tears.",652,18722
631909,47,"'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise
in. The remembrance of her father never approaches
her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all
livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena;
go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect
a sorrow than have it.",288,18722
631910,53,"I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.",567,18722
631911,54,"Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,
excessive grief the enemy to the living.",652,18722
631912,56,"If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess
makes it soon mortal.",288,18722
631913,58,"Madam, I desire your holy wishes.",164,18722
631914,59,How understand we that?,652,18722
631915,60,"Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father
In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue
Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness
Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be cheque'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech. What heaven more will,
That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down,
Fall on thy head! Farewell, my lord;
'Tis an unseason'd courtier; good my lord,
Advise him.",288,18722
631916,72,"He cannot want the best
That shall attend his love.",652,18722
631917,74,"Heaven bless him! Farewell, Bertram.",288,18722
631918,75,[Exit],1261,18722
631919,76,"[To HELENA] The best wishes that can be forged in
your thoughts be servants to you! Be comfortable
to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.",164,18722
631920,79,"Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold the credit of
your father.",652,18722
631921,81,[Exeunt BERTRAM and LAFEU],1261,18722
631922,82,"O, were that all! I think not on my father;
And these great tears grace his remembrance more
Than those I shed for him. What was he like?
I have forgot him: my imagination
Carries no favour in't but Bertram's.
I am undone: there is no living, none,
If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one
That I should love a bright particular star
And think to wed it, he is so above me:
In his bright radiance and collateral light
Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
The ambition in my love thus plagues itself:
The hind that would be mated by the lion
Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though plague,
To see him every hour; to sit and draw
His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,
In our heart's table; heart too capable
Of every line and trick of his sweet favour:
But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy
Must sanctify his reliques. Who comes here?
[Enter PAROLLES]
[Aside]
One that goes with him: I love him for his sake;
And yet I know him a notorious liar,
Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him,
That they take place, when virtue's steely bones
Look bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we see
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.",567,18722
631923,111,"Save you, fair queen!",862,18722
631924,112,"And you, monarch!",567,18722
631925,113,No.,862,18722
631926,114,And no.,567,18722
631927,115,Are you meditating on virginity?,862,18722
631928,116,"Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me
ask you a question. Man is enemy to virginity; how
may we barricado it against him?",567,18722
631929,119,Keep him out.,862,18722
631930,120,"But he assails; and our virginity, though valiant,
in the defence yet is weak: unfold to us some
warlike resistance.",567,18722
631931,123,"There is none: man, sitting down before you, will
undermine you and blow you up.",862,18722
631932,125,"Bless our poor virginity from underminers and
blowers up! Is there no military policy, how
virgins might blow up men?",567,18722
631933,128,"Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be
blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with
the breach yourselves made, you lose your city. It
is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to
preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational
increase and there was never virgin got till
virginity was first lost. That you were made of is
metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost
may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is
ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with 't!",862,18722
631934,138,"I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die a virgin.",567,18722
631935,139,"There's little can be said in 't; 'tis against the
rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity,
is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible
disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin:
virginity murders itself and should be buried in
highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate
offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites,
much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very
paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach.
Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of
self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the
canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but loose
by't: out with 't! within ten year it will make
itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the
principal itself not much the worse: away with 't!",862,18722
631936,154,"How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking?",567,18722
631937,155,"Let me see: marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it
likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with
lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with 't
while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request.
Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out
of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just
like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not
now. Your date is better in your pie and your
porridge than in your cheek; and your virginity,
your old virginity, is like one of our French
withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry,
'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better;
marry, yet 'tis a withered pear: will you anything with it?",862,18722
631938,168,"Not my virginity yet [--]
There shall your master have a thousand loves,
A mother and a mistress and a friend,
A phoenix, captain and an enemy,
A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign,
A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear;
His humble ambition, proud humility,
His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet,
His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world
Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms,
That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he--
I know not what he shall. God send him well!
The court's a learning place, and he is one--",567,18722
631939,181,"What one, i' faith?",862,18722
631940,182,That I wish well. 'Tis pity--,567,18722
631941,183,What's pity?,862,18722
631942,184,"That wishing well had not a body in't,
Which might be felt; that we, the poorer born,
Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes,
Might with effects of them follow our friends,
And show what we alone must think, which never
Return us thanks.",567,18722
631943,190,[Enter Page],1261,18722
631944,191,"Monsieur Parolles, my lord calls for you.",848,18722
631945,192,[Exit],1261,18722
631946,193,"Little Helen, farewell; if I can remember thee, I
will think of thee at court.",862,18722
631947,195,"Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star.",567,18722
631948,196,"Under Mars, I.",862,18722
631949,197,"I especially think, under Mars.",567,18722
631950,198,Why under Mars?,862,18722
631951,199,"The wars have so kept you under that you must needs
be born under Mars.",567,18722
631952,201,When he was predominant.,862,18722
631953,202,"When he was retrograde, I think, rather.",567,18722
631954,203,Why think you so?,862,18722
631955,204,You go so much backward when you fight.,567,18722
631956,205,That's for advantage.,862,18722
631957,206,"So is running away, when fear proposes the safety;
but the composition that your valour and fear makes
in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well.",567,18722
631958,209,"I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee
acutely. I will return perfect courtier; in the
which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize
thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's
counsel and understand what advice shall thrust upon
thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and
thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When
thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast
none, remember thy friends; get thee a good husband,
and use him as he uses thee; so, farewell.",862,18722
631959,219,[Exit],1261,18722
631960,220,"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky
Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull
Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.
What power is it which mounts my love so high,
That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?
The mightiest space in fortune nature brings
To join like likes and kiss like native things.
Impossible be strange attempts to those
That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose
What hath been cannot be: who ever strove
So show her merit, that did miss her love?
The king's disease--my project may deceive me,
But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me.",567,18722
631961,234,"[Exit]
[Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING of France,]
with letters, and divers Attendants]",1261,18722
631962,239,"The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears;
Have fought with equal fortune and continue
A braving war.",635,18723
631963,242,"So 'tis reported, sir.",434,18723
631964,243,"Nay, 'tis most credible; we here received it
A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria,
With caution that the Florentine will move us
For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend
Prejudicates the business and would seem
To have us make denial.",635,18723
631965,249,"His love and wisdom,
Approved so to your majesty, may plead
For amplest credence.",434,18723
631966,252,"He hath arm'd our answer,
And Florence is denied before he comes:
Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see
The Tuscan service, freely have they leave
To stand on either part.",635,18723
631967,257,"It well may serve
A nursery to our gentry, who are sick
For breathing and exploit.",1002,18723
631968,260,What's he comes here?,635,18723
631969,261,"[Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES]",1261,18723
631970,262,"It is the Count Rousillon, my good lord,
Young Bertram.",434,18723
631971,264,"Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face;
Frank nature, rather curious than in haste,
Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts
Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris.",635,18723
631972,268,My thanks and duty are your majesty's.,164,18723
631973,269,"I would I had that corporal soundness now,
As when thy father and myself in friendship
First tried our soldiership! He did look far
Into the service of the time and was
Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long;
But on us both did haggish age steal on
And wore us out of act. It much repairs me
To talk of your good father. In his youth
He had the wit which I can well observe
To-day in our young lords; but they may jest
Till their own scorn return to them unnoted
Ere they can hide their levity in honour;
So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness
Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were,
His equal had awaked them, and his honour,
Clock to itself, knew the true minute when
Exception bid him speak, and at this time
His tongue obey'd his hand: who were below him
He used as creatures of another place
And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks,
Making them proud of his humility,
In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man
Might be a copy to these younger times;
Which, follow'd well, would demonstrate them now
But goers backward.",635,18723
631974,294,"His good remembrance, sir,
Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb;
So in approof lives not his epitaph
As in your royal speech.",164,18723
631975,298,"Would I were with him! He would always say--
Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words
He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them,
To grow there and to bear,--'Let me not live,'--
This his good melancholy oft began,
On the catastrophe and heel of pastime,
When it was out,--'Let me not live,' quoth he,
'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff
Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses
All but new things disdain; whose judgments are
Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies
Expire before their fashions.' This he wish'd;
I after him do after him wish too,
Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home,
I quickly were dissolved from my hive,
To give some labourers room.",635,18723
631976,314,"You are loved, sir:
They that least lend it you shall lack you first.",1002,18723
631977,316,"I fill a place, I know't. How long is't, count,
Since the physician at your father's died?
He was much famed.",635,18723
631978,319,"Some six months since, my lord.",164,18723
631979,320,"If he were living, I would try him yet.
Lend me an arm; the rest have worn me out
With several applications; nature and sickness
Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count;
My son's no dearer.",635,18723
631980,325,Thank your majesty.,164,18723
631981,326,[Exeunt. Flourish],1261,18723
631982,329,"[Enter COUNTESS, Steward, and Clown]",1261,18724
631983,330,I will now hear; what say you of this gentlewoman?,288,18724
631984,331,"Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I
wish might be found in the calendar of my past
endeavours; for then we wound our modesty and make
foul the clearness of our deservings, when of
ourselves we publish them.",1149,18724
631985,336,"What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah:
the complaints I have heard of you I do not all
believe: 'tis my slowness that I do not; for I know
you lack not folly to commit them, and have ability
enough to make such knaveries yours.",288,18724
631986,341,"'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor fellow.",270,18724
631987,342,"Well, sir.",288,18724
631988,343,"No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though
many of the rich are damned: but, if I may have
your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel
the woman and I will do as we may.",270,18724
631989,347,Wilt thou needs be a beggar?,288,18724
631990,348,I do beg your good will in this case.,270,18724
631991,349,In what case?,288,18724
631992,350,"In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no
heritage: and I think I shall never have the
blessing of God till I have issue o' my body; for
they say barnes are blessings.",270,18724
631993,354,Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry.,288,18724
631994,355,"My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on
by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.",270,18724
631995,357,Is this all your worship's reason?,288,18724
631996,358,"Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons such as they
are.",270,18724
631997,360,May the world know them?,288,18724
631998,361,"I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and
all flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do marry
that I may repent.",270,18724
631999,364,"Thy marriage, sooner than thy wickedness.",288,18724
632000,365,"I am out o' friends, madam; and I hope to have
friends for my wife's sake.",270,18724
632001,367,"Such friends are thine enemies, knave.",288,18724
632002,368,"You're shallow, madam, in great friends; for the
knaves come to do that for me which I am aweary of.
He that ears my land spares my team and gives me
leave to in the crop; if I be his cuckold, he's my
drudge: he that comforts my wife is the cherisher
of my flesh and blood; he that cherishes my flesh
and blood loves my flesh and blood; he that loves my
flesh and blood is my friend: ergo, he that kisses
my wife is my friend. If men could be contented to
be what they are, there were no fear in marriage;
for young Charbon the Puritan and old Poysam the
Papist, howsome'er their hearts are severed in
religion, their heads are both one; they may jowl
horns together, like any deer i' the herd.",270,18724
632003,382,Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and calumnious knave?,288,18724
632004,383,"A prophet I, madam; and I speak the truth the next
way:
For I the ballad will repeat,
Which men full true shall find;
Your marriage comes by destiny,
Your cuckoo sings by kind.",270,18724
632005,389,"Get you gone, sir; I'll talk with you more anon.",288,18724
632006,390,"May it please you, madam, that he bid Helen come to
you: of her I am to speak.",1149,18724
632007,392,"Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her;
Helen, I mean.",288,18724
632008,394,"Was this fair face the cause, quoth she,
Why the Grecians sacked Troy?
Fond done, done fond,
Was this King Priam's joy?
With that she sighed as she stood,
With that she sighed as she stood,
And gave this sentence then;
Among nine bad if one be good,
Among nine bad if one be good,
There's yet one good in ten.",270,18724
632009,404,"What, one good in ten? you corrupt the song, sirrah.",288,18724
632010,405,"One good woman in ten, madam; which is a purifying
o' the song: would God would serve the world so all
the year! we'ld find no fault with the tithe-woman,
if I were the parson. One in ten, quoth a'! An we
might have a good woman born but one every blazing
star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery
well: a man may draw his heart out, ere a' pluck
one.",270,18724
632011,413,"You'll be gone, sir knave, and do as I command you.",288,18724
632012,414,"That man should be at woman's command, and yet no
hurt done! Though honesty be no puritan, yet it
will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of
humility over the black gown of a big heart. I am
going, forsooth: the business is for Helen to come hither.",270,18724
632013,419,[Exit],1261,18724
632014,420,"Well, now.",288,18724
632015,421,"I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman entirely.",1149,18724
632016,422,"Faith, I do: her father bequeathed her to me; and
she herself, without other advantage, may lawfully
make title to as much love as she finds: there is
more owing her than is paid; and more shall be paid
her than she'll demand.",288,18724
632017,427,"Madam, I was very late more near her than I think
she wished me: alone she was, and did communicate
to herself her own words to her own ears; she
thought, I dare vow for her, they touched not any
stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son:
Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put
such difference betwixt their two estates; Love no
god, that would not extend his might, only where
qualities were level; Dian no queen of virgins, that
would suffer her poor knight surprised, without
rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward.
This she delivered in the most bitter touch of
sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in: which I
held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal;
sithence, in the loss that may happen, it concerns
you something to know it.",1149,18724
632018,443,"You have discharged this honestly; keep it to
yourself: many likelihoods informed me of this
before, which hung so tottering in the balance that
I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you,
leave me: stall this in your bosom; and I thank you
for your honest care: I will speak with you further anon.
[Exit Steward]
[Enter HELENA]
Even so it was with me when I was young:
If ever we are nature's, these are ours; this thorn
Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong;
Our blood to us, this to our blood is born;
It is the show and seal of nature's truth,
Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth:
By our remembrances of days foregone,
Such were our faults, or then we thought them none.
Her eye is sick on't: I observe her now.",288,18724
632019,460,"What is your pleasure, madam?",567,18724
632020,461,"You know, Helen,
I am a mother to you.",288,18724
632021,463,Mine honourable mistress.,567,18724
632022,464,"Nay, a mother:
Why not a mother? When I said 'a mother,'
Methought you saw a serpent: what's in 'mother,'
That you start at it? I say, I am your mother;
And put you in the catalogue of those
That were enwombed mine: 'tis often seen
Adoption strives with nature and choice breeds
A native slip to us from foreign seeds:
You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan,
Yet I express to you a mother's care:
God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood
To say I am thy mother? What's the matter,
That this distemper'd messenger of wet,
The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eye?
Why? that you are my daughter?",288,18724
632023,479,That I am not.,567,18724
632024,480,"I say, I am your mother.",288,18724
632025,481,"Pardon, madam;
The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother:
I am from humble, he from honour'd name;
No note upon my parents, his all noble:
My master, my dear lord he is; and I
His servant live, and will his vassal die:
He must not be my brother.",567,18724
632026,488,Nor I your mother?,288,18724
632027,489,"You are my mother, madam; would you were,--
So that my lord your son were not my brother,--
Indeed my mother! or were you both our mothers,
I care no more for than I do for heaven,
So I were not his sister. Can't no other,
But, I your daughter, he must be my brother?",567,18724
632028,495,"Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law:
God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother
So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again?
My fear hath catch'd your fondness: now I see
The mystery of your loneliness, and find
Your salt tears' head: now to all sense 'tis gross
You love my son; invention is ashamed,
Against the proclamation of thy passion,
To say thou dost not: therefore tell me true;
But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look thy cheeks
Confess it, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes
See it so grossly shown in thy behaviors
That in their kind they speak it: only sin
And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,
That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so?
If it be so, you have wound a goodly clew;
If it be not, forswear't: howe'er, I charge thee,
As heaven shall work in me for thine avail,
Tell me truly.",288,18724
632029,514,"Good madam, pardon me!",567,18724
632030,515,Do you love my son?,288,18724
632031,516,"Your pardon, noble mistress!",567,18724
632032,517,Love you my son?,288,18724
632033,518,"Do not you love him, madam?",567,18724
632034,519,"Go not about; my love hath in't a bond,
Whereof the world takes note: come, come, disclose
The state of your affection; for your passions
Have to the full appeach'd.",288,18724
632035,523,"Then, I confess,
Here on my knee, before high heaven and you,
That before you, and next unto high heaven,
I love your son.
My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love:
Be not offended; for it hurts not him
That he is loved of me: I follow him not
By any token of presumptuous suit;
Nor would I have him till I do deserve him;
Yet never know how that desert should be.
I know I love in vain, strive against hope;
Yet in this captious and intenible sieve
I still pour in the waters of my love
And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like,
Religious in mine error, I adore
The sun, that looks upon his worshipper,
But knows of him no more. My dearest madam,
Let not your hate encounter with my love
For loving where you do: but if yourself,
Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth,
Did ever in so true a flame of liking
Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian
Was both herself and love: O, then, give pity
To her, whose state is such that cannot choose
But lend and give where she is sure to lose;
That seeks not to find that her search implies,
But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies!",567,18724
632036,550,"Had you not lately an intent,--speak truly,--
To go to Paris?",288,18724
632037,552,"Madam, I had.",567,18724
632038,553,Wherefore? tell true.,288,18724
632039,554,"I will tell truth; by grace itself I swear.
You know my father left me some prescriptions
Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading
And manifest experience had collected
For general sovereignty; and that he will'd me
In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them,
As notes whose faculties inclusive were
More than they were in note: amongst the rest,
There is a remedy, approved, set down,
To cure the desperate languishings whereof
The king is render'd lost.",567,18724
632040,565,"This was your motive
For Paris, was it? speak.",288,18724
632041,567,"My lord your son made me to think of this;
Else Paris and the medicine and the king
Had from the conversation of my thoughts
Haply been absent then.",567,18724
632042,571,"But think you, Helen,
If you should tender your supposed aid,
He would receive it? he and his physicians
Are of a mind; he, that they cannot help him,
They, that they cannot help: how shall they credit
A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools,
Embowell'd of their doctrine, have left off
The danger to itself?",288,18724
632043,579,"There's something in't,
More than my father's skill, which was the greatest
Of his profession, that his good receipt
Shall for my legacy be sanctified
By the luckiest stars in heaven: and, would your honour
But give me leave to try success, I'ld venture
The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure
By such a day and hour.",567,18724
632044,587,Dost thou believe't?,288,18724
632045,588,"Ay, madam, knowingly.",567,18724
632046,589,"Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave and love,
Means and attendants and my loving greetings
To those of mine in court: I'll stay at home
And pray God's blessing into thy attempt:
Be gone to-morrow; and be sure of this,
What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss.",288,18724
632047,595,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING, attended]
with divers young Lords taking leave for the
Florentine war; BERTRAM, and PAROLLES]",1261,18724
632048,601,"Farewell, young lords; these warlike principles
Do not throw from you: and you, my lords, farewell:
Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain, all
The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received,
And is enough for both.",635,18725
632049,606,"'Tis our hope, sir,
After well enter'd soldiers, to return
And find your grace in health.",434,18725
632050,609,"No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart
Will not confess he owes the malady
That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords;
Whether I live or die, be you the sons
Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy,--
Those bated that inherit but the fall
Of the last monarchy,--see that you come
Not to woo honour, but to wed it; when
The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek,
That fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell.",635,18725
632051,619,"Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty!",1002,18725
632052,620,"Those girls of Italy, take heed of them:
They say, our French lack language to deny,
If they demand: beware of being captives,
Before you serve.",635,18725
632053,624,Our hearts receive your warnings.,180,18725
632054,625,Farewell. Come hither to me.,635,18725
632055,626,"[Exit, attended]",1261,18725
632056,627,"O, my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us!",434,18725
632057,628,"'Tis not his fault, the spark.",862,18725
632058,629,"O, 'tis brave wars!",1002,18725
632059,630,Most admirable: I have seen those wars.,862,18725
632060,631,"I am commanded here, and kept a coil with
'Too young' and 'the next year' and ''tis too early.'",164,18725
632061,633,"An thy mind stand to't, boy, steal away bravely.",862,18725
632062,634,"I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock,
Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry,
Till honour be bought up and no sword worn
But one to dance with! By heaven, I'll steal away.",164,18725
632063,638,There's honour in the theft.,434,18725
632064,639,"Commit it, count.",862,18725
632065,640,"I am your accessary; and so, farewell.",1002,18725
632066,641,"I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body.",164,18725
632067,642,"Farewell, captain.",434,18725
632068,643,Sweet Monsieur Parolles!,1002,18725
632069,644,"Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good
sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals: you shall
find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain
Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here
on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword
entrenched it: say to him, I live; and observe his
reports for me.",862,18725
632070,651,"We shall, noble captain.",434,18725
632071,652,[Exeunt Lords],1261,18725
632072,653,Mars dote on you for his novices! what will ye do?,862,18725
632073,654,Stay: the king.,164,18725
632074,655,[Re-enter KING. BERTRAM and PAROLLES retire],1261,18725
632075,656,"[To BERTRAM] Use a more spacious ceremony to the
noble lords; you have restrained yourself within the
list of too cold an adieu: be more expressive to
them: for they wear themselves in the cap of the
time, there do muster true gait, eat, speak, and
move under the influence of the most received star;
and though the devil lead the measure, such are to
be followed: after them, and take a more dilated farewell.",862,18725
632076,664,And I will do so.,164,18725
632077,665,Worthy fellows; and like to prove most sinewy sword-men.,862,18725
632078,666,[Exeunt BERTRAM and PAROLLES],1261,18725
632079,667,[Enter LAFEU],1261,18725
632080,668,"[Kneeling] Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings.",652,18725
632081,669,I'll fee thee to stand up.,635,18725
632082,670,"Then here's a man stands, that has brought his pardon.
I would you had kneel'd, my lord, to ask me mercy,
And that at my bidding you could so stand up.",652,18725
632083,673,"I would I had; so I had broke thy pate,
And ask'd thee mercy for't.",635,18725
632084,675,"Good faith, across: but, my good lord 'tis thus;
Will you be cured of your infirmity?",652,18725
632085,677,No.,635,18725
632086,678,"O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox?
Yes, but you will my noble grapes, an if
My royal fox could reach them: I have seen a medicine
That's able to breathe life into a stone,
Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary
With spritely fire and motion; whose simple touch,
Is powerful to araise King Pepin, nay,
To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand,
And write to her a love-line.",652,18725
632087,687,What 'her' is this?,635,18725
632088,688,"Why, Doctor She: my lord, there's one arrived,
If you will see her: now, by my faith and honour,
If seriously I may convey my thoughts
In this my light deliverance, I have spoke
With one that, in her sex, her years, profession,
Wisdom and constancy, hath amazed me more
Than I dare blame my weakness: will you see her
For that is her demand, and know her business?
That done, laugh well at me.",652,18725
632089,697,"Now, good Lafeu,
Bring in the admiration; that we with thee
May spend our wonder too, or take off thine
By wondering how thou took'st it.",635,18725
632090,701,"Nay, I'll fit you,
And not be all day neither.",652,18725
632091,703,[Exit],1261,18725
632092,704,Thus he his special nothing ever prologues.,635,18725
632093,705,"[Re-enter LAFEU, with HELENA]",1261,18725
632094,706,"Nay, come your ways.",652,18725
632095,707,This haste hath wings indeed.,635,18725
632096,708,"Nay, come your ways:
This is his majesty; say your mind to him:
A traitor you do look like; but such traitors
His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle,
That dare leave two together; fare you well.",652,18725
632097,713,[Exit],1261,18725
632098,714,"Now, fair one, does your business follow us?",635,18725
632099,715,"Ay, my good lord.
Gerard de Narbon was my father;
In what he did profess, well found.",567,18725
632100,718,I knew him.,635,18725
632101,719,"The rather will I spare my praises towards him:
Knowing him is enough. On's bed of death
Many receipts he gave me: chiefly one.
Which, as the dearest issue of his practise,
And of his old experience the oily darling,
He bade me store up, as a triple eye,
Safer than mine own two, more dear; I have so;
And hearing your high majesty is touch'd
With that malignant cause wherein the honour
Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power,
I come to tender it and my appliance
With all bound humbleness.",567,18725
632102,731,"We thank you, maiden;
But may not be so credulous of cure,
When our most learned doctors leave us and
The congregated college have concluded
That labouring art can never ransom nature
From her inaidible estate; I say we must not
So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope,
To prostitute our past-cure malady
To empirics, or to dissever so
Our great self and our credit, to esteem
A senseless help when help past sense we deem.",635,18725
632103,742,"My duty then shall pay me for my pains:
I will no more enforce mine office on you.
Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts
A modest one, to bear me back a again.",567,18725
632104,746,"I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful:
Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give
As one near death to those that wish him live:
But what at full I know, thou know'st no part,
I knowing all my peril, thou no art.",635,18725
632105,751,"What I can do can do no hurt to try,
Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy.
He that of greatest works is finisher
Oft does them by the weakest minister:
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown,
When judges have been babes; great floods have flown
From simple sources, and great seas have dried
When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
Oft expectation fails and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.",567,18725
632106,762,"I must not hear thee; fare thee well, kind maid;
Thy pains not used must by thyself be paid:
Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward.",635,18725
632107,765,"Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd:
It is not so with Him that all things knows
As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows;
But most it is presumption in us when
The help of heaven we count the act of men.
Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent;
Of heaven, not me, make an experiment.
I am not an impostor that proclaim
Myself against the level of mine aim;
But know I think and think I know most sure
My art is not past power nor you past cure.",567,18725
632108,776,"Are thou so confident? within what space
Hopest thou my cure?",635,18725
632109,778,"The great'st grace lending grace
Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring
Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring,
Ere twice in murk and occidental damp
Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp,
Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass
Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass,
What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly,
Health shall live free and sickness freely die.",567,18725
632110,787,"Upon thy certainty and confidence
What darest thou venture?",635,18725
632111,789,"Tax of impudence,
A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame
Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name
Sear'd otherwise; nay, worse--if worse--extended
With vilest torture let my life be ended.",567,18725
632112,794,"Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak
His powerful sound within an organ weak:
And what impossibility would slay
In common sense, sense saves another way.
Thy life is dear; for all that life can rate
Worth name of life in thee hath estimate,
Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all
That happiness and prime can happy call:
Thou this to hazard needs must intimate
Skill infinite or monstrous desperate.
Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try,
That ministers thine own death if I die.",635,18725
632113,806,"If I break time, or flinch in property
Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die,
And well deserved: not helping, death's my fee;
But, if I help, what do you promise me?",567,18725
632114,810,Make thy demand.,635,18725
632115,811,But will you make it even?,567,18725
632116,812,"Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven.",635,18725
632117,813,"Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand
What husband in thy power I will command:
Exempted be from me the arrogance
To choose from forth the royal blood of France,
My low and humble name to propagate
With any branch or image of thy state;
But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know
Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow.",567,18725
632118,821,"Here is my hand; the premises observed,
Thy will by my performance shall be served:
So make the choice of thy own time, for I,
Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely.
More should I question thee, and more I must,
Though more to know could not be more to trust,
From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest
Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest.
Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed
As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed.",635,18725
632119,831,[Flourish. Exeunt],1261,18725
632120,834,[Enter COUNTESS and Clown],1261,18726
632121,835,"Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height of
your breeding.",288,18726
632122,837,"I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught: I
know my business is but to the court.",270,18726
632123,839,"To the court! why, what place make you special,
when you put off that with such contempt? But to the court!",288,18726
632124,841,"Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he
may easily put it off at court: he that cannot make
a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand and say nothing,
has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and indeed
such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the
court; but for me, I have an answer will serve all
men.",270,18726
632125,848,"Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all
questions.",288,18726
632126,850,"It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks,
the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn
buttock, or any buttock.",270,18726
632127,853,Will your answer serve fit to all questions?,288,18726
632128,854,"As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney,
as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's
rush for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove
Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his
hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding queen
to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the
friar's mouth, nay, as the pudding to his skin.",270,18726
632129,861,"Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all
questions?",288,18726
632130,863,"From below your duke to beneath your constable, it
will fit any question.",270,18726
632131,865,"It must be an answer of most monstrous size that
must fit all demands.",288,18726
632132,867,"But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned
should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that
belongs to't. Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall
do you no harm to learn.",270,18726
632133,871,"To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in
question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I
pray you, sir, are you a courtier?",288,18726
632134,874,"O Lord, sir! There's a simple putting off. More,
more, a hundred of them.",270,18726
632135,876,"Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you.",288,18726
632136,877,"O Lord, sir! Thick, thick, spare not me.",270,18726
632137,878,"I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat.",288,18726
632138,879,"O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you.",270,18726
632139,880,"You were lately whipped, sir, as I think.",288,18726
632140,881,"O Lord, sir! spare not me.",270,18726
632141,882,"Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and
'spare not me?' Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is very
sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well
to a whipping, if you were but bound to't.",288,18726
632142,886,"I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my 'O Lord,
sir!' I see things may serve long, but not serve ever.",270,18726
632143,888,"I play the noble housewife with the time
To entertain't so merrily with a fool.",288,18726
632144,890,"O Lord, sir! why, there't serves well again.",270,18726
632145,891,"An end, sir; to your business. Give Helen this,
And urge her to a present answer back:
Commend me to my kinsmen and my son:
This is not much.",288,18726
632146,895,Not much commendation to them.,270,18726
632147,896,Not much employment for you: you understand me?,288,18726
632148,897,Most fruitfully: I am there before my legs.,270,18726
632149,898,Haste you again.,288,18726
632150,899,[Exeunt severally],1261,18726
632151,902,"[Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES]",1261,18727
632152,903,"They say miracles are past; and we have our
philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar,
things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that
we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves
into seeming knowledge, when we should submit
ourselves to an unknown fear.",652,18727
632153,909,"Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath
shot out in our latter times.",862,18727
632154,911,And so 'tis.,164,18727
632155,912,"To be relinquish'd of the artists,--",652,18727
632156,913,So I say.,862,18727
632157,914,Both of Galen and Paracelsus.,652,18727
632158,915,So I say.,862,18727
632159,916,"Of all the learned and authentic fellows,--",652,18727
632160,917,Right; so I say.,862,18727
632161,918,"That gave him out incurable,--",652,18727
632162,919,"Why, there 'tis; so say I too.",862,18727
632163,920,"Not to be helped,--",652,18727
632164,921,"Right; as 'twere, a man assured of a--",862,18727
632165,922,"Uncertain life, and sure death.",652,18727
632166,923,"Just, you say well; so would I have said.",862,18727
632167,924,"I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world.",652,18727
632168,925,"It is, indeed: if you will have it in showing, you
shall read it in--what do you call there?",862,18727
632169,927,A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor.,652,18727
632170,928,That's it; I would have said the very same.,862,18727
632171,929,"Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me,
I speak in respect--",652,18727
632172,931,"Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the
brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a most
facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the--",862,18727
632173,934,Very hand of heaven.,652,18727
632174,935,"Ay, so I say.",862,18727
632175,936,"In a most weak--
[pausing]
and debile minister, great power, great
transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a
further use to be made than alone the recovery of
the king, as to be--
[pausing]
generally thankful.",652,18727
632176,944,"I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the king.
[Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants. LAFEU and]
PAROLLES retire]",862,18727
632177,947,"Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid the
better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: why, he's
able to lead her a coranto.",652,18727
632178,950,Mort du vinaigre! is not this Helen?,862,18727
632179,951,"'Fore God, I think so.",652,18727
632180,952,"Go, call before me all the lords in court.
Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side;
And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense
Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive
The confirmation of my promised gift,
Which but attends thy naming.
[Enter three or four Lords]
Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel
Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,
O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice
I have to use: thy frank election make;
Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake.",635,18727
632181,964,"To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress
Fall, when Love please! marry, to each, but one!",567,18727
632182,966,"I'ld give bay Curtal and his furniture,
My mouth no more were broken than these boys',
And writ as little beard.",652,18727
632183,969,"Peruse them well:
Not one of those but had a noble father.",635,18727
632184,971,"Gentlemen,
Heaven hath through me restored the king to health.",567,18727
632185,973,"We understand it, and thank heaven for you.",69,18727
632186,974,"I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest,
That I protest I simply am a maid.
Please it your majesty, I have done already:
The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me,
'We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refused,
Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever;
We'll ne'er come there again.'",567,18727
632187,981,"Make choice; and, see,
Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me.",635,18727
632188,983,"Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly,
And to imperial Love, that god most high,
Do my sighs stream. Sir, will you hear my suit?",567,18727
632189,986,And grant it.,434,18727
632190,987,"Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.",567,18727
632191,988,"I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace
for my life.",652,18727
632192,990,"The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes,
Before I speak, too threateningly replies:
Love make your fortunes twenty times above
Her that so wishes and her humble love!",567,18727
632193,994,"No better, if you please.",1002,18727
632194,995,"My wish receive,
Which great Love grant! and so, I take my leave.",567,18727
632195,997,"Do all they deny her? An they were sons of mine,
I'd have them whipped; or I would send them to the
Turk, to make eunuchs of.",652,18727
632196,1000,"Be not afraid that I your hand should take;
I'll never do you wrong for your own sake:
Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed
Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed!",567,18727
632197,1004,"These boys are boys of ice, they'll none have her:
sure, they are bastards to the English; the French
ne'er got 'em.",652,18727
632198,1007,"You are too young, too happy, and too good,
To make yourself a son out of my blood.",567,18727
632199,1009,"Fair one, I think not so.",490,18727
632200,1010,"There's one grape yet; I am sure thy father drunk
wine: but if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth
of fourteen; I have known thee already.",652,18727
632201,1013,"[To BERTRAM] I dare not say I take you; but I give
Me and my service, ever whilst I live,
Into your guiding power. This is the man.",567,18727
632202,1016,"Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she's thy wife.",635,18727
632203,1017,"My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness,
In such a business give me leave to use
The help of mine own eyes.",164,18727
632204,1020,"Know'st thou not, Bertram,
What she has done for me?",635,18727
632205,1022,"Yes, my good lord;
But never hope to know why I should marry her.",164,18727
632206,1024,Thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly bed.,635,18727
632207,1025,"But follows it, my lord, to bring me down
Must answer for your raising? I know her well:
She had her breeding at my father's charge.
A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain
Rather corrupt me ever!",164,18727
632208,1030,"'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which
I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods,
Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
In differences so mighty. If she be
All that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest,
A poor physician's daughter, thou dislikest
Of virtue for the name: but do not so:
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer's deed:
Where great additions swell's, and virtue none,
It is a dropsied honour. Good alone
Is good without a name. Vileness is so:
The property by what it is should go,
Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair;
In these to nature she's immediate heir,
And these breed honour: that is honour's scorn,
Which challenges itself as honour's born
And is not like the sire: honours thrive,
When rather from our acts we them derive
Than our foregoers: the mere word's a slave
Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave
A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb
Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb
Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be said?
If thou canst like this creature as a maid,
I can create the rest: virtue and she
Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me.",635,18727
632209,1058,"I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't.",164,18727
632210,1059,"Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to choose.",635,18727
632211,1060,"That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad:
Let the rest go.",567,18727
632212,1062,"My honour's at the stake; which to defeat,
I must produce my power. Here, take her hand,
Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift;
That dost in vile misprision shackle up
My love and her desert; that canst not dream,
We, poising us in her defective scale,
Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know,
It is in us to plant thine honour where
We please to have it grow. Cheque thy contempt:
Obey our will, which travails in thy good:
Believe not thy disdain, but presently
Do thine own fortunes that obedient right
Which both thy duty owes and our power claims;
Or I will throw thee from my care for ever
Into the staggers and the careless lapse
Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate
Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice,
Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer.",635,18727
632213,1080,"Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit
My fancy to your eyes: when I consider
What great creation and what dole of honour
Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late
Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now
The praised of the king; who, so ennobled,
Is as 'twere born so.",164,18727
632214,1087,"Take her by the hand,
And tell her she is thine: to whom I promise
A counterpoise, if not to thy estate
A balance more replete.",635,18727
632215,1091,I take her hand.,164,18727
632216,1092,"Good fortune and the favour of the king
Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony
Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief,
And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast
Shall more attend upon the coming space,
Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her,
Thy love's to me religious; else, does err.",635,18727
632217,1099,[Exeunt all but LAFEU and PAROLLES],1261,18727
632218,1100,"[Advancing] Do you hear, monsieur? a word with you.",652,18727
632219,1101,"Your pleasure, sir?",862,18727
632220,1102,"Your lord and master did well to make his
recantation.",652,18727
632221,1104,Recantation! My lord! my master!,862,18727
632222,1105,Ay; is it not a language I speak?,652,18727
632223,1106,"A most harsh one, and not to be understood without
bloody succeeding. My master!",862,18727
632224,1108,Are you companion to the Count Rousillon?,652,18727
632225,1109,"To any count, to all counts, to what is man.",862,18727
632226,1110,"To what is count's man: count's master is of
another style.",652,18727
632227,1112,"You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old.",862,18727
632228,1113,"I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which
title age cannot bring thee.",652,18727
632229,1115,"What I dare too well do, I dare not do.",862,18727
632230,1116,"I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty
wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy
travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the
bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from
believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen. I
have now found thee; when I lose thee again, I care
not: yet art thou good for nothing but taking up; and
that thou't scarce worth.",652,18727
632231,1124,"Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee,--",862,18727
632232,1125,"Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou
hasten thy trial; which if--Lord have mercy on thee
for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee
well: thy casement I need not open, for I look
through thee. Give me thy hand.",652,18727
632233,1130,"My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.",862,18727
632234,1131,"Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it.",652,18727
632235,1132,"I have not, my lord, deserved it.",862,18727
632236,1133,"Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will not
bate thee a scruple.",652,18727
632237,1135,"Well, I shall be wiser.",862,18727
632238,1136,"Even as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at
a smack o' the contrary. If ever thou be'st bound
in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is
to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold
my acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge,
that I may say in the default, he is a man I know.",652,18727
632239,1142,"My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation.",862,18727
632240,1143,"I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor
doing eternal: for doing I am past: as I will by
thee, in what motion age will give me leave.",652,18727
632241,1146,[Exit],1261,18727
632242,1147,"Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off
me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord! Well, I must
be patient; there is no fettering of authority.
I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him with
any convenience, an he were double and double a
lord. I'll have no more pity of his age than I
would of--I'll beat him, an if I could but meet him again.",862,18727
632243,1154,[Re-enter LAFEU],1261,18727
632244,1155,"Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news
for you: you have a new mistress.",652,18727
632245,1157,"I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make
some reservation of your wrongs: he is my good
lord: whom I serve above is my master.",862,18727
632246,1160,Who? God?,652,18727
632247,1161,"Ay, sir.",862,18727
632248,1162,"The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou
garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of
sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set
thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine
honour, if I were but two hours younger, I'ld beat
thee: methinks, thou art a general offence, and
every man should beat thee: I think thou wast
created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.",652,18727
632249,1170,"This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord.",862,18727
632250,1171,"Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a
kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond and
no true traveller: you are more saucy with lords
and honourable personages than the commission of your
birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not
worth another word, else I'ld call you knave. I leave you.",652,18727
632251,1177,[Exit],1261,18727
632252,1178,"Good, very good; it is so then: good, very good;
let it be concealed awhile.",862,18727
632253,1180,[Re-enter BERTRAM],1261,18727
632254,1181,"Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever!",164,18727
632255,1182,"What's the matter, sweet-heart?",862,18727
632256,1183,"Although before the solemn priest I have sworn,
I will not bed her.",164,18727
632257,1185,"What, what, sweet-heart?",862,18727
632258,1186,"O my Parolles, they have married me!
I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her.",164,18727
632259,1188,"France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits
The tread of a man's foot: to the wars!",862,18727
632260,1190,"There's letters from my mother: what the import is,
I know not yet.",164,18727
632261,1192,"Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my boy, to the wars!
He wears his honour in a box unseen,
That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home,
Spending his manly marrow in her arms,
Which should sustain the bound and high curvet
Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions
France is a stable; we that dwell in't jades;
Therefore, to the war!",862,18727
632262,1200,"It shall be so: I'll send her to my house,
Acquaint my mother with my hate to her,
And wherefore I am fled; write to the king
That which I durst not speak; his present gift
Shall furnish me to those Italian fields,
Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife
To the dark house and the detested wife.",164,18727
632263,1207,Will this capriccio hold in thee? art sure?,862,18727
632264,1208,"Go with me to my chamber, and advise me.
I'll send her straight away: to-morrow
I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow.",164,18727
632265,1211,"Why, these balls bound; there's noise in it. 'Tis hard:
A young man married is a man that's marr'd:
Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go:
The king has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so.",862,18727
632266,1215,[Exeunt],1261,18727
632267,1218,[Enter HELENA and Clown],1261,18728
632268,1219,My mother greets me kindly; is she well?,567,18728
632269,1220,"She is not well; but yet she has her health: she's
very merry; but yet she is not well: but thanks be
given, she's very well and wants nothing i', the
world; but yet she is not well.",270,18728
632270,1224,"If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's
not very well?",567,18728
632271,1226,"Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things.",270,18728
632272,1227,What two things?,567,18728
632273,1228,"One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her
quickly! the other that she's in earth, from whence
God send her quickly!",270,18728
632274,1231,[Enter PAROLLES],1261,18728
632275,1232,"Bless you, my fortunate lady!",862,18728
632276,1233,"I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own
good fortunes.",567,18728
632277,1235,"You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them
on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old lady?",862,18728
632278,1237,"So that you had her wrinkles and I her money,
I would she did as you say.",270,18728
632279,1239,"Why, I say nothing.",862,18728
632280,1240,"Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's
tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say
nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have
nothing, is to be a great part of your title; which
is within a very little of nothing.",270,18728
632281,1245,Away! thou'rt a knave.,862,18728
632282,1246,"You should have said, sir, before a knave thou'rt a
knave; that's, before me thou'rt a knave: this had
been truth, sir.",270,18728
632283,1249,"Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have found thee.",862,18728
632284,1250,"Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you
taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable;
and much fool may you find in you, even to the
world's pleasure and the increase of laughter.",270,18728
632285,1254,"A good knave, i' faith, and well fed.
Madam, my lord will go away to-night;
A very serious business calls on him.
The great prerogative and rite of love,
Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge;
But puts it off to a compell'd restraint;
Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets,
Which they distil now in the curbed time,
To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy
And pleasure drown the brim.",862,18728
632286,1264,What's his will else?,567,18728
632287,1265,"That you will take your instant leave o' the king
And make this haste as your own good proceeding,
Strengthen'd with what apology you think
May make it probable need.",862,18728
632288,1269,What more commands he?,567,18728
632289,1270,"That, having this obtain'd, you presently
Attend his further pleasure.",862,18728
632290,1272,In every thing I wait upon his will.,567,18728
632291,1273,I shall report it so.,862,18728
632292,1274,"I pray you.
[Exit PAROLLES]
Come, sirrah.",567,18728
632293,1277,[Exeunt],1261,18728
632294,1280,[Enter LAFEU and BERTRAM],1261,18729
632295,1281,But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier.,652,18729
632296,1282,"Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof.",164,18729
632297,1283,You have it from his own deliverance.,652,18729
632298,1284,And by other warranted testimony.,164,18729
632299,1285,Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for a bunting.,652,18729
632300,1286,"I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in
knowledge and accordingly valiant.",164,18729
632301,1288,"I have then sinned against his experience and
transgressed against his valour; and my state that
way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my
heart to repent. Here he comes: I pray you, make
us friends; I will pursue the amity.",652,18729
632302,1293,[Enter PAROLLES],1261,18729
632303,1294,"[To BERTRAM] These things shall be done, sir.",862,18729
632304,1295,"Pray you, sir, who's his tailor?",652,18729
632305,1296,Sir?,862,18729
632306,1297,"O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, 's a good
workman, a very good tailor.",652,18729
632307,1299,[Aside to PAROLLES] Is she gone to the king?,164,18729
632308,1300,She is.,862,18729
632309,1301,Will she away to-night?,164,18729
632310,1302,As you'll have her.,862,18729
632311,1303,"I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure,
Given order for our horses; and to-night,
When I should take possession of the bride,
End ere I do begin.",164,18729
632312,1307,"A good traveller is something at the latter end of a
dinner; but one that lies three thirds and uses a
known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should
be once heard and thrice beaten. God save you, captain.",652,18729
632313,1311,"Is there any unkindness between my lord and you, monsieur?",164,18729
632314,1312,"I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord's
displeasure.",862,18729
632315,1314,"You have made shift to run into 't, boots and spurs
and all, like him that leaped into the custard; and
out of it you'll run again, rather than suffer
question for your residence.",652,18729
632316,1318,"It may be you have mistaken him, my lord.",164,18729
632317,1319,"And shall do so ever, though I took him at 's
prayers. Fare you well, my lord; and believe this
of me, there can be no kernel in this light nut; the
soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not in
matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them
tame, and know their natures. Farewell, monsieur:
I have spoken better of you than you have or will to
deserve at my hand; but we must do good against evil.",652,18729
632318,1327,[Exit],1261,18729
632319,1328,An idle lord. I swear.,862,18729
632320,1329,I think so.,164,18729
632321,1330,"Why, do you not know him?",862,18729
632322,1331,"Yes, I do know him well, and common speech
Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog.",164,18729
632323,1333,[Enter HELENA],1261,18729
632324,1334,"I have, sir, as I was commanded from you,
Spoke with the king and have procured his leave
For present parting; only he desires
Some private speech with you.",567,18729
632325,1338,"I shall obey his will.
You must not marvel, Helen, at my course,
Which holds not colour with the time, nor does
The ministration and required office
On my particular. Prepared I was not
For such a business; therefore am I found
So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you
That presently you take our way for home;
And rather muse than ask why I entreat you,
For my respects are better than they seem
And my appointments have in them a need
Greater than shows itself at the first view
To you that know them not. This to my mother:
[Giving a letter]
'Twill be two days ere I shall see you, so
I leave you to your wisdom.",164,18729
632326,1354,"Sir, I can nothing say,
But that I am your most obedient servant.",567,18729
632327,1356,"Come, come, no more of that.",164,18729
632328,1357,"And ever shall
With true observance seek to eke out that
Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd
To equal my great fortune.",567,18729
632329,1361,"Let that go:
My haste is very great: farewell; hie home.",164,18729
632330,1363,"Pray, sir, your pardon.",567,18729
632331,1364,"Well, what would you say?",164,18729
632332,1365,"I am not worthy of the wealth I owe,
Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is;
But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal
What law does vouch mine own.",567,18729
632333,1369,What would you have?,164,18729
632334,1370,"Something; and scarce so much: nothing, indeed.
I would not tell you what I would, my lord:
Faith yes;
Strangers and foes do sunder, and not kiss.",567,18729
632335,1374,"I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse.",164,18729
632336,1375,"I shall not break your bidding, good my lord.",567,18729
632337,1376,"Where are my other men, monsieur? Farewell.
[Exit HELENA]
Go thou toward home; where I will never come
Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum.
Away, and for our flight.",164,18729
632338,1381,"Bravely, coragio!",862,18729
632339,1382,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence attended;]
the two Frenchmen, with a troop of soldiers.",1261,18729
632340,1387,"So that from point to point now have you heard
The fundamental reasons of this war,
Whose great decision hath much blood let forth
And more thirsts after.",347,18730
632341,1391,"Holy seems the quarrel
Upon your grace's part; black and fearful
On the opposer.",434,18730
632342,1394,"Therefore we marvel much our cousin France
Would in so just a business shut his bosom
Against our borrowing prayers.",347,18730
632343,1397,"Good my lord,
The reasons of our state I cannot yield,
But like a common and an outward man,
That the great figure of a council frames
By self-unable motion: therefore dare not
Say what I think of it, since I have found
Myself in my incertain grounds to fail
As often as I guess'd.",1002,18730
632344,1405,Be it his pleasure.,347,18730
632345,1406,"But I am sure the younger of our nature,
That surfeit on their ease, will day by day
Come here for physic.",434,18730
632346,1409,"Welcome shall they be;
And all the honours that can fly from us
Shall on them settle. You know your places well;
When better fall, for your avails they fell:
To-morrow to the field.",347,18730
632347,1414,[Flourish. Exeunt],1261,18730
632348,1417,[Enter COUNTESS and Clown],1261,18731
632349,1418,"It hath happened all as I would have had it, save
that he comes not along with her.",288,18731
632350,1420,"By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very
melancholy man.",270,18731
632351,1422,"By what observance, I pray you?",288,18731
632352,1423,"Why, he will look upon his boot and sing; mend the
ruff and sing; ask questions and sing; pick his
teeth and sing. I know a man that had this trick of
melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.",270,18731
632353,1427,"Let me see what he writes, and when he means to come.",288,18731
632354,1428,[Opening a letter],1261,18731
632355,1429,"I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court: our
old ling and our Isbels o' the country are nothing
like your old ling and your Isbels o' the court:
the brains of my Cupid's knocked out, and I begin to
love, as an old man loves money, with no stomach.",270,18731
632356,1434,What have we here?,288,18731
632357,1435,E'en that you have there.,270,18731
632358,1436,[Exit],1261,18731
632359,1437,"[Reads] I have sent you a daughter-in-law: she hath
recovered the king, and undone me. I have wedded
her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the 'not'
eternal. You shall hear I am run away: know it
before the report come. If there be breadth enough
in the world, I will hold a long distance. My duty
to you.. Your unfortunate son,
BERTRAM.
This is not well, rash and unbridled boy.
To fly the favours of so good a king;
To pluck his indignation on thy head
By the misprising of a maid too virtuous
For the contempt of empire.",288,18731
632360,1450,[Re-enter Clown],1261,18731
632361,1451,"O madam, yonder is heavy news within between two
soldiers and my young lady!",270,18731
632362,1453,What is the matter?,288,18731
632363,1454,"Nay, there is some comfort in the news, some
comfort; your son will not be killed so soon as I
thought he would.",270,18731
632364,1457,Why should he be killed?,288,18731
632365,1458,"So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he does:
the danger is in standing to't; that's the loss of
men, though it be the getting of children. Here
they come will tell you more: for my part, I only
hear your son was run away.",270,18731
632366,1463,[Exit],1261,18731
632367,1464,"[Enter HELENA, and two Gentlemen]",1261,18731
632368,1465,"Save you, good madam.",420,18731
632369,1466,"Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone.",567,18731
632370,1467,Do not say so.,990,18731
632371,1468,"Think upon patience. Pray you, gentlemen,
I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief,
That the first face of neither, on the start,
Can woman me unto't: where is my son, I pray you?",288,18731
632372,1472,"Madam, he's gone to serve the duke of Florence:
We met him thitherward; for thence we came,
And, after some dispatch in hand at court,
Thither we bend again.",990,18731
632373,1476,"Look on his letter, madam; here's my passport.
[Reads]
When thou canst get the ring upon my finger which
never shall come off, and show me a child begotten
of thy body that I am father to, then call me
husband: but in such a 'then' I write a 'never.'
This is a dreadful sentence.",567,18731
632374,1483,"Brought you this letter, gentlemen?",288,18731
632375,1484,"Ay, madam;
And for the contents' sake are sorry for our pain.",420,18731
632376,1486,"I prithee, lady, have a better cheer;
If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,
Thou robb'st me of a moiety: he was my son;
But I do wash his name out of my blood,
And thou art all my child. Towards Florence is he?",288,18731
632377,1491,"Ay, madam.",990,18731
632378,1492,And to be a soldier?,288,18731
632379,1493,"Such is his noble purpose; and believe 't,
The duke will lay upon him all the honour
That good convenience claims.",990,18731
632380,1496,Return you thither?,288,18731
632381,1497,"Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed.",420,18731
632382,1498,"[Reads] Till I have no wife I have nothing in France.
'Tis bitter.",567,18731
632383,1500,Find you that there?,288,18731
632384,1501,"Ay, madam.",567,18731
632385,1502,"'Tis but the boldness of his hand, haply, which his
heart was not consenting to.",420,18731
632386,1504,"Nothing in France, until he have no wife!
There's nothing here that is too good for him
But only she; and she deserves a lord
That twenty such rude boys might tend upon
And call her hourly mistress. Who was with him?",288,18731
632387,1509,"A servant only, and a gentleman
Which I have sometime known.",420,18731
632388,1511,"Parolles, was it not?",288,18731
632389,1512,"Ay, my good lady, he.",420,18731
632390,1513,"A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness.
My son corrupts a well-derived nature
With his inducement.",288,18731
632391,1516,"Indeed, good lady,
The fellow has a deal of that too much,
Which holds him much to have.",420,18731
632392,1519,"You're welcome, gentlemen.
I will entreat you, when you see my son,
To tell him that his sword can never win
The honour that he loses: more I'll entreat you
Written to bear along.",288,18731
632393,1524,"We serve you, madam,
In that and all your worthiest affairs.",990,18731
632394,1526,"Not so, but as we change our courtesies.
Will you draw near!",288,18731
632395,1528,[Exeunt COUNTESS and Gentlemen],1261,18731
632396,1529,"'Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.'
Nothing in France, until he has no wife!
Thou shalt have none, Rousillon, none in France;
Then hast thou all again. Poor lord! is't I
That chase thee from thy country and expose
Those tender limbs of thine to the event
Of the none-sparing war? and is it I
That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou
Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark
Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers,
That ride upon the violent speed of fire,
Fly with false aim; move the still-peering air,
That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord.
Whoever shoots at him, I set him there;
Whoever charges on his forward breast,
I am the caitiff that do hold him to't;
And, though I kill him not, I am the cause
His death was so effected: better 'twere
I met the ravin lion when he roar'd
With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere
That all the miseries which nature owes
Were mine at once. No, come thou home, Rousillon,
Whence honour but of danger wins a scar,
As oft it loses all: I will be gone;
My being here it is that holds thee hence:
Shall I stay here to do't? no, no, although
The air of paradise did fan the house
And angels officed all: I will be gone,
That pitiful rumour may report my flight,
To consolate thine ear. Come, night; end, day!
For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away.",567,18731
632397,1560,"[Exit]
[Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence, BERTRAM,]
PAROLLES, Soldiers, Drum, and Trumpets]",1261,18731
632398,1565,"The general of our horse thou art; and we,
Great in our hope, lay our best love and credence
Upon thy promising fortune.",347,18732
632399,1568,"Sir, it is
A charge too heavy for my strength, but yet
We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake
To the extreme edge of hazard.",164,18732
632400,1572,"Then go thou forth;
And fortune play upon thy prosperous helm,
As thy auspicious mistress!",347,18732
632401,1575,"This very day,
Great Mars, I put myself into thy file:
Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove
A lover of thy drum, hater of love.",164,18732
632402,1579,[Exeunt],1261,18732
632403,1582,[Enter COUNTESS and Steward],1261,18733
632404,1583,"Alas! and would you take the letter of her?
Might you not know she would do as she has done,
By sending me a letter? Read it again.",288,18733
632405,1586,"[Reads]
I am Saint Jaques' pilgrim, thither gone:
Ambitious love hath so in me offended,
That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon,
With sainted vow my faults to have amended.
Write, write, that from the bloody course of war
My dearest master, your dear son, may hie:
Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far
His name with zealous fervor sanctify:
His taken labours bid him me forgive;
I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth
From courtly friends, with camping foes to live,
Where death and danger dogs the heels of worth:
He is too good and fair for death and me:
Whom I myself embrace, to set him free.",1149,18733
632406,1601,"Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words!
Rinaldo, you did never lack advice so much,
As letting her pass so: had I spoke with her,
I could have well diverted her intents,
Which thus she hath prevented.",288,18733
632407,1606,"Pardon me, madam:
If I had given you this at over-night,
She might have been o'erta'en; and yet she writes,
Pursuit would be but vain.",1149,18733
632408,1610,"What angel shall
Bless this unworthy husband? he cannot thrive,
Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear
And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath
Of greatest justice. Write, write, Rinaldo,
To this unworthy husband of his wife;
Let every word weigh heavy of her worth
That he does weigh too light: my greatest grief.
Though little he do feel it, set down sharply.
Dispatch the most convenient messenger:
When haply he shall hear that she is gone,
He will return; and hope I may that she,
Hearing so much, will speed her foot again,
Led hither by pure love: which of them both
Is dearest to me. I have no skill in sense
To make distinction: provide this messenger:
My heart is heavy and mine age is weak;
Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak.",288,18733
632409,1628,"[Exeunt]
[Enter an old Widow of Florence, DIANA, VIOLENTA,]
and MARIANA, with other Citizens]",1261,18733
632410,1633,"Nay, come; for if they do approach the city, we
shall lose all the sight.",1252,18734
632411,1635,They say the French count has done most honourable service.,312,18734
632412,1636,"It is reported that he has taken their greatest
commander; and that with his own hand he slew the
duke's brother.
[Tucket]
We have lost our labour; they are gone a contrary
way: hark! you may know by their trumpets.",1252,18734
632413,1642,"Come, let's return again, and suffice ourselves with
the report of it. Well, Diana, take heed of this
French earl: the honour of a maid is her name; and
no legacy is so rich as honesty.",740,18734
632414,1646,"I have told my neighbour how you have been solicited
by a gentleman his companion.",1252,18734
632415,1648,"I know that knave; hang him! one Parolles: a
filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the
young earl. Beware of them, Diana; their promises,
enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of
lust, are not the things they go under: many a maid
hath been seduced by them; and the misery is,
example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of
maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession,
but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten
them. I hope I need not to advise you further; but
I hope your own grace will keep you where you are,
though there were no further danger known but the
modesty which is so lost.",740,18734
632416,1661,You shall not need to fear me.,312,18734
632417,1662,"I hope so.
[Enter HELENA, disguised like a Pilgrim]
Look, here comes a pilgrim: I know she will lie at
my house; thither they send one another: I'll
question her. God save you, pilgrim! whither are you bound?",1252,18734
632418,1667,"To Saint Jaques le Grand.
Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you?",567,18734
632419,1669,At the Saint Francis here beside the port.,1252,18734
632420,1670,Is this the way?,567,18734
632421,1671,"Ay, marry, is't.
[A march afar]
Hark you! they come this way.
If you will tarry, holy pilgrim,
But till the troops come by,
I will conduct you where you shall be lodged;
The rather, for I think I know your hostess
As ample as myself.",1252,18734
632422,1679,Is it yourself?,567,18734
632423,1680,"If you shall please so, pilgrim.",1252,18734
632424,1681,"I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure.",567,18734
632425,1682,"You came, I think, from France?",1252,18734
632426,1683,I did so.,567,18734
632427,1684,"Here you shall see a countryman of yours
That has done worthy service.",1252,18734
632428,1686,"His name, I pray you.",567,18734
632429,1687,The Count Rousillon: know you such a one?,312,18734
632430,1688,"But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him:
His face I know not.",567,18734
632431,1690,"Whatsome'er he is,
He's bravely taken here. He stole from France,
As 'tis reported, for the king had married him
Against his liking: think you it is so?",312,18734
632432,1694,"Ay, surely, mere the truth: I know his lady.",567,18734
632433,1695,"There is a gentleman that serves the count
Reports but coarsely of her.",312,18734
632434,1697,What's his name?,567,18734
632435,1698,Monsieur Parolles.,312,18734
632436,1699,"O, I believe with him,
In argument of praise, or to the worth
Of the great count himself, she is too mean
To have her name repeated: all her deserving
Is a reserved honesty, and that
I have not heard examined.",567,18734
632437,1705,"Alas, poor lady!
'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife
Of a detesting lord.",312,18734
632438,1708,"I warrant, good creature, wheresoe'er she is,
Her heart weighs sadly: this young maid might do her
A shrewd turn, if she pleased.",1252,18734
632439,1711,"How do you mean?
May be the amorous count solicits her
In the unlawful purpose.",567,18734
632440,1714,"He does indeed;
And brokes with all that can in such a suit
Corrupt the tender honour of a maid:
But she is arm'd for him and keeps her guard
In honestest defence.",1252,18734
632441,1719,The gods forbid else!,740,18734
632442,1720,"So, now they come:
[Drum and Colours]
[Enter BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and the whole army]
That is Antonio, the duke's eldest son;
That, Escalus.",1252,18734
632443,1725,Which is the Frenchman?,567,18734
632444,1726,"He;
That with the plume: 'tis a most gallant fellow.
I would he loved his wife: if he were honester
He were much goodlier: is't not a handsome gentleman?",312,18734
632445,1730,I like him well.,567,18734
632446,1731,"'Tis pity he is not honest: yond's that same knave
That leads him to these places: were I his lady,
I would Poison that vile rascal.",312,18734
632447,1734,Which is he?,567,18734
632448,1735,That jack-an-apes with scarfs: why is he melancholy?,312,18734
632449,1736,Perchance he's hurt i' the battle.,567,18734
632450,1737,Lose our drum! well.,862,18734
632451,1738,"He's shrewdly vexed at something: look, he has spied us.",740,18734
632452,1739,"Marry, hang you!",1252,18734
632453,1740,"And your courtesy, for a ring-carrier!",740,18734
632454,1741,"[Exeunt BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and army]",1261,18734
632455,1742,"The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you
Where you shall host: of enjoin'd penitents
There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound,
Already at my house.",1252,18734
632456,1746,"I humbly thank you:
Please it this matron and this gentle maid
To eat with us to-night, the charge and thanking
Shall be for me; and, to requite you further,
I will bestow some precepts of this virgin
Worthy the note.",567,18734
632457,1752,We'll take your offer kindly.,180,18734
632458,1753,[Exeunt],1261,18734
632459,1756,[Enter BERTRAM and the two French Lords],1261,18735
632460,1757,"Nay, good my lord, put him to't; let him have his
way.",1002,18735
632461,1759,"If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no
more in your respect.",434,18735
632462,1761,"On my life, my lord, a bubble.",1002,18735
632463,1762,Do you think I am so far deceived in him?,164,18735
632464,1763,"Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct knowledge,
without any malice, but to speak of him as my
kinsman, he's a most notable coward, an infinite and
endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner
of no one good quality worthy your lordship's
entertainment.",1002,18735
632465,1769,"It were fit you knew him; lest, reposing too far in
his virtue, which he hath not, he might at some
great and trusty business in a main danger fail you.",434,18735
632466,1772,I would I knew in what particular action to try him.,164,18735
632467,1773,"None better than to let him fetch off his drum,
which you hear him so confidently undertake to do.",434,18735
632468,1775,"I, with a troop of Florentines, will suddenly
surprise him; such I will have, whom I am sure he
knows not from the enemy: we will bind and hoodwink
him so, that he shall suppose no other but that he
is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries, when
we bring him to our own tents. Be but your lordship
present at his examination: if he do not, for the
promise of his life and in the highest compulsion of
base fear, offer to betray you and deliver all the
intelligence in his power against you, and that with
the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath, never
trust my judgment in any thing.",1002,18735
632469,1787,"O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch his drum;
he says he has a stratagem for't: when your
lordship sees the bottom of his success in't, and to
what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be
melted, if you give him not John Drum's
entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed.
Here he comes.",434,18735
632470,1794,[Enter PAROLLES],1261,18735
632471,1795,"[Aside to BERTRAM] O, for the love of laughter,
hinder not the honour of his design: let him fetch
off his drum in any hand.",1002,18735
632472,1798,"How now, monsieur! this drum sticks sorely in your
disposition.",164,18735
632473,1800,"A pox on't, let it go; 'tis but a drum.",434,18735
632474,1801,"'But a drum'! is't 'but a drum'? A drum so lost!
There was excellent command,--to charge in with our
horse upon our own wings, and to rend our own soldiers!",862,18735
632475,1804,"That was not to be blamed in the command of the
service: it was a disaster of war that Caesar
himself could not have prevented, if he had been
there to command.",434,18735
632476,1808,"Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success: some
dishonour we had in the loss of that drum; but it is
not to be recovered.",164,18735
632477,1811,It might have been recovered.,862,18735
632478,1812,It might; but it is not now.,164,18735
632479,1813,"It is to be recovered: but that the merit of
service is seldom attributed to the true and exact
performer, I would have that drum or another, or
'hic jacet.'",862,18735
632480,1817,"Why, if you have a stomach, to't, monsieur: if you
think your mystery in stratagem can bring this
instrument of honour again into his native quarter,
be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on; I will
grace the attempt for a worthy exploit: if you
speed well in it, the duke shall both speak of it.
and extend to you what further becomes his
greatness, even to the utmost syllable of your
worthiness.",164,18735
632481,1826,"By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake it.",862,18735
632482,1827,But you must not now slumber in it.,164,18735
632483,1828,"I'll about it this evening: and I will presently
pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my
certainty, put myself into my mortal preparation;
and by midnight look to hear further from me.",862,18735
632484,1832,May I be bold to acquaint his grace you are gone about it?,164,18735
632485,1833,"I know not what the success will be, my lord; but
the attempt I vow.",862,18735
632486,1835,"I know thou'rt valiant; and, to the possibility of
thy soldiership, will subscribe for thee. Farewell.",164,18735
632487,1837,I love not many words.,862,18735
632488,1838,[Exit],1261,18735
632489,1839,"No more than a fish loves water. Is not this a
strange fellow, my lord, that so confidently seems
to undertake this business, which he knows is not to
be done; damns himself to do and dares better be
damned than to do't?",1002,18735
632490,1844,"You do not know him, my lord, as we do: certain it
is that he will steal himself into a man's favour and
for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but
when you find him out, you have him ever after.",434,18735
632491,1848,"Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of
this that so seriously he does address himself unto?",164,18735
632492,1850,"None in the world; but return with an invention and
clap upon you two or three probable lies: but we
have almost embossed him; you shall see his fall
to-night; for indeed he is not for your lordship's respect.",1002,18735
632493,1854,"We'll make you some sport with the fox ere we case
him. He was first smoked by the old lord Lafeu:
when his disguise and he is parted, tell me what a
sprat you shall find him; which you shall see this
very night.",434,18735
632494,1859,I must go look my twigs: he shall be caught.,1002,18735
632495,1860,Your brother he shall go along with me.,164,18735
632496,1861,As't please your lordship: I'll leave you.,1002,18735
632497,1862,[Exit],1261,18735
632498,1863,"Now will I lead you to the house, and show you
The lass I spoke of.",164,18735
632499,1865,But you say she's honest.,434,18735
632500,1866,"That's all the fault: I spoke with her but once
And found her wondrous cold; but I sent to her,
By this same coxcomb that we have i' the wind,
Tokens and letters which she did re-send;
And this is all I have done. She's a fair creature:
Will you go see her?",164,18735
632501,1872,"With all my heart, my lord.",434,18735
632502,1873,[Exeunt],1261,18735
632503,1876,[Enter HELENA and Widow],1261,18736
632504,1877,"If you misdoubt me that I am not she,
I know not how I shall assure you further,
But I shall lose the grounds I work upon.",567,18736
632505,1880,"Though my estate be fallen, I was well born,
Nothing acquainted with these businesses;
And would not put my reputation now
In any staining act.",1252,18736
632506,1884,"Nor would I wish you.
First, give me trust, the count he is my husband,
And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken
Is so from word to word; and then you cannot,
By the good aid that I of you shall borrow,
Err in bestowing it.",567,18736
632507,1890,"I should believe you:
For you have show'd me that which well approves
You're great in fortune.",1252,18736
632508,1893,"Take this purse of gold,
And let me buy your friendly help thus far,
Which I will over-pay and pay again
When I have found it. The count he wooes your daughter,
Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty,
Resolved to carry her: let her in fine consent,
As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it.
Now his important blood will nought deny
That she'll demand: a ring the county wears,
That downward hath succeeded in his house
From son to son, some four or five descents
Since the first father wore it: this ring he holds
In most rich choice; yet in his idle fire,
To buy his will, it would not seem too dear,
Howe'er repented after.",567,18736
632509,1908,"Now I see
The bottom of your purpose.",1252,18736
632510,1910,"You see it lawful, then: it is no more,
But that your daughter, ere she seems as won,
Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter;
In fine, delivers me to fill the time,
Herself most chastely absent: after this,
To marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns
To what is passed already.",567,18736
632511,1917,"I have yielded:
Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,
That time and place with this deceit so lawful
May prove coherent. Every night he comes
With musics of all sorts and songs composed
To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us
To chide him from our eaves; for he persists
As if his life lay on't.",1252,18736
632512,1925,"Why then to-night
Let us assay our plot; which, if it speed,
Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed
And lawful meaning in a lawful act,
Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact:
But let's about it.",567,18736
632513,1931,"[Exeunt]
[Enter Second French Lord, with five or six other]
Soldiers in ambush]",1261,18736
632514,1936,"He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner.
When you sally upon him, speak what terrible
language you will: though you understand it not
yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to
understand him, unless some one among us whom we
must produce for an interpreter.",1002,18737
632515,1942,"Good captain, let me be the interpreter.",467,18737
632516,1943,Art not acquainted with him? knows he not thy voice?,1002,18737
632517,1944,"No, sir, I warrant you.",467,18737
632518,1945,But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again?,1002,18737
632519,1946,E'en such as you speak to me.,467,18737
632520,1947,"He must think us some band of strangers i' the
adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of
all neighbouring languages; therefore we must every
one be a man of his own fancy, not to know what we
speak one to another; so we seem to know, is to
know straight our purpose: choughs' language,
gabble enough, and good enough. As for you,
interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch,
ho! here he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep,
and then to return and swear the lies he forges.",1002,18737
632521,1957,[Enter PAROLLES],1261,18737
632522,1958,"Ten o'clock: within these three hours 'twill be
time enough to go home. What shall I say I have
done? It must be a very plausive invention that
carries it: they begin to smoke me; and disgraces
have of late knocked too often at my door. I find
my tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath the
fear of Mars before it and of his creatures, not
daring the reports of my tongue.",862,18737
632523,1966,"This is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue
was guilty of.",1002,18737
632524,1968,"What the devil should move me to undertake the
recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the
impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I
must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in
exploit: yet slight ones will not carry it; they
will say, 'Came you off with so little?' and great
ones I dare not give. Wherefore, what's the
instance? Tongue, I must put you into a
butter-woman's mouth and buy myself another of
Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these perils.",862,18737
632525,1978,"Is it possible he should know what he is, and be
that he is?",1002,18737
632526,1980,"I would the cutting of my garments would serve the
turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword.",862,18737
632527,1982,We cannot afford you so.,1002,18737
632528,1983,"Or the baring of my beard; and to say it was in
stratagem.",862,18737
632537,1994,You shall hear one anon.,1002,18737
632538,1995,"A drum now of the enemy's,--",862,18737
632539,1996,[Alarum within],1261,18737
632540,1997,"Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo.",1002,18737
632541,1998,"Cargo, cargo, cargo, villiando par corbo, cargo.",69,18737
632542,1999,"O, ransom, ransom! do not hide mine eyes.",862,18737
632543,2000,[They seize and blindfold him],1261,18737
632544,2001,Boskos thromuldo boskos.,467,18737
632545,2002,"I know you are the Muskos' regiment:
And I shall lose my life for want of language;
If there be here German, or Dane, low Dutch,
Italian, or French, let him speak to me; I'll
Discover that which shall undo the Florentine.",862,18737
632546,2007,"Boskos vauvado: I understand thee, and can speak
thy tongue. Kerely bonto, sir, betake thee to thy
faith, for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom.",467,18737
632547,2010,O!,862,18737
632548,2011,"O, pray, pray, pray! Manka revania dulche.",467,18737
632549,2012,Oscorbidulchos volivorco.,1002,18737
632550,2013,"The general is content to spare thee yet;
And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on
To gather from thee: haply thou mayst inform
Something to save thy life.",467,18737
632551,2017,"O, let me live!
And all the secrets of our camp I'll show,
Their force, their purposes; nay, I'll speak that
Which you will wonder at.",862,18737
632552,2021,But wilt thou faithfully?,467,18737
632553,2022,"If I do not, damn me.",862,18737
632554,2023,"Acordo linta.
Come on; thou art granted space.",467,18737
632555,2025,"[Exit, with PAROLLES guarded. A short alarum within]",1261,18737
632556,2026,"Go, tell the Count Rousillon, and my brother,
We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled
Till we do hear from them.",1002,18737
632557,2029,"Captain, I will.",1035,18737
632558,2030,"A' will betray us all unto ourselves:
Inform on that.",1002,18737
632559,2032,"So I will, sir.",1035,18737
632560,2033,Till then I'll keep him dark and safely lock'd.,1002,18737
632561,2034,[Exeunt],1261,18737
632562,2037,[Enter BERTRAM and DIANA],1261,18738
632563,2038,They told me that your name was Fontibell.,164,18738
632564,2039,"No, my good lord, Diana.",312,18738
632565,2040,"Titled goddess;
And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul,
In your fine frame hath love no quality?
If quick fire of youth light not your mind,
You are no maiden, but a monument:
When you are dead, you should be such a one
As you are now, for you are cold and stem;
And now you should be as your mother was
When your sweet self was got.",164,18738
632566,2049,She then was honest.,312,18738
632567,2050,So should you be.,164,18738
632568,2051,"No:
My mother did but duty; such, my lord,
As you owe to your wife.",312,18738
632569,2054,"No more o' that;
I prithee, do not strive against my vows:
I was compell'd to her; but I love thee
By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever
Do thee all rights of service.",164,18738
632570,2059,"Ay, so you serve us
Till we serve you; but when you have our roses,
You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves
And mock us with our bareness.",312,18738
632571,2063,How have I sworn!,164,18738
632572,2064,"'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth,
But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.
What is not holy, that we swear not by,
But take the High'st to witness: then, pray you, tell me,
If I should swear by God's great attributes,
I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths,
When I did love you ill? This has no holding,
To swear by him whom I protest to love,
That I will work against him: therefore your oaths
Are words and poor conditions, but unseal'd,
At least in my opinion.",312,18738
632573,2075,"Change it, change it;
Be not so holy-cruel: love is holy;
And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts
That you do charge men with. Stand no more off,
But give thyself unto my sick desires,
Who then recover: say thou art mine, and ever
My love as it begins shall so persever.",164,18738
632574,2082,"I see that men make ropes in such a scarre
That we'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring.",312,18738
632575,2084,"I'll lend it thee, my dear; but have no power
To give it from me.",164,18738
632576,2086,"Will you not, my lord?",312,18738
632577,2087,"It is an honour 'longing to our house,
Bequeathed down from many ancestors;
Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world
In me to lose.",164,18738
632578,2091,"Mine honour's such a ring:
My chastity's the jewel of our house,
Bequeathed down from many ancestors;
Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world
In me to lose: thus your own proper wisdom
Brings in the champion Honour on my part,
Against your vain assault.",312,18738
632579,2098,"Here, take my ring:
My house, mine honour, yea, my life, be thine,
And I'll be bid by thee.",164,18738
632580,2101,"When midnight comes, knock at my chamber-window:
I'll order take my mother shall not hear.
Now will I charge you in the band of truth,
When you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed,
Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me:
My reasons are most strong; and you shall know them
When back again this ring shall be deliver'd:
And on your finger in the night I'll put
Another ring, that what in time proceeds
May token to the future our past deeds.
Adieu, till then; then, fail not. You have won
A wife of me, though there my hope be done.",312,18738
632581,2113,A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.,164,18738
632582,2114,[Exit],1261,18738
632583,2115,"For which live long to thank both heaven and me!
You may so in the end.
My mother told me just how he would woo,
As if she sat in 's heart; she says all men
Have the like oaths: he had sworn to marry me
When his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with him
When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid,
Marry that will, I live and die a maid:
Only in this disguise I think't no sin
To cozen him that would unjustly win.",312,18738
632584,2125,[Exit],1261,18738
632585,2128,[Enter the two French Lords and some two or three Soldiers],1261,18739
632586,2129,You have not given him his mother's letter?,434,18739
632587,2130,"I have delivered it an hour since: there is
something in't that stings his nature; for on the
reading it he changed almost into another man.",1002,18739
632588,2133,"He has much worthy blame laid upon him for shaking
off so good a wife and so sweet a lady.",434,18739
632589,2135,"Especially he hath incurred the everlasting
displeasure of the king, who had even tuned his
bounty to sing happiness to him. I will tell you a
thing, but you shall let it dwell darkly with you.",1002,18739
632590,2139,"When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I am the
grave of it.",434,18739
632591,2141,"He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in
Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night he
fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath
given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself
made in the unchaste composition.",1002,18739
632592,2146,"Now, God delay our rebellion! as we are ourselves,
what things are we!",434,18739
632593,2148,"Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course
of all treasons, we still see them reveal
themselves, till they attain to their abhorred ends,
so he that in this action contrives against his own
nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself.",1002,18739
632594,2153,"Is it not meant damnable in us, to be trumpeters of
our unlawful intents? We shall not then have his
company to-night?",434,18739
632595,2156,Not till after midnight; for he is dieted to his hour.,1002,18739
632596,2157,"That approaches apace; I would gladly have him see
his company anatomized, that he might take a measure
of his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had
set this counterfeit.",434,18739
632597,2161,"We will not meddle with him till he come; for his
presence must be the whip of the other.",1002,18739
632598,2163,"In the mean time, what hear you of these wars?",434,18739
632599,2164,I hear there is an overture of peace.,1002,18739
632600,2165,"Nay, I assure you, a peace concluded.",434,18739
632601,2166,"What will Count Rousillon do then? will he travel
higher, or return again into France?",1002,18739
632602,2168,"I perceive, by this demand, you are not altogether
of his council.",434,18739
632603,2170,"Let it be forbid, sir; so should I be a great deal
of his act.",1002,18739
632604,2172,"Sir, his wife some two months since fled from his
house: her pretence is a pilgrimage to Saint Jaques
le Grand; which holy undertaking with most austere
sanctimony she accomplished; and, there residing the
tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her
grief; in fine, made a groan of her last breath, and
now she sings in heaven.",434,18739
632605,2179,How is this justified?,1002,18739
632606,2180,"The stronger part of it by her own letters, which
makes her story true, even to the point of her
death: her death itself, which could not be her
office to say is come, was faithfully confirmed by
the rector of the place.",434,18739
632607,2185,Hath the count all this intelligence?,1002,18739
632608,2186,"Ay, and the particular confirmations, point from
point, so to the full arming of the verity.",434,18739
632609,2188,I am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this.,1002,18739
632610,2189,How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses!,434,18739
632611,2190,"And how mightily some other times we drown our gain
in tears! The great dignity that his valour hath
here acquired for him shall at home be encountered
with a shame as ample.",1002,18739
632612,2194,"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and
ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our
faults whipped them not; and our crimes would
despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.
[Enter a Messenger]
How now! where's your master?",434,18739
632613,2200,"He met the duke in the street, sir, of whom he hath
taken a solemn leave: his lordship will next
morning for France. The duke hath offered him
letters of commendations to the king.",1057,18739
632614,2204,"They shall be no more than needful there, if they
were more than they can commend.",1002,18739
632615,2206,"They cannot be too sweet for the king's tartness.
Here's his lordship now.
[Enter BERTRAM]
How now, my lord! is't not after midnight?",434,18739
632616,2210,"I have to-night dispatched sixteen businesses, a
month's length a-piece, by an abstract of success:
I have congied with the duke, done my adieu with his
nearest; buried a wife, mourned for her; writ to my
lady mother I am returning; entertained my convoy;
and between these main parcels of dispatch effected
many nicer needs; the last was the greatest, but
that I have not ended yet.",164,18739
632617,2218,"If the business be of any difficulty, and this
morning your departure hence, it requires haste of
your lordship.",1002,18739
632618,2221,"I mean, the business is not ended, as fearing to
hear of it hereafter. But shall we have this
dialogue between the fool and the soldier? Come,
bring forth this counterfeit module, he has deceived
me, like a double-meaning prophesier.",164,18739
632619,2226,"Bring him forth: has sat i' the stocks all night,
poor gallant knave.",1002,18739
632620,2228,"No matter: his heels have deserved it, in usurping
his spurs so long. How does he carry himself?",164,18739
632621,2230,"I have told your lordship already, the stocks carry
him. But to answer you as you would be understood;
he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk: he
hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom he supposes
to be a friar, from the time of his remembrance to
this very instant disaster of his setting i' the
stocks: and what think you he hath confessed?",1002,18739
632622,2237,"Nothing of me, has a'?",164,18739
632623,2238,"His confession is taken, and it shall be read to his
face: if your lordship be in't, as I believe you
are, you must have the patience to hear it.",1002,18739
632624,2241,"[Enter PAROLLES guarded, and First Soldier]",1261,18739
632625,2242,"A plague upon him! muffled! he can say nothing of
me: hush, hush!",164,18739
632626,2244,Hoodman comes! Portotartarosa,434,18739
632627,2245,"He calls for the tortures: what will you say
without 'em?",467,18739
632628,2247,"I will confess what I know without constraint: if
ye pinch me like a pasty, I can say no more.",862,18739
632629,2249,Bosko chimurcho.,467,18739
632630,2250,Boblibindo chicurmurco.,434,18739
632631,2251,"You are a merciful general. Our general bids you
answer to what I shall ask you out of a note.",467,18739
632632,2253,"And truly, as I hope to live.",862,18739
632633,2254,"[Reads] 'First demand of him how many horse the
duke is strong.' What say you to that?",467,18739
632634,2256,"Five or six thousand; but very weak and
unserviceable: the troops are all scattered, and
the commanders very poor rogues, upon my reputation
and credit and as I hope to live.",862,18739
632635,2260,Shall I set down your answer so?,467,18739
632636,2261,"Do: I'll take the sacrament on't, how and which way you will.",862,18739
632637,2262,All's one to him. What a past-saving slave is this!,164,18739
632638,2263,"You're deceived, my lord: this is Monsieur
Parolles, the gallant militarist,--that was his own
phrase,--that had the whole theoric of war in the
knot of his scarf, and the practise in the chape of
his dagger.",434,18739
632639,2268,"I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword
clean. nor believe he can have every thing in him
by wearing his apparel neatly.",1002,18739
632640,2271,"Well, that's set down.",467,18739
632641,2272,"Five or six thousand horse, I said,-- I will say
true,--or thereabouts, set down, for I'll speak truth.",862,18739
632642,2274,He's very near the truth in this.,434,18739
632643,2275,"But I con him no thanks for't, in the nature he
delivers it.",164,18739
632644,2277,"Poor rogues, I pray you, say.",862,18739
632645,2278,"Well, that's set down.",467,18739
632646,2279,"I humbly thank you, sir: a truth's a truth, the
rogues are marvellous poor.",862,18739
632647,2281,"[Reads] 'Demand of him, of what strength they are
a-foot.' What say you to that?",467,18739
632648,2283,"By my troth, sir, if I were to live this present
hour, I will tell true. Let me see: Spurio, a
hundred and fifty; Sebastian, so many; Corambus, so
many; Jaques, so many; Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowick,
and Gratii, two hundred and fifty each; mine own
company, Chitopher, Vaumond, Bentii, two hundred and
fifty each: so that the muster-file, rotten and
sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand
poll; half of the which dare not shake snow from off
their cassocks, lest they shake themselves to pieces.",862,18739
632649,2293,What shall be done to him?,164,18739
632650,2294,"Nothing, but let him have thanks. Demand of him my
condition, and what credit I have with the duke.",434,18739
632651,2296,"Well, that's set down.
[Reads]
'You shall demand of him, whether one Captain Dumain
be i' the camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation is
with the duke; what his valour, honesty, and
expertness in wars; or whether he thinks it were not
possible, with well-weighing sums of gold, to
corrupt him to revolt.' What say you to this? what
do you know of it?",467,18739
632652,2305,"I beseech you, let me answer to the particular of
the inter'gatories: demand them singly.",862,18739
632653,2307,Do you know this Captain Dumain?,467,18739
632654,2308,"I know him: a' was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris,
from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's
fool with child,--a dumb innocent, that could not
say him nay.",862,18739
632655,2312,"Nay, by your leave, hold your hands; though I know
his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls.",164,18739
632656,2314,"Well, is this captain in the duke of Florence's camp?",467,18739
632657,2315,"Upon my knowledge, he is, and lousy.",862,18739
632658,2316,"Nay look not so upon me; we shall hear of your
lordship anon.",434,18739
632659,2318,What is his reputation with the duke?,467,18739
632660,2319,"The duke knows him for no other but a poor officer
of mine; and writ to me this other day to turn him
out o' the band: I think I have his letter in my pocket.",862,18739
632661,2322,"Marry, we'll search.",467,18739
632662,2323,"In good sadness, I do not know; either it is there,
or it is upon a file with the duke's other letters
in my tent.",862,18739
632663,2326,Here 'tis; here's a paper: shall I read it to you?,467,18739
632664,2327,I do not know if it be it or no.,862,18739
632665,2328,Our interpreter does it well.,164,18739
632666,2329,Excellently.,434,18739
632667,2330,"[Reads] 'Dian, the count's a fool, and full of gold,'--",467,18739
632668,2331,"That is not the duke's letter, sir; that is an
advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one
Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one Count
Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very
ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again.",862,18739
632669,2336,"Nay, I'll read it first, by your favour.",467,18739
632670,2337,"My meaning in't, I protest, was very honest in the
behalf of the maid; for I knew the young count to be
a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale to
virginity and devours up all the fry it finds.",862,18739
632671,2341,Damnable both-sides rogue!,164,18739
632672,2342,"[Reads] 'When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take it;
After he scores, he never pays the score:
Half won is match well made; match, and well make it;
He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before;
And say a soldier, Dian, told thee this,
Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss:
For count of this, the count's a fool, I know it,
Who pays before, but not when he does owe it.
Thine, as he vowed to thee in thine ear,
PAROLLES.'",467,18739
632673,2352,"He shall be whipped through the army with this rhyme
in's forehead.",164,18739
632674,2354,"This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold
linguist and the armipotent soldier.",1002,18739
632675,2356,"I could endure any thing before but a cat, and now
he's a cat to me.",164,18739
632676,2358,"I perceive, sir, by the general's looks, we shall be
fain to hang you.",467,18739
632677,2360,"My life, sir, in any case: not that I am afraid to
die; but that, my offences being many, I would
repent out the remainder of nature: let me live,
sir, in a dungeon, i' the stocks, or any where, so I may live.",862,18739
632678,2364,"We'll see what may be done, so you confess freely;
therefore, once more to this Captain Dumain: you
have answered to his reputation with the duke and to
his valour: what is his honesty?",467,18739
632679,2368,"He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister: for
rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus: he
professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking 'em he
is stronger than Hercules: he will lie, sir, with
such volubility, that you would think truth were a
fool: drunkenness is his best virtue, for he will
be swine-drunk; and in his sleep he does little
harm, save to his bed-clothes about him; but they
know his conditions and lay him in straw. I have but
little more to say, sir, of his honesty: he has
every thing that an honest man should not have; what
an honest man should have, he has nothing.",862,18739
632680,2380,I begin to love him for this.,434,18739
632681,2381,"For this description of thine honesty? A pox upon
him for me, he's more and more a cat.",164,18739
632682,2383,What say you to his expertness in war?,467,18739
632683,2384,"Faith, sir, he has led the drum before the English
tragedians; to belie him, I will not, and more of
his soldiership I know not; except, in that country
he had the honour to be the officer at a place there
called Mile-end, to instruct for the doubling of
files: I would do the man what honour I can, but of
this I am not certain.",862,18739
632684,2391,"He hath out-villained villany so far, that the
rarity redeems him.",434,18739
632685,2393,"A pox on him, he's a cat still.",164,18739
632686,2394,"His qualities being at this poor price, I need not
to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt.",467,18739
632687,2396,"Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee-simple
of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the
entail from all remainders, and a perpetual
succession for it perpetually.",862,18739
632688,2400,"What's his brother, the other Captain Dumain?",467,18739
632689,2401,Why does be ask him of me?,1002,18739
632690,2402,What's he?,467,18739
632691,2403,"E'en a crow o' the same nest; not altogether so
great as the first in goodness, but greater a great
deal in evil: he excels his brother for a coward,
yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is:
in a retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming
on he has the cramp.",862,18739
632692,2409,"If your life be saved, will you undertake to betray
the Florentine?",467,18739
632693,2411,"Ay, and the captain of his horse, Count Rousillon.",862,18739
632694,2412,"I'll whisper with the general, and know his pleasure.",467,18739
632695,2413,"[Aside] I'll no more drumming; a plague of all
drums! Only to seem to deserve well, and to
beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy
the count, have I run into this danger. Yet who
would have suspected an ambush where I was taken?",862,18739
632696,2418,"There is no remedy, sir, but you must die: the
general says, you that have so traitorously
discovered the secrets of your army and made such
pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can
serve the world for no honest use; therefore you
must die. Come, headsman, off with his head.",467,18739
632697,2424,"O Lord, sir, let me live, or let me see my death!",862,18739
632698,2425,"That shall you, and take your leave of all your friends.
[Unblinding him]
So, look about you: know you any here?",434,18739
632699,2428,"Good morrow, noble captain.",164,18739
632700,2429,"God bless you, Captain Parolles.",1002,18739
632701,2430,"God save you, noble captain.",434,18739
632702,2431,"Captain, what greeting will you to my Lord Lafeu?
I am for France.",1002,18739
632703,2433,"Good captain, will you give me a copy of the sonnet
you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count Rousillon?
an I were not a very coward, I'ld compel it of you:
but fare you well.",434,18739
632704,2437,[Exeunt BERTRAM and Lords],1261,18739
632705,2438,"You are undone, captain, all but your scarf; that
has a knot on't yet",467,18739
632706,2440,Who cannot be crushed with a plot?,862,18739
632707,2441,"If you could find out a country where but women were
that had received so much shame, you might begin an
impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir; I am for France
too: we shall speak of you there.",467,18739
632708,2445,[Exit with Soldiers],1261,18739
632709,2446,"Yet am I thankful: if my heart were great,
'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more;
But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft
As captain shall: simply the thing I am
Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,
Let him fear this, for it will come to pass
that every braggart shall be found an ass.
Rust, sword? cool, blushes! and, Parolles, live
Safest in shame! being fool'd, by foolery thrive!
There's place and means for every man alive.
I'll after them.",862,18739
632710,2457,[Exit],1261,18739
632711,2460,"[Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA]",1261,18740
632712,2461,"That you may well perceive I have not wrong'd you,
One of the greatest in the Christian world
Shall be my surety; 'fore whose throne 'tis needful,
Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel:
Time was, I did him a desired office,
Dear almost as his life; which gratitude
Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth,
And answer, thanks: I duly am inform'd
His grace is at Marseilles; to which place
We have convenient convoy. You must know
I am supposed dead: the army breaking,
My husband hies him home; where, heaven aiding,
And by the leave of my good lord the king,
We'll be before our welcome.",567,18740
632713,2475,"Gentle madam,
You never had a servant to whose trust
Your business was more welcome.",1252,18740
632714,2478,"Nor you, mistress,
Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour
To recompense your love: doubt not but heaven
Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower,
As it hath fated her to be my motive
And helper to a husband. But, O strange men!
That can such sweet use make of what they hate,
When saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts
Defiles the pitchy night: so lust doth play
With what it loathes for that which is away.
But more of this hereafter. You, Diana,
Under my poor instructions yet must suffer
Something in my behalf.",567,18740
632715,2491,"Let death and honesty
Go with your impositions, I am yours
Upon your will to suffer.",312,18740
632716,2494,"Yet, I pray you:
But with the word the time will bring on summer,
When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,
And be as sweet as sharp. We must away;
Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us:
All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown;
Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.",567,18740
632717,2501,[Exeunt],1261,18740
632718,2504,"[Enter COUNTESS, LAFEU, and Clown]",1261,18741
632719,2505,"No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipt-taffeta
fellow there, whose villanous saffron would have
made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in
his colour: your daughter-in-law had been alive at
this hour, and your son here at home, more advanced
by the king than by that red-tailed humble-bee I speak of.",652,18741
632720,2511,"I would I had not known him; it was the death of the
most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature had
praise for creating. If she had partaken of my
flesh, and cost me the dearest groans of a mother, I
could not have owed her a more rooted love.",288,18741
632721,2516,"'Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a
thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.",652,18741
632722,2518,"Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the
salad, or rather, the herb of grace.",270,18741
632723,2520,"They are not herbs, you knave; they are nose-herbs.",652,18741
632724,2521,"I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir; I have not much
skill in grass.",270,18741
632725,2523,"Whether dost thou profess thyself, a knave or a fool?",652,18741
632726,2524,"A fool, sir, at a woman's service, and a knave at a man's.",270,18741
632727,2525,Your distinction?,652,18741
632728,2526,I would cozen the man of his wife and do his service.,270,18741
632729,2527,"So you were a knave at his service, indeed.",652,18741
632730,2528,"And I would give his wife my bauble, sir, to do her service.",270,18741
632731,2529,"I will subscribe for thee, thou art both knave and fool.",652,18741
632732,2530,At your service.,270,18741
632733,2531,"No, no, no.",652,18741
632734,2532,"Why, sir, if I cannot serve you, I can serve as
great a prince as you are.",270,18741
632735,2534,Who's that? a Frenchman?,652,18741
632736,2535,"Faith, sir, a' has an English name; but his fisnomy
is more hotter in France than there.",270,18741
632737,2537,What prince is that?,652,18741
632738,2538,"The black prince, sir; alias, the prince of
darkness; alias, the devil.",270,18741
632739,2540,"Hold thee, there's my purse: I give thee not this
to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of;
serve him still.",652,18741
632740,2543,"I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a
great fire; and the master I speak of ever keeps a
good fire. But, sure, he is the prince of the
world; let his nobility remain in's court. I am for
the house with the narrow gate, which I take to be
too little for pomp to enter: some that humble
themselves may; but the many will be too chill and
tender, and they'll be for the flowery way that
leads to the broad gate and the great fire.",270,18741
632741,2552,"Go thy ways, I begin to be aweary of thee; and I
tell thee so before, because I would not fall out
with thee. Go thy ways: let my horses be well
looked to, without any tricks.",652,18741
632742,2556,"If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shall be
jades' tricks; which are their own right by the law of nature.",270,18741
632743,2558,[Exit],1261,18741
632744,2559,A shrewd knave and an unhappy.,652,18741
632745,2560,"So he is. My lord that's gone made himself much
sport out of him: by his authority he remains here,
which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness; and,
indeed, he has no pace, but runs where he will.",288,18741
632746,2564,"I like him well; 'tis not amiss. And I was about to
tell you, since I heard of the good lady's death and
that my lord your son was upon his return home, I
moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of
my daughter; which, in the minority of them both,
his majesty, out of a self-gracious remembrance, did
first propose: his highness hath promised me to do
it: and, to stop up the displeasure he hath
conceived against your son, there is no fitter
matter. How does your ladyship like it?",652,18741
632747,2574,"With very much content, my lord; and I wish it
happily effected.",288,18741
632748,2576,"His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as able
body as when he numbered thirty: he will be here
to-morrow, or I am deceived by him that in such
intelligence hath seldom failed.",652,18741
632749,2580,"It rejoices me, that I hope I shall see him ere I
die. I have letters that my son will be here
to-night: I shall beseech your lordship to remain
with me till they meet together.",288,18741
632750,2584,"Madam, I was thinking with what manners I might
safely be admitted.",652,18741
632751,2586,You need but plead your honourable privilege.,288,18741
632752,2587,"Lady, of that I have made a bold charter; but I
thank my God it holds yet.",652,18741
632753,2589,[Re-enter Clown],1261,18741
632754,2590,"O madam, yonder's my lord your son with a patch of
velvet on's face: whether there be a scar under't
or no, the velvet knows; but 'tis a goodly patch of
velvet: his left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a
half, but his right cheek is worn bare.",270,18741
632755,2595,"A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery
of honour; so belike is that.",652,18741
632756,2597,But it is your carbonadoed face.,270,18741
632757,2598,"Let us go see your son, I pray you: I long to talk
with the young noble soldier.",652,18741
632758,2600,"Faith there's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine
hats and most courteous feathers, which bow the head
and nod at every man.",270,18741
632759,2603,"[Exeunt]
[Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA, with two]
Attendants]",1261,18741
632760,2608,"But this exceeding posting day and night
Must wear your spirits low; we cannot help it:
But since you have made the days and nights as one,
To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs,
Be bold you do so grow in my requital
As nothing can unroot you. In happy time;
[Enter a Gentleman]
This man may help me to his majesty's ear,
If he would spend his power. God save you, sir.",567,18742
632761,2617,And you.,517,18742
632762,2618,"Sir, I have seen you in the court of France.",567,18742
632763,2619,I have been sometimes there.,517,18742
632764,2620,"I do presume, sir, that you are not fallen
From the report that goes upon your goodness;
An therefore, goaded with most sharp occasions,
Which lay nice manners by, I put you to
The use of your own virtues, for the which
I shall continue thankful.",567,18742
632765,2626,What's your will?,517,18742
632766,2627,"That it will please you
To give this poor petition to the king,
And aid me with that store of power you have
To come into his presence.",567,18742
632767,2631,The king's not here.,517,18742
632768,2632,"Not here, sir!",567,18742
632769,2633,"Not, indeed:
He hence removed last night and with more haste
Than is his use.",517,18742
632770,2636,"Lord, how we lose our pains!",1252,18742
632771,2637,"ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL yet,
Though time seem so adverse and means unfit.
I do beseech you, whither is he gone?",567,18742
632772,2640,"Marry, as I take it, to Rousillon;
Whither I am going.",517,18742
632773,2642,"I do beseech you, sir,
Since you are like to see the king before me,
Commend the paper to his gracious hand,
Which I presume shall render you no blame
But rather make you thank your pains for it.
I will come after you with what good speed
Our means will make us means.",567,18742
632774,2649,This I'll do for you.,517,18742
632775,2650,"And you shall find yourself to be well thank'd,
Whate'er falls more. We must to horse again.
Go, go, provide.",567,18742
632776,2653,[Exeunt],1261,18742
632777,2656,"[Enter Clown, and PAROLLES, following]",1261,18743
632778,2657,"Good Monsieur Lavache, give my Lord Lafeu this
letter: I have ere now, sir, been better known to
you, when I have held familiarity with fresher
clothes; but I am now, sir, muddied in fortune's
mood, and smell somewhat strong of her strong
displeasure.",862,18743
632779,2663,"Truly, fortune's displeasure is but sluttish, if it
smell so strongly as thou speakest of: I will
henceforth eat no fish of fortune's buttering.
Prithee, allow the wind.",270,18743
632780,2667,"Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir; I spake
but by a metaphor.",862,18743
632781,2669,"Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop my
nose; or against any man's metaphor. Prithee, get
thee further.",270,18743
632782,2672,"Pray you, sir, deliver me this paper.",862,18743
632783,2673,"Foh! prithee, stand away: a paper from fortune's
close-stool to give to a nobleman! Look, here he
comes himself.
[Enter LAFEU]
Here is a purr of fortune's, sir, or of fortune's
cat,--but not a musk-cat,--that has fallen into the
unclean fishpond of her displeasure, and, as he
says, is muddied withal: pray you, sir, use the
carp as you may; for he looks like a poor, decayed,
ingenious, foolish, rascally knave. I do pity his
distress in my similes of comfort and leave him to
your lordship.",270,18743
632784,2685,[Exit],1261,18743
632785,2686,"My lord, I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly
scratched.",862,18743
632786,2688,"And what would you have me to do? 'Tis too late to
pare her nails now. Wherein have you played the
knave with fortune, that she should scratch you, who
of herself is a good lady and would not have knaves
thrive long under her? There's a quart d'ecu for
you: let the justices make you and fortune friends:
I am for other business.",652,18743
632787,2695,I beseech your honour to hear me one single word.,862,18743
632788,2696,"You beg a single penny more: come, you shall ha't;
save your word.",652,18743
632789,2698,"My name, my good lord, is Parolles.",862,18743
632790,2699,"You beg more than 'word,' then. Cox my passion!
give me your hand. How does your drum?",652,18743
632791,2701,"O my good lord, you were the first that found me!",862,18743
632792,2702,"Was I, in sooth? and I was the first that lost thee.",652,18743
632793,2703,"It lies in you, my lord, to bring me in some grace,
for you did bring me out.",862,18743
632794,2705,"Out upon thee, knave! dost thou put upon me at once
both the office of God and the devil? One brings
thee in grace and the other brings thee out.
[Trumpets sound]
The king's coming; I know by his trumpets. Sirrah,
inquire further after me; I had talk of you last
night: though you are a fool and a knave, you shall
eat; go to, follow.",652,18743
632795,2713,I praise God for you.,862,18743
632796,2714,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish. Enter KING, COUNTESS, LAFEU, the two]
French Lords, with Attendants]",1261,18743
632797,2719,"We lost a jewel of her; and our esteem
Was made much poorer by it: but your son,
As mad in folly, lack'd the sense to know
Her estimation home.",635,18744
632798,2723,"'Tis past, my liege;
And I beseech your majesty to make it
Natural rebellion, done i' the blaze of youth;
When oil and fire, too strong for reason's force,
O'erbears it and burns on.",288,18744
632799,2728,"My honour'd lady,
I have forgiven and forgotten all;
Though my revenges were high bent upon him,
And watch'd the time to shoot.",635,18744
632800,2732,"This I must say,
But first I beg my pardon, the young lord
Did to his majesty, his mother and his lady
Offence of mighty note; but to himself
The greatest wrong of all. He lost a wife
Whose beauty did astonish the survey
Of richest eyes, whose words all ears took captive,
Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to serve
Humbly call'd mistress.",652,18744
632801,2741,"Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear. Well, call him hither;
We are reconciled, and the first view shall kill
All repetition: let him not ask our pardon;
The nature of his great offence is dead,
And deeper than oblivion we do bury
The incensing relics of it: let him approach,
A stranger, no offender; and inform him
So 'tis our will he should.",635,18744
632802,2750,"I shall, my liege.",517,18744
632803,2751,[Exit],1261,18744
632804,2752,What says he to your daughter? have you spoke?,635,18744
632805,2753,All that he is hath reference to your highness.,652,18744
632806,2754,"Then shall we have a match. I have letters sent me
That set him high in fame.",635,18744
632807,2756,[Enter BERTRAM]LAFEU. He looks well on't.,1261,18744
632808,2757,"I am not a day of season,
For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail
In me at once: but to the brightest beams
Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth;
The time is fair again.",635,18744
632809,2762,"My high-repented blames,
Dear sovereign, pardon to me.",164,18744
632810,2764,"All is whole;
Not one word more of the consumed time.
Let's take the instant by the forward top;
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees
The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time
Steals ere we can effect them. You remember
The daughter of this lord?",635,18744
632811,2771,"Admiringly, my liege, at first
I stuck my choice upon her, ere my heart
Durst make too bold a herald of my tongue
Where the impression of mine eye infixing,
Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me,
Which warp'd the line of every other favour;
Scorn'd a fair colour, or express'd it stolen;
Extended or contracted all proportions
To a most hideous object: thence it came
That she whom all men praised and whom myself,
Since I have lost, have loved, was in mine eye
The dust that did offend it.",164,18744
632812,2783,"Well excused:
That thou didst love her, strikes some scores away
From the great compt: but love that comes too late,
Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
To the great sender turns a sour offence,
Crying, 'That's good that's gone.' Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious things we have,
Not knowing them until we know their grave:
Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust,
Destroy our friends and after weep their dust
Our own love waking cries to see what's done,
While shame full late sleeps out the afternoon.
Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her.
Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin:
The main consents are had; and here we'll stay
To see our widower's second marriage-day.",635,18744
632813,2799,"Which better than the first, O dear heaven, bless!
Or, ere they meet, in me, O nature, cesse!",288,18744
632814,2801,"Come on, my son, in whom my house's name
Must be digested, give a favour from you
To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter,
That she may quickly come.
[BERTRAM gives a ring]
By my old beard,
And every hair that's on't, Helen, that's dead,
Was a sweet creature: such a ring as this,
The last that e'er I took her at court,
I saw upon her finger.",652,18744
632815,2811,Hers it was not.,164,18744
632816,2812,"Now, pray you, let me see it; for mine eye,
While I was speaking, oft was fasten'd to't.
This ring was mine; and, when I gave it Helen,
I bade her, if her fortunes ever stood
Necessitied to help, that by this token
I would relieve her. Had you that craft, to reave
her
Of what should stead her most?",635,18744
632817,2820,"My gracious sovereign,
Howe'er it pleases you to take it so,
The ring was never hers.",164,18744
632818,2823,"Son, on my life,
I have seen her wear it; and she reckon'd it
At her life's rate.",288,18744
632819,2826,I am sure I saw her wear it.,652,18744
632820,2827,"You are deceived, my lord; she never saw it:
In Florence was it from a casement thrown me,
Wrapp'd in a paper, which contain'd the name
Of her that threw it: noble she was, and thought
I stood engaged: but when I had subscribed
To mine own fortune and inform'd her fully
I could not answer in that course of honour
As she had made the overture, she ceased
In heavy satisfaction and would never
Receive the ring again.",164,18744
632821,2837,"Plutus himself,
That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine,
Hath not in nature's mystery more science
Than I have in this ring: 'twas mine, 'twas Helen's,
Whoever gave it you. Then, if you know
That you are well acquainted with yourself,
Confess 'twas hers, and by what rough enforcement
You got it from her: she call'd the saints to surety
That she would never put it from her finger,
Unless she gave it to yourself in bed,
Where you have never come, or sent it us
Upon her great disaster.",635,18744
632822,2849,She never saw it.,164,18744
632823,2850,"Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour;
And makest conjectural fears to come into me
Which I would fain shut out. If it should prove
That thou art so inhuman,--'twill not prove so;--
And yet I know not: thou didst hate her deadly,
And she is dead; which nothing, but to close
Her eyes myself, could win me to believe,
More than to see this ring. Take him away.
[Guards seize BERTRAM]
My fore-past proofs, howe'er the matter fall,
Shall tax my fears of little vanity,
Having vainly fear'd too little. Away with him!
We'll sift this matter further.",635,18744
632824,2863,"If you shall prove
This ring was ever hers, you shall as easy
Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence,
Where yet she never was.",164,18744
632825,2867,"[Exit, guarded]",1261,18744
632826,2868,I am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings.,635,18744
632827,2869,[Enter a Gentleman],1261,18744
632828,2870,"Gracious sovereign,
Whether I have been to blame or no, I know not:
Here's a petition from a Florentine,
Who hath for four or five removes come short
To tender it herself. I undertook it,
Vanquish'd thereto by the fair grace and speech
Of the poor suppliant, who by this I know
Is here attending: her business looks in her
With an importing visage; and she told me,
In a sweet verbal brief, it did concern
Your highness with herself.",517,18744
632829,2881,"[Reads] Upon his many protestations to marry me
when his wife was dead, I blush to say it, he won
me. Now is the Count Rousillon a widower: his vows
are forfeited to me, and my honour's paid to him. He
stole from Florence, taking no leave, and I follow
him to his country for justice: grant it me, O
king! in you it best lies; otherwise a seducer
flourishes, and a poor maid is undone.
DIANA CAPILET.",635,18744
632830,2890,"I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for
this: I'll none of him.",652,18744
632831,2892,"The heavens have thought well on thee Lafeu,
To bring forth this discovery. Seek these suitors:
Go speedily and bring again the count.
I am afeard the life of Helen, lady,
Was foully snatch'd.",635,18744
632832,2897,"Now, justice on the doers!",288,18744
632833,2898,"[Re-enter BERTRAM, guarded]",1261,18744
632834,2899,"I wonder, sir, sith wives are monsters to you,
And that you fly them as you swear them lordship,
Yet you desire to marry.
[Enter Widow and DIANA]
What woman's that?",635,18744
632835,2904,"I am, my lord, a wretched Florentine,
Derived from the ancient Capilet:
My suit, as I do understand, you know,
And therefore know how far I may be pitied.",312,18744
632836,2908,"I am her mother, sir, whose age and honour
Both suffer under this complaint we bring,
And both shall cease, without your remedy.",1252,18744
632837,2911,"Come hither, count; do you know these women?",635,18744
632838,2912,"My lord, I neither can nor will deny
But that I know them: do they charge me further?",164,18744
632839,2914,Why do you look so strange upon your wife?,312,18744
632840,2915,"She's none of mine, my lord.",164,18744
632841,2916,"If you shall marry,
You give away this hand, and that is mine;
You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine;
You give away myself, which is known mine;
For I by vow am so embodied yours,
That she which marries you must marry me,
Either both or none.",312,18744
632842,2923,"Your reputation comes too short for my daughter; you
are no husband for her.",652,18744
632843,2925,"My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature,
Whom sometime I have laugh'd with: let your highness
Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour
Than for to think that I would sink it here.",164,18744
632844,2929,"Sir, for my thoughts, you have them ill to friend
Till your deeds gain them: fairer prove your honour
Than in my thought it lies.",635,18744
632845,2932,"Good my lord,
Ask him upon his oath, if he does think
He had not my virginity.",312,18744
632846,2935,What say'st thou to her?,635,18744
632847,2936,"She's impudent, my lord,
And was a common gamester to the camp.",164,18744
632848,2938,"He does me wrong, my lord; if I were so,
He might have bought me at a common price:
Do not believe him. O, behold this ring,
Whose high respect and rich validity
Did lack a parallel; yet for all that
He gave it to a commoner o' the camp,
If I be one.",312,18744
632849,2945,"He blushes, and 'tis it:
Of six preceding ancestors, that gem,
Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue,
Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife;
That ring's a thousand proofs.",288,18744
632850,2950,"Methought you said
You saw one here in court could witness it.",635,18744
632851,2952,"I did, my lord, but loath am to produce
So bad an instrument: his name's Parolles.",312,18744
632852,2954,"I saw the man to-day, if man he be.",652,18744
632853,2955,"Find him, and bring him hither.",635,18744
632854,2956,[Exit an Attendant],1261,18744
632855,2957,"What of him?
He's quoted for a most perfidious slave,
With all the spots o' the world tax'd and debosh'd;
Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth.
Am I or that or this for what he'll utter,
That will speak any thing?",164,18744
632856,2963,She hath that ring of yours.,635,18744
632857,2964,"I think she has: certain it is I liked her,
And boarded her i' the wanton way of youth:
She knew her distance and did angle for me,
Madding my eagerness with her restraint,
As all impediments in fancy's course
Are motives of more fancy; and, in fine,
Her infinite cunning, with her modern grace,
Subdued me to her rate: she got the ring;
And I had that which any inferior might
At market-price have bought.",164,18744
632858,2974,"I must be patient:
You, that have turn'd off a first so noble wife,
May justly diet me. I pray you yet;
Since you lack virtue, I will lose a husband;
Send for your ring, I will return it home,
And give me mine again.",312,18744
632859,2980,I have it not.,164,18744
632860,2981,"What ring was yours, I pray you?",635,18744
632861,2982,"Sir, much like
The same upon your finger.",312,18744
632862,2984,Know you this ring? this ring was his of late.,635,18744
632863,2985,"And this was it I gave him, being abed.",312,18744
632864,2986,"The story then goes false, you threw it him
Out of a casement.",635,18744
632865,2988,I have spoke the truth.,312,18744
632866,2989,[Enter PAROLLES],1261,18744
632867,2990,"My lord, I do confess the ring was hers.",164,18744
632868,2991,"You boggle shrewdly, every feather stars you.
Is this the man you speak of?",635,18744
632869,2993,"Ay, my lord.",312,18744
632870,2994,"Tell me, sirrah, but tell me true, I charge you,
Not fearing the displeasure of your master,
Which on your just proceeding I'll keep off,
By him and by this woman here what know you?",635,18744
632871,2998,"So please your majesty, my master hath been an
honourable gentleman: tricks he hath had in him,
which gentlemen have.",862,18744
632872,3001,"Come, come, to the purpose: did he love this woman?",635,18744
632873,3002,"Faith, sir, he did love her; but how?",862,18744
632874,3003,"How, I pray you?",635,18744
632875,3004,"He did love her, sir, as a gentleman loves a woman.",862,18744
632876,3005,How is that?,635,18744
632877,3006,"He loved her, sir, and loved her not.",862,18744
632878,3007,"As thou art a knave, and no knave. What an
equivocal companion is this!",635,18744
632879,3009,"I am a poor man, and at your majesty's command.",862,18744
632880,3010,"He's a good drum, my lord, but a naughty orator.",652,18744
632881,3011,Do you know he promised me marriage?,312,18744
632882,3012,"Faith, I know more than I'll speak.",862,18744
632883,3013,But wilt thou not speak all thou knowest?,635,18744
632884,3014,"Yes, so please your majesty. I did go between them,
as I said; but more than that, he loved her: for
indeed he was mad for her, and talked of Satan and
of Limbo and of Furies and I know not what: yet I
was in that credit with them at that time that I
knew of their going to bed, and of other motions,
as promising her marriage, and things which would
derive me ill will to speak of; therefore I will not
speak what I know.",862,18744
632885,3023,"Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou canst say
they are married: but thou art too fine in thy
evidence; therefore stand aside.
This ring, you say, was yours?",635,18744
632886,3027,"Ay, my good lord.",312,18744
632887,3028,Where did you buy it? or who gave it you?,635,18744
632888,3029,"It was not given me, nor I did not buy it.",312,18744
632889,3030,Who lent it you?,635,18744
632890,3031,It was not lent me neither.,312,18744
632891,3032,"Where did you find it, then?",635,18744
632892,3033,I found it not.,312,18744
632893,3034,"If it were yours by none of all these ways,
How could you give it him?",635,18744
632894,3036,I never gave it him.,312,18744
632895,3037,"This woman's an easy glove, my lord; she goes off
and on at pleasure.",652,18744
632896,3039,This ring was mine; I gave it his first wife.,635,18744
632897,3040,"It might be yours or hers, for aught I know.",312,18744
632898,3041,"Take her away; I do not like her now;
To prison with her: and away with him.
Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring,
Thou diest within this hour.",635,18744
632899,3045,I'll never tell you.,312,18744
632900,3046,Take her away.,635,18744
632901,3047,"I'll put in bail, my liege.",312,18744
632902,3048,I think thee now some common customer.,635,18744
632903,3049,"By Jove, if ever I knew man, 'twas you.",312,18744
632904,3050,Wherefore hast thou accused him all this while?,635,18744
632905,3051,"Because he's guilty, and he is not guilty:
He knows I am no maid, and he'll swear to't;
I'll swear I am a maid, and he knows not.
Great king, I am no strumpet, by my life;
I am either maid, or else this old man's wife.",312,18744
632906,3056,She does abuse our ears: to prison with her.,635,18744
632907,3057,"Good mother, fetch my bail. Stay, royal sir:
[Exit Widow]
The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for,
And he shall surety me. But for this lord,
Who hath abused me, as he knows himself,
Though yet he never harm'd me, here I quit him:
He knows himself my bed he hath defiled;
And at that time he got his wife with child:
Dead though she be, she feels her young one kick:
So there's my riddle: one that's dead is quick:
And now behold the meaning.",312,18744
632908,3068,"[Re-enter Widow, with HELENA]",1261,18744
632909,3069,"Is there no exorcist
Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes?
Is't real that I see?",635,18744
632910,3072,"No, my good lord;
'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see,
The name and not the thing.",567,18744
632911,3075,"Both, both. O, pardon!",164,18744
632912,3076,"O my good lord, when I was like this maid,
I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring;
And, look you, here's your letter; this it says:
'When from my finger you can get this ring
And are by me with child,' &c. This is done:
Will you be mine, now you are doubly won?",567,18744
632913,3082,"If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly,
I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.",164,18744
632914,3084,"If it appear not plain and prove untrue,
Deadly divorce step between me and you!
O my dear mother, do I see you living?",567,18744
632915,3087,"Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon:
[To PAROLLES]
Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkercher: so,
I thank thee: wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee:
Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.",652,18744
632916,3092,"Let us from point to point this story know,
To make the even truth in pleasure flow.
[To DIANA]
If thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower,
Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower;
For I can guess that by thy honest aid
Thou keep'st a wife herself, thyself a maid.
Of that and all the progress, more or less,
Resolvedly more leisure shall express:
All yet seems well; and if it end so meet,
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
[Flourish]
EPILOGUE",635,18744
632917,3105,"The king's a beggar, now the play is done:
All is well ended, if this suit be won,
That you express content; which we will pay,
With strife to please you, day exceeding day:
Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts;
Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts.",635,18744
632918,3111,[Exeunt],1261,18744
632919,3,[Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO],1261,18745
632920,4,"Nay, but this dotage of our general's
O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,
That o'er the files and musters of the war
Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn,
The office and devotion of their view
Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart,
Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,
And is become the bellows and the fan
To cool a gipsy's lust.
[Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her Ladies,]
the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her]
Look, where they come:
Take but good note, and you shall see in him.
The triple pillar of the world transform'd
Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see.",884,18745
632921,20,"If it be love indeed, tell me how much.",262,18745
632922,21,There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.,120,18745
632923,22,I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.,262,18745
632924,23,"Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.",120,18745
632925,24,[Enter an Attendant],1261,18745
632926,25,"News, my good lord, from Rome.",129,18745
632927,26,Grates me: the sum.,120,18745
632928,27,"Nay, hear them, Antony:
Fulvia perchance is angry; or, who knows
If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent
His powerful mandate to you, 'Do this, or this;
Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that;
Perform 't, or else we damn thee.'",262,18745
632929,33,"How, my love!",120,18745
632930,34,"Perchance! nay, and most like:
You must not stay here longer, your dismission
Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony.
Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both?
Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen,
Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine
Is Caesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame
When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!",262,18745
632931,42,"Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike
Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life
Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair
[Embracing]
And such a twain can do't, in which I bind,
On pain of punishment, the world to weet
We stand up peerless.",120,18745
632932,51,"Excellent falsehood!
Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?
I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony
Will be himself.",262,18745
632933,55,"But stirr'd by Cleopatra.
Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,
Let's not confound the time with conference harsh:
There's not a minute of our lives should stretch
Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?",120,18745
632934,60,Hear the ambassadors.,262,18745
632935,61,"Fie, wrangling queen!
Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh,
To weep; whose every passion fully strives
To make itself, in thee, fair and admired!
No messenger, but thine; and all alone
To-night we'll wander through the streets and note
The qualities of people. Come, my queen;
Last night you did desire it: speak not to us.
[Exeunt MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA with]
their train]",120,18745
632936,71,Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?,306,18745
632937,72,"Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony,
He comes too short of that great property
Which still should go with Antony.",884,18745
632938,75,"I am full sorry
That he approves the common liar, who
Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope
Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy!",306,18745
632939,79,[Exeunt],1261,18745
632940,82,"[Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer]",1261,18746
632941,83,"Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas,
almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer
that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew
this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns
with garlands!",239,18746
632942,88,Soothsayer!,66,18746
632943,89,Your will?,1142,18746
632944,90,"Is this the man? Is't you, sir, that know things?",239,18746
632945,91,"In nature's infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read.",1142,18746
632946,93,Show him your hand.,66,18746
632947,94,[Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS],1261,18746
632948,95,"Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough
Cleopatra's health to drink.",325,18746
632949,97,"Good sir, give me good fortune.",239,18746
632950,98,"I make not, but foresee.",1142,18746
632951,99,"Pray, then, foresee me one.",239,18746
632952,100,You shall be yet far fairer than you are.,1142,18746
632953,101,He means in flesh.,239,18746
632954,102,"No, you shall paint when you are old.",602,18746
632955,103,Wrinkles forbid!,239,18746
632956,104,Vex not his prescience; be attentive.,66,18746
632957,105,Hush!,239,18746
632958,106,You shall be more beloving than beloved.,1142,18746
632959,107,I had rather heat my liver with drinking.,239,18746
632960,108,"Nay, hear him.",66,18746
632961,109,"Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married
to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all:
let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry
may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius
Caesar, and companion me with my mistress.",239,18746
632962,114,You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.,1142,18746
632963,115,O excellent! I love long life better than figs.,239,18746
632964,116,"You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune
Than that which is to approach.",1142,18746
632965,118,"Then belike my children shall have no names:
prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have?",239,18746
632966,120,"If every of your wishes had a womb.
And fertile every wish, a million.",1142,18746
632967,122,"Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch.",239,18746
632968,123,You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes.,66,18746
632969,124,"Nay, come, tell Iras hers.",239,18746
632970,125,We'll know all our fortunes.,66,18746
632971,126,"Mine, and most of our fortunes, to-night, shall
be--drunk to bed.",325,18746
632972,128,"There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else.",602,18746
632973,129,E'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth famine.,239,18746
632974,130,"Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay.",602,18746
632975,131,"Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful
prognostication, I cannot scratch mine ear. Prithee,
tell her but a worky-day fortune.",239,18746
632976,134,Your fortunes are alike.,1142,18746
632977,135,"But how, but how? give me particulars.",602,18746
632978,136,I have said.,1142,18746
632979,137,Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?,602,18746
632980,138,"Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than
I, where would you choose it?",239,18746
632981,140,Not in my husband's nose.,602,18746
632982,141,"Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas,--come,
his fortune, his fortune! O, let him marry a woman
that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee! and let
her die too, and give him a worse! and let worst
follow worse, till the worst of all follow him
laughing to his grave, fifty-fold a cuckold! Good
Isis, hear me this prayer, though thou deny me a
matter of more weight; good Isis, I beseech thee!",239,18746
632983,149,"Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people!
for, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man
loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a
foul knave uncuckolded: therefore, dear Isis, keep
decorum, and fortune him accordingly!",602,18746
632984,154,Amen.,239,18746
632985,155,"Lo, now, if it lay in their hands to make me a
cuckold, they would make themselves whores, but
they'ld do't!",66,18746
632986,158,Hush! here comes Antony.,325,18746
632987,159,Not he; the queen.,239,18746
632988,160,[Enter CLEOPATRA],1261,18746
632989,161,Saw you my lord?,262,18746
632990,162,"No, lady.",325,18746
632991,163,Was he not here?,262,18746
632992,164,"No, madam.",239,18746
632993,165,"He was disposed to mirth; but on the sudden
A Roman thought hath struck him. Enobarbus!",262,18746
632994,167,Madam?,325,18746
632995,168,"Seek him, and bring him hither.
Where's Alexas?",262,18746
632996,170,"Here, at your service. My lord approaches.",66,18746
632997,171,We will not look upon him: go with us.,262,18746
632998,172,[Exeunt],1261,18746
632999,173,[Enter MARK ANTONY with a Messenger and Attendants],1261,18746
633000,174,Fulvia thy wife first came into the field.,769,18746
633001,175,Against my brother Lucius?,120,18746
633002,176,"Ay:
But soon that war had end, and the time's state
Made friends of them, joining their force 'gainst Caesar;
Whose better issue in the war, from Italy,
Upon the first encounter, drave them.",769,18746
633003,181,"Well, what worst?",120,18746
633004,182,The nature of bad news infects the teller.,769,18746
633005,183,"When it concerns the fool or coward. On:
Things that are past are done with me. 'Tis thus:
Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death,
I hear him as he flatter'd.",120,18746
633006,187,"Labienus--
This is stiff news--hath, with his Parthian force,
Extended Asia from Euphrates;
His conquering banner shook from Syria
To Lydia and to Ionia; Whilst--",769,18746
633007,192,"Antony, thou wouldst say,--",120,18746
633008,193,"O, my lord!",769,18746
633009,194,"Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue:
Name Cleopatra as she is call'd in Rome;
Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase; and taunt my faults
With such full licence as both truth and malice
Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds,
When our quick minds lie still; and our ills told us
Is as our earing. Fare thee well awhile.",120,18746
633010,201,At your noble pleasure.,769,18746
633011,202,[Exit],1261,18746
633012,203,"From Sicyon, ho, the news! Speak there!",120,18746
633013,204,"The man from Sicyon,--is there such an one?",404,18746
633014,205,He stays upon your will.,978,18746
633015,206,"Let him appear.
These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,
Or lose myself in dotage.
[Enter another Messenger]
What are you?",120,18746
633016,211,Fulvia thy wife is dead.,1009,18746
633017,212,Where died she?,120,18746
633018,213,"In Sicyon:
Her length of sickness, with what else more serious
Importeth thee to know, this bears.",1009,18746
633019,216,[Gives a letter],1261,18746
633020,217,"Forbear me.
[Exit Second Messenger]
There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it:
What our contempt doth often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again; the present pleasure,
By revolution lowering, does become
The opposite of itself: she's good, being gone;
The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.
I must from this enchanting queen break off:
Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know,
My idleness doth hatch. How now! Enobarbus!",120,18746
633021,228,[Re-enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS],1261,18746
633022,229,"What's your pleasure, sir?",325,18746
633023,230,I must with haste from hence.,120,18746
633024,231,"Why, then, we kill all our women:
we see how mortal an unkindness is to them;
if they suffer our departure, death's the word.",325,18746
633025,234,I must be gone.,120,18746
633026,235,"Under a compelling occasion, let women die; it were
pity to cast them away for nothing; though, between
them and a great cause, they should be esteemed
nothing. Cleopatra, catching but the least noise of
this, dies instantly; I have seen her die twenty
times upon far poorer moment: I do think there is
mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon
her, she hath such a celerity in dying.",325,18746
633027,243,She is cunning past man's thought.,120,18746
633028,244,[Exit ALEXAS],1261,18746
633029,245,"Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but
the finest part of pure love: we cannot call her
winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater
storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this
cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a
shower of rain as well as Jove.",325,18746
633030,251,Would I had never seen her.,120,18746
633031,252,"O, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful piece
of work; which not to have been blest withal would
have discredited your travel.",325,18746
633032,255,Fulvia is dead.,120,18746
633033,256,Sir?,325,18746
633034,257,Fulvia is dead.,120,18746
633035,258,Fulvia!,325,18746
633036,259,Dead.,120,18746
633037,260,"Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice. When
it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man
from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth;
comforting therein, that when old robes are worn
out, there are members to make new. If there were
no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut,
and the case to be lamented: this grief is crowned
with consolation; your old smock brings forth a new
petticoat: and indeed the tears live in an onion
that should water this sorrow.",325,18746
633038,270,"The business she hath broached in the state
Cannot endure my absence.",120,18746
633039,272,"And the business you have broached here cannot be
without you; especially that of Cleopatra's, which
wholly depends on your abode.",325,18746
633040,275,"No more light answers. Let our officers
Have notice what we purpose. I shall break
The cause of our expedience to the queen,
And get her leave to part. For not alone
The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,
Do strongly speak to us; but the letters too
Of many our contriving friends in Rome
Petition us at home: Sextus Pompeius
Hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands
The empire of the sea: our slippery people,
Whose love is never link'd to the deserver
Till his deserts are past, begin to throw
Pompey the Great and all his dignities
Upon his son; who, high in name and power,
Higher than both in blood and life, stands up
For the main soldier: whose quality, going on,
The sides o' the world may danger: much is breeding,
Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life,
And not a serpent's poison. Say, our pleasure,
To such whose place is under us, requires
Our quick remove from hence.",120,18746
633041,296,I shall do't.,325,18746
633042,297,[Exeunt],1261,18746
633043,300,"[Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS]",1261,18747
633044,301,Where is he?,262,18747
633045,302,I did not see him since.,239,18747
633046,303,"See where he is, who's with him, what he does:
I did not send you: if you find him sad,
Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report
That I am sudden sick: quick, and return.",262,18747
633047,307,[Exit ALEXAS],1261,18747
633048,308,"Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly,
You do not hold the method to enforce
The like from him.",239,18747
633049,311,"What should I do, I do not?",262,18747
633050,312,"In each thing give him way, cross him nothing.",239,18747
633051,313,Thou teachest like a fool; the way to lose him.,262,18747
633052,314,"Tempt him not so too far; I wish, forbear:
In time we hate that which we often fear.
But here comes Antony.",239,18747
633053,317,[Enter MARK ANTONY],1261,18747
633054,318,I am sick and sullen.,262,18747
633055,319,"I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose,--",120,18747
633056,320,"Help me away, dear Charmian; I shall fall:
It cannot be thus long, the sides of nature
Will not sustain it.",262,18747
633057,323,"Now, my dearest queen,--",120,18747
633058,324,"Pray you, stand further from me.",262,18747
633059,325,What's the matter?,120,18747
633060,326,"I know, by that same eye, there's some good news.
What says the married woman? You may go:
Would she had never given you leave to come!
Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here:
I have no power upon you; hers you are.",262,18747
633061,331,"The gods best know,--",120,18747
633062,332,"O, never was there queen
So mightily betray'd! yet at the first
I saw the treasons planted.",262,18747
633063,335,"Cleopatra,--",120,18747
633064,336,"Why should I think you can be mine and true,
Though you in swearing shake the throned gods,
Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness,
To be entangled with those mouth-made vows,
Which break themselves in swearing!",262,18747
633065,341,"Most sweet queen,--",120,18747
633066,342,"Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,
But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying,
Then was the time for words: no going then;
Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor,
But was a race of heaven: they are so still,
Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,
Art turn'd the greatest liar.",262,18747
633067,350,"How now, lady!",120,18747
633068,351,"I would I had thy inches; thou shouldst know
There were a heart in Egypt.",262,18747
633069,353,"Hear me, queen:
The strong necessity of time commands
Our services awhile; but my full heart
Remains in use with you. Our Italy
Shines o'er with civil swords: Sextus Pompeius
Makes his approaches to the port of Rome:
Equality of two domestic powers
Breed scrupulous faction: the hated, grown to strength,
Are newly grown to love: the condemn'd Pompey,
Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace,
Into the hearts of such as have not thrived
Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten;
And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge
By any desperate change: my more particular,
And that which most with you should safe my going,
Is Fulvia's death.",120,18747
633070,369,"Though age from folly could not give me freedom,
It does from childishness: can Fulvia die?",262,18747
633071,371,"She's dead, my queen:
Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read
The garboils she awaked; at the last, best:
See when and where she died.",120,18747
633072,375,"O most false love!
Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill
With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see,
In Fulvia's death, how mine received shall be.",262,18747
633073,379,"Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know
The purposes I bear; which are, or cease,
As you shall give the advice. By the fire
That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence
Thy soldier, servant; making peace or war
As thou affect'st.",120,18747
633074,385,"Cut my lace, Charmian, come;
But let it be: I am quickly ill, and well,
So Antony loves.",262,18747
633075,388,"My precious queen, forbear;
And give true evidence to his love, which stands
An honourable trial.",120,18747
633076,391,"So Fulvia told me.
I prithee, turn aside and weep for her,
Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears
Belong to Egypt: good now, play one scene
Of excellent dissembling; and let it look
Life perfect honour.",262,18747
633077,397,You'll heat my blood: no more.,120,18747
633078,398,You can do better yet; but this is meetly.,262,18747
633079,399,"Now, by my sword,--",120,18747
633080,400,"And target. Still he mends;
But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian,
How this Herculean Roman does become
The carriage of his chafe.",262,18747
633081,404,"I'll leave you, lady.",120,18747
633082,405,"Courteous lord, one word.
Sir, you and I must part, but that's not it:
Sir, you and I have loved, but there's not it;
That you know well: something it is I would,
O, my oblivion is a very Antony,
And I am all forgotten.",262,18747
633083,411,"But that your royalty
Holds idleness your subject, I should take you
For idleness itself.",120,18747
633084,414,"'Tis sweating labour
To bear such idleness so near the heart
As Cleopatra this. But, sir, forgive me;
Since my becomings kill me, when they do not
Eye well to you: your honour calls you hence;
Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly.
And all the gods go with you! upon your sword
Sit laurel victory! and smooth success
Be strew'd before your feet!",262,18747
633085,423,"Let us go. Come;
Our separation so abides, and flies,
That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me,
And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. Away!",120,18747
633086,427,"[Exeunt]
[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, reading a letter, LEPIDUS,]
and their Train]",1261,18747
633087,432,"You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,
It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate
Our great competitor: from Alexandria
This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes
The lamps of night in revel; is not more man-like
Than Cleopatra; nor the queen of Ptolemy
More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or
Vouchsafed to think he had partners: you shall find there
A man who is the abstract of all faults
That all men follow.",824,18748
633088,442,"I must not think there are
Evils enow to darken all his goodness:
His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven,
More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary,
Rather than purchased; what he cannot change,
Than what he chooses.",668,18748
633089,448,"You are too indulgent. Let us grant, it is not
Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy;
To give a kingdom for a mirth; to sit
And keep the turn of tippling with a slave;
To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet
With knaves that smell of sweat: say this
becomes him,--
As his composure must be rare indeed
Whom these things cannot blemish,--yet must Antony
No way excuse his soils, when we do bear
So great weight in his lightness. If he fill'd
His vacancy with his voluptuousness,
Full surfeits, and the dryness of his bones,
Call on him for't: but to confound such time,
That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud
As his own state and ours,--'tis to be chid
As we rate boys, who, being mature in knowledge,
Pawn their experience to their present pleasure,
And so rebel to judgment.",824,18748
633090,467,[Enter a Messenger],1261,18748
633091,468,Here's more news.,668,18748
633092,469,"Thy biddings have been done; and every hour,
Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report
How 'tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea;
And it appears he is beloved of those
That only have fear'd Caesar: to the ports
The discontents repair, and men's reports
Give him much wrong'd.",769,18748
633093,476,"I should have known no less.
It hath been taught us from the primal state,
That he which is was wish'd until he were;
And the ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,
Comes dear'd by being lack'd. This common body,
Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,
Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,
To rot itself with motion.",824,18748
633094,484,"Caesar, I bring thee word,
Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,
Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound
With keels of every kind: many hot inroads
They make in Italy; the borders maritime
Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt:
No vessel can peep forth, but 'tis as soon
Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more
Than could his war resisted.",769,18748
633095,493,"Antony,
Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once
Wast beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st
Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel
Did famine follow; whom thou fought'st against,
Though daintily brought up, with patience more
Than savages could suffer: thou didst drink
The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle
Which beasts would cough at: thy palate then did deign
The roughest berry on the rudest hedge;
Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets,
The barks of trees thou browsed'st; on the Alps
It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,
Which some did die to look on: and all this--
It wounds thine honour that I speak it now--
Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek
So much as lank'd not.",824,18748
633098,516,"To-morrow, Caesar,
I shall be furnish'd to inform you rightly
Both what by sea and land I can be able
To front this present time.",668,18748
633099,520,"Till which encounter,
It is my business too. Farewell.",824,18748
633100,522,"Farewell, my lord: what you shall know meantime
Of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir,
To let me be partaker.",668,18748
633101,525,"Doubt not, sir;
I knew it for my bond.",824,18748
633102,527,[Exeunt],1261,18748
633103,530,"[Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN]",1261,18749
633104,531,Charmian!,262,18749
633105,532,Madam?,239,18749
633106,533,"Ha, ha!
Give me to drink mandragora.",262,18749
633107,535,"Why, madam?",239,18749
633108,536,"That I might sleep out this great gap of time
My Antony is away.",262,18749
633109,538,You think of him too much.,239,18749
633110,539,"O, 'tis treason!",262,18749
633111,540,"Madam, I trust, not so.",239,18749
633112,541,"Thou, eunuch Mardian!",262,18749
633113,542,What's your highness' pleasure?,733,18749
633114,543,"Not now to hear thee sing; I take no pleasure
In aught an eunuch has: 'tis well for thee,
That, being unseminar'd, thy freer thoughts
May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections?",262,18749
633115,547,"Yes, gracious madam.",733,18749
633116,548,Indeed!,262,18749
633117,549,"Not in deed, madam; for I can do nothing
But what indeed is honest to be done:
Yet have I fierce affections, and think
What Venus did with Mars.",733,18749
633118,553,"O Charmian,
Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he?
Or does he walk? or is he on his horse?
O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!
Do bravely, horse! for wot'st thou whom thou movest?
The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm
And burgonet of men. He's speaking now,
Or murmuring 'Where's my serpent of old Nile?'
For so he calls me: now I feed myself
With most delicious poison. Think on me,
That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,
And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted Caesar,
When thou wast here above the ground, I was
A morsel for a monarch: and great Pompey
Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow;
There would he anchor his aspect and die
With looking on his life.",262,18749
633119,570,"[Enter ALEXAS, from OCTAVIUS CAESAR]",1261,18749
633120,571,"Sovereign of Egypt, hail!",66,18749
633121,572,"How much unlike art thou Mark Antony!
Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath
With his tinct gilded thee.
How goes it with my brave Mark Antony?",262,18749
633122,576,"Last thing he did, dear queen,
He kiss'd,--the last of many doubled kisses,--
This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart.",66,18749
633123,579,Mine ear must pluck it thence.,262,18749
633124,580,"'Good friend,' quoth he,
'Say, the firm Roman to great Egypt sends
This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot,
To mend the petty present, I will piece
Her opulent throne with kingdoms; all the east,
Say thou, shall call her mistress.' So he nodded,
And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed,
Who neigh'd so high, that what I would have spoke
Was beastly dumb'd by him.",66,18749
633125,589,"What, was he sad or merry?",262,18749
633126,590,"Like to the time o' the year between the extremes
Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.",66,18749
633127,592,"O well-divided disposition! Note him,
Note him good Charmian, 'tis the man; but note him:
He was not sad, for he would shine on those
That make their looks by his; he was not merry,
Which seem'd to tell them his remembrance lay
In Egypt with his joy; but between both:
O heavenly mingle! Be'st thou sad or merry,
The violence of either thee becomes,
So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts?",262,18749
633128,601,"Ay, madam, twenty several messengers:
Why do you send so thick?",66,18749
633129,603,"Who's born that day
When I forget to send to Antony,
Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian.
Welcome, my good Alexas. Did I, Charmian,
Ever love Caesar so?",262,18749
633130,608,O that brave Caesar!,239,18749
633131,609,"Be choked with such another emphasis!
Say, the brave Antony.",262,18749
633132,611,The valiant Caesar!,239,18749
633133,612,"By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth,
If thou with Caesar paragon again
My man of men.",262,18749
633134,615,"By your most gracious pardon,
I sing but after you.",239,18749
633135,617,"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then! But, come, away;
Get me ink and paper:
He shall have every day a several greeting,
Or I'll unpeople Egypt.",262,18749
633136,623,"[Exeunt]
[Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS, in]
warlike manner]",1261,18749
633137,628,"If the great gods be just, they shall assist
The deeds of justest men.",900,18750
633138,630,"Know, worthy Pompey,
That what they do delay, they not deny.",761,18750
633139,632,"Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays
The thing we sue for.",900,18750
633140,634,"We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.",761,18750
633141,638,"I shall do well:
The people love me, and the sea is mine;
My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope
Says it will come to the full. Mark Antony
In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make
No wars without doors: Caesar gets money where
He loses hearts: Lepidus flatters both,
Of both is flatter'd; but he neither loves,
Nor either cares for him.",900,18750
633142,647,"Caesar and Lepidus
Are in the field: a mighty strength they carry.",760,18750
633143,649,Where have you this? 'tis false.,900,18750
633144,650,"From Silvius, sir.",760,18750
633145,651,"He dreams: I know they are in Rome together,
Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love,
Salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip!
Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!
Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts,
Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite;
That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour
Even till a Lethe'd dulness!
[Enter VARRIUS]
How now, Varrius!",900,18750
633146,662,"This is most certain that I shall deliver:
Mark Antony is every hour in Rome
Expected: since he went from Egypt 'tis
A space for further travel.",1224,18750
633147,666,"I could have given less matter
A better ear. Menas, I did not think
This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm
For such a petty war: his soldiership
Is twice the other twain: but let us rear
The higher our opinion, that our stirring
Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck
The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony.",900,18750
633148,674,"I cannot hope
Caesar and Antony shall well greet together:
His wife that's dead did trespasses to Caesar;
His brother warr'd upon him; although, I think,
Not moved by Antony.",760,18750
633149,679,"I know not, Menas,
How lesser enmities may give way to greater.
Were't not that we stand up against them all,
'Twere pregnant they should square between
themselves;
For they have entertained cause enough
To draw their swords: but how the fear of us
May cement their divisions and bind up
The petty difference, we yet not know.
Be't as our gods will have't! It only stands
Our lives upon to use our strongest hands.
Come, Menas.",900,18750
633150,691,[Exeunt],1261,18750
633151,694,[Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and LEPIDUS],1261,18751
633152,695,"Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed,
And shall become you well, to entreat your captain
To soft and gentle speech.",668,18751
633153,698,"I shall entreat him
To answer like himself: if Caesar move him,
Let Antony look over Caesar's head
And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,
Were I the wearer of Antonius' beard,
I would not shave't to-day.",325,18751
633154,704,"'Tis not a time
For private stomaching.",668,18751
633155,706,"Every time
Serves for the matter that is then born in't.",325,18751
633156,708,But small to greater matters must give way.,668,18751
633157,709,Not if the small come first.,325,18751
633158,710,"Your speech is passion:
But, pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes
The noble Antony.",668,18751
633159,713,[Enter MARK ANTONY and VENTIDIUS],1261,18751
633160,714,"And yonder, Caesar.",325,18751
633161,715,"[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA]",1261,18751
633162,716,"If we compose well here, to Parthia:
Hark, Ventidius.",120,18751
633163,718,"I do not know,
Mecaenas; ask Agrippa.",824,18751
633164,720,"Noble friends,
That which combined us was most great, and let not
A leaner action rend us. What's amiss,
May it be gently heard: when we debate
Our trivial difference loud, we do commit
Murder in healing wounds: then, noble partners,
The rather, for I earnestly beseech,
Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms,
Nor curstness grow to the matter.",668,18751
633165,729,"'Tis spoken well.
Were we before our armies, and to fight.
I should do thus.",120,18751
633166,732,[Flourish],1261,18751
633167,733,Welcome to Rome.,824,18751
633168,734,Thank you.,120,18751
633169,735,Sit.,824,18751
633170,736,"Sit, sir.",120,18751
633171,737,"Nay, then.",824,18751
633172,738,"I learn, you take things ill which are not so,
Or being, concern you not.",120,18751
633173,740,"I must be laugh'd at,
If, or for nothing or a little, I
Should say myself offended, and with you
Chiefly i' the world; more laugh'd at, that I should
Once name you derogately, when to sound your name
It not concern'd me.",824,18751
633174,746,"My being in Egypt, Caesar,
What was't to you?",120,18751
633175,748,"No more than my residing here at Rome
Might be to you in Egypt: yet, if you there
Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt
Might be my question.",824,18751
633176,752,"How intend you, practised?",120,18751
633177,753,"You may be pleased to catch at mine intent
By what did here befal me. Your wife and brother
Made wars upon me; and their contestation
Was theme for you, you were the word of war.",824,18751
633178,757,"You do mistake your business; my brother never
Did urge me in his act: I did inquire it;
And have my learning from some true reports,
That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather
Discredit my authority with yours;
And make the wars alike against my stomach,
Having alike your cause? Of this my letters
Before did satisfy you. If you'll patch a quarrel,
As matter whole you have not to make it with,
It must not be with this.",120,18751
633179,767,"You praise yourself
By laying defects of judgment to me; but
You patch'd up your excuses.",824,18751
633180,770,"Not so, not so;
I know you could not lack, I am certain on't,
Very necessity of this thought, that I,
Your partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought,
Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars
Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife,
I would you had her spirit in such another:
The third o' the world is yours; which with a snaffle
You may pace easy, but not such a wife.",120,18751
633181,779,"Would we had all such wives, that the men might go
to wars with the women!",325,18751
633182,781,"So much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar
Made out of her impatience, which not wanted
Shrewdness of policy too, I grieving grant
Did you too much disquiet: for that you must
But say, I could not help it.",120,18751
633183,786,"I wrote to you
When rioting in Alexandria; you
Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts
Did gibe my missive out of audience.",824,18751
633184,790,"Sir,
He fell upon me ere admitted: then
Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want
Of what I was i' the morning: but next day
I told him of myself; which was as much
As to have ask'd him pardon. Let this fellow
Be nothing of our strife; if we contend,
Out of our question wipe him.",120,18751
633185,798,"You have broken
The article of your oath; which you shall never
Have tongue to charge me with.",824,18751
633186,801,"Soft, Caesar!",668,18751
633187,802,"No,
Lepidus, let him speak:
The honour is sacred which he talks on now,
Supposing that I lack'd it. But, on, Caesar;
The article of my oath.",120,18751
633188,807,"To lend me arms and aid when I required them;
The which you both denied.",824,18751
633189,809,"Neglected, rather;
And then when poison'd hours had bound me up
From mine own knowledge. As nearly as I may,
I'll play the penitent to you: but mine honesty
Shall not make poor my greatness, nor my power
Work without it. Truth is, that Fulvia,
To have me out of Egypt, made wars here;
For which myself, the ignorant motive, do
So far ask pardon as befits mine honour
To stoop in such a case.",120,18751
633194,829,Thou art a soldier only: speak no more.,120,18751
633195,830,That truth should be silent I had almost forgot.,325,18751
633196,831,You wrong this presence; therefore speak no more.,120,18751
633197,832,"Go to, then; your considerate stone.",325,18751
633198,833,"I do not much dislike the matter, but
The manner of his speech; for't cannot be
We shall remain in friendship, our conditions
So differing in their acts. Yet if I knew
What hoop should hold us stanch, from edge to edge
O' the world I would pursue it.",824,18751
633199,839,"Give me leave, Caesar,--",59,18751
633200,840,"Speak, Agrippa.",824,18751
633201,841,"Thou hast a sister by the mother's side,
Admired Octavia: great Mark Antony
Is now a widower.",59,18751
633202,844,"Say not so, Agrippa:
If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof
Were well deserved of rashness.",824,18751
633203,847,"I am not married, Caesar: let me hear
Agrippa further speak.",120,18751
633204,849,"To hold you in perpetual amity,
To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts
With an unslipping knot, take Antony
Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims
No worse a husband than the best of men;
Whose virtue and whose general graces speak
That which none else can utter. By this marriage,
All little jealousies, which now seem great,
And all great fears, which now import their dangers,
Would then be nothing: truths would be tales,
Where now half tales be truths: her love to both
Would, each to other and all loves to both,
Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke;
For 'tis a studied, not a present thought,
By duty ruminated.",59,18751
633205,864,Will Caesar speak?,120,18751
633206,865,"Not till he hears how Antony is touch'd
With what is spoke already.",824,18751
633207,867,"What power is in Agrippa,
If I would say, 'Agrippa, be it so,'
To make this good?",120,18751
633208,870,"The power of Caesar, and
His power unto Octavia.",824,18751
633209,872,"May I never
To this good purpose, that so fairly shows,
Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand:
Further this act of grace: and from this hour
The heart of brothers govern in our loves
And sway our great designs!",120,18751
633210,878,"There is my hand.
A sister I bequeath you, whom no brother
Did ever love so dearly: let her live
To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never
Fly off our loves again!",824,18751
633211,883,"Happily, amen!",668,18751
633212,884,"I did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey;
For he hath laid strange courtesies and great
Of late upon me: I must thank him only,
Lest my remembrance suffer ill report;
At heel of that, defy him.",120,18751
633213,889,"Time calls upon's:
Of us must Pompey presently be sought,
Or else he seeks out us.",668,18751
633214,892,Where lies he?,120,18751
633215,893,About the mount Misenum.,824,18751
633216,894,What is his strength by land?,120,18751
633217,895,"Great and increasing: but by sea
He is an absolute master.",824,18751
633218,897,"So is the fame.
Would we had spoke together! Haste we for it:
Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we
The business we have talk'd of.",120,18751
633219,901,"With most gladness:
And do invite you to my sister's view,
Whither straight I'll lead you.",824,18751
633220,904,"Let us, Lepidus,
Not lack your company.",120,18751
633221,906,"Noble Antony,
Not sickness should detain me.
[Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY,]
and LEPIDUS]",668,18751
633222,910,"Welcome from Egypt, sir.",758,18751
633223,911,"Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Mecaenas! My
honourable friend, Agrippa!",325,18751
633224,913,Good Enobarbus!,59,18751
633225,914,"We have cause to be glad that matters are so well
digested. You stayed well by 't in Egypt.",758,18751
633226,916,"Ay, sir; we did sleep day out of countenance, and
made the night light with drinking.",325,18751
633227,918,"Eight wild-boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and
but twelve persons there; is this true?",758,18751
633228,920,"This was but as a fly by an eagle: we had much more
monstrous matter of feast, which worthily deserved noting.",325,18751
633229,922,"She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to
her.",758,18751
633230,924,"When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up
his heart, upon the river of Cydnus.",325,18751
633231,926,"There she appeared indeed; or my reporter devised
well for her.",59,18751
633232,928,"I will tell you.
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
It beggar'd all description: she did lie
In her pavilion--cloth-of-gold of tissue--
O'er-picturing that Venus where we see
The fancy outwork nature: on each side her
Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,
With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,
And what they undid did.",325,18751
633233,944,"O, rare for Antony!",59,18751
633234,945,"Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,
So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes,
And made their bends adornings: at the helm
A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle
Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands,
That yarely frame the office. From the barge
A strange invisible perfume hits the sense
Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast
Her people out upon her; and Antony,
Enthroned i' the market-place, did sit alone,
Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy,
Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,
And made a gap in nature.",325,18751
633235,958,Rare Egyptian!,59,18751
633236,959,"Upon her landing, Antony sent to her,
Invited her to supper: she replied,
It should be better he became her guest;
Which she entreated: our courteous Antony,
Whom ne'er the word of 'No' woman heard speak,
Being barber'd ten times o'er, goes to the feast,
And for his ordinary pays his heart
For what his eyes eat only.",325,18751
633237,967,"Royal wench!
She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed:
He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.",59,18751
633238,970,"I saw her once
Hop forty paces through the public street;
And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted,
That she did make defect perfection,
And, breathless, power breathe forth.",325,18751
633239,975,Now Antony must leave her utterly.,758,18751
633240,976,"Never; he will not:
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety: other women cloy
The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies; for vilest things
Become themselves in her: that the holy priests
Bless her when she is riggish.",325,18751
633241,983,"If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle
The heart of Antony, Octavia is
A blessed lottery to him.",758,18751
633242,986,"Let us go.
Good Enobarbus, make yourself my guest
Whilst you abide here.",59,18751
633243,989,"Humbly, sir, I thank you.",325,18751
633244,990,"[Exeunt]
[Enter MARK ANTONY, OCTAVIUS CAESAR, OCTAVIA between]
them, and Attendants]",1261,18751
633245,995,"The world and my great office will sometimes
Divide me from your bosom.",120,18752
633246,997,"All which time
Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers
To them for you.",823,18752
633247,1000,"Good night, sir. My Octavia,
Read not my blemishes in the world's report:
I have not kept my square; but that to come
Shall all be done by the rule. Good night, dear lady.
Good night, sir.",120,18752
633248,1005,Good night.,824,18752
633249,1006,[Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and OCTAVIA],1261,18752
633250,1007,[Enter Soothsayer],1261,18752
633251,1008,"Now, sirrah; you do wish yourself in Egypt?",120,18752
633252,1009,"Would I had never come from thence, nor you Thither!",1142,18752
633253,1010,"If you can, your reason?",120,18752
633254,1011,"I see it in
My motion, have it not in my tongue: but yet
Hie you to Egypt again.",1142,18752
633255,1014,"Say to me,
Whose fortunes shall rise higher, Caesar's or mine?",120,18752
633256,1016,"Caesar's.
Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side:
Thy demon, that's thy spirit which keeps thee, is
Noble, courageous high, unmatchable,
Where Caesar's is not; but, near him, thy angel
Becomes a fear, as being o'erpower'd: therefore
Make space enough between you.",1142,18752
633257,1023,Speak this no more.,120,18752
633258,1024,"To none but thee; no more, but when to thee.
If thou dost play with him at any game,
Thou art sure to lose; and, of that natural luck,
He beats thee 'gainst the odds: thy lustre thickens,
When he shines by: I say again, thy spirit
Is all afraid to govern thee near him;
But, he away, 'tis noble.",1142,18752
633259,1031,"Get thee gone:
Say to Ventidius I would speak with him:
[Exit Soothsayer]
He shall to Parthia. Be it art or hap,
He hath spoken true: the very dice obey him;
And in our sports my better cunning faints
Under his chance: if we draw lots, he speeds;
His cocks do win the battle still of mine,
When it is all to nought; and his quails ever
Beat mine, inhoop'd, at odds. I will to Egypt:
And though I make this marriage for my peace,
I' the east my pleasure lies.
[Enter VENTIDIUS]
O, come, Ventidius,
You must to Parthia: your commission's ready;
Follow me, and receive't.",120,18752
633260,1047,[Exeunt],1261,18752
633261,1050,"[Enter LEPIDUS, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA]",1261,18753
633262,1051,"Trouble yourselves no further: pray you, hasten
Your generals after.",668,18753
633263,1053,"Sir, Mark Antony
Will e'en but kiss Octavia, and we'll follow.",59,18753
633264,1055,"Till I shall see you in your soldier's dress,
Which will become you both, farewell.",668,18753
633265,1057,"We shall,
As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount
Before you, Lepidus.",758,18753
633266,1060,"Your way is shorter;
My purposes do draw me much about:
You'll win two days upon me.",668,18753
633267,1063,"[with Agrippa] Sir, good success!",758,18753
633268,1064,Farewell.,668,18753
633269,1065,[Exeunt],1261,18753
633270,1068,"[Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS]",1261,18754
633271,1069,"Give me some music; music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.",262,18754
633272,1071,"The music, ho!",128,18754
633273,1072,[Enter MARDIAN],1261,18754
633274,1073,"Let it alone; let's to billiards: come, Charmian.",262,18754
633275,1074,My arm is sore; best play with Mardian.,239,18754
633276,1075,"As well a woman with an eunuch play'd
As with a woman. Come, you'll play with me, sir?",262,18754
633277,1077,"As well as I can, madam.",733,18754
633278,1078,"And when good will is show'd, though't come
too short,
The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now:
Give me mine angle; we'll to the river: there,
My music playing far off, I will betray
Tawny-finn'd fishes; my bended hook shall pierce
Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw them up,
I'll think them every one an Antony,
And say 'Ah, ha! you're caught.'",262,18754
633279,1087,"'Twas merry when
You wager'd on your angling; when your diver
Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he
With fervency drew up.",239,18754
633280,1091,"That time,--O times!--
I laugh'd him out of patience; and that night
I laugh'd him into patience; and next morn,
Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed;
Then put my tires and mantles on him, whilst
I wore his sword Philippan.
[Enter a Messenger]
O, from Italy
Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears,
That long time have been barren.",262,18754
633281,1101,"Madam, madam,--",769,18754
633282,1102,"Antonius dead!--If thou say so, villain,
Thou kill'st thy mistress: but well and free,
If thou so yield him, there is gold, and here
My bluest veins to kiss; a hand that kings
Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing.",262,18754
633283,1107,"First, madam, he is well.",769,18754
633284,1108,"Why, there's more gold.
But, sirrah, mark, we use
To say the dead are well: bring it to that,
The gold I give thee will I melt and pour
Down thy ill-uttering throat.",262,18754
633285,1113,"Good madam, hear me.",769,18754
633286,1114,"Well, go to, I will;
But there's no goodness in thy face: if Antony
Be free and healthful,--so tart a favour
To trumpet such good tidings! If not well,
Thou shouldst come like a Fury crown'd with snakes,
Not like a formal man.",262,18754
633287,1120,Will't please you hear me?,769,18754
633288,1121,"I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak'st:
Yet if thou say Antony lives, is well,
Or friends with Caesar, or not captive to him,
I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail
Rich pearls upon thee.",262,18754
633289,1126,"Madam, he's well.",769,18754
633290,1127,Well said.,262,18754
633291,1128,And friends with Caesar.,769,18754
633292,1129,Thou'rt an honest man.,262,18754
633293,1130,Caesar and he are greater friends than ever.,769,18754
633294,1131,Make thee a fortune from me.,262,18754
633295,1132,"But yet, madam,--",769,18754
633296,1133,"I do not like 'But yet,' it does allay
The good precedence; fie upon 'But yet'!
'But yet' is as a gaoler to bring forth
Some monstrous malefactor. Prithee, friend,
Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,
The good and bad together: he's friends with Caesar:
In state of health thou say'st; and thou say'st free.",262,18754
633297,1140,"Free, madam! no; I made no such report:
He's bound unto Octavia.",769,18754
633298,1142,For what good turn?,262,18754
633299,1143,For the best turn i' the bed.,769,18754
633300,1144,"I am pale, Charmian.",262,18754
633301,1145,"Madam, he's married to Octavia.",769,18754
633302,1146,The most infectious pestilence upon thee!,262,18754
633303,1147,[Strikes him down],1261,18754
633304,1148,"Good madam, patience.",769,18754
633305,1149,"What say you? Hence,
[Strikes him again]
Horrible villain! or I'll spurn thine eyes
Like balls before me; I'll unhair thy head:
[She hales him up and down]
Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine,
Smarting in lingering pickle.",262,18754
633306,1156,"Gracious madam,
I that do bring the news made not the match.",769,18754
633307,1158,"Say 'tis not so, a province I will give thee,
And make thy fortunes proud: the blow thou hadst
Shall make thy peace for moving me to rage;
And I will boot thee with what gift beside
Thy modesty can beg.",262,18754
633308,1163,"He's married, madam.",769,18754
633309,1164,"Rogue, thou hast lived too long.",262,18754
633310,1165,[Draws a knife],1261,18754
633311,1166,"Nay, then I'll run.
What mean you, madam? I have made no fault.",769,18754
633312,1168,[Exit],1261,18754
633313,1169,"Good madam, keep yourself within yourself:
The man is innocent.",239,18754
633314,1171,"Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
Melt Egypt into Nile! and kindly creatures
Turn all to serpents! Call the slave again:
Though I am mad, I will not bite him: call.",262,18754
633315,1175,He is afeard to come.,239,18754
633316,1176,"I will not hurt him.
[Exit CHARMIAN]
These hands do lack nobility, that they strike
A meaner than myself; since I myself
Have given myself the cause.
[Re-enter CHARMIAN and Messenger]
Come hither, sir.
Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news: give to a gracious message.
An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell
Themselves when they be felt.",262,18754
633317,1187,I have done my duty.,769,18754
633318,1188,"Is he married?
I cannot hate thee worser than I do,
If thou again say 'Yes.'",262,18754
633319,1191,"He's married, madam.",769,18754
633320,1192,The gods confound thee! dost thou hold there still?,262,18754
633321,1193,"Should I lie, madam?",769,18754
633322,1194,"O, I would thou didst,
So half my Egypt were submerged and made
A cistern for scaled snakes! Go, get thee hence:
Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me
Thou wouldst appear most ugly. He is married?",262,18754
633323,1199,I crave your highness' pardon.,769,18754
633324,1200,He is married?,262,18754
633325,1201,"Take no offence that I would not offend you:
To punish me for what you make me do.
Seems much unequal: he's married to Octavia.",769,18754
633326,1204,"O, that his fault should make a knave of thee,
That art not what thou'rt sure of! Get thee hence:
The merchandise which thou hast brought from Rome
Are all too dear for me: lie they upon thy hand,
And be undone by 'em!",262,18754
633327,1209,[Exit Messenger],1261,18754
633328,1210,"Good your highness, patience.",239,18754
633329,1211,"In praising Antony, I have dispraised Caesar.",262,18754
633330,1212,"Many times, madam.",239,18754
633331,1213,"I am paid for't now.
Lead me from hence:
I faint: O Iras, Charmian! 'tis no matter.
Go to the fellow, good Alexas; bid him
Report the feature of Octavia, her years,
Her inclination, let him not leave out
The colour of her hair: bring me word quickly.
[Exit ALEXAS]
Let him for ever go:--let him not--Charmian,
Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,
The other way's a Mars. Bid you Alexas
[To MARDIAN]
Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian,
But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber.",262,18754
633332,1227,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish. Enter POMPEY and MENAS at one door,]
with drum and trumpet: at another, OCTAVIUS CAESAR,
MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MECAENAS,
with Soldiers marching]",1261,18754
633333,1234,"Your hostages I have, so have you mine;
And we shall talk before we fight.",900,18755
633334,1236,"Most meet
That first we come to words; and therefore have we
Our written purposes before us sent;
Which, if thou hast consider'd, let us know
If 'twill tie up thy discontented sword,
And carry back to Sicily much tall youth
That else must perish here.",824,18755
633335,1243,"To you all three,
The senators alone of this great world,
Chief factors for the gods, I do not know
Wherefore my father should revengers want,
Having a son and friends; since Julius Caesar,
Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted,
There saw you labouring for him. What was't
That moved pale Cassius to conspire; and what
Made the all-honour'd, honest Roman, Brutus,
With the arm'd rest, courtiers and beauteous freedom,
To drench the Capitol; but that they would
Have one man but a man? And that is it
Hath made me rig my navy; at whose burthen
The anger'd ocean foams; with which I meant
To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome
Cast on my noble father.",900,18755
633336,1259,Take your time.,824,18755
633337,1260,"Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails;
We'll speak with thee at sea: at land, thou know'st
How much we do o'er-count thee.",120,18755
633338,1263,"At land, indeed,
Thou dost o'er-count me of my father's house:
But, since the cuckoo builds not for himself,
Remain in't as thou mayst.",900,18755
633339,1267,"Be pleased to tell us--
For this is from the present--how you take
The offers we have sent you.",668,18755
633340,1270,There's the point.,824,18755
633341,1271,"Which do not be entreated to, but weigh
What it is worth embraced.",120,18755
633342,1273,"And what may follow,
To try a larger fortune.",824,18755
633343,1275,"You have made me offer
Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must
Rid all the sea of pirates; then, to send
Measures of wheat to Rome; this 'greed upon
To part with unhack'd edges, and bear back
Our targes undinted.",900,18755
633344,1281,[with Antony and Lepidus] That's our offer.,824,18755
633345,1282,"Know, then,
I came before you here a man prepared
To take this offer: but Mark Antony
Put me to some impatience: though I lose
The praise of it by telling, you must know,
When Caesar and your brother were at blows,
Your mother came to Sicily and did find
Her welcome friendly.",900,18755
633346,1290,"I have heard it, Pompey;
And am well studied for a liberal thanks
Which I do owe you.",120,18755
633347,1293,"Let me have your hand:
I did not think, sir, to have met you here.",900,18755
633348,1295,"The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to you,
That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither;
For I have gain'd by 't.",120,18755
633349,1298,"Since I saw you last,
There is a change upon you.",824,18755
633350,1300,"Well, I know not
What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face;
But in my bosom shall she never come,
To make my heart her vassal.",900,18755
633351,1304,Well met here.,668,18755
633352,1305,"I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed:
I crave our composition may be written,
And seal'd between us.",900,18755
633353,1308,That's the next to do.,824,18755
633354,1309,"We'll feast each other ere we part; and let's
Draw lots who shall begin.",900,18755
633355,1311,"That will I, Pompey.",120,18755
633356,1312,"No, Antony, take the lot: but, first
Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery
Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar
Grew fat with feasting there.",900,18755
633357,1316,You have heard much.,120,18755
633358,1317,"I have fair meanings, sir.",900,18755
633359,1318,And fair words to them.,120,18755
633360,1319,"Then so much have I heard:
And I have heard, Apollodorus carried--",900,18755
633361,1321,No more of that: he did so.,325,18755
633362,1322,"What, I pray you?",900,18755
633363,1323,A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress.,325,18755
633364,1324,"I know thee now: how farest thou, soldier?",900,18755
633365,1325,"Well;
And well am like to do; for, I perceive,
Four feasts are toward.",325,18755
633366,1328,"Let me shake thy hand;
I never hated thee: I have seen thee fight,
When I have envied thy behavior.",900,18755
633367,1331,"Sir,
I never loved you much; but I ha' praised ye,
When you have well deserved ten times as much
As I have said you did.",325,18755
633368,1335,"Enjoy thy plainness,
It nothing ill becomes thee.
Aboard my galley I invite you all:
Will you lead, lords?",900,18755
633369,1339,[with Antony and Lepidus],824,18755
633370,1340,Come.,900,18755
633371,1341,[Exeunt all but MENAS and ENOBARBUS],1261,18755
633372,1342,"[Aside] Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er have
made this treaty.--You and I have known, sir.",760,18755
633373,1344,"At sea, I think.",325,18755
633374,1345,"We have, sir.",760,18755
633375,1346,You have done well by water.,325,18755
633376,1347,And you by land.,760,18755
633377,1348,"I will praise any man that will praise me; though it
cannot be denied what I have done by land.",325,18755
633378,1350,Nor what I have done by water.,760,18755
633379,1351,"Yes, something you can deny for your own
safety: you have been a great thief by sea.",325,18755
633380,1353,And you by land.,760,18755
633381,1354,"There I deny my land service. But give me your
hand, Menas: if our eyes had authority, here they
might take two thieves kissing.",325,18755
633382,1357,"All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.",760,18755
633383,1358,But there is never a fair woman has a true face.,325,18755
633384,1359,No slander; they steal hearts.,760,18755
633385,1360,We came hither to fight with you.,325,18755
633386,1361,"For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking.
Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.",760,18755
633387,1363,"If he do, sure, he cannot weep't back again.",325,18755
633388,1364,"You've said, sir. We looked not for Mark Antony
here: pray you, is he married to Cleopatra?",760,18755
633389,1366,Caesar's sister is called Octavia.,325,18755
633390,1367,"True, sir; she was the wife of Caius Marcellus.",760,18755
633391,1368,But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.,325,18755
633392,1369,"Pray ye, sir?",760,18755
633403,1392,"[Exeunt]
[Music plays. Enter two or three Servants with]
a banquet]",1261,18755
633404,1397,"Here they'll be, man. Some o' their plants are
ill-rooted already: the least wind i' the world
will blow them down.",459,18756
633405,1400,Lepidus is high-coloured.,1028,18756
633406,1401,They have made him drink alms-drink.,459,18756
633407,1402,"As they pinch one another by the disposition, he
cries out 'No more;' reconciles them to his
entreaty, and himself to the drink.",1028,18756
633408,1405,"But it raises the greater war between him and
his discretion.",459,18756
633409,1407,"Why, this is to have a name in great men's
fellowship: I had as lief have a reed that will do
me no service as a partisan I could not heave.",1028,18756
633410,1410,"To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen
to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be,
which pitifully disaster the cheeks.
[A sennet sounded. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK]
ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POMPEY, AGRIPPA, MECAENAS,
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MENAS, with other captains]",459,18756
633411,1416,"[To OCTAVIUS CAESAR] Thus do they, sir: they take
the flow o' the Nile
By certain scales i' the pyramid; they know,
By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth
Or foison follow: the higher Nilus swells,
The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman
Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,
And shortly comes to harvest.",120,18756
633412,1424,You've strange serpents there.,668,18756
633413,1425,"Ay, Lepidus.",120,18756
633414,1426,"Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the
operation of your sun: so is your crocodile.",668,18756
633415,1428,They are so.,120,18756
633416,1429,"Sit,--and some wine! A health to Lepidus!",900,18756
633417,1430,"I am not so well as I should be, but I'll ne'er out.",668,18756
633418,1431,Not till you have slept; I fear me you'll be in till then.,325,18756
633419,1432,"Nay, certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies'
pyramises are very goodly things; without
contradiction, I have heard that.",668,18756
633420,1435,"[Aside to POMPEY] Pompey, a word.",760,18756
633421,1436,"[Aside to MENAS] Say in mine ear:
what is't?",900,18756
633422,1438,"[Aside to POMPEY] Forsake thy seat, I do beseech
thee, captain,
And hear me speak a word.",760,18756
633423,1441,"[Aside to MENAS] Forbear me till anon.
This wine for Lepidus!",900,18756
633424,1443,What manner o' thing is your crocodile?,668,18756
633425,1444,"It is shaped, sir, like itself; and it is as broad
as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is,
and moves with its own organs: it lives by that
which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of
it, it transmigrates.",120,18756
633426,1449,What colour is it of?,668,18756
633427,1450,Of it own colour too.,120,18756
633430,1453,Will this description satisfy him?,824,18756
633431,1454,"With the health that Pompey gives him, else he is a
very epicure.",120,18756
633432,1456,"[Aside to MENAS] Go hang, sir, hang! Tell me of
that? away!
Do as I bid you. Where's this cup I call'd for?",900,18756
633433,1459,"[Aside to POMPEY] If for the sake of merit thou
wilt hear me,
Rise from thy stool.",760,18756
633434,1462,"[Aside to MENAS] I think thou'rt mad.
The matter?",900,18756
633435,1464,"[Rises, and walks aside]",1261,18756
633436,1465,I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes.,760,18756
633437,1466,"Thou hast served me with much faith. What's else to say?
Be jolly, lords.",900,18756
633438,1468,"These quick-sands, Lepidus,
Keep off them, for you sink.",120,18756
633439,1470,Wilt thou be lord of all the world?,760,18756
633440,1471,What say'st thou?,900,18756
633441,1472,Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That's twice.,760,18756
633442,1473,How should that be?,900,18756
633443,1474,"But entertain it,
And, though thou think me poor, I am the man
Will give thee all the world.",760,18756
633444,1477,Hast thou drunk well?,900,18756
633445,1478,"Now, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup.
Thou art, if thou darest be, the earthly Jove:
Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips,
Is thine, if thou wilt ha't.",760,18756
633446,1482,Show me which way.,900,18756
633447,1483,"These three world-sharers, these competitors,
Are in thy vessel: let me cut the cable;
And, when we are put off, fall to their throats:
All there is thine.",760,18756
633448,1487,"Ah, this thou shouldst have done,
And not have spoke on't! In me 'tis villany;
In thee't had been good service. Thou must know,
'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour;
Mine honour, it. Repent that e'er thy tongue
Hath so betray'd thine act: being done unknown,
I should have found it afterwards well done;
But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink.",900,18756
633449,1495,"[Aside] For this,
I'll never follow thy pall'd fortunes more.
Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offer'd,
Shall never find it more.",760,18756
633450,1499,This health to Lepidus!,900,18756
633451,1500,"Bear him ashore. I'll pledge it for him, Pompey.",120,18756
633452,1501,"Here's to thee, Menas!",325,18756
633453,1502,"Enobarbus, welcome!",760,18756
633454,1503,Fill till the cup be hid.,900,18756
633455,1504,"There's a strong fellow, Menas.",325,18756
633456,1505,[Pointing to the Attendant who carries off LEPIDUS],1261,18756
633457,1506,Why?,760,18756
633458,1507,"A' bears the third part of the world, man; see'st
not?",325,18756
633459,1509,"The third part, then, is drunk: would it were all,
That it might go on wheels!",760,18756
633460,1511,Drink thou; increase the reels.,325,18756
633461,1512,Come.,760,18756
633462,1513,This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.,900,18756
633463,1514,"It ripens towards it. Strike the vessels, ho?
Here is to Caesar!",120,18756
633464,1516,"I could well forbear't.
It's monstrous labour, when I wash my brain,
And it grows fouler.",824,18756
633465,1519,Be a child o' the time.,120,18756
633466,1520,"Possess it, I'll make answer:
But I had rather fast from all four days
Than drink so much in one.",824,18756
633467,1523,"Ha, my brave emperor!
[To MARK ANTONY]
Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals,
And celebrate our drink?",325,18756
633468,1527,"Let's ha't, good soldier.",900,18756
633469,1528,"Come, let's all take hands,
Till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our sense
In soft and delicate Lethe.",120,18756
633470,1531,"All take hands.
Make battery to our ears with the loud music:
The while I'll place you: then the boy shall sing;
The holding every man shall bear as loud
As his strong sides can volley.
[Music plays. DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS places them]
hand in hand]
THE SONG.
Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
In thy fats our cares be drown'd,
With thy grapes our hairs be crown'd:
Cup us, till the world go round,
Cup us, till the world go round!",325,18756
633471,1545,"What would you more? Pompey, good night. Good brother,
Let me request you off: our graver business
Frowns at this levity. Gentle lords, let's part;
You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb
Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue
Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost
Antick'd us all. What needs more words? Good night.
Good Antony, your hand.",824,18756
633472,1553,I'll try you on the shore.,900,18756
633473,1554,"And shall, sir; give's your hand.",120,18756
633474,1555,"O Antony,
You have my father's house,--But, what? we are friends.
Come, down into the boat.",900,18756
633475,1558,"Take heed you fall not.
[Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and MENAS]
Menas, I'll not on shore.",325,18756
633476,1561,"No, to my cabin.
These drums! these trumpets, flutes! what!
Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell
To these great fellows: sound and be hang'd, sound out!",760,18756
633477,1565,"[Sound a flourish, with drums]",1261,18756
633478,1566,Ho! says a' There's my cap.,325,18756
633479,1567,"Ho! Noble captain, come.",760,18756
633480,1568,"[Exeunt]
[Enter VENTIDIUS as it were in triumph, with SILIUS,]
and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers; the dead
body of PACORUS borne before him]",1261,18756
633481,1574,"Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now
Pleased fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death
Make me revenger. Bear the king's son's body
Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,
Pays this for Marcus Crassus.",1232,18757
633482,1579,"Noble Ventidius,
Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm,
The fugitive Parthians follow; spur through Media,
Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither
The routed fly: so thy grand captain Antony
Shall set thee on triumphant chariots and
Put garlands on thy head.",1093,18757
633483,1586,"O Silius, Silius,
I have done enough; a lower place, note well,
May make too great an act: for learn this, Silius;
Better to leave undone, than by our deed
Acquire too high a fame when him we serve's away.
Caesar and Antony have ever won
More in their officer than person: Sossius,
One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant,
For quick accumulation of renown,
Which he achieved by the minute, lost his favour.
Who does i' the wars more than his captain can
Becomes his captain's captain: and ambition,
The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss,
Than gain which darkens him.
I could do more to do Antonius good,
But 'twould offend him; and in his offence
Should my performance perish.",1232,18757
633484,1603,"Thou hast, Ventidius,
that
Without the which a soldier, and his sword,
Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony!",1093,18757
633485,1607,"I'll humbly signify what in his name,
That magical word of war, we have effected;
How, with his banners and his well-paid ranks,
The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia
We have jaded out o' the field.",1232,18757
633486,1612,Where is he now?,1093,18757
633487,1613,"He purposeth to Athens: whither, with what haste
The weight we must convey with's will permit,
We shall appear before him. On there; pass along!",1232,18757
633488,1616,"[Exeunt]
[Enter AGRIPPA at one door, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]
at another]",1261,18757
633489,1621,"What, are the brothers parted?",59,18758
633490,1622,"They have dispatch'd with Pompey, he is gone;
The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps
To part from Rome; Caesar is sad; and Lepidus,
Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled
With the green sickness.",325,18758
633495,1631,What's Antony? The god of Jupiter.,59,18758
633496,1632,Spake you of Caesar? How! the non-pareil!,325,18758
633497,1633,O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!,59,18758
633498,1634,"Would you praise Caesar, say 'Caesar:' go no further.",325,18758
633499,1635,"Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.",59,18758
633500,1636,"But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony:
Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards,
poets, cannot
Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho!
His love to Antony. But as for Caesar,
Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.",325,18758
633501,1642,Both he loves.,59,18758
633502,1643,"They are his shards, and he their beetle.
[Trumpets within]
So;
This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.",325,18758
633503,1647,"Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.",59,18758
633504,1648,"[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA]",1261,18758
633505,1649,"No further, sir.",120,18758
633506,1650,"You take from me a great part of myself;
Use me well in 't. Sister, prove such a wife
As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band
Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony,
Let not the piece of virtue, which is set
Betwixt us as the cement of our love,
To keep it builded, be the ram to batter
The fortress of it; for better might we
Have loved without this mean, if on both parts
This be not cherish'd.",824,18758
633507,1660,"Make me not offended
In your distrust.",120,18758
633508,1662,I have said.,824,18758
633509,1663,"You shall not find,
Though you be therein curious, the least cause
For what you seem to fear: so, the gods keep you,
And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends!
We will here part.",120,18758
633510,1668,"Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well:
The elements be kind to thee, and make
Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well.",824,18758
633511,1671,My noble brother!,823,18758
633512,1672,"The April 's in her eyes: it is love's spring,
And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.",120,18758
633513,1674,"Sir, look well to my husband's house; and--",823,18758
633514,1675,"What, Octavia?",824,18758
633515,1676,I'll tell you in your ear.,823,18758
633516,1677,"Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can
Her heart inform her tongue,--the swan's
down-feather,
That stands upon the swell at full of tide,
And neither way inclines.",120,18758
633517,1682,[Aside to AGRIPPA] Will Caesar weep?,325,18758
633518,1683,[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] He has a cloud in 's face.,59,18758
633519,1684,"[Aside to AGRIPPA] He were the worse for that,
were he a horse;
So is he, being a man.",325,18758
633520,1687,"[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] Why, Enobarbus,
When Antony found Julius Caesar dead,
He cried almost to roaring; and he wept
When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.",59,18758
633521,1691,"[Aside to AGRIPPA] That year, indeed, he was
troubled with a rheum;
What willingly he did confound he wail'd,
Believe't, till I wept too.",325,18758
633522,1695,"No, sweet Octavia,
You shall hear from me still; the time shall not
Out-go my thinking on you.",824,18758
633523,1698,"Come, sir, come;
I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love:
Look, here I have you; thus I let you go,
And give you to the gods.",120,18758
633524,1702,Adieu; be happy!,824,18758
633525,1703,"Let all the number of the stars give light
To thy fair way!",668,18758
633526,1705,"Farewell, farewell!",824,18758
633527,1706,[Kisses OCTAVIA],1261,18758
633528,1707,Farewell!,120,18758
633529,1708,[Trumpets sound. Exeunt],1261,18758
633530,1711,"[Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS]",1261,18759
633531,1712,Where is the fellow?,262,18759
633532,1713,Half afeard to come.,66,18759
633533,1714,"Go to, go to.
[Enter the Messenger as before]
Come hither, sir.",262,18759
633534,1717,"Good majesty,
Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you
But when you are well pleased.",66,18759
633535,1720,"That Herod's head
I'll have: but how, when Antony is gone
Through whom I might command it? Come thou near.",262,18759
633536,1723,"Most gracious majesty,--",769,18759
633537,1724,Didst thou behold Octavia?,262,18759
633538,1725,"Ay, dread queen.",769,18759
633539,1726,Where?,262,18759
633540,1727,"Madam, in Rome;
I look'd her in the face, and saw her led
Between her brother and Mark Antony.",769,18759
633541,1730,Is she as tall as me?,262,18759
633542,1731,"She is not, madam.",769,18759
633543,1732,Didst hear her speak? is she shrill-tongued or low?,262,18759
633544,1733,"Madam, I heard her speak; she is low-voiced.",769,18759
633545,1734,That's not so good: he cannot like her long.,262,18759
633546,1735,Like her! O Isis! 'tis impossible.,239,18759
633547,1736,"I think so, Charmian: dull of tongue, and dwarfish!
What majesty is in her gait? Remember,
If e'er thou look'dst on majesty.",262,18759
633548,1739,"She creeps:
Her motion and her station are as one;
She shows a body rather than a life,
A statue than a breather.",769,18759
633549,1743,Is this certain?,262,18759
633550,1744,Or I have no observance.,769,18759
633551,1745,"Three in Egypt
Cannot make better note.",239,18759
633552,1747,"He's very knowing;
I do perceive't: there's nothing in her yet:
The fellow has good judgment.",262,18759
633553,1750,Excellent.,239,18759
633554,1751,"Guess at her years, I prithee.",262,18759
633555,1752,"Madam,
She was a widow,--",769,18759
633556,1754,"Widow! Charmian, hark.",262,18759
633557,1755,And I do think she's thirty.,769,18759
633558,1756,Bear'st thou her face in mind? is't long or round?,262,18759
633559,1757,Round even to faultiness.,769,18759
633560,1758,"For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so.
Her hair, what colour?",262,18759
633561,1760,"Brown, madam: and her forehead
As low as she would wish it.",769,18759
633562,1762,"There's gold for thee.
Thou must not take my former sharpness ill:
I will employ thee back again; I find thee
Most fit for business: go make thee ready;
Our letters are prepared.",262,18759
633563,1767,[Exit Messenger],1261,18759
633564,1768,A proper man.,239,18759
633565,1769,"Indeed, he is so: I repent me much
That so I harried him. Why, methinks, by him,
This creature's no such thing.",262,18759
633566,1772,"Nothing, madam.",239,18759
633567,1773,"The man hath seen some majesty, and should know.",262,18759
633568,1774,"Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend,
And serving you so long!",239,18759
633569,1776,"I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Charmian:
But 'tis no matter; thou shalt bring him to me
Where I will write. All may be well enough.",262,18759
633570,1779,"I warrant you, madam.",239,18759
633571,1780,[Exeunt],1261,18759
633572,1783,[Enter MARK ANTONY and OCTAVIA],1261,18760
633573,1784,"Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that,--
That were excusable, that, and thousands more
Of semblable import,--but he hath waged
New wars 'gainst Pompey; made his will, and read it
To public ear:
Spoke scantly of me: when perforce he could not
But pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly
He vented them; most narrow measure lent me:
When the best hint was given him, he not took't,
Or did it from his teeth.",120,18760
633574,1794,"O my good lord,
Believe not all; or, if you must believe,
Stomach not all. A more unhappy lady,
If this division chance, ne'er stood between,
Praying for both parts:
The good gods me presently,
When I shall pray, 'O bless my lord and husband!'
Undo that prayer, by crying out as loud,
'O, bless my brother!' Husband win, win brother,
Prays, and destroys the prayer; no midway
'Twixt these extremes at all.",823,18760
633575,1805,"Gentle Octavia,
Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks
Best to preserve it: if I lose mine honour,
I lose myself: better I were not yours
Than yours so branchless. But, as you requested,
Yourself shall go between 's: the mean time, lady,
I'll raise the preparation of a war
Shall stain your brother: make your soonest haste;
So your desires are yours.",120,18760
633576,1814,"Thanks to my lord.
The Jove of power make me most weak, most weak,
Your reconciler! Wars 'twixt you twain would be
As if the world should cleave, and that slain men
Should solder up the rift.",823,18760
633577,1819,"When it appears to you where this begins,
Turn your displeasure that way: for our faults
Can never be so equal, that your love
Can equally move with them. Provide your going;
Choose your own company, and command what cost
Your heart has mind to.",120,18760
633578,1825,[Exeunt],1261,18760
633579,1828,"[Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and EROS, meeting]",1261,18761
633580,1829,"How now, friend Eros!",325,18761
633581,1830,"There's strange news come, sir.",382,18761
633582,1831,"What, man?",325,18761
633583,1832,Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey.,382,18761
633584,1833,This is old: what is the success?,325,18761
633585,1834,"Caesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst
Pompey, presently denied him rivality; would not let
him partake in the glory of the action: and not
resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly
wrote to Pompey; upon his own appeal, seizes him: so
the poor third is up, till death enlarge his confine.",382,18761
633586,1840,"Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more;
And throw between them all the food thou hast,
They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony?",325,18761
633587,1843,"He's walking in the garden--thus; and spurns
The rush that lies before him; cries, 'Fool Lepidus!'
And threats the throat of that his officer
That murder'd Pompey.",382,18761
633588,1847,Our great navy's rigg'd.,325,18761
633589,1848,"For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius;
My lord desires you presently: my news
I might have told hereafter.",382,18761
633590,1851,"'Twill be naught:
But let it be. Bring me to Antony.",325,18761
633591,1853,"Come, sir.",382,18761
633592,1854,[Exeunt],1261,18761
633593,1857,"[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS]",1261,18762
633594,1858,"Contemning Rome, he has done all this, and more,
In Alexandria: here's the manner of 't:
I' the market-place, on a tribunal silver'd,
Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold
Were publicly enthroned: at the feet sat
Caesarion, whom they call my father's son,
And all the unlawful issue that their lust
Since then hath made between them. Unto her
He gave the stablishment of Egypt; made her
Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,
Absolute queen.",824,18762
633595,1869,This in the public eye?,758,18762
633596,1870,"I' the common show-place, where they exercise.
His sons he there proclaim'd the kings of kings:
Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia.
He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign'd
Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia: she
In the habiliments of the goddess Isis
That day appear'd; and oft before gave audience,
As 'tis reported, so.",824,18762
633597,1878,Let Rome be thus Inform'd.,758,18762
633598,1879,"Who, queasy with his insolence
Already, will their good thoughts call from him.",59,18762
633599,1881,"The people know it; and have now received
His accusations.",824,18762
633600,1883,Who does he accuse?,59,18762
633601,1884,"Caesar: and that, having in Sicily
Sextus Pompeius spoil'd, we had not rated him
His part o' the isle: then does he say, he lent me
Some shipping unrestored: lastly, he frets
That Lepidus of the triumvirate
Should be deposed; and, being, that we detain
All his revenue.",824,18762
633602,1891,"Sir, this should be answer'd.",59,18762
633603,1892,"'Tis done already, and the messenger gone.
I have told him, Lepidus was grown too cruel;
That he his high authority abused,
And did deserve his change: for what I have conquer'd,
I grant him part; but then, in his Armenia,
And other of his conquer'd kingdoms, I
Demand the like.",824,18762
633604,1899,He'll never yield to that.,758,18762
633605,1900,Nor must not then be yielded to in this.,824,18762
633606,1901,[Enter OCTAVIA with her train],1261,18762
633607,1902,"Hail, Caesar, and my lord! hail, most dear Caesar!",823,18762
633608,1903,That ever I should call thee castaway!,824,18762
633609,1904,"You have not call'd me so, nor have you cause.",823,18762
633610,1905,"Why have you stol'n upon us thus! You come not
Like Caesar's sister: the wife of Antony
Should have an army for an usher, and
The neighs of horse to tell of her approach
Long ere she did appear; the trees by the way
Should have borne men; and expectation fainted,
Longing for what it had not; nay, the dust
Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,
Raised by your populous troops: but you are come
A market-maid to Rome; and have prevented
The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown,
Is often left unloved; we should have met you
By sea and land; supplying every stage
With an augmented greeting.",824,18762
633611,1919,"Good my lord,
To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did
On my free will. My lord, Mark Antony,
Hearing that you prepared for war, acquainted
My grieved ear withal; whereon, I begg'd
His pardon for return.",823,18762
633612,1925,"Which soon he granted,
Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him.",824,18762
633613,1927,"Do not say so, my lord.",823,18762
633614,1928,"I have eyes upon him,
And his affairs come to me on the wind.
Where is he now?",824,18762
633615,1931,"My lord, in Athens.",823,18762
633616,1932,"No, my most wronged sister; Cleopatra
Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire
Up to a whore; who now are levying
The kings o' the earth for war; he hath assembled
Bocchus, the king of Libya; Archelaus,
Of Cappadocia; Philadelphos, king
Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian king, Adallas;
King Malchus of Arabia; King of Pont;
Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, king
Of Comagene; Polemon and Amyntas,
The kings of Mede and Lycaonia,
With a more larger list of sceptres.",824,18762
633617,1944,"Ay me, most wretched,
That have my heart parted betwixt two friends
That do afflict each other!",823,18762
633618,1947,"Welcome hither:
Your letters did withhold our breaking forth;
Till we perceived, both how you were wrong led,
And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart;
Be you not troubled with the time, which drives
O'er your content these strong necessities;
But let determined things to destiny
Hold unbewail'd their way. Welcome to Rome;
Nothing more dear to me. You are abused
Beyond the mark of thought: and the high gods,
To do you justice, make them ministers
Of us and those that love you. Best of comfort;
And ever welcome to us.",824,18762
633619,1960,"Welcome, lady.",59,18762
633620,1961,"Welcome, dear madam.
Each heart in Rome does love and pity you:
Only the adulterous Antony, most large
In his abominations, turns you off;
And gives his potent regiment to a trull,
That noises it against us.",758,18762
633621,1967,"Is it so, sir?",823,18762
633622,1968,"Most certain. Sister, welcome: pray you,
Be ever known to patience: my dear'st sister!",824,18762
633623,1970,[Exeunt],1261,18762
633624,1973,[Enter CLEOPATRA and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS],1261,18763
633625,1974,"I will be even with thee, doubt it not.",262,18763
633626,1975,"But why, why, why?",325,18763
633627,1976,"Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars,
And say'st it is not fit.",262,18763
633628,1978,"Well, is it, is it?",325,18763
633629,1979,"If not denounced against us, why should not we
Be there in person?",262,18763
633630,1981,"[Aside] Well, I could reply:
If we should serve with horse and mares together,
The horse were merely lost; the mares would bear
A soldier and his horse.",325,18763
633631,1985,What is't you say?,262,18763
633632,1986,"Your presence needs must puzzle Antony;
Take from his heart, take from his brain,
from's time,
What should not then be spared. He is already
Traduced for levity; and 'tis said in Rome
That Photinus an eunuch and your maids
Manage this war.",325,18763
633633,1993,"Sink Rome, and their tongues rot
That speak against us! A charge we bear i' the war,
And, as the president of my kingdom, will
Appear there for a man. Speak not against it:
I will not stay behind.",262,18763
633634,1998,"Nay, I have done.
Here comes the emperor.",325,18763
633635,2000,[Enter MARK ANTONY and CANIDIUS],1261,18763
633636,2001,"Is it not strange, Canidius,
That from Tarentum and Brundusium
He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea,
And take in Toryne? You have heard on't, sweet?",120,18763
633637,2005,"Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.",262,18763
633638,2007,"A good rebuke,
Which might have well becomed the best of men,
To taunt at slackness. Canidius, we
Will fight with him by sea.",120,18763
633639,2011,By sea! what else?,262,18763
633640,2012,Why will my lord do so?,213,18763
633641,2013,For that he dares us to't.,120,18763
633642,2014,So hath my lord dared him to single fight.,325,18763
633643,2015,"Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia.
Where Caesar fought with Pompey: but these offers,
Which serve not for his vantage, be shakes off;
And so should you.",213,18763
633644,2019,"Your ships are not well mann'd;
Your mariners are muleters, reapers, people
Ingross'd by swift impress; in Caesar's fleet
Are those that often have 'gainst Pompey fought:
Their ships are yare; yours, heavy: no disgrace
Shall fall you for refusing him at sea,
Being prepared for land.",325,18763
633645,2026,"By sea, by sea.",120,18763
633646,2027,"Most worthy sir, you therein throw away
The absolute soldiership you have by land;
Distract your army, which doth most consist
Of war-mark'd footmen; leave unexecuted
Your own renowned knowledge; quite forego
The way which promises assurance; and
Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard,
From firm security.",325,18763
633647,2035,I'll fight at sea.,120,18763
633648,2036,"I have sixty sails, Caesar none better.",262,18763
633649,2037,"Our overplus of shipping will we burn;
And, with the rest full-mann'd, from the head of Actium
Beat the approaching Caesar. But if we fail,
We then can do't at land.
[Enter a Messenger]
Thy business?",120,18763
633650,2043,"The news is true, my lord; he is descried;
Caesar has taken Toryne.",769,18763
633651,2045,"Can he be there in person? 'tis impossible;
Strange that power should be. Canidius,
Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land,
And our twelve thousand horse. We'll to our ship:
Away, my Thetis!
[Enter a Soldier]
How now, worthy soldier?",120,18763
633652,2052,"O noble emperor, do not fight by sea;
Trust not to rotten planks: do you misdoubt
This sword and these my wounds? Let the Egyptians
And the Phoenicians go a-ducking; we
Have used to conquer, standing on the earth,
And fighting foot to foot.",1129,18763
633653,2058,"Well, well: away!",120,18763
633654,2059,"[Exeunt MARK ANTONY, QUEEN CLEOPATRA, and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]",1261,18763
633655,2060,"By Hercules, I think I am i' the right.",1129,18763
633656,2061,"Soldier, thou art: but his whole action grows
Not in the power on't: so our leader's led,
And we are women's men.",213,18763
633657,2064,"You keep by land
The legions and the horse whole, do you not?",1129,18763
633658,2066,"Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius,
Publicola, and Caelius, are for sea:
But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar's
Carries beyond belief.",213,18763
633659,2070,"While he was yet in Rome,
His power went out in such distractions as
Beguiled all spies.",1129,18763
633660,2073,"Who's his lieutenant, hear you?",213,18763
633661,2074,"They say, one Taurus.",1129,18763
633662,2075,Well I know the man.,213,18763
633663,2076,[Enter a Messenger],1261,18763
633664,2077,The emperor calls Canidius.,769,18763
633665,2078,"With news the time's with labour, and throes forth,
Each minute, some.",213,18763
633666,2080,[Exeunt],1261,18763
633667,2083,"[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and TAURUS, with his army, marching]",1261,18764
633668,2084,Taurus!,824,18764
633669,2085,My lord?,1156,18764
633670,2086,"Strike not by land; keep whole: provoke not battle,
Till we have done at sea. Do not exceed
The prescript of this scroll: our fortune lies
Upon this jump.",824,18764
633671,2090,[Exeunt],1261,18764
633672,2093,[Enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS],1261,18765
633673,2094,"Set we our squadrons on yond side o' the hill,
In eye of Caesar's battle; from which place
We may the number of the ships behold,
And so proceed accordingly.",120,18765
633674,2098,"[Exeunt]
[CANIDIUS marcheth with his land army one way over]
the stage; and TAURUS, the lieutenant of OCTAVIUS
CAESAR, the other way. After their going in, is
heard the noise of a sea-fight]",1261,18765
633675,2105,[Alarum. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS],1261,18766
633676,2106,"Naught, naught all, naught! I can behold no longer:
The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,
With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder:
To see't mine eyes are blasted.",325,18766
633677,2110,[Enter SCARUS],1261,18766
633678,2111,"Gods and goddesses,
All the whole synod of them!",970,18766
633679,2113,What's thy passion!,325,18766
633680,2114,"The greater cantle of the world is lost
With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away
Kingdoms and provinces.",970,18766
633681,2117,How appears the fight?,325,18766
633682,2118,"On our side like the token'd pestilence,
Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,--
Whom leprosy o'ertake!--i' the midst o' the fight,
When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd,
Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,
The breese upon her, like a cow in June,
Hoists sails and flies.",970,18766
633683,2125,"That I beheld:
Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not
Endure a further view.",325,18766
633684,2128,"She once being loof'd,
The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,
Claps on his sea-wing, and, like a doting mallard,
Leaving the fight in height, flies after her:
I never saw an action of such shame;
Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before
Did violate so itself.",970,18766
633685,2135,"Alack, alack!",325,18766
633686,2136,[Enter CANIDIUS],1261,18766
633687,2137,"Our fortune on the sea is out of breath,
And sinks most lamentably. Had our general
Been what he knew himself, it had gone well:
O, he has given example for our flight,
Most grossly, by his own!",213,18766
633688,2142,"Ay, are you thereabouts?
Why, then, good night indeed.",325,18766
633689,2144,Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.,213,18766
633690,2145,"'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend
What further comes.",970,18766
633691,2147,"To Caesar will I render
My legions and my horse: six kings already
Show me the way of yielding.",213,18766
633692,2150,"I'll yet follow
The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason
Sits in the wind against me.",325,18766
633693,2153,[Exeunt],1261,18766
633694,2156,[Enter MARK ANTONY with Attendants],1261,18767
633695,2157,"Hark! the land bids me tread no more upon't;
It is ashamed to bear me! Friends, come hither:
I am so lated in the world, that I
Have lost my way for ever: I have a ship
Laden with gold; take that, divide it; fly,
And make your peace with Caesar.",120,18767
633696,2163,Fly! not we.,68,18767
633697,2164,"I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards
To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone;
I have myself resolved upon a course
Which has no need of you; be gone:
My treasure's in the harbour, take it. O,
I follow'd that I blush to look upon:
My very hairs do mutiny; for the white
Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them
For fear and doting. Friends, be gone: you shall
Have letters from me to some friends that will
Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,
Nor make replies of loathness: take the hint
Which my despair proclaims; let that be left
Which leaves itself: to the sea-side straightway:
I will possess you of that ship and treasure.
Leave me, I pray, a little: pray you now:
Nay, do so; for, indeed, I have lost command,
Therefore I pray you: I'll see you by and by.
[Sits down]
[Enter CLEOPATRA led by CHARMIAN and IRAS; EROS]
following]",120,18767
633698,2185,"Nay, gentle madam, to him, comfort him.",382,18767
633699,2186,"Do, most dear queen.",602,18767
633700,2187,Do! why: what else?,239,18767
633701,2188,Let me sit down. O Juno!,262,18767
633702,2189,"No, no, no, no, no.",120,18767
633703,2190,"See you here, sir?",382,18767
633704,2191,"O fie, fie, fie!",120,18767
633705,2192,Madam!,239,18767
633706,2193,"Madam, O good empress!",602,18767
633707,2194,"Sir, sir,--",382,18767
633708,2195,"Yes, my lord, yes; he at Philippi kept
His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck
The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I
That the mad Brutus ended: he alone
Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practise had
In the brave squares of war: yet now--No matter.",120,18767
633709,2201,"Ah, stand by.",262,18767
633710,2202,"The queen, my lord, the queen.",382,18767
633711,2203,"Go to him, madam, speak to him:
He is unqualitied with very shame.",602,18767
633712,2205,"Well then, sustain him: O!",262,18767
633713,2206,"Most noble sir, arise; the queen approaches:
Her head's declined, and death will seize her, but
Your comfort makes the rescue.",382,18767
633714,2209,"I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.",120,18767
633715,2211,"Sir, the queen.",382,18767
633716,2212,"O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See,
How I convey my shame out of thine eyes
By looking back what I have left behind
'Stroy'd in dishonour.",120,18767
633717,2216,"O my lord, my lord,
Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought
You would have follow'd.",262,18767
633718,2219,"Egypt, thou knew'st too well
My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings,
And thou shouldst tow me after: o'er my spirit
Thy full supremacy thou knew'st, and that
Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
Command me.",120,18767
633719,2225,"O, my pardon!",262,18767
633720,2226,"Now I must
To the young man send humble treaties, dodge
And palter in the shifts of lowness; who
With half the bulk o' the world play'd as I pleased,
Making and marring fortunes. You did know
How much you were my conqueror; and that
My sword, made weak by my affection, would
Obey it on all cause.",120,18767
633721,2234,"Pardon, pardon!",262,18767
633722,2235,"Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates
All that is won and lost: give me a kiss;
Even this repays me. We sent our schoolmaster;
Is he come back? Love, I am full of lead.
Some wine, within there, and our viands! Fortune knows
We scorn her most when most she offers blows.",120,18767
633723,2241,[Exeunt],1261,18767
633724,2244,"[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, DOLABELLA, THYREUS, with others]",1261,18768
633725,2245,"Let him appear that's come from Antony.
Know you him?",824,18768
633726,2247,"Caesar, 'tis his schoolmaster:
An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither
He sends so poor a pinion off his wing,
Which had superfluous kings for messengers
Not many moons gone by.",324,18768
633727,2252,"[Enter EUPHRONIUS, ambassador from MARK ANTONY]",1261,18768
633728,2253,"Approach, and speak.",824,18768
633729,2254,"Such as I am, I come from Antony:
I was of late as petty to his ends
As is the morn-dew on the myrtle-leaf
To his grand sea.",388,18768
633730,2258,Be't so: declare thine office.,824,18768
633731,2259,"Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and
Requires to live in Egypt: which not granted,
He lessens his requests; and to thee sues
To let him breathe between the heavens and earth,
A private man in Athens: this for him.
Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness;
Submits her to thy might; and of thee craves
The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs,
Now hazarded to thy grace.",388,18768
633732,2268,"For Antony,
I have no ears to his request. The queen
Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she
From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend,
Or take his life there: this if she perform,
She shall not sue unheard. So to them both.",824,18768
633733,2274,Fortune pursue thee!,388,18768
633734,2275,"Bring him through the bands.
[Exit EUPHRONIUS]
[To THYREUS] To try eloquence, now 'tis time: dispatch;]
From Antony win Cleopatra: promise,
And in our name, what she requires; add more,
From thine invention, offers: women are not
In their best fortunes strong; but want will perjure
The ne'er touch'd vestal: try thy cunning, Thyreus;
Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we
Will answer as a law.",824,18768
633735,2285,"Caesar, I go.",1195,18768
633736,2286,"Observe how Antony becomes his flaw,
And what thou think'st his very action speaks
In every power that moves.",824,18768
633737,2289,"Caesar, I shall.",1195,18768
633738,2290,[Exeunt],1261,18768
633739,2293,"[Enter CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and IRAS]",1261,18769
633740,2294,"What shall we do, Enobarbus?",262,18769
633741,2295,"Think, and die.",325,18769
633742,2296,Is Antony or we in fault for this?,262,18769
633743,2297,"Antony only, that would make his will
Lord of his reason. What though you fled
From that great face of war, whose several ranges
Frighted each other? why should he follow?
The itch of his affection should not then
Have nick'd his captainship; at such a point,
When half to half the world opposed, he being
The meered question: 'twas a shame no less
Than was his loss, to course your flying flags,
And leave his navy gazing.",325,18769
633744,2307,"Prithee, peace.",262,18769
633745,2308,"[Enter MARK ANTONY with EUPHRONIUS, the Ambassador]",1261,18769
633746,2309,Is that his answer?,120,18769
633747,2310,"Ay, my lord.",388,18769
633748,2311,"The queen shall then have courtesy, so she
Will yield us up.",120,18769
633749,2313,He says so.,388,18769
633750,2314,"Let her know't.
To the boy Caesar send this grizzled head,
And he will fill thy wishes to the brim
With principalities.",120,18769
633751,2318,"That head, my lord?",262,18769
633752,2319,"To him again: tell him he wears the rose
Of youth upon him; from which the world should note
Something particular: his coin, ships, legions,
May be a coward's; whose ministers would prevail
Under the service of a child as soon
As i' the command of Caesar: I dare him therefore
To lay his gay comparisons apart,
And answer me declined, sword against sword,
Ourselves alone. I'll write it: follow me.",120,18769
633753,2328,[Exeunt MARK ANTONY and EUPHRONIUS],1261,18769
633754,2329,"[Aside] Yes, like enough, high-battled Caesar will
Unstate his happiness, and be staged to the show,
Against a sworder! I see men's judgments are
A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward
Do draw the inward quality after them,
To suffer all alike. That he should dream,
Knowing all measures, the full Caesar will
Answer his emptiness! Caesar, thou hast subdued
His judgment too.",325,18769
633755,2338,[Enter an Attendant],1261,18769
633756,2339,A messenger from CAESAR.,129,18769
633757,2340,"What, no more ceremony? See, my women!
Against the blown rose may they stop their nose
That kneel'd unto the buds. Admit him, sir.",262,18769
633758,2343,[Exit Attendant],1261,18769
633759,2344,"[Aside] Mine honesty and I begin to square.
The loyalty well held to fools does make
Our faith mere folly: yet he that can endure
To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord
Does conquer him that did his master conquer
And earns a place i' the story.",325,18769
633760,2350,[Enter THYREUS],1261,18769
633761,2351,Caesar's will?,262,18769
633762,2352,Hear it apart.,1195,18769
633763,2353,None but friends: say boldly.,262,18769
633764,2354,"So, haply, are they friends to Antony.",1195,18769
633765,2355,"He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has;
Or needs not us. If Caesar please, our master
Will leap to be his friend: for us, you know,
Whose he is we are, and that is, Caesar's.",325,18769
633766,2359,"So.
Thus then, thou most renown'd: Caesar entreats,
Not to consider in what case thou stand'st,
Further than he is Caesar.",1195,18769
633767,2363,Go on: right royal.,262,18769
633768,2364,"He knows that you embrace not Antony
As you did love, but as you fear'd him.",1195,18769
633769,2366,O!,262,18769
633770,2367,"The scars upon your honour, therefore, he
Does pity, as constrained blemishes,
Not as deserved.",1195,18769
633771,2370,"He is a god, and knows
What is most right: mine honour was not yielded,
But conquer'd merely.",262,18769
633772,2373,"[Aside] To be sure of that,
I will ask Antony. Sir, sir, thou art so leaky,
That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for
Thy dearest quit thee.",325,18769
633773,2377,[Exit],1261,18769
633774,2378,"Shall I say to Caesar
What you require of him? for he partly begs
To be desired to give. It much would please him,
That of his fortunes you should make a staff
To lean upon: but it would warm his spirits,
To hear from me you had left Antony,
And put yourself under his shrowd,
The universal landlord.",1195,18769
633775,2386,What's your name?,262,18769
633776,2387,My name is Thyreus.,1195,18769
633777,2388,"Most kind messenger,
Say to great Caesar this: in deputation
I kiss his conquering hand: tell him, I am prompt
To lay my crown at 's feet, and there to kneel:
Tell him from his all-obeying breath I hear
The doom of Egypt.",262,18769
633778,2394,"'Tis your noblest course.
Wisdom and fortune combating together,
If that the former dare but what it can,
No chance may shake it. Give me grace to lay
My duty on your hand.",1195,18769
633779,2399,"Your Caesar's father oft,
When he hath mused of taking kingdoms in,
Bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place,
As it rain'd kisses.",262,18769
633780,2403,[Re-enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS],1261,18769
633781,2404,"Favours, by Jove that thunders!
What art thou, fellow?",120,18769
633782,2406,"One that but performs
The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest
To have command obey'd.",1195,18769
633783,2409,[Aside] You will be whipp'd.,325,18769
633784,2410,"Approach, there! Ah, you kite! Now, gods
and devils!
Authority melts from me: of late, when I cried 'Ho!'
Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth,
And cry 'Your will?' Have you no ears? I am
Antony yet.
[Enter Attendants]
Take hence this Jack, and whip him.",120,18769
633785,2418,"[Aside] 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp
Than with an old one dying.",325,18769
633786,2420,"Moon and stars!
Whip him. Were't twenty of the greatest tributaries
That do acknowledge Caesar, should I find them
So saucy with the hand of she here,--what's her name,
Since she was Cleopatra? Whip him, fellows,
Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face,
And whine aloud for mercy: take him hence.",120,18769
633787,2427,Mark Antony!,1195,18769
633788,2428,"Tug him away: being whipp'd,
Bring him again: this Jack of Caesar's shall
Bear us an errand to him.
[Exeunt Attendants with THYREUS]
You were half blasted ere I knew you: ha!
Have I my pillow left unpress'd in Rome,
Forborne the getting of a lawful race,
And by a gem of women, to be abused
By one that looks on feeders?",120,18769
633789,2437,"Good my lord,--",262,18769
633790,2438,"You have been a boggler ever:
But when we in our viciousness grow hard--
O misery on't!--the wise gods seel our eyes;
In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us
Adore our errors; laugh at's, while we strut
To our confusion.",120,18769
633791,2444,"O, is't come to this?",262,18769
633792,2445,"I found you as a morsel cold upon
Dead Caesar's trencher; nay, you were a fragment
Of Cneius Pompey's; besides what hotter hours,
Unregister'd in vulgar fame, you have
Luxuriously pick'd out: for, I am sure,
Though you can guess what temperance should be,
You know not what it is.",120,18769
633793,2452,Wherefore is this?,262,18769
633794,2453,"To let a fellow that will take rewards
And say 'God quit you!' be familiar with
My playfellow, your hand; this kingly seal
And plighter of high hearts! O, that I were
Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar
The horned herd! for I have savage cause;
And to proclaim it civilly, were like
A halter'd neck which does the hangman thank
For being yare about him.
[Re-enter Attendants with THYREUS]
Is he whipp'd?",120,18769
633795,2464,"Soundly, my lord.",404,18769
633796,2465,Cried he? and begg'd a' pardon?,120,18769
633797,2466,He did ask favour.,404,18769
633798,2467,"If that thy father live, let him repent
Thou wast not made his daughter; and be thou sorry
To follow Caesar in his triumph, since
Thou hast been whipp'd for following him: henceforth
The white hand of a lady fever thee,
Shake thou to look on 't. Get thee back to Caesar,
Tell him thy entertainment: look, thou say
He makes me angry with him; for he seems
Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am,
Not what he knew I was: he makes me angry;
And at this time most easy 'tis to do't,
When my good stars, that were my former guides,
Have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires
Into the abysm of hell. If he mislike
My speech and what is done, tell him he has
Hipparchus, my enfranched bondman, whom
He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture,
As he shall like, to quit me: urge it thou:
Hence with thy stripes, begone!",120,18769
633799,2486,[Exit THYREUS],1261,18769
633800,2487,Have you done yet?,262,18769
633801,2488,"Alack, our terrene moon
Is now eclipsed; and it portends alone
The fall of Antony!",120,18769
633802,2491,I must stay his time.,262,18769
633803,2492,"To flatter Caesar, would you mingle eyes
With one that ties his points?",120,18769
633804,2494,Not know me yet?,262,18769
633805,2495,Cold-hearted toward me?,120,18769
633806,2496,"Ah, dear, if I be so,
From my cold heart let heaven engender hail,
And poison it in the source; and the first stone
Drop in my neck: as it determines, so
Dissolve my life! The next Caesarion smite!
Till by degrees the memory of my womb,
Together with my brave Egyptians all,
By the discandying of this pelleted storm,
Lie graveless, till the flies and gnats of Nile
Have buried them for prey!",262,18769
633807,2506,"I am satisfied.
Caesar sits down in Alexandria; where
I will oppose his fate. Our force by land
Hath nobly held; our sever'd navy too
Have knit again, and fleet, threatening most sea-like.
Where hast thou been, my heart? Dost thou hear, lady?
If from the field I shall return once more
To kiss these lips, I will appear in blood;
I and my sword will earn our chronicle:
There's hope in't yet.",120,18769
633808,2516,That's my brave lord!,262,18769
633809,2517,"I will be treble-sinew'd, hearted, breathed,
And fight maliciously: for when mine hours
Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives
Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth,
And send to darkness all that stop me. Come,
Let's have one other gaudy night: call to me
All my sad captains; fill our bowls once more;
Let's mock the midnight bell.",120,18769
633810,2525,"It is my birth-day:
I had thought to have held it poor: but, since my lord
Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra.",262,18769
633811,2528,We will yet do well.,120,18769
633812,2529,Call all his noble captains to my lord.,262,18769
633813,2530,"Do so, we'll speak to them; and to-night I'll force
The wine peep through their scars. Come on, my queen;
There's sap in't yet. The next time I do fight,
I'll make death love me; for I will contend
Even with his pestilent scythe.",120,18769
633814,2535,[Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS],1261,18769
633815,2536,"Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious,
Is to be frighted out of fear; and in that mood
The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still,
A diminution in our captain's brain
Restores his heart: when valour preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with. I will seek
Some way to leave him.",325,18769
633816,2543,"[Exit]
[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS, with]
his Army; OCTAVIUS CAESAR reading a letter]",1261,18769
633817,2548,"He calls me boy; and chides, as he had power
To beat me out of Egypt; my messenger
He hath whipp'd with rods; dares me to personal combat,
Caesar to Antony: let the old ruffian know
I have many other ways to die; meantime
Laugh at his challenge.",824,18770
633818,2554,"Caesar must think,
When one so great begins to rage, he's hunted
Even to falling. Give him no breath, but now
Make boot of his distraction: never anger
Made good guard for itself.",758,18770
633819,2559,"Let our best heads
Know, that to-morrow the last of many battles
We mean to fight: within our files there are,
Of those that served Mark Antony but late,
Enough to fetch him in. See it done:
And feast the army; we have store to do't,
And they have earn'd the waste. Poor Antony!",824,18770
633820,2566,"[Exeunt]
[Enter MARK ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,]
CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, with others]",1261,18770
633821,2571,"He will not fight with me, Domitius.",120,18771
633822,2572,No.,325,18771
633823,2573,Why should he not?,120,18771
633824,2574,"He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune,
He is twenty men to one.",325,18771
633825,2576,"To-morrow, soldier,
By sea and land I'll fight: or I will live,
Or bathe my dying honour in the blood
Shall make it live again. Woo't thou fight well?",120,18771
633826,2580,"I'll strike, and cry 'Take all.'",325,18771
633827,2581,"Well said; come on.
Call forth my household servants: let's to-night
Be bounteous at our meal.
[Enter three or four Servitors]
Give me thy hand,
Thou hast been rightly honest;--so hast thou;--
Thou,--and thou,--and thou:--you have served me well,
And kings have been your fellows.",120,18771
633828,2589,[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] What means this?,262,18771
633829,2590,"[Aside to CLEOPATRA] 'Tis one of those odd
tricks which sorrow shoots
Out of the mind.",325,18771
633830,2593,"And thou art honest too.
I wish I could be made so many men,
And all of you clapp'd up together in
An Antony, that I might do you service
So good as you have done.",120,18771
633831,2598,The gods forbid!,68,18771
633832,2599,"Well, my good fellows, wait on me to-night:
Scant not my cups; and make as much of me
As when mine empire was your fellow too,
And suffer'd my command.",120,18771
633833,2603,[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] What does he mean?,262,18771
633834,2604,[Aside to CLEOPATRA] To make his followers weep.,325,18771
633835,2605,"Tend me to-night;
May be it is the period of your duty:
Haply you shall not see me more; or if,
A mangled shadow: perchance to-morrow
You'll serve another master. I look on you
As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends,
I turn you not away; but, like a master
Married to your good service, stay till death:
Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,
And the gods yield you for't!",120,18771
633836,2615,"What mean you, sir,
To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep;
And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame,
Transform us not to women.",325,18771
633837,2619,"Ho, ho, ho!
Now the witch take me, if I meant it thus!
Grace grow where those drops fall!
My hearty friends,
You take me in too dolorous a sense;
For I spake to you for your comfort; did desire you
To burn this night with torches: know, my hearts,
I hope well of to-morrow; and will lead you
Where rather I'll expect victorious life
Than death and honour. Let's to supper, come,
And drown consideration.",120,18771
633838,2630,[Exeunt],1261,18771
633839,2633,[Enter two Soldiers to their guard],1261,18772
633840,2634,"Brother, good night: to-morrow is the day.",466,18772
633841,2635,"It will determine one way: fare you well.
Heard you of nothing strange about the streets?",1034,18772
633842,2637,Nothing. What news?,466,18772
633843,2638,Belike 'tis but a rumour. Good night to you.,1034,18772
633844,2639,"Well, sir, good night.",466,18772
633845,2640,[Enter two other Soldiers],1261,18772
633846,2641,"Soldiers, have careful watch.",1034,18772
633847,2642,"And you. Good night, good night.",1186,18772
633848,2643,[They place themselves in every corner of the stage],1261,18772
633849,2644,"Here we: and if to-morrow
Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope
Our landmen will stand up.",492,18772
633850,2647,"'Tis a brave army,
And full of purpose.",1186,18772
633851,2649,[Music of the hautboys as under the stage],1261,18772
633852,2650,Peace! what noise?,492,18772
633853,2651,"List, list!",466,18772
633854,2652,Hark!,1034,18772
633855,2653,Music i' the air.,466,18772
633856,2654,Under the earth.,1186,18772
633857,2655,"It signs well, does it not?",492,18772
633858,2656,No.,1186,18772
633859,2657,"Peace, I say!
What should this mean?",466,18772
633860,2659,"'Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved,
Now leaves him.",1034,18772
633861,2661,"Walk; let's see if other watchmen
Do hear what we do?",466,18772
633862,2663,[They advance to another post],1261,18772
633863,2664,"How now, masters!",1034,18772
633864,2665,"[Speaking together] How now!
How now! do you hear this?",68,18772
633865,2667,Ay; is't not strange?,466,18772
633866,2668,"Do you hear, masters? do you hear?",1186,18772
633867,2669,"Follow the noise so far as we have quarter;
Let's see how it will give off.",466,18772
633868,2671,Content. 'Tis strange.,68,18772
633869,2672,"[Exeunt]
[Enter MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and]
others attending]",1261,18772
633870,2677,"Eros! mine armour, Eros!",120,18773
633871,2678,Sleep a little.,262,18773
633872,2679,"No, my chuck. Eros, come; mine armour, Eros!
[Enter EROS with armour]
Come good fellow, put mine iron on:
If fortune be not ours to-day, it is
Because we brave her: come.",120,18773
633873,2684,"Nay, I'll help too.
What's this for?",262,18773
633874,2686,"Ah, let be, let be! thou art
The armourer of my heart: false, false; this, this.",120,18773
633875,2688,"Sooth, la, I'll help: thus it must be.",262,18773
633876,2689,"Well, well;
We shall thrive now. Seest thou, my good fellow?
Go put on thy defences.",120,18773
633877,2692,"Briefly, sir.",382,18773
633878,2693,Is not this buckled well?,262,18773
633879,2694,"Rarely, rarely:
He that unbuckles this, till we do please
To daff't for our repose, shall hear a storm.
Thou fumblest, Eros; and my queen's a squire
More tight at this than thou: dispatch. O love,
That thou couldst see my wars to-day, and knew'st
The royal occupation! thou shouldst see
A workman in't.
[Enter an armed Soldier]
Good morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business that we love we rise betime,
And go to't with delight.",120,18773
633880,2707,"A thousand, sir,
Early though't be, have on their riveted trim,
And at the port expect you.",1129,18773
633881,2710,[Shout. Trumpets flourish],1261,18773
633882,2711,[Enter Captains and Soldiers],1261,18773
633883,2712,"The morn is fair. Good morrow, general.",216,18773
633884,2713,"Good morrow, general.",68,18773
633885,2714,"'Tis well blown, lads:
This morning, like the spirit of a youth
That means to be of note, begins betimes.
So, so; come, give me that: this way; well said.
Fare thee well, dame, whate'er becomes of me:
This is a soldier's kiss: rebukeable
[Kisses her]
And worthy shameful cheque it were, to stand
On more mechanic compliment; I'll leave thee
Now, like a man of steel. You that will fight,
Follow me close; I'll bring you to't. Adieu.",120,18773
633886,2725,"[Exeunt MARK ANTONY, EROS, Captains, and Soldiers]",1261,18773
633887,2726,"Please you, retire to your chamber.",239,18773
633888,2727,"Lead me.
He goes forth gallantly. That he and Caesar might
Determine this great war in single fight!
Then Antony,--but now--Well, on.",262,18773
633889,2731,"[Exeunt]
[Trumpets sound. Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS; a]
Soldier meeting them]",1261,18773
633890,2736,The gods make this a happy day to Antony!,1129,18774
633891,2737,"Would thou and those thy scars had once prevail'd
To make me fight at land!",120,18774
633892,2739,"Hadst thou done so,
The kings that have revolted, and the soldier
That has this morning left thee, would have still
Follow'd thy heels.",1129,18774
633893,2743,Who's gone this morning?,120,18774
633894,2744,"Who!
One ever near thee: call for Enobarbus,
He shall not hear thee; or from Caesar's camp
Say 'I am none of thine.'",1129,18774
633895,2748,What say'st thou?,120,18774
633896,2749,"Sir,
He is with Caesar.",1129,18774
633897,2751,"Sir, his chests and treasure
He has not with him.",382,18774
633898,2753,Is he gone?,120,18774
633899,2754,Most certain.,1129,18774
633900,2755,"Go, Eros, send his treasure after; do it;
Detain no jot, I charge thee: write to him--
I will subscribe--gentle adieus and greetings;
Say that I wish he never find more cause
To change a master. O, my fortunes have
Corrupted honest men! Dispatch.--Enobarbus!",120,18774
633901,2761,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, with]
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, and others]",1261,18774
633902,2766,"Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight:
Our will is Antony be took alive;
Make it so known.",824,18775
633903,2769,"Caesar, I shall.",59,18775
633904,2770,[Exit],1261,18775
633905,2771,"The time of universal peace is near:
Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook'd world
Shall bear the olive freely.",824,18775
633906,2774,[Enter a Messenger],1261,18775
633907,2775,"Antony
Is come into the field.",769,18775
633908,2777,"Go charge Agrippa
Plant those that have revolted in the van,
That Antony may seem to spend his fury
Upon himself.",824,18775
633909,2781,[Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS],1261,18775
633910,2782,"Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry on
Affairs of Antony; there did persuade
Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar,
And leave his master Antony: for this pains
Caesar hath hang'd him. Canidius and the rest
That fell away have entertainment, but
No honourable trust. I have done ill;
Of which I do accuse myself so sorely,
That I will joy no more.",325,18775
633911,2791,[Enter a Soldier of CAESAR's],1261,18775
633912,2792,"Enobarbus, Antony
Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with
His bounty overplus: the messenger
Came on my guard; and at thy tent is now
Unloading of his mules.",1129,18775
633913,2797,I give it you.,325,18775
633914,2798,"Mock not, Enobarbus.
I tell you true: best you safed the bringer
Out of the host; I must attend mine office,
Or would have done't myself. Your emperor
Continues still a Jove.",1129,18775
633915,2803,[Exit],1261,18775
633916,2804,"I am alone the villain of the earth,
And feel I am so most. O Antony,
Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid
My better service, when my turpitude
Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart:
If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do't, I feel.
I fight against thee! No: I will go seek
Some ditch wherein to die; the foul'st best fits
My latter part of life.",325,18775
633917,2814,"[Exit]
[Alarum. Drums and trumpets. Enter AGRIPPA]
and others]",1261,18775
633918,2819,"Retire, we have engaged ourselves too far:
Caesar himself has work, and our oppression
Exceeds what we expected.",59,18776
633919,2822,[Exeunt],1261,18776
633920,2823,[Alarums. Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS wounded],1261,18776
633921,2824,"O my brave emperor, this is fought indeed!
Had we done so at first, we had droven them home
With clouts about their heads.",970,18776
633922,2827,Thou bleed'st apace.,120,18776
633923,2828,"I had a wound here that was like a T,
But now 'tis made an H.",970,18776
633924,2830,They do retire.,120,18776
633925,2831,"We'll beat 'em into bench-holes: I have yet
Room for six scotches more.",970,18776
633926,2833,[Enter EROS],1261,18776
633927,2834,"They are beaten, sir, and our advantage serves
For a fair victory.",382,18776
633928,2836,"Let us score their backs,
And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind:
'Tis sport to maul a runner.",970,18776
633929,2839,"I will reward thee
Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten-fold
For thy good valour. Come thee on.",120,18776
633930,2842,I'll halt after.,970,18776
633931,2843,"[Exeunt]
[Alarum. Enter MARK ANTONY, in a march; SCARUS,]
with others]",1261,18776
633932,2848,"We have beat him to his camp: run one before,
And let the queen know of our gests. To-morrow,
Before the sun shall see 's, we'll spill the blood
That has to-day escaped. I thank you all;
For doughty-handed are you, and have fought
Not as you served the cause, but as 't had been
Each man's like mine; you have shown all Hectors.
Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends,
Tell them your feats; whilst they with joyful tears
Wash the congealment from your wounds, and kiss
The honour'd gashes whole.
[To SCARUS]
Give me thy hand
[Enter CLEOPATRA, attended]
To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts,
Make her thanks bless thee.
[To CLEOPATRA]
O thou day o' the world,
Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all,
Through proof of harness to my heart, and there
Ride on the pants triumphing!",120,18777
633933,2869,"Lord of lords!
O infinite virtue, comest thou smiling from
The world's great snare uncaught?",262,18777
633934,2872,"My nightingale,
We have beat them to their beds. What, girl!
though grey
Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha' we
A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can
Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man;
Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand:
Kiss it, my warrior: he hath fought to-day
As if a god, in hate of mankind, had
Destroy'd in such a shape.",120,18777
633935,2882,"I'll give thee, friend,
An armour all of gold; it was a king's.",262,18777
633936,2884,"He has deserved it, were it carbuncled
Like holy Phoebus' car. Give me thy hand:
Through Alexandria make a jolly march;
Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them:
Had our great palace the capacity
To camp this host, we all would sup together,
And drink carouses to the next day's fate,
Which promises royal peril. Trumpeters,
With brazen din blast you the city's ear;
Make mingle with rattling tabourines;
That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together,
Applauding our approach.",120,18777
633937,2896,[Exeunt],1261,18777
633938,2899,[Sentinels at their post],1261,18778
633939,2900,"If we be not relieved within this hour,
We must return to the court of guard: the night
Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle
By the second hour i' the morn.",466,18778
633940,2904,"This last day was
A shrewd one to's.",1034,18778
633941,2906,[Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS],1261,18778
633942,2907,"O, bear me witness, night,--",325,18778
633943,2908,What man is this?,1186,18778
633944,2909,"Stand close, and list him.",1034,18778
633945,2910,"Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,
When men revolted shall upon record
Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did
Before thy face repent!",325,18778
633946,2914,Enobarbus!,466,18778
633947,2915,"Peace!
Hark further.",1186,18778
633948,2917,"O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,
The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,
That life, a very rebel to my will,
May hang no longer on me: throw my heart
Against the flint and hardness of my fault:
Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,
And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,
Nobler than my revolt is infamous,
Forgive me in thine own particular;
But let the world rank me in register
A master-leaver and a fugitive:
O Antony! O Antony!",325,18778
633949,2929,[Dies],1261,18778
633950,2930,Let's speak To him.,1034,18778
633951,2931,"Let's hear him, for the things he speaks
May concern Caesar.",466,18778
633952,2933,Let's do so. But he sleeps.,1186,18778
633953,2934,"Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his
Was never yet for sleep.",466,18778
633954,2936,Go we to him.,1034,18778
633955,2937,"Awake, sir, awake; speak to us.",1186,18778
633956,2938,"Hear you, sir?",1034,18778
633957,2939,"The hand of death hath raught him.
[Drums afar off]
Hark! the drums
Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him
To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour
Is fully out.",466,18778
633958,2945,"Come on, then;
He may recover yet.",1186,18778
633959,2947,[Exeunt with the body],1261,18778
633960,2950,"[Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS, with their Army]",1261,18779
633961,2951,"Their preparation is to-day by sea;
We please them not by land.",120,18779
633962,2953,"For both, my lord.",970,18779
633963,2954,"I would they'ld fight i' the fire or i' the air;
We'ld fight there too. But this it is; our foot
Upon the hills adjoining to the city
Shall stay with us: order for sea is given;
They have put forth the haven [--]
Where their appointment we may best discover,
And look on their endeavour.",120,18779
633964,2961,[Exeunt],1261,18779
633965,2964,"[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and his Army]",1261,18780
633966,2965,"But being charged, we will be still by land,
Which, as I take't, we shall; for his best force
Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales,
And hold our best advantage.",824,18780
633967,2969,[Exeunt],1261,18780
633968,2972,[Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS],1261,18781
633969,2973,"Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine
does stand,
I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word
Straight, how 'tis like to go.",120,18781
633970,2977,[Exit],1261,18781
633971,2978,"Swallows have built
In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers
Say they know not, they cannot tell; look grimly,
And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony
Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts,
His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear,
Of what he has, and has not.",970,18781
633972,2985,"[Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight]",1261,18781
633973,2986,[Re-enter MARK ANTONY],1261,18781
633974,2987,"All is lost;
This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:
My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder
They cast their caps up and carouse together
Like friends long lost. Triple-turn'd whore!
'tis thou
Hast sold me to this novice; and my heart
Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly;
For when I am revenged upon my charm,
I have done all. Bid them all fly; begone.
[Exit SCARUS]
O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more:
Fortune and Antony part here; even here
Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts
That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave
Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is bark'd,
That overtopp'd them all. Betray'd I am:
O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,--
Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home;
Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,--
Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose,
Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.
What, Eros, Eros!
[Enter CLEOPATRA]
Ah, thou spell! Avaunt!",120,18781
633975,3013,Why is my lord enraged against his love?,262,18781
633976,3014,"Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving,
And blemish Caesar's triumph. Let him take thee,
And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians:
Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot
Of all thy sex; most monster-like, be shown
For poor'st diminutives, for doits; and let
Patient Octavia plough thy visage up
With her prepared nails.
[Exit CLEOPATRA]
'Tis well thou'rt gone,
If it be well to live; but better 'twere
Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death
Might have prevented many. Eros, ho!
The shirt of Nessus is upon me: teach me,
Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage:
Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon;
And with those hands, that grasp'd the heaviest club,
Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die:
To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall
Under this plot; she dies for't. Eros, ho!",120,18781
633977,3034,[Exit],1261,18781
633978,3037,"[Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN]",1261,18782
633979,3038,"Help me, my women! O, he is more mad
Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thessaly
Was never so emboss'd.",262,18782
633980,3041,"To the monument!
There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead.
The soul and body rive not more in parting
Than greatness going off.",239,18782
633981,3045,"To the monument!
Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself;
Say, that the last I spoke was 'Antony,'
And word it, prithee, piteously: hence, Mardian,
And bring me how he takes my death.
To the monument!",262,18782
633982,3051,[Exeunt],1261,18782
633983,3054,[Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS],1261,18783
633984,3055,"Eros, thou yet behold'st me?",120,18783
633985,3056,"Ay, noble lord.",382,18783
633986,3057,"Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish;
A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,
A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock,
A forked mountain, or blue promontory
With trees upon't, that nod unto the world,
And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen
these signs;
They are black vesper's pageants.",120,18783
633987,3065,"Ay, my lord,",382,18783
633988,3066,"That which is now a horse, even with a thought
The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,
As water is in water.",120,18783
633989,3069,"It does, my lord.",382,18783
633990,3070,"My good knave Eros, now thy captain is
Even such a body: here I am Antony:
Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave.
I made these wars for Egypt: and the queen,--
Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine;
Which whilst it was mine had annex'd unto't
A million more, now lost,--she, Eros, has
Pack'd cards with Caesar, and false-play'd my glory
Unto an enemy's triumph.
Nay, weep not, gentle Eros; there is left us
Ourselves to end ourselves.
[Enter MARDIAN]
O! thy vile lady!
She has robb'd me of my sword.",120,18783
633991,3084,"No, Antony;
My mistress loved thee, and her fortunes mingled
With thine entirely.",733,18783
633992,3087,"Hence, saucy eunuch; peace!
She hath betray'd me and shall die the death.",120,18783
633993,3089,"Death of one person can be paid but once,
And that she has discharged: what thou wouldst do
Is done unto thy hand: the last she spake
Was 'Antony! most noble Antony!'
Then in the midst a tearing groan did break
The name of Antony; it was divided
Between her heart and lips: she render'd life,
Thy name so buried in her.",733,18783
633994,3097,"Dead, then?",120,18783
633995,3098,Dead.,733,18783
633996,3099,"Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done,
And we must sleep.
[To MARDIAN]
That thou depart'st hence safe,
Does pay thy labour richly; go.
[Exit MARDIAN]
Off, pluck off:
The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep
The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides!
Heart, once be stronger than thy continent,
Crack thy frail case! Apace, Eros, apace.
No more a soldier: bruised pieces, go;
You have been nobly borne. From me awhile.
[Exit EROS]
I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and
Weep for my pardon. So it must be, for now
All length is torture: since the torch is out,
Lie down, and stray no farther: now all labour
Mars what it does; yea, very force entangles
Itself with strength: seal then, and all is done.
Eros!--I come, my queen:--Eros!--Stay for me:
Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand,
And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze:
Dido and her AEneas shall want troops,
And all the haunt be ours. Come, Eros, Eros!",120,18783
633997,3124,[Re-enter EROS],1261,18783
633998,3125,What would my lord?,382,18783
633999,3126,"Since Cleopatra died,
I have lived in such dishonour, that the gods
Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword
Quarter'd the world, and o'er green Neptune's back
With ships made cities, condemn myself to lack
The courage of a woman; less noble mind
Than she which by her death our Caesar tells
'I am conqueror of myself.' Thou art sworn, Eros,
That, when the exigent should come, which now
Is come indeed, when I should see behind me
The inevitable prosecution of
Disgrace and horror, that, on my command,
Thou then wouldst kill me: do't; the time is come:
Thou strikest not me, 'tis Caesar thou defeat'st.
Put colour in thy cheek.",120,18783
634000,3141,"The gods withhold me!
Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts,
Though enemy, lost aim, and could not?",382,18783
634001,3144,"Eros,
Wouldst thou be window'd in great Rome and see
Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down
His corrigible neck, his face subdued
To penetrative shame, whilst the wheel'd seat
Of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded
His baseness that ensued?",120,18783
634002,3151,I would not see't.,382,18783
634003,3152,"Come, then; for with a wound I must be cured.
Draw that thy honest sword, which thou hast worn
Most useful for thy country.",120,18783
634004,3155,"O, sir, pardon me!",382,18783
634005,3156,"When I did make thee free, sworest thou not then
To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once;
Or thy precedent services are all
But accidents unpurposed. Draw, and come.",120,18783
634006,3160,"Turn from me, then, that noble countenance,
Wherein the worship of the whole world lies.",382,18783
634007,3162,Lo thee!,120,18783
634008,3163,[Turning from him],1261,18783
634009,3164,My sword is drawn.,382,18783
634010,3165,"Then let it do at once
The thing why thou hast drawn it.",120,18783
634011,3167,"My dear master,
My captain, and my emperor, let me say,
Before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell.",382,18783
634012,3170,"'Tis said, man; and farewell.",120,18783
634013,3171,"Farewell, great chief. Shall I strike now?",382,18783
634014,3172,"Now, Eros.",120,18783
634015,3173,"Why, there then: thus I do escape the sorrow
Of Antony's death.",382,18783
634016,3175,[Kills himself],1261,18783
634017,3176,"Thrice-nobler than myself!
Thou teachest me, O valiant Eros, what
I should, and thou couldst not. My queen and Eros
Have by their brave instruction got upon me
A nobleness in record: but I will be
A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover's bed. Come, then; and, Eros,
Thy master dies thy scholar: to do thus
[Falling on his sword]
I learn'd of thee. How! not dead? not dead?
The guard, ho! O, dispatch me!",120,18783
634018,3187,[Enter DERCETAS and Guard],1261,18783
634019,3188,What's the noise?,426,18783
634020,3189,"I have done my work in, friends: O, make an end
Of what I have begun.",120,18783
634021,3191,The star is fall'n.,996,18783
634022,3192,And time is at his period.,426,18783
634023,3193,"Alas, and woe!",68,18783
634024,3194,Let him that loves me strike me dead.,120,18783
634025,3195,Not I.,426,18783
634026,3196,Nor I.,996,18783
634027,3197,Nor any one.,1170,18783
634028,3198,[Exeunt Guard],1261,18783
634029,3199,"Thy death and fortunes bid thy followers fly.
This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings,
Shall enter me with him.",310,18783
634030,3202,[Enter DIOMEDES],1261,18783
634031,3203,Where's Antony?,315,18783
634032,3204,"There, Diomed there.",310,18783
634033,3205,"Lives he?
Wilt thou not answer, man?",315,18783
634034,3207,[Exit DERCETAS],1261,18783
634035,3208,"Art thou there, Diomed? Draw thy sword, and give me
Sufficing strokes for death.",120,18783
634036,3210,"Most absolute lord,
My mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee.",315,18783
634037,3212,When did she send thee?,120,18783
634038,3213,"Now, my lord.",315,18783
634039,3214,Where is she?,120,18783
634040,3215,"Lock'd in her monument. She had a prophesying fear
Of what hath come to pass: for when she saw--
Which never shall be found--you did suspect
She had disposed with Caesar, and that your rage
Would not be purged, she sent you word she was dead;
But, fearing since how it might work, hath sent
Me to proclaim the truth; and I am come,
I dread, too late.",315,18783
634041,3223,"Too late, good Diomed: call my guard, I prithee.",120,18783
634042,3224,"What, ho, the emperor's guard! The guard, what, ho!
Come, your lord calls!",315,18783
634043,3226,[Enter four or five of the Guard of MARK ANTONY],1261,18783
634044,3227,"Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides;
'Tis the last service that I shall command you.",120,18783
634045,3229,"Woe, woe are we, sir, you may not live to wear
All your true followers out.",426,18783
634046,3231,Most heavy day!,68,18783
634047,3232,"Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate
To grace it with your sorrows: bid that welcome
Which comes to punish us, and we punish it
Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up:
I have led you oft: carry me now, good friends,
And have my thanks for all.",120,18783
634048,3238,"[Exeunt, bearing MARK ANTONY]
[Enter CLEOPATRA and her maids aloft, with]
CHARMIAN and IRAS]",1261,18783
634049,3243,"O Charmian, I will never go from hence.",262,18784
634050,3244,"Be comforted, dear madam.",239,18784
634051,3245,"No, I will not:
All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise; our size of sorrow,
Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great
As that which makes it.
[Enter, below, DIOMEDES]
How now! is he dead?",262,18784
634052,3252,"His death's upon him, but not dead.
Look out o' the other side your monument;
His guard have brought him thither.",315,18784
634053,3255,"[Enter, below, MARK ANTONY, borne by the Guard]",1261,18784
634054,3256,"O sun,
Burn the great sphere thou movest in!
darkling stand
The varying shore o' the world. O Antony,
Antony, Antony! Help, Charmian, help, Iras, help;
Help, friends below; let's draw him hither.",262,18784
634055,3262,"Peace!
Not Caesar's valour hath o'erthrown Antony,
But Antony's hath triumph'd on itself.",120,18784
634056,3265,"So it should be, that none but Antony
Should conquer Antony; but woe 'tis so!",262,18784
634057,3267,"I am dying, Egypt, dying; only
I here importune death awhile, until
Of many thousand kisses the poor last
I lay up thy lips.",120,18784
634058,3271,"I dare not, dear,--
Dear my lord, pardon,--I dare not,
Lest I be taken: not the imperious show
Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall
Be brooch'd with me; if knife, drugs,
serpents, have
Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe:
Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes
And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour
Demuring upon me. But come, come, Antony,--
Help me, my women,--we must draw thee up:
Assist, good friends.",262,18784
634059,3283,"O, quick, or I am gone.",120,18784
634060,3284,"Here's sport indeed! How heavy weighs my lord!
Our strength is all gone into heaviness,
That makes the weight: had I great Juno's power,
The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch thee up,
And set thee by Jove's side. Yet come a little,--
Wishes were ever fools,--O, come, come, come;
[They heave MARK ANTONY aloft to CLEOPATRA]
And welcome, welcome! die where thou hast lived:
Quicken with kissing: had my lips that power,
Thus would I wear them out.",262,18784
634061,3294,A heavy sight!,68,18784
634062,3295,"I am dying, Egypt, dying:
Give me some wine, and let me speak a little.",120,18784
634063,3297,"No, let me speak; and let me rail so high,
That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel,
Provoked by my offence.",262,18784
634064,3300,"One word, sweet queen:
Of Caesar seek your honour, with your safety. O!",120,18784
634065,3302,They do not go together.,262,18784
634066,3303,"Gentle, hear me:
None about Caesar trust but Proculeius.",120,18784
634067,3305,"My resolution and my hands I'll trust;
None about Caesar.",262,18784
634068,3307,"The miserable change now at my end
Lament nor sorrow at; but please your thoughts
In feeding them with those my former fortunes
Wherein I lived, the greatest prince o' the world,
The noblest; and do now not basely die,
Not cowardly put off my helmet to
My countryman,--a Roman by a Roman
Valiantly vanquish'd. Now my spirit is going;
I can no more.",120,18784
634069,3316,"Noblest of men, woo't die?
Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide
In this dull world, which in thy absence is
No better than a sty? O, see, my women,
[MARK ANTONY dies]
The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord!
O, wither'd is the garland of the war,
The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls
Are level now with men; the odds is gone,
And there is nothing left remarkable
Beneath the visiting moon.",262,18784
634070,3327,[Faints],1261,18784
634071,3328,"O, quietness, lady!",239,18784
634072,3329,"She is dead too, our sovereign.",602,18784
634073,3330,Lady!,239,18784
634074,3331,Madam!,602,18784
634075,3332,"O madam, madam, madam!",239,18784
634076,3333,"Royal Egypt, Empress!",602,18784
634077,3334,"Peace, peace, Iras!",239,18784
634078,3335,"No more, but e'en a woman, and commanded
By such poor passion as the maid that milks
And does the meanest chares. It were for me
To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods;
To tell them that this world did equal theirs
Till they had stol'n our jewel. All's but naught;
Patience is scottish, and impatience does
Become a dog that's mad: then is it sin
To rush into the secret house of death,
Ere death dare come to us? How do you, women?
What, what! good cheer! Why, how now, Charmian!
My noble girls! Ah, women, women, look,
Our lamp is spent, it's out! Good sirs, take heart:
We'll bury him; and then, what's brave,
what's noble,
Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
And make death proud to take us. Come, away:
This case of that huge spirit now is cold:
Ah, women, women! come; we have no friend
But resolution, and the briefest end.",262,18784
634079,3355,"[Exeunt; those above bearing off MARK ANTONY's body]
[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, MECAENAS,]
GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, and others, his council of war]",1261,18784
634080,3360,"Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield;
Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks
The pauses that he makes.",824,18785
634081,3363,"Caesar, I shall.",324,18785
634082,3364,[Exit],1261,18785
634083,3365,"[Enter DERCETAS, with the sword of MARK ANTONY]",1261,18785
634084,3366,"Wherefore is that? and what art thou that darest
Appear thus to us?",824,18785
634085,3368,"I am call'd Dercetas;
Mark Antony I served, who best was worthy
Best to be served: whilst he stood up and spoke,
He was my master; and I wore my life
To spend upon his haters. If thou please
To take me to thee, as I was to him
I'll be to Caesar; if thou pleasest not,
I yield thee up my life.",310,18785
634086,3376,What is't thou say'st?,824,18785
634087,3377,"I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead.",310,18785
634088,3378,"The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens: the death of Antony
Is not a single doom; in the name lay
A moiety of the world.",824,18785
634089,3384,"He is dead, Caesar:
Not by a public minister of justice,
Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand,
Which writ his honour in the acts it did,
Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it,
Splitted the heart. This is his sword;
I robb'd his wound of it; behold it stain'd
With his most noble blood.",310,18785
634090,3392,"Look you sad, friends?
The gods rebuke me, but it is tidings
To wash the eyes of kings.",824,18785
634091,3395,"And strange it is,
That nature must compel us to lament
Our most persisted deeds.",59,18785
634092,3398,"His taints and honours
Waged equal with him.",758,18785
634093,3400,"A rarer spirit never
Did steer humanity: but you, gods, will give us
Some faults to make us men. Caesar is touch'd.",59,18785
634094,3403,"When such a spacious mirror's set before him,
He needs must see himself.",758,18785
634095,3405,"O Antony!
I have follow'd thee to this; but we do lance
Diseases in our bodies: I must perforce
Have shown to thee such a declining day,
Or look on thine; we could not stall together
In the whole world: but yet let me lament,
With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts,
That thou, my brother, my competitor
In top of all design, my mate in empire,
Friend and companion in the front of war,
The arm of mine own body, and the heart
Where mine his thoughts did kindle,--that our stars,
Unreconciliable, should divide
Our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends--
But I will tell you at some meeter season:
[Enter an Egyptian]
The business of this man looks out of him;
We'll hear him what he says. Whence are you?",824,18785
634096,3423,"A poor Egyptian yet. The queen my mistress,
Confined in all she has, her monument,
Of thy intents desires instruction,
That she preparedly may frame herself
To the way she's forced to.",375,18785
634097,3428,"Bid her have good heart:
She soon shall know of us, by some of ours,
How honourable and how kindly we
Determine for her; for Caesar cannot live
To be ungentle.",824,18785
634098,3433,So the gods preserve thee!,375,18785
634099,3434,[Exit],1261,18785
634100,3435,"Come hither, Proculeius. Go and say,
We purpose her no shame: give her what comforts
The quality of her passion shall require,
Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke
She do defeat us; for her life in Rome
Would be eternal in our triumph: go,
And with your speediest bring us what she says,
And how you find of her.",824,18785
634101,3443,"Caesar, I shall.",923,18785
634102,3444,[Exit],1261,18785
634103,3445,"Gallus, go you along.
[Exit GALLUS]
Where's Dolabella,
To second Proculeius?",824,18785
634104,3449,Dolabella!,68,18785
634105,3450,"Let him alone, for I remember now
How he's employ'd: he shall in time be ready.
Go with me to my tent; where you shall see
How hardly I was drawn into this war;
How calm and gentle I proceeded still
In all my writings: go with me, and see
What I can show in this.",824,18785
634106,3457,[Exeunt],1261,18785
634107,3460,"[Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and IRAS]",1261,18786
634108,3461,"My desolation does begin to make
A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar;
Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave,
A minister of her will: and it is great
To do that thing that ends all other deeds;
Which shackles accidents and bolts up change;
Which sleeps, and never palates more the dug,
The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.
[Enter, to the gates of the monument, PROCULEIUS,]
GALLUS and Soldiers]",262,18786
634109,3471,"Caesar sends greeting to the Queen of Egypt;
And bids thee study on what fair demands
Thou mean'st to have him grant thee.",923,18786
634110,3474,What's thy name?,262,18786
634111,3475,My name is Proculeius.,923,18786
634112,3476,"Antony
Did tell me of you, bade me trust you; but
I do not greatly care to be deceived,
That have no use for trusting. If your master
Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him,
That majesty, to keep decorum, must
No less beg than a kingdom: if he please
To give me conquer'd Egypt for my son,
He gives me so much of mine own, as I
Will kneel to him with thanks.",262,18786
634113,3486,"Be of good cheer;
You're fall'n into a princely hand, fear nothing:
Make your full reference freely to my lord,
Who is so full of grace, that it flows over
On all that need: let me report to him
Your sweet dependency; and you shall find
A conqueror that will pray in aid for kindness,
Where he for grace is kneel'd to.",923,18786
634114,3494,"Pray you, tell him
I am his fortune's vassal, and I send him
The greatness he has got. I hourly learn
A doctrine of obedience; and would gladly
Look him i' the face.",262,18786
634115,3499,"This I'll report, dear lady.
Have comfort, for I know your plight is pitied
Of him that caused it.",923,18786
634116,3502,"You see how easily she may be surprised:
[Here PROCULEIUS and two of the Guard ascend the]
monument by a ladder placed against a window, and,
having descended, come behind CLEOPATRA. Some of
the Guard unbar and open the gates]
[To PROCULEIUS and the Guard]
Guard her till Caesar come.",509,18786
634117,3509,[Exit],1261,18786
634118,3510,Royal queen!,602,18786
634119,3511,"O Cleopatra! thou art taken, queen:",239,18786
634120,3512,"Quick, quick, good hands.",262,18786
634121,3513,[Drawing a dagger],1261,18786
634122,3514,"Hold, worthy lady, hold:
[Seizes and disarms her]
Do not yourself such wrong, who are in this
Relieved, but not betray'd.",923,18786
634123,3518,"What, of death too,
That rids our dogs of languish?",262,18786
634124,3520,"Cleopatra,
Do not abuse my master's bounty by
The undoing of yourself: let the world see
His nobleness well acted, which your death
Will never let come forth.",923,18786
634125,3525,"Where art thou, death?
Come hither, come! come, come, and take a queen
Worthy many babes and beggars!",262,18786
634126,3528,"O, temperance, lady!",923,18786
634127,3529,"Sir, I will eat no meat, I'll not drink, sir;
If idle talk will once be necessary,
I'll not sleep neither: this mortal house I'll ruin,
Do Caesar what he can. Know, sir, that I
Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court;
Nor once be chastised with the sober eye
Of dull Octavia. Shall they hoist me up
And show me to the shouting varletry
Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt
Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud
Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies
Blow me into abhorring! rather make
My country's high pyramides my gibbet,
And hang me up in chains!",262,18786
634128,3543,"You do extend
These thoughts of horror further than you shall
Find cause in Caesar.",923,18786
634129,3546,[Enter DOLABELLA],1261,18786
634130,3547,"Proculeius,
What thou hast done thy master Caesar knows,
And he hath sent for thee: for the queen,
I'll take her to my guard.",324,18786
634131,3551,"So, Dolabella,
It shall content me best: be gentle to her.
[To CLEOPATRA]
To Caesar I will speak what you shall please,
If you'll employ me to him.",923,18786
634132,3556,"Say, I would die.",262,18786
634133,3557,[Exeunt PROCULEIUS and Soldiers],1261,18786
634134,3558,"Most noble empress, you have heard of me?",324,18786
634135,3559,I cannot tell.,262,18786
634136,3560,Assuredly you know me.,324,18786
634137,3561,"No matter, sir, what I have heard or known.
You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams;
Is't not your trick?",262,18786
634138,3564,"I understand not, madam.",324,18786
634139,3565,"I dream'd there was an Emperor Antony:
O, such another sleep, that I might see
But such another man!",262,18786
634140,3568,"If it might please ye,--",324,18786
634141,3569,"His face was as the heavens; and therein stuck
A sun and moon, which kept their course,
and lighted
The little O, the earth.",262,18786
634142,3573,"Most sovereign creature,--",324,18786
634143,3574,"His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm
Crested the world: his voice was propertied
As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;
But when he meant to quail and shake the orb,
He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty,
There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas
That grew the more by reaping: his delights
Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above
The element they lived in: in his livery
Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were
As plates dropp'd from his pocket.",262,18786
634144,3585,Cleopatra!,324,18786
634145,3586,"Think you there was, or might be, such a man
As this I dream'd of?",262,18786
634146,3588,"Gentle madam, no.",324,18786
634147,3589,"You lie, up to the hearing of the gods.
But, if there be, or ever were, one such,
It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff
To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine
And Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy,
Condemning shadows quite.",262,18786
634148,3595,"Hear me, good madam.
Your loss is as yourself, great; and you bear it
As answering to the weight: would I might never
O'ertake pursued success, but I do feel,
By the rebound of yours, a grief that smites
My very heart at root.",324,18786
634149,3601,"I thank you, sir,
Know you what Caesar means to do with me?",262,18786
634150,3603,I am loath to tell you what I would you knew.,324,18786
634151,3604,"Nay, pray you, sir,--",262,18786
634152,3605,"Though he be honourable,--",324,18786
634153,3606,"He'll lead me, then, in triumph?",262,18786
634154,3607,"Madam, he will; I know't.
[Flourish, and shout within, 'Make way there:]
Octavius Caesar!']
[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS,]
MECAENAS, SELEUCUS, and others of his Train]",324,18786
634155,3612,Which is the Queen of Egypt?,824,18786
634156,3613,"It is the emperor, madam.",324,18786
634157,3614,[CLEOPATRA kneels],1261,18786
634158,3615,"Arise, you shall not kneel:
I pray you, rise; rise, Egypt.",824,18786
634159,3617,"Sir, the gods
Will have it thus; my master and my lord
I must obey.",262,18786
634160,3620,"Take to you no hard thoughts:
The record of what injuries you did us,
Though written in our flesh, we shall remember
As things but done by chance.",824,18786
634161,3624,"Sole sir o' the world,
I cannot project mine own cause so well
To make it clear; but do confess I have
Been laden with like frailties which before
Have often shamed our sex.",262,18786
634162,3629,"Cleopatra, know,
We will extenuate rather than enforce:
If you apply yourself to our intents,
Which towards you are most gentle, you shall find
A benefit in this change; but if you seek
To lay on me a cruelty, by taking
Antony's course, you shall bereave yourself
Of my good purposes, and put your children
To that destruction which I'll guard them from,
If thereon you rely. I'll take my leave.",824,18786
634163,3639,"And may, through all the world: 'tis yours; and we,
Your scutcheons and your signs of conquest, shall
Hang in what place you please. Here, my good lord.",262,18786
634164,3642,You shall advise me in all for Cleopatra.,824,18786
634165,3643,"This is the brief of money, plate, and jewels,
I am possess'd of: 'tis exactly valued;
Not petty things admitted. Where's Seleucus?",262,18786
634166,3646,"Here, madam.",1040,18786
634167,3647,"This is my treasurer: let him speak, my lord,
Upon his peril, that I have reserved
To myself nothing. Speak the truth, Seleucus.",262,18786
634168,3650,"Madam,
I had rather seal my lips, than, to my peril,
Speak that which is not.",1040,18786
634169,3653,What have I kept back?,262,18786
634170,3654,Enough to purchase what you have made known.,1040,18786
634171,3655,"Nay, blush not, Cleopatra; I approve
Your wisdom in the deed.",824,18786
634172,3657,"See, Caesar! O, behold,
How pomp is follow'd! mine will now be yours;
And, should we shift estates, yours would be mine.
The ingratitude of this Seleucus does
Even make me wild: O slave, of no more trust
Than love that's hired! What, goest thou back? thou shalt
Go back, I warrant thee; but I'll catch thine eyes,
Though they had wings: slave, soulless villain, dog!
O rarely base!",262,18786
634173,3666,"Good queen, let us entreat you.",824,18786
634174,3667,"O Caesar, what a wounding shame is this,
That thou, vouchsafing here to visit me,
Doing the honour of thy lordliness
To one so meek, that mine own servant should
Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
Addition of his envy! Say, good Caesar,
That I some lady trifles have reserved,
Immoment toys, things of such dignity
As we greet modern friends withal; and say,
Some nobler token I have kept apart
For Livia and Octavia, to induce
Their mediation; must I be unfolded
With one that I have bred? The gods! it smites me
Beneath the fall I have.
[To SELEUCUS]
Prithee, go hence;
Or I shall show the cinders of my spirits
Through the ashes of my chance: wert thou a man,
Thou wouldst have mercy on me.",262,18786
634175,3686,"Forbear, Seleucus.",824,18786
634176,3687,[Exit SELEUCUS],1261,18786
634177,3688,"Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought
For things that others do; and, when we fall,
We answer others' merits in our name,
Are therefore to be pitied.",262,18786
634178,3692,"Cleopatra,
Not what you have reserved, nor what acknowledged,
Put we i' the roll of conquest: still be't yours,
Bestow it at your pleasure; and believe,
Caesar's no merchant, to make prize with you
Of things that merchants sold. Therefore be cheer'd;
Make not your thoughts your prisons: no, dear queen;
For we intend so to dispose you as
Yourself shall give us counsel. Feed, and sleep:
Our care and pity is so much upon you,
That we remain your friend; and so, adieu.",824,18786
634179,3703,"My master, and my lord!",262,18786
634180,3704,Not so. Adieu.,824,18786
634181,3705,[Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and his train],1261,18786
634182,3706,"He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not
Be noble to myself: but, hark thee, Charmian.",262,18786
634183,3708,[Whispers CHARMIAN],1261,18786
634184,3709,"Finish, good lady; the bright day is done,
And we are for the dark.",602,18786
634185,3711,"Hie thee again:
I have spoke already, and it is provided;
Go put it to the haste.",262,18786
634186,3714,"Madam, I will.",239,18786
634187,3715,[Re-enter DOLABELLA],1261,18786
634188,3716,Where is the queen?,324,18786
634189,3717,"Behold, sir.",239,18786
634190,3718,[Exit],1261,18786
634191,3719,Dolabella!,262,18786
634192,3720,"Madam, as thereto sworn by your command,
Which my love makes religion to obey,
I tell you this: Caesar through Syria
Intends his journey; and within three days
You with your children will he send before:
Make your best use of this: I have perform'd
Your pleasure and my promise.",324,18786
634193,3727,"Dolabella,
I shall remain your debtor.",262,18786
634194,3729,"I your servant,
Adieu, good queen; I must attend on Caesar.",324,18786
634195,3731,"Farewell, and thanks.
[Exit DOLABELLA]
Now, Iras, what think'st thou?
Thou, an Egyptian puppet, shalt be shown
In Rome, as well as I. mechanic slaves
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall
Uplift us to the view; in their thick breaths,
Rank of gross diet, shall be enclouded,
And forced to drink their vapour.",262,18786
634196,3740,The gods forbid!,602,18786
634197,3741,"Nay, 'tis most certain, Iras: saucy lictors
Will catch at us, like strumpets; and scald rhymers
Ballad us out o' tune: the quick comedians
Extemporally will stage us, and present
Our Alexandrian revels; Antony
Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see
Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness
I' the posture of a whore.",262,18786
634198,3749,O the good gods!,602,18786
634199,3750,"Nay, that's certain.",262,18786
634200,3751,"I'll never see 't; for, I am sure, my nails
Are stronger than mine eyes.",602,18786
634201,3753,"Why, that's the way
To fool their preparation, and to conquer
Their most absurd intents.
[Re-enter CHARMIAN]
Now, Charmian!
Show me, my women, like a queen: go fetch
My best attires: I am again for Cydnus,
To meet Mark Antony: sirrah Iras, go.
Now, noble Charmian, we'll dispatch indeed;
And, when thou hast done this chare, I'll give thee leave
To play till doomsday. Bring our crown and all.
Wherefore's this noise?",262,18786
634202,3765,[Exit IRAS. A noise within],1261,18786
634203,3766,[Enter a Guardsman],1261,18786
634204,3767,"Here is a rural fellow
That will not be denied your highness presence:
He brings you figs.",551,18786
634205,3770,"Let him come in.
[Exit Guardsman]
What poor an instrument
May do a noble deed! he brings me liberty.
My resolution's placed, and I have nothing
Of woman in me: now from head to foot
I am marble-constant; now the fleeting moon
No planet is of mine.",262,18786
634206,3778,"[Re-enter Guardsman, with Clown bringing in a basket]",1261,18786
634207,3779,This is the man.,551,18786
634208,3780,"Avoid, and leave him.
[Exit Guardsman]
Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there,
That kills and pains not?",262,18786
634209,3784,"Truly, I have him: but I would not be the party
that should desire you to touch him, for his biting
is immortal; those that do die of it do seldom or
never recover.",269,18786
634210,3788,Rememberest thou any that have died on't?,262,18786
634211,3789,"Very many, men and women too. I heard of one of
them no longer than yesterday: a very honest woman,
but something given to lie; as a woman should not
do, but in the way of honesty: how she died of the
biting of it, what pain she felt: truly, she makes
a very good report o' the worm; but he that will
believe all that they say, shall never be saved by
half that they do: but this is most fallible, the
worm's an odd worm.",269,18786
634212,3798,Get thee hence; farewell.,262,18786
634213,3799,I wish you all joy of the worm.,269,18786
634214,3800,[Setting down his basket],1261,18786
634215,3801,Farewell.,262,18786
634216,3802,"You must think this, look you, that the worm will
do his kind.",269,18786
634217,3804,"Ay, ay; farewell.",262,18786
634218,3805,"Look you, the worm is not to be trusted but in the
keeping of wise people; for, indeed, there is no
goodness in worm.",269,18786
634219,3808,Take thou no care; it shall be heeded.,262,18786
634220,3809,"Very good. Give it nothing, I pray you, for it is
not worth the feeding.",269,18786
634221,3811,Will it eat me?,262,18786
634222,3812,"You must not think I am so simple but I know the
devil himself will not eat a woman: I know that a
woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her
not. But, truly, these same whoreson devils do the
gods great harm in their women; for in every ten
that they make, the devils mar five.",269,18786
634223,3818,"Well, get thee gone; farewell.",262,18786
634224,3819,"Yes, forsooth: I wish you joy o' the worm.",269,18786
634225,3820,[Exit],1261,18786
634226,3821,"[Re-enter IRAS with a robe, crown, &c]",1261,18786
634227,3822,"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have
Immortal longings in me: now no more
The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip:
Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear
Antony call; I see him rouse himself
To praise my noble act; I hear him mock
The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men
To excuse their after wrath: husband, I come:
Now to that name my courage prove my title!
I am fire and air; my other elements
I give to baser life. So; have you done?
Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips.
Farewell, kind Charmian; Iras, long farewell.
[Kisses them. IRAS falls and dies]
Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall?
If thou and nature can so gently part,
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,
Which hurts, and is desired. Dost thou lie still?
If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world
It is not worth leave-taking.",262,18786
634228,3842,"Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain; that I may say,
The gods themselves do weep!",239,18786
634229,3844,"This proves me base:
If she first meet the curled Antony,
He'll make demand of her, and spend that kiss
Which is my heaven to have. Come, thou
mortal wretch,
[To an asp, which she applies to her breast]
With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate
Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool
Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak,
That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass
Unpolicied!",262,18786
634230,3855,O eastern star!,239,18786
634231,3856,"Peace, peace!
Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,
That sucks the nurse asleep?",262,18786
634232,3859,"O, break! O, break!",239,18786
634233,3860,"As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle,--
O Antony!--Nay, I will take thee too.
[Applying another asp to her arm]
What should I stay--",262,18786
634234,3864,[Dies],1261,18786
634235,3865,"In this vile world? So, fare thee well.
Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies
A lass unparallel'd. Downy windows, close;
And golden Phoebus never be beheld
Of eyes again so royal! Your crown's awry;
I'll mend it, and then play.",239,18786
634236,3871,"[Enter the Guard, rushing in]",1261,18786
634237,3872,Where is the queen?,426,18786
634238,3873,"Speak softly, wake her not.",239,18786
634239,3874,Caesar hath sent--,426,18786
634240,3875,"Too slow a messenger.
[Applies an asp]
O, come apace, dispatch! I partly feel thee.",239,18786
634241,3878,"Approach, ho! All's not well: Caesar's beguiled.",426,18786
634242,3879,There's Dolabella sent from Caesar; call him.,996,18786
634243,3880,"What work is here! Charmian, is this well done?",426,18786
634244,3881,"It is well done, and fitting for a princess
Descended of so many royal kings.
Ah, soldier!",239,18786
634245,3884,[Dies],1261,18786
634246,3885,[Re-enter DOLABELLA],1261,18786
634247,3886,How goes it here?,324,18786
634248,3887,All dead.,996,18786
634249,3888,"Caesar, thy thoughts
Touch their effects in this: thyself art coming
To see perform'd the dreaded act which thou
So sought'st to hinder.",324,18786
634250,3892,"[Within 'A way there, a way for Caesar!']",1261,18786
634251,3893,[Re-enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR and all his train marching],1261,18786
634252,3894,"O sir, you are too sure an augurer;
That you did fear is done.",324,18786
634253,3896,"Bravest at the last,
She levell'd at our purposes, and, being royal,
Took her own way. The manner of their deaths?
I do not see them bleed.",824,18786
634254,3900,Who was last with them?,324,18786
634255,3901,"A simple countryman, that brought her figs:
This was his basket.",426,18786
634256,3903,"Poison'd, then.",824,18786
634257,3904,"O Caesar,
This Charmian lived but now; she stood and spake:
I found her trimming up the diadem
On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood
And on the sudden dropp'd.",426,18786
634258,3909,"O noble weakness!
If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear
By external swelling: but she looks like sleep,
As she would catch another Antony
In her strong toil of grace.",824,18786
634259,3914,"Here, on her breast,
There is a vent of blood and something blown:
The like is on her arm.",324,18786
634260,3917,"This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves
Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves
Upon the caves of Nile.",426,18786
634261,3920,"Most probable
That so she died; for her physician tells me
She hath pursued conclusions infinite
Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed;
And bear her women from the monument:
She shall be buried by her Antony:
No grave upon the earth shall clip in it
A pair so famous. High events as these
Strike those that make them; and their story is
No less in pity than his glory which
Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall
In solemn show attend this funeral;
And then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see
High order in this great solemnity.",824,18786
634262,3934,[Exeunt],1261,18786
634263,3,Enter ORLANDO and ADAM,1261,18787
634264,4,"As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed
me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou say'st,
charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well; and there
begins my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and
report speaks goldenly of his profit. For my part, he keeps me
rustically at home, or, to speak more properly, stays me here at
home unkept; for call you that keeping for a gentleman of my
birth that differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses are
bred better; for, besides that they are fair with their feeding,
they are taught their manage, and to that end riders dearly
hir'd; but I, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for
the which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him
as I. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the
something that nature gave me his countenance seems to take from
me. He lets me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a
brother, and as much as in him lies, mines my gentility with my
education. This is it, Adam, that grieves me; and the spirit of
my father, which I think is within me, begins to mutiny against
this servitude. I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no
wise remedy how to avoid it.",838,18787
634265,24,[Enter OLIVER],1261,18787
634266,25,"Yonder comes my master, your brother.",50,18787
634267,26,"Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will shake me
up.",838,18787
634268,28,                                           [ADAM retires],1261,18787
634269,29,"Now, sir! what make you here?",835,18787
634270,30,Nothing; I am not taught to make any thing.,838,18787
634271,31,"What mar you then, sir?",835,18787
634272,32,"Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a
poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness.",838,18787
634273,34,"Marry, sir, be better employed, and be nought awhile.",835,18787
634274,35,"Shall I keep your hogs, and eat husks with them? What
prodigal portion have I spent that I should come to such penury?",838,18787
634275,37,"Know you where you are, sir?",835,18787
634276,38,"O, sir, very well; here in your orchard.",838,18787
634277,39,"Know you before whom, sir?",835,18787
634278,40,"Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know you are
my eldest brother; and in the gentle condition of blood, you
should so know me. The courtesy of nations allows you my better
in that you are the first-born; but the same tradition takes not
away my blood, were there twenty brothers betwixt us. I have as
much of my father in me as you, albeit I confess your coming
before me is nearer to his reverence.",838,18787
634279,47,"What, boy!                               [Strikes him]",835,18787
634280,48,"Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.",838,18787
634281,49,"Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?",835,18787
634282,50,"I am no villain; I am the youngest son of Sir Rowland de
Boys. He was my father; and he is thrice a villain that says such
a father begot villains. Wert thou not my brother, I would not
take this hand from thy throat till this other had pull'd out thy
tongue for saying so. Thou has rail'd on thyself.",838,18787
634283,55,"[Coming forward] Sweet masters, be patient; for your father's
remembrance, be at accord.",50,18787
634284,57,"Let me go, I say.",835,18787
634285,58,"I will not, till I please; you shall hear me. My father
charg'd you in his will to give me good education: you have
train'd me like a peasant, obscuring and hiding from me all
gentleman-like qualities. The spirit of my father grows strong in
me, and I will no longer endure it; therefore allow me such
exercises as may become a gentleman, or give me the poor
allottery my father left me by testament; with that I will go buy
my fortunes.",838,18787
634286,66,"And what wilt thou do? Beg, when that is spent? Well, sir,
get you in. I will not long be troubled with you; you shall have
some part of your will. I pray you leave me.",835,18787
634287,69,I no further offend you than becomes me for my good.,838,18787
634288,70,"Get you with him, you old dog.",835,18787
634289,71,"Is 'old dog' my reward? Most true, I have lost my teeth in
your service. God be with my old master! He would not have spoke
such a word.
                                     Exeunt ORLANDO and ADAM",50,18787
634290,75,"Is it even so? Begin you to grow upon me? I will physic
your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns neither. Holla,
Dennis!",835,18787
634291,78,                      Enter DENNIS,1261,18787
634292,79,Calls your worship?,308,18787
634293,80,"Was not Charles, the Duke's wrestler, here to speak with me?",835,18787
634294,81,"So please you, he is here at the door and importunes access
to you.",308,18787
634295,83,"Call him in. [Exit DENNIS] 'Twill be a good way; and
to-morrow the wrestling is.",835,18787
634296,85,                      Enter CHARLES,1261,18787
634297,86,Good morrow to your worship.,237,18787
634298,87,"Good Monsieur Charles! What's the new news at the new
court?",835,18787
634299,89,"There's no news at the court, sir, but the old news; that
is, the old Duke is banished by his younger brother the new Duke;
and three or four loving lords have put themselves into voluntary
exile with him, whose lands and revenues enrich the new Duke;
therefore he gives them good leave to wander.",237,18787
634300,94,"Can you tell if Rosalind, the Duke's daughter, be banished
with her father?",835,18787
634301,96,"O, no; for the Duke's daughter, her cousin, so loves her,
being ever from their cradles bred together, that she would have
followed her exile, or have died to stay behind her. She is at
the court, and no less beloved of her uncle than his own
daughter; and never two ladies loved as they do.",237,18787
634302,101,Where will the old Duke live?,835,18787
634303,102,"They say he is already in the Forest of Arden, and a many
merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood
of England. They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day,
and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.",237,18787
634304,106,"What, you wrestle to-morrow before the new Duke?",835,18787
634305,107,"Marry, do I, sir; and I came to acquaint you with a
matter. I am given, sir, secretly to understand that your younger
brother, Orlando, hath a disposition to come in disguis'd against
me to try a fall. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit; and he
that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well.
Your brother is but young and tender; and, for your love, I would
be loath to foil him, as I must, for my own honour, if he come
in; therefore, out of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint
you withal, that either you might stay him from his intendment,
or brook such disgrace well as he shall run into, in that it is
thing of his own search and altogether against my will.",237,18787
634306,118,"Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which thou shalt
find I will most kindly requite. I had myself notice of my
brother's purpose herein, and have by underhand means laboured to
dissuade him from it; but he is resolute. I'll tell thee,
Charles, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France; full of
ambition, an envious emulator of every man's good parts, a secret
and villainous contriver against me his natural brother.
Therefore use thy discretion: I had as lief thou didst break his
neck as his finger. And thou wert best look to't; for if thou
dost him any slight disgrace, or if he do not mightily grace
himself on thee, he will practise against thee by poison, entrap
thee by some treacherous device, and never leave thee till he
hath ta'en thy life by some indirect means or other; for, I
assure thee, and almost with tears I speak it, there is not one
so young and so villainous this day living. I speak but brotherly
of him; but should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must blush
and weep, and thou must look pale and wonder.",835,18787
634307,135,"I am heartily glad I came hither to you. If he come
to-morrow I'll give him his payment. If ever he go alone again,
I'll never wrestle for prize more. And so, God keep your worship!  Exit",237,18787
634308,138,"Farewell, good Charles. Now will I stir this gamester. I
hope I shall see an end of him; for my soul, yet I know not why,
hates nothing more than he. Yet he's gentle; never school'd and
yet learned; full of noble device; of all sorts enchantingly
beloved; and, indeed, so much in the heart of the world, and
especially of my own people, who best know him, that I am
altogether misprised. But it shall not be so long; this wrestler
shall clear all. Nothing remains but that I kindle the boy
thither, which now I'll go about.                  Exit",835,18787
634309,148,Enter ROSALIND and CELIA,1261,18788
634310,149,"I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry.",233,18788
634311,150,"Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of; and
would you yet I were merrier? Unless you could teach me to forget
a banished father, you must not learn me how to remember any
extraordinary pleasure.",953,18788
634312,154,"Herein I see thou lov'st me not with the full weight that I
love thee. If my uncle, thy banished father, had banished thy
uncle, the Duke my father, so thou hadst been still with me, I
could have taught my love to take thy father for mine; so wouldst
thou, if the truth of thy love to me were so righteously temper'd
as mine is to thee.",233,18788
634313,160,"Well, I will forget the condition of my estate, to
rejoice in yours.",953,18788
634314,162,"You know my father hath no child but I, nor none is like to
have; and, truly, when he dies thou shalt be his heir; for what
he hath taken away from thy father perforce, I will render thee
again in affection. By mine honour, I will; and when I break that
oath, let me turn monster; therefore, my sweet Rose, my dear
Rose, be merry.",233,18788
634315,168,"From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports.
Let me see; what think you of falling in love?",953,18788
634316,170,"Marry, I prithee, do, to make sport withal; but love no man
in good earnest, nor no further in sport neither than with safety
of a pure blush thou mayst in honour come off again.",233,18788
634317,173,"What shall be our sport, then?",953,18788
634318,174,"Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her
wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.",233,18788
634319,176,"I would we could do so; for her benefits are mightily
misplaced; and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her
gifts to women.",953,18788
634320,179,"'Tis true; for those that she makes fair she scarce makes
honest; and those that she makes honest she makes very
ill-favouredly.",233,18788
634321,182,"Nay; now thou goest from Fortune's office to Nature's:
Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of
Nature.",953,18788
634322,185,                     Enter TOUCHSTONE,1261,18788
634323,186,"No; when Nature hath made a fair creature, may she not by
Fortune fall into the fire? Though Nature hath given us wit to
flout at Fortune, hath not Fortune sent in this fool to cut off
the argument?",233,18788
634324,190,"Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature, when
Fortune makes Nature's natural the cutter-off of Nature's wit.",953,18788
634325,192,"Peradventure this is not Fortune's work neither, but
Nature's, who perceiveth our natural wits too dull to reason of
such goddesses, and hath sent this natural for our whetstone; for
always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits. How
now, wit! Whither wander you?",233,18788
634326,197,"Mistress, you must come away to your father.",1203,18788
634327,198,Were you made the messenger?,233,18788
634328,199,"No, by mine honour; but I was bid to come for you.",1203,18788
634329,200,"Where learned you that oath, fool?",953,18788
634330,201,"Of a certain knight that swore by his honour they were
good pancakes, and swore by his honour the mustard was naught.
Now I'll stand to it, the pancakes were naught and the mustard
was good, and yet was not the knight forsworn.",1203,18788
634331,205,"How prove you that, in the great heap of your knowledge?",233,18788
634332,206,"Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom.",953,18788
634333,207,"Stand you both forth now: stroke your chins, and swear
by your beards that I am a knave.",1203,18788
634334,209,"By our beards, if we had them, thou art.",233,18788
634335,210,"By my knavery, if I had it, then I were. But if you
swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn; no more was this
knight, swearing by his honour, for he never had any; or if he
had, he had sworn it away before ever he saw those pancackes or
that mustard.",1203,18788
634336,215,"Prithee, who is't that thou mean'st?",233,18788
634337,216,"One that old Frederick, your father, loves.",1203,18788
634338,217,"My father's love is enough to honour him. Enough, speak no
more of him; you'll be whipt for taxation one of these days.",233,18788
634339,219,"The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise
men do foolishly.",1203,18788
634340,221,"By my troth, thou sayest true; for since the little wit that
fools have was silenced, the little foolery that wise men have
makes a great show. Here comes Monsieur Le Beau.",233,18788
634341,224,                       Enter LE BEAU,1261,18788
634342,225,With his mouth full of news.,953,18788
634343,226,Which he will put on us as pigeons feed their young.,233,18788
634344,227,Then shall we be news-cramm'd.,953,18788
634345,228,"All the better; we shall be the more marketable. Bon jour,
Monsieur Le Beau. What's the news?",233,18788
634346,230,"Fair Princess, you have lost much good sport.",660,18788
634347,231,Sport! of what colour?,233,18788
634348,232,"What colour, madam? How shall I answer you?",660,18788
634349,233,As wit and fortune will.,953,18788
634350,234,Or as the Destinies decrees.,1203,18788
634351,235,Well said; that was laid on with a trowel.,233,18788
634352,236,"Nay, if I keep not my rank-",1203,18788
634353,237,Thou losest thy old smell.,953,18788
634354,238,"You amaze me, ladies. I would have told you of good
wrestling, which you have lost the sight of.",660,18788
634355,240,Yet tell us the manner of the wrestling.,953,18788
634356,241,"I will tell you the beginning, and, if it please your
ladyships, you may see the end; for the best is yet to do; and
here, where you are, they are coming to perform it.",660,18788
634357,244,"Well, the beginning, that is dead and buried.",233,18788
634358,245,There comes an old man and his three sons-,660,18788
634359,246,I could match this beginning with an old tale.,233,18788
634360,247,"Three proper young men, of excellent growth and presence.",660,18788
634361,248,"With bills on their necks: 'Be it known unto all men by
these presents'-",953,18788
634362,250,"The eldest of the three wrestled with Charles, the Duke's
wrestler; which Charles in a moment threw him, and broke three of
his ribs, that there is little hope of life in him. So he serv'd
the second, and so the third. Yonder they lie; the poor old man,
their father, making such pitiful dole over them that all the
beholders take his part with weeping.",660,18788
634363,256,Alas!,953,18788
634364,257,"But what is the sport, monsieur, that the ladies have
lost?",1203,18788
634365,259,"Why, this that I speak of.",660,18788
634366,260,"Thus men may grow wiser every day. It is the first time
that ever I heard breaking of ribs was sport for ladies.",1203,18788
634367,262,"Or I, I promise thee.",233,18788
634368,263,"But is there any else longs to see this broken music in
his sides? Is there yet another dotes upon rib-breaking? Shall we
see this wrestling, cousin?",953,18788
634369,266,"You must, if you stay here; for here is the place
appointed for the wrestling, and they are ready to perform it.",660,18788
634370,268,"Yonder, sure, they are coming. Let us now stay and see it.",233,18788
634371,269,"       Flourish. Enter DUKE FREDERICK, LORDS, ORLANDO,",1261,18788
634372,270,"                 CHARLES, and ATTENDANTS",1261,18788
634373,271,"Come on; since the youth will not be entreated, his own
peril on his forwardness.",497,18788
634374,273,Is yonder the man?,953,18788
634375,274,"Even he, madam.",660,18788
634376,275,"Alas, he is too young; yet he looks successfully.",233,18788
634377,276,"How now, daughter and cousin! Are you crept hither to
see the wrestling?",497,18788
634378,278,"Ay, my liege; so please you give us leave.",953,18788
634379,279,"You will take little delight in it, I can tell you,
there is such odds in the man. In pity of the challenger's youth
I would fain dissuade him, but he will not be entreated. Speak to
him, ladies; see if you can move him.",497,18788
634380,283,"Call him hither, good Monsieur Le Beau.",233,18788
634381,284,"Do so; I'll not be by.
                                 [DUKE FREDERICK goes apart]",497,18788
634382,286,"Monsieur the Challenger, the Princess calls for you.",660,18788
634383,287,I attend them with all respect and duty.,838,18788
634384,288,"Young man, have you challeng'd Charles the wrestler?",953,18788
634385,289,"No, fair Princess; he is the general challenger. I come
but in, as others do, to try with him the strength of my youth.",838,18788
634386,291,"Young gentleman, your spirits are too bold for your years.
You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength; if you saw
yourself with your eyes, or knew yourself with your judgment, the
fear of your adventure would counsel you to a more equal
enterprise. We pray you, for your own sake, to embrace your own
safety and give over this attempt.",233,18788
634387,297,"Do, young sir; your reputation shall not therefore be
misprised: we will make it our suit to the Duke that the
wrestling might not go forward.",953,18788
634388,300,"I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts,
wherein I confess me much guilty to deny so fair and excellent
ladies any thing. But let your fair eyes and gentle wishes go
with me to my trial; wherein if I be foil'd there is but one
sham'd that was never gracious; if kill'd, but one dead that is
willing to be so. I shall do my friends no wrong, for I have none
to lament me; the world no injury, for in it I have nothing; only
in the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when
I have made it empty.",838,18788
634389,309,"The little strength that I have, I would it were with
you.",953,18788
634390,311,And mine to eke out hers.,233,18788
634391,312,Fare you well. Pray heaven I be deceiv'd in you!,953,18788
634392,313,Your heart's desires be with you!,233,18788
634393,314,"Come, where is this young gallant that is so desirous to
lie with his mother earth?",237,18788
634394,316,"Ready, sir; but his will hath in it a more modest working.",838,18788
634395,317,You shall try but one fall.,497,18788
634396,318,"No, I warrant your Grace, you shall not entreat him to a
second, that have so mightily persuaded him from a first.",237,18788
634397,320,"You mean to mock me after; you should not have mock'd me
before; but come your ways.",838,18788
634398,322,"Now, Hercules be thy speed, young man!",953,18788
634399,323,"I would I were invisible, to catch the strong fellow by the
leg.                                     [They wrestle]",233,18788
634400,325,O excellent young man!,953,18788
634401,326,"If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who should
down.",233,18788
634402,328,                                  [CHARLES is thrown. Shout],1261,18788
634403,329,"No more, no more.",497,18788
634404,330,"Yes, I beseech your Grace; I am not yet well breath'd.",838,18788
634405,331,"How dost thou, Charles?",497,18788
634406,332,"He cannot speak, my lord.",660,18788
634407,333,"Bear him away. What is thy name, young man?",497,18788
634408,334,"Orlando, my liege; the youngest son of Sir Rowland de
Boys.",838,18788
634409,336,"I would thou hadst been son to some man else.
The world esteem'd thy father honourable,
But I did find him still mine enemy.
Thou shouldst have better pleas'd me with this deed,
Hadst thou descended from another house.
But fare thee well; thou art a gallant youth;
I would thou hadst told me of another father.",497,18788
634410,343,"                             Exeunt DUKE, train, and LE BEAU",1261,18788
634411,344,"Were I my father, coz, would I do this?",233,18788
634412,345,"I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son,
His youngest son- and would not change that calling
To be adopted heir to Frederick.",838,18788
634413,348,"My father lov'd Sir Rowland as his soul,
And all the world was of my father's mind;
Had I before known this young man his son,
I should have given him tears unto entreaties
Ere he should thus have ventur'd.",953,18788
634414,353,"Gentle cousin,
Let us go thank him, and encourage him;
My father's rough and envious disposition
Sticks me at heart. Sir, you have well deserv'd;
If you do keep your promises in love
But justly as you have exceeded all promise,
Your mistress shall be happy.",233,18788
634415,360,"Gentleman,        [Giving him a chain from her neck]
Wear this for me; one out of suits with fortune,
That could give more, but that her hand lacks means.
Shall we go, coz?",953,18788
634416,364,"Ay. Fare you well, fair gentleman.",233,18788
634417,365,"Can I not say 'I thank you'? My better parts
Are all thrown down; and that which here stands up
Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.",838,18788
634418,368,"He calls us back. My pride fell with my fortunes;
I'll ask him what he would. Did you call, sir?
Sir, you have wrestled well, and overthrown
More than your enemies.",953,18788
634419,372,"Will you go, coz?",233,18788
634420,373,Have with you. Fare you well.,953,18788
634421,374,                                   Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA,1261,18788
634422,375,"What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?
I cannot speak to her, yet she urg'd conference.
O poor Orlando, thou art overthrown!
Or Charles or something weaker masters thee.",838,18788
634423,379,                  Re-enter LE BEAU,1261,18788
634424,380,"Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you
To leave this place. Albeit you have deserv'd
High commendation, true applause, and love,
Yet such is now the Duke's condition
That he misconstrues all that you have done.
The Duke is humorous; what he is, indeed,
More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.",660,18788
634425,387,"I thank you, sir; and pray you tell me this:
Which of the two was daughter of the Duke
That here was at the wrestling?",838,18788
634426,390,"Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners;
But yet, indeed, the smaller is his daughter;
The other is daughter to the banish'd Duke,
And here detain'd by her usurping uncle,
To keep his daughter company; whose loves
Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters.
But I can tell you that of late this Duke
Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece,
Grounded upon no other argument
But that the people praise her for her virtues
And pity her for her good father's sake;
And, on my life, his malice 'gainst the lady
Will suddenly break forth. Sir, fare you well.
Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.",660,18788
634427,405,"I rest much bounden to you; fare you well.
[Exit LE BEAU]
Thus must I from the smoke into the smother;
From tyrant Duke unto a tyrant brother.
But heavenly Rosalind!                                  Exit",838,18788
634428,411,Enter CELIA and ROSALIND,1261,18789
634429,412,"Why, cousin! why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy!
Not a word?",233,18789
634430,414,Not one to throw at a dog.,953,18789
634431,415,"No, thy words are too precious to be cast away upon curs;
throw some of them at me; come, lame me with reasons.",233,18789
634432,417,"Then there were two cousins laid up, when the one should
be lam'd with reasons and the other mad without any.",953,18789
634433,419,But is all this for your father?,233,18789
634434,420,"No, some of it is for my child's father. O, how full of
briers is this working-day world!",953,18789
634435,422,"They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in holiday
foolery; if we walk not in the trodden paths, our very petticoats
will catch them.",233,18789
634436,425,"I could shake them off my coat: these burs are in my
heart.",953,18789
634437,427,Hem them away.,233,18789
634438,428,"I would try, if I could cry 'hem' and have him.",953,18789
634439,429,"Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.",233,18789
634440,430,"O, they take the part of a better wrestler than myself.",953,18789
634441,431,"O, a good wish upon you! You will try in time, in despite of
a fall. But, turning these jests out of service, let us talk in
good earnest. Is it possible, on such a sudden, you should fall
into so strong a liking with old Sir Rowland's youngest son?",233,18789
634442,435,The Duke my father lov'd his father dearly.,953,18789
634443,436,"Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son dearly?
By this kind of chase I should hate him, for my father hated his
father dearly; yet I hate not Orlando.",233,18789
634444,439,"No, faith, hate him not, for my sake.",953,18789
634445,440,Why should I not? Doth he not deserve well?,233,18789
634446,441,"                Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with LORDS",1261,18789
634447,442,"Let me love him for that; and do you love him because I
do. Look, here comes the Duke.",953,18789
634448,444,With his eyes full of anger.,233,18789
634449,445,"Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste,
And get you from our court.",497,18789
634450,447,"Me, uncle?",953,18789
634451,448,"You, cousin.
Within these ten days if that thou beest found
So near our public court as twenty miles,
Thou diest for it.",497,18789
634452,452,"I do beseech your Grace,
Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me.
If with myself I hold intelligence,
Or have acquaintance with mine own desires;
If that I do not dream, or be not frantic-
As I do trust I am not- then, dear uncle,
Never so much as in a thought unborn
Did I offend your Highness.",953,18789
634453,460,"Thus do all traitors;
If their purgation did consist in words,
They are as innocent as grace itself.
Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.",497,18789
634454,464,"Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor.
Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.",953,18789
634455,466,Thou art thy father's daughter; there's enough.,497,18789
634456,467,"So was I when your Highness took his dukedom;
So was I when your Highness banish'd him.
Treason is not inherited, my lord;
Or, if we did derive it from our friends,
What's that to me? My father was no traitor.
Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much
To think my poverty is treacherous.",953,18789
634457,474,"Dear sovereign, hear me speak.",233,18789
634458,475,"Ay, Celia; we stay'd her for your sake,
Else had she with her father rang'd along.",497,18789
634459,477,"I did not then entreat to have her stay;
It was your pleasure, and your own remorse;
I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
Why so am I: we still have slept together,
Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together;
And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans,
Still we went coupled and inseparable.",233,18789
634460,485,"She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness,
Her very silence and her patience,
Speak to the people, and they pity her.
Thou art a fool. She robs thee of thy name;
And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous
When she is gone. Then open not thy lips.
Firm and irrevocable is my doom
Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.",497,18789
634461,493,"Pronounce that sentence, then, on me, my liege;
I cannot live out of her company.",233,18789
634462,495,"You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself.
If you outstay the time, upon mine honour,
And in the greatness of my word, you die.",497,18789
634463,498,                                       Exeunt DUKE and LORDS,1261,18789
634464,499,"O my poor Rosalind! Whither wilt thou go?
Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine.
I charge thee be not thou more griev'd than I am.",233,18789
634465,502,I have more cause.,953,18789
634466,503,"Thou hast not, cousin.
Prithee be cheerful. Know'st thou not the Duke
Hath banish'd me, his daughter?",233,18789
634467,506,That he hath not.,953,18789
634468,507,"No, hath not? Rosalind lacks, then, the love
Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one.
Shall we be sund'red? Shall we part, sweet girl?
No; let my father seek another heir.
Therefore devise with me how we may fly,
Whither to go, and what to bear with us;
And do not seek to take your charge upon you,
To bear your griefs yourself, and leave me out;
For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale,
Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee.",233,18789
634469,517,"Why, whither shall we go?",953,18789
634470,518,To seek my uncle in the Forest of Arden.,233,18789
634471,519,"Alas, what danger will it be to us,
Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.",953,18789
634472,522,"I'll put myself in poor and mean attire,
And with a kind of umber smirch my face;
The like do you; so shall we pass along,
And never stir assailants.",233,18789
634473,526,"Were it not better,
Because that I am more than common tall,
That I did suit me all points like a man?
A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh,
A boar spear in my hand; and- in my heart
Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will-
We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,
As many other mannish cowards have
That do outface it with their semblances.",953,18789
634474,535,What shall I call thee when thou art a man?,233,18789
634475,536,"I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page,
And therefore look you call me Ganymede.
But what will you be call'd?",953,18789
634476,539,"Something that hath a reference to my state:
No longer Celia, but Aliena.",233,18789
634477,541,"But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal
The clownish fool out of your father's court?
Would he not be a comfort to our travel?",953,18789
634478,544,"He'll go along o'er the wide world with me;
Leave me alone to woo him. Let's away,
And get our jewels and our wealth together;
Devise the fittest time and safest way
To hide us from pursuit that will be made
After my flight. Now go we in content
To liberty, and not to banishment.               Exeunt",233,18789
634479,553,"Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and two or three LORDS, like foresters",1261,18790
634480,554,"Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
Here feel we not the penalty of Adam,
The seasons' difference; as the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say
'This is no flattery; these are counsellors
That feelingly persuade me what I am.'
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
I would not change it.",341,18790
634481,572,"Happy is your Grace,
That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so sweet a style.",101,18790
634482,575,"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should, in their own confines, with forked heads
Have their round haunches gor'd.",341,18790
634483,580,"Indeed, my lord,
The melancholy Jaques grieves at that;
And, in that kind, swears you do more usurp
Than doth your brother that hath banish'd you.
To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself
Did steal behind him as he lay along
Under an oak whose antique root peeps out
Upon the brook that brawls along this wood!
To the which place a poor sequest'red stag,
That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt,
Did come to languish; and, indeed, my lord,
The wretched animal heav'd forth such groans
That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat
Almost to bursting; and the big round tears
Cours'd one another down his innocent nose
In piteous chase; and thus the hairy fool,
Much marked of the melancholy Jaques,
Stood on th' extremest verge of the swift brook,
Augmenting it with tears.",435,18790
634484,599,"But what said Jaques?
Did he not moralize this spectacle?",341,18790
634485,601,"O, yes, into a thousand similes.
First, for his weeping into the needless stream:
'Poor deer,' quoth he 'thou mak'st a testament
As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more
To that which had too much.' Then, being there alone,
Left and abandoned of his velvet friends:
''Tis right'; quoth he 'thus misery doth part
The flux of company.' Anon, a careless herd,
Full of the pasture, jumps along by him
And never stays to greet him. 'Ay,' quoth Jaques
'Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?'
Thus most invectively he pierceth through
The body of the country, city, court,
Yea, and of this our life; swearing that we
Are mere usurpers, tyrants, and what's worse,
To fright the animals, and to kill them up
In their assign'd and native dwelling-place.",435,18790
634486,620,And did you leave him in this contemplation?,341,18790
634487,621,"We did, my lord, weeping and commenting
Upon the sobbing deer.",1003,18790
634488,623,"Show me the place;
I love to cope him in these sullen fits,
For then he's full of matter.",341,18790
634489,626,I'll bring you to him straight.        Exeunt,435,18790
634490,628,"Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with LORDS",1261,18791
634491,629,"Can it be possible that no man saw them?
It cannot be; some villains of my court
Are of consent and sufferance in this.",497,18791
634492,632,"I cannot hear of any that did see her.
The ladies, her attendants of her chamber,
Saw her abed, and in the morning early
They found the bed untreasur'd of their mistress.",435,18791
634493,636,"My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft
Your Grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.
Hisperia, the Princess' gentlewoman,
Confesses that she secretly o'erheard
Your daughter and her cousin much commend
The parts and graces of the wrestler
That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles;
And she believes, wherever they are gone,
That youth is surely in their company.",1003,18791
634494,645,"Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither.
If he be absent, bring his brother to me;
I'll make him find him. Do this suddenly;
And let not search and inquisition quail
To bring again these foolish runaways.           Exeunt",497,18791
634495,651,"Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting",1261,18792
634496,652,Who's there?,838,18792
634497,653,"What, my young master? O my gentle master!
O my sweet master! O you memory
Of old Sir Rowland! Why, what make you here?
Why are you virtuous? Why do people love you?
And wherefore are you gentle, strong, and valiant?
Why would you be so fond to overcome
The bonny prizer of the humorous Duke?
Your praise is come too swiftly home before you.
Know you not, master, to some kind of men
Their graces serve them but as enemies?
No more do yours. Your virtues, gentle master,
Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.
O, what a world is this, when what is comely
Envenoms him that bears it!",50,18792
634498,667,"Why, what's the matter?",838,18792
634499,668,"O unhappy youth!
Come not within these doors; within this roof
The enemy of all your graces lives.
Your brother- no, no brother; yet the son-
Yet not the son; I will not call him son
Of him I was about to call his father-
Hath heard your praises; and this night he means
To burn the lodging where you use to lie,
And you within it. If he fail of that,
He will have other means to cut you off;
I overheard him and his practices.
This is no place; this house is but a butchery;
Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.",50,18792
634500,681,"Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go?",838,18792
634501,682,"No matter whither, so you come not here.",50,18792
634502,683,"What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food,
Or with a base and boist'rous sword enforce
A thievish living on the common road?
This I must do, or know not what to do;
Yet this I will not do, do how I can.
I rather will subject me to the malice
Of a diverted blood and bloody brother.",838,18792
634503,690,"But do not so. I have five hundred crowns,
The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father,
Which I did store to be my foster-nurse,
When service should in my old limbs lie lame,
And unregarded age in corners thrown.
Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold;
All this I give you. Let me be your servant;
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility;
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly. Let me go with you;
I'll do the service of a younger man
In all your business and necessities.",50,18792
634504,708,"O good old man, how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat but for promotion,
And having that do choke their service up
Even with the having; it is not so with thee.
But, poor old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree
That cannot so much as a blossom yield
In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry.
But come thy ways, we'll go along together,
And ere we have thy youthful wages spent
We'll light upon some settled low content.",838,18792
634505,721,"Master, go on; and I will follow thee
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.
From seventeen years till now almost four-score
Here lived I, but now live here no more.
At seventeen years many their fortunes seek,
But at fourscore it is too late a week;
Yet fortune cannot recompense me better
Than to die well and not my master's debtor.     Exeunt",50,18792
634506,730,"Enter ROSALIND for GANYMEDE, CELIA for ALIENA, and CLOWN alias",1261,18793
634507,731,TOUCHSTONE,1261,18793
634508,732,"O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!",953,18793
634509,733,"I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary.",1203,18793
634510,734,"I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel,
and to cry like a woman; but I must comfort the weaker vessel, as
doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat;
therefore, courage, good Aliena.",953,18793
634511,738,I pray you bear with me; I cannot go no further.,233,18793
634512,739,"For my part, I had rather bear with you than bear you;
yet I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you
have no money in your purse.",1203,18793
634513,742,"Well, this is the Forest of Arden.",953,18793
634514,743,"Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was at
home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.",1203,18793
634515,745,                    Enter CORIN and SILVIUS,1261,18793
634516,746,"Ay, be so, good Touchstone. Look you, who comes here, a
young man and an old in solemn talk.",953,18793
634517,748,That is the way to make her scorn you still.,282,18793
634518,749,"O Corin, that thou knew'st how I do love her!",1095,18793
634519,750,I partly guess; for I have lov'd ere now.,282,18793
634520,751,"No, Corin, being old, thou canst not guess,
Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover
As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow.
But if thy love were ever like to mine,
As sure I think did never man love so,
How many actions most ridiculous
Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?",1095,18793
634521,758,Into a thousand that I have forgotten.,282,18793
634522,759,"O, thou didst then never love so heartily!
If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into,
Thou hast not lov'd;
Or if thou hast not sat as I do now,
Wearing thy hearer in thy mistress' praise,
Thou hast not lov'd;
Or if thou hast not broke from company
Abruptly, as my passion now makes me,
Thou hast not lov'd.
O Phebe, Phebe, Phebe!                          Exit Silvius",1095,18793
634523,770,"Alas, poor shepherd! searching of thy wound,
I have by hard adventure found mine own.",953,18793
634524,772,"And I mine. I remember, when I was in love, I broke my
sword upon a stone, and bid him take that for coming a-night to
Jane Smile; and I remember the kissing of her batler, and the
cow's dugs that her pretty chapt hands had milk'd; and I remember
the wooing of peascod instead of her; from whom I took two cods,
and giving her them again, said with weeping tears 'Wear these
for my sake.' We that are true lovers run into strange capers;
but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal
in folly.",1203,18793
634525,781,Thou speak'st wiser than thou art ware of.,953,18793
634526,782,"Nay, I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I break
my shins against it.",1203,18793
634527,784,"Jove, Jove! this shepherd's passion
Is much upon my fashion.",953,18793
634528,786,And mine; but it grows something stale with me.,1203,18793
634529,787,"I pray you, one of you question yond man
If he for gold will give us any food;
I faint almost to death.",233,18793
634530,790,"Holla, you clown!",1203,18793
634531,791,"Peace, fool; he's not thy kinsman.",953,18793
634532,792,Who calls?,282,18793
634533,793,"Your betters, sir.",1203,18793
634534,794,Else are they very wretched.,282,18793
634535,795,"Peace, I say. Good even to you, friend.",953,18793
634536,796,"And to you, gentle sir, and to you all.",282,18793
634537,797,"I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold
Can in this desert place buy entertainment,
Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed.
Here's a young maid with travel much oppress'd,
And faints for succour.",953,18793
634538,802,"Fair sir, I pity her,
And wish, for her sake more than for mine own,
My fortunes were more able to relieve her;
But I am shepherd to another man,
And do not shear the fleeces that I graze.
My master is of churlish disposition,
And little recks to find the way to heaven
By doing deeds of hospitality.
Besides, his cote, his flocks, and bounds of feed,
Are now on sale; and at our sheepcote now,
By reason of his absence, there is nothing
That you will feed on; but what is, come see,
And in my voice most welcome shall you be.",282,18793
634539,815,What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture?,953,18793
634540,816,"That young swain that you saw here but erewhile,
That little cares for buying any thing.",282,18793
634541,818,"I pray thee, if it stand with honesty,
Buy thou the cottage, pasture, and the flock,
And thou shalt have to pay for it of us.",953,18793
634542,821,"And we will mend thy wages. I like this place,
And willingly could waste my time in it.",233,18793
634543,823,"Assuredly the thing is to be sold.
Go with me; if you like upon report
The soil, the profit, and this kind of life,
I will your very faithful feeder be,
And buy it with your gold right suddenly.        Exeunt",282,18793
634544,829,"Enter AMIENS, JAQUES, and OTHERS",1261,18794
634545,830,"Under the greenwood tree
           Who loves to lie with me,
           And turn his merry note
           Unto the sweet bird's throat,
         Come hither, come hither, come hither.
           Here shall he see
           No enemy
         But winter and rough weather.",101,18794
634546,838,"More, more, I prithee, more.",609,18794
634547,839,"It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques.",101,18794
634548,840,"I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy
out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I prithee, more.",609,18794
634549,842,My voice is ragged; I know I cannot please you.,101,18794
634550,843,"I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to sing.
Come, more; another stanzo. Call you 'em stanzos?",609,18794
634551,845,"What you will, Monsieur Jaques.",101,18794
634552,846,"Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me nothing. Will
you sing?",609,18794
634553,848,More at your request than to please myself.,101,18794
634554,849,"Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you; but
that they call compliment is like th' encounter of two dog-apes;
and when a man thanks me heartily, methinks have given him a
penny, and he renders me the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you
that will not, hold your tongues.",609,18794
634555,854,"Well, I'll end the song. Sirs, cover the while; the Duke
will drink under this tree. He hath been all this day to look
you.",101,18794
634556,857,"And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is too
disputable for my company. I think of as many matters as he; but
I give heaven thanks, and make no boast of them. Come, warble, come.
                   SONG
          [All together here]
       Who doth ambition shun,
       And loves to live i' th' sun,
       Seeking the food he eats,
       And pleas'd with what he gets,
     Come hither, come hither, come hither.
       Here shall he see
       No enemy
       But winter and rough weather.",609,18794
634557,870,"I'll give you a verse to this note that I made yesterday in
despite of my invention.",609,18794
634558,872,And I'll sing it.,101,18794
634559,873,"Thus it goes:
         If it do come to pass
         That any man turn ass,
         Leaving his wealth and ease
         A stubborn will to please,
       Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame;
         Here shall he see
         Gross fools as he,
         An if he will come to me.",609,18794
634560,882,What's that 'ducdame'?,101,18794
634561,883,"'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a circle. I'll
go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll rail against all the
first-born of Egypt.",609,18794
634562,886,And I'll go seek the Duke; his banquet is prepar'd.,101,18794
634563,887,                                            Exeunt severally,1261,18794
634564,889,Enter ORLANDO and ADAM,1261,18795
634565,890,"Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for food! Here lie
I down, and measure out my grave. Farewell, kind master.",50,18795
634566,892,"Why, how now, Adam! No greater heart in thee? Live a
little; comfort a little; cheer thyself a little. If this uncouth
forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or
bring it for food to thee. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy
powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death awhile at the
arm's end. I will here be with thee presently; and if I bring thee
not something to eat, I will give thee leave to die; but if thou
diest before I come, thou art a mocker of my labour. Well said!
thou look'st cheerly; and I'll be with thee quickly. Yet thou
liest in the bleak air. Come, I will bear thee to some shelter;
and thou shalt not die for lack of a dinner, if there live
anything in this desert. Cheerly, good Adam!          Exeunt",838,18795
634567,905,"A table set out. Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and LORDS, like outlaws",1261,18796
634568,906,"I think he be transform'd into a beast;
For I can nowhere find him like a man.",341,18796
634569,908,"My lord, he is but even now gone hence;
Here was he merry, hearing of a song.",435,18796
634570,910,"If he, compact of jars, grow musical,
We shall have shortly discord in the spheres.
Go seek him; tell him I would speak with him.",341,18796
634571,913,                     Enter JAQUES,1261,18796
634572,914,He saves my labour by his own approach.,435,18796
634573,915,"Why, how now, monsieur! what a life is this,
That your poor friends must woo your company?
What, you look merrily!",341,18796
634574,918,"A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,
A motley fool. A miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool,
Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun,
And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms- and yet a motley fool.
'Good morrow, fool,' quoth I; 'No, sir,' quoth he,
'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune.'
And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock;
Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags;
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine;
And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.' When I did hear
The motley fool thus moral on the time,
My lungs began to crow like chanticleer
That fools should be so deep contemplative;
And I did laugh sans intermission
An hour by his dial. O noble fool!
A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear.",609,18796
634575,941,What fool is this?,341,18796
634576,942,"O worthy fool! One that hath been a courtier,
And says, if ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it; and in his brain,
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
With observation, the which he vents
In mangled forms. O that I were a fool!
I am ambitious for a motley coat.",609,18796
634577,950,Thou shalt have one.,341,18796
634578,951,"It is my only suit,
Provided that you weed your better judgments
Of all opinion that grows rank in them
That I am wise. I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please, for so fools have;
And they that are most galled with my folly,
They most must laugh. And why, sir, must they so?
The why is plain as way to parish church:
He that a fool doth very wisely hit
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not,
The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.
Invest me in my motley; give me leave
To speak my mind, and I will through and through
Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world,
If they will patiently receive my medicine.",609,18796
634579,969,Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do.,341,18796
634580,970,"What, for a counter, would I do but good?",609,18796
634581,971,"Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin;
For thou thyself hast been a libertine,
As sensual as the brutish sting itself;
And all th' embossed sores and headed evils
That thou with license of free foot hast caught
Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world.",341,18796
634582,977,"Why, who cries out on pride
That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea,
Till that the wearer's very means do ebb?
What woman in the city do I name
When that I say the city-woman bears
The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders?
Who can come in and say that I mean her,
When such a one as she such is her neighbour?
Or what is he of basest function
That says his bravery is not on my cost,
Thinking that I mean him, but therein suits
His folly to the mettle of my speech?
There then! how then? what then? Let me see wherein
My tongue hath wrong'd him: if it do him right,
Then he hath wrong'd himself; if he be free,
Why then my taxing like a wild-goose flies,
Unclaim'd of any man. But who comes here?",609,18796
634583,995,         Enter ORLANDO with his sword drawn,1261,18796
634584,996,"Forbear, and eat no more.",838,18796
634585,997,"Why, I have eat none yet.",609,18796
634586,998,"Nor shalt not, till necessity be serv'd.",838,18796
634587,999,Of what kind should this cock come of?,609,18796
634588,1000,"Art thou thus bolden'd, man, by thy distress?
Or else a rude despiser of good manners,
That in civility thou seem'st so empty?",341,18796
634589,1003,"You touch'd my vein at first: the thorny point
Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred,
And know some nurture. But forbear, I say;
He dies that touches any of this fruit
Till I and my affairs are answered.",838,18796
634590,1009,"An you will not be answer'd with reason, I must die.",609,18796
634591,1010,"What would you have? Your gentleness shall force
More than your force move us to gentleness.",341,18796
634592,1012,"I almost die for food, and let me have it.",838,18796
634593,1013,"Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.",341,18796
634594,1014,"Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you;
I thought that all things had been savage here,
And therefore put I on the countenance
Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are
That in this desert inaccessible,
Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time;
If ever you have look'd on better days,
If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church,
If ever sat at any good man's feast,
If ever from your eyelids wip'd a tear,
And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied,
Let gentleness my strong enforcement be;
In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.",838,18796
634595,1028,"True is it that we have seen better days,
And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church,
And sat at good men's feasts, and wip'd our eyes
Of drops that sacred pity hath engend'red;
And therefore sit you down in gentleness,
And take upon command what help we have
That to your wanting may be minist'red.",341,18796
634596,1035,"Then but forbear your food a little while,
Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn,
And give it food. There is an old poor man
Who after me hath many a weary step
Limp'd in pure love; till he be first suffic'd,
Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger,
I will not touch a bit.",838,18796
634597,1042,"Go find him out.
And we will nothing waste till you return.",341,18796
634598,1044,I thank ye; and be blest for your good comfort!  Exit,838,18796
634599,1045,"Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.",341,18796
634600,1049,"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.",609,18796
634601,1077,              Re-enter ORLANDO with ADAM,1261,18796
634602,1078,"Welcome. Set down your venerable burden,
And let him feed.",341,18796
634603,1080,I thank you most for him.,838,18796
634604,1081,"So had you need;
I scarce can speak to thank you for myself.",50,18796
634605,1083,"Welcome; fall to. I will not trouble you
As yet to question you about your fortunes.
Give us some music; and, good cousin, sing.
                     SONG
        Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
        Thou art not so unkind
          As man's ingratitude;
        Thy tooth is not so keen,
        Because thou art not seen,
          Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly.
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
        Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
          This life is most jolly.
        Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
        That dost not bite so nigh
          As benefits forgot;
        Though thou the waters warp,
        Thy sting is not so sharp
          As friend rememb'red not.
Heigh-ho! sing, &c.",341,18796
634606,1104,"If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son,
As you have whisper'd faithfully you were,
And as mine eye doth his effigies witness
Most truly limn'd and living in your face,
Be truly welcome hither. I am the Duke
That lov'd your father. The residue of your fortune,
Go to my cave and tell me. Good old man,
Thou art right welcome as thy master is.
Support him by the arm. Give me your hand,
And let me all your fortunes understand.         Exeunt",341,18796
634607,1116,"Enter DUKE FREDERICK, OLIVER, and LORDS",1261,18797
634608,1117,"Not see him since! Sir, sir, that cannot be.
But were I not the better part made mercy,
I should not seek an absent argument
Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:
Find out thy brother wheresoe'er he is;
Seek him with candle; bring him dead or living
Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more
To seek a living in our territory.
Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine
Worth seizure do we seize into our hands,
Till thou canst quit thee by thy brother's mouth
Of what we think against thee.",497,18797
634609,1129,"O that your Highness knew my heart in this!
I never lov'd my brother in my life.",835,18797
634610,1131,"More villain thou. Well, push him out of doors;
And let my officers of such a nature
Make an extent upon his house and lands.
Do this expediently, and turn him going.         Exeunt",497,18797
634611,1136,"Enter ORLANDO, with a paper",1261,18798
634612,1137,"Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love;
And thou, thrice-crowned Queen of Night, survey
With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above,
Thy huntress' name that my full life doth sway.
O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books,
And in their barks my thoughts I'll character,
That every eye which in this forest looks
Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where.
Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree,
The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.        Exit",838,18798
634613,1147,                 Enter CORIN and TOUCHSTONE,1261,18798
634614,1148,"And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone?",282,18798
634615,1149,"Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good
life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is nought.
In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but in
respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now in
respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in respect
it is not in the court, it is tedious. As it is a spare life,
look you, it fits my humour well; but as there is no more plenty
in it, it goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in
thee, shepherd?",1203,18798
634616,1158,"No more but that I know the more one sickens the worse at
ease he is; and that he that wants money, means, and content, is
without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet,
and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep; and that a
great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath
learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding,
or comes of a very dull kindred.",282,18798
634617,1165,"Such a one is a natural philosopher. Wast ever in
court, shepherd?",1203,18798
634618,1167,"No, truly.",282,18798
634619,1168,Then thou art damn'd.,1203,18798
634620,1169,"Nay, I hope.",282,18798
634621,1170,"Truly, thou art damn'd, like an ill-roasted egg, all on
one side.",1203,18798
634622,1172,For not being at court? Your reason.,282,18798
634623,1173,"Why, if thou never wast at court thou never saw'st good
manners; if thou never saw'st good manners, then thy manners must
be wicked; and wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art
in a parlous state, shepherd.",1203,18798
634624,1177,"Not a whit, Touchstone. Those that are good manners at the
court are as ridiculous in the country as the behaviour of the
country is most mockable at the court. You told me you salute not
at the court, but you kiss your hands; that courtesy would be
uncleanly if courtiers were shepherds.",282,18798
634625,1182,"Instance, briefly; come, instance.",1203,18798
634626,1183,"Why, we are still handling our ewes; and their fells, you
know, are greasy.",282,18798
634627,1185,"Why, do not your courtier's hands sweat? And is not the
grease of a mutton as wholesome as the sweat of a man? Shallow,
shallow. A better instance, I say; come.",1203,18798
634628,1188,"Besides, our hands are hard.",282,18798
634629,1189,"Your lips will feel them the sooner. Shallow again. A
more sounder instance; come.",1203,18798
634630,1191,"And they are often tarr'd over with the surgery of our
sheep; and would you have us kiss tar? The courtier's hands are
perfum'd with civet.",282,18798
634631,1194,"Most shallow man! thou worm's meat in respect of a good
piece of flesh indeed! Learn of the wise, and perpend: civet is
of a baser birth than tar- the very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend
the instance, shepherd.",1203,18798
634632,1198,You have too courtly a wit for me; I'll rest.,282,18798
634633,1199,"Wilt thou rest damn'd? God help thee, shallow man! God
make incision in thee! thou art raw.",1203,18798
634634,1201,"Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get that I
wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other
men's good, content with my harm; and the greatest of my pride is
to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck.",282,18798
634635,1205,"That is another simple sin in you: to bring the ewes
and the rams together, and to offer to get your living by the
copulation of cattle; to be bawd to a bell-wether, and to betray
a she-lamb of a twelvemonth to crooked-pated, old, cuckoldly ram,
out of all reasonable match. If thou beest not damn'd for this,
the devil himself will have no shepherds; I cannot see else how
thou shouldst scape.",1203,18798
634636,1212,"Here comes young Master Ganymede, my new mistress's brother.",282,18798
634637,1213,"              Enter ROSALIND, reading a paper",1261,18798
634638,1214,"'From the east to western Inde,
          No jewel is like Rosalinde.
          Her worth, being mounted on the wind,
          Through all the world bears Rosalinde.
          All the pictures fairest lin'd
          Are but black to Rosalinde.
          Let no face be kept in mind
          But the fair of Rosalinde.'",953,18798
634639,1222,"I'll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners, and
suppers, and sleeping hours, excepted. It is the right
butter-women's rank to market.",1203,18798
634640,1225,"Out, fool!",953,18798
634641,1226,"For a taste:
            If a hart do lack a hind,
            Let him seek out Rosalinde.
            If the cat will after kind,
            So be sure will Rosalinde.
            Winter garments must be lin'd,
            So must slender Rosalinde.
            They that reap must sheaf and bind,
            Then to cart with Rosalinde.
            Sweetest nut hath sourest rind,
            Such a nut is Rosalinde.
            He that sweetest rose will find
            Must find love's prick and Rosalinde.
This is the very false gallop of verses; why do you infect
yourself with them?",1203,18798
634642,1241,"Peace, you dull fool! I found them on a tree.",953,18798
634643,1242,"Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.",1203,18798
634644,1243,"I'll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it with a
medlar. Then it will be the earliest fruit i' th' country; for
you'll be rotten ere you be half ripe, and that's the right
virtue of the medlar.",953,18798
634645,1247,"You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest
judge.
                  Enter CELIA, with a writing",1203,18798
634646,1250,"Peace!
Here comes my sister, reading; stand aside.",953,18798
634647,1252,"'Why should this a desert be?
         For it is unpeopled? No;
       Tongues I'll hang on every tree
         That shall civil sayings show.
       Some, how brief the life of man
         Runs his erring pilgrimage,
       That the streching of a span
         Buckles in his sum of age;
       Some, of violated vows
         'Twixt the souls of friend and friend;
       But upon the fairest boughs,
         Or at every sentence end,
       Will I Rosalinda write,
         Teaching all that read to know
       The quintessence of every sprite
         Heaven would in little show.
       Therefore heaven Nature charg'd
         That one body should be fill'd
       With all graces wide-enlarg'd.
         Nature presently distill'd
       Helen's cheek, but not her heart,
         Cleopatra's majesty,
       Atalanta's better part,
         Sad Lucretia's modesty.
       Thus Rosalinde of many parts
         By heavenly synod was devis'd,
       Of many faces, eyes, and hearts,
         To have the touches dearest priz'd.
       Heaven would that she these gifts should have,
       And I to live and die her slave.'",233,18798
634648,1282,"O most gentle Jupiter! What tedious homily of love have
you wearied your parishioners withal, and never cried 'Have
patience, good people.'",953,18798
634649,1285,"How now! Back, friends; shepherd, go off a little; go with
him, sirrah.",233,18798
634650,1287,"Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat;
though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.",1203,18798
634651,1289,                                 Exeunt CORIN and TOUCHSTONE,1261,18798
634652,1290,Didst thou hear these verses?,233,18798
634653,1291,"O, yes, I heard them all, and more too; for some of them
had in them more feet than the verses would bear.",953,18798
634654,1293,That's no matter; the feet might bear the verses.,233,18798
634655,1294,"Ay, but the feet were lame, and could not bear themselves
without the verse, and therefore stood lamely in the verse.",953,18798
634656,1296,"But didst thou hear without wondering how thy name should be
hang'd and carved upon these trees?",233,18798
634657,1298,"I was seven of the nine days out of the wonder before you
came; for look here what I found on a palm-tree. I was never so
berhym'd since Pythagoras' time that I was an Irish rat, which I
can hardly remember.",953,18798
634658,1302,Trow you who hath done this?,233,18798
634659,1303,Is it a man?,953,18798
634660,1304,"And a chain, that you once wore, about his neck.
Change you colour?",233,18798
634661,1306,"I prithee, who?",953,18798
634662,1307,"O Lord, Lord! it is a hard matter for friends to meet; but
mountains may be remov'd with earthquakes, and so encounter.",233,18798
634663,1309,"Nay, but who is it?",953,18798
634664,1310,Is it possible?,233,18798
634665,1311,"Nay, I prithee now, with most petitionary vehemence, tell
me who it is.",953,18798
634666,1313,"O wonderful, wonderful, most wonderful wonderful, and yet
again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping!",233,18798
634667,1315,"Good my complexion! dost thou think, though I am
caparison'd like a man, I have a doublet and hose in my
disposition? One inch of delay more is a South Sea of discovery.
I prithee tell me who is it quickly, and speak apace. I would
thou could'st stammer, that thou mightst pour this conceal'd man
out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of narrow-mouth'd bottle-
either too much at once or none at all. I prithee take the cork
out of thy mouth that I may drink thy tidings.",953,18798
634668,1323,So you may put a man in your belly.,233,18798
634669,1324,"Is he of God's making? What manner of man?
Is his head worth a hat or his chin worth a beard?",953,18798
634670,1326,"Nay, he hath but a little beard.",233,18798
634671,1327,"Why, God will send more if the man will be thankful. Let
me stay the growth of his beard, if thou delay me not the
knowledge of his chin.",953,18798
634672,1330,"It is young Orlando, that tripp'd up the wrestler's heels
and your heart both in an instant.",233,18798
634673,1332,"Nay, but the devil take mocking! Speak sad brow and true
maid.",953,18798
634674,1334,"I' faith, coz, 'tis he.",233,18798
634675,1335,Orlando?,953,18798
634676,1336,Orlando.,233,18798
634677,1337,"Alas the day! what shall I do with my doublet and hose?
What did he when thou saw'st him? What said he? How look'd he?
Wherein went he? What makes he here? Did he ask for me? Where
remains he? How parted he with thee? And when shalt thou see him
again? Answer me in one word.",953,18798
634678,1342,"You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first; 'tis a word too
great for any mouth of this age's size. To say ay and no to these
particulars is more than to answer in a catechism.",233,18798
634679,1345,"But doth he know that I am in this forest, and in man's
apparel? Looks he as freshly as he did the day he wrestled?",953,18798
634680,1347,"It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the
propositions of a lover; but take a taste of my finding him, and
relish it with good observance. I found him under a tree, like a
dropp'd acorn.",233,18798
634681,1351,"It may well be call'd Jove's tree, when it drops forth
such fruit.",953,18798
634682,1353,"Give me audience, good madam.",233,18798
634683,1354,Proceed.,953,18798
634684,1355,"There lay he, stretch'd along like a wounded knight.",233,18798
634685,1356,"Though it be pity to see such a sight, it well becomes
the ground.",953,18798
634686,1358,"Cry 'Holla' to thy tongue, I prithee; it curvets
unseasonably. He was furnish'd like a hunter.",233,18798
634687,1360,"O, ominous! he comes to kill my heart.",953,18798
634688,1361,"I would sing my song without a burden; thou bring'st me out
of tune.",233,18798
634689,1363,"Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.
Sweet, say on.",953,18798
634690,1365,You bring me out. Soft! comes he not here?,233,18798
634691,1366,               Enter ORLANDO and JAQUES,1261,18798
634692,1367,"'Tis he; slink by, and note him.",953,18798
634693,1368,"I thank you for your company; but, good faith, I had as
lief have been myself alone.",609,18798
634694,1370,"And so had I; but yet, for fashion sake, I thank you too
for your society.",838,18798
634695,1372,God buy you; let's meet as little as we can.,609,18798
634696,1373,I do desire we may be better strangers.,838,18798
634697,1374,"I pray you mar no more trees with writing love songs in
their barks.",609,18798
634698,1376,"I pray you mar no more of my verses with reading them
ill-favouredly.",838,18798
634699,1378,Rosalind is your love's name?,609,18798
634700,1379,"Yes, just.",838,18798
634701,1380,I do not like her name.,609,18798
634702,1381,"There was no thought of pleasing you when she was
christen'd.",838,18798
634703,1383,What stature is she of?,609,18798
634704,1384,Just as high as my heart.,838,18798
634705,1385,"You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been
acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conn'd them out of rings?",609,18798
634706,1387,"Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth, from whence
you have studied your questions.",838,18798
634707,1389,"You have a nimble wit; I think 'twas made of Atalanta's
heels. Will you sit down with me? and we two will rail against
our mistress the world, and all our misery.",609,18798
634708,1392,"I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against
whom I know most faults.",838,18798
634709,1394,The worst fault you have is to be in love.,609,18798
634710,1395,"'Tis a fault I will not change for your best virtue. I am
weary of you.",838,18798
634711,1397,"By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found you.",609,18798
634712,1398,"He is drown'd in the brook; look but in, and you shall see
him.",838,18798
634713,1400,There I shall see mine own figure.,609,18798
634714,1401,Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.,838,18798
634715,1402,"I'll tarry no longer with you; farewell, good Signior Love.",609,18798
634716,1403,"I am glad of your departure; adieu, good Monsieur
Melancholy.",838,18798
634717,1405,                                                 Exit JAQUES,1261,18798
634718,1406,"[Aside to CELIA] I will speak to him like a saucy lackey,
and under that habit play the knave with him.- Do you hear,
forester?",953,18798
634719,1409,Very well; what would you?,838,18798
634720,1410,"I pray you, what is't o'clock?",953,18798
634721,1411,"You should ask me what time o' day; there's no clock in
the forest.",838,18798
634722,1413,"Then there is no true lover in the forest, else sighing
every minute and groaning every hour would detect the lazy foot
of Time as well as a clock.",953,18798
634723,1416,"And why not the swift foot of Time? Had not that been as
proper?",838,18798
634724,1418,"By no means, sir. Time travels in divers paces with
divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time
trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still
withal.",953,18798
634725,1422,"I prithee, who doth he trot withal?",838,18798
634726,1423,"Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the
contract of her marriage and the day it is solemniz'd; if the
interim be but a se'nnight, Time's pace is so hard that it seems
the length of seven year.",953,18798
634727,1427,Who ambles Time withal?,838,18798
634728,1428,"With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that hath
not the gout; for the one sleeps easily because he cannot study,
and the other lives merrily because he feels no pain; the one
lacking the burden of lean and wasteful learning, the other
knowing no burden of heavy tedious penury. These Time ambles
withal.",953,18798
634729,1434,Who doth he gallop withal?,838,18798
634730,1435,"With a thief to the gallows; for though he go as softly
as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon there.",953,18798
634731,1437,Who stays it still withal?,838,18798
634732,1438,"With lawyers in the vacation; for they sleep between term
and term, and then they perceive not how Time moves.",953,18798
634733,1440,"Where dwell you, pretty youth?",838,18798
634734,1441,"With this shepherdess, my sister; here in the skirts of
the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.",953,18798
634735,1443,Are you native of this place?,838,18798
634736,1444,As the coney that you see dwell where she is kindled.,953,18798
634737,1445,"Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in
so removed a dwelling.",838,18798
634738,1447,"I have been told so of many; but indeed an old religious
uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland
man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love.
I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I
am not a woman, to be touch'd with so many giddy offences as he
hath generally tax'd their whole sex withal.",953,18798
634739,1453,"Can you remember any of the principal evils that he laid
to the charge of women?",838,18798
634740,1455,"There were none principal; they were all like one another
as halfpence are; every one fault seeming monstrous till his
fellow-fault came to match it.",953,18798
634741,1458,I prithee recount some of them.,838,18798
634742,1459,"No; I will not cast away my physic but on those that are
sick. There is a man haunts the forest that abuses our young
plants with carving 'Rosalind' on their barks; hangs odes upon
hawthorns and elegies on brambles; all, forsooth, deifying the
name of Rosalind. If I could meet that fancy-monger, I would give
him some good counsel, for he seems to have the quotidian of love
upon him.",953,18798
634743,1466,"I am he that is so love-shak'd; I pray you tell me your
remedy.",838,18798
634744,1468,"There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me
how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you
are not prisoner.",953,18798
634745,1471,What were his marks?,838,18798
634746,1472,"A lean cheek, which you have not; a blue eye and sunken,
which you have not; an unquestionable spirit, which you have not;
a beard neglected, which you have not; but I pardon you for that,
for simply your having in beard is a younger brother's revenue.
Then your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unbanded, your
sleeve unbutton'd, your shoe untied, and every thing about you
demonstrating a careless desolation. But you are no such man; you
are rather point-device in your accoutrements, as loving yourself
than seeming the lover of any other.",953,18798
634747,1481,"Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.",838,18798
634748,1482,"Me believe it! You may as soon make her that you love
believe it; which, I warrant, she is apter to do than to confess
she does. That is one of the points in the which women still give
the lie to their consciences. But, in good sooth, are you he that
hangs the verses on the trees wherein Rosalind is so admired?",953,18798
634749,1487,"I swear to thee, youth, by the white hand of Rosalind, I
am that he, that unfortunate he.",838,18798
634750,1489,But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?,953,18798
634751,1490,Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.,838,18798
634752,1491,"Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as
well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why
they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too. Yet I profess curing
it by counsel.",953,18798
634753,1496,Did you ever cure any so?,838,18798
634754,1497,"Yes, one; and in this manner. He was to imagine me his
love, his mistress; and I set him every day to woo me; at which
time would I, being but a moonish youth, grieve, be effeminate,
changeable, longing and liking, proud, fantastical, apish,
shallow, inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles; for every
passion something and for no passion truly anything, as boys and
women are for the most part cattle of this colour; would now like
him, now loathe him; then entertain him, then forswear him; now
weep for him, then spit at him; that I drave my suitor from his
mad humour of love to a living humour of madness; which was, to
forswear the full stream of the world and to live in a nook
merely monastic. And thus I cur'd him; and this way will I take
upon me to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep's heart,
that there shall not be one spot of love in 't.",953,18798
634755,1511,"I would not be cured, youth.",838,18798
634756,1512,"I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind, and
come every day to my cote and woo me.",953,18798
634757,1514,"Now, by the faith of my love, I will. Tell me where it is.",838,18798
634758,1515,"Go with me to it, and I'll show it you; and, by the way,
you shall tell me where in the forest you live. Will you go?",953,18798
634759,1517,"With all my heart, good youth.",838,18798
634760,1518,"Nay, you must call me Rosalind. Come, sister, will you
go?                                                   Exeunt",953,18798
634761,1521,Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY; JAQUES behind,1261,18799
634762,1522,"Come apace, good Audrey; I will fetch up your goats,
Audrey. And how, Audrey, am I the man yet? Doth my simple feature
content you?",1203,18799
634763,1525,Your features! Lord warrant us! What features?,132,18799
634764,1526,"I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most
capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths.",1203,18799
634765,1528,"[Aside] O knowledge ill-inhabited, worse than Jove in a
thatch'd house!",609,18799
634766,1530,"When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's
good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it
strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.",1203,18799
634767,1534,"I do not know what 'poetical' is. Is it honest in deed and
word? Is it a true thing?",132,18799
634768,1536,"No, truly; for the truest poetry is the most feigning,
and lovers are given to poetry; and what they swear in poetry may
be said as lovers they do feign.",1203,18799
634769,1539,"Do you wish, then, that the gods had made me poetical?",132,18799
634770,1540,"I do, truly, for thou swear'st to me thou art honest;
now, if thou wert a poet, I might have some hope thou didst
feign.",1203,18799
634771,1543,Would you not have me honest?,132,18799
634772,1544,"No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favour'd; for honesty
coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.",1203,18799
634773,1546,[Aside] A material fool!,609,18799
634774,1547,"Well, I am not fair; and therefore I pray the gods make me
honest.",132,18799
634775,1549,"Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul slut were
to put good meat into an unclean dish.",1203,18799
634776,1551,"I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul.",132,18799
634777,1552,"Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness;
sluttishness may come hereafter. But be it as it may be, I will
marry thee; and to that end I have been with Sir Oliver Martext,
the vicar of the next village, who hath promis'd to meet me in
this place of the forest, and to couple us.",1203,18799
634778,1557,[Aside] I would fain see this meeting.,609,18799
634779,1558,"Well, the gods give us joy!",132,18799
634780,1559,"Amen. A man may, if he were of a fearful heart, stagger
in this attempt; for here we have no temple but the wood, no
assembly but horn-beasts. But what though? Courage! As horns are
odious, they are necessary. It is said: 'Many a man knows no end
of his goods.' Right! Many a man has good horns and knows no end
of them. Well, that is the dowry of his wife; 'tis none of his
own getting. Horns? Even so. Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest
deer hath them as huge as the rascal. Is the single man therefore
blessed? No; as a wall'd town is more worthier than a village, so
is the forehead of a married man more honourable than the bare
brow of a bachelor; and by how much defence is better than no
skill, by so much is horn more precious than to want. Here comes
Sir Oliver.
[Enter SIR OLIVER MARTEXT]
Sir Oliver Martext, you are well met. Will you dispatch us here
under this tree, or shall we go with you to your chapel?",1203,18799
634781,1575,Is there none here to give the woman?,748,18799
634782,1576,I will not take her on gift of any man.,1203,18799
634783,1577,"Truly, she must be given, or the marriage is not lawful.",748,18799
634784,1578,"[Discovering himself] Proceed, proceed; I'll give her.",609,18799
634785,1579,"Good even, good Master What-ye-call't; how do you, sir?
You are very well met. Goddild you for your last company. I am
very glad to see you. Even a toy in hand here, sir. Nay; pray be
cover'd.",1203,18799
634786,1583,"Will you be married, motley?",609,18799
634787,1584,"As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb, and
the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and as pigeons
bill, so wedlock would be nibbling.",1203,18799
634788,1587,"And will you, being a man of your breeding, be married
under a bush, like a beggar? Get you to church and have a good
priest that can tell you what marriage is; this fellow will but
join you together as they join wainscot; then one of you will
prove a shrunk panel, and like green timber warp, warp.",609,18799
634789,1592,"[Aside] I am not in the mind but I were better to be
married of him than of another; for he is not like to marry me
well; and not being well married, it will be a good excuse for me
hereafter to leave my wife.",1203,18799
634790,1596,"Go thou with me, and let me counsel thee.",609,18799
634791,1597,"Come, sweet Audrey;
We must be married or we must live in bawdry.
Farewell, good Master Oliver. Not-
           O sweet Oliver,
           O brave Oliver,
       Leave me not behind thee.
But-
             Wind away,
           Begone, I say,
       I will not to wedding with thee.
                       Exeunt JAQUES, TOUCHSTONE, and AUDREY",1203,18799
634792,1608,"'Tis no matter; ne'er a fantastical knave of them all
shall flout me out of my calling.                  Exit",748,18799
634793,1611,Enter ROSALIND and CELIA,1261,18800
634794,1612,Never talk to me; I will weep.,953,18800
634795,1613,"Do, I prithee; but yet have the grace to consider that tears
do not become a man.",233,18800
634796,1615,But have I not cause to weep?,953,18800
634797,1616,As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep.,233,18800
634798,1617,His very hair is of the dissembling colour.,953,18800
634799,1618,"Something browner than Judas's.
Marry, his kisses are Judas's own children.",233,18800
634800,1620,"I' faith, his hair is of a good colour.",953,18800
634801,1621,An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the only colour.,233,18800
634802,1622,"And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of
holy bread.",953,18800
634803,1624,"He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana. A nun of
winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of
chastity is in them.",233,18800
634804,1627,"But why did he swear he would come this morning, and
comes not?",953,18800
634805,1629,"Nay, certainly, there is no truth in him.",233,18800
634806,1630,Do you think so?,953,18800
634807,1631,"Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer; but
for his verity in love, I do think him as concave as covered
goblet or a worm-eaten nut.",233,18800
634808,1634,Not true in love?,953,18800
634809,1635,"Yes, when he is in; but I think he is not in.",233,18800
634810,1636,You have heard him swear downright he was.,953,18800
634811,1637,"'Was' is not 'is'; besides, the oath of a lover is no
stronger than the word of a tapster; they are both the confirmer
of false reckonings. He attends here in the forest on the Duke,
your father.",233,18800
634812,1641,"I met the Duke yesterday, and had much question with him.
He asked me of what parentage I was; I told him, of as good as
he; so he laugh'd and let me go. But what talk we of fathers when
there is such a man as Orlando?",953,18800
634813,1645,"O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave
words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite
traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puny tilter, that
spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble
goose. But all's brave that youth mounts and folly guides. Who
comes here?",233,18800
634814,1651,                     Enter CORIN,1261,18800
634815,1652,"Mistress and master, you have oft enquired
After the shepherd that complain'd of love,
Who you saw sitting by me on the turf,
Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess
That was his mistress.",282,18800
634816,1657,"Well, and what of him?",233,18800
634817,1658,"If you will see a pageant truly play'd
Between the pale complexion of true love
And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain,
Go hence a little, and I shall conduct you,
If you will mark it.",282,18800
634818,1663,"O, come, let us remove!
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
Bring us to this sight, and you shall say
I'll prove a busy actor in their play.           Exeunt",953,18800
634819,1668,Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE,1261,18801
634820,1669,"Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me; do not, Phebe.
Say that you love me not; but say not so
In bitterness. The common executioner,
Whose heart th' accustom'd sight of death makes hard,
Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck
But first begs pardon. Will you sterner be
Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops?",1095,18801
634821,1676,"      Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and CORIN, at a distance",1261,18801
634822,1677,"I would not be thy executioner;
I fly thee, for I would not injure thee.
Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye.
'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable,
That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things,
Who shut their coward gates on atomies,
Should be call'd tyrants, butchers, murderers!
Now I do frown on thee with all my heart;
And if mine eyes can wound, now let them kill thee.
Now counterfeit to swoon; why, now fall down;
Or, if thou canst not, O, for shame, for shame,
Lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers.
Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee.
Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains
Some scar of it; lean upon a rush,
The cicatrice and capable impressure
Thy palm some moment keeps; but now mine eyes,
Which I have darted at thee, hurt thee not;
Nor, I am sure, there is not force in eyes
That can do hurt.",879,18801
634823,1697,"O dear Phebe,
If ever- as that ever may be near-
You meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy,
Then shall you know the wounds invisible
That love's keen arrows make.",1095,18801
634824,1702,"But till that time
Come not thou near me; and when that time comes,
Afflict me with thy mocks, pity me not;
As till that time I shall not pity thee.",879,18801
634825,1706,"[Advancing] And why, I pray you? Who might be your
  mother,
That you insult, exult, and all at once,
Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty-
As, by my faith, I see no more in you
Than without candle may go dark to bed-
Must you be therefore proud and pitiless?
Why, what means this? Why do you look on me?
I see no more in you than in the ordinary
Of nature's sale-work. 'Od's my little life,
I think she means to tangle my eyes too!
No faith, proud mistress, hope not after it;
'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair,
Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,
That can entame my spirits to your worship.
You foolish shepherd, wherefore do you follow her,
Like foggy south, puffing with wind and rain?
You are a thousand times a properer man
Than she a woman. 'Tis such fools as you
That makes the world full of ill-favour'd children.
'Tis not her glass, but you, that flatters her;
And out of you she sees herself more proper
Than any of her lineaments can show her.
But, mistress, know yourself. Down on your knees,
And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love;
For I must tell you friendly in your ear:
Sell when you can; you are not for all markets.
Cry the man mercy, love him, take his offer;
Foul is most foul, being foul to be a scoffer.
So take her to thee, shepherd. Fare you well.",953,18801
634826,1736,"Sweet youth, I pray you chide a year together;
I had rather hear you chide than this man woo.",879,18801
634827,1738,"He's fall'n in love with your foulness, and she'll fall
in love with my anger. If it be so, as fast as she answers thee
with frowning looks, I'll sauce her with bitter words. Why look
you so upon me?",953,18801
634828,1742,For no ill will I bear you.,879,18801
634829,1743,"I pray you do not fall in love with me,
For I am falser than vows made in wine;
Besides, I like you not. If you will know my house,
'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by.
Will you go, sister? Shepherd, ply her hard.
Come, sister. Shepherdess, look on him better,
And be not proud; though all the world could see,
None could be so abus'd in sight as he.
Come, to our flock.   Exeunt ROSALIND, CELIA, and CORIN",953,18801
634830,1752,"Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might:
'Who ever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight?'",879,18801
634831,1754,Sweet Phebe.,1095,18801
634832,1755,"Ha! what say'st thou, Silvius?",879,18801
634833,1756,"Sweet Phebe, pity me.",1095,18801
634834,1757,"Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius.",879,18801
634835,1758,"Wherever sorrow is, relief would be.
If you do sorrow at my grief in love,
By giving love, your sorrow and my grief
Were both extermin'd.",1095,18801
634836,1762,Thou hast my love; is not that neighbourly?,879,18801
634837,1763,I would have you.,1095,18801
634838,1764,"Why, that were covetousness.
Silvius, the time was that I hated thee;
And yet it is not that I bear thee love;
But since that thou canst talk of love so well,
Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,
I will endure; and I'll employ thee too.
But do not look for further recompense
Than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd.",879,18801
634839,1772,"So holy and so perfect is my love,
And I in such a poverty of grace,
That I shall think it a most plenteous crop
To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps; loose now and then
A scatt'red smile, and that I'll live upon.",1095,18801
634840,1778,Know'st thou the youth that spoke to me erewhile?,879,18801
634841,1779,"Not very well; but I have met him oft;
And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds
That the old carlot once was master of.",1095,18801
634842,1782,"Think not I love him, though I ask for him;
'Tis but a peevish boy; yet he talks well.
But what care I for words? Yet words do well
When he that speaks them pleases those that hear.
It is a pretty youth- not very pretty;
But, sure, he's proud; and yet his pride becomes him.
He'll make a proper man. The best thing in him
Is his complexion; and faster than his tongue
Did make offence, his eye did heal it up.
He is not very tall; yet for his years he's tall;
His leg is but so-so; and yet 'tis well.
There was a pretty redness in his lip,
A little riper and more lusty red
Than that mix'd in his cheek; 'twas just the difference
Betwixt the constant red and mingled damask.
There be some women, Silvius, had they mark'd him
In parcels as I did, would have gone near
To fall in love with him; but, for my part,
I love him not, nor hate him not; and yet
I have more cause to hate him than to love him;
For what had he to do to chide at me?
He said mine eyes were black, and my hair black,
And, now I am rememb'red, scorn'd at me.
I marvel why I answer'd not again;
But that's all one: omittance is no quittance.
I'll write to him a very taunting letter,
And thou shalt bear it; wilt thou, Silvius?",879,18801
634843,1809,"Phebe, with all my heart.",1095,18801
634844,1810,"I'll write it straight;
The matter's in my head and in my heart;
I will be bitter with him and passing short.
Go with me, Silvius.                             Exeunt",879,18801
634845,1816,"Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and JAQUES",1261,18802
634846,1817,"I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted with
thee.",609,18802
634847,1819,They say you are a melancholy fellow.,953,18802
634848,1820,I am so; I do love it better than laughing.,609,18802
634849,1821,"Those that are in extremity of either are abominable
fellows, and betray themselves to every modern censure worse than
drunkards.",953,18802
634850,1824,"Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing.",609,18802
634851,1825,"Why then, 'tis good to be a post.",953,18802
634852,1826,"I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is
emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the
courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is
ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's,
which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these; but it is a
melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted
from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my
travels; in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous
sadness.",609,18802
634853,1835,"A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to be
sad. I fear you have sold your own lands to see other men's; then
to have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and
poor hands.",953,18802
634854,1839,"Yes, I have gain'd my experience.",609,18802
634855,1840,                    Enter ORLANDO,1261,18802
634856,1841,"And your experience makes you sad. I had rather have a
fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad- and to
travel for it too.",953,18802
634857,1844,"Good day, and happiness, dear Rosalind!",838,18802
634858,1845,"Nay, then, God buy you, an you talk in blank verse.",609,18802
634859,1846,"Farewell, Monsieur Traveller; look you lisp and wear
strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country, be
out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making
you that countenance you are; or I will scarce think you have
swam in a gondola. [Exit JAQUES] Why, how now, Orlando! where
have you been all this while? You a lover! An you serve me such
another trick, never come in my sight more.",953,18802
634860,1853,"My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my promise.",838,18802
634861,1854,"Break an hour's promise in love! He that will divide a
minute into a thousand parts, and break but a part of the
thousand part of a minute in the affairs of love, it may be said
of him that Cupid hath clapp'd him o' th' shoulder, but I'll
warrant him heart-whole.",953,18802
634862,1859,"Pardon me, dear Rosalind.",838,18802
634863,1860,"Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight. I had
as lief be woo'd of a snail.",953,18802
634864,1862,Of a snail!,838,18802
634865,1863,"Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he carries
his house on his head- a better jointure, I think, than you make
a woman; besides, he brings his destiny with him.",953,18802
634866,1866,What's that?,838,18802
634867,1867,"Why, horns; which such as you are fain to be beholding to
your wives for; but he comes armed in his fortune, and prevents
the slander of his wife.",953,18802
634868,1870,Virtue is no horn-maker; and my Rosalind is virtuous.,838,18802
634869,1871,And I am your Rosalind.,953,18802
634870,1872,"It pleases him to call you so; but he hath a Rosalind of a
better leer than you.",233,18802
634871,1874,"Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humour,
and like enough to consent. What would you say to me now, an I
were your very very Rosalind?",953,18802
634872,1877,I would kiss before I spoke.,838,18802
634873,1878,"Nay, you were better speak first; and when you were
gravell'd for lack of matter, you might take occasion to kiss.
Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for
lovers lacking- God warn us!- matter, the cleanliest shift is to
kiss.",953,18802
634874,1883,How if the kiss be denied?,838,18802
634875,1884,"Then she puts you to entreaty, and there begins new
matter.",953,18802
634876,1886,"Who could be out, being before his beloved mistress?",838,18802
634877,1887,"Marry, that should you, if I were your mistress; or I
should think my honesty ranker than my wit.",953,18802
634878,1889,"What, of my suit?",838,18802
634879,1890,"Not out of your apparel, and yet out of your suit.
Am not I your Rosalind?",953,18802
634880,1892,"I take some joy to say you are, because I would be talking
of her.",838,18802
634881,1894,"Well, in her person, I say I will not have you.",953,18802
634882,1895,"Then, in mine own person, I die.",838,18802
634883,1896,"No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is almost six
thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man
died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause. Troilus had
his brains dash'd out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he
could to die before, and he is one of the patterns of love.
Leander, he would have liv'd many a fair year, though Hero had
turn'd nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for,
good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and,
being taken with the cramp, was drown'd; and the foolish
chroniclers of that age found it was- Hero of Sestos. But these
are all lies: men have died from time to time, and worms have
eaten them, but not for love.",953,18802
634884,1908,"I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind; for, I
protest, her frown might kill me.",838,18802
634885,1910,"By this hand, it will not kill a fly. But come, now I
will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on disposition; and ask me
what you will, I will grant it.",953,18802
634886,1913,"Then love me, Rosalind.",838,18802
634887,1914,"Yes, faith, will I, Fridays and Saturdays, and all.",953,18802
634888,1915,And wilt thou have me?,838,18802
634889,1916,"Ay, and twenty such.",953,18802
634890,1917,What sayest thou?,838,18802
634891,1918,Are you not good?,953,18802
634892,1919,I hope so.,838,18802
634893,1920,"Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? Come,
sister, you shall be the priest, and marry us. Give me your hand,
Orlando. What do you say, sister?",953,18802
634894,1923,"Pray thee, marry us.",838,18802
634895,1924,I cannot say the words.,233,18802
634896,1925,"You must begin 'Will you, Orlando'-",953,18802
634897,1926,"Go to. Will you, Orlando, have to wife this Rosalind?",233,18802
634898,1927,I will.,838,18802
634899,1928,"Ay, but when?",953,18802
634900,1929,"Why, now; as fast as she can marry us.",838,18802
634901,1930,"Then you must say 'I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.'",953,18802
634902,1931,"I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.",838,18802
634903,1932,"I might ask you for your commission; but- I do take thee,
Orlando, for my husband. There's a girl goes before the priest;
and, certainly, a woman's thought runs before her actions.",953,18802
634904,1935,So do all thoughts; they are wing'd.,838,18802
634905,1936,"Now tell me how long you would have her, after you have
possess'd her.",953,18802
634906,1938,For ever and a day.,838,18802
634907,1939,"Say 'a day' without the 'ever.' No, no, Orlando; men are
April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when
they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. I will
be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen,
more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more new-fangled than
an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey. I will weep for
nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when you
are dispos'd to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and that when
thou are inclin'd to sleep.",953,18802
634908,1948,But will my Rosalind do so?,838,18802
634909,1949,"By my life, she will do as I do.",953,18802
634910,1950,"O, but she is wise.",838,18802
634911,1951,"Or else she could not have the wit to do this. The wiser,
the waywarder. Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out
at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop
that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.",953,18802
634912,1955,"A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say 'Wit,
whither wilt?'",838,18802
634913,1957,"Nay, you might keep that check for it, till you met your
wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed.",953,18802
634914,1959,And what wit could wit have to excuse that?,838,18802
634915,1960,"Marry, to say she came to seek you there. You shall never
take her without her answer, unless you take her without her
tongue. O, that woman that cannot make her fault her husband's
occasion, let her never nurse her child herself, for she will
breed it like a fool!",953,18802
634916,1965,"For these two hours, Rosalind, I will leave thee.",838,18802
634917,1966,"Alas, dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours!",953,18802
634918,1967,"I must attend the Duke at dinner; by two o'clock I will be
with thee again.",838,18802
634919,1969,"Ay, go your ways, go your ways. I knew what you would
prove; my friends told me as much, and I thought no less. That
flattering tongue of yours won me. 'Tis but one cast away, and
so, come death! Two o'clock is your hour?",953,18802
634920,1973,"Ay, sweet Rosalind.",838,18802
634921,1974,"By my troth, and in good earnest, and so God mend me, and
by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous, if you break one jot
of your promise, or come one minute behind your hour, I will
think you the most pathetical break-promise, and the most hollow
lover, and the most unworthy of her you call Rosalind, that may
be chosen out of the gross band of the unfaithful. Therefore
beware my censure, and keep your promise.",953,18802
634922,1981,"With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my
Rosalind; so, adieu.",838,18802
634923,1983,"Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such
offenders, and let Time try. Adieu.        Exit ORLANDO",953,18802
634924,1985,"You have simply misus'd our sex in your love-prate. We must
have your doublet and hose pluck'd over your head, and show the
world what the bird hath done to her own nest.",233,18802
634925,1988,"O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst
know how many fathom deep I am in love! But it cannot be sounded;
my affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.",953,18802
634926,1991,"Or rather, bottomless; that as fast as you pour affection
in, it runs out.",233,18802
634927,1993,"No; that same wicked bastard of Venus, that was begot of
thought, conceiv'd of spleen, and born of madness; that blind
rascally boy, that abuses every one's eyes, because his own are
out- let him be judge how deep I am in love. I'll tell thee,
Aliena, I cannot be out of the sight of Orlando. I'll go find a
shadow, and sigh till he come.",953,18802
634928,1999,And I'll sleep.                             Exeunt,233,18802
634929,2001,"Enter JAQUES and LORDS, in the habit of foresters",1261,18803
634930,2002,Which is he that killed the deer?,609,18803
634931,2003,"Sir, it was I.",676,18803
634932,2004,"Let's present him to the Duke, like a Roman conqueror; and
it would do well to set the deer's horns upon his head for a
branch of victory. Have you no song, forester, for this purpose?",609,18803
634933,2007,"Yes, sir.",676,18803
634934,2008,"Sing it; 'tis no matter how it be in tune, so it make noise
enough.
                SONG.
  What shall he have that kill'd the deer?
  His leather skin and horns to wear.
                          [The rest shall hear this burden:]
       Then sing him home.
  Take thou no scorn to wear the horn;
  It was a crest ere thou wast born.
       Thy father's father wore it;
       And thy father bore it.
  The horn, the horn, the lusty horn,
  Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.              Exeunt",609,18803
634935,2022,Enter ROSALIND and CELIA,1261,18804
634936,2023,"How say you now? Is it not past two o'clock?
And here much Orlando!",953,18804
634937,2025,"I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain, he hath
ta'en his bow and arrows, and is gone forth- to sleep. Look, who
comes here.",233,18804
634938,2028,                  Enter SILVIUS,1261,18804
634939,2029,"My errand is to you, fair youth;
My gentle Phebe did bid me give you this.
I know not the contents; but, as I guess
By the stern brow and waspish action
Which she did use as she was writing of it,
It bears an angry tenour. Pardon me,
I am but as a guiltless messenger.",1095,18804
634940,2036,"Patience herself would startle at this letter,
And play the swaggerer. Bear this, bear all.
She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
Were man as rare as Phoenix. 'Od's my will!
Her love is not the hare that I do hunt;
Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well,
This is a letter of your own device.",953,18804
634941,2044,"No, I protest, I know not the contents;
Phebe did write it.",1095,18804
634942,2046,"Come, come, you are a fool,
And turn'd into the extremity of love.
I saw her hand; she has a leathern hand,
A freestone-colour'd hand; I verily did think
That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands;
She has a huswife's hand- but that's no matter.
I say she never did invent this letter:
This is a man's invention, and his hand.",953,18804
634943,2054,"Sure, it is hers.",1095,18804
634944,2055,"Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style;
A style for challengers. Why, she defies me,
Like Turk to Christian. Women's gentle brain
Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention,
Such Ethiope words, blacker in their effect
Than in their countenance. Will you hear the letter?",953,18804
634945,2061,"So please you, for I never heard it yet;
Yet heard too much of Phebe's cruelty.",1095,18804
634946,2063,"She Phebes me: mark how the tyrant writes.                                                 [Reads]
        'Art thou god to shepherd turn'd,
        That a maiden's heart hath burn'd?'
Can a woman rail thus?",953,18804
634947,2067,Call you this railing?,1095,18804
634948,2068,"'Why, thy godhead laid apart,
         Warr'st thou with a woman's heart?'
Did you ever hear such railing?
        'Whiles the eye of man did woo me,
        That could do no vengeance to me.'
Meaning me a beast.
        'If the scorn of your bright eyne
        Have power to raise such love in mine,
        Alack, in me what strange effect
        Would they work in mild aspect!
        Whiles you chid me, I did love;
        How then might your prayers move!
        He that brings this love to the
        Little knows this love in me;
        And by him seal up thy mind,
        Whether that thy youth and kind
        Will the faithful offer take
        Of me and all that I can make;
        Or else by him my love deny,
        And then I'll study how to die.'",953,18804
634949,2088,Call you this chiding?,1095,18804
634950,2089,"Alas, poor shepherd!",233,18804
634951,2090,"Do you pity him? No, he deserves no pity. Wilt thou love
such a woman? What, to make thee an instrument, and play false
strains upon thee! Not to be endur'd! Well, go your way to her,
for I see love hath made thee tame snake, and say this to her-
that if she love me, I charge her to love thee; if she will not,
I will never have her unless thou entreat for her. If you be a
true lover, hence, and not a word; for here comes more company.",953,18804
634952,2097,Exit SILVIUS,1261,18804
634953,2098, [Enter OLIVER],1261,18804
634954,2099,"Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,
Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?",835,18804
634955,2102,"West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom.
The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream
Left on your right hand brings you to the place.
But at this hour the house doth keep itself;
There's none within.",233,18804
634956,2107,"If that an eye may profit by a tongue,
Then should I know you by description-
Such garments, and such years: 'The boy is fair,
Of female favour, and bestows himself
Like a ripe sister; the woman low,
And browner than her brother.' Are not you
The owner of the house I did inquire for?",835,18804
634957,2114,"It is no boast, being ask'd, to say we are.",233,18804
634958,2115,"Orlando doth commend him to you both;
And to that youth he calls his Rosalind
He sends this bloody napkin. Are you he?",835,18804
634959,2118,I am. What must we understand by this?,953,18804
634960,2119,"Some of my shame; if you will know of me
What man I am, and how, and why, and where,
This handkercher was stain'd.",835,18804
634961,2122,"I pray you, tell it.",233,18804
634962,2123,"When last the young Orlando parted from you,
He left a promise to return again
Within an hour; and, pacing through the forest,
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,
Lo, what befell! He threw his eye aside,
And mark what object did present itself.
Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age,
And high top bald with dry antiquity,
A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair,
Lay sleeping on his back. About his neck
A green and gilded snake had wreath'd itself,
Who with her head nimble in threats approach'd
The opening of his mouth; but suddenly,
Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,
And with indented glides did slip away
Into a bush; under which bush's shade
A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,
Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch,
When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis
The royal disposition of that beast
To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead.
This seen, Orlando did approach the man,
And found it was his brother, his elder brother.",835,18804
634963,2146,"O, I have heard him speak of that same brother;
And he did render him the most unnatural
That liv'd amongst men.",233,18804
634964,2149,"And well he might so do,
For well I know he was unnatural.",835,18804
634965,2151,"But, to Orlando: did he leave him there,
Food to the suck'd and hungry lioness?",953,18804
634966,2153,"Twice did he turn his back, and purpos'd so;
But kindness, nobler ever than revenge,
And nature, stronger than his just occasion,
Made him give battle to the lioness,
Who quickly fell before him; in which hurtling
From miserable slumber I awak'd.",835,18804
634967,2159,Are you his brother?,233,18804
634968,2160,Was't you he rescu'd?,953,18804
634969,2161,Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him?,233,18804
634970,2162,"'Twas I; but 'tis not I. I do not shame
To tell you what I was, since my conversion
So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am.",835,18804
634971,2165,But for the bloody napkin?,953,18804
634972,2166,"By and by.
When from the first to last, betwixt us two,
Tears our recountments had most kindly bath'd,
As how I came into that desert place-
In brief, he led me to the gentle Duke,
Who gave me fresh array and entertainment,
Committing me unto my brother's love;
Who led me instantly unto his cave,
There stripp'd himself, and here upon his arm
The lioness had torn some flesh away,
Which all this while had bled; and now he fainted,
And cried, in fainting, upon Rosalind.
Brief, I recover'd him, bound up his wound,
And, after some small space, being strong at heart,
He sent me hither, stranger as I am,
To tell this story, that you might excuse
His broken promise, and to give this napkin,
Dy'd in his blood, unto the shepherd youth
That he in sport doth call his Rosalind.",835,18804
634973,2185, [ROSALIND swoons],1261,18804
634974,2186,"Why, how now, Ganymede! sweet Ganymede!",233,18804
634975,2187,Many will swoon when they do look on blood.,835,18804
634976,2188,There is more in it. Cousin Ganymede!,233,18804
634977,2189,"Look, he recovers.",835,18804
634978,2190,I would I were at home.,953,18804
634979,2191,"We'll lead you thither.
I pray you, will you take him by the arm?",233,18804
634980,2193,"Be of good cheer, youth. You a man!
You lack a man's heart.",835,18804
634981,2195,"I do so, I confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would think
this was well counterfeited. I pray you tell your brother how
well I counterfeited. Heigh-ho!",953,18804
634982,2198,"This was not counterfeit; there is too great testimony in
your complexion that it was a passion of earnest.",835,18804
634983,2200,"Counterfeit, I assure you.",953,18804
634984,2201,"Well then, take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man.",835,18804
634985,2202,"So I do; but, i' faith, I should have been a woman by
right.",953,18804
634986,2204,"Come, you look paler and paler; pray you draw homewards.
Good sir, go with us.",233,18804
634987,2206,"That will I, for I must bear answer back
How you excuse my brother, Rosalind.",835,18804
634988,2208,"I shall devise something; but, I pray you, commend my
counterfeiting to him. Will you go? Exeunt",953,18804
634989,2212,Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY,1261,18805
634990,2213,"We shall find a time, Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey.",1203,18805
634991,2214,"Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old
gentleman's saying.",132,18805
634992,2216,"A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile Martext.
But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the forest lays claim to
you.",1203,18805
634993,2219,"Ay, I know who 'tis; he hath no interest in me in the
world; here comes the man you mean.",132,18805
634994,2221, Enter WILLIAM,1261,18805
634995,2222,"It is meat and drink to me to see a clown. By my troth,
we that have good wits have much to answer for: we shall be
flouting; we cannot hold.",1203,18805
634996,2225,"Good ev'n, Audrey.",1254,18805
634997,2226,"God ye good ev'n, William.",132,18805
634998,2227,"And good ev'n to you, sir.",1254,18805
634999,2228,"Good ev'n, gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover thy
head; nay, prithee be cover'd. How old are you, friend?",1203,18805
635000,2230,"Five and twenty, sir.",1254,18805
635001,2231,A ripe age. Is thy name William?,1203,18805
635002,2232,"William, sir.",1254,18805
635003,2233,A fair name. Wast born i' th' forest here?,1203,18805
635004,2234,"Ay, sir, I thank God.",1254,18805
635005,2235,"'Thank God.' A good answer.
Art rich?",1203,18805
635006,2237,"Faith, sir, so so.",1254,18805
635007,2238,"'So so' is good, very good, very excellent good; and
yet it is not; it is but so so. Art thou wise?",1203,18805
635008,2240,"Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit.",1254,18805
635009,2241,"Why, thou say'st well. I do now remember a saying: 'The
fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be
a fool.' The heathen philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a
grape, would open his lips when he put it into his mouth; meaning
thereby that grapes were made to eat and lips to open. You do
love this maid?",1203,18805
635010,2247,"I do, sir.",1254,18805
635011,2248,Give me your hand. Art thou learned?,1203,18805
635012,2249,"No, sir.",1254,18805
635013,2250,"Then learn this of me: to have is to have; for it is a
figure in rhetoric that drink, being pour'd out of cup into a
glass, by filling the one doth empty the other; for all your
writers do consent that ipse is he; now, you are not ipse, for I
am he.",1203,18805
635014,2255,"Which he, sir?",1254,18805
635015,2256,"He, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you
clown, abandon- which is in the vulgar leave- the society- which
in the boorish is company- of this female- which in the common is
woman- which together is: abandon the society of this female; or,
clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better understanding, diest;
or, to wit, I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life into
death, thy liberty into bondage. I will deal in poison with thee,
or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy with thee in faction;
will o'er-run thee with policy; I will kill thee a hundred and
fifty ways; therefore tremble and depart.",1203,18805
635016,2266,"Do, good William.",132,18805
635017,2267,"God rest you merry, sir. Exit",1254,18805
635018,2268, Enter CORIN,1261,18805
635019,2269,"Our master and mistress seeks you; come away, away.",282,18805
635020,2270,"Trip, Audrey, trip, Audrey. I attend, I attend.",1203,18805
635021,2271, Exeunt,1261,18805
635022,2273,Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER,1261,18806
635023,2274,"Is't possible that on so little acquaintance you should
like her? that but seeing you should love her? and loving woo?
and, wooing, she should grant? and will you persever to enjoy
her?",838,18806
635024,2278,"Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the poverty
of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden wooing, nor her sudden
consenting; but say with me, I love Aliena; say with her that she
loves me; consent with both that we may enjoy each other. It
shall be to your good; for my father's house and all the revenue
that was old Sir Rowland's will I estate upon you, and here live
and die a shepherd.",835,18806
635025,2285,"You have my consent. Let your wedding be to-morrow.
Thither will I invite the Duke and all's contented followers. Go
you and prepare Aliena; for, look you, here comes my Rosalind.",838,18806
635026,2288, Enter ROSALIND,1261,18806
635027,2289,"God save you, brother.",953,18806
635028,2290,"And you, fair sister. Exit",835,18806
635029,2291,"O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee wear
thy heart in a scarf!",953,18806
635030,2293,It is my arm.,838,18806
635031,2294,"I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws of a
lion.",953,18806
635032,2296,"Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.",838,18806
635033,2297,"Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to swoon
when he show'd me your handkercher?",953,18806
635034,2299,"Ay, and greater wonders than that.",838,18806
635035,2300,"O, I know where you are. Nay, 'tis true. There was never
any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams and Caesar's
thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and overcame.' For your brother
and my sister no sooner met but they look'd; no sooner look'd but
they lov'd; no sooner lov'd but they sigh'd; no sooner sigh'd but
they ask'd one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but
they sought the remedy- and in these degrees have they made pair
of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else
be incontinent before marriage. They are in the very wrath of
love, and they will together. Clubs cannot part them.",953,18806
635036,2310,"They shall be married to-morrow; and I will bid the Duke
to the nuptial. But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into
happiness through another man's eyes! By so much the more shall I
to-morrow be at the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I
shall think my brother happy in having what he wishes for.",838,18806
635037,2315,"Why, then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for
Rosalind?",953,18806
635038,2317,I can live no longer by thinking.,838,18806
635039,2318,"I will weary you, then, no longer with idle talking. Know
of me then- for now I speak to some purpose- that I know you are
a gentleman of good conceit. I speak not this that you should
bear a good opinion of my knowledge, insomuch I say I know you
are; neither do I labour for a greater esteem than may in some
little measure draw a belief from you, to do yourself good, and
not to grace me. Believe then, if you please, that I can do
strange things. I have, since I was three year old, convers'd
with a magician, most profound in his art and yet not damnable.
If you do love Rosalind so near the heart as your gesture cries
it out, when your brother marries Aliena shall you marry her. I
know into what straits of fortune she is driven; and it is not
impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient to you, to set
her before your eyes to-morrow, human as she is, and without any
danger.",953,18806
635040,2333,Speak'st thou in sober meanings?,838,18806
635041,2334,"By my life, I do; which I tender dearly, though I say I
am a magician. Therefore put you in your best array, bid your
friends; for if you will be married to-morrow, you shall; and to
Rosalind, if you will.
[Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE]
Look, here comes a lover of mine, and a lover of hers.",953,18806
635042,2340,"Youth, you have done me much ungentleness
To show the letter that I writ to you.",879,18806
635043,2342,"I care not if I have. It is my study
To seem despiteful and ungentle to you.
You are there follow'd by a faithful shepherd;
Look upon him, love him; he worships you.",953,18806
635044,2346,"Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.",879,18806
635045,2347,"It is to be all made of sighs and tears;
And so am I for Phebe.",1095,18806
635046,2349,And I for Ganymede.,879,18806
635047,2350,And I for Rosalind.,838,18806
635048,2351,And I for no woman.,953,18806
635049,2352,"It is to be all made of faith and service;
And so am I for Phebe.",1095,18806
635050,2354,And I for Ganymede.,879,18806
635051,2355,And I for Rosalind.,838,18806
635052,2356,And I for no woman.,953,18806
635053,2357,"It is to be all made of fantasy,
All made of passion, and all made of wishes;
All adoration, duty, and observance,
All humbleness, all patience, and impatience,
All purity, all trial, all obedience;
And so am I for Phebe.",1095,18806
635054,2363,And so am I for Ganymede.,879,18806
635055,2364,And so am I for Rosalind.,838,18806
635056,2365,And so am I for no woman.,953,18806
635057,2366,"If this be so, why blame you me to love you?",879,18806
635058,2367,"If this be so, why blame you me to love you?",1095,18806
635059,2368,"If this be so, why blame you me to love you?",838,18806
635060,2369,"Why do you speak too, 'Why blame you me to love you?'",953,18806
635061,2370,"To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.",838,18806
635062,2371,"Pray you, no more of this; 'tis like the howling of Irish
wolves against the moon. [To SILVIUS] I will help you if I can.
[To PHEBE] I would love you if I could.- To-morrow meet me all
together. [ To PHEBE ] I will marry you if ever I marry woman,
and I'll be married to-morrow. [To ORLANDO] I will satisfy you if
ever I satisfied man, and you shall be married to-morrow. [To
Silvius] I will content you if what pleases you contents you, and
you shall be married to-morrow. [To ORLANDO] As you love
Rosalind, meet. [To SILVIUS] As you love Phebe, meet;- and as I
love no woman, I'll meet. So, fare you well; I have left you
commands.",953,18806
635063,2382,"I'll not fail, if I live.",1095,18806
635064,2383,Nor I.,879,18806
635065,2384,Nor I. Exeunt,838,18806
635066,2386,Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY,1261,18807
635067,2387,"To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-morrow will we
be married.",1203,18807
635068,2389,"I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is no
dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the world. Here come
two of the banish'd Duke's pages.",132,18807
635069,2392, Enter two PAGES,1261,18807
635070,2393,"Well met, honest gentleman.",846,18807
635071,2394,"By my troth, well met. Come sit, sit, and a song.",1203,18807
635072,2395,We are for you; sit i' th' middle.,847,18807
635073,2396,"Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking, or
spitting, or saying we are hoarse, which are the only prologues
to a bad voice?",846,18807
635074,2399,"I'faith, i'faith; and both in a tune, like two gipsies
on a horse.
 SONG.
 It was a lover and his lass,
 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
 That o'er the green corn-field did pass
 In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
 When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
 Sweet lovers love the spring.
 Between the acres of the rye,
 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
 These pretty country folks would lie,
 In the spring time, &c.
 This carol they began that hour,
 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
 How that a life was but a flower,
 In the spring time, &c.
 And therefore take the present time,
 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
 For love is crowned with the prime,
 In the spring time, &c.",847,18807
635075,2420,"Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great
matter in the ditty, yet the note was very untuneable.",1203,18807
635076,2422,"You are deceiv'd, sir; we kept time, we lost not our
time.",846,18807
635077,2424,"By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to hear such
a foolish song. God buy you; and God mend your voices. Come,
Audrey. Exeunt",1203,18807
635078,2428,"Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, JAQUES, ORLANDO, OLIVER, and CELIA",1261,18808
635079,2429,"Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy
Can do all this that he hath promised?",341,18808
635080,2431,"I sometimes do believe and sometimes do not:
As those that fear they hope, and know they fear.",838,18808
635081,2433," Enter ROSALIND, SILVIUS, and PHEBE",1261,18808
635082,2434,"Patience once more, whiles our compact is urg'd:
You say, if I bring in your Rosalind,
You will bestow her on Orlando here?",953,18808
635083,2437,"That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her.",341,18808
635084,2438,And you say you will have her when I bring her?,953,18808
635085,2439,"That would I, were I of all kingdoms king.",838,18808
635086,2440,"You say you'll marry me, if I be willing?",953,18808
635087,2441,"That will I, should I die the hour after.",879,18808
635088,2442,"But if you do refuse to marry me,
You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?",953,18808
635089,2444,So is the bargain.,879,18808
635090,2445,"You say that you'll have Phebe, if she will?",953,18808
635091,2446,Though to have her and death were both one thing.,1095,18808
635092,2447,"I have promis'd to make all this matter even.
Keep you your word, O Duke, to give your daughter;
You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter;
Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me,
Or else, refusing me, to wed this shepherd;
Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her
If she refuse me; and from hence I go,
To make these doubts all even.",953,18808
635093,2455, Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA,1261,18808
635094,2456,"I do remember in this shepherd boy
Some lively touches of my daughter's favour.",341,18808
635095,2458,"My lord, the first time that I ever saw him
Methought he was a brother to your daughter.
But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born,
And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments
Of many desperate studies by his uncle,
Whom he reports to be a great magician,
Obscured in the circle of this forest.",838,18808
635096,2465, Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY,1261,18808
635097,2466,"There is, sure, another flood toward, and these couples are
coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of very strange beasts which
in all tongues are call'd fools.",609,18808
635098,2469,Salutation and greeting to you all!,1203,18808
635099,2470,"Good my lord, bid him welcome. This is the motley-minded
gentleman that I have so often met in the forest. He hath been a
 courtier, he swears.",609,18808
635100,2473,"If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation.
I have trod a measure; I have flatt'red a lady; I have been
politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy; I have undone
three tailors; I have had four quarrels, and like to have fought
one.",1203,18808
635101,2478,And how was that ta'en up?,609,18808
635102,2479,"Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was upon the
seventh cause.",1203,18808
635103,2481,"How seventh cause? Good my lord, like this fellow.",609,18808
635104,2482,I like him very well.,341,18808
635105,2483,"God 'ild you, sir; I desire you of the like. I press in
here, sir, amongst the rest of the country copulatives, to swear
and to forswear, according as marriage binds and blood breaks. A
poor virgin, sir, an ill-favour'd thing, sir, but mine own; a
poor humour of mine, sir, to take that that man else will. Rich
honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl
in your foul oyster.",1203,18808
635106,2490,"By my faith, he is very swift and sententious.",341,18808
635107,2491,"According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such dulcet
diseases.",1203,18808
635108,2493,"But, for the seventh cause: how did you find the quarrel on
the seventh cause?",609,18808
635109,2495,"Upon a lie seven times removed- bear your body more
seeming, Audrey- as thus, sir. I did dislike the cut of a certain
courtier's beard; he sent me word, if I said his beard was not
cut well, he was in the mind it was. This is call'd the Retort
Courteous. If I sent him word again it was not well cut, he would
send me word he cut it to please himself. This is call'd the Quip
Modest. If again it was not well cut, he disabled my judgment.
This is call'd the Reply Churlish. If again it was not well cut,
he would answer I spake not true. This is call'd the Reproof
Valiant. If again it was not well cut, he would say I lie. This
is call'd the Countercheck Quarrelsome. And so to the Lie
Circumstantial and the Lie Direct.",1203,18808
635110,2507,And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut?,609,18808
635111,2508,"I durst go no further than the Lie Circumstantial, nor
he durst not give me the Lie Direct; and so we measur'd swords
and parted.",1203,18808
635112,2511,Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie?,609,18808
635113,2512,"O, sir, we quarrel in print by the book, as you have
books for good manners. I will name you the degrees. The first,
the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the
Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the
Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance;
the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie
Direct; and you may avoid that too with an If. I knew when seven
justices could not take up a quarrel; but when the parties were
met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as: 'If you
said so, then I said so.' And they shook hands, and swore
brothers. Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.",1203,18808
635114,2523,"Is not this a rare fellow, my lord?
He's as good at any thing, and yet a fool.",609,18808
635115,2525,"He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the
presentation of that he shoots his wit.
[Enter HYMEN, ROSALIND, and CELIA. Still MUSIC]
HYMEN. Then is there mirth in heaven,
 When earthly things made even
 Atone together.
 Good Duke, receive thy daughter;
 Hymen from heaven brought her,
 Yea, brought her hither,
 That thou mightst join her hand with his,
 Whose heart within his bosom is.",341,18808
635116,2536,"[To DUKE] To you I give myself, for I am yours.
[To ORLANDO] To you I give myself, for I am yours.",953,18808
635117,2538,"If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter.",341,18808
635118,2539,"If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind.",838,18808
635119,2540,"If sight and shape be true,
Why then, my love adieu!",879,18808
635120,2542,"I'll have no father, if you be not he;
I'll have no husband, if you be not he;
Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not she.",953,18808
635121,2545,"Peace, ho! I bar confusion;
 'Tis I must make conclusion
 Of these most strange events.
 Here's eight that must take hands
 To join in Hymen's bands,
 If truth holds true contents.
 You and you no cross shall part;
 You and you are heart in heart;
 You to his love must accord,
 Or have a woman to your lord;
 You and you are sure together,
 As the winter to foul weather.
 Whiles a wedlock-hymn we sing,
 Feed yourselves with questioning,
 That reason wonder may diminish,
 How thus we met, and these things finish.
 SONG
 Wedding is great Juno's crown;
 O blessed bond of board and bed!
 'Tis Hymen peoples every town;
 High wedlock then be honoured.
 Honour, high honour, and renown,
 To Hymen, god of every town!",598,18808
635122,2568,"O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me!
Even daughter, welcome in no less degree.",341,18808
635123,2570,"I will not eat my word, now thou art mine;
Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine.
 Enter JAQUES DE BOYS",879,18808
635124,2573,"Let me have audience for a word or two.
I am the second son of old Sir Rowland,
That bring these tidings to this fair assembly.
Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day
Men of great worth resorted to this forest,
Address'd a mighty power; which were on foot,
In his own conduct, purposely to take
His brother here, and put him to the sword;
And to the skirts of this wild wood he came,
Where, meeting with an old religious man,
After some question with him, was converted
Both from his enterprise and from the world;
His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother,
And all their lands restor'd to them again
That were with him exil'd. This to be true
I do engage my life.",610,18808
635125,2589,"Welcome, young man.
Thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers' wedding:
To one, his lands withheld; and to the other,
A land itself at large, a potent dukedom.
First, in this forest let us do those ends
That here were well begun and well begot;
And after, every of this happy number,
That have endur'd shrewd days and nights with us,
Shall share the good of our returned fortune,
According to the measure of their states.
Meantime, forget this new-fall'n dignity,
And fall into our rustic revelry.
Play, music; and you brides and bridegrooms all,
With measure heap'd in joy, to th' measures fall.",341,18808
635126,2603,"Sir, by your patience. If I heard you rightly,
The Duke hath put on a religious life,
And thrown into neglect the pompous court.",609,18808
635127,2606,He hath.,610,18808
635128,2607,"To him will I. Out of these convertites
There is much matter to be heard and learn'd.
[To DUKE] You to your former honour I bequeath;
Your patience and your virtue well deserves it.
[To ORLANDO] You to a love that your true faith doth merit;
[To OLIVER] You to your land, and love, and great allies
[To SILVIUS] You to a long and well-deserved bed;
[To TOUCHSTONE] And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage
Is but for two months victuall'd.- So to your pleasures;
I am for other than for dancing measures.",609,18808
635129,2617,"Stay, Jaques, stay.",341,18808
635130,2618,"To see no pastime I. What you would have
I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave. Exit",609,18808
635131,2620,"Proceed, proceed. We will begin these rites,
As we do trust they'll end, in true delights. [A dance] Exeunt EPILOGUE",341,18808
635132,2622, EPILOGUE.,1261,18808
635133,2623,"It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but
it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue. If it
be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play
needs no epilogue. Yet to good wine they do use good bushes; and
good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What a
case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor cannot
insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play! I am not
furnish'd like a beggar; therefore to beg will not become me. My
way is to conjure you; and I'll begin with the women. I charge
you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of
this play as please you; and I charge you, O men, for the love
you bear to women- as I perceive by your simp'ring none of you
hates them- that between you and the women the play may please.
If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that
pleas'd me, complexions that lik'd me, and breaths that I defied
not; and, I am sure, as many as have good beards, or good faces,
or sweet breaths, will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy,
bid me farewell.",953,18808
635134,2641,THE END,1261,18808
635135,5,"Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall
And by the doom of death end woes and all.",54,18809
635136,7,"Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more;
I am not partial to infringe our laws:
The enmity and discord which of late
Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke
To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,
Who wanting guilders to redeem their lives
Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,
Excludes all pity from our threatening looks.
For, since the mortal and intestine jars
'Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us,
It hath in solemn synods been decreed
Both by the Syracusians and ourselves,
To admit no traffic to our adverse towns Nay, more,
If any born at Ephesus be seen
At any Syracusian marts and fairs;
Again: if any Syracusian born
Come to the bay of Ephesus, he dies,
His goods confiscate to the duke's dispose,
Unless a thousand marks be levied,
To quit the penalty and to ransom him.
Thy substance, valued at the highest rate,
Cannot amount unto a hundred marks;
Therefore by law thou art condemned to die.",1135,18809
635137,30,"Yet this my comfort: when your words are done,
My woes end likewise with the evening sun.",54,18809
635138,32,"Well, Syracusian, say in brief the cause
Why thou departed'st from thy native home
And for what cause thou camest to Ephesus.",1135,18809
635139,35,"A heavier task could not have been imposed
Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable:
Yet, that the world may witness that my end
Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence,
I'll utter what my sorrows give me leave.
In Syracusa was I born, and wed
Unto a woman, happy but for me,
And by me, had not our hap been bad.
With her I lived in joy; our wealth increased
By prosperous voyages I often made
To Epidamnum; till my factor's death
And the great care of goods at random left
Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse:
From whom my absence was not six months old
Before herself, almost at fainting under
The pleasing punishment that women bear,
Had made provision for her following me
And soon and safe arrived where I was.
There had she not been long, but she became
A joyful mother of two goodly sons;
And, which was strange, the one so like the other,
As could not be distinguish'd but by names.
That very hour, and in the self-same inn,
A meaner woman was delivered
Of such a burden, male twins, both alike:
Those,--for their parents were exceeding poor,--
I bought and brought up to attend my sons.
My wife, not meanly proud of two such boys,
Made daily motions for our home return:
Unwilling I agreed. Alas! too soon,
We came aboard.
A league from Epidamnum had we sail'd,
Before the always wind-obeying deep
Gave any tragic instance of our harm:
But longer did we not retain much hope;
For what obscured light the heavens did grant
Did but convey unto our fearful minds
A doubtful warrant of immediate death;
Which though myself would gladly have embraced,
Yet the incessant weepings of my wife,
Weeping before for what she saw must come,
And piteous plainings of the pretty babes,
That mourn'd for fashion, ignorant what to fear,
Forced me to seek delays for them and me.
And this it was, for other means was none:
The sailors sought for safety by our boat,
And left the ship, then sinking-ripe, to us:
My wife, more careful for the latter-born,
Had fasten'd him unto a small spare mast,
Such as seafaring men provide for storms;
To him one of the other twins was bound,
Whilst I had been like heedful of the other:
The children thus disposed, my wife and I,
Fixing our eyes on whom our care was fix'd,
Fasten'd ourselves at either end the mast;
And floating straight, obedient to the stream,
Was carried towards Corinth, as we thought.
At length the sun, gazing upon the earth,
Dispersed those vapours that offended us;
And by the benefit of his wished light,
The seas wax'd calm, and we discovered
Two ships from far making amain to us,
Of Corinth that, of Epidaurus this:
But ere they came,--O, let me say no more!
Gather the sequel by that went before.",54,18809
635140,100,"Nay, forward, old man; do not break off so;
For we may pity, though not pardon thee.",1135,18809
635141,102,"O, had the gods done so, I had not now
Worthily term'd them merciless to us!
For, ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues,
We were encounterd by a mighty rock;
Which being violently borne upon,
Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst;
So that, in this unjust divorce of us,
Fortune had left to both of us alike
What to delight in, what to sorrow for.
Her part, poor soul! seeming as burdened
With lesser weight but not with lesser woe,
Was carried with more speed before the wind;
And in our sight they three were taken up
By fishermen of Corinth, as we thought.
At length, another ship had seized on us;
And, knowing whom it was their hap to save,
Gave healthful welcome to their shipwreck'd guests;
And would have reft the fishers of their prey,
Had not their bark been very slow of sail;
And therefore homeward did they bend their course.
Thus have you heard me sever'd from my bliss;
That by misfortunes was my life prolong'd,
To tell sad stories of my own mishaps.",54,18809
635142,125,"And for the sake of them thou sorrowest for,
Do me the favour to dilate at full
What hath befall'n of them and thee till now.",1135,18809
635143,128,"My youngest boy, and yet my eldest care,
At eighteen years became inquisitive
After his brother: and importuned me
That his attendant--so his case was like,
Reft of his brother, but retain'd his name--
Might bear him company in the quest of him:
Whom whilst I labour'd of a love to see,
I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
Five summers have I spent in furthest Greece,
Roaming clean through the bounds of Asia,
And, coasting homeward, came to Ephesus;
Hopeless to find, yet loath to leave unsought
Or that or any place that harbours men.
But here must end the story of my life;
And happy were I in my timely death,
Could all my travels warrant me they live.",54,18809
635144,144,"Hapless AEgeon, whom the fates have mark'd
To bear the extremity of dire mishap!
Now, trust me, were it not against our laws,
Against my crown, my oath, my dignity,
Which princes, would they, may not disannul,
My soul would sue as advocate for thee.
But, though thou art adjudged to the death
And passed sentence may not be recall'd
But to our honour's great disparagement,
Yet I will favour thee in what I can.
Therefore, merchant, I'll limit thee this day
To seek thy life by beneficial help:
Try all the friends thou hast in Ephesus;
Beg thou, or borrow, to make up the sum,
And live; if no, then thou art doom'd to die.
Gaoler, take him to thy custody.",1135,18809
635145,160,"I will, my lord.",510,18809
635146,161,"Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend,
But to procrastinate his lifeless end.",54,18809
635147,163,"[Exeunt]
[Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse, DROMIO of Syracuse,]
and First Merchant]",1261,18809
635148,168,"Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum,
Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.
This very day a Syracusian merchant
Is apprehended for arrival here;
And not being able to buy out his life
According to the statute of the town,
Dies ere the weary sun set in the west.
There is your money that I had to keep.",441,18810
635149,176,"Go bear it to the Centaur, where we host,
And stay there, Dromio, till I come to thee.
Within this hour it will be dinner-time:
Till that, I'll view the manners of the town,
Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings,
And then return and sleep within mine inn,
For with long travel I am stiff and weary.
Get thee away.",114,18810
635150,184,"Many a man would take you at your word,
And go indeed, having so good a mean.",334,18810
635151,186,[Exit],1261,18810
635152,187,"A trusty villain, sir, that very oft,
When I am dull with care and melancholy,
Lightens my humour with his merry jests.
What, will you walk with me about the town,
And then go to my inn and dine with me?",114,18810
635153,192,"I am invited, sir, to certain merchants,
Of whom I hope to make much benefit;
I crave your pardon. Soon at five o'clock,
Please you, I'll meet with you upon the mart
And afterward consort you till bed-time:
My present business calls me from you now.",441,18810
635154,198,"Farewell till then: I will go lose myself
And wander up and down to view the city.",114,18810
635155,200,"Sir, I commend you to your own content.",441,18810
635156,201,[Exit],1261,18810
635157,202,"He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:
So I, to find a mother and a brother,
In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.
[Enter DROMIO of Ephesus]
Here comes the almanac of my true date.
What now? how chance thou art return'd so soon?",114,18810
635158,213,"Return'd so soon! rather approach'd too late:
The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit,
The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;
My mistress made it one upon my cheek:
She is so hot because the meat is cold;
The meat is cold because you come not home;
You come not home because you have no stomach;
You have no stomach having broke your fast;
But we that know what 'tis to fast and pray
Are penitent for your default to-day.",333,18810
635159,223,"Stop in your wind, sir: tell me this, I pray:
Where have you left the money that I gave you?",114,18810
635160,225,"O,--sixpence, that I had o' Wednesday last
To pay the saddler for my mistress' crupper?
The saddler had it, sir; I kept it not.",333,18810
635161,228,"I am not in a sportive humour now:
Tell me, and dally not, where is the money?
We being strangers here, how darest thou trust
So great a charge from thine own custody?",114,18810
635162,232,"I pray you, air, as you sit at dinner:
I from my mistress come to you in post;
If I return, I shall be post indeed,
For she will score your fault upon my pate.
Methinks your maw, like mine, should be your clock,
And strike you home without a messenger.",333,18810
635163,238,"Come, Dromio, come, these jests are out of season;
Reserve them till a merrier hour than this.
Where is the gold I gave in charge to thee?",114,18810
635164,241,"To me, sir? why, you gave no gold to me.",333,18810
635165,242,"Come on, sir knave, have done your foolishness,
And tell me how thou hast disposed thy charge.",114,18810
635166,244,"My charge was but to fetch you from the mart
Home to your house, the Phoenix, sir, to dinner:
My mistress and her sister stays for you.",333,18810
635167,247,"In what safe place you have bestow'd my money,
Or I shall break that merry sconce of yours
That stands on tricks when I am undisposed:
Where is the thousand marks thou hadst of me?",114,18810
635168,251,"I have some marks of yours upon my pate,
Some of my mistress' marks upon my shoulders,
But not a thousand marks between you both.
If I should pay your worship those again,
Perchance you will not bear them patiently.",333,18810
635169,256,"Thy mistress' marks? what mistress, slave, hast thou?",114,18810
635170,257,"Your worship's wife, my mistress at the Phoenix;
She that doth fast till you come home to dinner,
And prays that you will hie you home to dinner.",333,18810
635171,260,"What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face,
Being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave.",114,18810
635172,262,"What mean you, sir? for God's sake, hold your hands!
Nay, and you will not, sir, I'll take my heels.",333,18810
635173,264,[Exit],1261,18810
635174,265,"Upon my life, by some device or other
The villain is o'er-raught of all my money.
They say this town is full of cozenage,
As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,
Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,
Soul-killing witches that deform the body,
Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,
And many such-like liberties of sin:
If it prove so, I will be gone the sooner.
I'll to the Centaur, to go seek this slave:
I greatly fear my money is not safe.",114,18810
635175,276,[Exit],1261,18810
635176,279,[Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA],1261,18811
635177,280,"Neither my husband nor the slave return'd,
That in such haste I sent to seek his master!
Sure, Luciana, it is two o'clock.",51,18811
635178,283,"Perhaps some merchant hath invited him,
And from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner.
Good sister, let us dine and never fret:
A man is master of his liberty:
Time is their master, and, when they see time,
They'll go or come: if so, be patient, sister.",710,18811
635179,289,Why should their liberty than ours be more?,51,18811
635180,290,Because their business still lies out o' door.,710,18811
635181,291,"Look, when I serve him so, he takes it ill.",51,18811
635182,292,"O, know he is the bridle of your will.",710,18811
635183,293,There's none but asses will be bridled so.,51,18811
635184,294,"Why, headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe.
There's nothing situate under heaven's eye
But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky:
The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls,
Are their males' subjects and at their controls:
Men, more divine, the masters of all these,
Lords of the wide world and wild watery seas,
Indued with intellectual sense and souls,
Of more preeminence than fish and fowls,
Are masters to their females, and their lords:
Then let your will attend on their accords.",710,18811
635185,305,This servitude makes you to keep unwed.,51,18811
635186,306,"Not this, but troubles of the marriage-bed.",710,18811
635187,307,"But, were you wedded, you would bear some sway.",51,18811
635188,308,"Ere I learn love, I'll practise to obey.",710,18811
635189,309,How if your husband start some other where?,51,18811
635190,310,"Till he come home again, I would forbear.",710,18811
635191,311,"Patience unmoved! no marvel though she pause;
They can be meek that have no other cause.
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more would we ourselves complain:
So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,
With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me,
But, if thou live to see like right bereft,
This fool-begg'd patience in thee will be left.",51,18811
635192,321,"Well, I will marry one day, but to try.
Here comes your man; now is your husband nigh.",710,18811
635193,323,[Enter DROMIO of Ephesus],1261,18811
635194,324,"Say, is your tardy master now at hand?",51,18811
635195,325,"Nay, he's at two hands with me, and that my two ears
can witness.",333,18811
635196,327,"Say, didst thou speak with him? know'st thou his mind?",51,18811
635197,328,"Ay, ay, he told his mind upon mine ear:
Beshrew his hand, I scarce could understand it.",333,18811
635198,330,"Spake he so doubtfully, thou couldst not feel his meaning?",710,18811
635199,331,"Nay, he struck so plainly, I could too well feel his
blows; and withal so doubtfully that I could scarce
understand them.",333,18811
635200,334,"But say, I prithee, is he coming home? It seems he
hath great care to please his wife.",51,18811
635201,336,"Why, mistress, sure my master is horn-mad.",333,18811
635202,337,"Horn-mad, thou villain!",51,18811
635203,338,"I mean not cuckold-mad;
But, sure, he is stark mad.
When I desired him to come home to dinner,
He ask'd me for a thousand marks in gold:
''Tis dinner-time,' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he;
'Your meat doth burn,' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he:
'Will you come home?' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he.
'Where is the thousand marks I gave thee, villain?'
'The pig,' quoth I, 'is burn'd;' 'My gold!' quoth he:
'My mistress, sir' quoth I; 'Hang up thy mistress!
I know not thy mistress; out on thy mistress!'",333,18811
635204,349,Quoth who?,710,18811
635205,350,"Quoth my master:
'I know,' quoth he, 'no house, no wife, no mistress.'
So that my errand, due unto my tongue,
I thank him, I bare home upon my shoulders;
For, in conclusion, he did beat me there.",333,18811
635206,355,"Go back again, thou slave, and fetch him home.",51,18811
635207,356,"Go back again, and be new beaten home?
For God's sake, send some other messenger.",333,18811
635208,358,"Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across.",51,18811
635209,359,"And he will bless that cross with other beating:
Between you I shall have a holy head.",333,18811
635210,361,"Hence, prating peasant! fetch thy master home.",51,18811
635211,362,"Am I so round with you as you with me,
That like a football you do spurn me thus?
You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither:
If I last in this service, you must case me in leather.",333,18811
635212,366,[Exit],1261,18811
635213,367,"Fie, how impatience loureth in your face!",710,18811
635214,368,"His company must do his minions grace,
Whilst I at home starve for a merry look.
Hath homely age the alluring beauty took
From my poor cheek? then he hath wasted it:
Are my discourses dull? barren my wit?
If voluble and sharp discourse be marr'd,
Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard:
Do their gay vestments his affections bait?
That's not my fault: he's master of my state:
What ruins are in me that can be found,
By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground
Of my defeatures. My decayed fair
A sunny look of his would soon repair
But, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale
And feeds from home; poor I am but his stale.",51,18811
635215,383,"Self-harming jealousy! fie, beat it hence!",710,18811
635216,384,"Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense.
I know his eye doth homage otherwhere,
Or else what lets it but he would be here?
Sister, you know he promised me a chain;
Would that alone, alone he would detain,
So he would keep fair quarter with his bed!
I see the jewel best enamelled
Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still,
That others touch, and often touching will
Wear gold: and no man that hath a name,
By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.
Since that my beauty cannot please his eye,
I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die.",51,18811
635217,397,How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!,710,18811
635218,398,[Exeunt],1261,18811
635219,401,[Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse],1261,18812
635220,402,"The gold I gave to Dromio is laid up
Safe at the Centaur; and the heedful slave
Is wander'd forth, in care to seek me out
By computation and mine host's report.
I could not speak with Dromio since at first
I sent him from the mart. See, here he comes.
[Enter DROMIO of Syracuse]
How now sir! is your merry humour alter'd?
As you love strokes, so jest with me again.
You know no Centaur? you received no gold?
Your mistress sent to have me home to dinner?
My house was at the Phoenix? Wast thou mad,
That thus so madly thou didst answer me?",114,18812
635221,415,"What answer, sir? when spake I such a word?",334,18812
635222,416,"Even now, even here, not half an hour since.",114,18812
635223,417,"I did not see you since you sent me hence,
Home to the Centaur, with the gold you gave me.",334,18812
635224,419,"Villain, thou didst deny the gold's receipt,
And told'st me of a mistress and a dinner;
For which, I hope, thou felt'st I was displeased.",114,18812
635225,422,"I am glad to see you in this merry vein:
What means this jest? I pray you, master, tell me.",334,18812
635226,424,"Yea, dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth?
Think'st thou I jest? Hold, take thou that, and that.",114,18812
635227,426,[Beating him],1261,18812
635228,427,"Hold, sir, for God's sake! now your jest is earnest:
Upon what bargain do you give it me?",334,18812
635229,429,"Because that I familiarly sometimes
Do use you for my fool and chat with you,
Your sauciness will jest upon my love
And make a common of my serious hours.
When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,
But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.
If you will jest with me, know my aspect,
And fashion your demeanor to my looks,
Or I will beat this method in your sconce.",114,18812
635230,438,"Sconce call you it? so you would leave battering, I
had rather have it a head: an you use these blows
long, I must get a sconce for my head and ensconce
it too; or else I shall seek my wit in my shoulders.
But, I pray, sir why am I beaten?",334,18812
635231,443,Dost thou not know?,114,18812
635232,444,"Nothing, sir, but that I am beaten.",334,18812
635233,445,Shall I tell you why?,114,18812
635234,446,"Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath
a wherefore.",334,18812
635235,448,"Why, first,--for flouting me; and then, wherefore--
For urging it the second time to me.",114,18812
635236,450,"Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season,
When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme
nor reason?
Well, sir, I thank you.",334,18812
635237,454,"Thank me, sir, for what?",114,18812
635238,455,"Marry, sir, for this something that you gave me for nothing.",334,18812
635239,456,"I'll make you amends next, to give you nothing for
something. But say, sir, is it dinner-time?",114,18812
635240,458,"No, sir; I think the meat wants that I have.",334,18812
635241,459,"In good time, sir; what's that?",114,18812
635242,460,Basting.,334,18812
635243,461,"Well, sir, then 'twill be dry.",114,18812
635244,462,"If it be, sir, I pray you, eat none of it.",334,18812
635245,463,Your reason?,114,18812
635246,464,"Lest it make you choleric and purchase me another
dry basting.",334,18812
635247,466,"Well, sir, learn to jest in good time: there's a
time for all things.",114,18812
635248,468,"I durst have denied that, before you were so choleric.",334,18812
635249,469,"By what rule, sir?",114,18812
635250,470,"Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald
pate of father Time himself.",334,18812
635251,472,Let's hear it.,114,18812
635252,473,"There's no time for a man to recover his hair that
grows bald by nature.",334,18812
635253,475,May he not do it by fine and recovery?,114,18812
635254,476,"Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig and recover the
lost hair of another man.",334,18812
635255,478,"Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is,
so plentiful an excrement?",114,18812
635256,480,"Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts;
and what he hath scanted men in hair he hath given them in wit.",334,18812
635257,482,"Why, but there's many a man hath more hair than wit.",114,18812
635258,483,Not a man of those but he hath the wit to lose his hair.,334,18812
635259,484,"Why, thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit.",114,18812
635260,485,"The plainer dealer, the sooner lost: yet he loseth
it in a kind of jollity.",334,18812
635261,487,For what reason?,114,18812
635262,488,For two; and sound ones too.,334,18812
635263,489,"Nay, not sound, I pray you.",114,18812
635264,490,"Sure ones, then.",334,18812
635265,491,"Nay, not sure, in a thing falsing.",114,18812
635266,492,Certain ones then.,334,18812
635267,493,Name them.,114,18812
635268,494,"The one, to save the money that he spends in
trimming; the other, that at dinner they should not
drop in his porridge.",334,18812
635269,497,"You would all this time have proved there is no
time for all things.",114,18812
635270,499,"Marry, and did, sir; namely, no time to recover hair
lost by nature.",334,18812
635271,501,"But your reason was not substantial, why there is no
time to recover.",114,18812
635272,503,"Thus I mend it: Time himself is bald and therefore
to the world's end will have bald followers.",334,18812
635273,505,"I knew 'twould be a bald conclusion:
But, soft! who wafts us yonder?",114,18812
635274,507,[Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA],1261,18812
635275,508,"Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown:
Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects;
I am not Adriana nor thy wife.
The time was once when thou unurged wouldst vow
That never words were music to thine ear,
That never object pleasing in thine eye,
That never touch well welcome to thy hand,
That never meat sweet-savor'd in thy taste,
Unless I spake, or look'd, or touch'd, or carved to thee.
How comes it now, my husband, O, how comes it,
That thou art thus estranged from thyself?
Thyself I call it, being strange to me,
That, undividable, incorporate,
Am better than thy dear self's better part.
Ah, do not tear away thyself from me!
For know, my love, as easy mayest thou fall
A drop of water in the breaking gulf,
And take unmingled that same drop again,
Without addition or diminishing,
As take from me thyself and not me too.
How dearly would it touch me to the quick,
Shouldst thou but hear I were licentious
And that this body, consecrate to thee,
By ruffian lust should be contaminate!
Wouldst thou not spit at me and spurn at me
And hurl the name of husband in my face
And tear the stain'd skin off my harlot-brow
And from my false hand cut the wedding-ring
And break it with a deep-divorcing vow?
I know thou canst; and therefore see thou do it.
I am possess'd with an adulterate blot;
My blood is mingled with the crime of lust:
For if we too be one and thou play false,
I do digest the poison of thy flesh,
Being strumpeted by thy contagion.
Keep then far league and truce with thy true bed;
I live unstain'd, thou undishonoured.",51,18812
635276,545,"Plead you to me, fair dame? I know you not:
In Ephesus I am but two hours old,
As strange unto your town as to your talk;
Who, every word by all my wit being scann'd,
Want wit in all one word to understand.",114,18812
635277,550,"Fie, brother! how the world is changed with you!
When were you wont to use my sister thus?
She sent for you by Dromio home to dinner.",710,18812
635278,553,By Dromio?,114,18812
635279,554,By me?,334,18812
635280,555,"By thee; and this thou didst return from him,
That he did buffet thee, and, in his blows,
Denied my house for his, me for his wife.",51,18812
635281,558,"Did you converse, sir, with this gentlewoman?
What is the course and drift of your compact?",114,18812
635282,560,"I, sir? I never saw her till this time.",334,18812
635283,561,"Villain, thou liest; for even her very words
Didst thou deliver to me on the mart.",114,18812
635284,563,I never spake with her in all my life.,334,18812
635285,564,"How can she thus then call us by our names,
Unless it be by inspiration.",114,18812
635286,566,"How ill agrees it with your gravity
To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave,
Abetting him to thwart me in my mood!
Be it my wrong you are from me exempt,
But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.
Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine:
Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,
Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,
Makes me with thy strength to communicate:
If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,
Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss;
Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion
Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.",51,18812
635287,579,"To me she speaks; she moves me for her theme:
What, was I married to her in my dream?
Or sleep I now and think I hear all this?
What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?
Until I know this sure uncertainty,
I'll entertain the offer'd fallacy.",114,18812
635288,585,"Dromio, go bid the servants spread for dinner.",710,18812
635289,586,"O, for my beads! I cross me for a sinner.
This is the fairy land: O spite of spites!
We talk with goblins, owls and sprites:
If we obey them not, this will ensue,
They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue.",334,18812
635290,591,"Why pratest thou to thyself and answer'st not?
Dromio, thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot!",710,18812
635291,593,"I am transformed, master, am I not?",334,18812
635292,594,"I think thou art in mind, and so am I.",114,18812
635293,595,"Nay, master, both in mind and in my shape.",334,18812
635294,596,Thou hast thine own form.,114,18812
635295,597,"No, I am an ape.",334,18812
635296,598,"If thou art changed to aught, 'tis to an ass.",710,18812
635297,599,"'Tis true; she rides me and I long for grass.
'Tis so, I am an ass; else it could never be
But I should know her as well as she knows me.",334,18812
635298,602,"Come, come, no longer will I be a fool,
To put the finger in the eye and weep,
Whilst man and master laugh my woes to scorn.
Come, sir, to dinner. Dromio, keep the gate.
Husband, I'll dine above with you to-day
And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks.
Sirrah, if any ask you for your master,
Say he dines forth, and let no creature enter.
Come, sister. Dromio, play the porter well.",51,18812
635299,611,"Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking? mad or well-advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!
I'll say as they say and persever so,
And in this mist at all adventures go.",114,18812
635300,616,"Master, shall I be porter at the gate?",334,18812
635301,617,"Ay; and let none enter, lest I break your pate.",51,18812
635302,618,"Come, come, Antipholus, we dine too late.",710,18812
635303,619,"[Exeunt]
[Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus, DROMIO of Ephesus,]
ANGELO, and BALTHAZAR]",1261,18812
635304,624,"Good Signior Angelo, you must excuse us all;
My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours:
Say that I linger'd with you at your shop
To see the making of her carcanet,
And that to-morrow you will bring it home.
But here's a villain that would face me down
He met me on the mart, and that I beat him,
And charged him with a thousand marks in gold,
And that I did deny my wife and house.
Thou drunkard, thou, what didst thou mean by this?",113,18813
635305,634,"Say what you will, sir, but I know what I know;
That you beat me at the mart, I have your hand to show:
If the skin were parchment, and the blows you gave were ink,
Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.",333,18813
635306,638,I think thou art an ass.,113,18813
635307,639,"Marry, so it doth appear
By the wrongs I suffer and the blows I bear.
I should kick, being kick'd; and, being at that pass,
You would keep from my heels and beware of an ass.",333,18813
635308,643,"You're sad, Signior Balthazar: pray God our cheer
May answer my good will and your good welcome here.",113,18813
635309,645,"I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your
welcome dear.",139,18813
635310,647,"O, Signior Balthazar, either at flesh or fish,
A table full of welcome make scarce one dainty dish.",113,18813
635311,649,"Good meat, sir, is common; that every churl affords.",139,18813
635312,650,And welcome more common; for that's nothing but words.,113,18813
635313,651,Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.,139,18813
635314,652,"Ay, to a niggardly host, and more sparing guest:
But though my cates be mean, take them in good part;
Better cheer may you have, but not with better heart.
But, soft! my door is lock'd. Go bid them let us in.",113,18813
635315,656,"Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cicel, Gillian, Ginn!",333,18813
635316,657,"[Within] Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb,
idiot, patch!
Either get thee from the door, or sit down at the hatch.
Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st
for such store,
When one is one too many? Go, get thee from the door.",334,18813
635317,663,"What patch is made our porter? My master stays in
the street.",333,18813
635318,665,"[Within] Let him walk from whence he came, lest he
catch cold on's feet.",334,18813
635319,667,"Who talks within there? ho, open the door!",113,18813
635320,668,"[Within] Right, sir; I'll tell you when, an you tell
me wherefore.",334,18813
635321,670,Wherefore? for my dinner: I have not dined to-day.,113,18813
635322,671,"[Within] Nor to-day here you must not; come again
when you may.",334,18813
635323,673,What art thou that keepest me out from the house I owe?,113,18813
635324,674,"[Within] The porter for this time, sir, and my name
is Dromio.",334,18813
635325,676,"O villain! thou hast stolen both mine office and my name.
The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame.
If thou hadst been Dromio to-day in my place,
Thou wouldst have changed thy face for a name or thy
name for an ass.",333,18813
635326,681,"[Within] What a coil is there, Dromio? who are those
at the gate?",707,18813
635327,683,"Let my master in, Luce.",333,18813
635328,684,"[Within] Faith, no; he comes too late;
And so tell your master.",707,18813
635329,686,"O Lord, I must laugh!
Have at you with a proverb--Shall I set in my staff?",333,18813
635330,688,"[Within] Have at you with another; that's--When?
can you tell?",707,18813
635331,690,"[Within] If thy name be call'd Luce--Luce, thou hast
answered him well.",334,18813
635332,692,"Do you hear, you minion? you'll let us in, I hope?",113,18813
635333,693,[Within] I thought to have asked you.,707,18813
635334,694,[Within] And you said no.,334,18813
635335,695,"So, come, help: well struck! there was blow for blow.",333,18813
635336,696,"Thou baggage, let me in.",113,18813
635337,697,[Within] Can you tell for whose sake?,707,18813
635338,698,"Master, knock the door hard.",333,18813
635339,699,[Within] Let him knock till it ache.,707,18813
635340,700,"You'll cry for this, minion, if I beat the door down.",113,18813
635341,701,"[Within] What needs all that, and a pair of stocks in the town?",707,18813
635342,702,"[Within] Who is that at the door that keeps all
this noise?",51,18813
635343,704,"[Within] By my troth, your town is troubled with
unruly boys.",334,18813
635344,706,"Are you there, wife? you might have come before.",113,18813
635345,707,"[Within] Your wife, sir knave! go get you from the door.",51,18813
635346,708,"If you went in pain, master, this 'knave' would go sore.",333,18813
635347,709,"Here is neither cheer, sir, nor welcome: we would
fain have either.",103,18813
635348,711,"In debating which was best, we shall part with neither.",139,18813
635349,712,"They stand at the door, master; bid them welcome hither.",333,18813
635350,713,"There is something in the wind, that we cannot get in.",113,18813
635351,714,"You would say so, master, if your garments were thin.
Your cake there is warm within; you stand here in the cold:
It would make a man mad as a buck, to be so bought and sold.",333,18813
635352,717,Go fetch me something: I'll break ope the gate.,113,18813
635353,718,"[Within] Break any breaking here, and I'll break your
knave's pate.",334,18813
635354,720,"A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind,
Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.",333,18813
635355,722,"[Within] It seems thou want'st breaking: out upon
thee, hind!",334,18813
635356,724,"Here's too much 'out upon thee!' I pray thee,
let me in.",333,18813
635357,726,"[Within] Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.",334,18813
635358,727,"Well, I'll break in: go borrow me a crow.",113,18813
635359,728,"A crow without feather? Master, mean you so?
For a fish without a fin, there's a fowl without a feather;
If a crow help us in, sirrah, we'll pluck a crow together.",333,18813
635360,731,Go get thee gone; fetch me an iron crow.,113,18813
635361,732,"Have patience, sir; O, let it not be so!
Herein you war against your reputation
And draw within the compass of suspect
The unviolated honour of your wife.
Once this,--your long experience of her wisdom,
Her sober virtue, years and modesty,
Plead on her part some cause to you unknown:
And doubt not, sir, but she will well excuse
Why at this time the doors are made against you.
Be ruled by me: depart in patience,
And let us to the Tiger all to dinner,
And about evening come yourself alone
To know the reason of this strange restraint.
If by strong hand you offer to break in
Now in the stirring passage of the day,
A vulgar comment will be made of it,
And that supposed by the common rout
Against your yet ungalled estimation
That may with foul intrusion enter in
And dwell upon your grave when you are dead;
For slander lives upon succession,
For ever housed where it gets possession.",139,18813
635362,754,"You have prevailed: I will depart in quiet,
And, in despite of mirth, mean to be merry.
I know a wench of excellent discourse,
Pretty and witty; wild, and yet, too, gentle:
There will we dine. This woman that I mean,
My wife--but, I protest, without desert--
Hath oftentimes upbraided me withal:
To her will we to dinner.
[To Angelo]
Get you home
And fetch the chain; by this I know 'tis made:
Bring it, I pray you, to the Porpentine;
For there's the house: that chain will I bestow--
Be it for nothing but to spite my wife--
Upon mine hostess there: good sir, make haste.
Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,
I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me.",113,18813
635363,771,I'll meet you at that place some hour hence.,103,18813
635364,772,Do so. This jest shall cost me some expense.,113,18813
635365,773,[Exeunt],1261,18813
635366,776,[Enter LUCIANA and ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse],1261,18814
635367,777,"And may it be that you have quite forgot
A husband's office? shall, Antipholus.
Even in the spring of love, thy love-springs rot?
Shall love, in building, grow so ruinous?
If you did wed my sister for her wealth,
Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:
Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;
Muffle your false love with some show of blindness:
Let not my sister read it in your eye;
Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;
Look sweet, be fair, become disloyalty;
Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;
Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;
Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;
Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted?
What simple thief brags of his own attaint?
'Tis double wrong, to truant with your bed
And let her read it in thy looks at board:
Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed;
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
Alas, poor women! make us but believe,
Being compact of credit, that you love us;
Though others have the arm, show us the sleeve;
We in your motion turn and you may move us.
Then, gentle brother, get you in again;
Comfort my sister, cheer her, call her wife:
'Tis holy sport to be a little vain,
When the sweet breath of flattery conquers strife.",710,18814
635368,805,"Sweet mistress--what your name is else, I know not,
Nor by what wonder you do hit of mine,--
Less in your knowledge and your grace you show not
Than our earth's wonder, more than earth divine.
Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak;
Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit,
Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak,
The folded meaning of your words' deceit.
Against my soul's pure truth why labour you
To make it wander in an unknown field?
Are you a god? would you create me new?
Transform me then, and to your power I'll yield.
But if that I am I, then well I know
Your weeping sister is no wife of mine,
Nor to her bed no homage do I owe
Far more, far more to you do I decline.
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,
To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears:
Sing, siren, for thyself and I will dote:
Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs,
And as a bed I'll take them and there lie,
And in that glorious supposition think
He gains by death that hath such means to die:
Let Love, being light, be drowned if she sink!",114,18814
635369,829,"What, are you mad, that you do reason so?",710,18814
635370,830,"Not mad, but mated; how, I do not know.",114,18814
635371,831,It is a fault that springeth from your eye.,710,18814
635372,832,"For gazing on your beams, fair sun, being by.",114,18814
635373,833,"Gaze where you should, and that will clear your sight.",710,18814
635374,834,"As good to wink, sweet love, as look on night.",114,18814
635375,835,Why call you me love? call my sister so.,710,18814
635376,836,Thy sister's sister.,114,18814
635377,837,That's my sister.,710,18814
635378,838,"No;
It is thyself, mine own self's better part,
Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart,
My food, my fortune and my sweet hope's aim,
My sole earth's heaven and my heaven's claim.",114,18814
635379,843,"All this my sister is, or else should be.",710,18814
635380,844,"Call thyself sister, sweet, for I am thee.
Thee will I love and with thee lead my life:
Thou hast no husband yet nor I no wife.
Give me thy hand.",114,18814
635381,848,"O, soft, air! hold you still:
I'll fetch my sister, to get her good will.",710,18814
635382,850,[Exit],1261,18814
635383,851,[Enter DROMIO of Syracuse],1261,18814
635384,852,"Why, how now, Dromio! where runn'st thou so fast?",114,18814
635385,853,"Do you know me, sir? am I Dromio? am I your man?
am I myself?",334,18814
635386,855,"Thou art Dromio, thou art my man, thou art thyself.",114,18814
635387,856,"I am an ass, I am a woman's man and besides myself.",334,18814
635388,857,What woman's man? and how besides thyself? besides thyself?,114,18814
635389,858,"Marry, sir, besides myself, I am due to a woman; one
that claims me, one that haunts me, one that will have me.",334,18814
635390,860,What claim lays she to thee?,114,18814
635391,861,"Marry sir, such claim as you would lay to your
horse; and she would have me as a beast: not that, I
being a beast, she would have me; but that she,
being a very beastly creature, lays claim to me.",334,18814
635392,865,What is she?,114,18814
635393,866,"A very reverent body; ay, such a one as a man may
not speak of without he say 'Sir-reverence.' I have
but lean luck in the match, and yet is she a
wondrous fat marriage.",334,18814
635394,870,How dost thou mean a fat marriage?,114,18814
635395,871,"Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease;
and I know not what use to put her to but to make a
lamp of her and run from her by her own light. I
warrant, her rags and the tallow in them will burn a
Poland winter: if she lives till doomsday,
she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.",334,18814
635396,877,What complexion is she of?,114,18814
635397,878,"Swart, like my shoe, but her face nothing half so
clean kept: for why, she sweats; a man may go over
shoes in the grime of it.",334,18814
635398,881,That's a fault that water will mend.,114,18814
635399,882,"No, sir, 'tis in grain; Noah's flood could not do it.",334,18814
635400,883,What's her name?,114,18814
635401,884,"Nell, sir; but her name and three quarters, that's
an ell and three quarters, will not measure her from
hip to hip.",334,18814
635402,887,Then she bears some breadth?,114,18814
635403,888,"No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip:
she is spherical, like a globe; I could find out
countries in her.",334,18814
635404,891,In what part of her body stands Ireland?,114,18814
635405,892,"Marry, in her buttocks: I found it out by the bogs.",334,18814
635406,893,Where Scotland?,114,18814
635407,894,I found it by the barrenness; hard in the palm of the hand.,334,18814
635408,895,Where France?,114,18814
635409,896,"In her forehead; armed and reverted, making war
against her heir.",334,18814
635410,898,Where England?,114,18814
635411,899,"I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I could find no
whiteness in them; but I guess it stood in her chin,
by the salt rheum that ran between France and it.",334,18814
635412,902,Where Spain?,114,18814
635413,903,"Faith, I saw it not; but I felt it hot in her breath.",334,18814
635414,904,"Where America, the Indies?",114,18814
635415,905,"Oh, sir, upon her nose all o'er embellished with
rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich
aspect to the hot breath of Spain; who sent whole
armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose.",334,18814
635416,909,"Where stood Belgia, the Netherlands?",114,18814
635417,910,"Oh, sir, I did not look so low. To conclude, this
drudge, or diviner, laid claim to me, call'd me
Dromio; swore I was assured to her; told me what
privy marks I had about me, as, the mark of my
shoulder, the mole in my neck, the great wart on my
left arm, that I amazed ran from her as a witch:
And, I think, if my breast had not been made of
faith and my heart of steel,
She had transform'd me to a curtal dog and made
me turn i' the wheel.",334,18814
635418,920,"Go hie thee presently, post to the road:
An if the wind blow any way from shore,
I will not harbour in this town to-night:
If any bark put forth, come to the mart,
Where I will walk till thou return to me.
If every one knows us and we know none,
'Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack and be gone.",114,18814
635419,927,"As from a bear a man would run for life,
So fly I from her that would be my wife.",334,18814
635420,929,[Exit],1261,18814
635421,930,"There's none but witches do inhabit here;
And therefore 'tis high time that I were hence.
She that doth call me husband, even my soul
Doth for a wife abhor. But her fair sister,
Possess'd with such a gentle sovereign grace,
Of such enchanting presence and discourse,
Hath almost made me traitor to myself:
But, lest myself be guilty to self-wrong,
I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song.",114,18814
635422,939,[Enter ANGELO with the chain],1261,18814
635423,940,"Master Antipholus,--",103,18814
635424,941,"Ay, that's my name.",114,18814
635425,942,"I know it well, sir, lo, here is the chain.
I thought to have ta'en you at the Porpentine:
The chain unfinish'd made me stay thus long.",103,18814
635426,945,What is your will that I shall do with this?,114,18814
635427,946,"What please yourself, sir: I have made it for you.",103,18814
635428,947,"Made it for me, sir! I bespoke it not.",114,18814
635429,948,"Not once, nor twice, but twenty times you have.
Go home with it and please your wife withal;
And soon at supper-time I'll visit you
And then receive my money for the chain.",103,18814
635430,952,"I pray you, sir, receive the money now,
For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more.",114,18814
635431,954,"You are a merry man, sir: fare you well.",103,18814
635432,955,[Exit],1261,18814
635433,956,"What I should think of this, I cannot tell:
But this I think, there's no man is so vain
That would refuse so fair an offer'd chain.
I see a man here needs not live by shifts,
When in the streets he meets such golden gifts.
I'll to the mart, and there for Dromio stay
If any ship put out, then straight away.",114,18814
635434,963,[Exit],1261,18814
635435,966,"[Enter Second Merchant, ANGELO, and an Officer]",1261,18815
635436,967,"You know since Pentecost the sum is due,
And since I have not much importuned you;
Nor now I had not, but that I am bound
To Persia, and want guilders for my voyage:
Therefore make present satisfaction,
Or I'll attach you by this officer.",1007,18815
635437,973,"Even just the sum that I do owe to you
Is growing to me by Antipholus,
And in the instant that I met with you
He had of me a chain: at five o'clock
I shall receive the money for the same.
Pleaseth you walk with me down to his house,
I will discharge my bond and thank you too.
[Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and DROMIO of Ephesus]
from the courtezan's]",103,18815
635438,982,That labour may you save: see where he comes.,825,18815
635439,983,"While I go to the goldsmith's house, go thou
And buy a rope's end: that will I bestow
Among my wife and her confederates,
For locking me out of my doors by day.
But, soft! I see the goldsmith. Get thee gone;
Buy thou a rope and bring it home to me.",113,18815
635440,989,I buy a thousand pound a year: I buy a rope.,333,18815
635441,990,[Exit],1261,18815
635442,991,"A man is well holp up that trusts to you:
I promised your presence and the chain;
But neither chain nor goldsmith came to me.
Belike you thought our love would last too long,
If it were chain'd together, and therefore came not.",113,18815
635443,996,"Saving your merry humour, here's the note
How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat,
The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion.
Which doth amount to three odd ducats more
Than I stand debted to this gentleman:
I pray you, see him presently discharged,
For he is bound to sea and stays but for it.",103,18815
635444,1003,"I am not furnish'd with the present money;
Besides, I have some business in the town.
Good signior, take the stranger to my house
And with you take the chain and bid my wife
Disburse the sum on the receipt thereof:
Perchance I will be there as soon as you.",113,18815
635445,1009,Then you will bring the chain to her yourself?,103,18815
635446,1010,"No; bear it with you, lest I come not time enough.",113,18815
635447,1011,"Well, sir, I will. Have you the chain about you?",103,18815
635448,1012,"An if I have not, sir, I hope you have;
Or else you may return without your money.",113,18815
635449,1014,"Nay, come, I pray you, sir, give me the chain:
Both wind and tide stays for this gentleman,
And I, to blame, have held him here too long.",103,18815
635450,1017,"Good Lord! you use this dalliance to excuse
Your breach of promise to the Porpentine.
I should have chid you for not bringing it,
But, like a shrew, you first begin to brawl.",113,18815
635451,1021,"The hour steals on; I pray you, sir, dispatch.",1007,18815
635452,1022,You hear how he importunes me;--the chain!,103,18815
635453,1023,"Why, give it to my wife and fetch your money.",113,18815
635454,1024,"Come, come, you know I gave it you even now.
Either send the chain or send me by some token.",103,18815
635455,1026,"Fie, now you run this humour out of breath,
where's the chain? I pray you, let me see it.",113,18815
635456,1028,"My business cannot brook this dalliance.
Good sir, say whether you'll answer me or no:
If not, I'll leave him to the officer.",1007,18815
635457,1031,I answer you! what should I answer you?,113,18815
635458,1032,The money that you owe me for the chain.,103,18815
635459,1033,I owe you none till I receive the chain.,113,18815
635460,1034,You know I gave it you half an hour since.,103,18815
635461,1035,You gave me none: you wrong me much to say so.,113,18815
635462,1036,"You wrong me more, sir, in denying it:
Consider how it stands upon my credit.",103,18815
635463,1038,"Well, officer, arrest him at my suit.",1007,18815
635464,1039,I do; and charge you in the duke's name to obey me.,825,18815
635465,1040,"This touches me in reputation.
Either consent to pay this sum for me
Or I attach you by this officer.",103,18815
635466,1043,"Consent to pay thee that I never had!
Arrest me, foolish fellow, if thou darest.",113,18815
635467,1045,"Here is thy fee; arrest him, officer,
I would not spare my brother in this case,
If he should scorn me so apparently.",103,18815
635468,1048,"I do arrest you, sir: you hear the suit.",825,18815
635469,1049,"I do obey thee till I give thee bail.
But, sirrah, you shall buy this sport as dear
As all the metal in your shop will answer.",113,18815
635470,1052,"Sir, sir, I will have law in Ephesus,
To your notorious shame; I doubt it not.",103,18815
635471,1054,"[Enter DROMIO of Syracuse, from the bay]",1261,18815
635472,1055,"Master, there is a bark of Epidamnum
That stays but till her owner comes aboard,
And then, sir, she bears away. Our fraughtage, sir,
I have convey'd aboard; and I have bought
The oil, the balsamum and aqua-vitae.
The ship is in her trim; the merry wind
Blows fair from land: they stay for nought at all
But for their owner, master, and yourself.",334,18815
635473,1063,"How now! a madman! Why, thou peevish sheep,
What ship of Epidamnum stays for me?",113,18815
635474,1065,"A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage.",334,18815
635475,1066,"Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope;
And told thee to what purpose and what end.",113,18815
635476,1068,"You sent me for a rope's end as soon:
You sent me to the bay, sir, for a bark.",334,18815
635477,1070,"I will debate this matter at more leisure
And teach your ears to list me with more heed.
To Adriana, villain, hie thee straight:
Give her this key, and tell her, in the desk
That's cover'd o'er with Turkish tapestry,
There is a purse of ducats; let her send it:
Tell her I am arrested in the street
And that shall bail me; hie thee, slave, be gone!
On, officer, to prison till it come.
[Exeunt Second Merchant, Angelo, Officer, and]
Antipholus of Ephesus]",113,18815
635478,1081,"To Adriana! that is where we dined,
Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband:
She is too big, I hope, for me to compass.
Thither I must, although against my will,
For servants must their masters' minds fulfil.",334,18815
635479,1086,[Exit],1261,18815
635480,1089,[Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA],1261,18816
635481,1090,"Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so?
Mightst thou perceive austerely in his eye
That he did plead in earnest? yea or no?
Look'd he or red or pale, or sad or merrily?
What observation madest thou in this case
Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face?",51,18816
635482,1096,First he denied you had in him no right.,710,18816
635483,1097,He meant he did me none; the more my spite.,51,18816
635484,1098,Then swore he that he was a stranger here.,710,18816
635485,1099,"And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were.",51,18816
635486,1100,Then pleaded I for you.,710,18816
635487,1101,And what said he?,51,18816
635488,1102,That love I begg'd for you he begg'd of me.,710,18816
635489,1103,With what persuasion did he tempt thy love?,51,18816
635490,1104,"With words that in an honest suit might move.
First he did praise my beauty, then my speech.",710,18816
635491,1106,Didst speak him fair?,51,18816
635492,1107,"Have patience, I beseech.",710,18816
635493,1108,"I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still;
My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere,
Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere;
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;
Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.",51,18816
635494,1114,"Who would be jealous then of such a one?
No evil lost is wail'd when it is gone.",710,18816
635495,1116,"Ah, but I think him better than I say,
And yet would herein others' eyes were worse.
Far from her nest the lapwing cries away:
My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.",51,18816
635496,1120,[Enter DROMIO of Syracuse],1261,18816
635497,1121,"Here! go; the desk, the purse! sweet, now, make haste.",334,18816
635498,1122,How hast thou lost thy breath?,710,18816
635499,1123,By running fast.,334,18816
635500,1124,"Where is thy master, Dromio? is he well?",51,18816
635501,1125,"No, he's in Tartar limbo, worse than hell.
A devil in an everlasting garment hath him;
One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel;
A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough;
A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff;
A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that
countermands
The passages of alleys, creeks and narrow lands;
A hound that runs counter and yet draws dryfoot well;
One that before the judgement carries poor souls to hell.",334,18816
635502,1135,"Why, man, what is the matter?",51,18816
635503,1136,I do not know the matter: he is 'rested on the case.,334,18816
635504,1137,"What, is he arrested? Tell me at whose suit.",51,18816
635505,1138,"I know not at whose suit he is arrested well;
But he's in a suit of buff which 'rested him, that can I tell.
Will you send him, mistress, redemption, the money in his desk?",334,18816
635506,1141,"Go fetch it, sister.
[Exit Luciana]
This I wonder at,
That he, unknown to me, should be in debt.
Tell me, was he arrested on a band?",51,18816
635507,1146,"Not on a band, but on a stronger thing;
A chain, a chain! Do you not hear it ring?",334,18816
635508,1148,"What, the chain?",51,18816
635509,1149,"No, no, the bell: 'tis time that I were gone:
It was two ere I left him, and now the clock
strikes one.",334,18816
635510,1152,The hours come back! that did I never hear.,51,18816
635511,1153,"O, yes; if any hour meet a sergeant, a' turns back for
very fear.",334,18816
635512,1155,As if Time were in debt! how fondly dost thou reason!,51,18816
635513,1156,"Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's
worth, to season.
Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say
That Time comes stealing on by night and day?
If Time be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way,
Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day?",334,18816
635514,1162,[Re-enter LUCIANA with a purse],1261,18816
635515,1163,"Go, Dromio; there's the money, bear it straight;
And bring thy master home immediately.
Come, sister: I am press'd down with conceit--
Conceit, my comfort and my injury.",51,18816
635516,1167,[Exeunt],1261,18816
635517,1170,[Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse],1261,18817
635518,1171,"There's not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend;
And every one doth call me by my name.
Some tender money to me; some invite me;
Some other give me thanks for kindnesses;
Some offer me commodities to buy:
Even now a tailor call'd me in his shop
And show'd me silks that he had bought for me,
And therewithal took measure of my body.
Sure, these are but imaginary wiles
And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here.",114,18817
635519,1182,[Enter DROMIO OF SYRACUSE],1261,18817
635520,1183,"Master, here's the gold you sent me for. What, have
you got the picture of old Adam new-apparelled?",334,18817
635521,1185,What gold is this? what Adam dost thou mean?,114,18817
635522,1186,"Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam
that keeps the prison: he that goes in the calf's
skin that was killed for the Prodigal; he that came
behind you, sir, like an evil angel, and bid you
forsake your liberty.",334,18817
635523,1191,I understand thee not.,114,18817
635524,1192,"No? why, 'tis a plain case: he that went, like a
bass-viol, in a case of leather; the man, sir,
that, when gentlemen are tired, gives them a sob
and 'rests them; he, sir, that takes pity on decayed
men and gives them suits of durance; he that sets up
his rest to do more exploits with his mace than a
morris-pike.",334,18817
635525,1199,"What, thou meanest an officer?",114,18817
635526,1200,"Ay, sir, the sergeant of the band, he that brings
any man to answer it that breaks his band; one that
thinks a man always going to bed, and says, 'God
give you good rest!'",334,18817
635527,1204,"Well, sir, there rest in your foolery. Is there any",114,18817
635528,1205,"Why, sir, I brought you word an hour since that the
bark Expedition put forth to-night; and then were
you hindered by the sergeant, to tarry for the hoy
Delay. Here are the angels that you sent for to
deliver you.",334,18817
635529,1210,"The fellow is distract, and so am I;
And here we wander in illusions:
Some blessed power deliver us from hence!",114,18817
635530,1213,[Enter a Courtezan],1261,18817
635531,1214,"Well met, well met, Master Antipholus.
I see, sir, you have found the goldsmith now:
Is that the chain you promised me to-day?",290,18817
635532,1217,"Satan, avoid! I charge thee, tempt me not.",114,18817
635533,1218,"Master, is this Mistress Satan?",334,18817
635534,1219,It is the devil.,114,18817
635535,1220,"Nay, she is worse, she is the devil's dam; and here
she comes in the habit of a light wench: and thereof
comes that the wenches say 'God damn me;' that's as
much to say 'God make me a light wench.' It is
written, they appear to men like angels of light:
light is an effect of fire, and fire will burn;
ergo, light wenches will burn. Come not near her.",334,18817
635536,1227,"Your man and you are marvellous merry, sir.
Will you go with me? We'll mend our dinner here?",290,18817
635537,1229,"Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat; or bespeak a
long spoon.",334,18817
635538,1231,"Why, Dromio?",114,18817
635539,1232,"Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with
the devil.",334,18817
635540,1234,"Avoid then, fiend! what tell'st thou me of supping?
Thou art, as you are all, a sorceress:
I conjure thee to leave me and be gone.",114,18817
635541,1237,"Give me the ring of mine you had at dinner,
Or, for my diamond, the chain you promised,
And I'll be gone, sir, and not trouble you.",290,18817
635542,1240,"Some devils ask but the parings of one's nail,
A rush, a hair, a drop of blood, a pin,
A nut, a cherry-stone;
But she, more covetous, would have a chain.
Master, be wise: an if you give it her,
The devil will shake her chain and fright us with it.",334,18817
635543,1246,"I pray you, sir, my ring, or else the chain:
I hope you do not mean to cheat me so.",290,18817
635544,1248,"Avaunt, thou witch! Come, Dromio, let us go.",114,18817
635545,1249,"'Fly pride,' says the peacock: mistress, that you know.",334,18817
635546,1250,[Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse],1261,18817
635547,1251,"Now, out of doubt Antipholus is mad,
Else would he never so demean himself.
A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats,
And for the same he promised me a chain:
Both one and other he denies me now.
The reason that I gather he is mad,
Besides this present instance of his rage,
Is a mad tale he told to-day at dinner,
Of his own doors being shut against his entrance.
Belike his wife, acquainted with his fits,
On purpose shut the doors against his way.
My way is now to hie home to his house,
And tell his wife that, being lunatic,
He rush'd into my house and took perforce
My ring away. This course I fittest choose;
For forty ducats is too much to lose.",290,18817
635548,1267,[Exit],1261,18817
635549,1270,[Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and the Officer],1261,18818
635550,1271,"Fear me not, man; I will not break away:
I'll give thee, ere I leave thee, so much money,
To warrant thee, as I am 'rested for.
My wife is in a wayward mood to-day,
And will not lightly trust the messenger
That I should be attach'd in Ephesus,
I tell you, 'twill sound harshly in her ears.
[Enter DROMIO of Ephesus with a rope's-end]
Here comes my man; I think he brings the money.
How now, sir! have you that I sent you for?",113,18818
635551,1281,"Here's that, I warrant you, will pay them all.",333,18818
635552,1282,But where's the money?,113,18818
635553,1283,"Why, sir, I gave the money for the rope.",333,18818
635554,1284,"Five hundred ducats, villain, for a rope?",113,18818
635555,1285,"I'll serve you, sir, five hundred at the rate.",333,18818
635556,1286,To what end did I bid thee hie thee home?,113,18818
635557,1287,"To a rope's-end, sir; and to that end am I returned.",333,18818
635558,1288,"And to that end, sir, I will welcome you.",113,18818
635559,1289,[Beating him],1261,18818
635560,1290,"Good sir, be patient.",825,18818
635561,1291,"Nay, 'tis for me to be patient; I am in adversity.",333,18818
635562,1292,"Good, now, hold thy tongue.",825,18818
635563,1293,"Nay, rather persuade him to hold his hands.",333,18818
635564,1294,"Thou whoreson, senseless villain!",113,18818
635565,1295,"I would I were senseless, sir, that I might not feel
your blows.",333,18818
635566,1297,"Thou art sensible in nothing but blows, and so is an
ass.",113,18818
635567,1299,"I am an ass, indeed; you may prove it by my long
ears. I have served him from the hour of my
nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his
hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he
heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me
with beating; I am waked with it when I sleep;
raised with it when I sit; driven out of doors with
it when I go from home; welcomed home with it when
I return; nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a
beggar wont her brat; and, I think when he hath
lamed me, I shall beg with it from door to door.",333,18818
635568,1310,"Come, go along; my wife is coming yonder.",113,18818
635569,1311,"[Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, the Courtezan, and PINCH]",1261,18818
635570,1312,"Mistress, 'respice finem,' respect your end; or
rather, the prophecy like the parrot, 'beware the
rope's-end.'",333,18818
635571,1315,Wilt thou still talk?,113,18818
635572,1316,[Beating him],1261,18818
635573,1317,How say you now? is not your husband mad?,290,18818
635574,1318,"His incivility confirms no less.
Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer;
Establish him in his true sense again,
And I will please you what you will demand.",51,18818
635575,1322,"Alas, how fiery and how sharp he looks!",710,18818
635576,1323,Mark how he trembles in his ecstasy!,290,18818
635577,1324,Give me your hand and let me feel your pulse.,888,18818
635578,1325,"There is my hand, and let it feel your ear.",113,18818
635579,1326,[Striking him],1261,18818
635580,1327,"I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,
To yield possession to my holy prayers
And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight:
I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven!",888,18818
635581,1331,"Peace, doting wizard, peace! I am not mad.",113,18818
635582,1332,"O, that thou wert not, poor distressed soul!",51,18818
635583,1333,"You minion, you, are these your customers?
Did this companion with the saffron face
Revel and feast it at my house to-day,
Whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut
And I denied to enter in my house?",113,18818
635584,1338,"O husband, God doth know you dined at home;
Where would you had remain'd until this time,
Free from these slanders and this open shame!",51,18818
635585,1341,"Dined at home! Thou villain, what sayest thou?",113,18818
635586,1342,"Sir, sooth to say, you did not dine at home.",333,18818
635587,1343,Were not my doors lock'd up and I shut out?,113,18818
635588,1344,"Perdie, your doors were lock'd and you shut out.",333,18818
635589,1345,And did not she herself revile me there?,113,18818
635590,1346,"Sans fable, she herself reviled you there.",333,18818
635591,1347,"Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and scorn me?",113,18818
635592,1348,"Certes, she did; the kitchen-vestal scorn'd you.",333,18818
635593,1349,And did not I in rage depart from thence?,113,18818
635594,1350,"In verity you did; my bones bear witness,
That since have felt the vigour of his rage.",333,18818
635595,1352,Is't good to soothe him in these contraries?,51,18818
635596,1353,"It is no shame: the fellow finds his vein,
And yielding to him humours well his frenzy.",888,18818
635597,1355,Thou hast suborn'd the goldsmith to arrest me.,113,18818
635598,1356,"Alas, I sent you money to redeem you,
By Dromio here, who came in haste for it.",51,18818
635599,1358,"Money by me! heart and goodwill you might;
But surely master, not a rag of money.",333,18818
635600,1360,Went'st not thou to her for a purse of ducats?,113,18818
635601,1361,He came to me and I deliver'd it.,51,18818
635602,1362,And I am witness with her that she did.,710,18818
635603,1363,"God and the rope-maker bear me witness
That I was sent for nothing but a rope!",333,18818
635604,1365,"Mistress, both man and master is possess'd;
I know it by their pale and deadly looks:
They must be bound and laid in some dark room.",888,18818
635605,1368,"Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth to-day?
And why dost thou deny the bag of gold?",113,18818
635606,1370,"I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth.",51,18818
635607,1371,"And, gentle master, I received no gold;
But I confess, sir, that we were lock'd out.",333,18818
635608,1373,"Dissembling villain, thou speak'st false in both.",51,18818
635609,1374,"Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all;
And art confederate with a damned pack
To make a loathsome abject scorn of me:
But with these nails I'll pluck out these false eyes
That would behold in me this shameful sport.
[Enter three or four, and offer to bind him.]
He strives]",113,18818
635610,1381,"O, bind him, bind him! let him not come near me.",51,18818
635611,1382,More company! The fiend is strong within him.,888,18818
635612,1383,"Ay me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks!",710,18818
635613,1384,"What, will you murder me? Thou gaoler, thou,
I am thy prisoner: wilt thou suffer them
To make a rescue?",113,18818
635614,1387,"Masters, let him go
He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him.",825,18818
635615,1389,"Go bind this man, for he is frantic too.",888,18818
635616,1390,[They offer to bind Dromio of Ephesus],1261,18818
635617,1391,"What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer?
Hast thou delight to see a wretched man
Do outrage and displeasure to himself?",51,18818
635618,1394,"He is my prisoner: if I let him go,
The debt he owes will be required of me.",825,18818
635619,1396,"I will discharge thee ere I go from thee:
Bear me forthwith unto his creditor,
And, knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it.
Good master doctor, see him safe convey'd
Home to my house. O most unhappy day!",51,18818
635620,1401,O most unhappy strumpet!,113,18818
635621,1402,"Master, I am here entered in bond for you.",333,18818
635622,1403,"Out on thee, villain! wherefore dost thou mad me?",113,18818
635623,1404,"Will you be bound for nothing? be mad, good master:
cry 'The devil!'",333,18818
635624,1406,"God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!",710,18818
635625,1407,"Go bear him hence. Sister, go you with me.
[Exeunt all but Adriana, Luciana, Officer and]
Courtezan]
Say now, whose suit is he arrested at?",51,18818
635626,1411,"One Angelo, a goldsmith: do you know him?",825,18818
635627,1412,I know the man. What is the sum he owes?,51,18818
635628,1413,Two hundred ducats.,825,18818
635629,1414,"Say, how grows it due?",51,18818
635630,1415,Due for a chain your husband had of him.,825,18818
635631,1416,"He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not.",51,18818
635632,1417,"When as your husband all in rage to-day
Came to my house and took away my ring--
The ring I saw upon his finger now--
Straight after did I meet him with a chain.",290,18818
635633,1421,"It may be so, but I did never see it.
Come, gaoler, bring me where the goldsmith is:
I long to know the truth hereof at large.
[Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse with his rapier drawn,]
and DROMIO of Syracuse]",51,18818
635634,1426,"God, for thy mercy! they are loose again.",710,18818
635635,1427,"And come with naked swords.
Let's call more help to have them bound again.",51,18818
635636,1429,"Away! they'll kill us.
[Exeunt all but Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio]
of Syracuse]",825,18818
635637,1432,I see these witches are afraid of swords.,114,18818
635638,1433,She that would be your wife now ran from you.,334,18818
635639,1434,"Come to the Centaur; fetch our stuff from thence:
I long that we were safe and sound aboard.",114,18818
635640,1436,"Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us
no harm: you saw they speak us fair, give us gold:
methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for
the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of
me, I could find in my heart to stay here still and
turn witch.",334,18818
635641,1442,"I will not stay to-night for all the town;
Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard.",114,18818
635642,1444,[Exeunt],1261,18818
635643,1447,[Enter Second Merchant and ANGELO],1261,18819
635644,1448,"I am sorry, sir, that I have hinder'd you;
But, I protest, he had the chain of me,
Though most dishonestly he doth deny it.",103,18819
635645,1451,How is the man esteemed here in the city?,1007,18819
635646,1452,"Of very reverend reputation, sir,
Of credit infinite, highly beloved,
Second to none that lives here in the city:
His word might bear my wealth at any time.",103,18819
635647,1456,"Speak softly; yonder, as I think, he walks.",1007,18819
635648,1457,[Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse and DROMIO of Syracuse],1261,18819
635649,1458,"'Tis so; and that self chain about his neck
Which he forswore most monstrously to have.
Good sir, draw near to me, I'll speak to him.
Signior Antipholus, I wonder much
That you would put me to this shame and trouble;
And, not without some scandal to yourself,
With circumstance and oaths so to deny
This chain which now you wear so openly:
Beside the charge, the shame, imprisonment,
You have done wrong to this my honest friend,
Who, but for staying on our controversy,
Had hoisted sail and put to sea to-day:
This chain you had of me; can you deny it?",103,18819
635650,1471,I think I had; I never did deny it.,114,18819
635651,1472,"Yes, that you did, sir, and forswore it too.",1007,18819
635652,1473,Who heard me to deny it or forswear it?,114,18819
635653,1474,"These ears of mine, thou know'st did hear thee.
Fie on thee, wretch! 'tis pity that thou livest
To walk where any honest man resort.",1007,18819
635654,1477,"Thou art a villain to impeach me thus:
I'll prove mine honour and mine honesty
Against thee presently, if thou darest stand.",114,18819
635655,1480,"I dare, and do defy thee for a villain.",1007,18819
635656,1481,[They draw],1261,18819
635657,1482,"[Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, the Courtezan, and others]",1261,18819
635658,1483,"Hold, hurt him not, for God's sake! he is mad.
Some get within him, take his sword away:
Bind Dromio too, and bear them to my house.",51,18819
635659,1486,"Run, master, run; for God's sake, take a house!
This is some priory. In, or we are spoil'd!
[Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse]
to the Priory]",334,18819
635660,1490,"[Enter the Lady Abbess, AEMILIA]",1261,18819
635661,1491,"Be quiet, people. Wherefore throng you hither?",55,18819
635662,1492,"To fetch my poor distracted husband hence.
Let us come in, that we may bind him fast
And bear him home for his recovery.",51,18819
635663,1495,I knew he was not in his perfect wits.,103,18819
635664,1496,I am sorry now that I did draw on him.,1007,18819
635665,1497,How long hath this possession held the man?,55,18819
635666,1498,"This week he hath been heavy, sour, sad,
And much different from the man he was;
But till this afternoon his passion
Ne'er brake into extremity of rage.",51,18819
635667,1502,"Hath he not lost much wealth by wreck of sea?
Buried some dear friend? Hath not else his eye
Stray'd his affection in unlawful love?
A sin prevailing much in youthful men,
Who give their eyes the liberty of gazing.
Which of these sorrows is he subject to?",55,18819
635668,1508,"To none of these, except it be the last;
Namely, some love that drew him oft from home.",51,18819
635669,1510,You should for that have reprehended him.,55,18819
635670,1511,"Why, so I did.",51,18819
635671,1512,"Ay, but not rough enough.",55,18819
635672,1513,As roughly as my modesty would let me.,51,18819
635673,1514,"Haply, in private.",55,18819
635674,1515,And in assemblies too.,51,18819
635675,1516,"Ay, but not enough.",55,18819
635676,1517,"It was the copy of our conference:
In bed he slept not for my urging it;
At board he fed not for my urging it;
Alone, it was the subject of my theme;
In company I often glanced it;
Still did I tell him it was vile and bad.",51,18819
635677,1523,"And thereof came it that the man was mad.
The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
It seems his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing,
And therefore comes it that his head is light.
Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings:
Unquiet meals make ill digestions;
Thereof the raging fire of fever bred;
And what's a fever but a fit of madness?
Thou say'st his sports were hinderd by thy brawls:
Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue
But moody and dull melancholy,
Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,
And at her heels a huge infectious troop
Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?
In food, in sport and life-preserving rest
To be disturb'd, would mad or man or beast:
The consequence is then thy jealous fits
Have scared thy husband from the use of wits.",55,18819
635678,1542,"She never reprehended him but mildly,
When he demean'd himself rough, rude and wildly.
Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?",710,18819
635679,1545,"She did betray me to my own reproof.
Good people enter and lay hold on him.",51,18819
635680,1547,"No, not a creature enters in my house.",55,18819
635681,1548,Then let your servants bring my husband forth.,51,18819
635682,1549,"Neither: he took this place for sanctuary,
And it shall privilege him from your hands
Till I have brought him to his wits again,
Or lose my labour in assaying it.",55,18819
635683,1553,"I will attend my husband, be his nurse,
Diet his sickness, for it is my office,
And will have no attorney but myself;
And therefore let me have him home with me.",51,18819
635684,1557,"Be patient; for I will not let him stir
Till I have used the approved means I have,
With wholesome syrups, drugs and holy prayers,
To make of him a formal man again:
It is a branch and parcel of mine oath,
A charitable duty of my order.
Therefore depart and leave him here with me.",55,18819
635685,1564,"I will not hence and leave my husband here:
And ill it doth beseem your holiness
To separate the husband and the wife.",51,18819
635686,1567,Be quiet and depart: thou shalt not have him.,55,18819
635687,1568,[Exit],1261,18819
635688,1569,Complain unto the duke of this indignity.,710,18819
635689,1570,"Come, go: I will fall prostrate at his feet
And never rise until my tears and prayers
Have won his grace to come in person hither
And take perforce my husband from the abbess.",51,18819
635690,1574,"By this, I think, the dial points at five:
Anon, I'm sure, the duke himself in person
Comes this way to the melancholy vale,
The place of death and sorry execution,
Behind the ditches of the abbey here.",1007,18819
635691,1579,Upon what cause?,103,18819
635692,1580,"To see a reverend Syracusian merchant,
Who put unluckily into this bay
Against the laws and statutes of this town,
Beheaded publicly for his offence.",1007,18819
635693,1584,See where they come: we will behold his death.,103,18819
635694,1585,"Kneel to the duke before he pass the abbey.
[Enter DUKE SOLINUS, attended; AEGEON bareheaded; with the]
Headsman and other Officers]",710,18819
635695,1588,"Yet once again proclaim it publicly,
If any friend will pay the sum for him,
He shall not die; so much we tender him.",1135,18819
635696,1591,"Justice, most sacred duke, against the abbess!",51,18819
635697,1592,"She is a virtuous and a reverend lady:
It cannot be that she hath done thee wrong.",1135,18819
635698,1594,"May it please your grace, Antipholus, my husband,
Whom I made lord of me and all I had,
At your important letters,--this ill day
A most outrageous fit of madness took him;
That desperately he hurried through the street,
With him his bondman, all as mad as he--
Doing displeasure to the citizens
By rushing in their houses, bearing thence
Rings, jewels, any thing his rage did like.
Once did I get him bound and sent him home,
Whilst to take order for the wrongs I went,
That here and there his fury had committed.
Anon, I wot not by what strong escape,
He broke from those that had the guard of him;
And with his mad attendant and himself,
Each one with ireful passion, with drawn swords,
Met us again and madly bent on us,
Chased us away; till, raising of more aid,
We came again to bind them. Then they fled
Into this abbey, whither we pursued them:
And here the abbess shuts the gates on us
And will not suffer us to fetch him out,
Nor send him forth that we may bear him hence.
Therefore, most gracious duke, with thy command
Let him be brought forth and borne hence for help.",51,18819
635699,1619,"Long since thy husband served me in my wars,
And I to thee engaged a prince's word,
When thou didst make him master of thy bed,
To do him all the grace and good I could.
Go, some of you, knock at the abbey-gate
And bid the lady abbess come to me.
I will determine this before I stir.",1135,18819
635700,1626,[Enter a Servant],1261,18819
635701,1627,"O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself!
My master and his man are both broke loose,
Beaten the maids a-row and bound the doctor
Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire;
And ever, as it blazed, they threw on him
Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair:
My master preaches patience to him and the while
His man with scissors nicks him like a fool,
And sure, unless you send some present help,
Between them they will kill the conjurer.",1058,18819
635702,1637,"Peace, fool! thy master and his man are here,
And that is false thou dost report to us.",51,18819
635703,1639,"Mistress, upon my life, I tell you true;
I have not breathed almost since I did see it.
He cries for you, and vows, if he can take you,
To scorch your face and to disfigure you.
[Cry within]
Hark, hark! I hear him, mistress. fly, be gone!",1058,18819
635704,1645,"Come, stand by me; fear nothing. Guard with halberds!",1135,18819
635705,1646,"Ay me, it is my husband! Witness you,
That he is borne about invisible:
Even now we housed him in the abbey here;
And now he's there, past thought of human reason.",51,18819
635706,1650,[Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and DROMIO of Ephesus],1261,18819
635707,1651,"Justice, most gracious duke, O, grant me justice!
Even for the service that long since I did thee,
When I bestrid thee in the wars and took
Deep scars to save thy life; even for the blood
That then I lost for thee, now grant me justice.",113,18819
635708,1656,"Unless the fear of death doth make me dote,
I see my son Antipholus and Dromio.",54,18819
635709,1658,"Justice, sweet prince, against that woman there!
She whom thou gavest to me to be my wife,
That hath abused and dishonour'd me
Even in the strength and height of injury!
Beyond imagination is the wrong
That she this day hath shameless thrown on me.",113,18819
635710,1664,"Discover how, and thou shalt find me just.",1135,18819
635711,1665,"This day, great duke, she shut the doors upon me,
While she with harlots feasted in my house.",113,18819
635712,1667,"A grievous fault! Say, woman, didst thou so?",1135,18819
635713,1668,"No, my good lord: myself, he and my sister
To-day did dine together. So befall my soul
As this is false he burdens me withal!",51,18819
635714,1671,"Ne'er may I look on day, nor sleep on night,
But she tells to your highness simple truth!",710,18819
635715,1673,"O perjured woman! They are both forsworn:
In this the madman justly chargeth them.",103,18819
635716,1675,"My liege, I am advised what I say,
Neither disturbed with the effect of wine,
Nor heady-rash, provoked with raging ire,
Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad.
This woman lock'd me out this day from dinner:
That goldsmith there, were he not pack'd with her,
Could witness it, for he was with me then;
Who parted with me to go fetch a chain,
Promising to bring it to the Porpentine,
Where Balthazar and I did dine together.
Our dinner done, and he not coming thither,
I went to seek him: in the street I met him
And in his company that gentleman.
There did this perjured goldsmith swear me down
That I this day of him received the chain,
Which, God he knows, I saw not: for the which
He did arrest me with an officer.
I did obey, and sent my peasant home
For certain ducats: he with none return'd
Then fairly I bespoke the officer
To go in person with me to my house.
By the way we met
My wife, her sister, and a rabble more
Of vile confederates. Along with them
They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain,
A mere anatomy, a mountebank,
A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller,
A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,
A dead-looking man: this pernicious slave,
Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer,
And, gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse,
And with no face, as 'twere, outfacing me,
Cries out, I was possess'd. Then all together
They fell upon me, bound me, bore me thence
And in a dark and dankish vault at home
There left me and my man, both bound together;
Till, gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder,
I gain'd my freedom, and immediately
Ran hither to your grace; whom I beseech
To give me ample satisfaction
For these deep shames and great indignities.",113,18819
635717,1716,"My lord, in truth, thus far I witness with him,
That he dined not at home, but was lock'd out.",103,18819
635718,1718,But had he such a chain of thee or no?,1135,18819
635719,1719,"He had, my lord: and when he ran in here,
These people saw the chain about his neck.",103,18819
635720,1721,"Besides, I will be sworn these ears of mine
Heard you confess you had the chain of him
After you first forswore it on the mart:
And thereupon I drew my sword on you;
And then you fled into this abbey here,
From whence, I think, you are come by miracle.",1007,18819
635721,1727,"I never came within these abbey-walls,
Nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me:
I never saw the chain, so help me Heaven!
And this is false you burden me withal.",113,18819
635722,1731,"Why, what an intricate impeach is this!
I think you all have drunk of Circe's cup.
If here you housed him, here he would have been;
If he were mad, he would not plead so coldly:
You say he dined at home; the goldsmith here
Denies that saying. Sirrah, what say you?",1135,18819
635723,1737,"Sir, he dined with her there, at the Porpentine.",333,18819
635724,1738,"He did, and from my finger snatch'd that ring.",290,18819
635725,1739,"'Tis true, my liege; this ring I had of her.",113,18819
635726,1740,Saw'st thou him enter at the abbey here?,1135,18819
635727,1741,"As sure, my liege, as I do see your grace.",290,18819
635728,1742,"Why, this is strange. Go call the abbess hither.
I think you are all mated or stark mad.",1135,18819
635729,1744,[Exit one to Abbess],1261,18819
635730,1745,"Most mighty duke, vouchsafe me speak a word:
Haply I see a friend will save my life
And pay the sum that may deliver me.",54,18819
635731,1748,"Speak freely, Syracusian, what thou wilt.",1135,18819
635732,1749,"Is not your name, sir, call'd Antipholus?
And is not that your bondman, Dromio?",54,18819
635733,1751,"Within this hour I was his bondman sir,
But he, I thank him, gnaw'd in two my cords:
Now am I Dromio and his man unbound.",333,18819
635734,1754,I am sure you both of you remember me.,54,18819
635735,1755,"Ourselves we do remember, sir, by you;
For lately we were bound, as you are now
You are not Pinch's patient, are you, sir?",333,18819
635736,1758,Why look you strange on me? you know me well.,54,18819
635737,1759,I never saw you in my life till now.,113,18819
635738,1760,"O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last,
And careful hours with time's deformed hand
Have written strange defeatures in my face:
But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?",54,18819
635739,1764,Neither.,113,18819
635740,1765,"Dromio, nor thou?",54,18819
635741,1766,"No, trust me, sir, nor I.",333,18819
635742,1767,I am sure thou dost.,54,18819
635743,1768,"Ay, sir, but I am sure I do not; and whatsoever a
man denies, you are now bound to believe him.",333,18819
635744,1770,"Not know my voice! O time's extremity,
Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poor tongue
In seven short years, that here my only son
Knows not my feeble key of untuned cares?
Though now this grained face of mine be hid
In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,
And all the conduits of my blood froze up,
Yet hath my night of life some memory,
My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,
My dull deaf ears a little use to hear:
All these old witnesses--I cannot err--
Tell me thou art my son Antipholus.",54,18819
635745,1782,I never saw my father in my life.,113,18819
635746,1783,"But seven years since, in Syracusa, boy,
Thou know'st we parted: but perhaps, my son,
Thou shamest to acknowledge me in misery.",54,18819
635747,1786,"The duke and all that know me in the city
Can witness with me that it is not so
I ne'er saw Syracusa in my life.",113,18819
635748,1789,"I tell thee, Syracusian, twenty years
Have I been patron to Antipholus,
During which time he ne'er saw Syracusa:
I see thy age and dangers make thee dote.
[Re-enter AEMILIA, with ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse and]
DROMIO of Syracuse]",1135,18819
635749,1795,"Most mighty duke, behold a man much wrong'd.",55,18819
635750,1796,[All gather to see them],1261,18819
635751,1797,"I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me.",51,18819
635752,1798,"One of these men is Genius to the other;
And so of these. Which is the natural man,
And which the spirit? who deciphers them?",1135,18819
635753,1801,"I, sir, am Dromio; command him away.",334,18819
635754,1802,"I, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay.",333,18819
635755,1803,AEgeon art thou not? or else his ghost?,114,18819
635756,1804,"O, my old master! who hath bound him here?",334,18819
635757,1805,"Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds
And gain a husband by his liberty.
Speak, old AEgeon, if thou be'st the man
That hadst a wife once call'd AEmilia
That bore thee at a burden two fair sons:
O, if thou be'st the same AEgeon, speak,
And speak unto the same AEmilia!",55,18819
635758,1812,"If I dream not, thou art AEmilia:
If thou art she, tell me where is that son
That floated with thee on the fatal raft?",54,18819
635759,1815,"By men of Epidamnum he and I
And the twin Dromio all were taken up;
But by and by rude fishermen of Corinth
By force took Dromio and my son from them
And me they left with those of Epidamnum.
What then became of them I cannot tell
I to this fortune that you see me in.",55,18819
635760,1822,"Why, here begins his morning story right;
These two Antipholuses, these two so like,
And these two Dromios, one in semblance,--
Besides her urging of her wreck at sea,--
These are the parents to these children,
Which accidentally are met together.
Antipholus, thou camest from Corinth first?",1135,18819
635761,1829,"No, sir, not I; I came from Syracuse.",114,18819
635762,1830,"Stay, stand apart; I know not which is which.",1135,18819
635763,1831,"I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord,--",113,18819
635764,1832,And I with him.,333,18819
635765,1833,"Brought to this town by that most famous warrior,
Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle.",113,18819
635766,1835,Which of you two did dine with me to-day?,51,18819
635767,1836,"I, gentle mistress.",114,18819
635768,1837,And are not you my husband?,51,18819
635769,1838,No; I say nay to that.,113,18819
635770,1839,"And so do I; yet did she call me so:
And this fair gentlewoman, her sister here,
Did call me brother.
[To Luciana]
What I told you then,
I hope I shall have leisure to make good;
If this be not a dream I see and hear.",114,18819
635771,1846,"That is the chain, sir, which you had of me.",103,18819
635772,1847,"I think it be, sir; I deny it not.",114,18819
635773,1848,"And you, sir, for this chain arrested me.",113,18819
635774,1849,"I think I did, sir; I deny it not.",103,18819
635775,1850,"I sent you money, sir, to be your bail,
By Dromio; but I think he brought it not.",51,18819
635776,1852,"No, none by me.",333,18819
635777,1853,"This purse of ducats I received from you,
And Dromio, my man, did bring them me.
I see we still did meet each other's man,
And I was ta'en for him, and he for me,
And thereupon these errors are arose.",114,18819
635778,1858,These ducats pawn I for my father here.,113,18819
635779,1859,It shall not need; thy father hath his life.,1135,18819
635780,1860,"Sir, I must have that diamond from you.",290,18819
635781,1861,"There, take it; and much thanks for my good cheer.",113,18819
635782,1862,"Renowned duke, vouchsafe to take the pains
To go with us into the abbey here
And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes:
And all that are assembled in this place,
That by this sympathized one day's error
Have suffer'd wrong, go keep us company,
And we shall make full satisfaction.
Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail
Of you, my sons; and till this present hour
My heavy burden ne'er delivered.
The duke, my husband and my children both,
And you the calendars of their nativity,
Go to a gossips' feast and go with me;
After so long grief, such festivity!",55,18819
635783,1876,"With all my heart, I'll gossip at this feast.
[Exeunt all but Antipholus of Syracuse, Antipholus]
of Ephesus, Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus]",1135,18819
635784,1879,"Master, shall I fetch your stuff from shipboard?",334,18819
635785,1880,"Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark'd?",113,18819
635786,1881,"Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur.",334,18819
635787,1882,"He speaks to me. I am your master, Dromio:
Come, go with us; we'll look to that anon:
Embrace thy brother there; rejoice with him.",114,18819
635788,1885,[Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus],1261,18819
635789,1886,"There is a fat friend at your master's house,
That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner:
She now shall be my sister, not my wife.",334,18819
635790,1889,"Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother:
I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
Will you walk in to see their gossiping?",333,18819
635791,1892,"Not I, sir; you are my elder.",334,18819
635792,1893,That's a question: how shall we try it?,333,18819
635793,1894,We'll draw cuts for the senior: till then lead thou first.,334,18819
635794,1895,"Nay, then, thus:
We came into the world like brother and brother;
And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.",333,18819
635795,1898,[Exeunt],1261,18819
635796,5,"Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.",409,18820
635797,6,"Speak, speak.",72,18820
635798,7,You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?,409,18820
635799,8,Resolved. resolved.,72,18820
635800,9,"First, you know Caius CORIOLANUS is chief enemy to the people.",409,18820
635801,10,"We know't, we know't.",72,18820
635802,11,"Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own price.
Is't a verdict?",409,18820
635803,13,"No more talking on't; let it be done: away, away!",72,18820
635804,14,"One word, good citizens.",983,18820
635805,15,"We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good.
What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they
would yield us but the superfluity, while it were
wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely;
but they think we are too dear: the leanness that
afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an
inventory to particularise their abundance; our
sufferance is a gain to them Let us revenge this with
our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I
speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.",409,18820
635806,25,Would you proceed especially against Caius CORIOLANUS?,983,18820
635807,26,Against him first: he's a very dog to the commonalty.,72,18820
635808,27,Consider you what services he has done for his country?,983,18820
635809,28,"Very well; and could be content to give him good
report fort, but that he pays himself with being proud.",409,18820
635810,30,"Nay, but speak not maliciously.",983,18820
635811,31,"I say unto you, what he hath done famously, he did
it to that end: though soft-conscienced men can be
content to say it was for his country he did it to
please his mother and to be partly proud; which he
is, even till the altitude of his virtue.",409,18820
635812,36,"What he cannot help in his nature, you account a
vice in him. You must in no way say he is covetous.",983,18820
635813,38,"If I must not, I need not be barren of accusations;
he hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition.
[Shouts within]
What shouts are these? The other side o' the city
is risen: why stay we prating here? to the Capitol!",409,18820
635814,43,"Come, come.",72,18820
635815,44,Soft! who comes here?,409,18820
635816,45,[Enter MENENIUS AGRIPPA],1261,18820
635817,46,"Worthy Menenius Agrippa; one that hath always loved
the people.",983,18820
635818,48,He's one honest enough: would all the rest were so!,409,18820
635819,49,"What work's, my countrymen, in hand? where go you
With bats and clubs? The matter? speak, I pray you.",763,18820
635820,51,"Our business is not unknown to the senate; they have
had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do,
which now we'll show 'em in deeds. They say poor
suitors have strong breaths: they shall know we
have strong arms too.",409,18820
635821,56,"Why, masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbours,
Will you undo yourselves?",763,18820
635822,58,"We cannot, sir, we are undone already.",409,18820
635823,59,"I tell you, friends, most charitable care
Have the patricians of you. For your wants,
Your suffering in this dearth, you may as well
Strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them
Against the Roman state, whose course will on
The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs
Of more strong link asunder than can ever
Appear in your impediment. For the dearth,
The gods, not the patricians, make it, and
Your knees to them, not arms, must help. Alack,
You are transported by calamity
Thither where more attends you, and you slander
The helms o' the state, who care for you like fathers,
When you curse them as enemies.",763,18820
635824,73,"Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.",409,18820
635825,81,"Either you must
Confess yourselves wondrous malicious,
Or be accused of folly. I shall tell you
A pretty tale: it may be you have heard it;
But, since it serves my purpose, I will venture
To stale 't a little more.",763,18820
635826,87,"Well, I'll hear it, sir: yet you must not think to
fob off our disgrace with a tale: but, an 't please
you, deliver.",409,18820
635827,90,"There was a time when all the body's members
Rebell'd against the belly, thus accused it:
That only like a gulf it did remain
I' the midst o' the body, idle and unactive,
Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing
Like labour with the rest, where the other instruments
Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel,
And, mutually participate, did minister
Unto the appetite and affection common
Of the whole body. The belly answer'd--",763,18820
635828,100,"Well, sir, what answer made the belly?",409,18820
635829,101,"Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile,
Which ne'er came from the lungs, but even thus--
For, look you, I may make the belly smile
As well as speak--it tauntingly replied
To the discontented members, the mutinous parts
That envied his receipt; even so most fitly
As you malign our senators for that
They are not such as you.",763,18820
635830,109,"Your belly's answer? What!
The kingly-crowned head, the vigilant eye,
The counsellor heart, the arm our soldier,
Our steed the leg, the tongue our trumpeter.
With other muniments and petty helps
In this our fabric, if that they--",409,18820
635831,115,"What then?
'Fore me, this fellow speaks! What then? what then?",763,18820
635832,117,"Should by the cormorant belly be restrain'd,
Who is the sink o' the body,--",409,18820
635833,119,"Well, what then?",763,18820
635834,120,"The former agents, if they did complain,
What could the belly answer?",409,18820
635835,122,"I will tell you
If you'll bestow a small--of what you have little--
Patience awhile, you'll hear the belly's answer.",763,18820
635836,125,Ye're long about it.,409,18820
635837,126,"Note me this, good friend;
Your most grave belly was deliberate,
Not rash like his accusers, and thus answer'd:
'True is it, my incorporate friends,' quoth he,
'That I receive the general food at first,
Which you do live upon; and fit it is,
Because I am the store-house and the shop
Of the whole body: but, if you do remember,
I send it through the rivers of your blood,
Even to the court, the heart, to the seat o' the brain;
And, through the cranks and offices of man,
The strongest nerves and small inferior veins
From me receive that natural competency
Whereby they live: and though that all at once,
You, my good friends,'--this says the belly, mark me,--",763,18820
635838,141,"Ay, sir; well, well.",409,18820
635839,142,"'Though all at once cannot
See what I do deliver out to each,
Yet I can make my audit up, that all
From me do back receive the flour of all,
And leave me but the bran.' What say you to't?",763,18820
635840,147,It was an answer: how apply you this?,409,18820
635841,148,"The senators of Rome are this good belly,
And you the mutinous members; for examine
Their counsels and their cares, digest things rightly
Touching the weal o' the common, you shall find
No public benefit which you receive
But it proceeds or comes from them to you
And no way from yourselves. What do you think,
You, the great toe of this assembly?",763,18820
635842,156,I the great toe! why the great toe?,409,18820
635843,157,"For that, being one o' the lowest, basest, poorest,
Of this most wise rebellion, thou go'st foremost:
Thou rascal, that art worst in blood to run,
Lead'st first to win some vantage.
But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs:
Rome and her rats are at the point of battle;
The one side must have bale.
[Enter CAIUS CORIOLANUS]
Hail, noble CORIOLANUS!",763,18820
635844,166,"Thanks. What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
Make yourselves scabs?",283,18820
635845,169,We have ever your good word.,409,18820
635846,170,"He that will give good words to thee will flatter
Beneath abhorring. What would you have, you curs,
That like nor peace nor war? the one affrights you,
The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you,
Where he should find you lions, finds you hares;
Where foxes, geese: you are no surer, no,
Than is the coal of fire upon the ice,
Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is
To make him worthy whose offence subdues him
And curse that justice did it.
Who deserves greatness
Deserves your hate; and your affections are
A sick man's appetite, who desires most that
Which would increase his evil. He that depends
Upon your favours swims with fins of lead
And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye! Trust Ye?
With every minute you do change a mind,
And call him noble that was now your hate,
Him vile that was your garland. What's the matter,
That in these several places of the city
You cry against the noble senate, who,
Under the gods, keep you in awe, which else
Would feed on one another? What's their seeking?",283,18820
635847,193,"For corn at their own rates; whereof, they say,
The city is well stored.",763,18820
635848,195,"Hang 'em! They say!
They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know
What's done i' the Capitol; who's like to rise,
Who thrives and who declines; side factions
and give out
Conjectural marriages; making parties strong
And feebling such as stand not in their liking
Below their cobbled shoes. They say there's
grain enough!
Would the nobility lay aside their ruth,
And let me use my sword, I'll make a quarry
With thousands of these quarter'd slaves, as high
As I could pick my lance.",283,18820
635849,208,"Nay, these are almost thoroughly persuaded;
For though abundantly they lack discretion,
Yet are they passing cowardly. But, I beseech you,
What says the other troop?",763,18820
635850,212,"They are dissolved: hang 'em!
They said they were an-hungry; sigh'd forth proverbs,
That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
Corn for the rich men only: with these shreds
They vented their complainings; which being answer'd,
And a petition granted them, a strange one--
To break the heart of generosity,
And make bold power look pale--they threw their caps
As they would hang them on the horns o' the moon,
Shouting their emulation.",283,18820
635851,223,What is granted them?,763,18820
635852,224,"Five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms,
Of their own choice: one's Junius Brutus,
Sicinius Velutus, and I know not--'Sdeath!
The rabble should have first unroof'd the city,
Ere so prevail'd with me: it will in time
Win upon power and throw forth greater themes
For insurrection's arguing.",283,18820
635853,231,This is strange.,763,18820
635854,232,"Go, get you home, you fragments!",283,18820
635855,233,"[Enter a Messenger, hastily]",1261,18820
635856,234,Where's Caius CORIOLANUS?,770,18820
635857,235,Here: what's the matter?,283,18820
635858,236,"The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms.",770,18820
635859,237,"I am glad on 't: then we shall ha' means to vent
Our musty superfluity. See, our best elders.
[Enter COMINIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, and other Senators;]
JUNIUS BRUTUS and SICINIUS VELUTUS]",283,18820
635860,241,"CORIOLANUS, 'tis true that you have lately told us;
The Volsces are in arms.",11,18820
635861,243,"They have a leader,
Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to 't.
I sin in envying his nobility,
And were I any thing but what I am,
I would wish me only he.",283,18820
635862,248,You have fought together.,276,18820
635863,249,"Were half to half the world by the ears and he.
Upon my party, I'ld revolt to make
Only my wars with him: he is a lion
That I am proud to hunt.",283,18820
635864,253,"Then, worthy CORIOLANUS,
Attend upon Cominius to these wars.",11,18820
635865,255,It is your former promise.,276,18820
635866,256,"Sir, it is;
And I am constant. Titus TITUS, thou
Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus' face.
What, art thou stiff? stand'st out?",283,18820
635867,260,"No, Caius CORIOLANUS;
I'll lean upon one crutch and fight with t'other,
Ere stay behind this business.",654,18820
635868,263,"O, true-bred!",763,18820
635869,264,"Your company to the Capitol; where, I know,
Our greatest friends attend us.",11,18820
635870,266,"[To COMINIUS] Lead you on.
[To CORIOLANUS] Follow Cominius; we must follow you;]
Right worthy you priority.",654,18820
635871,269,Noble CORIOLANUS!,276,18820
635872,270,[To the Citizens] Hence to your homes; be gone!,11,18820
635873,271,"Nay, let them follow:
The Volsces have much corn; take these rats thither
To gnaw their garners. Worshipful mutiners,
Your valour puts well forth: pray, follow.
[Citizens steal away. Exeunt all but SICINIUS]
and BRUTUS]",283,18820
635874,277,Was ever man so proud as is this CORIOLANUS?,1091,18820
635875,278,He has no equal.,625,18820
635876,279,"When we were chosen tribunes for the people,--",1091,18820
635877,280,Mark'd you his lip and eyes?,625,18820
635878,281,Nay. but his taunts.,1091,18820
635879,282,"Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.",625,18820
635880,283,Be-mock the modest moon.,1091,18820
635881,284,"The present wars devour him: he is grown
Too proud to be so valiant.",625,18820
635882,286,"Such a nature,
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow
Which he treads on at noon: but I do wonder
His insolence can brook to be commanded
Under Cominius.",1091,18820
635883,291,"Fame, at the which he aims,
In whom already he's well graced, can not
Better be held nor more attain'd than by
A place below the first: for what miscarries
Shall be the general's fault, though he perform
To the utmost of a man, and giddy censure
Will then cry out of CORIOLANUS 'O if he
Had borne the business!'",625,18820
635884,299,"Besides, if things go well,
Opinion that so sticks on CORIOLANUS shall
Of his demerits rob Cominius.",1091,18820
635885,302,"Come:
Half all Cominius' honours are to CORIOLANUS.
Though CORIOLANUS earned them not, and all his faults
To CORIOLANUS shall be honours, though indeed
In aught he merit not.",625,18820
635886,307,"Let's hence, and hear
How the dispatch is made, and in what fashion,
More than his singularity, he goes
Upon this present action.",1091,18820
635887,311,Lets along.,625,18820
635888,312,[Exeunt],1261,18820
635889,314,[Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS and certain Senators],1261,18821
635890,315,"So, your opinion is, Aufidius,
That they of Rome are entered in our counsels
And know how we proceed.",11,18821
635891,318,"Is it not yours?
What ever have been thought on in this state,
That could be brought to bodily act ere Rome
Had circumvention? 'Tis not four days gone
Since I heard thence; these are the words: I think
I have the letter here; yes, here it is.
[Reads]
'They have press'd a power, but it is not known
Whether for east or west: the dearth is great;
The people mutinous; and it is rumour'd,
Cominius, CORIOLANUS your old enemy,
Who is of Rome worse hated than of you,
And Titus TITUS, a most valiant Roman,
These three lead on this preparation
Whither 'tis bent: most likely 'tis for you:
Consider of it.'",1214,18821
635892,334,"Our army's in the field
We never yet made doubt but Rome was ready
To answer us.",11,18821
635893,337,"Nor did you think it folly
To keep your great pretences veil'd till when
They needs must show themselves; which
in the hatching,
It seem'd, appear'd to Rome. By the discovery.
We shall be shorten'd in our aim, which was
To take in many towns ere almost Rome
Should know we were afoot.",1214,18821
635894,345,"Noble Aufidius,
Take your commission; hie you to your bands:
Let us alone to guard Corioli:
If they set down before 's, for the remove
Bring your army; but, I think, you'll find
They've not prepared for us.",26,18821
635895,351,"O, doubt not that;
I speak from certainties. Nay, more,
Some parcels of their power are forth already,
And only hitherward. I leave your honours.
If we and Caius CORIOLANUS chance to meet,
'Tis sworn between us we shall ever strike
Till one can do no more.",1214,18821
635896,358,The gods assist you!,72,18821
635897,359,And keep your honours safe!,1214,18821
635898,360,Farewell.,11,18821
635899,361,Farewell.,26,18821
635900,362,Farewell.,72,18821
635901,363,"[Exeunt]
[Enter VOLUMNIA and VIRGILIA. they set them down]
on two low stools, and sew]",1261,18821
635902,367,"I pray you, daughter, sing; or express yourself in a
more comfortable sort: if my son were my husband, I
should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he
won honour than in the embracements of his bed where
he would show most love. When yet he was but
tender-bodied and the only son of my womb, when
youth with comeliness plucked all gaze his way, when
for a day of kings' entreaties a mother should not
sell him an hour from her beholding, I, considering
how honour would become such a person. that it was
no better than picture-like to hang by the wall, if
renown made it not stir, was pleased to let him seek
danger where he was like to find fame. To a cruel
war I sent him; from whence he returned, his brows
bound with oak. I tell thee, daughter, I sprang not
more in joy at first hearing he was a man-child
than now in first seeing he had proved himself a
man.",1243,18822
635903,385,"But had he died in the business, madam; how then?",1240,18822
635904,386,"Then his good report should have been my son; I
therein would have found issue. Hear me profess
sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love
alike and none less dear than thine and my good
CORIOLANUS, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their
country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.",1243,18822
635905,392,[Enter a Gentlewoman],1261,18822
635906,393,"Madam, the Lady Valeria is come to visit you.",524,18822
635907,394,"Beseech you, give me leave to retire myself.",1240,18822
635908,395,"Indeed, you shall not.
Methinks I hear hither your husband's drum,
See him pluck Aufidius down by the hair,
As children from a bear, the Volsces shunning him:
Methinks I see him stamp thus, and call thus:
'Come on, you cowards! you were got in fear,
Though you were born in Rome:' his bloody brow
With his mail'd hand then wiping, forth he goes,
Like to a harvest-man that's task'd to mow
Or all or lose his hire.",1243,18822
635909,405,"His bloody brow! O Jupiter, no blood!",1240,18822
635910,406,"Away, you fool! it more becomes a man
Than gilt his trophy: the breasts of Hecuba,
When she did suckle Hector, look'd not lovelier
Than Hector's forehead when it spit forth blood
At Grecian sword, contemning. Tell Valeria,
We are fit to bid her welcome.",1243,18822
635911,412,[Exit Gentlewoman],1261,18822
635912,413,Heavens bless my lord from fell Aufidius!,1240,18822
635913,414,"He'll beat Aufidius 'head below his knee
And tread upon his neck.",1243,18822
635914,416,"[Enter VALERIA, with an Usher and Gentlewoman]",1261,18822
635915,417,"My ladies both, good day to you.",1223,18822
635916,418,Sweet madam.,1243,18822
635917,419,I am glad to see your ladyship.,1240,18822
635918,420,"How do you both? you are manifest house-keepers.
What are you sewing here? A fine spot, in good
faith. How does your little son?",1223,18822
635919,423,"I thank your ladyship; well, good madam.",1240,18822
635920,424,"He had rather see the swords, and hear a drum, than
look upon his school-master.",1243,18822
635921,426,"O' my word, the father's son: I'll swear,'tis a
very pretty boy. O' my troth, I looked upon him o'
Wednesday half an hour together: has such a
confirmed countenance. I saw him run after a gilded
butterfly: and when he caught it, he let it go
again; and after it again; and over and over he
comes, and again; catched it again; or whether his
fall enraged him, or how 'twas, he did so set his
teeth and tear it; O, I warrant it, how he mammocked
it!",1223,18822
635922,436,One on 's father's moods.,1243,18822
635923,437,"Indeed, la, 'tis a noble child.",1223,18822
635924,438,"A crack, madam.",1240,18822
635925,439,"Come, lay aside your stitchery; I must have you play
the idle husewife with me this afternoon.",1223,18822
635926,441,"No, good madam; I will not out of doors.",1240,18822
635927,442,Not out of doors!,1223,18822
635928,443,"She shall, she shall.",1243,18822
635929,444,"Indeed, no, by your patience; I'll not over the
threshold till my lord return from the wars.",1240,18822
635930,446,"Fie, you confine yourself most unreasonably: come,
you must go visit the good lady that lies in.",1223,18822
635931,448,"I will wish her speedy strength, and visit her with
my prayers; but I cannot go thither.",1240,18822
635932,450,"Why, I pray you?",1243,18822
635933,451,"'Tis not to save labour, nor that I want love.",1240,18822
635934,452,"You would be another Penelope: yet, they say, all
the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill
Ithaca full of moths. Come; I would your cambric
were sensible as your finger, that you might leave
pricking it for pity. Come, you shall go with us.",1223,18822
635935,457,"No, good madam, pardon me; indeed, I will not forth.",1240,18822
635936,458,"In truth, la, go with me; and I'll tell you
excellent news of your husband.",1223,18822
635937,460,"O, good madam, there can be none yet.",1240,18822
635938,461,"Verily, I do not jest with you; there came news from
him last night.",1223,18822
635939,463,"Indeed, madam?",1240,18822
635940,464,"In earnest, it's true; I heard a senator speak it.
Thus it is: the Volsces have an army forth; against
whom Cominius the general is gone, with one part of
our Roman power: your lord and Titus TITUS are set
down before their city Corioli; they nothing doubt
prevailing and to make it brief wars. This is true,
on mine honour; and so, I pray, go with us.",1223,18822
635941,471,"Give me excuse, good madam; I will obey you in every
thing hereafter.",1240,18822
635942,473,"Let her alone, lady: as she is now, she will but
disease our better mirth.",1243,18822
635943,475,"In troth, I think she would. Fare you well, then.
Come, good sweet lady. Prithee, Virgilia, turn thy
solemness out o' door. and go along with us.",1223,18822
635944,478,"No, at a word, madam; indeed, I must not. I wish
you much mirth.",1240,18822
635945,480,"Well, then, farewell.",1223,18822
635946,481,[Exeunt],1261,18822
635947,483,"[Enter, with drum and colours, CORIOLANUS, TITUS LARTIUS, Captains and Soldiers. To them a Messenger]",1261,18823
635948,484,Yonder comes news. A wager they have met.,283,18823
635949,485,"My horse to yours, no.",654,18823
635956,492,"No, I'll nor sell nor give him: lend you him I will
For half a hundred years. Summon the town.",654,18823
635957,494,How far off lie these armies?,283,18823
635958,495,Within this mile and half.,770,18823
635959,496,"Then shall we hear their 'larum, and they ours.
Now, Mars, I prithee, make us quick in work,
That we with smoking swords may march from hence,
To help our fielded friends! Come, blow thy blast.
[They sound a parley. Enter two Senators with others]
on the walls]
Tutus Aufidius, is he within your walls?",283,18823
635960,503,"No, nor a man that fears you less than he,
That's lesser than a little.
[Drums afar off]
Hark! our drums
Are bringing forth our youth. We'll break our walls,
Rather than they shall pound us up: our gates,
Which yet seem shut, we, have but pinn'd with rushes;
They'll open of themselves.
[Alarum afar off]
Hark you. far off!
There is Aufidius; list, what work he makes
Amongst your cloven army.",11,18823
635961,515,"O, they are at it!",283,18823
635962,516,"Their noise be our instruction. Ladders, ho!",654,18823
635963,517,[Enter the army of the Volsces],1261,18823
635964,518,"They fear us not, but issue forth their city.
Now put your shields before your hearts, and fight
With hearts more proof than shields. Advance,
brave Titus:
They do disdain us much beyond our thoughts,
Which makes me sweat with wrath. Come on, my fellows:
He that retires I'll take him for a Volsce,
And he shall feel mine edge.
[Alarum. The Romans are beat back to their]
trenches. Re-enter CORIOLANUS cursing]",283,18823
635965,528,"All the contagion of the south light on you,
You shames of Rome! you herd of--Boils and plagues
Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd
Further than seen and one infect another
Against the wind a mile! You souls of geese,
That bear the shapes of men, how have you run
From slaves that apes would beat! Pluto and hell!
All hurt behind; backs red, and faces pale
With flight and agued fear! Mend and charge home,
Or, by the fires of heaven, I'll leave the foe
And make my wars on you: look to't: come on;
If you'll stand fast, we'll beat them to their wives,
As they us to our trenches followed.
[Another alarum. The Volsces fly, and CORIOLANUS]
follows them to the gates]
So, now the gates are ope: now prove good seconds:
'Tis for the followers fortune widens them,
Not for the fliers: mark me, and do the like.",283,18823
635966,546,[Enters the gates],1261,18823
635967,547,Fool-hardiness; not I.,15,18823
635968,548,Nor I.,30,18823
635969,549,[CORIOLANUS is shut in],1261,18823
635970,550,"See, they have shut him in.",15,18823
635971,551,"To the pot, I warrant him.",72,18823
635972,552,[Alarum continues],1261,18823
635973,553,[Re-enter TITUS LARTIUS],1261,18823
635974,554,What is become of CORIOLANUS?,654,18823
635975,555,"Slain, sir, doubtless.",72,18823
635976,556,"Following the fliers at the very heels,
With them he enters; who, upon the sudden,
Clapp'd to their gates: he is himself alone,
To answer all the city.",15,18823
635977,560,"O noble fellow!
Who sensibly outdares his senseless sword,
And, when it bows, stands up. Thou art left, CORIOLANUS:
A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art,
Were not so rich a jewel. Thou wast a soldier
Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terrible
Only in strokes; but, with thy grim looks and
The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds,
Thou madst thine enemies shake, as if the world
Were feverous and did tremble.",654,18823
635978,570,"[Re-enter CORIOLANUS, bleeding, assaulted by the enemy]",1261,18823
635979,571,"Look, sir.",15,18823
635980,572,"O,'tis CORIOLANUS!
Let's fetch him off, or make remain alike.",654,18823
635981,574,"[They fight, and all enter the city]",1261,18823
635982,576,"[Enter certain Romans, with spoils]",1261,18824
635983,577,This will I carry to Rome.,453,18824
635984,578,And I this.,1022,18824
635985,579,A murrain on't! I took this for silver.,1181,18824
635986,580,[Alarum continues still afar off],1261,18824
635987,581,[Enter CORIOLANUS and TITUS LARTIUS with a trumpet],1261,18824
635988,582,"See here these movers that do prize their hours
At a crack'd drachm! Cushions, leaden spoons,
Irons of a doit, doublets that hangmen would
Bury with those that wore them, these base slaves,
Ere yet the fight be done, pack up: down with them!
And hark, what noise the general makes! To him!
There is the man of my soul's hate, Aufidius,
Piercing our Romans: then, valiant Titus, take
Convenient numbers to make good the city;
Whilst I, with those that have the spirit, will haste
To help Cominius.",283,18824
635989,593,"Worthy sir, thou bleed'st;
Thy exercise hath been too violent for
A second course of fight.",654,18824
635990,596,"Sir, praise me not;
My work hath yet not warm'd me: fare you well:
The blood I drop is rather physical
Than dangerous to me: to Aufidius thus
I will appear, and fight.",283,18824
635991,601,"Now the fair goddess, Fortune,
Fall deep in love with thee; and her great charms
Misguide thy opposers' swords! Bold gentleman,
Prosperity be thy page!",654,18824
635992,605,"Thy friend no less
Than those she placeth highest! So, farewell.",283,18824
635993,607,"Thou worthiest CORIOLANUS!
[Exit CORIOLANUS]
Go, sound thy trumpet in the market-place;
Call thither all the officers o' the town,
Where they shall know our mind: away!",654,18824
635994,612,"[Exeunt]
[Enter COMINIUS, as it were in retire,]
with soldiers]",1261,18824
635995,616,"Breathe you, my friends: well fought;
we are come off
Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands,
Nor cowardly in retire: believe me, sirs,
We shall be charged again. Whiles we have struck,
By interims and conveying gusts we have heard
The charges of our friends. Ye Roman gods!
Lead their successes as we wish our own,
That both our powers, with smiling
fronts encountering,
May give you thankful sacrifice.
[Enter a Messenger]
Thy news?",276,18825
635996,629,"The citizens of Corioli have issued,
And given to TITUS and to CORIOLANUS battle:
I saw our party to their trenches driven,
And then I came away.",770,18825
635997,633,"Though thou speak'st truth,
Methinks thou speak'st not well.
How long is't since?",276,18825
635998,636,"Above an hour, my lord.",770,18825
635999,637,"'Tis not a mile; briefly we heard their drums:
How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour,
And bring thy news so late?",276,18825
636000,640,"Spies of the Volsces
Held me in chase, that I was forced to wheel
Three or four miles about, else had I, sir,
Half an hour since brought my report.",770,18825
636001,644,"Who's yonder,
That does appear as he were flay'd? O gods
He has the stamp of CORIOLANUS; and I have
Before-time seen him thus.",276,18825
636002,648,[Within] Come I too late?,283,18825
636003,649,"The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabour
More than I know the sound of CORIOLANUS' tongue
From every meaner man.",276,18825
636004,652,[Enter CORIOLANUS],1261,18825
636005,653,Come I too late?,283,18825
636006,654,"Ay, if you come not in the blood of others,
But mantled in your own.",276,18825
636007,656,"O, let me clip ye
In arms as sound as when I woo'd, in heart
As merry as when our nuptial day was done,
And tapers burn'd to bedward!",283,18825
636008,660,"Flower of warriors,
How is it with Titus TITUS?",276,18825
636009,662,"As with a man busied about decrees:
Condemning some to death, and some to exile;
Ransoming him, or pitying, threatening the other;
Holding Corioli in the name of Rome,
Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash,
To let him slip at will.",283,18825
636010,668,"Where is that slave
Which told me they had beat you to your trenches?
Where is he? call him hither.",276,18825
636011,671,"Let him alone;
He did inform the truth: but for our gentlemen,
The common file--a plague! tribunes for them!--
The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as they did budge
From rascals worse than they.",283,18825
636012,676,But how prevail'd you?,276,18825
636013,677,"Will the time serve to tell? I do not think.
Where is the enemy? are you lords o' the field?
If not, why cease you till you are so?",283,18825
636014,680,"CORIOLANUS,
We have at disadvantage fought and did
Retire to win our purpose.",276,18825
636015,683,"How lies their battle? know you on which side
They have placed their men of trust?",283,18825
636016,685,"As I guess, CORIOLANUS,
Their bands i' the vaward are the Antiates,
Of their best trust; o'er them Aufidius,
Their very heart of hope.",276,18825
636017,689,"I do beseech you,
By all the battles wherein we have fought,
By the blood we have shed together, by the vows
We have made to endure friends, that you directly
Set me against Aufidius and his Antiates;
And that you not delay the present, but,
Filling the air with swords advanced and darts,
We prove this very hour.",283,18825
636018,697,"Though I could wish
You were conducted to a gentle bath
And balms applied to, you, yet dare I never
Deny your asking: take your choice of those
That best can aid your action.",276,18825
636019,702,"Those are they
That most are willing. If any such be here--
As it were sin to doubt--that love this painting
Wherein you see me smear'd; if any fear
Lesser his person than an ill report;
If any think brave death outweighs bad life
And that his country's dearer than himself;
Let him alone, or so many so minded,
Wave thus, to express his disposition,
And follow CORIOLANUS.
[They all shout and wave their swords, take him up in]
their arms, and cast up their caps]
O, me alone! make you a sword of me?
If these shows be not outward, which of you
But is four Volsces? none of you but is
Able to bear against the great Aufidius
A shield as hard as his. A certain number,
Though thanks to all, must I select
from all: the rest
Shall bear the business in some other fight,
As cause will be obey'd. Please you to march;
And four shall quickly draw out my command,
Which men are best inclined.",283,18825
636020,725,"March on, my fellows:
Make good this ostentation, and you shall
Divide in all with us.",276,18825
636021,728,"[Exeunt]
[TITUS LARTIUS, having set a guard upon]
Corioli, going with drum and trumpet toward
COMINIUS and CAIUS CORIOLANUS, enters with
Lieutenant, other Soldiers, and a Scout]",1261,18825
636022,734,"So, let the ports be guarded: keep your duties,
As I have set them down. If I do send, dispatch
Those centuries to our aid: the rest will serve
For a short holding: if we lose the field,
We cannot keep the town.",654,18826
636023,739,"Fear not our care, sir.",671,18826
636024,740,"Hence, and shut your gates upon's.
Our guider, come; to the Roman camp conduct us.",654,18826
636025,742,"[Exeunt]
[Alarum as in battle. Enter, from opposite sides,]
CORIOLANUS and AUFIDIUS]",1261,18826
636026,746,"I'll fight with none but thee; for I do hate thee
Worse than a promise-breaker.",283,18827
636027,748,"We hate alike:
Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor
More than thy fame and envy. Fix thy foot.",1214,18827
636028,751,"Let the first budger die the other's slave,
And the gods doom him after!",283,18827
636029,753,"If I fly, CORIOLANUS,
Holloa me like a hare.",1214,18827
636030,755,"Within these three hours, Tullus,
Alone I fought in your Corioli walls,
And made what work I pleased: 'tis not my blood
Wherein thou seest me mask'd; for thy revenge
Wrench up thy power to the highest.",283,18827
636031,760,"Wert thou the Hector
That was the whip of your bragg'd progeny,
Thou shouldst not scape me here.
[They fight, and certain Volsces come to the aid of]
AUFIDIUS. CORIOLANUS fights till they be driven in
breathless]
Officious, and not valiant, you have shamed me
In your condemned seconds.",1214,18827
636032,768,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish. Alarum. A retreat is sounded. Flourish.]
Enter, from one side, COMINIUS with the Romans; from
the other side, CORIOLANUS, with his arm in a scarf]",1261,18827
636033,773,"If I should tell thee o'er this thy day's work,
Thou'ldst not believe thy deeds: but I'll report it
Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles,
Where great patricians shall attend and shrug,
I' the end admire, where ladies shall be frighted,
And, gladly quaked, hear more; where the
dull tribunes,
That, with the fusty plebeians, hate thine honours,
Shall say against their hearts 'We thank the gods
Our Rome hath such a soldier.'
Yet camest thou to a morsel of this feast,
Having fully dined before.
[Enter TITUS LARTIUS, with his power,]
from the pursuit]",276,18828
636034,787,"O general,
Here is the steed, we the caparison:
Hadst thou beheld--",654,18828
636035,790,"Pray now, no more: my mother,
Who has a charter to extol her blood,
When she does praise me grieves me. I have done
As you have done; that's what I can; induced
As you have been; that's for my country:
He that has but effected his good will
Hath overta'en mine act.",283,18828
636036,797,"You shall not be
The grave of your deserving; Rome must know
The value of her own: 'twere a concealment
Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement,
To hide your doings; and to silence that,
Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd,
Would seem but modest: therefore, I beseech you
In sign of what you are, not to reward
What you have done--before our army hear me.",276,18828
636037,806,"I have some wounds upon me, and they smart
To hear themselves remember'd.",283,18828
636038,808,"Should they not,
Well might they fester 'gainst ingratitude,
And tent themselves with death. Of all the horses,
Whereof we have ta'en good and good store, of all
The treasure in this field achieved and city,
We render you the tenth, to be ta'en forth,
Before the common distribution, at
Your only choice.",276,18828
636039,816,"I thank you, general;
But cannot make my heart consent to take
A bribe to pay my sword: I do refuse it;
And stand upon my common part with those
That have beheld the doing.
[A long flourish. They all cry 'CORIOLANUS! CORIOLANUS!']
cast up their caps and lances: COMINIUS and TITUS
stand bare]",283,18828
636040,824,"May these same instruments, which you profane,
Never sound more! when drums and trumpets shall
I' the field prove flatterers, let courts and cities be
Made all of false-faced soothing!
When steel grows soft as the parasite's silk,
Let him be made a coverture for the wars!
No more, I say! For that I have not wash'd
My nose that bled, or foil'd some debile wretch.--
Which, without note, here's many else have done,--
You shout me forth
In acclamations hyperbolical;
As if I loved my little should be dieted
In praises sauced with lies.",283,18828
636041,837,"Too modest are you;
More cruel to your good report than grateful
To us that give you truly: by your patience,
If 'gainst yourself you be incensed, we'll put you,
Like one that means his proper harm, in manacles,
Then reason safely with you. Therefore, be it known,
As to us, to all the world, that Caius CORIOLANUS
Wears this war's garland: in token of the which,
My noble steed, known to the camp, I give him,
With all his trim belonging; and from this time,
For what he did before Corioli, call him,
With all the applause and clamour of the host,
CAIUS CORIOLANUS CORIOLANUS! Bear
The addition nobly ever!",276,18828
636042,851,"[Flourish. Trumpets sound, and drums]",1261,18828
636043,852,Caius CORIOLANUS Coriolanus!,72,18828
636044,853,"I will go wash;
And when my face is fair, you shall perceive
Whether I blush or no: howbeit, I thank you.
I mean to stride your steed, and at all times
To undercrest your good addition
To the fairness of my power.",283,18828
636045,859,"So, to our tent;
Where, ere we do repose us, we will write
To Rome of our success. You, Titus TITUS,
Must to Corioli back: send us to Rome
The best, with whom we may articulate,
For their own good and ours.",276,18828
636046,865,"I shall, my lord.",654,18828
636047,866,"The gods begin to mock me. I, that now
Refused most princely gifts, am bound to beg
Of my lord general.",283,18828
636048,869,Take't; 'tis yours. What is't?,276,18828
636049,870,"I sometime lay here in Corioli
At a poor man's house; he used me kindly:
He cried to me; I saw him prisoner;
But then Aufidius was within my view,
And wrath o'erwhelm'd my pity: I request you
To give my poor host freedom.",283,18828
636050,876,"O, well begg'd!
Were he the butcher of my son, he should
Be free as is the wind. Deliver him, Titus.",276,18828
636051,879,"CORIOLANUS, his name?",654,18828
636052,880,"By Jupiter! forgot.
I am weary; yea, my memory is tired.
Have we no wine here?",283,18828
636053,883,"Go we to our tent:
The blood upon your visage dries; 'tis time
It should be look'd to: come.",276,18828
636054,886,"[Exeunt]
[A flourish. Cornets. Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS,]
bloody, with two or three Soldiers]",1261,18828
636055,890,The town is ta'en!,1214,18829
636057,892,"Condition!
I would I were a Roman; for I cannot,
Being a Volsce, be that I am. Condition!
What good condition can a treaty find
I' the part that is at mercy? Five times, CORIOLANUS,
I have fought with thee: so often hast thou beat me,
And wouldst do so, I think, should we encounter
As often as we eat. By the elements,
If e'er again I meet him beard to beard,
He's mine, or I am his: mine emulation
Hath not that honour in't it had; for where
I thought to crush him in an equal force,
True sword to sword, I'll potch at him some way
Or wrath or craft may get him.",1214,18829
636058,906,He's the devil.,15,18829
636059,907,"Bolder, though not so subtle. My valour's poison'd
With only suffering stain by him; for him
Shall fly out of itself: nor sleep nor sanctuary,
Being naked, sick, nor fane nor Capitol,
The prayers of priests nor times of sacrifice,
Embarquements all of fury, shall lift up
Their rotten privilege and custom 'gainst
My hate to CORIOLANUS: where I find him, were it
At home, upon my brother's guard, even there,
Against the hospitable canon, would I
Wash my fierce hand in's heart. Go you to the city;
Learn how 'tis held; and what they are that must
Be hostages for Rome.",1214,18829
636060,920,Will not you go?,15,18829
636061,921,"I am attended at the cypress grove: I pray you--
'Tis south the city mills--bring me word thither
How the world goes, that to the pace of it
I may spur on my journey.",1214,18829
636062,925,"I shall, sir.",15,18829
636063,926,"[Exeunt]
[Enter MENENIUS with the two Tribunes of the people,]
SICINIUS and BRUTUS.",1261,18829
636064,931,The augurer tells me we shall have news to-night.,763,18830
636065,932,Good or bad?,625,18830
636066,933,"Not according to the prayer of the people, for they
love not CORIOLANUS.",763,18830
636067,935,Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.,1091,18830
636068,936,"Pray you, who does the wolf love?",763,18830
636069,937,The lamb.,1091,18830
636070,938,"Ay, to devour him; as the hungry plebeians would the
noble CORIOLANUS.",763,18830
636071,940,"He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.",625,18830
636072,941,"He's a bear indeed, that lives like a lamb. You two
are old men: tell me one thing that I shall ask you.",763,18830
636073,943,"Well, sir.",182,18830
636074,944,"In what enormity is CORIOLANUS poor in, that you two
have not in abundance?",763,18830
636075,946,"He's poor in no one fault, but stored with all.",625,18830
636076,947,Especially in pride.,1091,18830
636077,948,And topping all others in boasting.,625,18830
636078,949,"This is strange now: do you two know how you are
censured here in the city, I mean of us o' the
right-hand file? do you?",763,18830
636079,952,"Why, how are we censured?",182,18830
636080,953,"Because you talk of pride now,--will you not be angry?",763,18830
636081,954,"Well, well, sir, well.",182,18830
636082,955,"Why, 'tis no great matter; for a very little thief of
occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience:
give your dispositions the reins, and be angry at
your pleasures; at the least if you take it as a
pleasure to you in being so. You blame CORIOLANUS for
being proud?",763,18830
636083,961,"We do it not alone, sir.",625,18830
636084,962,"I know you can do very little alone; for your helps
are many, or else your actions would grow wondrous
single: your abilities are too infant-like for
doing much alone. You talk of pride: O that you
could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks,
and make but an interior survey of your good selves!
O that you could!",763,18830
636085,969,"What then, sir?",625,18830
636086,970,"Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting,
proud, violent, testy magistrates, alias fools, as
any in Rome.",763,18830
636087,973,"Menenius, you are known well enough too.",1091,18830
636088,974,"I am known to be a humorous patrician, and one that
loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying
Tiber in't; said to be something imperfect in
favouring the first complaint; hasty and tinder-like
upon too trivial motion; one that converses more
with the buttock of the night than with the forehead
of the morning: what I think I utter, and spend my
malice in my breath. Meeting two such wealsmen as
you are--I cannot call you Lycurguses--if the drink
you give me touch my palate adversely, I make a
crooked face at it. I can't say your worships have
delivered the matter well, when I find the ass in
compound with the major part of your syllables: and
though I must be content to bear with those that say
you are reverend grave men, yet they lie deadly that
tell you you have good faces. If you see this in
the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known
well enough too? what barm can your bisson
conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be
known well enough too?",763,18830
636089,994,"Come, sir, come, we know you well enough.",625,18830
636090,995,"You know neither me, yourselves nor any thing. You
are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs: you
wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a
cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller;
and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a
second day of audience. When you are hearing a
matter between party and party, if you chance to be
pinched with the colic, you make faces like
mummers; set up the bloody flag against all
patience; and, in roaring for a chamber-pot,
dismiss the controversy bleeding the more entangled
by your hearing: all the peace you make in their
cause is, calling both the parties knaves. You are
a pair of strange ones.",763,18830
636091,1009,"Come, come, you are well understood to be a
perfecter giber for the table than a necessary
bencher in the Capitol.",625,18830
636092,1012,"Our very priests must become mockers, if they shall
encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are. When
you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the
wagging of your beards; and your beards deserve not
so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's
cushion, or to be entombed in an ass's pack-
saddle. Yet you must be saying, CORIOLANUS is proud;
who in a cheap estimation, is worth predecessors
since Deucalion, though peradventure some of the
best of 'em were hereditary hangmen. God-den to
your worships: more of your conversation would
infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly
plebeians: I will be bold to take my leave of you.
[BRUTUS and SICINIUS go aside]
[Enter VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, and VALERIA]
How now, my as fair as noble ladies,--and the moon,
were she earthly, no nobler,--whither do you follow
your eyes so fast?",763,18830
636093,1030,"Honourable Menenius, my boy CORIOLANUS approaches; for
the love of Juno, let's go.",1243,18830
636094,1032,Ha! CORIOLANUS coming home!,763,18830
636095,1033,"Ay, worthy Menenius; and with most prosperous
approbation.",1243,18830
636096,1035,"Take my cap, Jupiter, and I thank thee. Hoo!
CORIOLANUS coming home!",763,18830
636097,1037,"[together with Virgilia] Nay, 'tis true.",1243,18830
636098,1038,"Nay, 'tis true.",1240,18830
636099,1039,"Look, here's a letter from him: the state hath
another, his wife another; and, I think, there's one
at home for you.",1243,18830
636100,1042,"I will make my very house reel tonight: a letter for
me!",763,18830
636101,1044,"Yes, certain, there's a letter for you; I saw't.",1240,18830
636102,1045,"A letter for me! it gives me an estate of seven
years' health; in which time I will make a lip at
the physician: the most sovereign prescription in
Galen is but empiricutic, and, to this preservative,
of no better report than a horse-drench. Is he
not wounded? he was wont to come home wounded.",763,18830
636103,1051,"O, no, no, no.",1240,18830
636104,1052,"O, he is wounded; I thank the gods for't.",1243,18830
636105,1053,"So do I too, if it be not too much: brings a'
victory in his pocket? the wounds become him.",763,18830
636106,1055,"On's brows: Menenius, he comes the third time home
with the oaken garland.",1243,18830
636107,1057,Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?,763,18830
636108,1058,"Titus TITUS writes, they fought together, but
Aufidius got off.",1243,18830
636109,1060,"And 'twas time for him too, I'll warrant him that:
an he had stayed by him, I would not have been so
fidiused for all the chests in Corioli, and the gold
that's in them. Is the senate possessed of this?",763,18830
636110,1064,"Good ladies, let's go. Yes, yes, yes; the senate
has letters from the general, wherein he gives my
son the whole name of the war: he hath in this
action outdone his former deeds doubly",1243,18830
636111,1068,"In troth, there's wondrous things spoke of him.",1223,18830
636112,1069,"Wondrous! ay, I warrant you, and not without his
true purchasing.",763,18830
636113,1071,The gods grant them true!,1240,18830
636114,1072,"True! pow, wow.",1243,18830
636115,1073,"True! I'll be sworn they are true.
Where is he wounded?
[To the Tribunes]
God save your good worships! CORIOLANUS is coming
home: he has more cause to be proud. Where is he wounded?",763,18830
636116,1078,"I' the shoulder and i' the left arm there will be
large cicatrices to show the people, when he shall
stand for his place. He received in the repulse of
Tarquin seven hurts i' the body.",1243,18830
636117,1082,"One i' the neck, and two i' the thigh,--there's
nine that I know.",763,18830
636118,1084,"He had, before this last expedition, twenty-five
wounds upon him.",1243,18830
636119,1086,"Now it's twenty-seven: every gash was an enemy's grave.
[A shout and flourish]
Hark! the trumpets.",763,18830
636120,1089,"These are the ushers of CORIOLANUS: before him he
carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears:
Death, that dark spirit, in 's nervy arm doth lie;
Which, being advanced, declines, and then men die.
[A sennet. Trumpets sound. Enter COMINIUS the]
general, and TITUS LARTIUS; between them, CORIOLANUS,
crowned with an oaken garland; with Captains and
Soldiers, and a Herald]",1243,18830
636121,1097,"Know, Rome, that all alone CORIOLANUS did fight
Within Corioli gates: where he hath won,
With fame, a name to Caius CORIOLANUS; these
In honour follows Coriolanus.
Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!",578,18830
636122,1102,[Flourish],1261,18830
636123,1103,"Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!",72,18830
636124,1104,"No more of this; it does offend my heart:
Pray now, no more.",283,18830
636125,1106,"Look, sir, your mother!",276,18830
636126,1107,"O,
You have, I know, petition'd all the gods
For my prosperity!",283,18830
636127,1110,[Kneels],1261,18830
636128,1111,"Nay, my good soldier, up;
My gentle CORIOLANUS, worthy Caius, and
By deed-achieving honour newly named,--
What is it?--Coriolanus must I call thee?--
But O, thy wife!",1243,18830
636129,1116,"My gracious silence, hail!
Wouldst thou have laugh'd had I come coffin'd home,
That weep'st to see me triumph? Ay, my dear,
Such eyes the widows in Corioli wear,
And mothers that lack sons.",283,18830
636130,1121,"Now, the gods crown thee!",763,18830
636131,1122,"And live you yet?
[To VALERIA]
O my sweet lady, pardon.",283,18830
636132,1125,"I know not where to turn: O, welcome home:
And welcome, general: and ye're welcome all.",1243,18830
636133,1127,"A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep
And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. Welcome.
A curse begin at very root on's heart,
That is not glad to see thee! You are three
That Rome should dote on: yet, by the faith of men,
We have some old crab-trees here
at home that will not
Be grafted to your relish. Yet welcome, warriors:
We call a nettle but a nettle and
The faults of fools but folly.",763,18830
636134,1137,Ever right.,276,18830
636135,1138,"Menenius ever, ever.",283,18830
636136,1139,"Give way there, and go on!",578,18830
636137,1140,"[To VOLUMNIA and VIRGILIA] Your hand, and yours:
Ere in our own house I do shade my head,
The good patricians must be visited;
From whom I have received not only greetings,
But with them change of honours.",283,18830
636138,1145,"I have lived
To see inherited my very wishes
And the buildings of my fancy: only
There's one thing wanting, which I doubt not but
Our Rome will cast upon thee.",1243,18830
636139,1150,"Know, good mother,
I had rather be their servant in my way,
Than sway with them in theirs.",283,18830
636140,1153,"On, to the Capitol!
[Flourish. Cornets. Exeunt in state, as before.]
BRUTUS and SICINIUS come forward]",276,18830
636141,1156,"All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights
Are spectacled to see him: your prattling nurse
Into a rapture lets her baby cry
While she chats him: the kitchen malkin pins
Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck,
Clambering the walls to eye him: stalls, bulks, windows,
Are smother'd up, leads fill'd, and ridges horsed
With variable complexions, all agreeing
In earnestness to see him: seld-shown flamens
Do press among the popular throngs and puff
To win a vulgar station: or veil'd dames
Commit the war of white and damask in
Their nicely-gawded cheeks to the wanton spoil
Of Phoebus' burning kisses: such a pother
As if that whatsoever god who leads him
Were slily crept into his human powers
And gave him graceful posture.",625,18830
636142,1173,"On the sudden,
I warrant him consul.",1091,18830
636143,1175,"Then our office may,
During his power, go sleep.",625,18830
636144,1177,"He cannot temperately transport his honours
From where he should begin and end, but will
Lose those he hath won.",1091,18830
636145,1180,In that there's comfort.,625,18830
636146,1181,"Doubt not
The commoners, for whom we stand, but they
Upon their ancient malice will forget
With the least cause these his new honours, which
That he will give them make I as little question
As he is proud to do't.",1091,18830
636147,1187,"I heard him swear,
Were he to stand for consul, never would he
Appear i' the market-place nor on him put
The napless vesture of humility;
Nor showing, as the manner is, his wounds
To the people, beg their stinking breaths.",625,18830
636152,1201,"It shall be to him then as our good wills,
A sure destruction.",1091,18830
636153,1203,"So it must fall out
To him or our authorities. For an end,
We must suggest the people in what hatred
He still hath held them; that to's power he would
Have made them mules, silenced their pleaders and
Dispropertied their freedoms, holding them,
In human action and capacity,
Of no more soul nor fitness for the world
Than camels in the war, who have their provand
Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows
For sinking under them.",625,18830
636154,1214,"This, as you say, suggested
At some time when his soaring insolence
Shall touch the people--which time shall not want,
If he be put upon 't; and that's as easy
As to set dogs on sheep--will be his fire
To kindle their dry stubble; and their blaze
Shall darken him for ever.",1091,18830
636155,1221,[Enter a Messenger],1261,18830
636156,1222,What's the matter?,625,18830
636157,1223,"You are sent for to the Capitol. 'Tis thought
That CORIOLANUS shall be consul:
I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and
The blind to bear him speak: matrons flung gloves,
Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchers,
Upon him as he pass'd: the nobles bended,
As to Jove's statue, and the commons made
A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts:
I never saw the like.",770,18830
636158,1232,"Let's to the Capitol;
And carry with us ears and eyes for the time,
But hearts for the event.",625,18830
636159,1235,Have with you.,1091,18830
636160,1236,[Exeunt],1261,18830
636161,1238,"[Enter two Officers, to lay cushions]",1261,18831
636162,1239,"Come, come, they are almost here. How many stand
for consulships?",448,18831
636163,1241,"Three, they say: but 'tis thought of every one
Coriolanus will carry it.",1017,18831
636164,1243,"That's a brave fellow; but he's vengeance proud, and
loves not the common people.",448,18831
636165,1245,"Faith, there had been many great men that have
flattered the people, who ne'er loved them; and there
be many that they have loved, they know not
wherefore: so that, if they love they know not why,
they hate upon no better a ground: therefore, for
Coriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate
him manifests the true knowledge he has in their
disposition; and out of his noble carelessness lets
them plainly see't.",1017,18831
636166,1254,"If he did not care whether he had their love or no,
he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither
good nor harm: but he seeks their hate with greater
devotion than can render it him; and leaves
nothing undone that may fully discover him their
opposite. Now, to seem to affect the malice and
displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he
dislikes, to flatter them for their love.",448,18831
636167,1262,"He hath deserved worthily of his country: and his
ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who,
having been supple and courteous to the people,
bonneted, without any further deed to have them at
an into their estimation and report: but he hath so
planted his honours in their eyes, and his actions
in their hearts, that for their tongues to be
silent, and not confess so much, were a kind of
ingrateful injury; to report otherwise, were a
malice, that, giving itself the lie, would pluck
reproof and rebuke from every ear that heard it.",1017,18831
636168,1273,"No more of him; he is a worthy man: make way, they
are coming.
[A sennet. Enter, with actors before them, COMINIUS]
the consul, MENENIUS, CORIOLANUS, Senators,
SICINIUS and BRUTUS. The Senators take their
places; the Tribunes take their Places by
themselves. CORIOLANUS stands]",448,18831
636169,1280,"Having determined of the Volsces and
To send for Titus TITUS, it remains,
As the main point of this our after-meeting,
To gratify his noble service that
Hath thus stood for his country: therefore,
please you,
Most reverend and grave elders, to desire
The present consul, and last general
In our well-found successes, to report
A little of that worthy work perform'd
By Caius CORIOLANUS Coriolanus, whom
We met here both to thank and to remember
With honours like himself.",763,18831
636170,1293,"Speak, good Cominius:
Leave nothing out for length, and make us think
Rather our state's defective for requital
Than we to stretch it out.
[To the Tribunes]
Masters o' the people,
We do request your kindest ears, and after,
Your loving motion toward the common body,
To yield what passes here.",11,18831
636171,1302,"We are convented
Upon a pleasing treaty, and have hearts
Inclinable to honour and advance
The theme of our assembly.",1091,18831
636172,1306,"Which the rather
We shall be blest to do, if he remember
A kinder value of the people than
He hath hereto prized them at.",625,18831
636173,1310,"That's off, that's off;
I would you rather had been silent. Please you
To hear Cominius speak?",763,18831
636174,1313,"Most willingly;
But yet my caution was more pertinent
Than the rebuke you give it.",625,18831
636175,1316,"He loves your people
But tie him not to be their bedfellow.
Worthy Cominius, speak.
[CORIOLANUS offers to go away]
Nay, keep your place.",763,18831
636176,1321,"Sit, Coriolanus; never shame to hear
What you have nobly done.",11,18831
636177,1323,"Your horror's pardon:
I had rather have my wounds to heal again
Than hear say how I got them.",283,18831
636178,1326,"Sir, I hope
My words disbench'd you not.",625,18831
636179,1328,"No, sir: yet oft,
When blows have made me stay, I fled from words.
You soothed not, therefore hurt not: but
your people,
I love them as they weigh.",283,18831
636180,1333,"Pray now, sit down.",763,18831
636181,1334,"I had rather have one scratch my head i' the sun
When the alarum were struck than idly sit
To hear my nothings monster'd.",283,18831
636182,1337,[Exit],1261,18831
636183,1338,"Masters of the people,
Your multiplying spawn how can he flatter--
That's thousand to one good one--when you now see
He had rather venture all his limbs for honour
Than one on's ears to hear it? Proceed, Cominius.",763,18831
636184,1343,"I shall lack voice: the deeds of Coriolanus
Should not be utter'd feebly. It is held
That valour is the chiefest virtue, and
Most dignifies the haver: if it be,
The man I speak of cannot in the world
Be singly counterpoised. At sixteen years,
When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he fought
Beyond the mark of others: our then dictator,
Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fight,
When with his Amazonian chin he drove
The bristled lips before him: be bestrid
An o'er-press'd Roman and i' the consul's view
Slew three opposers: Tarquin's self he met,
And struck him on his knee: in that day's feats,
When he might act the woman in the scene,
He proved best man i' the field, and for his meed
Was brow-bound with the oak. His pupil age
Man-enter'd thus, he waxed like a sea,
And in the brunt of seventeen battles since
He lurch'd all swords of the garland. For this last,
Before and in Corioli, let me say,
I cannot speak him home: he stopp'd the fliers;
And by his rare example made the coward
Turn terror into sport: as weeds before
A vessel under sail, so men obey'd
And fell below his stem: his sword, death's stamp,
Where it did mark, it took; from face to foot
He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
Was timed with dying cries: alone he enter'd
The mortal gate of the city, which he painted
With shunless destiny; aidless came off,
And with a sudden reinforcement struck
Corioli like a planet: now all's his:
When, by and by, the din of war gan pierce
His ready sense; then straight his doubled spirit
Re-quicken'd what in flesh was fatigate,
And to the battle came he; where he did
Run reeking o'er the lives of men, as if
'Twere a perpetual spoil: and till we call'd
Both field and city ours, he never stood
To ease his breast with panting.",276,18831
636185,1384,Worthy man!,763,18831
636186,1385,"He cannot but with measure fit the honours
Which we devise him.",11,18831
636187,1387,"Our spoils he kick'd at,
And look'd upon things precious as they were
The common muck of the world: he covets less
Than misery itself would give; rewards
His deeds with doing them, and is content
To spend the time to end it.",276,18831
636188,1393,"He's right noble:
Let him be call'd for.",763,18831
636189,1395,Call Coriolanus.,11,18831
636190,1396,He doth appear.,826,18831
636191,1397,[Re-enter CORIOLANUS],1261,18831
636192,1398,"The senate, Coriolanus, are well pleased
To make thee consul.",763,18831
636193,1400,"I do owe them still
My life and services.",283,18831
636194,1402,"It then remains
That you do speak to the people.",763,18831
636195,1404,"I do beseech you,
Let me o'erleap that custom, for I cannot
Put on the gown, stand naked and entreat them,
For my wounds' sake, to give their suffrage: please you
That I may pass this doing.",283,18831
636196,1409,"Sir, the people
Must have their voices; neither will they bate
One jot of ceremony.",1091,18831
636197,1412,"Put them not to't:
Pray you, go fit you to the custom and
Take to you, as your predecessors have,
Your honour with your form.",763,18831
636198,1416,"It is apart
That I shall blush in acting, and might well
Be taken from the people.",283,18831
636199,1419,Mark you that?,625,18831
636200,1420,"To brag unto them, thus I did, and thus;
Show them the unaching scars which I should hide,
As if I had received them for the hire
Of their breath only!",283,18831
636201,1424,"Do not stand upon't.
We recommend to you, tribunes of the people,
Our purpose to them: and to our noble consul
Wish we all joy and honour.Senators. To Coriolanus come all joy and honour!
[Flourish of cornets. Exeunt all but SICINIUS]
and BRUTUS]",763,18831
636202,1430,You see how he intends to use the people.,625,18831
636203,1431,"May they perceive's intent! He will require them,
As if he did contemn what he requested
Should be in them to give.",1091,18831
636204,1434,"Come, we'll inform them
Of our proceedings here: on the marketplace,
I know, they do attend us.",625,18831
636205,1437,[Exeunt],1261,18831
636206,1439,[Enter seven or eight Citizens],1261,18832
636207,1440,"Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not to deny him.",409,18832
636208,1441,"We may, sir, if we will.",983,18832
636209,1442,"We have power in ourselves to do it, but it is a
power that we have no power to do; for if he show us
his wounds and tell us his deeds, we are to put our
tongues into those wounds and speak for them; so, if
he tell us his noble deeds, we must also tell him
our noble acceptance of them. Ingratitude is
monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful,
were to make a monster of the multitude: of the
which we being members, should bring ourselves to be
monstrous members.",1164,18832
636210,1452,"And to make us no better thought of, a little help
will serve; for once we stood up about the corn, he
himself stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude.",409,18832
636211,1455,"We have been called so of many; not that our heads
are some brown, some black, some auburn, some bald,
but that our wits are so diversely coloured: and
truly I think if all our wits were to issue out of
one skull, they would fly east, west, north, south,
and their consent of one direct way should be at
once to all the points o' the compass.",1164,18832
636212,1462,"Think you so? Which way do you judge my wit would
fly?",983,18832
636213,1464,"Nay, your wit will not so soon out as another man's
will;'tis strongly wedged up in a block-head, but
if it were at liberty, 'twould, sure, southward.",1164,18832
636214,1467,Why that way?,983,18832
636215,1468,"To lose itself in a fog, where being three parts
melted away with rotten dews, the fourth would return
for conscience sake, to help to get thee a wife.",1164,18832
636216,1471,"You are never without your tricks: you may, you may.",983,18832
636217,1472,"Are you all resolved to give your voices? But
that's no matter, the greater part carries it. I
say, if he would incline to the people, there was
never a worthier man.
[Enter CORIOLANUS in a gown of humility,]
with MENENIUS]
Here he comes, and in the gown of humility: mark his
behavior. We are not to stay all together, but to
come by him where he stands, by ones, by twos, and
by threes. He's to make his requests by
particulars; wherein every one of us has a single
honour, in giving him our own voices with our own
tongues: therefore follow me, and I direct you how
you shall go by him.",1164,18832
636218,1486,"Content, content.",72,18832
636219,1487,[Exeunt Citizens],1261,18832
636220,1488,"O sir, you are not right: have you not known
The worthiest men have done't?",763,18832
636221,1490,"What must I say?
'I Pray, sir'--Plague upon't! I cannot bring
My tongue to such a pace:--'Look, sir, my wounds!
I got them in my country's service, when
Some certain of your brethren roar'd and ran
From the noise of our own drums.'",283,18832
636222,1496,"O me, the gods!
You must not speak of that: you must desire them
To think upon you.",763,18832
636223,1499,"Think upon me! hang 'em!
I would they would forget me, like the virtues
Which our divines lose by 'em.",283,18832
636224,1502,"You'll mar all:
I'll leave you: pray you, speak to 'em, I pray you,
In wholesome manner.",763,18832
636225,1505,[Exit],1261,18832
636226,1506,"Bid them wash their faces
And keep their teeth clean.
[Re-enter two of the Citizens]
So, here comes a brace.
[Re-enter a third Citizen]
You know the cause, air, of my standing here.",283,18832
636227,1512,"We do, sir; tell us what hath brought you to't.",1164,18832
636228,1513,Mine own desert.,283,18832
636229,1514,Your own desert!,983,18832
636230,1515,"Ay, but not mine own desire.",283,18832
636231,1516,How not your own desire?,1164,18832
636232,1517,"No, sir,'twas never my desire yet to trouble the
poor with begging.",283,18832
636233,1519,"You must think, if we give you any thing, we hope to
gain by you.",1164,18832
636234,1521,"Well then, I pray, your price o' the consulship?",283,18832
636235,1522,The price is to ask it kindly.,409,18832
636236,1523,"Kindly! Sir, I pray, let me ha't: I have wounds to
show you, which shall be yours in private. Your
good voice, sir; what say you?",283,18832
636237,1526,"You shall ha' it, worthy sir.",983,18832
636238,1527,"A match, sir. There's in all two worthy voices
begged. I have your alms: adieu.",283,18832
636239,1529,But this is something odd.,1164,18832
636240,1530,"An 'twere to give again,--but 'tis no matter.",983,18832
636241,1531,[Exeunt the three Citizens],1261,18832
636242,1532,[Re-enter two other Citizens],1261,18832
636243,1533,"Pray you now, if it may stand with the tune of your
voices that I may be consul, I have here the
customary gown.",283,18832
636244,1536,"You have deserved nobly of your country, and you
have not deserved nobly.",487,18832
636245,1538,Your enigma?,283,18832
636246,1539,"You have been a scourge to her enemies, you have
been a rod to her friends; you have not indeed loved
the common people.",487,18832
636247,1542,"You should account me the more virtuous that I have
not been common in my love. I will, sir, flatter my
sworn brother, the people, to earn a dearer
estimation of them; 'tis a condition they account
gentle: and since the wisdom of their choice is
rather to have my hat than my heart, I will practise
the insinuating nod and be off to them most
counterfeitly; that is, sir, I will counterfeit the
bewitchment of some popular man and give it
bountiful to the desirers. Therefore, beseech you,
I may be consul.",283,18832
636248,1553,"We hope to find you our friend; and therefore give
you our voices heartily.",402,18832
636249,1555,You have received many wounds for your country.,487,18832
636250,1556,"I will not seal your knowledge with showing them. I
will make much of your voices, and so trouble you no further.",283,18832
636251,1558,"The gods give you joy, sir, heartily!",181,18832
636252,1559,[Exeunt],1261,18832
636253,1560,"Most sweet voices!
Better it is to die, better to starve,
Than crave the hire which first we do deserve.
Why in this woolvish toge should I stand here,
To beg of Hob and Dick, that do appear,
Their needless vouches? Custom calls me to't:
What custom wills, in all things should we do't,
The dust on antique time would lie unswept,
And mountainous error be too highly heapt
For truth to o'er-peer. Rather than fool it so,
Let the high office and the honour go
To one that would do thus. I am half through;
The one part suffer'd, the other will I do.
[Re-enter three Citizens more]
Here come more voices.
Your voices: for your voices I have fought;
Watch'd for your voices; for Your voices bear
Of wounds two dozen odd; battles thrice six
I have seen and heard of; for your voices have
Done many things, some less, some more your voices:
Indeed I would be consul.",283,18832
636254,1581,"He has done nobly, and cannot go without any honest
man's voice.",1122,18832
636255,1583,"Therefore let him be consul: the gods give him joy,
and make him good friend to the people!",1080,18832
636256,1585,"Amen, amen. God save thee, noble consul!",70,18832
636257,1586,[Exeunt],1261,18832
636258,1587,Worthy voices!,283,18832
636259,1588,"[Re-enter MENENIUS, with BRUTUS and SICINIUS]",1261,18832
636260,1589,"You have stood your limitation; and the tribunes
Endue you with the people's voice: remains
That, in the official marks invested, you
Anon do meet the senate.",763,18832
636261,1593,Is this done?,283,18832
636262,1594,"The custom of request you have discharged:
The people do admit you, and are summon'd
To meet anon, upon your approbation.",1091,18832
636263,1597,Where? at the senate-house?,283,18832
636264,1598,"There, Coriolanus.",1091,18832
636265,1599,May I change these garments?,283,18832
636266,1600,"You may, sir.",1091,18832
636267,1601,"That I'll straight do; and, knowing myself again,
Repair to the senate-house.",283,18832
636268,1603,I'll keep you company. Will you along?,763,18832
636269,1604,We stay here for the people.,625,18832
636270,1605,"Fare you well.
[Exeunt CORIOLANUS and MENENIUS]
He has it now, and by his looks methink
'Tis warm at 's heart.",1091,18832
636271,1609,"With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds.
will you dismiss the people?",625,18832
636272,1611,[Re-enter Citizens],1261,18832
636273,1612,"How now, my masters! have you chose this man?",1091,18832
636274,1613,"He has our voices, sir.",409,18832
636275,1614,We pray the gods he may deserve your loves.,625,18832
636276,1615,"Amen, sir: to my poor unworthy notice,
He mock'd us when he begg'd our voices.",983,18832
636277,1617,"Certainly
He flouted us downright.",1164,18832
636278,1619,"No,'tis his kind of speech: he did not mock us.",409,18832
636279,1620,"Not one amongst us, save yourself, but says
He used us scornfully: he should have show'd us
His marks of merit, wounds received for's country.",983,18832
636280,1623,"Why, so he did, I am sure.",1091,18832
636281,1624,"No, no; no man saw 'em.",253,18832
636282,1625,"He said he had wounds, which he could show
in private;
And with his hat, thus waving it in scorn,
'I would be consul,' says he: 'aged custom,
But by your voices, will not so permit me;
Your voices therefore.' When we granted that,
Here was 'I thank you for your voices: thank you:
Your most sweet voices: now you have left
your voices,
I have no further with you.' Was not this mockery?",1164,18832
636283,1635,"Why either were you ignorant to see't,
Or, seeing it, of such childish friendliness
To yield your voices?",1091,18832
636284,1638,"Could you not have told him
As you were lesson'd, when he had no power,
But was a petty servant to the state,
He was your enemy, ever spake against
Your liberties and the charters that you bear
I' the body of the weal; and now, arriving
A place of potency and sway o' the state,
If he should still malignantly remain
Fast foe to the plebeii, your voices might
Be curses to yourselves? You should have said
That as his worthy deeds did claim no less
Than what he stood for, so his gracious nature
Would think upon you for your voices and
Translate his malice towards you into love,
Standing your friendly lord.",625,18832
636285,1653,"Thus to have said,
As you were fore-advised, had touch'd his spirit
And tried his inclination; from him pluck'd
Either his gracious promise, which you might,
As cause had call'd you up, have held him to
Or else it would have gall'd his surly nature,
Which easily endures not article
Tying him to aught; so putting him to rage,
You should have ta'en the advantage of his choler
And pass'd him unelected.",1091,18832
636286,1663,"Did you perceive
He did solicit you in free contempt
When he did need your loves, and do you think
That his contempt shall not be bruising to you,
When he hath power to crush? Why, had your bodies
No heart among you? or had you tongues to cry
Against the rectorship of judgment?",625,18832
636287,1670,"Have you
Ere now denied the asker? and now again
Of him that did not ask, but mock, bestow
Your sued-for tongues?",1091,18832
636288,1674,He's not confirm'd; we may deny him yet.,1164,18832
636289,1675,"And will deny him:
I'll have five hundred voices of that sound.",983,18832
636290,1677,I twice five hundred and their friends to piece 'em.,409,18832
636291,1678,"Get you hence instantly, and tell those friends,
They have chose a consul that will from them take
Their liberties; make them of no more voice
Than dogs that are as often beat for barking
As therefore kept to do so.",625,18832
636292,1683,"Let them assemble,
And on a safer judgment all revoke
Your ignorant election; enforce his pride,
And his old hate unto you; besides, forget not
With what contempt he wore the humble weed,
How in his suit he scorn'd you; but your loves,
Thinking upon his services, took from you
The apprehension of his present portance,
Which most gibingly, ungravely, he did fashion
After the inveterate hate he bears you.",1091,18832
636293,1693,"Lay
A fault on us, your tribunes; that we laboured,
No impediment between, but that you must
Cast your election on him.",625,18832
636294,1697,"Say, you chose him
More after our commandment than as guided
By your own true affections, and that your minds,
Preoccupied with what you rather must do
Than what you should, made you against the grain
To voice him consul: lay the fault on us.",1091,18832
636295,1703,"Ay, spare us not. Say we read lectures to you.
How youngly he began to serve his country,
How long continued, and what stock he springs of,
The noble house o' the Marcians, from whence came
That Ancus CORIOLANUS, Numa's daughter's son,
Who, after great Hostilius, here was king;
Of the same house Publius and Quintus were,
That our beat water brought by conduits hither;
And [Censorinus,] nobly named so,
Twice being [by the people chosen] censor,
Was his great ancestor.",625,18832
636296,1714,"One thus descended,
That hath beside well in his person wrought
To be set high in place, we did commend
To your remembrances: but you have found,
Scaling his present bearing with his past,
That he's your fixed enemy, and revoke
Your sudden approbation.",1091,18832
636297,1721,"Say, you ne'er had done't--
Harp on that still--but by our putting on;
And presently, when you have drawn your number,
Repair to the Capitol.",625,18832
636298,1725,"We will so: almost all
Repent in their election.",72,18832
636299,1727,[Exeunt Citizens],1261,18832
636300,1728,"Let them go on;
This mutiny were better put in hazard,
Than stay, past doubt, for greater:
If, as his nature is, he fall in rage
With their refusal, both observe and answer
The vantage of his anger.",625,18832
636301,1734,"To the Capitol, come:
We will be there before the stream o' the people;
And this shall seem, as partly 'tis, their own,
Which we have goaded onward.",1091,18832
636302,1738,"[Exeunt]
[Cornets. Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, all the]
Gentry, COMINIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, and other Senators]",1261,18832
636303,1743,Tullus Aufidius then had made new head?,283,18833
636304,1744,"He had, my lord; and that it was which caused
Our swifter composition.",654,18833
636305,1746,"So then the Volsces stand but as at first,
Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road.
Upon's again.",283,18833
636306,1749,"They are worn, lord consul, so,
That we shall hardly in our ages see
Their banners wave again.",276,18833
636307,1752,Saw you Aufidius?,283,18833
636308,1753,"On safe-guard he came to me; and did curse
Against the Volsces, for they had so vilely
Yielded the town: he is retired to Antium.",654,18833
636309,1756,Spoke he of me?,283,18833
636310,1757,"He did, my lord.",654,18833
636311,1758,How? what?,283,18833
636312,1759,"How often he had met you, sword to sword;
That of all things upon the earth he hated
Your person most, that he would pawn his fortunes
To hopeless restitution, so he might
Be call'd your vanquisher.",654,18833
636313,1764,At Antium lives he?,283,18833
636314,1765,At Antium.,654,18833
636315,1766,"I wish I had a cause to seek him there,
To oppose his hatred fully. Welcome home.
[Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS]
Behold, these are the tribunes of the people,
The tongues o' the common mouth: I do despise them;
For they do prank them in authority,
Against all noble sufferance.",283,18833
636316,1773,Pass no further.,1091,18833
636317,1774,Ha! what is that?,283,18833
636318,1775,It will be dangerous to go on: no further.,625,18833
636319,1776,What makes this change?,283,18833
636320,1777,The matter?,763,18833
636321,1778,Hath he not pass'd the noble and the common?,276,18833
636322,1779,"Cominius, no.",625,18833
636323,1780,Have I had children's voices?,283,18833
636324,1781,"Tribunes, give way; he shall to the market-place.",11,18833
636325,1782,The people are incensed against him.,625,18833
636326,1783,"Stop,
Or all will fall in broil.",1091,18833
636327,1785,"Are these your herd?
Must these have voices, that can yield them now
And straight disclaim their tongues? What are
your offices?
You being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth?
Have you not set them on?",283,18833
636328,1791,"Be calm, be calm.",763,18833
636329,1792,"It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot,
To curb the will of the nobility:
Suffer't, and live with such as cannot rule
Nor ever will be ruled.",283,18833
636330,1796,"Call't not a plot:
The people cry you mock'd them, and of late,
When corn was given them gratis, you repined;
Scandal'd the suppliants for the people, call'd them
Time-pleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness.",625,18833
636331,1801,"Why, this was known before.",283,18833
636332,1802,Not to them all.,625,18833
636333,1803,Have you inform'd them sithence?,283,18833
636334,1804,How! I inform them!,625,18833
636335,1805,You are like to do such business.,283,18833
636336,1806,"Not unlike,
Each way, to better yours.",625,18833
636337,1808,"Why then should I be consul? By yond clouds,
Let me deserve so ill as you, and make me
Your fellow tribune.",283,18833
636338,1811,"You show too much of that
For which the people stir: if you will pass
To where you are bound, you must inquire your way,
Which you are out of, with a gentler spirit,
Or never be so noble as a consul,
Nor yoke with him for tribune.",1091,18833
636339,1817,Let's be calm.,763,18833
636340,1818,"The people are abused; set on. This paltering
Becomes not Rome, nor has Coriolanus
Deserved this so dishonour'd rub, laid falsely
I' the plain way of his merit.",276,18833
636341,1822,"Tell me of corn!
This was my speech, and I will speak't again--",283,18833
636342,1824,"Not now, not now.",763,18833
636343,1825,"Not in this heat, sir, now.",11,18833
636344,1826,"Now, as I live, I will. My nobler friends,
I crave their pardons:
For the mutable, rank-scented many, let them
Regard me as I do not flatter, and
Therein behold themselves: I say again,
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,
Which we ourselves have plough'd for, sow'd,
and scatter'd,
By mingling them with us, the honour'd number,
Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that
Which they have given to beggars.",283,18833
636345,1838,"Well, no more.",763,18833
636346,1839,"No more words, we beseech you.",11,18833
636347,1840,"How! no more!
As for my country I have shed my blood,
Not fearing outward force, so shall my lungs
Coin words till their decay against those measles,
Which we disdain should tatter us, yet sought
The very way to catch them.",283,18833
636348,1846,"You speak o' the people,
As if you were a god to punish, not
A man of their infirmity.",625,18833
636349,1849,"'Twere well
We let the people know't.",1091,18833
636350,1851,"What, what? his choler?",763,18833
636351,1852,"Choler!
Were I as patient as the midnight sleep,
By Jove, 'twould be my mind!",283,18833
636352,1855,"It is a mind
That shall remain a poison where it is,
Not poison any further.",1091,18833
636353,1858,"Shall remain!
Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you
His absolute 'shall'?",283,18833
636356,1885,"Well, on to the market-place.",276,18833
636357,1886,"Whoever gave that counsel, to give forth
The corn o' the storehouse gratis, as 'twas used
Sometime in Greece,--",283,18833
636358,1889,"Well, well, no more of that.",763,18833
636359,1890,"Though there the people had more absolute power,
I say, they nourish'd disobedience, fed
The ruin of the state.",283,18833
636360,1893,"Why, shall the people give
One that speaks thus their voice?",625,18833
636361,1895,"I'll give my reasons,
More worthier than their voices. They know the corn
Was not our recompense, resting well assured
That ne'er did service for't: being press'd to the war,
Even when the navel of the state was touch'd,
They would not thread the gates. This kind of service
Did not deserve corn gratis. Being i' the war
Their mutinies and revolts, wherein they show'd
Most valour, spoke not for them: the accusation
Which they have often made against the senate,
All cause unborn, could never be the motive
Of our so frank donation. Well, what then?
How shall this bisson multitude digest
The senate's courtesy? Let deeds express
What's like to be their words: 'we did request it;
We are the greater poll, and in true fear
They gave us our demands.' Thus we debase
The nature of our seats and make the rabble
Call our cares fears; which will in time
Break ope the locks o' the senate and bring in
The crows to peck the eagles.",283,18833
636362,1916,"Come, enough.",763,18833
636363,1917,"Enough, with over-measure.",625,18833
636364,1918,"No, take more:
What may be sworn by, both divine and human,
Seal what I end withal! This double worship,
Where one part does disdain with cause, the other
Insult without all reason, where gentry, title, wisdom,
Cannot conclude but by the yea and no
Of general ignorance,--it must omit
Real necessities, and give way the while
To unstable slightness: purpose so barr'd,
it follows,
Nothing is done to purpose. Therefore, beseech you,--
You that will be less fearful than discreet,
That love the fundamental part of state
More than you doubt the change on't, that prefer
A noble life before a long, and wish
To jump a body with a dangerous physic
That's sure of death without it, at once pluck out
The multitudinous tongue; let them not lick
The sweet which is their poison: your dishonour
Mangles true judgment and bereaves the state
Of that integrity which should become't,
Not having the power to do the good it would,
For the in which doth control't.",283,18833
636365,1941,Has said enough.,625,18833
636366,1942,"Has spoken like a traitor, and shall answer
As traitors do.",1091,18833
636367,1944,"Thou wretch, despite o'erwhelm thee!
What should the people do with these bald tribunes?
On whom depending, their obedience fails
To the greater bench: in a rebellion,
When what's not meet, but what must be, was law,
Then were they chosen: in a better hour,
Let what is meet be said it must be meet,
And throw their power i' the dust.",283,18833
636368,1952,Manifest treason!,625,18833
636369,1953,This a consul? no.,1091,18833
636370,1954,"The aediles, ho!
[Enter an AEdile]
Let him be apprehended.",625,18833
636371,1957,"Go, call the people:
[Exit AEdile]
in whose name myself
Attach thee as a traitorous innovator,
A foe to the public weal: obey, I charge thee,
And follow to thine answer.",1091,18833
636372,1963,"Hence, old goat!",283,18833
636373,1965,"Aged sir, hands off.",276,18833
636374,1966,"Hence, rotten thing! or I shall shake thy bones
Out of thy garments.",283,18833
636375,1968,"Help, ye citizens!
[Enter a rabble of Citizens (Plebeians), with]
the AEdiles]",1091,18833
636376,1971,On both sides more respect.,763,18833
636377,1972,Here's he that would take from you all your power.,1091,18833
636378,1973,"Seize him, AEdiles!",625,18833
636379,1974,"Down with him! down with him!
[They all bustle about CORIOLANUS, crying]
'Tribunes!' 'Patricians!' 'Citizens!' 'What, ho!'
'Sicinius!' 'Brutus!' 'Coriolanus!' 'Citizens!'
'Peace, peace, peace!' 'Stay, hold, peace!'",253,18833
636380,1980,"What is about to be? I am out of breath;
Confusion's near; I cannot speak. You, tribunes
To the people! Coriolanus, patience!
Speak, good Sicinius.",763,18833
636381,1984,"Hear me, people; peace!",1091,18833
636382,1985,"Let's hear our tribune: peace Speak, speak, speak.",253,18833
636383,1986,"You are at point to lose your liberties:
CORIOLANUS would have all from you; CORIOLANUS,
Whom late you have named for consul.",1091,18833
636384,1989,"Fie, fie, fie!
This is the way to kindle, not to quench.",763,18833
636385,1991,To unbuild the city and to lay all flat.,11,18833
636386,1992,What is the city but the people?,1091,18833
636387,1993,"True,
The people are the city.",253,18833
636388,1995,"By the consent of all, we were establish'd
The people's magistrates.",625,18833
636389,1997,You so remain.,253,18833
636390,1998,And so are like to do.,763,18833
636391,1999,"That is the way to lay the city flat;
To bring the roof to the foundation,
And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,
In heaps and piles of ruin.",276,18833
636392,2003,This deserves death.,1091,18833
636393,2004,"Or let us stand to our authority,
Or let us lose it. We do here pronounce,
Upon the part o' the people, in whose power
We were elected theirs, CORIOLANUS is worthy
Of present death.",625,18833
636394,2009,"Therefore lay hold of him;
Bear him to the rock Tarpeian, and from thence
Into destruction cast him.",1091,18833
636395,2012,"AEdiles, seize him!",625,18833
636396,2013,"Yield, CORIOLANUS, yield!",253,18833
636397,2014,"Hear me one word;
Beseech you, tribunes, hear me but a word.",763,18833
636398,2016,"Peace, peace!",53,18833
636399,2017,"[To BRUTUS] Be that you seem, truly your
country's friend,
And temperately proceed to what you would
Thus violently redress.",763,18833
636400,2021,"Sir, those cold ways,
That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous
Where the disease is violent. Lay hands upon him,
And bear him to the rock.",625,18833
636401,2025,"No, I'll die here.
[Drawing his sword]
There's some among you have beheld me fighting:
Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.",283,18833
636402,2029,"Down with that sword! Tribunes, withdraw awhile.",763,18833
636403,2030,Lay hands upon him.,625,18833
636404,2031,"Help CORIOLANUS, help,
You that be noble; help him, young and old!",276,18833
636405,2033,"Down with him, down with him!
[In this mutiny, the Tribunes, the AEdiles, and the]
People, are beat in]",253,18833
636406,2036,"Go, get you to your house; be gone, away!
All will be naught else.",763,18833
636407,2038,Get you gone.,26,18833
636408,2039,"Stand fast;
We have as many friends as enemies.",276,18833
636409,2041,Sham it be put to that?,763,18833
636410,2042,"The gods forbid!
I prithee, noble friend, home to thy house;
Leave us to cure this cause.",11,18833
636411,2045,"For 'tis a sore upon us,
You cannot tent yourself: be gone, beseech you.",763,18833
636412,2047,"Come, sir, along with us.",276,18833
636413,2048,"I would they were barbarians--as they are,
Though in Rome litter'd--not Romans--as they are not,
Though calved i' the porch o' the Capitol--",283,18833
636414,2051,"Be gone;
Put not your worthy rage into your tongue;
One time will owe another.",763,18833
636415,2054,"On fair ground
I could beat forty of them.",283,18833
636416,2056,"I could myself
Take up a brace o' the best of them; yea, the
two tribunes:
But now 'tis odds beyond arithmetic;
And manhood is call'd foolery, when it stands
Against a falling fabric. Will you hence,
Before the tag return? whose rage doth rend
Like interrupted waters and o'erbear
What they are used to bear.",276,18833
636417,2065,"Pray you, be gone:
I'll try whether my old wit be in request
With those that have but little: this must be patch'd
With cloth of any colour.",763,18833
636418,2069,"Nay, come away.",276,18833
636419,2070,"[Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, and others]",1261,18833
636420,2071,This man has marr'd his fortune.,864,18833
636421,2072,"His nature is too noble for the world:
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for's power to thunder. His heart's his mouth:
What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent;
And, being angry, does forget that ever
He heard the name of death.
[A noise within]
Here's goodly work!",763,18833
636422,2080,I would they were abed!,25,18833
636423,2081,"I would they were in Tiber! What the vengeance!
Could he not speak 'em fair?",763,18833
636424,2083,"[Re-enter BRUTUS and SICINIUS, with the rabble]",1261,18833
636425,2084,"Where is this viper
That would depopulate the city and
Be every man himself?",1091,18833
636426,2087,"You worthy tribunes,--",763,18833
636427,2088,"He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock
With rigorous hands: he hath resisted law,
And therefore law shall scorn him further trial
Than the severity of the public power
Which he so sets at nought.",1091,18833
636428,2093,"He shall well know
The noble tribunes are the people's mouths,
And we their hands.",409,18833
636429,2096,"He shall, sure on't.",253,18833
636430,2097,"Sir, sir,--",763,18833
636431,2098,Peace!,1091,18833
636432,2099,"Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt
With modest warrant.",763,18833
636433,2101,"Sir, how comes't that you
Have holp to make this rescue?",1091,18833
636434,2103,"Hear me speak:
As I do know the consul's worthiness,
So can I name his faults,--",763,18833
636435,2106,Consul! what consul?,1091,18833
636436,2107,The consul Coriolanus.,763,18833
636437,2108,He consul!,625,18833
636438,2109,"No, no, no, no, no.",253,18833
636439,2110,"If, by the tribunes' leave, and yours, good people,
I may be heard, I would crave a word or two;
The which shall turn you to no further harm
Than so much loss of time.",763,18833
636440,2114,"Speak briefly then;
For we are peremptory to dispatch
This viperous traitor: to eject him hence
Were but one danger, and to keep him here
Our certain death: therefore it is decreed
He dies to-night.",1091,18833
636441,2120,"Now the good gods forbid
That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude
Towards her deserved children is enroll'd
In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam
Should now eat up her own!",763,18833
636442,2125,He's a disease that must be cut away.,1091,18833
636443,2126,"O, he's a limb that has but a disease;
Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.
What has he done to Rome that's worthy death?
Killing our enemies, the blood he hath lost--
Which, I dare vouch, is more than that he hath,
By many an ounce--he dropp'd it for his country;
And what is left, to lose it by his country,
Were to us all, that do't and suffer it,
A brand to the end o' the world.",763,18833
636444,2135,This is clean kam.,1091,18833
636445,2136,"Merely awry: when he did love his country,
It honour'd him.",625,18833
636446,2138,"The service of the foot
Being once gangrened, is not then respected
For what before it was.",763,18833
636447,2141,"We'll hear no more.
Pursue him to his house, and pluck him thence:
Lest his infection, being of catching nature,
Spread further.",625,18833
636448,2145,"One word more, one word.
This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find
The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will too late
Tie leaden pounds to's heels. Proceed by process;
Lest parties, as he is beloved, break out,
And sack great Rome with Romans.",763,18833
636449,2151,"If it were so,--",625,18833
636450,2152,"What do ye talk?
Have we not had a taste of his obedience?
Our aediles smote? ourselves resisted? Come.",1091,18833
636451,2155,"Consider this: he has been bred i' the wars
Since he could draw a sword, and is ill school'd
In bolted language; meal and bran together
He throws without distinction. Give me leave,
I'll go to him, and undertake to bring him
Where he shall answer, by a lawful form,
In peace, to his utmost peril.",763,18833
636452,2162,"Noble tribunes,
It is the humane way: the other course
Will prove too bloody, and the end of it
Unknown to the beginning.",11,18833
636453,2166,"Noble Menenius,
Be you then as the people's officer.
Masters, lay down your weapons.",1091,18833
636454,2169,Go not home.,625,18833
636455,2170,"Meet on the market-place. We'll attend you there:
Where, if you bring not CORIOLANUS, we'll proceed
In our first way.",1091,18833
636456,2173,"I'll bring him to you.
[To the Senators]
Let me desire your company: he must come,
Or what is worst will follow.",763,18833
636457,2177,"Pray you, let's to him.",11,18833
636458,2178,[Exeunt],1261,18833
636459,2180,[Enter CORIOLANUS with Patricians],1261,18834
636460,2181,"Let them puff all about mine ears, present me
Death on the wheel or at wild horses' heels,
Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock,
That the precipitation might down stretch
Below the beam of sight, yet will I still
Be thus to them.",283,18834
636461,2187,You do the nobler.,864,18834
636462,2188,"I muse my mother
Does not approve me further, who was wont
To call them woollen vassals, things created
To buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads
In congregations, to yawn, be still and wonder,
When one but of my ordinance stood up
To speak of peace or war.
[Enter VOLUMNIA]
I talk of you:
Why did you wish me milder? would you have me
False to my nature? Rather say I play
The man I am.",283,18834
636463,2200,"O, sir, sir, sir,
I would have had you put your power well on,
Before you had worn it out.",1243,18834
636464,2203,Let go.,283,18834
636465,2204,"You might have been enough the man you are,
With striving less to be so; lesser had been
The thwartings of your dispositions, if
You had not show'd them how ye were disposed
Ere they lack'd power to cross you.",1243,18834
636466,2209,Let them hang.,283,18834
636467,2210,"Ay, and burn too.",864,18834
636468,2211,[Enter MENENIUS and Senators],1261,18834
636469,2212,"Come, come, you have been too rough, something
too rough;
You must return and mend it.",763,18834
636470,2215,"There's no remedy;
Unless, by not so doing, our good city
Cleave in the midst, and perish.",11,18834
636471,2218,"Pray, be counsell'd:
I have a heart as little apt as yours,
But yet a brain that leads my use of anger
To better vantage.",1243,18834
636472,2222,"Well said, noble woman?
Before he should thus stoop to the herd, but that
The violent fit o' the time craves it as physic
For the whole state, I would put mine armour on,
Which I can scarcely bear.",763,18834
636473,2227,What must I do?,283,18834
636474,2228,Return to the tribunes.,763,18834
636475,2229,"Well, what then? what then?",283,18834
636476,2230,Repent what you have spoke.,763,18834
636477,2231,"For them! I cannot do it to the gods;
Must I then do't to them?",283,18834
636478,2233,"You are too absolute;
Though therein you can never be too noble,
But when extremities speak. I have heard you say,
Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends,
I' the war do grow together: grant that, and tell me,
In peace what each of them by the other lose,
That they combine not there.",1243,18834
636479,2240,"Tush, tush!",283,18834
636480,2241,A good demand.,763,18834
636481,2242,"If it be honour in your wars to seem
The same you are not, which, for your best ends,
You adopt your policy, how is it less or worse,
That it shall hold companionship in peace
With honour, as in war, since that to both
It stands in like request?",1243,18834
636482,2248,Why force you this?,283,18834
636483,2249,"Because that now it lies you on to speak
To the people; not by your own instruction,
Nor by the matter which your heart prompts you,
But with such words that are but rooted in
Your tongue, though but bastards and syllables
Of no allowance to your bosom's truth.
Now, this no more dishonours you at all
Than to take in a town with gentle words,
Which else would put you to your fortune and
The hazard of much blood.
I would dissemble with my nature where
My fortunes and my friends at stake required
I should do so in honour: I am in this,
Your wife, your son, these senators, the nobles;
And you will rather show our general louts
How you can frown than spend a fawn upon 'em,
For the inheritance of their loves and safeguard
Of what that want might ruin.",1243,18834
636484,2267,"Noble lady!
Come, go with us; speak fair: you may salve so,
Not what is dangerous present, but the loss
Of what is past.",763,18834
636485,2271,"I prithee now, my son,
Go to them, with this bonnet in thy hand;
And thus far having stretch'd it--here be with them--
Thy knee bussing the stones--for in such business
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant
More learned than the ears--waving thy head,
Which often, thus, correcting thy stout heart,
Now humble as the ripest mulberry
That will not hold the handling: or say to them,
Thou art their soldier, and being bred in broils
Hast not the soft way which, thou dost confess,
Were fit for thee to use as they to claim,
In asking their good loves, but thou wilt frame
Thyself, forsooth, hereafter theirs, so far
As thou hast power and person.",1243,18834
636486,2286,"This but done,
Even as she speaks, why, their hearts were yours;
For they have pardons, being ask'd, as free
As words to little purpose.",763,18834
636487,2290,"Prithee now,
Go, and be ruled: although I know thou hadst rather
Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf
Than flatter him in a bower. Here is Cominius.",1243,18834
636488,2294,[Enter COMINIUS],1261,18834
636489,2295,"I have been i' the market-place; and, sir,'tis fit
You make strong party, or defend yourself
By calmness or by absence: all's in anger.",276,18834
636490,2298,Only fair speech.,763,18834
636491,2299,"I think 'twill serve, if he
Can thereto frame his spirit.",276,18834
636492,2301,"He must, and will
Prithee now, say you will, and go about it.",1243,18834
636493,2303,"Must I go show them my unbarbed sconce?
Must I with base tongue give my noble heart
A lie that it must bear? Well, I will do't:
Yet, were there but this single plot to lose,
This mould of CORIOLANUS, they to dust should grind it
And throw't against the wind. To the market-place!
You have put me now to such a part which never
I shall discharge to the life.",283,18834
636494,2311,"Come, come, we'll prompt you.",276,18834
636495,2312,"I prithee now, sweet son, as thou hast said
My praises made thee first a soldier, so,
To have my praise for this, perform a part
Thou hast not done before.",1243,18834
636496,2316,"Well, I must do't:
Away, my disposition, and possess me
Some harlot's spirit! my throat of war be turn'd,
Which quired with my drum, into a pipe
Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice
That babies lulls asleep! the smiles of knaves
Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up
The glasses of my sight! a beggar's tongue
Make motion through my lips, and my arm'd knees,
Who bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like his
That hath received an alms! I will not do't,
Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth
And by my body's action teach my mind
A most inherent baseness.",283,18834
636497,2330,"At thy choice, then:
To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour
Than thou of them. Come all to ruin; let
Thy mother rather feel thy pride than fear
Thy dangerous stoutness, for I mock at death
With as big heart as thou. Do as thou list
Thy valiantness was mine, thou suck'dst it from me,
But owe thy pride thyself.",1243,18834
636498,2338,"Pray, be content:
Mother, I am going to the market-place;
Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,
Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved
Of all the trades in Rome. Look, I am going:
Commend me to my wife. I'll return consul;
Or never trust to what my tongue can do
I' the way of flattery further.",283,18834
636499,2346,Do your will.,1243,18834
636500,2347,[Exit],1261,18834
636501,2348,"Away! the tribunes do attend you: arm yourself
To answer mildly; for they are prepared
With accusations, as I hear, more strong
Than are upon you yet.",276,18834
636502,2352,"The word is 'mildly.' Pray you, let us go:
Let them accuse me by invention, I
Will answer in mine honour.",283,18834
636503,2355,"Ay, but mildly.",763,18834
636504,2356,"Well, mildly be it then. Mildly!",283,18834
636505,2357,[Exeunt],1261,18834
636506,2359,[Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS],1261,18835
636507,2360,"In this point charge him home, that he affects
Tyrannical power: if he evade us there,
Enforce him with his envy to the people,
And that the spoil got on the Antiates
Was ne'er distributed.
[Enter an AEdile]
What, will he come?",625,18835
636508,2367,He's coming.,53,18835
636509,2368,How accompanied?,625,18835
636510,2369,"With old Menenius, and those senators
That always favour'd him.",53,18835
636511,2371,"Have you a catalogue
Of all the voices that we have procured
Set down by the poll?",1091,18835
636512,2374,I have; 'tis ready.,53,18835
636513,2375,Have you collected them by tribes?,1091,18835
636514,2376,I have.,53,18835
636515,2377,"Assemble presently the people hither;
And when they bear me say 'It shall be so
I' the right and strength o' the commons,' be it either
For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them
If I say fine, cry 'Fine;' if death, cry 'Death.'
Insisting on the old prerogative
And power i' the truth o' the cause.",1091,18835
636516,2384,I shall inform them.,53,18835
636517,2385,"And when such time they have begun to cry,
Let them not cease, but with a din confused
Enforce the present execution
Of what we chance to sentence.",625,18835
636518,2389,Very well.,53,18835
636519,2390,"Make them be strong and ready for this hint,
When we shall hap to give 't them.",1091,18835
636520,2392,"Go about it.
[Exit AEdile]
Put him to choler straight: he hath been used
Ever to conquer, and to have his worth
Of contradiction: being once chafed, he cannot
Be rein'd again to temperance; then he speaks
What's in his heart; and that is there which looks
With us to break his neck.",625,18835
636521,2400,"Well, here he comes.
[Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, and COMINIUS,]
with Senators and Patricians]",1091,18835
636522,2403,"Calmly, I do beseech you.",763,18835
636523,2404,"Ay, as an ostler, that for the poorest piece
Will bear the knave by the volume. The honour'd gods
Keep Rome in safety, and the chairs of justice
Supplied with worthy men! plant love among 's!
Throng our large temples with the shows of peace,
And not our streets with war!",283,18835
636524,2410,"Amen, amen.",11,18835
636525,2411,A noble wish.,763,18835
636526,2412,"[Re-enter AEdile, with Citizens]",1261,18835
636527,2413,"Draw near, ye people.",1091,18835
636528,2414,"List to your tribunes. Audience: peace, I say!",53,18835
636529,2415,"First, hear me speak.",283,18835
636530,2416,"Well, say. Peace, ho!",188,18835
636531,2417,"Shall I be charged no further than this present?
Must all determine here?",283,18835
636532,2419,"I do demand,
If you submit you to the people's voices,
Allow their officers and are content
To suffer lawful censure for such faults
As shall be proved upon you?",1091,18835
636533,2424,I am content.,283,18835
636534,2425,"Lo, citizens, he says he is content:
The warlike service he has done, consider; think
Upon the wounds his body bears, which show
Like graves i' the holy churchyard.",763,18835
636535,2429,"Scratches with briers,
Scars to move laughter only.",283,18835
636536,2431,"Consider further,
That when he speaks not like a citizen,
You find him like a soldier: do not take
His rougher accents for malicious sounds,
But, as I say, such as become a soldier,
Rather than envy you.",763,18835
636537,2437,"Well, well, no more.",276,18835
636538,2438,"What is the matter
That being pass'd for consul with full voice,
I am so dishonour'd that the very hour
You take it off again?",283,18835
636539,2442,Answer to us.,1091,18835
636540,2443,"Say, then: 'tis true, I ought so.",283,18835
636541,2444,"We charge you, that you have contrived to take
From Rome all season'd office and to wind
Yourself into a power tyrannical;
For which you are a traitor to the people.",1091,18835
636542,2448,How! traitor!,283,18835
636543,2449,"Nay, temperately; your promise.",763,18835
636544,2450,"The fires i' the lowest hell fold-in the people!
Call me their traitor! Thou injurious tribune!
Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths,
In thy hand clutch'd as many millions, in
Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say
'Thou liest' unto thee with a voice as free
As I do pray the gods.",283,18835
636545,2457,"Mark you this, people?",1091,18835
636546,2458,"To the rock, to the rock with him!",253,18835
636547,2459,"Peace!
We need not put new matter to his charge:
What you have seen him do and heard him speak,
Beating your officers, cursing yourselves,
Opposing laws with strokes and here defying
Those whose great power must try him; even this,
So criminal and in such capital kind,
Deserves the extremest death.",1091,18835
636548,2467,"But since he hath
Served well for Rome,--",625,18835
636549,2469,What do you prate of service?,283,18835
636550,2470,"I talk of that, that know it.",625,18835
636551,2471,You?,283,18835
636552,2472,Is this the promise that you made your mother?,763,18835
636553,2473,"Know, I pray you,--",276,18835
636554,2474,"I know no further:
Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death,
Vagabond exile, raying, pent to linger
But with a grain a day, I would not buy
Their mercy at the price of one fair word;
Nor cheque my courage for what they can give,
To have't with saying 'Good morrow.'",283,18835
636555,2481,"For that he has,
As much as in him lies, from time to time
Envied against the people, seeking means
To pluck away their power, as now at last
Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence
Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers
That do distribute it; in the name o' the people
And in the power of us the tribunes, we,
Even from this instant, banish him our city,
In peril of precipitation
From off the rock Tarpeian never more
To enter our Rome gates: i' the people's name,
I say it shall be so.",1091,18835
636556,2494,"It shall be so, it shall be so; let him away:
He's banish'd, and it shall be so.",253,18835
636557,2496,"Hear me, my masters, and my common friends,--",276,18835
636558,2497,He's sentenced; no more hearing.,1091,18835
636559,2498,"Let me speak:
I have been consul, and can show for Rome
Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love
My country's good with a respect more tender,
More holy and profound, than mine own life,
My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase,
And treasure of my loins; then if I would
Speak that,--",276,18835
636560,2506,We know your drift: speak what?,1091,18835
636561,2507,"There's no more to be said, but he is banish'd,
As enemy to the people and his country:
It shall be so.",625,18835
636562,2510,"It shall be so, it shall be so.",253,18835
636563,2511,"You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty!
Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!
Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,
Fan you into despair! Have the power still
To banish your defenders; till at length
Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels,
Making not reservation of yourselves,
Still your own foes, deliver you as most
Abated captives to some nation
That won you without blows! Despising,
For you, the city, thus I turn my back:
There is a world elsewhere.
[Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, MENENIUS, Senators,]
and Patricians]",283,18835
636564,2529,"The people's enemy is gone, is gone!",53,18835
636565,2530,Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo!,253,18835
636566,2531,"[Shouting, and throwing up their caps]",1261,18835
636567,2532,"Go, see him out at gates, and follow him,
As he hath followed you, with all despite;
Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard
Attend us through the city.",1091,18835
636568,2536,"Come, come; let's see him out at gates; come.
The gods preserve our noble tribunes! Come.",253,18835
636569,2538,"[Exeunt]
[Enter CORIOLANUS, VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, MENENIUS,]
COMINIUS, with the young Nobility of Rome]",1261,18835
636570,2542,"Come, leave your tears: a brief farewell: the beast
With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother,
Where is your ancient courage? you were used
To say extremity was the trier of spirits;
That common chances common men could bear;
That when the sea was calm all boats alike
Show'd mastership in floating; fortune's blows,
When most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves
A noble cunning: you were used to load me
With precepts that would make invincible
The heart that conn'd them.",283,18837
636571,2553,O heavens! O heavens!,1240,18837
636572,2554,"Nay! prithee, woman,--",283,18837
636573,2555,"Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome,
And occupations perish!",1243,18837
636574,2557,"What, what, what!
I shall be loved when I am lack'd. Nay, mother.
Resume that spirit, when you were wont to say,
If you had been the wife of Hercules,
Six of his labours you'ld have done, and saved
Your husband so much sweat. Cominius,
Droop not; adieu. Farewell, my wife, my mother:
I'll do well yet. Thou old and true Menenius,
Thy tears are salter than a younger man's,
And venomous to thine eyes. My sometime general,
I have seen thee stem, and thou hast oft beheld
Heart-hardening spectacles; tell these sad women
'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes,
As 'tis to laugh at 'em. My mother, you wot well
My hazards still have been your solace: and
Believe't not lightly--though I go alone,
Like to a lonely dragon, that his fen
Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seen--your son
Will or exceed the common or be caught
With cautelous baits and practise.",283,18837
636575,2577,"My first son.
Whither wilt thou go? Take good Cominius
With thee awhile: determine on some course,
More than a wild exposture to each chance
That starts i' the way before thee.",1243,18837
636576,2582,O the gods!,283,18837
636577,2583,"I'll follow thee a month, devise with thee
Where thou shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us
And we of thee: so if the time thrust forth
A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send
O'er the vast world to seek a single man,
And lose advantage, which doth ever cool
I' the absence of the needer.",276,18837
636578,2590,"Fare ye well:
Thou hast years upon thee; and thou art too full
Of the wars' surfeits, to go rove with one
That's yet unbruised: bring me but out at gate.
Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and
My friends of noble touch, when I am forth,
Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you, come.
While I remain above the ground, you shall
Hear from me still, and never of me aught
But what is like me formerly.",283,18837
636579,2600,"That's worthily
As any ear can hear. Come, let's not weep.
If I could shake off but one seven years
From these old arms and legs, by the good gods,
I'ld with thee every foot.",763,18837
636580,2605,Give me thy hand: Come.,283,18837
636581,2606,[Exeunt],1261,18837
636582,2608,"[Enter SICINIUS, BRUTUS, and an AEdile]",1261,18836
636583,2609,"Bid them all home; he's gone, and we'll no further.
The nobility are vex'd, whom we see have sided
In his behalf.",1091,18836
636584,2612,"Now we have shown our power,
Let us seem humbler after it is done
Than when it was a-doing.",625,18836
636585,2615,"Bid them home:
Say their great enemy is gone, and they
Stand in their ancient strength.",1091,18836
636586,2618,"Dismiss them home.
[Exit AEdile]
Here comes his mother.",625,18836
636587,2621,Let's not meet her.,1091,18836
636588,2622,Why?,625,18836
636589,2623,They say she's mad.,1091,18836
636590,2624,They have ta'en note of us: keep on your way.,625,18836
636591,2625,"[Enter VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, and MENENIUS]",1261,18836
636592,2626,"O, ye're well met: the hoarded plague o' the gods
Requite your love!",1243,18836
636593,2628,"Peace, peace; be not so loud.",763,18836
636594,2629,"If that I could for weeping, you should hear,--
Nay, and you shall hear some.
[To BRUTUS]
Will you be gone?",1243,18836
636595,2633,"[To SICINIUS] You shall stay too: I would I had the power
To say so to my husband.",1240,18836
636596,2635,Are you mankind?,1091,18836
636597,2636,"Ay, fool; is that a shame? Note but this fool.
Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship
To banish him that struck more blows for Rome
Than thou hast spoken words?",1243,18836
636598,2640,O blessed heavens!,1091,18836
636599,2641,"More noble blows than ever thou wise words;
And for Rome's good. I'll tell thee what; yet go:
Nay, but thou shalt stay too: I would my son
Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him,
His good sword in his hand.",1243,18836
636600,2646,What then?,1091,18836
636601,2647,"What then!
He'ld make an end of thy posterity.",1240,18836
636602,2649,"Bastards and all.
Good man, the wounds that he does bear for Rome!",1243,18836
636603,2651,"Come, come, peace.",763,18836
636604,2652,"I would he had continued to his country
As he began, and not unknit himself
The noble knot he made.",1091,18836
636605,2655,I would he had.,625,18836
636606,2656,"'I would he had'! 'Twas you incensed the rabble:
Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth
As I can of those mysteries which heaven
Will not have earth to know.",1243,18836
636607,2660,"Pray, let us go.",625,18836
636608,2661,"Now, pray, sir, get you gone:
You have done a brave deed. Ere you go, hear this:--
As far as doth the Capitol exceed
The meanest house in Rome, so far my son--
This lady's husband here, this, do you see--
Whom you have banish'd, does exceed you all.",1243,18836
636609,2667,"Well, well, we'll leave you.",625,18836
636610,2668,"Why stay we to be baited
With one that wants her wits?",1091,18836
636611,2670,"Take my prayers with you.
[Exeunt Tribunes]
I would the gods had nothing else to do
But to confirm my curses! Could I meet 'em
But once a-day, it would unclog my heart
Of what lies heavy to't.",1243,18836
636612,2676,"You have told them home;
And, by my troth, you have cause. You'll sup with me?",763,18836
636613,2678,"Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding. Come, let's go:
Leave this faint puling and lament as I do,
In anger, Juno-like. Come, come, come.",1243,18836
636614,2682,"Fie, fie, fie!",763,18836
636615,2683,[Exeunt],1261,18836
636616,2685,"[Enter a Roman and a Volsce, meeting]",1261,18837
636617,2686,"I know you well, sir, and you know
me: your name, I think, is Adrian.",951,18837
636618,2688,"It is so, sir: truly, I have forgot you.",1241,18837
636619,2689,"I am a Roman; and my services are,
as you are, against 'em: know you me yet?",951,18837
636620,2691,Nicanor? no.,1241,18837
636621,2692,"The same, sir.",951,18837
636622,2693,"You had more beard when I last saw you; but your
favour is well approved by your tongue. What's the
news in Rome? I have a note from the Volscian state,
to find you out there: you have well saved me a
day's journey.",1241,18837
636623,2698,"There hath been in Rome strange insurrections; the
people against the senators, patricians, and nobles.",951,18837
636624,2700,"Hath been! is it ended, then? Our state thinks not
so: they are in a most warlike preparation, and
hope to come upon them in the heat of their division.",1241,18837
636625,2703,"The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing
would make it flame again: for the nobles receive
so to heart the banishment of that worthy
Coriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptness to take
all power from the people and to pluck from them
their tribunes for ever. This lies glowing, I can
tell you, and is almost mature for the violent
breaking out.",951,18837
636626,2711,Coriolanus banished!,1241,18837
636627,2712,"Banished, sir.",951,18837
636628,2713,"You will be welcome with this intelligence, Nicanor.",1241,18837
636629,2714,"The day serves well for them now. I have heard it
said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is
when she's fallen out with her husband. Your noble
Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his
great opposer, Coriolanus, being now in no request
of his country.",951,18837
636630,2720,"He cannot choose. I am most fortunate, thus
accidentally to encounter you: you have ended my
business, and I will merrily accompany you home.",1241,18837
636631,2723,"I shall, between this and supper, tell you most
strange things from Rome; all tending to the good of
their adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you?",951,18837
636632,2726,"A most royal one; the centurions and their charges,
distinctly billeted, already in the entertainment,
and to be on foot at an hour's warning.",1241,18837
636633,2729,"I am joyful to hear of their readiness, and am the
man, I think, that shall set them in present action.
So, sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your company.",951,18837
636634,2732,"You take my part from me, sir; I have the most cause
to be glad of yours.",1241,18837
636635,2734,"Well, let us go together.",951,18837
636636,2735,"[Exeunt]
[Enter CORIOLANUS in mean apparel, disguised]
and muffled]",1261,18837
636637,2739,"A goodly city is this Antium. City,
'Tis I that made thy widows: many an heir
Of these fair edifices 'fore my wars
Have I heard groan and drop: then know me not,
Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones
In puny battle slay me.
[Enter a Citizen]
Save you, sir.",283,18838
636638,2747,And you.,252,18838
636639,2748,"Direct me, if it be your will,
Where great Aufidius lies: is he in Antium?",283,18838
636640,2750,"He is, and feasts the nobles of the state
At his house this night.",252,18838
636641,2752,"Which is his house, beseech you?",283,18838
636642,2753,"This, here before you.",252,18838
636643,2754,"Thank you, sir: farewell.
[Exit Citizen]
O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn,
Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart,
Whose house, whose bed, whose meal, and exercise,
Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love
Unseparable, shall within this hour,
On a dissension of a doit, break out
To bitterest enmity: so, fellest foes,
Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep,
To take the one the other, by some chance,
Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
And interjoin their issues. So with me:
My birth-place hate I, and my love's upon
This enemy town. I'll enter: if he slay me,
He does fair justice; if he give me way,
I'll do his country service.",283,18838
636644,2771,[Exit],1261,18838
636645,2773,[Music within. Enter a Servingman],1261,18839
636646,2774,"Wine, wine, wine! What service
is here! I think our fellows are asleep.",465,18839
636647,2776,[Exit],1261,18839
636648,2777,[Enter a second Servingman],1261,18839
636649,2778,"Where's Cotus? my master calls
for him. Cotus!",1033,18839
636650,2780,[Exit],1261,18839
636651,2781,[Enter CORIOLANUS],1261,18839
636652,2782,"A goodly house: the feast smells well; but I
Appear not like a guest.",283,18839
636653,2784,[Re-enter the first Servingman],1261,18839
636654,2785,"What would you have, friend? whence are you?
Here's no place for you: pray, go to the door.",465,18839
636655,2787,[Exit],1261,18839
636656,2788,"I have deserved no better entertainment,
In being Coriolanus.",283,18839
636657,2790,[Re-enter second Servingman],1261,18839
636658,2791,"Whence are you, sir? Has the porter his eyes in his
head; that he gives entrance to such companions?
Pray, get you out.",1033,18839
636659,2794,Away!,283,18839
636660,2795,Away! get you away.,1033,18839
636661,2796,Now thou'rt troublesome.,283,18839
636662,2797,Are you so brave? I'll have you talked with anon.,1033,18839
636663,2798,[Enter a third Servingman. The first meets him],1261,18839
636664,2799,What fellow's this?,1185,18839
636665,2800,"A strange one as ever I looked on: I cannot get him
out of the house: prithee, call my master to him.",465,18839
636666,2802,[Retires],1261,18839
636667,2803,"What have you to do here, fellow? Pray you, avoid
the house.",1185,18839
636668,2805,Let me but stand; I will not hurt your hearth.,283,18839
636669,2806,What are you?,1185,18839
636670,2807,A gentleman.,283,18839
636671,2808,A marvellous poor one.,1185,18839
636672,2809,"True, so I am.",283,18839
636673,2810,"Pray you, poor gentleman, take up some other
station; here's no place for you; pray you, avoid: come.",1185,18839
636674,2812,"Follow your function, go, and batten on cold bits.",283,18839
636675,2813,[Pushes him away],1261,18839
636676,2814,"What, you will not? Prithee, tell my master what a
strange guest he has here.",1185,18839
636677,2816,And I shall.,1033,18839
636678,2817,[Exit],1261,18839
636679,2818,Where dwellest thou?,1185,18839
636680,2819,Under the canopy.,283,18839
636681,2820,Under the canopy!,1185,18839
636682,2821,Ay.,283,18839
636683,2822,Where's that?,1185,18839
636684,2823,I' the city of kites and crows.,283,18839
636685,2824,"I' the city of kites and crows! What an ass it is!
Then thou dwellest with daws too?",1185,18839
636686,2826,"No, I serve not thy master.",283,18839
636687,2827,"How, sir! do you meddle with my master?",1185,18839
636688,2828,"Ay; 'tis an honester service than to meddle with thy
mistress. Thou pratest, and pratest; serve with thy
trencher, hence!",283,18839
636689,2831,[Beats him away. Exit third Servingman],1261,18839
636690,2832,[Enter AUFIDIUS with the second Servingman],1261,18839
636691,2833,Where is this fellow?,1214,18839
636692,2834,"Here, sir: I'ld have beaten him like a dog, but for
disturbing the lords within.",1033,18839
636693,2836,[Retires],1261,18839
636694,2837,"Whence comest thou? what wouldst thou? thy name?
Why speak'st not? speak, man: what's thy name?",1214,18839
636695,2839,"If, Tullus,
[Unmuffling]
Not yet thou knowest me, and, seeing me, dost not
Think me for the man I am, necessity
Commands me name myself.",283,18839
636696,2844,What is thy name?,1214,18839
636697,2845,"A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears,
And harsh in sound to thine.",283,18839
636698,2847,"Say, what's thy name?
Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face
Bears a command in't; though thy tackle's torn.
Thou show'st a noble vessel: what's thy name?",1214,18839
636699,2851,"Prepare thy brow to frown: know'st
thou me yet?",283,18839
636700,2853,I know thee not: thy name?,1214,18839
636701,2854,"My name is Caius CORIOLANUS, who hath done
To thee particularly and to all the Volsces
Great hurt and mischief; thereto witness may
My surname, Coriolanus: the painful service,
The extreme dangers and the drops of blood
Shed for my thankless country are requited
But with that surname; a good memory,
And witness of the malice and displeasure
Which thou shouldst bear me: only that name remains;
The cruelty and envy of the people,
Permitted by our dastard nobles, who
Have all forsook me, hath devour'd the rest;
And suffer'd me by the voice of slaves to be
Whoop'd out of Rome. Now this extremity
Hath brought me to thy hearth; not out of hope--
Mistake me not--to save my life, for if
I had fear'd death, of all the men i' the world
I would have 'voided thee, but in mere spite,
To be full quit of those my banishers,
Stand I before thee here. Then if thou hast
A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge
Thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims
Of shame seen through thy country, speed
thee straight,
And make my misery serve thy turn: so use it
That my revengeful services may prove
As benefits to thee, for I will fight
Against my canker'd country with the spleen
Of all the under fiends. But if so be
Thou darest not this and that to prove more fortunes
Thou'rt tired, then, in a word, I also am
Longer to live most weary, and present
My throat to thee and to thy ancient malice;
Which not to cut would show thee but a fool,
Since I have ever follow'd thee with hate,
Drawn tuns of blood out of thy country's breast,
And cannot live but to thy shame, unless
It be to do thee service.",283,18839
636702,2892,"O CORIOLANUS, CORIOLANUS!
Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart
A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter
Should from yond cloud speak divine things,
And say 'Tis true,' I'ld not believe them more
Than thee, all noble CORIOLANUS. Let me twine
Mine arms about that body, where against
My grained ash an hundred times hath broke
And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip
The anvil of my sword, and do contest
As hotly and as nobly with thy love
As ever in ambitious strength I did
Contend against thy valour. Know thou first,
I loved the maid I married; never man
Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here,
Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart
Than when I first my wedded mistress saw
Bestride my threshold. Why, thou Mars! I tell thee,
We have a power on foot; and I had purpose
Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn,
Or lose mine arm fort: thou hast beat me out
Twelve several times, and I have nightly since
Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me;
We have been down together in my sleep,
Unbuckling helms, fisting each other's throat,
And waked half dead with nothing. Worthy CORIOLANUS,
Had we no quarrel else to Rome, but that
Thou art thence banish'd, we would muster all
From twelve to seventy, and pouring war
Into the bowels of ungrateful Rome,
Like a bold flood o'er-bear. O, come, go in,
And take our friendly senators by the hands;
Who now are here, taking their leaves of me,
Who am prepared against your territories,
Though not for Rome itself.",1214,18839
636703,2927,"You bless me, gods!",283,18839
636704,2928,"Therefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have
The leading of thine own revenges, take
The one half of my commission; and set down--
As best thou art experienced, since thou know'st
Thy country's strength and weakness,--thine own ways;
Whether to knock against the gates of Rome,
Or rudely visit them in parts remote,
To fright them, ere destroy. But come in:
Let me commend thee first to those that shall
Say yea to thy desires. A thousand welcomes!
And more a friend than e'er an enemy;
Yet, CORIOLANUS, that was much. Your hand: most welcome!
[Exeunt CORIOLANUS and AUFIDIUS. The two]
Servingmen come forward]",1214,18839
636705,2942,Here's a strange alteration!,465,18839
636706,2943,"By my hand, I had thought to have strucken him with
a cudgel; and yet my mind gave me his clothes made a
false report of him.",1033,18839
636707,2946,"What an arm he has! he turned me about with his
finger and his thumb, as one would set up a top.",465,18839
636708,2948,"Nay, I knew by his face that there was something in
him: he had, sir, a kind of face, methought,--I
cannot tell how to term it.",1033,18839
636709,2951,"He had so; looking as it were--would I were hanged,
but I thought there was more in him than I could think.",465,18839
636710,2953,"So did I, I'll be sworn: he is simply the rarest
man i' the world.",1033,18839
636711,2955,I think he is: but a greater soldier than he you wot on.,465,18839
636712,2956,"Who, my master?",1033,18839
636713,2957,"Nay, it's no matter for that.",465,18839
636714,2958,Worth six on him.,1033,18839
636715,2959,"Nay, not so neither: but I take him to be the
greater soldier.",465,18839
636716,2961,"Faith, look you, one cannot tell how to say that:
for the defence of a town, our general is excellent.",1033,18839
636717,2963,"Ay, and for an assault too.",465,18839
636718,2964,[Re-enter third Servingman],1261,18839
636719,2965,"O slaves, I can tell you news,-- news, you rascals!",1185,18839
636720,2966,"[together] What, what, what? let's partake.",465,18839
636721,2967,"[together] What, what, what? let's partake.",1033,18839
636722,2968,"I would not be a Roman, of all nations; I had as
lieve be a condemned man.",1185,18839
636723,2970,[together] Wherefore? wherefore?,465,18839
636724,2971,[together] wherefore?,1033,18839
636725,2972,"Why, here's he that was wont to thwack our general,
Caius CORIOLANUS.",1185,18839
636726,2974,Why do you say 'thwack our general '?,465,18839
636727,2975,"I do not say 'thwack our general;' but he was always
good enough for him.",1185,18839
636728,2977,"Come, we are fellows and friends: he was ever too
hard for him; I have heard him say so himself.",1033,18839
636729,2979,"He was too hard for him directly, to say the troth
on't: before Corioli he scotched him and notched
him like a carbon ado.",465,18839
636730,2982,"An he had been cannibally given, he might have
broiled and eaten him too.",1033,18839
636731,2984,"But, more of thy news?",465,18839
636732,2985,"Why, he is so made on here within, as if he were son
and heir to Mars; set at upper end o' the table; no
question asked him by any of the senators, but they
stand bald before him: our general himself makes a
mistress of him: sanctifies himself with's hand and
turns up the white o' the eye to his discourse. But
the bottom of the news is that our general is cut i'
the middle and but one half of what he was
yesterday; for the other has half, by the entreaty
and grant of the whole table. He'll go, he says,
and sowl the porter of Rome gates by the ears: he
will mow all down before him, and leave his passage polled.",1185,18839
636733,2997,And he's as like to do't as any man I can imagine.,1033,18839
636734,2998,"Do't! he will do't; for, look you, sir, he has as
many friends as enemies; which friends, sir, as it
were, durst not, look you, sir, show themselves, as
we term it, his friends whilst he's in directitude.",1185,18839
636735,3002,Directitude! what's that?,465,18839
636736,3003,"But when they shall see, sir, his crest up again,
and the man in blood, they will out of their
burrows, like conies after rain, and revel all with
him.",1185,18839
636737,3007,But when goes this forward?,465,18839
636738,3008,"To-morrow; to-day; presently; you shall have the
drum struck up this afternoon: 'tis, as it were, a
parcel of their feast, and to be executed ere they
wipe their lips.",1185,18839
636739,3012,"Why, then we shall have a stirring world again.
This peace is nothing, but to rust iron, increase
tailors, and breed ballad-makers.",1033,18839
636740,3015,"Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as
day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and
full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy;
mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more
bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.",465,18839
636741,3020,"'Tis so: and as war, in some sort, may be said to
be a ravisher, so it cannot be denied but peace is a
great maker of cuckolds.",1033,18839
636742,3023,"Ay, and it makes men hate one another.",465,18839
636743,3024,"Reason; because they then less need one another.
The wars for my money. I hope to see Romans as cheap
as Volscians. They are rising, they are rising.",1185,18839
636744,3027,"In, in, in, in!",72,18839
636745,3028,[Exeunt],1261,18839
636746,3030,[Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS],1261,18840
636747,3031,"We hear not of him, neither need we fear him;
His remedies are tame i' the present peace
And quietness of the people, which before
Were in wild hurry. Here do we make his friends
Blush that the world goes well, who rather had,
Though they themselves did suffer by't, behold
Dissentious numbers pestering streets than see
Our tradesmen with in their shops and going
About their functions friendly.",1091,18840
636748,3040,"We stood to't in good time.
[Enter MENENIUS]
Is this Menenius?",625,18840
636749,3043,"'Tis he,'tis he: O, he is grown most kind of late.",1091,18840
636750,3044,Hail sir!,188,18840
636751,3045,Hail to you both!,763,18840
636752,3046,"Your Coriolanus
Is not much miss'd, but with his friends:
The commonwealth doth stand, and so would do,
Were he more angry at it.",1091,18840
636753,3050,"All's well; and might have been much better, if
He could have temporized.",763,18840
636754,3052,"Where is he, hear you?",1091,18840
636755,3053,"Nay, I hear nothing: his mother and his wife
Hear nothing from him.",763,18840
636756,3055,[Enter three or four Citizens],1261,18840
636757,3056,The gods preserve you both!,253,18840
636758,3057,"God-den, our neighbours.",1091,18840
636759,3058,"God-den to you all, god-den to you all.",625,18840
636760,3059,"Ourselves, our wives, and children, on our knees,
Are bound to pray for you both.",409,18840
636761,3061,"Live, and thrive!",1091,18840
636762,3062,"Farewell, kind neighbours: we wish'd Coriolanus
Had loved you as we did.",625,18840
636763,3064,Now the gods keep you!,253,18840
636764,3065,"Farewell, farewell.",188,18840
636765,3066,[Exeunt Citizens],1261,18840
636766,3067,"This is a happier and more comely time
Than when these fellows ran about the streets,
Crying confusion.",1091,18840
636767,3070,"Caius CORIOLANUS was
A worthy officer i' the war; but insolent,
O'ercome with pride, ambitious past all thinking,
Self-loving,--",625,18840
636768,3074,"And affecting one sole throne,
Without assistance.",1091,18840
636769,3076,I think not so.,763,18840
636770,3077,"We should by this, to all our lamentation,
If he had gone forth consul, found it so.",1091,18840
636771,3079,"The gods have well prevented it, and Rome
Sits safe and still without him.",625,18840
636772,3081,[Enter an AEdile],1261,18840
636773,3082,"Worthy tribunes,
There is a slave, whom we have put in prison,
Reports, the Volsces with two several powers
Are enter'd in the Roman territories,
And with the deepest malice of the war
Destroy what lies before 'em.",53,18840
636774,3088,"'Tis Aufidius,
Who, hearing of our CORIOLANUS' banishment,
Thrusts forth his horns again into the world;
Which were inshell'd when CORIOLANUS stood for Rome,
And durst not once peep out.",763,18840
636775,3093,"Come, what talk you
Of CORIOLANUS?",1091,18840
636776,3095,"Go see this rumourer whipp'd. It cannot be
The Volsces dare break with us.",625,18840
636777,3097,"Cannot be!
We have record that very well it can,
And three examples of the like have been
Within my age. But reason with the fellow,
Before you punish him, where he heard this,
Lest you shall chance to whip your information
And beat the messenger who bids beware
Of what is to be dreaded.",763,18840
636778,3105,"Tell not me:
I know this cannot be.",1091,18840
636779,3107,Not possible.,625,18840
636780,3108,[Enter a Messenger],1261,18840
636781,3109,"The nobles in great earnestness are going
All to the senate-house: some news is come
That turns their countenances.",770,18840
636782,3112,"'Tis this slave;--
Go whip him, 'fore the people's eyes:--his raising;
Nothing but his report.",1091,18840
636783,3115,"Yes, worthy sir,
The slave's report is seconded; and more,
More fearful, is deliver'd.",770,18840
636784,3118,What more fearful?,1091,18840
636785,3119,"It is spoke freely out of many mouths--
How probable I do not know--that CORIOLANUS,
Join'd with Aufidius, leads a power 'gainst Rome,
And vows revenge as spacious as between
The young'st and oldest thing.",770,18840
636786,3124,This is most likely!,1091,18840
636787,3125,"Raised only, that the weaker sort may wish
Good CORIOLANUS home again.",625,18840
636788,3127,The very trick on't.,1091,18840
636789,3128,"This is unlikely:
He and Aufidius can no more atone
Than violentest contrariety.",763,18840
636790,3131,[Enter a second Messenger],1261,18840
636791,3132,"You are sent for to the senate:
A fearful army, led by Caius CORIOLANUS
Associated with Aufidius, rages
Upon our territories; and have already
O'erborne their way, consumed with fire, and took
What lay before them.",1010,18840
636792,3138,[Enter COMINIUS],1261,18840
636793,3139,"O, you have made good work!",276,18840
636794,3140,What news? what news?,763,18840
636795,3141,"You have holp to ravish your own daughters and
To melt the city leads upon your pates,
To see your wives dishonour'd to your noses,--",276,18840
636796,3144,What's the news? what's the news?,763,18840
636797,3145,"Your temples burned in their cement, and
Your franchises, whereon you stood, confined
Into an auger's bore.",276,18840
636798,3148,"Pray now, your news?
You have made fair work, I fear me.--Pray, your news?--
If CORIOLANUS should be join'd with Volscians,--",763,18840
636799,3151,"If!
He is their god: he leads them like a thing
Made by some other deity than nature,
That shapes man better; and they follow him,
Against us brats, with no less confidence
Than boys pursuing summer butterflies,
Or butchers killing flies.",276,18840
636800,3158,"You have made good work,
You and your apron-men; you that stood so up much
on the voice of occupation and
The breath of garlic-eaters!",763,18840
636801,3162,"He will shake
Your Rome about your ears.",276,18840
636802,3164,"As Hercules
Did shake down mellow fruit.
You have made fair work!",763,18840
636803,3167,"But is this true, sir?",625,18840
636804,3168,"Ay; and you'll look pale
Before you find it other. All the regions
Do smilingly revolt; and who resist
Are mock'd for valiant ignorance,
And perish constant fools. Who is't can blame him?
Your enemies and his find something in him.",276,18840
636805,3174,"We are all undone, unless
The noble man have mercy.",763,18840
636806,3176,"Who shall ask it?
The tribunes cannot do't for shame; the people
Deserve such pity of him as the wolf
Does of the shepherds: for his best friends, if they
Should say 'Be good to Rome,' they charged him even
As those should do that had deserved his hate,
And therein show'd like enemies.",276,18840
636807,3183,"'Tis true:
If he were putting to my house the brand
That should consume it, I have not the face
To say 'Beseech you, cease.' You have made fair hands,
You and your crafts! you have crafted fair!",763,18840
636808,3188,"You have brought
A trembling upon Rome, such as was never
So incapable of help.",276,18840
636809,3191,Say not we brought it.,188,18840
636810,3192,"How! Was it we? we loved him but, like beasts
And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,
Who did hoot him out o' the city.",763,18840
636811,3195,"But I fear
They'll roar him in again. Tullus Aufidius,
The second name of men, obeys his points
As if he were his officer: desperation
Is all the policy, strength and defence,
That Rome can make against them.",276,18840
636812,3201,[Enter a troop of Citizens],1261,18840
636813,3202,"Here come the clusters.
And is Aufidius with him? You are they
That made the air unwholesome, when you cast
Your stinking greasy caps in hooting at
Coriolanus' exile. Now he's coming;
And not a hair upon a soldier's head
Which will not prove a whip: as many coxcombs
As you threw caps up will he tumble down,
And pay you for your voices. 'Tis no matter;
if he could burn us all into one coal,
We have deserved it.",763,18840
636814,3213,"Faith, we hear fearful news.",253,18840
636815,3214,"For mine own part,
When I said, banish him, I said 'twas pity.",409,18840
636816,3216,And so did I.,983,18840
636817,3217,"And so did I; and, to say the truth, so did very
many of us: that we did, we did for the best; and
though we willingly consented to his banishment, yet
it was against our will.",1164,18840
636818,3221,"Ye re goodly things, you voices!",276,18840
636819,3222,"You have made
Good work, you and your cry! Shall's to the Capitol?",763,18840
636820,3224,"O, ay, what else?",276,18840
636821,3225,[Exeunt COMINIUS and MENENIUS],1261,18840
636822,3226,"Go, masters, get you home; be not dismay'd:
These are a side that would be glad to have
This true which they so seem to fear. Go home,
And show no sign of fear.",1091,18840
636823,3230,"The gods be good to us! Come, masters, let's home.
I ever said we were i' the wrong when we banished
him.",409,18840
636824,3233,"So did we all. But, come, let's home.",983,18840
636825,3234,[Exeunt Citizens],1261,18840
636826,3235,I do not like this news.,625,18840
636827,3236,Nor I.,1091,18840
636828,3237,"Let's to the Capitol. Would half my wealth
Would buy this for a lie!",625,18840
636829,3239,"Pray, let us go.",1091,18840
636830,3240,[Exeunt],1261,18840
636831,3242,[Enter AUFIDIUS and his Lieutenant],1261,18841
636832,3243,Do they still fly to the Roman?,1214,18841
636833,3244,"I do not know what witchcraft's in him, but
Your soldiers use him as the grace 'fore meat,
Their talk at table, and their thanks at end;
And you are darken'd in this action, sir,
Even by your own.",671,18841
636834,3249,"I cannot help it now,
Unless, by using means, I lame the foot
Of our design. He bears himself more proudlier,
Even to my person, than I thought he would
When first I did embrace him: yet his nature
In that's no changeling; and I must excuse
What cannot be amended.",1214,18841
636835,3256,"Yet I wish, sir,--
I mean for your particular,--you had not
Join'd in commission with him; but either
Had borne the action of yourself, or else
To him had left it solely.",671,18841
636836,3261,"I understand thee well; and be thou sure,
when he shall come to his account, he knows not
What I can urge against him. Although it seems,
And so he thinks, and is no less apparent
To the vulgar eye, that he bears all things fairly.
And shows good husbandry for the Volscian state,
Fights dragon-like, and does achieve as soon
As draw his sword; yet he hath left undone
That which shall break his neck or hazard mine,
Whene'er we come to our account.",1214,18841
636837,3271,"Sir, I beseech you, think you he'll carry Rome?",671,18841
636838,3272,"All places yield to him ere he sits down;
And the nobility of Rome are his:
The senators and patricians love him too:
The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people
Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty
To expel him thence. I think he'll be to Rome
As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it
By sovereignty of nature. First he was
A noble servant to them; but he could not
Carry his honours even: whether 'twas pride,
Which out of daily fortune ever taints
The happy man; whether defect of judgment,
To fail in the disposing of those chances
Which he was lord of; or whether nature,
Not to be other than one thing, not moving
From the casque to the cushion, but commanding peace
Even with the same austerity and garb
As he controll'd the war; but one of these--
As he hath spices of them all, not all,
For I dare so far free him--made him fear'd,
So hated, and so banish'd: but he has a merit,
To choke it in the utterance. So our virtues
Lie in the interpretation of the time:
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
To extol what it hath done.
One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.
Come, let's away. When, Caius, Rome is thine,
Thou art poor'st of all; then shortly art thou mine.",1214,18841
636839,3302,"[Exeunt]
[Enter MENENIUS, COMINIUS, SICINIUS, BRUTUS,]
and others]",1261,18841
636840,3307,"No, I'll not go: you hear what he hath said
Which was sometime his general; who loved him
In a most dear particular. He call'd me father:
But what o' that? Go, you that banish'd him;
A mile before his tent fall down, and knee
The way into his mercy: nay, if he coy'd
To hear Cominius speak, I'll keep at home.",763,18842
636841,3314,He would not seem to know me.,276,18842
636842,3315,Do you hear?,763,18842
636843,3316,"Yet one time he did call me by my name:
I urged our old acquaintance, and the drops
That we have bled together. Coriolanus
He would not answer to: forbad all names;
He was a kind of nothing, titleless,
Till he had forged himself a name o' the fire
Of burning Rome.",276,18842
636844,3323,"Why, so: you have made good work!
A pair of tribunes that have rack'd for Rome,
To make coals cheap,--a noble memory!",763,18842
636845,3326,"I minded him how royal 'twas to pardon
When it was less expected: he replied,
It was a bare petition of a state
To one whom they had punish'd.",276,18842
636846,3330,"Very well:
Could he say less?",763,18842
636847,3332,"I offer'd to awaken his regard
For's private friends: his answer to me was,
He could not stay to pick them in a pile
Of noisome musty chaff: he said 'twas folly,
For one poor grain or two, to leave unburnt,
And still to nose the offence.",276,18842
636848,3338,"For one poor grain or two!
I am one of those; his mother, wife, his child,
And this brave fellow too, we are the grains:
You are the musty chaff; and you are smelt
Above the moon: we must be burnt for you.",763,18842
636849,3343,"Nay, pray, be patient: if you refuse your aid
In this so never-needed help, yet do not
Upbraid's with our distress. But, sure, if you
Would be your country's pleader, your good tongue,
More than the instant army we can make,
Might stop our countryman.",1091,18842
636850,3349,"No, I'll not meddle.",763,18842
636851,3350,"Pray you, go to him.",1091,18842
636852,3351,What should I do?,763,18842
636853,3352,"Only make trial what your love can do
For Rome, towards CORIOLANUS.",625,18842
636854,3354,"Well, and say that CORIOLANUS
Return me, as Cominius is return'd,
Unheard; what then?
But as a discontented friend, grief-shot
With his unkindness? say't be so?",763,18842
636855,3359,"Yet your good will
must have that thanks from Rome, after the measure
As you intended well.",1091,18842
636856,3362,"I'll undertake 't:
I think he'll hear me. Yet, to bite his lip
And hum at good Cominius, much unhearts me.
He was not taken well; he had not dined:
The veins unfill'd, our blood is cold, and then
We pout upon the morning, are unapt
To give or to forgive; but when we have stuff'd
These and these conveyances of our blood
With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls
Than in our priest-like fasts: therefore I'll watch him
Till he be dieted to my request,
And then I'll set upon him.",763,18842
636857,3374,"You know the very road into his kindness,
And cannot lose your way.",625,18842
636858,3376,"Good faith, I'll prove him,
Speed how it will. I shall ere long have knowledge
Of my success.",763,18842
636859,3379,[Exit],1261,18842
636860,3380,He'll never hear him.,276,18842
636861,3381,Not?,1091,18842
636862,3382,"I tell you, he does sit in gold, his eye
Red as 'twould burn Rome; and his injury
The gaoler to his pity. I kneel'd before him;
'Twas very faintly he said 'Rise;' dismiss'd me
Thus, with his speechless hand: what he would do,
He sent in writing after me; what he would not,
Bound with an oath to yield to his conditions:
So that all hope is vain.
Unless his noble mother, and his wife;
Who, as I hear, mean to solicit him
For mercy to his country. Therefore, let's hence,
And with our fair entreaties haste them on.",276,18842
636863,3394,"[Exeunt]
Two Sentinels on guard.",1261,18842
636864,3398,"[Enter to them, MENENIUS]",1261,18843
636865,3399,Stay: whence are you?,11,18843
636866,3400,"Stand, and go back.",26,18843
636867,3401,"You guard like men; 'tis well: but, by your leave,
I am an officer of state, and come
To speak with Coriolanus.",763,18843
636868,3404,From whence?,11,18843
636869,3405,From Rome.,763,18843
636870,3406,"You may not pass, you must return: our general
Will no more hear from thence.",11,18843
636871,3408,"You'll see your Rome embraced with fire before
You'll speak with Coriolanus.",26,18843
636872,3410,"Good my friends,
If you have heard your general talk of Rome,
And of his friends there, it is lots to blanks,
My name hath touch'd your ears it is Menenius.",763,18843
636873,3414,"Be it so; go back: the virtue of your name
Is not here passable.",11,18843
636874,3416,"I tell thee, fellow,
The general is my lover: I have been
The book of his good acts, whence men have read
His name unparallel'd, haply amplified;
For I have ever verified my friends,
Of whom he's chief, with all the size that verity
Would without lapsing suffer: nay, sometimes,
Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground,
I have tumbled past the throw; and in his praise
Have almost stamp'd the leasing: therefore, fellow,
I must have leave to pass.",763,18843
636875,3427,"Faith, sir, if you had told as many lies in his
behalf as you have uttered words in your own, you
should not pass here; no, though it were as virtuous
to lie as to live chastely. Therefore, go back.",11,18843
636876,3431,"Prithee, fellow, remember my name is Menenius,
always factionary on the party of your general.",763,18843
636877,3433,"Howsoever you have been his liar, as you say you
have, I am one that, telling true under him, must
say, you cannot pass. Therefore, go back.",26,18843
636878,3436,"Has he dined, canst thou tell? for I would not
speak with him till after dinner.",763,18843
636879,3438,"You are a Roman, are you?",11,18843
636880,3439,"I am, as thy general is.",763,18843
636881,3440,"Then you should hate Rome, as he does. Can you,
when you have pushed out your gates the very
defender of them, and, in a violent popular
ignorance, given your enemy your shield, think to
front his revenges with the easy groans of old
women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with
the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as
you seem to be? Can you think to blow out the
intended fire your city is ready to flame in, with
such weak breath as this? No, you are deceived;
therefore, back to Rome, and prepare for your
execution: you are condemned, our general has sworn
you out of reprieve and pardon.",11,18843
636882,3453,"Sirrah, if thy captain knew I were here, he would
use me with estimation.",763,18843
636883,3455,"Come, my captain knows you not.",26,18843
636884,3456,"I mean, thy general.",763,18843
636885,3457,"My general cares not for you. Back, I say, go; lest
I let forth your half-pint of blood; back,--that's
the utmost of your having: back.",11,18843
636886,3460,"Nay, but, fellow, fellow,--",763,18843
636887,3461,[Enter CORIOLANUS and AUFIDIUS],1261,18843
636888,3462,What's the matter?,283,18843
636889,3463,"Now, you companion, I'll say an errand for you:
You shall know now that I am in estimation; you shall
perceive that a Jack guardant cannot office me from
my son Coriolanus: guess, but by my entertainment
with him, if thou standest not i' the state of
hanging, or of some death more long in
spectatorship, and crueller in suffering; behold now
presently, and swoon for what's to come upon thee.
[To CORIOLANUS]
The glorious gods sit in hourly synod about thy
particular prosperity, and love thee no worse than
thy old father Menenius does! O my son, my son!
thou art preparing fire for us; look thee, here's
water to quench it. I was hardly moved to come to
thee; but being assured none but myself could move
thee, I have been blown out of your gates with
sighs; and conjure thee to pardon Rome, and thy
petitionary countrymen. The good gods assuage thy
wrath, and turn the dregs of it upon this varlet
here,--this, who, like a block, hath denied my
access to thee.",763,18843
636890,3484,Away!,283,18843
636891,3485,How! away!,763,18843
636892,3486,"Wife, mother, child, I know not. My affairs
Are servanted to others: though I owe
My revenge properly, my remission lies
In Volscian breasts. That we have been familiar,
Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison, rather
Than pity note how much. Therefore, be gone.
Mine ears against your suits are stronger than
Your gates against my force. Yet, for I loved thee,
Take this along; I writ it for thy sake
[Gives a letter]
And would have rent it. Another word, Menenius,
I will not hear thee speak. This man, Aufidius,
Was my beloved in Rome: yet thou behold'st!",283,18843
636893,3499,You keep a constant temper.,1214,18843
636894,3500,[Exeunt CORIOLANUS and AUFIDIUS],1261,18843
636895,3501,"Now, sir, is your name Menenius?",11,18843
636896,3502,"'Tis a spell, you see, of much power: you know the
way home again.",26,18843
636897,3504,"Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your
greatness back?",11,18843
636898,3506,"What cause, do you think, I have to swoon?",26,18843
636899,3507,"I neither care for the world nor your general: for
such things as you, I can scarce think there's any,
ye're so slight. He that hath a will to die by
himself fears it not from another: let your general
do his worst. For you, be that you are, long; and
your misery increase with your age! I say to you,
as I was said to, Away!",763,18843
636900,3514,[Exit],1261,18843
636901,3515,"A noble fellow, I warrant him.",11,18843
636902,3516,"The worthy fellow is our general: he's the rock, the
oak not to be wind-shaken.",26,18843
636903,3518,[Exeunt],1261,18843
636904,3521,"[Enter CORIOLANUS, AUFIDIUS, and others]",1261,18844
636905,3522,"We will before the walls of Rome tomorrow
Set down our host. My partner in this action,
You must report to the Volscian lords, how plainly
I have borne this business.",283,18844
636906,3526,"Only their ends
You have respected; stopp'd your ears against
The general suit of Rome; never admitted
A private whisper, no, not with such friends
That thought them sure of you.",1214,18844
636907,3531,"This last old man,
Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome,
Loved me above the measure of a father;
Nay, godded me, indeed. Their latest refuge
Was to send him; for whose old love I have,
Though I show'd sourly to him, once more offer'd
The first conditions, which they did refuse
And cannot now accept; to grace him only
That thought he could do more, a very little
I have yielded to: fresh embassies and suits,
Nor from the state nor private friends, hereafter
Will I lend ear to. Ha! what shout is this?
[Shout within]
Shall I be tempted to infringe my vow
In the same time 'tis made? I will not.
[Enter in mourning habits, VIRGILIA, VOLUMNIA,]
leading young CORIOLANUS, VALERIA, and Attendants]
My wife comes foremost; then the honour'd mould
Wherein this trunk was framed, and in her hand
The grandchild to her blood. But, out, affection!
All bond and privilege of nature, break!
Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.
What is that curt'sy worth? or those doves' eyes,
Which can make gods forsworn? I melt, and am not
Of stronger earth than others. My mother bows;
As if Olympus to a molehill should
In supplication nod: and my young boy
Hath an aspect of intercession, which
Great nature cries 'Deny not.' let the Volsces
Plough Rome and harrow Italy: I'll never
Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand,
As if a man were author of himself
And knew no other kin.",283,18844
636908,3564,My lord and husband!,1240,18844
636909,3565,These eyes are not the same I wore in Rome.,283,18844
636910,3566,"The sorrow that delivers us thus changed
Makes you think so.",1240,18844
636911,3568,"Like a dull actor now,
I have forgot my part, and I am out,
Even to a full disgrace. Best of my flesh,
Forgive my tyranny; but do not say
For that 'Forgive our Romans.' O, a kiss
Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss
I carried from thee, dear; and my true lip
Hath virgin'd it e'er since. You gods! I prate,
And the most noble mother of the world
Leave unsaluted: sink, my knee, i' the earth;
[Kneels]
Of thy deep duty more impression show
Than that of common sons.",283,18844
636912,3582,"O, stand up blest!
Whilst, with no softer cushion than the flint,
I kneel before thee; and unproperly
Show duty, as mistaken all this while
Between the child and parent.",1243,18844
636913,3587,[Kneels],1261,18844
636914,3588,"What is this?
Your knees to me? to your corrected son?
Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
Fillip the stars; then let the mutinous winds
Strike the proud cedars 'gainst the fiery sun;
Murdering impossibility, to make
What cannot be, slight work.",283,18844
636915,3595,"Thou art my warrior;
I holp to frame thee. Do you know this lady?",1243,18844
636916,3597,"The noble sister of Publicola,
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle
That's curdied by the frost from purest snow
And hangs on Dian's temple: dear Valeria!",283,18844
636917,3601,"This is a poor epitome of yours,
Which by the interpretation of full time
May show like all yourself.",1243,18844
636918,3604,"The god of soldiers,
With the consent of supreme Jove, inform
Thy thoughts with nobleness; that thou mayst prove
To shame unvulnerable, and stick i' the wars
Like a great sea-mark, standing every flaw,
And saving those that eye thee!",283,18844
636919,3610,"Your knee, sirrah.",1243,18844
636920,3611,That's my brave boy!,283,18844
636921,3612,"Even he, your wife, this lady, and myself,
Are suitors to you.",1243,18844
636922,3614,"I beseech you, peace:
Or, if you'ld ask, remember this before:
The thing I have forsworn to grant may never
Be held by you denials. Do not bid me
Dismiss my soldiers, or capitulate
Again with Rome's mechanics: tell me not
Wherein I seem unnatural: desire not
To ally my rages and revenges with
Your colder reasons.",283,18844
636923,3623,"O, no more, no more!
You have said you will not grant us any thing;
For we have nothing else to ask, but that
Which you deny already: yet we will ask;
That, if you fail in our request, the blame
May hang upon your hardness: therefore hear us.",1243,18844
636924,3629,"Aufidius, and you Volsces, mark; for we'll
Hear nought from Rome in private. Your request?",283,18844
636925,3631,"Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment
And state of bodies would bewray what life
We have led since thy exile. Think with thyself
How more unfortunate than all living women
Are we come hither: since that thy sight,
which should
Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance
with comforts,
Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow;
Making the mother, wife and child to see
The son, the husband and the father tearing
His country's bowels out. And to poor we
Thine enmity's most capital: thou barr'st us
Our prayers to the gods, which is a comfort
That all but we enjoy; for how can we,
Alas, how can we for our country pray.
Whereto we are bound, together with thy victory,
Whereto we are bound? alack, or we must lose
The country, our dear nurse, or else thy person,
Our comfort in the country. We must find
An evident calamity, though we had
Our wish, which side should win: for either thou
Must, as a foreign recreant, be led
With manacles thorough our streets, or else
triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin,
And bear the palm for having bravely shed
Thy wife and children's blood. For myself, son,
I purpose not to wait on fortune till
These wars determine: if I cannot persuade thee
Rather to show a noble grace to both parts
Than seek the end of one, thou shalt no sooner
March to assault thy country than to tread--
Trust to't, thou shalt not--on thy mother's womb,
That brought thee to this world.",1243,18844
636926,3665,"Ay, and mine,
That brought you forth this boy, to keep your name
Living to time.",1240,18844
636927,3668,"A' shall not tread on me;
I'll run away till I am bigger, but then I'll fight.",1264,18844
636928,3670,"Not of a woman's tenderness to be,
Requires nor child nor woman's face to see.
I have sat too long.",283,18844
636929,3673,[Rising],1261,18844
636930,3674,"Nay, go not from us thus.
If it were so that our request did tend
To save the Romans, thereby to destroy
The Volsces whom you serve, you might condemn us,
As poisonous of your honour: no; our suit
Is that you reconcile them: while the Volsces
May say 'This mercy we have show'd;' the Romans,
'This we received;' and each in either side
Give the all-hail to thee and cry 'Be blest
For making up this peace!' Thou know'st, great son,
The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,
That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit
Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name,
Whose repetition will be dogg'd with curses;
Whose chronicle thus writ: 'The man was noble,
But with his last attempt he wiped it out;
Destroy'd his country, and his name remains
To the ensuing age abhorr'd.' Speak to me, son:
Thou hast affected the fine strains of honour,
To imitate the graces of the gods;
To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' the air,
And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt
That should but rive an oak. Why dost not speak?
Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs? Daughter, speak you:
He cares not for your weeping. Speak thou, boy:
Perhaps thy childishness will move him more
Than can our reasons. There's no man in the world
More bound to 's mother; yet here he lets me prate
Like one i' the stocks. Thou hast never in thy life
Show'd thy dear mother any courtesy,
When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
Has cluck'd thee to the wars and safely home,
Loaden with honour. Say my request's unjust,
And spurn me back: but if it be not so,
Thou art not honest; and the gods will plague thee,
That thou restrain'st from me the duty which
To a mother's part belongs. He turns away:
Down, ladies; let us shame him with our knees.
To his surname Coriolanus 'longs more pride
Than pity to our prayers. Down: an end;
This is the last: so we will home to Rome,
And die among our neighbours. Nay, behold 's:
This boy, that cannot tell what he would have
But kneels and holds up bands for fellowship,
Does reason our petition with more strength
Than thou hast to deny 't. Come, let us go:
This fellow had a Volscian to his mother;
His wife is in Corioli and his child
Like him by chance. Yet give us our dispatch:
I am hush'd until our city be a-fire,
And then I'll speak a little.",1243,18844
636931,3726,"[He holds her by the hand, silent]",1261,18844
636932,3727,"O mother, mother!
What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,
The gods look down, and this unnatural scene
They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O!
You have won a happy victory to Rome;
But, for your son,--believe it, O, believe it,
Most dangerously you have with him prevail'd,
If not most mortal to him. But, let it come.
Aufidius, though I cannot make true wars,
I'll frame convenient peace. Now, good Aufidius,
Were you in my stead, would you have heard
A mother less? or granted less, Aufidius?",283,18844
636933,3739,I was moved withal.,1214,18844
636934,3740,"I dare be sworn you were:
And, sir, it is no little thing to make
Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But, good sir,
What peace you'll make, advise me: for my part,
I'll not to Rome, I'll back with you; and pray you,
Stand to me in this cause. O mother! wife!",283,18844
636935,3746,"[Aside] I am glad thou hast set thy mercy and
thy honour
At difference in thee: out of that I'll work
Myself a former fortune.",1214,18844
636936,3750,[The Ladies make signs to CORIOLANUS],1261,18844
636937,3751,"Ay, by and by;
[To VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, &c]
But we will drink together; and you shall bear
A better witness back than words, which we,
On like conditions, will have counter-seal'd.
Come, enter with us. Ladies, you deserve
To have a temple built you: all the swords
In Italy, and her confederate arms,
Could not have made this peace.",283,18844
636938,3760,[Exeunt],1261,18844
636939,3763,[Enter MENENIUS and SICINIUS],1261,18845
636940,3764,"See you yond coign o' the Capitol, yond
corner-stone?",763,18845
636941,3766,"Why, what of that?",1091,18845
636942,3767,"If it be possible for you to displace it with your
little finger, there is some hope the ladies of
Rome, especially his mother, may prevail with him.
But I say there is no hope in't: our throats are
sentenced and stay upon execution.",763,18845
636943,3772,"Is't possible that so short a time can alter the
condition of a man!",1091,18845
636944,3774,"There is differency between a grub and a butterfly;
yet your butterfly was a grub. This CORIOLANUS is grown
from man to dragon: he has wings; he's more than a
creeping thing.",763,18845
636945,3778,He loved his mother dearly.,1091,18845
636946,3779,"So did he me: and he no more remembers his mother
now than an eight-year-old horse. The tartness
of his face sours ripe grapes: when he walks, he
moves like an engine, and the ground shrinks before
his treading: he is able to pierce a corslet with
his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a
battery. He sits in his state, as a thing made for
Alexander. What he bids be done is finished with
his bidding. He wants nothing of a god but eternity
and a heaven to throne in.",763,18845
636947,3789,"Yes, mercy, if you report him truly.",1091,18845
636948,3790,"I paint him in the character. Mark what mercy his
mother shall bring from him: there is no more mercy
in him than there is milk in a male tiger; that
shall our poor city find: and all this is long of
you.",763,18845
636949,3795,The gods be good unto us!,1091,18845
636950,3796,"No, in such a case the gods will not be good unto
us. When we banished him, we respected not them;
and, he returning to break our necks, they respect not us.",763,18845
636951,3799,[Enter a Messenger],1261,18845
636952,3800,"Sir, if you'ld save your life, fly to your house:
The plebeians have got your fellow-tribune
And hale him up and down, all swearing, if
The Roman ladies bring not comfort home,
They'll give him death by inches.",770,18845
636953,3805,[Enter a second Messenger],1261,18845
636954,3806,What's the news?,1091,18845
636955,3807,"Good news, good news; the ladies have prevail'd,
The Volscians are dislodged, and CORIOLANUS gone:
A merrier day did never yet greet Rome,
No, not the expulsion of the Tarquins.",1010,18845
636956,3811,"Friend,
Art thou certain this is true? is it most certain?",1091,18845
636957,3813,"As certain as I know the sun is fire:
Where have you lurk'd, that you make doubt of it?
Ne'er through an arch so hurried the blown tide,
As the recomforted through the gates. Why, hark you!
[Trumpets; hautboys; drums beat; all together]
The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes,
Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans,
Make the sun dance. Hark you!",1010,18845
636958,3821,[A shout within],1261,18845
636959,3822,"This is good news:
I will go meet the ladies. This Volumnia
Is worth of consuls, senators, patricians,
A city full; of tribunes, such as you,
A sea and land full. You have pray'd well to-day:
This morning for ten thousand of your throats
I'd not have given a doit. Hark, how they joy!",763,18845
636960,3829,"[Music still, with shouts]",1261,18845
636961,3830,"First, the gods bless you for your tidings; next,
Accept my thankfulness.",1091,18845
636962,3832,"Sir, we have all
Great cause to give great thanks.",1010,18845
636963,3834,They are near the city?,1091,18845
636964,3835,Almost at point to enter.,1010,18845
636965,3836,"We will meet them,
And help the joy.",1091,18845
636966,3838,"[Exeunt]
[Enter two Senators with VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA,]
VALERIA, &c. passing over the stage,
followed by Patricians and others]",1261,18845
636967,3844,"Behold our patroness, the life of Rome!
Call all your tribes together, praise the gods,
And make triumphant fires; strew flowers before them:
Unshout the noise that banish'd CORIOLANUS,
Repeal him with the welcome of his mother;
Cry 'Welcome, ladies, welcome!'",11,18846
636968,3850,"Welcome, ladies, Welcome!",72,18846
636969,3851,[A flourish with drums and trumpets. Exeunt],1261,18846
636970,3854,"[Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS, with Attendants]",1261,18847
636971,3855,"Go tell the lords o' the city I am here:
Deliver them this paper: having read it,
Bid them repair to the market place; where I,
Even in theirs and in the commons' ears,
Will vouch the truth of it. Him I accuse
The city ports by this hath enter'd and
Intends to appear before the people, hoping
To purge herself with words: dispatch.
[Exeunt Attendants]
[Enter three or four Conspirators of AUFIDIUS' faction]
Most welcome!",1214,18847
636972,3866,How is it with our general?,3,18847
636973,3867,"Even so
As with a man by his own alms empoison'd,
And with his charity slain.",1214,18847
636974,3870,"Most noble sir,
If you do hold the same intent wherein
You wish'd us parties, we'll deliver you
Of your great danger.",20,18847
636975,3874,"Sir, I cannot tell:
We must proceed as we do find the people.",1214,18847
636976,3876,"The people will remain uncertain whilst
'Twixt you there's difference; but the fall of either
Makes the survivor heir of all.",35,18847
636977,3879,"I know it;
And my pretext to strike at him admits
A good construction. I raised him, and I pawn'd
Mine honour for his truth: who being so heighten'd,
He water'd his new plants with dews of flattery,
Seducing so my friends; and, to this end,
He bow'd his nature, never known before
But to be rough, unswayable and free.",1214,18847
636978,3887,"Sir, his stoutness
When he did stand for consul, which he lost
By lack of stooping,--",35,18847
636979,3890,"That I would have spoke of:
Being banish'd for't, he came unto my hearth;
Presented to my knife his throat: I took him;
Made him joint-servant with me; gave him way
In all his own desires; nay, let him choose
Out of my files, his projects to accomplish,
My best and freshest men; served his designments
In mine own person; holp to reap the fame
Which he did end all his; and took some pride
To do myself this wrong: till, at the last,
I seem'd his follower, not partner, and
He waged me with his countenance, as if
I had been mercenary.",1214,18847
636980,3903,"So he did, my lord:
The army marvell'd at it, and, in the last,
When he had carried Rome and that we look'd
For no less spoil than glory,--",3,18847
636981,3907,"There was it:
For which my sinews shall be stretch'd upon him.
At a few drops of women's rheum, which are
As cheap as lies, he sold the blood and labour
Of our great action: therefore shall he die,
And I'll renew me in his fall. But, hark!
[Drums and trumpets sound, with great shouts of]
the People]",1214,18847
636982,3915,"Your native town you enter'd like a post,
And had no welcomes home: but he returns,
Splitting the air with noise.",3,18847
636983,3918,"And patient fools,
Whose children he hath slain, their base throats tear
With giving him glory.",20,18847
636984,3921,"Therefore, at your vantage,
Ere he express himself, or move the people
With what he would say, let him feel your sword,
Which we will second. When he lies along,
After your way his tale pronounced shall bury
His reasons with his body.",35,18847
636985,3927,"Say no more:
Here come the lords.",1214,18847
636986,3929,[Enter the Lords of the city],1261,18847
636987,3930,You are most welcome home.,84,18847
636988,3931,"I have not deserved it.
But, worthy lords, have you with heed perused
What I have written to you?",1214,18847
636989,3934,We have.,84,18847
636990,3935,"And grieve to hear't.
What faults he made before the last, I think
Might have found easy fines: but there to end
Where he was to begin and give away
The benefit of our levies, answering us
With our own charge, making a treaty where
There was a yielding,--this admits no excuse.",433,18847
636991,3942,"He approaches: you shall hear him.
[Enter CORIOLANUS, marching with drum and]
colours; commoners being with him]",1214,18847
636992,3945,"Hail, lords! I am return'd your soldier,
No more infected with my country's love
Than when I parted hence, but still subsisting
Under your great command. You are to know
That prosperously I have attempted and
With bloody passage led your wars even to
The gates of Rome. Our spoils we have brought home
Do more than counterpoise a full third part
The charges of the action. We have made peace
With no less honour to the Antiates
Than shame to the Romans: and we here deliver,
Subscribed by the consuls and patricians,
Together with the seal o' the senate, what
We have compounded on.",283,18847
636993,3959,"Read it not, noble lords;
But tell the traitor, in the high'st degree
He hath abused your powers.",1214,18847
636994,3962,Traitor! how now!,283,18847
636995,3963,"Ay, traitor, CORIOLANUS!",1214,18847
636996,3964,CORIOLANUS!,283,18847
636997,3965,"Ay, CORIOLANUS, Caius CORIOLANUS: dost thou think
I'll grace thee with that robbery, thy stol'n name
Coriolanus in Corioli?
You lords and heads o' the state, perfidiously
He has betray'd your business, and given up,
For certain drops of salt, your city Rome,
I say 'your city,' to his wife and mother;
Breaking his oath and resolution like
A twist of rotten silk, never admitting
Counsel o' the war, but at his nurse's tears
He whined and roar'd away your victory,
That pages blush'd at him and men of heart
Look'd wondering each at other.",1214,18847
636998,3978,"Hear'st thou, Mars?",283,18847
636999,3979,"Name not the god, thou boy of tears!",1214,18847
637000,3980,Ha!,283,18847
637001,3981,No more.,1214,18847
637002,3982,"Measureless liar, thou hast made my heart
Too great for what contains it. Boy! O slave!
Pardon me, lords, 'tis the first time that ever
I was forced to scold. Your judgments, my grave lords,
Must give this cur the lie: and his own notion--
Who wears my stripes impress'd upon him; that
Must bear my beating to his grave--shall join
To thrust the lie unto him.",283,18847
637003,3990,"Peace, both, and hear me speak.",433,18847
637004,3991,"Cut me to pieces, Volsces; men and lads,
Stain all your edges on me. Boy! false hound!
If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there,
That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I
Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli:
Alone I did it. Boy!",283,18847
637005,3997,"Why, noble lords,
Will you be put in mind of his blind fortune,
Which was your shame, by this unholy braggart,
'Fore your own eyes and ears?",1214,18847
637006,4001,Let him die for't.,71,18847
637007,4002,"'Tear him to pieces.' 'Do it presently.' 'He kill'd
my son.' 'My daughter.' 'He killed my cousin
Marcus.' 'He killed my father.'",91,18847
637008,4005,"Peace, ho! no outrage: peace!
The man is noble and his fame folds-in
This orb o' the earth. His last offences to us
Shall have judicious hearing. Stand, Aufidius,
And trouble not the peace.",1001,18847
637009,4010,"O that I had him,
With six Aufidiuses, or more, his tribe,
To use my lawful sword!",283,18847
637010,4013,Insolent villain!,1214,18847
637011,4014,"Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill him!
[The Conspirators draw, and kill CORIOLANUS:]
AUFIDIUS stands on his body]",71,18847
637012,4017,"Hold, hold, hold, hold!",84,18847
637013,4018,"My noble masters, hear me speak.",1214,18847
637014,4019,"O Tullus,--",433,18847
637015,4020,Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.,1001,18847
637016,4021,"Tread not upon him. Masters all, be quiet;
Put up your swords.",1172,18847
637017,4023,"My lords, when you shall know--as in this rage,
Provoked by him, you cannot--the great danger
Which this man's life did owe you, you'll rejoice
That he is thus cut off. Please it your honours
To call me to your senate, I'll deliver
Myself your loyal servant, or endure
Your heaviest censure.",1214,18847
637018,4030,"Bear from hence his body;
And mourn you for him: let him be regarded
As the most noble corse that ever herald
Did follow to his urn.",433,18847
637019,4034,"His own impatience
Takes from Aufidius a great part of blame.
Let's make the best of it.",1001,18847
637020,4037,"My rage is gone;
And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.
Help, three o' the chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.
Beat thou the drum, that it speak mournfully:
Trail your steel pikes. Though in this city he
Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one,
Which to this hour bewail the injury,
Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.",1214,18847
637021,4045,"[Exeunt, bearing the body of CORIOLANUS. A dead march sounded]",1261,18847
637022,3,[Enter two Gentlemen],1261,18848
637023,4,"You do not meet a man but frowns: our bloods
No more obey the heavens than our courtiers
Still seem as does the king.",421,18848
637024,7,But what's the matter?,991,18848
637025,8,"His daughter, and the heir of's kingdom, whom
He purposed to his wife's sole son--a widow
That late he married--hath referr'd herself
Unto a poor but worthy gentleman: she's wedded;
Her husband banish'd; she imprison'd: all
Is outward sorrow; though I think the king
Be touch'd at very heart.",421,18848
637026,15,None but the king?,991,18848
637027,16,"He that hath lost her too; so is the queen,
That most desired the match; but not a courtier,
Although they wear their faces to the bent
Of the king's look's, hath a heart that is not
Glad at the thing they scowl at.",421,18848
637028,21,And why so?,991,18848
637029,22,"He that hath miss'd the princess is a thing
Too bad for bad report: and he that hath her--
I mean, that married her, alack, good man!
And therefore banish'd--is a creature such
As, to seek through the regions of the earth
For one his like, there would be something failing
In him that should compare. I do not think
So fair an outward and such stuff within
Endows a man but he.",421,18848
637030,31,You speak him far.,991,18848
637031,32,"I do extend him, sir, within himself,
Crush him together rather than unfold
His measure duly.",421,18848
637032,35,What's his name and birth?,991,18848
637033,36,"I cannot delve him to the root: his father
Was call'd Sicilius, who did join his honour
Against the Romans with Cassibelan,
But had his titles by Tenantius whom
He served with glory and admired success,
So gain'd the sur-addition Leonatus;
And had, besides this gentleman in question,
Two other sons, who in the wars o' the time
Died with their swords in hand; for which
their father,
Then old and fond of issue, took such sorrow
That he quit being, and his gentle lady,
Big of this gentleman our theme, deceased
As he was born. The king he takes the babe
To his protection, calls him Posthumus Leonatus,
Breeds him and makes him of his bed-chamber,
Puts to him all the learnings that his time
Could make him the receiver of; which he took,
As we do air, fast as 'twas minister'd,
And in's spring became a harvest, lived in court--
Which rare it is to do--most praised, most loved,
A sample to the youngest, to the more mature
A glass that feated them, and to the graver
A child that guided dotards; to his mistress,
For whom he now is banish'd, her own price
Proclaims how she esteem'd him and his virtue;
By her election may be truly read
What kind of man he is.",421,18848
637034,64,"I honour him
Even out of your report. But, pray you, tell me,
Is she sole child to the king?",991,18848
637035,67,"His only child.
He had two sons: if this be worth your hearing,
Mark it: the eldest of them at three years old,
I' the swathing-clothes the other, from their nursery
Were stol'n, and to this hour no guess in knowledge
Which way they went.",421,18848
637036,73,How long is this ago?,991,18848
637037,74,Some twenty years.,421,18848
637038,75,"That a king's children should be so convey'd,
So slackly guarded, and the search so slow,
That could not trace them!",991,18848
637039,78,"Howsoe'er 'tis strange,
Or that the negligence may well be laugh'd at,
Yet is it true, sir.",421,18848
637040,81,I do well believe you.,991,18848
637041,82,"We must forbear: here comes the gentleman,
The queen, and princess.",421,18848
637042,84,[Exeunt],1261,18848
637043,85,"[Enter the QUEEN, POSTHUMUS LEONATUS, and IMOGEN]",1261,18848
637044,86,"No, be assured you shall not find me, daughter,
After the slander of most stepmothers,
Evil-eyed unto you: you're my prisoner, but
Your gaoler shall deliver you the keys
That lock up your restraint. For you, Posthumus,
So soon as I can win the offended king,
I will be known your advocate: marry, yet
The fire of rage is in him, and 'twere good
You lean'd unto his sentence with what patience
Your wisdom may inform you.",931,18848
637045,96,"Please your highness,
I will from hence to-day.",911,18848
637046,98,"You know the peril.
I'll fetch a turn about the garden, pitying
The pangs of barr'd affections, though the king
Hath charged you should not speak together.",931,18848
637047,102,[Exit],1261,18848
637048,103,"O
Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant
Can tickle where she wounds! My dearest husband,
I something fear my father's wrath; but nothing--
Always reserved my holy duty--what
His rage can do on me: you must be gone;
And I shall here abide the hourly shot
Of angry eyes, not comforted to live,
But that there is this jewel in the world
That I may see again.",601,18848
637049,113,"My queen! my mistress!
O lady, weep no more, lest I give cause
To be suspected of more tenderness
Than doth become a man. I will remain
The loyal'st husband that did e'er plight troth:
My residence in Rome at one Philario's,
Who to my father was a friend, to me
Known but by letter: thither write, my queen,
And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you send,
Though ink be made of gall.",911,18848
637050,123,[Re-enter QUEEN],1261,18848
637051,124,"Be brief, I pray you:
If the king come, I shall incur I know not
How much of his displeasure.
[Aside]
Yet I'll move him
To walk this way: I never do him wrong,
But he does buy my injuries, to be friends;
Pays dear for my offences.",931,18848
637052,132,[Exit],1261,18848
637053,133,"Should we be taking leave
As long a term as yet we have to live,
The loathness to depart would grow. Adieu!",911,18848
637054,136,"Nay, stay a little:
Were you but riding forth to air yourself,
Such parting were too petty. Look here, love;
This diamond was my mother's: take it, heart;
But keep it till you woo another wife,
When Imogen is dead.",601,18848
637055,142,"How, how! another?
You gentle gods, give me but this I have,
And sear up my embracements from a next
With bonds of death!
[Putting on the ring]
Remain, remain thou here
While sense can keep it on. And, sweetest, fairest,
As I my poor self did exchange for you,
To your so infinite loss, so in our trifles
I still win of you: for my sake wear this;
It is a manacle of love; I'll place it
Upon this fairest prisoner.",911,18848
637056,154,[Putting a bracelet upon her arm],1261,18848
637057,155,"O the gods!
When shall we see again?",601,18848
637058,157,[Enter CYMBELINE and Lords],1261,18848
637059,158,"Alack, the king!",911,18848
637060,159,"Thou basest thing, avoid! hence, from my sight!
If after this command thou fraught the court
With thy unworthiness, thou diest: away!
Thou'rt poison to my blood.",299,18848
637061,163,"The gods protect you!
And bless the good remainders of the court! I am gone.",911,18848
637062,165,[Exit],1261,18848
637063,166,"There cannot be a pinch in death
More sharp than this is.",601,18848
637064,168,"O disloyal thing,
That shouldst repair my youth, thou heap'st
A year's age on me.",299,18848
637065,171,"I beseech you, sir,
Harm not yourself with your vexation
I am senseless of your wrath; a touch more rare
Subdues all pangs, all fears.",601,18848
637066,175,Past grace? obedience?,299,18848
637067,176,"Past hope, and in despair; that way, past grace.",601,18848
637068,177,That mightst have had the sole son of my queen!,299,18848
637069,178,"O blest, that I might not! I chose an eagle,
And did avoid a puttock.",601,18848
637070,180,"Thou took'st a beggar; wouldst have made my throne
A seat for baseness.",299,18848
637071,182,"No; I rather added
A lustre to it.",601,18848
637072,184,O thou vile one!,299,18848
637073,185,"Sir,
It is your fault that I have loved Posthumus:
You bred him as my playfellow, and he is
A man worth any woman, overbuys me
Almost the sum he pays.",601,18848
637074,190,"What, art thou mad?",299,18848
637075,191,"Almost, sir: heaven restore me! Would I were
A neat-herd's daughter, and my Leonatus
Our neighbour shepherd's son!",601,18848
637076,194,"Thou foolish thing!
[Re-enter QUEEN]
They were again together: you have done
Not after our command. Away with her,
And pen her up.",299,18848
637077,199,"Beseech your patience. Peace,
Dear lady daughter, peace! Sweet sovereign,
Leave us to ourselves; and make yourself some comfort
Out of your best advice.",931,18848
637078,203,"Nay, let her languish
A drop of blood a day; and, being aged,
Die of this folly!",299,18848
637079,206,[Exeunt CYMBELINE and Lords],1261,18848
637080,207,"Fie! you must give way.
[Enter PISANIO]
Here is your servant. How now, sir! What news?",931,18848
637081,210,My lord your son drew on my master.,890,18848
637082,211,"Ha!
No harm, I trust, is done?",931,18848
637083,213,"There might have been,
But that my master rather play'd than fought
And had no help of anger: they were parted
By gentlemen at hand.",890,18848
637084,217,I am very glad on't.,931,18848
637085,218,"Your son's my father's friend; he takes his part.
To draw upon an exile! O brave sir!
I would they were in Afric both together;
Myself by with a needle, that I might prick
The goer-back. Why came you from your master?",601,18848
637086,223,"On his command: he would not suffer me
To bring him to the haven; left these notes
Of what commands I should be subject to,
When 't pleased you to employ me.",890,18848
637087,227,"This hath been
Your faithful servant: I dare lay mine honour
He will remain so.",931,18848
637088,230,I humbly thank your highness.,890,18848
637089,231,"Pray, walk awhile.",931,18848
637090,232,"About some half-hour hence,
I pray you, speak with me: you shall at least
Go see my lord aboard: for this time leave me.",601,18848
637091,235,[Exeunt],1261,18848
637092,238,[Enter CLOTEN and two Lords],1261,18849
637093,239,"Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt; the
violence of action hath made you reek as a
sacrifice: where air comes out, air comes in:
there's none abroad so wholesome as that you vent.",436,18849
637094,243,"If my shirt were bloody, then to shift it. Have I hurt him?",266,18849
637095,244,"[Aside] No, 'faith; not so much as his patience.",1004,18849
637096,245,"Hurt him! his body's a passable carcass, if he be
not hurt: it is a thoroughfare for steel, if it be not hurt.",436,18849
637097,247,"[Aside] His steel was in debt; it went o' the
backside the town.",1004,18849
637098,249,The villain would not stand me.,266,18849
637099,250,"[Aside] No; but he fled forward still, toward your face.",1004,18849
637100,251,"Stand you! You have land enough of your own: but
he added to your having; gave you some ground.",436,18849
637101,253,[Aside] As many inches as you have oceans. Puppies!,1004,18849
637102,254,I would they had not come between us.,266,18849
637103,255,"[Aside] So would I, till you had measured how long
a fool you were upon the ground.",1004,18849
637104,257,And that she should love this fellow and refuse me!,266,18849
637105,258,"[Aside] If it be a sin to make a true election, she
is damned.",1004,18849
637106,260,"Sir, as I told you always, her beauty and her brain
go not together: she's a good sign, but I have seen
small reflection of her wit.",436,18849
637107,263,"[Aside] She shines not upon fools, lest the
reflection should hurt her.",1004,18849
637108,265,"Come, I'll to my chamber. Would there had been some
hurt done!",266,18849
637109,267,"[Aside] I wish not so; unless it had been the fall
of an ass, which is no great hurt.",1004,18849
637110,269,You'll go with us?,266,18849
637111,270,I'll attend your lordship.,436,18849
637112,271,"Nay, come, let's go together.",266,18849
637113,272,"Well, my lord.",1004,18849
637114,273,[Exeunt],1261,18849
637115,276,[Enter IMOGEN and PISANIO],1261,18850
637116,277,"I would thou grew'st unto the shores o' the haven,
And question'dst every sail: if he should write
And not have it, 'twere a paper lost,
As offer'd mercy is. What was the last
That he spake to thee?",601,18850
637117,282,"It was his queen, his queen!",890,18850
637118,283,Then waved his handkerchief?,601,18850
637119,284,"And kiss'd it, madam.",890,18850
637120,285,"Senseless Linen! happier therein than I!
And that was all?",601,18850
637121,287,"No, madam; for so long
As he could make me with this eye or ear
Distinguish him from others, he did keep
The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,
Still waving, as the fits and stirs of 's mind
Could best express how slow his soul sail'd on,
How swift his ship.",890,18850
637122,294,"Thou shouldst have made him
As little as a crow, or less, ere left
To after-eye him.",601,18850
637123,297,"Madam, so I did.",890,18850
637124,298,"I would have broke mine eye-strings; crack'd them, but
To look upon him, till the diminution
Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle,
Nay, follow'd him, till he had melted from
The smallness of a gnat to air, and then
Have turn'd mine eye and wept. But, good Pisanio,
When shall we hear from him?",601,18850
637125,305,"Be assured, madam,
With his next vantage.",890,18850
637126,307,"I did not take my leave of him, but had
Most pretty things to say: ere I could tell him
How I would think on him at certain hours
Such thoughts and such, or I could make him swear
The shes of Italy should not betray
Mine interest and his honour, or have charged him,
At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight,
To encounter me with orisons, for then
I am in heaven for him; or ere I could
Give him that parting kiss which I had set
Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father
And like the tyrannous breathing of the north
Shakes all our buds from growing.",601,18850
637127,320,[Enter a Lady],1261,18850
637128,321,"The queen, madam,
Desires your highness' company.",643,18850
637129,323,"Those things I bid you do, get them dispatch'd.
I will attend the queen.",601,18850
637130,325,"Madam, I shall.",890,18850
637131,326,"[Exeunt]
[Enter PHILARIO, IACHIMO, a Frenchman, a]
Dutchman, and a Spaniard]",1261,18850
637132,331,"Believe it, sir, I have seen him in Britain: he was
then of a crescent note, expected to prove so worthy
as since he hath been allowed the name of; but I
could then have looked on him without the help of
admiration, though the catalogue of his endowments
had been tabled by his side and I to peruse him by items.",599,18851
637133,337,"You speak of him when he was less furnished than now
he is with that which makes him both without and within.",880,18851
637134,339,"I have seen him in France: we had very many there
could behold the sun with as firm eyes as he.",500,18851
637135,341,"This matter of marrying his king's daughter, wherein
he must be weighed rather by her value than his own,
words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the matter.",599,18851
637136,344,And then his banishment.,500,18851
637137,345,"Ay, and the approbation of those that weep this
lamentable divorce under her colours are wonderfully
to extend him; be it but to fortify her judgment,
which else an easy battery might lay flat, for
taking a beggar without less quality. But how comes
it he is to sojourn with you? How creeps
acquaintance?",599,18851
637138,352,"His father and I were soldiers together; to whom I
have been often bound for no less than my life.
Here comes the Briton: let him be so entertained
amongst you as suits, with gentlemen of your
knowing, to a stranger of his quality.
[Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS]
I beseech you all, be better known to this
gentleman; whom I commend to you as a noble friend
of mine: how worthy he is I will leave to appear
hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.",880,18851
637139,362,"Sir, we have known together in Orleans.",500,18851
637140,363,"Since when I have been debtor to you for courtesies,
which I will be ever to pay and yet pay still.",911,18851
637141,365,"Sir, you o'er-rate my poor kindness: I was glad I
did atone my countryman and you; it had been pity
you should have been put together with so mortal a
purpose as then each bore, upon importance of so
slight and trivial a nature.",500,18851
637142,370,"By your pardon, sir, I was then a young traveller;
rather shunned to go even with what I heard than in
my every action to be guided by others' experiences:
but upon my mended judgment--if I offend not to say
it is mended--my quarrel was not altogether slight.",911,18851
637143,375,"'Faith, yes, to be put to the arbitrement of swords,
and by such two that would by all likelihood have
confounded one the other, or have fallen both.",500,18851
637144,378,"Can we, with manners, ask what was the difference?",599,18851
637145,379,"Safely, I think: 'twas a contention in public,
which may, without contradiction, suffer the report.
It was much like an argument that fell out last
night, where each of us fell in praise of our
country mistresses; this gentleman at that time
vouching--and upon warrant of bloody
affirmation--his to be more fair, virtuous, wise,
chaste, constant-qualified and less attemptable
than any the rarest of our ladies in France.",500,18851
637146,388,"That lady is not now living, or this gentleman's
opinion by this worn out.",599,18851
637147,390,She holds her virtue still and I my mind.,911,18851
637148,391,You must not so far prefer her 'fore ours of Italy.,599,18851
637149,392,"Being so far provoked as I was in France, I would
abate her nothing, though I profess myself her
adorer, not her friend.",911,18851
637150,395,"As fair and as good--a kind of hand-in-hand
comparison--had been something too fair and too good
for any lady in Britain. If she went before others
I have seen, as that diamond of yours outlustres
many I have beheld. I could not but believe she
excelled many: but I have not seen the most
precious diamond that is, nor you the lady.",599,18851
637151,402,I praised her as I rated her: so do I my stone.,911,18851
637152,403,What do you esteem it at?,599,18851
637153,404,More than the world enjoys.,911,18851
637154,405,"Either your unparagoned mistress is dead, or she's
outprized by a trifle.",599,18851
637155,407,"You are mistaken: the one may be sold, or given, if
there were wealth enough for the purchase, or merit
for the gift: the other is not a thing for sale,
and only the gift of the gods.",911,18851
637156,411,Which the gods have given you?,599,18851
637157,412,"Which, by their graces, I will keep.",911,18851
637158,413,"You may wear her in title yours: but, you know,
strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds. Your
ring may be stolen too: so your brace of unprizable
estimations; the one is but frail and the other
casual; a cunning thief, or a that way accomplished
courtier, would hazard the winning both of first and last.",599,18851
637159,419,"Your Italy contains none so accomplished a courtier
to convince the honour of my mistress, if, in the
holding or loss of that, you term her frail. I do
nothing doubt you have store of thieves;
notwithstanding, I fear not my ring.",911,18851
637160,424,"Let us leave here, gentlemen.",880,18851
637161,425,"Sir, with all my heart. This worthy signior, I
thank him, makes no stranger of me; we are familiar at first.",911,18851
637162,427,"With five times so much conversation, I should get
ground of your fair mistress, make her go back, even
to the yielding, had I admittance and opportunity to friend.",599,18851
637163,430,"No, no.",911,18851
637164,431,"I dare thereupon pawn the moiety of my estate to
your ring; which, in my opinion, o'ervalues it
something: but I make my wager rather against your
confidence than her reputation: and, to bar your
offence herein too, I durst attempt it against any
lady in the world.",599,18851
637165,437,"You are a great deal abused in too bold a
persuasion; and I doubt not you sustain what you're
worthy of by your attempt.",911,18851
637166,440,What's that?,599,18851
637167,441,"A repulse: though your attempt, as you call it,
deserve more; a punishment too.",911,18851
637168,443,"Gentlemen, enough of this: it came in too suddenly;
let it die as it was born, and, I pray you, be
better acquainted.",880,18851
637169,446,"Would I had put my estate and my neighbour's on the
approbation of what I have spoke!",599,18851
637170,448,What lady would you choose to assail?,911,18851
637171,449,"Yours; whom in constancy you think stands so safe.
I will lay you ten thousand ducats to your ring,
that, commend me to the court where your lady is,
with no more advantage than the opportunity of a
second conference, and I will bring from thence
that honour of hers which you imagine so reserved.",599,18851
637172,455,"I will wage against your gold, gold to it: my ring
I hold dear as my finger; 'tis part of it.",911,18851
637173,457,"You are afraid, and therein the wiser. If you buy
ladies' flesh at a million a dram, you cannot
preserve it from tainting: but I see you have some
religion in you, that you fear.",599,18851
637174,461,"This is but a custom in your tongue; you bear a
graver purpose, I hope.",911,18851
637175,463,"I am the master of my speeches, and would undergo
what's spoken, I swear.",599,18851
637176,465,"Will you? I shall but lend my diamond till your
return: let there be covenants drawn between's: my
mistress exceeds in goodness the hugeness of your
unworthy thinking: I dare you to this match: here's my ring.",911,18851
637177,469,I will have it no lay.,880,18851
637178,470,"By the gods, it is one. If I bring you no
sufficient testimony that I have enjoyed the dearest
bodily part of your mistress, my ten thousand ducats
are yours; so is your diamond too: if I come off,
and leave her in such honour as you have trust in,
she your jewel, this your jewel, and my gold are
yours: provided I have your commendation for my more
free entertainment.",599,18851
637179,478,"I embrace these conditions; let us have articles
betwixt us. Only, thus far you shall answer: if
you make your voyage upon her and give me directly
to understand you have prevailed, I am no further
your enemy; she is not worth our debate: if she
remain unseduced, you not making it appear
otherwise, for your ill opinion and the assault you
have made to her chastity you shall answer me with
your sword.",911,18851
637180,487,"Your hand; a covenant: we will have these things set
down by lawful counsel, and straight away for
Britain, lest the bargain should catch cold and
starve: I will fetch my gold and have our two
wagers recorded.",599,18851
637181,492,Agreed.,911,18851
637182,493,[Exeunt POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and IACHIMO],1261,18851
637183,494,"Will this hold, think you?",500,18851
637184,495,"Signior Iachimo will not from it.
Pray, let us follow 'em.",880,18851
637185,497,[Exeunt],1261,18851
637186,500,"[Enter QUEEN, Ladies, and CORNELIUS]",1261,18852
637187,501,"Whiles yet the dew's on ground, gather those flowers;
Make haste: who has the note of them?",931,18852
637188,503,"I, madam.",431,18852
637189,504,"Dispatch.
[Exeunt Ladies]
Now, master doctor, have you brought those drugs?",931,18852
637190,507,"Pleaseth your highness, ay: here they are, madam:
[Presenting a small box]
But I beseech your grace, without offence,--
My conscience bids me ask--wherefore you have
Commanded of me those most poisonous compounds,
Which are the movers of a languishing death;
But though slow, deadly?",285,18852
637191,514,"I wonder, doctor,
Thou ask'st me such a question. Have I not been
Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learn'd me how
To make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, so
That our great king himself doth woo me oft
For my confections? Having thus far proceeded,--
Unless thou think'st me devilish--is't not meet
That I did amplify my judgment in
Other conclusions? I will try the forces
Of these thy compounds on such creatures as
We count not worth the hanging, but none human,
To try the vigour of them and apply
Allayments to their act, and by them gather
Their several virtues and effects.",931,18852
637192,528,"Your highness
Shall from this practise but make hard your heart:
Besides, the seeing these effects will be
Both noisome and infectious.",285,18852
637193,532,"O, content thee.
[Enter PISANIO]
[Aside]
Here comes a flattering rascal; upon him
Will I first work: he's for his master,
An enemy to my son. How now, Pisanio!
Doctor, your service for this time is ended;
Take your own way.",931,18852
637194,540,"[Aside] I do suspect you, madam;
But you shall do no harm.",285,18852
637195,542,"[To PISANIO] Hark thee, a word.",931,18852
637196,543,"[Aside] I do not like her. She doth think she has
Strange lingering poisons: I do know her spirit,
And will not trust one of her malice with
A drug of such damn'd nature. Those she has
Will stupefy and dull the sense awhile;
Which first, perchance, she'll prove on
cats and dogs,
Then afterward up higher: but there is
No danger in what show of death it makes,
More than the locking-up the spirits a time,
To be more fresh, reviving. She is fool'd
With a most false effect; and I the truer,
So to be false with her.",285,18852
637197,556,"No further service, doctor,
Until I send for thee.",931,18852
637198,558,I humbly take my leave.,285,18852
637199,559,[Exit],1261,18852
637200,560,"Weeps she still, say'st thou? Dost thou think in time
She will not quench and let instructions enter
Where folly now possesses? Do thou work:
When thou shalt bring me word she loves my son,
I'll tell thee on the instant thou art then
As great as is thy master, greater, for
His fortunes all lie speechless and his name
Is at last gasp: return he cannot, nor
Continue where he is: to shift his being
Is to exchange one misery with another,
And every day that comes comes to decay
A day's work in him. What shalt thou expect,
To be depender on a thing that leans,
Who cannot be new built, nor has no friends,
So much as but to prop him?
[The QUEEN drops the box: PISANIO takes it up]
Thou takest up
Thou know'st not what; but take it for thy labour:
It is a thing I made, which hath the king
Five times redeem'd from death: I do not know
What is more cordial. Nay, I prethee, take it;
It is an earnest of a further good
That I mean to thee. Tell thy mistress how
The case stands with her; do't as from thyself.
Think what a chance thou changest on, but think
Thou hast thy mistress still, to boot, my son,
Who shall take notice of thee: I'll move the king
To any shape of thy preferment such
As thou'lt desire; and then myself, I chiefly,
That set thee on to this desert, am bound
To load thy merit richly. Call my women:
Think on my words.
[Exit PISANIO]
A sly and constant knave,
Not to be shaked; the agent for his master
And the remembrancer of her to hold
The hand-fast to her lord. I have given him that
Which, if he take, shall quite unpeople her
Of liegers for her sweet, and which she after,
Except she bend her humour, shall be assured
To taste of too.
[Re-enter PISANIO and Ladies]
So, so: well done, well done:
The violets, cowslips, and the primroses,
Bear to my closet. Fare thee well, Pisanio;
Think on my words.",931,18852
637201,606,[Exeunt QUEEN and Ladies],1261,18852
637202,607,"And shall do:
But when to my good lord I prove untrue,
I'll choke myself: there's all I'll do for you.",890,18852
637203,610,[Exit],1261,18852
637204,613,[Enter IMOGEN],1261,18853
637205,614,"A father cruel, and a step-dame false;
A foolish suitor to a wedded lady,
That hath her husband banish'd;--O, that husband!
My supreme crown of grief! and those repeated
Vexations of it! Had I been thief-stol'n,
As my two brothers, happy! but most miserable
Is the desire that's glorious: blest be those,
How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills,
Which seasons comfort. Who may this be? Fie!",601,18853
637206,623,[Enter PISANIO and IACHIMO],1261,18853
637207,624,"Madam, a noble gentleman of Rome,
Comes from my lord with letters.",890,18853
637208,626,"Change you, madam?
The worthy Leonatus is in safety
And greets your highness dearly.",599,18853
637209,629,[Presents a letter],1261,18853
637210,630,"Thanks, good sir:
You're kindly welcome.",601,18853
637211,632,"[Aside] All of her that is out of door most rich!
If she be furnish'd with a mind so rare,
She is alone the Arabian bird, and I
Have lost the wager. Boldness be my friend!
Arm me, audacity, from head to foot!
Or, like the Parthian, I shall flying fight;
Rather directly fly.",599,18853
637212,639,"[Reads] 'He is one of the noblest note, to whose
kindnesses I am most infinitely tied. Reflect upon
him accordingly, as you value your trust--
LEONATUS.'
So far I read aloud:
But even the very middle of my heart
Is warm'd by the rest, and takes it thankfully.
You are as welcome, worthy sir, as I
Have words to bid you, and shall find it so
In all that I can do.",601,18853
637213,649,"Thanks, fairest lady.
What, are men mad? Hath nature given them eyes
To see this vaulted arch, and the rich crop
Of sea and land, which can distinguish 'twixt
The fiery orbs above and the twinn'd stones
Upon the number'd beach? and can we not
Partition make with spectacles so precious
'Twixt fair and foul?",599,18853
637214,657,What makes your admiration?,601,18853
637215,658,"It cannot be i' the eye, for apes and monkeys
'Twixt two such shes would chatter this way and
Contemn with mows the other; nor i' the judgment,
For idiots in this case of favour would
Be wisely definite; nor i' the appetite;
Sluttery to such neat excellence opposed
Should make desire vomit emptiness,
Not so allured to feed.",599,18853
637216,666,"What is the matter, trow?",601,18853
637217,667,"The cloyed will,
That satiate yet unsatisfied desire, that tub
Both fill'd and running, ravening first the lamb
Longs after for the garbage.",599,18853
637218,671,"What, dear sir,
Thus raps you? Are you well?",601,18853
637219,673,"Thanks, madam; well.
[To PISANIO]
Beseech you, sir, desire
My man's abode where I did leave him: he
Is strange and peevish.",599,18853
637220,678,"I was going, sir,
To give him welcome.",890,18853
637221,680,[Exit],1261,18853
637222,681,"Continues well my lord? His health, beseech you?",601,18853
637223,682,"Well, madam.",599,18853
637224,683,Is he disposed to mirth? I hope he is.,601,18853
637225,684,"Exceeding pleasant; none a stranger there
So merry and so gamesome: he is call'd
The Briton reveller.",599,18853
637226,687,"When he was here,
He did incline to sadness, and oft-times
Not knowing why.",601,18853
637227,690,"I never saw him sad.
There is a Frenchman his companion, one
An eminent monsieur, that, it seems, much loves
A Gallian girl at home; he furnaces
The thick sighs from him, whiles the jolly Briton--
Your lord, I mean--laughs from's free lungs, cries 'O,
Can my sides hold, to think that man, who knows
By history, report, or his own proof,
What woman is, yea, what she cannot choose
But must be, will his free hours languish for
Assured bondage?'",599,18853
637228,701,Will my lord say so?,601,18853
637229,702,"Ay, madam, with his eyes in flood with laughter:
It is a recreation to be by
And hear him mock the Frenchman. But, heavens know,
Some men are much to blame.",599,18853
637230,706,"Not he, I hope.",601,18853
637231,707,"Not he: but yet heaven's bounty towards him might
Be used more thankfully. In himself, 'tis much;
In you, which I account his beyond all talents,
Whilst I am bound to wonder, I am bound
To pity too.",599,18853
637232,712,"What do you pity, sir?",601,18853
637233,713,Two creatures heartily.,599,18853
637234,714,"Am I one, sir?
You look on me: what wreck discern you in me
Deserves your pity?",601,18853
637235,717,"Lamentable! What,
To hide me from the radiant sun and solace
I' the dungeon by a snuff?",599,18853
637236,720,"I pray you, sir,
Deliver with more openness your answers
To my demands. Why do you pity me?",601,18853
637237,723,"That others do--
I was about to say--enjoy your--But
It is an office of the gods to venge it,
Not mine to speak on 't.",599,18853
637238,727,"You do seem to know
Something of me, or what concerns me: pray you,--
Since doubling things go ill often hurts more
Than to be sure they do; for certainties
Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,
The remedy then born--discover to me
What both you spur and stop.",601,18853
637239,734,"Had I this cheek
To bathe my lips upon; this hand, whose touch,
Whose every touch, would force the feeler's soul
To the oath of loyalty; this object, which
Takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye,
Fixing it only here; should I, damn'd then,
Slaver with lips as common as the stairs
That mount the Capitol; join gripes with hands
Made hard with hourly falsehood--falsehood, as
With labour; then by-peeping in an eye
Base and unlustrous as the smoky light
That's fed with stinking tallow; it were fit
That all the plagues of hell should at one time
Encounter such revolt.",599,18853
637240,748,"My lord, I fear,
Has forgot Britain.",601,18853
637241,750,"And himself. Not I,
Inclined to this intelligence, pronounce
The beggary of his change; but 'tis your graces
That from pay mutest conscience to my tongue
Charms this report out.",599,18853
637242,755,Let me hear no more.,601,18853
637243,756,"O dearest soul! your cause doth strike my heart
With pity, that doth make me sick. A lady
So fair, and fasten'd to an empery,
Would make the great'st king double,--to be partner'd
With tomboys hired with that self-exhibition
Which your own coffers yield! with diseased ventures
That play with all infirmities for gold
Which rottenness can lend nature! such boil'd stuff
As well might poison poison! Be revenged;
Or she that bore you was no queen, and you
Recoil from your great stock.",599,18853
637244,767,"Revenged!
How should I be revenged? If this be true,--
As I have such a heart that both mine ears
Must not in haste abuse--if it be true,
How should I be revenged?",601,18853
637245,772,"Should he make me
Live, like Diana's priest, betwixt cold sheets,
Whiles he is vaulting variable ramps,
In your despite, upon your purse? Revenge it.
I dedicate myself to your sweet pleasure,
More noble than that runagate to your bed,
And will continue fast to your affection,
Still close as sure.",599,18853
637246,780,"What, ho, Pisanio!",601,18853
637247,781,Let me my service tender on your lips.,599,18853
637248,782,"Away! I do condemn mine ears that have
So long attended thee. If thou wert honourable,
Thou wouldst have told this tale for virtue, not
For such an end thou seek'st,--as base as strange.
Thou wrong'st a gentleman, who is as far
From thy report as thou from honour, and
Solicit'st here a lady that disdains
Thee and the devil alike. What ho, Pisanio!
The king my father shall be made acquainted
Of thy assault: if he shall think it fit,
A saucy stranger in his court to mart
As in a Romish stew and to expound
His beastly mind to us, he hath a court
He little cares for and a daughter who
He not respects at all. What, ho, Pisanio!",601,18853
637249,797,"O happy Leonatus! I may say
The credit that thy lady hath of thee
Deserves thy trust, and thy most perfect goodness
Her assured credit. Blessed live you long!
A lady to the worthiest sir that ever
Country call'd his! and you his mistress, only
For the most worthiest fit! Give me your pardon.
I have spoke this, to know if your affiance
Were deeply rooted; and shall make your lord,
That which he is, new o'er: and he is one
The truest manner'd; such a holy witch
That he enchants societies into him;
Half all men's hearts are his.",599,18853
637250,810,You make amends.,601,18853
637251,811,"He sits 'mongst men like a descended god:
He hath a kind of honour sets him off,
More than a mortal seeming. Be not angry,
Most mighty princess, that I have adventured
To try your taking a false report; which hath
Honour'd with confirmation your great judgment
In the election of a sir so rare,
Which you know cannot err: the love I bear him
Made me to fan you thus, but the gods made you,
Unlike all others, chaffless. Pray, your pardon.",599,18853
637252,821,"All's well, sir: take my power i' the court
for yours.",601,18853
637253,823,"My humble thanks. I had almost forgot
To entreat your grace but in a small request,
And yet of moment to, for it concerns
Your lord; myself and other noble friends,
Are partners in the business.",599,18853
637254,828,"Pray, what is't?",601,18853
637255,829,"Some dozen Romans of us and your lord--
The best feather of our wing--have mingled sums
To buy a present for the emperor
Which I, the factor for the rest, have done
In France: 'tis plate of rare device, and jewels
Of rich and exquisite form; their values great;
And I am something curious, being strange,
To have them in safe stowage: may it please you
To take them in protection?",599,18853
637256,838,"Willingly;
And pawn mine honour for their safety: since
My lord hath interest in them, I will keep them
In my bedchamber.",601,18853
637257,842,"They are in a trunk,
Attended by my men: I will make bold
To send them to you, only for this night;
I must aboard to-morrow.",599,18853
637258,846,"O, no, no.",601,18853
637259,847,"Yes, I beseech; or I shall short my word
By lengthening my return. From Gallia
I cross'd the seas on purpose and on promise
To see your grace.",599,18853
637260,851,"I thank you for your pains:
But not away to-morrow!",601,18853
637261,853,"O, I must, madam:
Therefore I shall beseech you, if you please
To greet your lord with writing, do't to-night:
I have outstood my time; which is material
To the tender of our present.",599,18853
637262,858,"I will write.
Send your trunk to me; it shall safe be kept,
And truly yielded you. You're very welcome.",601,18853
637263,861,[Exeunt],1261,18853
637264,864,[Enter CLOTEN and two Lords],1261,18854
637265,865,"Was there ever man had such luck! when I kissed the
jack, upon an up-cast to be hit away! I had a
hundred pound on't: and then a whoreson jackanapes
must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine
oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.",266,18854
637266,870,"What got he by that? You have broke his pate with
your bowl.",436,18854
637267,872,"[Aside] If his wit had been like him that broke it,
it would have run all out.",1004,18854
637268,874,"When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for
any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?",266,18854
637269,876,"No my lord;
[Aside]
nor crop the ears of them.",1004,18854
637270,879,"Whoreson dog! I give him satisfaction?
Would he had been one of my rank!",266,18854
637271,881,[Aside] To have smelt like a fool.,1004,18854
637272,882,"I am not vexed more at any thing in the earth: a
pox on't! I had rather not be so noble as I am;
they dare not fight with me, because of the queen my
mother: every Jack-slave hath his bellyful of
fighting, and I must go up and down like a cock that
nobody can match.",266,18854
637273,888,"[Aside] You are cock and capon too; and you crow,
cock, with your comb on.",1004,18854
637274,890,Sayest thou?,266,18854
637275,891,"It is not fit your lordship should undertake every
companion that you give offence to.",1004,18854
637276,893,"No, I know that: but it is fit I should commit
offence to my inferiors.",266,18854
637277,895,"Ay, it is fit for your lordship only.",1004,18854
637278,896,"Why, so I say.",266,18854
637279,897,Did you hear of a stranger that's come to court to-night?,436,18854
637280,898,"A stranger, and I not know on't!",266,18854
637281,899,"[Aside] He's a strange fellow himself, and knows it
not.",1004,18854
637282,901,"There's an Italian come; and, 'tis thought, one of
Leonatus' friends.",436,18854
637283,903,"Leonatus! a banished rascal; and he's another,
whatsoever he be. Who told you of this stranger?",266,18854
637284,905,One of your lordship's pages.,436,18854
637285,906,"Is it fit I went to look upon him? is there no
derogation in't?",266,18854
637286,908,"You cannot derogate, my lord.",1004,18854
637287,909,"Not easily, I think.",266,18854
637288,910,"[Aside] You are a fool granted; therefore your
issues, being foolish, do not derogate.",1004,18854
637289,912,"Come, I'll go see this Italian: what I have lost
to-day at bowls I'll win to-night of him. Come, go.",266,18854
637290,914,"I'll attend your lordship.
[Exeunt CLOTEN and First Lord]
That such a crafty devil as is his mother
Should yield the world this ass! a woman that
Bears all down with her brain; and this her son
Cannot take two from twenty, for his heart,
And leave eighteen. Alas, poor princess,
Thou divine Imogen, what thou endurest,
Betwixt a father by thy step-dame govern'd,
A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer
More hateful than the foul expulsion is
Of thy dear husband, than that horrid act
Of the divorce he'ld make! The heavens hold firm
The walls of thy dear honour, keep unshaked
That temple, thy fair mind, that thou mayst stand,
To enjoy thy banish'd lord and this great land!",1004,18854
637291,930,"[Exit]
a trunk in one corner of it.",1261,18854
637292,934,"[IMOGEN in bed, reading; a Lady attending]",1261,18855
637293,935,Who's there? my woman Helen?,601,18855
637294,936,"Please you, madam",643,18855
637295,937,What hour is it?,601,18855
637296,938,"Almost midnight, madam.",643,18855
637297,939,"I have read three hours then: mine eyes are weak:
Fold down the leaf where I have left: to bed:
Take not away the taper, leave it burning;
And if thou canst awake by four o' the clock,
I prithee, call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly
[Exit Lady]
To your protection I commend me, gods.
From fairies and the tempters of the night
Guard me, beseech ye.",601,18855
637298,948,[Sleeps. IACHIMO comes from the trunk],1261,18855
637299,949,"The crickets sing, and man's o'er-labour'd sense
Repairs itself by rest. Our Tarquin thus
Did softly press the rushes, ere he waken'd
The chastity he wounded. Cytherea,
How bravely thou becomest thy bed, fresh lily,
And whiter than the sheets! That I might touch!
But kiss; one kiss! Rubies unparagon'd,
How dearly they do't! 'Tis her breathing that
Perfumes the chamber thus: the flame o' the taper
Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids,
To see the enclosed lights, now canopied
Under these windows, white and azure laced
With blue of heaven's own tinct. But my design,
To note the chamber: I will write all down:
Such and such pictures; there the window; such
The adornment of her bed; the arras; figures,
Why, such and such; and the contents o' the story.
Ah, but some natural notes about her body,
Above ten thousand meaner moveables
Would testify, to enrich mine inventory.
O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her!
And be her sense but as a monument,
Thus in a chapel lying! Come off, come off:
[Taking off her bracelet]
As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard!
'Tis mine; and this will witness outwardly,
As strongly as the conscience does within,
To the madding of her lord. On her left breast
A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops
I' the bottom of a cowslip: here's a voucher,
Stronger than ever law could make: this secret
Will force him think I have pick'd the lock and ta'en
The treasure of her honour. No more. To what end?
Why should I write this down, that's riveted,
Screw'd to my memory? She hath been reading late
The tale of Tereus; here the leaf's turn'd down
Where Philomel gave up. I have enough:
To the trunk again, and shut the spring of it.
Swift, swift, you dragons of the night, that dawning
May bare the raven's eye! I lodge in fear;
Though this a heavenly angel, hell is here.
[Clock strikes]
One, two, three: time, time!",599,18855
637300,992,[Goes into the trunk. The scene closes],1261,18855
637301,995,[Enter CLOTEN and Lords],1261,18856
637302,996,"Your lordship is the most patient man in loss, the
most coldest that ever turned up ace.",436,18856
637303,998,It would make any man cold to lose.,266,18856
637304,999,"But not every man patient after the noble temper of
your lordship. You are most hot and furious when you win.",436,18856
637305,1001,"Winning will put any man into courage. If I could
get this foolish Imogen, I should have gold enough.
It's almost morning, is't not?",266,18856
637306,1004,"Day, my lord.",436,18856
637307,1005,"I would this music would come: I am advised to give
her music o' mornings; they say it will penetrate.
[Enter Musicians]
Come on; tune: if you can penetrate her with your
fingering, so; we'll try with tongue too: if none
will do, let her remain; but I'll never give o'er.
First, a very excellent good-conceited thing;
after, a wonderful sweet air, with admirable rich
words to it: and then let her consider.
[SONG]
Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
And Phoebus 'gins arise,
His steeds to water at those springs
On chaliced flowers that lies;
And winking Mary-buds begin
To ope their golden eyes:
With every thing that pretty is,
My lady sweet, arise:
Arise, arise.",266,18856
637308,1024,"So, get you gone. If this penetrate, I will
consider your music the better: if it do not, it is
a vice in her ears, which horse-hairs and
calves'-guts, nor the voice of unpaved eunuch to
boot, can never amend.",266,18856
637309,1029,[Exeunt Musicians],1261,18856
637310,1030,Here comes the king.,1004,18856
637311,1031,"I am glad I was up so late; for that's the reason I
was up so early: he cannot choose but take this
service I have done fatherly.
[Enter CYMBELINE and QUEEN]
Good morrow to your majesty and to my gracious mother.",266,18856
637312,1036,"Attend you here the door of our stern daughter?
Will she not forth?",299,18856
637313,1038,"I have assailed her with music, but she vouchsafes no notice.",266,18856
637314,1039,"The exile of her minion is too new;
She hath not yet forgot him: some more time
Must wear the print of his remembrance out,
And then she's yours.",299,18856
637315,1043,"You are most bound to the king,
Who lets go by no vantages that may
Prefer you to his daughter. Frame yourself
To orderly soliciting, and be friended
With aptness of the season; make denials
Increase your services; so seem as if
You were inspired to do those duties which
You tender to her; that you in all obey her,
Save when command to your dismission tends,
And therein you are senseless.",931,18856
637316,1053,Senseless! not so.,266,18856
637317,1054,[Enter a Messenger],1261,18856
637318,1055,"So like you, sir, ambassadors from Rome;
The one is Caius Lucius.",771,18856
637319,1057,"A worthy fellow,
Albeit he comes on angry purpose now;
But that's no fault of his: we must receive him
According to the honour of his sender;
And towards himself, his goodness forespent on us,
We must extend our notice. Our dear son,
When you have given good morning to your mistress,
Attend the queen and us; we shall have need
To employ you towards this Roman. Come, our queen.",299,18856
637320,1066,[Exeunt all but CLOTEN],1261,18856
637321,1067,"If she be up, I'll speak with her; if not,
Let her lie still and dream.
[Knocks]
By your leave, ho!
I Know her women are about her: what
If I do line one of their hands? 'Tis gold
Which buys admittance; oft it doth; yea, and makes
Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up
Their deer to the stand o' the stealer; and 'tis gold
Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief;
Nay, sometime hangs both thief and true man: what
Can it not do and undo? I will make
One of her women lawyer to me, for
I yet not understand the case myself.
[Knocks]
By your leave.",266,18856
637322,1083,[Enter a Lady],1261,18856
637323,1084,Who's there that knocks?,643,18856
637324,1085,A gentleman.,266,18856
637325,1086,No more?,643,18856
637326,1087,"Yes, and a gentlewoman's son.",266,18856
637327,1088,"That's more
Than some, whose tailors are as dear as yours,
Can justly boast of. What's your lordship's pleasure?",643,18856
637328,1091,Your lady's person: is she ready?,266,18856
637329,1092,"Ay,
To keep her chamber.",643,18856
637330,1094,"There is gold for you;
Sell me your good report.",266,18856
637331,1096,"How! my good name? or to report of you
What I shall think is good?--The princess!",643,18856
637332,1098,[Enter IMOGEN],1261,18856
637333,1099,"Good morrow, fairest: sister, your sweet hand.",266,18856
637334,1100,[Exit Lady],1261,18856
637335,1101,"Good morrow, sir. You lay out too much pains
For purchasing but trouble; the thanks I give
Is telling you that I am poor of thanks
And scarce can spare them.",601,18856
637336,1105,"Still, I swear I love you.",266,18856
637337,1106,"If you but said so, 'twere as deep with me:
If you swear still, your recompense is still
That I regard it not.",601,18856
637338,1109,This is no answer.,266,18856
637339,1110,"But that you shall not say I yield being silent,
I would not speak. I pray you, spare me: 'faith,
I shall unfold equal discourtesy
To your best kindness: one of your great knowing
Should learn, being taught, forbearance.",601,18856
637340,1115,"To leave you in your madness, 'twere my sin:
I will not.",266,18856
637341,1117,Fools are not mad folks.,601,18856
637342,1118,Do you call me fool?,266,18856
637343,1119,"As I am mad, I do:
If you'll be patient, I'll no more be mad;
That cures us both. I am much sorry, sir,
You put me to forget a lady's manners,
By being so verbal: and learn now, for all,
That I, which know my heart, do here pronounce,
By the very truth of it, I care not for you,
And am so near the lack of charity--
To accuse myself--I hate you; which I had rather
You felt than make't my boast.",601,18856
637344,1129,"You sin against
Obedience, which you owe your father. For
The contract you pretend with that base wretch,
One bred of alms and foster'd with cold dishes,
With scraps o' the court, it is no contract, none:
And though it be allow'd in meaner parties--
Yet who than he more mean?--to knit their souls,
On whom there is no more dependency
But brats and beggary, in self-figured knot;
Yet you are curb'd from that enlargement by
The consequence o' the crown, and must not soil
The precious note of it with a base slave.
A hilding for a livery, a squire's cloth,
A pantler, not so eminent.",266,18856
637345,1143,"Profane fellow
Wert thou the son of Jupiter and no more
But what thou art besides, thou wert too base
To be his groom: thou wert dignified enough,
Even to the point of envy, if 'twere made
Comparative for your virtues, to be styled
The under-hangman of his kingdom, and hated
For being preferred so well.",601,18856
637346,1151,The south-fog rot him!,266,18856
637347,1152,"He never can meet more mischance than come
To be but named of thee. His meanest garment,
That ever hath but clipp'd his body, is dearer
In my respect than all the hairs above thee,
Were they all made such men. How now, Pisanio!",601,18856
637348,1157,[Enter PISANIO],1261,18856
637350,1159,To Dorothy my woman hie thee presently--,601,18856
637351,1160,His garment!,266,18856
637352,1161,"I am sprited with a fool.
Frighted, and anger'd worse: go bid my woman
Search for a jewel that too casually
Hath left mine arm: it was thy master's: 'shrew me,
If I would lose it for a revenue
Of any king's in Europe. I do think
I saw't this morning: confident I am
Last night 'twas on mine arm; I kiss'd it:
I hope it be not gone to tell my lord
That I kiss aught but he.",601,18856
637357,1176,"Ay, I said so, sir:
If you will make't an action, call witness to't.",601,18856
637358,1178,I will inform your father.,266,18856
637359,1179,"Your mother too:
She's my good lady, and will conceive, I hope,
But the worst of me. So, I leave you, sir,
To the worst of discontent.",601,18856
637360,1183,[Exit],1261,18856
637361,1184,"I'll be revenged:
'His meanest garment!' Well.",266,18856
637362,1186,[Exit],1261,18856
637363,1190,[Enter POSTHUMUS and PHILARIO],1261,18857
637364,1191,"Fear it not, sir: I would I were so sure
To win the king as I am bold her honour
Will remain hers.",911,18857
637365,1194,What means do you make to him?,880,18857
637366,1195,"Not any, but abide the change of time,
Quake in the present winter's state and wish
That warmer days would come: in these sear'd hopes,
I barely gratify your love; they failing,
I must die much your debtor.",911,18857
637367,1200,"Your very goodness and your company
O'erpays all I can do. By this, your king
Hath heard of great Augustus: Caius Lucius
Will do's commission throughly: and I think
He'll grant the tribute, send the arrearages,
Or look upon our Romans, whose remembrance
Is yet fresh in their grief.",880,18857
637368,1207,"I do believe,
Statist though I am none, nor like to be,
That this will prove a war; and you shall hear
The legions now in Gallia sooner landed
In our not-fearing Britain than have tidings
Of any penny tribute paid. Our countrymen
Are men more order'd than when Julius Caesar
Smiled at their lack of skill, but found
their courage
Worthy his frowning at: their discipline,
Now mingled with their courages, will make known
To their approvers they are people such
That mend upon the world.",911,18857
637369,1220,[Enter IACHIMO],1261,18857
637370,1221,See! Iachimo!,880,18857
637371,1222,"The swiftest harts have posted you by land;
And winds of all the comers kiss'd your sails,
To make your vessel nimble.",911,18857
637372,1225,"Welcome, sir.",880,18857
637373,1226,"I hope the briefness of your answer made
The speediness of your return.",911,18857
637374,1228,"Your lady
Is one of the fairest that I have look'd upon.",599,18857
637375,1230,"And therewithal the best; or let her beauty
Look through a casement to allure false hearts
And be false with them.",911,18857
637376,1233,Here are letters for you.,599,18857
637377,1234,"Their tenor good, I trust.",911,18857
637381,1240,"All is well yet.
Sparkles this stone as it was wont? or is't not
Too dull for your good wearing?",911,18857
637382,1243,"If I had lost it,
I should have lost the worth of it in gold.
I'll make a journey twice as far, to enjoy
A second night of such sweet shortness which
Was mine in Britain, for the ring is won.",599,18857
637383,1248,The stone's too hard to come by.,911,18857
637384,1249,"Not a whit,
Your lady being so easy.",599,18857
637385,1251,"Make not, sir,
Your loss your sport: I hope you know that we
Must not continue friends.",911,18857
637386,1254,"Good sir, we must,
If you keep covenant. Had I not brought
The knowledge of your mistress home, I grant
We were to question further: but I now
Profess myself the winner of her honour,
Together with your ring; and not the wronger
Of her or you, having proceeded but
By both your wills.",599,18857
637387,1262,"If you can make't apparent
That you have tasted her in bed, my hand
And ring is yours; if not, the foul opinion
You had of her pure honour gains or loses
Your sword or mine, or masterless leaves both
To who shall find them.",911,18857
637388,1268,"Sir, my circumstances,
Being so near the truth as I will make them,
Must first induce you to believe: whose strength
I will confirm with oath; which, I doubt not,
You'll give me leave to spare, when you shall find
You need it not.",599,18857
637389,1274,Proceed.,911,18857
637390,1275,"First, her bedchamber,--
Where, I confess, I slept not, but profess
Had that was well worth watching--it was hang'd
With tapesty of silk and silver; the story
Proud Cleopatra, when she met her Roman,
And Cydnus swell'd above the banks, or for
The press of boats or pride: a piece of work
So bravely done, so rich, that it did strive
In workmanship and value; which I wonder'd
Could be so rarely and exactly wrought,
Since the true life on't was--",599,18857
637391,1286,"This is true;
And this you might have heard of here, by me,
Or by some other.",911,18857
637392,1289,"More particulars
Must justify my knowledge.",599,18857
637393,1291,"So they must,
Or do your honour injury.",911,18857
637394,1293,"The chimney
Is south the chamber, and the chimney-piece
Chaste Dian bathing: never saw I figures
So likely to report themselves: the cutter
Was as another nature, dumb; outwent her,
Motion and breath left out.",599,18857
637395,1299,"This is a thing
Which you might from relation likewise reap,
Being, as it is, much spoke of.",911,18857
637396,1302,"The roof o' the chamber
With golden cherubins is fretted: her andirons--
I had forgot them--were two winking Cupids
Of silver, each on one foot standing, nicely
Depending on their brands.",599,18857
637397,1307,"This is her honour!
Let it be granted you have seen all this--and praise
Be given to your remembrance--the description
Of what is in her chamber nothing saves
The wager you have laid.",911,18857
637398,1312,"Then, if you can,
[Showing the bracelet]
Be pale: I beg but leave to air this jewel; see!
And now 'tis up again: it must be married
To that your diamond; I'll keep them.",599,18857
637399,1317,"Jove!
Once more let me behold it: is it that
Which I left with her?",911,18857
637400,1320,"Sir--I thank her--that:
She stripp'd it from her arm; I see her yet;
Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
And yet enrich'd it too: she gave it me, and said
She prized it once.",599,18857
637401,1325,"May be she pluck'd it off
To send it me.",911,18857
637402,1327,"She writes so to you, doth she?",599,18857
637403,1328,"O, no, no, no! 'tis true. Here, take this too;
[Gives the ring]
It is a basilisk unto mine eye,
Kills me to look on't. Let there be no honour
Where there is beauty; truth, where semblance; love,
Where there's another man: the vows of women
Of no more bondage be, to where they are made,
Than they are to their virtues; which is nothing.
O, above measure false!",911,18857
637404,1337,"Have patience, sir,
And take your ring again; 'tis not yet won:
It may be probable she lost it; or
Who knows if one of her women, being corrupted,
Hath stol'n it from her?",880,18857
637405,1342,"Very true;
And so, I hope, he came by't. Back my ring:
Render to me some corporal sign about her,
More evident than this; for this was stolen.",911,18857
637406,1346,"By Jupiter, I had it from her arm.",599,18857
637407,1347,"Hark you, he swears; by Jupiter he swears.
'Tis true:--nay, keep the ring--'tis true: I am sure
She would not lose it: her attendants are
All sworn and honourable:--they induced to steal it!
And by a stranger!--No, he hath enjoyed her:
The cognizance of her incontinency
Is this: she hath bought the name of whore
thus dearly.
There, take thy hire; and all the fiends of hell
Divide themselves between you!",911,18857
637408,1357,"Sir, be patient:
This is not strong enough to be believed
Of one persuaded well of--",880,18857
637409,1360,"Never talk on't;
She hath been colted by him.",911,18857
637410,1362,"If you seek
For further satisfying, under her breast--
Worthy the pressing--lies a mole, right proud
Of that most delicate lodging: by my life,
I kiss'd it; and it gave me present hunger
To feed again, though full. You do remember
This stain upon her?",599,18857
637411,1369,"Ay, and it doth confirm
Another stain, as big as hell can hold,
Were there no more but it.",911,18857
637412,1372,Will you hear more?,599,18857
637413,1373,"Spare your arithmetic: never count the turns;
Once, and a million!",911,18857
637414,1375,I'll be sworn--,599,18857
637415,1376,"No swearing.
If you will swear you have not done't, you lie;
And I will kill thee, if thou dost deny
Thou'st made me cuckold.",911,18857
637416,1380,I'll deny nothing.,599,18857
637417,1381,"O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal!
I will go there and do't, i' the court, before
Her father. I'll do something--",911,18857
637418,1384,[Exit],1261,18857
637419,1385,"Quite besides
The government of patience! You have won:
Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath
He hath against himself.",880,18857
637420,1389,With an my heart.,599,18857
637421,1390,[Exeunt],1261,18857
637422,1393,[Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS],1261,18858
637423,1394,"Is there no way for men to be but women
Must be half-workers? We are all bastards;
And that most venerable man which I
Did call my father, was I know not where
When I was stamp'd; some coiner with his tools
Made me a counterfeit: yet my mother seem'd
The Dian of that time so doth my wife
The nonpareil of this. O, vengeance, vengeance!
Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain'd
And pray'd me oft forbearance; did it with
A pudency so rosy the sweet view on't
Might well have warm'd old Saturn; that I thought her
As chaste as unsunn'd snow. O, all the devils!
This yellow Iachimo, in an hour,--wast not?--
Or less,--at first?--perchance he spoke not, but,
Like a full-acorn'd boar, a German one,
Cried 'O!' and mounted; found no opposition
But what he look'd for should oppose and she
Should from encounter guard. Could I find out
The woman's part in me! For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's part: be it lying, note it,
The woman's; flattering, hers; deceiving, hers;
Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers; revenges, hers;
Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain,
Nice longing, slanders, mutability,
All faults that may be named, nay, that hell knows,
Why, hers, in part or all; but rather, all;
For even to vice
They are not constant but are changing still
One vice, but of a minute old, for one
Not half so old as that. I'll write against them,
Detest them, curse them: yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate, to pray they have their will:
The very devils cannot plague them better.",911,18858
637424,1429,"[Exit]
[Enter in state, CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN,]
and Lords at one door, and at another,
CAIUS LUCIUS and Attendants]",1261,18858
637425,1435,"Now say, what would Augustus Caesar with us?",299,18859
637426,1436,"When Julius Caesar, whose remembrance yet
Lives in men's eyes and will to ears and tongues
Be theme and hearing ever, was in this Britain
And conquer'd it, Cassibelan, thine uncle,--
Famous in Caesar's praises, no whit less
Than in his feats deserving it--for him
And his succession granted Rome a tribute,
Yearly three thousand pounds, which by thee lately
Is left untender'd.",206,18859
637427,1445,"And, to kill the marvel,
Shall be so ever.",931,18859
637428,1447,"There be many Caesars,
Ere such another Julius. Britain is
A world by itself; and we will nothing pay
For wearing our own noses.",266,18859
637429,1451,"That opportunity
Which then they had to take from 's, to resume
We have again. Remember, sir, my liege,
The kings your ancestors, together with
The natural bravery of your isle, which stands
As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in
With rocks unscalable and roaring waters,
With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats,
But suck them up to the topmast. A kind of conquest
Caesar made here; but made not here his brag
Of 'Came' and 'saw' and 'overcame: ' with shame--
That first that ever touch'd him--he was carried
From off our coast, twice beaten; and his shipping--
Poor ignorant baubles!-- upon our terrible seas,
Like egg-shells moved upon their surges, crack'd
As easily 'gainst our rocks: for joy whereof
The famed Cassibelan, who was once at point--
O giglot fortune!--to master Caesar's sword,Made Lud's town with rejoicing fires bright
And Britons strut with courage.",931,18859
637430,1470,"Come, there's no more tribute to be paid: our
kingdom is stronger than it was at that time; and,
as I said, there is no moe such Caesars: other of
them may have crook'd noses, but to owe such
straight arms, none.",266,18859
637431,1475,"Son, let your mother end.",299,18859
637432,1476,"We have yet many among us can gripe as hard as
Cassibelan: I do not say I am one; but I have a
hand. Why tribute? why should we pay tribute? If
Caesar can hide the sun from us with a blanket, or
put the moon in his pocket, we will pay him tribute
for light; else, sir, no more tribute, pray you now.",266,18859
637433,1482,"You must know,
Till the injurious Romans did extort
This tribute from us, we were free:
Caesar's ambition,
Which swell'd so much that it did almost stretch
The sides o' the world, against all colour here
Did put the yoke upon 's; which to shake off
Becomes a warlike people, whom we reckon
Ourselves to be.",299,18859
637434,1491,[with Lords] We do.,266,18859
637435,1492,"Say, then, to Caesar,
Our ancestor was that Mulmutius which
Ordain'd our laws, whose use the sword of Caesar
Hath too much mangled; whose repair and franchise
Shall, by the power we hold, be our good deed,
Though Rome be therefore angry: Mulmutius made our laws,
Who was the first of Britain which did put
His brows within a golden crown and call'd
Himself a king.",299,18859
637436,1501,"I am sorry, Cymbeline,
That I am to pronounce Augustus Caesar--
Caesar, that hath more kings his servants than
Thyself domestic officers--thine enemy:
Receive it from me, then: war and confusion
In Caesar's name pronounce I 'gainst thee: look
For fury not to be resisted. Thus defied,
I thank thee for myself.",206,18859
637437,1509,"Thou art welcome, Caius.
Thy Caesar knighted me; my youth I spent
Much under him; of him I gather'd honour;
Which he to seek of me again, perforce,
Behoves me keep at utterance. I am perfect
That the Pannonians and Dalmatians for
Their liberties are now in arms; a precedent
Which not to read would show the Britons cold:
So Caesar shall not find them.",299,18859
637438,1518,Let proof speak.,206,18859
637439,1519,"His majesty bids you welcome. Make
pastime with us a day or two, or longer: if
you seek us afterwards in other terms, you
shall find us in our salt-water girdle: if you
beat us out of it, it is yours; if you fall in
the adventure, our crows shall fare the better
for you; and there's an end.",266,18859
637440,1526,"So, sir.",206,18859
637441,1527,"I know your master's pleasure and he mine:
All the remain is 'Welcome!'",299,18859
637442,1529,[Exeunt],1261,18859
637443,1532,"[Enter PISANIO, with a letter]",1261,18860
637444,1533,"How? of adultery? Wherefore write you not
What monster's her accuser? Leonatus,
O master! what a strange infection
Is fall'n into thy ear! What false Italian,
As poisonous-tongued as handed, hath prevail'd
On thy too ready hearing? Disloyal! No:
She's punish'd for her truth, and undergoes,
More goddess-like than wife-like, such assaults
As would take in some virtue. O my master!
Thy mind to her is now as low as were
Thy fortunes. How! that I should murder her?
Upon the love and truth and vows which I
Have made to thy command? I, her? her blood?
If it be so to do good service, never
Let me be counted serviceable. How look I,
That I should seem to lack humanity
so much as this fact comes to?
[Reading]
'Do't: the letter
that I have sent her, by her own command
Shall give thee opportunity.' O damn'd paper!
Black as the ink that's on thee! Senseless bauble,
Art thou a feodary for this act, and look'st
So virgin-like without? Lo, here she comes.
I am ignorant in what I am commanded.",890,18860
637445,1558,[Enter IMOGEN],1261,18860
637446,1559,"How now, Pisanio!",601,18860
637447,1560,"Madam, here is a letter from my lord.",890,18860
637448,1561,"Who? thy lord? that is my lord, Leonatus!
O, learn'd indeed were that astronomer
That knew the stars as I his characters;
He'ld lay the future open. You good gods,
Let what is here contain'd relish of love,
Of my lord's health, of his content, yet not
That we two are asunder; let that grieve him:
Some griefs are med'cinable; that is one of them,
For it doth physic love: of his content,
All but in that! Good wax, thy leave. Blest be
You bees that make these locks of counsel! Lovers
And men in dangerous bonds pray not alike:
Though forfeiters you cast in prison, yet
You clasp young Cupid's tables. Good news, gods!
[Reads]
'Justice, and your father's wrath, should he take me
in his dominion, could not be so cruel to me, as
you, O the dearest of creatures, would even renew me
with your eyes. Take notice that I am in Cambria,
at Milford-Haven: what your own love will out of
this advise you, follow. So he wishes you all
happiness, that remains loyal to his vow, and your,
increasing in love,
LEONATUS POSTHUMUS.'
O, for a horse with wings! Hear'st thou, Pisanio?
He is at Milford-Haven: read, and tell me
How far 'tis thither. If one of mean affairs
May plod it in a week, why may not I
Glide thither in a day? Then, true Pisanio,--
Who long'st, like me, to see thy lord; who long'st,--
let me bate,-but not like me--yet long'st,
But in a fainter kind:--O, not like me;
For mine's beyond beyond--say, and speak thick;
Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing,
To the smothering of the sense--how far it is
To this same blessed Milford: and by the way
Tell me how Wales was made so happy as
To inherit such a haven: but first of all,
How we may steal from hence, and for the gap
That we shall make in time, from our hence-going
And our return, to excuse: but first, how get hence:
Why should excuse be born or e'er begot?
We'll talk of that hereafter. Prithee, speak,
How many score of miles may we well ride
'Twixt hour and hour?",601,18860
637449,1606,"One score 'twixt sun and sun,
Madam, 's enough for you:
[Aside]
and too much too.",890,18860
637450,1610,"Why, one that rode to's execution, man,
Could never go so slow: I have heard of
riding wagers,
Where horses have been nimbler than the sands
That run i' the clock's behalf. But this is foolery:
Go bid my woman feign a sickness; say
She'll home to her father: and provide me presently
A riding-suit, no costlier than would fit
A franklin's housewife.",601,18860
637451,1619,"Madam, you're best consider.",890,18860
637452,1620,"I see before me, man: nor here, nor here,
Nor what ensues, but have a fog in them,
That I cannot look through. Away, I prithee;
Do as I bid thee: there's no more to say,
Accessible is none but Milford way.",601,18860
637453,1625,"[Exeunt]
[Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS; GUIDERIUS,]
and ARVIRAGUS following]",1261,18860
637454,1630,"A goodly day not to keep house, with such
Whose roof's as low as ours! Stoop, boys; this gate
Instructs you how to adore the heavens and bows you
To a morning's holy office: the gates of monarchs
Are arch'd so high that giants may jet through
And keep their impious turbans on, without
Good morrow to the sun. Hail, thou fair heaven!
We house i' the rock, yet use thee not so hardly
As prouder livers do.",158,18861
637455,1639,"Hail, heaven!",552,18861
637456,1640,"Hail, heaven!",127,18861
637457,1641,"Now for our mountain sport: up to yond hill;
Your legs are young; I'll tread these flats. Consider,
When you above perceive me like a crow,
That it is place which lessens and sets off;
And you may then revolve what tales I have told you
Of courts, of princes, of the tricks in war:
This service is not service, so being done,
But being so allow'd: to apprehend thus,
Draws us a profit from all things we see;
And often, to our comfort, shall we find
The sharded beetle in a safer hold
Than is the full-wing'd eagle. O, this life
Is nobler than attending for a cheque,
Richer than doing nothing for a bauble,
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:
Such gain the cap of him that makes 'em fine,
Yet keeps his book uncross'd: no life to ours.",158,18861
637458,1658,"Out of your proof you speak: we, poor unfledged,
Have never wing'd from view o' the nest, nor know not
What air's from home. Haply this life is best,
If quiet life be best; sweeter to you
That have a sharper known; well corresponding
With your stiff age: but unto us it is
A cell of ignorance; travelling a-bed;
A prison for a debtor, that not dares
To stride a limit.",552,18861
637459,1667,"What should we speak of
When we are old as you? when we shall hear
The rain and wind beat dark December, how,
In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse
The freezing hours away? We have seen nothing;
We are beastly, subtle as the fox for prey,
Like warlike as the wolf for what we eat;
Our valour is to chase what flies; our cage
We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
And sing our bondage freely.",127,18861
637460,1677,"How you speak!
Did you but know the city's usuries
And felt them knowingly; the art o' the court
As hard to leave as keep; whose top to climb
Is certain falling, or so slippery that
The fear's as bad as falling; the toil o' the war,
A pain that only seems to seek out danger
I' the name of fame and honour; which dies i'
the search,
And hath as oft a slanderous epitaph
As record of fair act; nay, many times,
Doth ill deserve by doing well; what's worse,
Must court'sy at the censure:--O boys, this story
The world may read in me: my body's mark'd
With Roman swords, and my report was once
First with the best of note: Cymbeline loved me,
And when a soldier was the theme, my name
Was not far off: then was I as a tree
Whose boughs did bend with fruit: but in one night,
A storm or robbery, call it what you will,
Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves,
And left me bare to weather.",158,18861
637461,1699,Uncertain favour!,552,18861
637462,1700,"My fault being nothing--as I have told you oft--
But that two villains, whose false oaths prevail'd
Before my perfect honour, swore to Cymbeline
I was confederate with the Romans: so
Follow'd my banishment, and this twenty years
This rock and these demesnes have been my world;
Where I have lived at honest freedom, paid
More pious debts to heaven than in all
The fore-end of my time. But up to the mountains!
This is not hunters' language: he that strikes
The venison first shall be the lord o' the feast;
To him the other two shall minister;
And we will fear no poison, which attends
In place of greater state. I'll meet you in the valleys.
[Exeunt GUIDERIUS and ARVIRAGUS]
How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature!
These boys know little they are sons to the king;
Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive.
They think they are mine; and though train'd
up thus meanly
I' the cave wherein they bow, their thoughts do hit
The roofs of palaces, and nature prompts them
In simple and low things to prince it much
Beyond the trick of others. This Polydore,
The heir of Cymbeline and Britain, who
The king his father call'd Guiderius,--Jove!
When on my three-foot stool I sit and tell
The warlike feats I have done, his spirits fly out
Into my story: say 'Thus, mine enemy fell,
And thus I set my foot on 's neck;' even then
The princely blood flows in his cheek, he sweats,
Strains his young nerves and puts himself in posture
That acts my words. The younger brother, Cadwal,
Once Arviragus, in as like a figure,
Strikes life into my speech and shows much more
His own conceiving.--Hark, the game is roused!
O Cymbeline! heaven and my conscience knows
Thou didst unjustly banish me: whereon,
At three and two years old, I stole these babes;
Thinking to bar thee of succession, as
Thou reft'st me of my lands. Euriphile,
Thou wast their nurse; they took thee for
their mother,
And every day do honour to her grave:
Myself, Belarius, that am Morgan call'd,
They take for natural father. The game is up.",158,18861
637463,1746,[Exit],1261,18861
637464,1749,[Enter PISANIO and IMOGEN],1261,18862
637465,1750,"Thou told'st me, when we came from horse, the place
Was near at hand: ne'er long'd my mother so
To see me first, as I have now. Pisanio! man!
Where is Posthumus? What is in thy mind,
That makes thee stare thus? Wherefore breaks that sigh
From the inward of thee? One, but painted thus,
Would be interpreted a thing perplex'd
Beyond self-explication: put thyself
Into a havior of less fear, ere wildness
Vanquish my staider senses. What's the matter?
Why tender'st thou that paper to me, with
A look untender? If't be summer news,
Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st
But keep that countenance still. My husband's hand!
That drug-damn'd Italy hath out-craftied him,
And he's at some hard point. Speak, man: thy tongue
May take off some extremity, which to read
Would be even mortal to me.",601,18862
637466,1768,"Please you, read;
And you shall find me, wretched man, a thing
The most disdain'd of fortune.",890,18862
637467,1771,"[Reads] 'Thy mistress, Pisanio, hath played the
strumpet in my bed; the testimonies whereof lie
bleeding in me. I speak not out of weak surmises,
but from proof as strong as my grief and as certain
as I expect my revenge. That part thou, Pisanio,
must act for me, if thy faith be not tainted with
the breach of hers. Let thine own hands take away
her life: I shall give thee opportunity at
Milford-Haven. She hath my letter for the purpose
where, if thou fear to strike and to make me certain
it is done, thou art the pandar to her dishonour and
equally to me disloyal.'",601,18862
637468,1783,"What shall I need to draw my sword? the paper
Hath cut her throat already. No, 'tis slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
Rides on the posting winds and doth belie
All corners of the world: kings, queens and states,
Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave
This viperous slander enters. What cheer, madam?",890,18862
637469,1791,"False to his bed! What is it to be false?
To lie in watch there and to think on him?
To weep 'twixt clock and clock? if sleep
charge nature,
To break it with a fearful dream of him
And cry myself awake? that's false to's bed, is it?",601,18862
637470,1797,"Alas, good lady!",890,18862
637471,1798,"I false! Thy conscience witness: Iachimo,
Thou didst accuse him of incontinency;
Thou then look'dst like a villain; now methinks
Thy favour's good enough. Some jay of Italy
Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him:
Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion;
And, for I am richer than to hang by the walls,
I must be ripp'd:--to pieces with me!--O,
Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming,
By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought
Put on for villany; not born where't grows,
But worn a bait for ladies.",601,18862
637472,1810,"Good madam, hear me.",890,18862
637473,1811,"True honest men being heard, like false Aeneas,
Were in his time thought false, and Sinon's weeping
Did scandal many a holy tear, took pity
From most true wretchedness: so thou, Posthumus,
Wilt lay the leaven on all proper men;
Goodly and gallant shall be false and perjured
From thy great fall. Come, fellow, be thou honest:
Do thou thy master's bidding: when thou see'st him,
A little witness my obedience: look!
I draw the sword myself: take it, and hit
The innocent mansion of my love, my heart;
Fear not; 'tis empty of all things but grief;
Thy master is not there, who was indeed
The riches of it: do his bidding; strike
Thou mayst be valiant in a better cause;
But now thou seem'st a coward.",601,18862
637474,1827,"Hence, vile instrument!
Thou shalt not damn my hand.",890,18862
637475,1829,"Why, I must die;
And if I do not by thy hand, thou art
No servant of thy master's. Against self-slaughter
There is a prohibition so divine
That cravens my weak hand. Come, here's my heart.
Something's afore't. Soft, soft! we'll no defence;
Obedient as the scabbard. What is here?
The scriptures of the loyal Leonatus,
All turn'd to heresy? Away, away,
Corrupters of my faith! you shall no more
Be stomachers to my heart. Thus may poor fools
Believe false teachers: though those that
are betray'd
Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor
Stands in worse case of woe.
And thou, Posthumus, thou that didst set up
My disobedience 'gainst the king my father
And make me put into contempt the suits
Of princely fellows, shalt hereafter find
It is no act of common passage, but
A strain of rareness: and I grieve myself
To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her
That now thou tirest on, how thy memory
Will then be pang'd by me. Prithee, dispatch:
The lamb entreats the butcher: where's thy knife?
Thou art too slow to do thy master's bidding,
When I desire it too.",601,18862
637476,1856,"O gracious lady,
Since I received command to do this business
I have not slept one wink.",890,18862
637477,1859,"Do't, and to bed then.",601,18862
637478,1860,I'll wake mine eye-balls blind first.,890,18862
637479,1861,"Wherefore then
Didst undertake it? Why hast thou abused
So many miles with a pretence? this place?
Mine action and thine own? our horses' labour?
The time inviting thee? the perturb'd court,
For my being absent? whereunto I never
Purpose return. Why hast thou gone so far,
To be unbent when thou hast ta'en thy stand,
The elected deer before thee?",601,18862
637480,1870,"But to win time
To lose so bad employment; in the which
I have consider'd of a course. Good lady,
Hear me with patience.",890,18862
637481,1874,"Talk thy tongue weary; speak
I have heard I am a strumpet; and mine ear
Therein false struck, can take no greater wound,
Nor tent to bottom that. But speak.",601,18862
637482,1878,"Then, madam,
I thought you would not back again.",890,18862
637483,1880,"Most like;
Bringing me here to kill me.",601,18862
637484,1882,"Not so, neither:
But if I were as wise as honest, then
My purpose would prove well. It cannot be
But that my master is abused:
Some villain, ay, and singular in his art.
Hath done you both this cursed injury.",890,18862
637485,1888,Some Roman courtezan.,601,18862
637486,1889,"No, on my life.
I'll give but notice you are dead and send him
Some bloody sign of it; for 'tis commanded
I should do so: you shall be miss'd at court,
And that will well confirm it.",890,18862
637487,1894,"Why good fellow,
What shall I do the where? where bide? how live?
Or in my life what comfort, when I am
Dead to my husband?",601,18862
637488,1898,If you'll back to the court--,890,18862
637489,1899,"No court, no father; nor no more ado
With that harsh, noble, simple nothing,
That Cloten, whose love-suit hath been to me
As fearful as a siege.",601,18862
637490,1903,"If not at court,
Then not in Britain must you bide.",890,18862
637491,1905,"Where then
Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, night,
Are they not but in Britain? I' the world's volume
Our Britain seems as of it, but not in 't;
In a great pool a swan's nest: prithee, think
There's livers out of Britain.",601,18862
637492,1911,"I am most glad
You think of other place. The ambassador,
Lucius the Roman, comes to Milford-Haven
To-morrow: now, if you could wear a mind
Dark as your fortune is, and but disguise
That which, to appear itself, must not yet be
But by self-danger, you should tread a course
Pretty and full of view; yea, haply, near
The residence of Posthumus; so nigh at least
That though his actions were not visible, yet
Report should render him hourly to your ear
As truly as he moves.",890,18862
637493,1923,"O, for such means!
Though peril to my modesty, not death on't,
I would adventure.",601,18862
637494,1926,"Well, then, here's the point:
You must forget to be a woman; change
Command into obedience: fear and niceness--
The handmaids of all women, or, more truly,
Woman its pretty self--into a waggish courage:
Ready in gibes, quick-answer'd, saucy and
As quarrelous as the weasel; nay, you must
Forget that rarest treasure of your cheek,
Exposing it--but, O, the harder heart!
Alack, no remedy!--to the greedy touch
Of common-kissing Titan, and forget
Your laboursome and dainty trims, wherein
You made great Juno angry.",890,18862
637495,1939,"Nay, be brief
I see into thy end, and am almost
A man already.",601,18862
637496,1942,"First, make yourself but like one.
Fore-thinking this, I have already fit--
'Tis in my cloak-bag--doublet, hat, hose, all
That answer to them: would you in their serving,
And with what imitation you can borrow
From youth of such a season, 'fore noble Lucius
Present yourself, desire his service, tell him
wherein you're happy,--which you'll make him know,
If that his head have ear in music,--doubtless
With joy he will embrace you, for he's honourable
And doubling that, most holy. Your means abroad,
You have me, rich; and I will never fail
Beginning nor supplyment.",890,18862
637497,1955,"Thou art all the comfort
The gods will diet me with. Prithee, away:
There's more to be consider'd; but we'll even
All that good time will give us: this attempt
I am soldier to, and will abide it with
A prince's courage. Away, I prithee.",601,18862
637498,1961,"Well, madam, we must take a short farewell,
Lest, being miss'd, I be suspected of
Your carriage from the court. My noble mistress,
Here is a box; I had it from the queen:
What's in't is precious; if you are sick at sea,
Or stomach-qualm'd at land, a dram of this
Will drive away distemper. To some shade,
And fit you to your manhood. May the gods
Direct you to the best!",890,18862
637499,1970,Amen: I thank thee.,601,18862
637500,1971,"[Exeunt, severally]
[Enter CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN, LUCIUS,]
Lords, and Attendants]",1261,18862
637501,1976,Thus far; and so farewell.,299,18863
637502,1977,"Thanks, royal sir.
My emperor hath wrote, I must from hence;
And am right sorry that I must report ye
My master's enemy.",206,18863
637503,1981,"Our subjects, sir,
Will not endure his yoke; and for ourself
To show less sovereignty than they, must needs
Appear unkinglike.",299,18863
637504,1985,"So, sir: I desire of you
A conduct over-land to Milford-Haven.
Madam, all joy befal your grace!",206,18863
637505,1988,And you!,931,18863
637506,1989,"My lords, you are appointed for that office;
The due of honour in no point omit.
So farewell, noble Lucius.",299,18863
637507,1992,"Your hand, my lord.",206,18863
637508,1993,"Receive it friendly; but from this time forth
I wear it as your enemy.",266,18863
637509,1995,"Sir, the event
Is yet to name the winner: fare you well.",206,18863
637510,1997,"Leave not the worthy Lucius, good my lords,
Till he have cross'd the Severn. Happiness!",299,18863
637511,1999,[Exeunt LUCIUS and Lords],1261,18863
637512,2000,"He goes hence frowning: but it honours us
That we have given him cause.",931,18863
637513,2002,"'Tis all the better;
Your valiant Britons have their wishes in it.",266,18863
637514,2004,"Lucius hath wrote already to the emperor
How it goes here. It fits us therefore ripely
Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness:
The powers that he already hath in Gallia
Will soon be drawn to head, from whence he moves
His war for Britain.",299,18863
637515,2010,"'Tis not sleepy business;
But must be look'd to speedily and strongly.",931,18863
637516,2012,"Our expectation that it would be thus
Hath made us forward. But, my gentle queen,
Where is our daughter? She hath not appear'd
Before the Roman, nor to us hath tender'd
The duty of the day: she looks us like
A thing more made of malice than of duty:
We have noted it. Call her before us; for
We have been too slight in sufferance.",299,18863
637517,2020,[Exit an Attendant],1261,18863
637518,2021,"Royal sir,
Since the exile of Posthumus, most retired
Hath her life been; the cure whereof, my lord,
'Tis time must do. Beseech your majesty,
Forbear sharp speeches to her: she's a lady
So tender of rebukes that words are strokes
And strokes death to her.",931,18863
637519,2028,[Re-enter Attendant],1261,18863
637520,2029,"Where is she, sir? How
Can her contempt be answer'd?",299,18863
637521,2031,"Please you, sir,
Her chambers are all lock'd; and there's no answer
That will be given to the loudest noise we make.",130,18863
637522,2034,"My lord, when last I went to visit her,
She pray'd me to excuse her keeping close,
Whereto constrain'd by her infirmity,
She should that duty leave unpaid to you,
Which daily she was bound to proffer: this
She wish'd me to make known; but our great court
Made me to blame in memory.",931,18863
637523,2041,"Her doors lock'd?
Not seen of late? Grant, heavens, that which I fear
Prove false!",299,18863
637524,2044,[Exit],1261,18863
637525,2045,"Son, I say, follow the king.",931,18863
637526,2046,"That man of hers, Pisanio, her old servant,
have not seen these two days.",266,18863
637527,2048,"Go, look after.
[Exit CLOTEN]
Pisanio, thou that stand'st so for Posthumus!
He hath a drug of mine; I pray his absence
Proceed by swallowing that, for he believes
It is a thing most precious. But for her,
Where is she gone? Haply, despair hath seized her,
Or, wing'd with fervor of her love, she's flown
To her desired Posthumus: gone she is
To death or to dishonour; and my end
Can make good use of either: she being down,
I have the placing of the British crown.
[Re-enter CLOTEN]
How now, my son!",931,18863
637528,2062,"'Tis certain she is fled.
Go in and cheer the king: he rages; none
Dare come about him.",266,18863
637529,2065,"[Aside] All the better: may
This night forestall him of the coming day!",931,18863
637530,2067,[Exit],1261,18863
637531,2068,"I love and hate her: for she's fair and royal,
And that she hath all courtly parts more exquisite
Than lady, ladies, woman; from every one
The best she hath, and she, of all compounded,
Outsells them all; I love her therefore: but
Disdaining me and throwing favours on
The low Posthumus slanders so her judgment
That what's else rare is choked; and in that point
I will conclude to hate her, nay, indeed,
To be revenged upon her. For when fools Shall--
[Enter PISANIO]
Who is here? What, are you packing, sirrah?
Come hither: ah, you precious pander! Villain,
Where is thy lady? In a word; or else
Thou art straightway with the fiends.",266,18863
637532,2083,"O, good my lord!",890,18863
637533,2084,"Where is thy lady? Or, by Jupiter,--
I will not ask again. Close villain,
I'll have this secret from thy heart, or rip
Thy heart to find it. Is she with Posthumus?
From whose so many weights of baseness cannot
A dram of worth be drawn.",266,18863
637534,2090,"Alas, my lord,
How can she be with him? When was she missed?
He is in Rome.",890,18863
637535,2093,"Where is she, sir? Come nearer;
No further halting: satisfy me home
What is become of her.",266,18863
637536,2096,"O, my all-worthy lord!",890,18863
637537,2097,"All-worthy villain!
Discover where thy mistress is at once,
At the next word: no more of 'worthy lord!'
Speak, or thy silence on the instant is
Thy condemnation and thy death.",266,18863
637538,2102,"Then, sir,
This paper is the history of my knowledge
Touching her flight.",890,18863
637539,2105,[Presenting a letter],1261,18863
637540,2106,"Let's see't. I will pursue her
Even to Augustus' throne.",266,18863
637541,2108,"[Aside] Or this, or perish.
She's far enough; and what he learns by this
May prove his travel, not her danger.",890,18863
637542,2111,Hum!,266,18863
637543,2112,"[Aside] I'll write to my lord she's dead. O Imogen,
Safe mayst thou wander, safe return again!",890,18863
637544,2114,"Sirrah, is this letter true?",266,18863
637545,2115,"Sir, as I think.",890,18863
637546,2116,"It is Posthumus' hand; I know't. Sirrah, if thou
wouldst not be a villain, but do me true service,
undergo those employments wherein I should have
cause to use thee with a serious industry, that is,
what villany soe'er I bid thee do, to perform it
directly and truly, I would think thee an honest
man: thou shouldst neither want my means for thy
relief nor my voice for thy preferment.",266,18863
637547,2124,"Well, my good lord.",890,18863
637548,2125,"Wilt thou serve me? for since patiently and
constantly thou hast stuck to the bare fortune of
that beggar Posthumus, thou canst not, in the
course of gratitude, but be a diligent follower of
mine: wilt thou serve me?",266,18863
637549,2130,"Sir, I will.",890,18863
637550,2131,"Give me thy hand; here's my purse. Hast any of thy
late master's garments in thy possession?",266,18863
637551,2133,"I have, my lord, at my lodging, the same suit he
wore when he took leave of my lady and mistress.",890,18863
637552,2135,"The first service thou dost me, fetch that suit
hither: let it be thy lint service; go.",266,18863
637553,2137,"I shall, my lord.",890,18863
637554,2138,[Exit],1261,18863
637555,2139,"Meet thee at Milford-Haven!--I forgot to ask him one
thing; I'll remember't anon:--even there, thou
villain Posthumus, will I kill thee. I would these
garments were come. She said upon a time--the
bitterness of it I now belch from my heart--that she
held the very garment of Posthumus in more respect
than my noble and natural person together with the
adornment of my qualities. With that suit upon my
back, will I ravish her: first kill him, and in her
eyes; there shall she see my valour, which will then
be a torment to her contempt. He on the ground, my
speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and
when my lust hath dined,--which, as I say, to vex
her I will execute in the clothes that she so
praised,--to the court I'll knock her back, foot
her home again. She hath despised me rejoicingly,
and I'll be merry in my revenge.
[Re-enter PISANIO, with the clothes]
Be those the garments?",266,18863
637556,2158,"Ay, my noble lord.",890,18863
637557,2159,How long is't since she went to Milford-Haven?,266,18863
637558,2160,She can scarce be there yet.,890,18863
637559,2161,"Bring this apparel to my chamber; that is the second
thing that I have commanded thee: the third is,
that thou wilt be a voluntary mute to my design. Be
but duteous, and true preferment shall tender itself
to thee. My revenge is now at Milford: would I had
wings to follow it! Come, and be true.",266,18863
637560,2167,[Exit],1261,18863
637561,2168,"Thou bid'st me to my loss: for true to thee
Were to prove false, which I will never be,
To him that is most true. To Milford go,
And find not her whom thou pursuest. Flow, flow,
You heavenly blessings, on her! This fool's speed
Be cross'd with slowness; labour be his meed!",890,18863
637562,2174,[Exit],1261,18863
637563,2177,"[Enter IMOGEN, in boy's clothes]",1261,18864
637564,2178,"I see a man's life is a tedious one:
I have tired myself, and for two nights together
Have made the ground my bed. I should be sick,
But that my resolution helps me. Milford,
When from the mountain-top Pisanio show'd thee,
Thou wast within a ken: O Jove! I think
Foundations fly the wretched; such, I mean,
Where they should be relieved. Two beggars told me
I could not miss my way: will poor folks lie,
That have afflictions on them, knowing 'tis
A punishment or trial? Yes; no wonder,
When rich ones scarce tell true. To lapse in fulness
Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood
Is worse in kings than beggars. My dear lord!
Thou art one o' the false ones. Now I think on thee,
My hunger's gone; but even before, I was
At point to sink for food. But what is this?
Here is a path to't: 'tis some savage hold:
I were best not to call; I dare not call:
yet famine,
Ere clean it o'erthrow nature, makes it valiant,
Plenty and peace breeds cowards: hardness ever
Of hardiness is mother. Ho! who's here?
If any thing that's civil, speak; if savage,
Take or lend. Ho! No answer? Then I'll enter.
Best draw my sword: and if mine enemy
But fear the sword like me, he'll scarcely look on't.
Such a foe, good heavens!",601,18864
637565,2206,"[Exit, to the cave]",1261,18864
637566,2207,"[Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS]",1261,18864
637567,2208,"You, Polydote, have proved best woodman and
Are master of the feast: Cadwal and I
Will play the cook and servant; 'tis our match:
The sweat of industry would dry and die,
But for the end it works to. Come; our stomachs
Will make what's homely savoury: weariness
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard. Now peace be here,
Poor house, that keep'st thyself!",158,18864
637568,2217,I am thoroughly weary.,552,18864
637569,2218,"I am weak with toil, yet strong in appetite.",127,18864
637570,2219,"There is cold meat i' the cave; we'll browse on that,
Whilst what we have kill'd be cook'd.",552,18864
637571,2221,"[Looking into the cave]
Stay; come not in.
But that it eats our victuals, I should think
Here were a fairy.",158,18864
637572,2225,"What's the matter, sir?",552,18864
637573,2226,"By Jupiter, an angel! or, if not,
An earthly paragon! Behold divineness
No elder than a boy!",158,18864
637574,2229,[Re-enter IMOGEN],1261,18864
637575,2230,"Good masters, harm me not:
Before I enter'd here, I call'd; and thought
To have begg'd or bought what I have took:
good troth,
I have stol'n nought, nor would not, though I had found
Gold strew'd i' the floor. Here's money for my meat:
I would have left it on the board so soon
As I had made my meal, and parted
With prayers for the provider.",601,18864
637576,2239,"Money, youth?",552,18864
637577,2240,"All gold and silver rather turn to dirt!
As 'tis no better reckon'd, but of those
Who worship dirty gods.",127,18864
637578,2243,"I see you're angry:
Know, if you kill me for my fault, I should
Have died had I not made it.",601,18864
637579,2246,Whither bound?,158,18864
637580,2247,To Milford-Haven.,601,18864
637581,2248,What's your name?,158,18864
637582,2249,"Fidele, sir. I have a kinsman who
Is bound for Italy; he embark'd at Milford;
To whom being going, almost spent with hunger,
I am fall'n in this offence.",601,18864
637583,2253,"Prithee, fair youth,
Think us no churls, nor measure our good minds
By this rude place we live in. Well encounter'd!
'Tis almost night: you shall have better cheer
Ere you depart: and thanks to stay and eat it.
Boys, bid him welcome.",158,18864
637584,2259,"Were you a woman, youth,
I should woo hard but be your groom. In honesty,
I bid for you as I'd buy.",552,18864
637585,2262,"I'll make't my comfort
He is a man; I'll love him as my brother:
And such a welcome as I'd give to him
After long absence, such is yours: most welcome!
Be sprightly, for you fall 'mongst friends.",127,18864
637586,2267,"'Mongst friends,
If brothers.
[Aside]
Would it had been so, that they
Had been my father's sons! then had my prize
Been less, and so more equal ballasting
To thee, Posthumus.",601,18864
637587,2274,He wrings at some distress.,158,18864
637588,2275,Would I could free't!,552,18864
637589,2276,"Or I, whate'er it be,
What pain it cost, what danger. God's!",127,18864
637590,2278,"Hark, boys.",158,18864
637591,2279,[Whispering],1261,18864
637592,2280,"Great men,
That had a court no bigger than this cave,
That did attend themselves and had the virtue
Which their own conscience seal'd them--laying by
That nothing-gift of differing multitudes--
Could not out-peer these twain. Pardon me, gods!
I'd change my sex to be companion with them,
Since Leonatus's false.",601,18864
637593,2288,"It shall be so.
Boys, we'll go dress our hunt. Fair youth, come in:
Discourse is heavy, fasting; when we have supp'd,
We'll mannerly demand thee of thy story,
So far as thou wilt speak it.",158,18864
637594,2293,"Pray, draw near.",552,18864
637595,2294,"The night to the owl and morn to the lark
less welcome.",127,18864
637596,2296,"Thanks, sir.",601,18864
637597,2297,"I pray, draw near.",127,18864
637598,2298,[Exeunt],1261,18864
637599,2301,[Enter two Senators and Tribunes],1261,18865
637600,2302,"This is the tenor of the emperor's writ:
That since the common men are now in action
'Gainst the Pannonians and Dalmatians,
And that the legions now in Gallia are
Full weak to undertake our wars against
The fall'n-off Britons, that we do incite
The gentry to this business. He creates
Lucius preconsul: and to you the tribunes,
For this immediate levy, he commends
His absolute commission. Long live Caesar!",457,18865
637601,2312,Is Lucius general of the forces?,472,18865
637602,2313,Ay.,1025,18865
637603,2314,Remaining now in Gallia?,472,18865
637604,2315,"With those legions
Which I have spoke of, whereunto your levy
Must be supplyant: the words of your commission
Will tie you to the numbers and the time
Of their dispatch.",457,18865
637605,2320,We will discharge our duty.,472,18865
637606,2321,[Exeunt],1261,18865
637607,2324,[Enter CLOTEN],1261,18866
637608,2325,"I am near to the place where they should meet, if
Pisanio have mapped it truly. How fit his garments
serve me! Why should his mistress, who was made by
him that made the tailor, not be fit too? the
rather--saving reverence of the word--for 'tis said
a woman's fitness comes by fits. Therein I must
play the workman. I dare speak it to myself--for it
is not vain-glory for a man and his glass to confer
in his own chamber--I mean, the lines of my body are
as well drawn as his; no less young, more strong,
not beneath him in fortunes, beyond him in the
advantage of the time, above him in birth, alike
conversant in general services, and more remarkable
in single oppositions: yet this imperceiverant
thing loves him in my despite. What mortality is!
Posthumus, thy head, which now is growing upon thy
shoulders, shall within this hour be off; thy
mistress enforced; thy garments cut to pieces before
thy face: and all this done, spurn her home to her
father; who may haply be a little angry for my so
rough usage; but my mother, having power of his
testiness, shall turn all into my commendations. My
horse is tied up safe: out, sword, and to a sore
purpose! Fortune, put them into my hand! This is
the very description of their meeting-place; and
the fellow dares not deceive me.",266,18866
637609,2351,"[Exit]
[Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS,]
ARVIRAGUS, and IMOGEN]",1261,18866
637610,2356,"[To IMOGEN] You are not well: remain here in the cave;
We'll come to you after hunting.",158,18867
637611,2358,"[To IMOGEN]. Brother, stay here
Are we not brothers?",127,18867
637612,2360,"So man and man should be;
But clay and clay differs in dignity,
Whose dust is both alike. I am very sick.",601,18867
637613,2363,Go you to hunting; I'll abide with him.,552,18867
637614,2364,"So sick I am not, yet I am not well;
But not so citizen a wanton as
To seem to die ere sick: so please you, leave me;
Stick to your journal course: the breach of custom
Is breach of all. I am ill, but your being by me
Cannot amend me; society is no comfort
To one not sociable: I am not very sick,
Since I can reason of it. Pray you, trust me here:
I'll rob none but myself; and let me die,
Stealing so poorly.",601,18867
637615,2374,"I love thee; I have spoke it
How much the quantity, the weight as much,
As I do love my father.",552,18867
637616,2377,What! how! how!,158,18867
637617,2378,"If it be sin to say so, I yoke me
In my good brother's fault: I know not why
I love this youth; and I have heard you say,
Love's reason's without reason: the bier at door,
And a demand who is't shall die, I'd say
'My father, not this youth.'",127,18867
637618,2384,"[Aside]. O noble strain!
O worthiness of nature! breed of greatness!
Cowards father cowards and base things sire base:
Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.
I'm not their father; yet who this should be,
Doth miracle itself, loved before me.
'Tis the ninth hour o' the morn.",158,18867
637619,2391,"Brother, farewell.",127,18867
637620,2392,I wish ye sport.,601,18867
637621,2393,"You health. So please you, sir.",127,18867
637622,2394,"[Aside] These are kind creatures. Gods, what lies
I have heard!
Our courtiers say all's savage but at court:
Experience, O, thou disprovest report!
The imperious seas breed monsters, for the dish
Poor tributary rivers as sweet fish.
I am sick still; heart-sick. Pisanio,
I'll now taste of thy drug.",601,18867
637623,2402,[Swallows some],1261,18867
637624,2403,"I could not stir him:
He said he was gentle, but unfortunate;
Dishonestly afflicted, but yet honest.",552,18867
637625,2406,"Thus did he answer me: yet said, hereafter
I might know more.",127,18867
637626,2408,"To the field, to the field!
We'll leave you for this time: go in and rest.",158,18867
637627,2410,We'll not be long away.,127,18867
637628,2411,"Pray, be not sick,
For you must be our housewife.",158,18867
637629,2413,"Well or ill,
I am bound to you.",601,18867
637630,2415,"And shalt be ever.
[Exit IMOGEN, to the cave]
This youth, how'er distress'd, appears he hath had
Good ancestors.",158,18867
637631,2419,How angel-like he sings!,127,18867
637632,2420,"But his neat cookery! he cut our roots
In characters,
And sauced our broths, as Juno had been sick
And he her dieter.",552,18867
637633,2424,"Nobly he yokes
A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh
Was that it was, for not being such a smile;
The smile mocking the sigh, that it would fly
From so divine a temple, to commix
With winds that sailors rail at.",127,18867
637634,2430,"I do note
That grief and patience, rooted in him both,
Mingle their spurs together.",552,18867
637635,2433,"Grow, patience!
And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine
His perishing root with the increasing vine!",127,18867
637636,2436,"It is great morning. Come, away!--
Who's there?",158,18867
637637,2438,[Enter CLOTEN],1261,18867
637638,2439,"I cannot find those runagates; that villain
Hath mock'd me. I am faint.",266,18867
637639,2441,"'Those runagates!'
Means he not us? I partly know him: 'tis
Cloten, the son o' the queen. I fear some ambush.
I saw him not these many years, and yet
I know 'tis he. We are held as outlaws: hence!",158,18867
637640,2446,"He is but one: you and my brother search
What companies are near: pray you, away;
Let me alone with him.",552,18867
637641,2449,[Exeunt BELARIUS and ARVIRAGUS],1261,18867
637642,2450,"Soft! What are you
That fly me thus? some villain mountaineers?
I have heard of such. What slave art thou?",266,18867
637643,2453,"A thing
More slavish did I ne'er than answering
A slave without a knock.",552,18867
637644,2456,"Thou art a robber,
A law-breaker, a villain: yield thee, thief.",266,18867
637645,2458,"To who? to thee? What art thou? Have not I
An arm as big as thine? a heart as big?
Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not
My dagger in my mouth. Say what thou art,
Why I should yield to thee?",552,18867
637646,2463,"Thou villain base,
Know'st me not by my clothes?",266,18867
637647,2465,"No, nor thy tailor, rascal,
Who is thy grandfather: he made those clothes,
Which, as it seems, make thee.",552,18867
637648,2468,"Thou precious varlet,
My tailor made them not.",266,18867
637649,2470,"Hence, then, and thank
The man that gave them thee. Thou art some fool;
I am loath to beat thee.",552,18867
637650,2473,"Thou injurious thief,
Hear but my name, and tremble.",266,18867
637651,2475,What's thy name?,552,18867
637652,2476,"Cloten, thou villain.",266,18867
637653,2477,"Cloten, thou double villain, be thy name,
I cannot tremble at it: were it Toad, or
Adder, Spider,
'Twould move me sooner.",552,18867
637654,2481,"To thy further fear,
Nay, to thy mere confusion, thou shalt know
I am son to the queen.",266,18867
637655,2484,"I am sorry for 't; not seeming
So worthy as thy birth.",552,18867
637656,2486,Art not afeard?,266,18867
637657,2487,"Those that I reverence those I fear, the wise:
At fools I laugh, not fear them.",552,18867
637658,2489,"Die the death:
When I have slain thee with my proper hand,
I'll follow those that even now fled hence,
And on the gates of Lud's-town set your heads:
Yield, rustic mountaineer.",266,18867
637659,2494,"[Exeunt, fighting]",1261,18867
637660,2495,[Re-enter BELARIUS and ARVIRAGUS],1261,18867
637661,2496,No companies abroad?,158,18867
637662,2497,"None in the world: you did mistake him, sure.",127,18867
637663,2498,"I cannot tell: long is it since I saw him,
But time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of favour
Which then he wore; the snatches in his voice,
And burst of speaking, were as his: I am absolute
'Twas very Cloten.",158,18867
637664,2503,"In this place we left them:
I wish my brother make good time with him,
You say he is so fell.",127,18867
637665,2506,"Being scarce made up,
I mean, to man, he had not apprehension
Of roaring terrors; for the effect of judgment
Is oft the cause of fear. But, see, thy brother.",158,18867
637666,2510,"[Re-enter GUIDERIUS, with CLOTEN'S head]",1261,18867
637667,2511,"This Cloten was a fool, an empty purse;
There was no money in't: not Hercules
Could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none:
Yet I not doing this, the fool had borne
My head as I do his.",552,18867
637668,2516,What hast thou done?,158,18867
637669,2517,"I am perfect what: cut off one Cloten's head,
Son to the queen, after his own report;
Who call'd me traitor, mountaineer, and swore
With his own single hand he'ld take us in
Displace our heads where--thank the gods!--they grow,
And set them on Lud's-town.",552,18867
637670,2523,We are all undone.,158,18867
637671,2524,"Why, worthy father, what have we to lose,
But that he swore to take, our lives? The law
Protects not us: then why should we be tender
To let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us,
Play judge and executioner all himself,
For we do fear the law? What company
Discover you abroad?",552,18867
637672,2531,"No single soul
Can we set eye on; but in all safe reason
He must have some attendants. Though his humour
Was nothing but mutation, ay, and that
From one bad thing to worse; not frenzy, not
Absolute madness could so far have raved
To bring him here alone; although perhaps
It may be heard at court that such as we
Cave here, hunt here, are outlaws, and in time
May make some stronger head; the which he hearing--
As it is like him--might break out, and swear
He'ld fetch us in; yet is't not probable
To come alone, either he so undertaking,
Or they so suffering: then on good ground we fear,
If we do fear this body hath a tail
More perilous than the head.",158,18867
637673,2547,"Let ordinance
Come as the gods foresay it: howsoe'er,
My brother hath done well.",127,18867
637674,2550,"I had no mind
To hunt this day: the boy Fidele's sickness
Did make my way long forth.",158,18867
637675,2553,"With his own sword,
Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta'en
His head from him: I'll throw't into the creek
Behind our rock; and let it to the sea,
And tell the fishes he's the queen's son, Cloten:
That's all I reck.",552,18867
637676,2559,[Exit],1261,18867
637677,2560,"I fear 'twill be revenged:
Would, Polydote, thou hadst not done't! though valour
Becomes thee well enough.",158,18867
637678,2563,"Would I had done't
So the revenge alone pursued me! Polydore,
I love thee brotherly, but envy much
Thou hast robb'd me of this deed: I would revenges,
That possible strength might meet, would seek us through
And put us to our answer.",127,18867
637679,2569,"Well, 'tis done:
We'll hunt no more to-day, nor seek for danger
Where there's no profit. I prithee, to our rock;
You and Fidele play the cooks: I'll stay
Till hasty Polydote return, and bring him
To dinner presently.",158,18867
637680,2575,"Poor sick Fidele!
I'll weringly to him: to gain his colour
I'ld let a parish of such Clotens' blood,
And praise myself for charity.",127,18867
637681,2579,[Exit],1261,18867
637682,2580,"O thou goddess,
Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st
In these two princely boys! They are as gentle
As zephyrs blowing below the violet,
Not wagging his sweet head; and yet as rough,
Their royal blood enchafed, as the rudest wind,
That by the top doth take the mountain pine,
And make him stoop to the vale. 'Tis wonder
That an invisible instinct should frame them
To royalty unlearn'd, honour untaught,
Civility not seen from other, valour
That wildly grows in them, but yields a crop
As if it had been sow'd. Yet still it's strange
What Cloten's being here to us portends,
Or what his death will bring us.",158,18867
637683,2595,[Re-enter GUIDERIUS],1261,18867
637684,2596,"Where's my brother?
I have sent Cloten's clotpoll down the stream,
In embassy to his mother: his body's hostage
For his return.",552,18867
637685,2600,[Solemn music],1261,18867
637686,2601,"My ingenious instrument!
Hark, Polydore, it sounds! But what occasion
Hath Cadwal now to give it motion? Hark!",158,18867
637687,2604,Is he at home?,552,18867
637688,2605,He went hence even now.,158,18867
637689,2606,"What does he mean? since death of my dear'st mother
it did not speak before. All solemn things
Should answer solemn accidents. The matter?
Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys
Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.
Is Cadwal mad?",552,18867
637690,2612,"Look, here he comes,
And brings the dire occasion in his arms
Of what we blame him for.
[Re-enter ARVIRAGUS, with IMOGEN, as dead,]
bearing her in his arms]",158,18867
637691,2617,"The bird is dead
That we have made so much on. I had rather
Have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to sixty,
To have turn'd my leaping-time into a crutch,
Than have seen this.",127,18867
637692,2622,"O sweetest, fairest lily!
My brother wears thee not the one half so well
As when thou grew'st thyself.",552,18867
637693,2625,"O melancholy!
Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find
The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare
Might easiliest harbour in? Thou blessed thing!
Jove knows what man thou mightst have made; but I,
Thou diedst, a most rare boy, of melancholy.
How found you him?",158,18867
637694,2632,"Stark, as you see:
Thus smiling, as some fly hid tickled slumber,
Not as death's dart, being laugh'd at; his
right cheek
Reposing on a cushion.",127,18867
637695,2637,Where?,552,18867
637696,2638,"O' the floor;
His arms thus leagued: I thought he slept, and put
My clouted brogues from off my feet, whose rudeness
Answer'd my steps too loud.",127,18867
637697,2642,"Why, he but sleeps:
If he be gone, he'll make his grave a bed;
With female fairies will his tomb be haunted,
And worms will not come to thee.",552,18867
637698,2646,"With fairest flowers
Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele,
I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack
The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor
The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor
The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander,
Out-sweeten'd not thy breath: the ruddock would,
With charitable bill,--O bill, sore-shaming
Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie
Without a monument!--bring thee all this;
Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none,
To winter-ground thy corse.",127,18867
637699,2658,"Prithee, have done;
And do not play in wench-like words with that
Which is so serious. Let us bury him,
And not protract with admiration what
Is now due debt. To the grave!",552,18867
637700,2663,"Say, where shall's lay him?",127,18867
637701,2664,"By good Euriphile, our mother.",552,18867
637702,2665,"Be't so:
And let us, Polydore, though now our voices
Have got the mannish crack, sing him to the ground,
As once our mother; use like note and words,
Save that Euriphile must be Fidele.",127,18867
637703,2670,"Cadwal,
I cannot sing: I'll weep, and word it with thee;
For notes of sorrow out of tune are worse
Than priests and fanes that lie.",552,18867
637704,2674,"We'll speak it, then.",127,18867
637705,2675,"Great griefs, I see, medicine the less; for Cloten
Is quite forgot. He was a queen's son, boys;
And though he came our enemy, remember
He was paid for that: though mean and
mighty, rotting
Together, have one dust, yet reverence,
That angel of the world, doth make distinction
Of place 'tween high and low. Our foe was princely
And though you took his life, as being our foe,
Yet bury him as a prince.",158,18867
637706,2685,"Pray You, fetch him hither.
Thersites' body is as good as Ajax',
When neither are alive.",552,18867
637707,2688,"If you'll go fetch him,
We'll say our song the whilst. Brother, begin.",127,18867
637708,2690,[Exit BELARIUS],1261,18867
637709,2691,"Nay, Cadwal, we must lay his head to the east;
My father hath a reason for't.",552,18867
637715,2703,"Fear no more the frown o' the great;
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke;
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.",127,18867
637716,2709,"Fear no more the lightning flash,",552,18867
637717,2710,Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;,127,18867
637718,2711,"Fear not slander, censure rash;",552,18867
637719,2712,Thou hast finish'd joy and moan:,127,18867
637720,2713,"[with Arviragus] All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.",552,18867
637721,2715,No exorciser harm thee!,552,18867
637722,2716,Nor no witchcraft charm thee!,127,18867
637723,2717,Ghost unlaid forbear thee!,552,18867
637724,2718,Nothing ill come near thee!,127,18867
637725,2719,"[with Arviragus] Quiet consummation have;
And renowned be thy grave!",552,18867
637726,2721,"[Re-enter BELARIUS, with the body of CLOTEN]",1261,18867
637727,2722,"We have done our obsequies: come, lay him down.",552,18867
637728,2723,"Here's a few flowers; but 'bout midnight, more:
The herbs that have on them cold dew o' the night
Are strewings fitt'st for graves. Upon their faces.
You were as flowers, now wither'd: even so
These herblets shall, which we upon you strew.
Come on, away: apart upon our knees.
The ground that gave them first has them again:
Their pleasures here are past, so is their pain.",158,18867
637729,2731,"[Exeunt BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS]",1261,18867
637730,2732,"[Awaking] Yes, sir, to Milford-Haven; which is
the way?--
I thank you.--By yond bush?--Pray, how far thither?
'Ods pittikins! can it be six mile yet?--
I have gone all night. 'Faith, I'll lie down and sleep.
But, soft! no bedfellow!--O gods and goddesses!
[Seeing the body of CLOTEN]
These flowers are like the pleasures of the world;
This bloody man, the care on't. I hope I dream;
For so I thought I was a cave-keeper,
And cook to honest creatures: but 'tis not so;
'Twas but a bolt of nothing, shot at nothing,
Which the brain makes of fumes: our very eyes
Are sometimes like our judgments, blind. Good faith,
I tremble stiff with fear: but if there be
Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity
As a wren's eye, fear'd gods, a part of it!
The dream's here still: even when I wake, it is
Without me, as within me; not imagined, felt.
A headless man! The garments of Posthumus!
I know the shape of's leg: this is his hand;
His foot Mercurial; his Martial thigh;
The brawns of Hercules: but his Jovial face
Murder in heaven?--How!--'Tis gone. Pisanio,
All curses madded Hecuba gave the Greeks,
And mine to boot, be darted on thee! Thou,
Conspired with that irregulous devil, Cloten,
Hast here cut off my lord. To write and read
Be henceforth treacherous! Damn'd Pisanio
Hath with his forged letters,--damn'd Pisanio--
From this most bravest vessel of the world
Struck the main-top! O Posthumus! alas,
Where is thy head? where's that? Ay me!
where's that?
Pisanio might have kill'd thee at the heart,
And left this head on. How should this be? Pisanio?
'Tis he and Cloten: malice and lucre in them
Have laid this woe here. O, 'tis pregnant, pregnant!
The drug he gave me, which he said was precious
And cordial to me, have I not found it
Murderous to the senses? That confirms it home:
This is Pisanio's deed, and Cloten's: O!
Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood,
That we the horrider may seem to those
Which chance to find us: O, my lord, my lord!
[Falls on the body]
[Enter LUCIUS, a Captain and other Officers,]
and a Soothsayer]",601,18867
637731,2780,"To them the legions garrison'd in Gailia,
After your will, have cross'd the sea, attending
You here at Milford-Haven with your ships:
They are in readiness.",950,18867
637732,2784,But what from Rome?,206,18867
637733,2785,"The senate hath stirr'd up the confiners
And gentlemen of Italy, most willing spirits,
That promise noble service: and they come
Under the conduct of bold Iachimo,
Syenna's brother.",950,18867
637734,2790,When expect you them?,206,18867
637735,2791,With the next benefit o' the wind.,950,18867
637736,2792,"This forwardness
Makes our hopes fair. Command our present numbers
Be muster'd; bid the captains look to't. Now, sir,
What have you dream'd of late of this war's purpose?",206,18867
637737,2796,"Last night the very gods show'd me a vision--
I fast and pray'd for their intelligence--thus:
I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, wing'd
From the spongy south to this part of the west,
There vanish'd in the sunbeams: which portends--
Unless my sins abuse my divination--
Success to the Roman host.",1143,18867
637738,2803,"Dream often so,
And never false. Soft, ho! what trunk is here
Without his top? The ruin speaks that sometime
It was a worthy building. How! a page!
Or dead, or sleeping on him? But dead rather;
For nature doth abhor to make his bed
With the defunct, or sleep upon the dead.
Let's see the boy's face.",206,18867
637739,2811,"He's alive, my lord.",950,18867
637740,2812,"He'll then instruct us of this body. Young one,
Inform us of thy fortunes, for it seems
They crave to be demanded. Who is this
Thou makest thy bloody pillow? Or who was he
That, otherwise than noble nature did,
Hath alter'd that good picture? What's thy interest
In this sad wreck? How came it? Who is it?
What art thou?",206,18867
637741,2820,"I am nothing: or if not,
Nothing to be were better. This was my master,
A very valiant Briton and a good,
That here by mountaineers lies slain. Alas!
There is no more such masters: I may wander
From east to occident, cry out for service,
Try many, all good, serve truly, never
Find such another master.",601,18867
637742,2828,"'Lack, good youth!
Thou movest no less with thy complaining than
Thy master in bleeding: say his name, good friend.",206,18867
637743,2831,"Richard du Champ.
[Aside]
If I do lie and do
No harm by it, though the gods hear, I hope
They'll pardon it.--Say you, sir?",601,18867
637744,2836,Thy name?,206,18867
637745,2837,"Fidele, sir.",601,18867
637746,2838,"Thou dost approve thyself the very same:
Thy name well fits thy faith, thy faith thy name.
Wilt take thy chance with me? I will not say
Thou shalt be so well master'd, but, be sure,
No less beloved. The Roman emperor's letters,
Sent by a consul to me, should not sooner
Than thine own worth prefer thee: go with me.",206,18867
637747,2845,"I'll follow, sir. But first, an't please the gods,
I'll hide my master from the flies, as deep
As these poor pickaxes can dig; and when
With wild wood-leaves and weeds I ha' strew'd his grave,
And on it said a century of prayers,
Such as I can, twice o'er, I'll weep and sigh;
And leaving so his service, follow you,
So please you entertain me.",601,18867
637748,2853,"Ay, good youth!
And rather father thee than master thee.
My friends,
The boy hath taught us manly duties: let us
Find out the prettiest daisied plot we can,
And make him with our pikes and partisans
A grave: come, arm him. Boy, he is preferr'd
By thee to us, and he shall be interr'd
As soldiers can. Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes
Some falls are means the happier to arise.",206,18867
637749,2863,[Exeunt],1261,18867
637750,2866,"[Enter CYMBELINE, Lords, PISANIO, and Attendants]",1261,18868
637751,2867,"Again; and bring me word how 'tis with her.
[Exit an Attendant]
A fever with the absence of her son,
A madness, of which her life's in danger. Heavens,
How deeply you at once do touch me! Imogen,
The great part of my comfort, gone; my queen
Upon a desperate bed, and in a time
When fearful wars point at me; her son gone,
So needful for this present: it strikes me, past
The hope of comfort. But for thee, fellow,
Who needs must know of her departure and
Dost seem so ignorant, we'll enforce it from thee
By a sharp torture.",299,18868
637752,2880,"Sir, my life is yours;
I humbly set it at your will; but, for my mistress,
I nothing know where she remains, why gone,
Nor when she purposes return. Beseech your highness,
Hold me your loyal servant.",890,18868
637753,2885,"Good my liege,
The day that she was missing he was here:
I dare be bound he's true and shall perform
All parts of his subjection loyally. For Cloten,
There wants no diligence in seeking him,
And will, no doubt, be found.",436,18868
637754,2891,"The time is troublesome.
[To PISANIO]
We'll slip you for a season; but our jealousy
Does yet depend.",299,18868
637755,2895,"So please your majesty,
The Roman legions, all from Gallia drawn,
Are landed on your coast, with a supply
Of Roman gentlemen, by the senate sent.",436,18868
637756,2899,"Now for the counsel of my son and queen!
I am amazed with matter.",299,18868
637757,2901,"Good my liege,
Your preparation can affront no less
Than what you hear of: come more, for more
you're ready:
The want is but to put those powers in motion
That long to move.",436,18868
637758,2907,"I thank you. Let's withdraw;
And meet the time as it seeks us. We fear not
What can from Italy annoy us; but
We grieve at chances here. Away!",299,18868
637759,2911,[Exeunt all but PISANIO],1261,18868
637760,2912,"I heard no letter from my master since
I wrote him Imogen was slain: 'tis strange:
Nor hear I from my mistress who did promise
To yield me often tidings: neither know I
What is betid to Cloten; but remain
Perplex'd in all. The heavens still must work.
Wherein I am false I am honest; not true, to be true.
These present wars shall find I love my country,
Even to the note o' the king, or I'll fall in them.
All other doubts, by time let them be clear'd:
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd.",890,18868
637761,2923,[Exit],1261,18868
637762,2926,"[Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS.",1261,18869
637763,2927,The noise is round about us.,552,18869
637764,2928,Let us from it.,158,18869
637765,2929,"What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it
From action and adventure?",127,18869
637766,2931,"Nay, what hope
Have we in hiding us? This way, the Romans
Must or for Britons slay us, or receive us
For barbarous and unnatural revolts
During their use, and slay us after.",552,18869
637767,2936,"Sons,
We'll higher to the mountains; there secure us.
To the king's party there's no going: newness
Of Cloten's death--we being not known, not muster'd
Among the bands--may drive us to a render
Where we have lived, and so extort from's that
Which we have done, whose answer would be death
Drawn on with torture.",158,18869
637768,2944,"This is, sir, a doubt
In such a time nothing becoming you,
Nor satisfying us.",552,18869
637769,2947,"It is not likely
That when they hear the Roman horses neigh,
Behold their quarter'd fires, have both their eyes
And ears so cloy'd importantly as now,
That they will waste their time upon our note,
To know from whence we are.",127,18869
637770,2953,"O, I am known
Of many in the army: many years,
Though Cloten then but young, you see, not wore him
From my remembrance. And, besides, the king
Hath not deserved my service nor your loves;
Who find in my exile the want of breeding,
The certainty of this hard life; aye hopeless
To have the courtesy your cradle promised,
But to be still hot summer's tamings and
The shrinking slaves of winter.",158,18869
637771,2963,"Than be so
Better to cease to be. Pray, sir, to the army:
I and my brother are not known; yourself
So out of thought, and thereto so o'ergrown,
Cannot be question'd.",552,18869
637772,2968,"By this sun that shines,
I'll thither: what thing is it that I never
Did see man die! scarce ever look'd on blood,
But that of coward hares, hot goats, and venison!
Never bestrid a horse, save one that had
A rider like myself, who ne'er wore rowel
Nor iron on his heel! I am ashamed
To look upon the holy sun, to have
The benefit of his blest beams, remaining
So long a poor unknown.",127,18869
637773,2978,"By heavens, I'll go:
If you will bless me, sir, and give me leave,
I'll take the better care, but if you will not,
The hazard therefore due fall on me by
The hands of Romans!",552,18869
637774,2983,So say I. amen.,127,18869
637775,2984,"No reason I, since of your lives you set
So slight a valuation, should reserve
My crack'd one to more care. Have with you, boys!
If in your country wars you chance to die,
That is my bed too, lads, an there I'll lie:
Lead, lead.
[Aside]
The time seems long; their blood
thinks scorn,
Till it fly out and show them princes born.",158,18869
637776,2994,[Exeunt],1261,18869
637777,2997,"[Enter POSTHUMUS, with a bloody handkerchief]",1261,18870
637778,2998,"Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee, for I wish'd
Thou shouldst be colour'd thus. You married ones,
If each of you should take this course, how many
Must murder wives much better than themselves
For wrying but a little! O Pisanio!
Every good servant does not all commands:
No bond but to do just ones. Gods! if you
Should have ta'en vengeance on my faults, I never
Had lived to put on this: so had you saved
The noble Imogen to repent, and struck
Me, wretch more worth your vengeance. But, alack,
You snatch some hence for little faults; that's love,
To have them fall no more: you some permit
To second ills with ills, each elder worse,
And make them dread it, to the doers' thrift.
But Imogen is your own: do your best wills,
And make me blest to obey! I am brought hither
Among the Italian gentry, and to fight
Against my lady's kingdom: 'tis enough
That, Britain, I have kill'd thy mistress; peace!
I'll give no wound to thee. Therefore, good heavens,
Hear patiently my purpose: I'll disrobe me
Of these Italian weeds and suit myself
As does a Briton peasant: so I'll fight
Against the part I come with; so I'll die
For thee, O Imogen, even for whom my life
Is every breath a death; and thus, unknown,
Pitied nor hated, to the face of peril
Myself I'll dedicate. Let me make men know
More valour in me than my habits show.
Gods, put the strength o' the Leonati in me!
To shame the guise o' the world, I will begin
The fashion, less without and more within.",911,18870
637779,3031,"[Exit]
[Enter, from one side, LUCIUS, IACHIMO, and]
the Roman Army: from the other side, the
British Army; POSTHUMUS LEONATUS following,
like a poor soldier. They march over and go
out. Then enter again, in skirmish, IACHIMO
and POSTHUMUS LEONATUS he vanquisheth and disarmeth
IACHIMO, and then leaves him]",1261,18870
637780,3041,"The heaviness and guilt within my bosom
Takes off my manhood: I have belied a lady,
The princess of this country, and the air on't
Revengingly enfeebles me; or could this carl,
A very drudge of nature's, have subdued me
In my profession? Knighthoods and honours, borne
As I wear mine, are titles but of scorn.
If that thy gentry, Britain, go before
This lout as he exceeds our lords, the odds
Is that we scarce are men and you are gods.
[Exit]
[The battle continues; the Britons fly; CYMBELINE is]
taken: then enter, to his rescue, BELARIUS,
GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS]",599,18871
637781,3055,"Stand, stand! We have the advantage of the ground;
The lane is guarded: nothing routs us but
The villany of our fears.",158,18871
637782,3058,"[with Arviragus] Stand, stand, and fight!
[Re-enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS, and seconds the]
Britons: they rescue CYMBELINE, and exeunt. Then
re-enter LUCIUS, and IACHIMO, with IMOGEN]",552,18871
637783,3062,"Away, boy, from the troops, and save thyself;
For friends kill friends, and the disorder's such
As war were hoodwink'd.",206,18871
637786,3068,[Exeunt],1261,18871
637787,3071,[Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and a British Lord],1261,18872
637788,3072,Camest thou from where they made the stand?,681,18872
637789,3073,"I did.
Though you, it seems, come from the fliers.",911,18872
637790,3075,I did.,681,18872
637791,3076,"No blame be to you, sir; for all was lost,
But that the heavens fought: the king himself
Of his wings destitute, the army broken,
And but the backs of Britons seen, all flying
Through a straight lane; the enemy full-hearted,
Lolling the tongue with slaughtering, having work
More plentiful than tools to do't, struck down
Some mortally, some slightly touch'd, some falling
Merely through fear; that the straight pass was damm'd
With dead men hurt behind, and cowards living
To die with lengthen'd shame.",911,18872
637792,3087,Where was this lane?,681,18872
637793,3088,"Close by the battle, ditch'd, and wall'd with turf;
Which gave advantage to an ancient soldier,
An honest one, I warrant; who deserved
So long a breeding as his white beard came to,
In doing this for's country: athwart the lane,
He, with two striplings-lads more like to run
The country base than to commit such slaughter
With faces fit for masks, or rather fairer
Than those for preservation cased, or shame--
Made good the passage; cried to those that fled,
'Our Britain s harts die flying, not our men:
To darkness fleet souls that fly backwards. Stand;
Or we are Romans and will give you that
Like beasts which you shun beastly, and may save,
But to look back in frown: stand, stand.'
These three,
Three thousand confident, in act as many--
For three performers are the file when all
The rest do nothing--with this word 'Stand, stand,'
Accommodated by the place, more charming
With their own nobleness, which could have turn'd
A distaff to a lance, gilded pale looks,
Part shame, part spirit renew'd; that some,
turn'd coward
But by example--O, a sin in war,
Damn'd in the first beginners!--gan to look
The way that they did, and to grin like lions
Upon the pikes o' the hunters. Then began
A stop i' the chaser, a retire, anon
A rout, confusion thick; forthwith they fly
Chickens, the way which they stoop'd eagles; slaves,
The strides they victors made: and now our cowards,
Like fragments in hard voyages, became
The life o' the need: having found the backdoor open
Of the unguarded hearts, heavens, how they wound!
Some slain before; some dying; some their friends
O'er borne i' the former wave: ten, chased by one,
Are now each one the slaughter-man of twenty:
Those that would die or ere resist are grown
The mortal bugs o' the field.",911,18872
637794,3128,"This was strange chance
A narrow lane, an old man, and two boys.",681,18872
637795,3130,"Nay, do not wonder at it: you are made
Rather to wonder at the things you hear
Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon't,
And vent it for a mockery? Here is one:
'Two boys, an old man twice a boy, a lane,
Preserved the Britons, was the Romans' bane.'",911,18872
637796,3136,"Nay, be not angry, sir.",681,18872
637797,3137,"'Lack, to what end?
Who dares not stand his foe, I'll be his friend;
For if he'll do as he is made to do,
I know he'll quickly fly my friendship too.
You have put me into rhyme.",911,18872
637798,3142,Farewell; you're angry.,681,18872
637799,3143,"Still going?
[Exit Lord]
This is a lord! O noble misery,
To be i' the field, and ask 'what news?' of me!
To-day how many would have given their honours
To have saved their carcasses! took heel to do't,
And yet died too! I, in mine own woe charm'd,
Could not find death where I did hear him groan,
Nor feel him where he struck: being an ugly monster,
'Tis strange he hides him in fresh cups, soft beds,
Sweet words; or hath more ministers than we
That draw his knives i' the war. Well, I will find him
For being now a favourer to the Briton,
No more a Briton, I have resumed again
The part I came in: fight I will no more,
But yield me to the veriest hind that shall
Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is
Here made by the Roman; great the answer be
Britons must take. For me, my ransom's death;
On either side I come to spend my breath;
Which neither here I'll keep nor bear again,
But end it by some means for Imogen.",911,18872
637800,3165,[Enter two British Captains and Soldiers],1261,18872
637801,3166,"Great Jupiter be praised! Lucius is taken.
'Tis thought the old man and his sons were angels.",407,18872
637802,3168,"There was a fourth man, in a silly habit,
That gave the affront with them.",981,18872
637803,3170,"So 'tis reported:
But none of 'em can be found. Stand! who's there?",407,18872
637804,3172,"A Roman,
Who had not now been drooping here, if seconds
Had answer'd him.",911,18872
637805,3175,"Lay hands on him; a dog!
A leg of Rome shall not return to tell
What crows have peck'd them here. He brags
his service
As if he were of note: bring him to the king.
[Enter CYMBELINE, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS,]
PISANIO, Soldiers, Attendants, and Roman Captives.
The Captains present POSTHUMUS LEONATUS to
CYMBELINE, who delivers him over to a Gaoler:
then exeunt omnes]",981,18872
637806,3187,[Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and two Gaolers],1261,18873
637807,3188,"You shall not now be stol'n, you have locks upon you;
So graze as you find pasture.",417,18873
637808,3190,"Ay, or a stomach.",988,18873
637809,3191,[Exeunt Gaolers],1261,18873
637810,3192,"Most welcome, bondage! for thou art away,
think, to liberty: yet am I better
Than one that's sick o' the gout; since he had rather
Groan so in perpetuity than be cured
By the sure physician, death, who is the key
To unbar these locks. My conscience, thou art fetter'd
More than my shanks and wrists: you good gods, give me
The penitent instrument to pick that bolt,
Then, free for ever! Is't enough I am sorry?
So children temporal fathers do appease;
Gods are more full of mercy. Must I repent?
I cannot do it better than in gyves,
Desired more than constrain'd: to satisfy,
If of my freedom 'tis the main part, take
No stricter render of me than my all.
I know you are more clement than vile men,
Who of their broken debtors take a third,
A sixth, a tenth, letting them thrive again
On their abatement: that's not my desire:
For Imogen's dear life take mine; and though
'Tis not so dear, yet 'tis a life; you coin'd it:
'Tween man and man they weigh not every stamp;
Though light, take pieces for the figure's sake:
You rather mine, being yours: and so, great powers,
If you will take this audit, take this life,
And cancel these cold bonds. O Imogen!
I'll speak to thee in silence.
[Sleeps]
[Solemn music. Enter, as in an apparition,]
SICILIUS LEONATUS, father to Posthumus Leonatus,
an old man, attired like a warrior; leading in
his hand an ancient matron, his wife, and mother
to Posthumus Leonatus, with music before them:
then, after other music, follow the two young
Leonati, brothers to Posthumus Leonatus, with
wounds as they died in the wars. They circle
Posthumus Leonatus round, as he lies sleeping]",911,18873
637811,3229,"No more, thou thunder-master, show
Thy spite on mortal flies:
With Mars fall out, with Juno chide,
That thy adulteries
Rates and revenges.
Hath my poor boy done aught but well,
Whose face I never saw?
I died whilst in the womb he stay'd
Attending nature's law:
Whose father then, as men report
Thou orphans' father art,
Thou shouldst have been, and shielded him
From this earth-vexing smart.",665,18873
637812,3242,"Lucina lent not me her aid,
But took me in my throes;
That from me was Posthumus ript,
Came crying 'mongst his foes,
A thing of pity!",805,18873
637813,3247,"Great nature, like his ancestry,
Moulded the stuff so fair,
That he deserved the praise o' the world,
As great Sicilius' heir.",665,18873
637814,3251,"When once he was mature for man,
In Britain where was he
That could stand up his parallel;
Or fruitful object be
In eye of Imogen, that best
Could deem his dignity?",406,18873
637815,3257,"With marriage wherefore was he mock'd,
To be exiled, and thrown
From Leonati seat, and cast
From her his dearest one,
Sweet Imogen?",805,18873
637816,3262,"Why did you suffer Iachimo,
Slight thing of Italy,
To taint his nobler heart and brain
With needless jealosy;
And to become the geck and scorn
O' th' other's villany?",665,18873
637817,3268,"For this from stiller seats we came,
Our parents and us twain,
That striking in our country's cause
Fell bravely and were slain,
Our fealty and Tenantius' right
With honour to maintain.",980,18873
637818,3274,"Like hardiment Posthumus hath
To Cymbeline perform'd:
Then, Jupiter, thou king of gods,
Why hast thou thus adjourn'd
The graces for his merits due,
Being all to dolours turn'd?",406,18873
637819,3280,"Thy crystal window ope; look out;
No longer exercise
Upon a valiant race thy harsh
And potent injuries.",665,18873
637820,3284,"Since, Jupiter, our son is good,
Take off his miseries.",805,18873
637821,3286,"Peep through thy marble mansion; help;
Or we poor ghosts will cry
To the shining synod of the rest
Against thy deity.",665,18873
637822,3290,"[with First Brother] Help, Jupiter; or we appeal,
And from thy justice fly.
[Jupiter descends in thunder and lightning, sitting]
upon an eagle: he throws a thunderbolt. The
Apparitions fall on their knees]",980,18873
637823,3295,"No more, you petty spirits of region low,
Offend our hearing; hush! How dare you ghosts
Accuse the thunderer, whose bolt, you know,
Sky-planted batters all rebelling coasts?
Poor shadows of Elysium, hence, and rest
Upon your never-withering banks of flowers:
Be not with mortal accidents opprest;
No care of yours it is; you know 'tis ours.
Whom best I love I cross; to make my gift,
The more delay'd, delighted. Be content;
Your low-laid son our godhead will uplift:
His comforts thrive, his trials well are spent.
Our Jovial star reign'd at his birth, and in
Our temple was he married. Rise, and fade.
He shall be lord of lady Imogen,
And happier much by his affliction made.
This tablet lay upon his breast, wherein
Our pleasure his full fortune doth confine:
and so, away: no further with your din
Express impatience, lest you stir up mine.
Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline.",627,18873
637824,3316,[Ascends],1261,18873
637825,3317,"He came in thunder; his celestial breath
Was sulphurous to smell: the holy eagle
Stoop'd as to foot us: his ascension is
More sweet than our blest fields: his royal bird
Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak,
As when his god is pleased.",665,18873
637826,3323,"Thanks, Jupiter!",73,18873
637827,3324,"The marble pavement closes, he is enter'd
His radiant root. Away! and, to be blest,
Let us with care perform his great behest.",665,18873
637828,3327,[The Apparitions vanish],1261,18873
637829,3328,"[Waking] Sleep, thou hast been a grandsire, and begot
A father to me; and thou hast created
A mother and two brothers: but, O scorn!
Gone! they went hence so soon as they were born:
And so I am awake. Poor wretches that depend
On greatness' favour dream as I have done,
Wake and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve:
Many dream not to find, neither deserve,
And yet are steep'd in favours: so am I,
That have this golden chance and know not why.
What fairies haunt this ground? A book? O rare one!
Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment
Nobler than that it covers: let thy effects
So follow, to be most unlike our courtiers,
As good as promise.
[Reads]
'When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself unknown,
without seeking find, and be embraced by a piece of
tender air; and when from a stately cedar shall be
lopped branches, which, being dead many years,
shall after revive, be jointed to the old stock and
freshly grow; then shall Posthumus end his miseries,
Britain be fortunate and flourish in peace and plenty.'
'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen
Tongue and brain not; either both or nothing;
Or senseless speaking or a speaking such
As sense cannot untie. Be what it is,
The action of my life is like it, which
I'll keep, if but for sympathy.",911,18873
637830,3357,[Re-enter First Gaoler],1261,18873
637831,3358,"Come, sir, are you ready for death?",417,18873
637832,3359,Over-roasted rather; ready long ago.,911,18873
637833,3360,"Hanging is the word, sir: if
you be ready for that, you are well cooked.",417,18873
637834,3362,"So, if I prove a good repast to the
spectators, the dish pays the shot.",911,18873
637835,3364,"A heavy reckoning for you, sir. But the comfort is,
you shall be called to no more payments, fear no
more tavern-bills; which are often the sadness of
parting, as the procuring of mirth: you come in
flint for want of meat, depart reeling with too
much drink; sorry that you have paid too much, and
sorry that you are paid too much; purse and brain
both empty; the brain the heavier for being too
light, the purse too light, being drawn of
heaviness: of this contradiction you shall now be
quit. O, the charity of a penny cord! It sums up
thousands in a trice: you have no true debitor and
creditor but it; of what's past, is, and to come,
the discharge: your neck, sir, is pen, book and
counters; so the acquittance follows.",417,18873
637836,3379,I am merrier to die than thou art to live.,911,18873
637837,3380,"Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the
tooth-ache: but a man that were to sleep your
sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he
would change places with his officer; for, look you,
sir, you know not which way you shall go.",417,18873
637838,3385,"Yes, indeed do I, fellow.",911,18873
637839,3386,"Your death has eyes in 's head then; I have not seen
him so pictured: you must either be directed by
some that take upon them to know, or do take upon
yourself that which I am sure you do not know, or
jump the after inquiry on your own peril: and how
you shall speed in your journey's end, I think you'll
never return to tell one.",417,18873
637840,3393,"I tell thee, fellow, there are none want eyes to
direct them the way I am going, but such as wink and
will not use them.",911,18873
637841,3396,"What an infinite mock is this, that a man should
have the best use of eyes to see the way of
blindness! I am sure hanging's the way of winking.",417,18873
637842,3399,[Enter a Messenger],1261,18873
637843,3400,Knock off his manacles; bring your prisoner to the king.,771,18873
637844,3401,Thou bring'st good news; I am called to be made free.,911,18873
637845,3402,I'll be hang'd then.,417,18873
637846,3403,Thou shalt be then freer than a gaoler; no bolts for the dead.,911,18873
637847,3404,[Exeunt POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and Messenger],1261,18873
637848,3405,"Unless a man would marry a gallows and beget young
gibbets, I never saw one so prone. Yet, on my
conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live,
for all he be a Roman: and there be some of them
too that die against their wills; so should I, if I
were one. I would we were all of one mind, and one
mind good; O, there were desolation of gaolers and
gallowses! I speak against my present profit, but
my wish hath a preferment in 't.",417,18873
637849,3414,"[Exeunt]
[Enter CYMBELINE, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS,]
PISANIO, Lords, Officers, and Attendants]",1261,18873
637850,3419,"Stand by my side, you whom the gods have made
Preservers of my throne. Woe is my heart
That the poor soldier that so richly fought,
Whose rags shamed gilded arms, whose naked breast
Stepp'd before larges of proof, cannot be found:
He shall be happy that can find him, if
Our grace can make him so.",299,18874
637851,3426,"I never saw
Such noble fury in so poor a thing;
Such precious deeds in one that promises nought
But beggary and poor looks.",158,18874
637852,3430,No tidings of him?,299,18874
637853,3431,"He hath been search'd among the dead and living,
But no trace of him.",890,18874
637854,3433,"To my grief, I am
The heir of his reward;
[To BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS]
which I will add
To you, the liver, heart and brain of Britain,
By whom I grant she lives. 'Tis now the time
To ask of whence you are. Report it.",299,18874
637855,3440,"Sir,
In Cambria are we born, and gentlemen:
Further to boast were neither true nor modest,
Unless I add, we are honest.",158,18874
637856,3444,"Bow your knees.
Arise my knights o' the battle: I create you
Companions to our person and will fit you
With dignities becoming your estates.
[Enter CORNELIUS and Ladies]
There's business in these faces. Why so sadly
Greet you our victory? you look like Romans,
And not o' the court of Britain.",299,18874
637857,3452,"Hail, great king!
To sour your happiness, I must report
The queen is dead.",285,18874
637858,3455,"Who worse than a physician
Would this report become? But I consider,
By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death
Will seize the doctor too. How ended she?",299,18874
637859,3459,"With horror, madly dying, like her life,
Which, being cruel to the world, concluded
Most cruel to herself. What she confess'd
I will report, so please you: these her women
Can trip me, if I err; who with wet cheeks
Were present when she finish'd.",285,18874
637860,3465,"Prithee, say.",299,18874
637861,3466,"First, she confess'd she never loved you, only
Affected greatness got by you, not you:
Married your royalty, was wife to your place;
Abhorr'd your person.",285,18874
637862,3470,"She alone knew this;
And, but she spoke it dying, I would not
Believe her lips in opening it. Proceed.",299,18874
637863,3473,"Your daughter, whom she bore in hand to love
With such integrity, she did confess
Was as a scorpion to her sight; whose life,
But that her flight prevented it, she had
Ta'en off by poison.",285,18874
637864,3478,"O most delicate fiend!
Who is 't can read a woman? Is there more?",299,18874
637865,3480,"More, sir, and worse. She did confess she had
For you a mortal mineral; which, being took,
Should by the minute feed on life and lingering
By inches waste you: in which time she purposed,
By watching, weeping, tendance, kissing, to
O'ercome you with her show, and in time,
When she had fitted you with her craft, to work
Her son into the adoption of the crown:
But, failing of her end by his strange absence,
Grew shameless-desperate; open'd, in despite
Of heaven and men, her purposes; repented
The evils she hatch'd were not effected; so
Despairing died.",285,18874
637866,3493,"Heard you all this, her women?",299,18874
637867,3494,"We did, so please your highness.",431,18874
637868,3495,"Mine eyes
Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;
Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart,
That thought her like her seeming; it had
been vicious
To have mistrusted her: yet, O my daughter!
That it was folly in me, thou mayst say,
And prove it in thy feeling. Heaven mend all!
[Enter LUCIUS, IACHIMO, the Soothsayer, and other]
Roman Prisoners, guarded; POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
behind, and IMOGEN]
Thou comest not, Caius, now for tribute that
The Britons have razed out, though with the loss
Of many a bold one; whose kinsmen have made suit
That their good souls may be appeased with slaughter
Of you their captives, which ourself have granted:
So think of your estate.",299,18874
637869,3512,"Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day
Was yours by accident; had it gone with us,
We should not, when the blood was cool,
have threaten'd
Our prisoners with the sword. But since the gods
Will have it thus, that nothing but our lives
May be call'd ransom, let it come: sufficeth
A Roman with a Roman's heart can suffer:
Augustus lives to think on't: and so much
For my peculiar care. This one thing only
I will entreat; my boy, a Briton born,
Let him be ransom'd: never master had
A page so kind, so duteous, diligent,
So tender over his occasions, true,
So feat, so nurse-like: let his virtue join
With my request, which I make bold your highness
Cannot deny; he hath done no Briton harm,
Though he have served a Roman: save him, sir,
And spare no blood beside.",206,18874
637870,3531,"I have surely seen him:
His favour is familiar to me. Boy,
Thou hast look'd thyself into my grace,
And art mine own. I know not why, wherefore,
To say 'live, boy:' ne'er thank thy master; live:
And ask of Cymbeline what boon thou wilt,
Fitting my bounty and thy state, I'll give it;
Yea, though thou do demand a prisoner,
The noblest ta'en.",299,18874
637871,3540,I humbly thank your highness.,601,18874
637872,3541,"I do not bid thee beg my life, good lad;
And yet I know thou wilt.",206,18874
637873,3543,"No, no: alack,
There's other work in hand: I see a thing
Bitter to me as death: your life, good master,
Must shuffle for itself.",601,18874
637874,3547,"The boy disdains me,
He leaves me, scorns me: briefly die their joys
That place them on the truth of girls and boys.
Why stands he so perplex'd?",206,18874
637875,3551,"What wouldst thou, boy?
I love thee more and more: think more and more
What's best to ask. Know'st him thou look'st on? speak,
Wilt have him live? Is he thy kin? thy friend?",299,18874
637876,3555,"He is a Roman; no more kin to me
Than I to your highness; who, being born your vassal,
Am something nearer.",601,18874
637877,3558,Wherefore eyest him so?,299,18874
637878,3559,"I'll tell you, sir, in private, if you please
To give me hearing.",601,18874
637879,3561,"Ay, with all my heart,
And lend my best attention. What's thy name?",299,18874
637880,3563,"Fidele, sir.",601,18874
637881,3564,"Thou'rt my good youth, my page;
I'll be thy master: walk with me; speak freely.",299,18874
637882,3566,[CYMBELINE and IMOGEN converse apart],1261,18874
637883,3567,Is not this boy revived from death?,158,18874
637884,3568,"One sand another
Not more resembles that sweet rosy lad
Who died, and was Fidele. What think you?",127,18874
637885,3571,The same dead thing alive.,552,18874
637886,3572,"Peace, peace! see further; he eyes us not; forbear;
Creatures may be alike: were 't he, I am sure
He would have spoke to us.",158,18874
637887,3575,But we saw him dead.,552,18874
637888,3576,Be silent; let's see further.,158,18874
637889,3577,"[Aside]. It is my mistress:
Since she is living, let the time run on
To good or bad.",890,18874
637890,3580,[CYMBELINE and IMOGEN come forward],1261,18874
637891,3581,"Come, stand thou by our side;
Make thy demand aloud.
[To IACHIMO]
Sir, step you forth;
Give answer to this boy, and do it freely;
Or, by our greatness and the grace of it,
Which is our honour, bitter torture shall
Winnow the truth from falsehood. On, speak to him.",299,18874
637892,3589,"My boon is, that this gentleman may render
Of whom he had this ring.",601,18874
637893,3591,[Aside] What's that to him?,911,18874
637894,3592,"That diamond upon your finger, say
How came it yours?",299,18874
637895,3594,"Thou'lt torture me to leave unspoken that
Which, to be spoke, would torture thee.",599,18874
637896,3596,How! me?,299,18874
637897,3597,"I am glad to be constrain'd to utter that
Which torments me to conceal. By villany
I got this ring: 'twas Leonatus' jewel;
Whom thou didst banish; and--which more may
grieve thee,
As it doth me--a nobler sir ne'er lived
'Twixt sky and ground. Wilt thou hear more, my lord?",599,18874
637898,3604,All that belongs to this.,299,18874
637899,3605,"That paragon, thy daughter,--
For whom my heart drops blood, and my false spirits
Quail to remember--Give me leave; I faint.",599,18874
637900,3608,"My daughter! what of her? Renew thy strength:
I had rather thou shouldst live while nature will
Than die ere I hear more: strive, man, and speak.",299,18874
637901,3611,"Upon a time,--unhappy was the clock
That struck the hour!--it was in Rome,--accursed
The mansion where!--'twas at a feast,--O, would
Our viands had been poison'd, or at least
Those which I heaved to head!--the good Posthumus--
What should I say? he was too good to be
Where ill men were; and was the best of all
Amongst the rarest of good ones,--sitting sadly,
Hearing us praise our loves of Italy
For beauty that made barren the swell'd boast
Of him that best could speak, for feature, laming
The shrine of Venus, or straight-pight Minerva.
Postures beyond brief nature, for condition,
A shop of all the qualities that man
Loves woman for, besides that hook of wiving,
Fairness which strikes the eye--",599,18874
637902,3627,"I stand on fire:
Come to the matter.",299,18874
637903,3629,"All too soon I shall,
Unless thou wouldst grieve quickly. This Posthumus,
Most like a noble lord in love and one
That had a royal lover, took his hint;
And, not dispraising whom we praised,--therein
He was as calm as virtue--he began
His mistress' picture; which by his tongue
being made,
And then a mind put in't, either our brags
Were crack'd of kitchen-trolls, or his description
Proved us unspeaking sots.",599,18874
637904,3640,"Nay, nay, to the purpose.",299,18874
637905,3641,"Your daughter's chastity--there it begins.
He spake of her, as Dian had hot dreams,
And she alone were cold: whereat I, wretch,
Made scruple of his praise; and wager'd with him
Pieces of gold 'gainst this which then he wore
Upon his honour'd finger, to attain
In suit the place of's bed and win this ring
By hers and mine adultery. He, true knight,
No lesser of her honour confident
Than I did truly find her, stakes this ring;
And would so, had it been a carbuncle
Of Phoebus' wheel, and might so safely, had it
Been all the worth of's car. Away to Britain
Post I in this design: well may you, sir,
Remember me at court; where I was taught
Of your chaste daughter the wide difference
'Twixt amorous and villanous. Being thus quench'd
Of hope, not longing, mine Italian brain
'Gan in your duller Britain operate
Most vilely; for my vantage, excellent:
And, to be brief, my practise so prevail'd,
That I return'd with simular proof enough
To make the noble Leonatus mad,
By wounding his belief in her renown
With tokens thus, and thus; averting notes
Of chamber-hanging, pictures, this her bracelet,--
O cunning, how I got it!--nay, some marks
Of secret on her person, that he could not
But think her bond of chastity quite crack'd,
I having ta'en the forfeit. Whereupon--
Methinks, I see him now--",599,18874
637906,3672,"[Advancing] Ay, so thou dost,
Italian fiend! Ay me, most credulous fool,
Egregious murderer, thief, any thing
That's due to all the villains past, in being,
To come! O, give me cord, or knife, or poison,
Some upright justicer! Thou, king, send out
For torturers ingenious: it is I
That all the abhorred things o' the earth amend
By being worse than they. I am Posthumus,
That kill'd thy daughter:--villain-like, I lie--
That caused a lesser villain than myself,
A sacrilegious thief, to do't: the temple
Of virtue was she; yea, and she herself.
Spit, and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set
The dogs o' the street to bay me: every villain
Be call'd Posthumus Leonitus; and
Be villany less than 'twas! O Imogen!
My queen, my life, my wife! O Imogen,
Imogen, Imogen!",911,18874
637907,3691,"Peace, my lord; hear, hear--",601,18874
637908,3692,"Shall's have a play of this? Thou scornful page,
There lie thy part.",911,18874
637909,3694,[Striking her: she falls],1261,18874
637910,3695,"O, gentlemen, help!
Mine and your mistress! O, my lord Posthumus!
You ne'er kill'd Imogen til now. Help, help!
Mine honour'd lady!",890,18874
637911,3699,Does the world go round?,299,18874
637912,3700,How come these staggers on me?,911,18874
637913,3701,"Wake, my mistress!",890,18874
637914,3702,"If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me
To death with mortal joy.",299,18874
637915,3704,How fares thy mistress?,890,18874
637916,3705,"O, get thee from my sight;
Thou gavest me poison: dangerous fellow, hence!
Breathe not where princes are.",601,18874
637917,3708,The tune of Imogen!,299,18874
637918,3709,"Lady,
The gods throw stones of sulphur on me, if
That box I gave you was not thought by me
A precious thing: I had it from the queen.",890,18874
637919,3713,New matter still?,299,18874
637920,3714,It poison'd me.,601,18874
637921,3715,"O gods!
I left out one thing which the queen confess'd.
Which must approve thee honest: 'If Pisanio
Have,' said she, 'given his mistress that confection
Which I gave him for cordial, she is served
As I would serve a rat.'",285,18874
637922,3721,"What's this, Comelius?",299,18874
637923,3722,"The queen, sir, very oft importuned me
To temper poisons for her, still pretending
The satisfaction of her knowledge only
In killing creatures vile, as cats and dogs,
Of no esteem: I, dreading that her purpose
Was of more danger, did compound for her
A certain stuff, which, being ta'en, would cease
The present power of life, but in short time
All offices of nature should again
Do their due functions. Have you ta'en of it?",285,18874
637924,3732,"Most like I did, for I was dead.",601,18874
637925,3733,"My boys,
There was our error.",158,18874
637926,3735,"This is, sure, Fidele.",552,18874
637927,3736,"Why did you throw your wedded lady from you?
Think that you are upon a rock; and now
Throw me again.",601,18874
637928,3739,[Embracing him],1261,18874
637929,3740,"Hang there like a fruit, my soul,
Till the tree die!",911,18874
637930,3742,"How now, my flesh, my child!
What, makest thou me a dullard in this act?
Wilt thou not speak to me?",299,18874
637931,3745,"[Kneeling] Your blessing, sir.",601,18874
637932,3746,"[To GUIDERIUS and ARVIRAGUS] Though you did love
this youth, I blame ye not:
You had a motive for't.",158,18874
637933,3749,"My tears that fall
Prove holy water on thee! Imogen,
Thy mother's dead.",299,18874
637934,3752,"I am sorry for't, my lord.",601,18874
637935,3753,"O, she was nought; and long of her it was
That we meet here so strangely: but her son
Is gone, we know not how nor where.",299,18874
637936,3756,"My lord,
Now fear is from me, I'll speak troth. Lord Cloten,
Upon my lady's missing, came to me
With his sword drawn; foam'd at the mouth, and swore,
If I discover'd not which way she was gone,
It was my instant death. By accident,
had a feigned letter of my master's
Then in my pocket; which directed him
To seek her on the mountains near to Milford;
Where, in a frenzy, in my master's garments,
Which he enforced from me, away he posts
With unchaste purpose and with oath to violate
My lady's honour: what became of him
I further know not.",890,18874
637937,3770,"Let me end the story:
I slew him there.",552,18874
637938,3772,"Marry, the gods forfend!
I would not thy good deeds should from my lips
Pluck a bard sentence: prithee, valiant youth,
Deny't again.",299,18874
637939,3776,"I have spoke it, and I did it.",552,18874
637940,3777,He was a prince.,299,18874
637941,3778,"A most incivil one: the wrongs he did me
Were nothing prince-like; for he did provoke me
With language that would make me spurn the sea,
If it could so roar to me: I cut off's head;
And am right glad he is not standing here
To tell this tale of mine.",552,18874
637942,3784,"I am sorry for thee:
By thine own tongue thou art condemn'd, and must
Endure our law: thou'rt dead.",299,18874
637943,3787,"That headless man
I thought had been my lord.",601,18874
637944,3789,"Bind the offender,
And take him from our presence.",299,18874
637945,3791,"Stay, sir king:
This man is better than the man he slew,
As well descended as thyself; and hath
More of thee merited than a band of Clotens
Had ever scar for.
[To the Guard]
Let his arms alone;
They were not born for bondage.",158,18874
637946,3799,"Why, old soldier,
Wilt thou undo the worth thou art unpaid for,
By tasting of our wrath? How of descent
As good as we?",299,18874
637947,3803,In that he spake too far.,127,18874
637948,3804,And thou shalt die for't.,299,18874
637949,3805,"We will die all three:
But I will prove that two on's are as good
As I have given out him. My sons, I must,
For mine own part, unfold a dangerous speech,
Though, haply, well for you.",158,18874
637950,3810,Your danger's ours.,127,18874
637951,3811,And our good his.,552,18874
637952,3812,"Have at it then, by leave.
Thou hadst, great king, a subject who
Was call'd Belarius.",158,18874
637953,3815,"What of him? he is
A banish'd traitor.",299,18874
637954,3817,"He it is that hath
Assumed this age; indeed a banish'd man;
I know not how a traitor.",158,18874
637955,3820,"Take him hence:
The whole world shall not save him.",299,18874
637956,3822,"Not too hot:
First pay me for the nursing of thy sons;
And let it be confiscate all, so soon
As I have received it.",158,18874
637957,3826,Nursing of my sons!,299,18874
637958,3827,"I am too blunt and saucy: here's my knee:
Ere I arise, I will prefer my sons;
Then spare not the old father. Mighty sir,
These two young gentlemen, that call me father
And think they are my sons, are none of mine;
They are the issue of your loins, my liege,
And blood of your begetting.",158,18874
637959,3834,How! my issue!,299,18874
637960,3835,"So sure as you your father's. I, old Morgan,
Am that Belarius whom you sometime banish'd:
Your pleasure was my mere offence, my punishment
Itself, and all my treason; that I suffer'd
Was all the harm I did. These gentle princes--
For such and so they are--these twenty years
Have I train'd up: those arts they have as I
Could put into them; my breeding was, sir, as
Your highness knows. Their nurse, Euriphile,
Whom for the theft I wedded, stole these children
Upon my banishment: I moved her to't,
Having received the punishment before,
For that which I did then: beaten for loyalty
Excited me to treason: their dear loss,
The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shaped
Unto my end of stealing them. But, gracious sir,
Here are your sons again; and I must lose
Two of the sweet'st companions in the world.
The benediction of these covering heavens
Fall on their heads like dew! for they are worthy
To inlay heaven with stars.",158,18874
637961,3856,"Thou weep'st, and speak'st.
The service that you three have done is more
Unlike than this thou tell'st. I lost my children:
If these be they, I know not how to wish
A pair of worthier sons.",299,18874
637962,3861,"Be pleased awhile.
This gentleman, whom I call Polydore,
Most worthy prince, as yours, is true Guiderius:
This gentleman, my Cadwal, Arviragus,
Your younger princely son; he, sir, was lapp'd
In a most curious mantle, wrought by the hand
Of his queen mother, which for more probation
I can with ease produce.",158,18874
637963,3869,"Guiderius had
Upon his neck a mole, a sanguine star;
It was a mark of wonder.",299,18874
637964,3872,"This is he;
Who hath upon him still that natural stamp:
It was wise nature's end in the donation,
To be his evidence now.",158,18874
637965,3876,"O, what, am I
A mother to the birth of three? Ne'er mother
Rejoiced deliverance more. Blest pray you be,
That, after this strange starting from your orbs,
may reign in them now! O Imogen,
Thou hast lost by this a kingdom.",299,18874
637966,3882,"No, my lord;
I have got two worlds by 't. O my gentle brothers,
Have we thus met? O, never say hereafter
But I am truest speaker you call'd me brother,
When I was but your sister; I you brothers,
When ye were so indeed.",601,18874
637967,3888,Did you e'er meet?,299,18874
637968,3889,"Ay, my good lord.",127,18874
637969,3890,"And at first meeting loved;
Continued so, until we thought he died.",552,18874
637970,3892,By the queen's dram she swallow'd.,285,18874
637971,3893,"O rare instinct!
When shall I hear all through? This fierce
abridgement
Hath to it circumstantial branches, which
Distinction should be rich in. Where? how lived You?
And when came you to serve our Roman captive?
How parted with your brothers? how first met them?
Why fled you from the court? and whither? These,
And your three motives to the battle, with
I know not how much more, should be demanded;
And all the other by-dependencies,
From chance to chance: but nor the time nor place
Will serve our long inter'gatories. See,
Posthumus anchors upon Imogen,
And she, like harmless lightning, throws her eye
On him, her brother, me, her master, hitting
Each object with a joy: the counterchange
Is severally in all. Let's quit this ground,
And smoke the temple with our sacrifices.
[To BELARIUS]
Thou art my brother; so we'll hold thee ever.",299,18874
637972,3914,"You are my father too, and did relieve me,
To see this gracious season.",601,18874
637973,3916,"All o'erjoy'd,
Save these in bonds: let them be joyful too,
For they shall taste our comfort.",299,18874
637974,3919,"My good master,
I will yet do you service.",601,18874
637975,3921,Happy be you!,206,18874
637976,3922,"The forlorn soldier, that so nobly fought,
He would have well becomed this place, and graced
The thankings of a king.",299,18874
637977,3925,"I am, sir,
The soldier that did company these three
In poor beseeming; 'twas a fitment for
The purpose I then follow'd. That I was he,
Speak, Iachimo: I had you down and might
Have made you finish.",911,18874
637978,3931,"[Kneeling] I am down again:
But now my heavy conscience sinks my knee,
As then your force did. Take that life, beseech you,
Which I so often owe: but your ring first;
And here the bracelet of the truest princess
That ever swore her faith.",599,18874
637979,3937,"Kneel not to me:
The power that I have on you is, to spare you;
The malice towards you to forgive you: live,
And deal with others better.",911,18874
637980,3941,"Nobly doom'd!
We'll learn our freeness of a son-in-law;
Pardon's the word to all.",299,18874
637981,3944,"You holp us, sir,
As you did mean indeed to be our brother;
Joy'd are we that you are.",127,18874
637982,3947,"Your servant, princes. Good my lord of Rome,
Call forth your soothsayer: as I slept, methought
Great Jupiter, upon his eagle back'd,
Appear'd to me, with other spritely shows
Of mine own kindred: when I waked, I found
This label on my bosom; whose containing
Is so from sense in hardness, that I can
Make no collection of it: let him show
His skill in the construction.",911,18874
637983,3956,Philarmonus!,206,18874
637984,3957,"Here, my good lord.",1143,18874
637985,3958,"Read, and declare the meaning.",206,18874
637986,3959,"[Reads] 'When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself
unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced by a
piece of tender air; and when from a stately cedar
shall be lopped branches, which, being dead many
years, shall after revive, be jointed to the old
stock, and freshly grow; then shall Posthumus end
his miseries, Britain be fortunate and flourish in
peace and plenty.'
Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp;
The fit and apt construction of thy name,
Being Leonatus, doth import so much.
[To CYMBELINE]
The piece of tender air, thy virtuous daughter,
Which we call 'mollis aer;' and 'mollis aer'
We term it 'mulier:' which 'mulier' I divine
Is this most constant wife; who, even now,
Answering the letter of the oracle,
Unknown to you, unsought, were clipp'd about
With this most tender air.",1143,18874
637987,3978,This hath some seeming.,299,18874
637988,3979,"The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline,
Personates thee: and thy lopp'd branches point
Thy two sons forth; who, by Belarius stol'n,
For many years thought dead, are now revived,
To the majestic cedar join'd, whose issue
Promises Britain peace and plenty.",1143,18874
637989,3985,"Well
My peace we will begin. And, Caius Lucius,
Although the victor, we submit to Caesar,
And to the Roman empire; promising
To pay our wonted tribute, from the which
We were dissuaded by our wicked queen;
Whom heavens, in justice, both on her and hers,
Have laid most heavy hand.",299,18874
637990,3993,"The fingers of the powers above do tune
The harmony of this peace. The vision
Which I made known to Lucius, ere the stroke
Of this yet scarce-cold battle, at this instant
Is full accomplish'd; for the Roman eagle,
From south to west on wing soaring aloft,
Lessen'd herself, and in the beams o' the sun
So vanish'd: which foreshow'd our princely eagle,
The imperial Caesar, should again unite
His favour with the radiant Cymbeline,
Which shines here in the west.",1143,18874
637991,4004,"Laud we the gods;
And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils
From our blest altars. Publish we this peace
To all our subjects. Set we forward: let
A Roman and a British ensign wave
Friendly together: so through Lud's-town march:
And in the temple of great Jupiter
Our peace we'll ratify; seal it with feasts.
Set on there! Never was a war did cease,
Ere bloody hands were wash'd, with such a peace.",299,18874
637992,4014,[Exeunt],1261,18874
637993,3,"Enter two Sentinels-[first,] Francisco, [who paces up and down at his post; then] Bernardo, [who approaches him].",1261,18875
637994,4,Who's there?,163,18875
637995,5,"Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself.",494,18875
637996,6,Long live the King!,163,18875
637997,7,Bernardo?,494,18875
637998,8,He.,163,18875
637999,9,You come most carefully upon your hour.,494,18875
638000,10,"'Tis now struck twelve. Get thee to bed, Francisco.",163,18875
638001,11,"For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.",494,18875
638002,13,Have you had quiet guard?,163,18875
638003,14,Not a mouse stirring.,494,18875
638004,15,"Well, good night.
If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,
The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.",163,18875
638005,18,               Enter Horatio and Marcellus. ,1261,18875
638006,19,"I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who is there?",494,18875
638007,20,Friends to this ground.,588,18875
638008,21,And liegemen to the Dane.,731,18875
638009,22,Give you good night.,494,18875
638010,23,"O, farewell, honest soldier.
Who hath reliev'd you?",731,18875
638011,25,"Bernardo hath my place.
Give you good night.               Exit.",494,18875
638012,27,"Holla, Bernardo!",731,18875
638013,28,"Say-
What, is Horatio there ?",163,18875
638014,30,A piece of him.,588,18875
638015,31,"Welcome, Horatio. Welcome, good Marcellus.",163,18875
638016,32,"What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?",731,18875
638017,33,I have seen nothing.,163,18875
638018,34,"Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
And will not let belief take hold of him
Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us.
Therefore I have entreated him along, 
With us to watch the minutes of this night,
That, if again this apparition come,
He may approve our eyes and speak to it.",731,18875
638019,41,"Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.",588,18875
638020,42,"Sit down awhile,
And let us once again assail your ears,
That are so fortified against our story,
What we two nights have seen.",163,18875
638021,46,"Well, sit we down,
And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.",588,18875
638022,48,"Last night of all,
When yond same star that's westward from the pole
Had made his course t' illume that part of heaven
Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
The bell then beating one-",163,18875
638023,53,                   Enter Ghost.,1261,18875
638024,54,Peace! break thee off! Look where it comes again!,731,18875
638025,55,"In the same figure, like the King that's dead. ",163,18875
638026,56,"Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.",731,18875
638027,57,"Looks it not like the King? Mark it, Horatio.",163,18875
638028,58,Most like. It harrows me with fear and wonder.,588,18875
638029,59,It would be spoke to.,163,18875
638030,60,"Question it, Horatio.",731,18875
638031,61,"What art thou that usurp'st this time of night
Together with that fair and warlike form
In which the majesty of buried Denmark
Did sometimes march? By heaven I charge thee speak!",588,18875
638032,65,It is offended.,731,18875
638033,66,"See, it stalks away!",163,18875
638034,67,"Stay! Speak, speak! I charge thee speak!",588,18875
638035,68,                                                Exit Ghost.,1261,18875
638038,73,"Before my God, I might not this believe
Without the sensible and true avouch
Of mine own eyes. ",588,18875
638039,76,Is it not like the King?,731,18875
638040,77,"As thou art to thyself.
Such was the very armour he had on
When he th' ambitious Norway combated.
So frown'd he once when, in an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.
'Tis strange.",588,18875
638041,83,"Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.",731,18875
638042,85,"In what particular thought to work I know not;
But, in the gross and scope of my opinion,
This bodes some strange eruption to our state.",588,18875
638043,88,"Good now, sit down, and tell me he that knows,
Why this same strict and most observant watch
So nightly toils the subject of the land,
And why such daily cast of brazen cannon
And foreign mart for implements of war;
Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task
Does not divide the Sunday from the week.
What might be toward, that this sweaty haste 
Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day?
Who is't that can inform me?",731,18875
638044,98,"That can I.
At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king,
Whose image even but now appear'd to us,
Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,
Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride,
Dar'd to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet
(For so this side of our known world esteem'd him)
Did slay this Fortinbras; who, by a seal'd compact,
Well ratified by law and heraldry,
Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands
Which he stood seiz'd of, to the conqueror;
Against the which a moiety competent
Was gaged by our king; which had return'd
To the inheritance of Fortinbras,
Had he been vanquisher, as, by the same cov'nant
And carriage of the article design'd,
His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,
Of unimproved mettle hot and full, 
Hath in the skirts of Norway, here and there,
Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes,
For food and diet, to some enterprise
That hath a stomach in't; which is no other,
As it doth well appear unto our state,
But to recover of us, by strong hand
And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands
So by his father lost; and this, I take it,
Is the main motive of our preparations,
The source of this our watch, and the chief head
Of this post-haste and romage in the land.",588,18875
638045,127,"I think it be no other but e'en so.
Well may it sort that this portentous figure
Comes armed through our watch, so like the King
That was and is the question of these wars.",163,18875
638046,131,"A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; 
As stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood,
Disasters in the sun; and the moist star
Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands
Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.
And even the like precurse of fierce events,
As harbingers preceding still the fates
And prologue to the omen coming on,
Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
Unto our climature and countrymen.
[Enter Ghost again.]
But soft! behold! Lo, where it comes again!
I'll cross it, though it blast me.- Stay illusion!
[Spreads his arms.]
If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me.
If there be any good thing to be done,
That may to thee do ease, and, race to me,
Speak to me. 
If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
Which happily foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!
Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth
(For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death),
[The cock crows.]
Speak of it! Stay, and speak!- Stop it, Marcellus!",588,18875
638047,162,Shall I strike at it with my partisan?,731,18875
638048,163,"Do, if it will not stand.",588,18875
638051,166,"'Tis gone!
[Exit Ghost.]
We do it wrong, being so majestical,
To offer it the show of violence;
For it is as the air, invulnerable,
And our vain blows malicious mockery.",731,18875
638052,172,"It was about to speak, when the cock crew.",163,18875
638053,173,"And then it started, like a guilty thing 
Upon a fearful summons. I have heard
The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
Awake the god of day; and at his warning,
Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine; and of the truth herein
This present object made probation.",588,18875
638054,182,"It faded on the crowing of the cock.
Some say that ever, 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long;
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,
The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.",731,18875
638055,190,"So have I heard and do in part believe it.
But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
Break we our watch up; and by my advice 
Let us impart what we have seen to-night
Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,
This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,
As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?
Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know
Where we shall find him most conveniently.",588,18875
638056,201,Exeunt.,1261,18875
638057,203,"Flourish. [Enter Claudius, King of Denmark, Gertrude the Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes and his sister Ophelia, [Voltemand, Cornelius,] Lords Attendant.",1261,18876
638058,204,"Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
The memory be green, and that it us befitted
To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom
To be contracted in one brow of woe,
Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
That we with wisest sorrow think on him
Together with remembrance of ourselves.
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state,
Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,
With an auspicious, and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole,
Taken to wife; nor have we herein barr'd
Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone 
With this affair along. For all, our thanks.
Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,
Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
Or thinking by our late dear brother's death
Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,
Colleagued with this dream of his advantage,
He hath not fail'd to pester us with message
Importing the surrender of those lands
Lost by his father, with all bands of law,
To our most valiant brother. So much for him.
Now for ourself and for this time of meeting.
Thus much the business is: we have here writ
To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,
Who, impotent and bedrid, scarcely hears
Of this his nephew's purpose, to suppress
His further gait herein, in that the levies,
The lists, and full proportions are all made
Out of his subject; and we here dispatch
You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand,
For bearers of this greeting to old Norway, 
Giving to you no further personal power
To business with the King, more than the scope
Of these dilated articles allow.  [Gives a paper.]
Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.",258,18876
638059,243,"[with Voltemand] In that, and all things, will we show our duty.",284,18876
638060,244,"We doubt it nothing. Heartily farewell.
[Exeunt Voltemand and Cornelius.]
And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?
You told us of some suit. What is't, Laertes?
You cannot speak of reason to the Dane
And lose your voice. What wouldst thou beg, Laertes,
That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?
The head is not more native to the heart,
The hand more instrumental to the mouth,
Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
What wouldst thou have, Laertes?",258,18876
638061,255,"My dread lord,
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark
To show my duty in your coronation, 
Yet now I must confess, that duty done,
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.",651,18876
638062,262,Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?,258,18876
638063,263,"He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave
By laboursome petition, and at last
Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent.
I do beseech you give him leave to go.",899,18876
638064,267,"Take thy fair hour, Laertes. Time be thine,
And thy best graces spend it at thy will!
But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son-",258,18876
638065,270,"[aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind!",559,18876
638066,271,How is it that the clouds still hang on you?,258,18876
638067,272,"Not so, my lord. I am too much i' th' sun.",559,18876
638068,273,"Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
Thou know'st 'tis common. All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity. ",528,18876
638069,279,"Ay, madam, it is common.",559,18876
638070,280,"If it be,
Why seems it so particular with thee?",528,18876
638071,282,"Seems, madam, Nay, it is. I know not 'seems.'
'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath,
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected havior of the visage,
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
'That can denote me truly. These indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might play;
But I have that within which passeth show-
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.",559,18876
638072,293,"'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,
To give these mourning duties to your father;
But you must know, your father lost a father;
That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound
In filial obligation for some term
To do obsequious sorrow. But to persever 
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness. 'Tis unmanly grief;
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,
An understanding simple and unschool'd;
For what we know must be, and is as common
As any the most vulgar thing to sense,
Why should we in our peevish opposition
Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,
A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
To reason most absurd, whose common theme
Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,
From the first corse till he that died to-day,
'This must be so.' We pray you throw to earth
This unprevailing woe, and think of us
As of a father; for let the world take note
You are the most immediate to our throne,
And with no less nobility of love
Than that which dearest father bears his son
Do I impart toward you. For your intent 
In going back to school in Wittenberg,
It is most retrograde to our desire;
And we beseech you, bend you to remain
Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye,
Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.",258,18876
638073,324,"Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet.
I pray thee stay with us, go not to Wittenberg.",528,18876
638074,326,"I shall in all my best obey you, madam.",559,18876
638075,327,"Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply.
Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come.
This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet
Sits smiling to my heart; in grace whereof,
No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day
But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,
And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
Respeaking earthly thunder. Come away.",258,18876
638076,335,                           Flourish. Exeunt all but Hamlet.,1261,18876
638077,336,"O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd 
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah, fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two.
So excellent a king, that was to this
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on; and yet, within a month-
Let me not think on't! Frailty, thy name is woman!-
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body
Like Niobe, all tears- why she, even she
(O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourn'd longer) married with my uncle; 
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules. Within a month,
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not, nor it cannot come to good.
But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue!",559,18876
638078,367,"     Enter Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo.",1261,18876
638079,368,Hail to your lordship!,588,18876
638080,369,"I am glad to see you well.
Horatio!- or I do forget myself.",559,18876
638081,371,"The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.",588,18876
638082,372,"Sir, my good friend- I'll change that name with you.
And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio?
Marcellus?",559,18876
638083,375,My good lord!,731,18876
638084,376,"I am very glad to see you.- [To Bernardo] Good even, sir.-
But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?",559,18876
638085,378,"A truant disposition, good my lord.",588,18876
638086,379,"I would not hear your enemy say so,
Nor shall you do my ear that violence
To make it truster of your own report
Against yourself. I know you are no truant.
But what is your affair in Elsinore?
We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.",559,18876
638087,385,"My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.",588,18876
638088,386,"I prithee do not mock me, fellow student.
I think it was to see my mother's wedding.",559,18876
638089,388,"Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon.",588,18876
638090,389,"Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!
My father- methinks I see my father.",559,18876
638091,394,"O, where, my lord?",588,18876
638092,395,"In my mind's eye, Horatio.",559,18876
638093,396,I saw him once. He was a goodly king. ,588,18876
638094,397,"He was a man, take him for all in all.
I shall not look upon his like again.",559,18876
638095,399,"My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.",588,18876
638096,400,Saw? who?,559,18876
638097,401,"My lord, the King your father.",588,18876
638098,402,The King my father?,559,18876
638099,403,"Season your admiration for a while
With an attent ear, till I may deliver
Upon the witness of these gentlemen,
This marvel to you.",588,18876
638100,407,For God's love let me hear!,559,18876
638101,408,"Two nights together had these gentlemen
(Marcellus and Bernardo) on their watch
In the dead vast and middle of the night
Been thus encount'red. A figure like your father,
Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,
Appears before them and with solemn march
Goes slow and stately by them. Thrice he walk'd
By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes,
Within his truncheon's length; whilst they distill'd 
Almost to jelly with the act of fear,
Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me
In dreadful secrecy impart they did,
And I with them the third night kept the watch;
Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,
Form of the thing, each word made true and good,
The apparition comes. I knew your father.
These hands are not more like.",588,18876
638102,425,But where was this?,559,18876
638103,426,"My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd.",731,18876
638104,427,Did you not speak to it?,559,18876
638105,428,"My lord, I did;
But answer made it none. Yet once methought
It lifted up it head and did address
Itself to motion, like as it would speak;
But even then the morning cock crew loud,
And at the sound it shrunk in haste away
And vanish'd from our sight.",588,18876
638108,439,"Indeed, indeed, sirs. But this troubles me.
Hold you the watch to-night?",559,18876
638109,441,"[with Bernardo] We do, my lord.",731,18876
638110,442,"Arm'd, say you?",559,18876
638111,443,"[with Bernardo] Arm'd, my lord.",731,18876
638112,444,From top to toe?,559,18876
638113,445,"[with Bernardo] My lord, from head to foot.",731,18876
638114,446,Then saw you not his face?,559,18876
638115,447,"O, yes, my lord! He wore his beaver up.",588,18876
638116,448,"What, look'd he frowningly.",559,18876
638117,449,A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.,588,18876
638118,450,Pale or red?,559,18876
638119,451,"Nay, very pale.",588,18876
638120,452,And fix'd his eyes upon you?,559,18876
638121,453,Most constantly.,588,18876
638122,454,I would I had been there.,559,18876
638123,455,It would have much amaz'd you.,588,18876
638124,456,"Very like, very like. Stay'd it long? ",559,18876
638125,457,While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.,588,18876
638126,458,"[with Bernardo] Longer, longer.",731,18876
638127,459,Not when I saw't.,588,18876
638128,460,His beard was grizzled- no?,559,18876
638129,461,"It was, as I have seen it in his life,
A sable silver'd.",588,18876
638130,463,"I will watch to-night.
Perchance 'twill walk again.",559,18876
638131,465,I warr'nt it will.,588,18876
638132,466,"If it assume my noble father's person,
I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape
And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,
If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,
Let it be tenable in your silence still;
And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,
Give it an understanding but no tongue.
I will requite your loves. So, fare you well.
Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve,
I'll visit you.",559,18876
638133,476,Our duty to your honour. ,80,18876
638134,477,"Your loves, as mine to you. Farewell.
[Exeunt [all but Hamlet].]
My father's spirit- in arms? All is not well.
I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!
Till then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.",559,18876
638135,483,Exit.,1261,18876
638136,485,Enter Laertes and Ophelia.,1261,18877
638137,486,"My necessaries are embark'd. Farewell.
And, sister, as the winds give benefit
And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,
But let me hear from you.",651,18877
638138,490,Do you doubt that?,837,18877
638139,491,"For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour,
Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood;
A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent- sweet, not lasting;
The perfume and suppliance of a minute;
No more.",651,18877
638140,497,No more but so?,837,18877
638141,498,"Think it no more.
For nature crescent does not grow alone
In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes,
The inward service of the mind and soul
Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now, 
And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
The virtue of his will; but you must fear,
His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own;
For he himself is subject to his birth.
He may not, as unvalued persons do,
Carve for himself, for on his choice depends
The safety and health of this whole state,
And therefore must his choice be circumscrib'd
Unto the voice and yielding of that body
Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,
It fits your wisdom so far to believe it
As he in his particular act and place
May give his saying deed; which is no further
Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.
Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain
If with too credent ear you list his songs,
Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
To his unmast'red importunity.
Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,
And keep you in the rear of your affection, 
Out of the shot and danger of desire.
The chariest maid is prodigal enough
If she unmask her beauty to the moon.
Virtue itself scopes not calumnious strokes.
The canker galls the infants of the spring
Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd,
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.",651,18877
638142,533,"I shall th' effect of this good lesson keep
As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,
Do not as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.",837,18877
638143,540,"O, fear me not!
[Enter Polonius. ]
I stay too long. But here my father comes.
A double blessing is a double grace;
Occasion smiles upon a second leave.",651,18877
638144,545,"Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame!
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay'd for. There- my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar:
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are most select and generous, chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all- to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee!",899,18877
638145,572,"Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.",651,18877
638146,573,"The time invites you. Go, your servants tend.",899,18877
638147,574,"Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well
What I have said to you.",651,18877
638148,576,"'Tis in my memory lock'd,
And you yourself shall keep the key of it.",837,18877
638149,578,Farewell.                      Exit.,651,18877
638150,579,"What is't, Ophelia, he hath said to you?",899,18877
638151,580,"So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet. ",837,18877
638152,581,"Marry, well bethought!
'Tis told me he hath very oft of late
Given private time to you, and you yourself
Have of your audience been most free and bounteous.
If it be so- as so 'tis put on me,
And that in way of caution- I must tell you
You do not understand yourself so clearly
As it behooves my daughter and your honour.
What is between you? Give me up the truth.",899,18877
638153,590,"He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders
Of his affection to me.",837,18877
638154,592,"Affection? Pooh! You speak like a green girl,
Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?",899,18877
638155,595,"I do not know, my lord, what I should think,",837,18877
638156,596,"Marry, I will teach you! Think yourself a baby
That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,
Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly,
Or (not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
Running it thus) you'll tender me a fool. ",899,18877
638157,601,"My lord, he hath importun'd me with love
In honourable fashion.",837,18877
638158,603,"Ay, fashion you may call it. Go to, go to!",899,18877
638159,604,"And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,
With almost all the holy vows of heaven.",837,18877
638160,606,"Ay, springes to catch woodcocks! I do know,
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter,
Giving more light than heat, extinct in both
Even in their promise, as it is a-making,
You must not take for fire. From this time
Be something scanter of your maiden presence.
Set your entreatments at a higher rate
Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,
Believe so much in him, that he is young,
And with a larger tether may he walk
Than may be given you. In few, Ophelia,
Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,
Not of that dye which their investments show,
But mere implorators of unholy suits, 
Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,
The better to beguile. This is for all:
I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth
Have you so slander any moment leisure
As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.
Look to't, I charge you. Come your ways.",899,18877
638161,627,"I shall obey, my lord.",837,18877
638162,628,                                                    Exeunt.,1261,18877
638163,630,"Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus.",1261,18878
638164,631,The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.,559,18878
638165,632,It is a nipping and an eager air.,588,18878
638166,633,What hour now?,559,18878
638167,634,I think it lacks of twelve.,588,18878
638168,635,"No, it is struck.",731,18878
638169,636,"Indeed? I heard it not. It then draws near the season
Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.
[A flourish of trumpets, and two pieces go off.]
What does this mean, my lord?",588,18878
638170,640,"The King doth wake to-night and takes his rouse,
Keeps wassail, and the swagg'ring upspring reels,
And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,
The kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out
The triumph of his pledge.",559,18878
638171,645,Is it a custom?,588,18878
638172,646,"Ay, marry, is't;
But to my mind, though I am native here 
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
This heavy-headed revel east and west
Makes us traduc'd and tax'd of other nations;
They clip us drunkards and with swinish phrase
Soil our addition; and indeed it takes
From our achievements, though perform'd at height,
The pith and marrow of our attribute.
So oft it chances in particular men
That, for some vicious mole of nature in them,
As in their birth,- wherein they are not guilty,
Since nature cannot choose his origin,-
By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,
Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,
Or by some habit that too much o'erleavens
The form of plausive manners, that these men
Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,
Their virtues else- be they as pure as grace,
As infinite as man may undergo- 
Shall in the general censure take corruption
From that particular fault. The dram of e'il
Doth all the noble substance often dout To his own scandal.",559,18878
638173,671,                    Enter Ghost.,1261,18878
638174,672,"Look, my lord, it comes!",588,18878
638175,673,"Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou com'st in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet,
King, father, royal Dane. O, answer me?
Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell
Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death,
Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws
To cast thee up again. What may this mean 
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel,
Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon,
Making night hideous, and we fools of nature
So horridly to shake our disposition
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Say, why is this? wherefore? What should we do?",559,18878
638176,692,                                      Ghost beckons Hamlet.,1261,18878
638177,693,"It beckons you to go away with it,
As if it some impartment did desire
To you alone.",588,18878
638178,696,"Look with what courteous action
It waves you to a more removed ground.
But do not go with it!",731,18878
638179,699,"No, by no means!",588,18878
638180,700,It will not speak. Then will I follow it.,559,18878
638181,701,"Do not, my lord!",588,18878
638182,702,"Why, what should be the fear?
I do not set my life at a pin's fee;
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself? 
It waves me forth again. I'll follow it.",559,18878
638183,707,"What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o'er his base into the sea,
And there assume some other, horrible form
Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason
And draw you into madness? Think of it.
The very place puts toys of desperation,
Without more motive, into every brain
That looks so many fadoms to the sea
And hears it roar beneath.",588,18878
638184,717,"It waves me still.
Go on. I'll follow thee.",559,18878
638185,719,"You shall not go, my lord.",731,18878
638186,720,Hold off your hands!,559,18878
638187,721,Be rul'd. You shall not go.,588,18878
638188,722,"My fate cries out
And makes each petty artire in this body
As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.
[Ghost beckons.]
Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen.
By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!-
I say, away!- Go on. I'll follow thee.",559,18878
638189,729,                                   Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet.,1261,18878
638190,730,He waxes desperate with imagination.,588,18878
638191,731,Let's follow. 'Tis not fit thus to obey him.,731,18878
638192,732,Have after. To what issue will this come?,588,18878
638193,733,Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.,731,18878
638194,734,Heaven will direct it.,588,18878
638195,735,"Nay, let's follow him.",731,18878
638196,736,                                                    Exeunt.,1261,18878
638197,738,Enter Ghost and Hamlet.,1261,18879
638198,739,Whither wilt thou lead me? Speak! I'll go no further.,559,18879
638199,740,Mark me.,558,18879
638200,741,I will.,559,18879
638201,742,"My hour is almost come,
When I to sulph'rous and tormenting flames
Must render up myself.",558,18879
638202,745,"Alas, poor ghost!",559,18879
638203,746,"Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing
To what I shall unfold.",558,18879
638204,748,Speak. I am bound to hear.,559,18879
638205,749,"So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.",558,18879
638206,750,What?,559,18879
638207,751,"I am thy father's spirit,
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
And for the day confin'd to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am forbid 
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!
If thou didst ever thy dear father love-",558,18879
638208,766,O God!,559,18879
638209,767,Revenge his foul and most unnatural murther.,558,18879
638210,768,Murther?,559,18879
638211,769,"Murther most foul, as in the best it is;
But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.",558,18879
638212,771,"Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift
As meditation or the thoughts of love,
May sweep to my revenge.",559,18879
638213,774,"I find thee apt;
And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed 
That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,
Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear.
'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abus'd. But know, thou noble youth,
The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown.",558,18879
638214,784,"O my prophetic soul!
My uncle?",559,18879
638215,786,"Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts-
O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
So to seduce!- won to his shameful lust
The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.
O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there,
From me, whose love was of that dignity
That it went hand in hand even with the vow
I made to her in marriage, and to decline
Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor 
To those of mine!
But virtue, as it never will be mov'd,
Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,
So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,
Will sate itself in a celestial bed
And prey on garbage.
But soft! methinks I scent the morning air.
Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,
My custom always of the afternoon,
Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,
With juice of cursed hebona in a vial,
And in the porches of my ears did pour
The leperous distilment; whose effect
Holds such an enmity with blood of man
That swift as quicksilver it courses through
The natural gates and alleys of the body,
And with a sudden vigour it doth posset
And curd, like eager droppings into milk,
The thin and wholesome blood. So did it mine;
And a most instant tetter bark'd about, 
Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust
All my smooth body.
Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand
Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd;
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhous'led, disappointed, unanel'd,
No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head.",558,18879
638216,824,"O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!",559,18879
638217,825,"If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not.
Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
A couch for luxury and damned incest.
But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven,
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge
To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once.
The glowworm shows the matin to be near
And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
Adieu, adieu, adieu! Remember me.  Exit.",558,18879
638218,836,"O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?
And shall I couple hell? Hold, hold, my heart!
And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,
But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee?
Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe. Remember thee?
Yea, from the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past
That youth and observation copied there,
And thy commandment all alone shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain,
Unmix'd with baser matter. Yes, by heaven!
O most pernicious woman!
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
My tables! Meet it is I set it down
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;
At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.  [Writes.]
So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word:
It is 'Adieu, adieu! Remember me.' 
I have sworn't.",559,18879
638219,857,"[within] My lord, my lord!",588,18879
638220,858,              Enter Horatio and Marcellus.,1261,18879
638221,859,Lord Hamlet!,731,18879
638222,860,Heaven secure him!,588,18879
638223,861,So be it!,559,18879
638224,862,"Illo, ho, ho, my lord!",731,18879
638225,863,"Hillo, ho, ho, boy! Come, bird, come.",559,18879
638226,864,"How is't, my noble lord?",731,18879
638227,865,"What news, my lord?",588,18879
638228,866,"O, wonderful!",731,18879
638229,867,"Good my lord, tell it.",588,18879
638230,868,"No, you will reveal it.",559,18879
638231,869,"Not I, my lord, by heaven!",588,18879
638232,870,"Nor I, my lord.",731,18879
638233,871,"How say you then? Would heart of man once think it?
But you'll be secret?",559,18879
638234,873,"[with Horatio] Ay, by heaven, my lord. ",731,18879
638235,874,"There's neer a villain dwelling in all Denmark
But he's an arrant knave.",559,18879
638236,876,"There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
To tell us this.",588,18879
638237,878,"Why, right! You are in the right!
And so, without more circumstance at all,
I hold it fit that we shake hands and part;
You, as your business and desires shall point you,
For every man hath business and desire,
Such as it is; and for my own poor part,
Look you, I'll go pray.",559,18879
638238,885,"These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.",588,18879
638239,886,"I am sorry they offend you, heartily;
Yes, faith, heartily.",559,18879
638240,888,"There's no offence, my lord.",588,18879
638241,889,"Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,
And much offence too. Touching this vision here,
It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you.
For your desire to know what is between us,
O'ermaster't as you may. And now, good friends, 
As you are friends, scholars, and soldiers,
Give me one poor request.",559,18879
638242,896,"What is't, my lord? We will.",588,18879
638243,897,Never make known what you have seen to-night.,559,18879
638244,898,"[with Horatio] My lord, we will not.",731,18879
638245,899,"Nay, but swear't.",559,18879
638246,900,"In faith,
My lord, not I.",588,18879
638247,902,"Nor I, my lord- in faith.",731,18879
638248,903,Upon my sword.,559,18879
638249,904,"We have sworn, my lord, already.",731,18879
638250,905,"Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.",559,18879
638251,906,            Ghost cries under the stage.,1261,18879
638252,907,Swear.,558,18879
638253,908,"Aha boy, say'st thou so? Art thou there, truepenny?
Come on! You hear this fellow in the cellarage.
Consent to swear.",559,18879
638254,911,"Propose the oath, my lord. ",588,18879
638255,912,"Never to speak of this that you have seen.
Swear by my sword.",559,18879
638256,914,[beneath] Swear.,558,18879
638257,915,"Hic et ubique? Then we'll shift our ground.
Come hither, gentlemen,
And lay your hands again upon my sword.
Never to speak of this that you have heard:
Swear by my sword.",559,18879
638258,920,[beneath] Swear by his sword.,558,18879
638259,921,"Well said, old mole! Canst work i' th' earth so fast?
A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends.""",559,18879
638260,923,"O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!",588,18879
638261,924,"And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
But come!
Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,
How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself
(As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on), 
That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,
With arms encumb'red thus, or this head-shake,
Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,
As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,'
Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,'
Or such ambiguous giving out, to note
That you know aught of me- this is not to do,
So grace and mercy at your most need help you,
Swear.",559,18879
638262,941,[beneath] Swear.,558,18879
638263,942,                                              [They swear.],1261,18879
638264,943,"Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! So, gentlemen,
With all my love I do commend me to you;
And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
May do t' express his love and friending to you,
God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together;
And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite
That ever I was born to set it right!
Nay, come, let's go together. ",559,18879
638265,952,                                                    Exeunt.,1261,18879
638266,955,Enter Polonius and Reynaldo.,1261,18880
638267,956,"Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo.",899,18880
638268,957,"I will, my lord.",943,18880
638269,958,"You shall do marvell's wisely, good Reynaldo,
Before You visit him, to make inquire
Of his behaviour.",899,18880
638270,961,"My lord, I did intend it.",943,18880
638271,962,"Marry, well said, very well said. Look you, sir,
Enquire me first what Danskers are in Paris;
And how, and who, what means, and where they keep,
What company, at what expense; and finding
By this encompassment and drift of question
That they do know my son, come you more nearer
Than your particular demands will touch it.
Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him;
As thus, 'I know his father and his friends,
And in part him.' Do you mark this, Reynaldo?",899,18880
638272,972,"Ay, very well, my lord. ",943,18880
638273,973,"'And in part him, but,' you may say, 'not well.
But if't be he I mean, he's very wild
Addicted so and so'; and there put on him
What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank
As may dishonour him- take heed of that;
But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips
As are companions noted and most known
To youth and liberty.",899,18880
638274,981,"As gaming, my lord.",943,18880
638275,982,"Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling,
Drabbing. You may go so far.",899,18880
638276,984,"My lord, that would dishonour him.",943,18880
638277,985,"Faith, no, as you may season it in the charge.
You must not put another scandal on him,
That he is open to incontinency.
That's not my meaning. But breathe his faults so quaintly
That they may seem the taints of liberty,
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
A savageness in unreclaimed blood,
Of general assault. ",899,18880
638278,993,"But, my good lord-",943,18880
638279,994,Wherefore should you do this?,899,18880
638280,995,"Ay, my lord,
I would know that.",943,18880
638281,997,"Marry, sir, here's my drift,
And I believe it is a fetch of warrant.
You laying these slight sullies on my son
As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' th' working,
Mark you,
Your party in converse, him you would sound,
Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes
The youth you breathe of guilty, be assur'd
He closes with you in this consequence:
'Good sir,' or so, or 'friend,' or 'gentleman'-
According to the phrase or the addition
Of man and country-",899,18880
638282,1009,"Very good, my lord.",943,18880
638283,1010,"And then, sir, does 'a this- 'a does- What was I about to say?
By the mass, I was about to say something! Where did I leave?",899,18880
638284,1012,"At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,' and 
gentleman.'",943,18880
638285,1014,"At 'closes in the consequence'- Ay, marry!
He closes thus: 'I know the gentleman.
I saw him yesterday, or t'other day,
Or then, or then, with such or such; and, as you say,
There was 'a gaming; there o'ertook in's rouse;
There falling out at tennis'; or perchance,
'I saw him enter such a house of sale,'
Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth.
See you now-
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
With windlasses and with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions out.
So, by my former lecture and advice,
Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?",899,18880
638286,1029,"My lord, I have.",943,18880
638287,1030,"God b' wi' ye, fare ye well!",899,18880
638288,1031,Good my lord!                                    [Going.],943,18880
638289,1032,Observe his inclination in yourself. ,899,18880
638290,1033,"I shall, my lord.",943,18880
638291,1034,And let him ply his music.,899,18880
638292,1035,"Well, my lord.",943,18880
638293,1036,"Farewell!
[Exit Reynaldo.]
[Enter Ophelia.]
How now, Ophelia? What's the matter?",899,18880
638294,1040,"O my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!",837,18880
638295,1041,"With what, i' th' name of God?",899,18880
638296,1042,"My lord, as I was sewing in my closet,
Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbrac'd,
No hat upon his head, his stockings foul'd,
Ungart'red, and down-gyved to his ankle;
Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other,
And with a look so piteous in purport
As if he had been loosed out of hell
To speak of horrors- he comes before me.",837,18880
638297,1050,Mad for thy love? ,899,18880
638298,1051,"My lord, I do not know,
But truly I do fear it.",837,18880
638299,1053,What said he?,899,18880
638300,1054,"He took me by the wrist and held me hard;
Then goes he to the length of all his arm,
And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow,
He falls to such perusal of my face
As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so.
At last, a little shaking of mine arm,
And thrice his head thus waving up and down,
He rais'd a sigh so piteous and profound
As it did seem to shatter all his bulk
And end his being. That done, he lets me go,
And with his head over his shoulder turn'd
He seem'd to find his way without his eyes,
For out o' doors he went without their help
And to the last bended their light on me.",837,18880
638301,1068,"Come, go with me. I will go seek the King.
This is the very ecstasy of love,
Whose violent property fordoes itself 
And leads the will to desperate undertakings
As oft as any passion under heaven
That does afflict our natures. I am sorry.
What, have you given him any hard words of late?",899,18880
638302,1075,"No, my good lord; but, as you did command,
I did repel his letters and denied
His access to me.",837,18880
638303,1078,"That hath made him mad.
I am sorry that with better heed and judgment
I had not quoted him. I fear'd he did but trifle
And meant to wrack thee; but beshrew my jealousy!
By heaven, it is as proper to our age
To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions
As it is common for the younger sort
To lack discretion. Come, go we to the King.
This must be known; which, being kept close, might move
More grief to hide than hate to utter love.
Come.",899,18880
638304,1089,                                                    Exeunt.,1261,18880
638305,1091,"Flourish. [Enter King and Queen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,",1261,18881
638306,1092,cum aliis.,1261,18881
638307,1093,"Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Moreover that we much did long to see you,
The need we have to use you did provoke
Our hasty sending. Something have you heard
Of Hamlet's transformation. So I call it,
Sith nor th' exterior nor the inward man
Resembles that it was. What it should be,
More than his father's death, that thus hath put him
So much from th' understanding of himself,
I cannot dream of. I entreat you both
That, being of so young days brought up with him,
And since so neighbour'd to his youth and haviour,
That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court
Some little time; so by your companies
To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather
So much as from occasion you may glean, 
Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus
That, open'd, lies within our remedy.",258,18881
638308,1111,"Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you,
And sure I am two men there are not living
To whom he more adheres. If it will please you
To show us so much gentry and good will
As to expend your time with us awhile
For the supply and profit of our hope,
Your visitation shall receive such thanks
As fits a king's remembrance.",528,18881
638309,1119,"Both your Majesties
Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,
Put your dread pleasures more into command
Than to entreaty.",955,18881
638310,1123,"But we both obey,
And here give up ourselves, in the full bent,
To lay our service freely at your feet,
To be commanded.",553,18881
638311,1127,"Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.",258,18881
638312,1128,"Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz. 
And I beseech you instantly to visit
My too much changed son.- Go, some of you,
And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.",528,18881
638313,1132,"Heavens make our presence and our practices
Pleasant and helpful to him!",553,18881
638314,1134,"Ay, amen!",528,18881
638315,1135,"            Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, [with some                                                Attendants].",1261,18881
638316,1136,                    Enter Polonius.,1261,18881
638317,1137,"Th' ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,
Are joyfully return'd.",899,18881
638318,1139,Thou still hast been the father of good news.,258,18881
638319,1140,"Have I, my lord? Assure you, my good liege,
I hold my duty as I hold my soul,
Both to my God and to my gracious king;
And I do think- or else this brain of mine
Hunts not the trail of policy so sure
As it hath us'd to do- that I have found 
The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.",899,18881
638320,1147,"O, speak of that! That do I long to hear.",258,18881
638321,1148,"Give first admittance to th' ambassadors.
My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.",899,18881
638322,1150,"Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.
[Exit Polonius.]
He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found
The head and source of all your son's distemper.",258,18881
638323,1154,"I doubt it is no other but the main,
His father's death and our o'erhasty marriage.",528,18881
638324,1156,"Well, we shall sift him.
[Enter Polonius, Voltemand, and Cornelius.]
Welcome, my good friends.
Say, Voltemand, what from our brother Norway?",258,18881
638325,1160,"Most fair return of greetings and desires.
Upon our first, he sent out to suppress
His nephew's levies; which to him appear'd
To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack, 
But better look'd into, he truly found
It was against your Highness; whereat griev'd,
That so his sickness, age, and impotence
Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests
On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys,
Receives rebuke from Norway, and, in fine,
Makes vow before his uncle never more
To give th' assay of arms against your Majesty.
Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,
Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee
And his commission to employ those soldiers,
So levied as before, against the Polack;
With an entreaty, herein further shown,
[Gives a paper.]
That it might please you to give quiet pass
Through your dominions for this enterprise,
On such regards of safety and allowance
As therein are set down.",1242,18881
638326,1182,"It likes us well;
And at our more consider'd time we'll read, 
Answer, and think upon this business.
Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour.
Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together.
Most welcome home!                       Exeunt Ambassadors.",258,18881
638327,1188,"This business is well ended.
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night is night, and time is time.
Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
But let that go.",899,18881
638328,1199,"More matter, with less art.",528,18881
638329,1200,"Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity;
And pity 'tis 'tis true. A foolish figure!
But farewell it, for I will use no art. 
Mad let us grant him then. And now remains
That we find out the cause of this effect-
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.
Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Perpend.
I have a daughter (have while she is mine),
Who in her duty and obedience, mark,
Hath given me this. Now gather, and surmise.
[Reads] the letter.]
'To the celestial, and my soul's idol, the most beautified Ophelia,'-
That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; 'beautified' is a vile phrase.
But you shall hear. Thus:
[Reads.]
'In her excellent white bosom, these, &c.'",899,18881
638330,1219,Came this from Hamlet to her?,528,18881
638331,1220,"Good madam, stay awhile. I will be faithful. [Reads.]      
     'Doubt thou the stars are fire;
       Doubt that the sun doth move;
     Doubt truth to be a liar;
       But never doubt I love.
 'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers; I have not art to
reckon my groans; but that I love thee best, O most best, believe
it. Adieu.
 'Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this machine is to
him, HAMLET.'
This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me;
And more above, hath his solicitings,
As they fell out by time, by means, and place,
All given to mine ear.",899,18881
638332,1234,"But how hath she
Receiv'd his love?",258,18881
638333,1236,What do you think of me?,899,18881
638334,1237,As of a man faithful and honourable.,258,18881
638335,1238,"I would fain prove so. But what might you think, 
When I had seen this hot love on the wing
(As I perceiv'd it, I must tell you that,
Before my daughter told me), what might you,
Or my dear Majesty your queen here, think,
If I had play'd the desk or table book,
Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb,
Or look'd upon this love with idle sight?
What might you think? No, I went round to work
And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:
'Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star.
This must not be.' And then I prescripts gave her,
That she should lock herself from his resort,
Admit no messengers, receive no tokens.
Which done, she took the fruits of my advice,
And he, repulsed, a short tale to make,
Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,
Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,
Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension,
Into the madness wherein now he raves,
And all we mourn for. ",899,18881
638336,1259,Do you think 'tis this?,258,18881
638337,1260,"it may be, very like.",528,18881
638338,1261,"Hath there been such a time- I would fain know that-
That I have Positively said ''Tis so,'
When it prov'd otherwise.?",899,18881
638339,1264,Not that I know.,258,18881
638340,1265,"[points to his head and shoulder] Take this from this, if this  be otherwise.
If circumstances lead me, I will find
Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed
Within the centre.",899,18881
638341,1269,How may we try it further?,258,18881
638342,1270,"You know sometimes he walks for hours together
Here in the lobby.",899,18881
638343,1272,So he does indeed.,528,18881
638344,1273,"At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him.
Be you and I behind an arras then.
Mark the encounter. If he love her not,
And he not from his reason fall'n thereon
Let me be no assistant for a state, 
But keep a farm and carters.",899,18881
638345,1279,We will try it.,258,18881
638346,1280,"            Enter Hamlet, reading on a book.",1261,18881
638347,1281,But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.,528,18881
638348,1282,"Away, I do beseech you, both away
I'll board him presently. O, give me leave.
[Exeunt King and Queen, [with Attendants].]
How does my good Lord Hamlet?",899,18881
638349,1286,"Well, God-a-mercy.",559,18881
638350,1287,"Do you know me, my lord?",899,18881
638351,1288,Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.,559,18881
638352,1289,"Not I, my lord.",899,18881
638353,1290,Then I would you were so honest a man.,559,18881
638354,1291,"Honest, my lord?",899,18881
638355,1292,"Ay, sir. To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man
pick'd out of ten thousand.",559,18881
638356,1294,"That's very true, my lord.",899,18881
638357,1295,"For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god 
kissing carrion- Have you a daughter?",559,18881
638358,1297,"I have, my lord.",899,18881
638359,1298,"Let her not walk i' th' sun. Conception is a blessing, but not
as your daughter may conceive. Friend, look to't.",559,18881
638360,1300,"[aside] How say you by that? Still harping on my daughter. Yet
he knew me not at first. He said I was a fishmonger. He is far
gone, far gone! And truly in my youth I suff'red much extremity
for love- very near this. I'll speak to him again.- What do you
read, my lord?",899,18881
638361,1305,"Words, words, words.",559,18881
638362,1306,"What is the matter, my lord?",899,18881
638363,1307,Between who?,559,18881
638364,1308,"I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.",899,18881
638365,1309,"Slanders, sir; for the satirical rogue says here that old men
have grey beards; that their faces are wrinkled; their eyes
purging thick amber and plum-tree gum; and that they have a
plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams. All which,
sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it
not honesty to have it thus set down; for you yourself, sir,
should be old as I am if, like a crab, you could go backward.",559,18881
638366,1316,"[aside] Though this be madness, yet there is a method in't.-
 Will You walk out of the air, my lord?",899,18881
638367,1318,Into my grave?,559,18881
638368,1319,"Indeed, that is out o' th' air. [Aside] How pregnant sometimes
his replies are! a happiness that often madness hits on, which
reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of. I
will leave him and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between
him and my daughter.- My honourable lord, I will most humbly take
my leave of you.",899,18881
638369,1325,"You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more
willingly part withal- except my life, except my life, except my
life,",559,18881
638370,1328,               Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.,1261,18881
638371,1329,"Fare you well, my lord.",899,18881
638372,1330,These tedious old fools!,559,18881
638373,1331,You go to seek the Lord Hamlet. There he is.,899,18881
638374,1332,"[to Polonius] God save you, sir!",955,18881
638375,1333,                                           Exit [Polonius].,1261,18881
638376,1334,My honour'd lord!,553,18881
638377,1335,My most dear lord!,955,18881
638378,1336,"My excellent good friends! How dost thou, Guildenstern? Ah,
Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both?",559,18881
638379,1338,As the indifferent children of the earth.,955,18881
638380,1339,"Happy in that we are not over-happy.
On Fortune's cap we are not the very button.",553,18881
638381,1341,Nor the soles of her shoe?,559,18881
638382,1342,"Neither, my lord.",955,18881
638383,1343,"Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her
favours?",559,18881
638384,1345,"Faith, her privates we.",553,18881
638385,1346,"In the secret parts of Fortune? O! most true! she is a
strumpet. What news ?",559,18881
638386,1348,"None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest.",955,18881
638387,1349,"Then is doomsday near! But your news is not true. Let me
question more in particular. What have you, my good friends,
deserved at the hands of Fortune that she sends you to prison
hither?",559,18881
638388,1353,"Prison, my lord? ",553,18881
638389,1354,Denmark's a prison.,559,18881
638390,1355,Then is the world one.,955,18881
638391,1356,"A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards, and
dungeons, Denmark being one o' th' worst.",559,18881
638392,1358,"We think not so, my lord.",955,18881
638393,1359,"Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good
or bad but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.",559,18881
638394,1361,"Why, then your ambition makes it one. 'Tis too narrow for your
mind.",955,18881
638395,1363,"O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a
king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.",559,18881
638396,1365,"Which dreams indeed are ambition; for the very substance of
the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.",553,18881
638397,1367,A dream itself is but a shadow.,559,18881
638398,1368,"Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that
it is but a shadow's shadow.",955,18881
638399,1370,"Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and outstretch'd
heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we to th' court? for, by my
fay, I cannot reason.",559,18881
638400,1373,[with Guildenstern] We'll wait upon you. ,955,18881
638401,1374,"No such matter! I will not sort you with the rest of my
servants; for, to speak to you like an honest man, I am most
dreadfully attended. But in the beaten way of friendship, what
make you at Elsinore?",559,18881
638402,1378,"To visit you, my lord; no other occasion.",955,18881
638403,1379,"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you;
and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. Were
you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free
visitation? Come, deal justly with me. Come, come! Nay, speak.",559,18881
638404,1383,"What should we say, my lord?",553,18881
638405,1384,"Why, anything- but to th' purpose. You were sent for; and
there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties
have not craft enough to colour. I know the good King and Queen
have sent for you.",559,18881
638406,1388,"To what end, my lord?",955,18881
638407,1389,"That you must teach me. But let me conjure you by the rights
of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our youth, by the
obligation of our ever-preserved love, and by what more dear a
better proposer could charge you withal, be even and direct with
me, whether you were sent for or no. ",559,18881
638408,1394,[aside to Guildenstern] What say you?,955,18881
638409,1395,"[aside] Nay then, I have an eye of you.- If you love me, hold
not off.",559,18881
638410,1397,"My lord, we were sent for.",553,18881
638411,1398,"I will tell you why. So shall my anticipation prevent your
discovery, and your secrecy to the King and Queen moult no
feather. I have of late- but wherefore I know not- lost all my
mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so
heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth,
seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the
air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical
roof fretted with golden fire- why, it appeareth no other thing
to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a
piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in
faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in
action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the
beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! And yet to me what
is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me- no, nor woman
neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.",559,18881
638412,1413,"My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts. ",955,18881
638413,1414,"Why did you laugh then, when I said 'Man delights not me'?",559,18881
638414,1415,"To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what lenten
entertainment the players shall receive from you. We coted them
on the way, and hither are they coming to offer you service.",955,18881
638415,1418,"He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall
have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and
target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall
end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose
lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind
freely, or the blank verse shall halt for't. What players are
they?",559,18881
638416,1425,"Even those you were wont to take such delight in, the
tragedians of the city.",955,18881
638417,1427,"How chances it they travel? Their residence, both in
reputation and profit, was better both ways.",559,18881
638418,1429,"I think their inhibition comes by the means of the late
innovation.",955,18881
638419,1431,"Do they hold the same estimation they did when I was in the
city? Are they so follow'd?",559,18881
638420,1433,No indeed are they not. ,955,18881
638421,1434,How comes it? Do they grow rusty?,559,18881
638422,1435,"Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace; but there is,
sir, an eyrie of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top
of question and are most tyrannically clapp'd for't. These are now
the fashion, and so berattle the common stages (so they call
them) that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills and
dare scarce come thither.",955,18881
638423,1441,"What, are they children? Who maintains 'em? How are they
escoted? Will they pursue the quality no longer than they can
sing? Will they not say afterwards, if they should grow
themselves to common players (as it is most like, if their means
are no better), their writers do them wrong to make them exclaim
against their own succession.",559,18881
638424,1447,"Faith, there has been much to do on both sides; and the nation
holds it no sin to tarre them to controversy. There was, for a
while, no money bid for argument unless the poet and the player
went to cuffs in the question.",955,18881
638425,1451,Is't possible?,559,18881
638426,1452,"O, there has been much throwing about of brains.",553,18881
638427,1453,Do the boys carry it away? ,559,18881
638428,1454,"Ay, that they do, my lord- Hercules and his load too.",955,18881
638429,1455,"It is not very strange; for my uncle is King of Denmark, and
those that would make mows at him while my father lived give
twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred ducats apiece for his picture in
little. 'Sblood, there is something in this more than natural, if
philosophy could find it out.",559,18881
638430,1460,                Flourish for the Players.,1261,18881
638431,1461,There are the players.,553,18881
638432,1462,"Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands, come! Th'
appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony. Let me comply
with you in this garb, lest my extent to the players (which I
tell you must show fairly outwards) should more appear like
entertainment than yours. You are welcome. But my uncle-father
and aunt-mother are deceiv'd.",559,18881
638433,1468,"In what, my dear lord?",553,18881
638434,1469,"I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I
know a hawk from a handsaw.xxx.                        Enter Polonius.",559,18881
638435,1471,"Well be with you, gentlemen!",899,18881
638436,1472,"Hark you, Guildenstern- and you too- at each ear a hearer!
That great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling
clouts.",559,18881
638437,1475,"Happily he's the second time come to them; for they say an old
man is twice a child.",955,18881
638438,1477,"I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players. Mark it.-
You say right, sir; a Monday morning; twas so indeed.",559,18881
638439,1479,"My lord, I have news to tell you.",899,18881
638440,1480,"My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in Rome-",559,18881
638441,1481,"The actors are come hither, my lord.",899,18881
638442,1482,"Buzz, buzz!",559,18881
638443,1483,Upon my honour-,899,18881
638444,1484,Then came each actor on his ass-,559,18881
638445,1485,"The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy,
history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral,
tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral; scene 
individable, or poem unlimited. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor
Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are
the only men.",899,18881
638446,1491,"O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!",559,18881
638447,1492,"What treasure had he, my lord?",899,18881
638448,1493,"Why,
    'One fair daughter, and no more,
      The which he loved passing well.'",559,18881
638449,1496,[aside] Still on my daughter.,899,18881
638450,1497,"Am I not i' th' right, old Jephthah?",559,18881
638451,1498,"If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I
love passing well.",899,18881
638452,1500,"Nay, that follows not.",559,18881
638453,1501,"What follows then, my lord?",899,18881
638454,1502,"Why,
      'As by lot, God wot,'
 and then, you know,
      'It came to pass, as most like it was.'
The first row of the pious chanson will show you more; for look
where my abridgment comes.
[Enter four or five Players.]
You are welcome, masters; welcome, all.- I am glad to see thee
well.- Welcome, good friends.- O, my old friend? Why, thy face is
valanc'd since I saw thee last. Com'st' thou to' beard me in
Denmark?- What, my young lady and mistress? By'r Lady, your
ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last by the
altitude of a chopine. Pray God your voice, like a piece of
uncurrent gold, be not crack'd within the ring.- Masters, you are
all welcome. We'll e'en to't like French falconers, fly at
anything we see. We'll have a speech straight. Come, give us a
taste of your quality. Come, a passionate speech.",559,18881
638455,1519,"What speech, my good lord?",10,18881
638456,1520,"I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was never acted;
or if it was, not above once; for the play, I remember, pleas'd 
not the million, 'twas caviary to the general; but it was (as I
receiv'd it, and others, whose judgments in such matters cried in
the top of mine) an excellent play, well digested in the scenes,
set down with as much modesty as cunning. I remember one said
there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter savoury,
nor no matter in the phrase that might indict the author of
affectation; but call'd it an honest method, as wholesome as
sweet, and by very much more handsome than fine. One speech in't
I chiefly lov'd. 'Twas AEneas' tale to Dido, and thereabout of it
especially where he speaks of Priam's slaughter. If it live in
your memory, begin at this line- let me see, let me see:
     'The rugged Pyrrhus, like th' Hyrcanian beast-'
'Tis not so; it begins with Pyrrhus:
    'The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms,
    Black as his purpose, did the night resemble
    When he lay couched in the ominous horse,
    Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd 
    With heraldry more dismal. Head to foot
    Now is be total gules, horridly trick'd
    With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,
    Bak'd and impasted with the parching streets,
    That lend a tyrannous and a damned light
    To their lord's murther. Roasted in wrath and fire,
    And thus o'ersized with coagulate gore,
    With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus
    Old grandsire Priam seeks.'
So, proceed you.",559,18881
638457,1549,"Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good accent and good discretion.",899,18881
638458,1550,"'Anon he finds him,",10,18881
638459,1551," Striking too short at Greeks. His antique sword,",1261,18881
638460,1552," Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,",1261,18881
638461,1553," Repugnant to command. Unequal match'd,",1261,18881
638462,1554," Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide;",1261,18881
638463,1555, But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword ,1261,18881
638464,1556," Th' unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,",1261,18881
638465,1557," Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top",1261,18881
638466,1558," Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash",1261,18881
638467,1559," Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear. For lo! his sword,",1261,18881
638468,1560, Which was declining on the milky head,1261,18881
638469,1561," Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' th' air to stick.",1261,18881
638470,1562," So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood,",1261,18881
638471,1563," And, like a neutral to his will and matter,",1261,18881
638472,1564, Did nothing.,1261,18881
638473,1565," But, as we often see, against some storm,",1261,18881
638474,1566," A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,",1261,18881
638475,1567," The bold winds speechless, and the orb below",1261,18881
638476,1568, As hush as death- anon the dreadful thunder,1261,18881
638477,1569," Doth rend the region; so, after Pyrrhus' pause,",1261,18881
638478,1570, Aroused vengeance sets him new awork;,1261,18881
638479,1571, And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall,1261,18881
638480,1572," On Mars's armour, forg'd for proof eterne,",1261,18881
638481,1573, With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword,1261,18881
638482,1574, Now falls on Priam.,1261,18881
638483,1575," Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods, ",1261,18881
638484,1576, In general synod take away her power;,1261,18881
638485,1577," Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,",1261,18881
638486,1578," And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven,",1261,18881
638487,1579, As low as to the fiends!,1261,18881
638488,1580,This is too long.,899,18881
638489,1581,"It shall to the barber's, with your beard.- Prithee say on.
He's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps. Say on; come to
Hecuba.",559,18881
638490,1584,"'But who, O who, had seen the mobled queen-'",10,18881
638492,1586,That's good! 'Mobled queen' is good.,899,18881
638493,1587,"'Run barefoot up and down, threat'ning the flames
 With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head
 Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe,
 About her lank and all o'erteemed loins,
 A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up- 
 Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd
 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounc'd.
 But if the gods themselves did see her then,
 When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport
 In Mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,
 The instant burst of clamour that she made
 (Unless things mortal move them not at all)
 Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven
 And passion in the gods.'",10,18881
638494,1601,"Look, whe'r he has not turn'd his colour, and has tears in's
eyes. Prithee no more!",899,18881
638495,1603,"'Tis well. I'll have thee speak out the rest of this soon.-
Good my lord, will you see the players well bestow'd? Do you
hear? Let them be well us'd; for they are the abstract and brief
chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a
bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.",559,18881
638496,1608,"My lord, I will use them according to their desert.",899,18881
638497,1609,"God's bodykins, man, much better! Use every man after his
desert, and who should scape whipping? Use them after your own 
honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in
your bounty. Take them in.",559,18881
638498,1613,"Come, sirs.",899,18881
638499,1614,"Follow him, friends. We'll hear a play to-morrow.
[Exeunt Polonius and Players [except the First].]
Dost thou hear me, old friend? Can you play 'The Murther of
Gonzago'?",559,18881
638500,1618,"Ay, my lord.",10,18881
638501,1619,"We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need, study a
speech of some dozen or sixteen lines which I would set down and
insert in't, could you not?",559,18881
638502,1622,"Ay, my lord.",10,18881
638503,1623,"Very well. Follow that lord- and look you mock him not.
[Exit First Player.]
My good friends, I'll leave you till night. You are welcome to
Elsinore.",559,18881
638504,1627,Good my lord!,955,18881
638505,1628,"Ay, so, God b' wi' ye!                        [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Now I am alone. 
O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That, from her working, all his visage wann'd,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing!
For Hecuba!
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech;
Make mad the guilty and appal the free,
Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed
The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Yet I,
A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak
Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, 
And can say nothing! No, not for a king,
Upon whose property and most dear life
A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?
Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?
Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face?
Tweaks me by th' nose? gives me the lie i' th' throat
As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this, ha?
'Swounds, I should take it! for it cannot be
But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall
To make oppression bitter, or ere this
I should have fatted all the region kites
With this slave's offal. Bloody bawdy villain!
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
O, vengeance!
Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
That I, the son of a dear father murther'd,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must (like a whore) unpack my heart with words
And fall a-cursing like a very drab,
A scullion! 
Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! Hum, I have heard
That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,
Have by the very cunning of the scene
Been struck so to the soul that presently
They have proclaim'd their malefactions;
For murther, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ, I'll have these Players
Play something like the murther of my father
Before mine uncle. I'll observe his looks;
I'll tent him to the quick. If he but blench,
I know my course. The spirit that I have seen
May be a devil; and the devil hath power
T' assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps
Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such spirits,
Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds
More relative than this. The play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. Exit.",559,18881
638506,1690,"Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern,",1261,18882
638507,1691,and Lords.,1261,18882
638508,1692,"And can you by no drift of circumstance
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?",258,18882
638509,1696,"He does confess he feels himself distracted,
But from what cause he will by no means speak.",955,18882
638510,1698,"Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
But with a crafty madness keeps aloof
When we would bring him on to some confession
Of his true state.",553,18882
638511,1702,Did he receive you well?,528,18882
638512,1703,Most like a gentleman.,955,18882
638513,1704,But with much forcing of his disposition.,553,18882
638514,1705,"Niggard of question, but of our demands
Most free in his reply.",955,18882
638515,1707,"Did you assay him 
To any pastime?",528,18882
638516,1709,"Madam, it so fell out that certain players
We o'erraught on the way. Of these we told him,
And there did seem in him a kind of joy
To hear of it. They are here about the court,
And, as I think, they have already order
This night to play before him.",955,18882
638517,1715,"'Tis most true;
And he beseech'd me to entreat your Majesties
To hear and see the matter.",899,18882
638518,1718,"With all my heart, and it doth much content me
To hear him so inclin'd.
Good gentlemen, give him a further edge
And drive his purpose on to these delights.",258,18882
638519,1722,"We shall, my lord.",955,18882
638520,1723,                       Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.,1261,18882
638521,1724,"Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;
For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
That he, as 'twere by accident, may here
Affront Ophelia. 
Her father and myself (lawful espials)
Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen,
We may of their encounter frankly judge
And gather by him, as he is behav'd,
If't be th' affliction of his love, or no,
That thus he suffers for.",258,18882
638522,1734,"I shall obey you;
And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish
That your good beauties be the happy cause
Of Hamlet's wildness. So shall I hope your virtues
Will bring him to his wonted way again,
To both your honours.",528,18882
638523,1740,"Madam, I wish it may.",837,18882
638524,1741,                                              [Exit Queen.],1261,18882
638525,1742,"Ophelia, walk you here.- Gracious, so please you,
We will bestow ourselves.- [To Ophelia] Read on this book,
That show of such an exercise may colour
Your loneliness.- We are oft to blame in this,
'Tis too much prov'd, that with devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er 
The Devil himself.",899,18882
638526,1749,"[aside] O, 'tis too true!
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!
The harlot's cheek, beautied with plast'ring art,
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word.
O heavy burthen!",258,18882
638527,1755,"I hear him coming. Let's withdraw, my lord.",899,18882
638528,1756,                                 Exeunt King and Polonius].,1261,18882
638529,1757,                      Enter Hamlet.,1261,18882
638530,1758,"To be, or not to be- that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep-
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation 
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die- to sleep.
To sleep- perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub!
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death-
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, 
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.- Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia!- Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins rememb'red.",559,18882
638531,1793,"Good my lord,
How does your honour for this many a day?",837,18882
638532,1795,"I humbly thank you; well, well, well.",559,18882
638533,1796,"My lord, I have remembrances of yours
That I have longed long to re-deliver.
I pray you, now receive them.",837,18882
638534,1799,"No, not I!
I never gave you aught.",559,18882
638535,1801,"My honour'd lord, you know right well you did,
And with them words of so sweet breath compos'd
As made the things more rich. Their perfume lost,
Take these again; for to the noble mind
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. 
There, my lord.",837,18882
638536,1807,"Ha, ha! Are you honest?",559,18882
638537,1808,My lord?,837,18882
638538,1809,Are you fair?,559,18882
638539,1810,What means your lordship?,837,18882
638540,1811,"That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no
discourse to your beauty.",559,18882
638541,1813,"Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?",837,18882
638542,1814,"Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform
honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can
translate beauty into his likeness. This was sometime a paradox,
but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once.",559,18882
638543,1818,"Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.",837,18882
638544,1819,"You should not have believ'd me; for virtue cannot so
inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you
not.",559,18882
638545,1822,I was the more deceived.,837,18882
638546,1823,"Get thee to a nunnery! Why wouldst thou be a breeder of
sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse
me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. 
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my
beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give
them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I
do, crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all;
believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your
father?",559,18882
638547,1832,"At home, my lord.",837,18882
638548,1833,"Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool
nowhere but in's own house. Farewell.",559,18882
638549,1835,"O, help him, you sweet heavens!",837,18882
638550,1836,"If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry:
be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape
calumny. Get thee to a nunnery. Go, farewell. Or if thou wilt
needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what
monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go; and quickly too.
Farewell.",559,18882
638551,1842,"O heavenly powers, restore him!",837,18882
638552,1843,"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath
given you one face, and you make yourselves another. You jig, you
amble, and you lisp; you nickname God's creatures and make your 
wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't! it hath made
me mad. I say, we will have no moe marriages. Those that are
married already- all but one- shall live; the rest shall keep as
they are. To a nunnery, go.        Exit.",559,18882
638553,1850,"O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
The courtier's, scholar's, soldier's, eye, tongue, sword,
Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
Th' observ'd of all observers- quite, quite down!
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
That suck'd the honey of his music vows,
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;
That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth
Blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me
T' have seen what I have seen, see what I see!",837,18882
638554,1862,              Enter King and Polonius.,1261,18882
638555,1863,"Love? his affections do not that way tend; 
Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little,
Was not like madness. There's something in his soul
O'er which his melancholy sits on brood;
And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose
Will be some danger; which for to prevent,
I have in quick determination
Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England
For the demand of our neglected tribute.
Haply the seas, and countries different,
With variable objects, shall expel
This something-settled matter in his heart,
Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus
From fashion of himself. What think you on't?",258,18882
638556,1877,"It shall do well. But yet do I believe
The origin and commencement of his grief
Sprung from neglected love.- How now, Ophelia?
You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said.
We heard it all.- My lord, do as you please;
But if you hold it fit, after the play
Let his queen mother all alone entreat him 
To show his grief. Let her be round with him;
And I'll be plac'd so please you, in the ear
Of all their conference. If she find him not,
To England send him; or confine him where
Your wisdom best shall think.",899,18882
638557,1889,"It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. Exeunt.",258,18882
638558,1892,Enter Hamlet and three of the Players.,1261,18883
638559,1893,"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you,
trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of our
players do, I had as live the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do
not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all
gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say)
whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a
temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the
soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to
tatters, to very rags, to split the cars of the groundlings, who
(for the most part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb
shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing
Termagant. It out-herods Herod. Pray you avoid it.",559,18883
638560,1905,I warrant your honour.,10,18883
638561,1906,"Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion be your
tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with
this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of
nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, 
whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as
'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show Virtue her own feature,
scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his
form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though
it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious
grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance
o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I
have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly (not to
speak it profanely), that, neither having the accent of
Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so
strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's
journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated
humanity so abominably.",559,18883
638562,1923,"I hope we have reform'd that indifferently with us, sir.",10,18883
638563,1924,"O, reform it altogether! And let those that play your clowns
speak no more than is set down for them. For there be of them
that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren
spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary
question of the play be then to be considered. That's villanous
and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go 
make you ready.
[Exeunt Players.]
[Enter Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.]
How now, my lord? Will the King hear this piece of work?",559,18883
638564,1934,"And the Queen too, and that presently.",899,18883
638565,1935,"Bid the players make haste, [Exit Polonius.] Will you two
help to hasten them?",559,18883
638566,1937,"[with Guildenstern] We will, my lord.",955,18883
638567,1938,                       Exeunt they two.,1261,18883
638568,1939,"What, ho, Horatio!",559,18883
638569,1940,                 Enter Horatio.,1261,18883
638570,1941,"Here, sweet lord, at your service.",588,18883
638571,1942,"Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
As e'er my conversation cop'd withal.",559,18883
638572,1944,"O, my dear lord!",588,18883
638573,1945,"Nay, do not think I flatter;
For what advancement may I hope from thee, 
That no revenue hast but thy good spirits
To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd?
No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
And could of men distinguish, her election
Hath seal'd thee for herself. For thou hast been
As one, in suff'ring all, that suffers nothing;
A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks; and blest are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled
That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please. Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee. Something too much of this I
There is a play to-night before the King.
One scene of it comes near the circumstance,
Which I have told thee, of my father's death. 
I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,
Even with the very comment of thy soul
Observe my uncle. If his occulted guilt
Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
It is a damned ghost that we have seen,
And my imaginations are as foul
As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note;
For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,
And after we will both our judgments join
In censure of his seeming.",559,18883
638574,1977,"Well, my lord.
If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,
And scape detecting, I will pay the theft.
Sound a flourish. [Enter Trumpets and Kettledrums. Danish
march. [Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz,  Guildenstern, and other Lords attendant, with the Guard                   carrying torches.",588,18883
638575,1982,"They are coming to the play. I must be idle. 
Get you a place.",559,18883
638576,1984,How fares our cousin Hamlet?,258,18883
638577,1985,"Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish. I eat the air,
promise-cramm'd. You cannot feed capons so.",559,18883
638578,1987,"I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet. These words are not
mine.",258,18883
638579,1989,"No, nor mine now. [To Polonius] My lord, you play'd once
i' th' university, you say?",559,18883
638580,1991,"That did I, my lord, and was accounted a good actor.",899,18883
638581,1992,What did you enact?,559,18883
638582,1993,"I did enact Julius Caesar; I was kill'd i' th' Capitol; Brutus
kill'd me.",899,18883
638583,1995,"It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there. Be
the players ready.",559,18883
638584,1997,"Ay, my lord. They stay upon your patience.",955,18883
638585,1998,"Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me.",528,18883
638586,1999,"No, good mother. Here's metal more attractive.",559,18883
638587,2000,"[to the King] O, ho! do you mark that?",899,18883
638588,2001,"Lady, shall I lie in your lap?",559,18883
638589,2002,                             [Sits down at Ophelia's feet.],1261,18883
638590,2003,"No, my lord.",837,18883
638591,2004,"I mean, my head upon your lap?",559,18883
638592,2005,"Ay, my lord.",837,18883
638593,2006,Do you think I meant country matters?,559,18883
638594,2007,"I think nothing, my lord.",837,18883
638595,2008,That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.,559,18883
638596,2009,"What is, my lord?",837,18883
638597,2010,Nothing.,559,18883
638598,2011,"You are merry, my lord.",837,18883
638599,2012,"Who, I?",559,18883
638600,2013,"Ay, my lord.",837,18883
638601,2014,"O God, your only jig-maker! What should a man do but be merry?
For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died
within 's two hours.",559,18883
638602,2017,"Nay 'tis twice two months, my lord.",837,18883
638603,2018,"So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a
suit of sables. O heavens! die two months ago, and not forgotten
yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life
half a year. But, by'r Lady, he must build churches then; or else
shall he suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose
epitaph is 'For O, for O, the hobby-horse is forgot!'
[Hautboys play. The dumb show enters.]
Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly; the Queen embracing
him and he her. She kneels, and makes show of protestation
unto him. He takes her up, and declines his head upon her
neck. He lays him down upon a bank of flowers. She, seeing
him asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his
crown, kisses it, pours poison in the sleeper's ears, and
leaves him. The Queen returns, finds the King dead, and makes
passionate action. The Poisoner with some three or four Mutes,
comes in again, seem to condole with her. The dead body is
carried away. The Poisoner wooes the Queen with gifts; she
seems harsh and unwilling awhile, but in the end accepts
his love.",559,18883
638604,2037,                                                    Exeunt.,1261,18883
638605,2038,"What means this, my lord?",837,18883
638606,2039,"Marry, this is miching malhecho; it means mischief. ",559,18883
638607,2040,Belike this show imports the argument of the play.,837,18883
638608,2041,                 Enter Prologue.,1261,18883
638609,2042,"We shall know by this fellow. The players cannot keep counsel;
they'll tell all.",559,18883
638610,2044,Will he tell us what this show meant?,837,18883
638611,2045,"Ay, or any show that you'll show him. Be not you asham'd to
show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means.",559,18883
638612,2047,"You are naught, you are naught! I'll mark the play.
Pro. For us, and for our tragedy,
 Here stooping to your clemency,
 We beg your hearing patiently. [Exit.]",837,18883
638613,2051,"Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?",559,18883
638614,2052,"'Tis brief, my lord.",837,18883
638615,2053,As woman's love.,559,18883
638616,2054,         Enter [two Players as] King and Queen. ,1261,18883
638617,2055,"Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round
 Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground,
 And thirty dozen moons with borrowed sheen
 About the world have times twelve thirties been,
 Since love our hearts, and Hymen did our hands,
 Unite comutual in most sacred bands.",258,18883
638618,2061,"So many journeys may the sun and moon
 Make us again count o'er ere love be done!
 But woe is me! you are so sick of late,
 So far from cheer and from your former state.
 That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,
 Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must;
 For women's fear and love holds quantity,
 In neither aught, or in extremity.
 Now what my love is, proof hath made you know;
 And as my love is siz'd, my fear is so.
 Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
 Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.",528,18883
638619,2073,"Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too; 
 My operant powers their functions leave to do.
 And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,
 Honour'd, belov'd, and haply one as kind
 For husband shalt thou-",258,18883
638620,2078,"O, confound the rest!
 Such love must needs be treason in my breast.
 When second husband let me be accurst!
 None wed the second but who killed the first.",528,18883
638621,2082,"[aside] Wormwood, wormwood!
Queen. The instances that second marriage move
 Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
 A second time I kill my husband dead
 When second husband kisses me in bed.",559,18883
638622,2087,"I do believe you think what now you speak;
 But what we do determine oft we break.
 Purpose is but the slave to memory,
 Of violent birth, but poor validity;
 Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree,
 But fall unshaken when they mellow be.
 Most necessary 'tis that we forget
 To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt.
 What to ourselves in passion we propose,
 The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
 The violence of either grief or joy
 Their own enactures with themselves destroy.
 Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;
 Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
 This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
 That even our loves should with our fortunes change;
 For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
 Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.
 The great man down, you mark his favourite flies,
 The poor advanc'd makes friends of enemies;
 And hitherto doth love on fortune tend,
 For who not needs shall never lack a friend,
 And who in want a hollow friend doth try,
 Directly seasons him his enemy.
 But, orderly to end where I begun,
 Our wills and fates do so contrary run
 That our devices still are overthrown;
 Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
 So think thou wilt no second husband wed;
 But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.",258,18883
638623,2117,"Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light,
 Sport and repose lock from me day and night,
 To desperation turn my trust and hope,
 An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope,
 Each opposite that blanks the face of joy
 Meet what I would have well, and it destroy,
 Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife,
 If, once a widow, ever I be wife!",528,18883
638624,2125,If she should break it now!,559,18883
638625,2126,"'Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile.
 My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
 The tedious day with sleep.
Queen. Sleep rock thy brain, 
[He] sleeps.]
Queen. And never come mischance between us twain!",258,18883
638626,2132,Exit.,1261,18883
638627,2133,"Madam, how like you this play?",559,18883
638628,2134,"The lady doth protest too much, methinks.",528,18883
638629,2135,"O, but she'll keep her word.",559,18883
638630,2136,Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in't?,258,18883
638631,2137,"No, no! They do but jest, poison in jest; no offence i' th'
world.",559,18883
638632,2139,What do you call the play?,258,18883
638633,2140,"'The Mousetrap.' Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the
image of a murther done in Vienna. Gonzago is the duke's name;
his wife, Baptista. You shall see anon. 'Tis a knavish piece of
work; but what o' that? Your Majesty, and we that have free
souls, it touches us not. Let the gall'd jade winch; our withers
are unwrung.",559,18883
638634,2146,"                    Enter Lucianus.This is one Lucianus, nephew to the King.",1261,18883
638635,2147,"You are as good as a chorus, my lord.",837,18883
638636,2148,"I could interpret between you and your love, if I could see
the puppets dallying.",559,18883
638637,2150,"You are keen, my lord, you are keen.",837,18883
638638,2151,It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.,559,18883
638639,2152,"Still better, and worse.",837,18883
638640,2153,"So you must take your husbands.- Begin, murtherer. Pox, leave
thy damnable faces, and begin! Come, the croaking raven doth
bellow for revenge.
Luc. Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing;  Confederate season, else no creature seeing;  Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected,  With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,  Thy natural magic and dire property  On wholesome life usurp immediately.",559,18883
638641,2157,                              Pours the poison in his ears.,1261,18883
638642,2158,"He poisons him i' th' garden for's estate. His name's Gonzago. 
The story is extant, and written in very choice Italian. You
shall see anon how the murtherer gets the love of Gonzago's wife.",559,18883
638643,2161,The King rises.,837,18883
638644,2162,"What, frighted with false fire?",559,18883
638645,2163,How fares my lord?,528,18883
638646,2164,Give o'er the play.,899,18883
638647,2165,Give me some light! Away!,258,18883
638648,2166,"Lights, lights, lights!",80,18883
638649,2167,                         Exeunt all but Hamlet and Horatio.,1261,18883
638650,2168,"Why, let the strucken deer go weep,
     The hart ungalled play;
    For some must watch, while some must sleep:
     Thus runs the world away.
Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers- if the rest of my
fortunes turn Turk with me-with two Provincial roses on my raz'd
shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players, sir?",559,18883
638651,2175,Half a share.,588,18883
638652,2176,"A whole one I!
    For thou dost know, O Damon dear,
      This realm dismantled was 
    Of Jove himself; and now reigns here
      A very, very- pajock.",559,18883
638653,2181,You might have rhym'd.,588,18883
638654,2182,"O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand
pound! Didst perceive?",559,18883
638655,2184,"Very well, my lord.",588,18883
638656,2185,Upon the talk of the poisoning?,559,18883
638657,2186,I did very well note him.,588,18883
638658,2187,"Aha! Come, some music! Come, the recorders!
    For if the King like not the comedy,
    Why then, belike he likes it not, perdy.
Come, some music!
           Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.",559,18883
638659,2192,"Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.",553,18883
638660,2193,"Sir, a whole history.",559,18883
638661,2194,"The King, sir-",553,18883
638662,2195,"Ay, sir, what of him?",559,18883
638663,2196,"Is in his retirement, marvellous distemper'd. ",553,18883
638664,2197,"With drink, sir?",559,18883
638665,2198,"No, my lord; rather with choler.",553,18883
638666,2199,"Your wisdom should show itself more richer to signify this to
the doctor; for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps
plunge him into far more choler.",559,18883
638667,2202,"Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame, and start
not so wildly from my affair.",553,18883
638668,2204,"I am tame, sir; pronounce.",559,18883
638669,2205,"The Queen, your mother, in most great affliction of spirit
hath sent me to you.",553,18883
638670,2207,You are welcome.,559,18883
638671,2208,"Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the right breed.
If it shall please you to make me a wholesome answer, I will do
your mother's commandment; if not, your pardon and my return
shall be the end of my business.",553,18883
638672,2212,"Sir, I cannot.",559,18883
638673,2213,"What, my lord?",553,18883
638674,2214,"Make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseas'd. But, sir, such
answer as I can make, you shall command; or rather, as you say,
my mother. Therefore no more, but to the matter! My mother, you 
say-",559,18883
638675,2218,"Then thus she says: your behaviour hath struck her into
amazement and admiration.",955,18883
638676,2220,"O wonderful son, that can so stonish a mother! But is there no
sequel at the heels of this mother's admiration? Impart.",559,18883
638677,2222,She desires to speak with you in her closet ere you go to bed.,955,18883
638678,2223,"We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have you any
further trade with us?",559,18883
638679,2225,"My lord, you once did love me.",955,18883
638680,2226,"And do still, by these pickers and stealers!",559,18883
638681,2227,"Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do surely
bar the door upon your own liberty, if you deny your griefs to
your friend.",955,18883
638682,2230,"Sir, I lack advancement.",559,18883
638683,2231,"How can that be, when you have the voice of the King himself
for your succession in Denmark?",955,18883
638684,2233,"Ay, sir, but 'while the grass grows'- the proverb is something
musty.
[Enter the Players with recorders. ]
O, the recorders! Let me see one. To withdraw with you- why do
you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me
into a toil?",559,18883
638685,2239,"O my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too unmannerly.",553,18883
638686,2240,I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe?,559,18883
638687,2241,"My lord, I cannot.",553,18883
638688,2242,I pray you.,559,18883
638689,2243,"Believe me, I cannot.",553,18883
638690,2244,I do beseech you.,559,18883
638691,2245,"I know, no touch of it, my lord.",553,18883
638692,2246,"It is as easy as lying. Govern these ventages with your
fingers and thumbs, give it breath with your mouth, and it will
discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops.",559,18883
638693,2249,"But these cannot I command to any utt'rance of harmony. I
have not the skill.",553,18883
638694,2251,"Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You
would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would
pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my
lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, 
excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it
speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be play'd on than a
pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me,
you cannot play upon me.
[Enter Polonius.]
God bless you, sir!",559,18883
638695,2261,"My lord, the Queen would speak with you, and presently.",899,18883
638696,2262,Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?,559,18883
638697,2263,"By th' mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed.",899,18883
638698,2264,Methinks it is like a weasel.,559,18883
638699,2265,It is back'd like a weasel.,899,18883
638700,2266,Or like a whale.,559,18883
638701,2267,Very like a whale.,899,18883
638702,2268,"Then will I come to my mother by-and-by.- They fool me to the
top of my bent.- I will come by-and-by.",559,18883
638703,2270,I will say so.                  Exit.,899,18883
638704,2271,"'By-and-by' is easily said.- Leave me, friends.
[Exeunt all but Hamlet.]
'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother!
O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever
The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom.
Let me be cruel, not unnatural;
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites-
How in my words somever she be shent,
To give them seals never, my soul, consent!             Exit.",559,18883
638705,2286,"Enter King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.",1261,18884
638706,2287,"I like him not, nor stands it safe with us
To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;
I your commission will forthwith dispatch,
And he to England shall along with you.
The terms of our estate may not endure
Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow
Out of his lunacies.",258,18884
638707,2294,"We will ourselves provide.
Most holy and religious fear it is
To keep those many many bodies safe
That live and feed upon your Majesty.",553,18884
638708,2298,"The single and peculiar life is bound
With all the strength and armour of the mind
To keep itself from noyance; but much more
That spirit upon whose weal depends and rests
The lives of many. The cesse of majesty
Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw 
What's near it with it. It is a massy wheel,
Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount,
To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things
Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which when it falls,
Each small annexment, petty consequence,
Attends the boist'rous ruin. Never alone
Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.",955,18884
638709,2311,"Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage;
For we will fetters put upon this fear,
Which now goes too free-footed.",258,18884
638710,2314,[with Guildenstern] We will haste us.,955,18884
638711,2315,                                          Exeunt Gentlemen.,1261,18884
638712,2316,              Enter Polonius.,1261,18884
638713,2317,"My lord, he's going to his mother's closet.
Behind the arras I'll convey myself
To hear the process. I'll warrant she'll tax him home;
And, as you said, and wisely was it said,
'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, 
Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear
The speech, of vantage. Fare you well, my liege.
I'll call upon you ere you go to bed
And tell you what I know.",899,18884
638714,2326,"Thanks, dear my lord.
[Exit [Polonius].]
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,
A brother's murther! Pray can I not,
Though inclination be as sharp as will.
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect. What if this cursed hand
Were thicker than itself with brother's blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy
But to confront the visage of offence?
And what's in prayer but this twofold force,
To be forestalled ere we come to fall, 
Or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up;
My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer
Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murther'?
That cannot be; since I am still possess'd
Of those effects for which I did the murther-
My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.
May one be pardon'd and retain th' offence?
In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above.
There is no shuffling; there the action lies
In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd,
Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
To give in evidence. What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when one cannot repent?
O wretched state! O bosom black as death!
O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,
Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay. 
Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel,
Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!
All may be well.              He kneels.",258,18884
638715,2365,                    Enter Hamlet.,1261,18884
638716,2366,"Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;
And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven,
And so am I reveng'd. That would be scann'd.
A villain kills my father; and for that,
I, his sole son, do this same villain send
To heaven.
Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge!
He took my father grossly, full of bread,
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?
But in our circumstance and course of thought,
'Tis heavy with him; and am I then reveng'd,
To take him in the purging of his soul,
When he is fit and seasoned for his passage? 
No.
Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent.
When he is drunk asleep; or in his rage;
Or in th' incestuous pleasure of his bed;
At gaming, swearing, or about some act
That has no relish of salvation in't-
Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,
And that his soul may be as damn'd and black
As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays.
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.  Exit.",559,18884
638717,2390,"[rises] My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. Exit.",258,18884
638718,2393,Enter Queen and Polonius.,1261,18885
638719,2394,"He will come straight. Look you lay home to him.
Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,
And that your Grace hath screen'd and stood between
Much heat and him. I'll silence me even here.
Pray you be round with him.",899,18885
638720,2399,"[within] Mother, mother, mother!",559,18885
638721,2400,I'll warrant you; fear me not. Withdraw; I hear him coming.,528,18885
638722,2401,                         [Polonius hides behind the arras.],1261,18885
638723,2402,                     Enter Hamlet.,1261,18885
638724,2403,"Now, mother, what's the matter?",559,18885
638725,2404,"Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.",528,18885
638726,2405,"Mother, you have my father much offended.",559,18885
638727,2406,"Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.",528,18885
638728,2407,"Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.",559,18885
638729,2408,"Why, how now, Hamlet? ",528,18885
638730,2409,What's the matter now?,559,18885
638731,2410,Have you forgot me?,528,18885
638732,2411,"No, by the rood, not so!
You are the Queen, your husband's brother's wife,
And (would it were not so!) you are my mother.",559,18885
638733,2414,"Nay, then I'll set those to you that can speak.",528,18885
638734,2415,"Come, come, and sit you down. You shall not budge;
You go not till I set you up a glass
Where you may see the inmost part of you.",559,18885
638735,2418,"What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murther me?
Help, help, ho!",528,18885
638736,2420,"[behind] What, ho! help, help, help!",899,18885
638737,2421,"[draws] How now? a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead!",559,18885
638738,2422,       [Makes a pass through the arras and] kills Polonius.,1261,18885
638739,2423,"[behind] O, I am slain!",899,18885
638740,2424,"O me, what hast thou done?",528,18885
638741,2425,"Nay, I know not. Is it the King?",559,18885
638742,2426,"O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!",528,18885
638743,2427,"A bloody deed- almost as bad, good mother,
As kill a king, and marry with his brother. ",559,18885
638744,2429,As kill a king?,528,18885
638745,2430,"Ay, lady, it was my word.
[Lifts up the arras and sees Polonius.]
Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
I took thee for thy better. Take thy fortune.
Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger.
Leave wringing of your hands. Peace! sit you down
And let me wring your heart; for so I shall
If it be made of penetrable stuff;
If damned custom have not braz'd it so
That it is proof and bulwark against sense.",559,18885
638746,2440,"What have I done that thou dar'st wag thy tongue
In noise so rude against me?",528,18885
638747,2442,"Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
As false as dicers' oaths. O, such a deed
As from the body of contraction plucks 
The very soul, and sweet religion makes
A rhapsody of words! Heaven's face doth glow;
Yea, this solidity and compound mass,
With tristful visage, as against the doom,
Is thought-sick at the act.",559,18885
638748,2454,"Ah me, what act,
That roars so loud and thunders in the index?",528,18885
638749,2456,"Look here upon th's picture, and on this,
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
See what a grace was seated on this brow;
Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
A station like the herald Mercury
New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill:
A combination and a form indeed
Where every god did seem to set his seal
To give the world assurance of a man.
This was your husband. Look you now what follows.
Here is your husband, like a mildew'd ear
Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? 
Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,
And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes
You cannot call it love; for at your age
The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble,
And waits upon the judgment; and what judgment
Would step from this to this? Sense sure you have,
Else could you not have motion; but sure that sense
Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err,
Nor sense to ecstacy was ne'er so thrall'd
But it reserv'd some quantity of choice
To serve in such a difference. What devil was't
That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?
Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope.
O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,
To flaming youth let virtue be as wax
And melt in her own fire. Proclaim no shame 
When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,
Since frost itself as actively doth burn,
And reason panders will.",559,18885
638750,2492,"O Hamlet, speak no more!
Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul,
And there I see such black and grained spots
As will not leave their tinct.",528,18885
638751,2496,"Nay, but to live
In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love
Over the nasty sty!",559,18885
638752,2500,"O, speak to me no more!
These words like daggers enter in mine ears.
No more, sweet Hamlet!",528,18885
638753,2503,"A murtherer and a villain!
A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings;
A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole
And put it in his pocket! ",559,18885
638754,2509,No more!,528,18885
638755,2510,           Enter the Ghost in his nightgown.,1261,18885
638756,2511,"A king of shreds and patches!-
Save me and hover o'er me with your wings,
You heavenly guards! What would your gracious figure?",559,18885
638757,2514,"Alas, he's mad!",528,18885
638758,2515,"Do you not come your tardy son to chide,
That, laps'd in time and passion, lets go by
Th' important acting of your dread command?
O, say!",559,18885
638759,2519,"Do not forget. This visitation
Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.
But look, amazement on thy mother sits.
O, step between her and her fighting soul
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Speak to her, Hamlet.",558,18885
638760,2525,"How is it with you, lady?",559,18885
638761,2526,"Alas, how is't with you, 
That you do bend your eye on vacancy,
And with th' encorporal air do hold discourse?
Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep;
And, as the sleeping soldiers in th' alarm,
Your bedded hairs, like life in excrements,
Start up and stand an end. O gentle son,
Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper
Sprinkle cool patience! Whereon do you look?",528,18885
638762,2535,"On him, on him! Look you how pale he glares!
His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones,
Would make them capable.- Do not look upon me,
Lest with this piteous action you convert
My stern effects. Then what I have to do
Will want true colour- tears perchance for blood.",559,18885
638763,2541,To whom do you speak this?,528,18885
638764,2542,Do you see nothing there?,559,18885
638765,2543,Nothing at all; yet all that is I see.,528,18885
638766,2544,Nor did you nothing hear?,559,18885
638767,2545,"No, nothing but ourselves.",528,18885
638768,2546,"Why, look you there! Look how it steals away! 
My father, in his habit as he liv'd!
Look where he goes even now out at the portal!",559,18885
638769,2549,                                                Exit Ghost.,1261,18885
638770,2550,"This is the very coinage of your brain.
This bodiless creation ecstasy
Is very cunning in.",528,18885
638771,2553,"Ecstasy?
My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time
And makes as healthful music. It is not madness
That I have utt'red. Bring me to the test,
And I the matter will reword; which madness
Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul
That not your trespass but my madness speaks.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
Whiles rank corruption, mining all within,
Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven;
Repent what's past; avoid what is to come;
And do not spread the compost on the weeds
To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue; 
For in the fatness of these pursy times
Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg-
Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.",559,18885
638772,2570,"O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.",528,18885
638773,2571,"O, throw away the worser part of it,
And live the purer with the other half,
Good night- but go not to my uncle's bed.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habits evil, is angel yet in this,
That to the use of actions fair and good
He likewise gives a frock or livery,
That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence; the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
And either [master] the devil, or throw him out
With wondrous potency. Once more, good night;
And when you are desirous to be blest,
I'll blessing beg of you.- For this same lord, 
I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so,
To punish me with this, and this with me,
That I must be their scourge and minister.
I will bestow him, and will answer well
The death I gave him. So again, good night.
I must be cruel, only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
One word more, good lady.",559,18885
638774,2595,What shall I do?,528,18885
638775,2596,"Not this, by no means, that I bid you do:
Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed;
Pinch wanton on your cheek; call you his mouse;
And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses,
Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers,
Make you to ravel all this matter out,
That I essentially am not in madness,
But mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know;
For who that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise,
Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib
Such dear concernings hide? Who would do so? 
No, in despite of sense and secrecy,
Unpeg the basket on the house's top,
Let the birds fly, and like the famous ape,
To try conclusions, in the basket creep
And break your own neck down.",559,18885
638776,2612,"Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath,
And breath of life, I have no life to breathe
What thou hast said to me.",528,18885
638777,2615,I must to England; you know that?,559,18885
638778,2616,"Alack,
I had forgot! 'Tis so concluded on.",528,18885
638779,2618,"There's letters seal'd; and my two schoolfellows,
Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,
They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way
And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;
For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar; and 't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon. O, 'tis most sweet
When in one line two crafts directly meet. 
This man shall set me packing.
I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room.-
Mother, good night.- Indeed, this counsellor
Is now most still, most secret, and most grave,
Who was in life a foolish peating knave.
Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you.
Good night, mother.",559,18885
638780,2634,"             [Exit the Queen. Then] Exit Hamlet, tugging in",1261,18885
638781,2635,                                                  Polonius.,1261,18885
638782,2638,"Enter King and Queen, with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.",1261,18886
638783,2639,"There's matter in these sighs. These profound heaves
You must translate; 'tis fit we understand them.
Where is your son?",258,18886
638784,2642,"Bestow this place on us a little while.
[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]
Ah, mine own lord, what have I seen to-night!",528,18886
638785,2645,"What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?",258,18886
638786,2646,"Mad as the sea and wind when both contend
Which is the mightier. In his lawless fit
Behind the arras hearing something stir,
Whips out his rapier, cries 'A rat, a rat!'
And in this brainish apprehension kills
The unseen good old man.",528,18886
638787,2652,"O heavy deed!
It had been so with us, had we been there.
His liberty is full of threats to all-
To you yourself, to us, to every one. 
Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd?
It will be laid to us, whose providence
Should have kept short, restrain'd, and out of haunt
This mad young man. But so much was our love
We would not understand what was most fit,
But, like the owner of a foul disease,
To keep it from divulging, let it feed
Even on the pith of life. Where is he gone?",258,18886
638788,2664,"To draw apart the body he hath kill'd;
O'er whom his very madness, like some ore
Among a mineral of metals base,
Shows itself pure. He weeps for what is done.",528,18886
638789,2668,"O Gertrude, come away!
The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch
But we will ship him hence; and this vile deed
We must with all our majesty and skill
Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern!
[Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.Friends both, go join you with some further aid.]
Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,
And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him.
Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body
Into the chapel. I pray you haste in this.
[Exeunt [Rosencrantz and Guildenstern].]
Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends
And let them know both what we mean to do
And what's untimely done. [So haply slander-]
Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter,
As level as the cannon to his blank,
Transports his poisoned shot- may miss our name
And hit the woundless air.- O, come away!
My soul is full of discord and dismay.",258,18886
638790,2687,                                                    Exeunt.,1261,18886
638791,2689,Enter Hamlet.,1261,18887
638792,2690,Safely stow'd.,559,18887
638793,2691,[within] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!,526,18887
638794,2692,"But soft! What noise? Who calls on Hamlet? O, here they",559,18887
638795,2693,come.,1261,18887
638796,2694,          Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.,1261,18887
638797,2695,"What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?",955,18887
638798,2696,"Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.",559,18887
638799,2697,"Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence
And bear it to the chapel.",955,18887
638800,2699,Do not believe it.,559,18887
638801,2700,Believe what?,955,18887
638802,2701,"That I can keep your counsel, and not mine own. Besides, to be
demanded of a sponge, what replication should be made by the son
of a king?",559,18887
638803,2704,"Take you me for a sponge, my lord?",955,18887
638804,2705,"Ay, sir; that soaks up the King's countenance, his rewards, 
his authorities. But such officers do the King best service in
the end. He keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw;
first mouth'd, to be last swallowed. When he needs what you have
glean'd, it is but squeezing you and, sponge, you shall be dry
again.",559,18887
638805,2711,"I understand you not, my lord.",955,18887
638806,2712,I am glad of it. A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.,559,18887
638807,2713,"My lord, you must tell us where the body is and go with us to
the King.",955,18887
638808,2715,"The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body.
The King is a thing-",559,18887
638809,2717,"A thing, my lord?",553,18887
638810,2718,"Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after.",559,18887
638811,2719,                                                    Exeunt.,1261,18887
638812,2721,Enter King.,1261,18888
638813,2722,"I have sent to seek him and to find the body.
How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!
Yet must not we put the strong law on him.
He's lov'd of the distracted multitude,
Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes;
And where 'tis so, th' offender's scourge is weigh'd,
But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even,
This sudden sending him away must seem
Deliberate pause. Diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
[Enter Rosencrantz.]
How now O What hath befall'n?",258,18888
638814,2735,"Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord,
We cannot get from him. ",955,18888
638815,2737,But where is he?,258,18888
638816,2738,"Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure.",955,18888
638817,2739,Bring him before us.,258,18888
638818,2740,"Ho, Guildenstern! Bring in my lord.",955,18888
638819,2741,   Enter Hamlet and Guildenstern [with Attendants].,1261,18888
638820,2742,"Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?",258,18888
638821,2743,At supper.,559,18888
638822,2744,At supper? Where?,258,18888
638823,2745,"Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain
convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your
only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and
we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar
is but variable service- two dishes, but to one table. That's the
end.",559,18888
638824,2751,"Alas, alas!",258,18888
638825,2752,"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat
of the fish that hath fed of that worm.",559,18888
638826,2754,What dost thou mean by this? ,258,18888
638827,2755,"Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through
the guts of a beggar.",559,18888
638828,2757,Where is Polonius?,258,18888
638829,2758,"In heaven. Send thither to see. If your messenger find him not
there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But indeed, if you
find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up
the stair, into the lobby.",559,18888
638830,2762,Go seek him there. [To Attendants.],258,18888
638831,2763,He will stay till you come.,559,18888
638832,2764,                                       [Exeunt Attendants.],1261,18888
638833,2765,"Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,-
Which we do tender as we dearly grieve
For that which thou hast done,- must send thee hence
With fiery quickness. Therefore prepare thyself.
The bark is ready and the wind at help,
Th' associates tend, and everything is bent
For England.",258,18888
638834,2772,For England?,559,18888
638835,2773,"Ay, Hamlet.",258,18888
638836,2774,Good. ,559,18888
638837,2775,"So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes.",258,18888
638838,2776,"I see a cherub that sees them. But come, for England!
Farewell, dear mother.",559,18888
638839,2778,"Thy loving father, Hamlet.",258,18888
638840,2779,"My mother! Father and mother is man and wife; man and wife is
one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England!",559,18888
638841,2781,Exit.,1261,18888
638842,2782,"Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard.
Delay it not; I'll have him hence to-night.
Away! for everything is seal'd and done
That else leans on th' affair. Pray you make haste.
[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern]
And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught,-
As my great power thereof may give thee sense,
Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red
After the Danish sword, and thy free awe
Pays homage to us,- thou mayst not coldly set
Our sovereign process, which imports at full,
By letters congruing to that effect,
The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England; 
For like the hectic in my blood he rages,
And thou must cure me. Till I know 'tis done,
Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun. Exit.",258,18888
638843,2799,Enter Fortinbras with his Army over the stage.,1261,18889
638844,2800,"Go, Captain, from me greet the Danish king.
Tell him that by his license Fortinbras
Craves the conveyance of a promis'd march
Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.
If that his Majesty would aught with us,
We shall express our duty in his eye;
And let him know so.",486,18889
638845,2807,"I will do't, my lord.",817,18889
638846,2808,Go softly on.,486,18889
638847,2809,                              Exeunt [all but the Captain].,1261,18889
638848,2810,"  Enter Hamlet, Rosencrantz, [Guildenstern,] and others.",1261,18889
638849,2811,"Good sir, whose powers are these?",559,18889
638850,2812,"They are of Norway, sir.",817,18889
638851,2813,"How purpos'd, sir, I pray you?",559,18889
638852,2814,Against some part of Poland. ,817,18889
638853,2815,"Who commands them, sir?",559,18889
638854,2816,"The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras.",817,18889
638855,2817,"Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,
Or for some frontier?",559,18889
638856,2819,"Truly to speak, and with no addition,
We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.
To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;
Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.",817,18889
638857,2825,"Why, then the Polack never will defend it.",559,18889
638858,2826,"Yes, it is already garrison'd.",817,18889
638859,2827,"Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
Will not debate the question of this straw.
This is th' imposthume of much wealth and peace,
That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
Why the man dies.- I humbly thank you, sir.",559,18889
638860,2832,"God b' wi' you, sir.         [Exit.]",817,18889
638861,2833,"Will't please you go, my lord?",955,18889
638862,2834,"I'll be with you straight. Go a little before. 
[Exeunt all but Hamlet.]
How all occasions do inform against me
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unus'd. Now, whether it be
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on th' event,-
A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom
And ever three parts coward,- I do not know
Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do,'
Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means
To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me.
Witness this army of such mass and charge,
Led by a delicate and tender prince,
Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd,
Makes mouths at the invisible event, 
Exposing what is mortal and unsure
To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,
Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake. How stand I then,
That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,
Excitements of my reason and my blood,
And let all sleep, while to my shame I see
The imminent death of twenty thousand men
That for a fantasy and trick of fame
Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
Which is not tomb enough and continent
To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!            Exit.",559,18889
638863,2872,"Enter Horatio, Queen, and a Gentleman.",1261,18890
638864,2873,I will not speak with her.,528,18890
638865,2874,"She is importunate, indeed distract.
Her mood will needs be pitied.",557,18890
638866,2876,What would she have?,528,18890
638867,2877,"She speaks much of her father; says she hears
There's tricks i' th' world, and hems, and beats her heart;
Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,
That carry but half sense. Her speech is nothing,
Yet the unshaped use of it doth move
The hearers to collection; they aim at it,
And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts;
Which, as her winks and nods and gestures yield them,
Indeed would make one think there might be thought,
Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.",557,18890
638868,2887,"'Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew
Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.",588,18890
638869,2889,"Let her come in. 
[Exit Gentleman.]
[Aside] To my sick soul (as sin's true nature is)
Each toy seems Prologue to some great amiss.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.",528,18890
638870,2895,            Enter Ophelia distracted.,1261,18890
638871,2896,Where is the beauteous Majesty of Denmark?,837,18890
638872,2897,"How now, Ophelia?",528,18890
638873,2898,"[sings]
    How should I your true-love know
      From another one?
    By his cockle bat and' staff
      And his sandal shoon.",837,18890
638874,2903,"Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?",528,18890
638875,2904,"Say you? Nay, pray You mark.
(Sings) He is dead and gone, lady, 
        He is dead and gone;
       At his head a grass-green turf,
         At his heels a stone.
O, ho!",837,18890
638876,2910,"Nay, but Ophelia-",528,18890
638877,2911,"Pray you mark.
(Sings) White his shroud as the mountain snow-",837,18890
638878,2913,               Enter King.,1261,18890
638879,2914,"Alas, look here, my lord!",528,18890
638880,2915,"[Sings]
      Larded all with sweet flowers;
    Which bewept to the grave did not go
      With true-love showers.",837,18890
638881,2919,"How do you, pretty lady?",258,18890
638882,2920,"Well, God dild you! They say the owl was a baker's daughter. 
Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. God be at
your table!",837,18890
638883,2923,Conceit upon her father.,258,18890
638884,2924,"Pray let's have no words of this; but when they ask, you what
it means, say you this:
(Sings) To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
         All in the morning bedtime,
       And I a maid at your window,
         To be your Valentine.
       Then up he rose and donn'd his clo'es
         And dupp'd the chamber door,
       Let in the maid, that out a maid
         Never departed more.",837,18890
638885,2934,Pretty Ophelia!,258,18890
638886,2935,"Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't!
[Sings] By Gis and by Saint Charity, 
         Alack, and fie for shame!
       Young men will do't if they come to't
         By Cock, they are to blame.
       Quoth she, 'Before you tumbled me,
         You promis'd me to wed.'
He answers:
       'So would I 'a' done, by yonder sun,
         An thou hadst not come to my bed.'",837,18890
638887,2945,How long hath she been thus?,258,18890
638888,2946,"I hope all will be well. We must be patient; but I cannot
choose but weep to think they would lay him i' th' cold ground.
My brother shall know of it; and so I thank you for your good
counsel. Come, my coach! Good night, ladies. Good night, sweet
ladies. Good night, good night.     Exit",837,18890
638889,2951,"Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you.
[Exit Horatio.]
O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs
All from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude,
When sorrows come, they come not single spies.
But in battalions! First, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France;
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
Feeds on his wonder, keep, himself in clouds,
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this,
Like to a murd'ring piece, in many places 
Give me superfluous death.  A noise within.",258,18890
638890,2974,"Alack, what noise is this?",528,18890
638891,2975,"Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door.
[Enter a Messenger.]
What is the matter?",258,18890
638892,2978,"Save Yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than Young Laertes, in a riotous head,
O'erbears Your offices. The rabble call him lord;
And, as the world were now but to begin,
Antiquity forgot, custom not known,
The ratifiers and props of every word,
They cry 'Choose we! Laertes shall be king!'
Caps, hands, and tongues applaud it to the clouds,
'Laertes shall be king! Laertes king!'",779,18890
638893,2989,                                            A noise within.,1261,18890
638894,2990,"How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! 
O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!",528,18890
638895,2992,The doors are broke.,258,18890
638896,2993,               Enter Laertes with others.,1261,18890
638897,2994,"Where is this king?- Sirs, staid you all without.",651,18890
638898,2995,"No, let's come in!",80,18890
638899,2996,I pray you give me leave.,651,18890
638900,2997,"We will, we will!",80,18890
638901,2998,"I thank you. Keep the door.  [Exeunt his Followers.]
O thou vile king,
Give me my father!",651,18890
638902,3001,"Calmly, good Laertes.",528,18890
638903,3002,"That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard;
Cries cuckold to my father; brands the harlot
Even here between the chaste unsmirched brows
Of my true mother.",651,18890
638904,3006,"What is the cause, Laertes,
That thy rebellion looks so giantlike?
Let him go, Gertrude. Do not fear our person. 
There's such divinity doth hedge a king
That treason can but peep to what it would,
Acts little of his will. Tell me, Laertes,
Why thou art thus incens'd. Let him go, Gertrude.
Speak, man.",258,18890
638905,3014,Where is my father?,651,18890
638906,3015,Dead.,258,18890
638907,3016,But not by him!,528,18890
638908,3017,Let him demand his fill.,258,18890
638909,3018,"How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with:
To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil
Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation. To this point I stand,
That both the world, I give to negligence,
Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd
Most throughly for my father.",651,18890
638910,3025,Who shall stay you?,258,18890
638911,3026,"My will, not all the world!
And for my means, I'll husband them so well
They shall go far with little. ",651,18890
638912,3029,"Good Laertes,
If you desire to know the certainty
Of your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge
That sweepstake you will draw both friend and foe,
Winner and loser?",258,18890
638913,3034,None but his enemies.,651,18890
638914,3035,Will you know them then?,258,18890
638915,3036,"To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms
And, like the kind life-rend'ring pelican,
Repast them with my blood.",651,18890
638916,3039,"Why, now You speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am guiltless of your father's death,
And am most sensibly in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgment pierce
As day does to your eye.",258,18890
638917,3045,                         A noise within: 'Let her come in.',1261,18890
638918,3046,"How now? What noise is that?
[Enter Ophelia. ]
O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt
Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!
By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight
Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!
Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!
O heavens! is't possible a young maid's wits
Should be as mortal as an old man's life?
Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine,
It sends some precious instance of itself
After the thing it loves.",651,18890
638919,3058,"[sings]
    They bore him barefac'd on the bier
      (Hey non nony, nony, hey nony)
    And in his grave rain'd many a tear.
Fare you well, my dove!",837,18890
638920,3063,"Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge,
It could not move thus. ",651,18890
638921,3065,"You must sing 'A-down a-down, and you call him a-down-a.' O,
how the wheel becomes it! It is the false steward, that stole his
master's daughter.",837,18890
638922,3068,This nothing's more than matter.,651,18890
638923,3069,"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love,
remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.",837,18890
638924,3071,A document in madness! Thoughts and remembrance fitted.,651,18890
638925,3072,"There's fennel for you, and columbines. There's rue for you,
and here's some for me. We may call it herb of grace o' Sundays.
O, you must wear your rue with a difference! There's a daisy. I
would give you some violets, but they wither'd all when my father
died. They say he made a good end.
[Sings] For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.",837,18890
638926,3078,"Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself,
She turns to favour and to prettiness.",651,18890
638927,3080,"[sings]
    And will he not come again?
    And will he not come again?
      No, no, he is dead; 
      Go to thy deathbed;
    He never will come again.
    His beard was as white as snow,
    All flaxen was his poll.
      He is gone, he is gone,
      And we cast away moan.
    God 'a'mercy on his soul!
And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God b' wi' you.",837,18890
638928,3092,Exit.,1261,18890
638929,3093,"Do you see this, O God?",651,18890
638930,3094,"Laertes, I must commune with your grief,
Or you deny me right. Go but apart,
Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will,
And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me.
If by direct or by collateral hand
They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give,
Our crown, our life, and all that we call ours,
To you in satisfaction; but if not, 
Be you content to lend your patience to us,
And we shall jointly labour with your soul
To give it due content.",258,18890
638931,3105,"Let this be so.
His means of death, his obscure funeral-
No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones,
No noble rite nor formal ostentation,-
Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth,
That I must call't in question.",651,18890
638932,3111,"So you shall;
And where th' offence is let the great axe fall.
I pray you go with me.",258,18890
638933,3114,                                                     Exeunt,1261,18890
638934,3116,Enter Horatio with an Attendant.,1261,18891
638935,3117,What are they that would speak with me?,588,18891
638936,3118,"Seafaring men, sir. They say they have letters for you.",1064,18891
638937,3119,"Let them come in.
[Exit Attendant.]
I do not know from what part of the world
I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.",588,18891
638938,3123,                     Enter Sailors.,1261,18891
638939,3124,"God bless you, sir.",960,18891
638940,3125,Let him bless thee too.,588,18891
638941,3126,"'A shall, sir, an't please him. There's a letter for you,
sir,- it comes from th' ambassador that was bound for England- if
your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is.",960,18891
638942,3129,"[reads the letter] 'Horatio, when thou shalt have overlook'd
this, give these fellows some means to the King. They have
letters for him. Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of
very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too
slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour, and in the grapple I
boarded them. On the instant they got clear of our ship; so I
alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with me like thieves
of mercy; but they knew what they did: I am to do a good turn for
them. Let the King have the letters I have sent, and repair thou
to me with as much speed as thou wouldst fly death. I have words
to speak in thine ear will make thee dumb; yet are they much too
light for the bore of the matter. These good fellows will bring
thee where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their course
for England. Of them I have much to tell thee. Farewell.
'He that thou knowest thine, HAMLET.'
Come, I will give you way for these your letters,
And do't the speedier that you may direct me
To him from whom you brought them. Exeunt.",588,18891
638943,3148,Enter King and Laertes.,1261,18892
638944,3149,"Now must your conscience my acquittance seal,
And You must put me in your heart for friend,
Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,
That he which hath your noble father slain
Pursued my life.",258,18892
638945,3154,"It well appears. But tell me
Why you proceeded not against these feats
So crimeful and so capital in nature,
As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,
You mainly were stirr'd up.",651,18892
638946,3159,"O, for two special reasons,
Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd,
But yet to me they are strong. The Queen his mother
Lives almost by his looks; and for myself,-
My virtue or my plague, be it either which,-
She's so conjunctive to my life and soul
That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, 
I could not but by her. The other motive
Why to a public count I might not go
Is the great love the general gender bear him,
Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,
Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,
Convert his gives to graces; so that my arrows,
Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind,
Would have reverted to my bow again,
And not where I had aim'd them.",258,18892
638947,3175,"And so have I a noble father lost;
A sister driven into desp'rate terms,
Whose worth, if praises may go back again,
Stood challenger on mount of all the age
For her perfections. But my revenge will come.",651,18892
638948,3180,"Break not your sleeps for that. You must not think
That we are made of stuff so flat and dull
That we can let our beard be shook with danger,
And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more.
I lov'd your father, and we love ourself,
And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine- 
[Enter a Messenger with letters.]
How now? What news?",258,18892
638949,3188,"Letters, my lord, from Hamlet:
This to your Majesty; this to the Queen.",779,18892
638950,3190,From Hamlet? Who brought them?,258,18892
638951,3191,"Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not.
They were given me by Claudio; he receiv'd them
Of him that brought them.",779,18892
638952,3194,"Laertes, you shall hear them.
Leave us.
[Exit Messenger.]
[Reads]'High and Mighty,-You shall know I am set naked on your
kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes;
when I shall (first asking your pardon thereunto) recount the
occasion of my sudden and more strange return.                             'HAMLET.'
What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?
Or is it some abuse, and no such thing? ",258,18892
638953,3203,Know you the hand?,651,18892
638954,3204,"'Tis Hamlet's character. 'Naked!'
And in a postscript here, he says 'alone.'
Can you advise me?",258,18892
638955,3207,"I am lost in it, my lord. But let him come!
It warms the very sickness in my heart
That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,
'Thus didest thou.'",651,18892
638956,3211,"If it be so, Laertes
(As how should it be so? how otherwise?),
Will you be rul'd by me?",258,18892
638957,3214,"Ay my lord,
So you will not o'errule me to a peace.",651,18892
638958,3216,"To thine own peace. If he be now return'd
As checking at his voyage, and that he means
No more to undertake it, I will work him
To exploit now ripe in my device,
Under the which he shall not choose but fall;
And for his death no wind shall breathe
But even his mother shall uncharge the practice 
And call it accident.",258,18892
638959,3224,"My lord, I will be rul'd;
The rather, if you could devise it so
That I might be the organ.",651,18892
638960,3227,"It falls right.
You have been talk'd of since your travel much,
And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality
Wherein they say you shine, Your sum of parts
Did not together pluck such envy from him
As did that one; and that, in my regard,
Of the unworthiest siege.",258,18892
638961,3234,"What part is that, my lord?",651,18892
638962,3235,"A very riband in the cap of youth-
Yet needfull too; for youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears
Than settled age his sables and his weeds,
Importing health and graveness. Two months since
Here was a gentleman of Normandy.
I have seen myself, and serv'd against, the French,
And they can well on horseback; but this gallant 
Had witchcraft in't. He grew unto his seat,
And to such wondrous doing brought his horse
As had he been incorps'd and demi-natur'd
With the brave beast. So far he topp'd my thought
That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks,
Come short of what he did.",258,18892
638963,3249,A Norman was't?,651,18892
638964,3250,A Norman.,258,18892
638965,3251,"Upon my life, Lamound.",651,18892
638966,3252,The very same.,258,18892
638967,3253,"I know him well. He is the broach indeed
And gem of all the nation.",651,18892
638968,3255,"He made confession of you;
And gave you such a masterly report
For art and exercise in your defence,
And for your rapier most especially,
That he cried out 'twould be a sight indeed
If one could match you. The scrimers of their nation
He swore had neither motion, guard, nor eye,
If you oppos'd them. Sir, this report of his 
Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy
That he could nothing do but wish and beg
Your sudden coming o'er to play with you.
Now, out of this-",258,18892
638969,3267,"What out of this, my lord?",651,18892
638970,3268,"Laertes, was your father dear to you?
Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,
A face without a heart,'",258,18892
638971,3271,Why ask you this?,651,18892
638972,3272,"Not that I think you did not love your father;
But that I know love is begun by time,
And that I see, in passages of proof,
Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
There lives within the very flame of love
A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;
And nothing is at a like goodness still;
For goodness, growing to a plurisy,
Dies in his own too-much. That we would do,
We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes,
And hath abatements and delays as many 
As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;
And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
That hurts by easing. But to the quick o' th' ulcer!
Hamlet comes back. What would you undertake
To show yourself your father's son in deed
More than in words?",258,18892
638973,3289,To cut his throat i' th' church!,651,18892
638974,3290,"No place indeed should murther sanctuarize;
Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes,
Will you do this? Keep close within your chamber.
Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home.
We'll put on those shall praise your excellence
And set a double varnish on the fame
The Frenchman gave you; bring you in fine together
And wager on your heads. He, being remiss,
Most generous, and free from all contriving,
Will not peruse the foils; so that with ease,
Or with a little shuffling, you may choose
A sword unbated, and, in a pass of practice,
Requite him for your father. ",258,18892
638975,3303,"I will do't!
And for that purpose I'll anoint my sword.
I bought an unction of a mountebank,
So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,
Collected from all simples that have virtue
Under the moon, can save the thing from death
This is but scratch'd withal. I'll touch my point
With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,
It may be death.",651,18892
638976,3313,"Let's further think of this,
Weigh what convenience both of time and means
May fit us to our shape. If this should fall,
And that our drift look through our bad performance.
'Twere better not assay'd. Therefore this project
Should have a back or second, that might hold
If this did blast in proof. Soft! let me see.
We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings-
I ha't!
When in your motion you are hot and dry- 
As make your bouts more violent to that end-
And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepar'd him
A chalice for the nonce; whereon but sipping,
If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,
Our purpose may hold there.- But stay, what noise,
[Enter Queen.]
How now, sweet queen?",258,18892
638977,3330,"One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow. Your sister's drown'd, Laertes.",528,18892
638978,3332,"Drown'd! O, where?",651,18892
638979,3333,"There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.
There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, 
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;
Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes,
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element; but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.",528,18892
638980,3351,"Alas, then she is drown'd?",651,18892
638981,3352,"Drown'd, drown'd.",528,18892
638982,3353,"Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears; but yet
It is our trick; nature her custom holds,
Let shame say what it will. When these are gone,
The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord.
I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze
But that this folly douts it.      Exit.",651,18892
638983,3360,"Let's follow, Gertrude. 
How much I had to do to calm his rage I
Now fear I this will give it start again;
Therefore let's follow.",258,18892
638984,3364,                                                    Exeunt.,1261,18892
638985,3367,"Enter two Clowns, [with spades and pickaxes].",1261,18893
638986,3368,Is she to be buried in Christian burial when she wilfully seeks her own salvation?,267,18893
638987,3369,"I tell thee she is; therefore make her grave straight.
The crowner hath sate on her, and finds it Christian burial.",268,18893
638988,3371,"How can that be, unless she drown'd herself in her own
defence?",267,18893
638989,3373,"Why, 'tis found so.",268,18893
638990,3374,"It must be se offendendo; it cannot be else. For here lies
the point: if I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act; and an
act hath three branches-it is to act, to do, and to perform;
argal, she drown'd herself wittingly.",267,18893
638991,3378,"Nay, but hear you, Goodman Delver!",268,18893
638992,3379,"Give me leave. Here lies the water; good. Here stands the
man; good. If the man go to this water and drown himself, it is,
will he nill he, he goes- mark you that. But if the water come to
him and drown him, he drowns not himself. Argal, he that is not
guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. ",267,18893
638993,3384,But is this law?,268,18893
638994,3385,"Ay, marry, is't- crowner's quest law.",267,18893
638995,3386,"Will you ha' the truth an't? If this had not been a
gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o' Christian burial.",268,18893
638996,3388,"Why, there thou say'st! And the more pity that great folk
should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves
more than their even-Christian. Come, my spade! There is no
ancient gentlemen but gard'ners, ditchers, and grave-makers. They
hold up Adam's profession.",267,18893
638997,3393,Was he a gentleman?,268,18893
639001,3400,Go to!,268,18893
639002,3401,"What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the
shipwright, or the carpenter?",267,18893
639003,3403,"The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand 
tenants.",268,18893
639004,3405,"I like thy wit well, in good faith. The gallows does well.
But how does it well? It does well to those that do ill. Now,
thou dost ill to say the gallows is built stronger than the
church. Argal, the gallows may do well to thee. To't again, come!",267,18893
639005,3409,"Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a
carpenter?",268,18893
639006,3411,"Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.",267,18893
639007,3412,"Marry, now I can tell!",268,18893
639008,3413,To't.,267,18893
639009,3414,"Mass, I cannot tell.",268,18893
639010,3415,            Enter Hamlet and Horatio afar off.,1261,18893
639011,3416,"Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will
not mend his pace with beating; and when you are ask'd this
question next, say 'a grave-maker.' The houses he makes lasts
till doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan; fetch me a stoup of
liquor.",267,18893
639012,3421,                                       [Exit Second Clown.],1261,18893
639013,3422,                  [Clown digs and] sings.,1261,18893
639014,3423,"In youth when I did love, did love,
   Methought it was very sweet;
  To contract- O- the time for- a- my behove,
    O, methought there- a- was nothing- a- meet.",267,18893
639015,3427,"Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at
grave-making?",559,18893
639016,3429,Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.,588,18893
639017,3430,"'Tis e'en so. The hand of little employment hath the daintier
sense.",559,18893
639018,3432,"[sings]
    But age with his stealing steps
      Hath clawed me in his clutch,
    And hath shipped me intil the land,
      As if I had never been such.",267,18893
639019,3437,                                       [Throws up a skull.],1261,18893
639020,3438,"That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once. How the
knave jowls it to the ground,as if 'twere Cain's jawbone, that
did the first murther! This might be the pate of a Politician,
which this ass now o'erreaches; one that would circumvent God,
might it not?",559,18893
639021,3443,"It might, my lord.",588,18893
639022,3444,"Or of a courtier, which could say 'Good morrow, sweet lord!
How dost thou, good lord?' This might be my Lord Such-a-one, that
prais'd my Lord Such-a-one's horse when he meant to beg it- might
it not?",559,18893
639023,3448,"Ay, my lord.",588,18893
639024,3449,"Why, e'en so! and now my Lady Worm's, chapless, and knock'd
about the mazzard with a sexton's spade. Here's fine revolution,
and we had the trick to see't. Did these bones cost no more the
breeding but to play at loggets with 'em? Mine ache to think
on't.",559,18893
639025,3454,"[Sings]
    A pickaxe and a spade, a spade,
      For and a shrouding sheet;
    O, a Pit of clay for to be made 
      For such a guest is meet.
                                 Throws up [another skull].",267,18893
639026,3460,"There's another. Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?
Where be his quiddits now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures,
and his tricks? Why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock
him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him
of his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be in's time a
great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his
fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries. Is this the fine of
his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine
pate full of fine dirt? Will his vouchers vouch him no more of
his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth
of a pair of indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will
scarcely lie in this box; and must th' inheritor himself have no
more, ha?",559,18893
639027,3473,"Not a jot more, my lord.",588,18893
639028,3474,Is not parchment made of sheepskins?,559,18893
639029,3475,"Ay, my lord, And of calveskins too.",588,18893
639030,3476,"They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance in that. I 
will speak to this fellow. Whose grave's this, sirrah?",559,18893
639031,3478,"Mine, sir.
[Sings] O, a pit of clay for to be made
         For such a guest is meet.",267,18893
639032,3481,"I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in't.",559,18893
639033,3482,"You lie out on't, sir, and therefore 'tis not yours.
For my part, I do not lie in't, yet it is mine.",267,18893
639034,3484,"Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine. 'Tis for
the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.",559,18893
639035,3486,"'Tis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away again from me to you.",267,18893
639036,3487,What man dost thou dig it for?,559,18893
639037,3488,"For no man, sir.",267,18893
639038,3489,What woman then?,559,18893
639039,3490,For none neither.,267,18893
639040,3491,Who is to be buried in't?,559,18893
639041,3492,"One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.",267,18893
639042,3493,"How absolute the knave is! We must speak by the card, or
equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, this three years
I have taken note of it, the age is grown so picked that the toe 
of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls
his kibe.- How long hast thou been a grave-maker?",559,18893
639043,3498,"Of all the days i' th' year, I came to't that day that our
last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras.",267,18893
639044,3500,How long is that since?,559,18893
639045,3501,"Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the
very day that young Hamlet was born- he that is mad, and sent
into England.",267,18893
639046,3504,"Ay, marry, why was be sent into England?",559,18893
639047,3505,"Why, because 'a was mad. 'A shall recover his wits there;
or, if 'a do not, 'tis no great matter there.",267,18893
639048,3507,Why?,559,18893
639049,3508,"'Twill not he seen in him there. There the men are as mad as
he.",267,18893
639050,3510,How came he mad?,559,18893
639051,3511,"Very strangely, they say.",267,18893
639052,3512,How strangely?,559,18893
639053,3513,"Faith, e'en with losing his wits.",267,18893
639054,3514,Upon what ground?,559,18893
639055,3515,"Why, here in Denmark. I have been sexton here, man and boy 
thirty years.",267,18893
639056,3517,How long will a man lie i' th' earth ere he rot?,559,18893
639057,3518,"Faith, if 'a be not rotten before 'a die (as we have many
pocky corses now-a-days that will scarce hold the laying in, I
will last you some eight year or nine year. A tanner will last
you nine year.",267,18893
639058,3522,Why he more than another?,559,18893
639059,3523,"Why, sir, his hide is so tann'd with his trade that 'a will
keep out water a great while; and your water is a sore decayer of
your whoreson dead body. Here's a skull now. This skull hath lien
you i' th' earth three-and-twenty years.",267,18893
639060,3527,Whose was it?,559,18893
639061,3528,"A whoreson, mad fellow's it was. Whose do you think it was?",267,18893
639062,3529,"Nay, I know not.",559,18893
639063,3530,"A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! 'A pour'd a flagon of
Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, sir, was Yorick's
skull, the King's jester.",267,18893
639064,3533,This?,559,18893
639065,3534,E'en that.,267,18893
639066,3535,"Let me see. [Takes the skull.] Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, 
Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He
hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred
in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those
lips that I have kiss'd I know not how oft. Where be your gibes
now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment that
were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your
own grinning? Quite chap- fall'n? Now get you to my lady's
chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this
favour she must come. Make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio,
tell me one thing.",559,18893
639067,3546,"What's that, my lord?",588,18893
639068,3547,Dost thou think Alexander look'd o' this fashion i' th' earth?,559,18893
639069,3548,E'en so.,588,18893
639070,3549,And smelt so? Pah!,559,18893
639071,3550,                                     [Puts down the skull.],1261,18893
639072,3551,"E'en so, my lord.",588,18893
639073,3552,"To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not
imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it
stopping a bunghole?",559,18893
639074,3555,"'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. ",588,18893
639075,3556,"No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty
enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died,
Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is
earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam (whereto he
was converted) might they not stop a beer barrel?
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
O, that that earth which kept the world in awe
Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!
But soft! but soft! aside! Here comes the King-
Enter [priests with] a coffin [in funeral procession], King,
[Queen, Laertes, with Lords attendant.]
The Queen, the courtiers. Who is this they follow?
And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken
The corse they follow did with desp'rate hand
Fordo it own life. 'Twas of some estate.
Couch we awhile, and mark.",559,18893
639076,3573,                                    [Retires with Horatio.],1261,18893
639077,3574,What ceremony else?,651,18893
639078,3575,"That is Laertes,
A very noble youth. Mark.",559,18893
639079,3577,What ceremony else?,651,18893
639080,3578,"Her obsequies have been as far enlarg'd
As we have warranty. Her death was doubtful;
And, but that great command o'ersways the order,
She should in ground unsanctified have lodg'd
Till the last trumpet. For charitable prayers,
Shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her.
Yet here she is allow'd her virgin rites,
Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home
Of bell and burial.",561,18893
639081,3587,Must there no more be done?,651,18893
639082,3588,"No more be done.
We should profane the service of the dead
To sing a requiem and such rest to her
As to peace-parted souls.",561,18893
639083,3592,"Lay her i' th' earth;
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh 
May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest,
A minist'ring angel shall my sister be
When thou liest howling.",651,18893
639084,3597,"What, the fair Ophelia?",559,18893
639085,3598,"Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.
[Scatters flowers.]
I hop'd thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife;
I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid,
And not have strew'd thy grave.",528,18893
639086,3603,"O, treble woe
Fall ten times treble on that cursed head
Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense
Depriv'd thee of! Hold off the earth awhile,
Till I have caught her once more in mine arms.
[Leaps in the grave.]
Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead
Till of this flat a mountain you have made
T' o'ertop old Pelion or the skyish head
Of blue Olympus.",651,18893
639087,3613,"[comes forward] What is he whose grief 
Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow
Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand
Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,
Hamlet the Dane.  [Leaps in after Laertes.",559,18893
639088,3618,The devil take thy soul!,651,18893
639089,3619,                                       [Grapples with him].,1261,18893
639090,3620,"Thou pray'st not well.
I prithee take thy fingers from my throat;
For, though I am not splenitive and rash,
Yet have I in me something dangerous,
Which let thy wisdom fear. Hold off thy hand!",559,18893
639091,3625,Pluck them asunder.,258,18893
639092,3626,"Hamlet, Hamlet!",528,18893
639093,3627,Gentlemen!,80,18893
639094,3628,"Good my lord, be quiet.",588,18893
639095,3629,"        [The Attendants part them, and they come out of the                                                     grave.]",1261,18893
639096,3630,"Why, I will fight with him upon this theme
Until my eyelids will no longer wag.",559,18893
639097,3632,"O my son, what theme? ",528,18893
639098,3633,"I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers
Could not (with all their quantity of love)
Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?",559,18893
639099,3636,"O, he is mad, Laertes.",258,18893
639100,3637,"For love of God, forbear him!",528,18893
639101,3638,"'Swounds, show me what thou't do.
Woo't weep? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear thyself?
Woo't drink up esill? eat a crocodile?
I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine?
To outface me with leaping in her grave?
Be buried quick with her, and so will I.
And if thou prate of mountains, let them throw
Millions of acres on us, till our ground,
Singeing his pate against the burning zone,
Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
I'll rant as well as thou.",559,18893
639102,3649,"This is mere madness;
And thus a while the fit will work on him.
Anon, as patient as the female dove
When that her golden couplets are disclos'd, 
His silence will sit drooping.",528,18893
639103,3654,"Hear you, sir!
What is the reason that you use me thus?
I lov'd you ever. But it is no matter.
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.",559,18893
639104,3659,Exit.,1261,18893
639105,3660,"I pray thee, good Horatio, wait upon him.
[Exit Horatio.]
[To Laertes] Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech.
We'll put the matter to the present push.-
Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-
This grave shall have a living monument.
An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;
Till then in patience our proceeding be.",258,18893
639106,3668,                                                    Exeunt.,1261,18893
639107,3670,Enter Hamlet and Horatio.,1261,18894
639108,3671,"So much for this, sir; now shall you see the other.
You do remember all the circumstance?",559,18894
639109,3673,"Remember it, my lord!",588,18894
639110,3674,"Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
That would not let me sleep. Methought I lay
Worse than the mutinies in the bilboes. Rashly-
And prais'd be rashness for it; let us know,
Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
When our deep plots do pall; and that should learn us
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will-",559,18894
639111,3682,That is most certain.,588,18894
639112,3683,"Up from my cabin,
My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark
Grop'd I to find out them; had my desire,
Finger'd their packet, and in fine withdrew
To mine own room again; making so bold 
(My fears forgetting manners) to unseal
Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio
(O royal knavery!), an exact command,
Larded with many several sorts of reasons,
Importing Denmark's health, and England's too,
With, hoo! such bugs and goblins in my life-
That, on the supervise, no leisure bated,
No, not to stay the finding of the axe,
My head should be struck off.",559,18894
639113,3697,Is't possible?,588,18894
639114,3698,"Here's the commission; read it at more leisure.
But wilt thou bear me how I did proceed?",559,18894
639115,3700,I beseech you.,588,18894
639116,3701,"Being thus benetted round with villanies,
Or I could make a prologue to my brains,
They had begun the play. I sat me down;
Devis'd a new commission; wrote it fair.
I once did hold it, as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much
How to forget that learning; but, sir, now 
It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know
Th' effect of what I wrote?",559,18894
639117,3710,"Ay, good my lord.",588,18894
639118,3711,"An earnest conjuration from the King,
As England was his faithful tributary,
As love between them like the palm might flourish,
As peace should still her wheaten garland wear
And stand a comma 'tween their amities,
And many such-like as's of great charge,
That, on the view and knowing of these contents,
Without debatement further, more or less,
He should the bearers put to sudden death,
Not shriving time allow'd.",559,18894
639119,3721,How was this seal'd?,588,18894
639120,3722,"Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.
I had my father's signet in my purse,
Which was the model of that Danish seal;
Folded the writ up in the form of th' other,
Subscrib'd it, gave't th' impression, plac'd it safely,
The changeling never known. Now, the next day 
Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent
Thou know'st already.",559,18894
639121,3730,So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't.,588,18894
639122,3731,"Why, man, they did make love to this employment!
They are not near my conscience; their defeat
Does by their own insinuation grow.
'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes
Between the pass and fell incensed points
Of mighty opposites.",559,18894
639123,3737,"Why, what a king is this!",588,18894
639124,3738,"Does it not, thinks't thee, stand me now upon-
He that hath kill'd my king, and whor'd my mother;
Popp'd in between th' election and my hopes;
Thrown out his angle for my proper life,
And with such coz'nage- is't not perfect conscience
To quit him with this arm? And is't not to be damn'd
To let this canker of our nature come
In further evil?",559,18894
639125,3746,"It must be shortly known to him from England
What is the issue of the business there. ",588,18894
639126,3748,"It will be short; the interim is mine,
And a man's life is no more than to say 'one.'
But I am very sorry, good Horatio,
That to Laertes I forgot myself,
For by the image of my cause I see
The portraiture of his. I'll court his favours.
But sure the bravery of his grief did put me
Into a tow'ring passion.",559,18894
639127,3756,Peace! Who comes here?,588,18894
639128,3757,"            Enter young Osric, a courtier.",1261,18894
639129,3758,Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.,841,18894
639130,3759,"I humbly thank you, sir. [Aside to Horatio] Dost know this
waterfly?",559,18894
639131,3761,"[aside to Hamlet] No, my good lord.",588,18894
639132,3762,"[aside to Horatio] Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a
vice to know him. He hath much land, and fertile. Let a beast be
lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king's mess. 'Tis
a chough; but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt.",559,18894
639133,3766,"Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I should impart
a thing to you from his Majesty.",841,18894
639134,3768,"I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of spirit. Put your
bonnet to his right use. 'Tis for the head.",559,18894
639135,3770,"I thank your lordship, it is very hot.",841,18894
639136,3771,"No, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is northerly.",559,18894
639137,3772,"It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed.",841,18894
639138,3773,But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my complexion.,559,18894
639139,3774,"Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry, as 'twere- I cannot
tell how. But, my lord, his Majesty bade me signify to you that
he has laid a great wager on your head. Sir, this is the matter-",841,18894
639140,3777,I beseech you remember.,559,18894
639141,3778,                      [Hamlet moves him to put on his hat.],1261,18894
639142,3779,"Nay, good my lord; for mine ease, in good faith. Sir, here is
newly come to court Laertes; believe me, an absolute gentleman,
full of most excellent differences, of very soft society and
great showing. Indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card
or calendar of gentry; for you shall find in him the continent of
what part a gentleman would see.",841,18894
639143,3785,"Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I
know, to divide him inventorially would dozy th' arithmetic of
memory, and yet but yaw neither in respect of his quick sail.
But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great
article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make
true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else    would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.",559,18894
639144,3791,Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.,841,18894
639145,3792,"The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap the gentleman in our more
rawer breath?",559,18894
639146,3794,Sir?,841,18894
639147,3795,"[aside to Hamlet] Is't not possible to understand in another
tongue? You will do't, sir, really.",588,18894
639148,3797,What imports the nomination of this gentleman?,559,18894
639149,3798,Of Laertes?,841,18894
639150,3799,"[aside] His purse is empty already. All's golden words are
spent.",588,18894
639151,3801,"Of him, sir.",559,18894
639152,3802,I know you are not ignorant-,841,18894
639153,3803,"I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did, it would not
much approve me. Well, sir? ",559,18894
639154,3805,You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is-,841,18894
639155,3806,"I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in
excellence; but to know a man well were to know himself.",559,18894
639156,3808,"I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation laid on him
by them, in his meed he's unfellowed.",841,18894
639157,3810,What's his weapon?,559,18894
639158,3811,Rapier and dagger.,841,18894
639159,3812,That's two of his weapons- but well.,559,18894
639160,3813,"The King, sir, hath wager'd with him six Barbary horses;
against the which he has impon'd, as I take it, six French
rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdle, hangers, and
so. Three of the carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy,
very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of
very liberal conceit.",841,18894
639161,3819,What call you the carriages?,559,18894
639162,3820,"[aside to Hamlet] I knew you must be edified by the margent
ere you had done.",588,18894
639163,3822,"The carriages, sir, are the hangers.",841,18894
639164,3823,"The phrase would be more germane to the matter if we could
carry cannon by our sides. I would it might be hangers till then. 
But on! Six Barbary horses against six French swords, their
assigns, and three liberal-conceited carriages: that's the French
bet against the Danish. Why is this all impon'd, as you call it?",559,18894
639165,3828,"The King, sir, hath laid that, in a dozen passes between
yourself and him, he shall not exceed you three hits; he hath
laid on twelve for nine, and it would come to immediate trial
if your lordship would vouchsafe the answer.",841,18894
639166,3832,How if I answer no?,559,18894
639167,3833,"I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial.",841,18894
639168,3834,"Sir, I will walk here in the hall. If it please his Majesty,
it is the breathing time of day with me. Let the foils be
brought, the gentleman willing, and the King hold his purpose,
I will win for him if I can; if not, I will gain nothing but my
shame and the odd hits.",559,18894
639169,3839,Shall I redeliver you e'en so?,841,18894
639170,3840,"To this effect, sir, after what flourish your nature will.",559,18894
639171,3841,I commend my duty to your lordship.,841,18894
639172,3842,"Yours, yours. [Exit Osric.] He does well to commend it
himself; there are no tongues else for's turn.",559,18894
639173,3844,This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head. ,588,18894
639174,3845,"He did comply with his dug before he suck'd it. Thus has he,
and many more of the same bevy that I know the drossy age dotes
on, only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter-
a kind of yesty collection, which carries them through and
through the most fann'd and winnowed opinions; and do but blow
them to their trial-the bubbles are out,",559,18894
639175,3851,                       Enter a Lord.,1261,18894
639176,3852,"My lord, his Majesty commended him to you by young Osric, who
brings back to him, that you attend him in the hall. He sends to
know if your pleasure hold to play with Laertes, or that you will
take longer time.",684,18894
639177,3856,"I am constant to my purposes; they follow the King's pleasure.
If his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now or whensoever, provided
I be so able as now.",559,18894
639178,3859,The King and Queen and all are coming down.,684,18894
639179,3860,In happy time.,559,18894
639180,3861,"The Queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment to
Laertes before you fall to play. ",684,18894
639181,3863,She well instructs me.,559,18894
639182,3864,                                               [Exit Lord.],1261,18894
639183,3865,"You will lose this wager, my lord.",588,18894
639184,3866,"I do not think so. Since he went into France I have been in
continual practice. I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not
think how ill all's here about my heart. But it is no matter.",559,18894
639185,3869,"Nay, good my lord--",588,18894
639186,3870,"It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gaingiving as
would perhaps trouble a woman.",559,18894
639187,3872,"If your mind dislike anything, obey it. I will forestall their
repair hither and say you are not fit.",588,18894
639188,3874,"Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence in
the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be
not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come:
the readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves,
what is't to leave betimes? Let be.",559,18894
639189,3879,"Enter King, Queen, Laertes, Osric, and Lords, with other",1261,18894
639190,3880,         Attendants with foils and gauntlets.,1261,18894
639191,3881,          A table and flagons of wine on it. ,1261,18894
639192,3882,"Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.",258,18894
639193,3883,               [The King puts Laertes' hand into Hamlet's.],1261,18894
639194,3884,"Give me your pardon, sir. I have done you wrong;
But pardon't, as you are a gentleman.
This presence knows,
And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd
With sore distraction. What I have done
That might your nature, honour, and exception
Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.
Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet.
If Hamlet from himself be taken away,
And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,
Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it.
Who does it, then? His madness. If't be so,
Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd;
His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
Sir, in this audience,
Let my disclaiming from a purpos'd evil
Free me so far in your most generous thoughts 
That I have shot my arrow o'er the house
And hurt my brother.",559,18894
639195,3903,"I am satisfied in nature,
Whose motive in this case should stir me most
To my revenge. But in my terms of honour
I stand aloof, and will no reconcilement
Till by some elder masters of known honour
I have a voice and precedent of peace
To keep my name ungor'd. But till that time
I do receive your offer'd love like love,
And will not wrong it.",651,18894
639196,3912,"I embrace it freely,
And will this brother's wager frankly play.
Give us the foils. Come on.",559,18894
639197,3915,"Come, one for me.",651,18894
639198,3916,"I'll be your foil, Laertes. In mine ignorance
Your skill shall, like a star i' th' darkest night,
Stick fiery off indeed.",559,18894
639199,3919,"You mock me, sir.",651,18894
639200,3920,"No, by this hand. ",559,18894
639201,3921,"Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,
You know the wager?",258,18894
639202,3923,"Very well, my lord.
Your Grace has laid the odds o' th' weaker side.",559,18894
639203,3925,"I do not fear it, I have seen you both;
But since he is better'd, we have therefore odds.",258,18894
639204,3927,This is too heavy; let me see another.,651,18894
639205,3928,This likes me well. These foils have all a length?,559,18894
639206,3929,                                           Prepare to play.,1261,18894
639207,3930,"Ay, my good lord.",841,18894
639208,3931,"Set me the stoups of wine upon that table.
If Hamlet give the first or second hit,
Or quit in answer of the third exchange,
Let all the battlements their ordnance fire;
The King shall drink to Hamlet's better breath,
And in the cup an union shall he throw
Richer than that which four successive kings
In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups;
And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,
The trumpet to the cannoneer without, 
The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,
'Now the King drinks to Hamlet.' Come, begin.
And you the judges, bear a wary eye.",258,18894
639209,3944,"Come on, sir.",559,18894
639210,3945,"Come, my lord.            They play.",651,18894
639211,3946,One.,559,18894
639212,3947,No.,651,18894
639213,3948,Judgment!,559,18894
639214,3949,"A hit, a very palpable hit.",841,18894
639215,3950,"Well, again!",651,18894
639216,3951,"Stay, give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine;
Here's to thy health.
[Drum; trumpets sound; a piece goes off [within].]
Give him the cup.",258,18894
639217,3955,"I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile.
Come. [They play.] Another hit. What say you?",559,18894
639218,3957,"A touch, a touch; I do confess't.",651,18894
639219,3958,Our son shall win.,258,18894
639220,3959,"He's fat, and scant of breath.
Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows. 
The Queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.",528,18894
639221,3962,Good madam!,559,18894
639222,3963,"Gertrude, do not drink.",258,18894
639223,3964,"I will, my lord; I pray you pardon me.  Drinks.",528,18894
639224,3965,[aside] It is the poison'd cup; it is too late.,258,18894
639225,3966,"I dare not drink yet, madam; by-and-by.",559,18894
639226,3967,"Come, let me wipe thy face.",528,18894
639227,3968,"My lord, I'll hit him now.",651,18894
639228,3969,I do not think't.,258,18894
639229,3970,[aside] And yet it is almost against my conscience.,651,18894
639230,3971,"Come for the third, Laertes! You but dally.
Pray you pass with your best violence;
I am afeard you make a wanton of me.",559,18894
639231,3974,Say you so? Come on.           Play.,651,18894
639232,3975,Nothing neither way.,841,18894
639233,3976,Have at you now!,651,18894
639234,3977,"           [Laertes wounds Hamlet; then] in scuffling, they change rapiers, [and Hamlet wounds Laertes].",1261,18894
639235,3978,Part them! They are incens'd.,258,18894
639236,3979,Nay come! again!                         The Queen falls.,559,18894
639237,3980,"Look to the Queen there, ho!",841,18894
639238,3981,"They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord?",588,18894
639239,3982,"How is't, Laertes?",841,18894
639240,3983,"Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric.I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.",651,18894
639241,3984,How does the Queen?,559,18894
639242,3985,She sounds to see them bleed.,258,18894
639243,3986,"No, no! the drink, the drink! O my dear Hamlet!
The drink, the drink! I am poison'd. [Dies.]",528,18894
639244,3988,"O villany! Ho! let the door be lock'd.
Treachery! Seek it out.",559,18894
639245,3990,                                           [Laertes falls.],1261,18894
639246,3991,"It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet, thou art slain;
No medicine in the world can do thee good.
In thee there is not half an hour of life.
The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
Unbated and envenom'd. The foul practice
Hath turn'd itself on me. Lo, here I lie,
Never to rise again. Thy mother's poison'd.
I can no more. The King, the King's to blame. ",651,18894
639247,3999,"The point envenom'd too?
Then, venom, to thy work.  Hurts the King.",559,18894
639248,4001,Treason! treason!,80,18894
639249,4002,"O, yet defend me, friends! I am but hurt.",258,18894
639250,4003,"Here, thou incestuous, murd'rous, damned Dane,
Drink off this potion! Is thy union here?
Follow my mother.             King dies.",559,18894
639251,4006,"He is justly serv'd.
It is a poison temper'd by himself.
Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.
Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,
Nor thine on me!                                       Dies.",651,18894
639252,4011,"Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.
I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu!
You that look pale and tremble at this chance,
That are but mutes or audience to this act,
Had I but time (as this fell sergeant, Death,
Is strict in his arrest) O, I could tell you-
But let it be. Horatio, I am dead;
Thou liv'st; report me and my cause aright 
To the unsatisfied.",559,18894
639253,4020,"Never believe it.
I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.
Here's yet some liquor left.",588,18894
639254,4023,"As th'art a man,
Give me the cup. Let go! By heaven, I'll ha't.
O good Horatio, what a wounded name
(Things standing thus unknown) shall live behind me!
If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story. [March afar off, and shot within.]
What warlike noise is this?",559,18894
639255,4032,"Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,
To the ambassadors of England gives
This warlike volley.",841,18894
639256,4035,"O, I die, Horatio!
The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit.
I cannot live to hear the news from England,
But I do prophesy th' election lights 
On Fortinbras. He has my dying voice.
So tell him, with th' occurrents, more and less,
Which have solicited- the rest is silence. Dies.",559,18894
639257,4042,"Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
[March within.]
Why does the drum come hither?
Enter Fortinbras and English Ambassadors, with Drum, Colours, and Attendants.",588,18894
639258,4047,Where is this sight?,486,18894
639259,4048,"What is it you will see?
If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.",588,18894
639260,4050,"This quarry cries on havoc. O proud Death,
What feast is toward in thine eternal cell
That thou so many princes at a shot
So bloodily hast struck.",486,18894
639261,4054,"The sight is dismal;
And our affairs from England come too late. 
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing
To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd
That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
Where should we have our thanks?",100,18894
639262,4060,"Not from his mouth,
Had it th' ability of life to thank you.
He never gave commandment for their death.
But since, so jump upon this bloody question,
You from the Polack wars, and you from England,
Are here arriv'd, give order that these bodies
High on a stage be placed to the view;
And let me speak to the yet unknowing world
How these things came about. So shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts;
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters;
Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause;
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on th' inventors' heads. All this can I
Truly deliver.",588,18894
639263,4075,"Let us haste to hear it, 
And call the noblest to the audience.
For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune.
I have some rights of memory in this kingdom
Which now, to claim my vantage doth invite me.",486,18894
639264,4080,"Of that I shall have also cause to speak,
And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more.
But let this same be presently perform'd,
Even while men's minds are wild, lest more mischance
On plots and errors happen.",588,18894
639265,4085,"Let four captains
Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage;
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have prov'd most royally; and for his passage
The soldiers' music and the rites of war
Speak loudly for him.
Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this
Becomes the field but here shows much amiss.
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.",486,18894
639266,4094,       Exeunt marching; after the which a peal of ordnance are shot off.,1261,18894
639267,4095,THE END,1261,18894
639268,3,"[Enter KING HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, the EARL of WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and others]",1261,18895
639269,4,"So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
To be commenced in strands afar remote.
No more the thirsty entrance of this soil
Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood;
Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields,
Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs
Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,
Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
All of one nature, of one substance bred,
Did lately meet in the intestine shock
And furious close of civil butchery
Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,
March all one way and be no more opposed
Against acquaintance, kindred and allies:
The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,
No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends,
As far as to the sepulchre of Christ,
Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross
We are impressed and engaged to fight,
Forthwith a power of English shall we levy;
Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb
To chase these pagans in those holy fields
Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet
Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd
For our advantage on the bitter cross.
But this our purpose now is twelve month old,
And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go:
Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear
Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland,
What yesternight our council did decree
In forwarding this dear expedience.",572,18895
639270,37,"My liege, this haste was hot in question,
And many limits of the charge set down
But yesternight: when all athwart there came
A post from Wales loaden with heavy news;
Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer,
Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight
Against the irregular and wild Glendower,
Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,
A thousand of his people butchered;
Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse,
Such beastly shameless transformation,
By those Welshwomen done as may not be
Without much shame retold or spoken of.",1250,18895
639271,50,"It seems then that the tidings of this broil
Brake off our business for the Holy Land.",572,18895
639272,52,"This match'd with other did, my gracious lord;
For more uneven and unwelcome news
Came from the north and thus it did import:
On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there,
Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald,
That ever-valiant and approved Scot,
At Holmedon met,
Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour,
As by discharge of their artillery,
And shape of likelihood, the news was told;
For he that brought them, in the very heat
And pride of their contention did take horse,
Uncertain of the issue any way.",1250,18895
639273,65,"Here is a dear, a true industrious friend,
Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse.
Stain'd with the variation of each soil
Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours;
And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news.
The Earl of Douglas is discomfited:
Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights,
Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see
On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners, Hotspur took
Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son
To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol,
Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith:
And is not this an honourable spoil?
A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not?",572,18895
639274,79,"In faith,
It is a conquest for a prince to boast of.",1250,18895
639275,81,"Yea, there thou makest me sad and makest me sin
In envy that my Lord Northumberland
Should be the father to so blest a son,
A son who is the theme of honour's tongue;
Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant;
Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride:
Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him,
See riot and dishonour stain the brow
Of my young Harry. O that it could be proved
That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged
In cradle-clothes our children where they lay,
And call'd mine Percy, his Plantagenet!
Then would I have his Harry, and he mine.
But let him from my thoughts. What think you, coz,
Of this young Percy's pride? the prisoners,
Which he in this adventure hath surprised,
To his own use he keeps; and sends me word,
I shall have none but Mordake Earl of Fife.",572,18895
639276,99,"This is his uncle's teaching; this is Worcester,
Malevolent to you in all aspects;
Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up
The crest of youth against your dignity.",1250,18895
639277,103,"But I have sent for him to answer this;
And for this cause awhile we must neglect
Our holy purpose to Jerusalem.
Cousin, on Wednesday next our council we
Will hold at Windsor; so inform the lords:
But come yourself with speed to us again;
For more is to be said and to be done
Than out of anger can be uttered.",572,18895
639278,111,"I will, my liege.",1250,18895
639279,112,[Exeunt],1261,18895
639280,114,[Enter the PRINCE OF WALES and FALSTAFF],1261,18896
639281,115,"Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?",393,18896
639282,116,"Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack
and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon
benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to
demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know.
What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the
day? Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes
capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the
signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself
a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no
reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand
the time of the day.",573,18896
639283,127,"Indeed, you come near me now, Hal; for we that take
purses go by the moon and the seven stars, and not
by Phoebus, he,'that wandering knight so fair.' And,
I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art king, as, God
save thy grace,--majesty I should say, for grace
thou wilt have none,--",393,18896
639284,133,"What, none?",573,18896
639285,134,"No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to
prologue to an egg and butter.",393,18896
639286,136,"Well, how then? come, roundly, roundly.",573,18896
639287,137,"Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not
us that are squires of the night's body be called
thieves of the day's beauty: let us be Diana's
foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the
moon; and let men say we be men of good government,
being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and
chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.",393,18896
639288,144,"Thou sayest well, and it holds well too; for the
fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and
flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is,
by the moon. As, for proof, now: a purse of gold
most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most
dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with
swearing 'Lay by' and spent with crying 'Bring in;'
now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder
and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.",573,18896
639289,153,"By the Lord, thou sayest true, lad. And is not my
hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench?",393,18896
639290,155,"As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle. And
is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance?",573,18896
639291,157,"How now, how now, mad wag! what, in thy quips and
thy quiddities? what a plague have I to do with a
buff jerkin?",393,18896
639292,160,"Why, what a pox have I to do with my hostess of the tavern?",573,18896
639293,161,"Well, thou hast called her to a reckoning many a
time and oft.",393,18896
639294,163,Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part?,573,18896
639295,164,"No; I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all there.",393,18896
639296,165,"Yea, and elsewhere, so far as my coin would stretch;
and where it would not, I have used my credit.",573,18896
639297,167,"Yea, and so used it that were it not here apparent
that thou art heir apparent--But, I prithee, sweet
wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when
thou art king? and resolution thus fobbed as it is
with the rusty curb of old father antic the law? Do
not thou, when thou art king, hang a thief.",393,18896
639298,173,No; thou shalt.,573,18896
639299,174,"Shall I? O rare! By the Lord, I'll be a brave judge.",393,18896
639300,175,"Thou judgest false already: I mean, thou shalt have
the hanging of the thieves and so become a rare hangman.",573,18896
639301,177,"Well, Hal, well; and in some sort it jumps with my
humour as well as waiting in the court, I can tell
you.",393,18896
639302,180,For obtaining of suits?,573,18896
639303,181,"Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman
hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I am as melancholy
as a gib cat or a lugged bear.",393,18896
639304,184,"Or an old lion, or a lover's lute.",573,18896
639305,185,"Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.",393,18896
639306,186,"What sayest thou to a hare, or the melancholy of
Moor-ditch?",573,18896
639307,188,"Thou hast the most unsavoury similes and art indeed
the most comparative, rascalliest, sweet young
prince. But, Hal, I prithee, trouble me no more
with vanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a
commodity of good names were to be bought. An old
lord of the council rated me the other day in the
street about you, sir, but I marked him not; and yet
he talked very wisely, but I regarded him not; and
yet he talked wisely, and in the street too.",393,18896
639308,197,"Thou didst well; for wisdom cries out in the
streets, and no man regards it.",573,18896
639309,199,"O, thou hast damnable iteration and art indeed able
to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon
me, Hal; God forgive thee for it! Before I knew
thee, Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, if a man
should speak truly, little better than one of the
wicked. I must give over this life, and I will give
it over: by the Lord, and I do not, I am a villain:
I'll be damned for never a king's son in
Christendom.",393,18896
639310,208,"Where shall we take a purse tomorrow, Jack?",573,18896
639311,209,"'Zounds, where thou wilt, lad; I'll make one; an I
do not, call me villain and baffle me.",393,18896
639312,211,"I see a good amendment of life in thee; from praying
to purse-taking.",573,18896
639313,213,"Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a
man to labour in his vocation.
[Enter POINS]
Poins! Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a
match. O, if men were to be saved by merit, what
hole in hell were hot enough for him? This is the
most omnipotent villain that ever cried 'Stand' to
a true man.",393,18896
639314,221,"Good morrow, Ned.",573,18896
639315,222,"Good morrow, sweet Hal. What says Monsieur Remorse?
what says Sir John Sack and Sugar? Jack! how
agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that thou
soldest him on Good-Friday last for a cup of Madeira
and a cold capon's leg?",897,18896
639316,227,"Sir John stands to his word, the devil shall have
his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of
proverbs: he will give the devil his due.",573,18896
639317,230,Then art thou damned for keeping thy word with the devil.,897,18896
639318,231,Else he had been damned for cozening the devil.,573,18896
639319,232,"But, my lads, my lads, to-morrow morning, by four
o'clock, early at Gadshill! there are pilgrims going
to Canterbury with rich offerings, and traders
riding to London with fat purses: I have vizards
for you all; you have horses for yourselves:
Gadshill lies to-night in Rochester: I have bespoke
supper to-morrow night in Eastcheap: we may do it
as secure as sleep. If you will go, I will stuff
your purses full of crowns; if you will not, tarry
at home and be hanged.",897,18896
639320,242,"Hear ye, Yedward; if I tarry at home and go not,
I'll hang you for going.",393,18896
639321,244,"You will, chops?",897,18896
639322,245,"Hal, wilt thou make one?",393,18896
639323,246,"Who, I rob? I a thief? not I, by my faith.",573,18896
639324,247,"There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good
fellowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood
royal, if thou darest not stand for ten shillings.",393,18896
639325,250,"Well then, once in my days I'll be a madcap.",573,18896
639326,251,"Why, that's well said.",393,18896
639327,252,"Well, come what will, I'll tarry at home.",573,18896
639328,253,"By the Lord, I'll be a traitor then, when thou art king.",393,18896
639329,254,I care not.,573,18896
639330,255,"Sir John, I prithee, leave the prince and me alone:
I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure
that he shall go.",897,18896
639331,258,"Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and him
the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may
move and what he hears may be believed, that the
true prince may, for recreation sake, prove a false
thief; for the poor abuses of the time want
countenance. Farewell: you shall find me in Eastcheap.",393,18896
639332,264,"Farewell, thou latter spring! farewell, All-hallown summer!",573,18896
639333,265,[Exit Falstaff],1261,18896
639334,266,"Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us
to-morrow: I have a jest to execute that I cannot
manage alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto and Gadshill
shall rob those men that we have already waylaid:
yourself and I will not be there; and when they
have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut
this head off from my shoulders.",897,18896
639335,273,How shall we part with them in setting forth?,573,18896
639336,274,"Why, we will set forth before or after them, and
appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at
our pleasure to fail, and then will they adventure
upon the exploit themselves; which they shall have
no sooner achieved, but we'll set upon them.",897,18896
639337,279,"Yea, but 'tis like that they will know us by our
horses, by our habits and by every other
appointment, to be ourselves.",573,18896
639338,282,"Tut! our horses they shall not see: I'll tie them
in the wood; our vizards we will change after we
leave them: and, sirrah, I have cases of buckram
for the nonce, to immask our noted outward garments.",897,18896
639339,286,"Yea, but I doubt they will be too hard for us.",573,18896
639340,287,"Well, for two of them, I know them to be as
true-bred cowards as ever turned back; and for the
third, if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll
forswear arms. The virtue of this jest will be, the
incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will
tell us when we meet at supper: how thirty, at
least, he fought with; what wards, what blows, what
extremities he endured; and in the reproof of this
lies the jest.",897,18896
639341,296,"Well, I'll go with thee: provide us all things
necessary and meet me to-morrow night in Eastcheap;
there I'll sup. Farewell.",573,18896
639342,299,"Farewell, my lord.",897,18896
639343,300,[Exit Poins],1261,18896
639344,301,"I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness:
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That, when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at,
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
So, when this loose behavior I throw off
And pay the debt I never promised,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I'll so offend, to make offence a skill;
Redeeming time when men think least I will.",573,18896
639345,324,[Exit],1261,18896
639346,327,"[Enter the KING, NORTHUMBERLAND, WORCESTER, HOTSPUR, SIR WALTER BLUNT, with others]",1261,18897
639347,328,"My blood hath been too cold and temperate,
Unapt to stir at these indignities,
And you have found me; for accordingly
You tread upon my patience: but be sure
I will from henceforth rather be myself,
Mighty and to be fear'd, than my condition;
Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down,
And therefore lost that title of respect
Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud.",572,18897
639348,337,"Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves
The scourge of greatness to be used on it;
And that same greatness too which our own hands
Have holp to make so portly.",1260,18897
639349,341,My lord.--,359,18897
639350,342,"Worcester, get thee gone; for I do see
Danger and disobedience in thine eye:
O, sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory,
And majesty might never yet endure
The moody frontier of a servant brow.
You have good leave to leave us: when we need
Your use and counsel, we shall send for you.
[Exit Worcester]
You were about to speak.
[To North]",572,18897
639351,352,"Yea, my good lord.
Those prisoners in your highness' name demanded,
Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took,
Were, as he says, not with such strength denied
As is deliver'd to your majesty:
Either envy, therefore, or misprison
Is guilty of this fault and not my son.",359,18897
639352,359,"My liege, I did deny no prisoners.
But I remember, when the fight was done,
When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,
Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,
Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd,
Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd
Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home;
He was perfumed like a milliner;
And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
A pouncet-box, which ever and anon
He gave his nose and took't away again;
Who therewith angry, when it next came there,
Took it in snuff; and still he smiled and talk'd,
And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
With many holiday and lady terms
He question'd me; amongst the rest, demanded
My prisoners in your majesty's behalf.
I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold,
To be so pester'd with a popinjay,
Out of my grief and my impatience,
Answer'd neglectingly I know not what,
He should or he should not; for he made me mad
To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet
And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman
Of guns and drums and wounds,--God save the mark!--
And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth
Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;
And that it was great pity, so it was,
This villanous salt-petre should be digg'd
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd
So cowardly; and but for these vile guns,
He would himself have been a soldier.
This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,
I answer'd indirectly, as I said;
And I beseech you, let not his report
Come current for an accusation
Betwixt my love and your high majesty.",593,18897
639353,400,"The circumstance consider'd, good my lord,
Whate'er Lord Harry Percy then had said
To such a person and in such a place,
At such a time, with all the rest retold,
May reasonably die and never rise
To do him wrong or any way impeach
What then he said, so he unsay it now.",174,18897
639354,407,"Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners,
But with proviso and exception,
That we at our own charge shall ransom straight
His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer;
Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betray'd
The lives of those that he did lead to fight
Against that great magician, damn'd Glendower,
Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March
Hath lately married. Shall our coffers, then,
Be emptied to redeem a traitor home?
Shall we but treason? and indent with fears,
When they have lost and forfeited themselves?
No, on the barren mountains let him starve;
For I shall never hold that man my friend
Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost
To ransom home revolted Mortimer.",572,18897
639355,423,"Revolted Mortimer!
He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,
But by the chance of war; to prove that true
Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds,
Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took
When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank,
In single opposition, hand to hand,
He did confound the best part of an hour
In changing hardiment with great Glendower:
Three times they breathed and three times did
they drink,
Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood;
Who then, affrighted with their bloody looks,
Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds,
And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank,
Bloodstained with these valiant combatants.
Never did base and rotten policy
Colour her working with such deadly wounds;
Nor could the noble Mortimer
Receive so many, and all willingly:
Then let not him be slander'd with revolt.",593,18897
639356,444,"Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him;
He never did encounter with Glendower:
I tell thee,
He durst as well have met the devil alone
As Owen Glendower for an enemy.
Art thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth
Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer:
Send me your prisoners with the speediest means,
Or you shall hear in such a kind from me
As will displease you. My Lord Northumberland,
We licence your departure with your son.
Send us your prisoners, or you will hear of it.",572,18897
639357,456,"[Exeunt King Henry, Blunt, and train]",1261,18897
639358,457,"An if the devil come and roar for them,
I will not send them: I will after straight
And tell him so; for I will ease my heart,
Albeit I make a hazard of my head.",593,18897
639359,461,"What, drunk with choler? stay and pause awhile:
Here comes your uncle.",359,18897
639360,463,[Re-enter WORCESTER],1261,18897
639361,464,"Speak of Mortimer!
'Zounds, I will speak of him; and let my soul
Want mercy, if I do not join with him:
Yea, on his part I'll empty all these veins,
And shed my dear blood drop by drop in the dust,
But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer
As high in the air as this unthankful king,
As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.",593,18897
639362,472,"Brother, the king hath made your nephew mad.",359,18897
639363,473,Who struck this heat up after I was gone?,1260,18897
639364,474,"He will, forsooth, have all my prisoners;
And when I urged the ransom once again
Of my wife's brother, then his cheek look'd pale,
And on my face he turn'd an eye of death,
Trembling even at the name of Mortimer.",593,18897
639365,479,"I cannot blame him: was not he proclaim'd
By Richard that dead is the next of blood?",1260,18897
639366,481,"He was; I heard the proclamation:
And then it was when the unhappy king,
--Whose wrongs in us God pardon!--did set forth
Upon his Irish expedition;
From whence he intercepted did return
To be deposed and shortly murdered.",359,18897
639367,487,"And for whose death we in the world's wide mouth
Live scandalized and foully spoken of.",1260,18897
639368,489,"But soft, I pray you; did King Richard then
Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer
Heir to the crown?",593,18897
639369,492,He did; myself did hear it.,359,18897
639370,493,"Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin king,
That wished him on the barren mountains starve.
But shall it be that you, that set the crown
Upon the head of this forgetful man
And for his sake wear the detested blot
Of murderous subornation, shall it be,
That you a world of curses undergo,
Being the agents, or base second means,
The cords, the ladder, or the hangman rather?
O, pardon me that I descend so low,
To show the line and the predicament
Wherein you range under this subtle king;
Shall it for shame be spoken in these days,
Or fill up chronicles in time to come,
That men of your nobility and power
Did gage them both in an unjust behalf,
As both of you--God pardon it!--have done,
To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,
An plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?
And shall it in more shame be further spoken,
That you are fool'd, discarded and shook off
By him for whom these shames ye underwent?
No; yet time serves wherein you may redeem
Your banish'd honours and restore yourselves
Into the good thoughts of the world again,
Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt
Of this proud king, who studies day and night
To answer all the debt he owes to you
Even with the bloody payment of your deaths:
Therefore, I say--",593,18897
639371,523,"Peace, cousin, say no more:
And now I will unclasp a secret book,
And to your quick-conceiving discontents
I'll read you matter deep and dangerous,
As full of peril and adventurous spirit
As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud
On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.",1260,18897
639372,530,"If he fall in, good night! or sink or swim:
Send danger from the east unto the west,
So honour cross it from the north to south,
And let them grapple: O, the blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare!",593,18897
639373,535,"Imagination of some great exploit
Drives him beyond the bounds of patience.",359,18897
639374,537,"By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap,
To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,
Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
And pluck up drowned honour by the locks;
So he that doth redeem her thence might wear
Without corrival, all her dignities:
But out upon this half-faced fellowship!",593,18897
639375,545,"He apprehends a world of figures here,
But not the form of what he should attend.
Good cousin, give me audience for a while.",1260,18897
639376,548,I cry you mercy.,593,18897
639377,549,"Those same noble Scots
That are your prisoners,--",1260,18897
639378,551,"I'll keep them all;
By God, he shall not have a Scot of them;
No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not:
I'll keep them, by this hand.",593,18897
639379,555,"You start away
And lend no ear unto my purposes.
Those prisoners you shall keep.",1260,18897
639380,558,"Nay, I will; that's flat:
He said he would not ransom Mortimer;
Forbad my tongue to speak of Mortimer;
But I will find him when he lies asleep,
And in his ear I'll holla 'Mortimer!'
Nay,
I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak
Nothing but 'Mortimer,' and give it him
To keep his anger still in motion.",593,18897
639381,567,"Hear you, cousin; a word.",1260,18897
639382,568,"All studies here I solemnly defy,
Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke:
And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales,
But that I think his father loves him not
And would be glad he met with some mischance,
I would have him poison'd with a pot of ale.",593,18897
639383,574,"Farewell, kinsman: I'll talk to you
When you are better temper'd to attend.",1260,18897
639384,576,"Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
Art thou to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!",359,18897
639385,579,"Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourged with rods,
Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear
Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
In Richard's time,--what do you call the place?--
A plague upon it, it is in Gloucestershire;
'Twas where the madcap duke his uncle kept,
His uncle York; where I first bow'd my knee
Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke,--
'Sblood!--
When you and he came back from Ravenspurgh.",593,18897
639386,589,At Berkley castle.,359,18897
639387,590,"You say true:
Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!
Look,'when his infant fortune came to age,'
And 'gentle Harry Percy,' and 'kind cousin;'
O, the devil take such cozeners! God forgive me!
Good uncle, tell your tale; I have done.",593,18897
639388,597,"Nay, if you have not, to it again;
We will stay your leisure.",1260,18897
639389,599,"I have done, i' faith.",593,18897
639390,600,"Then once more to your Scottish prisoners.
Deliver them up without their ransom straight,
And make the Douglas' son your only mean
For powers in Scotland; which, for divers reasons
Which I shall send you written, be assured,
Will easily be granted. You, my lord,
[To Northumberland]
Your son in Scotland being thus employ'd,
Shall secretly into the bosom creep
Of that same noble prelate, well beloved,
The archbishop.",1260,18897
639391,611,"Of York, is it not?",593,18897
639392,612,"True; who bears hard
His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scroop.
I speak not this in estimation,
As what I think might be, but what I know
Is ruminated, plotted and set down,
And only stays but to behold the face
Of that occasion that shall bring it on.",1260,18897
639393,619,"I smell it: upon my life, it will do well.",593,18897
639394,620,"Before the game is afoot, thou still let'st slip.",359,18897
639395,621,"Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot;
And then the power of Scotland and of York,
To join with Mortimer, ha?",593,18897
639396,624,And so they shall.,1260,18897
639397,625,"In faith, it is exceedingly well aim'd.",593,18897
639398,626,"And 'tis no little reason bids us speed,
To save our heads by raising of a head;
For, bear ourselves as even as we can,
The king will always think him in our debt,
And think we think ourselves unsatisfied,
Till he hath found a time to pay us home:
And see already how he doth begin
To make us strangers to his looks of love.",1260,18897
639399,634,"He does, he does: we'll be revenged on him.",593,18897
639400,635,"Cousin, farewell: no further go in this
Than I by letters shall direct your course.
When time is ripe, which will be suddenly,
I'll steal to Glendower and Lord Mortimer;
Where you and Douglas and our powers at once,
As I will fashion it, shall happily meet,
To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms,
Which now we hold at much uncertainty.",1260,18897
639401,643,"Farewell, good brother: we shall thrive, I trust.",359,18897
639402,644,"Uncle, Adieu: O, let the hours be short
Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport!",593,18897
639403,646,[Exeunt],1261,18897
639404,649,[Enter a Carrier with a lantern in his hand],1261,18898
639405,650,"Heigh-ho! an it be not four by the day, I'll be
hanged: Charles' wain is over the new chimney, and
yet our horse not packed. What, ostler!",408,18898
639406,653,"[Within]   Anon, anon.",842,18898
639407,654,"I prithee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks
in the point; poor jade, is wrung in the withers out
of all cess.",408,18898
639408,657,[Enter another Carrier],1261,18898
639409,658,"Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that
is the next way to give poor jades the bots: this
house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died.",982,18898
639410,661,"Poor fellow, never joyed since the price of oats
rose; it was the death of him.",408,18898
639411,663,"I think this be the most villanous house in all
London road for fleas: I am stung like a tench.",982,18898
639412,665,"Like a tench! by the mass, there is ne'er a king
christen could be better bit than I have been since
the first cock.",408,18898
639413,668,"Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan, and then we
leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds
fleas like a loach.",982,18898
639414,671,"What, ostler! come away and be hanged!",408,18898
639415,672,"I have a gammon of bacon and two razors of ginger,
to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.",982,18898
639416,674,"God's body! the turkeys in my pannier are quite
starved. What, ostler! A plague on thee! hast thou
never an eye in thy head? canst not hear? An
'twere not as good deed as drink, to break the pate
on thee, I am a very villain. Come, and be hanged!
hast thou no faith in thee?",408,18898
639417,680,[Enter Gadshill],1261,18898
639418,681,"Good morrow, carriers. What's o'clock?",508,18898
639419,682,I think it be two o'clock.,408,18898
639420,683,"I pray thee lend me thy lantern, to see my gelding
in the stable.",508,18898
639421,685,"Nay, by God, soft; I know a trick worth two of that, i' faith.",408,18898
639422,686,"I pray thee, lend me thine.",508,18898
639423,687,"Ay, when? can'st tell? Lend me thy lantern, quoth
he? marry, I'll see thee hanged first.",982,18898
639424,689,"Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come to London?",508,18898
639425,690,"Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I warrant
thee. Come, neighbour Mugs, we'll call up the
gentleman: they will along with company, for they
have great charge.",982,18898
639426,694,[Exeunt carriers],1261,18898
639427,695,"What, ho! chamberlain!",508,18898
639428,696,"[Within]  At hand, quoth pick-purse.",236,18898
639429,697,"That's even as fair as--at hand, quoth the
chamberlain; for thou variest no more from picking
of purses than giving direction doth from labouring;
thou layest the plot how.",508,18898
639430,701,[Enter Chamberlain],1261,18898
639431,702,"Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It holds current that
I told you yesternight: there's a franklin in the
wild of Kent hath brought three hundred marks with
him in gold: I heard him tell it to one of his
company last night at supper; a kind of auditor; one
that hath abundance of charge too, God knows what.
They are up already, and call for eggs and butter;
they will away presently.",236,18898
639432,710,"Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas'
clerks, I'll give thee this neck.",508,18898
639433,712,"No, I'll none of it: I pray thee keep that for the
hangman; for I know thou worshippest St. Nicholas
as truly as a man of falsehood may.",236,18898
639434,715,"What talkest thou to me of the hangman? if I hang,
I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old
Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no
starveling. Tut! there are other Trojans that thou
dreamest not of, the which for sport sake are
content to do the profession some grace; that would,
if matters should be looked into, for their own
credit sake, make all whole. I am joined with no
foot-land rakers, no long-staff sixpenny strikers,
none of these mad mustachio purple-hued malt-worms;
but with nobility and tranquillity, burgomasters and
great oneyers, such as can hold in, such as will
strike sooner than speak, and speak sooner than
drink, and drink sooner than pray: and yet, zounds,
I lie; for they pray continually to their saint, the
commonwealth; or rather, not pray to her, but prey
on her, for they ride up and down on her and make
her their boots.",508,18898
639435,733,"What, the commonwealth their boots? will she hold
out water in foul way?",236,18898
639436,735,"She will, she will; justice hath liquored her. We
steal as in a castle, cocksure; we have the receipt
of fern-seed, we walk invisible.",508,18898
639437,738,"Nay, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to
the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible.",236,18898
639438,740,"Give me thy hand: thou shalt have a share in our
purchase, as I am a true man.",508,18898
639439,742,"Nay, rather let me have it, as you are a false thief.",236,18898
639440,743,"Go to; 'homo' is a common name to all men. Bid the
ostler bring my gelding out of the stable. Farewell,
you muddy knave.",508,18898
639441,746,[Exeunt],1261,18898
639442,749,[Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS],1261,18899
639443,750,"Come, shelter, shelter: I have removed Falstaff's
horse, and he frets like a gummed velvet.",897,18899
639444,752,Stand close.,573,18899
639445,753,[Enter FALSTAFF],1261,18899
639446,754,"Poins! Poins, and be hanged! Poins!",393,18899
639447,755,"Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! what a brawling dost
thou keep!",573,18899
639448,757,"Where's Poins, Hal?",393,18899
639449,758,He is walked up to the top of the hill: I'll go seek him.,573,18899
639450,759,"I am accursed to rob in that thief's company: the
rascal hath removed my horse, and tied him I know
not where. If I travel but four foot by the squier
further afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt
not but to die a fair death for all this, if I
'scape hanging for killing that rogue. I have
forsworn his company hourly any time this two and
twenty years, and yet I am bewitched with the
rogue's company. If the rascal hath not given me
medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged; it
could not be else: I have drunk medicines. Poins!
Hal! a plague upon you both! Bardolph! Peto!
I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further. An 'twere
not as good a deed as drink, to turn true man and to
leave these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that
ever chewed with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven
ground is threescore and ten miles afoot with me;
and the stony-hearted villains know it well enough:
a plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
[They whistle]
Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you
rogues; give me my horse, and be hanged!",393,18899
639451,781,"Peace, ye fat-guts! lie down; lay thine ear close
to the ground and list if thou canst hear the tread
of travellers.",573,18899
639452,784,"Have you any levers to lift me up again, being down?
'Sblood, I'll not bear mine own flesh so far afoot
again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer.
What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?",393,18899
639453,788,"Thou liest; thou art not colted, thou art uncolted.",573,18899
639454,789,"I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse,
good king's son.",393,18899
639455,791,"Out, ye rogue! shall I be your ostler?",573,18899
639456,792,"Go, hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent
garters! If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. An I
have not ballads made on you all and sung to filthy
tunes, let a cup of sack be my poison: when a jest
is so forward, and afoot too! I hate it.",393,18899
639457,797,"[Enter Gadshill, BARDOLPH and PETO]",1261,18899
639458,798,Stand.,508,18899
639459,799,"So I do, against my will.",393,18899
639460,800,"O, 'tis our setter: I know his voice. Bardolph,
what news?
money of the king's coming down the hill; 'tis going
to the king's exchequer.",897,18899
639461,805,"You lie, ye rogue; 'tis going to the king's tavern.",393,18899
639462,806,There's enough to make us all.,508,18899
639463,807,To be hanged.,393,18899
639464,808,"Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow lane;
Ned Poins and I will walk lower: if they 'scape
from your encounter, then they light on us.",573,18899
639465,811,How many be there of them?,877,18899
639466,812,Some eight or ten.,508,18899
639467,813,"'Zounds, will they not rob us?",393,18899
639468,814,"What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?",573,18899
639469,815,"Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your grandfather;
but yet no coward, Hal.",393,18899
639470,817,"Well, we leave that to the proof.",573,18899
639471,818,"Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge:
when thou needest him, there thou shalt find him.
Farewell, and stand fast.",897,18899
639472,821,"Now cannot I strike him, if I should be hanged.",393,18899
639473,822,"Ned, where are our disguises?",573,18899
639474,823,"Here, hard by: stand close.",897,18899
639475,824,[Exeunt PRINCE HENRY and POINS],1261,18899
639476,825,"Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I:
every man to his business.",393,18899
639477,827,[Enter the Travellers],1261,18899
639478,828,"Come, neighbour: the boy shall lead our horses down
the hill; we'll walk afoot awhile, and ease our legs.",471,18899
639479,830,Stand!,1162,18899
639480,831,Jesus bless us!,1206,18899
639481,832,"Strike; down with them; cut the villains' throats:
ah! whoreson caterpillars! bacon-fed knaves! they
hate us youth: down with them: fleece them.",393,18899
639482,835,"O, we are undone, both we and ours for ever!",1206,18899
639483,836,"Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No, ye
fat chuffs: I would your store were here! On,
bacons, on! What, ye knaves! young men must live.
You are Grand-jurors, are ye? we'll jure ye, 'faith.",393,18899
639484,840,[Here they rob them and bind them. Exeunt],1261,18899
639485,841,[Re-enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS],1261,18899
639486,842,"The thieves have bound the true men. Now could thou
and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it
would be argument for a week, laughter for a month
and a good jest for ever.",573,18899
639487,846,Stand close; I hear them coming.,897,18899
639488,847,[Enter the Thieves again],1261,18899
639489,848,"Come, my masters, let us share, and then to horse
before day. An the Prince and Poins be not two
arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring: there's
no more valour in that Poins than in a wild-duck.",393,18899
639490,852,Your money!,573,18899
639491,853,"Villains!
[As they are sharing, the Prince and Poins set upon
them; they all run away; and Falstaff, after a blow
or two, runs away too, leaving the booty behind them]",897,18899
639492,857,"Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse:
The thieves are all scatter'd and possess'd with fear
So strongly that they dare not meet each other;
Each takes his fellow for an officer.
Away, good Ned. Falstaff sweats to death,
And lards the lean earth as he walks along:
Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him.",573,18899
639493,864,How the rogue roar'd!,897,18899
639494,865,[Exeunt],1261,18899
639495,868,"[Enter HOTSPUR, solus, reading a letter]",1261,18900
639496,869,"'But for mine own part, my lord, I could be well
contented to be there, in respect of the love I bear
your house.' He could be contented: why is he not,
then? In respect of the love he bears our house:
he shows in this, he loves his own barn better than
he loves our house. Let me see some more. 'The
purpose you undertake is dangerous;'--why, that's
certain: 'tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to
drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this
nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. 'The
purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you
have named uncertain; the time itself unsorted; and
your whole plot too light for the counterpoise of so
great an opposition.' Say you so, say you so? I say
unto you again, you are a shallow cowardly hind, and
you lie.  What a lack-brain is this! By the Lord,
our plot is a good plot as ever was laid; our
friends true and constant: a good plot, good
friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot,
very good friends. What a frosty-spirited rogue is
this! Why, my lord of York commends the plot and the
general course of action. 'Zounds, an I were now by
this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan.
Is there not my father, my uncle and myself? lord
Edmund Mortimer, My lord of York and Owen Glendower?
is there not besides the Douglas? have I not all
their letters to meet me in arms by the ninth of the
next month? and are they not some of them set
forward already? What a pagan rascal is this! an
infidel! Ha! you shall see now in very sincerity
of fear and cold heart, will he to the king and lay
open all our proceedings. O, I could divide myself
and go to buffets, for moving such a dish of
skim milk with so honourable an action! Hang him!
let him tell the king: we are prepared. I will set
forward to-night.
[Enter LADY PERCY]
How now, Kate! I must leave you within these two hours.",593,18900
639497,907,"O, my good lord, why are you thus alone?
For what offence have I this fortnight been
A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed?
Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that takes from thee
Thy stomach, pleasure and thy golden sleep?
Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,
And start so often when thou sit'st alone?
Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks;
And given my treasures and my rights of thee
To thick-eyed musing and cursed melancholy?
In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch'd,
And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars;
Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed;
Cry 'Courage! to the field!' And thou hast talk'd
Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,
Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,
Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,
Of prisoners' ransom and of soldiers slain,
And all the currents of a heady fight.
Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war
And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep,
That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream;
And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,
Such as we see when men restrain their breath
On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?
Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,
And I must know it, else he loves me not.",650,18900
639498,935,"What, ho!
[Enter Servant]
Is Gilliams with the packet gone?",593,18900
639499,938,"He is, my lord, an hour ago.",1059,18900
639500,939,Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff?,593,18900
639501,940,"One horse, my lord, he brought even now.",1059,18900
639502,941,"What horse? a roan, a crop-ear, is it not?",593,18900
639503,942,"It is, my lord.",1059,18900
639504,943,"That roan shall by my throne.
Well, I will back him straight: O esperance!
Bid Butler lead him forth into the park.",593,18900
639505,946,[Exit Servant],1261,18900
639506,947,"But hear you, my lord.",650,18900
639507,948,"What say'st thou, my lady?",593,18900
639508,949,What is it carries you away?,650,18900
639509,950,"Why, my horse, my love, my horse.",593,18900
639510,951,"Out, you mad-headed ape!
A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen
As you are toss'd with. In faith,
I'll know your business, Harry, that I will.
I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir
About his title, and hath sent for you
To line his enterprise: but if you go,--",650,18900
639511,958,"So far afoot, I shall be weary, love.",593,18900
639512,959,"Come, come, you paraquito, answer me
Directly unto this question that I ask:
In faith, I'll break thy little finger, Harry,
An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.",650,18900
639513,963,"Away,
Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,
I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world
To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:
We must have bloody noses and crack'd crowns,
And pass them current too. God's me, my horse!
What say'st thou, Kate? what would'st thou
have with me?",593,18900
639514,971,"Do you not love me? do you not, indeed?
Well, do not then; for since you love me not,
I will not love myself. Do you not love me?
Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no.",650,18900
639515,975,"Come, wilt thou see me ride?
And when I am on horseback, I will swear
I love thee infinitely. But hark you, Kate;
I must not have you henceforth question me
Whither I go, nor reason whereabout:
Whither I must, I must; and, to conclude,
This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate.
I know you wise, but yet no farther wise
Than Harry Percy's wife: constant you are,
But yet a woman: and for secrecy,
No lady closer; for I well believe
Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know;
And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.",593,18900
639516,988,How! so far?,650,18900
639517,989,"Not an inch further. But hark you, Kate:
Whither I go, thither shall you go too;
To-day will I set forth, to-morrow you.
Will this content you, Kate?",593,18900
639518,993,It must of force.,650,18900
639519,994,[Exeunt],1261,18900
639520,997,[Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS],1261,18901
639521,998,"Ned, prithee, come out of that fat room, and lend me
thy hand to laugh a little.",573,18901
639522,1000,"Where hast been, Hal?",897,18901
639523,1001,"With three or four loggerheads amongst three or four
score hogsheads. I have sounded the very
base-string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother
to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by
their christen names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis.
They take it already upon their salvation, that
though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king
of courtesy; and tell me flatly I am no proud Jack,
like Falstaff, but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a
good boy, by the Lord, so they call me, and when I
am king of England, I shall command all the good
lads in Eastcheap. They call drinking deep, dyeing
scarlet; and when you breathe in your watering, they
cry  'hem!' and bid you play it off. To conclude, I
am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour,
that I can drink with any tinker in his own language
during my life. I tell thee, Ned, thou hast lost
much honour, that thou wert not with me in this sweet
action. But, sweet Ned,--to sweeten which name of
Ned, I give thee this pennyworth of sugar, clapped
even now into my hand by an under-skinker, one that
never spake other English in his life than 'Eight
shillings and sixpence' and 'You are welcome,' with
this shrill addition, 'Anon, anon, sir! Score a pint
of bastard in the Half-Moon,' or so. But, Ned, to
drive away the time till Falstaff come, I prithee,
do thou stand in some by-room, while I question my
puny drawer to what end he gave me the sugar; and do
thou never leave calling 'Francis,' that his tale
to me may be nothing but 'Anon.' Step aside, and
I'll show thee a precedent.",573,18901
639524,1032,Francis!,897,18901
639525,1033,Thou art perfect.,573,18901
639526,1034,Francis!,897,18901
639527,1035,[Exit POINS],1261,18901
639528,1036,[Enter FRANCIS],1261,18901
639529,1037,"Anon, anon, sir. Look down into the Pomgarnet, Ralph.",496,18901
639530,1038,"Come hither, Francis.",573,18901
639531,1039,My lord?,496,18901
639532,1040,"How long hast thou to serve, Francis?",573,18901
639533,1041,"Forsooth, five years, and as much as to--",496,18901
639534,1042,[Within]  Francis!,897,18901
639535,1043,"Anon, anon, sir.",496,18901
639536,1044,"Five year! by'r lady, a long lease for the clinking
of pewter. But, Francis, darest thou be so valiant
as to play the coward with thy indenture and show it
a fair pair of heels and run from it?",573,18901
639537,1048,"O Lord, sir, I'll be sworn upon all the books in
England, I could find in my heart.",496,18901
639538,1050,[Within]  Francis!,897,18901
639539,1051,"Anon, sir.",496,18901
639540,1052,"How old art thou, Francis?",573,18901
639541,1053,Let me see--about Michaelmas next I shall be--,496,18901
639542,1054,[Within]  Francis!,897,18901
639543,1055,"Anon, sir. Pray stay a little, my lord.",496,18901
639544,1056,"Nay, but hark you, Francis: for the sugar thou
gavest me,'twas a pennyworth, wast't not?",573,18901
639545,1058,"O Lord, I would it had been two!",496,18901
639546,1059,"I will give thee for it a thousand pound: ask me
when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it.",573,18901
639547,1061,[Within]  Francis!,897,18901
639548,1062,"Anon, anon.",496,18901
639549,1063,"Anon, Francis? No, Francis; but to-morrow, Francis;
or, Francis, o' Thursday; or indeed, Francis, when
thou wilt. But, Francis!",573,18901
639550,1066,My lord?,496,18901
639551,1067,"Wilt thou rob this leathern jerkin, crystal-button,
not-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter,
smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch,--",573,18901
639552,1070,"O Lord, sir, who do you mean?",496,18901
639553,1071,"Why, then, your brown bastard is your only drink;
for look you, Francis, your white canvas doublet
will sully: in Barbary, sir, it cannot come to so much.",573,18901
639554,1074,"What, sir?",496,18901
639555,1075,[Within]  Francis!,897,18901
639556,1076,"Away, you rogue! dost thou not hear them call?
[Here they both call him; the drawer stands amazed,
not knowing which way to go]",573,18901
639557,1079,[Enter Vintner],1261,18901
639558,1080,"What, standest thou still, and hearest such a
calling? Look to the guests within.
[Exit Francis]
My lord, old Sir John, with half-a-dozen more, are
at the door: shall I let them in?",1237,18901
639559,1085,"Let them alone awhile, and then open the door.
[Exit Vintner]
Poins!",573,18901
639560,1088,[Re-enter POINS],1261,18901
639561,1089,"Anon, anon, sir.",897,18901
639562,1090,"Sirrah, Falstaff and the rest of the thieves are at
the door: shall we be merry?",573,18901
639563,1092,"As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye; what
cunning match have you made with this jest of the
drawer? come, what's the issue?",897,18901
639564,1095,"I am now of all humours that have showed themselves
humours since the old days of goodman Adam to the
pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.
[Re-enter FRANCIS]
What's o'clock, Francis?",573,18901
639565,1100,"Anon, anon, sir.",496,18901
639566,1101,[Exit],1261,18901
639567,1102,"That ever this fellow should have fewer words than a
parrot, and yet the son of a woman! His industry is
upstairs and downstairs; his eloquence the parcel of
a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the
Hotspur of the north; he that kills me some six or
seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his
hands, and says to his wife 'Fie upon this quiet
life! I want work.' 'O my sweet Harry,' says she,
'how many hast thou killed to-day?' 'Give my roan
horse a drench,' says he; and answers 'Some
fourteen,' an hour after; 'a trifle, a trifle.' I
prithee, call in Falstaff: I'll play Percy, and
that damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his
wife. 'Rivo!' says the drunkard. Call in ribs, call in tallow.",573,18901
639568,1116,"[Enter FALSTAFF, Gadshill, BARDOLPH, and PETO; FRANCIS following with wine]",1261,18901
639569,1117,"Welcome, Jack: where hast thou been?",897,18901
639570,1118,"A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too!
marry, and amen! Give me a cup of sack, boy. Ere I
lead this life long, I'll sew nether stocks and mend
them and foot them too. A plague of all cowards!
Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant?",393,18901
639571,1123,[He drinks],1261,18901
639572,1124,"Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of butter?
pitiful-hearted Titan, that melted at the sweet tale
of the sun's! if thou didst, then behold that compound.",573,18901
639573,1127,"You rogue, here's lime in this sack too: there is
nothing but roguery to be found in villanous man:
yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime
in it. A villanous coward! Go thy ways, old Jack;
die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be
not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a
shotten herring. There live not three good men
unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and
grows old: God help the while! a bad world, I say.
I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or any
thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.",393,18901
639574,1138,"How now, wool-sack! what mutter you?",573,18901
639575,1139,"A king's son! If I do not beat thee out of thy
kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive all thy
subjects afore thee like a flock of wild-geese,
I'll never wear hair on my face more. You Prince of Wales!",393,18901
639576,1143,"Why, you whoreson round man, what's the matter?",573,18901
639577,1144,Are not you a coward? answer me to that: and Poins there?,393,18901
639578,1145,"'Zounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me coward, by the
Lord, I'll stab thee.",897,18901
639579,1147,"I call thee coward! I'll see thee damned ere I call
thee coward: but I would give a thousand pound I
could run as fast as thou canst. You are straight
enough in the shoulders, you care not who sees your
back: call you that backing of your friends? A
plague upon such backing! give me them that will
face me. Give me a cup of sack: I am a rogue, if I
drunk to-day.",393,18901
639580,1155,"O villain! thy lips are scarce wiped since thou
drunkest last.",573,18901
639581,1157,"All's one for that.
[He drinks]
A plague of all cowards, still say I.",393,18901
639582,1160,What's the matter?,573,18901
639583,1161,"What's the matter! there be four of us here have
ta'en a thousand pound this day morning.",393,18901
639584,1163,"Where is it, Jack? where is it?",573,18901
639585,1164,"Where is it! taken from us it is: a hundred upon
poor four of us.",393,18901
639586,1166,"What, a hundred, man?",573,18901
639587,1167,"I am a rogue, if I were not at half-sword with a
dozen of them two hours together. I have 'scaped by
miracle. I am eight times thrust through the
doublet, four through the hose; my buckler cut
through and through; my sword hacked like a
hand-saw--ecce signum! I never dealt better since
I was a man: all would not do. A plague of all
cowards! Let them speak: if they speak more or
less than truth, they are villains and the sons of darkness.",393,18901
639588,1176,"Speak, sirs; how was it?",573,18901
639589,1177,We four set upon some dozen--,508,18901
639590,1178,"Sixteen at least, my lord.",393,18901
639591,1179,And bound them.,508,18901
639592,1180,"No, no, they were not bound.",877,18901
639593,1181,"You rogue, they were bound, every man of them; or I
am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew.",393,18901
639594,1183,"As we were sharing, some six or seven fresh men set upon us--",508,18901
639595,1184,"And unbound the rest, and then come in the other.",393,18901
639596,1185,"What, fought you with them all?",573,18901
639597,1186,"All! I know not what you call all; but if I fought
not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish: if
there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old
Jack, then am I no two-legged creature.",393,18901
639598,1190,Pray God you have not murdered some of them.,573,18901
639599,1191,"Nay, that's past praying for: I have peppered two
of them; two I am sure I have paid, two rogues
in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell
thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou
knowest my old ward; here I lay and thus I bore my
point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me--",393,18901
639600,1197,"What, four? thou saidst but two even now.",573,18901
639601,1198,"Four, Hal; I told thee four.",393,18901
639602,1199,"Ay, ay, he said four.",897,18901
639603,1200,"These four came all a-front, and mainly thrust at
me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven
points in my target, thus.",393,18901
639604,1203,"Seven? why, there were but four even now.",573,18901
639605,1204,In buckram?,393,18901
639606,1205,"Ay, four, in buckram suits.",897,18901
639607,1206,"Seven, by these hilts, or I am a villain else.",393,18901
639608,1207,"Prithee, let him alone; we shall have more anon.",573,18901
639609,1208,"Dost thou hear me, Hal?",393,18901
639610,1209,"Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.",573,18901
639611,1210,"Do so, for it is worth the listening to. These nine
in buckram that I told thee of--",393,18901
639612,1212,"So, two more already.",573,18901
639613,1213,"Their points being broken,--",393,18901
639614,1214,Down fell their hose.,897,18901
639615,1215,"Began to give me ground: but I followed me close,
came in foot and hand; and with a thought seven of
the eleven I paid.",393,18901
639616,1218,O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two!,573,18901
639617,1219,"But, as the devil would have it, three misbegotten
knaves in Kendal green came at my back and let drive
at me; for it was so dark, Hal, that thou couldst
not see thy hand.",393,18901
639618,1223,"These lies are like their father that begets them;
gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou
clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou
whoreson, obscene, grease tallow-catch,--",573,18901
639619,1227,"What, art thou mad? art thou mad? is not the truth
the truth?",393,18901
639620,1229,"Why, how couldst thou know these men in Kendal
green, when it was so dark thou couldst not see thy
hand? come, tell us your reason: what sayest thou to this?",573,18901
639621,1232,"Come, your reason, Jack, your reason.",897,18901
639622,1233,"What, upon compulsion? 'Zounds, an I were at the
strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would
not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on
compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as
blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon
compulsion, I.",393,18901
639623,1239,"I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine
coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker,
this huge hill of flesh,--",573,18901
639624,1242,"'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried
neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O
for breath to utter what is like thee! you
tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile
standing-tuck,--",393,18901
639625,1247,"Well, breathe awhile, and then to it again: and
when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons,
hear me speak but this.",573,18901
639626,1250,"Mark, Jack.",897,18901
639627,1251,"We two saw you four set on four and bound them, and
were masters of their wealth. Mark now, how a plain
tale shall put you down. Then did we two set on you
four; and, with a word, out-faced you from your
prize, and have it; yea, and can show it you here in
the house: and, Falstaff, you carried your guts
away as nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and roared
for mercy and still run and roared, as ever I heard
bull-calf. What a slave art thou, to hack thy sword
as thou hast done, and then say it was in fight!
What trick, what device, what starting-hole, canst
thou now find out to hide thee from this open and
apparent shame?",573,18901
639628,1264,"Come, let's hear, Jack; what trick hast thou now?",897,18901
639629,1265,"By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye.
Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the
heir-apparent? should I turn upon the true prince?
why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules: but
beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true
prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was now a
coward on instinct. I shall think the better of
myself and thee during my life; I for a valiant
lion, and thou for a true prince. But, by the Lord,
lads, I am glad you have the money. Hostess, clap
to the doors: watch to-night, pray to-morrow.
Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles
of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be
merry? shall we have a play extempore?",393,18901
639630,1279,Content; and the argument shall be thy running away.,573,18901
639631,1280,"Ah, no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!",393,18901
639632,1281,[Enter Hostess],1261,18901
639633,1282,"O Jesu, my lord the prince!",936,18901
639634,1283,"How now, my lady the hostess! what sayest thou to
me?",573,18901
639635,1285,"Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the court at
door would speak with you: he says he comes from
your father.",936,18901
639636,1288,"Give him as much as will make him a royal man, and
send him back again to my mother.",573,18901
639637,1290,What manner of man is he?,393,18901
639638,1291,An old man.,936,18901
639639,1292,"What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? Shall
I give him his answer?",393,18901
639640,1294,"Prithee, do, Jack.",573,18901
639641,1295,"'Faith, and I'll send him packing.",393,18901
639642,1296,[Exit FALSTAFF],1261,18901
639643,1297,"Now, sirs: by'r lady, you fought fair; so did you,
Peto; so did you, Bardolph: you are lions too, you
ran away upon instinct, you will not touch the true
prince; no, fie!",573,18901
639644,1301,"'Faith, I ran when I saw others run.",143,18901
639645,1302,"'Faith, tell me now in earnest, how came Falstaff's
sword so hacked?",573,18901
639646,1304,"Why, he hacked it with his dagger, and said he would
swear truth out of England but he would make you
believe it was done in fight, and persuaded us to do the like.",877,18901
639647,1307,"Yea, and to tickle our noses with spear-grass to
make them bleed, and then to beslubber our garments
with it and swear it was the blood of true men. I
did that I did not this seven year before, I blushed
to hear his monstrous devices.",143,18901
639648,1312,"O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years
ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since
thou hast blushed extempore. Thou hadst fire and
sword on thy side, and yet thou rannest away: what
instinct hadst thou for it?",573,18901
639649,1317,"My lord, do you see these meteors? do you behold
these exhalations?",143,18901
639650,1319,I do.,573,18901
639651,1320,What think you they portend?,143,18901
639652,1321,Hot livers and cold purses.,573,18901
639653,1322,"Choler, my lord, if rightly taken.",143,18901
639654,1323,"No, if rightly taken, halter.
[Re-enter FALSTAFF]
Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone.
How now, my sweet creature of bombast!
How long is't ago, Jack, since thou sawest thine own knee?",573,18901
639655,1328,"My own knee! when I was about thy years, Hal, I was
not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could have
crept into any alderman's thumb-ring: a plague of
sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a
bladder. There's villanous news abroad: here was
Sir John Bracy from your father; you must to the
court in the morning. That same mad fellow of the
north, Percy, and he of Wales, that gave Amamon the
bastinado and made Lucifer cuckold and swore the
devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh
hook--what a plague call you him?",393,18901
639656,1339,"O, Glendower.",897,18901
639657,1340,"Owen, Owen, the same; and his son-in-law Mortimer,
and old Northumberland, and that sprightly Scot of
Scots, Douglas, that runs o' horseback up a hill
perpendicular,--",393,18901
639658,1344,"He that rides at high speed and with his pistol
kills a sparrow flying.",573,18901
639659,1346,You have hit it.,393,18901
639660,1347,So did he never the sparrow.,573,18901
639661,1348,"Well, that rascal hath good mettle in him; he will not run.",393,18901
639662,1349,"Why, what a rascal art thou then, to praise him so
for running!",573,18901
639663,1351,"O' horseback, ye cuckoo; but afoot he will not budge a foot.",393,18901
639664,1352,"Yes, Jack, upon instinct.",573,18901
639665,1353,"I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too,
and one Mordake, and a thousand blue-caps more:
Worcester is stolen away to-night; thy father's
beard is turned white with the news: you may buy
land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.",393,18901
639666,1358,"Why, then, it is like, if there come a hot June and
this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads
as they buy hob-nails, by the hundreds.",573,18901
639667,1361,"By the mass, lad, thou sayest true; it is like we
shall have good trading that way. But tell me, Hal,
art not thou horrible afeard? thou being
heir-apparent, could the world pick thee out three
such enemies again as that fiend Douglas, that
spirit Percy, and that devil Glendower? Art thou
not horribly afraid? doth not thy blood thrill at
it?",393,18901
639668,1369,"Not a whit, i' faith; I lack some of thy instinct.",573,18901
639669,1370,"Well, thou wert be horribly chid tomorrow when thou
comest to thy father: if thou love me, practise an answer.",393,18901
639670,1372,"Do thou stand for my father, and examine me upon the
particulars of my life.",573,18901
639671,1374,"Shall I? content: this chair shall be my state,
this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown.",393,18901
639672,1376,"Thy state is taken for a joined-stool, thy golden
sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious rich
crown for a pitiful bald crown!",573,18901
639673,1379,"Well, an the fire of grace be not quite out of thee,
now shalt thou be moved. Give me a cup of sack to
make my eyes look red, that it may be thought I have
wept; for I must speak in passion, and I will do it
in King Cambyses' vein.",393,18901
639674,1384,"Well, here is my leg.",573,18901
639675,1385,"And here is my speech. Stand aside, nobility.",393,18901
639676,1386,"O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i' faith!",936,18901
639677,1387,"Weep not, sweet queen; for trickling tears are vain.",393,18901
639678,1388,"O, the father, how he holds his countenance!",936,18901
639679,1389,"For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful queen;
For tears do stop the flood-gates of her eyes.",393,18901
639680,1391,"O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry
players as ever I see!",936,18901
639681,1393,"Peace, good pint-pot; peace, good tickle-brain.
Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy
time, but also how thou art accompanied: for though
the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster
it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the
sooner it wears. That thou art my son, I have
partly thy mother's word, partly my own opinion,
but chiefly a villanous trick of thine eye and a
foolish-hanging of thy nether lip, that doth warrant
me. If then thou be son to me, here lies the point;
why, being son to me, art thou so pointed at? Shall
the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat
blackberries? a question not to be asked. Shall
the sun of England prove a thief and take purses? a
question to be asked. There is a thing, Harry,
which thou hast often heard of and it is known to
many in our land by the name of pitch: this pitch,
as ancient writers do report, doth defile; so doth
the company thou keepest: for, Harry, now I do not
speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in
pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in
woes also: and yet there is a virtuous man whom I
have often noted in thy company, but I know not his name.",393,18901
639682,1416,"What manner of man, an it like your majesty?",573,18901
639683,1417,"A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a
cheerful look, a pleasing eye and a most noble
carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or,
by'r lady, inclining to three score; and now I
remember me, his name is Falstaff: if that man
should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me; for, Harry,
I see virtue in his looks. If then the tree may be
known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then,
peremptorily I speak it, there is virtue in that
Falstaff: him keep with, the rest banish. And tell
me now, thou naughty varlet, tell me, where hast
thou been this month?",393,18901
639684,1429,"Dost thou speak like a king? Do thou stand for me,
and I'll play my father.",573,18901
639685,1431,"Depose me? if thou dost it half so gravely, so
majestically, both in word and matter, hang me up by
the heels for a rabbit-sucker or a poulter's hare.",393,18901
639686,1434,"Well, here I am set.",573,18901
639687,1435,"And here I stand: judge, my masters.",393,18901
639688,1436,"Now, Harry, whence come you?",573,18901
639689,1437,"My noble lord, from Eastcheap.",393,18901
639690,1438,The complaints I hear of thee are grievous.,573,18901
639691,1439,"'Sblood, my lord, they are false: nay, I'll tickle
ye for a young prince, i' faith.",393,18901
639692,1441,"Swearest thou, ungracious boy? henceforth ne'er look
on me. Thou art violently carried away from grace:
there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an
old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion. Why
dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that
bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel
of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed
cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with
the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that
grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in
years? Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and
drink it? wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a
capon and eat it? wherein cunning, but in craft?
wherein crafty, but in villany? wherein villanous,
but in all things? wherein worthy, but in nothing?",573,18901
639693,1456,"I would your grace would take me with you: whom
means your grace?",393,18901
639694,1458,"That villanous abominable misleader of youth,
Falstaff, that old white-bearded Satan.",573,18901
639695,1460,"My lord, the man I know.",393,18901
639696,1461,I know thou dost.,573,18901
639697,1462,"But to say I know more harm in him than in myself,
were to say more than I know. That he is old, the
more the pity, his white hairs do witness it; but
that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster,
that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault,
God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a
sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if
to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine
are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto,
banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack
Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff,
valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant,
being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him
thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's
company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.",393,18901
639698,1477,"I do, I will.",573,18901
639699,1478,[A knocking heard],1261,18901
639700,1479,"[Exeunt Hostess, FRANCIS, and BARDOLPH]",1261,18901
639701,1480,"[Re-enter BARDOLPH, running]",1261,18901
639702,1481,"O, my lord, my lord! the sheriff with a most
monstrous watch is at the door.",143,18901
639703,1483,"Out, ye rogue! Play out the play: I have much to
say in the behalf of that Falstaff.",393,18901
639704,1485,[Re-enter the Hostess],1261,18901
639705,1486,"O Jesu, my lord, my lord!",936,18901
639706,1487,"Heigh, heigh! the devil rides upon a fiddlestick:
what's the matter?",573,18901
639707,1489,"The sheriff and all the watch are at the door: they
are come to search the house. Shall I let them in?",936,18901
639708,1491,"Dost thou hear, Hal? never call a true piece of
gold a counterfeit: thou art essentially mad,
without seeming so.",393,18901
639709,1494,"And thou a natural coward, without instinct.",573,18901
639710,1495,"I deny your major: if you will deny the sheriff,
so; if not, let him enter: if I become not a cart
as well as another man, a plague on my bringing up!
I hope I shall as soon be strangled with a halter as another.",393,18901
639711,1499,"Go, hide thee behind the arras: the rest walk up
above. Now, my masters, for a true face and good
conscience.",573,18901
639712,1502,"Both which I have had: but their date is out, and
therefore I'll hide me.",393,18901
639713,1504,"Call in the sheriff.
[Exeunt all except PRINCE HENRY and PETO]
[Enter Sheriff and the Carrier]
Now, master sheriff, what is your will with me?",573,18901
639714,1508,"First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and cry
Hath follow'd certain men unto this house.",1087,18901
639715,1510,What men?,573,18901
639716,1511,"One of them is well known, my gracious lord,
A gross fat man.",1087,18901
639717,1513,As fat as butter.,227,18901
639718,1514,"The man, I do assure you, is not here;
For I myself at this time have employ'd him.
And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee
That I will, by to-morrow dinner-time,
Send him to answer thee, or any man,
For any thing he shall be charged withal:
And so let me entreat you leave the house.",573,18901
639719,1521,"I will, my lord. There are two gentlemen
Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks.",1087,18901
639720,1523,"It may be so: if he have robb'd these men,
He shall be answerable; and so farewell.",573,18901
639721,1525,"Good night, my noble lord.",1087,18901
639722,1526,"I think it is good morrow, is it not?",573,18901
639723,1527,"Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock.",1087,18901
639724,1528,[Exeunt Sheriff and Carrier],1261,18901
639725,1529,"This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's. Go,
call him forth.",573,18901
639726,1531,"Falstaff!--Fast asleep behind the arras, and
snorting like a horse.",877,18901
639727,1533,"Hark, how hard he fetches breath. Search his pockets.
[He searcheth his pockets, and findeth certain papers]
What hast thou found?",573,18901
639728,1536,"Nothing but papers, my lord.",877,18901
639729,1537,Let's see what they be: read them.,573,18901
639730,1538,"[Reads]  Item, A capon,. . 2s. 2d.
Item, Sauce,. . . 4d.
Item, Sack, two gallons, 5s. 8d.
Item, Anchovies and sack after supper, 2s. 6d.
Item, Bread,        ob.",877,18901
639731,1543,"O monstrous! but one half-penny-worth of bread to
this intolerable deal of sack! What there is else,
keep close; we'll read it at more advantage: there
let him sleep till day. I'll to the court in the
morning. We must all to the wars, and thy place
shall be honourable. I'll procure this fat rogue a
charge of foot; and I know his death will be a
march of twelve-score. The money shall be paid
back again with advantage. Be with me betimes in
the morning; and so, good morrow, Peto.",573,18901
639732,1553,[Exeunt],1261,18901
639733,1554,"Good morrow, good my lord.",877,18901
639734,1557,"[Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, MORTIMER, and GLENDOWER]",1261,18902
639735,1558,"These promises are fair, the parties sure,
And our induction full of prosperous hope.",802,18902
639736,1560,"Lord Mortimer, and cousin Glendower,
Will you sit down?
And uncle Worcester: a plague upon it!
I have forgot the map.",593,18902
639737,1564,"No, here it is.
Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur,
For by that name as oft as Lancaster
Doth speak of you, his cheek looks pale and with
A rising sigh he wisheth you in heaven.",530,18902
639738,1569,"And you in hell, as oft as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of.",593,18902
639739,1570,"I cannot blame him: at my nativity
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
Of burning cressets; and at my birth
The frame and huge foundation of the earth
Shaked like a coward.",530,18902
639740,1575,"Why, so it would have done at the same season, if
your mother's cat had but kittened, though yourself
had never been born.",593,18902
639741,1578,I say the earth did shake when I was born.,530,18902
639742,1579,"And I say the earth was not of my mind,
If you suppose as fearing you it shook.",593,18902
639743,1581,"The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble.",530,18902
639744,1582,"O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,
And not in fear of your nativity.
Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth
Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd
By the imprisoning of unruly wind
Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving,
Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down
Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth
Our grandam earth, having this distemperature,
In passion shook.",593,18902
639745,1593,"Cousin, of many men
I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave
To tell you once again that at my birth
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds
Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields.
These signs have mark'd me extraordinary;
And all the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.
Where is he living, clipp'd in with the sea
That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,
Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?
And bring him out that is but woman's son
Can trace me in the tedious ways of art
And hold me pace in deep experiments.",530,18902
639746,1608,"I think there's no man speaks better Welsh.
I'll to dinner.",593,18902
639747,1610,"Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him mad.",802,18902
639748,1611,I can call spirits from the vasty deep.,530,18902
639749,1612,"Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?",593,18902
639750,1614,"Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command
The devil.",530,18902
639751,1616,"And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil
By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil.
If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,
And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.
O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!",593,18902
639752,1621,"Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.",802,18902
639753,1622,"Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head
Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye
And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him
Bootless home and weather-beaten back.",530,18902
639754,1626,"Home without boots, and in foul weather too!
How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name?",593,18902
639755,1628,"Come, here's the map: shall we divide our right
According to our threefold order ta'en?",530,18902
639756,1630,"The archdeacon hath divided it
Into three limits very equally:
England, from Trent and Severn hitherto,
By south and east is to my part assign'd:
All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore,
And all the fertile land within that bound,
To Owen Glendower: and, dear coz, to you
The remnant northward, lying off from Trent.
And our indentures tripartite are drawn;
Which being sealed interchangeably,
A business that this night may execute,
To-morrow, cousin Percy, you and I
And my good Lord of Worcester will set forth
To meet your father and the Scottish power,
As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.
My father Glendower is not ready yet,
Not shall we need his help these fourteen days.
Within that space you may have drawn together
Your tenants, friends and neighbouring gentlemen.",802,18902
639757,1649,"A shorter time shall send me to you, lords:
And in my conduct shall your ladies come;
From whom you now must steal and take no leave,
For there will be a world of water shed
Upon the parting of your wives and you.",530,18902
639758,1654,"Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here,
In quantity equals not one of yours:
See how this river comes me cranking in,
And cuts me from the best of all my land
A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
I'll have the current in this place damm'd up;
And here the smug and silver Trent shall run
In a new channel, fair and evenly;
It shall not wind with such a deep indent,
To rob me of so rich a bottom here.",593,18902
639759,1664,"Not wind? it shall, it must; you see it doth.",530,18902
639760,1665,"Yea, but
Mark how he bears his course, and runs me up
With like advantage on the other side;
Gelding the opposed continent as much
As on the other side it takes from you.",802,18902
639761,1670,"Yea, but a little charge will trench him here
And on this north side win this cape of land;
And then he runs straight and even.",1260,18902
639762,1673,I'll have it so: a little charge will do it.,593,18902
639763,1674,I'll not have it alter'd.,530,18902
639764,1675,Will not you?,593,18902
639765,1676,"No, nor you shall not.",530,18902
639766,1677,Who shall say me nay?,593,18902
639767,1678,"Why, that will I.",530,18902
639768,1679,"Let me not understand you, then; speak it in Welsh.",593,18902
639769,1680,"I can speak English, lord, as well as you;
For I was train'd up in the English court;
Where, being but young, I framed to the harp
Many an English ditty lovely well
And gave the tongue a helpful ornament,
A virtue that was never seen in you.",530,18902
639770,1686,"Marry,
And I am glad of it with all my heart:
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers;
I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd,
Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree;
And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,
Nothing so much as mincing poetry:
'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.",593,18902
639771,1695,"Come, you shall have Trent turn'd.",530,18902
639772,1696,"I do not care: I'll give thrice so much land
To any well-deserving friend;
But in the way of bargain, mark ye me,
I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.
Are the indentures drawn? shall we be gone?",593,18902
639773,1701,"The moon shines fair; you may away by night:
I'll haste the writer and withal
Break with your wives of your departure hence:
I am afraid my daughter will run mad,
So much she doteth on her Mortimer.",530,18902
639774,1706,[Exit GLENDOWER],1261,18902
639775,1707,"Fie, cousin Percy! how you cross my father!",802,18902
639776,1708,"I cannot choose: sometime he angers me
With telling me of the mouldwarp and the ant,
Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,
And of a dragon and a finless fish,
A clip-wing'd griffin and a moulten raven,
A couching lion and a ramping cat,
And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff
As puts me from my faith. I tell you what;
He held me last night at least nine hours
In reckoning up the several devils' names
That were his lackeys: I cried 'hum,' and 'well, go to,'
But mark'd him not a word. O, he is as tedious
As a tired horse, a railing wife;
Worse than a smoky house: I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates and have him talk to me
In any summer-house in Christendom.",593,18902
639777,1725,"In faith, he is a worthy gentleman,
Exceedingly well read, and profited
In strange concealments, valiant as a lion
And as wondrous affable and as bountiful
As mines of India. Shall I tell you, cousin?
He holds your temper in a high respect
And curbs himself even of his natural scope
When you come 'cross his humour; faith, he does:
I warrant you, that man is not alive
Might so have tempted him as you have done,
Without the taste of danger and reproof:
But do not use it oft, let me entreat you.",802,18902
639778,1737,"In faith, my lord, you are too wilful-blame;
And since your coming hither have done enough
To put him quite beside his patience.
You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault:
Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood,--
And that's the dearest grace it renders you,--
Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage,
Defect of manners, want of government,
Pride, haughtiness, opinion and disdain:
The least of which haunting a nobleman
Loseth men's hearts and leaves behind a stain
Upon the beauty of all parts besides,
Beguiling them of commendation.",1260,18902
639779,1750,"Well, I am school'd: good manners be your speed!
Here come our wives, and let us take our leave.",593,18902
639780,1752,[Re-enter GLENDOWER with the ladies],1261,18902
639781,1753,"This is the deadly spite that angers me;
My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh.",802,18902
639782,1755,"My daughter weeps: she will not part with you;
She'll be a soldier too, she'll to the wars.",530,18902
639783,1757,"Good father, tell her that she and my aunt Percy
Shall follow in your conduct speedily.",802,18902
639784,1759,"[Glendower speaks to her in Welsh, and she answers him in the same]",1261,18902
639785,1760,"She is desperate here; a peevish self-wind harlotry,
one that no persuasion can do good upon.",530,18902
639786,1762,[The lady speaks in Welsh],1261,18902
639787,1763,"I understand thy looks: that pretty Welsh
Which thou pour'st down from these swelling heavens
I am too perfect in; and, but for shame,
In such a parley should I answer thee.
[The lady speaks again in Welsh]
I understand thy kisses and thou mine,
And that's a feeling disputation:
But I will never be a truant, love,
Till I have learned thy language; for thy tongue
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute.",802,18902
639788,1775,"Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad.",530,18902
639789,1776,[The lady speaks again in Welsh],1261,18902
639790,1777,"O, I am ignorance itself in this!",802,18902
639791,1778,"She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down
And rest your gentle head upon her lap,
And she will sing the song that pleaseth you
And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep.
Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,
Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep
As is the difference betwixt day and night
The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team
Begins his golden progress in the east.",530,18902
639792,1787,"With all my heart I'll sit and hear her sing:
By that time will our book, I think, be drawn",802,18902
639793,1789,"Do so;
And those musicians that shall play to you
Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,
And straight they shall be here: sit, and attend.",530,18902
639794,1793,"Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down: come,
quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap.",593,18902
639795,1795,"Go, ye giddy goose.",650,18902
639796,1796,[The music plays],1261,18902
639797,1797,"Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh;
And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.
By'r lady, he is a good musician.",593,18902
639798,1800,"Then should you be nothing but musical for you are
altogether governed by humours. Lie still, ye thief,
and hear the lady sing in Welsh.",650,18902
639799,1803,"I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish.",593,18902
639800,1804,Wouldst thou have thy head broken?,650,18902
639801,1805,No.,593,18902
639802,1806,Then be still.,650,18902
639803,1807,Neither;'tis a woman's fault.,593,18902
639804,1808,Now God help thee!,650,18902
639805,1809,To the Welsh lady's bed.,593,18902
639806,1810,What's that?,650,18902
639807,1811,Peace! she sings.,593,18902
639808,1812,[Here the lady sings a Welsh song],1261,18902
639809,1813,"Come, Kate, I'll have your song too.",593,18902
639810,1814,"Not mine, in good sooth.",650,18902
639811,1815,"Not yours, in good sooth! Heart! you swear like a
comfit-maker's wife. 'Not you, in good sooth,' and
'as true as I live,' and 'as God shall mend me,' and
'as sure as day,'
And givest such sarcenet surety for thy oaths,
As if thou never walk'st further than Finsbury.
Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
A good mouth-filling oath, and leave 'in sooth,'
And such protest of pepper-gingerbread,
To velvet-guards and Sunday-citizens.
Come, sing.",593,18902
639812,1826,I will not sing.,650,18902
639813,1827,"'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be red-breast
teacher. An the indentures be drawn, I'll away
within these two hours; and so, come in when ye will.",593,18902
639814,1830,[Exit],1261,18902
639815,1831,"Come, come, Lord Mortimer; you are as slow
As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go.
By this our book is drawn; we'll but seal,
And then to horse immediately.",530,18902
639816,1835,With all my heart.,802,18902
639817,1836,[Exeunt],1261,18902
639818,1839,"[Enter KING HENRY IV, PRINCE HENRY, and others]",1261,18903
639819,1840,"Lords, give us leave; the Prince of Wales and I
Must have some private conference; but be near at hand,
For we shall presently have need of you.
[Exeunt Lords]
I know not whether God will have it so,
For some displeasing service I have done,
That, in his secret doom, out of my blood
He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me;
But thou dost in thy passages of life
Make me believe that thou art only mark'd
For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven
To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else,
Could such inordinate and low desires,
Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts,
Such barren pleasures, rude society,
As thou art match'd withal and grafted to,
Accompany the greatness of thy blood
And hold their level with thy princely heart?",572,18903
639820,1858,"So please your majesty, I would I could
Quit all offences with as clear excuse
As well as I am doubtless I can purge
Myself of many I am charged withal:
Yet such extenuation let me beg,
As, in reproof of many tales devised,
which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,
By smiling pick-thanks and base news-mongers,
I may, for some things true, wherein my youth
Hath faulty wander'd and irregular,
Find pardon on my true submission.",573,18903
639821,1869,"God pardon thee! yet let me wonder, Harry,
At thy affections, which do hold a wing
Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.
Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost.
Which by thy younger brother is supplied,
And art almost an alien to the hearts
Of all the court and princes of my blood:
The hope and expectation of thy time
Is ruin'd, and the soul of every man
Prophetically doth forethink thy fall.
Had I so lavish of my presence been,
So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men,
So stale and cheap to vulgar company,
Opinion, that did help me to the crown,
Had still kept loyal to possession
And left me in reputeless banishment,
A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.
By being seldom seen, I could not stir
But like a comet I was wonder'd at;
That men would tell their children 'This is he;'
Others would say 'Where, which is Bolingbroke?'
And then I stole all courtesy from heaven,
And dress'd myself in such humility
That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,
Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths,
Even in the presence of the crowned king.
Thus did I keep my person fresh and new;
My presence, like a robe pontifical,
Ne'er seen but wonder'd at: and so my state,
Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast
And won by rareness such solemnity.
The skipping king, he ambled up and down
With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,
Soon kindled and soon burnt; carded his state,
Mingled his royalty with capering fools,
Had his great name profaned with their scorns
And gave his countenance, against his name,
To laugh at gibing boys and stand the push
Of every beardless vain comparative,
Grew a companion to the common streets,
Enfeoff'd himself to popularity;
That, being daily swallow'd by men's eyes,
They surfeited with honey and began
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much.
So when he had occasion to be seen,
He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Heard, not regarded; seen, but with such eyes
As, sick and blunted with community,
Afford no extraordinary gaze,
Such as is bent on sun-like majesty
When it shines seldom in admiring eyes;
But rather drowzed and hung their eyelids down,
Slept in his face and render'd such aspect
As cloudy men use to their adversaries,
Being with his presence glutted, gorged and full.
And in that very line, Harry, standest thou;
For thou has lost thy princely privilege
With vile participation: not an eye
But is a-weary of thy common sight,
Save mine, which hath desired to see thee more;
Which now doth that I would not have it do,
Make blind itself with foolish tenderness.",572,18903
639822,1932,"I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious lord,
Be more myself.",573,18903
639823,1934,"For all the world
As thou art to this hour was Richard then
When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh,
And even as I was then is Percy now.
Now, by my sceptre and my soul to boot,
He hath more worthy interest to the state
Than thou the shadow of succession;
For of no right, nor colour like to right,
He doth fill fields with harness in the realm,
Turns head against the lion's armed jaws,
And, being no more in debt to years than thou,
Leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on
To bloody battles and to bruising arms.
What never-dying honour hath he got
Against renowned Douglas! whose high deeds,
Whose hot incursions and great name in arms
Holds from all soldiers chief majority
And military title capital
Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ:
Thrice hath this Hotspur, Mars in swathling clothes,
This infant warrior, in his enterprises
Discomfited great Douglas, ta'en him once,
Enlarged him and made a friend of him,
To fill the mouth of deep defiance up
And shake the peace and safety of our throne.
And what say you to this? Percy, Northumberland,
The Archbishop's grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer,
Capitulate against us and are up.
But wherefore do I tell these news to thee?
Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes,
Which art my near'st and dearest enemy?
Thou that art like enough, through vassal fear,
Base inclination and the start of spleen
To fight against me under Percy's pay,
To dog his heels and curtsy at his frowns,
To show how much thou art degenerate.",572,18903
639824,1970,"Do not think so; you shall not find it so:
And God forgive them that so much have sway'd
Your majesty's good thoughts away from me!
I will redeem all this on Percy's head
And in the closing of some glorious day
Be bold to tell you that I am your son;
When I will wear a garment all of blood
And stain my favours in a bloody mask,
Which, wash'd away, shall scour my shame with it:
And that shall be the day, whene'er it lights,
That this same child of honour and renown,
This gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight,
And your unthought-of Harry chance to meet.
For every honour sitting on his helm,
Would they were multitudes, and on my head
My shames redoubled! for the time will come,
That I shall make this northern youth exchange
His glorious deeds for my indignities.
Percy is but my factor, good my lord,
To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf;
And I will call him to so strict account,
That he shall render every glory up,
Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,
Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart.
This, in the name of God, I promise here:
The which if He be pleased I shall perform,
I do beseech your majesty may salve
The long-grown wounds of my intemperance:
If not, the end of life cancels all bands;
And I will die a hundred thousand deaths
Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.",573,18903
639825,2001,"A hundred thousand rebels die in this:
Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein.
[Enter BLUNT]
How now, good Blunt? thy looks are full of speed.",572,18903
639826,2005,"So hath the business that I come to speak of.
Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word
That Douglas and the English rebels met
The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury
A mighty and a fearful head they are,
If promises be kept on every hand,
As ever offer'd foul play in the state.",174,18903
639827,2012,"The Earl of Westmoreland set forth to-day;
With him my son, Lord John of Lancaster;
For this advertisement is five days old:
On Wednesday next, Harry, you shall set forward;
On Thursday we ourselves will march: our meeting
Is Bridgenorth: and, Harry, you shall march
Through Gloucestershire; by which account,
Our business valued, some twelve days hence
Our general forces at Bridgenorth shall meet.
Our hands are full of business: let's away;
Advantage feeds him fat, while men delay.",572,18903
639828,2023,[Exeunt],1261,18903
639829,2025,[Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH],1261,18904
639830,2026,"Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last
action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why my
skin hangs about me like an like an old lady's loose
gown; I am withered like an old apple-john. Well,
I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some
liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I
shall have no strength to repent. An I have not
forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I
am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse: the inside of a
church! Company, villanous company, hath been the
spoil of me.",393,18904
639831,2037,"Sir John, you are so fretful, you cannot live long.",143,18904
639832,2038,"Why, there is it: come sing me a bawdy song; make
me merry. I was as virtuously given as a gentleman
need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not
above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once
in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I
borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in
good compass: and now I live out of all order, out
of all compass.",393,18904
639833,2046,"Why, you are so fat, Sir John, that you must needs
be out of all compass, out of all reasonable
compass, Sir John.",143,18904
639834,2049,"Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life:
thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in
the poop, but 'tis in the nose of thee; thou art the
Knight of the Burning Lamp.",393,18904
639835,2053,"Why, Sir John, my face does you no harm.",143,18904
639836,2054,"No, I'll be sworn; I make as good use of it as many
a man doth of a Death's-head or a memento mori: I
never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire and
Dives that lived in purple; for there he is in his
robes, burning, burning. If thou wert any way
given to virtue, I would swear by thy face; my oath
should be 'By this fire, that's God's angel:' but
thou art altogether given over; and wert indeed, but
for the light in thy face, the son of utter
darkness. When thou rannest up Gadshill in the
night to catch my horse, if I did not think thou
hadst been an ignis fatuus or a ball of wildfire,
there's no purchase in money. O, thou art a
perpetual triumph, an everlasting bonfire-light!
Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and
torches, walking with thee in the night betwixt
tavern and tavern: but the sack that thou hast
drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap
at the dearest chandler's in Europe. I have
maintained that salamander of yours with fire any
time this two and thirty years; God reward me for
it!",393,18904
639837,2076,"'Sblood, I would my face were in your belly!",143,18904
639838,2077,"God-a-mercy! so should I be sure to be heart-burned.
[Enter Hostess]
How now, Dame Partlet the hen! have you inquired
yet who picked my pocket?",393,18904
639839,2081,"Why, Sir John, what do you think, Sir John? do you
think I keep thieves in my house? I have searched,
I have inquired, so has my husband, man by man, boy
by boy, servant by servant: the tithe of a hair
was never lost in my house before.",936,18904
639840,2086,"Ye lie, hostess: Bardolph was shaved and lost many
a hair; and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked. Go
to, you are a woman, go.",393,18904
639841,2089,"Who, I? no; I defy thee: God's light, I was never
called so in mine own house before.",936,18904
639842,2091,"Go to, I know you well enough.",393,18904
639843,2092,"No, Sir John; You do not know me, Sir John. I know
you, Sir John: you owe me money, Sir John; and now
you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it: I bought
you a dozen of shirts to your back.",936,18904
639844,2096,"Dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given them away to
bakers' wives, and they have made bolters of them.",393,18904
639845,2098,"Now, as I am a true woman, holland of eight
shillings an ell. You owe money here besides, Sir
John, for your diet and by-drinkings, and money lent
you, four and twenty pound.",936,18904
639846,2102,He had his part of it; let him pay.,393,18904
639847,2103,"He? alas, he is poor; he hath nothing.",936,18904
639848,2104,"How! poor? look upon his face; what call you rich?
let them coin his nose, let them coin his cheeks:
Ill not pay a denier. What, will you make a younker
of me? shall I not take mine case in mine inn but I
shall have my pocket picked? I have lost a
seal-ring of my grandfather's worth forty mark.",393,18904
639849,2110,"O Jesu, I have heard the prince tell him, I know not
how oft, that ring was copper!",936,18904
639850,2112,"How! the prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup: 'sblood, an
he were here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he
would say so.
[Enter PRINCE HENRY and PETO, marching, and FALSTAFF
meets them playing on his truncheon like a life]
How now, lad! is the wind in that door, i' faith?
must we all march?",393,18904
639851,2119,"Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.",143,18904
639852,2120,"My lord, I pray you, hear me.",936,18904
639853,2121,"What sayest thou, Mistress Quickly? How doth thy
husband? I love him well; he is an honest man.",573,18904
639854,2123,"Good my lord, hear me.",936,18904
639855,2124,"Prithee, let her alone, and list to me.",393,18904
639856,2125,"What sayest thou, Jack?",573,18904
639857,2126,"The other night I fell asleep here behind the arras
and had my pocket picked: this house is turned
bawdy-house; they pick pockets.",393,18904
639858,2129,"What didst thou lose, Jack?",573,18904
639859,2130,"Wilt thou believe me, Hal? three or four bonds of
forty pound apiece, and a seal-ring of my
grandfather's.",393,18904
639860,2133,"A trifle, some eight-penny matter.",573,18904
639861,2134,"So I told him, my lord; and I said I heard your
grace say so: and, my lord, he speaks most vilely
of you, like a foul-mouthed man as he is; and said
he would cudgel you.",936,18904
639862,2138,What! he did not?,573,18904
639863,2139,"There's neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in me else.",936,18904
639864,2140,"There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed
prune; nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn
fox; and for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the
deputy's wife of the ward to thee. Go, you thing,
go",393,18904
639865,2145,"Say, what thing? what thing?",936,18904
639866,2146,"What thing! why, a thing to thank God on.",393,18904
639867,2147,"I am no thing to thank God on, I would thou
shouldst know it; I am an honest man's wife: and,
setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to
call me so.",936,18904
639868,2151,"Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast to say
otherwise.",393,18904
639869,2153,"Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?",936,18904
639870,2154,"What beast! why, an otter.",393,18904
639871,2155,"An otter, Sir John! Why an otter?",573,18904
639872,2156,"Why, she's neither fish nor flesh; a man knows not
where to have her.",393,18904
639873,2158,"Thou art an unjust man in saying so: thou or any
man knows where to have me, thou knave, thou!",936,18904
639874,2160,"Thou sayest true, hostess; and he slanders thee most grossly.",573,18904
639875,2161,"So he doth you, my lord; and said this other day you
ought him a thousand pound.",936,18904
639876,2163,"Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound?",573,18904
639877,2164,"A thousand pound, Ha! a million: thy love is worth
a million: thou owest me thy love.",393,18904
639878,2166,"Nay, my lord, he called you Jack, and said he would
cudgel you.",936,18904
639879,2168,"Did I, Bardolph?",393,18904
639880,2169,"Indeed, Sir John, you said so.",143,18904
639881,2170,"Yea, if he said my ring was copper.",393,18904
639882,2171,I say 'tis copper: darest thou be as good as thy word now?,573,18904
639883,2172,"Why, Hal, thou knowest, as thou art but man, I dare:
but as thou art prince, I fear thee as I fear the
roaring of a lion's whelp.",393,18904
639884,2175,And why not as the lion?,573,18904
639885,2176,"The king is to be feared as the lion: dost thou
think I'll fear thee as I fear thy father? nay, an
I do, I pray God my girdle break.",393,18904
639886,2179,"O, if it should, how would thy guts fall about thy
knees! But, sirrah, there's no room for faith,
truth, nor honesty in this bosom of thine; it is all
filled up with guts and midriff. Charge an honest
woman with picking thy pocket! why, thou whoreson,
impudent, embossed rascal, if there were anything in
thy pocket but tavern-reckonings, memorandums of
bawdy-houses, and one poor penny-worth of
sugar-candy to make thee long-winded, if thy pocket
were enriched with any other injuries but these, I
am a villain: and yet you will stand to if; you will
not pocket up wrong: art thou not ashamed?",573,18904
639887,2191,"Dost thou hear, Hal? thou knowest in the state of
innocency Adam fell; and what should poor Jack
Falstaff do in the days of villany? Thou seest I
have more flesh than another man, and therefore more
frailty. You confess then, you picked my pocket?",393,18904
639888,2196,It appears so by the story.,573,18904
639889,2197,"Hostess, I forgive thee: go, make ready breakfast;
love thy husband, look to thy servants, cherish thy
guests: thou shalt find me tractable to any honest
reason: thou seest I am pacified still. Nay,
prithee, be gone.
[Exit Hostess]
Now Hal, to the news at court: for the robbery,
lad, how is that answered?",393,18904
639890,2205,"O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel to
thee: the money is paid back again.",573,18904
639891,2207,"O, I do not like that paying back; 'tis a double labour.",393,18904
639892,2208,I am good friends with my father and may do any thing.,573,18904
639893,2209,"Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou doest, and
do it with unwashed hands too.",393,18904
639894,2211,"Do, my lord.",143,18904
639895,2212,"I have procured thee, Jack, a charge of foot.",573,18904
639896,2213,"I would it had been of horse. Where shall I find
one that can steal well? O for a fine thief, of the
age of two and twenty or thereabouts! I am
heinously unprovided. Well, God be thanked for
these rebels, they offend none but the virtuous: I
laud them, I praise them.",393,18904
639897,2219,Bardolph!,573,18904
639898,2220,My lord?,143,18904
639899,2221,"Go bear this letter to Lord John of Lancaster, to my
brother John; this to my Lord of Westmoreland.
[Exit Bardolph]
Go, Peto, to horse, to horse; for thou and I have
thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
[Exit Peto]
Jack, meet me to-morrow in the temple hall at two
o'clock in the afternoon.
There shalt thou know thy charge; and there receive
Money and order for their furniture.
The land is burning; Percy stands on high;
And either we or they must lower lie.",573,18904
639900,2233,[Exit PRINCE HENRY],1261,18904
639901,2234,"Rare words! brave world! Hostess, my breakfast, come!
O, I could wish this tavern were my drum!",393,18904
639902,2236,[Exit],1261,18904
639903,2239,"[Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, and DOUGLAS]",1261,18905
639904,2240,"Well said, my noble Scot: if speaking truth
In this fine age were not thought flattery,
Such attribution should the Douglas have,
As not a soldier of this season's stamp
Should go so general current through the world.
By God, I cannot flatter; I do defy
The tongues of soothers; but a braver place
In my heart's love hath no man than yourself:
Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.",593,18905
639905,2249,"Thou art the king of honour:
No man so potent breathes upon the ground
But I will beard him.",357,18905
639906,2252,"Do so, and 'tis well.
[Enter a Messenger with letters]
What letters hast thou there?--I can but thank you.",593,18905
639907,2255,These letters come from your father.,772,18905
639908,2256,Letters from him! why comes he not himself?,593,18905
639909,2257,"He cannot come, my lord; he is grievous sick.",772,18905
639910,2258,"'Zounds! how has he the leisure to be sick
In such a rustling time? Who leads his power?
Under whose government come they along?",593,18905
639911,2261,"His letters bear his mind, not I, my lord.",772,18905
639912,2262,"I prithee, tell me, doth he keep his bed?",1260,18905
639913,2263,"He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth;
And at the time of my departure thence
He was much fear'd by his physicians.",772,18905
639914,2266,"I would the state of time had first been whole
Ere he by sickness had been visited:
His health was never better worth than now.",1260,18905
639915,2269,"Sick now! droop now! this sickness doth infect
The very life-blood of our enterprise;
'Tis catching hither, even to our camp.
He writes me here, that inward sickness--
And that his friends by deputation could not
So soon be drawn, nor did he think it meet
To lay so dangerous and dear a trust
On any soul removed but on his own.
Yet doth he give us bold advertisement,
That with our small conjunction we should on,
To see how fortune is disposed to us;
For, as he writes, there is no quailing now.
Because the king is certainly possess'd
Of all our purposes. What say you to it?",593,18905
639916,2283,Your father's sickness is a maim to us.,1260,18905
639917,2284,"A perilous gash, a very limb lopp'd off:
And yet, in faith, it is not; his present want
Seems more than we shall find it: were it good
To set the exact wealth of all our states
All at one cast? to set so rich a main
On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
It were not good; for therein should we read
The very bottom and the soul of hope,
The very list, the very utmost bound
Of all our fortunes.",593,18905
639918,2294,"'Faith, and so we should;
Where now remains a sweet reversion:
We may boldly spend upon the hope of what
Is to come in:
A comfort of retirement lives in this.",357,18905
639919,2299,"A rendezvous, a home to fly unto.
If that the devil and mischance look big
Upon the maidenhead of our affairs.",593,18905
639920,2302,"But yet I would your father had been here.
The quality and hair of our attempt
Brooks no division: it will be thought
By some, that know not why he is away,
That wisdom, loyalty and mere dislike
Of our proceedings kept the earl from hence:
And think how such an apprehension
May turn the tide of fearful faction
And breed a kind of question in our cause;
For well you know we of the offering side
Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement,
And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence
The eye of reason may pry in upon us:
This absence of your father's draws a curtain,
That shows the ignorant a kind of fear
Before not dreamt of.",1260,18905
639921,2318,"You strain too far.
I rather of his absence make this use:
It lends a lustre and more great opinion,
A larger dare to our great enterprise,
Than if the earl were here; for men must think,
If we without his help can make a head
To push against a kingdom, with his help
We shall o'erturn it topsy-turvy down.
Yet all goes well, yet all our joints are whole.",593,18905
639922,2327,"As heart can think: there is not such a word
Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.",357,18905
639923,2329,[Enter SIR RICHARD VERNON],1261,18905
639924,2330,"My cousin Vernon, welcome, by my soul.",593,18905
639925,2331,"Pray God my news be worth a welcome, lord.
The Earl of Westmoreland, seven thousand strong,
Is marching hitherwards; with him Prince John.",1234,18905
639926,2334,No harm: what more?,593,18905
639927,2335,"And further, I have learn'd,
The king himself in person is set forth,
Or hitherwards intended speedily,
With strong and mighty preparation.",1234,18905
639928,2339,"He shall be welcome too. Where is his son,
The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales,
And his comrades, that daff'd the world aside,
And bid it pass?",593,18905
639929,2343,"All furnish'd, all in arms;
All plumed like estridges that with the wind
Baited like eagles having lately bathed;
Glittering in golden coats, like images;
As full of spirit as the month of May,
And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;
Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
I saw young Harry, with his beaver on,
His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd
Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury,
And vaulted with such ease into his seat,
As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds,
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
And witch the world with noble horsemanship.",1234,18905
639930,2357,"No more, no more: worse than the sun in March,
This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come:
They come like sacrifices in their trim,
And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
All hot and bleeding will we offer them:
The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit
Up to the ears in blood. I am on fire
To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh
And yet not ours. Come, let me taste my horse,
Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt
Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales:
Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse,
Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corse.
O that Glendower were come!",593,18905
639931,2371,"There is more news:
I learn'd in Worcester, as I rode along,
He cannot draw his power this fourteen days.",1234,18905
639932,2374,That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet.,357,18905
639933,2375,"Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound.",1260,18905
639934,2376,What may the king's whole battle reach unto?,593,18905
639935,2377,To thirty thousand.,1234,18905
639936,2378,"Forty let it be:
My father and Glendower being both away,
The powers of us may serve so great a day
Come, let us take a muster speedily:
Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily.",593,18905
639937,2383,"Talk not of dying: I am out of fear
Of death or death's hand for this one-half year.",357,18905
639938,2385,[Exeunt],1261,18905
639939,2387,[Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH],1261,18906
639940,2388,"Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry; fill me a
bottle of sack: our soldiers shall march through;
we'll to Sutton Co'fil' tonight.",393,18906
639941,2391,"Will you give me money, captain?",143,18906
639942,2392,"Lay out, lay out.",393,18906
639943,2393,This bottle makes an angel.,143,18906
639944,2394,"An if it do, take it for thy labour; and if it make
twenty, take them all; I'll answer the coinage. Bid
my lieutenant Peto meet me at town's end.",393,18906
639945,2397,"I will, captain: farewell.",143,18906
639946,2398,[Exit],1261,18906
639947,2399,"If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused
gurnet. I have misused the king's press damnably.
I have got, in exchange of a hundred and fifty
soldiers, three hundred and odd pounds. I press me
none but good house-holders, yeoman's sons; inquire
me out contracted bachelors, such as had been asked
twice on the banns; such a commodity of warm slaves,
as had as lieve hear the devil as a drum; such as
fear the report of a caliver worse than a struck
fowl or a hurt wild-duck. I pressed me none but such
toasts-and-butter, with hearts in their bellies no
bigger than pins' heads, and they have bought out
their services; and now my whole charge consists of
ancients, corporals, lieutenants, gentlemen of
companies, slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the
painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked his
sores; and such as indeed were never soldiers, but
discarded unjust serving-men, younger sons to
younger brothers, revolted tapsters and ostlers
trade-fallen, the cankers of a calm world and a
long peace, ten times more dishonourable ragged than
an old faced ancient: and such have I, to fill up
the rooms of them that have bought out their
services, that you would think that I had a hundred
and fifty tattered prodigals lately come from
swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. A mad
fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded
all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye
hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march through
Coventry with them, that's flat: nay, and the
villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had
gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of
prison. There's but a shirt and a half in all my
company; and the half shirt is two napkins tacked
together and thrown over the shoulders like an
herald's coat without sleeves; and the shirt, to say
the truth, stolen from my host at Saint Alban's, or
the red-nose innkeeper of Daventry. But that's all
one; they'll find linen enough on every hedge.",393,18906
639948,2438,[Enter the PRINCE and WESTMORELAND],1261,18906
639949,2439,"How now, blown Jack! how now, quilt!",573,18906
639950,2440,"What, Hal! how now, mad wag! what a devil dost thou
in Warwickshire? My good Lord of Westmoreland, I
cry you mercy: I thought your honour had already been
at Shrewsbury.",393,18906
639951,2444,"Faith, Sir John,'tis more than time that I were
there, and you too; but my powers are there already.
The king, I can tell you, looks for us all: we must
away all night.",1250,18906
639952,2448,"Tut, never fear me: I am as vigilant as a cat to
steal cream.",393,18906
639953,2450,"I think, to steal cream indeed, for thy theft hath
already made thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose
fellows are these that come after?",573,18906
639954,2453,"Mine, Hal, mine.",393,18906
639955,2454,I did never see such pitiful rascals.,573,18906
639956,2455,"Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder, food
for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better:
tush, man, mortal men, mortal men.",393,18906
639957,2458,"Ay, but, Sir John, methinks they are exceeding poor
and bare, too beggarly.",1250,18906
639958,2460,"'Faith, for their poverty, I know not where they had
that; and for their bareness, I am sure they never
learned that of me.",393,18906
639959,2463,"No I'll be sworn; unless you call three fingers on
the ribs bare. But, sirrah, make haste: Percy is
already in the field.",573,18906
639960,2466,"What, is the king encamped?",393,18906
639961,2467,"He is, Sir John: I fear we shall stay too long.",1250,18906
639962,2468,"Well,
To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast
Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.",393,18906
639963,2471,[Exeunt],1261,18906
639964,2473,"[Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, DOUGLAS, and VERNON]",1261,18907
639965,2474,We'll fight with him to-night.,593,18907
639966,2475,It may not be.,1260,18907
639967,2476,You give him then the advantage.,357,18907
639968,2477,Not a whit.,1234,18907
639969,2478,Why say you so? looks he not for supply?,593,18907
639970,2479,So do we.,1234,18907
639971,2480,"His is certain, ours is doubtful.",593,18907
639972,2481,"Good cousin, be advised; stir not tonight.",1260,18907
639973,2482,"Do not, my lord.",1234,18907
639974,2483,"You do not counsel well:
You speak it out of fear and cold heart.",357,18907
639975,2485,"Do me no slander, Douglas: by my life,
And I dare well maintain it with my life,
If well-respected honour bid me on,
I hold as little counsel with weak fear
As you, my lord, or any Scot that this day lives:
Let it be seen to-morrow in the battle
Which of us fears.",1234,18907
639976,2492,"Yea, or to-night.",357,18907
639977,2493,Content.,1234,18907
639978,2494,"To-night, say I.",593,18907
639979,2495,"Come, come it nay not be. I wonder much,
Being men of such great leading as you are,
That you foresee not what impediments
Drag back our expedition: certain horse
Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up:
Your uncle Worcester's horse came but today;
And now their pride and mettle is asleep,
Their courage with hard labour tame and dull,
That not a horse is half the half of himself.",1234,18907
639980,2504,"So are the horses of the enemy
In general, journey-bated and brought low:
The better part of ours are full of rest.",593,18907
639981,2507,"The number of the king exceedeth ours:
For God's sake. cousin, stay till all come in.",1260,18907
639982,2509,[The trumpet sounds a parley],1261,18907
639983,2510,[Enter SIR WALTER BLUNT],1261,18907
639984,2511,"I come with gracious offers from the king,
if you vouchsafe me hearing and respect.",174,18907
639985,2513,"Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt; and would to God
You were of our determination!
Some of us love you well; and even those some
Envy your great deservings and good name,
Because you are not of our quality,
But stand against us like an enemy.",593,18907
639986,2519,"And God defend but still I should stand so,
So long as out of limit and true rule
You stand against anointed majesty.
But to my charge. The king hath sent to know
The nature of your griefs, and whereupon
You conjure from the breast of civil peace
Such bold hostility, teaching his duteous land
Audacious cruelty. If that the king
Have any way your good deserts forgot,
Which he confesseth to be manifold,
He bids you name your griefs; and with all speed
You shall have your desires with interest
And pardon absolute for yourself and these
Herein misled by your suggestion.",174,18907
639987,2533,"The king is kind; and well we know the king
Knows at what time to promise, when to pay.
My father and my uncle and myself
Did give him that same royalty he wears;
And when he was not six and twenty strong,
Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low,
A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home,
My father gave him welcome to the shore;
And when he heard him swear and vow to God
He came but to be Duke of Lancaster,
To sue his livery and beg his peace,
With tears of innocency and terms of zeal,
My father, in kind heart and pity moved,
Swore him assistance and perform'd it too.
Now when the lords and barons of the realm
Perceived Northumberland did lean to him,
The more and less came in with cap and knee;
Met him in boroughs, cities, villages,
Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes,
Laid gifts before him, proffer'd him their oaths,
Gave him their heirs, as pages follow'd him
Even at the heels in golden multitudes.
He presently, as greatness knows itself,
Steps me a little higher than his vow
Made to my father, while his blood was poor,
Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh;
And now, forsooth, takes on him to reform
Some certain edicts and some strait decrees
That lie too heavy on the commonwealth,
Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep
Over his country's wrongs; and by this face,
This seeming brow of justice, did he win
The hearts of all that he did angle for;
Proceeded further; cut me off the heads
Of all the favourites that the absent king
In deputation left behind him here,
When he was personal in the Irish war.",593,18907
639988,2570,"Tut, I came not to hear this.",174,18907
639989,2571,"Then to the point.
In short time after, he deposed the king;
Soon after that, deprived him of his life;
And in the neck of that, task'd the whole state:
To make that worse, suffer'd his kinsman March,
Who is, if every owner were well placed,
Indeed his king, to be engaged in Wales,
There without ransom to lie forfeited;
Disgraced me in my happy victories,
Sought to entrap me by intelligence;
Rated mine uncle from the council-board;
In rage dismiss'd my father from the court;
Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong,
And in conclusion drove us to seek out
This head of safety; and withal to pry
Into his title, the which we find
Too indirect for long continuance.",593,18907
639990,2588,Shall I return this answer to the king?,174,18907
639991,2589,"Not so, Sir Walter: we'll withdraw awhile.
Go to the king; and let there be impawn'd
Some surety for a safe return again,
And in the morning early shall my uncle
Bring him our purposes: and so farewell.",593,18907
639992,2594,I would you would accept of grace and love.,174,18907
639993,2595,And may be so we shall.,593,18907
639994,2596,Pray God you do.,174,18907
639995,2597,[Exeunt],1261,18907
639996,2599,[Enter the ARCHBISHOP and SIR MICHAEL],1261,18908
639997,2600,"Hie, good Sir Michael; bear this sealed brief
With winged haste to the lord marshal;
This to my cousin Scroop, and all the rest
To whom they are directed. If you knew
How much they do to import, you would make haste.",974,18908
639998,2605,"My good lord,
I guess their tenor.",1109,18908
639999,2607,"Like enough you do.
To-morrow, good Sir Michael, is a day
Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men
Must bide the touch; for, sir, at Shrewsbury,
As I am truly given to understand,
The king with mighty and quick-raised power
Meets with Lord Harry: and, I fear, Sir Michael,
What with the sickness of Northumberland,
Whose power was in the first proportion,
And what with Owen Glendower's absence thence,
Who with them was a rated sinew too
And comes not in, o'er-ruled by prophecies,
I fear the power of Percy is too weak
To wage an instant trial with the king.",974,18908
640000,2621,"Why, my good lord, you need not fear;
There is Douglas and Lord Mortimer.",1109,18908
640001,2623,"No, Mortimer is not there.",974,18908
640002,2624,"But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy,
And there is my Lord of Worcester and a head
Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen.",1109,18908
640003,2627,"And so there is: but yet the king hath drawn
The special head of all the land together:
The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,
The noble Westmoreland and warlike Blunt;
And moe corrivals and dear men
Of estimation and command in arms.",974,18908
640004,2633,"Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well opposed.",1109,18908
640005,2634,"I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear;
And, to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed:
For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the king
Dismiss his power, he means to visit us,
For he hath heard of our confederacy,
And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him:
Therefore make haste. I must go write again
To other friends; and so farewell, Sir Michael.",974,18908
640006,2642,[Exeunt],1261,18908
640007,2645,"[Enter KING HENRY, PRINCE HENRY, Lord John of LANCASTER, EARL OF WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and FALSTAFF]",1261,18909
640008,2646,"How bloodily the sun begins to peer
Above yon busky hill! the day looks pale
At his distemperature.",572,18909
640009,2649,"The southern wind
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,
And by his hollow whistling in the leaves
Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.",573,18909
640010,2653,"Then with the losers let it sympathize,
For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
[The trumpet sounds]
[Enter WORCESTER and VERNON]
How now, my Lord of Worcester! 'tis not well
That you and I should meet upon such terms
As now we meet. You have deceived our trust,
And made us doff our easy robes of peace,
To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel:
This is not well, my lord, this is not well.
What say you to it? will you again unknit
This curlish knot of all-abhorred war?
And move in that obedient orb again
Where you did give a fair and natural light,
And be no more an exhaled meteor,
A prodigy of fear and a portent
Of broached mischief to the unborn times?",572,18909
640011,2670,"Hear me, my liege:
For mine own part, I could be well content
To entertain the lag-end of my life
With quiet hours; for I do protest,
I have not sought the day of this dislike.",1260,18909
640012,2675,"You have not sought it! how comes it, then?",572,18909
640013,2676,"Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.",393,18909
640014,2677,"Peace, chewet, peace!",573,18909
640015,2678,"It pleased your majesty to turn your looks
Of favour from myself and all our house;
And yet I must remember you, my lord,
We were the first and dearest of your friends.
For you my staff of office did I break
In Richard's time; and posted day and night
to meet you on the way, and kiss your hand,
When yet you were in place and in account
Nothing so strong and fortunate as I.
It was myself, my brother and his son,
That brought you home and boldly did outdare
The dangers of the time. You swore to us,
And you did swear that oath at Doncaster,
That you did nothing purpose 'gainst the state;
Nor claim no further than your new-fall'n right,
The seat of Gaunt, dukedom of Lancaster:
To this we swore our aid. But in short space
It rain'd down fortune showering on your head;
And such a flood of greatness fell on you,
What with our help, what with the absent king,
What with the injuries of a wanton time,
The seeming sufferances that you had borne,
And the contrarious winds that held the king
So long in his unlucky Irish wars
That all in England did repute him dead:
And from this swarm of fair advantages
You took occasion to be quickly woo'd
To gripe the general sway into your hand;
Forget your oath to us at Doncaster;
And being fed by us you used us so
As that ungentle hull, the cuckoo's bird,
Useth the sparrow; did oppress our nest;
Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk
That even our love durst not come near your sight
For fear of swallowing; but with nimble wing
We were enforced, for safety sake, to fly
Out of sight and raise this present head;
Whereby we stand opposed by such means
As you yourself have forged against yourself
By unkind usage, dangerous countenance,
And violation of all faith and troth
Sworn to us in your younger enterprise.",1260,18909
640016,2720,"These things indeed you have articulate,
Proclaim'd at market-crosses, read in churches,
To face the garment of rebellion
With some fine colour that may please the eye
Of fickle changelings and poor discontents,
Which gape and rub the elbow at the news
Of hurlyburly innovation:
And never yet did insurrection want
Such water-colours to impaint his cause;
Nor moody beggars, starving for a time
Of pellmell havoc and confusion.",572,18909
640017,2731,"In both your armies there is many a soul
Shall pay full dearly for this encounter,
If once they join in trial. Tell your nephew,
The Prince of Wales doth join with all the world
In praise of Henry Percy: by my hopes,
This present enterprise set off his head,
I do not think a braver gentleman,
More active-valiant or more valiant-young,
More daring or more bold, is now alive
To grace this latter age with noble deeds.
For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
I have a truant been to chivalry;
And so I hear he doth account me too;
Yet this before my father's majesty--
I am content that he shall take the odds
Of his great name and estimation,
And will, to save the blood on either side,
Try fortune with him in a single fight.",573,18909
640018,2749,"And, Prince of Wales, so dare we venture thee,
Albeit considerations infinite
Do make against it. No, good Worcester, no,
We love our people well; even those we love
That are misled upon your cousin's part;
And, will they take the offer of our grace,
Both he and they and you, every man
Shall be my friend again and I'll be his:
So tell your cousin, and bring me word
What he will do: but if he will not yield,
Rebuke and dread correction wait on us
And they shall do their office. So, be gone;
We will not now be troubled with reply:
We offer fair; take it advisedly.",572,18909
640019,2763,[Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON],1261,18909
640020,2764,"It will not be accepted, on my life:
The Douglas and the Hotspur both together
Are confident against the world in arms.",573,18909
640021,2767,"Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
For, on their answer, will we set on them:
And God befriend us, as our cause is just!",572,18909
640022,2770,[Exeunt all but PRINCE HENRY and FALSTAFF],1261,18909
640023,2771,"Hal, if thou see me down in the battle and bestride
me, so; 'tis a point of friendship.",393,18909
640024,2773,"Nothing but a colossus can do thee that friendship.
Say thy prayers, and farewell.",573,18909
640025,2775,"I  would 'twere bed-time, Hal, and all well.",393,18909
640026,2776,"Why, thou owest God a death.",573,18909
640027,2777,[Exit PRINCE HENRY],1261,18909
640028,2778,"'Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before
his day. What need I be so forward with him that
calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; honour pricks
me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I
come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or
an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no.
Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is
honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what
is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it?
he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no.
Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then. Yea,
to the dead. But will it not live with the living?
no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore
I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so
ends my catechism.",393,18909
640029,2793,[Exit],1261,18909
640030,2795,[Enter WORCESTER and VERNON],1261,18910
640031,2796,"O, no, my nephew must not know, Sir Richard,
The liberal and kind offer of the king.",1260,18910
640034,2822,"Deliver what you will; I'll say 'tis so.
Here comes your cousin.",1234,18910
640035,2824,[Enter HOTSPUR and DOUGLAS],1261,18910
640036,2825,"My uncle is return'd:
Deliver up my Lord of Westmoreland.
Uncle, what news?",593,18910
640037,2828,The king will bid you battle presently.,1260,18910
640038,2829,Defy him by the Lord of Westmoreland.,357,18910
640039,2830,"Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so.",593,18910
640040,2831,"Marry, and shall, and very willingly.",357,18910
640041,2832,[Exit],1261,18910
640042,2833,There is no seeming mercy in the king.,1260,18910
640043,2834,Did you beg any? God forbid!,593,18910
640044,2835,"I told him gently of our grievances,
Of his oath-breaking; which he mended thus,
By now forswearing that he is forsworn:
He calls us rebels, traitors; and will scourge
With haughty arms this hateful name in us.",1260,18910
640045,2840,[Re-enter the EARL OF DOUGLAS],1261,18910
640046,2841,"Arm, gentlemen; to arms! for I have thrown
A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth,
And Westmoreland, that was engaged, did bear it;
Which cannot choose but bring him quickly on.",357,18910
640047,2845,"The Prince of Wales stepp'd forth before the king,
And, nephew, challenged you to single fight.",1260,18910
640048,2847,"O, would the quarrel lay upon our heads,
And that no man might draw short breath today
But I and Harry Monmouth! Tell me, tell me,
How show'd his tasking? seem'd it in contempt?",593,18910
640049,2851,"No, by my soul; I never in my life
Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,
Unless a brother should a brother dare
To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
He gave you all the duties of a man;
Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue,
Spoke to your deservings like a chronicle,
Making you ever better than his praise
By still dispraising praise valued in you;
And, which became him like a prince indeed,
He made a blushing cital of himself;
And chid his truant youth with such a grace
As if he master'd there a double spirit.
Of teaching and of learning instantly.
There did he pause: but let me tell the world,
If he outlive the envy of this day,
England did never owe so sweet a hope,
So much misconstrued in his wantonness.",1234,18910
640050,2869,"Cousin, I think thou art enamoured
On his follies: never did I hear
Of any prince so wild a libertine.
But be he as he will, yet once ere night
I will embrace him with a soldier's arm,
That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
Arm, arm with speed: and, fellows, soldiers, friends,
Better consider what you have to do
Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue,
Can lift your blood up with persuasion.",593,18910
640051,2879,[Enter a Messenger],1261,18910
640052,2880,"My lord, here are letters for you.",772,18910
640053,2881,"I cannot read them now.
O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
To spend that shortness basely were too long,
If life did ride upon a dial's point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
An if we live, we live to tread on kings;
If die, brave death, when princes die with us!
Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair,
When the intent of bearing them is just.",593,18910
640054,2890,[Enter another Messenger],1261,18910
640055,2891,"My lord, prepare; the king comes on apace.",772,18910
640056,2892,"I thank him, that he cuts me from my tale,
For I profess not talking; only this--
Let each man do his best: and here draw I
A sword, whose temper I intend to stain
With the best blood that I can meet withal
In the adventure of this perilous day.
Now, Esperance! Percy! and set on.
Sound all the lofty instruments of war,
And by that music let us all embrace;
For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall
A second time do such a courtesy.",593,18910
640057,2903,"[The trumpets sound. They embrace, and exeunt]",1261,18910
640058,2905,[KING HENRY enters with his power. Alarum to the battle. Then enter DOUGLAS and SIR WALTER BLUNT],1261,18911
640059,2906,"What is thy name, that in the battle thus
Thou crossest me? what honour dost thou seek
Upon my head?",174,18911
640060,2909,"Know then, my name is Douglas;
And I do haunt thee in the battle thus
Because some tell me that thou art a king.",357,18911
640061,2912,They tell thee true.,174,18911
640062,2913,"The Lord of Stafford dear to-day hath bought
Thy likeness, for instead of thee, King Harry,
This sword hath ended him: so shall it thee,
Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner.",357,18911
640063,2917,"I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot;
And thou shalt find a king that will revenge
Lord Stafford's death.",174,18911
640064,2920,[They fight. DOUGLAS kills SIR WALTER BLUNT.,1261,18911
640065,2921,Enter HOTSPUR],1261,18911
640066,2922,"O Douglas, hadst thou fought at Holmedon thus,
never had triumph'd upon a Scot.",593,18911
640067,2924,"All's done, all's won; here breathless lies the king.",357,18911
640068,2925,Where?,593,18911
640069,2926,Here.,357,18911
640070,2927,"This, Douglas? no: I know this face full well:
A gallant knight he was, his name was Blunt;
Semblably furnish'd like the king himself.",593,18911
640071,2930,"A fool go with thy soul, whither it goes!
A borrow'd title hast thou bought too dear:
Why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king?",357,18911
640072,2933,The king hath many marching in his coats.,593,18911
640073,2934,"Now, by my sword, I will kill all his coats;
I'll murder all his wardrobe, piece by piece,
Until I meet the king.",357,18911
640074,2937,"Up, and away!
Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day.",593,18911
640075,2939,[Exeunt],1261,18911
640076,2940,"[Alarum. Enter FALSTAFF, solus]",1261,18911
640077,2941,"Though I could 'scape shot-free at London, I fear
the shot here; here's no scoring but upon the pate.
Soft! who are you? Sir Walter Blunt: there's honour
for you! here's no vanity! I am as hot as moulten
lead, and as heavy too: God keep lead out of me! I
need no more weight than mine own bowels. I have
led my ragamuffins where they are peppered: there's
not three of my hundred and fifty left alive; and
they are for the town's end, to beg during life.
But who comes here?",393,18911
640078,2951,[Enter PRINCE HENRY],1261,18911
640079,2952,"What, stand'st thou idle here? lend me thy sword:
Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff
Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies,
Whose deaths are yet unrevenged: I prithee,
lend me thy sword.",573,18911
640080,2957,"O Hal, I prithee, give me leave to breathe awhile.
Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms as I have
done this day. I have paid Percy, I have made him sure.",393,18911
640081,2960,"He is, indeed; and living to kill thee. I prithee,
lend me thy sword.",573,18911
640082,2962,"Nay, before God, Hal, if Percy be alive, thou get'st
not my sword; but take my pistol, if thou wilt.",393,18911
640083,2964,"Give it to me: what, is it in the case?",573,18911
640084,2965,"Ay, Hal; 'tis hot, 'tis hot; there's that will sack a city.",393,18911
640085,2966,"[PRINCE HENRY draws it out, and finds it to be a bottle of sack]",1261,18911
640086,2967,"What, is it a time to jest and dally now?",573,18911
640087,2968,[He throws the bottle at him. Exit],1261,18911
640088,2969,"Well, if Percy be alive, I'll pierce him. If he do
come in my way, so: if he do not, if I come in his
willingly, let him make a carbonado of me. I like
not such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath: give me
life: which if I can save, so; if not, honour comes
unlooked for, and there's an end.",393,18911
640089,2975,[Exit FALSTAFF],1261,18911
640090,2977,"[Alarum. Excursions. Enter PRINCE HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, and EARL OF WESTMORELAND]",1261,18912
640091,2978,"I prithee,
Harry, withdraw thyself; thou bleed'st too much.
Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him.",572,18912
640092,2981,"Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too.",919,18912
640093,2982,"I beseech your majesty, make up,
Lest your retirement do amaze your friends.",573,18912
640094,2984,"I will do so.
My Lord of Westmoreland, lead him to his tent.",572,18912
640095,2986,"Come, my lord, I'll lead you to your tent.",1250,18912
640096,2987,"Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help:
And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive
The Prince of Wales from such a field as this,
Where stain'd nobility lies trodden on,
and rebels' arms triumph in massacres!",573,18912
640097,2992,"We breathe too long: come, cousin Westmoreland,
Our duty this way lies; for God's sake come.",919,18912
640098,2994,[Exeunt LANCASTER and WESTMORELAND],1261,18912
640099,2995,"By God, thou hast deceived me, Lancaster;
I did not think thee lord of such a spirit:
Before, I loved thee as a brother, John;
But now, I do respect thee as my soul.",573,18912
640100,2999,"I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point
With lustier maintenance than I did look for
Of such an ungrown warrior.",572,18912
640101,3002,"O, this boy
Lends mettle to us all!",573,18912
640102,3004,[Exit],1261,18912
640103,3005,[Enter DOUGLAS],1261,18912
640104,3006,"Another king! they grow like Hydra's heads:
I am the Douglas, fatal to all those
That wear those colours on them: what art thou,
That counterfeit'st the person of a king?",357,18912
640105,3010,"The king himself; who, Douglas, grieves at heart
So many of his shadows thou hast met
And not the very king. I have two boys
Seek Percy and thyself about the field:
But, seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily,
I will assay thee: so, defend thyself.",572,18912
640106,3016,"I fear thou art another counterfeit;
And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king:
But mine I am sure thou art, whoe'er thou be,
And thus I win thee.",357,18912
640107,3020,"[They fight. KING HENRY being in danger, PRINCE HENRY enters]",1261,18912
640108,3021,"Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like
Never to hold it up again! the spirits
Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms:
It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee;
Who never promiseth but he means to pay.
[They fight: DOUGLAS flies]
Cheerly, my lord. how fares your grace?
Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succor sent,
And so hath Clifton: I'll to Clifton straight.",573,18912
640109,3030,"Stay, and breathe awhile:
Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion,
And show'd thou makest some tender of my life,
In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.",572,18912
640110,3034,"O God! they did me too much injury
That ever said I hearken'd for your death.
If it were so, I might have let alone
The insulting hand of Douglas over you,
Which would have been as speedy in your end
As all the poisonous potions in the world
And saved the treacherous labour of your son.",573,18912
640111,3041,Make up to Clifton: I'll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey.,572,18912
640112,3042,[Exit],1261,18912
640113,3043,[Enter HOTSPUR],1261,18912
640114,3044,"If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth.",593,18912
640115,3045,Thou speak'st as if I would deny my name.,573,18912
640116,3046,My name is Harry Percy.,593,18912
640117,3047,"Why, then I see
A very valiant rebel of the name.
I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,
To share with me in glory any more:
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere;
Nor can one England brook a double reign,
Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.",573,18912
640118,3054,"Nor shall it, Harry; for the hour is come
To end the one of us; and would to God
Thy name in arms were now as great as mine!",593,18912
640119,3057,"I'll make it greater ere I part from thee;
And all the budding honours on thy crest
I'll crop, to make a garland for my head.",573,18912
640120,3060,I can no longer brook thy vanities.,593,18912
640121,3061,[They fight],1261,18912
640122,3062,[Enter FALSTAFF],1261,18912
640123,3063,"Well said, Hal! to it Hal! Nay, you shall find no
boy's play here, I can tell you.
[Re-enter DOUGLAS; he fights with FALSTAFF,]
who falls down as if he were dead, and exit
DOUGLAS. HOTSPUR is wounded, and falls]",393,18912
640124,3068,"O, Harry, thou hast robb'd me of my youth!
I better brook the loss of brittle life
Than those proud titles thou hast won of me;
They wound my thoughts worse than sword my flesh:
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;
And time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,
But that the earthy and cold hand of death
Lies on my tongue: no, Percy, thou art dust
And food for--",593,18912
640125,3078,[Dies],1261,18912
640126,3079,"For worms, brave Percy: fare thee well, great heart!
Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
When that this body did contain a spirit,
A kingdom for it was too small a bound;
But now two paces of the vilest earth
Is room enough: this earth that bears thee dead
Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
If thou wert sensible of courtesy,
I should not make so dear a show of zeal:
But let my favours hide thy mangled face;
And, even in thy behalf, I'll thank myself
For doing these fair rites of tenderness.
Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven!
Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,
But not remember'd in thy epitaph!
[He spieth FALSTAFF on the ground]
What, old acquaintance! could not all this flesh
Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell!
I could have better spared a better man:
O, I should have a heavy miss of thee,
If I were much in love with vanity!
Death hath not struck so fat a deer to-day,
Though many dearer, in this bloody fray.
Embowell'd will I see thee by and by:
Till then in blood by noble Percy lie.",573,18912
640127,3104,[Exit PRINCE HENRY],1261,18912
640128,3105,"[Rising up]  Embowelled! if thou embowel me to-day,
I'll give you leave to powder me and eat me too
to-morrow. 'Sblood,'twas time to counterfeit, or
that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too.
Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die,
is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the
counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man:
but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby
liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and
perfect image of life indeed. The better part of
valour is discretion; in the which better part I
have saved my life.'Zounds, I am afraid of this
gunpowder Percy, though he be dead: how, if he
should counterfeit too and rise? by my faith, I am
afraid he would prove the better counterfeit.
Therefore I'll make him sure; yea, and I'll swear I
killed him. Why may not he rise as well as I?
Nothing confutes me but eyes, and nobody sees me.
Therefore, sirrah,
[Stabbing him]
with a new wound in your thigh, come you along with me.",393,18912
640129,3126,[Takes up HOTSPUR on his back],1261,18912
640130,3127,[Re-enter PRINCE HENRY and LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER],1261,18912
640131,3128,"Come, brother John; full bravely hast thou flesh'd
Thy maiden sword.",573,18912
640132,3130,"But, soft! whom have we here?
Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?",919,18912
640133,3132,"I did; I saw him dead,
Breathless and bleeding on the ground. Art
thou alive?
Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?
I prithee, speak; we will not trust our eyes
Without our ears: thou art not what thou seem'st.",573,18912
640134,3138,"No, that's certain; I am not a double man: but if I
be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy:
[Throwing the body down]
if your father will do me any honour, so; if not, let
him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either
earl or duke, I can assure you.",393,18912
640135,3144,"Why, Percy I killed myself and saw thee dead.",573,18912
640136,3145,"Didst thou? Lord, Lord, how this world is given to
lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath;
and so was he: but we rose both at an instant and
fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be
believed, so; if not, let them that should reward
valour bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take
it upon my death, I gave him this wound in the
thigh: if the man were alive and would deny it,
'zounds, I would make him eat a piece of my sword.",393,18912
640137,3154,This is the strangest tale that ever I heard.,919,18912
640138,3155,"This is the strangest fellow, brother John.
Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back:
For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.
[A retreat is sounded]
The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours.
Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field,
To see what friends are living, who are dead.",573,18912
640139,3163,[Exeunt PRINCE HENRY and LANCASTER],1261,18912
640140,3164,"I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that
rewards me, God reward him! If I do grow great,
I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and
live cleanly as a nobleman should do.",393,18912
640141,3168,[Exit],1261,18912
640142,3170,"[The trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY IV, PRINCE HENRY, LORD JOHN LANCASTER, EARL OF WESTMORELAND, with WORCESTER and VERNON prisoners]",1261,18913
640143,3171,"Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.
Ill-spirited Worcester! did not we send grace,
Pardon and terms of love to all of you?
And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary?
Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust?
Three knights upon our party slain to-day,
A noble earl and many a creature else
Had been alive this hour,
If like a Christian thou hadst truly borne
Betwixt our armies true intelligence.",572,18913
640144,3181,"What I have done my safety urged me to;
And I embrace this fortune patiently,
Since not to be avoided it falls on me.",1260,18913
640145,3184,"Bear Worcester to the death and Vernon too:
Other offenders we will pause upon.
[Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON, guarded]
How goes the field?",572,18913
640146,3188,"The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw
The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him,
The noble Percy slain, and all his men
Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest;
And falling from a hill, he was so bruised
That the pursuers took him. At my tent
The Douglas is; and I beseech your grace
I may dispose of him.",573,18913
640147,3196,With all my heart.,572,18913
640148,3197,"Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you
This honourable bounty shall belong:
Go to the Douglas, and deliver him
Up to his pleasure, ransomless and free:
His valour shown upon our crests to-day
Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds
Even in the bosom of our adversaries.",573,18913
640149,3204,"I thank your grace for this high courtesy,
Which I shall give away immediately.",919,18913
640150,3206,"Then this remains, that we divide our power.
You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland
Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed,
To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scroop,
Who, as we hear, are busily in arms:
Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,
To fight with Glendower and the Earl of March.
Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
Meeting the cheque of such another day:
And since this business so fair is done,
Let us not leave till all our own be won.",572,18913
640151,3217,[Exeunt],1261,18913
640152,3,"Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues",1261,18914
640153,4,"Open your ears; for which of you will stop
The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?
I, from the orient to the drooping west,
Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold
The acts commenced on this ball of earth.
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
I speak of peace while covert emnity,
Under the smile of safety, wounds the world;
And who but Rumour, who but only I,
Make fearful musters and prepar'd defence,
Whiles the big year, swoln with some other grief,
Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war,
And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,
And of so easy and so plain a stop
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wav'ring multitude,
Can play upon it. But what need I thus
My well-known body to anatomize
Among my household? Why is Rumour here?
I run before King Harry's victory,
Who, in a bloody field by Shrewsbury,
Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops,
Quenching the flame of bold rebellion
Even with the rebels' blood. But what mean I
To speak so true at first? My office is
To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell
Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword,
And that the King before the Douglas' rage
Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death.
This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns
Between that royal field of Shrewsbury
And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,
Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland,
Lies crafty-sick. The posts come tiring on,
And not a man of them brings other news
Than they have learnt of me. From Rumour's tongues
They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs.",959,18914
640154,47,Enter LORD BARDOLPH,1261,18915
640155,48,"Who keeps the gate here, ho? [The PORTER opens the gate]
Where is the Earl?",143,18915
640156,50,What shall I say you are?,903,18915
640157,51,"Tell thou the Earl
That the Lord Bardolph doth attend him here.",143,18915
640158,53,"His lordship is walk'd forth into the orchard.
Please it your honour knock but at the gate,
And he himself will answer.",903,18915
640159,56,         Enter NORTHUMBERLAND,1261,18915
640160,57,Here comes the Earl.        Exit PORTER,143,18915
640161,58,"What news, Lord Bardolph? Every minute now
Should be the father of some stratagem.
The times are wild; contention, like a horse
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose
And bears down all before him.",359,18915
640162,63,"Noble Earl,
I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury.",143,18915
640163,65,"Good, an God will!",359,18915
640164,66,"As good as heart can wish.
The King is almost wounded to the death;
And, in the fortune of my lord your son,
Prince Harry slain outright; and both the Blunts
Kill'd by the hand of Douglas; young Prince John,
And Westmoreland, and Stafford, fled the field;
And Harry Monmouth's brawn, the hulk Sir John,
Is prisoner to your son. O, such a day,
So fought, so followed, and so fairly won,
Came not till now to dignify the times,
Since Cxsar's fortunes!",143,18915
640165,77,"How is this deriv'd?
Saw you the field? Came you from Shrewsbury?",359,18915
640166,79,"I spake with one, my lord, that came from
A gentleman well bred and of good name,
That freely rend'red me these news for true.",143,18915
640167,83,        Enter TRAVERS,1261,18915
640168,84,"Here comes my servant Travers, whom I sent
On Tuesday last to listen after news.",359,18915
640169,86,"My lord, I over-rode him on the way;
And he is furnish'd with no certainties
More than he haply may retail from me.",143,18915
640170,89,"Now, Travers, what good tidings comes with you?",359,18915
640171,90,"My lord, Sir John Umfrevile turn'd me back
With joyful tidings; and, being better hors'd,
Out-rode me. After him came spurring hard
A gentleman, almost forspent with speed,
That stopp'd by me to breathe his bloodied horse.
He ask'd the way to Chester; and of him
I did demand what news from Shrewsbury.
He told me that rebellion had bad luck,
And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold.
With that he gave his able horse the head
And, bending forward, struck his armed heels
Against the panting sides of his poor jade
Up to the rowel-head; and starting so,
He seem'd in running to devour the way,
Staying no longer question.",1207,18915
640172,105,"Ha! Again:
Said he young Harry Percy's spur was cold?
Of Hotspur, Coldspur? that rebellion
Had met ill luck?",359,18915
640173,109,"My lord, I'll tell you what:
If my young lord your son have not the day,
Upon mine honour, for a silken point
I'll give my barony. Never talk of it.",143,18915
640174,113,"Why should that gentleman that rode by Travers
Give then such instances of loss?",359,18915
640175,115,"Who--he?
He was some hilding fellow that had stol'n
The horse he rode on and, upon my life,
Spoke at a venture. Look, here comes more news.",143,18915
640176,119,       Enter Morton,1261,18915
640177,120,"Yea, this man's brow, like to a title-leaf,
Foretells the nature of a tragic volume.
So looks the strand whereon the imperious flood
Hath left a witness'd usurpation.
Say, Morton, didst thou come from Shrewsbury?",359,18915
640178,125,"I ran from Shrewsbury, my noble lord;
Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask
To fright our party.",803,18915
640179,128,"How doth my son and brother?
Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek
Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.
Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
So dull, so dread in look, so woe-begone,
Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night
And would have told him half his Troy was burnt;
But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue,
And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it.
This thou wouldst say: 'Your son did thus and thus;
Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas'--
Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds;
But in the end, to stop my ear indeed,
Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise,
Ending with 'Brother, son, and all, are dead.'",359,18915
640180,143,"Douglas is living, and your brother, yet;
But for my lord your son--",803,18915
640181,145,"Why, he is dead.
See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
He that but fears the thing he would not know
Hath by instinct knowledge from others' eyes
That what he fear'd is chanced. Yet speak, Morton;
Tell thou an earl his divination lies,
And I will take it as a sweet disgrace
And make thee rich for doing me such wrong.",359,18915
640182,153,"You are too great to be by me gainsaid;
Your spirit is too true, your fears too certain.",803,18915
640183,155,"Yet, for all this, say not that Percy's dead.
I see a strange confession in thine eye;
Thou shak'st thy head, and hold'st it fear or sin
To speak a truth. If he be slain, say so:
The tongue offends not that reports his death;
And he doth sin that doth belie the dead,
Not he which says the dead is not alive.
Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Rememb'red tolling a departing friend.",359,18915
640184,166,"I cannot think, my lord, your son is dead.",143,18915
640185,167,"I am sorry I should force you to believe
That which I would to God I had not seen;
But these mine eyes saw him in bloody state,
Rend'ring faint quittance, wearied and out-breath'd,
To Harry Monmouth, whose swift wrath beat down
The never-daunted Percy to the earth,
From whence with life he never more sprung up.
In few, his death--whose spirit lent a fire
Even to the dullest peasant in his camp--
Being bruited once, took fire and heat away
From the best-temper'd courage in his troops;
For from his metal was his party steeled;
Which once in him abated, all the rest
Turn'd on themselves, like dull and heavy lead.
And as the thing that's heavy in itself
Upon enforcement flies with greatest speed,
So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss,
Lend to this weight such lightness with their fear
That arrows fled not swifter toward their aim
Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety,
Fly from the field. Then was that noble Worcester
Too soon ta'en prisoner; and that furious Scot,
The bloody Douglas, whose well-labouring sword
Had three times slain th' appearance of the King,
Gan vail his stomach and did grace the shame
Of those that turn'd their backs, and in his flight,
Stumbling in fear, was took. The sum of all
Is that the King hath won, and hath sent out
A speedy power to encounter you, my lord,
Under the conduct of young Lancaster
And Westmoreland. This is the news at full.",803,18915
640186,198,"For this I shall have time enough to mourn.
In poison there is physic; and these news,
Having been well, that would have made me sick,
Being sick, have in some measure made me well;
And as the wretch whose fever-weak'ned joints,
Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life,
Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire
Out of his keeper's arms, even so my limbs,
Weak'ned with grief, being now enrag'd with grief,
Are thrice themselves. Hence, therefore, thou nice crutch!
A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel
Must glove this hand; and hence, thou sickly coif!
Thou art a guard too wanton for the head
Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim to hit.
Now bind my brows with iron; and approach
The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring
To frown upon th' enrag'd Northumberland!
Let heaven kiss earth! Now let not Nature's hand
Keep the wild flood confin'd! Let order die!
And let this world no longer be a stage
To feed contention in a ling'ring act;
But let one spirit of the first-born Cain
Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set
On bloody courses, the rude scene may end
And darkness be the burier of the dead!",359,18915
640187,223,"This strained passion doth you wrong, my lord.",143,18915
640188,224,"Sweet Earl, divorce not wisdom from your honour.
The lives of all your loving complices
Lean on your health; the which, if you give o'er
To stormy passion, must perforce decay.
You cast th' event of war, my noble lord,
And summ'd the account of chance before you said
'Let us make head.' It was your pre-surmise
That in the dole of blows your son might drop.
You knew he walk'd o'er perils on an edge,
More likely to fall in than to get o'er;
You were advis'd his flesh was capable
Of wounds and scars, and that his forward spirit
Would lift him where most trade of danger rang'd;
Yet did you say 'Go forth'; and none of this,
Though strongly apprehended, could restrain
The stiff-borne action. What hath then befall'n,
Or what hath this bold enterprise brought forth
More than that being which was like to be?",803,18915
640189,242,"We all that are engaged to this loss
Knew that we ventured on such dangerous seas
That if we wrought out life 'twas ten to one;
And yet we ventur'd, for the gain propos'd
Chok'd the respect of likely peril fear'd;
And since we are o'erset, venture again.
Come, we will put forth, body and goods.",143,18915
640190,249,"'Tis more than time. And, my most noble lord,
I hear for certain, and dare speak the truth:
The gentle Archbishop of York is up
With well-appointed pow'rs. He is a man
Who with a double surety binds his followers.
My lord your son had only but the corpse,
But shadows and the shows of men, to fight;
For that same word 'rebellion' did divide
The action of their bodies from their souls;
And they did fight with queasiness, constrain'd,
As men drink potions; that their weapons only
Seem'd on our side, but for their spirits and souls
This word 'rebellion'--it had froze them up,
As fish are in a pond. But now the Bishop
Turns insurrection to religion.
Suppos'd sincere and holy in his thoughts,
He's follow'd both with body and with mind;
And doth enlarge his rising with the blood
Of fair King Richard, scrap'd from Pomfret stones;
Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause;
Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land,
Gasping for life under great Bolingbroke;
And more and less do flock to follow him.",803,18915
640191,272,"I knew of this before; but, to speak truth,
This present grief had wip'd it from my mind.
Go in with me; and counsel every man
The aptest way for safety and revenge.
Get posts and letters, and make friends with speed--
Never so few, and never yet more need.      Exeunt",359,18915
640192,279,"Enter SIR JOHN FALSTAFF, with his PAGE bearing his sword and buckler",1261,18916
640193,280,"Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor to my water?",393,18916
640194,281,"He said, sir, the water itself was a good healthy water;
for the party that owed it, he might have moe diseases than
knew for.",849,18916
640195,286,"Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The
this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent
that intends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented
me. I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is
other men. I do here walk before thee like a sow that hath
overwhelm'd all her litter but one. If the Prince put thee
my service for any other reason than to set me off, why then
have no judgment. Thou whoreson mandrake, thou art fitter to
worn in my cap than to wait at my heels. I was never mann'd
an agate till now; but I will inset you neither in gold nor
silver, but in vile apparel, and send you back again to your
master, for a jewel--the juvenal, the Prince your master,
chin is not yet fledge. I will sooner have a beard grow in
palm of my hand than he shall get one off his cheek; and yet
will not stick to say his face is a face-royal. God may
when he will, 'tis not a hair amiss yet. He may keep it still
a face-royal, for a barber shall never earn sixpence out of
and yet he'll be crowing as if he had writ man ever since his
father was a bachelor. He may keep his own grace, but he's
out of mine, I can assure him. What said Master Dommelton
the satin for my short cloak and my slops?",393,18916
640196,323,"He said, sir, you should procure him better assurance
Bardolph. He would not take his band and yours; he liked not
security.",849,18916
640197,328,"Let him be damn'd, like the Glutton; pray God his
be hotter! A whoreson Achitophel! A rascal-yea-forsooth
bear a gentleman in hand, and then stand upon security! The
whoreson smooth-pates do now wear nothing but high shoes, and
bunches of keys at their girdles; and if a man is through
them in honest taking-up, then they must stand upon security.
had as lief they would put ratsbane in my mouth as offer to
it with security. I look'd 'a should have sent me two and
yards of satin, as I am a true knight, and he sends me
Well, he may sleep in security; for he hath the horn of
abundance, and the lightness of his wife shines through it;
yet cannot he see, though he have his own lanthorn to light
Where's Bardolph?",393,18916
640198,350,He's gone into Smithfield to buy your worship horse.,849,18916
640199,351,"I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy me a horse in
Smithfield. An I could get me but a wife in the stews, I were
mann'd, hors'd, and wiv'd.",393,18916
640200,354,  Enter the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and SERVANT,1261,18916
640201,355,"Sir, here comes the nobleman that committed the
Prince for striking him about Bardolph.",849,18916
640202,357,Wait close; I will not see him.,393,18916
640203,358,What's he that goes there?,241,18916
640204,359,"Falstaff, an't please your lordship.",1060,18916
640205,360,He that was in question for the robb'ry?,241,18916
640206,361,"He, my lord; but he hath since done good service at
Shrewsbury, and, as I hear, is now going with some charge to
Lord John of Lancaster.",1060,18916
640207,365,"What, to York? Call him back again.",241,18916
640208,366,Sir John Falstaff!,1060,18916
640209,367,"Boy, tell him I am deaf.",393,18916
640210,368,You must speak louder; my master is deaf.,849,18916
640211,369,"I am sure he is, to the hearing of anything
Go, pluck him by the elbow; I must speak with him.",241,18916
640212,372,Sir John!,1060,18916
640213,373,"What! a young knave, and begging! Is there not wars?
there not employment? Doth not the King lack subjects? Do not
rebels need soldiers? Though it be a shame to be on any side
one, it is worse shame to beg than to be on the worst side,
it worse than the name of rebellion can tell how to make it.",393,18916
640214,382,"You mistake me, sir.",1060,18916
640215,383,"Why, sir, did I say you were an honest man? Setting
knighthood and my soldiership aside, I had lied in my throat
had said so.",393,18916
640216,388,"I pray you, sir, then set your knighthood and your
soldiership aside; and give me leave to tell you you in your
throat, if you say I am any other than an honest man.",1060,18916
640217,391,"I give thee leave to tell me so! I lay aside that
grows to me! If thou get'st any leave of me, hang me; if thou
tak'st leave, thou wert better be hang'd. You hunt counter.
Hence! Avaunt!",393,18916
640218,396,"Sir, my lord would speak with you.",1060,18916
640219,397,"Sir John Falstaff, a word with you.",241,18916
640220,398,"My good lord! God give your lordship good time of
am glad to see your lordship abroad. I heard say your
was sick; I hope your lordship goes abroad by advice. Your
lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some
of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time; and I
humbly beseech your lordship to have a reverend care of your
health.",393,18916
640221,409,"Sir John, I sent for you before your expedition
Shrewsbury.",241,18916
640222,412,"An't please your lordship, I hear his Majesty is
with some discomfort from Wales.",393,18916
640223,415,"I talk not of his Majesty. You would not come
sent for you.",241,18916
640224,418,"And I hear, moreover, his Highness is fall'n into
same whoreson apoplexy.",393,18916
640225,421,Well God mend him! I pray you let me speak with,241,18916
640226,423,"This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy,
please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a
tingling.",393,18916
640227,428,What tell you me of it? Be it as it is.,241,18916
640228,429,"It hath it original from much grief, from study, and
perturbation of the brain. I have read the cause of his
in Galen; it is a kind of deafness.",393,18916
640229,433,"I think you are fall'n into the disease, for you
hear not what I say to you.",241,18916
640230,435,"Very well, my lord, very well. Rather an't please
is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking,
I am troubled withal.",393,18916
640231,440,"To punish you by the heels would amend the
of your ears; and I care not if I do become your physician.",241,18916
640232,443,"I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.
lordship may minister the potion of imprisonment to me in
of poverty; but how I should be your patient to follow your
prescriptions, the wise may make some dram of a scruple, or
indeed a scruple itself.",393,18916
640233,450,"I sent for you, when there were matters against
for your life, to come speak with me.",241,18916
640234,453,"As I was then advis'd by my learned counsel in the
of this land-service, I did not come.",393,18916
640235,456,"Well, the truth is, Sir John, you live in great
infamy.",241,18916
640236,458,He that buckles himself in my belt cannot live in,393,18916
640237,460,"Your means are very slender, and your waste is
great.",241,18916
640238,462,"I would it were otherwise; I would my means were
and my waist slenderer.",393,18916
640239,465,You have misled the youthful Prince.,241,18916
640240,466,"The young Prince hath misled me. I am the fellow with
great belly, and he my dog.",393,18916
640241,469,"Well, I am loath to gall a new-heal'd wound.
day's service at Shrewsbury hath a little gilded over your
night's exploit on Gadshill. You may thank th' unquiet time
your quiet o'erposting that action.",241,18916
640242,475,My lord--,393,18916
640243,476,"But since all is well, keep it so: wake not a
sleeping wolf.",241,18916
640244,478,To wake a wolf is as bad as smell a fox.,393,18916
640245,479,"What! you are as a candle, the better part burnt
out.",241,18916
640246,481,"A wassail candle, my lord--all tallow; if I did say
wax, my growth would approve the truth.",393,18916
640247,484,"There is not a white hair in your face but
have his effect of gravity.",241,18916
640248,487,"His effect of gravy, gravy,",393,18916
640249,488,"You follow the young Prince up and down, like
ill angel.",241,18916
640250,491,"Not so, my lord. Your ill angel is light; but hope
that looks upon me will take me without weighing. And yet in
respects, I grant, I cannot go--I cannot tell. Virtue is of
little regard in these costermongers' times that true valour
turn'd berod; pregnancy is made a tapster, and his quick wit
wasted in giving reckonings; all the other gifts appertinent
man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a
gooseberry. You that are old consider not the capacities of
that are young; you do measure the heat of our livers with
bitterness of your galls; and we that are in the vaward of
youth, must confess, are wags too.",393,18916
640251,510,"Do you set down your name in the scroll of
that are written down old with all the characters of age?
you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white
decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice
your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every
part about you blasted with antiquity? And will you yet call
yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John!",241,18916
640252,521,"My lord, I was born about three of the clock in the
afternoon, with a white head and something a round belly. For
voice--I have lost it with hallooing and singing of anthems.
approve my youth further, I will not. The truth is, I am only
in judgment and understanding; and he that will caper with me
a thousand marks, let him lend me the money, and have at him.
the box of the ear that the Prince gave you--he gave it like
rude prince, and you took it like a sensible lord. I have
him for it; and the young lion repents--marry, not in ashes
sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.",393,18916
640253,539,"Well, God send the Prince a better companion!",241,18916
640254,540,"God send the companion a better prince! I cannot rid
hands of him.",393,18916
640255,543,"Well, the King hath sever'd you. I hear you are
going with Lord John of Lancaster against the Archbishop and
Earl of Northumberland.",241,18916
640256,547,"Yea; I thank your pretty sweet wit for it. But look
pray, all you that kiss my Lady Peace at home, that our
join not in a hot day; for, by the Lord, I take but two
out with me, and I mean not to sweat extraordinarily. If it
hot day, and I brandish anything but a bottle, I would I
never spit white again. There is not a dangerous action can
out his head but I am thrust upon it. Well, I cannot last
but it was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they
have a good thing, to make it too common. If ye will needs
am an old man, you should give me rest. I would to God my
were not so terrible to the enemy as it is. I were better to
eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with
perpetual motion.",393,18916
640257,570,"Well, be honest, be honest; and God bless your
expedition!",241,18916
640258,572,"Will your lordship lend me a thousand pound to
forth?",393,18916
640259,575,"Not a penny, not a penny; you are too impatient
bear crosses. Fare you well. Commend me to my cousin
Westmoreland.",241,18916
640260,579,           Exeunt CHIEF JUSTICE and SERVANT,1261,18916
640261,580,"If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. A man can
more separate age and covetousness than 'a can part young
and lechery; but the gout galls the one, and the pox pinches
other; and so both the degrees prevent my curses. Boy!",393,18916
640262,587,Sir?,849,18916
640263,588,What money is in my purse?,393,18916
640264,589,Seven groats and two pence.,849,18916
640265,590,"I can get no remedy against this consumption of the
purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the
is incurable. Go bear this letter to my Lord of Lancaster;
to the Prince; this to the Earl of Westmoreland; and this to
Mistress Ursula, whom I have weekly sworn to marry since I
perceiv'd the first white hair of my chin. About it; you know
where to find me. [Exit PAGE] A pox of this gout! or, a
this pox! for the one or the other plays the rogue with my
toe. 'Tis no matter if I do halt; I have the wars for my
and my pension shall seem the more reasonable. A good wit
make use of anything. I will turn diseases to commodity.",393,18916
640266,610,"Enter the ARCHBISHOP, THOMAS MOWBRAY the EARL MARSHAL, LORD HASTINGS, and LORD BARDOLPH",1261,18917
640267,611,"Thus have you heard our cause and known our means;
And, my most noble friends, I pray you all
Speak plainly your opinions of our hopes-
And first, Lord Marshal, what say you to it?",974,18917
640268,615,"I well allow the occasion of our amis;
But gladly would be better satisfied
How, in our means, we should advance ourselves
To look with forehead bold and big enough
Upon the power and puissance of the King.",808,18917
640269,620,"Our present musters grow upon the file
To five and twenty thousand men of choice;
And our supplies live largely in the hope
Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns
With an incensed fire of injuries.",563,18917
640270,625,"The question then, Lord Hastings, standeth thus:
Whether our present five and twenty thousand
May hold up head without Northumberland?",143,18917
640271,628,"With him, we may.",563,18917
640272,629,"Yea, marry, there's the point;
But if without him we be thought too feeble,
My judgment is we should not step too far
Till we had his assistance by the hand;
For, in a theme so bloody-fac'd as this,
Conjecture, expectation, and surmise
Of aids incertain, should not be admitted.",143,18917
640273,636,"'Tis very true, Lord Bardolph; for indeed
It was young Hotspur's case at Shrewsbury.",974,18917
640274,638,"It was, my lord; who lin'd himself with hope,
Eating the air and promise of supply,
Flatt'ring himself in project of a power
Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts;
And so, with great imagination
Proper to madmen, led his powers to death,
And, winking, leapt into destruction.",143,18917
640275,645,"But, by your leave, it never yet did hurt
To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope.",563,18917
640276,647,"Yes, if this present quality of war-
Indeed the instant action, a cause on foot-
Lives so in hope, as in an early spring
We see th' appearing buds; which to prove fruit
Hope gives not so much warrant, as despair
That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then we must rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability,
What do we then but draw anew the model
In fewer offices, or at least desist
To build at all? Much more, in this great work--
Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down
And set another up--should we survey
The plot of situation and the model,
Consent upon a sure foundation,
Question surveyors, know our own estate
How able such a work to undergo-
To weigh against his opposite; or else
We fortify in paper and in figures,
Using the names of men instead of men;
Like one that draws the model of a house
Beyond his power to build it; who, half through,
Gives o'er and leaves his part-created cost
A naked subject to the weeping clouds
And waste for churlish winter's tyranny.",143,18917
640277,674,"Grant that our hopes--yet likely of fair birth--
Should be still-born, and that we now possess'd
The utmost man of expectation,
I think we are so a body strong enough,
Even as we are, to equal with the King.",563,18917
640278,679,"What, is the King but five and twenty thousand?",143,18917
640279,680,"To us no more; nay, not so much, Lord Bardolph;
For his divisions, as the times do brawl,
Are in three heads: one power against the French,
And one against Glendower; perforce a third
Must take up us. So is the unfirm King
In three divided; and his coffers sound
With hollow poverty and emptiness.",563,18917
640280,687,"That he should draw his several strengths together
And come against us in full puissance
Need not be dreaded.",974,18917
640281,690,"If he should do so,
He leaves his back unarm'd, the French and Welsh
Baying at his heels. Never fear that.",563,18917
640282,693,Who is it like should lead his forces hither?,143,18917
640283,694,"The Duke of Lancaster and Westmoreland;
Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth;
But who is substituted against the French
I have no certain notice.",563,18917
640284,698,"Let us on,
And publish the occasion of our arms.
The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;
Their over-greedy love hath surfeited.
An habitation giddy and unsure
Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
O thou fond many, with what loud applause
Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke
Before he was what thou wouldst have him be!
And being now trimm'd in thine own desires,
Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him
That thou provok'st thyself to cast him up.
So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard;
And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up,
And howl'st to find it. What trust is in these times?
They that, when Richard liv'd, would have him die
Are now become enamour'd on his grave.
Thou that threw'st dust upon his goodly head,
When through proud London he came sighing on
After th' admired heels of Bolingbroke,
Criest now 'O earth, yield us that king again,
And take thou this!' O thoughts of men accurs'd!
Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.",974,18917
640285,722,"Shall we go draw our numbers, and set on?",808,18917
640286,723,"We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.",563,18917
640287,724,                        Exeunt,1261,18917
640288,727,"Enter HOSTESS with two officers, FANG and SNARE",1261,18918
640289,728,"Master Fang, have you ent'red the action?",936,18918
640290,729,It is ent'red.,394,18918
640291,730,"Where's your yeoman? Is't a lusty yeoman? Will 'a
to't?",936,18918
640292,733,"Sirrah, where's Snare?",394,18918
640293,734,"O Lord, ay! good Master Snare.",936,18918
640294,735,"Here, here.",1126,18918
640295,736,"Snare, we must arrest Sir John Falstaff.",394,18918
640296,737,"Yea, good Master Snare; I have ent'red him and all.",936,18918
640297,738,"It may chance cost some of our lives, for he will stab.",1126,18918
640298,739,"Alas the day! take heed of him; he stabb'd me in mine
house, and that most beastly. In good faith, 'a cares not
mischief he does, if his weapon be out; he will foin like any
devil; he will spare neither man, woman, nor child.",936,18918
640299,745,"If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.",394,18918
640300,746,"No, nor I neither; I'll be at your elbow.",936,18918
640301,747,An I but fist him once; an 'a come but within my vice!,394,18918
640302,748,"I am undone by his going; I warrant you, he's an
infinitive thing upon my score. Good Master Fang, hold him
Good Master Snare, let him not scape. 'A comes continuantly
Pie-corner--saving your manhoods--to buy a saddle; and he is
indited to dinner to the Lubber's Head in Lumbert Street, to
Master Smooth's the silkman. I pray you, since my exion is
ent'red, and my case so openly known to the world, let him be
brought in to his answer. A hundred mark is a long one for a
lone woman to bear; and I have borne, and borne, and borne;
have been fubb'd off, and fubb'd off, and fubb'd off, from
day to that day, that it is a shame to be thought on. There
honesty in such dealing; unless a woman should be made an ass
a beast, to bear every knave's wrong.
[Enter SIR JOHN FALSTAFF, PAGE, and BARDOLPH]
Yonder he comes; and that arrant malmsey-nose knave,
with him. Do your offices, do your offices, Master Fang and
Master Snare; do me, do me, do me your offices.",936,18918
640303,773,How now! whose mare's dead? What's the matter?,393,18918
640304,774,"Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.",394,18918
640305,775,"Away, varlets! Draw, Bardolph. Cut me off the
head. Throw the quean in the channel.",393,18918
640306,778,"Throw me in the channel! I'll throw thee in the
Wilt thou? wilt thou? thou bastardly rogue! Murder, murder!
thou honeysuckle villain! wilt thou kill God's officers and
King's? Ah, thou honey-seed rogue! thou art a honey-seed; a
man-queller and a woman-queller.",936,18918
640307,786,"Keep them off, Bardolph.",393,18918
640308,787,A rescue! a rescue!,394,18918
640309,788,"Good people, bring a rescue or two. Thou wot, wot
thou wot, wot ta? Do, do, thou rogue! do, thou hemp-seed!",936,18918
640310,791,"Away, you scullion! you rampallian! you fustilarian!
I'll tickle your catastrophe.",849,18918
640311,793,  Enter the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and his men,1261,18918
640312,794,"What is the matter? Keep the peace here, ho!",241,18918
640313,795,"Good my lord, be good to me. I beseech you, stand to",936,18918
640314,797,"How now, Sir John! what, are you brawling here?
Doth this become your place, your time, and business?
You should have been well on your way to York.
Stand from him, fellow; wherefore hang'st thou upon him?",241,18918
640315,801,"O My most worshipful lord, an't please your Grace, I
poor widow of Eastcheap, and he is arrested at my suit.",936,18918
640316,804,For what sum?,241,18918
640317,805,"It is more than for some, my lord; it is for all--all
have. He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all
substance into that fat belly of his. But I will have some of
out again, or I will ride thee a nights like a mare.",936,18918
640318,812,"I think I am as like to ride the mare, if I have any
vantage of ground to get up.",393,18918
640319,814,"How comes this, Sir John? Fie! What man of good
temper would endure this tempest of exclamation? Are you not
ashamed to enforce a poor widow to so rough a course to come
her own?",241,18918
640320,819,What is the gross sum that I owe thee?,393,18918
640321,820,"Marry, if thou wert an honest man, thyself and the
too. Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet,
my Dolphin chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire,
Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the Prince broke thy head for
liking his father to singing-man of Windsor--thou didst swear
me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me
lady thy wife. Canst thou deny it? Did not goodwife Keech,
butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly?
in to borrow a mess of vinegar, telling us she had a good
prawns, whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told
thee they were ill for green wound? And didst thou not, when
was gone down stairs, desire me to be no more so familiarity
such poor people, saying that ere long they should call me
And didst thou not kiss me, and bid me fetch the thirty
shillings? I put thee now to thy book-oath. Deny it, if thou
canst.",936,18918
640322,847,"My lord, this is a poor mad soul, and she says up and
down the town that her eldest son is like you. She hath been
good case, and, the truth is, poverty hath distracted her.
for these foolish officers, I beseech you I may have redress
against them.",393,18918
640323,854,"Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted with
manner of wrenching the true cause the false way. It is not a
confident brow, nor the throng of words that come with such
than impudent sauciness from you, can thrust me from a level
consideration. You have, as it appears to me, practis'd upon
easy yielding spirit of this woman, and made her serve your
both in purse and in person.",241,18918
640324,865,"Yea, in truth, my lord.",936,18918
640325,866,"Pray thee, peace. Pay her the debt you owe her,
unpay the villainy you have done with her; the one you may do
with sterling money, and the other with current repentance.",241,18918
640326,870,"My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply.
call honourable boldness impudent sauciness; if a man will
curtsy and say nothing, he is virtuous. No, my lord, my
duty rememb'red, I will not be your suitor. I say to you I do
desire deliverance from these officers, being upon hasty
employment in the King's affairs.",393,18918
640327,879,"You speak as having power to do wrong; but
th' effect of your reputation, and satisfy the poor woman.",241,18918
640328,882,"Come hither, hostess.",393,18918
640329,883,           Enter GOWER,1261,18918
640330,884,"Now, Master Gower, what news?",241,18918
640331,885,"The King, my lord, and Harry Prince of Wales
Are near at hand. The rest the paper tells. [Gives a letter]",536,18918
640332,887,As I am a gentleman!,393,18918
640333,888,"Faith, you said so before.",936,18918
640334,889,"As I am a gentleman! Come, no more words of it.",393,18918
640335,890,"By this heavenly ground I tread on, I must be fain to
both my plate and the tapestry of my dining-chambers.",936,18918
640336,893,"Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking; and for thy
walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the story of the
the German hunting, in water-work, is worth a thousand of
bed-hangers and these fly-bitten tapestries. Let it be ten
if thou canst. Come, and 'twere not for thy humours, there's
a better wench in England. Go, wash thy face, and draw the
action. Come, thou must not be in this humour with me; dost
know me? Come, come, I know thou wast set on to this.",393,18918
640337,906,"Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty nobles;
i' faith, I am loath to pawn my plate, so God save me, la!",936,18918
640338,908,"Let it alone; I'll make other shift. You'll be a fool
still.",393,18918
640339,910,"Well, you shall have it, though I pawn my gown.
I hope you'll come to supper. you'll pay me all together?",936,18918
640340,912,"Will I live? [To BARDOLPH] Go, with her, with her;
on, hook on.",393,18918
640341,915,Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you at supper?,936,18918
640342,916,No more words; let's have her.,393,18918
640343,917,"        Exeunt HOSTESS, BARDOLPH, and OFFICERS",1261,18918
640344,918,I have heard better news.,241,18918
640345,919,"What's the news, my lord?",393,18918
640346,920,Where lay the King to-night?,241,18918
640347,921,"At Basingstoke, my lord.",536,18918
640348,922,"I hope, my lord, all's well. What is the news, my",393,18918
640349,924,Come all his forces back?,241,18918
640350,925,"No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse,
Are march'd up to my Lord of Lancaster,
Against Northumberland and the Archbishop.",536,18918
640351,928,"Comes the King back from Wales, my noble lord?",393,18918
640352,929,"You shall have letters of me presently.
Come, go along with me, good Master Gower.",241,18918
640353,931,My lord!,393,18918
640354,932,What's the matter?,241,18918
640355,933,"Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to dinner?",393,18918
640356,934,"I must wait upon my good lord here, I thank you, good
John.",536,18918
640357,937,"Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you
take soldiers up in counties as you go.",241,18918
640358,940,"Will you sup with me, Master Gower?",393,18918
640359,941,"What foolish master taught you these manners,
John?",241,18918
640360,944,"Master Gower, if they become me not, he was a fool
taught them me. This is the right fencing grace, my lord; tap
tap, and so part fair.",393,18918
640361,949,"Now, the Lord lighten thee! Thou art a great",241,18918
640362,951,                           Exeunt,1261,18918
640363,953,Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS,1261,18919
640364,954,"Before God, I am exceeding weary.",573,18919
640365,955,"Is't come to that? I had thought weariness durst not
attach'd one of so high blood.",897,18919
640366,958,"Faith, it does me; though it discolours the complexion
my greatness to acknowledge it. Doth it not show vilely in me
desire small beer?",573,18919
640367,963,"Why, a prince should not be so loosely studied as to
remember so weak a composition.",897,18919
640368,965,"Belike then my appetite was not-princely got; for, by
troth, I do now remember the poor creature, small beer. But
indeed these humble considerations make me out of love with
greatness. What a disgrace is it to me to remember thy name,
to know thy face to-morrow, or to take note how many pair of
stockings thou hast--viz., these, and those that were thy
peach-colour'd ones--or to bear the inventory of thy shirts-
one for superfluity, and another for use! But that the
tennis-court-keeper knows better than I; for it is a low ebb
linen with thee when thou keepest not racket there; as thou
not done a great while, because the rest of thy low countries
have made a shift to eat up thy holland. And God knows
those that bawl out of the ruins of thy linen shall inherit
kingdom; but the midwives say the children are not in the
whereupon the world increases, and kindreds are mightily
strengthened.",573,18919
640369,991,"How ill it follows, after you have laboured so hard, you
should talk so idly! Tell me, how many good young princes
do so, their fathers being so sick as yours at this time is?",897,18919
640370,995,"Shall I tell thee one thing, Poins?",573,18919
640371,996,"Yes, faith; and let it be an excellent good thing.",897,18919
640372,997,It shall serve among wits of no higher breeding than,573,18919
640373,999,"Go to; I stand the push of your one thing that you will
tell.",897,18919
640374,1001,"Marry, I tell thee it is not meet that I should be sad,
my father is sick; albeit I could tell to thee--as to one it
pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend--I could
sad and sad indeed too.",573,18919
640375,1007,Very hardly upon such a subject.,897,18919
640376,1008,"By this hand, thou thinkest me as far in the devil's
as thou and Falstaff for obduracy and persistency: let the
try the man. But I tell thee my heart bleeds inwardly that my
father is so sick; and keeping such vile company as thou art
in reason taken from me all ostentation of sorrow.",573,18919
640377,1016,The reason?,897,18919
640378,1017,What wouldst thou think of me if I should weep?,573,18919
640379,1018,I would think thee a most princely hypocrite.,897,18919
640380,1019,"It would be every man's thought; and thou art a blessed
fellow to think as every man thinks. Never a man's thought in
world keeps the road-way better than thine. Every man would
me an hypocrite indeed. And what accites your most worshipful
thought to think so?",573,18919
640381,1026,"Why, because you have been so lewd and so much engraffed
Falstaff.",897,18919
640382,1029,And to thee.,573,18919
640383,1030,"By this light, I am well spoke on; I can hear it with
own ears. The worst that they can say of me is that I am a
brother and that I am a proper fellow of my hands; and those
things, I confess, I cannot help. By the mass, here comes
Bardolph.",897,18919
640384,1038,        Enter BARDOLPH and PAGE,1261,18919
640385,1039,"And the boy that I gave Falstaff. 'A had him from me
Christian; and look if the fat villain have not transform'd
ape.",573,18919
640386,1043,God save your Grace!,144,18919
640387,1044,"And yours, most noble Bardolph!",573,18919
640388,1045,"Come, you virtuous ass, you bashful fool, must you be
blushing? Wherefore blush you now? What a maidenly
are you become! Is't such a matter to get a pottle-pot's
maidenhead?",897,18919
640389,1050,"'A calls me e'en now, my lord, through a red lattice, and
could discern no part of his face from the window. At last I
spied his eyes; and methought he had made two holes in the
alewife's new petticoat, and so peep'd through.",849,18919
640390,1055,Has not the boy profited?,573,18919
640391,1056,"Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away!",144,18919
640392,1057,"Away, you rascally Althaea's dream, away!",849,18919
640393,1058,"Instruct us, boy; what dream, boy?",573,18919
640394,1059,"Marry, my lord, Althaea dreamt she was delivered of a
firebrand; and therefore I call him her dream.",849,18919
640395,1061,"A crown's worth of good interpretation. There 'tis,",573,18919
640396,1063,                   [Giving a crown],1261,18919
640397,1064,"O that this blossom could be kept from cankers!
Well, there is sixpence to preserve thee.",897,18919
640398,1066,"An you do not make him be hang'd among you, the
shall have wrong.",144,18919
640399,1069,"And how doth thy master, Bardolph?",573,18919
640400,1070,"Well, my lord. He heard of your Grace's coming to
There's a letter for you.",144,18919
640401,1073,"Deliver'd with good respect. And how doth the martlemas,
your master?",897,18919
640402,1075,"In bodily health, sir.",144,18919
640403,1076,"Marry, the immortal part needs a physician; but that
not him. Though that be sick, it dies not.",897,18919
640404,1079,"I do allow this well to be as familiar with me as my
and he holds his place, for look you how he writes.",573,18919
640405,1082,"[Reads] 'John Falstaff, knight'--Every man must know
as oft as he has occasion to name himself, even like those
are kin to the King; for they never prick their finger but
say 'There's some of the King's blood spilt.' 'How comes
says he that takes upon him not to conceive. The answer is as
ready as a borrower's cap: 'I am the King's poor cousin,",897,18919
640406,1093,"Nay, they will be kin to us, or they will fetch it from
Japhet. But the letter: [Reads] 'Sir John Falstaff, knight,
the son of the King nearest his father, Harry Prince of
greeting.'",573,18919
640407,1099,"Why, this is a certificate.",897,18919
640408,1100,"Peace! [Reads] 'I will imitate the honourable Romans
brevity.'-",573,18919
640409,1103,"He sure means brevity in breath, short-winded.",897,18919
640410,1104,"[Reads] 'I commend me to thee, I commend thee, and I
leave thee. Be not too familiar with Poins; for he misuses
favours so much that he swears thou art to marry his sister
Repent at idle times as thou mayst, and so farewell.
 Thine, by yea and no--which is as much as to say as
  thou usest him--JACK FALSTAFF with my familiars,
  JOHN with my brothers and sisters, and SIR JOHN with
  all Europe.'",573,18919
640411,1114,"My lord, I'll steep this letter in sack and make him eat",897,18919
640412,1116,"That's to make him eat twenty of his words. But do you
me thus, Ned? Must I marry your sister?",573,18919
640413,1119,God send the wench no worse fortune! But I never said,897,18919
640414,1121,"Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the
of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. Is your master
London?",573,18919
640415,1126,"Yea, my lord.",144,18919
640416,1127,Where sups he? Doth the old boar feed in the old frank?,573,18919
640417,1128,"At the old place, my lord, in Eastcheap.",144,18919
640418,1129,What company?,573,18919
640419,1130,"Ephesians, my lord, of the old church.",849,18919
640420,1131,Sup any women with him?,573,18919
640421,1132,"None, my lord, but old Mistress Quickly and Mistress Doll
Tearsheet.",849,18919
640422,1134,What pagan may that be?,573,18919
640423,1135,"A proper gentlewoman, sir, and a kinswoman of my",849,18919
640424,1137,"Even such kin as the parish heifers are to the town
Shall we steal upon them, Ned, at supper?",573,18919
640425,1140,"I am your shadow, my lord; I'll follow you.",897,18919
640426,1141,"Sirrah, you boy, and Bardolph, no word to your master
I am yet come to town. There's for your silence.",573,18919
640427,1144,"I have no tongue, sir.",144,18919
640428,1145,"And for mine, sir, I will govern it.",849,18919
640429,1146,"Fare you well; go.    Exeunt BARDOLPH and PAGE
This Doll Tearsheet should be some road.",573,18919
640430,1148,"I warrant you, as common as the way between Saint Albans
London.",897,18919
640431,1151,"How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in
true colours, and not ourselves be seen?",573,18919
640432,1154,"Put on two leathern jerkins and aprons, and wait upon
his table as drawers.",897,18919
640433,1157,"From a god to a bull? A heavy descension! It was Jove's
case. From a prince to a prentice? A low transformation! That
shall be mine; for in everything the purpose must weigh with
folly. Follow me, Ned.",573,18919
640434,1162,                        Exeunt,1261,18919
640435,1164,"Enter NORTHUMBERLAND, LADY NORTHUMBERLAND, and LADY PERCY",1261,18920
640436,1165,"I pray thee, loving wife, and gentle daughter,
Give even way unto my rough affairs;
Put not you on the visage of the times
And be, like them, to Percy troublesome.",359,18920
640437,1169,"I have given over, I will speak no more.
Do what you will; your wisdom be your guide.",649,18920
640438,1171,"Alas, sweet wife, my honour is at pawn;
And but my going nothing can redeem it.",359,18920
640439,1173,"O, yet, for God's sake, go not to these wars!
The time was, father, that you broke your word,
When you were more endear'd to it than now;
When your own Percy, when my heart's dear Harry,
Threw many a northward look to see his father
Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain.
Who then persuaded you to stay at home?
There were two honours lost, yours and your son's.
For yours, the God of heaven brighten it!
For his, it stuck upon him as the sun
In the grey vault of heaven; and by his light
Did all the chivalry of England move
To do brave acts. He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
He had no legs that practis'd not his gait;
And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish,
Became the accents of the valiant;
For those who could speak low and tardily
Would turn their own perfection to abuse
To seem like him: so that in speech, in gait,
In diet, in affections of delight,
In military rules, humours of blood,
He was the mark and glass, copy and book,
That fashion'd others. And him--O wondrous him!
O miracle of men!--him did you leave--
Second to none, unseconded by you--
To look upon the hideous god of war
In disadvantage, to abide a field
Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur's name
Did seem defensible. So you left him.
Never, O never, do his ghost the wrong
To hold your honour more precise and nice
With others than with him! Let them alone.
The Marshal and the Archbishop are strong.
Had my sweet Harry had but half their numbers,
To-day might I, hanging on Hotspur's neck,
Have talk'd of Monmouth's grave.",650,18920
640440,1210,"Beshrew your heart,
Fair daughter, you do draw my spirits from me
With new lamenting ancient oversights.
But I must go and meet with danger there,
Or it will seek me in another place,
And find me worse provided.",359,18920
640441,1216,"O, fly to Scotland
Till that the nobles and the armed commons
Have of their puissance made a little taste.",649,18920
640442,1219,"If they get ground and vantage of the King,
Then join you with them, like a rib of steel,
To make strength stronger; but, for all our loves,
First let them try themselves. So did your son;
He was so suff'red; so came I a widow;
And never shall have length of life enough
To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes,
That it may grow and sprout as high as heaven,
For recordation to my noble husband.",650,18920
640443,1228,"Come, come, go in with me. 'Tis with my mind
As with the tide swell'd up unto his height,
That makes a still-stand, running neither way.
Fain would I go to meet the Archbishop,
But many thousand reasons hold me back.
I will resolve for Scotland. There am I,
Till time and vantage crave my company.     Exeunt",359,18920
640444,1236,Enter FRANCIS and another DRAWER,1261,18921
640445,1237,"What the devil hast thou brought there-apple-johns?
knowest Sir John cannot endure an apple-john.",496,18921
640446,1240,"Mass, thou say'st true. The Prince once set a
of apple-johns before him, and told him there were five more
Johns; and, putting off his hat, said 'I will now take my
of these six dry, round, old, withered knights.' It ang'red
to the heart; but he hath forgot that.",331,18921
640447,1249,"Why, then, cover and set them down; and see if thou
find out Sneak's noise; Mistress Tearsheet would fain hear
music.",496,18921
640448,1254,       Enter third DRAWER,1261,18921
640449,1255,"Dispatch! The room where they supp'd is too hot;
they'll come in straight.",332,18921
640450,1257,"Sirrah, here will be the Prince and Master Poins anon;
they will put on two of our jerkins and aprons; and Sir John
not know of it. Bardolph hath brought word.",496,18921
640451,1262,"By the mass, here will be old uds; it will be an
excellent stratagem.",332,18921
640452,1264,I'll see if I can find out Sneak.,331,18921
640453,1265,            Exeunt second and third DRAWERS,1261,18921
640454,1266,   Enter HOSTESS and DOLL TEARSHEET,1261,18921
640455,1267,"I' faith, sweetheart, methinks now you are in an
good temperality. Your pulsidge beats as extraordinarily as
would desire; and your colour, I warrant you, is as red as
rose, in good truth, la! But, i' faith, you have drunk too
canaries; and that's a marvellous searching wine, and it
the blood ere one can say 'What's this?' How do you now?",936,18921
640456,1278,Better than I was--hem.,1157,18921
640457,1279,"Why, that's well said; a good heart's worth gold.
Lo, here comes Sir John.",936,18921
640458,1281,        Enter FALSTAFF,1261,18921
640459,1282,"[Singing] 'When Arthur first in court'--Empty the
Jordan. [Exit FRANCIS]--[Singing] 'And was a worthy king'--
now, Mistress Doll!",393,18921
640460,1286,"Sick of a calm; yea, good faith.",936,18921
640461,1287,"So is all her sect; and they be once in a calm, they
sick.",393,18921
640462,1290,"A pox damn you, you muddy rascal! Is that all the comfort
give me?",1157,18921
640463,1293,"You make fat rascals, Mistress Doll.",393,18921
640464,1294,"I make them! Gluttony and diseases make them: I make them
not.",1157,18921
640465,1296,"If the cook help to make the gluttony, you help to
the diseases, Doll. We catch of you, Doll, we catch of you;
that, my poor virtue, grant that.",393,18921
640466,1301,"Yea, joy, our chains and our jewels.",1157,18921
640467,1302,"'Your brooches, pearls, and ouches.' For to serve
is to come halting off; you know, to come off the breach with
pike bent bravely, and to surgery bravely; to venture upon
charg'd chambers bravely--",393,18921
640468,1309,"Hang yourself, you muddy conger, hang yourself!",1157,18921
640469,1310,"By my troth, this is the old fashion; you two never
but you fall to some discord. You are both, i' good truth, as
rheumatic as two dry toasts; you cannot one bear with
confirmities. What the good-year! one must bear, and that
you. You are the weaker vessel, as as they say, the emptier
vessel.",936,18921
640470,1319,"Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full hogs-head?
There's a whole merchant's venture of Bourdeaux stuff in him;
have not seen a hulk better stuff'd in the hold. Come, I'll
friends with thee, Jack. Thou art going to the wars; and
I shall ever see thee again or no, there is nobody cares.",1157,18921
640471,1327,         Re-enter FRANCIS,1261,18921
640472,1328,"Sir, Ancient Pistol's below and would speak with you.",496,18921
640473,1329,"Hang him, swaggering rascal! Let him not come hither; it
the foul-mouth'dst rogue in England.",1157,18921
640474,1332,"If he swagger, let him not come here. No, by my faith!
must live among my neighbours; I'll no swaggerers. I am in
name and fame with the very best. Shut the door. There comes
swaggerers here; I have not liv'd all this while to have
swaggering now. Shut the door, I pray you.",936,18921
640475,1340,"Dost thou hear, hostess?",393,18921
640476,1341,"Pray ye, pacify yourself, Sir John; there comes no
swaggerers here.",936,18921
640477,1343,Dost thou hear? It is mine ancient.,393,18921
640478,1344,"Tilly-fally, Sir John, ne'er tell me; and your ancient
swagg'rer comes not in my doors. I was before Master Tisick,
debuty, t' other day; and, as he said to me--'twas no longer
than Wednesday last, i' good faith!--'Neighbour Quickly,'
he--Master Dumbe, our minister, was by then--'Neighbour
says he 'receive those that are civil, for' said he 'you are
an ill name.' Now 'a said so, I can tell whereupon. 'For'
'you are an honest woman and well thought on, therefore take
what guests you receive. Receive' says he 'no swaggering
companions.' There comes none here. You would bless you to
what he said. No, I'll no swagg'rers.",936,18921
640479,1363,"He's no swagg'rer, hostess; a tame cheater, i' faith;
may stroke him as gently as a puppy greyhound. He'll not
with a Barbary hen, if her feathers turn back in any show of
resistance. Call him up, drawer.",393,18921
640480,1369,                     Exit FRANCIS,1261,18921
640481,1370,"Cheater, call you him? I will bar no honest man my
nor no cheater; but I do not love swaggering, by my troth. I
the worse when one says 'swagger.' Feel, masters, how I
look you, I warrant you.",936,18921
640482,1377,"So you do, hostess.",1157,18921
640483,1378,"Do I? Yea, in very truth, do I, an 'twere an aspen
cannot abide swagg'rers.",936,18921
640484,1381,"     Enter PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and PAGE",1261,18921
640485,1382,"God save you, Sir John!",891,18921
640486,1383,"Welcome, Ancient Pistol. Here, Pistol, I charge you
a cup of sack; do you discharge upon mine hostess.",393,18921
640487,1386,"I will discharge upon her, Sir John, with two bullets.",891,18921
640488,1387,"She is pistol-proof, sir; you shall not hardly offend
her.",393,18921
640489,1389,"Come, I'll drink no proofs nor no bullets. I'll drink
more than will do me good, for no man's pleasure, I.",936,18921
640490,1392,"Then to you, Mistress Dorothy; I will charge you.",891,18921
640491,1393,"Charge me! I scorn you, scurvy companion. What! you poor,
base, rascally, cheating, lack-linen mate! Away, you mouldy
rogue, away! I am meat for your master.",1157,18921
640492,1396,"I know you, Mistress Dorothy.",891,18921
640493,1397,"Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By
wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play
saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you
basket-hilt stale juggler, you! Since when, I pray you, sir?
God's light, with two points on your shoulder? Much!",1157,18921
640494,1404,God let me not live but I will murder your ruff for,891,18921
640495,1406,"No more, Pistol; I would not have you go off here.
Discharge yourself of our company, Pistol.",393,18921
640496,1408,"No, good Captain Pistol; not here, sweet captain.",936,18921
640497,1409,"Captain! Thou abominable damn'd cheater, art thou not
to be called captain? An captains were of my mind, they would
truncheon you out, for taking their names upon you before you
have earn'd them. You a captain! you slave, for what? For
a poor whore's ruff in a bawdy-house? He a captain! hang him,
rogue! He lives upon mouldy stew'd prunes and dried cakes. A
captain! God's light, these villains will make the word as
as the word 'occupy'; which was an excellent good word before
was ill sorted. Therefore captains had need look to't.",1157,18921
640498,1422,"Pray thee go down, good ancient.",144,18921
640499,1423,"Hark thee hither, Mistress Doll.",393,18921
640500,1424,"Not I! I tell thee what, Corporal Bardolph, I could
her; I'll be reveng'd of her.",891,18921
640501,1427,Pray thee go down.,849,18921
640502,1428,"I'll see her damn'd first; to Pluto's damn'd lake, by
hand, to th' infernal deep, with Erebus and tortures vile
Hold hook and line, say I. Down, down, dogs! down, faitors!
we not Hiren here?",891,18921
640503,1435,"Good Captain Peesel, be quiet; 'tis very late, i'
beseek you now, aggravate your choler.",936,18921
640504,1438,"These be good humours, indeed! Shall packhorses,
And hollow pamper'd jades of Asia,
Which cannot go but thirty mile a day,
Compare with Caesars, and with Cannibals,
And Troiant Greeks? Nay, rather damn them with
King Cerberus; and let the welkin roar.
Shall we fall foul for toys?",891,18921
640505,1445,"By my troth, Captain, these are very bitter words.",936,18921
640506,1446,"Be gone, good ancient; this will grow to a brawl",144,18921
640507,1448,"Die men like dogs! Give crowns like pins! Have we not
here?",891,18921
640508,1451,"O' my word, Captain, there's none such here. What the
good-year! do you think I would deny her? For God's sake, be
quiet.",936,18921
640509,1454,"Then feed and be fat, my fair Calipolis.
Come, give's some sack.
'Si fortune me tormente sperato me contento.'
Fear we broadsides? No, let the fiend give fire.
Give me some sack; and, sweetheart, lie thou there.
[Laying down his sword]
Come we to full points here, and are etceteras nothings?",891,18921
640510,1461,"Pistol, I would be quiet.",393,18921
640511,1462,"Sweet knight, I kiss thy neaf. What! we have seen the
stars.",891,18921
640512,1465,"For God's sake thrust him down stairs; I cannot endure
fustian rascal.",1157,18921
640513,1468,Thrust him down stairs! Know we not Galloway nags?,891,18921
640514,1469,"Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-groat
Nay, an 'a do nothing but speak nothing, 'a shall be nothing
here.",393,18921
640515,1473,"Come, get you down stairs.",144,18921
640516,1474,"What! shall we have incision? Shall we imbrue?
[Snatching up his sword]
Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days!
Why, then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds
Untwine the Sisters Three! Come, Atropos, I say!",891,18921
640517,1479,Here's goodly stuff toward!,936,18921
640518,1480,"Give me my rapier, boy.",393,18921
640519,1481,"I pray thee, Jack, I pray thee, do not draw.",1157,18921
640520,1482,Get you down stairs.,393,18921
640521,1483,           [Drawing and driving PISTOL out],1261,18921
640522,1484,"Here's a goodly tumult! I'll forswear keeping house
I'll be in these tirrits and frights. So; murder, I warrant
Alas, alas! put up your naked weapons, put up your naked",936,18921
640523,1490,              Exeunt PISTOL and BARDOLPH,1261,18921
640524,1491,"I pray thee, Jack, be quiet; the rascal's gone. Ah, you
whoreson little valiant villain, you!",1157,18921
640525,1493,"Are you not hurt i' th' groin? Methought 'a made a
thrust at your belly.",936,18921
640526,1496,       Re-enter BARDOLPH,1261,18921
640527,1497,Have you turn'd him out a doors?,393,18921
640528,1498,"Yea, sir. The rascal's drunk. You have hurt him, sir,
th' shoulder.",144,18921
640529,1501,A rascal! to brave me!,393,18921
640530,1502,"Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! Alas, poor ape, how thou
sweat'st! Come, let me wipe thy face. Come on, you whoreson
chops. Ah, rogue! i' faith, I love thee. Thou art as valorous
Hector of Troy, worth five of Agamemnon, and ten times better
than the Nine Worthies. Ah, villain!",1157,18921
640531,1508,A rascally slave! I will toss the rogue in a blanket.,393,18921
640532,1509,"Do, an thou dar'st for thy heart. An thou dost, I'll
thee between a pair of sheets.",1157,18921
640533,1512,        Enter musicians,1261,18921
640534,1513,"The music is come, sir.",849,18921
640535,1514,"Let them play. Play, sirs. Sit on my knee, Don. A
bragging slave! The rogue fled from me like quick-silver.",393,18921
640536,1517,"I' faith, and thou follow'dst him like a church. Thou
whoreson little tidy Bartholomew boar-pig, when wilt thou
fighting a days and foining a nights, and begin to patch up
old body for heaven?
  Enter, behind, PRINCE HENRY and POINS disguised as drawers",1157,18921
640537,1524,"Peace, good Doll! Do not speak like a death's-head;
not bid me remember mine end.",393,18921
640538,1527,"Sirrah, what humour's the Prince of?",1157,18921
640539,1528,"A good shallow young fellow. 'A would have made a
pantler; 'a would ha' chipp'd bread well.",393,18921
640540,1531,They say Poins has a good wit.,1157,18921
640541,1532,"He a good wit! hang him, baboon! His wit's as thick
Tewksbury mustard; there's no more conceit in him than is in
mallet.",393,18921
640542,1537,"Why does the Prince love him so, then?",1157,18921
640543,1538,"Because their legs are both of a bigness, and 'a
quoits well, and eats conger and fennel, and drinks off
ends for flap-dragons, and rides the wild mare with the boys,
jumps upon join'd-stools, and swears with a good grace, and
his boots very smooth, like unto the sign of the Leg, and
no bate with telling of discreet stories; and such other
faculties 'a has, that show a weak mind and an able body, for
which the Prince admits him. For the Prince himself is such
another; the weight of a hair will turn the scales between
avoirdupois.",393,18921
640544,1556,Would not this nave of a wheel have his ears cut off?,573,18921
640545,1557,Let's beat him before his whore.,897,18921
640546,1558,"Look whe'er the wither'd elder hath not his poll claw'd
like a parrot.",573,18921
640547,1560,"Is it not strange that desire should so many years
performance?",897,18921
640548,1563,"Kiss me, Doll.",393,18921
640549,1564,"Saturn and Venus this year in conjunction! What says
almanac to that?",573,18921
640550,1567,"And look whether the fiery Trigon, his man, be not
to his master's old tables, his note-book, his",897,18921
640551,1571,Thou dost give me flattering busses.,393,18921
640552,1572,"By my troth, I kiss thee with a most constant heart.",1157,18921
640553,1573,"I am old, I am old.",393,18921
640554,1574,"I love thee better than I love e'er a scurvy young boy of
them all.",1157,18921
640555,1576,"What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? I shall receive
Thursday. Shalt have a cap to-morrow. A merry song, come. 'A
grows late; we'll to bed. Thou't forget me when I am gone.",393,18921
640556,1580,"By my troth, thou't set me a-weeping, an thou say'st so.
Prove that ever I dress myself handsome till thy return.
hearken a' th' end.",1157,18921
640557,1584,"Some sack, Francis.",393,18921
640558,1585,"[with POINS:] Anon, anon, sir.       [Advancing]",573,18921
640559,1586,"Ha! a bastard son of the King's? And art thou not
his brother?",393,18921
640560,1589,"Why, thou globe of sinful continents, what a life dost
lead!",573,18921
640561,1592,A better than thou. I am a gentleman: thou art a,393,18921
640562,1594,"Very true, sir, and I come to draw you out by the ears.",573,18921
640563,1595,"O, the Lord preserve thy Grace! By my troth, welcome
London. Now the Lord bless that sweet face of thine. O Jesu, are you come from Wales?",936,18921
640564,1598,"Thou whoreson mad compound of majesty, by this light
flesh and corrupt blood, thou art welcome.",393,18921
640565,1600,             [Leaning his band upon DOLL],1261,18921
640566,1601,"How, you fat fool! I scorn you.",1157,18921
640567,1602,"My lord, he will drive you out of your revenge and turn
to a merriment, if you take not the heat.",897,18921
640568,1605,"YOU whoreson candle-mine, you, how vilely did you speak
me even now before this honest, virtuous, civil gentlewoman!",573,18921
640569,1608,"God's blessing of your good heart! and so she is, by
troth.",936,18921
640570,1611,Didst thou hear me?,393,18921
640571,1612,"Yea; and you knew me, as you did when you ran away by
Gadshill. You knew I was at your back, and spoke it on
try my patience.",573,18921
640572,1616,"No, no, no; not so; I did not think thou wast within
hearing.",393,18921
640573,1618,"I shall drive you then to confess the wilful abuse, and
then I know how to handle you.",573,18921
640574,1620,"No abuse, Hal, o' mine honour; no abuse.",393,18921
640575,1621,"Not to dispraise me, and call me pander, and
bread-chipper, and I know not what!",573,18921
640576,1623,"No abuse, Hal.",393,18921
640577,1624,No abuse!,897,18921
640578,1625,"No abuse, Ned, i' th' world; honest Ned, none. I
disprais'd him before the wicked--that the wicked might not
in love with thee; in which doing, I have done the part of a
careful friend and a true subject; and thy father is to give
thanks for it. No abuse, Hal; none, Ned, none; no, faith,
none.",393,18921
640579,1634,"See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth
make thee wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us?
she of the wicked? Is thine hostess here of the wicked? Or is
boy of the wicked? Or honest Bardolph, whose zeal burns in
nose, of the wicked?",573,18921
640580,1643,"Answer, thou dead elm, answer.",897,18921
640581,1644,"The fiend hath prick'd down Bardolph irrecoverable;
his face is Lucifer's privy-kitchen, where he doth nothing
roast malt-worms. For the boy--there is a good angel about
but the devil outbids him too.",393,18921
640582,1651,For the women?,573,18921
640583,1652,"For one of them--she's in hell already, and burns
souls. For th' other--I owe her money; and whether she be
for that, I know not.",393,18921
640584,1657,"No, I warrant you.",936,18921
640585,1658,"No, I think thou art not; I think thou art quit for
Marry, there is another indictment upon thee for suffering
to be eaten in thy house, contrary to the law; for the which
think thou wilt howl.",393,18921
640586,1665,"All vict'lers do so. What's a joint of mutton or two
whole Lent?",936,18921
640587,1668,"You, gentlewoman--",573,18921
640588,1669,What says your Grace?,1157,18921
640589,1670,His Grace says that which his flesh rebels against.,393,18921
640590,1671,                   [Knocking within],1261,18921
640591,1672,"Who knocks so loud at door? Look to th' door there,
Francis.",936,18921
640592,1674,          Enter PETO,1261,18921
640593,1675,"Peto, how now! What news?",573,18921
640594,1676,"The King your father is at Westminster;
And there are twenty weak and wearied posts
Come from the north; and as I came along
I met and overtook a dozen captains,
Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the taverns,
And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff.",877,18921
640595,1682,"By heaven, Poins, I feel me much to blame
So idly to profane the precious time,
When tempest of commotion, like the south,
Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt
And drop upon our bare unarmed heads.
Give me my sword and cloak. Falstaff, good night.",573,18921
640596,1688,"       Exeunt PRINCE, POINS, PETO, and BARDOLPH",1261,18921
640597,1689,"Now comes in the sweetest morsel of the night, and we
must hence, and leave it unpick'd. [Knocking within] More
knocking at the door!
[Re-enter BARDOLPH]
How now! What's the matter?",393,18921
640598,1694,"You must away to court, sir, presently;
A dozen captains stay at door for you.",144,18921
640599,1696,"[To the PAGE]. Pay the musicians, sirrah.--Farewell,
hostess; farewell, Doll. You see, my good wenches, how men of
merit are sought after; the undeserver may sleep, when the
action is call'd on. Farewell, good wenches. If I be not sent
away post, I will see you again ere I go.",393,18921
640600,1702,"I cannot speak. If my heart be not ready to burst!
Well, sweet Jack, have a care of thyself.",1157,18921
640601,1704,"Farewell, farewell.",393,18921
640602,1705,             Exeunt FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH,1261,18921
640603,1706,"Well, fare thee well. I have known thee these
years, come peascod-time; but an honester and truer-hearted",936,18921
640604,1710,[Within] Mistress Tearsheet!,144,18921
640605,1711,What's the matter?,936,18921
640606,1712,[Within] Bid Mistress Tearsheet come to my master.,144,18921
640607,1713,"O, run Doll, run, run, good Come. [To BARDOLPH] She
comes blubber'd.--Yea, will you come, Doll?   Exeunt",936,18921
640608,1717,"Enter the KING in his nightgown, with a page",1261,18922
640609,1718,"Go call the Earls of Surrey and of Warwick;
But, ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters
And well consider of them. Make good speed. Exit page
How many thousands of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee,
That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down,
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?
O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch
A watch-case or a common 'larum-bell?
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude imperious surge,
And in the visitation of the winds,
Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them
With deafing clamour in the slippery clouds,
That with the hurly death itself awakes?
Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.",572,18922
640610,1749,   Enter WARWICK and Surrey,1261,18922
640611,1750,Many good morrows to your Majesty!,1247,18922
640612,1751,"Is it good morrow, lords?",572,18922
640613,1752,"'Tis one o'clock, and past.",1247,18922
640614,1753,"Why then, good morrow to you all, my lords.
Have you read o'er the letters that I sent you?",572,18922
640615,1755,"We have, my liege.",1247,18922
640616,1756,"Then you perceive the body of our kingdom
How foul it is; what rank diseases grow,
And with what danger, near the heart of it.",572,18922
640617,1759,"It is but as a body yet distempered;
Which to his former strength may be restored
With good advice and little medicine.
My Lord Northumberland will soon be cool'd.",1247,18922
640618,1763,"O God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
Make mountains level, and the continent,
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
Into the sea; and other times to see
The beachy girdle of the ocean
Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock,
And changes fill the cup of alteration
With divers liquors! O, if this were seen,
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,
What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
'Tis not ten years gone
Since Richard and Northumberland, great friends,
Did feast together, and in two years after
Were they at wars. It is but eight years since
This Percy was the man nearest my soul;
Who like a brother toil'd in my affairs
And laid his love and life under my foot;
Yea, for my sake, even to the eyes of Richard
Gave him defiance. But which of you was by--
[To WARWICK] You, cousin Nevil, as I may remember--
When Richard, with his eye brim full of tears,
Then check'd and rated by Northumberland,
Did speak these words, now prov'd a prophecy?
'Northumberland, thou ladder by the which
My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne'--
Though then, God knows, I had no such intent
But that necessity so bow'd the state
That I and greatness were compell'd to kiss--
'The time shall come'--thus did he follow it--
'The time will come that foul sin, gathering head,
Shall break into corruption' so went on,
Foretelling this same time's condition
And the division of our amity.",572,18922
640619,1798,"There is a history in all men's lives,
Figuring the natures of the times deceas'd;
The which observ'd, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life, who in their seeds
And weak beginning lie intreasured.
Such things become the hatch and brood of time;
And, by the necessary form of this,
King Richard might create a perfect guess
That great Northumberland, then false to him,
Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness;
Which should not find a ground to root upon
Unless on you.",1247,18922
640620,1811,"Are these things then necessities?
Then let us meet them like necessities;
And that same word even now cries out on us.
They say the Bishop and Northumberland
Are fifty thousand strong.",572,18922
640621,1816,"It cannot be, my lord.
Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,
The numbers of the feared. Please it your Grace
To go to bed. Upon my soul, my lord,
The powers that you already have sent forth
Shall bring this prize in very easily.
To comfort you the more, I have receiv'd
A certain instance that Glendower is dead.
Your Majesty hath been this fortnight ill;
And these unseasoned hours perforce must ad
Unto your sickness.",1247,18922
640622,1827,"I will take your counsel.
And, were these inward wars once out of hand,
We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land.  Exeunt",572,18922
640623,1831,"Enter SHALLOW and SILENCE, meeting; MOULDY, SHADOW, WART, FEEBLE, BULLCALF, and servants behind",1261,18923
640624,1832,"Come on, come on, come on; give me your hand, sir;
your hand, sir. An early stirrer, by the rood! And how doth
good cousin Silence?",1085,18923
640625,1837,"Good morrow, good cousin Shallow.",1092,18923
640626,1838,"And how doth my cousin, your bed-fellow? and your
daughter and mine, my god-daughter Ellen?",1085,18923
640627,1841,"Alas, a black ousel, cousin Shallow!",1092,18923
640628,1842,"By yea and no, sir. I dare say my cousin William is
a good scholar; he is at Oxford still, is he not?",1085,18923
640629,1845,"Indeed, sir, to my cost.",1092,18923
640630,1846,"'A must, then, to the Inns o' Court shortly. I was
Clement's Inn; where I think they will talk of mad Shallow",1085,18923
640631,1850,"You were call'd 'lusty Shallow' then, cousin.",1092,18923
640632,1851,"By the mass, I was call'd anything; and I would have
anything indeed too, and roundly too. There was I, and little
John Doit of Staffordshire, and black George Barnes, and
Pickbone, and Will Squele a Cotsole man--you had not four
swinge-bucklers in all the Inns of Court again. And I may say
you we knew where the bona-robas were, and had the best of
all at commandment. Then was Jack Falstaff, now Sir John,
and page to Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.",1085,18923
640633,1865,"This Sir John, cousin, that comes hither anon about
soldiers?",1092,18923
640634,1867,"The same Sir John, the very same. I see him break
Scoggin's head at the court gate, when 'a was a crack not
high; and the very same day did I fight with one Sampson
Stockfish, a fruiterer, behind Gray's Inn. Jesu, Jesu, the
days that I have spent! and to see how many of my old
acquaintance are dead!",1085,18923
640635,1875,"We shall all follow, cousin.",1092,18923
640636,1876,"Certain, 'tis certain; very sure, very sure. Death, as
Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good
of bullocks at Stamford fair?",1085,18923
640637,1881,"By my troth, I was not there.",1092,18923
640638,1882,Death is certain. Is old Double of your town living,1085,18923
640639,1884,"Dead, sir.",1092,18923
640640,1885,"Jesu, Jesu, dead! drew a good bow; and dead! 'A shot a
fine shoot. John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much
his head. Dead! 'A would have clapp'd i' th' clout at twelve
score, and carried you a forehand shaft a fourteen and
and a half, that it would have done a man's heart good to
How a score of ewes now?",1085,18923
640641,1894,"Thereafter as they be--a score of good ewes may be
ten pounds.",1092,18923
640642,1897,And is old Double dead?,1085,18923
640643,1898,"   Enter BARDOLPH, and one with him",1261,18923
640644,1899,"Here come two of Sir John Falstaffs men, as I think.",1092,18923
640645,1900,"Good morrow, honest gentlemen.",1085,18923
640646,1901,"I beseech you, which is Justice Shallow?",144,18923
640647,1902,"I am Robert Shallow, sir, a poor esquire of this
and one of the King's justices of the peace. What is your
pleasure with me?",1085,18923
640648,1907,"My captain, sir, commends him to you; my captain, Sir
John Falstaff--a tall gentleman, by heaven, and a most
leader.",144,18923
640649,1911,"He greets me well, sir; I knew him a good back-sword
How doth the good knight? May I ask how my lady his wife",1085,18923
640650,1915,"Sir, pardon; a soldier is better accommodated than
wife.",144,18923
640651,1918,"It is well said, in faith, sir; and it is well said
too. 'Better accommodated!' It is good; yea, indeed, is it.
phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable.
'Accommodated!' It comes of accommodo. Very good; a good",1085,18923
640652,1925,"Pardon, sir; I have heard the word. 'Phrase' call you
By this day, I know not the phrase; but I will maintain the
with my sword to be a soldier-like word, and a word of
good command, by heaven. Accommodated: that is, when a man
they say, accommodated; or, when a man is being-whereby 'a
thought to be accommodated; which is an excellent thing.",144,18923
640653,1936,     Enter FALSTAFF,1261,18923
640654,1937,"It is very just. Look, here comes good Sir John. Give
your good hand, give me your worship's good hand. By my
you like well and bear your years very well. Welcome, good
John.",1085,18923
640655,1944,"I am glad to see you well, good Master Robert
Master Surecard, as I think?",393,18923
640656,1947,"No, Sir John; it is my cousin Silence, in commission with me.",1085,18923
640657,1948,"Good Master Silence, it well befits you should be of
peace.",393,18923
640658,1951,Your good worship is welcome.,1092,18923
640659,1952,"Fie! this is hot weather. Gentlemen, have you
here half a dozen sufficient men?",393,18923
640660,1955,"Marry, have we, sir. Will you sit?",1085,18923
640661,1956,"Let me see them, I beseech you.",393,18923
640662,1957,"Where's the roll? Where's the roll? Where's the roll?
me see, let me see, let me see. So, so, so, so,--so, so--yea,
marry, sir. Rafe Mouldy! Let them appear as I call; let them
so, let them do so. Let me see; where is Mouldy?",1085,18923
640663,1963,"Here, an't please you.",807,18923
640664,1964,"What think you, Sir John? A good-limb'd fellow; young,
strong, and of good friends.",1085,18923
640665,1966,Is thy name Mouldy?,393,18923
640666,1967,"Yea, an't please you.",807,18923
640668,1969,"Ha, ha, ha! most excellent, i' faith! Things that are
mouldy lack use. Very singular good! In faith, well said, Sir
John; very well said.",1085,18923
640669,1972,Prick him.,393,18923
640670,1973,"I was prick'd well enough before, an you could have let
alone. My old dame will be undone now for one to do her
and her drudgery. You need not to have prick'd me; there are
other men fitter to go out than I.",807,18923
640671,1979,"Go to; peace, Mouldy; you shall go. Mouldy, it is
you were spent.",393,18923
640672,1982,Spent!,807,18923
640673,1983,"Peace, fellow, peace; stand aside; know you where you
For th' other, Sir John--let me see. Simon Shadow!",1085,18923
640674,1986,"Yea, marry, let me have him to sit under. He's like
a cold soldier.",393,18923
640675,1989,Where's Shadow?,1085,18923
640676,1990,"Here, sir.",1084,18923
640677,1991,"Shadow, whose son art thou?",393,18923
640678,1992,"My mother's son, sir.",1084,18923
640679,1993,"Thy mother's son! Like enough; and thy father's
So the son of the female is the shadow of the male. It is
so indeed; but much of the father's substance!",393,18923
640680,1998,"Do you like him, Sir John?",1085,18923
640681,1999,"Shadow will serve for summer. Prick him; for we have
number of shadows fill up the muster-book.",393,18923
640682,2002,Thomas Wart!,1085,18923
640683,2003,Where's he?,393,18923
640684,2004,"Here, sir.",1246,18923
640685,2005,Is thy name Wart?,393,18923
640686,2006,"Yea, sir.",1246,18923
640687,2007,Thou art a very ragged wart.,393,18923
640688,2008,"Shall I prick him, Sir John?",1085,18923
640689,2009,"It were superfluous; for his apparel is built upon
back, and the whole frame stands upon pins. Prick him no",393,18923
640690,2013,"Ha, ha, ha! You can do it, sir; you can do it. I
you well. Francis Feeble!",1085,18923
640691,2016,"Here, sir.",397,18923
640692,2017,"What trade art thou, Feeble?",393,18923
640693,2018,"A woman's tailor, sir.",397,18923
640694,2019,"Shall I prick him, sir?",1085,18923
640695,2020,"You may; but if he had been a man's tailor, he'd ha'
prick'd you. Wilt thou make as many holes in an enemy's
thou hast done in a woman's petticoat?",393,18923
640696,2024,"I will do my good will, sir; you can have no more.",397,18923
640697,2025,"Well said, good woman's tailor! well said, courageous
Feeble! Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful dove or most
magnanimous mouse. Prick the woman's tailor--well, Master
Shallow, deep, Master Shallow.",393,18923
640698,2029,"I would Wart might have gone, sir.",397,18923
640699,2030,"I would thou wert a man's tailor, that thou mightst
him and make him fit to go. I cannot put him to a private
soldier, that is the leader of so many thousands. Let that
suffice, most forcible Feeble.",393,18923
640700,2035,"It shall suffice, sir.",397,18923
640701,2036,"I am bound to thee, reverend Feeble. Who is next?",393,18923
640702,2037,Peter Bullcalf o' th' green!,1085,18923
640703,2038,"Yea, marry, let's see Bullcalf.",393,18923
640704,2039,"Here, sir.",202,18923
640705,2040,"Fore God, a likely fellow! Come, prick me Bullcalf
he roar again.",393,18923
640706,2043,O Lord! good my lord captain-,202,18923
640707,2044,"What, dost thou roar before thou art prick'd?",393,18923
640708,2045,"O Lord, sir! I am a diseased man.",202,18923
640709,2046,What disease hast thou?,393,18923
640710,2047,"A whoreson cold, sir, a cough, sir, which I caught
ringing in the King's affairs upon his coronation day, sir.",202,18923
640711,2050,"Come, thou shalt go to the wars in a gown. We will
away thy cold; and I will take such order that thy friends
ring for thee. Is here all?",393,18923
640712,2055,"Here is two more call'd than your number. You must
but four here, sir; and so, I pray you, go in with me to",1085,18923
640713,2059,"Come, I will go drink with you, but I cannot tarry
dinner. I am glad to see you, by my troth, Master Shallow.",393,18923
640714,2061,"O, Sir John, do you remember since we lay all night in
windmill in Saint George's Field?",1085,18923
640715,2064,"No more of that, Master Shallow, no more of that.",393,18923
640716,2065,"Ha, 'twas a merry night. And is Jane Nightwork alive?",1085,18923
640717,2066,"She lives, Master Shallow.",393,18923
640718,2067,She never could away with me.,1085,18923
640719,2068,"Never, never; she would always say she could not
Master Shallow.",393,18923
640720,2071,"By the mass, I could anger her to th' heart. She was
a bona-roba. Doth she hold her own well?",1085,18923
640721,2074,"Old, old, Master Shallow.",393,18923
640722,2075,"Nay, she must be old; she cannot choose but be old;
certain she's old; and had Robin Nightwork, by old Nightwork,
before I came to Clement's Inn.",1085,18923
640723,2078,That's fifty-five year ago.,1092,18923
640724,2079,"Ha, cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that that
knight and I have seen! Ha, Sir John, said I well?",1085,18923
640725,2082,"We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.",393,18923
640726,2083,"That we have, that we have, that we have; in faith,
John, we have. Our watchword was 'Hem, boys!' Come, let's to
dinner; come, let's to dinner. Jesus, the days that we have
Come, come.",1085,18923
640727,2089,      Exeunt FALSTAFF and the JUSTICES,1261,18923
640728,2090,"Good Master Corporate Bardolph, stand my friend; and
here's four Harry ten shillings in French crowns for you. In
truth, sir, I had as lief be hang'd, sir, as go. And yet, for
mine own part, sir, I do not care; but rather because I am
unwilling and, for mine own part, have a desire to stay with
friends; else, sir, I did not care for mine own part so much.",202,18923
640729,2098,Go to; stand aside.,144,18923
640730,2099,"And, good Master Corporal Captain, for my old dame's
stand my friend. She has nobody to do anything about her when
am gone; and she is old, and cannot help herself. You shall
forty, sir.",807,18923
640731,2106,Go to; stand aside.,144,18923
640732,2107,"By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe
a death. I'll ne'er bear a base mind. An't be my destiny, so;
an't be not, so. No man's too good to serve 's Prince; and,
it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for
next.",397,18923
640733,2115,Well said; th'art a good fellow.,144,18923
640734,2116,"Faith, I'll bear no base mind.",397,18923
640735,2117,   Re-enter FALSTAFF and the JUSTICES,1261,18923
640736,2118,"Come, sir, which men shall I have?",393,18923
640737,2119,Four of which you please.,1085,18923
640738,2120,"Sir, a word with you. I have three pound to free
and Bullcalf.",144,18923
640739,2123,Go to; well.,393,18923
640740,2124,"Come, Sir John, which four will you have?",1085,18923
640741,2125,Do you choose for me.,393,18923
640742,2126,"Marry, then--Mouldy, Bullcalf, Feeble, and Shadow.",1085,18923
640743,2127,"Mouldy and Bullcalf: for you, Mouldy, stay at home
you are past service; and for your part, Bullcalf, grow you
unto it. I will none of you.",393,18923
640744,2132,"Sir John, Sir John, do not yourself wrong. They are
likeliest men, and I would have you serv'd with the best.",1085,18923
640745,2135,"Will you tell me, Master Shallow, how to choose a
Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big
assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit, Master Shallow.
Wart; you see what a ragged appearance it is. 'A shall charge
and discharge you with the motion of a pewterer's hammer,
off and on swifter than he that gibbets on the brewer's
And this same half-fac'd fellow, Shadow--give me this man. He
presents no mark to the enemy; the foeman may with as great
level at the edge of a penknife. And, for a retreat--how
will this Feeble, the woman's tailor, run off! O, give me the
spare men, and spare me the great ones. Put me a caliver into
Wart's hand, Bardolph.",393,18923
640746,2154,"Hold, Wart. Traverse--thus, thus, thus.",144,18923
640747,2155,"Come, manage me your caliver. So--very well. Go to;
good; exceeding good. O, give me always a little, lean, old,
chopt, bald shot. Well said, i' faith, Wart; th'art a good
Hold, there's a tester for thee.",393,18923
640748,2161,"He is not his craft's master, he doth not do it right.
remember at Mile-end Green, when I lay at Clement's Inn--I
then Sir Dagonet in Arthur's show--there was a little quiver
fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would
about and about, and come you in and come you in. 'Rah, tah,
tah!' would 'a say; 'Bounce!' would 'a say; and away again
'a go, and again would 'a come. I shall ne'er see such a",1085,18923
640749,2172,"These fellows will do well. Master Shallow, God keep
Master Silence, I will not use many words with you: Fare you
well! Gentlemen both, I thank you. I must a dozen mile
Bardolph, give the soldiers coats.",393,18923
640750,2178,"Sir John, the Lord bless you; God prosper your
God send us peace! At your return, visit our house; let our
acquaintance be renewed. Peradventure I will with ye to the
court.",1085,18923
640751,2184,"Fore God, would you would.",393,18923
640752,2185,Go to; I have spoke at a word. God keep you.,1085,18923
640753,2186,"Fare you well, gentle gentlemen. [Exeunt JUSTICES] On,
Bardolph; lead the men away. [Exeunt all but FALSTAFF] As I
return, I will fetch off these justices. I do see the bottom of
justice Shallow. Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this
vice of lying! This same starv'd justice hath done nothing but
prate to me of the wildness of his youth and the feats he hath
done about Turnbull Street; and every third word a lie, duer paid
to the hearer than the Turk's tribute. I do remember him at
Clement's Inn, like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring.
When 'a was naked, he was for all the world like a fork'd radish,
with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife. 'A was so
forlorn that his dimensions to any thick sight were invisible. 'A
was the very genius of famine; yet lecherous as a monkey, and the
whores call'd him mandrake. 'A came ever in the rearward of the
fashion, and sung those tunes to the overscutch'd huswifes that
he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his fancies or
his good-nights. And now is this Vice's dagger become a squire,
and talks as familiarly of John a Gaunt as if he had been sworn
brother to him; and I'll be sworn 'a ne'er saw him but once in
the Tiltyard; and then he burst his head for crowding among the
marshal's men. I saw it, and told John a Gaunt he beat his own
name; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an
eel-skin; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a
court--and now has he land and beeves. Well, I'll be acquainted
with him if I return; and 't shall go hard but I'll make him a
philosopher's two stones to me. If the young dace be a bait for
the old pike, I see no reason in the law of nature but I may snap
at him. Let time shape, and there an end.   Exit",393,18923
640754,2216,"Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, MOWBRAY, HASTINGS, and others",1261,18924
640755,2217,What is this forest call'd,974,18924
640756,2218,"'Tis Gaultree Forest, an't shall please your Grace.",563,18924
640757,2219,"Here stand, my lords, and send discoverers forth
To know the numbers of our enemies.",974,18924
640758,2221,We have sent forth already.,563,18924
640759,2222,"'Tis well done.
My friends and brethren in these great affairs,
I must acquaint you that I have receiv'd
New-dated letters from Northumberland;
Their cold intent, tenour, and substance, thus:
Here doth he wish his person, with such powers
As might hold sortance with his quality,
The which he could not levy; whereupon
He is retir'd, to ripe his growing fortunes,
To Scotland; and concludes in hearty prayers
That your attempts may overlive the hazard
And fearful meeting of their opposite.",974,18924
640760,2234,"Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground
And dash themselves to pieces.",808,18924
640761,2236,    Enter A MESSENGER,1261,18924
640762,2237,"Now, what news?",563,18924
640763,2238,"West of this forest, scarcely off a mile,
In goodly form comes on the enemy;
And, by the ground they hide, I judge their number
Upon or near the rate of thirty thousand.",773,18924
640764,2242,"The just proportion that we gave them out.
Let us sway on and face them in the field.",808,18924
640765,2244,    Enter WESTMORELAND,1261,18924
640766,2245,What well-appointed leader fronts us here?,974,18924
640767,2246,I think it is my Lord of Westmoreland.,808,18924
640768,2247,"Health and fair greeting from our general,
The Prince, Lord John and Duke of Lancaster.",1250,18924
640769,2249,"Say on, my Lord of Westmoreland, in peace,
What doth concern your coming.",974,18924
640770,2251,"Then, my lord,
Unto your Grace do I in chief address
The substance of my speech. If that rebellion
Came like itself, in base and abject routs,
Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rags,
And countenanc'd by boys and beggary-
I say, if damn'd commotion so appear'd
In his true, native, and most proper shape,
You, reverend father, and these noble lords,
Had not been here to dress the ugly form
Of base and bloody insurrection
With your fair honours. You, Lord Archbishop,
Whose see is by a civil peace maintain'd,
Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd,
Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd,
Whose white investments figure innocence,
The dove, and very blessed spirit of peace-
Wherefore you do so ill translate yourself
Out of the speech of peace, that bears such grace,
Into the harsh and boist'rous tongue of war;
Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood,
Your pens to lances, and your tongue divine
To a loud trumpet and a point of war?",1250,18924
640771,2274,"Wherefore do I this? So the question stands.
Briefly to this end: we are all diseas'd
And with our surfeiting and wanton hours
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever,
And we must bleed for it; of which disease
Our late King, Richard, being infected, died.
But, my most noble Lord of Westmoreland,
I take not on me here as a physician;
Nor do I as an enemy to peace
Troop in the throngs of military men;
But rather show awhile like fearful war
To diet rank minds sick of happiness,
And purge th' obstructions which begin to stop
Our very veins of life. Hear me more plainly.
I have in equal balance justly weigh'd
What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer,
And find our griefs heavier than our offences.
We see which way the stream of time doth run
And are enforc'd from our most quiet there
By the rough torrent of occasion;
And have the summary of all our griefs,
When time shall serve, to show in articles;
Which long ere this we offer'd to the King,
And might by no suit gain our audience:
When we are wrong'd, and would unfold our griefs,
We are denied access unto his person,
Even by those men that most have done us wrong.
The dangers of the days but newly gone,
Whose memory is written on the earth
With yet appearing blood, and the examples
Of every minute's instance, present now,
Hath put us in these ill-beseeming arms;
Not to break peace, or any branch of it,
But to establish here a peace indeed,
Concurring both in name and quality.",974,18924
640772,2309,"When ever yet was your appeal denied;
Wherein have you been galled by the King;
What peer hath been suborn'd to grate on you
That you should seal this lawless bloody book
Of forg'd rebellion with a seal divine,
And consecrate commotion's bitter edge?",1250,18924
640773,2315,"My brother general, the commonwealth,
To brother horn an household cruelty,
I make my quarrel in particular.",974,18924
640774,2318,"There is no need of any such redress;
Or if there were, it not belongs to you.",1250,18924
640775,2320,"Why not to him in part, and to us all
That feel the bruises of the days before,
And suffer the condition of these times
To lay a heavy and unequal hand
Upon our honours?",808,18924
640776,2325,"O my good Lord Mowbray,
Construe the times to their necessities,
And you shall say, indeed, it is the time,
And not the King, that doth you injuries.
Yet, for your part, it not appears to me,
Either from the King or in the present time,
That you should have an inch of any ground
To build a grief on. Were you not restor'd
To all the Duke of Norfolk's signiories,
Your noble and right well-rememb'red father's?",1250,18924
640777,2335,"What thing, in honour, had my father lost
That need to be reviv'd and breath'd in me?
The King that lov'd him, as the state stood then,
Was force perforce compell'd to banish him,
And then that Henry Bolingbroke and he,
Being mounted and both roused in their seats,
Their neighing coursers daring of the spur,
Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down,
Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of steel,
And the loud trumpet blowing them together--
Then, then, when there was nothing could have stay'd
My father from the breast of Bolingbroke,
O, when the King did throw his warder down--
His own life hung upon the staff he threw--
Then threw he down himself, and all their lives
That by indictment and by dint of sword
Have since miscarried under Bolingbroke.",808,18924
640778,2352,"You speak, Lord Mowbray, now you know not what.
The Earl of Hereford was reputed then
In England the most valiant gentleman.
Who knows on whom fortune would then have smil'd?
But if your father had been victor there,
He ne'er had borne it out of Coventry;
For all the country, in a general voice,
Cried hate upon him; and all their prayers and love
Were set on Hereford, whom they doted on,
And bless'd and grac'd indeed more than the King.
But this is mere digression from my purpose.
Here come I from our princely general
To know your griefs; to tell you from his Grace
That he will give you audience; and wherein
It shall appear that your demands are just,
You shall enjoy them, everything set off
That might so much as think you enemies.",1250,18924
640779,2369,"But he hath forc'd us to compel this offer;
And it proceeds from policy, not love.",808,18924
640780,2371,"Mowbray. you overween to take it so.
This offer comes from mercy, not from fear;
For, lo! within a ken our army lies-
Upon mine honour, all too confident
To give admittance to a thought of fear.
Our battle is more full of names than yours,
Our men more perfect in the use of arms,
Our armour all as strong, our cause the best;
Then reason will our hearts should be as good.
Say you not, then, our offer is compell'd.",1250,18924
640781,2381,"Well, by my will we shall admit no parley.",808,18924
640782,2382,"That argues but the shame of your offence:
A rotten case abides no handling.",1250,18924
640783,2384,"Hath the Prince John a full commission,
In very ample virtue of his father,
To hear and absolutely to determine
Of what conditions we shall stand upon?",563,18924
640784,2388,"That is intended in the general's name.
I muse you make so slight a question.",1250,18924
640785,2390,"Then take, my Lord of Westmoreland, this schedule,
For this contains our general grievances.
Each several article herein redress'd,
All members of our cause, both here and hence,
That are insinewed to this action,
Acquitted by a true substantial form,
And present execution of our wills
To us and to our purposes confin'd-
We come within our awful banks again,
And knit our powers to the arm of peace.",974,18924
640786,2400,"This will I show the general. Please you, lords,
In sight of both our battles we may meet;
And either end in peace--which God so frame!-
Or to the place of diff'rence call the swords
Which must decide it.",1250,18924
640787,2405,"My lord, we will do so.  Exit WESTMORELAND",974,18924
640788,2406,"There is a thing within my bosom tells me
That no conditions of our peace can stand.",808,18924
640789,2408,"Fear you not that: if we can make our peace
Upon such large terms and so absolute
As our conditions shall consist upon,
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.",563,18924
640790,2412,"Yea, but our valuation shall be such
That every slight and false-derived cause,
Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason,
Shall to the King taste of this action;
That, were our royal faiths martyrs in love,
We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind
That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff,
And good from bad find no partition.",808,18924
640791,2420,"No, no, my lord. Note this: the King is weary
Of dainty and such picking grievances;
For he hath found to end one doubt by death
Revives two greater in the heirs of life;
And therefore will he wipe his tables clean,
And keep no tell-tale to his memory
That may repeat and history his los
To new remembrance. For full well he knows
He cannot so precisely weed this land
As his misdoubts present occasion:
His foes are so enrooted with his friends
That, plucking to unfix an enemy,
He doth unfasten so and shake a friend.
So that this land, like an offensive wife
That hath enrag'd him on to offer strokes,
As he is striking, holds his infant up,
And hangs resolv'd correction in the arm
That was uprear'd to execution.",974,18924
640792,2438,"Besides, the King hath wasted all his rods
On late offenders, that he now doth lack
The very instruments of chastisement;
So that his power, like to a fangless lion,
May offer, but not hold.",563,18924
640793,2443,"'Tis very true;
And therefore be assur'd, my good Lord Marshal,
If we do now make our atonement well,
Our peace will, like a broken limb united,
Grow stronger for the breaking.",974,18924
640794,2448,"Be it so.
Here is return'd my Lord of Westmoreland.",808,18924
640795,2450,    Re-enter WESTMORELAND,1261,18924
640796,2451,"The Prince is here at hand. Pleaseth your
To meet his Grace just distance 'tween our armies?",1250,18924
640797,2454,"Your Grace of York, in God's name then, set forward.",808,18924
640798,2455,"Before, and greet his Grace. My lord, we come.",974,18924
640799,2456,            Exeunt,1261,18924
640800,2458,"Enter, from one side, MOWBRAY, attended; afterwards, the ARCHBISHOP, HASTINGS, and others; from the other side, PRINCE JOHN of LANCASTER, WESTMORELAND, OFFICERS, and others",1261,18925
640801,2459,"You are well encount'red here, my cousin Mowbray.
Good day to you, gentle Lord Archbishop;
And so to you, Lord Hastings, and to all.
My Lord of York, it better show'd with you
When that your flock, assembled by the bell,
Encircled you to hear with reverence
Your exposition on the holy text
Than now to see you here an iron man,
Cheering a rout of rebels with your drum,
Turning the word to sword, and life to death.
That man that sits within a monarch's heart
And ripens in the sunshine of his favour,
Would he abuse the countenance of the king,
Alack, what mischiefs might he set abroach
In shadow of such greatness! With you, Lord Bishop,
It is even so. Who hath not heard it spoken
How deep you were within the books of God?
To us the speaker in His parliament,
To us th' imagin'd voice of God himself,
The very opener and intelligencer
Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven,
And our dull workings. O, who shall believe
But you misuse the reverence of your place,
Employ the countenance and grace of heav'n
As a false favourite doth his prince's name,
In deeds dishonourable? You have ta'en up,
Under the counterfeited zeal of God,
The subjects of His substitute, my father,
And both against the peace of heaven and him
Have here up-swarm'd them.",919,18925
640802,2489,"Good my Lord of Lancaster,
I am not here against your father's peace;
But, as I told my Lord of Westmoreland,
The time misord'red doth, in common sense,
Crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form
To hold our safety up. I sent your Grace
The parcels and particulars of our grief,
The which hath been with scorn shov'd from the court,
Whereon this hydra son of war is born;
Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm'd asleep
With grant of our most just and right desires;
And true obedience, of this madness cur'd,
Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty.",974,18925
640803,2502,"If not, we ready are to try our fortunes
To the last man.",808,18925
640804,2504,"And though we here fall down,
We have supplies to second our attempt.
If they miscarry, theirs shall second them;
And so success of mischief shall be born,
And heir from heir shall hold this quarrel up
Whiles England shall have generation.",563,18925
640805,2510,"YOU are too shallow, Hastings, much to shallow,
To sound the bottom of the after-times.",919,18925
640806,2512,"Pleaseth your Grace to answer them directly
How far forth you do like their articles.",1250,18925
640807,2514,"I like them all and do allow them well;
And swear here, by the honour of my blood,
My father's purposes have been mistook;
And some about him have too lavishly
Wrested his meaning and authority.
My lord, these griefs shall be with speed redress'd;
Upon my soul, they shall. If this may please you,
Discharge your powers unto their several counties,
As we will ours; and here, between the armies,
Let's drink together friendly and embrace,
That all their eyes may bear those tokens home
Of our restored love and amity.",919,18925
640808,2526,I take your princely word for these redresses.,974,18925
640809,2527,"I give it you, and will maintain my word;
And thereupon I drink unto your Grace.",919,18925
640810,2529,"Go, Captain, and deliver to the army
This news of peace. Let them have pay, and part.
I know it will please them. Hie thee, Captain.",563,18925
640811,2532,           Exit Officer,1261,18925
640812,2533,"To you, my noble Lord of Westmoreland.",974,18925
640813,2534,"I pledge your Grace; and if you knew what pains
I have bestow'd to breed this present peace,
You would drink freely; but my love to ye
Shall show itself more openly hereafter.",1250,18925
640814,2538,I do not doubt you.,974,18925
640815,2539,"I am glad of it.
Health to my lord and gentle cousin, Mowbray.",1250,18925
640816,2541,"You wish me health in very happy season,
For I am on the sudden something ill.",808,18925
640817,2543,"Against ill chances men are ever merry;
But heaviness foreruns the good event.",974,18925
640818,2545,"Therefore be merry, coz; since sudden sorrow
Serves to say thus, 'Some good thing comes to-morrow.'",1250,18925
640819,2547,"Believe me, I am passing light in spirit.",974,18925
640820,2548,"So much the worse, if your own rule be true.",808,18925
640821,2549,          [Shouts within],1261,18925
640822,2550,"The word of peace is rend'red. Hark, how they",919,18925
640823,2552,This had been cheerful after victory.,808,18925
640824,2553,"A peace is of the nature of a conquest;
For then both parties nobly are subdu'd,
And neither party loser.",974,18925
640825,2556,"Go, my lord,
And let our army be discharged too.
[Exit WESTMORELAND]
And, good my lord, so please you let our trains
March by us, that we may peruse the men
We should have cop'd withal.",919,18925
640826,2562,"Go, good Lord Hastings,
And, ere they be dismiss'd, let them march by.",974,18925
640827,2564,           Exit HASTINGS,1261,18925
640828,2565,"I trust, lords, we shall lie to-night together.
[Re-enter WESTMORELAND]
Now, cousin, wherefore stands our army still?",919,18925
640829,2568,"The leaders, having charge from you to stand,
Will not go off until they hear you speak.",1250,18925
640830,2570,They know their duties.,919,18925
640831,2571,    Re-enter HASTINGS,1261,18925
640832,2572,"My lord, our army is dispers'd already.
Like youthful steers unyok'd, they take their courses
East, west, north, south; or like a school broke up,
Each hurries toward his home and sporting-place.",563,18925
640833,2576,"Good tidings, my Lord Hastings; for the which
I do arrest thee, traitor, of high treason;
And you, Lord Archbishop, and you, Lord Mowbray,
Of capital treason I attach you both.",1250,18925
640834,2580,Is this proceeding just and honourable?,808,18925
640835,2581,Is your assembly so?,1250,18925
640836,2582,Will you thus break your faith?,974,18925
640837,2583,"I pawn'd thee none:
I promis'd you redress of these same grievances
Whereof you did complain; which, by mine honour,
I will perform with a most Christian care.
But for you, rebels--look to taste the due
Meet for rebellion and such acts as yours.
Most shallowly did you these arms commence,
Fondly brought here, and foolishly sent hence.
Strike up our drums, pursue the scatt'red stray.
God, and not we, hath safely fought to-day.
Some guard these traitors to the block of death,
Treason's true bed and yielder-up of breath.  Exeunt",919,18925
640838,2596,"Alarum; excursions. Enter FALSTAFF and COLVILLE, meeting",1261,18926
640839,2597,"What's your name, sir? Of what condition are you, and
what place, I pray?",393,18926
640840,2600,I am a knight sir; and my name is Colville of the,275,18926
640841,2602,"Well then, Colville is your name, a knight is your
degree, and your place the Dale. Colville shall still be your
name, a traitor your degree, and the dungeon your place--a
deep enough; so shall you be still Colville of the Dale.",393,18926
640842,2607,Are not you Sir John Falstaff?,275,18926
640843,2608,"As good a man as he, sir, whoe'er I am. Do you yield,
sir, or shall I sweat for you? If I do sweat, they are the
of thy lovers, and they weep for thy death; therefore rouse
fear and trembling, and do observance to my mercy.",393,18926
640844,2614,"I think you are Sir John Falstaff, and in that
yield me.",275,18926
640845,2617,"I have a whole school of tongues in this belly of
and not a tongue of them all speaks any other word but my
An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the
active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me.
Here comes our general.",393,18926
640846,2625," Enter PRINCE JOHN OF LANCASTER, WESTMORELAND, BLUNT, and others",1261,18926
640847,2626,"The heat is past; follow no further now.
Call in the powers, good cousin Westmoreland.
[Exit WESTMORELAND]
Now, Falstaff, where have you been all this while?
When everything is ended, then you come.
These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life,
One time or other break some gallows' back.",919,18926
640848,2633,"I would be sorry, my lord, but it should be thus: I
knew yet but rebuke and check was the reward of valour. Do
think me a swallow, an arrow, or a bullet? Have I, in my poor
old motion, the expedition of thought? I have speeded hither
the very extremest inch of possibility; I have found'red nine
score and odd posts; and here, travel tainted as I am, have,
my pure and immaculate valour, taken Sir John Colville of the
Dale,a most furious knight and valorous enemy. But what of
He saw me, and yielded; that I may justly say with the
fellow of Rome-I came, saw, and overcame.",393,18926
640849,2650,It was more of his courtesy than your deserving.,919,18926
640850,2651,"I know not. Here he is, and here I yield him; and I
beseech your Grace, let it be book'd with the rest of this
deeds; or, by the Lord, I will have it in a particular ballad
else, with mine own picture on the top on't, Colville kissing
foot; to the which course if I be enforc'd, if you do not all
show like gilt twopences to me, and I, in the clear sky of
o'ershine you as much as the full moon doth the cinders of
element, which show like pins' heads to her, believe not the
of the noble. Therefore let me have right, and let desert",393,18926
640851,2666,Thine's too heavy to mount.,919,18926
640852,2667,"Let it shine, then.",393,18926
640853,2668,Thine's too thick to shine.,919,18926
640854,2669,"Let it do something, my good lord, that may do me
and call it what you will.",393,18926
640855,2672,Is thy name Colville?,919,18926
640856,2673,"It is, my lord.",275,18926
640857,2674,"A famous rebel art thou, Colville.",919,18926
640858,2675,And a famous true subject took him.,393,18926
640859,2676,"I am, my lord, but as my betters are
That led me hither. Had they been rul'd by me,
You should have won them dearer than you have.",275,18926
640860,2679,"I know not how they sold themselves; but thou, like a
kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis; and I thank thee for
thee.",393,18926
640861,2682,    Re-enter WESTMORELAND,1261,18926
640862,2683,"Now, have you left pursuit?",919,18926
640863,2684,"Retreat is made, and execution stay'd.",1250,18926
640864,2685,"Send Colville, with his confederates,
To York, to present execution.
Blunt, lead him hence; and see you guard him sure.
[Exeunt BLUNT and others]
And now dispatch we toward the court, my lords.
I hear the King my father is sore sick.
Our news shall go before us to his Majesty,
Which, cousin, you shall bear to comfort him
And we with sober speed will follow you.",919,18926
640865,2694,"My lord, I beseech you, give me leave to go through
Gloucestershire; and, when you come to court, stand my good
pray, in your good report.",393,18926
640866,2698,"Fare you well, Falstaff. I, in my condition,
Shall better speak of you than you deserve.",919,18926
640867,2700,        Exeunt all but FALSTAFF,1261,18926
640868,2701,"I would you had but the wit; 'twere better than your
dukedom. Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth
love me; nor a man cannot make him laugh--but that's no
he drinks no wine. There's never none of these demure boys
to any proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood,
making many fish-meals, that they fall into a kind of male
green-sickness; and then, when they marry, they get wenches.
are generally fools and cowards-which some of us should be
but for inflammation. A good sherris-sack hath a two-fold
operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there
the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it;
apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and
delectable shapes; which delivered o'er to the voice, the
which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The second
your excellent sherris is the warming of the blood; which
cold and settled, left the liver white and pale, which is the
badge of pusillanimity and cowardice; but the sherris warms
and makes it course from the inwards to the parts extremes.
illumineth the face, which, as a beacon, gives warning to all
rest of this little kingdom, man, to arm; and then the vital
commoners and inland petty spirits muster me all to their
captain, the heart, who, great and puff'd up with this
doth any deed of courage--and this valour comes of sherris.
that skill in the weapon is nothing without sack, for that
it a-work; and learning, a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil
till sack commences it and sets it in act and use. Hereof
it that Prince Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did
naturally inherit of his father, he hath, like lean, sterile,
bare land, manured, husbanded, and till'd, with excellent
endeavour of drinking good and good store of fertile sherris,
that he is become very hot and valiant. If I had a thousand
the first humane principle I would teach them should be to
forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
[Enter BARDOLPH]
How now, Bardolph!",393,18926
640869,2756,The army is discharged all and gone.,144,18926
640870,2757,"Let them go. I'll through Gloucestershire, and there
I visit Master Robert Shallow, Esquire. I have him already
temp'ring between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I
with him. Come away.        Exeunt",393,18926
640871,2764,"Enter the KING, PRINCE THOMAS OF CLARENCE, PRINCE HUMPHREY OF GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, and others",1261,18927
640872,2765,"Now, lords, if God doth give successful end
To this debate that bleedeth at our doors,
We will our youth lead on to higher fields,
And draw no swords but what are sanctified.
Our navy is address'd, our power connected,
Our substitutes in absence well invested,
And everything lies level to our wish.
Only we want a little personal strength;
And pause us till these rebels, now afoot,
Come underneath the yoke of government.",572,18927
640873,2775,"Both which we doubt not but your Majesty
Shall soon enjoy.",1247,18927
640874,2777,"Humphrey, my son of Gloucester,
Where is the Prince your brother?",572,18927
640875,2779,"I think he's gone to hunt, my lord, at",918,18927
640876,2781,And how accompanied?,572,18927
640877,2782,"I do not know, my lord.",918,18927
640878,2783,"Is not his brother, Thomas of Clarence, with him?",572,18927
640879,2784,"No, my good lord, he is in presence here.",918,18927
640880,2785,What would my lord and father?,1191,18927
640881,2786,"Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of Clarence.
How chance thou art not with the Prince thy brother?
He loves thee, and thou dost neglect him, Thomas.
Thou hast a better place in his affection
Than all thy brothers; cherish it, my boy,
And noble offices thou mayst effect
Of mediation, after I am dead,
Between his greatness and thy other brethren.
Therefore omit him not; blunt not his love,
Nor lose the good advantage of his grace
By seeming cold or careless of his will;
For he is gracious if he be observ'd.
He hath a tear for pity and a hand
Open as day for melting charity;
Yet notwithstanding, being incens'd, he is flint;
As humorous as winter, and as sudden
As flaws congealed in the spring of day.
His temper, therefore, must be well observ'd.
Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
When you perceive his blood inclin'd to mirth;
But, being moody, give him line and scope
Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,
Confound themselves with working. Learn this, Thomas,
And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends,
A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in,
That the united vessel of their blood,
Mingled with venom of suggestion--
As, force perforce, the age will pour it in--
Shall never leak, though it do work as strong
As aconitum or rash gunpowder.",572,18927
640882,2816,I shall observe him with all care and love.,1191,18927
640883,2817,"Why art thou not at Windsor with him, Thomas?",572,18927
640884,2818,He is not there to-day; he dines in London.,1191,18927
640885,2819,And how accompanied? Canst thou tell that?,572,18927
640886,2820,"With Poins, and other his continual followers.",1191,18927
640887,2821,"Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds;
And he, the noble image of my youth,
Is overspread with them; therefore my grief
Stretches itself beyond the hour of death.
The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape,
In forms imaginary, th'unguided days
And rotten times that you shall look upon
When I am sleeping with my ancestors.
For when his headstrong riot hath no curb,
When rage and hot blood are his counsellors
When means and lavish manners meet together,
O, with what wings shall his affections fly
Towards fronting peril and oppos'd decay!",572,18927
640888,2834,"My gracious lord, you look beyond him quite.
The Prince but studies his companions
Like a strange tongue, wherein, to gain the language,
'Tis needful that the most immodest word
Be look'd upon and learnt; which once attain'd,
Your Highness knows, comes to no further use
But to be known and hated. So, like gross terms,
The Prince will, in the perfectness of time,
Cast off his followers; and their memory
Shall as a pattern or a measure live
By which his Grace must mete the lives of other,
Turning past evils to advantages.",1247,18927
640889,2846,"'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb
In the dead carrion.
[Enter WESTMORELAND]
Who's here? Westmoreland?",572,18927
640890,2850,"Health to my sovereign, and new happiness
Added to that that am to deliver!
Prince John, your son, doth kiss your Grace's hand.
Mowbray, the Bishop Scroop, Hastings, and all,
Are brought to the correction of your law.
There is not now a rebel's sword unsheath'd,
But Peace puts forth her olive everywhere.
The manner how this action hath been borne
Here at more leisure may your Highness read,
With every course in his particular.",1250,18927
640891,2860,"O Westmoreland, thou art a summer bird,
Which ever in the haunch of winter sings
The lifting up of day.
[Enter HARCOURT]
Look here's more news.",572,18927
640892,2865,"From enemies heaven keep your Majesty;
And, when they stand against you, may they fall
As those that I am come to tell you of!
The Earl Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph,
With a great power of English and of Scots,
Are by the shrieve of Yorkshire overthrown.
The manner and true order of the fight
This packet, please it you, contains at large.",562,18927
640893,2873,"And wherefore should these good news make me sick?
Will Fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
She either gives a stomach and no food-
Such are the poor, in health--or else a feast,
And takes away the stomach--such are the rich
That have abundance and enjoy it not.
I should rejoice now at this happy news;
And now my sight fails, and my brain is giddy.
O me! come near me now I am much ill.",572,18927
640894,2883,"Comfort, your Majesty!",918,18927
640895,2884,O my royal father!,1191,18927
640896,2885,"My sovereign lord, cheer up yourself, look up.",1250,18927
640897,2886,"Be patient, Princes; you do know these fits
Are with his Highness very ordinary.
Stand from him, give him air; he'll straight be well.",1247,18927
640898,2889,"No, no; he cannot long hold out these pangs.
Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
So thin that life looks through, and will break out.",1191,18927
640899,2893,"The people fear me; for they do observe
Unfather'd heirs and loathly births of nature.
The seasons change their manners, as the year
Had found some months asleep, and leapt them over.",918,18927
640900,2897,"The river hath thrice flow'd, no ebb between;
And the old folk, Time's doting chronicles,
Say it did so a little time before
That our great grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died.",1191,18927
640901,2901,"Speak lower, Princes, for the King recovers.",1247,18927
640902,2902,This apoplexy will certain be his end.,918,18927
640903,2903,"I pray you take me up, and bear me hence
Into some other chamber. Softly, pray.   Exeunt",572,18927
640904,2906,"The KING lying on a bed; CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, and others in attendance",1261,18928
640905,2907,"Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends;
Unless some dull and favourable hand
Will whisper music to my weary spirit.",572,18928
640906,2910,Call for the music in the other room.,1247,18928
640907,2911,Set me the crown upon my pillow here.,572,18928
640908,2912,"His eye is hollow, and he changes much.",1191,18928
640909,2913,Less noise! less noise!,1247,18928
640910,2914,    Enter PRINCE HENRY,1261,18928
640911,2915,Who saw the Duke of Clarence?,573,18928
640912,2916,"I am here, brother, full of heaviness.",1191,18928
640913,2917,"How now! Rain within doors, and none abroad!
How doth the King?",573,18928
640914,2919,Exceeding ill.,918,18928
640915,2920,Heard he the good news yet? Tell it him.,573,18928
640916,2921,He alt'red much upon the hearing it.,918,18928
640917,2922,"If he be sick with joy, he'll recover without physic.",573,18928
640918,2923,"Not so much noise, my lords. Sweet Prince, speak low;
The King your father is dispos'd to sleep.",1247,18928
640919,2925,Let us withdraw into the other room.,1191,18928
640920,2926,Will't please your Grace to go along with us?,1247,18928
640921,2927,"No; I will sit and watch here by the King.
[Exeunt all but the PRINCE]
Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow,
Being so troublesome a bedfellow?
O polish'd perturbation! golden care!
That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide
To many a watchful night! Sleep with it now!
Yet not so sound and half so deeply sweet
As he whose brow with homely biggen bound
Snores out the watch of night. O majesty!
When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit
Like a rich armour worn in heat of day
That scald'st with safety. By his gates of breath
There lies a downy feather which stirs not.
Did he suspire, that light and weightless down
Perforce must move. My gracious lord! my father!
This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep
That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd
So many English kings. Thy due from me
Is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood
Which nature, love, and filial tenderness,
Shall, O dear father, pay thee plenteously.
My due from thee is this imperial crown,
Which, as immediate from thy place and blood,
Derives itself to me. [Putting on the crown] Lo where it
Which God shall guard; and put the world's whole strength
Into one giant arm, it shall not force
This lineal honour from me. This from thee
Will I to mine leave as 'tis left to me.   Exit",573,18928
640922,2957,Warwick! Gloucester! Clarence!,572,18928
640923,2958," Re-enter WARWICK, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE",1261,18928
640924,2959,Doth the King call?,1191,18928
640925,2960,What would your Majesty? How fares your Grace?,1247,18928
640926,2961,"Why did you leave me here alone, my lords?",572,18928
640927,2962,"We left the Prince my brother here, my liege,
Who undertook to sit and watch by you.",1191,18928
640928,2964,"The Prince of Wales! Where is he? Let me see him.
He is not here.",572,18928
640929,2966,This door is open; he is gone this way.,1247,18928
640930,2967,He came not through the chamber where we,918,18928
640931,2969,Where is the crown? Who took it from my pillow?,572,18928
640932,2970,"When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here.",1247,18928
640933,2971,"The Prince hath ta'en it hence. Go, seek him out.
Is he so hasty that he doth suppose
My sleep my death?
Find him, my lord of Warwick; chide him hither.
[Exit WARWICK]
This part of his conjoins with my disease
And helps to end me. See, sons, what things you are!
How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish over-careful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts,
Their brains with care, their bones with industry;
For this they have engrossed and pil'd up
The cank'red heaps of strange-achieved gold;
For this they have been thoughtful to invest
Their sons with arts and martial exercises;
When, like the bee, tolling from every flower
The virtuous sweets,
Our thighs with wax, our mouths with honey pack'd,
We bring it to the hive, and, like the bees,
Are murd'red for our pains. This bitter taste
Yields his engrossments to the ending father.
[Re-enter WARWICK]
Now where is he that will not stay so long
Till his friend sickness hath determin'd me?",572,18928
640934,2996,"My lord, I found the Prince in the next room,
Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks,
With such a deep demeanour in great sorrow,
That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood,
Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife
With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither.",1247,18928
640935,3002,"But wherefore did he take away the crown?
[Re-enter PRINCE HENRY]
Lo where he comes. Come hither to me, Harry.
Depart the chamber, leave us here alone.",572,18928
640936,3006,    Exeunt all but the KING and the PRINCE,1261,18928
640937,3007,I never thought to hear you speak again.,573,18928
640938,3008,"Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
I stay too long by thee, I weary thee.
Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair
That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours
Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth!
Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee.
Stay but a little, for my cloud of dignity
Is held from falling with so weak a wind
That it will quickly drop; my day is dim.
Thou hast stol'n that which, after some few hours,
Were thine without offense; and at my death
Thou hast seal'd up my expectation.
Thy life did manifest thou lov'dst me not,
And thou wilt have me die assur'd of it.
Thou hid'st a thousand daggers in thy thoughts,
Which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart,
To stab at half an hour of my life.
What, canst thou not forbear me half an hour?
Then get thee gone, and dig my grave thyself;
And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear
That thou art crowned, not that I am dead.
Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse
Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head;
Only compound me with forgotten dust;
Give that which gave thee life unto the worms.
Pluck down my officers, break my decrees;
For now a time is come to mock at form-
Harry the Fifth is crown'd. Up, vanity:
Down, royal state. All you sage counsellors, hence.
And to the English court assemble now,
From every region, apes of idleness.
Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum.
Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance,
Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit
The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
Be happy, he will trouble you no more.
England shall double gild his treble guilt;
England shall give him office, honour, might;
For the fifth Harry from curb'd license plucks
The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog
Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent.
O my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows!
When that my care could not withhold thy riots,
What wilt thou do when riot is thy care?
O, thou wilt be a wilderness again.
Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants!",572,18928
640939,3054,"O, pardon me, my liege! But for my tears,
The moist impediments unto my speech,
I had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke
Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard
The course of it so far. There is your crown,
And he that wears the crown immortally
Long guard it yours! [Kneeling] If I affect it more
Than as your honour and as your renown,
Let me no more from this obedience rise,
Which my most inward true and duteous spirit
Teacheth this prostrate and exterior bending!
God witness with me, when I here came in
And found no course of breath within your Majesty,
How cold it struck my heart! If I do feign,
O, let me in my present wildness die,
And never live to show th' incredulous world
The noble change that I have purposed!
Coming to look on you, thinking you dead-
And dead almost, my liege, to think you were-
I spake unto this crown as having sense,
And thus upbraided it: 'The care on thee depending
Hath fed upon the body of my father;
Therefore thou best of gold art worst of gold.
Other, less fine in carat, is more precious,
Preserving life in med'cine potable;
But thou, most fine, most honour'd, most renown'd,
Hast eat thy bearer up.' Thus, my most royal liege,
Accusing it, I put it on my head,
To try with it--as with an enemy
That had before my face murd'red my father--
The quarrel of a true inheritor.
But if it did infect my blood with joy,
Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride;
If any rebel or vain spirit of mine
Did with the least affection of a welcome
Give entertainment to the might of it,
Let God for ever keep it from my head,
And make me as the poorest vassal is,
That doth with awe and terror kneel to it!",573,18928
640940,3093,"O my son,
God put it in thy mind to take it hence,
That thou mightst win the more thy father's love,
Pleading so wisely in excuse of it!
Come hither, Harry; sit thou by my bed,
And hear, I think, the very latest counsel
That ever I shall breathe. God knows, my son,
By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways
I met this crown; and I myself know well
How troublesome it sat upon my head:
To thee it shall descend with better quiet,
Better opinion, better confirmation;
For all the soil of the achievement goes
With me into the earth. It seem'd in me
But as an honour snatch'd with boist'rous hand;
And I had many living to upbraid
My gain of it by their assistances;
Which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed,
Wounding supposed peace. All these bold fears
Thou seest with peril I have answered;
For all my reign hath been but as a scene
Acting that argument. And now my death
Changes the mood; for what in me was purchas'd
Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort;
So thou the garland wear'st successively.
Yet, though thou stand'st more sure than I could do,
Thou art not firm enough, since griefs are green;
And all my friends, which thou must make thy friends,
Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out;
By whose fell working I was first advanc'd,
And by whose power I well might lodge a fear
To be again displac'd; which to avoid,
I cut them off; and had a purpose now
To lead out many to the Holy Land,
Lest rest and lying still might make them look
Too near unto my state. Therefore, my Harry,
Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
With foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out,
May waste the memory of the former days.
More would I, but my lungs are wasted so
That strength of speech is utterly denied me.
How I came by the crown, O God, forgive;
And grant it may with thee in true peace live!",572,18928
640941,3136,"My gracious liege,
You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me;
Then plain and right must my possession be;
Which I with more than with a common pain
'Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain.
 Enter PRINCE JOHN OF LANCASTER, WARWICK, LORDS, and others",573,18928
640942,3142,"Look, look, here comes my John of Lancaster.",572,18928
640943,3143,"Health, peace, and happiness, to my royal father!",919,18928
640944,3144,"Thou bring'st me happiness and peace, son John;
But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown
From this bare wither'd trunk. Upon thy sight
My worldly business makes a period.
Where is my Lord of Warwick?",572,18928
640945,3149,My Lord of Warwick!,573,18928
640946,3150,"Doth any name particular belong
Unto the lodging where I first did swoon?",572,18928
640947,3152,"'Tis call'd Jerusalem, my noble lord.",1247,18928
640948,3153,"Laud be to God! Even there my life must end.
It hath been prophesied to me many years,
I should not die but in Jerusalem;
Which vainly I suppos'd the Holy Land.
But bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie;
In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.    Exeunt",572,18928
640949,3161,"Enter SHALLOW, FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, and PAGE",1261,18929
640950,3162,"By cock and pie, sir, you shall not away to-night.
What, Davy, I say!",1085,18929
640951,3164,"You must excuse me, Master Robert Shallow.",393,18929
640952,3165,"I will not excuse you; you shall not be excus'd;
shall not be admitted; there is no excuse shall serve; you
not be excus'd. Why, Davy!",1085,18929
640953,3170,     Enter DAVY,1261,18929
640954,3171,"Here, sir.",302,18929
640955,3172,"Davy, Davy, Davy, Davy; let me see, Davy; let me see,
Davy; let me see--yea, marry, William cook, bid him come
Sir John, you shall not be excus'd.",1085,18929
640956,3176,"Marry, sir, thus: those precepts cannot be served; and,
again, sir--shall we sow the headland with wheat?",302,18929
640957,3178,"With red wheat, Davy. But for William cook--are there
young pigeons?",1085,18929
640958,3181,"Yes, sir. Here is now the smith's note for shoeing and
plough-irons.",302,18929
640959,3183,"Let it be cast, and paid. Sir John, you shall not be
excused.",1085,18929
640960,3185,"Now, sir, a new link to the bucket must needs be had;
sir, do you mean to stop any of William's wages about the
lost the other day at Hinckley fair?",302,18929
640961,3190,"'A shall answer it. Some pigeons, Davy, a couple of
short-legg'd hens, a joint of mutton, and any pretty little
kickshaws, tell William cook.",1085,18929
640962,3194,"Doth the man of war stay all night, sir?",302,18929
640963,3195,"Yea, Davy; I will use him well. A friend i' th' court
better than a penny in purse. Use his men well, Davy; for
are arrant knaves and will backbite.",1085,18929
640964,3200,"No worse than they are backbitten, sir; for they have
marvellous foul linen.",302,18929
640965,3202,"Well conceited, Davy--about thy business, Davy.",1085,18929
640966,3203,"I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of
against Clement Perkes o' th' hill.",302,18929
640967,3206,"There, is many complaints, Davy, against that Visor.
Visor is an arrant knave, on my knowledge.",1085,18929
640968,3209,"I grant your worship that he is a knave, sir; but yet God
forbid, sir, but a knave should have some countenance at his
friend's request. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for
himself, when a knave is not. I have serv'd your worship
sir, this eight years; an I cannot once or twice in a quarter
bear out a knave against an honest man, I have but a very
credit with your worship. The knave is mine honest friend,
therefore, I beseech you, let him be countenanc'd.",302,18929
640969,3220,"Go to; I say he shall have no wrong. Look about,",1085,18929
640970,3221,"[Exit DAVY] Where are you, Sir John? Come, come, come,
with your boots. Give me your hand, Master Bardolph.",302,18929
640971,3224,I am glad to see your worship.,144,18929
640972,3225,"I thank thee with all my heart, kind Master Bardolph.
[To the PAGE] And welcome, my tall fellow. Come, Sir John.",1085,18929
640973,3227,"I'll follow you, good Master Robert Shallow.
[Exit SHALLOW] Bardolph, look to our horses. [Exeunt
and PAGE] If I were sawed into quantities, I should make
dozen of such bearded hermits' staves as Master Shallow. It
wonderful thing to see the semblable coherence of his men's
spirits and his. They, by observing of him, do bear
like foolish justices: he, by conversing with them, is turned
into a justice-like serving-man. Their spirits are so married
conjunction with the participation of society that they flock
together in consent, like so many wild geese. If I had a suit
Master Shallow, I would humour his men with the imputation of
being near their master; if to his men, I would curry with
Shallow that no man could better command his servants. It is
certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is
as men take diseases, one of another; therefore let men take
of their company. I will devise matter enough out of this
to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter the wearing out of
fashions, which is four terms, or two actions; and 'a shall
without intervallums. O, it is much that a lie with a slight
oath, and a jest with a sad brow will do with a fellow that
had the ache in his shoulders! O, you shall see him laugh
his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up!",393,18929
640974,3263,[Within] Sir John!,1085,18929
640975,3264,"I come, Master Shallow; I come, Master Shallow.",393,18929
640976,3265,Exit,1261,18929
640977,3267,"Enter, severally, WARWICK, and the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE",1261,18930
640978,3268,"How now, my Lord Chief Justice; whither away?",1247,18930
640979,3269,How doth the King?,241,18930
640980,3270,Exceeding well; his cares are now all ended.,1247,18930
640981,3271,"I hope, not dead.",241,18930
640982,3272,"He's walk'd the way of nature;
And to our purposes he lives no more.",1247,18930
640983,3274,"I would his Majesty had call'd me with him.
The service that I truly did his life
Hath left me open to all injuries.",241,18930
640984,3277,"Indeed, I think the young king loves you not.",1247,18930
640985,3278,"I know he doth not, and do arm myself
To welcome the condition of the time,
Which cannot look more hideously upon me
Than I have drawn it in my fantasy.",241,18930
640986,3282," Enter LANCASTER, CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, WESTMORELAND, and others",1261,18930
640987,3283,"Here comes the heavy issue of dead Harry.
O that the living Harry had the temper
Of he, the worst of these three gentlemen!
How many nobles then should hold their places
That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!",1247,18930
640988,3288,"O God, I fear all will be overturn'd.",241,18930
640989,3289,"Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow.",919,18930
640990,3290,"[with CLARENCE:] Good morrow, cousin.",918,18930
640991,3291,We meet like men that had forgot to speak.,919,18930
640992,3292,"We do remember; but our argument
Is all too heavy to admit much talk.",1247,18930
640993,3294,"Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy!",919,18930
640994,3295,"Peace be with us, lest we be heavier!",241,18930
640995,3296,"O, good my lord, you have lost a friend
And I dare swear you borrow not that face
Of seeming sorrow--it is sure your own.",918,18930
640996,3300,"Though no man be assur'd what grace to find,
You stand in coldest expectation.
I am the sorrier; would 'twere otherwise.",919,18930
640997,3303,"Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair;
Which swims against your stream of quality.",1191,18930
640998,3305,"Sweet Princes, what I did, I did in honour,
Led by th' impartial conduct of my soul;
And never shall you see that I will beg
A ragged and forestall'd remission.
If truth and upright innocency fail me,
I'll to the King my master that is dead,
And tell him who hath sent me after him.",241,18930
640999,3312,Here comes the Prince.,1247,18930
641000,3313," Enter KING HENRY THE FIFTH, attended",1261,18930
641001,3314,"Good morrow, and God save your Majesty!",241,18930
641002,3315,"This new and gorgeous garment, majesty,
Sits not so easy on me as you think.
Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear.
This is the English, not the Turkish court;
Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,
But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,
For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
Sorrow so royally in you appears
That I will deeply put the fashion on,
And wear it in my heart. Why, then, be sad;
But entertain no more of it, good brothers,
Than a joint burden laid upon us all.
For me, by heaven, I bid you be assur'd,
I'll be your father and your brother too;
Let me but bear your love, I'll bear your cares.
Yet weep that Harry's dead, and so will I;
But Harry lives that shall convert those tears
By number into hours of happiness.",572,18930
641003,3333,We hope no otherwise from your Majesty.,200,18930
641004,3334,"You all look strangely on me; and you most.
You are, I think, assur'd I love you not.",573,18930
641005,3336,"I am assur'd, if I be measur'd rightly,
Your Majesty hath no just cause to hate me.",241,18930
641006,3338,"No?
How might a prince of my great hopes forget
So great indignities you laid upon me?
What, rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison,
Th' immediate heir of England! Was this easy?
May this be wash'd in Lethe and forgotten?",573,18930
641007,3344,"I then did use the person of your father;
The image of his power lay then in me;
And in th' administration of his law,
Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
Your Highness pleased to forget my place,
The majesty and power of law and justice,
The image of the King whom I presented,
And struck me in my very seat of judgment;
Whereon, as an offender to your father,
I gave bold way to my authority
And did commit you. If the deed were ill,
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at nought,
To pluck down justice from your awful bench,
To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword
That guards the peace and safety of your person;
Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image,
And mock your workings in a second body.
Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;
Be now the father, and propose a son;
Hear your own dignity so much profan'd,
See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd;
And then imagine me taking your part
And, in your power, soft silencing your son.
After this cold considerance, sentence me;
And, as you are a king, speak in your state
What I have done that misbecame my place,
My person, or my liege's sovereignty.",241,18930
641008,3373,"You are right, Justice, and you weigh this well;
Therefore still bear the balance and the sword;
And I do wish your honours may increase
Till you do live to see a son of mine
Offend you, and obey you, as I did.
So shall I live to speak my father's words:
'Happy am I that have a man so bold
That dares do justice on my proper son;
And not less happy, having such a son
That would deliver up his greatness so
Into the hands of justice.' You did commit me;
For which I do commit into your hand
Th' unstained sword that you have us'd to bear;
With this remembrance--that you use the same
With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit
As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand.
You shall be as a father to my youth;
My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear;
And I will stoop and humble my intents
To your well-practis'd wise directions.
And, Princes all, believe me, I beseech you,
My father is gone wild into his grave,
For in his tomb lie my affections;
And with his spirits sadly I survive,
To mock the expectation of the world,
To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out
Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down
After my seeming. The tide of blood in me
Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now.
Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea,
Where it shall mingle with the state of floods,
And flow henceforth in formal majesty.
Now call we our high court of parliament;
And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel,
That the great body of our state may go
In equal rank with the best govern'd nation;
That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
As things acquainted and familiar to us;
In which you, father, shall have foremost hand.
Our coronation done, we will accite,
As I before rememb'red, all our state;
And--God consigning to my good intents-
No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say,
God shorten Harry's happy life one day.   Exeunt",573,18930
641009,3418,"Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, SILENCE, BARDOLPH, the PAGE, and DAVY",1261,18931
641010,3419,"Nay, you shall see my orchard, where, in an arbour, we
will eat a last year's pippin of mine own graffing, with a
of caraways, and so forth. Come, cousin Silence. And then to",1085,18931
641011,3424,"Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and rich.",393,18931
641012,3425,"Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars all, Sir
-marry, good air. Spread, Davy, spread, Davy; well said,",1085,18931
641013,3429,"This Davy serves you for good uses; he is your
serving-man and your husband.",393,18931
641014,3431,"A good varlet, a good varlet, a very good varlet, Sir
John. By the mass, I have drunk too much sack at supper. A
varlet. Now sit down, now sit down; come, cousin.",1085,18931
641015,3435,"Ah, sirrah! quoth-a--we shall    [Singing]
   Do nothing but eat and make good cheer,
   And praise God for the merry year;
   When flesh is cheap and females dear,
   And lusty lads roam here and there,
    So merrily,
   And ever among so merrily.",1092,18931
641016,3442,"There's a merry heart! Good Master Silence, I'll give
a health for that anon.",393,18931
641017,3445,"Give Master Bardolph some wine, Davy.",1085,18931
641018,3446,"Sweet sir, sit; I'll be with you anon; most sweet sir,
Master Page, good Master Page, sit. Proface! What you want in
meat, we'll have in drink. But you must bear; the heart's",302,18931
641019,3452,"Be merry, Master Bardolph; and, my little soldier
be merry.",1085,18931
641020,3455,"[Singing]
  Be merry, be merry, my wife has all;
  For women are shrews, both short and tall;
  'Tis merry in hall when beards wag an;
  And welcome merry Shrove-tide.
  Be merry, be merry.",1092,18931
641021,3461,"I did not think Master Silence had been a man of this
mettle.",393,18931
641022,3463,"Who, I? I have been merry twice and once ere now.",1092,18931
641023,3464,    Re-enter DAVY,1261,18931
641024,3465,[To BARDOLPH] There's a dish of leather-coats for you.,302,18931
641025,3466,Davy!,1085,18931
641026,3467,"Your worship! I'll be with you straight. [To BARDOLPH]
A cup of wine, sir?",302,18931
641027,3469,"[Singing]
  A cup of wine that's brisk and fine,
  And drink unto the leman mine;
  And a merry heart lives long-a.",1092,18931
641028,3473,"Well said, Master Silence.",393,18931
641029,3474,"An we shall be merry, now comes in the sweet o' th'",1092,18931
641030,3476,"Health and long life to you, Master Silence!",393,18931
641031,3477,"[Singing]
  Fill the cup, and let it come,
  I'll pledge you a mile to th' bottom.",1092,18931
641032,3480,"Honest Bardolph, welcome; if thou want'st anything and
wilt not call, beshrew thy heart. Welcome, my little tiny
and welcome indeed too. I'll drink to Master Bardolph, and to
the cabileros about London.",1085,18931
641033,3486,I hope to see London once ere I die.,302,18931
641034,3487,"An I might see you there, Davy!",144,18931
641035,3488,"By the mass, you'll crack a quart together--ha! will
not, Master Bardolph?",1085,18931
641036,3491,"Yea, sir, in a pottle-pot.",144,18931
641037,3492,"By God's liggens, I thank thee. The knave will stick
thee, I can assure thee that. 'A will not out, 'a; 'tis true
bred.",1085,18931
641038,3496,"And I'll stick by him, sir.",144,18931
641039,3497,"Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing; be merry.
[One knocks at door] Look who's at door there, ho! Who",1085,18931
641040,3500,            Exit DAVY,1261,18931
641041,3501,"[To SILENCE, who has drunk a bumper] Why, now you
done me right.",393,18931
641042,3504,"[Singing]
  Do me right,
  And dub me knight.
  Samingo.
Is't not so?",1092,18931
641045,3511,    Re-enter DAVY,1261,18931
641046,3512,"An't please your worship, there's one Pistol come from
court with news.",302,18931
641047,3515,"From the court? Let him come in.
[Enter PISTOL]
How now, Pistol?",393,18931
641048,3518,"Sir John, God save you!",891,18931
641049,3519,"What wind blew you hither, Pistol?",393,18931
641050,3520,"Not the ill wind which blows no man to good. Sweet
thou art now one of the greatest men in this realm.",891,18931
641051,3523,"By'r lady, I think 'a be, but goodman Puff of Barson.",1092,18931
641052,3524,"Puff!
Puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base!
Sir John, I am thy Pistol and thy friend,
And helter-skelter have I rode to thee;
And tidings do I bring, and lucky joys,
And golden times, and happy news of price.",891,18931
641053,3530,"I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this",393,18931
641054,3532,"A foutra for the world and worldlings base!
I speak of Africa and golden joys.",891,18931
641055,3534,"O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news?
Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof.",393,18931
641056,3536,"[Singing] And Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John.",1092,18931
641057,3537,"Shall dunghill curs confront the Helicons?
And shall good news be baffled?
Then, Pistol, lay thy head in Furies' lap.",891,18931
641058,3540,"Honest gentleman, I know not your breeding.",1085,18931
641059,3541,"Why, then, lament therefore.",891,18931
641060,3542,"Give me pardon, sir. If, sir, you come with news from
court, I take it there's but two ways--either to utter them
conceal them. I am, sir, under the King, in some authority.",1085,18931
641061,3547,"Under which king, Bezonian? Speak, or die.",891,18931
641062,3548,Under King Harry.,1085,18931
641063,3549,Harry the Fourth--or Fifth?,891,18931
641064,3550,Harry the Fourth.,1085,18931
641065,3551,"A foutra for thine office!
Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is King;
Harry the Fifth's the man. I speak the truth.
When Pistol lies, do this; and fig me, like
The bragging Spaniard.",891,18931
641066,3556,"What, is the old king dead?",393,18931
641067,3557,As nail in door. The things I speak are just.,891,18931
641068,3558,"Away, Bardolph! saddle my horse. Master Robert
choose what office thou wilt in the land, 'tis thine. Pistol,
will double-charge thee with dignities.",393,18931
641069,3563,"O joyful day!
I would not take a knighthood for my fortune.",144,18931
641070,3565,"What, I do bring good news?",891,18931
641071,3566,"Carry Master Silence to bed. Master Shallow, my Lord
Shallow, be what thou wilt--I am Fortune's steward. Get on
boots; we'll ride all night. O sweet Pistol! Away, Bardolph!
[Exit BARDOLPH] Come, Pistol, utter more to me; and withal
devise something to do thyself good. Boot, boot, Master
I know the young King is sick for me. Let us take any man's
horses: the laws of England are at my commandment. Blessed
they that have been my friends; and woe to my Lord Chief",393,18931
641072,3578,"Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also!
'Where is the life that late I led?' say they.
Why, here it is; welcome these pleasant days!   Exeunt",891,18931
641073,3582,"Enter BEADLES, dragging in HOSTESS QUICKLY and DOLL TEARSHEET",1261,18932
641074,3583,"No, thou arrant knave; I would to God that I might die,
that I might have thee hang'd. Thou hast drawn my shoulder out of
joint.",936,18932
641075,3586,"The constables have delivered her over to me; and she
shall have whipping-cheer enough, I warrant her. There hath been
a man or two lately kill'd about her.",154,18932
641076,3589,"Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie. Come on; I'll tell thee what,
thou damn'd tripe-visag'd rascal, an the child I now go with do
miscarry, thou wert better thou hadst struck thy mother, thou
paper-fac'd villain.",1157,18932
641077,3593,"O the Lord, that Sir John were come! He would make this a
bloody day to somebody. But I pray God the fruit of her womb
miscarry!",936,18932
641078,3596,"If it do, you shall have a dozen of cushions again;
you have but eleven now. Come, I charge you both go with me; for
the man is dead that you and Pistol beat amongst you.",154,18932
641079,3599,"I'll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you
as soundly swing'd for this--you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy
famish'd correctioner, if you be not swing'd, I'll forswear
half-kirtles.",1157,18932
641080,3603,"Come, come, you she knight-errant, come.",154,18932
641081,3604,"O God, that right should thus overcome might!
Well, of sufferance comes ease.",936,18932
641082,3606,"Come, you rogue, come; bring me to a justice.",1157,18932
641083,3607,"Ay, come, you starv'd bloodhound.",936,18932
641084,3608,"Goodman death, goodman bones!",1157,18932
641085,3609,"Thou atomy, thou!",936,18932
641086,3610,"Come, you thin thing! come, you rascal!",1157,18932
641087,3611,Very well.       Exeunt,154,18932
641088,3613,"Enter GROOMS, strewing rushes",1261,18933
641089,3614,"More rushes, more rushes!",547,18933
641090,3615,The trumpets have sounded twice.,548,18933
641091,3616,"'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the
coronation. Dispatch, dispatch.     Exeunt",549,18933
641092,3618," Trumpets sound, and the KING and his train pass over the stage. After them enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and page",1261,18933
641093,3619,"Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow; I will make the
King do you grace. I will leer upon him, as 'a comes by; and do
but mark the countenance that he will give me.",393,18933
641094,3622,"God bless thy lungs, good knight!",891,18933
641095,3623,"Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. [To SHALLOW] O, if
I had had to have made new liveries, I would have bestowed the
thousand pound I borrowed of you. But 'tis no matter; this poor
show doth better; this doth infer the zeal I had to see him.",393,18933
641096,3627,It doth so.,1085,18933
641097,3628,It shows my earnestness of affection-,393,18933
641098,3629,It doth so.,1085,18933
641099,3630,My devotion--,393,18933
641100,3631,"It doth, it doth, it doth.",1085,18933
641101,3632,"As it were, to ride day and night; and not to
not to remember, not to have patience to shift me--",393,18933
641102,3635,"It is best, certain.",1085,18933
641103,3636,"But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with
desire to see him; thinking of nothing else, putting all
else in oblivion, as if there were nothing else to be done
see him.",393,18933
641104,3642,"'Tis 'semper idem' for 'obsque hoc nihil est.' 'Tis all
every part.",891,18933
641105,3645,"'Tis so, indeed.",1085,18933
641106,3646,"My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver
And make thee rage.
Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,
Is in base durance and contagious prison;
Hal'd thither
By most mechanical and dirty hand.
Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto's snake,
For Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth.",891,18933
641107,3654,I will deliver her.,393,18933
641108,3655,"    [Shouts,within, and the trumpets sound]",1261,18933
641109,3656,"There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.",891,18933
641110,3657," Enter the KING and his train, the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE among them",1261,18933
641111,3658,"God save thy Grace, King Hal; my royal Hal!",393,18933
641112,3659,"The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of",891,18933
641113,3661,"God save thee, my sweet boy!",393,18933
641114,3662,"My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man.",573,18933
641115,3663,Have you your wits? Know you what 'tis you,241,18933
641116,3665,"My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!",393,18933
641117,3666,"I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers.
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
I have long dreamt of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane;
But being awak'd, I do despise my dream.
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other men--
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest;
Presume not that I am the thing I was,
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn'd away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.
When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,
The tutor and the feeder of my riots.
Till then I banish thee, on pain of death,
As I have done the rest of my misleaders,
Not to come near our person by ten mile.
For competence of life I will allow you,
That lack of means enforce you not to evils;
And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,
We will, according to your strengths and qualities,
Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,
To see perform'd the tenour of our word.
Set on.     Exeunt the KING and his train",573,18933
641118,3692,"Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pounds.",393,18933
641119,3693,"Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me
home with me.",1085,18933
641120,3696,"That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you grieve
this; I shall be sent for in private to him. Look you, he
seem thus to the world. Fear not your advancements; I will be
man yet that shall make you great.",393,18933
641121,3703,"I cannot perceive how, unless you give me your
and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you, good Sir John,
have five hundred of my thousand.",1085,18933
641122,3708,"Sir, I will be as good as my word. This that you
was but a colour.",393,18933
641123,3711,"A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir John.",1085,18933
641124,3712,"Fear no colours; go with me to dinner. Come,
Pistol; come, Bardolph. I shall be sent for soon at night.",393,18933
641125,3715," Re-enter PRINCE JOHN, the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, with officers",1261,18933
641126,3716,"Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet;
Take all his company along with him.",241,18933
641127,3718,"My lord, my lord--",393,18933
641128,3719,"I cannot now speak. I will hear you soon.
Take them away.",241,18933
641129,3721,"Si fortuna me tormenta, spero me contenta.",891,18933
641130,3722,Exeunt all but PRINCE JOHN and the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE,1261,18933
641131,3723,"I like this fair proceeding of the King's.
He hath intent his wonted followers
Shall all be very well provided for;
But all are banish'd till their conversations
Appear more wise and modest to the world.",919,18933
641132,3728,And so they are.,241,18933
641133,3729,"The King hath call'd his parliament, my lord.",919,18933
641134,3730,He hath.,241,18933
641135,3731,"I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,
We bear our civil swords and native fire
As far as France. I heard a bird so sing,
Whose music, to my thinking, pleas'd the King.
Come, will you hence?         Exeunt",919,18933
641136,3736,      EPILOGUE.,1261,18933
641137,3737,"[who says this???] First my fear, then my curtsy, last my speech. My fear, is your",1261,18933
641138,3738,"displeasure; my curtsy, my duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons.",1261,18933
641139,3739,"If you look for a good speech now, you undo me; for what I have",1261,18933
641140,3740,"to say is of mine own making; and what, indeed, I should say will, I doubt,",1261,18933
641141,3741,"prove mine own marring. But to the purpose, and so to the",1261,18933
641142,3742,venture.,1261,18933
641143,3743,"Be it known to you, as it is very well, I was lately here in the",1261,18933
641144,3744,"end of a displeasing play, to pray your patience for it and to",1261,18933
641145,3745,"promise you a better. I meant, indeed, to pay you with this; which if like an",1261,18933
641146,3746,"ill venture it come unluckily home, I break, and you, my gentle",1261,18933
641147,3747,"creditors, lose. Here I promis'd you I would be, and here I",1261,18933
641148,3748,"commit my body to your mercies. Bate me some, and I will pay you some,",1261,18933
641149,3749,"and, as most debtors do, promise you infinitely; and so I kneel down",1261,18933
641150,3750,"before you--but, indeed, to pray for the Queen.",1261,18933
641151,3751,"If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, will you command",1261,18933
641152,3752,me to use my legs? And yet that were but light payment--to dance out of,1261,18933
641153,3753,your debt. But a good conscience will make any possible,1261,18933
641154,3754,"satisfaction, and so would I. All the gentlewomen here have",1261,18933
641155,3755,"forgiven me. If the gentlemen will not, then the gentlemen do not agree",1261,18933
641156,3756,"with the gentlewomen, which was never seen before in such an assembly.",1261,18933
641157,3757,"One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too much cloy'd",1261,18933
641158,3758,"with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in",1261,18933
641159,3759,"it, and make you merry with fair Katherine of France; where, for",1261,18933
641160,3760,"anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already 'a",1261,18933
641161,3761,be killed with your hard opinions; for Oldcastle died a martyr and,1261,18933
641162,3762,"this is not the man. My tongue is weary; when my legs are too, I will",1261,18933
641163,3763,bid you good night.,1261,18933
641164,3764,THE END,1261,18933
641165,3,[Enter Chorus],1261,18934
641166,4,"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire
Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,
The flat unraised spirits that have dared
On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object: can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
Within this wooden O the very casques
That did affright the air at Agincourt?
O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
Attest in little place a million;
And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,
On your imaginary forces work.
Suppose within the girdle of these walls
Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:
Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;
Into a thousand parts divide on man,
And make imaginary puissance;
Think when we talk of horses, that you see them
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;
For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,
Turning the accomplishment of many years
Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,
Admit me Chorus to this history;
Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,
Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.",244,18934
641167,38,[Exit],1261,18934
641168,41,"[Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP OF ELY]",1261,18935
641169,42,"My lord, I'll tell you; that self bill is urged,
Which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign
Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd,
But that the scambling and unquiet time
Did push it out of farther question.",214,18935
641170,47,"But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?",378,18935
641171,48,"It must be thought on. If it pass against us,
We lose the better half of our possession:
For all the temporal lands which men devout
By testament have given to the church
Would they strip from us; being valued thus:
As much as would maintain, to the king's honour,
Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,
Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;
And, to relief of lazars and weak age,
Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil.
A hundred almshouses right well supplied;
And to the coffers of the king beside,
A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill.",214,18935
641172,61,This would drink deep.,378,18935
641178,80,We are blessed in the change.,378,18935
641179,81,"Hear him but reason in divinity,
And all-admiring with an inward wish
You would desire the king were made a prelate:
Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,
You would say it hath been all in all his study:
List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle render'd you in music:
Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,
The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,
And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,
To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences;
So that the art and practic part of life
Must be the mistress to this theoric:
Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it,
Since his addiction was to courses vain,
His companies unletter'd, rude and shallow,
His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports,
And never noted in him any study,
Any retirement, any sequestration
From open haunts and popularity.",214,18935
641180,103,"The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality:
And so the prince obscured his contemplation
Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,
Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,
Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.",378,18935
641181,110,"It must be so; for miracles are ceased;
And therefore we must needs admit the means
How things are perfected.",214,18935
641182,113,"But, my good lord,
How now for mitigation of this bill
Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty
Incline to it, or no?",378,18935
641183,117,"He seems indifferent,
Or rather swaying more upon our part
Than cherishing the exhibiters against us;
For I have made an offer to his majesty,
Upon our spiritual convocation
And in regard of causes now in hand,
Which I have open'd to his grace at large,
As touching France, to give a greater sum
Than ever at one time the clergy yet
Did to his predecessors part withal.",214,18935
641184,127,"How did this offer seem received, my lord?",378,18935
641185,128,"With good acceptance of his majesty;
Save that there was not time enough to hear,
As I perceived his grace would fain have done,
The severals and unhidden passages
Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms
And generally to the crown and seat of France
Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather.",214,18935
641186,135,What was the impediment that broke this off?,378,18935
641187,136,"The French ambassador upon that instant
Craved audience; and the hour, I think, is come
To give him hearing: is it four o'clock?",214,18935
641188,139,It is.,378,18935
641189,140,"Then go we in, to know his embassy;
Which I could with a ready guess declare,
Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.",214,18935
641190,143,"I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it.",378,18935
641191,144,"[Exeunt]
[Enter KING HENRY V, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER,]
WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and Attendants]",1261,18935
641192,148,Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?,573,18936
641193,149,Not here in presence.,389,18936
641194,150,"Send for him, good uncle.",573,18936
641195,151,"Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?",1250,18936
641196,152,"Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolved,
Before we hear him, of some things of weight
That task our thoughts, concerning us and France.",573,18936
641197,155,"[Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP of ELY]",1261,18936
641198,156,"God and his angels guard your sacred throne
And make you long become it!",214,18936
641199,158,"Sure, we thank you.
My learned lord, we pray you to proceed
And justly and religiously unfold
Why the law Salique that they have in France
Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim:
And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,
That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,
Or nicely charge your understanding soul
With opening titles miscreate, whose right
Suits not in native colours with the truth;
For God doth know how many now in health
Shall drop their blood in approbation
Of what your reverence shall incite us to.
Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,
How you awake our sleeping sword of war:
We charge you, in the name of God, take heed;
For never two such kingdoms did contend
Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless drops
Are every one a woe, a sore complaint
'Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the swords
That make such waste in brief mortality.
Under this conjuration, speak, my lord;
For we will hear, note and believe in heart
That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd
As pure as sin with baptism.",573,18936
641200,183,"Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,
That owe yourselves, your lives and services
To this imperial throne. There is no bar
To make against your highness' claim to France
But this, which they produce from Pharamond,
'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant:'
'No woman shall succeed in Salique land:'
Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze
To be the realm of France, and Pharamond
The founder of this law and female bar.
Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
That the land Salique is in Germany,
Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;
Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,
There left behind and settled certain French;
Who, holding in disdain the German women
For some dishonest manners of their life,
Establish'd then this law; to wit, no female
Should be inheritrix in Salique land:
Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala,
Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen.
Then doth it well appear that Salique law
Was not devised for the realm of France:
Nor did the French possess the Salique land
Until four hundred one and twenty years
After defunction of King Pharamond,
Idly supposed the founder of this law;
Who died within the year of our redemption
Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great
Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French
Beyond the river Sala, in the year
Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,
King Pepin, which deposed Childeric,
Did, as heir general, being descended
Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,
Make claim and title to the crown of France.
Hugh Capet also, who usurped the crown
Of Charles the duke of Lorraine, sole heir male
Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great,
To find his title with some shows of truth,
'Through, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught,
Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare,
Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son
To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son
Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tenth,
Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,
Could not keep quiet in his conscience,
Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied
That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother,
Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare,
Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorraine:
By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great
Was re-united to the crown of France.
So that, as clear as is the summer's sun.
King Pepin's title and Hugh Capet's claim,
King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear
To hold in right and title of the female:
So do the kings of France unto this day;
Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law
To bar your highness claiming from the female,
And rather choose to hide them in a net
Than amply to imbar their crooked titles
Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.",214,18936
641201,246,May I with right and conscience make this claim?,573,18936
641202,247,"The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!
For in the book of Numbers is it writ,
When the man dies, let the inheritance
Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord,
Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag;
Look back into your mighty ancestors:
Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb,
From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,
And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince,
Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy,
Making defeat on the full power of France,
Whiles his most mighty father on a hill
Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp
Forage in blood of French nobility.
O noble English. that could entertain
With half their forces the full Pride of France
And let another half stand laughing by,
All out of work and cold for action!",214,18936
641203,265,"Awake remembrance of these valiant dead
And with your puissant arm renew their feats:
You are their heir; you sit upon their throne;
The blood and courage that renowned them
Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege
Is in the very May-morn of his youth,
Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.",378,18936
641204,272,"Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth
Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,
As did the former lions of your blood.",389,18936
641205,275,"They know your grace hath cause and means and might;
So hath your highness; never king of England
Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,
Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England
And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France.",1250,18936
641206,280,"O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,
With blood and sword and fire to win your right;
In aid whereof we of the spiritualty
Will raise your highness such a mighty sum
As never did the clergy at one time
Bring in to any of your ancestors.",214,18936
641207,286,"We must not only arm to invade the French,
But lay down our proportions to defend
Against the Scot, who will make road upon us
With all advantages.",573,18936
641208,290,"They of those marches, gracious sovereign,
Shall be a wall sufficient to defend
Our inland from the pilfering borderers.",214,18936
641209,293,"We do not mean the coursing snatchers only,
But fear the main intendment of the Scot,
Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us;
For you shall read that my great-grandfather
Never went with his forces into France
But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom
Came pouring, like the tide into a breach,
With ample and brim fulness of his force,
Galling the gleaned land with hot assays,
Girding with grievous siege castles and towns;
That England, being empty of defence,
Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood.",573,18936
641210,305,"She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege;
For hear her but exampled by herself:
When all her chivalry hath been in France
And she a mourning widow of her nobles,
She hath herself not only well defended
But taken and impounded as a stray
The King of Scots; whom she did send to France,
To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings
And make her chronicle as rich with praise
As is the ooze and bottom of the sea
With sunken wreck and sunless treasuries.",214,18936
641211,316,"But there's a saying very old and true,
'If that you will France win,
Then with Scotland first begin:'
For once the eagle England being in prey,
To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot
Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs,
Playing the mouse in absence of the cat,
To tear and havoc more than she can eat.",1250,18936
641212,324,"It follows then the cat must stay at home:
Yet that is but a crush'd necessity,
Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries,
And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.
While that the armed hand doth fight abroad,
The advised head defends itself at home;
For government, though high and low and lower,
Put into parts, doth keep in one consent,
Congreeing in a full and natural close,
Like music.",389,18936
641213,334,"Therefore doth heaven divide
The state of man in divers functions,
Setting endeavour in continual motion;
To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
Obedience: for so work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home,
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad,
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,
Which pillage they with merry march bring home
To the tent-royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold,
The civil citizens kneading up the honey,
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,
The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,
Delivering o'er to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,
That many things, having full reference
To one consent, may work contrariously:
As many arrows, loosed several ways,
Come to one mark; as many ways meet in one town;
As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea;
As many lines close in the dial's centre;
So may a thousand actions, once afoot.
End in one purpose, and be all well borne
Without defeat. Therefore to France, my liege.
Divide your happy England into four;
Whereof take you one quarter into France,
And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.
If we, with thrice such powers left at home,
Cannot defend our own doors from the dog,
Let us be worried and our nation lose
The name of hardiness and policy.",214,18936
641214,372,"Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.
[Exeunt some Attendants]
Now are we well resolved; and, by God's help,
And yours, the noble sinews of our power,
France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe,
Or break it all to pieces: or there we'll sit,
Ruling in large and ample empery
O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms,
Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,
Tombless, with no remembrance over them:
Either our history shall with full mouth
Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph.
[Enter Ambassadors of France]
Now are we well prepared to know the pleasure
Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for we hear
Your greeting is from him, not from the king.",573,18936
641215,390,"May't please your majesty to give us leave
Freely to render what we have in charge;
Or shall we sparingly show you far off
The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy?",403,18936
641216,394,"We are no tyrant, but a Christian king;
Unto whose grace our passion is as subject
As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons:
Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness
Tell us the Dauphin's mind.",573,18936
641217,399,"Thus, then, in few.
Your highness, lately sending into France,
Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right
Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.
In answer of which claim, the prince our master
Says that you savour too much of your youth,
And bids you be advised there's nought in France
That can be with a nimble galliard won;
You cannot revel into dukedoms there.
He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,
Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim
Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.",403,18936
641218,412,"What treasure, uncle?",573,18936
641219,413,"Tennis-balls, my liege.",389,18936
641220,414,"We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;
His present and your pains we thank you for:
When we have march'd our rackets to these balls,
We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set
Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler
That all the courts of France will be disturb'd
With chaces. And we understand him well,
How he comes o'er us with our wilder days,
Not measuring what use we made of them.
We never valued this poor seat of England;
And therefore, living hence, did give ourself
To barbarous licence; as 'tis ever common
That men are merriest when they are from home.
But tell the Dauphin I will keep my state,
Be like a king and show my sail of greatness
When I do rouse me in my throne of France:
For that I have laid by my majesty
And plodded like a man for working-days,
But I will rise there with so full a glory
That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,
Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.
And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his
Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his soul
Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance
That shall fly with them: for many a thousand widows
Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands;
Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;
And some are yet ungotten and unborn
That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn.
But this lies all within the will of God,
To whom I do appeal; and in whose name
Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on,
To venge me as I may and to put forth
My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
So get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin
His jest will savour but of shallow wit,
When thousands weep more than did laugh at it.
Convey them with safe conduct. Fare you well.",573,18936
641221,453,[Exeunt Ambassadors],1261,18936
641222,454,This was a merry message.,389,18936
641223,455,"We hope to make the sender blush at it.
Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour
That may give furtherance to our expedition;
For we have now no thought in us but France,
Save those to God, that run before our business.
Therefore let our proportions for these wars
Be soon collected and all things thought upon
That may with reasonable swiftness add
More feathers to our wings; for, God before,
We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door.
Therefore let every man now task his thought,
That this fair action may on foot be brought.",573,18936
641224,467,[Exeunt. Flourish],1261,18936
641225,470,[Enter Chorus],1261,18937
641226,471,"Now all the youth of England are on fire,
And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies:
Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought
Reigns solely in the breast of every man:
They sell the pasture now to buy the horse,
Following the mirror of all Christian kings,
With winged heels, as English Mercuries.
For now sits Expectation in the air,
And hides a sword from hilts unto the point
With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets,
Promised to Harry and his followers.
The French, advised by good intelligence
Of this most dreadful preparation,
Shake in their fear and with pale policy
Seek to divert the English purposes.
O England! model to thy inward greatness,
Like little body with a mighty heart,
What mightst thou do, that honour would thee do,
Were all thy children kind and natural!
But see thy fault! France hath in thee found out
A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills
With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men,
One, Richard Earl of Cambridge, and the second,
Henry Lord Scroop of Masham, and the third,
Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland,
Have, for the gilt of France,--O guilt indeed!
Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France;
And by their hands this grace of kings must die,
If hell and treason hold their promises,
Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.
Linger your patience on; and we'll digest
The abuse of distance; force a play:
The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed;
The king is set from London; and the scene
Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton;
There is the playhouse now, there must you sit:
And thence to France shall we convey you safe,
And bring you back, charming the narrow seas
To give you gentle pass; for, if we may,
We'll not offend one stomach with our play.
But, till the king come forth, and not till then,
Unto Southampton do we shift our scene.",244,18937
641227,513,[Exit],1261,18937
641228,516,[Enter Corporal NYM and Lieutenant BARDOLPH],1261,18938
641229,517,"Well met, Corporal Nym.",144,18938
641230,518,"Good morrow, Lieutenant Bardolph.",820,18938
641231,519,"What, are Ancient Pistol and you friends yet?",144,18938
641232,520,"For my part, I care not: I say little; but when
time shall serve, there shall be smiles; but that
shall be as it may. I dare not fight; but I will
wink and hold out mine iron: it is a simple one; but
what though? it will toast cheese, and it will
endure cold as another man's sword will: and
there's an end.",820,18938
641233,527,"I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends; and
we'll be all three sworn brothers to France: let it
be so, good Corporal Nym.",144,18938
641234,530,"Faith, I will live so long as I may, that's the
certain of it; and when I cannot live any longer, I
will do as I may: that is my rest, that is the
rendezvous of it.",820,18938
641235,534,"It is certain, corporal, that he is married to Nell
Quickly: and certainly she did you wrong; for you
were troth-plight to her.",144,18938
641236,537,"I cannot tell: things must be as they may: men may
sleep, and they may have their throats about them at
that time; and some say knives have edges. It must
be as it may: though patience be a tired mare, yet
she will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I
cannot tell.",820,18938
641237,543,[Enter PISTOL and Hostess],1261,18938
641238,544,"Here comes Ancient Pistol and his wife: good
corporal, be patient here. How now, mine host Pistol!",144,18938
641239,546,"Base tike, call'st thou me host? Now, by this hand,
I swear, I scorn the term; Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers.",891,18938
641240,548,"No, by my troth, not long; for we cannot lodge and
board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live
honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will
be thought we keep a bawdy house straight.
[NYM and PISTOL draw]
O well a day, Lady, if he be not drawn now! we
shall see wilful adultery and murder committed.",936,18938
641241,555,Good lieutenant! good corporal! offer nothing here.,144,18938
641242,556,Pish!,820,18938
641243,557,"Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland!",891,18938
641244,558,"Good Corporal Nym, show thy valour, and put up your sword.",936,18938
641245,559,Will you shog off? I would have you solus.,820,18938
641246,560,"'Solus,' egregious dog? O viper vile!
The 'solus' in thy most mervailous face;
The 'solus' in thy teeth, and in thy throat,
And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy,
And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth!
I do retort the 'solus' in thy bowels;
For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up,
And flashing fire will follow.",891,18938
641247,568,"I am not Barbason; you cannot conjure me. I have an
humour to knock you indifferently well. If you grow
foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my
rapier, as I may, in fair terms: if you would walk
off, I would prick your guts a little, in good
terms, as I may: and that's the humour of it.",820,18938
641248,574,"O braggart vile and damned furious wight!
The grave doth gape, and doting death is near;
Therefore exhale.",891,18938
641249,577,"Hear me, hear me what I say: he that strikes the
first stroke, I'll run him up to the hilts, as I am a soldier.",144,18938
641250,579,[Draws],1261,18938
641251,580,"An oath of mickle might; and fury shall abate.
Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give:
Thy spirits are most tall.",891,18938
641252,583,"I will cut thy throat, one time or other, in fair
terms: that is the humour of it.",820,18938
641253,585,"'Couple a gorge!'
That is the word. I thee defy again.
O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get?
No; to the spital go,
And from the powdering tub of infamy
Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind,
Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse:
I have, and I will hold, the quondam Quickly
For the only she; and--pauca, there's enough. Go to.",891,18938
641254,594,[Enter the Boy],1261,18938
641255,595,"Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master, and
you, hostess: he is very sick, and would to bed.
Good Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and
do the office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill.",193,18938
641256,599,"Away, you rogue!",144,18938
641257,600,"By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of
these days. The king has killed his heart. Good
husband, come home presently.",936,18938
641258,603,[Exeunt Hostess and Boy],1261,18938
641259,604,"Come, shall I make you two friends? We must to
France together: why the devil should we keep
knives to cut one another's throats?",144,18938
641260,607,"Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on!",891,18938
641261,608,You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting?,820,18938
641262,609,Base is the slave that pays.,891,18938
641263,610,That now I will have: that's the humour of it.,820,18938
641264,611,As manhood shall compound: push home.,891,18938
641265,612,[They draw],1261,18938
641266,613,"By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I'll
kill him; by this sword, I will.",144,18938
641267,615,"Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course.",891,18938
641268,616,"Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, be friends:
an thou wilt not, why, then, be enemies with me too.
Prithee, put up.",144,18938
641269,619,I shall have my eight shillings I won of you at betting?,820,18938
641270,620,"A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;
And liquor likewise will I give to thee,
And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood:
I'll live by Nym, and Nym shall live by me;
Is not this just? for I shall sutler be
Unto the camp, and profits will accrue.
Give me thy hand.",891,18938
641271,627,I shall have my noble?,820,18938
641272,628,In cash most justly paid.,891,18938
641273,629,"Well, then, that's the humour of't.",820,18938
641274,630,[Re-enter Hostess],1261,18938
641275,631,"As ever you came of women, come in quickly to Sir
John. Ah, poor heart! he is so shaked of a burning
quotidian tertian, that it is most lamentable to
behold. Sweet men, come to him.",936,18938
641276,635,"The king hath run bad humours on the knight; that's
the even of it.",820,18938
641277,637,"Nym, thou hast spoke the right;
His heart is fracted and corroborate.",891,18938
641278,639,"The king is a good king: but it must be as it may;
he passes some humours and careers.",820,18938
641279,641,"Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins we will live.",891,18938
641280,643,"[Enter EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND]",1261,18939
641281,644,"'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors.",157,18939
641282,645,They shall be apprehended by and by.,389,18939
641283,646,"How smooth and even they do bear themselves!
As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,
Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.",1250,18939
641284,649,"The king hath note of all that they intend,
By interception which they dream not of.",157,18939
641285,651,"Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,
Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours,
That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell
His sovereign's life to death and treachery.
[Trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY V, SCROOP,]
CAMBRIDGE, GREY, and Attendants]",389,18939
641286,657,"Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.
My Lord of Cambridge, and my kind Lord of Masham,
And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts:
Think you not that the powers we bear with us
Will cut their passage through the force of France,
Doing the execution and the act
For which we have in head assembled them?",573,18939
641287,664,"No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.",696,18939
641288,665,"I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded
We carry not a heart with us from hence
That grows not in a fair consent with ours,
Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish
Success and conquest to attend on us.",573,18939
641289,670,"Never was monarch better fear'd and loved
Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject
That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness
Under the sweet shade of your government.",210,18939
641290,674,"True: those that were your father's enemies
Have steep'd their galls in honey and do serve you
With hearts create of duty and of zeal.",544,18939
641291,677,"We therefore have great cause of thankfulness;
And shall forget the office of our hand,
Sooner than quittance of desert and merit
According to the weight and worthiness.",573,18939
641292,681,"So service shall with steeled sinews toil,
And labour shall refresh itself with hope,
To do your grace incessant services.",696,18939
641293,684,"We judge no less. Uncle of Exeter,
Enlarge the man committed yesterday,
That rail'd against our person: we consider
it was excess of wine that set him on;
And on his more advice we pardon him.",573,18939
641294,689,"That's mercy, but too much security:
Let him be punish'd, sovereign, lest example
Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.",696,18939
641295,692,"O, let us yet be merciful.",573,18939
641296,693,"So may your highness, and yet punish too.",210,18939
641297,694,"Sir,
You show great mercy, if you give him life,
After the taste of much correction.",544,18939
641298,697,"Alas, your too much love and care of me
Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch!
If little faults, proceeding on distemper,
Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye
When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested,
Appear before us? We'll yet enlarge that man,
Though Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, in their dear care
And tender preservation of our person,
Would have him punished. And now to our French causes:
Who are the late commissioners?",573,18939
641299,707,"I one, my lord:
Your highness bade me ask for it to-day.",210,18939
641300,709,"So did you me, my liege.",696,18939
641301,710,"And I, my royal sovereign.",544,18939
641302,711,"Then, Richard Earl of Cambridge, there is yours;
There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham; and, sir knight,
Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours:
Read them; and know, I know your worthiness.
My Lord of Westmoreland, and uncle Exeter,
We will aboard to night. Why, how now, gentlemen!
What see you in those papers that you lose
So much complexion? Look ye, how they change!
Their cheeks are paper. Why, what read you there
That hath so cowarded and chased your blood
Out of appearance?",573,18939
641303,722,"I do confess my fault;
And do submit me to your highness' mercy.",210,18939
641304,724,[with Scroop] To which we all appeal.,544,18939
641305,725,"The mercy that was quick in us but late,
By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd:
You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy;
For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,
As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.
See you, my princes, and my noble peers,
These English monsters! My Lord of Cambridge here,
You know how apt our love was to accord
To furnish him with all appertinents
Belonging to his honour; and this man
Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired,
And sworn unto the practises of France,
To kill us here in Hampton: to the which
This knight, no less for bounty bound to us
Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But, O,
What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel,
Ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature!
Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels,
That knew'st the very bottom of my soul,
That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold,
Wouldst thou have practised on me for thy use,
May it be possible, that foreign hire
Could out of thee extract one spark of evil
That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange,
That, though the truth of it stands off as gross
As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it.
Treason and murder ever kept together,
As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,
Working so grossly in a natural cause,
That admiration did not whoop at them:
But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in
Wonder to wait on treason and on murder:
And whatsoever cunning fiend it was
That wrought upon thee so preposterously
Hath got the voice in hell for excellence:
All other devils that suggest by treasons
Do botch and bungle up damnation
With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd
From glistering semblances of piety;
But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up,
Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason,
Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.
If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus
Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,
He might return to vasty Tartar back,
And tell the legions 'I can never win
A soul so easy as that Englishman's.'
O, how hast thou with 'jealousy infected
The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful?
Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned?
Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family?
Why, so didst thou: seem they religious?
Why, so didst thou: or are they spare in diet,
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger,
Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,
Not working with the eye without the ear,
And but in purged judgment trusting neither?
Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem:
And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,
To mark the full-fraught man and best indued
With some suspicion. I will weep for thee;
For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
Another fall of man. Their faults are open:
Arrest them to the answer of the law;
And God acquit them of their practises!",573,18939
641306,791,"I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of
Richard Earl of Cambridge.
I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of
Henry Lord Scroop of Masham.
I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of
Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland.",389,18939
641307,797,"Our purposes God justly hath discover'd;
And I repent my fault more than my death;
Which I beseech your highness to forgive,
Although my body pay the price of it.",696,18939
641308,801,"For me, the gold of France did not seduce;
Although I did admit it as a motive
The sooner to effect what I intended:
But God be thanked for prevention;
Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,
Beseeching God and you to pardon me.",210,18939
641309,807,"Never did faithful subject more rejoice
At the discovery of most dangerous treason
Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself.
Prevented from a damned enterprise:
My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.",544,18939
641310,812,"God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence.
You have conspired against our royal person,
Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd and from his coffers
Received the golden earnest of our death;
Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,
His princes and his peers to servitude,
His subjects to oppression and contempt
And his whole kingdom into desolation.
Touching our person seek we no revenge;
But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,
Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws
We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,
Poor miserable wretches, to your death:
The taste whereof, God of his mercy give
You patience to endure, and true repentance
Of all your dear offences! Bear them hence.
[Exeunt CAMBRIDGE, SCROOP and GREY, guarded]
Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof
Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.
We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,
Since God so graciously hath brought to light
This dangerous treason lurking in our way
To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now
But every rub is smoothed on our way.
Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver
Our puissance into the hand of God,
Putting it straight in expedition.
Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:
No king of England, if not king of France.",573,18939
641311,841,[Exeunt],1261,18939
641312,843,"[Enter PISTOL, Hostess, NYM, BARDOLPH, and Boy]",1261,18940
641313,844,"Prithee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines.",936,18940
641314,845,"No; for my manly heart doth yearn.
Bardolph, be blithe: Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins:
Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,
And we must yearn therefore.",891,18940
641315,849,"Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in
heaven or in hell!",144,18940
641316,851,"Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in Arthur's
bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. A' made
a finer end and went away an it had been any
christom child; a' parted even just between twelve
and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after
I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with
flowers and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew
there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as
a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. 'How now,
sir John!' quoth I. 'what, man! be o' good
cheer.' So a' cried out 'God, God, God!' three or
four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a'
should not think of God; I hoped there was no need
to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So
a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my
hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as
cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and
they were as cold as any stone, and so upward and
upward, and all was as cold as any stone.",936,18940
641317,870,They say he cried out of sack.,820,18940
641318,871,"Ay, that a' did.",936,18940
641319,872,And of women.,144,18940
641320,873,"Nay, that a' did not.",936,18940
641321,874,"Yes, that a' did; and said they were devils
incarnate.",193,18940
641322,876,"A' could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour he
never liked.",936,18940
641323,878,"A' said once, the devil would have him about women.",193,18940
641324,879,"A' did in some sort, indeed, handle women; but then
he was rheumatic, and talked of the whore of Babylon.",936,18940
641325,881,"Do you not remember, a' saw a flea stick upon
Bardolph's nose, and a' said it was a black soul
burning in hell-fire?",193,18940
641326,884,"Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire:
that's all the riches I got in his service.",144,18940
641327,886,"Shall we shog? the king will be gone from
Southampton.",820,18940
641328,888,"Come, let's away. My love, give me thy lips.
Look to my chattels and my movables:
Let senses rule; the word is 'Pitch and Pay:'
Trust none;
For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck:
Therefore, Caveto be thy counsellor.
Go, clear thy crystals. Yoke-fellows in arms,
Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,
To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!",891,18940
641329,898,And that's but unwholesome food they say.,193,18940
641330,899,"Touch her soft mouth, and march.",891,18940
641331,900,"Farewell, hostess.",144,18940
641332,901,[Kissing her],1261,18940
641333,902,"I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but, adieu.",820,18940
641334,903,"Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.",891,18940
641335,904,Farewell; adieu.,936,18940
641336,905,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish. Enter the FRENCH KING, the DAUPHIN, the]
DUKES of BERRI and BRETAGNE, the Constable, and others]",1261,18940
641337,909,"Thus comes the English with full power upon us;
And more than carefully it us concerns
To answer royally in our defences.
Therefore the Dukes of Berri and of Bretagne,
Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,
And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch,
To line and new repair our towns of war
With men of courage and with means defendant;
For England his approaches makes as fierce
As waters to the sucking of a gulf.
It fits us then to be as provident
As fear may teach us out of late examples
Left by the fatal and neglected English
Upon our fields.",499,18941
641338,923,"My most redoubted father,
It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe;
For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,
Though war nor no known quarrel were in question,
But that defences, musters, preparations,
Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected,
As were a war in expectation.
Therefore, I say 'tis meet we all go forth
To view the sick and feeble parts of France:
And let us do it with no show of fear;
No, with no more than if we heard that England
Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:
For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,
Her sceptre so fantastically borne
By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,
That fear attends her not.",301,18941
641339,939,"O peace, Prince Dauphin!
You are too much mistaken in this king:
Question your grace the late ambassadors,
With what great state he heard their embassy,
How well supplied with noble counsellors,
How modest in exception, and withal
How terrible in constant resolution,
And you shall find his vanities forespent
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
That shall first spring and be most delicate.",279,18941
641340,951,"Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable;
But though we think it so, it is no matter:
In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh
The enemy more mighty than he seems:
So the proportions of defence are fill'd;
Which of a weak or niggardly projection
Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting
A little cloth.",301,18941
641341,959,"Think we King Harry strong;
And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.
The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us;
And he is bred out of that bloody strain
That haunted us in our familiar paths:
Witness our too much memorable shame
When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
And all our princes captiv'd by the hand
Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;
Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing,
Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,
Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him,
Mangle the work of nature and deface
The patterns that by God and by French fathers
Had twenty years been made. This is a stem
Of that victorious stock; and let us fear
The native mightiness and fate of him.",499,18941
641342,976,[Enter a Messenger],1261,18941
641343,977,"Ambassadors from Harry King of England
Do crave admittance to your majesty.",774,18941
641344,979,"We'll give them present audience. Go, and bring them.
[Exeunt Messenger and certain Lords]
You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.",499,18941
641345,982,"Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs
Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten
Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,
Take up the English short, and let them know
Of what a monarchy you are the head:
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.",301,18941
641346,989,"[Re-enter Lords, with EXETER and train]",1261,18941
641347,990,From our brother England?,499,18941
641348,991,"From him; and thus he greets your majesty.
He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,
That you divest yourself, and lay apart
The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven,
By law of nature and of nations, 'long
To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown
And all wide-stretched honours that pertain
By custom and the ordinance of times
Unto the crown of France. That you may know
'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,
Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,
Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked,
He sends you this most memorable line,
In every branch truly demonstrative;
Willing to overlook this pedigree:
And when you find him evenly derived
From his most famed of famous ancestors,
Edward the Third, he bids you then resign
Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
From him the native and true challenger.",389,18941
641349,1011,Or else what follows?,499,18941
641350,1012,"Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown
Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:
Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,
In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove,
That, if requiring fail, he will compel;
And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,
Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy
On the poor souls for whom this hungry war
Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head
Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries
The dead men's blood, the pining maidens groans,
For husbands, fathers and betrothed lovers,
That shall be swallow'd in this controversy.
This is his claim, his threatening and my message;
Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,
To whom expressly I bring greeting too.",389,18941
641351,1028,"For us, we will consider of this further:
To-morrow shall you bear our full intent
Back to our brother England.",499,18941
641352,1031,"For the Dauphin,
I stand here for him: what to him from England?",301,18941
641353,1033,"Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,
And any thing that may not misbecome
The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
Thus says my king; an' if your father's highness
Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,
That caves and womby vaultages of France
Shall chide your trespass and return your mock
In second accent of his ordnance.",389,18941
641354,1043,"Say, if my father render fair return,
It is against my will; for I desire
Nothing but odds with England: to that end,
As matching to his youth and vanity,
I did present him with the Paris balls.",301,18941
641355,1048,"He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,
Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe:
And, be assured, you'll find a difference,
As we his subjects have in wonder found,
Between the promise of his greener days
And these he masters now: now he weighs time
Even to the utmost grain: that you shall read
In your own losses, if he stay in France.",389,18941
641356,1056,To-morrow shall you know our mind at full.,499,18941
641357,1057,"Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king
Come here himself to question our delay;
For he is footed in this land already.",389,18941
641358,1060,"You shall be soon dispatch's with fair conditions:
A night is but small breath and little pause
To answer matters of this consequence.",499,18941
641359,1063,[Flourish. Exeunt],1261,18941
641360,1066,[Enter Chorus],1261,18942
641361,1067,"Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies
In motion of no less celerity
Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen
The well-appointed king at Hampton pier
Embark his royalty; and his brave fleet
With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning:
Play with your fancies, and in them behold
Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
You stand upon the ravage and behold
A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical,
Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow:
Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy,
And leave your England, as dead midnight still,
Guarded with grandsires, babies and old women,
Either past or not arrived to pith and puissance;
For who is he, whose chin is but enrich'd
With one appearing hair, that will not follow
These cull'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?
Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege;
Behold the ordnance on their carriages,
With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.
Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back;
Tells Harry that the king doth offer him
Katharine his daughter, and with her, to dowry,
Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms.
The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner
With linstock now the devilish cannon touches,
[Alarum, and chambers go off]
And down goes all before them. Still be kind,
And eke out our performance with your mind.",244,18942
641362,1103,"[Exit]
[Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD,]
GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers, with scaling-ladders]",1261,18942
641363,1108,"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'",573,18943
641364,1142,"[Exeunt. Alarum, and chambers go off]",1261,18943
641365,1144,"[Enter NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, and Boy]",1261,18944
641366,1145,"On, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to the breach!",144,18944
641367,1146,"Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks are too hot;
and, for mine own part, I have not a case of lives:
the humour of it is too hot, that is the very
plain-song of it.",820,18944
641368,1150,"The plain-song is most just: for humours do abound:
Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die;
And sword and shield,
In bloody field,
Doth win immortal fame.",891,18944
641369,1155,"Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would give
all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.",193,18944
641370,1157,"And I:
If wishes would prevail with me,
My purpose should not fail with me,
But thither would I hie.",891,18944
641371,1161,"As duly, but not as truly,
As bird doth sing on bough.",193,18944
641372,1163,[Enter FLUELLEN],1261,18944
641373,1164,"Up to the breach, you dogs! avaunt, you cullions!",480,18944
641374,1165,[Driving them forward],1261,18944
641375,1166,"Be merciful, great duke, to men of mould.
Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage,
Abate thy rage, great duke!
Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, sweet chuck!",891,18944
641376,1170,These be good humours! your honour wins bad humours.,820,18944
641377,1171,[Exeunt all but Boy],1261,18944
641378,1172,"As young as I am, I have observed these three
swashers. I am boy to them all three: but all they
three, though they would serve me, could not be man
to me; for indeed three such antics do not amount to
a man. For Bardolph, he is white-livered and
red-faced; by the means whereof a' faces it out, but
fights not. For Pistol, he hath a killing tongue
and a quiet sword; by the means whereof a' breaks
words, and keeps whole weapons. For Nym, he hath
heard that men of few words are the best men; and
therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest a'
should be thought a coward: but his few bad words
are matched with as few good deeds; for a' never
broke any man's head but his own, and that was
against a post when he was drunk. They will steal
any thing, and call it purchase. Bardolph stole a
lute-case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for
three half pence. Nym and Bardolph are sworn
brothers in filching, and in Calais they stole a
fire-shovel: I knew by that piece of service the
men would carry coals. They would have me as
familiar with men's pockets as their gloves or their
handkerchers: which makes much against my manhood,
if I should take from another's pocket to put into
mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I
must leave them, and seek some better service:
their villany goes against my weak stomach, and
therefore I must cast it up.",193,18944
641379,1200,[Exit],1261,18944
641380,1201,"[Re-enter FLUELLEN, GOWER following]",1261,18944
641381,1202,"Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to the
mines; the Duke of Gloucester would speak with you.",536,18944
641382,1204,"To the mines! tell you the duke, it is not so good
to come to the mines; for, look you, the mines is
not according to the disciplines of the war: the
concavities of it is not sufficient; for, look you,
the athversary, you may discuss unto the duke, look
you, is digt himself four yard under the
countermines: by Cheshu, I think a' will plough up
all, if there is not better directions.",480,18944
641383,1212,"The Duke of Gloucester, to whom the order of the
siege is given, is altogether directed by an
Irishman, a very valiant gentleman, i' faith.",536,18944
641384,1215,"It is Captain Macmorris, is it not?",480,18944
641385,1216,I think it be.,536,18944
641386,1217,"By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world: I will
verify as much in his beard: be has no more
directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look
you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy-dog.",480,18944
641387,1221,[Enter MACMORRIS and Captain JAMY],1261,18944
641388,1222,"Here a' comes; and the Scots captain, Captain Jamy, with him.",536,18944
641389,1223,"Captain Jamy is a marvellous falourous gentleman,
that is certain; and of great expedition and
knowledge in th' aunchient wars, upon my particular
knowledge of his directions: by Cheshu, he will
maintain his argument as well as any military man in
the world, in the disciplines of the pristine wars
of the Romans.",480,18944
641390,1230,"I say gud-day, Captain Fluellen.",607,18944
641391,1231,"God-den to your worship, good Captain James.",480,18944
641392,1232,"How now, Captain Macmorris! have you quit the
mines? have the pioneers given o'er?",536,18944
641393,1234,"By Chrish, la! tish ill done: the work ish give
over, the trompet sound the retreat. By my hand, I
swear, and my father's soul, the work ish ill done;
it ish give over: I would have blowed up the town, so
Chrish save me, la! in an hour: O, tish ill done,
tish ill done; by my hand, tish ill done!",726,18944
641394,1240,"Captain Macmorris, I beseech you now, will you
voutsafe me, look you, a few disputations with you,
as partly touching or concerning the disciplines of
the war, the Roman wars, in the way of argument,
look you, and friendly communication; partly to
satisfy my opinion, and partly for the satisfaction,
look you, of my mind, as touching the direction of
the military discipline; that is the point.",480,18944
641395,1248,"It sall be vary gud, gud feith, gud captains bath:
and I sall quit you with gud leve, as I may pick
occasion; that sall I, marry.",607,18944
641396,1251,"It is no time to discourse, so Chrish save me: the
day is hot, and the weather, and the wars, and the
king, and the dukes: it is no time to discourse. The
town is beseeched, and the trumpet call us to the
breach; and we talk, and, be Chrish, do nothing:
'tis shame for us all: so God sa' me, 'tis shame to
stand still; it is shame, by my hand: and there is
throats to be cut, and works to be done; and there
ish nothing done, so Chrish sa' me, la!",726,18944
641397,1260,"By the mess, ere theise eyes of mine take themselves
to slomber, ay'll de gud service, or ay'll lig i'
the grund for it; ay, or go to death; and ay'll pay
't as valourously as I may, that sall I suerly do,
that is the breff and the long. Marry, I wad full
fain hear some question 'tween you tway.",607,18944
641398,1266,"Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under your
correction, there is not many of your nation--",480,18944
641399,1268,"Of my nation! What ish my nation? Ish a villain,
and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal. What ish
my nation? Who talks of my nation?",726,18944
641400,1271,"Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than is
meant, Captain Macmorris, peradventure I shall think
you do not use me with that affability as in
discretion you ought to use me, look you: being as
good a man as yourself, both in the disciplines of
war, and in the derivation of my birth, and in
other particularities.",480,18944
641401,1278,"I do not know you so good a man as myself: so
Chrish save me, I will cut off your head.",726,18944
641402,1280,"Gentlemen both, you will mistake each other.",536,18944
641403,1281,A! that's a foul fault.,607,18944
641404,1282,[A parley sounded],1261,18944
641405,1283,The town sounds a parley.,536,18944
641406,1284,"Captain Macmorris, when there is more better
opportunity to be required, look you, I will be so
bold as to tell you I know the disciplines of war;
and there is an end.",480,18944
641407,1288,[Exeunt],1261,18944
641408,1290,[The Governor and some Citizens on the walls; the English forces below. Enter KING HENRY and his train],1261,18945
641409,1291,"How yet resolves the governor of the town?
This is the latest parle we will admit;
Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves;
Or like to men proud of destruction
Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,
A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,
If I begin the battery once again,
I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
Till in her ashes she lie buried.
The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,
In liberty of bloody hand shall range
With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass
Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.
What is it then to me, if impious war,
Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends,
Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats
Enlink'd to waste and desolation?
What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause,
If your pure maidens fall into the hand
Of hot and forcing violation?
What rein can hold licentious wickedness
When down the hill he holds his fierce career?
We may as bootless spend our vain command
Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil
As send precepts to the leviathan
To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,
Take pity of your town and of your people,
Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;
Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
Of heady murder, spoil and villany.
If not, why, in a moment look to see
The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;
Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,
Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,
Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.
What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,
Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?",573,18945
641410,1334,"Our expectation hath this day an end:
The Dauphin, whom of succors we entreated,
Returns us that his powers are yet not ready
To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great king,
We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.
Enter our gates; dispose of us and ours;
For we no longer are defensible.",535,18945
641411,1341,"Open your gates. Come, uncle Exeter,
Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,
And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French:
Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,
The winter coming on and sickness growing
Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais.
To-night in Harfleur we will be your guest;
To-morrow for the march are we addrest.",573,18945
641412,1349,[Flourish. The King and his train enter the town],1261,18945
641413,1351,[Enter KATHARINE and ALICE],1261,18946
641414,1352,"Alice, tu as ete en Angleterre, et tu parles bien le langage.",629,18946
641415,1353,"Un peu, madame.",67,18946
641416,1354,"Je te prie, m'enseignez: il faut que j'apprenne a
parler. Comment appelez-vous la main en Anglois?",629,18946
641417,1356,La main? elle est appelee de hand.,67,18946
641418,1357,De hand. Et les doigts?,629,18946
641419,1358,"Les doigts? ma foi, j'oublie les doigts; mais je me
souviendrai. Les doigts? je pense qu'ils sont
appeles de fingres; oui, de fingres.",67,18946
641420,1361,"La main, de hand; les doigts, de fingres. Je pense
que je suis le bon ecolier; j'ai gagne deux mots
d'Anglois vitement. Comment appelez-vous les ongles?",629,18946
641421,1364,Les ongles? nous les appelons de nails.,67,18946
641422,1365,"De nails. Ecoutez; dites-moi, si je parle bien: de
hand, de fingres, et de nails.",629,18946
641423,1367,"C'est bien dit, madame; il est fort bon Anglois.",67,18946
641424,1368,Dites-moi l'Anglois pour le bras.,629,18946
641425,1369,"De arm, madame.",67,18946
641426,1370,Et le coude?,629,18946
641427,1371,De elbow.,67,18946
641428,1372,"De elbow. Je m'en fais la repetition de tous les
mots que vous m'avez appris des a present.",629,18946
641429,1374,"Il est trop difficile, madame, comme je pense.",67,18946
641430,1375,"Excusez-moi, Alice; ecoutez: de hand, de fingres,
de nails, de arma, de bilbow.",629,18946
641431,1377,"De elbow, madame.",67,18946
641432,1378,"O Seigneur Dieu, je m'en oublie! de elbow. Comment
appelez-vous le col?",629,18946
641433,1380,"De neck, madame.",67,18946
641434,1381,De nick. Et le menton?,629,18946
641435,1382,De chin.,67,18946
641436,1383,"De sin. Le col, de nick; de menton, de sin.",629,18946
641437,1384,"Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en verite, vous prononcez
les mots aussi droit que les natifs d'Angleterre.",67,18946
641438,1386,"Je ne doute point d'apprendre, par la grace de Dieu,
et en peu de temps.",629,18946
641439,1388,N'avez vous pas deja oublie ce que je vous ai enseigne?,67,18946
641440,1389,"Non, je reciterai a vous promptement: de hand, de
fingres, de mails--",629,18946
641441,1391,"De nails, madame.",67,18946
641442,1392,"De nails, de arm, de ilbow.",629,18946
641443,1393,"Sauf votre honneur, de elbow.",67,18946
641444,1394,"Ainsi dis-je; de elbow, de nick, et de sin. Comment
appelez-vous le pied et la robe?",629,18946
641445,1396,"De foot, madame; et de coun.",67,18946
641446,1397,"De foot et de coun! O Seigneur Dieu! ce sont mots
de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et
non pour les dames d'honneur d'user: je ne voudrais
prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France
pour tout le monde. Foh! le foot et le coun!
Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon
ensemble: de hand, de fingres, de nails, de arm, de
elbow, de nick, de sin, de foot, de coun.",629,18946
641447,1405,"Excellent, madame!",67,18946
641448,1406,C'est assez pour une fois: allons-nous a diner.,629,18946
641449,1407,"[Exeunt]
[Enter the KING OF FRANCE, the DAUPHIN, the DUKE oF]
BOURBON, the Constable Of France, and others]",1261,18946
641451,1412,"And if he be not fought withal, my lord,
Let us not live in France; let us quit all
And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.",279,18947
641452,1415,"O Dieu vivant! shall a few sprays of us,
The emptying of our fathers' luxury,
Our scions, put in wild and savage stock,
Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds,
And overlook their grafters?",301,18947
641453,1420,"Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards!
Mort de ma vie! if they march along
Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom,
To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm
In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.",191,18947
641454,1425,"Dieu de batailles! where have they this mettle?
Is not their climate foggy, raw and dull,
On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale,
Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,
A drench for sur-rein'd jades, their barley-broth,
Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat?
And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine,
Seem frosty? O, for honour of our land,
Let us not hang like roping icicles
Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty people
Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields!
Poor we may call them in their native lords.",279,18947
641455,1437,"By faith and honour,
Our madams mock at us, and plainly say
Our mettle is bred out and they will give
Their bodies to the lust of English youth
To new-store France with bastard warriors.",301,18947
641456,1442,"They bid us to the English dancing-schools,
And teach lavoltas high and swift corantos;
Saying our grace is only in our heels,
And that we are most lofty runaways.",191,18947
641457,1446,"Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence:
Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.
Up, princes! and, with spirit of honour edged
More sharper than your swords, hie to the field:
Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;
You Dukes of Orleans, Bourbon, and of Berri,
Alencon, Brabant, Bar, and Burgundy;
Jaques Chatillon, Rambures, Vaudemont,
Beaumont, Grandpre, Roussi, and Fauconberg,
Foix, Lestrale, Bouciqualt, and Charolois;
High dukes, great princes, barons, lords and knights,
For your great seats now quit you of great shames.
Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land
With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:
Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow
Upon the valleys, whose low vassal seat
The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon:
Go down upon him, you have power enough,
And in a captive chariot into Rouen
Bring him our prisoner.",499,18947
641458,1466,"This becomes the great.
Sorry am I his numbers are so few,
His soldiers sick and famish'd in their march,
For I am sure, when he shall see our army,
He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear
And for achievement offer us his ransom.",279,18947
641459,1472,"Therefore, lord constable, haste on Montjoy.
And let him say to England that we send
To know what willing ransom he will give.
Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.",499,18947
641460,1476,"Not so, I do beseech your majesty.",301,18947
641461,1477,"Be patient, for you shall remain with us.
Now forth, lord constable and princes all,
And quickly bring us word of England's fall.",499,18947
641462,1480,[Exeunt],1261,18947
641463,1482,"[Enter GOWER and FLUELLEN, meeting]",1261,18948
641464,1483,"How now, Captain Fluellen! come you from the bridge?",536,18948
641465,1484,"I assure you, there is very excellent services
committed at the bridge.",480,18948
641466,1486,Is the Duke of Exeter safe?,536,18948
641467,1487,"The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon;
and a man that I love and honour with my soul, and my
heart, and my duty, and my life, and my living, and
my uttermost power: he is not-God be praised and
blessed!--any hurt in the world; but keeps the
bridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline.
There is an aunchient lieutenant there at the
pridge, I think in my very conscience he is as
valiant a man as Mark Antony; and he is a man of no
estimation in the world; but did see him do as
gallant service.",480,18948
641468,1498,What do you call him?,536,18948
641469,1499,He is called Aunchient Pistol.,480,18948
641470,1500,I know him not.,536,18948
641471,1501,[Enter PISTOL],1261,18948
641472,1502,Here is the man.,480,18948
641473,1503,"Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours:
The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.",891,18948
641474,1505,"Ay, I praise God; and I have merited some love at
his hands.",480,18948
641475,1507,"Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,
And of buxom valour, hath, by cruel fate,
And giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel,
That goddess blind,
That stands upon the rolling restless stone--",891,18948
641476,1512,"By your patience, Aunchient Pistol. Fortune is
painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to
signify to you that Fortune is blind; and she is
painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which
is the moral of it, that she is turning, and
inconstant, and mutability, and variation: and her
foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone,
which rolls, and rolls, and rolls: in good truth,
the poet makes a most excellent description of it:
Fortune is an excellent moral.",480,18948
641477,1522,"Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him;
For he hath stolen a pax, and hanged must a' be:
A damned death!
Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free
And let not hemp his wind-pipe suffocate:
But Exeter hath given the doom of death
For pax of little price.
Therefore, go speak: the duke will hear thy voice:
And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut
With edge of penny cord and vile reproach:
Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.",891,18948
641478,1533,"Aunchient Pistol, I do partly understand your meaning.",480,18948
641479,1534,"Why then, rejoice therefore.",891,18948
641480,1535,"Certainly, aunchient, it is not a thing to rejoice
at: for if, look you, he were my brother, I would
desire the duke to use his good pleasure, and put
him to execution; for discipline ought to be used.",480,18948
641481,1539,Die and be damn'd! and figo for thy friendship!,891,18948
641482,1540,It is well.,480,18948
641483,1541,The fig of Spain!,891,18948
641484,1542,[Exit],1261,18948
641485,1543,Very good.,480,18948
641486,1544,"Why, this is an arrant counterfeit rascal; I
remember him now; a bawd, a cutpurse.",536,18948
641487,1546,"I'll assure you, a' uttered as brave words at the
bridge as you shall see in a summer's day. But it
is very well; what he has spoke to me, that is well,
I warrant you, when time is serve.",480,18948
641488,1550,"Why, 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and then
goes to the wars, to grace himself at his return
into London under the form of a soldier. And such
fellows are perfect in the great commanders' names:
and they will learn you by rote where services were
done; at such and such a sconce, at such a breach,
at such a convoy; who came off bravely, who was
shot, who disgraced, what terms the enemy stood on;
and this they con perfectly in the phrase of war,
which they trick up with new-tuned oaths: and what
a beard of the general's cut and a horrid suit of
the camp will do among foaming bottles and
ale-washed wits, is wonderful to be thought on. But
you must learn to know such slanders of the age, or
else you may be marvellously mistook.",536,18948
641489,1565,"I tell you what, Captain Gower; I do perceive he is
not the man that he would gladly make show to the
world he is: if I find a hole in his coat, I will
tell him my mind.
[Drum heard]
Hark you, the king is coming, and I must speak with
him from the pridge.
[Drum and colours. Enter KING HENRY, GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers]
God pless your majesty!",480,18948
641490,1574,"How now, Fluellen! camest thou from the bridge?",573,18948
641491,1575,"Ay, so please your majesty. The Duke of Exeter has
very gallantly maintained the pridge: the French is
gone off, look you; and there is gallant and most
prave passages; marry, th' athversary was have
possession of the pridge; but he is enforced to
retire, and the Duke of Exeter is master of the
pridge: I can tell your majesty, the duke is a
prave man.",480,18948
641492,1583,"What men have you lost, Fluellen?",573,18948
641493,1584,"The perdition of th' athversary hath been very
great, reasonable great: marry, for my part, I
think the duke hath lost never a man, but one that
is like to be executed for robbing a church, one
Bardolph, if your majesty know the man: his face is
all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o'
fire: and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like
a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red;
but his nose is executed and his fire's out.",480,18948
641494,1593,"We would have all such offenders so cut off: and we
give express charge, that in our marches through the
country, there be nothing compelled from the
villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the
French upbraided or abused in disdainful language;
for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the
gentler gamester is the soonest winner.",573,18948
641495,1600,[Tucket. Enter MONTJOY],1261,18948
641496,1601,You know me by my habit.,800,18948
641497,1602,Well then I know thee: what shall I know of thee?,573,18948
641498,1603,My master's mind.,800,18948
641499,1604,Unfold it.,573,18948
641500,1605,"Thus says my king: Say thou to Harry of England:
Though we seemed dead, we did but sleep: advantage
is a better soldier than rashness. Tell him we
could have rebuked him at Harfleur, but that we
thought not good to bruise an injury till it were
full ripe: now we speak upon our cue, and our voice
is imperial: England shall repent his folly, see
his weakness, and admire our sufferance. Bid him
therefore consider of his ransom; which must
proportion the losses we have borne, the subjects we
have lost, the disgrace we have digested; which in
weight to re-answer, his pettiness would bow under.
For our losses, his exchequer is too poor; for the
effusion of our blood, the muster of his kingdom too
faint a number; and for our disgrace, his own
person, kneeling at our feet, but a weak and
worthless satisfaction. To this add defiance: and
tell him, for conclusion, he hath betrayed his
followers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far
my king and master; so much my office.",800,18948
641501,1625,What is thy name? I know thy quality.,573,18948
641502,1626,Montjoy.,800,18948
641503,1627,"Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back.
And tell thy king I do not seek him now;
But could be willing to march on to Calais
Without impeachment: for, to say the sooth,
Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much
Unto an enemy of craft and vantage,
My people are with sickness much enfeebled,
My numbers lessened, and those few I have
Almost no better than so many French;
Who when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,
I thought upon one pair of English legs
Did march three Frenchmen. Yet, forgive me, God,
That I do brag thus! This your air of France
Hath blown that vice in me: I must repent.
Go therefore, tell thy master here I am;
My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk,
My army but a weak and sickly guard;
Yet, God before, tell him we will come on,
Though France himself and such another neighbour
Stand in our way. There's for thy labour, Montjoy.
Go bid thy master well advise himself:
If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder'd,
We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
Discolour: and so Montjoy, fare you well.
The sum of all our answer is but this:
We would not seek a battle, as we are;
Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it:
So tell your master.",573,18948
641504,1655,I shall deliver so. Thanks to your highness.,800,18948
641505,1656,[Exit],1261,18948
641506,1657,I hope they will not come upon us now.,531,18948
641507,1658,"We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.
March to the bridge; it now draws toward night:
Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves,
And on to-morrow, bid them march away.",573,18948
641508,1662,"[Exeunt]
[Enter the Constable of France, the LORD RAMBURES,]
ORLEANS, DAUPHIN, with others]",1261,18948
641509,1666,Tut! I have the best armour of the world. Would it were day!,279,18949
641510,1667,You have an excellent armour; but let my horse have his due.,839,18949
641511,1668,It is the best horse of Europe.,279,18949
641512,1669,Will it never be morning?,839,18949
641513,1670,"My lord of Orleans, and my lord high constable, you
talk of horse and armour?",301,18949
641514,1672,You are as well provided of both as any prince in the world.,839,18949
641515,1673,"What a long night is this! I will not change my
horse with any that treads but on four pasterns.
Ca, ha! he bounds from the earth, as if his
entrails were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus,
chez les narines de feu! When I bestride him, I
soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth
sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his
hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.",301,18949
641516,1681,He's of the colour of the nutmeg.,839,18949
641517,1682,"And of the heat of the ginger. It is a beast for
Perseus: he is pure air and fire; and the dull
elements of earth and water never appear in him, but
only in Patient stillness while his rider mounts
him: he is indeed a horse; and all other jades you
may call beasts.",301,18949
641518,1688,"Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute and excellent horse.",279,18949
641519,1689,"It is the prince of palfreys; his neigh is like the
bidding of a monarch and his countenance enforces homage.",301,18949
641520,1691,"No more, cousin.",839,18949
641521,1692,"Nay, the man hath no wit that cannot, from the
rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb, vary
deserved praise on my palfrey: it is a theme as
fluent as the sea: turn the sands into eloquent
tongues, and my horse is argument for them all:
'tis a subject for a sovereign to reason on, and for
a sovereign's sovereign to ride on; and for the
world, familiar to us and unknown to lay apart
their particular functions and wonder at him. I
once writ a sonnet in his praise and began thus:
'Wonder of nature,'--",301,18949
641522,1703,I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress.,839,18949
641523,1704,"Then did they imitate that which I composed to my
courser, for my horse is my mistress.",301,18949
641524,1706,Your mistress bears well.,839,18949
641525,1707,"Me well; which is the prescript praise and
perfection of a good and particular mistress.",301,18949
641526,1709,"Nay, for methought yesterday your mistress shrewdly
shook your back.",279,18949
641527,1711,So perhaps did yours.,301,18949
641528,1712,Mine was not bridled.,279,18949
641529,1713,"O then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode,
like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off, and in
your straight strossers.",301,18949
641530,1716,You have good judgment in horsemanship.,279,18949
641531,1717,"Be warned by me, then: they that ride so and ride
not warily, fall into foul bogs. I had rather have
my horse to my mistress.",301,18949
641532,1720,I had as lief have my mistress a jade.,279,18949
641533,1721,"I tell thee, constable, my mistress wears his own hair.",301,18949
641534,1722,"I could make as true a boast as that, if I had a sow
to my mistress.",279,18949
641535,1724,"'Le chien est retourne a son propre vomissement, et
la truie lavee au bourbier;' thou makest use of any thing.",301,18949
641536,1726,"Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress, or any
such proverb so little kin to the purpose.",279,18949
641537,1728,"My lord constable, the armour that I saw in your tent
to-night, are those stars or suns upon it?",939,18949
641538,1730,"Stars, my lord.",279,18949
641539,1731,"Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope.",301,18949
641540,1732,And yet my sky shall not want.,279,18949
641541,1733,"That may be, for you bear a many superfluously, and
'twere more honour some were away.",301,18949
641542,1735,"Even as your horse bears your praises; who would
trot as well, were some of your brags dismounted.",279,18949
641543,1737,"Would I were able to load him with his desert! Will
it never be day? I will trot to-morrow a mile, and
my way shall be paved with English faces.",301,18949
641544,1740,"I will not say so, for fear I should be faced out of
my way: but I would it were morning; for I would
fain be about the ears of the English.",279,18949
641545,1743,Who will go to hazard with me for twenty prisoners?,939,18949
641546,1744,"You must first go yourself to hazard, ere you have them.",279,18949
641548,1746,[Exit],1261,18949
641549,1747,The Dauphin longs for morning.,839,18949
641550,1748,He longs to eat the English.,939,18949
641551,1749,I think he will eat all he kills.,279,18949
641552,1750,"By the white hand of my lady, he's a gallant prince.",839,18949
641553,1751,"Swear by her foot, that she may tread out the oath.",279,18949
641554,1752,He is simply the most active gentleman of France.,839,18949
641555,1753,Doing is activity; and he will still be doing.,279,18949
641556,1754,"He never did harm, that I heard of.",839,18949
641557,1755,Nor will do none to-morrow: he will keep that good name still.,279,18949
641558,1756,I know him to be valiant.,839,18949
641559,1757,"I was told that by one that knows him better than
you.",279,18949
641560,1759,What's he?,839,18949
641561,1760,"Marry, he told me so himself; and he said he cared
not who knew it",279,18949
641562,1762,He needs not; it is no hidden virtue in him.,839,18949
641563,1763,"By my faith, sir, but it is; never any body saw it
but his lackey: 'tis a hooded valour; and when it
appears, it will bate.",279,18949
641564,1766,Ill will never said well.,839,18949
641565,1767,I will cap that proverb with 'There is flattery in friendship.',279,18949
641566,1768,And I will take up that with 'Give the devil his due.',839,18949
641567,1769,"Well placed: there stands your friend for the
devil: have at the very eye of that proverb with 'A
pox of the devil.'",279,18949
641568,1772,"You are the better at proverbs, by how much 'A
fool's bolt is soon shot.'",839,18949
641569,1774,You have shot over.,279,18949
641581,1797,"Just, just; and the men do sympathize with the
mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on, leaving
their wits with their wives: and then give them
great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will
eat like wolves and fight like devils.",279,18949
641582,1802,"Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.",839,18949
641583,1803,"Then shall we find to-morrow they have only stomachs
to eat and none to fight. Now is it time to arm:
come, shall we about it?",279,18949
641584,1806,"It is now two o'clock: but, let me see, by ten
We shall have each a hundred Englishmen.",839,18949
641585,1808,[Exeunt],1261,18949
641586,1811,[Enter Chorus],1261,18950
641587,1812,"Now entertain conjecture of a time
When creeping murmur and the poring dark
Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
From camp to camp through the foul womb of night
The hum of either army stilly sounds,
That the fixed sentinels almost receive
The secret whispers of each other's watch:
Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
Each battle sees the other's umber'd face;
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents
The armourers, accomplishing the knights,
With busy hammers closing rivets up,
Give dreadful note of preparation:
The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll,
And the third hour of drowsy morning name.
Proud of their numbers and secure in soul,
The confident and over-lusty French
Do the low-rated English play at dice;
And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night
Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp
So tediously away. The poor condemned English,
Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires
Sit patiently and inly ruminate
The morning's danger, and their gesture sad
Investing lank-lean; cheeks and war-worn coats
Presenteth them unto the gazing moon
So many horrid ghosts. O now, who will behold
The royal captain of this ruin'd band
Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,
Let him cry 'Praise and glory on his head!'
For forth he goes and visits all his host.
Bids them good morrow with a modest smile
And calls them brothers, friends and countrymen.
Upon his royal face there is no note
How dread an army hath enrounded him;
Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour
Unto the weary and all-watched night,
But freshly looks and over-bears attaint
With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty;
That every wretch, pining and pale before,
Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks:
A largess universal like the sun
His liberal eye doth give to every one,
Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all,
Behold, as may unworthiness define,
A little touch of Harry in the night.
And so our scene must to the battle fly;
Where--O for pity!--we shall much disgrace
With four or five most vile and ragged foils,
Right ill-disposed in brawl ridiculous,
The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and see,
Minding true things by what their mockeries be.",244,18950
641588,1865,[Exit],1261,18950
641589,1868,"[Enter KING HENRY, BEDFORD, and GLOUCESTER]",1261,18951
641590,1869,"Gloucester, 'tis true that we are in great danger;
The greater therefore should our courage be.
Good morrow, brother Bedford. God Almighty!
There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distil it out.
For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,
Which is both healthful and good husbandry:
Besides, they are our outward consciences,
And preachers to us all, admonishing
That we should dress us fairly for our end.
Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
And make a moral of the devil himself.
[Enter ERPINGHAM]
Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:
A good soft pillow for that good white head
Were better than a churlish turf of France.",573,18951
641591,1885,"Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me better,
Since I may say 'Now lie I like a king.'",383,18951
641592,1887,"'Tis good for men to love their present pains
Upon example; so the spirit is eased:
And when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt,
The organs, though defunct and dead before,
Break up their drowsy grave and newly move,
With casted slough and fresh legerity.
Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas. Brothers both,
Commend me to the princes in our camp;
Do my good morrow to them, and anon
Desire them an to my pavilion.",573,18951
641593,1897,"We shall, my liege.",531,18951
641594,1898,Shall I attend your grace?,383,18951
641595,1899,"No, my good knight;
Go with my brothers to my lords of England:
I and my bosom must debate awhile,
And then I would no other company.",573,18951
641596,1903,"The Lord in heaven bless thee, noble Harry!",383,18951
641597,1904,[Exeunt all but KING HENRY],1261,18951
641598,1905,"God-a-mercy, old heart! thou speak'st cheerfully.",573,18951
641599,1906,[Enter PISTOL],1261,18951
641600,1907,Qui va la?,891,18951
641601,1908,A friend.,573,18951
641602,1909,"Discuss unto me; art thou officer?
Or art thou base, common and popular?",891,18951
641603,1911,I am a gentleman of a company.,573,18951
641604,1912,Trail'st thou the puissant pike?,891,18951
641605,1913,Even so. What are you?,573,18951
641606,1914,As good a gentleman as the emperor.,891,18951
641607,1915,Then you are a better than the king.,573,18951
641608,1916,"The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold,
A lad of life, an imp of fame;
Of parents good, of fist most valiant.
I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string
I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?",891,18951
641609,1921,Harry le Roy.,573,18951
641610,1922,Le Roy! a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish crew?,891,18951
641611,1923,"No, I am a Welshman.",573,18951
641612,1924,Know'st thou Fluellen?,891,18951
641613,1925,Yes.,573,18951
641614,1926,"Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate
Upon Saint Davy's day.",891,18951
641615,1928,"Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day,
lest he knock that about yours.",573,18951
641616,1930,Art thou his friend?,891,18951
641617,1931,And his kinsman too.,573,18951
641618,1932,"The figo for thee, then!",891,18951
641619,1933,I thank you: God be with you!,573,18951
641620,1934,My name is Pistol call'd.,891,18951
641621,1935,[Exit],1261,18951
641622,1936,It sorts well with your fierceness.,573,18951
641623,1937,[Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER],1261,18951
641624,1938,Captain Fluellen!,536,18951
641625,1939,"So! in the name of Jesu Christ, speak lower. It is
the greatest admiration of the universal world, when
the true and aunchient prerogatifes and laws of the
wars is not kept: if you would take the pains but to
examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall
find, I warrant you, that there is no tiddle toddle
nor pibble pabble in Pompey's camp; I warrant you,
you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, and the
cares of it, and the forms of it, and the sobriety
of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise.",480,18951
641626,1949,"Why, the enemy is loud; you hear him all night.",536,18951
641627,1950,"If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating
coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also,
look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating
coxcomb? in your own conscience, now?",480,18951
641628,1954,I will speak lower.,536,18951
641629,1955,I pray you and beseech you that you will.,480,18951
641630,1956,[Exeunt GOWER and FLUELLEN],1261,18951
641631,1957,"Though it appear a little out of fashion,
There is much care and valour in this Welshman.",573,18951
641632,1959,"[Enter three soldiers, JOHN BATES, ALEXANDER COURT, and MICHAEL WILLIAMS]",1261,18951
641633,1960,"Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which
breaks yonder?",289,18951
641634,1962,"I think it be: but we have no great cause to desire
the approach of day.",151,18951
641635,1964,"We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I think
we shall never see the end of it. Who goes there?",1255,18951
641636,1966,A friend.,573,18951
641637,1967,Under what captain serve you?,1255,18951
641638,1968,Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.,573,18951
641639,1969,"A good old commander and a most kind gentleman: I
pray you, what thinks he of our estate?",1255,18951
641640,1971,"Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be
washed off the next tide.",573,18951
641641,1973,He hath not told his thought to the king?,151,18951
641642,1974,"No; nor it is not meet he should. For, though I
speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I
am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me: the
element shows to him as it doth to me; all his
senses have but human conditions: his ceremonies
laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and
though his affections are higher mounted than ours,
yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like
wing. Therefore when he sees reason of fears, as we
do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the same relish
as ours are: yet, in reason, no man should possess
him with any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing
it, should dishearten his army.",573,18951
641643,1987,"He may show what outward courage he will; but I
believe, as cold a night as 'tis, he could wish
himself in Thames up to the neck; and so I would he
were, and I by him, at all adventures, so we were quit here.",151,18951
641644,1991,"By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the king:
I think he would not wish himself any where but
where he is.",573,18951
641645,1994,"Then I would he were here alone; so should he be
sure to be ransomed, and a many poor men's lives saved.",151,18951
641646,1996,"I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here
alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other men's
minds: methinks I could not die any where so
contented as in the king's company; his cause being
just and his quarrel honourable.",573,18951
641647,2001,That's more than we know.,1255,18951
641648,2002,"Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know
enough, if we know we are the kings subjects: if
his cause be wrong, our obedience to the king wipes
the crime of it out of us.",151,18951
641649,2006,"But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath
a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and
arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join
together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at
such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a
surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind
them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their
children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die
well that die in a battle; for how can they
charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their
argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it
will be a black matter for the king that led them to
it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of
subjection.",1255,18951
641650,2020,"So, if a son that is by his father sent about
merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the
imputation of his wickedness by your rule, should be
imposed upon his father that sent him: or if a
servant, under his master's command transporting a
sum of money, be assailed by robbers and die in
many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the
business of the master the author of the servant's
damnation: but this is not so: the king is not
bound to answer the particular endings of his
soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of
his servant; for they purpose not their death, when
they purpose their services. Besides, there is no
king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to
the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all
unspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on them
the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder;
some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of
perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that
have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with
pillage and robbery. Now, if these men have
defeated the law and outrun native punishment,
though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to
fly from God: war is his beadle, war is vengeance;
so that here men are punished for before-breach of
the king's laws in now the king's quarrel: where
they feared the death, they have borne life away;
and where they would be safe, they perish: then if
they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of
their damnation than he was before guilty of those
impieties for the which they are now visited. Every
subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's
soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in
the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every
mote out of his conscience: and dying so, death
is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was
blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained:
and in him that escapes, it were not sin to think
that, making God so free an offer, He let him
outlive that day to see His greatness and to teach
others how they should prepare.",573,18951
641651,2061,"'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill upon
his own head, the king is not to answer it.",1255,18951
641652,2063,"But I do not desire he should answer for me; and
yet I determine to fight lustily for him.",151,18951
641653,2065,I myself heard the king say he would not be ransomed.,573,18951
641654,2066,"Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully: but
when our throats are cut, he may be ransomed, and we
ne'er the wiser.",1255,18951
641655,2069,"If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after.",573,18951
641656,2070,"You pay him then. That's a perilous shot out of an
elder-gun, that a poor and private displeasure can
do against a monarch! you may as well go about to
turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a
peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word
after! come, 'tis a foolish saying.",1255,18951
641657,2076,"Your reproof is something too round: I should be
angry with you, if the time were convenient.",573,18951
641658,2078,"Let it be a quarrel between us, if you live.",1255,18951
641659,2079,I embrace it.,573,18951
641660,2080,How shall I know thee again?,1255,18951
641661,2081,"Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my
bonnet: then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I
will make it my quarrel.",573,18951
641662,2084,Here's my glove: give me another of thine.,1255,18951
641663,2085,There.,573,18951
641664,2086,"This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come
to me and say, after to-morrow, 'This is my glove,'
by this hand, I will take thee a box on the ear.",1255,18951
641665,2089,"If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it.",573,18951
641666,2090,Thou darest as well be hanged.,1255,18951
641667,2091,"Well. I will do it, though I take thee in the
king's company.",573,18951
641668,2093,Keep thy word: fare thee well.,1255,18951
641669,2094,"Be friends, you English fools, be friends: we have
French quarrels enow, if you could tell how to reckon.",151,18951
641670,2096,"Indeed, the French may lay twenty French crowns to
one, they will beat us; for they bear them on their
shoulders: but it is no English treason to cut
French crowns, and to-morrow the king himself will
be a clipper.
[Exeunt soldiers]
Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives,
Our children and our sins lay on the king!
We must bear all. O hard condition,
Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath
Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel
But his own wringing! What infinite heart's-ease
Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!
And what have kings, that privates have not too,
Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
And what art thou, thou idle ceremony?
What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
What are thy rents? what are thy comings in?
O ceremony, show me but thy worth!
What is thy soul of adoration?
Art thou aught else but place, degree and form,
Creating awe and fear in other men?
Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd
Than they in fearing.
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,
And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!
Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out
With titles blown from adulation?
Will it give place to flexure and low bending?
Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,
Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,
That play'st so subtly with a king's repose;
I am a king that find thee, and I know
'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball,
The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
The farced title running 'fore the king,
The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
That beats upon the high shore of this world,
No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,
Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,
Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind
Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread;
Never sees horrid night, the child of hell,
But, like a lackey, from the rise to set
Sweats in the eye of Phoebus and all night
Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn,
Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse,
And follows so the ever-running year,
With profitable labour, to his grave:
And, but for ceremony, such a wretch,
Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king.
The slave, a member of the country's peace,
Enjoys it; but in gross brain little wots
What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace,
Whose hours the peasant best advantages.",573,18951
641671,2157,[Enter ERPINGHAM],1261,18951
641672,2158,"My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,
Seek through your camp to find you.",383,18951
641673,2160,"Good old knight,
Collect them all together at my tent:
I'll be before thee.",573,18951
641674,2163,"I shall do't, my lord.",383,18951
641675,2164,[Exit],1261,18951
641676,2165,"O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts;
Possess them not with fear; take from them now
The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers
Pluck their hearts from them. Not to-day, O Lord,
O, not to-day, think not upon the fault
My father made in compassing the crown!
I Richard's body have interred anew;
And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears
Than from it issued forced drops of blood:
Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,
Who twice a-day their wither'd hands hold up
Toward heaven, to pardon blood; and I have built
Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests
Sing still for Richard's soul. More will I do;
Though all that I can do is nothing worth,
Since that my penitence comes after all,
Imploring pardon.",573,18951
641677,2182,[Enter GLOUCESTER],1261,18951
641678,2183,My liege!,531,18951
641679,2184,"My brother Gloucester's voice? Ay;
I know thy errand, I will go with thee:
The day, my friends and all things stay for me.",573,18951
641680,2187,[Exeunt],1261,18951
641681,2189,"[Enter the DAUPHIN, ORLEANS, RAMBURES, and others]",1261,18952
641682,2190,"The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords!",839,18952
641683,2191,Montez A cheval! My horse! varlet! laquais! ha!,301,18952
641684,2192,O brave spirit!,839,18952
641685,2193,Via! les eaux et la terre.,301,18952
641686,2194,Rien puis? L'air et la feu.,839,18952
641687,2195,"Ciel, cousin Orleans.
[Enter Constable]
Now, my lord constable!",301,18952
641688,2198,"Hark, how our steeds for present service neigh!",279,18952
641689,2199,"Mount them, and make incision in their hides,
That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,
And dout them with superfluous courage, ha!",301,18952
641690,2202,"What, will you have them weep our horses' blood?
How shall we, then, behold their natural tears?",939,18952
641691,2204,[Enter Messenger],1261,18952
641692,2205,"The English are embattled, you French peers.",774,18952
641693,2206,"To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!
Do but behold yon poor and starved band,
And your fair show shall suck away their souls,
Leaving them but the shales and husks of men.
There is not work enough for all our hands;
Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins
To give each naked curtle-axe a stain,
That our French gallants shall to-day draw out,
And sheathe for lack of sport: let us but blow on them,
The vapour of our valour will o'erturn them.
'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords,
That our superfluous lackeys and our peasants,
Who in unnecessary action swarm
About our squares of battle, were enow
To purge this field of such a hilding foe,
Though we upon this mountain's basis by
Took stand for idle speculation:
But that our honours must not. What's to say?
A very little little let us do.
And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound
The tucket sonance and the note to mount;
For our approach shall so much dare the field
That England shall couch down in fear and yield.",279,18952
641694,2229,[Enter GRANDPRE],1261,18952
641695,2230,"Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?
Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones,
Ill-favouredly become the morning field:
Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,
And our air shakes them passing scornfully:
Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host
And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps:
The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks,
With torch-staves in their hand; and their poor jades
Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips,
The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes
And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit
Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and motionless;
And their executors, the knavish crows,
Fly o'er them, all impatient for their hour.
Description cannot suit itself in words
To demonstrate the life of such a battle
In life so lifeless as it shows itself.",538,18952
641696,2248,"They have said their prayers, and they stay for death.",279,18952
641697,2249,"Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits
And give their fasting horses provender,
And after fight with them?",301,18952
641698,2252,"I stay but for my guidon: to the field!
I will the banner from a trumpet take,
And use it for my haste. Come, come, away!
The sun is high, and we outwear the day.",279,18952
641699,2256,"[Exeunt]
[Enter GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, ERPINGHAM, with]
all his host: SALISBURY and WESTMORELAND]",1261,18952
641700,2260,Where is the king?,531,18953
641701,2261,The king himself is rode to view their battle.,157,18953
641702,2262,Of fighting men they have full three score thousand.,1250,18953
641703,2263,"There's five to one; besides, they all are fresh.",389,18953
641704,2264,"God's arm strike with us! 'tis a fearful odds.
God be wi' you, princes all; I'll to my charge:
If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,
Then, joyfully, my noble Lord of Bedford,
My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter,
And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu!",965,18953
641705,2270,"Farewell, good Salisbury; and good luck go with thee!",157,18953
641706,2271,"Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day:
And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it,
For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.",389,18953
641707,2274,[Exit SALISBURY],1261,18953
641708,2275,"He is full of valour as of kindness;
Princely in both.",157,18953
641709,2277,[Enter the KING],1261,18953
641710,2278,"O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!",1250,18953
641711,2281,"What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.",573,18953
641712,2331,[Re-enter SALISBURY],1261,18953
641713,2332,"My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed:
The French are bravely in their battles set,
And will with all expedience charge on us.",965,18953
641714,2335,"All things are ready, if our minds be so.",573,18953
641715,2336,Perish the man whose mind is backward now!,1250,18953
641716,2337,"Thou dost not wish more help from England, coz?",573,18953
641717,2338,"God's will! my liege, would you and I alone,
Without more help, could fight this royal battle!",1250,18953
641718,2340,"Why, now thou hast unwish'd five thousand men;
Which likes me better than to wish us one.
You know your places: God be with you all!",573,18953
641719,2343,[Tucket. Enter MONTJOY],1261,18953
641720,2344,"Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,
If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,
Before thy most assured overthrow:
For certainly thou art so near the gulf,
Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy,
The constable desires thee thou wilt mind
Thy followers of repentance; that their souls
May make a peaceful and a sweet retire
From off these fields, where, wretches, their poor bodies
Must lie and fester.",800,18953
641721,2354,Who hath sent thee now?,573,18953
641722,2355,The Constable of France.,800,18953
641723,2356,"I pray thee, bear my former answer back:
Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones.
Good God! why should they mock poor fellows thus?
The man that once did sell the lion's skin
While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him.
A many of our bodies shall no doubt
Find native graves; upon the which, I trust,
Shall witness live in brass of this day's work:
And those that leave their valiant bones in France,
Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills,
They shall be famed; for there the sun shall greet them,
And draw their honours reeking up to heaven;
Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime,
The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.
Mark then abounding valour in our English,
That being dead, like to the bullet's grazing,
Break out into a second course of mischief,
Killing in relapse of mortality.
Let me speak proudly: tell the constable
We are but warriors for the working-day;
Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd
With rainy marching in the painful field;
There's not a piece of feather in our host--
Good argument, I hope, we will not fly--
And time hath worn us into slovenry:
But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;
And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night
They'll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck
The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads
And turn them out of service. If they do this,--
As, if God please, they shall,--my ransom then
Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy labour;
Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:
They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints;
Which if they have as I will leave 'em them,
Shall yield them little, tell the constable.",573,18953
641724,2392,"I shall, King Harry. And so fare thee well:
Thou never shalt hear herald any more.",800,18953
641725,2394,[Exit],1261,18953
641726,2395,I fear thou'lt once more come again for ransom.,573,18953
641727,2396,[Enter YORK],1261,18953
641728,2397,"My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg
The leading of the vaward.",1262,18953
641729,2399,"Take it, brave York. Now, soldiers, march away:
And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!",573,18953
641730,2401,[Exeunt],1261,18953
641731,2403,"[Alarum. Excursions. Enter PISTOL, French Soldier, and Boy]",1261,18954
641732,2404,"Yield, cur!",891,18954
641733,2405,Je pense que vous etes gentilhomme de bonne qualite.,501,18954
641734,2406,"Qualtitie calmie custure me! Art thou a gentleman?
what is thy name? discuss.",891,18954
641735,2408,O Seigneur Dieu!,501,18954
641736,2409,"O, Signieur Dew should be a gentleman:
Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark;
O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox,
Except, O signieur, thou do give to me
Egregious ransom.",891,18954
641737,2414,"O, prenez misericorde! ayez pitie de moi!",501,18954
641738,2415,"Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys;
Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat
In drops of crimson blood.",891,18954
641739,2418,Est-il impossible d'echapper la force de ton bras?,501,18954
641740,2419,"Brass, cur!
Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat,
Offer'st me brass?",891,18954
641741,2422,O pardonnez moi!,501,18954
641742,2423,"Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?
Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French
What is his name.",891,18954
641743,2426,Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele?,193,18954
641744,2427,Monsieur le Fer.,501,18954
641745,2428,He says his name is Master Fer.,193,18954
641746,2429,"Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret
him: discuss the same in French unto him.",891,18954
641747,2431,"I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.",193,18954
641748,2432,Bid him prepare; for I will cut his throat.,891,18954
641749,2433,"Que dit-il, monsieur?",501,18954
641750,2434,"Il me commande de vous dire que vous faites vous
pret; car ce soldat ici est dispose tout a cette
heure de couper votre gorge.",193,18954
641751,2437,"Owy, cuppele gorge, permafoy,
Peasant, unless thou give me crowns, brave crowns;
Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword.",891,18954
641752,2440,"O, je vous supplie, pour l'amour de Dieu, me
pardonner! Je suis gentilhomme de bonne maison:
gardez ma vie, et je vous donnerai deux cents ecus.",501,18954
641753,2443,What are his words?,891,18954
641754,2444,"He prays you to save his life: he is a gentleman of
a good house; and for his ransom he will give you
two hundred crowns.",193,18954
641755,2447,"Tell him my fury shall abate, and I the crowns will take.",891,18954
641756,2448,"Petit monsieur, que dit-il?",501,18954
641757,2449,"Encore qu'il est contre son jurement de pardonner
aucun prisonnier, neanmoins, pour les ecus que vous
l'avez promis, il est content de vous donner la
liberte, le franchisement.",193,18954
641758,2453,"Sur mes genoux je vous donne mille remercimens; et
je m'estime heureux que je suis tombe entre les
mains d'un chevalier, je pense, le plus brave,
vaillant, et tres distingue seigneur d'Angleterre.",501,18954
641759,2457,"Expound unto me, boy.",891,18954
641760,2458,"He gives you, upon his knees, a thousand thanks; and
he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into
the hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave,
valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England.",193,18954
641761,2462,"As I suck blood, I will some mercy show.
Follow me!",891,18954
641762,2464,"Suivez-vous le grand capitaine.
[Exeunt PISTOL, and French Soldier]
I did never know so full a voice issue from so
empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty
vessel makes the greatest sound.' Bardolph and Nym
had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i'
the old play, that every one may pare his nails with
a wooden dagger; and they are both hanged; and so
would this be, if he durst steal any thing
adventurously. I must stay with the lackeys, with
the luggage of our camp: the French might have a
good prey of us, if he knew of it; for there is
none to guard it but boys.",193,18954
641763,2477,[Exit],1261,18954
641764,2479,"[Enter Constable, ORLEANS, BOURBON, DAUPHIN, and RAMBURES]",1261,18955
641765,2480,O diable!,279,18955
641766,2481,"O seigneur! le jour est perdu, tout est perdu!",839,18955
641767,2482,"Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!
Reproach and everlasting shame
Sits mocking in our plumes. O merchante fortune!
Do not run away.",301,18955
641768,2486,[A short alarum],1261,18955
641769,2487,"Why, all our ranks are broke.",279,18955
641770,2488,"O perdurable shame! let's stab ourselves.
Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for?",301,18955
641771,2490,Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?,839,18955
641772,2491,"Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!
Let us die in honour: once more back again;
And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand,
Like a base pander, hold the chamber-door
Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog,
His fairest daughter is contaminated.",191,18955
641773,2498,"Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!
Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.",279,18955
641774,2500,"We are enow yet living in the field
To smother up the English in our throngs,
If any order might be thought upon.",839,18955
641775,2503,"The devil take order now! I'll to the throng:
Let life be short; else shame will be too long.",191,18955
641776,2505,[Exeunt],1261,18955
641777,2507,"[Alarums. Enter KING HENRY and forces, EXETER, and others]",1261,18956
641778,2508,"Well have we done, thrice valiant countrymen:
But all's not done; yet keep the French the field.",573,18956
641779,2510,The Duke of York commends him to your majesty.,389,18956
641780,2511,"Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour
I saw him down; thrice up again and fighting;
From helmet to the spur all blood he was.",573,18956
641781,2514,"In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie,
Larding the plain; and by his bloody side,
Yoke-fellow to his honour-owing wounds,
The noble Earl of Suffolk also lies.
Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over,
Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd,
And takes him by the beard; kisses the gashes
That bloodily did spawn upon his face;
And cries aloud 'Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk!
My soul shall thine keep company to heaven;
Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast,
As in this glorious and well-foughten field
We kept together in our chivalry!'
Upon these words I came and cheer'd him up:
He smiled me in the face, raught me his hand,
And, with a feeble gripe, says 'Dear my lord,
Commend my service to me sovereign.'
So did he turn and over Suffolk's neck
He threw his wounded arm and kiss'd his lips;
And so espoused to death, with blood he seal'd
A testament of noble-ending love.
The pretty and sweet manner of it forced
Those waters from me which I would have stopp'd;
But I had not so much of man in me,
And all my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears.",389,18956
641782,2540,"I blame you not;
For, hearing this, I must perforce compound
With mistful eyes, or they will issue too.
[Alarum]
But, hark! what new alarum is this same?
The French have reinforced their scatter'd men:
Then every soldier kill his prisoners:
Give the word through.",573,18956
641783,2548,[Exeunt],1261,18956
641784,2550,[Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER],1261,18957
641785,2551,"Kill the poys and the luggage! 'tis expressly
against the law of arms: 'tis as arrant a piece of
knavery, mark you now, as can be offer't; in your
conscience, now, is it not?",480,18957
641786,2555,"'Tis certain there's not a boy left alive; and the
cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done
this slaughter: besides, they have burned and
carried away all that was in the king's tent;
wherefore the king, most worthily, hath caused every
soldier to cut his prisoner's throat. O, 'tis a
gallant king!",536,18957
641787,2562,"Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What
call you the town's name where Alexander the Pig was born!",480,18957
641788,2564,Alexander the Great.,536,18957
641789,2565,"Why, I pray you, is not pig great? the pig, or the
great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the
magnanimous, are all one reckonings, save the phrase
is a little variations.",480,18957
641790,2569,"I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon; his
father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it.",536,18957
641791,2571,"I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I
tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the
'orld, I warrant you sall find, in the comparisons
between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations,
look you, is both alike. There is a river in
Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at
Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth; but it is
out of my prains what is the name of the other
river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is
to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you
mark Alexander's life well, Harry of Monmouth's life
is come after it indifferent well; for there is
figures in all things. Alexander, God knows, and
you know, in his rages, and his furies, and his
wraths, and his cholers, and his moods, and his
displeasures, and his indignations, and also being a
little intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales and
his angers, look you, kill his best friend, Cleitus.",480,18957
641792,2589,"Our king is not like him in that: he never killed
any of his friends.",536,18957
641793,2591,"It is not well done, mark you now take the tales out
of my mouth, ere it is made and finished. I speak
but in the figures and comparisons of it: as
Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his
ales and his cups; so also Harry Monmouth, being in
his right wits and his good judgments, turned away
the fat knight with the great belly-doublet: he
was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and
mocks; I have forgot his name.",480,18957
641794,2600,Sir John Falstaff.,536,18957
641795,2601,That is he: I'll tell you there is good men porn at Monmouth.,480,18957
641796,2602,"Here comes his majesty.
[Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, and forces; WARWICK,]
GLOUCESTER, EXETER, and others]",536,18957
641797,2605,"I was not angry since I came to France
Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald;
Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:
If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
Or void the field; they do offend our sight:
If they'll do neither, we will come to them,
And make them skirr away, as swift as stones
Enforced from the old Assyrian slings:
Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have,
And not a man of them that we shall take
Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.",573,18957
641798,2616,[Enter MONTJOY],1261,18957
641799,2617,"Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.",389,18957
641800,2618,His eyes are humbler than they used to be.,531,18957
641801,2619,"How now! what means this, herald? know'st thou not
That I have fined these bones of mine for ransom?
Comest thou again for ransom?",573,18957
641802,2622,"No, great king:
I come to thee for charitable licence,
That we may wander o'er this bloody field
To look our dead, and then to bury them;
To sort our nobles from our common men.
For many of our princes--woe the while!--
Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood;
So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
In blood of princes; and their wounded steeds
Fret fetlock deep in gore and with wild rage
Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,
Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great king,
To view the field in safety and dispose
Of their dead bodies!",800,18957
641803,2636,"I tell thee truly, herald,
I know not if the day be ours or no;
For yet a many of your horsemen peer
And gallop o'er the field.",573,18957
641804,2640,The day is yours.,800,18957
641805,2641,"Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!
What is this castle call'd that stands hard by?",573,18957
641806,2643,They call it Agincourt.,800,18957
641807,2644,"Then call we this the field of Agincourt,
Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.",573,18957
641808,2646,"Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your
majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack
Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles,
fought a most prave pattle here in France.",480,18957
641809,2650,"They did, Fluellen.",573,18957
641810,2651,"Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is
remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a
garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their
Monmouth caps; which, your majesty know, to this
hour is an honourable badge of the service; and I do
believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek
upon Saint Tavy's day.",480,18957
641811,2658,"I wear it for a memorable honour;
For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.",573,18957
641812,2660,"All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's
Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that:
God pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases
his grace, and his majesty too!",480,18957
641813,2664,"Thanks, good my countryman.",573,18957
641814,2665,"By Jeshu, I am your majesty's countryman, I care not
who know it; I will confess it to all the 'orld: I
need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be
God, so long as your majesty is an honest man.",480,18957
641815,2669,"God keep me so! Our heralds go with him:
Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither.",573,18957
641816,2672,[Points to WILLIAMS. Exeunt Heralds with Montjoy],1261,18957
641817,2673,"Soldier, you must come to the king.",389,18957
641818,2674,"Soldier, why wearest thou that glove in thy cap?",573,18957
641819,2675,"An't please your majesty, 'tis the gage of one that
I should fight withal, if he be alive.",1255,18957
641820,2677,An Englishman?,573,18957
641821,2678,"An't please your majesty, a rascal that swaggered
with me last night; who, if alive and ever dare to
challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box
o' th' ear: or if I can see my glove in his cap,
which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear
if alive, I will strike it out soundly.",1255,18957
641822,2684,"What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this
soldier keep his oath?",573,18957
641823,2686,"He is a craven and a villain else, an't please your
majesty, in my conscience.",480,18957
641824,2688,"It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort,
quite from the answer of his degree.",573,18957
641825,2690,"Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as
Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look
your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath: if
he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as
arrant a villain and a Jacksauce, as ever his black
shoe trod upon God's ground and his earth, in my
conscience, la!",480,18957
641826,2697,"Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meetest the fellow.",573,18957
641827,2698,"So I will, my liege, as I live.",1255,18957
641828,2699,Who servest thou under?,573,18957
641829,2700,"Under Captain Gower, my liege.",1255,18957
641830,2701,"Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge and
literatured in the wars.",480,18957
641831,2703,"Call him hither to me, soldier.",573,18957
641832,2704,"I will, my liege.",1255,18957
641833,2705,[Exit],1261,18957
641834,2706,"Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me and
stick it in thy cap: when Alencon and myself were
down together, I plucked this glove from his helm:
if any man challenge this, he is a friend to
Alencon, and an enemy to our person; if thou
encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.",573,18957
641835,2712,"Your grace doo's me as great honours as can be
desired in the hearts of his subjects: I would fain
see the man, that has but two legs, that shall find
himself aggrieved at this glove; that is all; but I
would fain see it once, an please God of his grace
that I might see.",480,18957
641836,2718,Knowest thou Gower?,573,18957
641837,2719,"He is my dear friend, an please you.",480,18957
641838,2720,"Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent.",573,18957
641839,2721,I will fetch him.,480,18957
641840,2722,[Exit],1261,18957
641841,2723,"My Lord of Warwick, and my brother Gloucester,
Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:
The glove which I have given him for a favour
May haply purchase him a box o' th' ear;
It is the soldier's; I by bargain should
Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick:
If that the soldier strike him, as I judge
By his blunt bearing he will keep his word,
Some sudden mischief may arise of it;
For I do know Fluellen valiant
And, touched with choler, hot as gunpowder,
And quickly will return an injury:
Follow and see there be no harm between them.
Go you with me, uncle of Exeter.",573,18957
641842,2737,[Exeunt],1261,18957
641843,2739,[Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS],1261,18958
641844,2740,"I warrant it is to knight you, captain.",1255,18958
641845,2741,[Enter FLUELLEN],1261,18958
641846,2742,"God's will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you
now, come apace to the king: there is more good
toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of.",480,18958
641847,2745,"Sir, know you this glove?",1255,18958
641848,2746,Know the glove! I know the glove is glove.,480,18958
641849,2747,I know this; and thus I challenge it.,1255,18958
641850,2748,[Strikes him],1261,18958
641851,2749,"'Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the
universal world, or in France, or in England!",480,18958
641852,2751,"How now, sir! you villain!",536,18958
641853,2752,Do you think I'll be forsworn?,1255,18958
641854,2753,"Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his
payment into ploughs, I warrant you.",480,18958
641855,2755,I am no traitor.,1255,18958
641856,2756,"That's a lie in thy throat. I charge you in his
majesty's name, apprehend him: he's a friend of the
Duke Alencon's.",480,18958
641857,2759,[Enter WARWICK and GLOUCESTER],1261,18958
641858,2760,"How now, how now! what's the matter?",1247,18958
641859,2761,"My Lord of Warwick, here is--praised be God for it!
--a most contagious treason come to light, look
you, as you shall desire in a summer's day. Here is
his majesty.",480,18958
641860,2765,[Enter KING HENRY and EXETER],1261,18958
641861,2766,How now! what's the matter?,573,18958
641862,2767,"My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that,
look your grace, has struck the glove which your
majesty is take out of the helmet of Alencon.",480,18958
641863,2770,"My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of
it; and he that I gave it to in change promised to
wear it in his cap: I promised to strike him, if he
did: I met this man with my glove in his cap, and I
have been as good as my word.",1255,18958
641864,2775,"Your majesty hear now, saving your majesty's
manhood, what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy
knave it is: I hope your majesty is pear me
testimony and witness, and will avouchment, that
this is the glove of Alencon, that your majesty is
give me; in your conscience, now?",480,18958
641865,2781,"Give me thy glove, soldier: look, here is the
fellow of it.
'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike;
And thou hast given me most bitter terms.",573,18958
641866,2785,"An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it,
if there is any martial law in the world.",480,18958
641867,2787,How canst thou make me satisfaction?,573,18958
641868,2788,"All offences, my lord, come from the heart: never
came any from mine that might offend your majesty.",1255,18958
641869,2790,It was ourself thou didst abuse.,573,18958
641870,2791,"Your majesty came not like yourself: you appeared to
me but as a common man; witness the night, your
garments, your lowliness; and what your highness
suffered under that shape, I beseech you take it for
your own fault and not mine: for had you been as I
took you for, I made no offence; therefore, I
beseech your highness, pardon me.",1255,18958
641871,2798,"Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,
And give it to this fellow. Keep it, fellow;
And wear it for an honour in thy cap
Till I do challenge it. Give him the crowns:
And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.",573,18958
641872,2803,"By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle
enough in his belly. Hold, there is twelve pence
for you; and I pray you to serve Got, and keep you
out of prawls, and prabbles' and quarrels, and
dissensions, and, I warrant you, it is the better for you.",480,18958
641873,2808,I will none of your money.,1255,18958
641874,2809,"It is with a good will; I can tell you, it will
serve you to mend your shoes: come, wherefore should
you be so pashful? your shoes is not so good: 'tis
a good silling, I warrant you, or I will change it.",480,18958
641875,2813,[Enter an English Herald],1261,18958
641876,2814,"Now, herald, are the dead number'd?",573,18958
641877,2815,Here is the number of the slaughter'd French.,579,18958
641878,2816,"What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?",573,18958
641879,2817,"Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king;
John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt:
Of other lords and barons, knights and squires,
Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.",389,18958
641880,2821,"This note doth tell me of ten thousand French
That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,
And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead
One hundred twenty six: added to these,
Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,
Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which,
Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights:
So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,
There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries;
The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires,
And gentlemen of blood and quality.
The names of those their nobles that lie dead:
Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;
Jaques of Chatillon, admiral of France;
The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures;
Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dolphin,
John Duke of Alencon, Anthony Duke of Brabant,
The brother of the Duke of Burgundy,
And Edward Duke of Bar: of lusty earls,
Grandpre and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix,
Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrale.
Here was a royal fellowship of death!
Where is the number of our English dead?
[Herald shews him another paper]
Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,
Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire:
None else of name; and of all other men
But five and twenty. O God, thy arm was here;
And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,
But in plain shock and even play of battle,
Was ever known so great and little loss
On one part and on the other? Take it, God,
For it is none but thine!",573,18958
641887,2870,[Exeunt],1261,18958
641888,2873,[Enter Chorus],1261,18959
641889,2874,"Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story,
That I may prompt them: and of such as have,
I humbly pray them to admit the excuse
Of time, of numbers and due course of things,
Which cannot in their huge and proper life
Be here presented. Now we bear the king
Toward Calais: grant him there; there seen,
Heave him away upon your winged thoughts
Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach
Pales in the flood with men, with wives and boys,
Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep mouth'd sea,
Which like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king
Seems to prepare his way: so let him land,
And solemnly see him set on to London.
So swift a pace hath thought that even now
You may imagine him upon Blackheath;
Where that his lords desire him to have borne
His bruised helmet and his bended sword
Before him through the city: he forbids it,
Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride;
Giving full trophy, signal and ostent
Quite from himself to God. But now behold,
In the quick forge and working-house of thought,
How London doth pour out her citizens!
The mayor and all his brethren in best sort,
Like to the senators of the antique Rome,
With the plebeians swarming at their heels,
Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in:
As, by a lower but loving likelihood,
Were now the general of our gracious empress,
As in good time he may, from Ireland coming,
Bringing rebellion broached on his sword,
How many would the peaceful city quit,
To welcome him! much more, and much more cause,
Did they this Harry. Now in London place him;
As yet the lamentation of the French
Invites the King of England's stay at home;
The emperor's coming in behalf of France,
To order peace between them; and omit
All the occurrences, whatever chanced,
Till Harry's back-return again to France:
There must we bring him; and myself have play'd
The interim, by remembering you 'tis past.
Then brook abridgment, and your eyes advance,
After your thoughts, straight back again to France.",244,18959
641890,2919,[Exit],1261,18959
641891,2922,[Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER],1261,18960
641892,2923,"Nay, that's right; but why wear you your leek today?
Saint Davy's day is past.",536,18960
641893,2925,"There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in
all things: I will tell you, asse my friend,
Captain Gower: the rascally, scald, beggarly,
lousy, pragging knave, Pistol, which you and
yourself and all the world know to be no petter
than a fellow, look you now, of no merits, he is
come to me and prings me pread and salt yesterday,
look you, and bid me eat my leek: it was in place
where I could not breed no contention with him; but
I will be so bold as to wear it in my cap till I see
him once again, and then I will tell him a little
piece of my desires.",480,18960
641894,2937,[Enter PISTOL],1261,18960
641895,2938,"Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.",536,18960
641896,2939,"'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his
turkey-cocks. God pless you, Aunchient Pistol! you
scurvy, lousy knave, God pless you!",480,18960
641897,2942,"Ha! art thou bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,
To have me fold up Parca's fatal web?
Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.",891,18960
641898,2945,"I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lousy knave, at my
desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat,
look you, this leek: because, look you, you do not
love it, nor your affections and your appetites and
your digestions doo's not agree with it, I would
desire you to eat it.",480,18960
641899,2951,Not for Cadwallader and all his goats.,891,18960
641900,2952,"There is one goat for you.
[Strikes him]
Will you be so good, scauld knave, as eat it?",480,18960
641901,2955,"Base Trojan, thou shalt die.",891,18960
641902,2956,"You say very true, scauld knave, when God's will is:
I will desire you to live in the mean time, and eat
your victuals: come, there is sauce for it.
[Strikes him]
You called me yesterday mountain-squire; but I will
make you to-day a squire of low degree. I pray you,
fall to: if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.",480,18960
641903,2963,"Enough, captain: you have astonished him.",536,18960
641904,2964,"I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or
I will peat his pate four days. Bite, I pray you; it
is good for your green wound and your ploody coxcomb.",480,18960
641905,2967,Must I bite?,891,18960
641906,2968,"Yes, certainly, and out of doubt and out of question
too, and ambiguities.",480,18960
641907,2970,"By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat
and eat, I swear--",891,18960
641908,2972,"Eat, I pray you: will you have some more sauce to
your leek? there is not enough leek to swear by.",480,18960
641909,2974,Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see I eat.,891,18960
641910,2975,"Much good do you, scauld knave, heartily. Nay, pray
you, throw none away; the skin is good for your
broken coxcomb. When you take occasions to see leeks
hereafter, I pray you, mock at 'em; that is all.",480,18960
641911,2979,Good.,891,18960
641912,2980,"Ay, leeks is good: hold you, there is a groat to
heal your pate.",480,18960
641913,2982,Me a groat!,891,18960
641914,2983,"Yes, verily and in truth, you shall take it; or I
have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat.",480,18960
641915,2985,I take thy groat in earnest of revenge.,891,18960
641916,2986,"If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels:
you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but
cudgels. God b' wi' you, and keep you, and heal your pate.",480,18960
641917,2989,[Exit],1261,18960
641918,2990,All hell shall stir for this.,891,18960
641919,2991,"Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will
you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an
honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of
predeceased valour and dare not avouch in your deeds
any of your words? I have seen you gleeking and
galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You
thought, because he could not speak English in the
native garb, he could not therefore handle an
English cudgel: you find it otherwise; and
henceforth let a Welsh correction teach you a good
English condition. Fare ye well.",536,18960
641920,3002,[Exit],1261,18960
641921,3003,"Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now?
News have I, that my Nell is dead i' the spital
Of malady of France;
And there my rendezvous is quite cut off.
Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs
Honour is cudgelled. Well, bawd I'll turn,
And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand.
To England will I steal, and there I'll steal:
And patches will I get unto these cudgell'd scars,
And swear I got them in the Gallia wars.",891,18960
641922,3013,"[Exit]
[Enter, at one door KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD,]
GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and other Lords;
at another, the FRENCH KING, QUEEN ISABEL, the
PRINCESS KATHARINE, ALICE and other Ladies; the
DUKE of BURGUNDY, and his train]",1261,18960
641923,3020,"Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met!
Unto our brother France, and to our sister,
Health and fair time of day; joy and good wishes
To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;
And, as a branch and member of this royalty,
By whom this great assembly is contrived,
We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy;
And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!",573,18961
641924,3028,"Right joyous are we to behold your face,
Most worthy brother England; fairly met:
So are you, princes English, every one.",499,18961
641925,3031,"So happy be the issue, brother England,
Of this good day and of this gracious meeting,
As we are now glad to behold your eyes;
Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them
Against the French, that met them in their bent,
The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:
The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,
Have lost their quality, and that this day
Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.",604,18961
641926,3040,"To cry amen to that, thus we appear.",573,18961
641927,3041,"You English princes all, I do salute you.",604,18961
641928,3042,"My duty to you both, on equal love,
Great Kings of France and England! That I have labour'd,
With all my wits, my pains and strong endeavours,
To bring your most imperial majesties
Unto this bar and royal interview,
Your mightiness on both parts best can witness.
Since then my office hath so far prevail'd
That, face to face and royal eye to eye,
You have congreeted, let it not disgrace me,
If I demand, before this royal view,
What rub or what impediment there is,
Why that the naked, poor and mangled Peace,
Dear nurse of arts and joyful births,
Should not in this best garden of the world
Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?
Alas, she hath from France too long been chased,
And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps,
Corrupting in its own fertility.
Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart,
Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleach'd,
Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair,
Put forth disorder'd twigs; her fallow leas
The darnel, hemlock and rank fumitory
Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts
That should deracinate such savagery;
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth
The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover,
Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,
Conceives by idleness and nothing teems
But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,
Losing both beauty and utility.
And as our vineyards, fallows, meads and hedges,
Defective in their natures, grow to wildness,
Even so our houses and ourselves and children
Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,
The sciences that should become our country;
But grow like savages,--as soldiers will
That nothing do but meditate on blood,--
To swearing and stern looks, diffused attire
And every thing that seems unnatural.
Which to reduce into our former favour
You are assembled: and my speech entreats
That I may know the let, why gentle Peace
Should not expel these inconveniences
And bless us with her former qualities.",345,18961
641929,3087,"If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,
Whose want gives growth to the imperfections
Which you have cited, you must buy that peace
With full accord to all our just demands;
Whose tenors and particular effects
You have enscheduled briefly in your hands.",573,18961
641930,3093,"The king hath heard them; to the which as yet
There is no answer made.",345,18961
641931,3095,"Well then the peace,
Which you before so urged, lies in his answer.",573,18961
641932,3097,"I have but with a cursorary eye
O'erglanced the articles: pleaseth your grace
To appoint some of your council presently
To sit with us once more, with better heed
To re-survey them, we will suddenly
Pass our accept and peremptory answer.",499,18961
641933,3103,"Brother, we shall. Go, uncle Exeter,
And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester,
Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the king;
And take with you free power to ratify,
Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best
Shall see advantageable for our dignity,
Any thing in or out of our demands,
And we'll consign thereto. Will you, fair sister,
Go with the princes, or stay here with us?",573,18961
641934,3112,"Our gracious brother, I will go with them:
Haply a woman's voice may do some good,
When articles too nicely urged be stood on.",604,18961
641935,3115,"Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:
She is our capital demand, comprised
Within the fore-rank of our articles.",573,18961
641936,3118,She hath good leave.,604,18961
641937,3119,"[Exeunt all except HENRY, KATHARINE, and ALICE]",1261,18961
641938,3120,"Fair Katharine, and most fair,
Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
Such as will enter at a lady's ear
And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?",573,18961
641939,3124,Your majesty shall mock at me; I cannot speak your England.,629,18961
641940,3125,"O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with
your French heart, I will be glad to hear you
confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do
you like me, Kate?",573,18961
641941,3129,"Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is 'like me.'",629,18961
641942,3130,"An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.",573,18961
641943,3131,Que dit-il? que je suis semblable a les anges?,629,18961
641944,3132,"Oui, vraiment, sauf votre grace, ainsi dit-il.",67,18961
641945,3133,"I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to
affirm it.",573,18961
641946,3135,"O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de
tromperies.",629,18961
641947,3137,"What says she, fair one? that the tongues of men
are full of deceits?",573,18961
641948,3139,"Oui, dat de tongues of de mans is be full of
deceits: dat is de princess.",67,18961
641949,3141,"The princess is the better Englishwoman. I' faith,
Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding: I am
glad thou canst speak no better English; for, if
thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king
that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my
crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but
directly to say 'I love you:' then if you urge me
farther than to say 'do you in faith?' I wear out
my suit. Give me your answer; i' faith, do: and so
clap hands and a bargain: how say you, lady?",573,18961
641950,3151,"Sauf votre honneur, me understand vell.",629,18961
641951,3152,"Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for
your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one, I
have neither words nor measure, and for the other, I
have no strength in measure, yet a reasonable
measure in strength. If I could win a lady at
leap-frog, or by vaulting into my saddle with my
armour on my back, under the correction of bragging
be it spoken. I should quickly leap into a wife.
Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse
for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and
sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. But, before God,
Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my
eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation;
only downright oaths, which I never use till urged,
nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a
fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth
sun-burning, that never looks in his glass for love
of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be thy
cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: If thou canst
love me for this, take me: if not, to say to thee
that I shall die, is true; but for thy love, by the
Lord, no; yet I love thee too. And while thou
livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and
uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee
right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other
places: for these fellows of infinite tongue, that
can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do
always reason themselves out again. What! a
speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A
good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a
black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow
bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax
hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the
moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it
shines bright and never changes, but keeps his
course truly. If thou would have such a one, take
me; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier,
take a king. And what sayest thou then to my love?
speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.",573,18961
641952,3191,Is it possible dat I sould love de enemy of France?,629,18961
641953,3192,"No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of
France, Kate: but, in loving me, you should love
the friend of France; for I love France so well that
I will not part with a village of it; I will have it
all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine and I am
yours, then yours is France and you are mine.",573,18961
641954,3198,I cannot tell vat is dat.,629,18961
641955,3199,"No, Kate? I will tell thee in French; which I am
sure will hang upon my tongue like a new-married
wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook
off. Je quand sur le possession de France, et quand
vous avez le possession de moi,--let me see, what
then? Saint Denis be my speed!--donc votre est
France et vous etes mienne. It is as easy for me,
Kate, to conquer the kingdom as to speak so much
more French: I shall never move thee in French,
unless it be to laugh at me.",573,18961
641956,3209,"Sauf votre honneur, le Francois que vous parlez, il
est meilleur que l'Anglois lequel je parle.",629,18961
641957,3211,"No, faith, is't not, Kate: but thy speaking of my
tongue, and I thine, most truly-falsely, must needs
be granted to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou
understand thus much English, canst thou love me?",573,18961
641958,3215,I cannot tell.,629,18961
641959,3216,"Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask
them. Come, I know thou lovest me: and at night,
when you come into your closet, you'll question this
gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to
her dispraise those parts in me that you love with
your heart: but, good Kate, mock me mercifully; the
rather, gentle princess, because I love thee
cruelly. If ever thou beest mine, Kate, as I have a
saving faith within me tells me thou shalt, I get
thee with scambling, and thou must therefore needs
prove a good soldier-breeder: shall not thou and I,
between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a
boy, half French, half English, that shall go to
Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?
shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair
flower-de-luce?",573,18961
641960,3232,I do not know dat,629,18961
641961,3233,"No; 'tis hereafter to know, but now to promise: do
but now promise, Kate, you will endeavour for your
French part of such a boy; and for my English moiety
take the word of a king and a bachelor. How answer
you, la plus belle Katharine du monde, mon tres cher
et devin deesse?",573,18961
641962,3239,"Your majestee ave fausse French enough to deceive de
most sage demoiselle dat is en France.",629,18961
641963,3241,"Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in
true English, I love thee, Kate: by which honour I
dare not swear thou lovest me; yet my blood begins to
flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the poor
and untempering effect of my visage. Now, beshrew
my father's ambition! he was thinking of civil wars
when he got me: therefore was I created with a
stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when
I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith,
Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear:
my comfort is, that old age, that ill layer up of
beauty, can do no more, spoil upon my face: thou
hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou
shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better:
and therefore tell me, most fair Katharine, will you
have me? Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the
thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress;
take me by the hand, and say 'Harry of England I am
thine:' which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine
ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud 'England is
thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine, and Harry
Plantagenet is thine;' who though I speak it before
his face, if he be not fellow with the best king,
thou shalt find the best king of good fellows.
Come, your answer in broken music; for thy voice is
music and thy English broken; therefore, queen of
all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken
English; wilt thou have me?",573,18961
641964,3269,Dat is as it sall please de roi mon pere.,629,18961
641965,3270,"Nay, it will please him well, Kate it shall please
him, Kate.",573,18961
641966,3272,Den it sall also content me.,629,18961
641967,3273,"Upon that I kiss your hand, and I call you my queen.",573,18961
641968,3274,"Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez: ma foi, je
ne veux point que vous abaissiez votre grandeur en
baisant la main d'une de votre seigeurie indigne
serviteur; excusez-moi, je vous supplie, mon
tres-puissant seigneur.",629,18961
641969,3279,"Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.",573,18961
641970,3280,"Les dames et demoiselles pour etre baisees devant
leur noces, il n'est pas la coutume de France.",629,18961
641971,3282,"Madam my interpreter, what says she?",573,18961
641972,3283,"Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of
France,--I cannot tell vat is baiser en Anglish.",67,18961
641973,3285,To kiss.,573,18961
641974,3286,Your majesty entendre bettre que moi.,67,18961
641975,3287,"It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss
before they are married, would she say?",573,18961
641976,3289,"Oui, vraiment.",67,18961
641977,3290,"O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear
Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak
list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of
manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our
places stops the mouth of all find-faults; as I will
do yours, for upholding the nice fashion of your
country in denying me a kiss: therefore, patiently
and yielding.
[Kissing her]
You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is
more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the
tongues of the French council; and they should
sooner persuade Harry of England than a general
petition of monarchs. Here comes your father.",573,18961
641978,3304,"[Re-enter the FRENCH KING and his QUEEN, BURGUNDY, and other Lords]",1261,18961
641979,3305,"God save your majesty! my royal cousin, teach you
our princess English?",345,18961
641980,3307,"I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how
perfectly I love her; and that is good English.",573,18961
641981,3309,Is she not apt?,345,18961
641982,3310,"Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not
smooth; so that, having neither the voice nor the
heart of flattery about me, I cannot so conjure up
the spirit of love in her, that he will appear in
his true likeness.",573,18961
641983,3315,"Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer you
for that. If you would conjure in her, you must
make a circle; if conjure up love in her in his true
likeness, he must appear naked and blind. Can you
blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the
virgin crimson of modesty, if she deny the
appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing
self? It were, my lord, a hard condition for a maid
to consign to.",345,18961
641984,3324,"Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind and enforces.",573,18961
641985,3325,"They are then excused, my lord, when they see not
what they do.",345,18961
641986,3327,"Then, good my lord, teach your cousin to consent winking.",573,18961
641987,3328,"I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you will
teach her to know my meaning: for maids, well
summered and warm kept, are like flies at
Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have their
eyes; and then they will endure handling, which
before would not abide looking on.",345,18961
641988,3334,"This moral ties me over to time and a hot summer;
and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in the
latter end and she must be blind too.",573,18961
641989,3337,"As love is, my lord, before it loves.",345,18961
641990,3338,"It is so: and you may, some of you, thank love for
my blindness, who cannot see many a fair French city
for one fair French maid that stands in my way.",573,18961
641991,3341,"Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively, the cities
turned into a maid; for they are all girdled with
maiden walls that war hath never entered.",499,18961
641992,3344,Shall Kate be my wife?,573,18961
641993,3345,So please you.,499,18961
641994,3346,"I am content; so the maiden cities you talk of may
wait on her: so the maid that stood in the way for
my wish shall show me the way to my will.",573,18961
641995,3349,We have consented to all terms of reason.,499,18961
641996,3350,"Is't so, my lords of England?",573,18961
641997,3351,"The king hath granted every article:
His daughter first, and then in sequel all,
According to their firm proposed natures.",1250,18961
641998,3354,"Only he hath not yet subscribed this:
Where your majesty demands, that the King of France,
having any occasion to write for matter of grant,
shall name your highness in this form and with this
addition in French, Notre trescher fils Henri, Roi
d'Angleterre, Heritier de France; and thus in
Latin, Praeclarissimus filius noster Henricus, Rex
Angliae, et Haeres Franciae.",389,18961
641999,3362,"Nor this I have not, brother, so denied,
But your request shall make me let it pass.",499,18961
642000,3364,"I pray you then, in love and dear alliance,
Let that one article rank with the rest;
And thereupon give me your daughter.",573,18961
642001,3367,"Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up
Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms
Of France and England, whose very shores look pale
With envy of each other's happiness,
May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction
Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord
In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance
His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.",499,18961
642002,3375,Amen!,75,18961
642003,3376,"Now, welcome, Kate: and bear me witness all,
That here I kiss her as my sovereign queen.",573,18961
642004,3378,[Flourish],1261,18961
642005,3379,"God, the best maker of all marriages,
Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one!
As man and wife, being two, are one in love,
So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal,
That never may ill office, or fell jealousy,
Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage,
Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms,
To make divorce of their incorporate league;
That English may as French, French Englishmen,
Receive each other. God speak this Amen!",604,18961
642006,3389,Amen!,75,18961
642007,3390,"Prepare we for our marriage--on which day,
My Lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath,
And all the peers', for surety of our leagues.
Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me;
And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be!
[Sennet. Exeunt]
EPILOGUE",573,18961
642008,3397,[Enter Chorus],1261,18961
642009,3398,"Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,
Our bending author hath pursued the story,
In little room confining mighty men,
Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.
Small time, but in that small most greatly lived
This star of England: Fortune made his sword;
By which the world's best garden be achieved,
And of it left his son imperial lord.
Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King
Of France and England, did this king succeed;
Whose state so many had the managing,
That they lost France and made his England bleed:
Which oft our stage hath shown; and, for their sake,
In your fair minds let this acceptance take.",244,18961
642010,3412,[Exit],1261,18961
642011,7,"Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!
Comets, importing change of times and states,
Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,
And with them scourge the bad revolting stars
That have consented unto Henry's death!
King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long!
England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.",157,18962
642012,14,"England ne'er had a king until his time.
Virtue he had, deserving to command:
His brandish'd sword did blind men with his beams:
His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings;
His sparking eyes, replete with wrathful fire,
More dazzled and drove back his enemies
Than mid-day sun fierce bent against their faces.
What should I say? his deeds exceed all speech:
He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered.",531,18962
642013,23,"We mourn in black: why mourn we not in blood?
Henry is dead and never shall revive:
Upon a wooden coffin we attend,
And death's dishonourable victory
We with our stately presence glorify,
Like captives bound to a triumphant car.
What! shall we curse the planets of mishap
That plotted thus our glory's overthrow?
Or shall we think the subtle-witted French
Conjurers and sorcerers, that afraid of him
By magic verses have contrived his end?",389,18962
642014,34,"He was a king bless'd of the King of kings.
Unto the French the dreadful judgement-day
So dreadful will not be as was his sight.
The battles of the Lord of hosts he fought:
The church's prayers made him so prosperous.",577,18962
642015,39,"The church! where is it? Had not churchmen pray'd,
His thread of life had not so soon decay'd:
None do you like but an effeminate prince,
Whom, like a school-boy, you may over-awe.",531,18962
642016,43,"Gloucester, whate'er we like, thou art protector
And lookest to command the prince and realm.
Thy wife is proud; she holdeth thee in awe,
More than God or religious churchmen may.",577,18962
642017,47,"Name not religion, for thou lovest the flesh,
And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st
Except it be to pray against thy foes.",531,18962
642018,50,"Cease, cease these jars and rest your minds in peace:
Let's to the altar: heralds, wait on us:
Instead of gold, we'll offer up our arms:
Since arms avail not now that Henry's dead.
Posterity, await for wretched years,
When at their mothers' moist eyes babes shall suck,
Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears,
And none but women left to wail the dead.
Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate:
Prosper this realm, keep it from civil broils,
Combat with adverse planets in the heavens!
A far more glorious star thy soul will make
Than Julius Caesar or bright--",157,18962
642019,63,[Enter a Messenger],1261,18962
642020,64,"My honourable lords, health to you all!
Sad tidings bring I to you out of France,
Of loss, of slaughter and discomfiture:
Guienne, Champagne, Rheims, Orleans,
Paris, Guysors, Poictiers, are all quite lost.",775,18962
642021,69,"What say'st thou, man, before dead Henry's corse?
Speak softly, or the loss of those great towns
Will make him burst his lead and rise from death.",157,18962
642022,72,"Is Paris lost? is Rouen yielded up?
If Henry were recall'd to life again,
These news would cause him once more yield the ghost.",531,18962
642023,75,How were they lost? what treachery was used?,389,18962
642024,76,"No treachery; but want of men and money.
Amongst the soldiers this is muttered,
That here you maintain several factions,
And whilst a field should be dispatch'd and fought,
You are disputing of your generals:
One would have lingering wars with little cost;
Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings;
A third thinks, without expense at all,
By guileful fair words peace may be obtain'd.
Awake, awake, English nobility!
Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot:
Cropp'd are the flower-de-luces in your arms;
Of England's coat one half is cut away.",775,18962
642025,89,"Were our tears wanting to this funeral,
These tidings would call forth their flowing tides.",389,18962
642026,91,"Me they concern; Regent I am of France.
Give me my steeled coat. I'll fight for France.
Away with these disgraceful wailing robes!
Wounds will I lend the French instead of eyes,
To weep their intermissive miseries.",157,18962
642027,96,[Enter to them another Messenger],1261,18962
642028,97,"Lords, view these letters full of bad mischance.
France is revolted from the English quite,
Except some petty towns of no import:
The Dauphin Charles is crowned king of Rheims;
The Bastard of Orleans with him is join'd;
Reignier, Duke of Anjou, doth take his part;
The Duke of Alencon flieth to his side.",775,18962
642029,104,"The Dauphin crowned king! all fly to him!
O, whither shall we fly from this reproach?",389,18962
642030,106,"We will not fly, but to our enemies' throats.
Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out.",531,18962
642031,108,"Gloucester, why doubt'st thou of my forwardness?
An army have I muster'd in my thoughts,
Wherewith already France is overrun.",157,18962
642032,111,[Enter another Messenger],1261,18962
642033,112,"My gracious lords, to add to your laments,
Wherewith you now bedew King Henry's hearse,
I must inform you of a dismal fight
Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot and the French.",775,18962
642034,116,What! wherein Talbot overcame? is't so?,577,18962
642035,117,"O, no; wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown:
The circumstance I'll tell you more at large.
The tenth of August last this dreadful lord,
Retiring from the siege of Orleans,
Having full scarce six thousand in his troop.
By three and twenty thousand of the French
Was round encompassed and set upon.
No leisure had he to enrank his men;
He wanted pikes to set before his archers;
Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck'd out of hedges
They pitched in the ground confusedly,
To keep the horsemen off from breaking in.
More than three hours the fight continued;
Where valiant Talbot above human thought
Enacted wonders with his sword and lance:
Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him;
Here, there, and every where, enraged he flew:
The French exclaim'd, the devil was in arms;
All the whole army stood agazed on him:
His soldiers spying his undaunted spirit
A Talbot! a Talbot! cried out amain
And rush'd into the bowels of the battle.
Here had the conquest fully been seal'd up,
If Sir John Fastolfe had not play'd the coward:
He, being in the vaward, placed behind
With purpose to relieve and follow them,
Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.
Hence grew the general wreck and massacre;
Enclosed were they with their enemies:
A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace,
Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back,
Whom all France with their chief assembled strength
Durst not presume to look once in the face.",775,18962
642036,150,"Is Talbot slain? then I will slay myself,
For living idly here in pomp and ease,
Whilst such a worthy leader, wanting aid,
Unto his dastard foemen is betray'd.",157,18962
642037,154,"O no, he lives; but is took prisoner,
And Lord Scales with him and Lord Hungerford:
Most of the rest slaughter'd or took likewise.",775,18962
642038,157,"His ransom there is none but I shall pay:
I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne:
His crown shall be the ransom of my friend;
Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours.
Farewell, my masters; to my task will I;
Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make,
To keep our great Saint George's feast withal:
Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take,
Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake.",157,18962
642039,166,"So you had need; for Orleans is besieged;
The English army is grown weak and faint:
The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply,
And hardly keeps his men from mutiny,
Since they, so few, watch such a multitude.",775,18962
642040,171,"Remember, lords, your oaths to Henry sworn,
Either to quell the Dauphin utterly,
Or bring him in obedience to your yoke.",389,18962
642041,174,"I do remember it; and here take my leave,
To go about my preparation.",157,18962
642042,176,[Exit],1261,18962
642043,177,"I'll to the Tower with all the haste I can,
To view the artillery and munition;
And then I will proclaim young Henry king.",531,18962
642044,180,[Exit],1261,18962
642045,181,"To Eltham will I, where the young king is,
Being ordain'd his special governor,
And for his safety there I'll best devise.",389,18962
642046,184,[Exit],1261,18962
642047,185,"Each hath his place and function to attend:
I am left out; for me nothing remains.
But long I will not be Jack out of office:
The king from Eltham I intend to steal
And sit at chiefest stern of public weal.",577,18962
642048,190,"[Exeunt]
[Sound a flourish. Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, and]
REIGNIER, marching with drum and Soldiers]",1261,18962
642049,195,"Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens
So in the earth, to this day is not known:
Late did he shine upon the English side;
Now we are victors; upon us he smiles.
What towns of any moment but we have?
At pleasure here we lie near Orleans;
Otherwhiles the famish'd English, like pale ghosts,
Faintly besiege us one hour in a month.",238,18963
642050,203,"They want their porridge and their fat bull-beeves:
Either they must be dieted like mules
And have their provender tied to their mouths
Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice.",340,18963
642051,207,"Let's raise the siege: why live we idly here?
Talbot is taken, whom we wont to fear:
Remaineth none but mad-brain'd Salisbury;
And he may well in fretting spend his gall,
Nor men nor money hath he to make war.",942,18963
642052,212,"Sound, sound alarum! we will rush on them.
Now for the honour of the forlorn French!
Him I forgive my death that killeth me
When he sees me go back one foot or fly.
[Exeunt]
[Here alarum; they are beaten back by the English]
with great loss. Re-enter CHARLES, ALENCON, and REIGNIER]",238,18963
642053,219,"Who ever saw the like? what men have I!
Dogs! cowards! dastards! I would ne'er have fled,
But that they left me 'midst my enemies.",238,18963
642054,222,"Salisbury is a desperate homicide;
He fighteth as one weary of his life.
The other lords, like lions wanting food,
Do rush upon us as their hungry prey.",942,18963
642055,226,"Froissart, a countryman of ours, records,
England all Olivers and Rowlands bred,
During the time Edward the Third did reign.
More truly now may this be verified;
For none but Samsons and Goliases
It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten!
Lean, raw-boned rascals! who would e'er suppose
They had such courage and audacity?",340,18963
642056,234,"Let's leave this town; for they are hare-brain'd slaves,
And hunger will enforce them to be more eager:
Of old I know them; rather with their teeth
The walls they'll tear down than forsake the siege.",238,18963
642057,238,"I think, by some odd gimmors or device
Their arms are set like clocks, stiff to strike on;
Else ne'er could they hold out so as they do.
By my consent, we'll even let them alone.",942,18963
642058,242,Be it so.,340,18963
642059,243,[Enter the BASTARD OF ORLEANS],1261,18963
642060,244,Where's the Prince Dauphin? I have news for him.,150,18963
642061,245,"Bastard of Orleans, thrice welcome to us.",238,18963
642062,246,"Methinks your looks are sad, your cheer appall'd:
Hath the late overthrow wrought this offence?
Be not dismay'd, for succor is at hand:
A holy maid hither with me I bring,
Which by a vision sent to her from heaven
Ordained is to raise this tedious siege
And drive the English forth the bounds of France.
The spirit of deep prophecy she hath,
Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome:
What's past and what's to come she can descry.
Speak, shall I call her in? Believe my words,
For they are certain and unfallible.",150,18963
642063,258,"Go, call her in.
[Exit BASTARD OF ORLEANS]
But first, to try her skill,
Reignier, stand thou as Dauphin in my place:
Question her proudly; let thy looks be stern:
By this means shall we sound what skill she hath.",238,18963
642064,264,"[Re-enter the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, with JOAN LA PUCELLE]",1261,18963
642065,265,"Fair maid, is't thou wilt do these wondrous feats?",942,18963
642066,266,"Reignier, is't thou that thinkest to beguile me?
Where is the Dauphin? Come, come from behind;
I know thee well, though never seen before.
Be not amazed, there's nothing hid from me:
In private will I talk with thee apart.
Stand back, you lords, and give us leave awhile.",613,18963
642067,272,She takes upon her bravely at first dash.,942,18963
642068,273,"Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd's daughter,
My wit untrain'd in any kind of art.
Heaven and our Lady gracious hath it pleased
To shine on my contemptible estate:
Lo, whilst I waited on my tender lambs,
And to sun's parching heat display'd my cheeks,
God's mother deigned to appear to me
And in a vision full of majesty
Will'd me to leave my base vocation
And free my country from calamity:
Her aid she promised and assured success:
In complete glory she reveal'd herself;
And, whereas I was black and swart before,
With those clear rays which she infused on me
That beauty am I bless'd with which you see.
Ask me what question thou canst possible,
And I will answer unpremeditated:
My courage try by combat, if thou darest,
And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex.
Resolve on this, thou shalt be fortunate,
If thou receive me for thy warlike mate.",613,18963
642069,294,"Thou hast astonish'd me with thy high terms:
Only this proof I'll of thy valour make,
In single combat thou shalt buckle with me,
And if thou vanquishest, thy words are true;
Otherwise I renounce all confidence.",238,18963
642070,299,"I am prepared: here is my keen-edged sword,
Deck'd with five flower-de-luces on each side;
The which at Touraine, in Saint Katharine's
churchyard,
Out of a great deal of old iron I chose forth.",613,18963
642071,304,"Then come, o' God's name; I fear no woman.",238,18963
642072,305,"And while I live, I'll ne'er fly from a man.",613,18963
642073,306,"[Here they fight, and JOAN LA PUCELLE overcomes]",1261,18963
642074,307,"Stay, stay thy hands! thou art an Amazon
And fightest with the sword of Deborah.",238,18963
642075,309,"Christ's mother helps me, else I were too weak.",613,18963
642076,310,"Whoe'er helps thee, 'tis thou that must help me:
Impatiently I burn with thy desire;
My heart and hands thou hast at once subdued.
Excellent Pucelle, if thy name be so,
Let me thy servant and not sovereign be:
'Tis the French Dauphin sueth to thee thus.",238,18963
642077,316,"I must not yield to any rites of love,
For my profession's sacred from above:
When I have chased all thy foes from hence,
Then will I think upon a recompense.",613,18963
642078,320,Meantime look gracious on thy prostrate thrall.,238,18963
642079,321,"My lord, methinks, is very long in talk.",942,18963
642080,322,"Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock;
Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.",340,18963
642081,324,"Shall we disturb him, since he keeps no mean?",942,18963
642082,325,"He may mean more than we poor men do know:
These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.",340,18963
642083,327,"My lord, where are you? what devise you on?
Shall we give over Orleans, or no?",942,18963
642084,329,"Why, no, I say, distrustful recreants!
Fight till the last gasp; I will be your guard.",613,18963
642085,331,What she says I'll confirm: we'll fight it out.,238,18963
642086,332,"Assign'd am I to be the English scourge.
This night the siege assuredly I'll raise:
Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days,
Since I have entered into these wars.
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
With Henry's death the English circle ends;
Dispersed are the glories it included.
Now am I like that proud insulting ship
Which Caesar and his fortune bare at once.",613,18963
642087,343,"Was Mahomet inspired with a dove?
Thou with an eagle art inspired then.
Helen, the mother of great Constantine,
Nor yet Saint Philip's daughters, were like thee.
Bright star of Venus, fall'n down on the earth,
How may I reverently worship thee enough?",238,18963
642088,349,"Leave off delays, and let us raise the siege.",340,18963
642089,350,"Woman, do what thou canst to save our honours;
Drive them from Orleans and be immortalized.",942,18963
642090,352,"Presently we'll try: come, let's away about it:
No prophet will I trust, if she prove false.",238,18963
642091,354,[Exeunt],1261,18963
642092,357,"[Enter GLOUCESTER, with his Serving-men in blue coats]",1261,18964
642093,358,"I am come to survey the Tower this day:
Since Henry's death, I fear, there is conveyance.
Where be these warders, that they wait not here?
Open the gates; 'tis Gloucester that calls.",531,18964
642094,362,[Within] Who's there that knocks so imperiously?,473,18964
642095,363,It is the noble Duke of Gloucester.,14,18964
642096,364,"[Within] Whoe'er he be, you may not be let in.",1038,18964
642097,365,"Villains, answer you so the lord protector?",14,18964
642098,366,"[Within] The Lord protect him! so we answer him:
We do no otherwise than we are will'd.",473,18964
642099,368,"Who willed you? or whose will stands but mine?
There's none protector of the realm but I.
Break up the gates, I'll be your warrantize.
Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms?
[Gloucester's men rush at the Tower Gates, and]
WOODVILE the Lieutenant speaks within]",531,18964
642100,374,What noise is this? what traitors have we here?,1259,18964
642101,375,"Lieutenant, is it you whose voice I hear?
Open the gates; here's Gloucester that would enter.",531,18964
642102,377,"Have patience, noble duke; I may not open;
The Cardinal of Winchester forbids:
From him I have express commandment
That thou nor none of thine shall be let in.",1259,18964
642103,381,"Faint-hearted Woodvile, prizest him 'fore me?
Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate,
Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne'er could brook?
Thou art no friend to God or to the king:
Open the gates, or I'll shut thee out shortly.",531,18964
642104,386,"Open the gates unto the lord protector,
Or we'll burst them open, if that you come not quickly.
[Enter to the Protector at the Tower Gates BISHOP]
OF WINCHESTER and his men in tawny coats]",1079,18964
642105,390,"How now, ambitious Humphry! what means this?",577,18964
642106,391,"Peel'd priest, dost thou command me to be shut out?",531,18964
642107,392,"I do, thou most usurping proditor,
And not protector, of the king or realm.",577,18964
642108,394,"Stand back, thou manifest conspirator,
Thou that contrivedst to murder our dead lord;
Thou that givest whores indulgences to sin:
I'll canvass thee in thy broad cardinal's hat,
If thou proceed in this thy insolence.",531,18964
642109,399,"Nay, stand thou back, I will not budge a foot:
This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain,
To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt.",577,18964
642110,402,"I will not slay thee, but I'll drive thee back:
Thy scarlet robes as a child's bearing-cloth
I'll use to carry thee out of this place.",531,18964
642111,405,Do what thou darest; I beard thee to thy face.,577,18964
642112,406,"What! am I dared and bearded to my face?
Draw, men, for all this privileged place;
Blue coats to tawny coats. Priest, beware your beard,
I mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly:
Under my feet I stamp thy cardinal's hat:
In spite of pope or dignities of church,
Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down.",531,18964
642113,413,"Gloucester, thou wilt answer this before the pope.",577,18964
642114,414,"Winchester goose, I cry, a rope! a rope!
Now beat them hence; why do you let them stay?
Thee I'll chase hence, thou wolf in sheep's array.
Out, tawny coats! out, scarlet hypocrite!
[Here GLOUCESTER's men beat out BISHOP OF]
WINCHESTER's men, and enter in the hurly-
burly the Mayor of London and his Officers]",531,18964
642115,421,"Fie, lords! that you, being supreme magistrates,
Thus contumeliously should break the peace!",756,18964
642116,423,"Peace, mayor! thou know'st little of my wrongs:
Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king,
Hath here distrain'd the Tower to his use.",531,18964
642117,426,"Here's Gloucester, a foe to citizens,
One that still motions war and never peace,
O'ercharging your free purses with large fines,
That seeks to overthrow religion,
Because he is protector of the realm,
And would have armour here out of the Tower,
To crown himself king and suppress the prince.",577,18964
642118,433,"I will not answer thee with words, but blows.",531,18964
642119,434,[Here they skirmish again],1261,18964
642120,435,"Naught rests for me in this tumultuous strife
But to make open proclamation:
Come, officer; as loud as e'er thou canst,
Cry.",756,18964
642121,439,"All manner of men assembled here in arms this day
against God's peace and the king's, we charge and
command you, in his highness' name, to repair to
your several dwelling-places; and not to wear,
handle, or use any sword, weapon, or dagger,
henceforward, upon pain of death.",827,18964
642122,445,"Cardinal, I'll be no breaker of the law:
But we shall meet, and break our minds at large.",531,18964
642123,447,"Gloucester, we will meet; to thy cost, be sure:
Thy heart-blood I will have for this day's work.",577,18964
642124,449,"I'll call for clubs, if you will not away.
This cardinal's more haughty than the devil.",756,18964
642125,451,"Mayor, farewell: thou dost but what thou mayst.",531,18964
642126,452,"Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head;
For I intend to have it ere long.
[Exeunt, severally, GLOUCESTER and BISHOP OF]
WINCHESTER with their Serving-men]",577,18964
642127,456,"See the coast clear'd, and then we will depart.
Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear!
I myself fight not once in forty year.",756,18964
642128,459,[Exeunt],1261,18964
642129,462,"[Enter, on the walls, a Master Gunner and his Boy]",1261,18965
642130,463,"Sirrah, thou know'st how Orleans is besieged,
And how the English have the suburbs won.",752,18965
642131,465,"Father, I know; and oft have shot at them,
Howe'er unfortunate I miss'd my aim.",194,18965
642132,467,"But now thou shalt not. Be thou ruled by me:
Chief master-gunner am I of this town;
Something I must do to procure me grace.
The prince's espials have informed me
How the English, in the suburbs close intrench'd,
Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars
In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,
And thence discover how with most advantage
They may vex us with shot, or with assault.
To intercept this inconvenience,
A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have placed;
And even these three days have I watch'd,
If I could see them.
Now do thou watch, for I can stay no longer.
If thou spy'st any, run and bring me word;
And thou shalt find me at the governor's.",752,18965
642133,483,[Exit],1261,18965
642134,484,"Father, I warrant you; take you no care;
I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them.
[Exit]
[Enter, on the turrets, SALISBURY and TALBOT,]
GLANSDALE, GARGRAVE, and others]",194,18965
642135,489,"Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd!
How wert thou handled being prisoner?
Or by what means got'st thou to be released?
Discourse, I prithee, on this turret's top.",965,18965
642136,493,"The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner
Call'd the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles;
For him was I exchanged and ransomed.
But with a baser man of arms by far
Once in contempt they would have barter'd me:
Which I, disdaining, scorn'd; and craved death,
Rather than I would be so vile esteem'd.
In fine, redeem'd I was as I desired.
But, O! the treacherous Fastolfe wounds my heart,
Whom with my bare fists I would execute,
If I now had him brought into my power.",1154,18965
642137,504,Yet tell'st thou not how thou wert entertain'd.,965,18965
642138,505,"With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts.
In open market-place produced they me,
To be a public spectacle to all:
Here, said they, is the terror of the French,
The scarecrow that affrights our children so.
Then broke I from the officers that led me,
And with my nails digg'd stones out of the ground,
To hurl at the beholders of my shame:
My grisly countenance made others fly;
None durst come near for fear of sudden death.
In iron walls they deem'd me not secure;
So great fear of my name 'mongst them was spread,
That they supposed I could rend bars of steel,
And spurn in pieces posts of adamant:
Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had,
That walked about me every minute-while;
And if I did but stir out of my bed,
Ready they were to shoot me to the heart.",1154,18965
642139,523,[Enter the Boy with a linstock],1261,18965
642140,524,"I grieve to hear what torments you endured,
But we will be revenged sufficiently
Now it is supper-time in Orleans:
Here, through this grate, I count each one
and view the Frenchmen how they fortify:
Let us look in; the sight will much delight thee.
Sir Thomas Gargrave, and Sir William Glansdale,
Let me have your express opinions
Where is best place to make our battery next.",965,18965
642141,533,"I think, at the north gate; for there stand lords.",1114,18965
642142,534,"And I, here, at the bulwark of the bridge.",1118,18965
642143,535,"For aught I see, this city must be famish'd,
Or with light skirmishes enfeebled.",1154,18965
642144,537,[Here they shoot. SALISBURY and GARGRAVE fall],1261,18965
642145,538,"O Lord, have mercy on us, wretched sinners!",965,18965
642146,539,"O Lord, have mercy on me, woful man!",1114,18965
642147,540,"What chance is this that suddenly hath cross'd us?
Speak, Salisbury; at least, if thou canst speak:
How farest thou, mirror of all martial men?
One of thy eyes and thy cheek's side struck off!
Accursed tower! accursed fatal hand
That hath contrived this woful tragedy!
In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame;
Henry the Fifth he first train'd to the wars;
Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up,
His sword did ne'er leave striking in the field.
Yet livest thou, Salisbury? though thy speech doth fail,
One eye thou hast, to look to heaven for grace:
The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.
Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive,
If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands!
Bear hence his body; I will help to bury it.
Sir Thomas Gargrave, hast thou any life?
Speak unto Talbot; nay, look up to him.
Salisbury, cheer thy spirit with this comfort;
Thou shalt not die whiles--
He beckons with his hand and smiles on me.
As who should say 'When I am dead and gone,
Remember to avenge me on the French.'
Plantagenet, I will; and like thee, Nero,
Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn:
Wretched shall France be only in my name.
[Here an alarum, and it thunders and lightens]
What stir is this? what tumult's in the heavens?
Whence cometh this alarum and the noise?",1154,18965
642148,569,[Enter a Messenger],1261,18965
642149,570,"My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head:
The Dauphin, with one Joan la Pucelle join'd,
A holy prophetess new risen up,
Is come with a great power to raise the siege.",775,18965
642150,574,[Here SALISBURY lifteth himself up and groans],1261,18965
642151,575,"Hear, hear how dying Salisbury doth groan!
It irks his heart he cannot be revenged.
Frenchmen, I'll be a Salisbury to you:
Pucelle or puzzel, dolphin or dogfish,
Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels,
And make a quagmire of your mingled brains.
Convey me Salisbury into his tent,
And then we'll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare.",1154,18965
642152,583,"[Alarum. Exeunt]
[Here an alarum again: and TALBOT pursueth the]
DAUPHIN, and driveth him: then enter JOAN LA
PUCELLE, driving Englishmen before her, and exit
after them then re-enter TALBOT]",1261,18965
642153,590,"Where is my strength, my valour, and my force?
Our English troops retire, I cannot stay them:
A woman clad in armour chaseth them.
[Re-enter JOAN LA PUCELLE]
Here, here she comes. I'll have a bout with thee;
Devil or devil's dam, I'll conjure thee:
Blood will I draw on thee, thou art a witch,
And straightway give thy soul to him thou servest.",1154,18966
642154,598,"Come, come, 'tis only I that must disgrace thee.",613,18966
642155,599,[Here they fight],1261,18966
642156,600,"Heavens, can you suffer hell so to prevail?
My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage
And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder.
But I will chastise this high-minded strumpet.",1154,18966
642157,604,[They fight again],1261,18966
642158,605,"Talbot, farewell; thy hour is not yet come:
I must go victual Orleans forthwith.
[A short alarum; then enter the town with soldiers]
O'ertake me, if thou canst; I scorn thy strength.
Go, go, cheer up thy hungry-starved men;
Help Salisbury to make his testament:
This day is ours, as many more shall be.",613,18966
642159,612,[Exit],1261,18966
642160,613,"My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel;
I know not where I am, nor what I do;
A witch, by fear, not force, like Hannibal,
Drives back our troops and conquers as she lists:
So bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench
Are from their hives and houses driven away.
They call'd us for our fierceness English dogs;
Now, like to whelps, we crying run away.
[A short alarum]
Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight,
Or tear the lions out of England's coat;
Renounce your soil, give sheep in lions' stead:
Sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf,
Or horse or oxen from the leopard,
As you fly from your oft-subdued slaves.
[Alarum. Here another skirmish]
It will not be: retire into your trenches:
You all consented unto Salisbury's death,
For none would strike a stroke in his revenge.
Pucelle is enter'd into Orleans,
In spite of us or aught that we could do.
O, would I were to die with Salisbury!
The shame hereof will make me hide my head.",1154,18966
642161,636,"[Exit TALBOT. Alarum; retreat; flourish]
[Enter, on the walls, JOAN LA PUCELLE, CHARLES,]
REIGNIER, ALENCON, and Soldiers]",1261,18966
642162,641,"Advance our waving colours on the walls;
Rescued is Orleans from the English
Thus Joan la Pucelle hath perform'd her word.",613,18967
642163,644,"Divinest creature, Astraea's daughter,
How shall I honour thee for this success?
Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens
That one day bloom'd and fruitful were the next.
France, triumph in thy glorious prophetess!
Recover'd is the town of Orleans:
More blessed hap did ne'er befall our state.",238,18967
642164,651,"Why ring not out the bells aloud throughout the town?
Dauphin, command the citizens make bonfires
And feast and banquet in the open streets,
To celebrate the joy that God hath given us.",942,18967
642165,655,"All France will be replete with mirth and joy,
When they shall hear how we have play'd the men.",340,18967
642166,657,"'Tis Joan, not we, by whom the day is won;
For which I will divide my crown with her,
And all the priests and friars in my realm
Shall in procession sing her endless praise.
A statelier pyramis to her I'll rear
Than Rhodope's or Memphis' ever was:
In memory of her when she is dead,
Her ashes, in an urn more precious
Than the rich-jewel'd of Darius,
Transported shall be at high festivals
Before the kings and queens of France.
No longer on Saint Denis will we cry,
But Joan la Pucelle shall be France's saint.
Come in, and let us banquet royally,
After this golden day of victory.",238,18967
642167,672,[Flourish. Exeunt],1261,18967
642168,675,[Enter a Sergeant of a band with two Sentinels],1261,18968
642169,676,"Sirs, take your places and be vigilant:
If any noise or soldier you perceive
Near to the walls, by some apparent sign
Let us have knowledge at the court of guard.",1046,18968
642170,680,"Sergeant, you shall.
[Exit Sergeant]
Thus are poor servitors,
When others sleep upon their quiet beds,
Constrain'd to watch in darkness, rain and cold.
[Enter TALBOT, BEDFORD, BURGUNDY, and Forces, with]
scaling-ladders, their drums beating a dead march]",458,18968
642171,687,"Lord Regent, and redoubted Burgundy,
By whose approach the regions of Artois,
Wallon and Picardy are friends to us,
This happy night the Frenchmen are secure,
Having all day caroused and banqueted:
Embrace we then this opportunity
As fitting best to quittance their deceit
Contrived by art and baleful sorcery.",1154,18968
642172,695,"Coward of France! how much he wrongs his fame,
Despairing of his own arm's fortitude,
To join with witches and the help of hell!",157,18968
642173,698,"Traitors have never other company.
But what's that Pucelle whom they term so pure?",345,18968
642174,700,"A maid, they say.",1154,18968
642175,701,A maid! and be so martial!,157,18968
642176,702,"Pray God she prove not masculine ere long,
If underneath the standard of the French
She carry armour as she hath begun.",345,18968
642177,705,"Well, let them practise and converse with spirits:
God is our fortress, in whose conquering name
Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.",1154,18968
642178,708,"Ascend, brave Talbot; we will follow thee.",157,18968
642179,709,"Not all together: better far, I guess,
That we do make our entrance several ways;
That, if it chance the one of us do fail,
The other yet may rise against their force.",1154,18968
642180,713,Agreed: I'll to yond corner.,157,18968
642181,714,And I to this.,345,18968
642182,715,"And here will Talbot mount, or make his grave.
Now, Salisbury, for thee, and for the right
Of English Henry, shall this night appear
How much in duty I am bound to both.",1154,18968
642183,719,"Arm! arm! the enemy doth make assault!
[Cry: 'St. George,' 'A Talbot.']
[The French leap over the walls in their shirts.]
Enter, several ways, the BASTARD OF ORLEANS,
ALENCON, and REIGNIER, half ready, and half unready]",1045,18968
642184,724,"How now, my lords! what, all unready so?",340,18968
642185,725,"Unready! ay, and glad we 'scaped so well.",150,18968
642186,726,"'Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds,
Hearing alarums at our chamber-doors.",942,18968
642187,728,"Of all exploits since first I follow'd arms,
Ne'er heard I of a warlike enterprise
More venturous or desperate than this.",340,18968
642188,731,I think this Talbot be a fiend of hell.,150,18968
642189,732,"If not of hell, the heavens, sure, favour him.",942,18968
642190,733,Here cometh Charles: I marvel how he sped.,340,18968
642191,734,"Tut, holy Joan was his defensive guard.",150,18968
642192,735,[Enter CHARLES and JOAN LA PUCELLE],1261,18968
642193,736,"Is this thy cunning, thou deceitful dame?
Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal,
Make us partakers of a little gain,
That now our loss might be ten times so much?",238,18968
642194,740,"Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend!
At all times will you have my power alike?
Sleeping or waking must I still prevail,
Or will you blame and lay the fault on me?
Improvident soldiers! had your watch been good,
This sudden mischief never could have fall'n.",613,18968
642195,746,"Duke of Alencon, this was your default,
That, being captain of the watch to-night,
Did look no better to that weighty charge.",238,18968
642196,749,"Had all your quarters been as safely kept
As that whereof I had the government,
We had not been thus shamefully surprised.",340,18968
642197,752,Mine was secure.,150,18968
642198,753,"And so was mine, my lord.",942,18968
642199,754,"And, for myself, most part of all this night,
Within her quarter and mine own precinct
I was employ'd in passing to and fro,
About relieving of the sentinels:
Then how or which way should they first break in?",238,18968
642200,759,"Question, my lords, no further of the case,
How or which way: 'tis sure they found some place
But weakly guarded, where the breach was made.
And now there rests no other shift but this;
To gather our soldiers, scatter'd and dispersed,
And lay new platforms to endamage them.
[Alarum. Enter an English Soldier, crying 'A]
Talbot! a Talbot!' They fly, leaving their
clothes behind]",613,18968
642201,768,"I'll be so bold to take what they have left.
The cry of Talbot serves me for a sword;
For I have loaden me with many spoils,
Using no other weapon but his name.",1130,18968
642202,772,[Exit],1261,18968
642203,775,"[Enter TALBOT, BEDFORD, BURGUNDY, a Captain, and others]",1261,18969
642204,776,"The day begins to break, and night is fled,
Whose pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth.
Here sound retreat, and cease our hot pursuit.",157,18969
642205,779,[Retreat sounded],1261,18969
642206,780,"Bring forth the body of old Salisbury,
And here advance it in the market-place,
The middle centre of this cursed town.
Now have I paid my vow unto his soul;
For every drop of blood was drawn from him,
There hath at least five Frenchmen died tonight.
And that hereafter ages may behold
What ruin happen'd in revenge of him,
Within their chiefest temple I'll erect
A tomb, wherein his corpse shall be interr'd:
Upon the which, that every one may read,
Shall be engraved the sack of Orleans,
The treacherous manner of his mournful death
And what a terror he had been to France.
But, lords, in all our bloody massacre,
I muse we met not with the Dauphin's grace,
His new-come champion, virtuous Joan of Arc,
Nor any of his false confederates.",1154,18969
642207,798,"'Tis thought, Lord Talbot, when the fight began,
Roused on the sudden from their drowsy beds,
They did amongst the troops of armed men
Leap o'er the walls for refuge in the field.",157,18969
642208,802,"Myself, as far as I could well discern
For smoke and dusky vapours of the night,
Am sure I scared the Dauphin and his trull,
When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,
Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves
That could not live asunder day or night.
After that things are set in order here,
We'll follow them with all the power we have.",345,18969
642209,810,[Enter a Messenger],1261,18969
642210,811,"All hail, my lords! which of this princely train
Call ye the warlike Talbot, for his acts
So much applauded through the realm of France?",775,18969
642211,814,Here is the Talbot: who would speak with him?,1154,18969
642212,815,"The virtuous lady, Countess of Auvergne,
With modesty admiring thy renown,
By me entreats, great lord, thou wouldst vouchsafe
To visit her poor castle where she lies,
That she may boast she hath beheld the man
Whose glory fills the world with loud report.",775,18969
642213,821,"Is it even so? Nay, then, I see our wars
Will turn unto a peaceful comic sport,
When ladies crave to be encounter'd with.
You may not, my lord, despise her gentle suit.",345,18969
642214,825,"Ne'er trust me then; for when a world of men
Could not prevail with all their oratory,
Yet hath a woman's kindness over-ruled:
And therefore tell her I return great thanks,
And in submission will attend on her.
Will not your honours bear me company?",1154,18969
642215,831,"No, truly; it is more than manners will:
And I have heard it said, unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.",157,18969
642216,834,"Well then, alone, since there's no remedy,
I mean to prove this lady's courtesy.
Come hither, captain.
[Whispers]
You perceive my mind?",1154,18969
642217,839,"I do, my lord, and mean accordingly.",217,18969
642218,840,[Exeunt],1261,18969
642219,843,[Enter the COUNTESS and her Porter],1261,18970
642220,844,"Porter, remember what I gave in charge;
And when you have done so, bring the keys to me.",287,18970
642221,846,"Madam, I will.",904,18970
642222,847,[Exit],1261,18970
642223,848,"The plot is laid: if all things fall out right,
I shall as famous be by this exploit
As Scythian Tomyris by Cyrus' death.
Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight,
And his achievements of no less account:
Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears,
To give their censure of these rare reports.",287,18970
642224,855,[Enter Messenger and TALBOT],1261,18970
642225,856,"Madam,
According as your ladyship desired,
By message craved, so is Lord Talbot come.",775,18970
642226,859,And he is welcome. What! is this the man?,287,18970
642227,860,"Madam, it is.",775,18970
642228,861,"Is this the scourge of France?
Is this the Talbot, so much fear'd abroad
That with his name the mothers still their babes?
I see report is fabulous and false:
I thought I should have seen some Hercules,
A second Hector, for his grim aspect,
And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs.
Alas, this is a child, a silly dwarf!
It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp
Should strike such terror to his enemies.",287,18970
642229,871,"Madam, I have been bold to trouble you;
But since your ladyship is not at leisure,
I'll sort some other time to visit you.",1154,18970
642230,874,What means he now? Go ask him whither he goes.,287,18970
642231,875,"Stay, my Lord Talbot; for my lady craves
To know the cause of your abrupt departure.",775,18970
642232,877,"Marry, for that she's in a wrong belief,
I go to certify her Talbot's here.",1154,18970
642233,879,[Re-enter Porter with keys],1261,18970
642234,880,"If thou be he, then art thou prisoner.",287,18970
642235,881,Prisoner! to whom?,1154,18970
642236,882,"To me, blood-thirsty lord;
And for that cause I trained thee to my house.
Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me,
For in my gallery thy picture hangs:
But now the substance shall endure the like,
And I will chain these legs and arms of thine,
That hast by tyranny these many years
Wasted our country, slain our citizens
And sent our sons and husbands captivate.",287,18970
642237,891,"Ha, ha, ha!",1154,18970
642238,892,"Laughest thou, wretch? thy mirth shall turn to moan.",287,18970
642239,893,"I laugh to see your ladyship so fond
To think that you have aught but Talbot's shadow
Whereon to practise your severity.",1154,18970
642240,896,"Why, art not thou the man?",287,18970
642241,897,I am indeed.,1154,18970
642242,898,Then have I substance too.,287,18970
642243,899,"No, no, I am but shadow of myself:
You are deceived, my substance is not here;
For what you see is but the smallest part
And least proportion of humanity:
I tell you, madam, were the whole frame here,
It is of such a spacious lofty pitch,
Your roof were not sufficient to contain't.",1154,18970
642244,906,"This is a riddling merchant for the nonce;
He will be here, and yet he is not here:
How can these contrarieties agree?",287,18970
642245,909,"That will I show you presently.
[Winds his horn. Drums strike up: a peal of]
ordnance. Enter soldiers]
How say you, madam? are you now persuaded
That Talbot is but shadow of himself?
These are his substance, sinews, arms and strength,
With which he yoketh your rebellious necks,
Razeth your cities and subverts your towns
And in a moment makes them desolate.",1154,18970
642246,918,"Victorious Talbot! pardon my abuse:
I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited
And more than may be gather'd by thy shape.
Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath;
For I am sorry that with reverence
I did not entertain thee as thou art.",287,18970
642247,924,"Be not dismay'd, fair lady; nor misconstrue
The mind of Talbot, as you did mistake
The outward composition of his body.
What you have done hath not offended me;
Nor other satisfaction do I crave,
But only, with your patience, that we may
Taste of your wine and see what cates you have;
For soldiers' stomachs always serve them well.",1154,18970
642248,932,"With all my heart, and think me honoured
To feast so great a warrior in my house.",287,18970
642249,934,"[Exeunt]
[Enter the Earls of SOMERSET, SUFFOLK, and WARWICK;]
RICHARD PLANTAGENET, VERNON, and another Lawyer]",1261,18970
642250,940,"Great lords and gentlemen, what means this silence?
Dare no man answer in a case of truth?",946,18971
642251,942,"Within the Temple-hall we were too loud;
The garden here is more convenient.",363,18971
642252,945,"Then say at once if I maintain'd the truth;
Or else was wrangling Somerset in the error?",946,18971
642253,947,"Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
And never yet could frame my will to it;
And therefore frame the law unto my will.",363,18971
642254,950,"Judge you, my Lord of Warwick, then, between us.",1137,18971
642255,951,"Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;
Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;
Between two blades, which bears the better temper:
Between two horses, which doth bear him best;
Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye;
I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement;
But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.",1247,18971
642256,960,"Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance:
The truth appears so naked on my side
That any purblind eye may find it out.",946,18971
642257,963,"And on my side it is so well apparell'd,
So clear, so shining and so evident
That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye.",1137,18971
642258,967,"Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to speak,
In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts:
Let him that is a true-born gentleman
And stands upon the honour of his birth,
If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,
From off this brier pluck a white rose with me.",946,18971
642259,973,"Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,
But dare maintain the party of the truth,
Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.",1137,18971
642260,976,"I love no colours, and without all colour
Of base insinuating flattery
I pluck this white rose with Plantagenet.",1247,18971
642261,979,"I pluck this red rose with young Somerset
And say withal I think he held the right.",363,18971
642262,981,"Stay, lords and gentlemen, and pluck no more,
Till you conclude that he upon whose side
The fewest roses are cropp'd from the tree
Shall yield the other in the right opinion.",1234,18971
642263,985,"Good Master Vernon, it is well objected:
If I have fewest, I subscribe in silence.",1137,18971
642264,988,And I.,946,18971
642265,989,"Then for the truth and plainness of the case.
I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here,
Giving my verdict on the white rose side.",1234,18971
642266,992,"Prick not your finger as you pluck it off,
Lest bleeding you do paint the white rose red
And fall on my side so, against your will.",1137,18971
642267,995,"If I my lord, for my opinion bleed,
Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt
And keep me on the side where still I am.",1234,18971
642268,998,"Well, well, come on: who else?",1137,18971
642269,999,"Unless my study and my books be false,
The argument you held was wrong in you:
[To SOMERSET]
In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too.",658,18971
642270,1004,"Now, Somerset, where is your argument?",946,18971
642271,1005,"Here in my scabbard, meditating that
Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red.",1137,18971
642272,1008,"Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses;
For pale they look with fear, as witnessing
The truth on our side.",946,18971
642273,1011,"No, Plantagenet,
'Tis not for fear but anger that thy cheeks
Blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses,
And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error.",1137,18971
642274,1016,"Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?",946,18971
642275,1017,"Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?",1137,18971
642276,1019,"Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth;
Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood.",946,18971
642277,1021,"Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses,
That shall maintain what I have said is true,
Where false Plantagenet dare not be seen.",1137,18971
642278,1025,"Now, by this maiden blossom in my hand,
I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy.",946,18971
642279,1027,"Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet.",363,18971
642280,1029,"Proud Pole, I will, and scorn both him and thee.",946,18971
642281,1030,I'll turn my part thereof into thy throat.,363,18971
642282,1031,"Away, away, good William de la Pole!
We grace the yeoman by conversing with him.",1137,18971
642283,1033,"Now, by God's will, thou wrong'st him, Somerset;
His grandfather was Lionel Duke of Clarence,
Third son to the third Edward King of England:
Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root?",1247,18971
642284,1038,"He bears him on the place's privilege,
Or durst not, for his craven heart, say thus.",946,18971
642285,1040,"By him that made me, I'll maintain my words
On any plot of ground in Christendom.
Was not thy father, Richard Earl of Cambridge,
For treason executed in our late king's days?
And, by his treason, stand'st not thou attainted,
Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry?
His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood;
And, till thou be restored, thou art a yeoman.",1137,18971
642286,1049,"My father was attached, not attainted,
Condemn'd to die for treason, but no traitor;
And that I'll prove on better men than Somerset,
Were growing time once ripen'd to my will.
For your partaker Pole and you yourself,
I'll note you in my book of memory,
To scourge you for this apprehension:
Look to it well and say you are well warn'd.",946,18971
642287,1057,"Ah, thou shalt find us ready for thee still;
And know us by these colours for thy foes,
For these my friends in spite of thee shall wear.",1137,18971
642288,1061,"And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose,
As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate,
Will I for ever and my faction wear,
Until it wither with me to my grave
Or flourish to the height of my degree.",946,18971
642289,1066,"Go forward and be choked with thy ambition!
And so farewell until I meet thee next.",363,18971
642290,1068,[Exit],1261,18971
642291,1069,"Have with thee, Pole. Farewell, ambitious Richard.",1137,18971
642292,1070,[Exit],1261,18971
642293,1072,How I am braved and must perforce endure it!,946,18971
642294,1073,"This blot that they object against your house
Shall be wiped out in the next parliament
Call'd for the truce of Winchester and Gloucester;
And if thou be not then created York,
I will not live to be accounted Warwick.
Meantime, in signal of my love to thee,
Against proud Somerset and William Pole,
Will I upon thy party wear this rose:
And here I prophesy: this brawl to-day,
Grown to this faction in the Temple-garden,
Shall send between the red rose and the white
A thousand souls to death and deadly night.",1247,18971
642295,1086,"Good Master Vernon, I am bound to you,
That you on my behalf would pluck a flower.",946,18971
642296,1088,In your behalf still will I wear the same.,1234,18971
642297,1089,And so will I.,658,18971
642298,1091,"Thanks, gentle sir.
Come, let us four to dinner: I dare say
This quarrel will drink blood another day.",946,18971
642299,1094,[Exeunt],1261,18971
642300,1097,"[Enter MORTIMER, brought in a chair, and Gaolers]",1261,18972
642301,1098,"Kind keepers of my weak decaying age,
Let dying Mortimer here rest himself.
Even like a man new haled from the rack,
So fare my limbs with long imprisonment.
And these grey locks, the pursuivants of death,
Nestor-like aged in an age of care,
Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer.
These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent,
Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent;
Weak shoulders, overborne with burthening grief,
And pithless arms, like to a wither'd vine
That droops his sapless branches to the ground;
Yet are these feet, whose strengthless stay is numb,
Unable to support this lump of clay,
Swift-winged with desire to get a grave,
As witting I no other comfort have.
But tell me, keeper, will my nephew come?",371,18972
642302,1115,"Richard Plantagenet, my lord, will come:
We sent unto the Temple, unto his chamber;
And answer was return'd that he will come.",418,18972
642303,1118,"Enough: my soul shall then be satisfied.
Poor gentleman! his wrong doth equal mine.
Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign,
Before whose glory I was great in arms,
This loathsome sequestration have I had:
And even since then hath Richard been obscured,
Deprived of honour and inheritance.
But now the arbitrator of despairs,
Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries,
With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence:
I would his troubles likewise were expired,
That so he might recover what was lost.",371,18972
642304,1130,[Enter RICHARD PLANTAGENET],1261,18972
642305,1131,"My lord, your loving nephew now is come.",418,18972
642306,1132,"Richard Plantagenet, my friend, is he come?",371,18972
642307,1134,"Ay, noble uncle, thus ignobly used,
Your nephew, late despised Richard, comes.",946,18972
642308,1136,"Direct mine arms I may embrace his neck,
And in his bosom spend my latter gasp:
O, tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks,
That I may kindly give one fainting kiss.
And now declare, sweet stem from York's great stock,
Why didst thou say, of late thou wert despised?",371,18972
642309,1143,"First, lean thine aged back against mine arm;
And, in that ease, I'll tell thee my disease.
This day, in argument upon a case,
Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me;
Among which terms he used his lavish tongue
And did upbraid me with my father's death:
Which obloquy set bars before my tongue,
Else with the like I had requited him.
Therefore, good uncle, for my father's sake,
In honour of a true Plantagenet
And for alliance sake, declare the cause
My father, Earl of Cambridge, lost his head.",946,18972
642310,1155,"That cause, fair nephew, that imprison'd me
And hath detain'd me all my flowering youth
Within a loathsome dungeon, there to pine,
Was cursed instrument of his decease.",371,18972
642311,1160,"Discover more at large what cause that was,
For I am ignorant and cannot guess.",946,18972
642312,1162,"I will, if that my fading breath permit
And death approach not ere my tale be done.
Henry the Fourth, grandfather to this king,
Deposed his nephew Richard, Edward's son,
The first-begotten and the lawful heir,
Of Edward king, the third of that descent:
During whose reign the Percies of the north,
Finding his usurpation most unjust,
Endeavor'd my advancement to the throne:
The reason moved these warlike lords to this
Was, for that--young King Richard thus removed,
Leaving no heir begotten of his body--
I was the next by birth and parentage;
For by my mother I derived am
From Lionel Duke of Clarence, the third son
To King Edward the Third; whereas he
From John of Gaunt doth bring his pedigree,
Being but fourth of that heroic line.
But mark: as in this haughty attempt
They laboured to plant the rightful heir,
I lost my liberty and they their lives.
Long after this, when Henry the Fifth,
Succeeding his father Bolingbroke, did reign,
Thy father, Earl of Cambridge, then derived
From famous Edmund Langley, Duke of York,
Marrying my sister that thy mother was,
Again in pity of my hard distress
Levied an army, weening to redeem
And have install'd me in the diadem:
But, as the rest, so fell that noble earl
And was beheaded. Thus the Mortimers,
In whom the tide rested, were suppress'd.",371,18972
642313,1195,"Of which, my lord, your honour is the last.",946,18972
642314,1196,"True; and thou seest that I no issue have
And that my fainting words do warrant death;
Thou art my heir; the rest I wish thee gather:
But yet be wary in thy studious care.",371,18972
642315,1201,"Thy grave admonishments prevail with me:
But yet, methinks, my father's execution
Was nothing less than bloody tyranny.",946,18972
642316,1204,"With silence, nephew, be thou politic:
Strong-fixed is the house of Lancaster,
And like a mountain, not to be removed.
But now thy uncle is removing hence:
As princes do their courts, when they are cloy'd
With long continuance in a settled place.",371,18972
642317,1211,"O, uncle, would some part of my young years
Might but redeem the passage of your age!",946,18972
642318,1213,"Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth
Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
Mourn not, except thou sorrow for my good;
Only give order for my funeral:
And so farewell, and fair be all thy hopes
And prosperous be thy life in peace and war!",371,18972
642319,1219,[Dies],1261,18972
642320,1221,"And peace, no war, befall thy parting soul!
In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage
And like a hermit overpass'd thy days.
Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast;
And what I do imagine let that rest.
Keepers, convey him hence, and I myself
Will see his burial better than his life.
[Exeunt Gaolers, bearing out the body of MORTIMER]
Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer,
Choked with ambition of the meaner sort:
And for those wrongs, those bitter injuries,
Which Somerset hath offer'd to my house:
I doubt not but with honour to redress;
And therefore haste I to the parliament,
Either to be restored to my blood,
Or make my ill the advantage of my good.",946,18972
642321,1237,"[Exit]
[Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, EXETER, GLOUCESTER,]
WARWICK, SOMERSET, and SUFFOLK; the BISHOP OF
WINCHESTER, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, and others.
GLOUCESTER offers to put up a bill; BISHOP OF
WINCHESTER snatches it, and tears it]",1261,18972
642322,1245,"Comest thou with deep premeditated lines,
With written pamphlets studiously devised,
Humphrey of Gloucester? If thou canst accuse,
Or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge,
Do it without invention, suddenly;
As I with sudden and extemporal speech
Purpose to answer what thou canst object.",577,18973
642323,1252,"Presumptuous priest! this place commands my patience,
Or thou shouldst find thou hast dishonour'd me.
Think not, although in writing I preferr'd
The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes,
That therefore I have forged, or am not able
Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen:
No, prelate; such is thy audacious wickedness,
Thy lewd, pestiferous and dissentious pranks,
As very infants prattle of thy pride.
Thou art a most pernicious usurer,
Forward by nature, enemy to peace;
Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems
A man of thy profession and degree;
And for thy treachery, what's more manifest?
In that thou laid'st a trap to take my life,
As well at London bridge as at the Tower.
Beside, I fear me, if thy thoughts were sifted,
The king, thy sovereign, is not quite exempt
From envious malice of thy swelling heart.",531,18973
642324,1271,"Gloucester, I do defy thee. Lords, vouchsafe
To give me hearing what I shall reply.
If I were covetous, ambitious or perverse,
As he will have me, how am I so poor?
Or how haps it I seek not to advance
Or raise myself, but keep my wonted calling?
And for dissension, who preferreth peace
More than I do?--except I be provoked.
No, my good lords, it is not that offends;
It is not that that hath incensed the duke:
It is, because no one should sway but he;
No one but he should be about the king;
And that engenders thunder in his breast
And makes him roar these accusations forth.
But he shall know I am as good--",577,18973
642325,1286,"As good!
Thou bastard of my grandfather!",531,18973
642326,1288,"Ay, lordly sir; for what are you, I pray,
But one imperious in another's throne?",577,18973
642327,1290,"Am I not protector, saucy priest?",531,18973
642328,1291,And am not I a prelate of the church?,577,18973
642329,1292,"Yes, as an outlaw in a castle keeps
And useth it to patronage his theft.",531,18973
642330,1294,Unreverent Gloster!,577,18973
642331,1295,"Thou art reverent
Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life.",531,18973
642332,1297,Rome shall remedy this.,577,18973
642333,1298,"Roam thither, then.",1247,18973
642334,1299,"My lord, it were your duty to forbear.",1137,18973
642335,1300,"Ay, see the bishop be not overborne.",1247,18973
642336,1301,"Methinks my lord should be religious
And know the office that belongs to such.",1137,18973
642337,1303,"Methinks his lordship should be humbler;
it fitteth not a prelate so to plead.",1247,18973
642338,1305,"Yes, when his holy state is touch'd so near.",1137,18973
642339,1306,"State holy or unhallow'd, what of that?
Is not his grace protector to the king?",1247,18973
642340,1309,"[Aside] Plantagenet, I see, must hold his tongue,
Lest it be said 'Speak, sirrah, when you should;
Must your bold verdict enter talk with lords?'
Else would I have a fling at Winchester.",946,18973
642341,1313,"Uncles of Gloucester and of Winchester,
The special watchmen of our English weal,
I would prevail, if prayers might prevail,
To join your hearts in love and amity.
O, what a scandal is it to our crown,
That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell
Civil dissension is a viperous worm
That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
[A noise within, 'Down with the tawny-coats!']
What tumult's this?",574,18973
642342,1324,"An uproar, I dare warrant,
Begun through malice of the bishop's men.",1247,18973
642343,1326,"[A noise again, 'Stones! stones!' Enter Mayor]",1261,18973
642344,1327,"O, my good lords, and virtuous Henry,
Pity the city of London, pity us!
The bishop and the Duke of Gloucester's men,
Forbidden late to carry any weapon,
Have fill'd their pockets full of pebble stones
And banding themselves in contrary parts
Do pelt so fast at one another's pate
That many have their giddy brains knock'd out:
Our windows are broke down in every street
And we for fear compell'd to shut our shops.",756,18973
642345,1337,"[Enter Serving-men, in skirmish, with bloody pates]",1261,18973
642346,1338,"We charge you, on allegiance to ourself,
To hold your slaughtering hands and keep the peace.
Pray, uncle Gloucester, mitigate this strife.",574,18973
642347,1341,"Nay, if we be forbidden stones,
We'll fall to it with our teeth.",14,18973
642348,1343,"Do what ye dare, we are as resolute.",29,18973
642349,1344,[Skirmish again],1261,18973
642350,1345,"You of my household, leave this peevish broil
And set this unaccustom'd fight aside.",531,18973
642351,1347,"My lord, we know your grace to be a man
Just and upright; and, for your royal birth,
Inferior to none but to his majesty:
And ere that we will suffer such a prince,
So kind a father of the commonweal,
To be disgraced by an inkhorn mate,
We and our wives and children all will fight
And have our bodies slaughtered by thy foes.",40,18973
642352,1355,"Ay, and the very parings of our nails
Shall pitch a field when we are dead.",14,18973
642353,1357,[Begin again],1261,18973
642354,1358,"Stay, stay, I say!
And if you love me, as you say you do,
Let me persuade you to forbear awhile.",531,18973
642355,1361,"O, how this discord doth afflict my soul!
Can you, my Lord of Winchester, behold
My sighs and tears and will not once relent?
Who should be pitiful, if you be not?
Or who should study to prefer a peace.
If holy churchmen take delight in broils?",574,18973
642356,1367,"Yield, my lord protector; yield, Winchester;
Except you mean with obstinate repulse
To slay your sovereign and destroy the realm.
You see what mischief and what murder too
Hath been enacted through your enmity;
Then be at peace except ye thirst for blood.",1247,18973
642357,1373,"He shall submit, or I will never yield.",577,18973
642358,1374,"Compassion on the king commands me stoop;
Or I would see his heart out, ere the priest
Should ever get that privilege of me.",531,18973
642359,1377,"Behold, my Lord of Winchester, the duke
Hath banish'd moody discontented fury,
As by his smoothed brows it doth appear:
Why look you still so stern and tragical?",1247,18973
642360,1381,"Here, Winchester, I offer thee my hand.",531,18973
642361,1382,"Fie, uncle Beaufort! I have heard you preach
That malice was a great and grievous sin;
And will not you maintain the thing you teach,
But prove a chief offender in the same?",574,18973
642362,1386,"Sweet king! the bishop hath a kindly gird.
For shame, my lord of Winchester, relent!
What, shall a child instruct you what to do?",1247,18973
642363,1389,"Well, Duke of Gloucester, I will yield to thee;
Love for thy love and hand for hand I give.",577,18973
642364,1391,"[Aside] Ay, but, I fear me, with a hollow heart.--
See here, my friends and loving countrymen,
This token serveth for a flag of truce
Betwixt ourselves and all our followers:
So help me God, as I dissemble not!",531,18973
642365,1396,"[Aside] So help me God, as I intend it not!",577,18973
642366,1397,"O, loving uncle, kind Duke of Gloucester,
How joyful am I made by this contract!
Away, my masters! trouble us no more;
But join in friendship, as your lords have done.",574,18973
642367,1401,Content: I'll to the surgeon's.,14,18973
642368,1402,And so will I.,29,18973
642369,1403,And I will see what physic the tavern affords.,40,18973
642370,1404,"[Exeunt Serving-men, Mayor, &c]",1261,18973
642371,1405,"Accept this scroll, most gracious sovereign,
Which in the right of Richard Plantagenet
We do exhibit to your majesty.",1247,18973
642372,1408,"Well urged, my Lord of Warwick: or sweet prince,
And if your grace mark every circumstance,
You have great reason to do Richard right;
Especially for those occasions
At Eltham Place I told your majesty.",531,18973
642373,1413,"And those occasions, uncle, were of force:
Therefore, my loving lords, our pleasure is
That Richard be restored to his blood.",574,18973
642374,1416,"Let Richard be restored to his blood;
So shall his father's wrongs be recompensed.",1247,18973
642375,1418,"As will the rest, so willeth Winchester.",577,18973
642376,1419,"If Richard will be true, not that alone
But all the whole inheritance I give
That doth belong unto the house of York,
From whence you spring by lineal descent.",574,18973
642377,1424,"Thy humble servant vows obedience
And humble service till the point of death.",946,18973
642378,1426,"Stoop then and set your knee against my foot;
And, in reguerdon of that duty done,
I gird thee with the valiant sword of York:
Rise Richard, like a true Plantagenet,
And rise created princely Duke of York.",574,18973
642379,1432,"And so thrive Richard as thy foes may fall!
And as my duty springs, so perish they
That grudge one thought against your majesty!",946,18973
642380,1435,"Welcome, high prince, the mighty Duke of York!",76,18973
642381,1436,"[Aside] Perish, base prince, ignoble Duke of York!",1137,18973
642382,1437,"Now will it best avail your majesty
To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France:
The presence of a king engenders love
Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,
As it disanimates his enemies.",531,18973
642383,1442,"When Gloucester says the word, King Henry goes;
For friendly counsel cuts off many foes.",574,18973
642384,1444,Your ships already are in readiness.,531,18973
642385,1445,[Sennet. Flourish. Exeunt all but EXETER],1261,18973
642386,1446,"Ay, we may march in England or in France,
Not seeing what is likely to ensue.
This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Burns under feigned ashes of forged love
And will at last break out into a flame:
As fester'd members rot but by degree,
Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
So will this base and envious discord breed.
And now I fear that fatal prophecy
Which in the time of Henry named the Fifth
Was in the mouth of every sucking babe;
That Henry born at Monmouth should win all
And Henry born at Windsor lose all:
Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish
His days may finish ere that hapless time.",389,18973
642387,1461,"[Exit]
[Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE disguised, with four Soldiers]
with sacks upon their backs]",1261,18973
642388,1466,"These are the city gates, the gates of Rouen,
Through which our policy must make a breach:
Take heed, be wary how you place your words;
Talk like the vulgar sort of market men
That come to gather money for their corn.
If we have entrance, as I hope we shall,
And that we find the slothful watch but weak,
I'll by a sign give notice to our friends,
That Charles the Dauphin may encounter them.",613,18974
642389,1475,"Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city,
And we be lords and rulers over Rouen;
Therefore we'll knock.",468,18974
642390,1478,[Knocks],1261,18974
642391,1479,[Within] Qui est la?,1248,18974
642392,1480,"Paysans, pauvres gens de France;
Poor market folks that come to sell their corn.",613,18974
642393,1482,"Enter, go in; the market bell is rung.",1248,18974
642394,1483,"Now, Rouen, I'll shake thy bulwarks to the ground.
[Exeunt]
[Enter CHARLES, the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, ALENCON,]
REIGNIER, and forces]",613,18974
642395,1487,"Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem!
And once again we'll sleep secure in Rouen.",238,18974
642396,1489,"Here enter'd Pucelle and her practisants;
Now she is there, how will she specify
Where is the best and safest passage in?",150,18974
642397,1492,"By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower;
Which, once discern'd, shows that her meaning is,
No way to that, for weakness, which she enter'd.
[Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE on the top, thrusting out a]
torch burning]",942,18974
642398,1497,"Behold, this is the happy wedding torch
That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen,
But burning fatal to the Talbotites!",613,18974
642399,1500,[Exit],1261,18974
642400,1501,"See, noble Charles, the beacon of our friend;
The burning torch in yonder turret stands.",150,18974
642401,1503,"Now shine it like a comet of revenge,
A prophet to the fall of all our foes!",238,18974
642402,1505,"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends;
Enter, and cry 'The Dauphin!' presently,
And then do execution on the watch.",942,18974
642403,1508,[Alarum. Exeunt],1261,18974
642404,1509,[An alarum. Enter TALBOT in an excursion],1261,18974
642405,1510,"France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy tears,
If Talbot but survive thy treachery.
Pucelle, that witch, that damned sorceress,
Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares,
That hardly we escaped the pride of France.
[Exit]
[An alarum: excursions. BEDFORD, brought in sick]
in a chair. Enter TALBOT and BURGUNDY without:
within JOAN LA PUCELLE, CHARLES, BASTARD OF ORLEANS,
ALENCON, and REIGNIER, on the walls]",1154,18974
642406,1520,"Good morrow, gallants! want ye corn for bread?
I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast
Before he'll buy again at such a rate:
'Twas full of darnel; do you like the taste?",613,18974
642407,1524,"Scoff on, vile fiend and shameless courtezan!
I trust ere long to choke thee with thine own
And make thee curse the harvest of that corn.",345,18974
642408,1527,Your grace may starve perhaps before that time.,238,18974
642409,1528,"O, let no words, but deeds, revenge this treason!",157,18974
642410,1529,"What will you do, good grey-beard? break a lance,
And run a tilt at death within a chair?",613,18974
642411,1531,"Foul fiend of France, and hag of all despite,
Encompass'd with thy lustful paramours!
Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
And twit with cowardice a man half dead?
Damsel, I'll have a bout with you again,
Or else let Talbot perish with this shame.",1154,18974
642412,1537,"Are ye so hot, sir? yet, Pucelle, hold thy peace;
If Talbot do but thunder, rain will follow.
[The English whisper together in council]
God speed the parliament! who shall be the speaker?",613,18974
642413,1541,Dare ye come forth and meet us in the field?,1154,18974
642414,1542,"Belike your lordship takes us then for fools,
To try if that our own be ours or no.",613,18974
642415,1544,"I speak not to that railing Hecate,
But unto thee, Alencon, and the rest;
Will ye, like soldiers, come and fight it out?",1154,18974
642416,1547,"Signior, no.",340,18974
642417,1548,"Signior, hang! base muleters of France!
Like peasant foot-boys do they keep the walls
And dare not take up arms like gentlemen.",1154,18974
642418,1551,"Away, captains! let's get us from the walls;
For Talbot means no goodness by his looks.
God be wi' you, my lord! we came but to tell you
That we are here.",613,18974
642419,1555,[Exeunt from the walls],1261,18974
642420,1556,"And there will we be too, ere it be long,
Or else reproach be Talbot's greatest fame!
Vow, Burgundy, by honour of thy house,
Prick'd on by public wrongs sustain'd in France,
Either to get the town again or die:
And I, as sure as English Henry lives
And as his father here was conqueror,
As sure as in this late-betrayed town
Great Coeur-de-lion's heart was buried,
So sure I swear to get the town or die.",1154,18974
642421,1566,My vows are equal partners with thy vows.,345,18974
642422,1567,"But, ere we go, regard this dying prince,
The valiant Duke of Bedford. Come, my lord,
We will bestow you in some better place,
Fitter for sickness and for crazy age.",1154,18974
642423,1571,"Lord Talbot, do not so dishonour me:
Here will I sit before the walls of Rouen
And will be partner of your weal or woe.",157,18974
642424,1574,"Courageous Bedford, let us now persuade you.",345,18974
642425,1575,"Not to be gone from hence; for once I read
That stout Pendragon in his litter sick
Came to the field and vanquished his foes:
Methinks I should revive the soldiers' hearts,
Because I ever found them as myself.",157,18974
642426,1580,"Undaunted spirit in a dying breast!
Then be it so: heavens keep old Bedford safe!
And now no more ado, brave Burgundy,
But gather we our forces out of hand
And set upon our boasting enemy.
[Exeunt all but BEDFORD and Attendants]
[An alarum: excursions. Enter FASTOLFE and]
a Captain]",1154,18974
642427,1588,"Whither away, Sir John Fastolfe, in such haste?",217,18974
642428,1589,"Whither away! to save myself by flight:
We are like to have the overthrow again.",1104,18974
642429,1591,"What! will you fly, and leave Lord Talbot?",217,18974
642430,1592,"Ay,
All the Talbots in the world, to save my life!",1104,18974
642431,1594,[Exit],1261,18974
642432,1595,"Cowardly knight! ill fortune follow thee!
[Exit]
[Retreat: excursions. JOAN LA PUCELLE, ALENCON,]
and CHARLES fly]",217,18974
642433,1599,"Now, quiet soul, depart when heaven please,
For I have seen our enemies' overthrow.
What is the trust or strength of foolish man?
They that of late were daring with their scoffs
Are glad and fain by flight to save themselves.",157,18974
642434,1604,"[BEDFORD dies, and is carried in by two in his chair]",1261,18974
642435,1605,"[An alarum. Re-enter TALBOT, BURGUNDY, and the rest]",1261,18974
642436,1606,"Lost, and recover'd in a day again!
This is a double honour, Burgundy:
Yet heavens have glory for this victory!",1154,18974
642437,1609,"Warlike and martial Talbot, Burgundy
Enshrines thee in his heart and there erects
Thy noble deeds as valour's monuments.",345,18974
642438,1612,"Thanks, gentle duke. But where is Pucelle now?
I think her old familiar is asleep:
Now where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks?
What, all amort? Rouen hangs her head for grief
That such a valiant company are fled.
Now will we take some order in the town,
Placing therein some expert officers,
And then depart to Paris to the king,
For there young Henry with his nobles lie.",1154,18974
642439,1621,What wills Lord Talbot pleaseth Burgundy.,345,18974
642440,1622,"But yet, before we go, let's not forget
The noble Duke of Bedford late deceased,
But see his exequies fulfill'd in Rouen:
A braver soldier never couched lance,
A gentler heart did never sway in court;
But kings and mightiest potentates must die,
For that's the end of human misery.",1154,18974
642441,1629,"[Exeunt]
[Enter CHARLES, the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, ALENCON, JOAN]
LA PUCELLE, and forces]",1261,18974
642442,1634,"Dismay not, princes, at this accident,
Nor grieve that Rouen is so recovered:
Care is no cure, but rather corrosive,
For things that are not to be remedied.
Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while
And like a peacock sweep along his tail;
We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,
If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.",613,18975
642443,1642,"We have been guided by thee hitherto,
And of thy cunning had no diffidence:
One sudden foil shall never breed distrust.",238,18975
642444,1645,"Search out thy wit for secret policies,
And we will make thee famous through the world.",150,18975
642445,1647,"We'll set thy statue in some holy place,
And have thee reverenced like a blessed saint:
Employ thee then, sweet virgin, for our good.",340,18975
642446,1650,"Then thus it must be; this doth Joan devise:
By fair persuasions mix'd with sugar'd words
We will entice the Duke of Burgundy
To leave the Talbot and to follow us.",613,18975
642447,1654,"Ay, marry, sweeting, if we could do that,
France were no place for Henry's warriors;
Nor should that nation boast it so with us,
But be extirped from our provinces.",238,18975
642448,1658,"For ever should they be expulsed from France
And not have title of an earldom here.",340,18975
642449,1660,"Your honours shall perceive how I will work
To bring this matter to the wished end.
[Drum sounds afar off]
Hark! by the sound of drum you may perceive
Their powers are marching unto Paris-ward.
[Here sound an English march. Enter, and pass over]
at a distance, TALBOT and his forces]
There goes the Talbot, with his colours spread,
And all the troops of English after him.
[French march. Enter BURGUNDY and forces]
Now in the rearward comes the duke and his:
Fortune in favour makes him lag behind.
Summon a parley; we will talk with him.",613,18975
642450,1673,[Trumpets sound a parley],1261,18975
642451,1674,A parley with the Duke of Burgundy!,238,18975
642452,1675,Who craves a parley with the Burgundy?,345,18975
642453,1676,"The princely Charles of France, thy countryman.",613,18975
642454,1677,"What say'st thou, Charles? for I am marching hence.",345,18975
642455,1678,"Speak, Pucelle, and enchant him with thy words.",238,18975
642456,1679,"Brave Burgundy, undoubted hope of France!
Stay, let thy humble handmaid speak to thee.",613,18975
642457,1681,Speak on; but be not over-tedious.,345,18975
642458,1682,"Look on thy country, look on fertile France,
And see the cities and the towns defaced
By wasting ruin of the cruel foe.
As looks the mother on her lowly babe
When death doth close his tender dying eyes,
See, see the pining malady of France;
Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds,
Which thou thyself hast given her woful breast.
O, turn thy edged sword another way;
Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help.
One drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom
Should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore:
Return thee therefore with a flood of tears,
And wash away thy country's stained spots.",613,18975
642459,1696,"Either she hath bewitch'd me with her words,
Or nature makes me suddenly relent.",345,18975
642460,1698,"Besides, all French and France exclaims on thee,
Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny.
Who joint'st thou with but with a lordly nation
That will not trust thee but for profit's sake?
When Talbot hath set footing once in France
And fashion'd thee that instrument of ill,
Who then but English Henry will be lord
And thou be thrust out like a fugitive?
Call we to mind, and mark but this for proof,
Was not the Duke of Orleans thy foe?
And was he not in England prisoner?
But when they heard he was thine enemy,
They set him free without his ransom paid,
In spite of Burgundy and all his friends.
See, then, thou fight'st against thy countrymen
And joint'st with them will be thy slaughtermen.
Come, come, return; return, thou wandering lord:
Charles and the rest will take thee in their arms.",613,18975
642461,1716,"I am vanquished; these haughty words of hers
Have batter'd me like roaring cannon-shot,
And made me almost yield upon my knees.
Forgive me, country, and sweet countrymen,
And, lords, accept this hearty kind embrace:
My forces and my power of men are yours:
So farewell, Talbot; I'll no longer trust thee.",345,18975
642462,1723,"[Aside] Done like a Frenchman: turn, and turn again!",613,18975
642463,1724,"Welcome, brave duke! thy friendship makes us fresh.",238,18975
642464,1725,And doth beget new courage in our breasts.,150,18975
642465,1726,"Pucelle hath bravely play'd her part in this,
And doth deserve a coronet of gold.",340,18975
642466,1728,"Now let us on, my lords, and join our powers,
And seek how we may prejudice the foe.",238,18975
642467,1730,"[Exeunt]
[Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, BISHOP OF]
WINCHESTER, YORK, SUFFOLK, SOMERSET, WARWICK,
EXETER, VERNON. BASSET, and others. To them
with his Soldiers, TALBOT]",1261,18975
642468,1737,"My gracious prince, and honourable peers,
Hearing of your arrival in this realm,
I have awhile given truce unto my wars,
To do my duty to my sovereign:
In sign, whereof, this arm, that hath reclaim'd
To your obedience fifty fortresses,
Twelve cities and seven walled towns of strength,
Beside five hundred prisoners of esteem,
Lets fall his sword before your highness' feet,
And with submissive loyalty of heart
Ascribes the glory of his conquest got
First to my God and next unto your grace.",1154,18976
642469,1749,[Kneels],1261,18976
642470,1750,"Is this the Lord Talbot, uncle Gloucester,
That hath so long been resident in France?",574,18976
642471,1752,"Yes, if it please your majesty, my liege.",531,18976
642472,1753,"Welcome, brave captain and victorious lord!
When I was young, as yet I am not old,
I do remember how my father said
A stouter champion never handled sword.
Long since we were resolved of your truth,
Your faithful service and your toil in war;
Yet never have you tasted our reward,
Or been reguerdon'd with so much as thanks,
Because till now we never saw your face:
Therefore, stand up; and, for these good deserts,
We here create you Earl of Shrewsbury;
And in our coronation take your place.",574,18976
642473,1765,[Sennet. Flourish. Exeunt all but VERNON and BASSET],1261,18976
642474,1766,"Now, sir, to you, that were so hot at sea,
Disgracing of these colours that I wear
In honour of my noble Lord of York:
Darest thou maintain the former words thou spakest?",1234,18976
642475,1770,"Yes, sir; as well as you dare patronage
The envious barking of your saucy tongue
Against my lord the Duke of Somerset.",148,18976
642476,1773,"Sirrah, thy lord I honour as he is.",1234,18976
642477,1774,"Why, what is he? as good a man as York.",148,18976
642478,1775,"Hark ye; not so: in witness, take ye that.",1234,18976
642479,1776,[Strikes him],1261,18976
642480,1777,"Villain, thou know'st the law of arms is such
That whoso draws a sword, 'tis present death,
Or else this blow should broach thy dearest blood.
But I'll unto his majesty, and crave
I may have liberty to venge this wrong;
When thou shalt see I'll meet thee to thy cost.",148,18976
642481,1783,"Well, miscreant, I'll be there as soon as you;
And, after, meet you sooner than you would.",1234,18976
642482,1785,"[Exeunt]
[Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, BISHOP OF]
WINCHESTER, YORK, SUFFOLK, SOMERSET, WARWICK,
TALBOT, EXETER, the Governor, of Paris, and others]",1261,18976
642483,1791,"Lord bishop, set the crown upon his head.",531,18977
642484,1792,"God save King Henry, of that name the sixth!",577,18977
642485,1793,"Now, governor of Paris, take your oath,
That you elect no other king but him;
Esteem none friends but such as are his friends,
And none your foes but such as shall pretend
Malicious practises against his state:
This shall ye do, so help you righteous God!",531,18977
642486,1799,[Enter FASTOLFE],1261,18977
642487,1800,"My gracious sovereign, as I rode from Calais,
To haste unto your coronation,
A letter was deliver'd to my hands,
Writ to your grace from the Duke of Burgundy.",1104,18977
642488,1804,"Shame to the Duke of Burgundy and thee!
I vow'd, base knight, when I did meet thee next,
To tear the garter from thy craven's leg,
[Plucking it off]
Which I have done, because unworthily
Thou wast installed in that high degree.
Pardon me, princely Henry, and the rest
This dastard, at the battle of Patay,
When but in all I was six thousand strong
And that the French were almost ten to one,
Before we met or that a stroke was given,
Like to a trusty squire did run away:
In which assault we lost twelve hundred men;
Myself and divers gentlemen beside
Were there surprised and taken prisoners.
Then judge, great lords, if I have done amiss;
Or whether that such cowards ought to wear
This ornament of knighthood, yea or no.",1154,18977
642489,1822,"To say the truth, this fact was infamous
And ill beseeming any common man,
Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.",531,18977
642490,1825,"When first this order was ordain'd, my lords,
Knights of the garter were of noble birth,
Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty courage,
Such as were grown to credit by the wars;
Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress,
But always resolute in most extremes.
He then that is not furnish'd in this sort
Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight,
Profaning this most honourable order,
And should, if I were worthy to be judge,
Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain
That doth presume to boast of gentle blood.",1154,18977
642491,1837,"Stain to thy countrymen, thou hear'st thy doom!
Be packing, therefore, thou that wast a knight:
Henceforth we banish thee, on pain of death.
[Exit FASTOLFE]
And now, my lord protector, view the letter
Sent from our uncle Duke of Burgundy.",574,18977
642492,1843,"What means his grace, that he hath changed his style?
No more but, plain and bluntly, 'To the king!'
Hath he forgot he is his sovereign?
Or doth this churlish superscription
Pretend some alteration in good will?
What's here?
[Reads]
'I have, upon especial cause,
Moved with compassion of my country's wreck,
Together with the pitiful complaints
Of such as your oppression feeds upon,
Forsaken your pernicious faction
And join'd with Charles, the rightful King of France.'
O monstrous treachery! can this be so,
That in alliance, amity and oaths,
There should be found such false dissembling guile?",531,18977
642493,1859,What! doth my uncle Burgundy revolt?,574,18977
642494,1860,"He doth, my lord, and is become your foe.",531,18977
642495,1861,Is that the worst this letter doth contain?,574,18977
642496,1862,"It is the worst, and all, my lord, he writes.",531,18977
642497,1863,"Why, then, Lord Talbot there shall talk with him
And give him chastisement for this abuse.
How say you, my lord? are you not content?",574,18977
642498,1866,"Content, my liege! yes, but that I am prevented,
I should have begg'd I might have been employ'd.",1154,18977
642499,1868,"Then gather strength and march unto him straight:
Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason
And what offence it is to flout his friends.",574,18977
642500,1871,"I go, my lord, in heart desiring still
You may behold confusion of your foes.",1154,18977
642501,1873,[Exit],1261,18977
642502,1874,[Enter VERNON and BASSET],1261,18977
642503,1875,"Grant me the combat, gracious sovereign.",1234,18977
642504,1876,"And me, my lord, grant me the combat too.",148,18977
642505,1877,"This is my servant: hear him, noble prince.",946,18977
642506,1878,"And this is mine: sweet Henry, favour him.",1137,18977
642507,1879,"Be patient, lords; and give them leave to speak.
Say, gentlemen, what makes you thus exclaim?
And wherefore crave you combat? or with whom?",574,18977
642508,1882,"With him, my lord; for he hath done me wrong.",1234,18977
642509,1883,And I with him; for he hath done me wrong.,148,18977
642510,1884,"What is that wrong whereof you both complain?
First let me know, and then I'll answer you.",574,18977
642511,1886,"Crossing the sea from England into France,
This fellow here, with envious carping tongue,
Upbraided me about the rose I wear;
Saying, the sanguine colour of the leaves
Did represent my master's blushing cheeks,
When stubbornly he did repugn the truth
About a certain question in the law
Argued betwixt the Duke of York and him;
With other vile and ignominious terms:
In confutation of which rude reproach
And in defence of my lord's worthiness,
I crave the benefit of law of arms.",148,18977
642512,1898,"And that is my petition, noble lord:
For though he seem with forged quaint conceit
To set a gloss upon his bold intent,
Yet know, my lord, I was provoked by him;
And he first took exceptions at this badge,
Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower
Bewray'd the faintness of my master's heart.",1234,18977
642513,1905,"Will not this malice, Somerset, be left?",946,18977
642514,1906,"Your private grudge, my Lord of York, will out,
Though ne'er so cunningly you smother it.",1137,18977
642515,1908,"Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men,
When for so slight and frivolous a cause
Such factious emulations shall arise!
Good cousins both, of York and Somerset,
Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace.",574,18977
642516,1913,"Let this dissension first be tried by fight,
And then your highness shall command a peace.",946,18977
642517,1915,"The quarrel toucheth none but us alone;
Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.",1137,18977
642518,1917,"There is my pledge; accept it, Somerset.",946,18977
642519,1918,"Nay, let it rest where it began at first.",1234,18977
642520,1919,"Confirm it so, mine honourable lord.",148,18977
642521,1920,"Confirm it so! Confounded be your strife!
And perish ye, with your audacious prate!
Presumptuous vassals, are you not ashamed
With this immodest clamorous outrage
To trouble and disturb the king and us?
And you, my lords, methinks you do not well
To bear with their perverse objections;
Much less to take occasion from their mouths
To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves:
Let me persuade you take a better course.",531,18977
642522,1930,"It grieves his highness: good my lords, be friends.",389,18977
642523,1931,"Come hither, you that would be combatants:
Henceforth I charge you, as you love our favour,
Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause.
And you, my lords, remember where we are,
In France, amongst a fickle wavering nation:
If they perceive dissension in our looks
And that within ourselves we disagree,
How will their grudging stomachs be provoked
To wilful disobedience, and rebel!
Beside, what infamy will there arise,
When foreign princes shall be certified
That for a toy, a thing of no regard,
King Henry's peers and chief nobility
Destroy'd themselves, and lost the realm of France!
O, think upon the conquest of my father,
My tender years, and let us not forego
That for a trifle that was bought with blood
Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife.
I see no reason, if I wear this rose,
[Putting on a red rose]
That any one should therefore be suspicious
I more incline to Somerset than York:
Both are my kinsmen, and I love them both:
As well they may upbraid me with my crown,
Because, forsooth, the king of Scots is crown'd.
But your discretions better can persuade
Than I am able to instruct or teach:
And therefore, as we hither came in peace,
So let us still continue peace and love.
Cousin of York, we institute your grace
To be our regent in these parts of France:
And, good my Lord of Somerset, unite
Your troops of horsemen with his bands of foot;
And, like true subjects, sons of your progenitors,
Go cheerfully together and digest.
Your angry choler on your enemies.
Ourself, my lord protector and the rest
After some respite will return to Calais;
From thence to England; where I hope ere long
To be presented, by your victories,
With Charles, Alencon and that traitorous rout.
[Flourish. Exeunt all but YORK, WARWICK, EXETER]
and VERNON]",574,18977
642524,1974,"My Lord of York, I promise you, the king
Prettily, methought, did play the orator.",1247,18977
642525,1976,"And so he did; but yet I like it not,
In that he wears the badge of Somerset.",946,18977
642526,1978,"Tush, that was but his fancy, blame him not;
I dare presume, sweet prince, he thought no harm.",1247,18977
642527,1980,"An if I wist he did,--but let it rest;
Other affairs must now be managed.",946,18977
642528,1982,[Exeunt all but EXETER],1261,18977
642529,1983,"Well didst thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice;
For, had the passions of thy heart burst out,
I fear we should have seen decipher'd there
More rancorous spite, more furious raging broils,
Than yet can be imagined or supposed.
But howsoe'er, no simple man that sees
This jarring discord of nobility,
This shouldering of each other in the court,
This factious bandying of their favourites,
But that it doth presage some ill event.
'Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands;
But more when envy breeds unkind division;
There comes the rain, there begins confusion.",389,18977
642530,1996,[Exit],1261,18977
642531,1999,"[Enter TALBOT, with trump and drum]",1261,18978
642532,2000,"Go to the gates of Bourdeaux, trumpeter:
Summon their general unto the wall.
[Trumpet sounds. Enter General and others, aloft]
English John Talbot, captains, calls you forth,
Servant in arms to Harry King of England;
And thus he would: Open your city gates;
Be humble to us; call my sovereign yours,
And do him homage as obedient subjects;
And I'll withdraw me and my bloody power:
But, if you frown upon this proffer'd peace,
You tempt the fury of my three attendants,
Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire;
Who in a moment even with the earth
Shall lay your stately and air-braving towers,
If you forsake the offer of their love.",1154,18978
642533,2015,"Thou ominous and fearful owl of death,
Our nation's terror and their bloody scourge!
The period of thy tyranny approacheth.
On us thou canst not enter but by death;
For, I protest, we are well fortified
And strong enough to issue out and fight:
If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed,
Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:
On either hand thee there are squadrons pitch'd,
To wall thee from the liberty of flight;
And no way canst thou turn thee for redress,
But death doth front thee with apparent spoil
And pale destruction meets thee in the face.
Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament
To rive their dangerous artillery
Upon no Christian soul but English Talbot.
Lo, there thou stand'st, a breathing valiant man,
Of an invincible unconquer'd spirit!
This is the latest glory of thy praise
That I, thy enemy, due thee withal;
For ere the glass, that now begins to run,
Finish the process of his sandy hour,
These eyes, that see thee now well coloured,
Shall see thee wither'd, bloody, pale and dead.
[Drum afar off]
Hark! hark! the Dauphin's drum, a warning bell,
Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul;
And mine shall ring thy dire departure out.",516,18978
642534,2043,"[Exeunt General, &c]",1261,18978
642535,2044,"He fables not; I hear the enemy:
Out, some light horsemen, and peruse their wings.
O, negligent and heedless discipline!
How are we park'd and bounded in a pale,
A little herd of England's timorous deer,
Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!
If we be English deer, be then in blood;
Not rascal-like, to fall down with a pinch,
But rather, moody-mad and desperate stags,
Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel
And make the cowards stand aloof at bay:
Sell every man his life as dear as mine,
And they shall find dear deer of us, my friends.
God and Saint George, Talbot and England's right,
Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight!",1154,18978
642536,2059,"[Exeunt]
[Enter a Messenger that meets YORK. Enter YORK]
with trumpet and many Soldiers]",1261,18978
642537,2064,"Are not the speedy scouts return'd again,
That dogg'd the mighty army of the Dauphin?",946,18979
642538,2066,"They are return'd, my lord, and give it out
That he is march'd to Bourdeaux with his power,
To fight with Talbot: as he march'd along,
By your espials were discovered
Two mightier troops than that the Dauphin led,
Which join'd with him and made their march for Bourdeaux.",775,18979
642539,2072,"A plague upon that villain Somerset,
That thus delays my promised supply
Of horsemen, that were levied for this siege!
Renowned Talbot doth expect my aid,
And I am lowted by a traitor villain
And cannot help the noble chevalier:
God comfort him in this necessity!
If he miscarry, farewell wars in France.",946,18979
642540,2080,[Enter Sir William LUCY],1261,18979
642541,2081,"Thou princely leader of our English strength,
Never so needful on the earth of France,
Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot,
Who now is girdled with a waist of iron
And hemm'd about with grim destruction:
To Bourdeaux, warlike duke! to Bourdeaux, York!
Else, farewell Talbot, France, and England's honour.",1119,18979
642542,2088,"O God, that Somerset, who in proud heart
Doth stop my cornets, were in Talbot's place!
So should we save a valiant gentleman
By forfeiting a traitor and a coward.
Mad ire and wrathful fury makes me weep,
That thus we die, while remiss traitors sleep.",946,18979
642543,2094,"O, send some succor to the distress'd lord!",1119,18979
642544,2095,"He dies, we lose; I break my warlike word;
We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get;
All 'long of this vile traitor Somerset.",946,18979
642545,2098,"Then God take mercy on brave Talbot's soul;
And on his son young John, who two hours since
I met in travel toward his warlike father!
This seven years did not Talbot see his son;
And now they meet where both their lives are done.",1119,18979
642546,2103,"Alas, what joy shall noble Talbot have
To bid his young son welcome to his grave?
Away! vexation almost stops my breath,
That sunder'd friends greet in the hour of death.
Lucy, farewell; no more my fortune can,
But curse the cause I cannot aid the man.
Maine, Blois, Poictiers, and Tours, are won away,
'Long all of Somerset and his delay.",946,18979
642547,2111,"[Exit, with his soldiers]",1261,18979
642548,2112,"Thus, while the vulture of sedition
Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders,
Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss
The conquest of our scarce cold conqueror,
That ever living man of memory,
Henry the Fifth: whiles they each other cross,
Lives, honours, lands and all hurry to loss.",1119,18979
642549,2119,"[Exit]
[Enter SOMERSET, with his army; a Captain of]
TALBOT's with him]",1261,18979
642550,2124,"It is too late; I cannot send them now:
This expedition was by York and Talbot
Too rashly plotted: all our general force
Might with a sally of the very town
Be buckled with: the over-daring Talbot
Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour
By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure:
York set him on to fight and die in shame,
That, Talbot dead, great York might bear the name.",1137,18980
642551,2133,"Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me
Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid.",217,18980
642552,2135,[Enter Sir William LUCY],1261,18980
642553,2136,"How now, Sir William! whither were you sent?",1137,18980
642554,2137,"Whither, my lord? from bought and sold Lord Talbot;
Who, ring'd about with bold adversity,
Cries out for noble York and Somerset,
To beat assailing death from his weak legions:
And whiles the honourable captain there
Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs,
And, in advantage lingering, looks for rescue,
You, his false hopes, the trust of England's honour,
Keep off aloof with worthless emulation.
Let not your private discord keep away
The levied succors that should lend him aid,
While he, renowned noble gentleman,
Yields up his life unto a world of odds:
Orleans the Bastard, Charles, Burgundy,
Alencon, Reignier, compass him about,
And Talbot perisheth by your default.",1119,18980
642555,2153,York set him on; York should have sent him aid.,1137,18980
642556,2154,"And York as fast upon your grace exclaims;
Swearing that you withhold his levied host,
Collected for this expedition.",1119,18980
642557,2157,"York lies; he might have sent and had the horse;
I owe him little duty, and less love;
And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending.",1137,18980
642558,2160,"The fraud of England, not the force of France,
Hath now entrapp'd the noble-minded Talbot:
Never to England shall he bear his life;
But dies, betray'd to fortune by your strife.",1119,18980
642559,2164,"Come, go; I will dispatch the horsemen straight:
Within six hours they will be at his aid.",1137,18980
642560,2166,"Too late comes rescue: he is ta'en or slain;
For fly he could not, if he would have fled;
And fly would Talbot never, though he might.",1119,18980
642561,2169,"If he be dead, brave Talbot, then adieu!",1137,18980
642562,2170,"His fame lives in the world, his shame in you.",1119,18980
642563,2171,[Exeunt],1261,18980
642564,2174,[Enter TALBOT and JOHN his son],1261,18981
642565,2175,"O young John Talbot! I did send for thee
To tutor thee in stratagems of war,
That Talbot's name might be in thee revived
When sapless age and weak unable limbs
Should bring thy father to his drooping chair.
But, O malignant and ill-boding stars!
Now thou art come unto a feast of death,
A terrible and unavoided danger:
Therefore, dear boy, mount on my swiftest horse;
And I'll direct thee how thou shalt escape
By sudden flight: come, dally not, be gone.",1154,18981
642566,2186,"Is my name Talbot? and am I your son?
And shall I fly? O if you love my mother,
Dishonour not her honourable name,
To make a bastard and a slave of me!
The world will say, he is not Talbot's blood,
That basely fled when noble Talbot stood.",1154,18981
642567,2192,"Fly, to revenge my death, if I be slain.",1154,18981
642568,2193,He that flies so will ne'er return again.,1154,18981
642569,2194,"If we both stay, we both are sure to die.",1154,18981
642570,2195,"Then let me stay; and, father, do you fly:
Your loss is great, so your regard should be;
My worth unknown, no loss is known in me.
Upon my death the French can little boast;
In yours they will, in you all hopes are lost.
Flight cannot stain the honour you have won;
But mine it will, that no exploit have done:
You fled for vantage, everyone will swear;
But, if I bow, they'll say it was for fear.
There is no hope that ever I will stay,
If the first hour I shrink and run away.
Here on my knee I beg mortality,
Rather than life preserved with infamy.",1154,18981
642571,2208,Shall all thy mother's hopes lie in one tomb?,1154,18981
642572,2209,"Ay, rather than I'll shame my mother's womb.",1154,18981
642573,2210,"Upon my blessing, I command thee go.",1154,18981
642574,2211,"To fight I will, but not to fly the foe.",1154,18981
642575,2212,Part of thy father may be saved in thee.,1154,18981
642576,2213,No part of him but will be shame in me.,1154,18981
642577,2214,"Thou never hadst renown, nor canst not lose it.",1154,18981
642578,2215,"Yes, your renowned name: shall flight abuse it?",1154,18981
642579,2216,Thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain.,1154,18981
642580,2217,"You cannot witness for me, being slain.
If death be so apparent, then both fly.",1154,18981
642581,2219,"And leave my followers here to fight and die?
My age was never tainted with such shame.",1154,18981
642582,2221,"And shall my youth be guilty of such blame?
No more can I be sever'd from your side,
Than can yourself yourself in twain divide:
Stay, go, do what you will, the like do I;
For live I will not, if my father die.",1154,18981
642583,2226,"Then here I take my leave of thee, fair son,
Born to eclipse thy life this afternoon.
Come, side by side together live and die.
And soul with soul from France to heaven fly.",1154,18981
642584,2230,"[Exeunt]
[Alarum: excursions, wherein JOHN TALBOT is]
hemmed about, and TALBOT rescues him]",1261,18981
642585,2235,"Saint George and victory! fight, soldiers, fight.
The regent hath with Talbot broke his word
And left us to the rage of France his sword.
Where is John Talbot? Pause, and take thy breath;
I gave thee life and rescued thee from death.",1154,18982
642586,2240,"O, twice my father, twice am I thy son!
The life thou gavest me first was lost and done,
Till with thy warlike sword, despite of late,
To my determined time thou gavest new date.",1154,18982
642587,2244,"When from the Dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire,
It warm'd thy father's heart with proud desire
Of bold-faced victory. Then leaden age,
Quicken'd with youthful spleen and warlike rage,
Beat down Alencon, Orleans, Burgundy,
And from the pride of Gallia rescued thee.
The ireful bastard Orleans, that drew blood
From thee, my boy, and had the maidenhood
Of thy first fight, I soon encountered,
And interchanging blows I quickly shed
Some of his bastard blood; and in disgrace
Bespoke him thus; 'Contaminated, base
And misbegotten blood I spill of thine,
Mean and right poor, for that pure blood of mine
Which thou didst force from Talbot, my brave boy:'
Here, purposing the Bastard to destroy,
Came in strong rescue. Speak, thy father's care,
Art thou not weary, John? how dost thou fare?
Wilt thou yet leave the battle, boy, and fly,
Now thou art seal'd the son of chivalry?
Fly, to revenge my death when I am dead:
The help of one stands me in little stead.
O, too much folly is it, well I wot,
To hazard all our lives in one small boat!
If I to-day die not with Frenchmen's rage,
To-morrow I shall die with mickle age:
By me they nothing gain an if I stay;
'Tis but the shortening of my life one day:
In thee thy mother dies, our household's name,
My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame:
All these and more we hazard by thy stay;
All these are saved if thou wilt fly away.",1154,18982
642588,2276,"The sword of Orleans hath not made me smart;
These words of yours draw life-blood from my heart:
On that advantage, bought with such a shame,
To save a paltry life and slay bright fame,
Before young Talbot from old Talbot fly,
The coward horse that bears me fail and die!
And like me to the peasant boys of France,
To be shame's scorn and subject of mischance!
Surely, by all the glory you have won,
An if I fly, I am not Talbot's son:
Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot;
If son to Talbot, die at Talbot's foot.",1154,18982
642589,2288,"Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete,
Thou Icarus; thy life to me is sweet:
If thou wilt fight, fight by thy father's side;
And, commendable proved, let's die in pride.",1154,18982
642590,2292,[Exeunt],1261,18982
642591,2295,[Alarum: excursions. Enter TALBOT led by a Servant],1261,18983
642592,2296,"Where is my other life? mine own is gone;
O, where's young Talbot? where is valiant John?
Triumphant death, smear'd with captivity,
Young Talbot's valour makes me smile at thee:
When he perceived me shrink and on my knee,
His bloody sword he brandish'd over me,
And, like a hungry lion, did commence
Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience;
But when my angry guardant stood alone,
Tendering my ruin and assail'd of none,
Dizzy-eyed fury and great rage of heart
Suddenly made him from my side to start
Into the clustering battle of the French;
And in that sea of blood my boy did drench
His over-mounting spirit, and there died,
My Icarus, my blossom, in his pride.",1154,18983
642593,2312,"O, my dear lord, lo, where your son is borne!",1061,18983
642594,2313,"[Enter Soldiers, with the body of JOHN TALBOT]",1261,18983
642595,2314,"Thou antic death, which laugh'st us here to scorn,
Anon, from thy insulting tyranny,
Coupled in bonds of perpetuity,
Two Talbots, winged through the lither sky,
In thy despite shall 'scape mortality.
O, thou, whose wounds become hard-favour'd death,
Speak to thy father ere thou yield thy breath!
Brave death by speaking, whether he will or no;
Imagine him a Frenchman and thy foe.
Poor boy! he smiles, methinks, as who should say,
Had death been French, then death had died to-day.
Come, come and lay him in his father's arms:
My spirit can no longer bear these harms.
Soldiers, adieu! I have what I would have,
Now my old arms are young John Talbot's grave.
[Dies]
[Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, BURGUNDY, BASTARD OF]
ORLEANS, JOAN LA PUCELLE, and forces]",1154,18983
642596,2332,"Had York and Somerset brought rescue in,
We should have found a bloody day of this.",238,18983
642597,2334,"How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging-wood,
Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood!",150,18983
642598,2336,"Once I encounter'd him, and thus I said:
'Thou maiden youth, be vanquish'd by a maid:'
But, with a proud majestical high scorn,
He answer'd thus: 'Young Talbot was not born
To be the pillage of a giglot wench:'
So, rushing in the bowels of the French,
He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.",613,18983
642599,2343,"Doubtless he would have made a noble knight;
See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms
Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!",345,18983
642600,2346,"Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder
Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's wonder.",150,18983
642601,2348,"O, no, forbear! for that which we have fled
During the life, let us not wrong it dead.
[Enter Sir William LUCY, attended; Herald of the]
French preceding]",238,18983
642602,2352,"Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin's tent,
To know who hath obtained the glory of the day.",1119,18983
642603,2354,On what submissive message art thou sent?,238,18983
642604,2355,"Submission, Dauphin! 'tis a mere French word;
We English warriors wot not what it means.
I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta'en
And to survey the bodies of the dead.",1119,18983
642605,2359,"For prisoners ask'st thou? hell our prison is.
But tell me whom thou seek'st.",238,18983
642606,2361,"But where's the great Alcides of the field,
Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,
Created, for his rare success in arms,
Great Earl of Washford, Waterford and Valence;
Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinfield,
Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton,
Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Furnival of Sheffield,
The thrice-victorious Lord of Falconbridge;
Knight of the noble order of Saint George,
Worthy Saint Michael and the Golden Fleece;
Great marshal to Henry the Sixth
Of all his wars within the realm of France?",1119,18983
642607,2373,"Here is a silly stately style indeed!
The Turk, that two and fifty kingdoms hath,
Writes not so tedious a style as this.
Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles
Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet.",613,18983
642608,2378,"Is Talbot slain, the Frenchmen's only scourge,
Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis?
O, were mine eyeballs into bullets turn'd,
That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!
O, that I could but call these dead to life!
It were enough to fright the realm of France:
Were but his picture left amongst you here,
It would amaze the proudest of you all.
Give me their bodies, that I may bear them hence
And give them burial as beseems their worth.",1119,18983
642609,2388,"I think this upstart is old Talbot's ghost,
He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit.
For God's sake let him have 'em; to keep them here,
They would but stink, and putrefy the air.",613,18983
642610,2392,"Go, take their bodies hence.",238,18983
642611,2393,"I'll bear them hence; but from their ashes shall be rear'd
A phoenix that shall make all France afeard.",1119,18983
642612,2395,"So we be rid of them, do with 'em what thou wilt.
And now to Paris, in this conquering vein:
All will be ours, now bloody Talbot's slain.",238,18983
642613,2398,[Exeunt],1261,18983
642614,2401,"[Sennet. Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, and EXETER]",1261,18984
642615,2402,"Have you perused the letters from the pope,
The emperor and the Earl of Armagnac?",574,18984
642616,2404,"I have, my lord: and their intent is this:
They humbly sue unto your excellence
To have a godly peace concluded of
Between the realms of England and of France.",531,18984
642617,2408,How doth your grace affect their motion?,574,18984
642618,2409,"Well, my good lord; and as the only means
To stop effusion of our Christian blood
And 'stablish quietness on every side.",531,18984
642619,2412,"Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought
It was both impious and unnatural
That such immanity and bloody strife
Should reign among professors of one faith.",574,18984
642620,2416,"Beside, my lord, the sooner to effect
And surer bind this knot of amity,
The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles,
A man of great authority in France,
Proffers his only daughter to your grace
In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.",531,18984
642621,2422,"Marriage, uncle! alas, my years are young!
And fitter is my study and my books
Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
Yet call the ambassador; and, as you please,
So let them have their answers every one:
I shall be well content with any choice
Tends to God's glory and my country's weal.
[Enter CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER in Cardinal's habit,]
a Legate and two Ambassadors]",574,18984
642622,2431,"What! is my Lord of Winchester install'd,
And call'd unto a cardinal's degree?
Then I perceive that will be verified
Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy,
'If once he come to be a cardinal,
He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown.'",389,18984
642623,2437,"My lords ambassadors, your several suits
Have been consider'd and debated on.
And therefore are we certainly resolved
To draw conditions of a friendly peace;
Which by my Lord of Winchester we mean
Shall be transported presently to France.",574,18984
642624,2443,"And for the proffer of my lord your master,
I have inform'd his highness so at large
As liking of the lady's virtuous gifts,
Her beauty and the value of her dower,
He doth intend she shall be England's queen.",531,18984
642625,2448,"In argument and proof of which contract,
Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection.
And so, my lord protector, see them guarded
And safely brought to Dover; where inshipp'd
Commit them to the fortune of the sea.",574,18984
642626,2453,[Exeunt all but CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER and Legate],1261,18984
642627,2454,"Stay, my lord legate: you shall first receive
The sum of money which I promised
Should be deliver'd to his holiness
For clothing me in these grave ornaments.",577,18984
642628,2458,I will attend upon your lordship's leisure.,661,18984
642629,2459,"[Aside] Now Winchester will not submit, I trow,
Or be inferior to the proudest peer.
Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive
That, neither in birth or for authority,
The bishop will be overborne by thee:
I'll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,
Or sack this country with a mutiny.",577,18984
642630,2466,"[Exeunt]
[Enter CHARLES, BURGUNDY, ALENCON, BASTARD OF]
ORLEANS, REIGNIER, JOAN LA PUCELLE, and forces]",1261,18984
642631,2471,"These news, my lord, may cheer our drooping spirits:
'Tis said the stout Parisians do revolt
And turn again unto the warlike French.",238,18985
642632,2474,"Then march to Paris, royal Charles of France,
And keep not back your powers in dalliance.",340,18985
642633,2476,"Peace be amongst them, if they turn to us;
Else, ruin combat with their palaces!",613,18985
642634,2478,[Enter Scout],1261,18985
642635,2479,"Success unto our valiant general,
And happiness to his accomplices!",971,18985
642636,2481,"What tidings send our scouts? I prithee, speak.",238,18985
642637,2482,"The English army, that divided was
Into two parties, is now conjoined in one,
And means to give you battle presently.",971,18985
642638,2485,"Somewhat too sudden, sirs, the warning is;
But we will presently provide for them.",238,18985
642639,2487,"I trust the ghost of Talbot is not there:
Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear.",345,18985
642640,2489,"Of all base passions, fear is most accursed.
Command the conquest, Charles, it shall be thine,
Let Henry fret and all the world repine.",613,18985
642641,2492,"Then on, my lords; and France be fortunate!",238,18985
642642,2493,[Exeunt],1261,18985
642643,2496,[Alarum. Excursions. Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE],1261,18986
642644,2497,"The regent conquers, and the Frenchmen fly.
Now help, ye charming spells and periapts;
And ye choice spirits that admonish me
And give me signs of future accidents.
[Thunder]
You speedy helpers, that are substitutes
Under the lordly monarch of the north,
Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
[Enter Fiends]
This speedy and quick appearance argues proof
Of your accustom'd diligence to me.
Now, ye familiar spirits, that are cull'd
Out of the powerful regions under earth,
Help me this once, that France may get the field.
[They walk, and speak not]
O, hold me not with silence over-long!
Where I was wont to feed you with my blood,
I'll lop a member off and give it you
In earnest of further benefit,
So you do condescend to help me now.
[They hang their heads]
No hope to have redress? My body shall
Pay recompense, if you will grant my suit.
[They shake their heads]
Cannot my body nor blood-sacrifice
Entreat you to your wonted furtherance?
Then take my soul, my body, soul and all,
Before that England give the French the foil.
[They depart]
See, they forsake me! Now the time is come
That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest
And let her head fall into England's lap.
My ancient incantations are too weak,
And hell too strong for me to buckle with:
Now, France, thy glory droopeth to the dust.
[Exit]
[Excursions. Re-enter JOAN LA PUCELLE fighting hand]
to hand with YORK. JOAN LA PUCELLE is taken. The
French fly]",613,18986
642645,2536,"Damsel of France, I think I have you fast:
Unchain your spirits now with spelling charms
And try if they can gain your liberty.
A goodly prize, fit for the devil's grace!
See, how the ugly wench doth bend her brows,
As if with Circe she would change my shape!",946,18986
642646,2542,Changed to a worser shape thou canst not be.,613,18986
642647,2543,"O, Charles the Dauphin is a proper man;
No shape but his can please your dainty eye.",946,18986
642648,2545,"A plaguing mischief light on Charles and thee!
And may ye both be suddenly surprised
By bloody hands, in sleeping on your beds!",613,18986
642649,2548,"Fell banning hag, enchantress, hold thy tongue!",946,18986
642650,2549,"I prithee, give me leave to curse awhile.",613,18986
642651,2550,"Curse, miscreant, when thou comest to the stake.",946,18986
642652,2551,[Exeunt],1261,18986
642653,2552,[Alarum. Enter SUFFOLK with MARGARET in his hand],1261,18986
642654,2553,"Be what thou wilt, thou art my prisoner.
[Gazes on her]
O fairest beauty, do not fear nor fly!
For I will touch thee but with reverent hands;
I kiss these fingers for eternal peace,
And lay them gently on thy tender side.
Who art thou? say, that I may honour thee.",363,18986
642655,2560,"Margaret my name, and daughter to a king,
The King of Naples, whosoe'er thou art.",736,18986
642656,2562,"An earl I am, and Suffolk am I call'd.
Be not offended, nature's miracle,
Thou art allotted to be ta'en by me:
So doth the swan her downy cygnets save,
Keeping them prisoner underneath her wings.
Yet, if this servile usage once offend.
Go, and be free again, as Suffolk's friend.
[She is going]
O, stay! I have no power to let her pass;
My hand would free her, but my heart says no
As plays the sun upon the glassy streams,
Twinkling another counterfeited beam,
So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes.
Fain would I woo her, yet I dare not speak:
I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind.
Fie, de la Pole! disable not thyself;
Hast not a tongue? is she not here?
Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight?
Ay, beauty's princely majesty is such,
Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.",363,18986
642657,2582,"Say, Earl of Suffolk--if thy name be so--
What ransom must I pay before I pass?
For I perceive I am thy prisoner.",736,18986
642658,2585,"How canst thou tell she will deny thy suit,
Before thou make a trial of her love?",363,18986
642659,2587,Why speak'st thou not? what ransom must I pay?,736,18986
642660,2588,"She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd;
She is a woman, therefore to be won.",363,18986
642661,2590,"Wilt thou accept of ransom? yea, or no.",736,18986
642662,2591,"Fond man, remember that thou hast a wife;
Then how can Margaret be thy paramour?",363,18986
642663,2593,"I were best to leave him, for he will not hear.",736,18986
642664,2594,There all is marr'd; there lies a cooling card.,363,18986
642665,2595,"He talks at random; sure, the man is mad.",736,18986
642666,2596,And yet a dispensation may be had.,363,18986
642667,2597,And yet I would that you would answer me.,736,18986
642668,2598,"I'll win this Lady Margaret. For whom?
Why, for my king: tush, that's a wooden thing!",363,18986
642669,2600,He talks of wood: it is some carpenter.,736,18986
642670,2601,"Yet so my fancy may be satisfied,
And peace established between these realms
But there remains a scruple in that too;
For though her father be the King of Naples,
Duke of Anjou and Maine, yet is he poor,
And our nobility will scorn the match.",363,18986
642671,2607,"Hear ye, captain, are you not at leisure?",736,18986
642672,2608,"It shall be so, disdain they ne'er so much.
Henry is youthful and will quickly yield.
Madam, I have a secret to reveal.",363,18986
642673,2611,"What though I be enthrall'd? he seems a knight,
And will not any way dishonour me.",736,18986
642674,2613,"Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say.",363,18986
642675,2614,"Perhaps I shall be rescued by the French;
And then I need not crave his courtesy.",736,18986
642676,2616,"Sweet madam, give me a hearing in a cause--",363,18986
642677,2617,"Tush, women have been captivate ere now.",736,18986
642678,2618,"Lady, wherefore talk you so?",363,18986
642679,2619,"I cry you mercy, 'tis but Quid for Quo.",736,18986
642680,2620,"Say, gentle princess, would you not suppose
Your bondage happy, to be made a queen?",363,18986
642681,2622,"To be a queen in bondage is more vile
Than is a slave in base servility;
For princes should be free.",736,18986
642682,2625,"And so shall you,
If happy England's royal king be free.",363,18986
642683,2627,"Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?",736,18986
642684,2628,"I'll undertake to make thee Henry's queen,
To put a golden sceptre in thy hand
And set a precious crown upon thy head,
If thou wilt condescend to be my--",363,18986
642685,2632,What?,736,18986
642686,2633,His love.,363,18986
642687,2634,I am unworthy to be Henry's wife.,736,18986
642688,2635,"No, gentle madam; I unworthy am
To woo so fair a dame to be his wife,
And have no portion in the choice myself.
How say you, madam, are ye so content?",363,18986
642689,2639,"An if my father please, I am content.",736,18986
642690,2640,"Then call our captains and our colours forth.
And, madam, at your father's castle walls
We'll crave a parley, to confer with him.
[A parley sounded. Enter REIGNIER on the walls]
See, Reignier, see, thy daughter prisoner!",363,18986
642691,2645,To whom?,942,18986
642692,2646,To me.,363,18986
642693,2647,"Suffolk, what remedy?
I am a soldier, and unapt to weep,
Or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness.",942,18986
642694,2650,"Yes, there is remedy enough, my lord:
Consent, and for thy honour give consent,
Thy daughter shall be wedded to my king;
Whom I with pain have woo'd and won thereto;
And this her easy-held imprisonment
Hath gained thy daughter princely liberty.",363,18986
642695,2656,Speaks Suffolk as he thinks?,942,18986
642696,2657,"Fair Margaret knows
That Suffolk doth not flatter, face, or feign.",363,18986
642697,2659,"Upon thy princely warrant, I descend
To give thee answer of thy just demand.",942,18986
642698,2661,[Exit from the walls],1261,18986
642699,2662,And here I will expect thy coming.,363,18986
642700,2663,"[Trumpets sound. Enter REIGNIER, below]",1261,18986
642701,2664,"Welcome, brave earl, into our territories:
Command in Anjou what your honour pleases.",942,18986
642702,2666,"Thanks, Reignier, happy for so sweet a child,
Fit to be made companion with a king:
What answer makes your grace unto my suit?",363,18986
642703,2669,"Since thou dost deign to woo her little worth
To be the princely bride of such a lord;
Upon condition I may quietly
Enjoy mine own, the country Maine and Anjou,
Free from oppression or the stroke of war,
My daughter shall be Henry's, if he please.",942,18986
642704,2675,"That is her ransom; I deliver her;
And those two counties I will undertake
Your grace shall well and quietly enjoy.",363,18986
642705,2678,"And I again, in Henry's royal name,
As deputy unto that gracious king,
Give thee her hand, for sign of plighted faith.",942,18986
642706,2681,"Reignier of France, I give thee kingly thanks,
Because this is in traffic of a king.
[Aside]
And yet, methinks, I could be well content
To be mine own attorney in this case.
I'll over then to England with this news,
And make this marriage to be solemnized.
So farewell, Reignier: set this diamond safe
In golden palaces, as it becomes.",363,18986
642707,2690,"I do embrace thee, as I would embrace
The Christian prince, King Henry, were he here.",942,18986
642708,2692,"Farewell, my lord: good wishes, praise and prayers
Shall Suffolk ever have of Margaret.",736,18986
642709,2694,[Going],1261,18986
642710,2695,"Farewell, sweet madam: but hark you, Margaret;
No princely commendations to my king?",363,18986
642711,2697,"Such commendations as becomes a maid,
A virgin and his servant, say to him.",736,18986
642712,2699,"Words sweetly placed and modestly directed.
But madam, I must trouble you again;
No loving token to his majesty?",363,18986
642713,2702,"Yes, my good lord, a pure unspotted heart,
Never yet taint with love, I send the king.",736,18986
642714,2704,And this withal.,363,18986
642715,2705,[Kisses her],1261,18986
642716,2706,"That for thyself: I will not so presume
To send such peevish tokens to a king.",736,18986
642717,2708,[Exeunt REIGNIER and MARGARET],1261,18986
642718,2709,"O, wert thou for myself! But, Suffolk, stay;
Thou mayst not wander in that labyrinth;
There Minotaurs and ugly treasons lurk.
Solicit Henry with her wondrous praise:
Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount,
And natural graces that extinguish art;
Repeat their semblance often on the seas,
That, when thou comest to kneel at Henry's feet,
Thou mayst bereave him of his wits with wonder.",363,18986
642719,2718,[Exit],1261,18986
642720,2721,"[Enter YORK, WARWICK, and others]",1261,18987
642721,2722,Bring forth that sorceress condemn'd to burn.,946,18987
642722,2723,"[Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE, guarded, and a Shepherd]",1261,18987
642723,2724,"Ah, Joan, this kills thy father's heart outright!
Have I sought every country far and near,
And, now it is my chance to find thee out,
Must I behold thy timeless cruel death?
Ah, Joan, sweet daughter Joan, I'll die with thee!",1086,18987
642724,2729,"Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch!
I am descended of a gentler blood:
Thou art no father nor no friend of mine.",613,18987
642725,2732,"Out, out! My lords, an please you, 'tis not so;
I did beget her, all the parish knows:
Her mother liveth yet, can testify
She was the first fruit of my bachelorship.",1086,18987
642726,2736,Graceless! wilt thou deny thy parentage?,1247,18987
642727,2737,"This argues what her kind of life hath been,
Wicked and vile; and so her death concludes.",946,18987
642728,2739,"Fie, Joan, that thou wilt be so obstacle!
God knows thou art a collop of my flesh;
And for thy sake have I shed many a tear:
Deny me not, I prithee, gentle Joan.",1086,18987
642729,2743,"Peasant, avaunt! You have suborn'd this man,
Of purpose to obscure my noble birth.",613,18987
642730,2745,"'Tis true, I gave a noble to the priest
The morn that I was wedded to her mother.
Kneel down and take my blessing, good my girl.
Wilt thou not stoop? Now cursed be the time
Of thy nativity! I would the milk
Thy mother gave thee when thou suck'dst her breast,
Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake!
Or else, when thou didst keep my lambs a-field,
I wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee!
Dost thou deny thy father, cursed drab?
O, burn her, burn her! hanging is too good.",1086,18987
642731,2756,[Exit],1261,18987
642732,2757,"Take her away; for she hath lived too long,
To fill the world with vicious qualities.",946,18987
642733,2759,"First, let me tell you whom you have condemn'd:
Not me begotten of a shepherd swain,
But issued from the progeny of kings;
Virtuous and holy; chosen from above,
By inspiration of celestial grace,
To work exceeding miracles on earth.
I never had to do with wicked spirits:
But you, that are polluted with your lusts,
Stain'd with the guiltless blood of innocents,
Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices,
Because you want the grace that others have,
You judge it straight a thing impossible
To compass wonders but by help of devils.
No, misconceived! Joan of Arc hath been
A virgin from her tender infancy,
Chaste and immaculate in very thought;
Whose maiden blood, thus rigorously effused,
Will cry for vengeance at the gates of heaven.",613,18987
642734,2777,"Ay, ay: away with her to execution!",946,18987
642735,2778,"And hark ye, sirs; because she is a maid,
Spare for no faggots, let there be enow:
Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake,
That so her torture may be shortened.",1247,18987
642736,2782,"Will nothing turn your unrelenting hearts?
Then, Joan, discover thine infirmity,
That warranteth by law to be thy privilege.
I am with child, ye bloody homicides:
Murder not then the fruit within my womb,
Although ye hale me to a violent death.",613,18987
642737,2788,Now heaven forfend! the holy maid with child!,946,18987
642738,2789,"The greatest miracle that e'er ye wrought:
Is all your strict preciseness come to this?",1247,18987
642739,2791,"She and the Dauphin have been juggling:
I did imagine what would be her refuge.",946,18987
642740,2793,"Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live;
Especially since Charles must father it.",1247,18987
642741,2795,"You are deceived; my child is none of his:
It was Alencon that enjoy'd my love.",613,18987
642742,2797,"Alencon! that notorious Machiavel!
It dies, an if it had a thousand lives.",946,18987
642743,2799,"O, give me leave, I have deluded you:
'Twas neither Charles nor yet the duke I named,
But Reignier, king of Naples, that prevail'd.",613,18987
642744,2802,A married man! that's most intolerable.,1247,18987
642745,2803,"Why, here's a girl! I think she knows not well,
There were so many, whom she may accuse.",946,18987
642746,2805,It's sign she hath been liberal and free.,1247,18987
642747,2806,"And yet, forsooth, she is a virgin pure.
Strumpet, thy words condemn thy brat and thee:
Use no entreaty, for it is in vain.",946,18987
642748,2809,"Then lead me hence; with whom I leave my curse:
May never glorious sun reflex his beams
Upon the country where you make abode;
But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
Environ you, till mischief and despair
Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!",613,18987
642749,2815,"[Exit, guarded]",1261,18987
642750,2816,"Break thou in pieces and consume to ashes,
Thou foul accursed minister of hell!",946,18987
642751,2818,"[Enter CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER, attended]",1261,18987
642752,2819,"Lord regent, I do greet your excellence
With letters of commission from the king.
For know, my lords, the states of Christendom,
Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils,
Have earnestly implored a general peace
Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French;
And here at hand the Dauphin and his train
Approacheth, to confer about some matter.",577,18987
642753,2827,"Is all our travail turn'd to this effect?
After the slaughter of so many peers,
So many captains, gentlemen and soldiers,
That in this quarrel have been overthrown
And sold their bodies for their country's benefit,
Shall we at last conclude effeminate peace?
Have we not lost most part of all the towns,
By treason, falsehood and by treachery,
Our great progenitors had conquered?
O Warwick, Warwick! I foresee with grief
The utter loss of all the realm of France.",946,18987
642754,2838,"Be patient, York: if we conclude a peace,
It shall be with such strict and severe covenants
As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby.
[Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, BASTARD OF ORLEANS,]
REIGNIER, and others]",1247,18987
642755,2843,"Since, lords of England, it is thus agreed
That peaceful truce shall be proclaim'd in France,
We come to be informed by yourselves
What the conditions of that league must be.",238,18987
642756,2847,"Speak, Winchester; for boiling choler chokes
The hollow passage of my poison'd voice,
By sight of these our baleful enemies.",946,18987
642757,2850,"Charles, and the rest, it is enacted thus:
That, in regard King Henry gives consent,
Of mere compassion and of lenity,
To ease your country of distressful war,
And suffer you to breathe in fruitful peace,
You shall become true liegemen to his crown:
And Charles, upon condition thou wilt swear
To pay him tribute, submit thyself,
Thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him,
And still enjoy thy regal dignity.",577,18987
642758,2860,"Must he be then as shadow of himself?
Adorn his temples with a coronet,
And yet, in substance and authority,
Retain but privilege of a private man?
This proffer is absurd and reasonless.",340,18987
642759,2865,"'Tis known already that I am possess'd
With more than half the Gallian territories,
And therein reverenced for their lawful king:
Shall I, for lucre of the rest unvanquish'd,
Detract so much from that prerogative,
As to be call'd but viceroy of the whole?
No, lord ambassador, I'll rather keep
That which I have than, coveting for more,
Be cast from possibility of all.",238,18987
642760,2874,"Insulting Charles! hast thou by secret means
Used intercession to obtain a league,
And, now the matter grows to compromise,
Stand'st thou aloof upon comparison?
Either accept the title thou usurp'st,
Of benefit proceeding from our king
And not of any challenge of desert,
Or we will plague thee with incessant wars.",946,18987
642761,2882,"My lord, you do not well in obstinacy
To cavil in the course of this contract:
If once it be neglected, ten to one
We shall not find like opportunity.",942,18987
642762,2886,"To say the truth, it is your policy
To save your subjects from such massacre
And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen
By our proceeding in hostility;
And therefore take this compact of a truce,
Although you break it when your pleasure serves.",340,18987
642763,2892,"How say'st thou, Charles? shall our condition stand?",1247,18987
642764,2893,"It shall;
Only reserved, you claim no interest
In any of our towns of garrison.",238,18987
642765,2896,"Then swear allegiance to his majesty,
As thou art knight, never to disobey
Nor be rebellious to the crown of England,
Thou, nor thy nobles, to the crown of England.
So, now dismiss your army when ye please:
Hang up your ensign, let your drums be still,
For here we entertain a solemn peace.",946,18987
642766,2903,"[Exeunt]
[Enter SUFFOLK in conference with KING HENRY VI,]
GLOUCESTER and EXETER]",1261,18987
642767,2908,"Your wondrous rare description, noble earl,
Of beauteous Margaret hath astonish'd me:
Her virtues graced with external gifts
Do breed love's settled passions in my heart:
And like as rigor of tempestuous gusts
Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide,
So am I driven by breath of her renown
Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive
Where I may have fruition of her love.",574,18988
642768,2917,"Tush, my good lord, this superficial tale
Is but a preface of her worthy praise;
The chief perfections of that lovely dame
Had I sufficient skill to utter them,
Would make a volume of enticing lines,
Able to ravish any dull conceit:
And, which is more, she is not so divine,
So full-replete with choice of all delights,
But with as humble lowliness of mind
She is content to be at your command;
Command, I mean, of virtuous chaste intents,
To love and honour Henry as her lord.",363,18988
642769,2929,"And otherwise will Henry ne'er presume.
Therefore, my lord protector, give consent
That Margaret may be England's royal queen.",574,18988
642770,2932,"So should I give consent to flatter sin.
You know, my lord, your highness is betroth'd
Unto another lady of esteem:
How shall we then dispense with that contract,
And not deface your honour with reproach?",531,18988
642771,2937,"As doth a ruler with unlawful oaths;
Or one that, at a triumph having vow'd
To try his strength, forsaketh yet the lists
By reason of his adversary's odds:
A poor earl's daughter is unequal odds,
And therefore may be broke without offence.",363,18988
642772,2943,"Why, what, I pray, is Margaret more than that?
Her father is no better than an earl,
Although in glorious titles he excel.",531,18988
642773,2946,"Yes, lord, her father is a king,
The King of Naples and Jerusalem;
And of such great authority in France
As his alliance will confirm our peace
And keep the Frenchmen in allegiance.",363,18988
642774,2951,"And so the Earl of Armagnac may do,
Because he is near kinsman unto Charles.",531,18988
642775,2953,"Beside, his wealth doth warrant a liberal dower,
Where Reignier sooner will receive than give.",389,18988
642776,2955,"A dower, my lords! disgrace not so your king,
That he should be so abject, base and poor,
To choose for wealth and not for perfect love.
Henry is able to enrich his queen
And not seek a queen to make him rich:
So worthless peasants bargain for their wives,
As market-men for oxen, sheep, or horse.
Marriage is a matter of more worth
Than to be dealt in by attorneyship;
Not whom we will, but whom his grace affects,
Must be companion of his nuptial bed:
And therefore, lords, since he affects her most,
It most of all these reasons bindeth us,
In our opinions she should be preferr'd.
For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
And is a pattern of celestial peace.
Whom should we match with Henry, being a king,
But Margaret, that is daughter to a king?
Her peerless feature, joined with her birth,
Approves her fit for none but for a king:
Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit,
More than in women commonly is seen,
Will answer our hope in issue of a king;
For Henry, son unto a conqueror,
Is likely to beget more conquerors,
If with a lady of so high resolve
As is fair Margaret he be link'd in love.
Then yield, my lords; and here conclude with me
That Margaret shall be queen, and none but she.",363,18988
642777,2986,"Whether it be through force of your report,
My noble Lord of Suffolk, or for that
My tender youth was never yet attaint
With any passion of inflaming love,
I cannot tell; but this I am assured,
I feel such sharp dissension in my breast,
Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear,
As I am sick with working of my thoughts.
Take, therefore, shipping; post, my lord, to France;
Agree to any covenants, and procure
That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come
To cross the seas to England and be crown'd
King Henry's faithful and anointed queen:
For your expenses and sufficient charge,
Among the people gather up a tenth.
Be gone, I say; for, till you do return,
I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.
And you, good uncle, banish all offence:
If you do censure me by what you were,
Not what you are, I know it will excuse
This sudden execution of my will.
And so, conduct me where, from company,
I may revolve and ruminate my grief.",574,18988
642778,3009,[Exit],1261,18988
642779,3010,"Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and last.",531,18988
642780,3011,[Exeunt GLOUCESTER and EXETER],1261,18988
642781,3012,"Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd; and thus he goes,
As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,
With hope to find the like event in love,
But prosper better than the Trojan did.
Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;
But I will rule both her, the king and realm.",363,18988
642782,3018,[Exit],1261,18988
642783,7,"As by your high imperial majesty
I had in charge at my depart for France,
As procurator to your excellence,
To marry Princess Margaret for your grace,
So, in the famous ancient city, Tours,
In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil,
The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne and Alencon,
Seven earls, twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops,
I have perform'd my task and was espoused:
And humbly now upon my bended knee,
In sight of England and her lordly peers,
Deliver up my title in the queen
To your most gracious hands, that are the substance
Of that great shadow I did represent;
The happiest gift that ever marquess gave,
The fairest queen that ever king received.",363,18989
642784,23,"Suffolk, arise. Welcome, Queen Margaret:
I can express no kinder sign of love
Than this kind kiss. O Lord, that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
For thou hast given me in this beauteous face
A world of earthly blessings to my soul,
If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.",574,18989
642785,30,"Great King of England and my gracious lord,
The mutual conference that my mind hath had,
By day, by night, waking and in my dreams,
In courtly company or at my beads,
With you, mine alder-liefest sovereign,
Makes me the bolder to salute my king
With ruder terms, such as my wit affords
And over-joy of heart doth minister.",736,18989
642786,38,"Her sight did ravish; but her grace in speech,
Her words y-clad with wisdom's majesty,
Makes me from wondering fall to weeping joys;
Such is the fulness of my heart's content.
Lords, with one cheerful voice welcome my love.",574,18989
642787,43,"[Kneeling] Long live Queen Margaret, England's
happiness!",77,18989
642788,45,We thank you all.,736,18989
642789,46,[Flourish],1261,18989
642790,47,"My lord protector, so it please your grace,
Here are the articles of contracted peace
Between our sovereign and the French king Charles,
For eighteen months concluded by consent.",363,18989
642791,51,"[Reads] 'Imprimis, it is agreed between the French
king Charles, and William de la Pole, Marquess of
Suffolk, ambassador for Henry King of England, that
the said Henry shall espouse the Lady Margaret,
daughter unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia and
Jerusalem, and crown her Queen of England ere the
thirtieth of May next ensuing. Item, that the duchy
of Anjou and the county of Maine shall be released
and delivered to the king her father'--",531,18989
642792,60,[Lets the paper fall],1261,18989
642793,61,"Uncle, how now!",574,18989
642794,62,"Pardon me, gracious lord;
Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart
And dimm'd mine eyes, that I can read no further.",531,18989
642795,65,"Uncle of Winchester, I pray, read on.",574,18989
642796,66,"[Reads] 'Item, It is further agreed between them,
that the duchies of Anjou and Maine shall be
released and delivered over to the king her father,
and she sent over of the King of England's own
proper cost and charges, without having any dowry.'",577,18989
642797,71,"They please us well. Lord marquess, kneel down:
We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk,
And gird thee with the sword. Cousin of York,
We here discharge your grace from being regent
I' the parts of France, till term of eighteen months
Be full expired. Thanks, uncle Winchester,
Gloucester, York, Buckingham, Somerset,
Salisbury, and Warwick;
We thank you all for the great favour done,
In entertainment to my princely queen.
Come, let us in, and with all speed provide
To see her coronation be perform'd.",574,18989
642798,83,"[Exeunt KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, and SUFFOLK]",1261,18989
642799,84,"Brave peers of England, pillars of the state,
To you Duke Humphrey must unload his grief,
Your grief, the common grief of all the land.
What! did my brother Henry spend his youth,
His valour, coin and people, in the wars?
Did he so often lodge in open field,
In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,
To conquer France, his true inheritance?
And did my brother Bedford toil his wits,
To keep by policy what Henry got?
Have you yourselves, Somerset, Buckingham,
Brave York, Salisbury, and victorious Warwick,
Received deep scars in France and Normandy?
Or hath mine uncle Beaufort and myself,
With all the learned council of the realm,
Studied so long, sat in the council-house
Early and late, debating to and fro
How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe,
And had his highness in his infancy
Crowned in Paris in despite of foes?
And shall these labours and these honours die?
Shall Henry's conquest, Bedford's vigilance,
Your deeds of war and all our counsel die?
O peers of England, shameful is this league!
Fatal this marriage, cancelling your fame,
Blotting your names from books of memory,
Razing the characters of your renown,
Defacing monuments of conquer'd France,
Undoing all, as all had never been!",531,18989
642800,113,"Nephew, what means this passionate discourse,
This peroration with such circumstance?
For France, 'tis ours; and we will keep it still.",577,18989
642801,116,"Ay, uncle, we will keep it, if we can;
But now it is impossible we should:
Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast,
Hath given the duchy of Anjou and Maine
Unto the poor King Reignier, whose large style
Agrees not with the leanness of his purse.",531,18989
642802,122,"Now, by the death of Him that died for all,
These counties were the keys of Normandy.
But wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant son?",965,18989
642803,125,"For grief that they are past recovery:
For, were there hope to conquer them again,
My sword should shed hot blood, mine eyes no tears.
Anjou and Maine! myself did win them both;
Those provinces these arms of mine did conquer:
And are the cities, that I got with wounds,
Delivered up again with peaceful words?
Mort Dieu!",1247,18989
642804,133,"For Suffolk's duke, may he be suffocate,
That dims the honour of this warlike isle!
France should have torn and rent my very heart,
Before I would have yielded to this league.
I never read but England's kings have had
Large sums of gold and dowries with their wives:
And our King Henry gives away his own,
To match with her that brings no vantages.",946,18989
642805,141,"A proper jest, and never heard before,
That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth
For costs and charges in transporting her!
She should have stayed in France and starved
in France, Before--",531,18989
642806,146,"My Lord of Gloucester, now ye grow too hot:
It was the pleasure of my lord the King.",577,18989
642807,148,"My Lord of Winchester, I know your mind;
'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike,
But 'tis my presence that doth trouble ye.
Rancour will out: proud prelate, in thy face
I see thy fury: if I longer stay,
We shall begin our ancient bickerings.
Lordings, farewell; and say, when I am gone,
I prophesied France will be lost ere long.",531,18989
642808,156,[Exit],1261,18989
642809,157,"So, there goes our protector in a rage.
'Tis known to you he is mine enemy,
Nay, more, an enemy unto you all,
And no great friend, I fear me, to the king.
Consider, lords, he is the next of blood,
And heir apparent to the English crown:
Had Henry got an empire by his marriage,
And all the wealthy kingdoms of the west,
There's reason he should be displeased at it.
Look to it, lords! let not his smoothing words
Bewitch your hearts; be wise and circumspect.
What though the common people favour him,
Calling him 'Humphrey, the good Duke of
Gloucester,'
Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice,
'Jesu maintain your royal excellence!'
With 'God preserve the good Duke Humphrey!'
I fear me, lords, for all this flattering gloss,
He will be found a dangerous protector.",577,18989
642810,176,"Why should he, then, protect our sovereign,
He being of age to govern of himself?
Cousin of Somerset, join you with me,
And all together, with the Duke of Suffolk,
We'll quickly hoise Duke Humphrey from his seat.",343,18989
642811,181,"This weighty business will not brook delay:
I'll to the Duke of Suffolk presently.",577,18989
642812,183,[Exit],1261,18989
642813,184,"Cousin of Buckingham, though Humphrey's pride
And greatness of his place be grief to us,
Yet let us watch the haughty cardinal:
His insolence is more intolerable
Than all the princes in the land beside:
If Gloucester be displaced, he'll be protector.",1137,18989
642814,190,"Or thou or I, Somerset, will be protector,
Despite Duke Humphrey or the cardinal.",343,18989
642815,192,[Exeunt BUCKINGHAM and SOMERSET],1261,18989
642816,193,"Pride went before, ambition follows him.
While these do labour for their own preferment,
Behoves it us to labour for the realm.
I never saw but Humphrey Duke of Gloucester
Did bear him like a noble gentleman.
Oft have I seen the haughty cardinal,
More like a soldier than a man o' the church,
As stout and proud as he were lord of all,
Swear like a ruffian and demean himself
Unlike the ruler of a commonweal.
Warwick, my son, the comfort of my age,
Thy deeds, thy plainness and thy housekeeping,
Hath won the greatest favour of the commons,
Excepting none but good Duke Humphrey:
And, brother York, thy acts in Ireland,
In bringing them to civil discipline,
Thy late exploits done in the heart of France,
When thou wert regent for our sovereign,
Have made thee fear'd and honour'd of the people:
Join we together, for the public good,
In what we can, to bridle and suppress
The pride of Suffolk and the cardinal,
With Somerset's and Buckingham's ambition;
And, as we may, cherish Duke Humphrey's deeds,
While they do tend the profit of the land.",965,18989
642817,218,"So God help Warwick, as he loves the land,
And common profit of his country!",1247,18989
642818,220,"[Aside] And so says York, for he hath greatest cause.",946,18989
642819,221,"Then let's make haste away, and look unto the main.",965,18989
642820,222,"Unto the main! O father, Maine is lost;
That Maine which by main force Warwick did win,
And would have kept so long as breath did last!
Main chance, father, you meant; but I meant Maine,
Which I will win from France, or else be slain,",1247,18989
642821,227,[Exeunt WARWICK and SALISBURY],1261,18989
642822,228,"Anjou and Maine are given to the French;
Paris is lost; the state of Normandy
Stands on a tickle point, now they are gone:
Suffolk concluded on the articles,
The peers agreed, and Henry was well pleased
To change two dukedoms for a duke's fair daughter.
I cannot blame them all: what is't to them?
'Tis thine they give away, and not their own.
Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage
And purchase friends and give to courtezans,
Still revelling like lords till all be gone;
While as the silly owner of the goods
Weeps over them and wrings his hapless hands
And shakes his head and trembling stands aloof,
While all is shared and all is borne away,
Ready to starve and dare not touch his own:
So York must sit and fret and bite his tongue,
While his own lands are bargain'd for and sold.
Methinks the realms of England, France and Ireland
Bear that proportion to my flesh and blood
As did the fatal brand Althaea burn'd
Unto the prince's heart of Calydon.
Anjou and Maine both given unto the French!
Cold news for me, for I had hope of France,
Even as I have of fertile England's soil.
A day will come when York shall claim his own;
And therefore I will take the Nevils' parts
And make a show of love to proud Duke Humphrey,
And, when I spy advantage, claim the crown,
For that's the golden mark I seek to hit:
Nor shall proud Lancaster usurp my right,
Nor hold the sceptre in his childish fist,
Nor wear the diadem upon his head,
Whose church-like humours fits not for a crown.
Then, York, be still awhile, till time do serve:
Watch thou and wake when others be asleep,
To pry into the secrets of the state;
Till Henry, surfeiting in joys of love,
With his new bride and England's dear-bought queen,
And Humphrey with the peers be fall'n at jars:
Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose,
With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed;
And in my standard bear the arms of York
To grapple with the house of Lancaster;
And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown,
Whose bookish rule hath pull'd fair England down.",946,18989
642823,274,[Exit],1261,18989
642824,277,[Enter GLOUCESTER and his DUCHESS],1261,18990
642825,278,"Why droops my lord, like over-ripen'd corn,
Hanging the head at Ceres' plenteous load?
Why doth the great Duke Humphrey knit his brows,
As frowning at the favours of the world?
Why are thine eyes fixed to the sullen earth,
Gazing on that which seems to dim thy sight?
What seest thou there? King Henry's diadem,
Enchased with all the honours of the world?
If so, gaze on, and grovel on thy face,
Until thy head be circled with the same.
Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.
What, is't too short? I'll lengthen it with mine:
And, having both together heaved it up,
We'll both together lift our heads to heaven,
And never more abase our sight so low
As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground.",377,18990
642826,294,"O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou dost love thy lord,
Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts.
And may that thought, when I imagine ill
Against my king and nephew, virtuous Henry,
Be my last breathing in this mortal world!
My troublous dream this night doth make me sad.",531,18990
642827,300,"What dream'd my lord? tell me, and I'll requite it
With sweet rehearsal of my morning's dream.",377,18990
642828,302,"Methought this staff, mine office-badge in court,
Was broke in twain; by whom I have forgot,
But, as I think, it was by the cardinal;
And on the pieces of the broken wand
Were placed the heads of Edmund Duke of Somerset,
And William de la Pole, first duke of Suffolk.
This was my dream: what it doth bode, God knows.",531,18990
642829,309,"Tut, this was nothing but an argument
That he that breaks a stick of Gloucester's grove
Shall lose his head for his presumption.
But list to me, my Humphrey, my sweet duke:
Methought I sat in seat of majesty
In the cathedral church of Westminster,
And in that chair where kings and queens are crown'd;
Where Henry and dame Margaret kneel'd to me
And on my head did set the diadem.",377,18990
642830,318,"Nay, Eleanor, then must I chide outright:
Presumptuous dame, ill-nurtured Eleanor,
Art thou not second woman in the realm,
And the protector's wife, beloved of him?
Hast thou not worldly pleasure at command,
Above the reach or compass of thy thought?
And wilt thou still be hammering treachery,
To tumble down thy husband and thyself
From top of honour to disgrace's feet?
Away from me, and let me hear no more!",531,18990
642831,328,"What, what, my lord! are you so choleric
With Eleanor, for telling but her dream?
Next time I'll keep my dreams unto myself,
And not be cheque'd.",377,18990
642832,332,"Nay, be not angry; I am pleased again.",531,18990
642833,333,[Enter Messenger],1261,18990
642834,334,"My lord protector, 'tis his highness' pleasure
You do prepare to ride unto Saint Alban's,
Where as the king and queen do mean to hawk.",776,18990
642835,337,"I go. Come, Nell, thou wilt ride with us?",531,18990
642836,338,"Yes, my good lord, I'll follow presently.
[Exeunt GLOUCESTER and Messenger]
Follow I must; I cannot go before,
While Gloucester bears this base and humble mind.
Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood,
I would remove these tedious stumbling-blocks
And smooth my way upon their headless necks;
And, being a woman, I will not be slack
To play my part in Fortune's pageant.
Where are you there? Sir John! nay, fear not, man,
We are alone; here's none but thee and I.",377,18990
642837,349,[Enter HUME],1261,18990
642838,350,Jesus preserve your royal majesty!,616,18990
642839,351,What say'st thou? majesty! I am but grace.,377,18990
642840,352,"But, by the grace of God, and Hume's advice,
Your grace's title shall be multiplied.",616,18990
642841,354,"What say'st thou, man? hast thou as yet conferr'd
With Margery Jourdain, the cunning witch,
With Roger Bolingbroke, the conjurer?
And will they undertake to do me good?",377,18990
642842,358,"This they have promised, to show your highness
A spirit raised from depth of under-ground,
That shall make answer to such questions
As by your grace shall be propounded him.",616,18990
642843,362,"It is enough; I'll think upon the questions:
When from St. Alban's we do make return,
We'll see these things effected to the full.
Here, Hume, take this reward; make merry, man,
With thy confederates in this weighty cause.",377,18990
642844,367,[Exit],1261,18990
642845,368,"Hume must make merry with the duchess' gold;
Marry, and shall. But how now, Sir John Hume!
Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum:
The business asketh silent secrecy.
Dame Eleanor gives gold to bring the witch:
Gold cannot come amiss, were she a devil.
Yet have I gold flies from another coast;
I dare not say, from the rich cardinal
And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk,
Yet I do find it so; for to be plain,
They, knowing Dame Eleanor's aspiring humour,
Have hired me to undermine the duchess
And buz these conjurations in her brain.
They say 'A crafty knave does need no broker;'
Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker.
Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near
To call them both a pair of crafty knaves.
Well, so it stands; and thus, I fear, at last
Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wreck,
And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall:
Sort how it will, I shall have gold for all.",616,18990
642846,389,"[Exit]
[Enter three or four Petitioners, PETER, the]
Armourer's man, being one]",1261,18990
642847,394,"My masters, let's stand close: my lord protector
will come this way by and by, and then we may deliver
our supplications in the quill.",450,18991
642848,397,"Marry, the Lord protect him, for he's a good man!
Jesu bless him!",1019,18991
642849,399,[Enter SUFFOLK and QUEEN MARGARET],1261,18991
642850,400,"Here a' comes, methinks, and the queen with him.
I'll be the first, sure.",873,18991
642851,402,"Come back, fool; this is the Duke of Suffolk, and
not my lord protector.",1019,18991
642852,404,"How now, fellow! would'st anything with me?",363,18991
642853,405,"I pray, my lord, pardon me; I took ye for my lord
protector.",450,18991
642854,407,"[Reading] 'To my Lord Protector!' Are your
supplications to his lordship? Let me see them:
what is thine?",736,18991
642855,410,"Mine is, an't please your grace, against John
Goodman, my lord cardinal's man, for keeping my
house, and lands, and wife and all, from me.",450,18991
642856,413,"Thy wife, too! that's some wrong, indeed. What's
yours? What's here!
[Reads]
'Against the Duke of Suffolk, for enclosing the
commons of Melford.' How now, sir knave!",363,18991
642857,418,"Alas, sir, I am but a poor petitioner of our whole township.",1019,18991
642858,419,"[Giving his petition] Against my master, Thomas
Horner, for saying that the Duke of York was rightful
heir to the crown.",873,18991
642859,422,"What sayst thou? did the Duke of York say he was
rightful heir to the crown?",736,18991
642860,424,"That my master was? no, forsooth: my master said
that he was, and that the king was an usurper.",873,18991
642861,426,"Who is there?
[Enter Servant]
Take this fellow in, and send for
his master with a pursuivant presently: we'll hear
more of your matter before the King.",363,18991
642862,431,[Exit Servant with PETER],1261,18991
642863,432,"And as for you, that love to be protected
Under the wings of our protector's grace,
Begin your suits anew, and sue to him.
[Tears the supplication]
Away, base cullions! Suffolk, let them go.",736,18991
642864,437,"Come, let's be gone.",77,18991
642865,438,[Exeunt],1261,18991
642866,439,"My Lord of Suffolk, say, is this the guise,
Is this the fashion in the court of England?
Is this the government of Britain's isle,
And this the royalty of Albion's king?
What shall King Henry be a pupil still
Under the surly Gloucester's governance?
Am I a queen in title and in style,
And must be made a subject to a duke?
I tell thee, Pole, when in the city Tours
Thou ran'st a tilt in honour of my love
And stolest away the ladies' hearts of France,
I thought King Henry had resembled thee
In courage, courtship and proportion:
But all his mind is bent to holiness,
To number Ave-Maries on his beads;
His champions are the prophets and apostles,
His weapons holy saws of sacred writ,
His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves
Are brazen images of canonized saints.
I would the college of the cardinals
Would choose him pope, and carry him to Rome,
And set the triple crown upon his head:
That were a state fit for his holiness.",736,18991
642867,462,"Madam, be patient: as I was cause
Your highness came to England, so will I
In England work your grace's full content.",363,18991
642868,465,"Beside the haughty protector, have we Beaufort,
The imperious churchman, Somerset, Buckingham,
And grumbling York: and not the least of these
But can do more in England than the king.",736,18991
642869,469,"And he of these that can do most of all
Cannot do more in England than the Nevils:
Salisbury and Warwick are no simple peers.",363,18991
642870,472,"Not all these lords do vex me half so much
As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife.
She sweeps it through the court with troops of ladies,
More like an empress than Duke Humphrey's wife:
Strangers in court do take her for the queen:
She bears a duke's revenues on her back,
And in her heart she scorns our poverty:
Shall I not live to be avenged on her?
Contemptuous base-born callet as she is,
She vaunted 'mongst her minions t'other day,
The very train of her worst wearing gown
Was better worth than all my father's lands,
Till Suffolk gave two dukedoms for his daughter.",736,18991
642871,485,"Madam, myself have limed a bush for her,
And placed a quire of such enticing birds,
That she will light to listen to the lays,
And never mount to trouble you again.
So, let her rest: and, madam, list to me;
For I am bold to counsel you in this.
Although we fancy not the cardinal,
Yet must we join with him and with the lords,
Till we have brought Duke Humphrey in disgrace.
As for the Duke of York, this late complaint
Will make but little for his benefit.
So, one by one, we'll weed them all at last,
And you yourself shall steer the happy helm.
[Sound a sennet. Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER,]
CARDINAL, BUCKINGHAM, YORK, SOMERSET, SALISBURY,
WARWICK, and the DUCHESS]",363,18991
642872,501,"For my part, noble lords, I care not which;
Or Somerset or York, all's one to me.",574,18991
642873,503,"If York have ill demean'd himself in France,
Then let him be denay'd the regentship.",946,18991
642874,505,"If Somerset be unworthy of the place,
Let York be regent; I will yield to him.",1137,18991
642875,507,"Whether your grace be worthy, yea or no,
Dispute not that: York is the worthier.",1247,18991
642876,509,"Ambitious Warwick, let thy betters speak.",577,18991
642877,510,The cardinal's not my better in the field.,1247,18991
642878,511,"All in this presence are thy betters, Warwick.",343,18991
642879,512,Warwick may live to be the best of all.,1247,18991
642880,513,"Peace, son! and show some reason, Buckingham,
Why Somerset should be preferred in this.",965,18991
642881,515,"Because the king, forsooth, will have it so.",736,18991
642882,516,"Madam, the king is old enough himself
To give his censure: these are no women's matters.",531,18991
642883,518,"If he be old enough, what needs your grace
To be protector of his excellence?",736,18991
642884,520,"Madam, I am protector of the realm;
And, at his pleasure, will resign my place.",531,18991
642885,522,"Resign it then and leave thine insolence.
Since thou wert king--as who is king but thou?--
The commonwealth hath daily run to wreck;
The Dauphin hath prevail'd beyond the seas;
And all the peers and nobles of the realm
Have been as bondmen to thy sovereignty.",363,18991
642886,528,"The commons hast thou rack'd; the clergy's bags
Are lank and lean with thy extortions.",577,18991
642887,530,"Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire
Have cost a mass of public treasury.",1137,18991
642888,532,"Thy cruelty in execution
Upon offenders, hath exceeded law,
And left thee to the mercy of the law.",343,18991
642889,535,"They sale of offices and towns in France,
If they were known, as the suspect is great,
Would make thee quickly hop without thy head.
[Exit GLOUCESTER. QUEEN MARGARET drops her fan]
Give me my fan: what, minion! can ye not?
[She gives the DUCHESS a box on the ear]
I cry you mercy, madam; was it you?",736,18991
642890,542,"Was't I! yea, I it was, proud Frenchwoman:
Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
I'd set my ten commandments in your face.",377,18991
642891,545,"Sweet aunt, be quiet; 'twas against her will.",574,18991
642892,546,"Against her will! good king, look to't in time;
She'll hamper thee, and dandle thee like a baby:
Though in this place most master wear no breeches,
She shall not strike Dame Eleanor unrevenged.",377,18991
642893,550,[Exit],1261,18991
642894,551,"Lord cardinal, I will follow Eleanor,
And listen after Humphrey, how he proceeds:
She's tickled now; her fume needs no spurs,
She'll gallop far enough to her destruction.",343,18991
642895,555,[Exit],1261,18991
642896,556,[Re-enter GLOUCESTER],1261,18991
642897,557,"Now, lords, my choler being over-blown
With walking once about the quadrangle,
I come to talk of commonwealth affairs.
As for your spiteful false objections,
Prove them, and I lie open to the law:
But God in mercy so deal with my soul,
As I in duty love my king and country!
But, to the matter that we have in hand:
I say, my sovereign, York is meetest man
To be your regent in the realm of France.",531,18991
642898,567,"Before we make election, give me leave
To show some reason, of no little force,
That York is most unmeet of any man.",363,18991
642899,570,"I'll tell thee, Suffolk, why I am unmeet:
First, for I cannot flatter thee in pride;
Next, if I be appointed for the place,
My Lord of Somerset will keep me here,
Without discharge, money, or furniture,
Till France be won into the Dauphin's hands:
Last time, I danced attendance on his will
Till Paris was besieged, famish'd, and lost.",946,18991
642900,578,"That can I witness; and a fouler fact
Did never traitor in the land commit.",1247,18991
642901,580,"Peace, headstrong Warwick!",363,18991
642902,581,"Image of pride, why should I hold my peace?
[Enter HORNER, the Armourer, and his man]
PETER, guarded]",1247,18991
642903,584,"Because here is a man accused of treason:
Pray God the Duke of York excuse himself!",363,18991
642904,586,Doth any one accuse York for a traitor?,946,18991
642905,587,"What mean'st thou, Suffolk; tell me, what are these?",574,18991
642906,588,"Please it your majesty, this is the man
That doth accuse his master of high treason:
His words were these: that Richard, Duke of York,
Was rightful heir unto the English crown
And that your majesty was a usurper.",363,18991
642907,593,"Say, man, were these thy words?",574,18991
642908,594,"An't shall please your majesty, I never said nor
thought any such matter: God is my witness, I am
falsely accused by the villain.",1192,18991
642909,597,"By these ten bones, my lords, he did speak them to
me in the garret one night, as we were scouring my
Lord of York's armour.",873,18991
642910,600,"Base dunghill villain and mechanical,
I'll have thy head for this thy traitor's speech.
I do beseech your royal majesty,
Let him have all the rigor of the law.",946,18991
642911,604,"Alas, my lord, hang me, if ever I spake the words.
My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct
him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his
knees he would be even with me: I have good
witness of this: therefore I beseech your majesty,
do not cast away an honest man for a villain's
accusation.",1192,18991
642912,611,"Uncle, what shall we say to this in law?",574,18991
642913,612,"This doom, my lord, if I may judge:
Let Somerset be regent over the French,
Because in York this breeds suspicion:
And let these have a day appointed them
For single combat in convenient place,
For he hath witness of his servant's malice:
This is the law, and this Duke Humphrey's doom.",531,18991
642914,619,I humbly thank your royal majesty.,1137,18991
642915,620,And I accept the combat willingly.,1192,18991
642916,621,"Alas, my lord, I cannot fight; for God's sake, pity
my case. The spite of man prevaileth against me. O
Lord, have mercy upon me! I shall never be able to
fight a blow. O Lord, my heart!",873,18991
642917,625,"Sirrah, or you must fight, or else be hang'd.",531,18991
642918,626,"Away with them to prison; and the day of combat
shall be the last of the next month. Come,
Somerset, we'll see thee sent away.",574,18991
642919,629,[Flourish. Exeunt],1261,18991
642920,632,"[Enter MARGARET JOURDAIN, HUME, SOUTHWELL, and BOLINGBROKE]",1261,18992
642921,633,"Come, my masters; the duchess, I tell you, expects
performance of your promises.",616,18992
642922,635,"Master Hume, we are therefore provided: will her
ladyship behold and hear our exorcisms?",177,18992
642923,637,"Ay, what else? fear you not her courage.",616,18992
642924,638,"I have heard her reported to be a woman of an
invincible spirit: but it shall be convenient,
Master Hume, that you be by her aloft, while we be
busy below; and so, I pray you, go, in God's name,
and leave us.
[Exit HUME]
Mother Jourdain, be you
prostrate and grovel on the earth; John Southwell,
read you; and let us to our work.",177,18992
642925,647,"[Enter the DUCHESS aloft, HUME following]",1261,18992
642926,648,"Well said, my masters; and welcome all. To this
gear the sooner the better.",377,18992
642927,650,"Patience, good lady; wizards know their times:
Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,
The time of night when Troy was set on fire;
The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl,
And spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves,
That time best fits the work we have in hand.
Madam, sit you and fear not: whom we raise,
We will make fast within a hallow'd verge.
[Here they do the ceremonies belonging, and make the]
circle; BOLINGBROKE or SOUTHWELL reads, Conjuro te,
&c. It thunders and lightens terribly; then the
Spirit riseth]",177,18992
642928,662,Adsum.,1145,18992
642929,663,"Asmath,
By the eternal God, whose name and power
Thou tremblest at, answer that I shall ask;
For, till thou speak, thou shalt not pass from hence.",620,18992
642930,667,Ask what thou wilt. That I had said and done!,1145,18992
642931,668,First of the king: what shall of him become?,177,18992
642932,669,[Reading out of a paper],1261,18992
642933,670,"The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose;
But him outlive, and die a violent death.",1145,18992
642934,672,"[As the Spirit speaks, SOUTHWELL writes the answer]",1261,18992
642935,673,What fates await the Duke of Suffolk?,177,18992
642936,674,"By water shall he die, and take his end.",1145,18992
642937,675,What shall befall the Duke of Somerset?,177,18992
642938,676,"Let him shun castles;
Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains
Than where castles mounted stand.
Have done, for more I hardly can endure.",1145,18992
642939,680,"Descend to darkness and the burning lake!
False fiend, avoid!
[Thunder and lightning. Exit Spirit]
[Enter YORK and BUCKINGHAM with their Guard]
and break in]",177,18992
642940,685,"Lay hands upon these traitors and their trash.
Beldam, I think we watch'd you at an inch.
What, madam, are you there? the king and commonweal
Are deeply indebted for this piece of pains:
My lord protector will, I doubt it not,
See you well guerdon'd for these good deserts.",946,18992
642941,691,"Not half so bad as thine to England's king,
Injurious duke, that threatest where's no cause.",377,18992
642942,693,"True, madam, none at all: what call you this?
Away with them! let them be clapp'd up close.
And kept asunder. You, madam, shall with us.
Stafford, take her to thee.
[Exeunt above DUCHESS and HUME, guarded]
We'll see your trinkets here all forthcoming.
All, away!",343,18992
642943,700,"[Exeunt guard with MARGARET JOURDAIN, SOUTHWELL, &c]",1261,18992
642944,701,"Lord Buckingham, methinks, you watch'd her well:
A pretty plot, well chosen to build upon!
Now, pray, my lord, let's see the devil's writ.
What have we here?
[Reads]
'The duke yet lives, that Henry shall depose;
But him outlive, and die a violent death.'
Why, this is just
'Aio te, AEacida, Romanos vincere posse.'
Well, to the rest:
'Tell me what fate awaits the Duke of Suffolk?
By water shall he die, and take his end.
What shall betide the Duke of Somerset?
Let him shun castles;
Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains
Than where castles mounted stand.'
Come, come, my lords;
These oracles are hardly attain'd,
And hardly understood.
The king is now in progress towards Saint Alban's,
With him the husband of this lovely lady:
Thither go these news, as fast as horse can
carry them:
A sorry breakfast for my lord protector.",946,18992
642945,725,"Your grace shall give me leave, my Lord of York,
To be the post, in hope of his reward.",343,18992
642946,727,"At your pleasure, my good lord. Who's within
there, ho!
[Enter a Servingman]
Invite my Lords of Salisbury and Warwick
To sup with me to-morrow night. Away!",946,18992
642947,732,"[Exeunt]
[Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, GLOUCESTER,]
CARDINAL, and SUFFOLK, with Falconers halloing]",1261,18992
642948,737,"Believe me, lords, for flying at the brook,
I saw not better sport these seven years' day:
Yet, by your leave, the wind was very high;
And, ten to one, old Joan had not gone out.",736,18993
642949,741,"But what a point, my lord, your falcon made,
And what a pitch she flew above the rest!
To see how God in all his creatures works!
Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high.",574,18993
642950,745,"No marvel, an it like your majesty,
My lord protector's hawks do tower so well;
They know their master loves to be aloft,
And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.",363,18993
642951,749,"My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind
That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.",531,18993
642952,751,I thought as much; he would be above the clouds.,577,18993
642953,752,"Ay, my lord cardinal? how think you by that?
Were it not good your grace could fly to heaven?",531,18993
642954,754,The treasury of everlasting joy.,574,18993
642955,755,"Thy heaven is on earth; thine eyes and thoughts
Beat on a crown, the treasure of thy heart;
Pernicious protector, dangerous peer,
That smooth'st it so with king and commonweal!",577,18993
642956,759,"What, cardinal, is your priesthood grown peremptory?
Tantaene animis coelestibus irae?
Churchmen so hot? good uncle, hide such malice;
With such holiness can you do it?",531,18993
642957,763,"No malice, sir; no more than well becomes
So good a quarrel and so bad a peer.",363,18993
642958,765,"As who, my lord?",531,18993
642959,766,"Why, as you, my lord,
An't like your lordly lord-protectorship.",363,18993
642960,768,"Why, Suffolk, England knows thine insolence.",531,18993
642961,769,"And thy ambition, Gloucester.",736,18993
642962,770,"I prithee, peace, good queen,
And whet not on these furious peers;
For blessed are the peacemakers on earth.",574,18993
642963,773,"Let me be blessed for the peace I make,
Against this proud protector, with my sword!",577,18993
642964,775,"[Aside to CARDINAL] Faith, holy uncle, would
'twere come to that!",531,18993
642965,777,"[Aside to GLOUCESTER] Marry, when thou darest.",577,18993
642966,778,"[Aside to CARDINAL] Make up no factious
numbers for the matter;
In thine own person answer thy abuse.",531,18993
642967,781,"[Aside to GLOUCESTER] Ay, where thou darest
not peep: an if thou darest,
This evening, on the east side of the grove.",577,18993
642968,784,"How now, my lords!",574,18993
642969,785,"Believe me, cousin Gloucester,
Had not your man put up the fowl so suddenly,
We had had more sport.
[Aside to GLOUCESTER]
Come with thy two-hand sword.",577,18993
642970,790,"True, uncle.",531,18993
642971,791,"[Aside to GLOUCESTER] Are ye advised? the
east side of the grove?",577,18993
642972,793,"[Aside to CARDINAL] Cardinal, I am with you.",531,18993
642973,794,"Why, how now, uncle Gloucester!",574,18993
642974,795,"Talking of hawking; nothing else, my lord.
[Aside to CARDINAL]
Now, by God's mother, priest, I'll shave your crown for this,
Or all my fence shall fail.",531,18993
642975,799,"[Aside to GLOUCESTER] Medice, teipsum--
Protector, see to't well, protect yourself.",577,18993
642976,801,"The winds grow high; so do your stomachs, lords.
How irksome is this music to my heart!
When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?
I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.",574,18993
642977,805,"[Enter a Townsman of Saint Alban's, crying 'A miracle!']",1261,18993
642978,806,"What means this noise?
Fellow, what miracle dost thou proclaim?",531,18993
642979,808,A miracle! a miracle!,1204,18993
642980,809,Come to the king and tell him what miracle.,363,18993
642981,810,"Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine,
Within this half-hour, hath received his sight;
A man that ne'er saw in his life before.",1204,18993
642982,813,"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!
[Enter the Mayor of Saint Alban's and his]
brethren, bearing SIMPCOX, between two in a
chair, SIMPCOX's Wife following]",574,18993
642983,818,"Here comes the townsmen on procession,
To present your highness with the man.",577,18993
642984,820,"Great is his comfort in this earthly vale,
Although by his sight his sin be multiplied.",574,18993
642985,822,"Stand by, my masters: bring him near the king;
His highness' pleasure is to talk with him.",531,18993
642986,824,"Good fellow, tell us here the circumstance,
That we for thee may glorify the Lord.
What, hast thou been long blind and now restored?",574,18993
642987,827,"Born blind, an't please your grace.",1097,18993
642988,828,"Ay, indeed, was he.",1253,18993
642989,829,What woman is this?,363,18993
642990,830,"His wife, an't like your worship.",1253,18993
642991,831,"Hadst thou been his mother, thou couldst have
better told.",531,18993
642992,833,Where wert thou born?,574,18993
642993,834,"At Berwick in the north, an't like your grace.",1097,18993
642994,835,"Poor soul, God's goodness hath been great to thee:
Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done.",574,18993
642995,838,"Tell me, good fellow, camest thou here by chance,
Or of devotion, to this holy shrine?",736,18993
642996,840,"God knows, of pure devotion; being call'd
A hundred times and oftener, in my sleep,
By good Saint Alban; who said, 'Simpcox, come,
Come, offer at my shrine, and I will help thee.'",1097,18993
642997,844,"Most true, forsooth; and many time and oft
Myself have heard a voice to call him so.",1253,18993
642998,846,"What, art thou lame?",577,18993
642999,847,"Ay, God Almighty help me!",1097,18993
643000,848,How camest thou so?,363,18993
643001,849,A fall off of a tree.,1097,18993
643002,850,"A plum-tree, master.",1253,18993
643003,851,How long hast thou been blind?,531,18993
643004,852,"Born so, master.",1097,18993
643005,853,"What, and wouldst climb a tree?",531,18993
643006,854,"But that in all my life, when I was a youth.",1097,18993
643007,855,Too true; and bought his climbing very dear.,1253,18993
643008,856,"Mass, thou lovedst plums well, that wouldst
venture so.",531,18993
643009,858,"Alas, good master, my wife desired some damsons,
And made me climb, with danger of my life.",1097,18993
643010,860,"A subtle knave! but yet it shall not serve.
Let me see thine eyes: wink now: now open them:
In my opinion yet thou seest not well.",531,18993
643011,863,"Yes, master, clear as day, I thank God and
Saint Alban.",1097,18993
643012,865,Say'st thou me so? What colour is this cloak of?,531,18993
643013,866,"Red, master; red as blood.",1097,18993
643014,867,"Why, that's well said. What colour is my gown of?",531,18993
643015,868,"Black, forsooth: coal-black as jet.",1097,18993
643016,869,"Why, then, thou know'st what colour jet is of?",574,18993
643017,870,"And yet, I think, jet did he never see.",363,18993
643018,871,"But cloaks and gowns, before this day, a many.",531,18993
643019,872,"Never, before this day, in all his life.",1253,18993
643020,873,"Tell me, sirrah, what's my name?",531,18993
643021,874,"Alas, master, I know not.",1097,18993
643022,875,What's his name?,531,18993
643023,876,I know not.,1097,18993
643024,877,Nor his?,531,18993
643025,878,"No, indeed, master.",1097,18993
643026,879,What's thine own name?,531,18993
643027,880,"Saunder Simpcox, an if it please you, master.",1097,18993
643028,881,"Then, Saunder, sit there, the lyingest knave in
Christendom. If thou hadst been born blind, thou
mightest as well have known all our names as thus to
name the several colours we do wear. Sight may
distinguish of colours, but suddenly to nominate them
all, it is impossible. My lords, Saint Alban here
hath done a miracle; and would ye not think his
cunning to be great, that could restore this cripple
to his legs again?",531,18993
643029,890,"O master, that you could!",1097,18993
643030,891,"My masters of Saint Alban's, have you not beadles in
your town, and things called whips?",531,18993
643031,893,"Yes, my lord, if it please your grace.",755,18993
643032,894,Then send for one presently.,531,18993
643033,895,"Sirrah, go fetch the beadle hither straight.",755,18993
643034,896,[Exit an Attendant],1261,18993
643035,897,"Now fetch me a stool hither by and by. Now, sirrah,
if you mean to save yourself from whipping, leap me
over this stool and run away.",531,18993
643036,900,"Alas, master, I am not able to stand alone:
You go about to torture me in vain.",1097,18993
643037,902,[Enter a Beadle with whips],1261,18993
643038,903,"Well, sir, we must have you find your legs. Sirrah
beadle, whip him till he leap over that same stool.",531,18993
643039,905,"I will, my lord. Come on, sirrah; off with your
doublet quickly.",153,18993
643040,907,"Alas, master, what shall I do? I am not able to stand.
[After the Beadle hath hit him once, he leaps over]
the stool and runs away; and they follow and cry, 'A miracle!']",1097,18993
643041,910,"O God, seest Thou this, and bearest so long?",574,18993
643042,911,It made me laugh to see the villain run.,736,18993
643043,912,Follow the knave; and take this drab away.,531,18993
643044,913,"Alas, sir, we did it for pure need.",1253,18993
643045,914,"Let them be whipped through every market-town, till
they come to Berwick, from whence they came.",531,18993
643046,916,"[Exeunt Wife, Beadle, Mayor, &c]",1261,18993
643047,917,Duke Humphrey has done a miracle to-day.,577,18993
643048,918,True; made the lame to leap and fly away.,363,18993
643049,919,"But you have done more miracles than I;
You made in a day, my lord, whole towns to fly.",531,18993
643050,921,[Enter BUCKINGHAM],1261,18993
643051,922,What tidings with our cousin Buckingham?,574,18993
643052,923,"Such as my heart doth tremble to unfold.
A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent,
Under the countenance and confederacy
Of Lady Eleanor, the protector's wife,
The ringleader and head of all this rout,
Have practised dangerously against your state,
Dealing with witches and with conjurers:
Whom we have apprehended in the fact;
Raising up wicked spirits from under ground,
Demanding of King Henry's life and death,
And other of your highness' privy-council;
As more at large your grace shall understand.",343,18993
643053,935,"[Aside to GLOUCESTER] And so, my lord protector,
by this means
Your lady is forthcoming yet at London.
This news, I think, hath turn'd your weapon's edge;
'Tis like, my lord, you will not keep your hour.",577,18993
643054,940,"Ambitious churchman, leave to afflict my heart:
Sorrow and grief have vanquish'd all my powers;
And, vanquish'd as I am, I yield to thee,
Or to the meanest groom.",531,18993
643055,944,"O God, what mischiefs work the wicked ones,
Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby!",574,18993
643056,946,"Gloucester, see here the tainture of thy nest.
And look thyself be faultless, thou wert best.",736,18993
643057,948,"Madam, for myself, to heaven I do appeal,
How I have loved my king and commonweal:
And, for my wife, I know not how it stands;
Sorry I am to hear what I have heard:
Noble she is, but if she have forgot
Honour and virtue and conversed with such
As, like to pitch, defile nobility,
I banish her my bed and company
And give her as a prey to law and shame,
That hath dishonour'd Gloucester's honest name.",531,18993
643058,958,"Well, for this night we will repose us here:
To-morrow toward London back again,
To look into this business thoroughly
And call these foul offenders to their answers
And poise the cause in justice' equal scales,
Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.",574,18993
643059,964,[Flourish. Exeunt],1261,18993
643060,967,"[Enter YORK, SALISBURY, and WARWICK]",1261,18994
643061,968,"Now, my good Lords of Salisbury and Warwick,
Our simple supper ended, give me leave
In this close walk to satisfy myself,
In craving your opinion of my title,
Which is infallible, to England's crown.",946,18994
643062,973,"My lord, I long to hear it at full.",965,18994
643063,974,"Sweet York, begin: and if thy claim be good,
The Nevils are thy subjects to command.",1247,18994
643064,976,"Then thus:
Edward the Third, my lords, had seven sons:
The first, Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales;
The second, William of Hatfield, and the third,
Lionel Duke of Clarence: next to whom
Was John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster;
The fifth was Edmund Langley, Duke of York;
The sixth was Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester;
William of Windsor was the seventh and last.
Edward the Black Prince died before his father
And left behind him Richard, his only son,
Who after Edward the Third's death reign'd as king;
Till Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster,
The eldest son and heir of John of Gaunt,
Crown'd by the name of Henry the Fourth,
Seized on the realm, deposed the rightful king,
Sent his poor queen to France, from whence she came,
And him to Pomfret; where, as all you know,
Harmless Richard was murder'd traitorously.",946,18994
643065,995,"Father, the duke hath told the truth:
Thus got the house of Lancaster the crown.",1247,18994
643066,997,"Which now they hold by force and not by right;
For Richard, the first son's heir, being dead,
The issue of the next son should have reign'd.",946,18994
643067,1000,But William of Hatfield died without an heir.,965,18994
643068,1001,"The third son, Duke of Clarence, from whose line
I claimed the crown, had issue, Philippe, a daughter,
Who married Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March:
Edmund had issue, Roger Earl of March;
Roger had issue, Edmund, Anne and Eleanor.",946,18994
643069,1006,"This Edmund, in the reign of Bolingbroke,
As I have read, laid claim unto the crown;
And, but for Owen Glendower, had been king,
Who kept him in captivity till he died.
But to the rest.",965,18994
643070,1011,"His eldest sister, Anne,
My mother, being heir unto the crown
Married Richard Earl of Cambridge; who was son
To Edmund Langley, Edward the Third's fifth son.
By her I claim the kingdom: she was heir
To Roger Earl of March, who was the son
Of Edmund Mortimer, who married Philippe,
Sole daughter unto Lionel Duke of Clarence:
So, if the issue of the elder son
Succeed before the younger, I am king.",946,18994
643071,1021,"What plain proceeding is more plain than this?
Henry doth claim the crown from John of Gaunt,
The fourth son; York claims it from the third.
Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign:
It fails not yet, but flourishes in thee
And in thy sons, fair slips of such a stock.
Then, father Salisbury, kneel we together;
And in this private plot be we the first
That shall salute our rightful sovereign
With honour of his birthright to the crown.",1247,18994
643072,1031,"Long live our sovereign Richard, England's king!",183,18994
643073,1032,"We thank you, lords. But I am not your king
Till I be crown'd and that my sword be stain'd
With heart-blood of the house of Lancaster;
And that's not suddenly to be perform'd,
But with advice and silent secrecy.
Do you as I do in these dangerous days:
Wink at the Duke of Suffolk's insolence,
At Beaufort's pride, at Somerset's ambition,
At Buckingham and all the crew of them,
Till they have snared the shepherd of the flock,
That virtuous prince, the good Duke Humphrey:
'Tis that they seek, and they in seeking that
Shall find their deaths, if York can prophesy.",946,18994
643074,1045,"My lord, break we off; we know your mind at full.",965,18994
643075,1046,"My heart assures me that the Earl of Warwick
Shall one day make the Duke of York a king.",1247,18994
643076,1048,"And, Nevil, this I do assure myself:
Richard shall live to make the Earl of Warwick
The greatest man in England but the king.",946,18994
643077,1051,"[Exeunt]
[Sound trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN]
MARGARET, GLOUCESTER, YORK, SUFFOLK, and SALISBURY;
the DUCHESS, MARGARET JOURDAIN, SOUTHWELL, HUME,
and BOLINGBROKE, under guard]",1261,18994
643078,1058,"Stand forth, Dame Eleanor Cobham, Gloucester's wife:
In sight of God and us, your guilt is great:
Receive the sentence of the law for sins
Such as by God's book are adjudged to death.
You four, from hence to prison back again;
From thence unto the place of execution:
The witch in Smithfield shall be burn'd to ashes,
And you three shall be strangled on the gallows.
You, madam, for you are more nobly born,
Despoiled of your honour in your life,
Shall, after three days' open penance done,
Live in your country here in banishment,
With Sir John Stanley, in the Isle of Man.",574,18995
643079,1071,Welcome is banishment; welcome were my death.,377,18995
643080,1072,"Eleanor, the law, thou see'st, hath judged thee:
I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
[Exeunt DUCHESS and other prisoners, guarded]
Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.
Ah, Humphrey, this dishonour in thine age
Will bring thy head with sorrow to the ground!
I beseech your majesty, give me leave to go;
Sorrow would solace and mine age would ease.",531,18995
643081,1080,"Stay, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester: ere thou go,
Give up thy staff: Henry will to himself
Protector be; and God shall be my hope,
My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet:
And go in peace, Humphrey, no less beloved
Than when thou wert protector to thy King.",574,18995
643082,1086,"I see no reason why a king of years
Should be to be protected like a child.
God and King Henry govern England's realm.
Give up your staff, sir, and the king his realm.",736,18995
643083,1090,"My staff? here, noble Henry, is my staff:
As willingly do I the same resign
As e'er thy father Henry made it mine;
And even as willingly at thy feet I leave it
As others would ambitiously receive it.
Farewell, good king: when I am dead and gone,
May honourable peace attend thy throne!",531,18995
643084,1097,[Exit],1261,18995
643085,1098,"Why, now is Henry king, and Margaret queen;
And Humphrey Duke of Gloucester scarce himself,
That bears so shrewd a maim; two pulls at once;
His lady banish'd, and a limb lopp'd off.
This staff of honour raught, there let it stand
Where it best fits to be, in Henry's hand.",736,18995
643086,1104,"Thus droops this lofty pine and hangs his sprays;
Thus Eleanor's pride dies in her youngest days.",363,18995
643087,1106,"Lords, let him go. Please it your majesty,
This is the day appointed for the combat;
And ready are the appellant and defendant,
The armourer and his man, to enter the lists,
So please your highness to behold the fight.",946,18995
643088,1111,"Ay, good my lord; for purposely therefore
Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried.",736,18995
643089,1113,"O God's name, see the lists and all things fit:
Here let them end it; and God defend the right!",574,18995
643090,1115,"I never saw a fellow worse bested,
Or more afraid to fight, than is the appellant,
The servant of this armourer, my lords.
[Enter at one door, HORNER, the Armourer, and his]
Neighbours, drinking to him so much that he is drunk;
and he enters with a drum before him and his staff
with a sand-bag fastened to it; and at the other
door PETER, his man, with a drum and sand-bag, and
'Prentices drinking to him]",946,18995
643091,1124,"Here, neighbour Horner, I drink to you in a cup of
sack: and fear not, neighbour, you shall do well enough.",445,18995
643092,1126,"And here, neighbour, here's a cup of charneco.",1014,18995
643093,1127,"And here's a pot of good double beer, neighbour:
drink, and fear not your man.",1177,18995
643094,1129,"Let it come, i' faith, and I'll pledge you all; and
a fig for Peter!
for credit of the 'prentices.",1192,18995
643095,1134,"I thank you all: drink, and pray for me, I pray
you; for I think I have taken my last draught in
this world. Here, Robin, an if I die, I give thee
my apron: and, Will, thou shalt have my hammer:
and here, Tom, take all the money that I have. O
Lord bless me! I pray God! for I am never able to
deal with my master, he hath learnt me so much fence already.",873,18995
643096,1141,"Come, leave your drinking, and fall to blows.
Sirrah, what's thy name?",965,18995
643097,1143,"Peter, forsooth.",873,18995
643098,1144,Peter! what more?,965,18995
643099,1145,Thump.,873,18995
643100,1146,Thump! then see thou thump thy master well.,965,18995
643101,1147,"Masters, I am come hither, as it were, upon my man's
instigation, to prove him a knave and myself an
honest man: and touching the Duke of York, I will
take my death, I never meant him any ill, nor the
king, nor the queen: and therefore, Peter, have at
thee with a downright blow!",1192,18995
643102,1153,"Dispatch: this knave's tongue begins to double.
Sound, trumpets, alarum to the combatants!",946,18995
643103,1155,"[Alarum. They fight, and PETER strikes him down]",1261,18995
643104,1156,"Hold, Peter, hold! I confess, I confess treason.",1192,18995
643105,1157,[Dies],1261,18995
643106,1158,"Take away his weapon. Fellow, thank God, and the
good wine in thy master's way.",946,18995
643107,1160,"O God, have I overcome mine enemy in this presence?
O Peter, thou hast prevailed in right!",873,18995
643108,1162,"Go, take hence that traitor from our sight;
For his death we do perceive his guilt:
And God in justice hath revealed to us
The truth and innocence of this poor fellow,
Which he had thought to have murder'd wrongfully.
Come, fellow, follow us for thy reward.",574,18995
643109,1168,"[Sound a flourish. Exeunt]
[Enter GLOUCESTER and his Servingmen, in]
mourning cloaks]",1261,18995
643110,1173,"Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
And after summer evermore succeeds
Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
Sirs, what's o'clock?",531,18996
643111,1178,"Ten, my lord.",1073,18996
643112,1179,"Ten is the hour that was appointed me
To watch the coming of my punish'd duchess:
Uneath may she endure the flinty streets,
To tread them with her tender-feeling feet.
Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook
The abject people gazing on thy face,
With envious looks, laughing at thy shame,
That erst did follow thy proud chariot-wheels
When thou didst ride in triumph through the streets.
But, soft! I think she comes; and I'll prepare
My tear-stain'd eyes to see her miseries.
[Enter the DUCHESS in a white sheet, and a taper]
burning in her hand; with STANLEY, the Sheriff,
and Officers]",531,18996
643113,1193,"So please your grace, we'll take her from the sheriff.",1062,18996
643114,1194,"No, stir not, for your lives; let her pass by.",531,18996
643115,1195,"Come you, my lord, to see my open shame?
Now thou dost penance too. Look how they gaze!
See how the giddy multitude do point,
And nod their heads, and throw their eyes on thee!
Ah, Gloucester, hide thee from their hateful looks,
And, in thy closet pent up, rue my shame,
And ban thine enemies, both mine and thine!",377,18996
643116,1202,"Be patient, gentle Nell; forget this grief.",531,18996
643117,1203,"Ah, Gloucester, teach me to forget myself!
For whilst I think I am thy married wife
And thou a prince, protector of this land,
Methinks I should not thus be led along,
Mail'd up in shame, with papers on my back,
And followed with a rabble that rejoice
To see my tears and hear my deep-fet groans.
The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet,
And when I start, the envious people laugh
And bid me be advised how I tread.
Ah, Humphrey, can I bear this shameful yoke?
Trow'st thou that e'er I'll look upon the world,
Or count them happy that enjoy the sun?
No; dark shall be my light and night my day;
To think upon my pomp shall be my hell.
Sometime I'll say, I am Duke Humphrey's wife,
And he a prince and ruler of the land:
Yet so he ruled and such a prince he was
As he stood by whilst I, his forlorn duchess,
Was made a wonder and a pointing-stock
To every idle rascal follower.
But be thou mild and blush not at my shame,
Nor stir at nothing till the axe of death
Hang over thee, as, sure, it shortly will;
For Suffolk, he that can do all in all
With her that hateth thee and hates us all,
And York and impious Beaufort, that false priest,
Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings,
And, fly thou how thou canst, they'll tangle thee:
But fear not thou, until thy foot be snared,
Nor never seek prevention of thy foes.",377,18996
643118,1234,"Ah, Nell, forbear! thou aimest all awry;
I must offend before I be attainted;
And had I twenty times so many foes,
And each of them had twenty times their power,
All these could not procure me any scathe,
So long as I am loyal, true and crimeless.
Wouldst have me rescue thee from this reproach?
Why, yet thy scandal were not wiped away
But I in danger for the breach of law.
Thy greatest help is quiet, gentle Nell:
I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience;
These few days' wonder will be quickly worn.",531,18996
643119,1246,[Enter a Herald],1261,18996
643120,1247,"I summon your grace to his majesty's parliament,
Holden at Bury the first of this next month.",580,18996
643121,1249,"And my consent ne'er ask'd herein before!
This is close dealing. Well, I will be there.
[Exit Herald]
My Nell, I take my leave: and, master sheriff,
Let not her penance exceed the king's commission.",531,18996
643122,1254,"An't please your grace, here my commission stays,
And Sir John Stanley is appointed now
To take her with him to the Isle of Man.",1088,18996
643123,1257,"Must you, Sir John, protect my lady here?",531,18996
643124,1258,"So am I given in charge, may't please your grace.",1108,18996
643125,1259,"Entreat her not the worse in that I pray
You use her well: the world may laugh again;
And I may live to do you kindness if
You do it her: and so, Sir John, farewell!",531,18996
643126,1263,"What, gone, my lord, and bid me not farewell!",377,18996
643127,1264,"Witness my tears, I cannot stay to speak.",531,18996
643128,1265,[Exeunt GLOUCESTER and Servingmen],1261,18996
643129,1266,"Art thou gone too? all comfort go with thee!
For none abides with me: my joy is death;
Death, at whose name I oft have been afear'd,
Because I wish'd this world's eternity.
Stanley, I prithee, go, and take me hence;
I care not whither, for I beg no favour,
Only convey me where thou art commanded.",377,18996
643130,1273,"Why, madam, that is to the Isle of Man;
There to be used according to your state.",1108,18996
643131,1275,"That's bad enough, for I am but reproach:
And shall I then be used reproachfully?",377,18996
643132,1277,"Like to a duchess, and Duke Humphrey's lady;
According to that state you shall be used.",1108,18996
643133,1279,"Sheriff, farewell, and better than I fare,
Although thou hast been conduct of my shame.",377,18996
643134,1281,"It is my office; and, madam, pardon me.",1088,18996
643135,1282,"Ay, ay, farewell; thy office is discharged.
Come, Stanley, shall we go?",377,18996
643136,1284,"Madam, your penance done, throw off this sheet,
And go we to attire you for our journey.",1108,18996
643137,1286,"My shame will not be shifted with my sheet:
No, it will hang upon my richest robes
And show itself, attire me how I can.
Go, lead the way; I long to see my prison.",377,18996
643138,1290,"[Exeunt]
[Sound a sennet. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN]
MARGARET, CARDINAL, SUFFOLK, YORK, BUCKINGHAM,
SALISBURY and WARWICK to the Parliament]",1261,18996
643139,1296,"I muse my Lord of Gloucester is not come:
'Tis not his wont to be the hindmost man,
Whate'er occasion keeps him from us now.",574,18997
643140,1299,"Can you not see? or will ye not observe
The strangeness of his alter'd countenance?
With what a majesty he bears himself,
How insolent of late he is become,
How proud, how peremptory, and unlike himself?
We know the time since he was mild and affable,
And if we did but glance a far-off look,
Immediately he was upon his knee,
That all the court admired him for submission:
But meet him now, and, be it in the morn,
When every one will give the time of day,
He knits his brow and shows an angry eye,
And passeth by with stiff unbowed knee,
Disdaining duty that to us belongs.
Small curs are not regarded when they grin;
But great men tremble when the lion roars;
And Humphrey is no little man in England.
First note that he is near you in descent,
And should you fall, he as the next will mount.
Me seemeth then it is no policy,
Respecting what a rancorous mind he bears
And his advantage following your decease,
That he should come about your royal person
Or be admitted to your highness' council.
By flattery hath he won the commons' hearts,
And when he please to make commotion,
'Tis to be fear'd they all will follow him.
Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
The reverent care I bear unto my lord
Made me collect these dangers in the duke.
If it be fond, call it a woman's fear;
Which fear if better reasons can supplant,
I will subscribe and say I wrong'd the duke.
My Lord of Suffolk, Buckingham, and York,
Reprove my allegation, if you can;
Or else conclude my words effectual.",736,18997
643141,1337,"Well hath your highness seen into this duke;
And, had I first been put to speak my mind,
I think I should have told your grace's tale.
The duchess, by his subornation,
Upon my life, began her devilish practises:
Or, if he were not privy to those faults,
Yet, by reputing of his high descent,
As next the king he was successive heir,
And such high vaunts of his nobility,
Did instigate the bedlam brain-sick duchess
By wicked means to frame our sovereign's fall.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep;
And in his simple show he harbours treason.
The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.
No, no, my sovereign; Gloucester is a man
Unsounded yet and full of deep deceit.",363,18997
643142,1353,"Did he not, contrary to form of law,
Devise strange deaths for small offences done?",577,18997
643143,1355,"And did he not, in his protectorship,
Levy great sums of money through the realm
For soldiers' pay in France, and never sent it?
By means whereof the towns each day revolted.",946,18997
643144,1359,"Tut, these are petty faults to faults unknown.
Which time will bring to light in smooth
Duke Humphrey.",343,18997
643145,1362,"My lords, at once: the care you have of us,
To mow down thorns that would annoy our foot,
Is worthy praise: but, shall I speak my conscience,
Our kinsman Gloucester is as innocent
From meaning treason to our royal person
As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove:
The duke is virtuous, mild and too well given
To dream on evil or to work my downfall.",574,18997
643146,1370,"Ah, what's more dangerous than this fond affiance!
Seems he a dove? his feathers are but borrowed,
For he's disposed as the hateful raven:
Is he a lamb? his skin is surely lent him,
For he's inclined as is the ravenous wolf.
Who cannot steal a shape that means deceit?
Take heed, my lord; the welfare of us all
Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man.",736,18997
643147,1378,[Enter SOMERSET],1261,18997
643148,1379,All health unto my gracious sovereign!,1137,18997
643149,1380,"Welcome, Lord Somerset. What news from France?",574,18997
643150,1381,"That all your interest in those territories
Is utterly bereft you; all is lost.",1137,18997
643151,1383,"Cold news, Lord Somerset: but God's will be done!",574,18997
643152,1384,"[Aside] Cold news for me; for I had hope of France
As firmly as I hope for fertile England.
Thus are my blossoms blasted in the bud
And caterpillars eat my leaves away;
But I will remedy this gear ere long,
Or sell my title for a glorious grave.",946,18997
643153,1390,[Enter GLOUCESTER],1261,18997
643154,1391,"All happiness unto my lord the king!
Pardon, my liege, that I have stay'd so long.",531,18997
643155,1393,"Nay, Gloucester, know that thou art come too soon,
Unless thou wert more loyal than thou art:
I do arrest thee of high treason here.",363,18997
643156,1396,"Well, Suffolk, thou shalt not see me blush
Nor change my countenance for this arrest:
A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.
The purest spring is not so free from mud
As I am clear from treason to my sovereign:
Who can accuse me? wherein am I guilty?",531,18997
643157,1402,"'Tis thought, my lord, that you took bribes of France,
And, being protector, stayed the soldiers' pay;
By means whereof his highness hath lost France.",946,18997
643158,1405,"Is it but thought so? what are they that think it?
I never robb'd the soldiers of their pay,
Nor ever had one penny bribe from France.
So help me God, as I have watch'd the night,
Ay, night by night, in studying good for England,
That doit that e'er I wrested from the king,
Or any groat I hoarded to my use,
Be brought against me at my trial-day!
No; many a pound of mine own proper store,
Because I would not tax the needy commons,
Have I disbursed to the garrisons,
And never ask'd for restitution.",531,18997
643159,1417,"It serves you well, my lord, to say so much.",577,18997
643160,1418,"I say no more than truth, so help me God!",531,18997
643161,1419,"In your protectorship you did devise
Strange tortures for offenders never heard of,
That England was defamed by tyranny.",946,18997
643162,1422,"Why, 'tis well known that, whiles I was
protector,
Pity was all the fault that was in me;
For I should melt at an offender's tears,
And lowly words were ransom for their fault.
Unless it were a bloody murderer,
Or foul felonious thief that fleeced poor passengers,
I never gave them condign punishment:
Murder indeed, that bloody sin, I tortured
Above the felon or what trespass else.",531,18997
643163,1432,"My lord, these faults are easy, quickly answered:
But mightier crimes are laid unto your charge,
Whereof you cannot easily purge yourself.
I do arrest you in his highness' name;
And here commit you to my lord cardinal
To keep, until your further time of trial.",363,18997
643164,1438,"My lord of Gloucester, 'tis my special hope
That you will clear yourself from all suspect:
My conscience tells me you are innocent.",574,18997
643165,1441,"Ah, gracious lord, these days are dangerous:
Virtue is choked with foul ambition
And charity chased hence by rancour's hand;
Foul subornation is predominant
And equity exiled your highness' land.
I know their complot is to have my life,
And if my death might make this island happy,
And prove the period of their tyranny,
I would expend it with all willingness:
But mine is made the prologue to their play;
For thousands more, that yet suspect no peril,
Will not conclude their plotted tragedy.
Beaufort's red sparkling eyes blab his heart's malice,
And Suffolk's cloudy brow his stormy hate;
Sharp Buckingham unburthens with his tongue
The envious load that lies upon his heart;
And dogged York, that reaches at the moon,
Whose overweening arm I have pluck'd back,
By false accuse doth level at my life:
And you, my sovereign lady, with the rest,
Causeless have laid disgraces on my head,
And with your best endeavour have stirr'd up
My liefest liege to be mine enemy:
Ay, all you have laid your heads together--
Myself had notice of your conventicles--
And all to make away my guiltless life.
I shall not want false witness to condemn me,
Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt;
The ancient proverb will be well effected:
'A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.'",531,18997
643166,1471,"My liege, his railing is intolerable:
If those that care to keep your royal person
From treason's secret knife and traitors' rage
Be thus upbraided, chid and rated at,
And the offender granted scope of speech,
'Twill make them cool in zeal unto your grace.",577,18997
643167,1477,"Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here
With ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd,
As if she had suborned some to swear
False allegations to o'erthrow his state?",363,18997
643168,1481,But I can give the loser leave to chide.,736,18997
643169,1482,"Far truer spoke than meant: I lose, indeed;
Beshrew the winners, for they play'd me false!
And well such losers may have leave to speak.",531,18997
643170,1485,"He'll wrest the sense and hold us here all day:
Lord cardinal, he is your prisoner.",343,18997
643171,1487,"Sirs, take away the duke, and guard him sure.",577,18997
643172,1488,"Ah! thus King Henry throws away his crutch
Before his legs be firm to bear his body.
Thus is the shepherd beaten from thy side,
And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.
Ah, that my fear were false! ah, that it were!
For, good King Henry, thy decay I fear.",531,18997
643173,1494,"[Exit, guarded]",1261,18997
643174,1495,"My lords, what to your wisdoms seemeth best,
Do or undo, as if ourself were here.",574,18997
643175,1497,"What, will your highness leave the parliament?",736,18997
643176,1498,"Ay, Margaret; my heart is drown'd with grief,
Whose flood begins to flow within mine eyes,
My body round engirt with misery,
For what's more miserable than discontent?
Ah, uncle Humphrey! in thy face I see
The map of honour, truth and loyalty:
And yet, good Humphrey, is the hour to come
That e'er I proved thee false or fear'd thy faith.
What louring star now envies thy estate,
That these great lords and Margaret our queen
Do seek subversion of thy harmless life?
Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man wrong;
And as the butcher takes away the calf
And binds the wretch, and beats it when it strays,
Bearing it to the bloody slaughter-house,
Even so remorseless have they borne him hence;
And as the dam runs lowing up and down,
Looking the way her harmless young one went,
And can do nought but wail her darling's loss,
Even so myself bewails good Gloucester's case
With sad unhelpful tears, and with dimm'd eyes
Look after him and cannot do him good,
So mighty are his vowed enemies.
His fortunes I will weep; and, 'twixt each groan
Say 'Who's a traitor? Gloucester he is none.'
[Exeunt all but QUEEN MARGARET, CARDINAL,]
SUFFOLK, and YORK; SOMERSET remains apart]",574,18997
643177,1525,"Free lords, cold snow melts with the sun's hot beams.
Henry my lord is cold in great affairs,
Too full of foolish pity, and Gloucester's show
Beguiles him as the mournful crocodile
With sorrow snares relenting passengers,
Or as the snake roll'd in a flowering bank,
With shining chequer'd slough, doth sting a child
That for the beauty thinks it excellent.
Believe me, lords, were none more wise than I--
And yet herein I judge mine own wit good--
This Gloucester should be quickly rid the world,
To rid us of the fear we have of him.",736,18997
643178,1537,"That he should die is worthy policy;
But yet we want a colour for his death:
'Tis meet he be condemn'd by course of law.",577,18997
643179,1540,"But, in my mind, that were no policy:
The king will labour still to save his life,
The commons haply rise, to save his life;
And yet we have but trivial argument,
More than mistrust, that shows him worthy death.",363,18997
643180,1545,"So that, by this, you would not have him die.",946,18997
643181,1546,"Ah, York, no man alive so fain as I!",363,18997
643182,1547,"'Tis York that hath more reason for his death.
But, my lord cardinal, and you, my Lord of Suffolk,
Say as you think, and speak it from your souls,
Were't not all one, an empty eagle were set
To guard the chicken from a hungry kite,
As place Duke Humphrey for the king's protector?",946,18997
643183,1553,So the poor chicken should be sure of death.,736,18997
643184,1554,"Madam, 'tis true; and were't not madness, then,
To make the fox surveyor of the fold?
Who being accused a crafty murderer,
His guilt should be but idly posted over,
Because his purpose is not executed.
No; let him die, in that he is a fox,
By nature proved an enemy to the flock,
Before his chaps be stain'd with crimson blood,
As Humphrey, proved by reasons, to my liege.
And do not stand on quillets how to slay him:
Be it by gins, by snares, by subtlety,
Sleeping or waking, 'tis no matter how,
So he be dead; for that is good deceit
Which mates him first that first intends deceit.",363,18997
643185,1568,"Thrice-noble Suffolk, 'tis resolutely spoke.",736,18997
643186,1569,"Not resolute, except so much were done;
For things are often spoke and seldom meant:
But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,
Seeing the deed is meritorious,
And to preserve my sovereign from his foe,
Say but the word, and I will be his priest.",363,18997
643187,1575,"But I would have him dead, my Lord of Suffolk,
Ere you can take due orders for a priest:
Say you consent and censure well the deed,
And I'll provide his executioner,
I tender so the safety of my liege.",577,18997
643188,1580,"Here is my hand, the deed is worthy doing.",363,18997
643189,1581,And so say I.,736,18997
643190,1582,"And I and now we three have spoke it,
It skills not greatly who impugns our doom.",946,18997
643191,1584,[Enter a Post],1261,18997
643192,1585,"Great lords, from Ireland am I come amain,
To signify that rebels there are up
And put the Englishmen unto the sword:
Send succors, lords, and stop the rage betime,
Before the wound do grow uncurable;
For, being green, there is great hope of help.",909,18997
643193,1591,"A breach that craves a quick expedient stop!
What counsel give you in this weighty cause?",577,18997
643194,1593,"That Somerset be sent as regent thither:
'Tis meet that lucky ruler be employ'd;
Witness the fortune he hath had in France.",946,18997
643195,1596,"If York, with all his far-fet policy,
Had been the regent there instead of me,
He never would have stay'd in France so long.",1137,18997
643196,1599,"No, not to lose it all, as thou hast done:
I rather would have lost my life betimes
Than bring a burthen of dishonour home
By staying there so long till all were lost.
Show me one scar character'd on thy skin:
Men's flesh preserved so whole do seldom win.",946,18997
643197,1605,"Nay, then, this spark will prove a raging fire,
If wind and fuel be brought to feed it with:
No more, good York; sweet Somerset, be still:
Thy fortune, York, hadst thou been regent there,
Might happily have proved far worse than his.",736,18997
643198,1610,"What, worse than nought? nay, then, a shame take all!",946,18997
643199,1611,"And, in the number, thee that wishest shame!",1137,18997
643200,1612,"My Lord of York, try what your fortune is.
The uncivil kerns of Ireland are in arms
And temper clay with blood of Englishmen:
To Ireland will you lead a band of men,
Collected choicely, from each county some,
And try your hap against the Irishmen?",577,18997
643201,1618,"I will, my lord, so please his majesty.",946,18997
643202,1619,"Why, our authority is his consent,
And what we do establish he confirms:
Then, noble York, take thou this task in hand.",363,18997
643203,1622,"I am content: provide me soldiers, lords,
Whiles I take order for mine own affairs.",946,18997
643204,1624,"A charge, Lord York, that I will see perform'd.
But now return we to the false Duke Humphrey.",363,18997
643205,1626,"No more of him; for I will deal with him
That henceforth he shall trouble us no more.
And so break off; the day is almost spent:
Lord Suffolk, you and I must talk of that event.",577,18997
643206,1630,"My Lord of Suffolk, within fourteen days
At Bristol I expect my soldiers;
For there I'll ship them all for Ireland.",946,18997
643207,1633,"I'll see it truly done, my Lord of York.",363,18997
643208,1634,[Exeunt all but YORK],1261,18997
643209,1635,"Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts,
And change misdoubt to resolution:
Be that thou hopest to be, or what thou art
Resign to death; it is not worth the enjoying:
Let pale-faced fear keep with the mean-born man,
And find no harbour in a royal heart.
Faster than spring-time showers comes thought
on thought,
And not a thought but thinks on dignity.
My brain more busy than the labouring spider
Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.
Well, nobles, well, 'tis politicly done,
To send me packing with an host of men:
I fear me you but warm the starved snake,
Who, cherish'd in your breasts, will sting
your hearts.
'Twas men I lack'd and you will give them me:
I take it kindly; and yet be well assured
You put sharp weapons in a madman's hands.
Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band,
I will stir up in England some black storm
Shall blow ten thousand souls to heaven or hell;
And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage
Until the golden circuit on my head,
Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams,
Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.
And, for a minister of my intent,
I have seduced a headstrong Kentishman,
John Cade of Ashford,
To make commotion, as full well he can,
Under the title of John Mortimer.
In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade
Oppose himself against a troop of kerns,
And fought so long, till that his thighs with darts
Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine;
And, in the end being rescued, I have seen
Him caper upright like a wild Morisco,
Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.
Full often, like a shag-hair'd crafty kern,
Hath he conversed with the enemy,
And undiscover'd come to me again
And given me notice of their villanies.
This devil here shall be my substitute;
For that John Mortimer, which now is dead,
In face, in gait, in speech, he doth resemble:
By this I shall perceive the commons' mind,
How they affect the house and claim of York.
Say he be taken, rack'd and tortured,
I know no pain they can inflict upon him
Will make him say I moved him to those arms.
Say that he thrive, as 'tis great like he will,
Why, then from Ireland come I with my strength
And reap the harvest which that rascal sow'd;
For Humphrey being dead, as he shall be,
And Henry put apart, the next for me.",946,18997
643210,1690,[Exit],1261,18997
643211,1693,"[Enter certain Murderers, hastily]",1261,18998
643212,1694,"Run to my Lord of Suffolk; let him know
We have dispatch'd the duke, as he commanded.",443,18998
643213,1696,"O that it were to do! What have we done?
Didst ever hear a man so penitent?",1012,18998
643214,1698,[Enter SUFFOLK],1261,18998
643215,1699,Here comes my lord.,443,18998
643216,1700,"Now, sirs, have you dispatch'd this thing?",363,18998
643217,1701,"Ay, my good lord, he's dead.",443,18998
643218,1702,"Why, that's well said. Go, get you to my house;
I will reward you for this venturous deed.
The king and all the peers are here at hand.
Have you laid fair the bed? Is all things well,
According as I gave directions?",363,18998
643219,1707,"'Tis, my good lord.",443,18998
643220,1708,"Away! be gone.
[Exeunt Murderers]
[Sound trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN]
MARGARET, CARDINAL, SOMERSET, with Attendants]",363,18998
643221,1712,"Go, call our uncle to our presence straight;
Say we intend to try his grace to-day.
If he be guilty, as 'tis published.",574,18998
643222,1715,"I'll call him presently, my noble lord.",363,18998
643223,1716,[Exit],1261,18998
643224,1717,"Lords, take your places; and, I pray you all,
Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Gloucester
Than from true evidence of good esteem
He be approved in practise culpable.",574,18998
643225,1721,"God forbid any malice should prevail,
That faultless may condemn a nobleman!
Pray God he may acquit him of suspicion!",736,18998
643226,1724,"I thank thee, Meg; these words content me much.
[Re-enter SUFFOLK]
How now! why look'st thou pale? why tremblest thou?
Where is our uncle? what's the matter, Suffolk?",574,18998
643227,1728,"Dead in his bed, my lord; Gloucester is dead.",363,18998
643228,1729,"Marry, God forfend!",736,18998
643229,1730,"God's secret judgment: I did dream to-night
The duke was dumb and could not speak a word.",577,18998
643230,1732,[KING HENRY VI swoons],1261,18998
643231,1733,"How fares my lord? Help, lords! the king is dead.",736,18998
643232,1734,Rear up his body; wring him by the nose.,1137,18998
643233,1735,"Run, go, help, help! O Henry, ope thine eyes!",736,18998
643234,1736,"He doth revive again: madam, be patient.",363,18998
643235,1737,O heavenly God!,574,18998
643236,1738,How fares my gracious lord?,736,18998
643237,1739,"Comfort, my sovereign! gracious Henry, comfort!",363,18998
643238,1740,"What, doth my Lord of Suffolk comfort me?
Came he right now to sing a raven's note,
Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers;
And thinks he that the chirping of a wren,
By crying comfort from a hollow breast,
Can chase away the first-conceived sound?
Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words;
Lay not thy hands on me; forbear, I say;
Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting.
Thou baleful messenger, out of my sight!
Upon thy eye-balls murderous tyranny
Sits in grim majesty, to fright the world.
Look not upon me, for thine eyes are wounding:
Yet do not go away: come, basilisk,
And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight;
For in the shade of death I shall find joy;
In life but double death, now Gloucester's dead.",574,18998
643239,1757,"Why do you rate my Lord of Suffolk thus?
Although the duke was enemy to him,
Yet he most Christian-like laments his death:
And for myself, foe as he was to me,
Might liquid tears or heart-offending groans
Or blood-consuming sighs recall his life,
I would be blind with weeping, sick with groans,
Look pale as primrose with blood-drinking sighs,
And all to have the noble duke alive.
What know I how the world may deem of me?
For it is known we were but hollow friends:
It may be judged I made the duke away;
So shall my name with slander's tongue be wounded,
And princes' courts be fill'd with my reproach.
This get I by his death: ay me, unhappy!
To be a queen, and crown'd with infamy!",736,18998
643240,1773,"Ah, woe is me for Gloucester, wretched man!",574,18998
643241,1774,"Be woe for me, more wretched than he is.
What, dost thou turn away and hide thy face?
I am no loathsome leper; look on me.
What! art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf?
Be poisonous too and kill thy forlorn queen.
Is all thy comfort shut in Gloucester's tomb?
Why, then, dame Margaret was ne'er thy joy.
Erect his statue and worship it,
And make my image but an alehouse sign.
Was I for this nigh wreck'd upon the sea
And twice by awkward wind from England's bank
Drove back again unto my native clime?
What boded this, but well forewarning wind
Did seem to say 'Seek not a scorpion's nest,
Nor set no footing on this unkind shore'?
What did I then, but cursed the gentle gusts
And he that loosed them forth their brazen caves:
And bid them blow towards England's blessed shore,
Or turn our stern upon a dreadful rock
Yet AEolus would not be a murderer,
But left that hateful office unto thee:
The pretty-vaulting sea refused to drown me,
Knowing that thou wouldst have me drown'd on shore,
With tears as salt as sea, through thy unkindness:
The splitting rocks cower'd in the sinking sands
And would not dash me with their ragged sides,
Because thy flinty heart, more hard than they,
Might in thy palace perish Margaret.
As far as I could ken thy chalky cliffs,
When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,
I stood upon the hatches in the storm,
And when the dusky sky began to rob
My earnest-gaping sight of thy land's view,
I took a costly jewel from my neck,
A heart it was, bound in with diamonds,
And threw it towards thy land: the sea received it,
And so I wish'd thy body might my heart:
And even with this I lost fair England's view
And bid mine eyes be packing with my heart
And call'd them blind and dusky spectacles,
For losing ken of Albion's wished coast.
How often have I tempted Suffolk's tongue,
The agent of thy foul inconstancy,
To sit and witch me, as Ascanius did
When he to madding Dido would unfold
His father's acts commenced in burning Troy!
Am I not witch'd like her? or thou not false like him?
Ay me, I can no more! die, Margaret!
For Henry weeps that thou dost live so long.",736,18998
643242,1823,"[Noise within. Enter WARWICK, SALISBURY, and many Commons]",1261,18998
643243,1824,"It is reported, mighty sovereign,
That good Duke Humphrey traitorously is murder'd
By Suffolk and the Cardinal Beaufort's means.
The commons, like an angry hive of bees
That want their leader, scatter up and down
And care not who they sting in his revenge.
Myself have calm'd their spleenful mutiny,
Until they hear the order of his death.",1247,18998
643244,1832,"That he is dead, good Warwick, 'tis too true;
But how he died God knows, not Henry:
Enter his chamber, view his breathless corpse,
And comment then upon his sudden death.",574,18998
643245,1836,"That shall I do, my liege. Stay, Salisbury,
With the rude multitude till I return.",1247,18998
643246,1838,[Exit],1261,18998
643247,1839,"O Thou that judgest all things, stay my thoughts,
My thoughts, that labour to persuade my soul
Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life!
If my suspect be false, forgive me, God,
For judgment only doth belong to thee.
Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips
With twenty thousand kisses, and to drain
Upon his face an ocean of salt tears,
To tell my love unto his dumb deaf trunk,
And with my fingers feel his hand unfeeling:
But all in vain are these mean obsequies;
And to survey his dead and earthly image,
What were it but to make my sorrow greater?
[Re-enter WARWICK and others, bearing]
GLOUCESTER'S body on a bed]",574,18998
643248,1854,"Come hither, gracious sovereign, view this body.",1247,18998
643249,1855,"That is to see how deep my grave is made;
For with his soul fled all my worldly solace,
For seeing him I see my life in death.",574,18998
643250,1858,"As surely as my soul intends to live
With that dread King that took our state upon him
To free us from his father's wrathful curse,
I do believe that violent hands were laid
Upon the life of this thrice-famed duke.",1247,18998
643251,1863,"A dreadful oath, sworn with a solemn tongue!
What instance gives Lord Warwick for his vow?",363,18998
643252,1865,"See how the blood is settled in his face.
Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost,
Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale and bloodless,
Being all descended to the labouring heart;
Who, in the conflict that it holds with death,
Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy;
Which with the heart there cools and ne'er returneth
To blush and beautify the cheek again.
But see, his face is black and full of blood,
His eye-balls further out than when he lived,
Staring full ghastly like a strangled man;
His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretched with struggling;
His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd
And tugg'd for life and was by strength subdued:
Look, on the sheets his hair you see, is sticking;
His well-proportion'd beard made rough and rugged,
Like to the summer's corn by tempest lodged.
It cannot be but he was murder'd here;
The least of all these signs were probable.",1247,18998
643253,1884,"Why, Warwick, who should do the duke to death?
Myself and Beaufort had him in protection;
And we, I hope, sir, are no murderers.",363,18998
643254,1887,"But both of you were vow'd Duke Humphrey's foes,
And you, forsooth, had the good duke to keep:
'Tis like you would not feast him like a friend;
And 'tis well seen he found an enemy.",1247,18998
643255,1891,"Then you, belike, suspect these noblemen
As guilty of Duke Humphrey's timeless death.",736,18998
643256,1893,"Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh
And sees fast by a butcher with an axe,
But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?
Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,
But may imagine how the bird was dead,
Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak?
Even so suspicious is this tragedy.",1247,18998
643257,1900,"Are you the butcher, Suffolk? Where's your knife?
Is Beaufort term'd a kite? Where are his talons?",736,18998
643258,1902,"I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men;
But here's a vengeful sword, rusted with ease,
That shall be scoured in his rancorous heart
That slanders me with murder's crimson badge.
Say, if thou darest, proud Lord of Warwick-shire,
That I am faulty in Duke Humphrey's death.",363,18998
643259,1908,"[Exeunt CARDINAL, SOMERSET, and others]",1261,18998
643260,1909,"What dares not Warwick, if false Suffolk dare him?",1247,18998
643261,1910,"He dares not calm his contumelious spirit
Nor cease to be an arrogant controller,
Though Suffolk dare him twenty thousand times.",736,18998
643262,1913,"Madam, be still; with reverence may I say;
For every word you speak in his behalf
Is slander to your royal dignity.",1247,18998
643263,1916,"Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanor!
If ever lady wrong'd her lord so much,
Thy mother took into her blameful bed
Some stern untutor'd churl, and noble stock
Was graft with crab-tree slip; whose fruit thou art,
And never of the Nevils' noble race.",363,18998
643264,1922,"But that the guilt of murder bucklers thee
And I should rob the deathsman of his fee,
Quitting thee thereby of ten thousand shames,
And that my sovereign's presence makes me mild,
I would, false murderous coward, on thy knee
Make thee beg pardon for thy passed speech,
And say it was thy mother that thou meant'st
That thou thyself was born in bastardy;
And after all this fearful homage done,
Give thee thy hire and send thy soul to hell,
Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men!",1247,18998
643265,1933,"Thou shall be waking well I shed thy blood,
If from this presence thou darest go with me.",363,18998
643266,1935,"Away even now, or I will drag thee hence:
Unworthy though thou art, I'll cope with thee
And do some service to Duke Humphrey's ghost.",1247,18998
643267,1938,[Exeunt SUFFOLK and WARWICK],1261,18998
643268,1939,"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.",574,18998
643269,1943,[A noise within],1261,18998
643270,1944,"What noise is this?
[Re-enter SUFFOLK and WARWICK, with their]
weapons drawn]",736,18998
643271,1947,"Why, how now, lords! your wrathful weapons drawn
Here in our presence! dare you be so bold?
Why, what tumultuous clamour have we here?",574,18998
643272,1950,"The traitorous Warwick with the men of Bury
Set all upon me, mighty sovereign.",363,18998
643273,1952,"[To the Commons, entering] Sirs, stand apart;
the king shall know your mind.
Dread lord, the commons send you word by me,
Unless Lord Suffolk straight be done to death,
Or banished fair England's territories,
They will by violence tear him from your palace
And torture him with grievous lingering death.
They say, by him the good Duke Humphrey died;
They say, in him they fear your highness' death;
And mere instinct of love and loyalty,
Free from a stubborn opposite intent,
As being thought to contradict your liking,
Makes them thus forward in his banishment.
They say, in care of your most royal person,
That if your highness should intend to sleep
And charge that no man should disturb your rest
In pain of your dislike or pain of death,
Yet, notwithstanding such a strait edict,
Were there a serpent seen, with forked tongue,
That slily glided towards your majesty,
It were but necessary you were waked,
Lest, being suffer'd in that harmful slumber,
The mortal worm might make the sleep eternal;
And therefore do they cry, though you forbid,
That they will guard you, whether you will or no,
From such fell serpents as false Suffolk is,
With whose envenomed and fatal sting,
Your loving uncle, twenty times his worth,
They say, is shamefully bereft of life.",965,18998
643274,1981,"[Within] An answer from the king, my
Lord of Salisbury!",277,18998
643275,1983,"'Tis like the commons, rude unpolish'd hinds,
Could send such message to their sovereign:
But you, my lord, were glad to be employ'd,
To show how quaint an orator you are:
But all the honour Salisbury hath won
Is, that he was the lord ambassador
Sent from a sort of tinkers to the king.",363,18998
643276,1990,"[Within] An answer from the king, or we will all break in!",277,18998
643277,1991,"Go, Salisbury, and tell them all from me.
I thank them for their tender loving care;
And had I not been cited so by them,
Yet did I purpose as they do entreat;
For, sure, my thoughts do hourly prophesy
Mischance unto my state by Suffolk's means:
And therefore, by His majesty I swear,
Whose far unworthy deputy I am,
He shall not breathe infection in this air
But three days longer, on the pain of death.",574,18998
643278,2001,[Exit SALISBURY],1261,18998
643279,2002,"O Henry, let me plead for gentle Suffolk!",736,18998
643280,2003,"Ungentle queen, to call him gentle Suffolk!
No more, I say: if thou dost plead for him,
Thou wilt but add increase unto my wrath.
Had I but said, I would have kept my word,
But when I swear, it is irrevocable.
If, after three days' space, thou here be'st found
On any ground that I am ruler of,
The world shall not be ransom for thy life.
Come, Warwick, come, good Warwick, go with me;
I have great matters to impart to thee.",574,18998
643281,2013,[Exeunt all but QUEEN MARGARET and SUFFOLK],1261,18998
643282,2014,"Mischance and sorrow go along with you!
Heart's discontent and sour affliction
Be playfellows to keep you company!
There's two of you; the devil make a third!
And threefold vengeance tend upon your steps!",736,18998
643283,2019,"Cease, gentle queen, these execrations,
And let thy Suffolk take his heavy leave.",363,18998
643284,2021,"Fie, coward woman and soft-hearted wretch!
Hast thou not spirit to curse thine enemy?",736,18998
643285,2023,"A plague upon them! wherefore should I curse them?
Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's groan,
I would invent as bitter-searching terms,
As curst, as harsh and horrible to hear,
Deliver'd strongly through my fixed teeth,
With full as many signs of deadly hate,
As lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave:
My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words;
Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint;
Mine hair be fixed on end, as one distract;
Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban:
And even now my burthen'd heart would break,
Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink!
Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste!
Their sweetest shade a grove of cypress trees!
Their chiefest prospect murdering basilisks!
Their softest touch as smart as lizards' sting!
Their music frightful as the serpent's hiss,
And boding screech-owls make the concert full!
All the foul terrors in dark-seated hell--",363,18998
643286,2043,"Enough, sweet Suffolk; thou torment'st thyself;
And these dread curses, like the sun 'gainst glass,
Or like an overcharged gun, recoil,
And turn the force of them upon thyself.",736,18998
643287,2047,"You bade me ban, and will you bid me leave?
Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from,
Well could I curse away a winter's night,
Though standing naked on a mountain top,
Where biting cold would never let grass grow,
And think it but a minute spent in sport.",363,18998
643288,2053,"O, let me entreat thee cease. Give me thy hand,
That I may dew it with my mournful tears;
Nor let the rain of heaven wet this place,
To wash away my woful monuments.
O, could this kiss be printed in thy hand,
That thou mightst think upon these by the seal,
Through whom a thousand sighs are breathed for thee!
So, get thee gone, that I may know my grief;
'Tis but surmised whiles thou art standing by,
As one that surfeits thinking on a want.
I will repeal thee, or, be well assured,
Adventure to be banished myself:
And banished I am, if but from thee.
Go; speak not to me; even now be gone.
O, go not yet! Even thus two friends condemn'd
Embrace and kiss and take ten thousand leaves,
Loather a hundred times to part than die.
Yet now farewell; and farewell life with thee!",736,18998
643289,2071,"Thus is poor Suffolk ten times banished;
Once by the king, and three times thrice by thee.
'Tis not the land I care for, wert thou thence;
A wilderness is populous enough,
So Suffolk had thy heavenly company:
For where thou art, there is the world itself,
With every several pleasure in the world,
And where thou art not, desolation.
I can no more: live thou to joy thy life;
Myself no joy in nought but that thou livest.",363,18998
643290,2081,[Enter VAUX],1261,18998
643291,2082,"Wither goes Vaux so fast? what news, I prithee?",736,18998
643292,2083,"To signify unto his majesty
That Cardinal Beaufort is at point of death;
For suddenly a grievous sickness took him,
That makes him gasp and stare and catch the air,
Blaspheming God and cursing men on earth.
Sometimes he talks as if Duke Humphrey's ghost
Were by his side; sometime he calls the king,
And whispers to his pillow, as to him,
The secrets of his overcharged soul;
And I am sent to tell his majesty
That even now he cries aloud for him.",1230,18998
643293,2094,"Go tell this heavy message to the king.
[Exit VAUX]
Ay me! what is this world! what news are these!
But wherefore grieve I at an hour's poor loss,
Omitting Suffolk's exile, my soul's treasure?
Why only, Suffolk, mourn I not for thee,
And with the southern clouds contend in tears,
Theirs for the earth's increase, mine for my sorrows?
Now get thee hence: the king, thou know'st, is coming;
If thou be found by me, thou art but dead.",736,18998
643294,2104,"If I depart from thee, I cannot live;
And in thy sight to die, what were it else
But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap?
Here could I breathe my soul into the air,
As mild and gentle as the cradle-babe
Dying with mother's dug between its lips:
Where, from thy sight, I should be raging mad,
And cry out for thee to close up mine eyes,
To have thee with thy lips to stop my mouth;
So shouldst thou either turn my flying soul,
Or I should breathe it so into thy body,
And then it lived in sweet Elysium.
To die by thee were but to die in jest;
From thee to die were torture more than death:
O, let me stay, befall what may befall!",363,18998
643295,2119,"Away! though parting be a fretful corrosive,
It is applied to a deathful wound.
To France, sweet Suffolk: let me hear from thee;
For wheresoe'er thou art in this world's globe,
I'll have an Iris that shall find thee out.",736,18998
643296,2124,I go.,363,18998
643297,2125,And take my heart with thee.,736,18998
643298,2126,"A jewel, lock'd into the wofull'st cask
That ever did contain a thing of worth.
Even as a splitted bark, so sunder we
This way fall I to death.",363,18998
643299,2130,This way for me.,736,18998
643300,2131,"[Exeunt severally]
[Enter the KING, SALISBURY, WARWICK, to the]
CARDINAL in bed]",1261,18998
643301,2136,"How fares my lord? speak, Beaufort, to
thy sovereign.",574,18999
643302,2138,"If thou be'st death, I'll give thee England's treasure,
Enough to purchase such another island,
So thou wilt let me live, and feel no pain.",577,18999
643303,2141,"Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,
Where death's approach is seen so terrible!",574,18999
643304,2143,"Beaufort, it is thy sovereign speaks to thee.",1247,18999
643305,2144,"Bring me unto my trial when you will.
Died he not in his bed? where should he die?
Can I make men live, whether they will or no?
O, torture me no more! I will confess.
Alive again? then show me where he is:
I'll give a thousand pound to look upon him.
He hath no eyes, the dust hath blinded them.
Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright,
Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged soul.
Give me some drink; and bid the apothecary
Bring the strong poison that I bought of him.",577,18999
643306,2155,"O thou eternal Mover of the heavens.
Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch!
O, beat away the busy meddling fiend
That lays strong siege unto this wretch's soul.
And from his bosom purge this black despair!",574,18999
643307,2160,"See, how the pangs of death do make him grin!",1247,18999
643308,2161,Disturb him not; let him pass peaceably.,965,18999
643309,2162,"Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be!
Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss,
Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope.
He dies, and makes no sign. O God, forgive him!",574,18999
643310,2166,So bad a death argues a monstrous life.,1247,18999
643311,2167,"Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;
And let us all to meditation.",574,18999
643312,2170,"[Exeunt]
[Alarum. Fight at sea. Ordnance goes off. Enter a]
Captain, a Master, a Master's-mate, WALTER WHITMORE,
and others; with them SUFFOLK, and others, prisoners]",1261,18999
643313,2176,"The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea;
And now loud-howling wolves arouse the jades
That drag the tragic melancholy night;
Who, with their drowsy, slow and flagging wings,
Clip dead men's graves and from their misty jaws
Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air.
Therefore bring forth the soldiers of our prize;
For, whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs,
Here shall they make their ransom on the sand,
Or with their blood stain this discolour'd shore.
Master, this prisoner freely give I thee;
And thou that art his mate, make boot of this;
The other, Walter Whitmore, is thy share.",218,19000
643314,2190,"What is my ransom, master? let me know.",422,19000
643315,2191,"A thousand crowns, or else lay down your head.",751,19000
643316,2193,"What, think you much to pay two thousand crowns,
And bear the name and port of gentlemen?
Cut both the villains' throats; for die you shall:
The lives of those which we have lost in fight
Be counterpoised with such a petty sum!",218,19000
643317,2198,"I'll give it, sir; and therefore spare my life.",422,19000
643318,2199,And so will I and write home for it straight.,992,19000
643319,2200,"I lost mine eye in laying the prize aboard,
And therefore to revenge it, shalt thou die;
[To SUFFOLK]
And so should these, if I might have my will.",1245,19000
643320,2204,"Be not so rash; take ransom, let him live.",218,19000
643321,2205,"Look on my George; I am a gentleman:
Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be paid.",363,19000
643322,2207,"And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore.
How now! why start'st thou? what, doth
death affright?",1245,19000
643323,2210,"Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death.
A cunning man did calculate my birth
And told me that by water I should die:
Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded;
Thy name is Gaultier, being rightly sounded.",363,19000
643324,2215,"Gaultier or Walter, which it is, I care not:
Never yet did base dishonour blur our name,
But with our sword we wiped away the blot;
Therefore, when merchant-like I sell revenge,
Broke be my sword, my arms torn and defaced,
And I proclaim'd a coward through the world!",1245,19000
643325,2221,"Stay, Whitmore; for thy prisoner is a prince,
The Duke of Suffolk, William de la Pole.",363,19000
643326,2223,The Duke of Suffolk muffled up in rags!,1245,19000
643327,2224,"Ay, but these rags are no part of the duke:
Jove sometimes went disguised, and why not I?",363,19000
643328,2226,"But Jove was never slain, as thou shalt be.",218,19000
643329,2227,"Obscure and lowly swain, King Henry's blood,
The honourable blood of Lancaster,
Must not be shed by such a jaded groom.
Hast thou not kiss'd thy hand and held my stirrup?
Bare-headed plodded by my foot-cloth mule
And thought thee happy when I shook my head?
How often hast thou waited at my cup,
Fed from my trencher, kneel'd down at the board.
When I have feasted with Queen Margaret?
Remember it and let it make thee crest-fall'n,
Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride;
How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood
And duly waited for my coming forth?
This hand of mine hath writ in thy behalf,
And therefore shall it charm thy riotous tongue.",363,19000
643330,2242,"Speak, captain, shall I stab the forlorn swain?",1245,19000
643331,2243,"First let my words stab him, as he hath me.",218,19000
643332,2244,"Base slave, thy words are blunt and so art thou.",363,19000
643333,2245,"Convey him hence and on our longboat's side
Strike off his head.",218,19000
643334,2247,"Thou darest not, for thy own.",363,19000
643335,2248,"Yes, Pole.",218,19000
643336,2249,Pole!,363,19000
643337,2250,"Pool! Sir Pool! lord!
Ay, kennel, puddle, sink; whose filth and dirt
Troubles the silver spring where England drinks.
Now will I dam up this thy yawning mouth
For swallowing the treasure of the realm:
Thy lips that kiss'd the queen shall sweep the ground;
And thou that smiledst at good Duke Humphrey's death,
Against the senseless winds shalt grin in vain,
Who in contempt shall hiss at thee again:
And wedded be thou to the hags of hell,
For daring to affy a mighty lord
Unto the daughter of a worthless king,
Having neither subject, wealth, nor diadem.
By devilish policy art thou grown great,
And, like ambitious Sylla, overgorged
With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart.
By thee Anjou and Maine were sold to France,
The false revolting Normans thorough thee
Disdain to call us lord, and Picardy
Hath slain their governors, surprised our forts,
And sent the ragged soldiers wounded home.
The princely Warwick, and the Nevils all,
Whose dreadful swords were never drawn in vain,
As hating thee, are rising up in arms:
And now the house of York, thrust from the crown
By shameful murder of a guiltless king
And lofty proud encroaching tyranny,
Burns with revenging fire; whose hopeful colours
Advance our half-faced sun, striving to shine,
Under the which is writ 'Invitis nubibus.'
The commons here in Kent are up in arms:
And, to conclude, reproach and beggary
Is crept into the palace of our king.
And all by thee. Away! convey him hence.",218,19000
643338,2284,"O that I were a god, to shoot forth thunder
Upon these paltry, servile, abject drudges!
Small things make base men proud: this villain here,
Being captain of a pinnace, threatens more
Than Bargulus the strong Illyrian pirate.
Drones suck not eagles' blood but rob beehives:
It is impossible that I should die
By such a lowly vassal as thyself.
Thy words move rage and not remorse in me:
I go of message from the queen to France;
I charge thee waft me safely cross the Channel.",363,19000
643339,2295,"Walter,--",218,19000
643340,2296,"Come, Suffolk, I must waft thee to thy death.",1245,19000
643341,2297,Gelidus timor occupat artus it is thee I fear.,363,19000
643342,2298,"Thou shalt have cause to fear before I leave thee.
What, are ye daunted now? now will ye stoop?",1245,19000
643343,2300,"My gracious lord, entreat him, speak him fair.",422,19000
643344,2301,"Suffolk's imperial tongue is stern and rough,
Used to command, untaught to plead for favour.
Far be it we should honour such as these
With humble suit: no, rather let my head
Stoop to the block than these knees bow to any
Save to the God of heaven and to my king;
And sooner dance upon a bloody pole
Than stand uncover'd to the vulgar groom.
True nobility is exempt from fear:
More can I bear than you dare execute.",363,19000
643345,2311,"Hale him away, and let him talk no more.",218,19000
643346,2312,"Come, soldiers, show what cruelty ye can,
That this my death may never be forgot!
Great men oft die by vile bezonians:
A Roman sworder and banditto slave
Murder'd sweet Tully; Brutus' bastard hand
Stabb'd Julius Caesar; savage islanders
Pompey the Great; and Suffolk dies by pirates.",363,19000
643347,2319,[Exeunt Whitmore and others with Suffolk],1261,19000
643348,2320,"And as for these whose ransom we have set,
It is our pleasure one of them depart;
Therefore come you with us and let him go.",218,19000
643349,2323,[Exeunt all but the First Gentleman],1261,19000
643350,2324,[Re-enter WHITMORE with SUFFOLK's body],1261,19000
643351,2325,"There let his head and lifeless body lie,
Until the queen his mistress bury it.",1245,19000
643352,2327,[Exit],1261,19000
643353,2328,"O barbarous and bloody spectacle!
His body will I bear unto the king:
If he revenge it not, yet will his friends;
So will the queen, that living held him dear.",422,19000
643354,2332,[Exit with the body],1261,19000
643355,2335,[Enter GEORGE BEVIS and JOHN HOLLAND],1261,19001
643356,2336,"Come, and get thee a sword, though made of a lath;
they have been up these two days.",165,19001
643357,2338,"They have the more need to sleep now, then.",615,19001
643358,2339,"I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress
the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.",165,19001
643359,2341,"So he had need, for 'tis threadbare. Well, I say it
was never merry world in England since gentlemen came up.",615,19001
643360,2343,O miserable age! virtue is not regarded in handicrafts-men.,165,19001
643361,2344,The nobility think scorn to go in leather aprons.,615,19001
643362,2345,"Nay, more, the king's council are no good workmen.",165,19001
643363,2346,"True; and yet it is said, labour in thy vocation;
which is as much to say as, let the magistrates be
labouring men; and therefore should we be
magistrates.",615,19001
643364,2350,"Thou hast hit it; for there's no better sign of a
brave mind than a hard hand.",165,19001
643365,2352,"I see them! I see them! there's Best's son, the
tanner of Wingham,--",615,19001
643366,2354,"He shall have the skin of our enemies, to make
dog's-leather of.",165,19001
643367,2356,"And Dick the Butcher,--",615,19001
643368,2357,"Then is sin struck down like an ox, and iniquity's
throat cut like a calf.",165,19001
643369,2359,"And Smith the weaver,--",615,19001
643370,2360,"Argo, their thread of life is spun.",165,19001
643371,2361,"Come, come, let's fall in with them.
[Drum. Enter CADE, DICK the Butcher, SMITH the]
Weaver, and a Sawyer, with infinite numbers]",615,19001
643372,2364,"We John Cade, so termed of our supposed father,--",606,19001
643373,2365,"[Aside] Or rather, of stealing a cade of herrings.",314,19001
643374,2366,"For our enemies shall fall before us, inspired with
the spirit of putting down kings and princes,
--Command silence.",606,19001
643375,2369,Silence!,314,19001
643376,2370,"My father was a Mortimer,--",606,19001
643377,2371,"[Aside] He was an honest man, and a good
bricklayer.",314,19001
643378,2373,"My mother a Plantagenet,--",606,19001
643379,2374,[Aside] I knew her well; she was a midwife.,314,19001
643380,2375,"My wife descended of the Lacies,--",606,19001
643381,2376,"[Aside] She was, indeed, a pedler's daughter, and
sold many laces.",314,19001
643382,2378,"[Aside] But now of late, notable to travel with her
furred pack, she washes bucks here at home.",1125,19001
643383,2380,Therefore am I of an honourable house.,606,19001
643384,2381,"[Aside] Ay, by my faith, the field is honourable;
and there was he borne, under a hedge, for his
father had never a house but the cage.",314,19001
643385,2384,Valiant I am.,606,19001
643386,2385,[Aside] A' must needs; for beggary is valiant.,1125,19001
643387,2386,I am able to endure much.,606,19001
643388,2387,"[Aside] No question of that; for I have seen him
whipped three market-days together.",314,19001
643389,2389,I fear neither sword nor fire.,606,19001
643390,2390,[Aside] He need not fear the sword; for his coat is of proof.,1125,19001
643391,2391,"[Aside] But methinks he should stand in fear of
fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep.",314,19001
643392,2393,"Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows
reformation. There shall be in England seven
halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped
pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony
to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in
common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to
grass: and when I am king, as king I will be,--",606,19001
643393,2400,God save your majesty!,77,19001
643394,2401,"I thank you, good people: there shall be no money;
all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will
apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree
like brothers and worship me their lord.",606,19001
643395,2405,"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.",314,19001
643396,2406,"Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable
thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should
be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled
o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings:
but I say, 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal
once to a thing, and I was never mine own man
since. How now! who's there?",606,19001
643397,2413,"[Enter some, bringing forward the Clerk of Chatham]",1261,19001
643398,2414,"The clerk of Chatham: he can write and read and
cast accompt.",1125,19001
643399,2416,O monstrous!,606,19001
643400,2417,We took him setting of boys' copies.,1125,19001
643401,2418,Here's a villain!,606,19001
643402,2419,Has a book in his pocket with red letters in't.,1125,19001
643403,2420,"Nay, then, he is a conjurer.",606,19001
643404,2421,"Nay, he can make obligations, and write court-hand.",314,19001
643405,2422,"I am sorry for't: the man is a proper man, of mine
honour; unless I find him guilty, he shall not die.
Come hither, sirrah, I must examine thee: what is thy name?",606,19001
643406,2425,Emmanuel.,263,19001
643407,2426,"They use to write it on the top of letters: 'twill
go hard with you.",314,19001
643408,2428,"Let me alone. Dost thou use to write thy name? or
hast thou a mark to thyself, like an honest
plain-dealing man?",606,19001
643409,2431,"Sir, I thank God, I have been so well brought up
that I can write my name.",263,19001
643410,2433,"He hath confessed: away with him! he's a villain
and a traitor.",77,19001
643411,2435,"Away with him, I say! hang him with his pen and
ink-horn about his neck.",606,19001
643412,2437,[Exit one with the Clerk],1261,19001
643413,2438,[Enter MICHAEL],1261,19001
643414,2439,Where's our general?,793,19001
643415,2440,"Here I am, thou particular fellow.",606,19001
643416,2441,"Fly, fly, fly! Sir Humphrey Stafford and his
brother are hard by, with the king's forces.",793,19001
643417,2443,"Stand, villain, stand, or I'll fell thee down. He
shall be encountered with a man as good as himself:
he is but a knight, is a'?",606,19001
643418,2446,No.,793,19001
643419,2447,"To equal him, I will make myself a knight presently.
[Kneels]
Rise up Sir John Mortimer.
[Rises]
Now have at him!
[Enter SIR HUMPHREY and WILLIAM STAFFORD, with]
drum and soldiers]",606,19001
643420,2454,"Rebellious hinds, the filth and scum of Kent,
Mark'd for the gallows, lay your weapons down;
Home to your cottages, forsake this groom:
The king is merciful, if you revolt.",1101,19001
643421,2458,"But angry, wrathful, and inclined to blood,
If you go forward; therefore yield, or die.",1257,19001
643422,2460,"As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not:
It is to you, good people, that I speak,
Over whom, in time to come, I hope to reign;
For I am rightful heir unto the crown.",606,19001
643423,2464,"Villain, thy father was a plasterer;
And thou thyself a shearman, art thou not?",1101,19001
643424,2466,And Adam was a gardener.,606,19001
643425,2467,And what of that?,1257,19001
643426,2468,"Marry, this: Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March.
Married the Duke of Clarence' daughter, did he not?",606,19001
643427,2470,"Ay, sir.",1101,19001
643428,2471,By her he had two children at one birth.,606,19001
643429,2472,That's false.,1257,19001
643430,2473,"Ay, there's the question; but I say, 'tis true:
The elder of them, being put to nurse,
Was by a beggar-woman stolen away;
And, ignorant of his birth and parentage,
Became a bricklayer when he came to age:
His son am I; deny it, if you can.",606,19001
643431,2479,"Nay, 'tis too true; therefore he shall be king.",314,19001
643432,2480,"Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and
the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;
therefore deny it not.",1125,19001
643433,2483,"And will you credit this base drudge's words,
That speaks he knows not what?",1101,19001
643434,2485,"Ay, marry, will we; therefore get ye gone.",77,19001
643435,2486,"Jack Cade, the Duke of York hath taught you this.",1257,19001
643436,2487,"[Aside] He lies, for I invented it myself.
Go to, sirrah, tell the king from me, that, for his
father's sake, Henry the Fifth, in whose time boys
went to span-counter for French crowns, I am content
he shall reign; but I'll be protector over him.",606,19001
643437,2492,"And furthermore, well have the Lord Say's head for
selling the dukedom of Maine.",314,19001
643438,2494,"And good reason; for thereby is England mained, and
fain to go with a staff, but that my puissance holds
it up. Fellow kings, I tell you that that Lord Say
hath gelded the commonwealth, and made it an eunuch:
and more than that, he can speak French; and
therefore he is a traitor.",606,19001
643439,2500,O gross and miserable ignorance!,1101,19001
643440,2501,"Nay, answer, if you can: the Frenchmen are our
enemies; go to, then, I ask but this: can he that
speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good
counsellor, or no?",606,19001
643441,2505,"No, no; and therefore we'll have his head.",77,19001
643442,2506,"Well, seeing gentle words will not prevail,
Assail them with the army of the king.",1257,19001
643443,2508,"Herald, away; and throughout every town
Proclaim them traitors that are up with Cade;
That those which fly before the battle ends
May, even in their wives' and children's sight,
Be hang'd up for example at their doors:
And you that be the king's friends, follow me.",1101,19001
643444,2514,"[Exeunt WILLIAM STAFFORD and SIR HUMPHREY, and soldiers]",1261,19001
643445,2515,"And you that love the commons, follow me.
Now show yourselves men; 'tis for liberty.
We will not leave one lord, one gentleman:
Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon;
For they are thrifty honest men, and such
As would, but that they dare not, take our parts.",606,19001
643446,2521,They are all in order and march toward us.,314,19001
643447,2522,"But then are we in order when we are most
out of order. Come, march forward.",606,19001
643448,2524,"[Exeunt]
[Alarums to the fight, wherein SIR HUMPHREY and]
WILLIAM STAFFORD are slain. Enter CADE and the rest]",1261,19001
643449,2529,"Where's Dick, the butcher of Ashford?",606,19002
643450,2530,"Here, sir.",314,19002
643451,2531,"They fell before thee like sheep and oxen, and thou
behavedst thyself as if thou hadst been in thine own
slaughter-house: therefore thus will I reward thee,
the Lent shall be as long again as it is; and thou
shalt have a licence to kill for a hundred lacking
one.",606,19002
643452,2537,I desire no more.,314,19002
643453,2538,"And, to speak truth, thou deservest no less. This
monument of the victory will I bear;
[Putting on SIR HUMPHREY'S brigandine]
and the bodies shall be dragged at my horse' heels
till I do come to London, where we will have the
mayor's sword borne before us.",606,19002
643454,2544,"If we mean to thrive and do good, break open the
gaols and let out the prisoners.",314,19002
643455,2546,"Fear not that, I warrant thee. Come, let's march
towards London.",606,19002
643456,2548,"[Exeunt]
[Enter KING HENRY VI with a supplication, and the]
QUEEN with SUFFOLK'S head, BUCKINGHAM and Lord SAY]",1261,19002
643457,2553,"Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,
And makes it fearful and degenerate;
Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.
But who can cease to weep and look on this?
Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast:
But where's the body that I should embrace?",736,19003
643458,2559,"What answer makes your grace to the rebels'
supplication?",343,19003
643459,2561,"I'll send some holy bishop to entreat;
For God forbid so many simple souls
Should perish by the sword! And I myself,
Rather than bloody war shall cut them short,
Will parley with Jack Cade their general:
But stay, I'll read it over once again.",574,19003
643460,2567,"Ah, barbarous villains! hath this lovely face
Ruled, like a wandering planet, over me,
And could it not enforce them to relent,
That were unworthy to behold the same?",736,19003
643461,2571,"Lord Say, Jack Cade hath sworn to have thy head.",574,19003
643462,2572,"Ay, but I hope your highness shall have his.",694,19003
643463,2573,"How now, madam!
Still lamenting and mourning for Suffolk's death?
I fear me, love, if that I had been dead,
Thou wouldst not have mourn'd so much for me.",574,19003
643464,2577,"No, my love, I should not mourn, but die for thee.",736,19003
643465,2578,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19003
643466,2579,How now! what news? why comest thou in such haste?,574,19003
643467,2580,"The rebels are in Southwark; fly, my lord!
Jack Cade proclaims himself Lord Mortimer,
Descended from the Duke of Clarence' house,
And calls your grace usurper openly
And vows to crown himself in Westminster.
His army is a ragged multitude
Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless:
Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother's death
Hath given them heart and courage to proceed:
All scholars, lawyers, courtiers, gentlemen,
They call false caterpillars, and intend their death.",776,19003
643468,2591,O graceless men! they know not what they do.,574,19003
643469,2592,"My gracious lord, return to Killingworth,
Until a power be raised to put them down.",343,19003
643470,2594,"Ah, were the Duke of Suffolk now alive,
These Kentish rebels would be soon appeased!",736,19003
643471,2596,"Lord Say, the traitors hate thee;
Therefore away with us to Killingworth.",574,19003
643472,2598,"So might your grace's person be in danger.
The sight of me is odious in their eyes;
And therefore in this city will I stay
And live alone as secret as I may.",694,19003
643473,2602,[Enter another Messenger],1261,19003
643474,2603,"Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge:
The citizens fly and forsake their houses:
The rascal people, thirsting after prey,
Join with the traitor, and they jointly swear
To spoil the city and your royal court.",776,19003
643475,2608,"Then linger not, my lord, away, take horse.",343,19003
643476,2609,"Come, Margaret; God, our hope, will succor us.",574,19003
643477,2610,"My hope is gone, now Suffolk is deceased.",736,19003
643478,2611,"Farewell, my lord: trust not the Kentish rebels.",574,19003
643479,2612,"Trust nobody, for fear you be betray'd.",343,19003
643480,2613,"The trust I have is in mine innocence,
And therefore am I bold and resolute.",694,19003
643481,2615,"[Exeunt]
[Enter SCALES upon the Tower, walking.]
Then enter two or three Citizens below]",1261,19003
643482,2620,How now! is Jack Cade slain?,695,19004
643483,2621,"No, my lord, nor likely to be slain; for they have
won the bridge, killing all those that withstand
them: the lord mayor craves aid of your honour from
the Tower, to defend the city from the rebels.",410,19004
643484,2625,"Such aid as I can spare you shall command;
But I am troubled here with them myself;
The rebels have assay'd to win the Tower.
But get you to Smithfield, and gather head,
And thither I will send you Matthew Goffe;
Fight for your king, your country and your lives;
And so, farewell, for I must hence again.",695,19004
643485,2632,"[Exeunt]
[Enter CADE and the rest, and strikes his staff on]
London-stone]",1261,19004
643486,2637,"Now is Mortimer lord of this city. And here, sitting
upon London-stone, I charge and command that, of the
city's cost, the pissing-conduit run nothing but
claret wine this first year of our reign. And now
henceforward it shall be treason for any that calls
me other than Lord Mortimer.",606,19005
643487,2643,"[Enter a Soldier, running]",1261,19005
643488,2644,Jack Cade! Jack Cade!,1131,19005
643489,2645,Knock him down there.,606,19005
643490,2646,[They kill him],1261,19005
643491,2647,"If this fellow be wise, he'll never call ye Jack
Cade more: I think he hath a very fair warning.",1125,19005
643492,2649,"My lord, there's an army gathered together in
Smithfield.",314,19005
643493,2651,"Come, then, let's go fight with them; but first, go
and set London bridge on fire; and, if you can, burn
down the Tower too. Come, let's away.",606,19005
643494,2654,"[Exeunt]
[Alarums. MATTHEW GOFFE is slain, and all the rest.]
Then enter CADE, with his company.",1261,19005
643495,2659,"So, sirs: now go some and pull down the Savoy;
others to the inns of court; down with them all.",606,19006
643496,2661,I have a suit unto your lordship.,314,19006
643497,2662,"Be it a lordship, thou shalt have it for that word.",606,19006
643498,2663,Only that the laws of England may come out of your mouth.,314,19006
643499,2664,"[Aside] Mass, 'twill be sore law, then; for he was
thrust in the mouth with a spear, and 'tis not whole
yet.",615,19006
643500,2667,"[Aside] Nay, John, it will be stinking law for his
breath stinks with eating toasted cheese.",1125,19006
643501,2669,"I have thought upon it, it shall be so. Away, burn
all the records of the realm: my mouth shall be
the parliament of England.",606,19006
643502,2672,"[Aside] Then we are like to have biting statutes,
unless his teeth be pulled out.",615,19006
643503,2674,And henceforward all things shall be in common.,606,19006
643504,2675,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19006
643505,2676,"My lord, a prize, a prize! here's the Lord Say,
which sold the towns in France; he that made us pay
one and twenty fifteens, and one shilling to the
pound, the last subsidy.",776,19006
643506,2680,"[Enter BEVIS, with Lord SAY]",1261,19006
643507,2681,"Well, he shall be beheaded for it ten times. Ah,
thou say, thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord! now
art thou within point-blank of our jurisdiction
regal. What canst thou answer to my majesty for
giving up of Normandy unto Mounsieur Basimecu, the
dauphin of France? Be it known unto thee by these
presence, even the presence of Lord Mortimer, that I
am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such
filth as thou art. Thou hast most traitorously
corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a
grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers
had no other books but the score and the tally, thou
hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to
the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a
paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou
hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and
a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian
ear can endure to hear. Thou hast appointed
justices of peace, to call poor men before them
about matters they were not able to answer.
Moreover, thou hast put them in prison; and because
they could not read, thou hast hanged them; when,
indeed, only for that cause they have been most
worthy to live. Thou dost ride in a foot-cloth, dost thou not?",606,19006
643508,2705,What of that?,694,19006
643509,2706,"Marry, thou oughtest not to let thy horse wear a
cloak, when honester men than thou go in their hose
and doublets.",606,19006
643510,2709,"And work in their shirt too; as myself, for example,
that am a butcher.",314,19006
643511,2711,"You men of Kent,--",694,19006
643512,2712,What say you of Kent?,314,19006
643513,2713,"Nothing but this; 'tis 'bona terra, mala gens.'",694,19006
643514,2714,"Away with him, away with him! he speaks Latin.",606,19006
643515,2715,"Hear me but speak, and bear me where you will.
Kent, in the Commentaries Caesar writ,
Is term'd the civil'st place of this isle:
Sweet is the country, because full of riches;
The people liberal, valiant, active, wealthy;
Which makes me hope you are not void of pity.
I sold not Maine, I lost not Normandy,
Yet, to recover them, would lose my life.
Justice with favour have I always done;
Prayers and tears have moved me, gifts could never.
When have I aught exacted at your hands,
But to maintain the king, the realm and you?
Large gifts have I bestow'd on learned clerks,
Because my book preferr'd me to the king,
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven,
Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits,
You cannot but forbear to murder me:
This tongue hath parley'd unto foreign kings
For your behoof,--",694,19006
643516,2735,"Tut, when struck'st thou one blow in the field?",606,19006
643517,2736,"Great men have reaching hands: oft have I struck
Those that I never saw and struck them dead.",694,19006
643518,2738,"O monstrous coward! what, to come behind folks?",165,19006
643519,2739,These cheeks are pale for watching for your good.,694,19006
643520,2740,Give him a box o' the ear and that will make 'em red again.,606,19006
643521,2741,"Long sitting to determine poor men's causes
Hath made me full of sickness and diseases.",694,19006
643522,2743,"Ye shall have a hempen caudle, then, and the help of hatchet.",606,19006
643523,2744,"Why dost thou quiver, man?",314,19006
643524,2745,"The palsy, and not fear, provokes me.",694,19006
643525,2746,"Nay, he nods at us, as who should say, I'll be even
with you: I'll see if his head will stand steadier
on a pole, or no. Take him away, and behead him.",606,19006
643526,2749,"Tell me wherein have I offended most?
Have I affected wealth or honour? speak.
Are my chests fill'd up with extorted gold?
Is my apparel sumptuous to behold?
Whom have I injured, that ye seek my death?
These hands are free from guiltless bloodshedding,
This breast from harbouring foul deceitful thoughts.
O, let me live!",694,19006
643527,2757,"[Aside] I feel remorse in myself with his words;
but I'll bridle it: he shall die, an it be but for
pleading so well for his life. Away with him! he
has a familiar under his tongue; he speaks not o'
God's name. Go, take him away, I say, and strike
off his head presently; and then break into his
son-in-law's house, Sir James Cromer, and strike off
his head, and bring them both upon two poles hither.",606,19006
643528,2765,It shall be done.,77,19006
643529,2766,"Ah, countrymen! if when you make your prayers,
God should be so obdurate as yourselves,
How would it fare with your departed souls?
And therefore yet relent, and save my life.",694,19006
643530,2770,"Away with him! and do as I command ye.
[Exeunt some with Lord SAY]
The proudest peer in the realm shall not wear a head
on his shoulders, unless he pay me tribute; there
shall not a maid be married, but she shall pay to me
her maidenhead ere they have it: men shall hold of
me in capite; and we charge and command that their
wives be as free as heart can wish or tongue can tell.",606,19006
643531,2778,"My lord, when shall we go to Cheapside and take up
commodities upon our bills?",314,19006
643532,2780,"Marry, presently.",606,19006
643533,2781,"O, brave!",77,19006
643534,2782,[Re-enter one with the heads],1261,19006
643535,2783,"But is not this braver? Let them kiss one another,
for they loved well when they were alive. Now part
them again, lest they consult about the giving up of
some more towns in France. Soldiers, defer the
spoil of the city until night: for with these borne
before us, instead of maces, will we ride through
the streets, and at every corner have them kiss. Away!",606,19006
643536,2790,"[Exeunt]
[Alarum and retreat. Enter CADE and all his]
rabblement]",1261,19006
643537,2795,"Up Fish Street! down Saint Magnus' Corner! Kill
and knock down! throw them into Thames!
[Sound a parley]
What noise is this I hear? Dare any be so bold to
sound retreat or parley, when I command them kill?",606,19007
643538,2800,"[Enter BUCKINGHAM and CLIFFORD, attended]",1261,19007
643539,2801,"Ay, here they be that dare and will disturb thee:
Know, Cade, we come ambassadors from the king
Unto the commons whom thou hast misled;
And here pronounce free pardon to them all
That will forsake thee and go home in peace.",343,19007
643540,2806,"What say ye, countrymen? will ye relent,
And yield to mercy whilst 'tis offer'd you;
Or let a rebel lead you to your deaths?
Who loves the king and will embrace his pardon,
Fling up his cap, and say 'God save his majesty!'
Who hateth him and honours not his father,
Henry the Fifth, that made all France to quake,
Shake he his weapon at us and pass by.",680,19007
643541,2814,God save the king! God save the king!,77,19007
643542,2815,"What, Buckingham and Clifford, are ye so brave? And
you, base peasants, do ye believe him? will you
needs be hanged with your pardons about your necks?
Hath my sword therefore broke through London gates,
that you should leave me at the White Hart in
Southwark? I thought ye would never have given out
these arms till you had recovered your ancient
freedom: but you are all recreants and dastards,
and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Let
them break your backs with burthens, take your
houses over your heads, ravish your wives and
daughters before your faces: for me, I will make
shift for one; and so, God's curse light upon you
all!",606,19007
643543,2829,"We'll follow Cade, we'll follow Cade!",77,19007
643544,2830,"Is Cade the son of Henry the Fifth,
That thus you do exclaim you'll go with him?
Will he conduct you through the heart of France,
And make the meanest of you earls and dukes?
Alas, he hath no home, no place to fly to;
Nor knows he how to live but by the spoil,
Unless by robbing of your friends and us.
Were't not a shame, that whilst you live at jar,
The fearful French, whom you late vanquished,
Should make a start o'er seas and vanquish you?
Methinks already in this civil broil
I see them lording it in London streets,
Crying 'Villiago!' unto all they meet.
Better ten thousand base-born Cades miscarry
Than you should stoop unto a Frenchman's mercy.
To France, to France, and get what you have lost;
Spare England, for it is your native coast;
Henry hath money, you are strong and manly;
God on our side, doubt not of victory.",680,19007
643545,2849,A Clifford! a Clifford! we'll follow the king and Clifford.,77,19007
643546,2850,"Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this
multitude? The name of Henry the Fifth hales them
to an hundred mischiefs, and makes them leave me
desolate. I see them lay their heads together to
surprise me. My sword make way for me, for here is
no staying. In despite of the devils and hell, have
through the very middest of you? and heavens and
honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me.
but only my followers' base and ignominious
treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.",606,19007
643547,2860,[Exit],1261,19007
643548,2861,"What, is he fled? Go some, and follow him;
And he that brings his head unto the king
Shall have a thousand crowns for his reward.
[Exeunt some of them]
Follow me, soldiers: we'll devise a mean
To reconcile you all unto the king.",343,19007
643549,2867,"[Exeunt]
[Sound Trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN]
MARGARET, and SOMERSET, on the terrace]",1261,19007
643550,2872,"Was ever king that joy'd an earthly throne,
And could command no more content than I?
No sooner was I crept out of my cradle
But I was made a king, at nine months old.
Was never subject long'd to be a king
As I do long and wish to be a subject.",574,19008
643551,2878,[Enter BUCKINGHAM and CLIFFORD],1261,19008
643552,2879,Health and glad tidings to your majesty!,343,19008
643553,2880,"Why, Buckingham, is the traitor Cade surprised?
Or is he but retired to make him strong?
[Enter below, multitudes, with halters about]
their necks]",574,19008
643554,2884,"He is fled, my lord, and all his powers do yield;
And humbly thus, with halters on their necks,
Expect your highness' doom of life or death.",680,19008
643555,2887,"Then, heaven, set ope thy everlasting gates,
To entertain my vows of thanks and praise!
Soldiers, this day have you redeemed your lives,
And show'd how well you love your prince and country:
Continue still in this so good a mind,
And Henry, though he be infortunate,
Assure yourselves, will never be unkind:
And so, with thanks and pardon to you all,
I do dismiss you to your several countries.",574,19008
643556,2896,God save the king! God save the king!,77,19008
643557,2897,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19008
643558,2898,"Please it your grace to be advertised
The Duke of York is newly come from Ireland,
And with a puissant and a mighty power
Of gallowglasses and stout kerns
Is marching hitherward in proud array,
And still proclaimeth, as he comes along,
His arms are only to remove from thee
The Duke of Somerset, whom he terms traitor.",776,19008
643559,2906,"Thus stands my state, 'twixt Cade and York distress'd.
Like to a ship that, having 'scaped a tempest,
Is straightway calm'd and boarded with a pirate:
But now is Cade driven back, his men dispersed;
And now is York in arms to second him.
I pray thee, Buckingham, go and meet him,
And ask him what's the reason of these arms.
Tell him I'll send Duke Edmund to the Tower;
And, Somerset, we'll commit thee thither,
Until his army be dismiss'd from him.",574,19008
643560,2916,"My lord,
I'll yield myself to prison willingly,
Or unto death, to do my country good.",1137,19008
643561,2919,"In any case, be not too rough in terms;
For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language.",574,19008
643562,2921,"I will, my lord; and doubt not so to deal
As all things shall redound unto your good.",343,19008
643563,2923,"Come, wife, let's in, and learn to govern better;
For yet may England curse my wretched reign.",574,19008
643564,2925,[Flourish. Exeunt],1261,19008
643565,2928,[Enter CADE],1261,19009
643566,2929,"Fie on ambition! fie on myself, that have a sword,
and yet am ready to famish! These five days have I
hid me in these woods and durst not peep out, for
all the country is laid for me; but now am I so
hungry that if I might have a lease of my life for a
thousand years I could stay no longer. Wherefore,
on a brick wall have I climbed into this garden, to
see if I can eat grass, or pick a sallet another
while, which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach
this hot weather. And I think this word 'sallet'
was born to do me good: for many a time, but for a
sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown
bill; and many a time, when I have been dry and
bravely marching, it hath served me instead of a
quart pot to drink in; and now the word 'sallet'
must serve me to feed on.",606,19009
643567,2945,[Enter IDEN],1261,19009
643568,2946,"Lord, who would live turmoiled in the court,
And may enjoy such quiet walks as these?
This small inheritance my father left me
Contenteth me, and worth a monarchy.
I seek not to wax great by others' waning,
Or gather wealth, I care not, with what envy:
Sufficeth that I have maintains my state
And sends the poor well pleased from my gate.",65,19009
643569,2954,"Here's the lord of the soil come to seize me for a
stray, for entering his fee-simple without leave.
Ah, villain, thou wilt betray me, and get a thousand
crowns of the king carrying my head to him: but
I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow
my sword like a great pin, ere thou and I part.",606,19009
643570,2960,"Why, rude companion, whatsoe'er thou be,
I know thee not; why, then, should I betray thee?
Is't not enough to break into my garden,
And, like a thief, to come to rob my grounds,
Climbing my walls in spite of me the owner,
But thou wilt brave me with these saucy terms?",65,19009
643571,2966,"Brave thee! ay, by the best blood that ever was
broached, and beard thee too. Look on me well: I
have eat no meat these five days; yet, come thou and
thy five men, and if I do not leave you all as dead
as a doornail, I pray God I may never eat grass more.",606,19009
643572,2971,"Nay, it shall ne'er be said, while England stands,
That Alexander Iden, an esquire of Kent,
Took odds to combat a poor famish'd man.
Oppose thy steadfast-gazing eyes to mine,
See if thou canst outface me with thy looks:
Set limb to limb, and thou art far the lesser;
Thy hand is but a finger to my fist,
Thy leg a stick compared with this truncheon;
My foot shall fight with all the strength thou hast;
And if mine arm be heaved in the air,
Thy grave is digg'd already in the earth.
As for words, whose greatness answers words,
Let this my sword report what speech forbears.",65,19009
643573,2984,"By my valour, the most complete champion that ever I
heard! Steel, if thou turn the edge, or cut not out
the burly-boned clown in chines of beef ere thou
sleep in thy sheath, I beseech God on my knees thou
mayst be turned to hobnails.
[Here they fight. CADE falls]
O, I am slain! famine and no other hath slain me:
let ten thousand devils come against me, and give me
but the ten meals I have lost, and I'll defy them
all. Wither, garden; and be henceforth a
burying-place to all that do dwell in this house,
because the unconquered soul of Cade is fled.",606,19009
643574,2996,"Is't Cade that I have slain, that monstrous traitor?
Sword, I will hollow thee for this thy deed,
And hang thee o'er my tomb when I am dead:
Ne'er shall this blood be wiped from thy point;
But thou shalt wear it as a herald's coat,
To emblaze the honour that thy master got.",65,19009
643575,3002,"Iden, farewell, and be proud of thy victory. Tell
Kent from me, she hath lost her best man, and exhort
all the world to be cowards; for I, that never
feared any, am vanquished by famine, not by valour.",606,19009
643576,3006,[Dies],1261,19009
643577,3007,"How much thou wrong'st me, heaven be my judge.
Die, damned wretch, the curse of her that bare thee;
And as I thrust thy body in with my sword,
So wish I, I might thrust thy soul to hell.
Hence will I drag thee headlong by the heels
Unto a dunghill which shall be thy grave,
And there cut off thy most ungracious head;
Which I will bear in triumph to the king,
Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon.",65,19009
643578,3016,"[Exit]
[Enter YORK, and his army of Irish, with drum]
and colours]",1261,19009
643579,3021,"From Ireland thus comes York to claim his right,
And pluck the crown from feeble Henry's head:
Ring, bells, aloud; burn, bonfires, clear and bright,
To entertain great England's lawful king.
Ah! sancta majestas, who would not buy thee dear?
Let them obey that know not how to rule;
This hand was made to handle naught but gold.
I cannot give due action to my words,
Except a sword or sceptre balance it:
A sceptre shall it have, have I a soul,
On which I'll toss the flower-de-luce of France.
[Enter BUCKINGHAM]
Whom have we here? Buckingham, to disturb me?
The king hath sent him, sure: I must dissemble.",946,19010
643580,3035,"York, if thou meanest well, I greet thee well.",343,19010
643581,3036,"Humphrey of Buckingham, I accept thy greeting.
Art thou a messenger, or come of pleasure?",946,19010
643582,3038,"A messenger from Henry, our dread liege,
To know the reason of these arms in peace;
Or why thou, being a subject as I am,
Against thy oath and true allegiance sworn,
Should raise so great a power without his leave,
Or dare to bring thy force so near the court.",343,19010
643583,3044,"[Aside] Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great:
O, I could hew up rocks and fight with flint,
I am so angry at these abject terms;
And now, like Ajax Telamonius,
On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury.
I am far better born than is the king,
More like a king, more kingly in my thoughts:
But I must make fair weather yet a while,
Till Henry be more weak and I more strong,--
Buckingham, I prithee, pardon me,
That I have given no answer all this while;
My mind was troubled with deep melancholy.
The cause why I have brought this army hither
Is to remove proud Somerset from the king,
Seditious to his grace and to the state.",946,19010
643584,3059,"That is too much presumption on thy part:
But if thy arms be to no other end,
The king hath yielded unto thy demand:
The Duke of Somerset is in the Tower.",343,19010
643585,3063,"Upon thine honour, is he prisoner?",946,19010
643586,3064,"Upon mine honour, he is prisoner.",343,19010
643587,3065,"Then, Buckingham, I do dismiss my powers.
Soldiers, I thank you all; disperse yourselves;
Meet me to-morrow in St. George's field,
You shall have pay and every thing you wish.
And let my sovereign, virtuous Henry,
Command my eldest son, nay, all my sons,
As pledges of my fealty and love;
I'll send them all as willing as I live:
Lands, goods, horse, armour, any thing I have,
Is his to use, so Somerset may die.",946,19010
643588,3075,"York, I commend this kind submission:
We twain will go into his highness' tent.",343,19010
643589,3077,[Enter KING HENRY VI and Attendants],1261,19010
643590,3078,"Buckingham, doth York intend no harm to us,
That thus he marcheth with thee arm in arm?",574,19010
643591,3080,"In all submission and humility
York doth present himself unto your highness.",946,19010
643592,3082,Then what intends these forces thou dost bring?,574,19010
643593,3083,"To heave the traitor Somerset from hence,
And fight against that monstrous rebel Cade,
Who since I heard to be discomfited.",946,19010
643594,3086,"[Enter IDEN, with CADE'S head]",1261,19010
643595,3087,"If one so rude and of so mean condition
May pass into the presence of a king,
Lo, I present your grace a traitor's head,
The head of Cade, whom I in combat slew.",65,19010
643596,3091,"The head of Cade! Great God, how just art Thou!
O, let me view his visage, being dead,
That living wrought me such exceeding trouble.
Tell me, my friend, art thou the man that slew him?",574,19010
643597,3095,"I was, an't like your majesty.",65,19010
643598,3096,How art thou call'd? and what is thy degree?,574,19010
643599,3097,"Alexander Iden, that's my name;
A poor esquire of Kent, that loves his king.",65,19010
643600,3099,"So please it you, my lord, 'twere not amiss
He were created knight for his good service.",343,19010
643601,3101,"Iden, kneel down.
[He kneels]
Rise up a knight.
We give thee for reward a thousand marks,
And will that thou henceforth attend on us.",574,19010
643602,3106,"May Iden live to merit such a bounty.
And never live but true unto his liege!",65,19010
643603,3108,[Rises],1261,19010
643604,3109,[Enter QUEEN MARGARET and SOMERSET],1261,19010
643605,3110,"See, Buckingham, Somerset comes with the queen:
Go, bid her hide him quickly from the duke.",574,19010
643606,3112,"For thousand Yorks he shall not hide his head,
But boldly stand and front him to his face.",736,19010
643607,3114,"How now! is Somerset at liberty?
Then, York, unloose thy long-imprison'd thoughts,
And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart.
Shall I endure the sight of Somerset?
False king! why hast thou broken faith with me,
Knowing how hardly I can brook abuse?
King did I call thee? no, thou art not king,
Not fit to govern and rule multitudes,
Which darest not, no, nor canst not rule a traitor.
That head of thine doth not become a crown;
Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff,
And not to grace an awful princely sceptre.
That gold must round engirt these brows of mine,
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,
Is able with the change to kill and cure.
Here is a hand to hold a sceptre up
And with the same to act controlling laws.
Give place: by heaven, thou shalt rule no more
O'er him whom heaven created for thy ruler.",946,19010
643608,3133,"O monstrous traitor! I arrest thee, York,
Of capital treason 'gainst the king and crown;
Obey, audacious traitor; kneel for grace.",1137,19010
643609,3136,"Wouldst have me kneel? first let me ask of these,
If they can brook I bow a knee to man.
Sirrah, call in my sons to be my bail;
[Exit Attendant]
I know, ere they will have me go to ward,
They'll pawn their swords for my enfranchisement.",946,19010
643610,3142,"Call hither Clifford! bid him come amain,
To say if that the bastard boys of York
Shall be the surety for their traitor father.",736,19010
643611,3145,[Exit BUCKINGHAM],1261,19010
643612,3146,"O blood-besotted Neapolitan,
Outcast of Naples, England's bloody scourge!
The sons of York, thy betters in their birth,
Shall be their father's bail; and bane to those
That for my surety will refuse the boys!
[Enter EDWARD and RICHARD]
See where they come: I'll warrant they'll
make it good.",946,19010
643613,3154,[Enter CLIFFORD and YOUNG CLIFFORD],1261,19010
643614,3155,And here comes Clifford to deny their bail.,736,19010
643615,3156,Health and all happiness to my lord the king!,680,19010
643616,3157,[Kneels],1261,19010
643617,3158,"I thank thee, Clifford: say, what news with thee?
Nay, do not fright us with an angry look;
We are thy sovereign, Clifford, kneel again;
For thy mistaking so, we pardon thee.",946,19010
643618,3162,"This is my king, York, I do not mistake;
But thou mistakest me much to think I do:
To Bedlam with him! is the man grown mad?",680,19010
643619,3165,"Ay, Clifford; a bedlam and ambitious humour
Makes him oppose himself against his king.",574,19010
643620,3167,"He is a traitor; let him to the Tower,
And chop away that factious pate of his.",680,19010
643621,3169,"He is arrested, but will not obey;
His sons, he says, shall give their words for him.",736,19010
643622,3171,"Will you not, sons?",946,19010
643623,3172,"Ay, noble father, if our words will serve.",372,19010
643624,3173,"And if words will not, then our weapons shall.",947,19010
643625,3174,"Why, what a brood of traitors have we here!",680,19010
643626,3175,"Look in a glass, and call thy image so:
I am thy king, and thou a false-heart traitor.
Call hither to the stake my two brave bears,
That with the very shaking of their chains
They may astonish these fell-lurking curs:
Bid Salisbury and Warwick come to me.",946,19010
643627,3181,[Enter the WARWICK and SALISBURY],1261,19010
643628,3182,"Are these thy bears? we'll bait thy bears to death.
And manacle the bear-ward in their chains,
If thou darest bring them to the baiting place.",680,19010
643629,3185,"Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening cur
Run back and bite, because he was withheld;
Who, being suffer'd with the bear's fell paw,
Hath clapp'd his tail between his legs and cried:
And such a piece of service will you do,
If you oppose yourselves to match Lord Warwick.",947,19010
643630,3191,"Hence, heap of wrath, foul indigested lump,
As crooked in thy manners as thy shape!",680,19010
643631,3193,"Nay, we shall heat you thoroughly anon.",946,19010
643632,3194,"Take heed, lest by your heat you burn yourselves.",680,19010
643633,3195,"Why, Warwick, hath thy knee forgot to bow?
Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair,
Thou mad misleader of thy brain-sick son!
What, wilt thou on thy death-bed play the ruffian,
And seek for sorrow with thy spectacles?
O, where is faith? O, where is loyalty?
If it be banish'd from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?
Wilt thou go dig a grave to find out war,
And shame thine honourable age with blood?
Why art thou old, and want'st experience?
Or wherefore dost abuse it, if thou hast it?
For shame! in duty bend thy knee to me
That bows unto the grave with mickle age.",574,19010
643634,3209,"My lord, I have consider'd with myself
The title of this most renowned duke;
And in my conscience do repute his grace
The rightful heir to England's royal seat.",965,19010
643635,3213,Hast thou not sworn allegiance unto me?,574,19010
643636,3214,I have.,965,19010
643637,3215,Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath?,574,19010
643638,3216,"It is great sin to swear unto a sin,
But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
Who can be bound by any solemn vow
To do a murderous deed, to rob a man,
To force a spotless virgin's chastity,
To reave the orphan of his patrimony,
To wring the widow from her custom'd right,
And have no other reason for this wrong
But that he was bound by a solemn oath?",965,19010
643639,3225,A subtle traitor needs no sophister.,736,19010
643640,3226,"Call Buckingham, and bid him arm himself.",574,19010
643641,3227,"Call Buckingham, and all the friends thou hast,
I am resolved for death or dignity.",946,19010
643642,3229,"The first I warrant thee, if dreams prove true.",680,19010
643643,3230,"You were best to go to bed and dream again,
To keep thee from the tempest of the field.",1247,19010
643644,3232,"I am resolved to bear a greater storm
Than any thou canst conjure up to-day;
And that I'll write upon thy burgonet,
Might I but know thee by thy household badge.",680,19010
643645,3236,"Now, by my father's badge, old Nevil's crest,
The rampant bear chain'd to the ragged staff,
This day I'll wear aloft my burgonet,
As on a mountain top the cedar shows
That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm,
Even to affright thee with the view thereof.",1247,19010
643646,3242,"And from thy burgonet I'll rend thy bear
And tread it under foot with all contempt,
Despite the bear-ward that protects the bear.",680,19010
643647,3245,"And so to arms, victorious father,
To quell the rebels and their complices.",1263,19010
643648,3247,"Fie! charity, for shame! speak not in spite,
For you shall sup with Jesu Christ to-night.",947,19010
643649,3249,"Foul stigmatic, that's more than thou canst tell.",1263,19010
643650,3250,"If not in heaven, you'll surely sup in hell.",947,19010
643651,3251,[Exeunt severally],1261,19010
643652,3254,[Alarums to the battle. Enter WARWICK],1261,19011
643653,3255,"Clifford of Cumberland, 'tis Warwick calls:
And if thou dost not hide thee from the bear,
Now, when the angry trumpet sounds alarum
And dead men's cries do fill the empty air,
Clifford, I say, come forth and fight with me:
Proud northern lord, Clifford of Cumberland,
Warwick is hoarse with calling thee to arms.
[Enter YORK]
How now, my noble lord? what, all afoot?",1247,19011
643654,3264,"The deadly-handed Clifford slew my steed,
But match to match I have encounter'd him
And made a prey for carrion kites and crows
Even of the bonny beast he loved so well.",946,19011
643655,3268,[Enter CLIFFORD],1261,19011
643656,3269,Of one or both of us the time is come.,1247,19011
643657,3270,"Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,
For I myself must hunt this deer to death.",946,19011
643658,3272,"Then, nobly, York; 'tis for a crown thou fight'st.
As I intend, Clifford, to thrive to-day,
It grieves my soul to leave thee unassail'd.",1247,19011
643659,3275,[Exit],1261,19011
643660,3276,"What seest thou in me, York? why dost thou pause?",680,19011
643661,3277,"With thy brave bearing should I be in love,
But that thou art so fast mine enemy.",946,19011
643662,3279,"Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem,
But that 'tis shown ignobly and in treason.",680,19011
643663,3281,"So let it help me now against thy sword
As I in justice and true right express it.",946,19011
643664,3283,My soul and body on the action both!,680,19011
643665,3284,A dreadful lay! Address thee instantly.,946,19011
643666,3285,"[They fight, and CLIFFORD falls]",1261,19011
643667,3286,La fin couronne les oeuvres.,680,19011
643668,3287,[Dies],1261,19011
643669,3288,"Thus war hath given thee peace, for thou art still.
Peace with his soul, heaven, if it be thy will!",946,19011
643670,3290,[Exit],1261,19011
643671,3291,[Enter YOUNG CLIFFORD],1261,19011
643672,3292,"Shame and confusion! all is on the rout;
Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds
Where it should guard. O war, thou son of hell,
Whom angry heavens do make their minister
Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part
Hot coals of vengeance! Let no soldier fly.
He that is truly dedicate to war
Hath no self-love, nor he that loves himself
Hath not essentially but by circumstance
The name of valour.
[Seeing his dead father]
O, let the vile world end,
And the premised flames of the last day
Knit earth and heaven together!
Now let the general trumpet blow his blast,
Particularities and petty sounds
To cease! Wast thou ordain'd, dear father,
To lose thy youth in peace, and to achieve
The silver livery of advised age,
And, in thy reverence and thy chair-days, thus
To die in ruffian battle? Even at this sight
My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine,
It shall be stony. York not our old men spares;
No more will I their babes: tears virginal
Shall be to me even as the dew to fire,
And beauty that the tyrant oft reclaims
Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax.
Henceforth I will not have to do with pity:
Meet I an infant of the house of York,
Into as many gobbets will I cut it
As wild Medea young Absyrtus did:
In cruelty will I seek out my fame.
Come, thou new ruin of old Clifford's house:
As did AEneas old Anchises bear,
So bear I thee upon my manly shoulders;
But then AEneas bare a living load,
Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine.
[Exit, bearing off his father]
[Enter RICHARD and SOMERSET to fight. SOMERSET]
is killed]",1263,19011
643673,3332,"So, lie thou there;
For underneath an alehouse' paltry sign,
The Castle in Saint Alban's, Somerset
Hath made the wizard famous in his death.
Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful still:
Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.
[Exit]
[Fight: excursions. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN]
MARGARET, and others]",947,19011
643674,3341,"Away, my lord! you are slow; for shame, away!",736,19011
643675,3342,"Can we outrun the heavens? good Margaret, stay.",574,19011
643676,3343,"What are you made of? you'll nor fight nor fly:
Now is it manhood, wisdom and defence,
To give the enemy way, and to secure us
By what we can, which can no more but fly.
[Alarum afar off]
If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom
Of all our fortunes: but if we haply scape,
As well we may, if not through your neglect,
We shall to London get, where you are loved
And where this breach now in our fortunes made
May readily be stopp'd.",736,19011
643677,3354,[Re-enter YOUNG CLIFFORD],1261,19011
643678,3355,"But that my heart's on future mischief set,
I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly:
But fly you must; uncurable discomfit
Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts.
Away, for your relief! and we will live
To see their day and them our fortune give:
Away, my lord, away!",1263,19011
643679,3362,"[Exeunt]
[Alarum. Retreat. Enter YORK, RICHARD, WARWICK,]
and Soldiers, with drum and colours]",1261,19011
643680,3367,"Of Salisbury, who can report of him,
That winter lion, who in rage forgets
Aged contusions and all brush of time,
And, like a gallant in the brow of youth,
Repairs him with occasion? This happy day
Is not itself, nor have we won one foot,
If Salisbury be lost.",946,19012
643681,3374,"My noble father,
Three times to-day I holp him to his horse,
Three times bestrid him; thrice I led him off,
Persuaded him from any further act:
But still, where danger was, still there I met him;
And like rich hangings in a homely house,
So was his will in his old feeble body.
But, noble as he is, look where he comes.",947,19012
643682,3382,[Enter SALISBURY],1261,19012
643683,3383,"Now, by my sword, well hast thou fought to-day;
By the mass, so did we all. I thank you, Richard:
God knows how long it is I have to live;
And it hath pleased him that three times to-day
You have defended me from imminent death.
Well, lords, we have not got that which we have:
'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled,
Being opposites of such repairing nature.",965,19012
643684,3391,"I know our safety is to follow them;
For, as I hear, the king is fled to London,
To call a present court of parliament.
Let us pursue him ere the writs go forth.
What says Lord Warwick? shall we after them?",946,19012
643685,3396,"After them! nay, before them, if we can.
Now, by my faith, lords, 'twas a glorious day:
Saint Alban's battle won by famous York
Shall be eternized in all age to come.
Sound drums and trumpets, and to London all:
And more such days as these to us befall!",1247,19012
643686,3402,[Exeunt],1261,19012
643687,5,I wonder how the king escaped our hands.,1247,19013
643688,6,"While we pursued the horsemen of the north,
He slily stole away and left his men:
Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland,
Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat,
Cheer'd up the drooping army; and himself,
Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford, all abreast,
Charged our main battle's front, and breaking in
Were by the swords of common soldiers slain.",946,19013
643689,14,"Lord Stafford's father, Duke of Buckingham,
Is either slain or wounded dangerously;
I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:
That this is true, father, behold his blood.",372,19013
643690,18,"And, brother, here's the Earl of Wiltshire's blood,
Whom I encounter'd as the battles join'd.",745,19013
643691,20,Speak thou for me and tell them what I did.,945,19013
643692,21,[Throwing down SOMERSET's head],1261,19013
643693,22,"Richard hath best deserved of all my sons.
But is your grace dead, my Lord of Somerset?",946,19013
643694,24,Such hope have all the line of John of Gaunt!,350,19013
643695,25,Thus do I hope to shake King Henry's head.,945,19013
643696,26,"And so do I. Victorious Prince of York,
Before I see thee seated in that throne
Which now the house of Lancaster usurps,
I vow by heaven these eyes shall never close.
This is the palace of the fearful king,
And this the regal seat: possess it, York;
For this is thine and not King Henry's heirs'",1247,19013
643697,33,"Assist me, then, sweet Warwick, and I will;
For hither we have broken in by force.",946,19013
643698,35,We'll all assist you; he that flies shall die.,350,19013
643699,36,"Thanks, gentle Norfolk: stay by me, my lords;
And, soldiers, stay and lodge by me this night.",946,19013
643700,38,[They go up],1261,19013
643701,39,"And when the king comes, offer no violence,
Unless he seek to thrust you out perforce.",1247,19013
643702,41,"The queen this day here holds her parliament,
But little thinks we shall be of her council:
By words or blows here let us win our right.",946,19013
643703,44,"Arm'd as we are, let's stay within this house.",945,19013
643704,45,"The bloody parliament shall this be call'd,
Unless Plantagenet, Duke of York, be king,
And bashful Henry deposed, whose cowardice
Hath made us by-words to our enemies.",1247,19013
643705,49,"Then leave me not, my lords; be resolute;
I mean to take possession of my right.",946,19013
643706,51,"Neither the king, nor he that loves him best,
The proudest he that holds up Lancaster,
Dares stir a wing, if Warwick shake his bells.
I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares:
Resolve thee, Richard; claim the English crown.
[Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLIFFORD,]
NORTHUMBERLAND, WESTMORELAND, EXETER, and the rest]",1247,19013
643707,58,"My lords, look where the sturdy rebel sits,
Even in the chair of state: belike he means,
Back'd by the power of Warwick, that false peer,
To aspire unto the crown and reign as king.
Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father.
And thine, Lord Clifford; and you both have vow'd revenge
On him, his sons, his favourites and his friends.",574,19013
643708,65,"If I be not, heavens be revenged on me!",360,19013
643709,66,The hope thereof makes Clifford mourn in steel.,680,19013
643710,67,"What, shall we suffer this? let's pluck him down:
My heart for anger burns; I cannot brook it.",366,19013
643711,69,"Be patient, gentle Earl of Westmoreland.",574,19013
643712,70,"Patience is for poltroons, such as he:
He durst not sit there, had your father lived.
My gracious lord, here in the parliament
Let us assail the family of York.",680,19013
643713,74,"Well hast thou spoken, cousin: be it so.",360,19013
643714,75,"Ah, know you not the city favours them,
And they have troops of soldiers at their beck?",574,19013
643715,77,"But when the duke is slain, they'll quickly fly.",389,19013
643716,78,"Far be the thought of this from Henry's heart,
To make a shambles of the parliament-house!
Cousin of Exeter, frowns, words and threats
Shall be the war that Henry means to use.
Thou factious Duke of York, descend my throne,
and kneel for grace and mercy at my feet;
I am thy sovereign.",574,19013
643717,85,I am thine.,946,19013
643718,86,"For shame, come down: he made thee Duke of York.",389,19013
643719,87,"'Twas my inheritance, as the earldom was.",946,19013
643720,88,Thy father was a traitor to the crown.,389,19013
643721,89,"Exeter, thou art a traitor to the crown
In following this usurping Henry.",1247,19013
643722,91,Whom should he follow but his natural king?,680,19013
643723,92,"True, Clifford; and that's Richard Duke of York.",1247,19013
643724,93,"And shall I stand, and thou sit in my throne?",574,19013
643725,94,It must and shall be so: content thyself.,946,19013
643726,95,Be Duke of Lancaster; let him be king.,1247,19013
643727,96,"He is both king and Duke of Lancaster;
And that the Lord of Westmoreland shall maintain.",366,19013
643728,98,"And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget
That we are those which chased you from the field
And slew your fathers, and with colours spread
March'd through the city to the palace gates.",1247,19013
643729,102,"Yes, Warwick, I remember it to my grief;
And, by his soul, thou and thy house shall rue it.",360,19013
643730,104,"Plantagenet, of thee and these thy sons,
Thy kinsman and thy friends, I'll have more lives
Than drops of blood were in my father's veins.",366,19013
643731,107,"Urge it no more; lest that, instead of words,
I send thee, Warwick, such a messenger
As shall revenge his death before I stir.",680,19013
643732,110,Poor Clifford! how I scorn his worthless threats!,1247,19013
643733,111,"Will you we show our title to the crown?
If not, our swords shall plead it in the field.",946,19013
643734,113,"What title hast thou, traitor, to the crown?
Thy father was, as thou art, Duke of York;
Thy grandfather, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March:
I am the son of Henry the Fifth,
Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop
And seized upon their towns and provinces.",574,19013
643735,119,"Talk not of France, sith thou hast lost it all.",1247,19013
643736,120,"The lord protector lost it, and not I:
When I was crown'd I was but nine months old.",574,19013
643737,122,"You are old enough now, and yet, methinks, you lose.
Father, tear the crown from the usurper's head.",945,19013
643738,124,"Sweet father, do so; set it on your head.",372,19013
643739,125,"Good brother, as thou lovest and honourest arms,
Let's fight it out and not stand cavilling thus.",745,19013
643740,127,"Sound drums and trumpets, and the king will fly.",945,19013
643741,128,"Sons, peace!",946,19013
643742,129,"Peace, thou! and give King Henry leave to speak.",574,19013
643743,130,"Plantagenet shall speak first: hear him, lords;
And be you silent and attentive too,
For he that interrupts him shall not live.",1247,19013
643744,133,"Think'st thou that I will leave my kingly throne,
Wherein my grandsire and my father sat?
No: first shall war unpeople this my realm;
Ay, and their colours, often borne in France,
And now in England to our heart's great sorrow,
Shall be my winding-sheet. Why faint you, lords?
My title's good, and better far than his.",574,19013
643745,140,"Prove it, Henry, and thou shalt be king.",1247,19013
643746,141,Henry the Fourth by conquest got the crown.,574,19013
643749,145,What then?,946,19013
643750,146,"An if he may, then am I lawful king;
For Richard, in the view of many lords,
Resign'd the crown to Henry the Fourth,
Whose heir my father was, and I am his.",574,19013
643751,150,"He rose against him, being his sovereign,
And made him to resign his crown perforce.",946,19013
643752,152,"Suppose, my lords, he did it unconstrain'd,
Think you 'twere prejudicial to his crown?",1247,19013
643753,154,"No; for he could not so resign his crown
But that the next heir should succeed and reign.",389,19013
643754,156,"Art thou against us, Duke of Exeter?",574,19013
643755,157,"His is the right, and therefore pardon me.",389,19013
643756,158,"Why whisper you, my lords, and answer not?",946,19013
643757,159,My conscience tells me he is lawful king.,389,19013
643758,160,"[Aside] All will revolt from me, and turn to him.",574,19013
643759,161,"Plantagenet, for all the claim thou lay'st,
Think not that Henry shall be so deposed.",360,19013
643760,163,"Deposed he shall be, in despite of all.",1247,19013
643761,164,"Thou art deceived: 'tis not thy southern power,
Of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, nor of Kent,
Which makes thee thus presumptuous and proud,
Can set the duke up in despite of me.",360,19013
643762,168,"King Henry, be thy title right or wrong,
Lord Clifford vows to fight in thy defence:
May that ground gape and swallow me alive,
Where I shall kneel to him that slew my father!",680,19013
643763,172,"O Clifford, how thy words revive my heart!",574,19013
643764,173,"Henry of Lancaster, resign thy crown.
What mutter you, or what conspire you, lords?",946,19013
643765,175,"Do right unto this princely Duke of York,
Or I will fill the house with armed men,
And over the chair of state, where now he sits,
Write up his title with usurping blood.
[He stamps with his foot and the soldiers show]
themselves]",1247,19013
643766,181,"My Lord of Warwick, hear me but one word:
Let me for this my life-time reign as king.",574,19013
643767,183,"Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs,
And thou shalt reign in quiet while thou livest.",946,19013
643768,185,"I am content: Richard Plantagenet,
Enjoy the kingdom after my decease.",574,19013
643769,187,What wrong is this unto the prince your son!,680,19013
643770,188,What good is this to England and himself!,1247,19013
643771,189,"Base, fearful and despairing Henry!",366,19013
643772,190,How hast thou injured both thyself and us!,680,19013
643773,191,I cannot stay to hear these articles.,366,19013
643774,192,Nor I.,360,19013
643775,193,"Come, cousin, let us tell the queen these news.",680,19013
643776,194,"Farewell, faint-hearted and degenerate king,
In whose cold blood no spark of honour bides.",366,19013
643777,196,"Be thou a prey unto the house of York,
And die in bands for this unmanly deed!",360,19013
643778,198,"In dreadful war mayst thou be overcome,
Or live in peace abandon'd and despised!",680,19013
643779,200,"[Exeunt NORTHUMBERLAND, CLIFFORD, and WESTMORELAND]",1261,19013
643780,201,"Turn this way, Henry, and regard them not.",1247,19013
643781,202,They seek revenge and therefore will not yield.,389,19013
643782,203,"Ah, Exeter!",574,19013
643783,204,"Why should you sigh, my lord?",1247,19013
643784,205,"Not for myself, Lord Warwick, but my son,
Whom I unnaturally shall disinherit.
But be it as it may: I here entail
The crown to thee and to thine heirs for ever;
Conditionally, that here thou take an oath
To cease this civil war, and, whilst I live,
To honour me as thy king and sovereign,
And neither by treason nor hostility
To seek to put me down and reign thyself.",574,19013
643785,214,This oath I willingly take and will perform.,946,19013
643786,215,Long live King Henry! Plantagenet embrace him.,1247,19013
643787,216,And long live thou and these thy forward sons!,574,19013
643788,217,Now York and Lancaster are reconciled.,946,19013
643789,218,Accursed be he that seeks to make them foes!,389,19013
643790,219,[Sennet. Here they come down],1261,19013
643791,220,"Farewell, my gracious lord; I'll to my castle.",946,19013
643792,221,And I'll keep London with my soldiers.,1247,19013
643793,222,And I to Norfolk with my followers.,350,19013
643794,223,"And I unto the sea from whence I came.
[Exeunt YORK, EDWARD, EDMUND, GEORGE, RICHARD,]
WARWICK, NORFOLK, MONTAGUE, their Soldiers, and
Attendants]",745,19013
643795,227,"And I, with grief and sorrow, to the court.",574,19013
643796,228,[Enter QUEEN MARGARET and PRINCE EDWARD],1261,19013
643797,229,"Here comes the queen, whose looks bewray her anger:
I'll steal away.",389,19013
643798,231,"Exeter, so will I.",574,19013
643799,232,"Nay, go not from me; I will follow thee.",736,19013
643800,233,"Be patient, gentle queen, and I will stay.",574,19013
643801,234,"Who can be patient in such extremes?
Ah, wretched man! would I had died a maid
And never seen thee, never borne thee son,
Seeing thou hast proved so unnatural a father
Hath he deserved to lose his birthright thus?
Hadst thou but loved him half so well as I,
Or felt that pain which I did for him once,
Or nourish'd him as I did with my blood,
Thou wouldst have left thy dearest heart-blood there,
Rather than have that savage duke thine heir
And disinherited thine only son.",736,19013
643802,245,"Father, you cannot disinherit me:
If you be king, why should not I succeed?",916,19013
643803,247,"Pardon me, Margaret; pardon me, sweet son:
The Earl of Warwick and the duke enforced me.",574,19013
643804,249,"Enforced thee! art thou king, and wilt be forced?
I shame to hear thee speak. Ah, timorous wretch!
Thou hast undone thyself, thy son and me;
And given unto the house of York such head
As thou shalt reign but by their sufferance.
To entail him and his heirs unto the crown,
What is it, but to make thy sepulchre
And creep into it far before thy time?
Warwick is chancellor and the lord of Calais;
Stern Falconbridge commands the narrow seas;
The duke is made protector of the realm;
And yet shalt thou be safe? such safety finds
The trembling lamb environed with wolves.
Had I been there, which am a silly woman,
The soldiers should have toss'd me on their pikes
Before I would have granted to that act.
But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honour:
And seeing thou dost, I here divorce myself
Both from thy table, Henry, and thy bed,
Until that act of parliament be repeal'd
Whereby my son is disinherited.
The northern lords that have forsworn thy colours
Will follow mine, if once they see them spread;
And spread they shall be, to thy foul disgrace
And utter ruin of the house of York.
Thus do I leave thee. Come, son, let's away;
Our army is ready; come, we'll after them.",736,19013
643805,276,"Stay, gentle Margaret, and hear me speak.",574,19013
643806,277,Thou hast spoke too much already: get thee gone.,736,19013
643807,278,"Gentle son Edward, thou wilt stay with me?",574,19013
643808,279,"Ay, to be murder'd by his enemies.",736,19013
643809,280,"When I return with victory from the field
I'll see your grace: till then I'll follow her.",916,19013
643810,282,"Come, son, away; we may not linger thus.",736,19013
643811,283,[Exeunt QUEEN MARGARET and PRINCE EDWARD],1261,19013
643812,284,"Poor queen! how love to me and to her son
Hath made her break out into terms of rage!
Revenged may she be on that hateful duke,
Whose haughty spirit, winged with desire,
Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle
Tire on the flesh of me and of my son!
The loss of those three lords torments my heart:
I'll write unto them and entreat them fair.
Come, cousin you shall be the messenger.",574,19013
643813,293,"And I, I hope, shall reconcile them all.",389,19013
643814,294,[Exeunt],1261,19013
643815,297,"[Enter RICHARD, EDWARD, and MONTAGUE]",1261,19014
643816,298,"Brother, though I be youngest, give me leave.",945,19014
643817,299,"No, I can better play the orator.",372,19014
643818,300,But I have reasons strong and forcible.,745,19014
643819,301,[Enter YORK],1261,19014
643820,302,"Why, how now, sons and brother! at a strife?
What is your quarrel? how began it first?",946,19014
643821,304,"No quarrel, but a slight contention.",372,19014
643822,305,About what?,946,19014
643823,306,"About that which concerns your grace and us;
The crown of England, father, which is yours.",945,19014
643824,308,Mine boy? not till King Henry be dead.,946,19014
643825,309,Your right depends not on his life or death.,945,19014
643826,310,"Now you are heir, therefore enjoy it now:
By giving the house of Lancaster leave to breathe,
It will outrun you, father, in the end.",372,19014
643827,313,I took an oath that he should quietly reign.,946,19014
643828,314,"But for a kingdom any oath may be broken:
I would break a thousand oaths to reign one year.",372,19014
643829,316,No; God forbid your grace should be forsworn.,945,19014
643830,317,"I shall be, if I claim by open war.",946,19014
643831,318,"I'll prove the contrary, if you'll hear me speak.",945,19014
643832,319,"Thou canst not, son; it is impossible.",946,19014
643833,320,"An oath is of no moment, being not took
Before a true and lawful magistrate,
That hath authority over him that swears:
Henry had none, but did usurp the place;
Then, seeing 'twas he that made you to depose,
Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous.
Therefore, to arms! And, father, do but think
How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown;
Within whose circuit is Elysium
And all that poets feign of bliss and joy.
Why do we finger thus? I cannot rest
Until the white rose that I wear be dyed
Even in the lukewarm blood of Henry's heart.",945,19014
643834,333,"Richard, enough; I will be king, or die.
Brother, thou shalt to London presently,
And whet on Warwick to this enterprise.
Thou, Richard, shalt to the Duke of Norfolk,
And tell him privily of our intent.
You Edward, shall unto my Lord Cobham,
With whom the Kentishmen will willingly rise:
In them I trust; for they are soldiers,
Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit.
While you are thus employ'd, what resteth more,
But that I seek occasion how to rise,
And yet the king not privy to my drift,
Nor any of the house of Lancaster?
[Enter a Messenger]
But, stay: what news? Why comest thou in such post?",946,19014
643835,348,"The queen with all the northern earls and lords
Intend here to besiege you in your castle:
She is hard by with twenty thousand men;
And therefore fortify your hold, my lord.",777,19014
643836,352,"Ay, with my sword. What! think'st thou that we fear them?
Edward and Richard, you shall stay with me;
My brother Montague shall post to London:
Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,
Whom we have left protectors of the king,
With powerful policy strengthen themselves,
And trust not simple Henry nor his oaths.",946,19014
643837,359,"Brother, I go; I'll win them, fear it not:
And thus most humbly I do take my leave.
[Exit]
[Enter JOHN MORTIMER and HUGH MORTIMER]
Sir John and Sir Hugh Mortimer, mine uncles,
You are come to Sandal in a happy hour;
The army of the queen mean to besiege us.",745,19014
643838,366,She shall not need; we'll meet her in the field.,1106,19014
643839,367,"What, with five thousand men?",946,19014
643840,368,"Ay, with five hundred, father, for a need:
A woman's general; what should we fear?",945,19014
643841,370,[A march afar off],1261,19014
643842,371,"I hear their drums: let's set our men in order,
And issue forth and bid them battle straight.",372,19014
643843,373,"Five men to twenty! though the odds be great,
I doubt not, uncle, of our victory.
Many a battle have I won in France,
When as the enemy hath been ten to one:
Why should I not now have the like success?",946,19014
643844,378,[Alarum. Exeunt],1261,19014
643845,381,[Alarums. Enter RUTLAND and his Tutor],1261,19015
643846,382,"Ah, whither shall I fly to 'scape their hands?
Ah, tutor, look where bloody Clifford comes!",368,19015
643847,384,[Enter CLIFFORD and Soldiers],1261,19015
643848,385,"Chaplain, away! thy priesthood saves thy life.
As for the brat of this accursed duke,
Whose father slew my father, he shall die.",680,19015
643849,388,"And I, my lord, will bear him company.",1215,19015
643850,389,"Soldiers, away with him!",680,19015
643851,390,"Ah, Clifford, murder not this innocent child,
Lest thou be hated both of God and man!",1215,19015
643852,392,"[Exit, dragged off by Soldiers]",1261,19015
643853,393,"How now! is he dead already? or is it fear
That makes him close his eyes? I'll open them.",680,19015
643854,395,"So looks the pent-up lion o'er the wretch
That trembles under his devouring paws;
And so he walks, insulting o'er his prey,
And so he comes, to rend his limbs asunder.
Ah, gentle Clifford, kill me with thy sword,
And not with such a cruel threatening look.
Sweet Clifford, hear me speak before I die.
I am too mean a subject for thy wrath:
Be thou revenged on men, and let me live.",368,19015
643855,404,"In vain thou speak'st, poor boy; my father's blood
Hath stopp'd the passage where thy words should enter.",680,19015
643856,406,"Then let my father's blood open it again:
He is a man, and, Clifford, cope with him.",368,19015
643857,408,"Had thy brethren here, their lives and thine
Were not revenge sufficient for me;
No, if I digg'd up thy forefathers' graves
And hung their rotten coffins up in chains,
It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart.
The sight of any of the house of York
Is as a fury to torment my soul;
And till I root out their accursed line
And leave not one alive, I live in hell.
Therefore--",680,19015
643858,418,[Lifting his hand],1261,19015
643859,419,"O, let me pray before I take my death!
To thee I pray; sweet Clifford, pity me!",368,19015
643860,421,Such pity as my rapier's point affords.,680,19015
643861,422,I never did thee harm: why wilt thou slay me?,368,19015
643862,423,Thy father hath.,680,19015
643863,424,"But 'twas ere I was born.
Thou hast one son; for his sake pity me,
Lest in revenge thereof, sith God is just,
He be as miserably slain as I.
Ah, let me live in prison all my days;
And when I give occasion of offence,
Then let me die, for now thou hast no cause.",368,19015
643864,431,"No cause!
Thy father slew my father; therefore, die.",680,19015
643865,433,[Stabs him],1261,19015
643866,434,Di faciant laudis summa sit ista tuae!,368,19015
643867,435,[Dies],1261,19015
643868,436,"Plantagenet! I come, Plantagenet!
And this thy son's blood cleaving to my blade
Shall rust upon my weapon, till thy blood,
Congeal'd with this, do make me wipe off both.",680,19015
643869,440,[Exit],1261,19015
643870,443,[Alarum. Enter YORK],1261,19016
643871,444,"The army of the queen hath got the field:
My uncles both are slain in rescuing me;
And all my followers to the eager foe
Turn back and fly, like ships before the wind
Or lambs pursued by hunger-starved wolves.
My sons, God knows what hath bechanced them:
But this I know, they have demean'd themselves
Like men born to renown by life or death.
Three times did Richard make a lane to me.
And thrice cried 'Courage, father! fight it out!'
And full as oft came Edward to my side,
With purple falchion, painted to the hilt
In blood of those that had encounter'd him:
And when the hardiest warriors did retire,
Richard cried 'Charge! and give no foot of ground!'
And cried 'A crown, or else a glorious tomb!
A sceptre, or an earthly sepulchre!'
With this, we charged again: but, out, alas!
We bodged again; as I have seen a swan
With bootless labour swim against the tide
And spend her strength with over-matching waves.
[A short alarum within]
Ah, hark! the fatal followers do pursue;
And I am faint and cannot fly their fury:
And were I strong, I would not shun their fury:
The sands are number'd that make up my life;
Here must I stay, and here my life must end.
[Enter QUEEN MARGARET, CLIFFORD, NORTHUMBERLAND,]
PRINCE EDWARD, and Soldiers]
Come, bloody Clifford, rough Northumberland,
I dare your quenchless fury to more rage:
I am your butt, and I abide your shot.",946,19016
643872,476,"Yield to our mercy, proud Plantagenet.",360,19016
643873,477,"Ay, to such mercy as his ruthless arm,
With downright payment, show'd unto my father.
Now Phaethon hath tumbled from his car,
And made an evening at the noontide prick.",680,19016
643874,481,"My ashes, as the phoenix, may bring forth
A bird that will revenge upon you all:
And in that hope I throw mine eyes to heaven,
Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with.
Why come you not? what! multitudes, and fear?",946,19016
643875,486,"So cowards fight when they can fly no further;
So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;
So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,
Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.",680,19016
643876,490,"O Clifford, but bethink thee once again,
And in thy thought o'er-run my former time;
And, if though canst for blushing, view this face,
And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with cowardice
Whose frown hath made thee faint and fly ere this!",946,19016
643877,495,"I will not bandy with thee word for word,
But buckle with thee blows, twice two for one.",680,19016
643878,497,"Hold, valiant Clifford! for a thousand causes
I would prolong awhile the traitor's life.
Wrath makes him deaf: speak thou, Northumberland.",736,19016
643879,500,"Hold, Clifford! do not honour him so much
To prick thy finger, though to wound his heart:
What valour were it, when a cur doth grin,
For one to thrust his hand between his teeth,
When he might spurn him with his foot away?
It is war's prize to take all vantages;
And ten to one is no impeach of valour.",360,19016
643880,507,"[They lay hands on YORK, who struggles]",1261,19016
643881,508,"Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock with the gin.",680,19016
643882,509,So doth the cony struggle in the net.,360,19016
643883,510,"So triumph thieves upon their conquer'd booty;
So true men yield, with robbers so o'ermatch'd.",946,19016
643884,512,What would your grace have done unto him now?,360,19016
643885,513,"Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland,
Come, make him stand upon this molehill here,
That raught at mountains with outstretched arms,
Yet parted but the shadow with his hand.
What! was it you that would be England's king?
Was't you that revell'd in our parliament,
And made a preachment of your high descent?
Where are your mess of sons to back you now?
The wanton Edward, and the lusty George?
And where's that valiant crook-back prodigy,
Dicky your boy, that with his grumbling voice
Was wont to cheer his dad in mutinies?
Or, with the rest, where is your darling Rutland?
Look, York: I stain'd this napkin with the blood
That valiant Clifford, with his rapier's point,
Made issue from the bosom of the boy;
And if thine eyes can water for his death,
I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal.
Alas poor York! but that I hate thee deadly,
I should lament thy miserable state.
I prithee, grieve, to make me merry, York.
What, hath thy fiery heart so parch'd thine entrails
That not a tear can fall for Rutland's death?
Why art thou patient, man? thou shouldst be mad;
And I, to make thee mad, do mock thee thus.
Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance.
Thou wouldst be fee'd, I see, to make me sport:
York cannot speak, unless he wear a crown.
A crown for York! and, lords, bow low to him:
Hold you his hands, whilst I do set it on.
[Putting a paper crown on his head]
Ay, marry, sir, now looks he like a king!
Ay, this is he that took King Henry's chair,
And this is he was his adopted heir.
But how is it that great Plantagenet
Is crown'd so soon, and broke his solemn oath?
As I bethink me, you should not be king
Till our King Henry had shook hands with death.
And will you pale your head in Henry's glory,
And rob his temples of the diadem,
Now in his life, against your holy oath?
O, 'tis a fault too too unpardonable!
Off with the crown, and with the crown his head;
And, whilst we breathe, take time to do him dead.",736,19016
643886,557,"That is my office, for my father's sake.",680,19016
643887,558,"Nay, stay; lets hear the orisons he makes.",736,19016
643888,559,"She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France,
Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!
How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex
To triumph, like an Amazonian trull,
Upon their woes whom fortune captivates!
But that thy face is, vizard-like, unchanging,
Made impudent with use of evil deeds,
I would assay, proud queen, to make thee blush.
To tell thee whence thou camest, of whom derived,
Were shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless.
Thy father bears the type of King of Naples,
Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem,
Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman.
Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult?
It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud queen,
Unless the adage must be verified,
That beggars mounted run their horse to death.
'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud;
But, God he knows, thy share thereof is small:
'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired;
The contrary doth make thee wonder'd at:
'Tis government that makes them seem divine;
The want thereof makes thee abominable:
Thou art as opposite to every good
As the Antipodes are unto us,
Or as the south to the septentrion.
O tiger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide!
How couldst thou drain the life-blood of the child,
To bid the father wipe his eyes withal,
And yet be seen to bear a woman's face?
Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible;
Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless.
Bids't thou me rage? why, now thou hast thy wish:
Wouldst have me weep? why, now thou hast thy will:
For raging wind blows up incessant showers,
And when the rage allays, the rain begins.
These tears are my sweet Rutland's obsequies:
And every drop cries vengeance for his death,
'Gainst thee, fell Clifford, and thee, false
Frenchwoman.",946,19016
643889,599,"Beshrew me, but his passion moves me so
That hardly can I cheque my eyes from tears.",360,19016
643890,601,"That face of his the hungry cannibals
Would not have touch'd, would not have stain'd with blood:
But you are more inhuman, more inexorable,
O, ten times more, than tigers of Hyrcania.
See, ruthless queen, a hapless father's tears:
This cloth thou dip'dst in blood of my sweet boy,
And I with tears do wash the blood away.
Keep thou the napkin, and go boast of this:
And if thou tell'st the heavy story right,
Upon my soul, the hearers will shed tears;
Yea even my foes will shed fast-falling tears,
And say 'Alas, it was a piteous deed!'
There, take the crown, and, with the crown, my curse;
And in thy need such comfort come to thee
As now I reap at thy too cruel hand!
Hard-hearted Clifford, take me from the world:
My soul to heaven, my blood upon your heads!",946,19016
643891,618,"Had he been slaughter-man to all my kin,
I should not for my life but weep with him.
To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul.",360,19016
643892,621,"What, weeping-ripe, my Lord Northumberland?
Think but upon the wrong he did us all,
And that will quickly dry thy melting tears.",736,19016
643893,624,"Here's for my oath, here's for my father's death.",680,19016
643894,625,[Stabbing him],1261,19016
643895,626,And here's to right our gentle-hearted king.,736,19016
643896,627,[Stabbing him],1261,19016
643897,628,"Open Thy gate of mercy, gracious God!
My soul flies through these wounds to seek out Thee.",946,19016
643898,630,[Dies],1261,19016
643899,631,"Off with his head, and set it on York gates;
So York may overlook the town of York.",736,19016
643900,633,[Flourish. Exeunt],1261,19016
643901,636,"[A march. Enter EDWARD, RICHARD, and their power]",1261,19017
643902,637,"I wonder how our princely father 'scaped,
Or whether he be 'scaped away or no
From Clifford's and Northumberland's pursuit:
Had he been ta'en, we should have heard the news;
Had he been slain, we should have heard the news;
Or had he 'scaped, methinks we should have heard
The happy tidings of his good escape.
How fares my brother? why is he so sad?",372,19017
643903,645,"I cannot joy, until I be resolved
Where our right valiant father is become.
I saw him in the battle range about;
And watch'd him how he singled Clifford forth.
Methought he bore him in the thickest troop
As doth a lion in a herd of neat;
Or as a bear, encompass'd round with dogs,
Who having pinch'd a few and made them cry,
The rest stand all aloof, and bark at him.
So fared our father with his enemies;
So fled his enemies my warlike father:
Methinks, 'tis prize enough to be his son.
See how the morning opes her golden gates,
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun!
How well resembles it the prime of youth,
Trimm'd like a younker prancing to his love!",945,19017
643904,661,"Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?",372,19017
643905,662,"Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun;
Not separated with the racking clouds,
But sever'd in a pale clear-shining sky.
See, see! they join, embrace, and seem to kiss,
As if they vow'd some league inviolable:
Now are they but one lamp, one light, one sun.
In this the heaven figures some event.",945,19017
643906,669,"'Tis wondrous strange, the like yet never heard of.
I think it cites us, brother, to the field,
That we, the sons of brave Plantagenet,
Each one already blazing by our meeds,
Should notwithstanding join our lights together
And over-shine the earth as this the world.
Whate'er it bodes, henceforward will I bear
Upon my target three fair-shining suns.",372,19017
643907,677,"Nay, bear three daughters: by your leave I speak it,
You love the breeder better than the male.
[Enter a Messenger]
But what art thou, whose heavy looks foretell
Some dreadful story hanging on thy tongue?",945,19017
643908,682,"Ah, one that was a woful looker-on
When as the noble Duke of York was slain,
Your princely father and my loving lord!",777,19017
643909,685,"O, speak no more, for I have heard too much.",372,19017
643910,686,"Say how he died, for I will hear it all.",945,19017
643911,687,"Environed he was with many foes,
And stood against them, as the hope of Troy
Against the Greeks that would have enter'd Troy.
But Hercules himself must yield to odds;
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
By many hands your father was subdued;
But only slaughter'd by the ireful arm
Of unrelenting Clifford and the queen,
Who crown'd the gracious duke in high despite,
Laugh'd in his face; and when with grief he wept,
The ruthless queen gave him to dry his cheeks
A napkin steeped in the harmless blood
Of sweet young Rutland, by rough Clifford slain:
And after many scorns, many foul taunts,
They took his head, and on the gates of York
They set the same; and there it doth remain,
The saddest spectacle that e'er I view'd.",777,19017
643912,705,"Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon,
Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay.
O Clifford, boisterous Clifford! thou hast slain
The flower of Europe for his chivalry;
And treacherously hast thou vanquish'd him,
For hand to hand he would have vanquish'd thee.
Now my soul's palace is become a prison:
Ah, would she break from hence, that this my body
Might in the ground be closed up in rest!
For never henceforth shall I joy again,
Never, O never shall I see more joy!",372,19017
643913,716,"I cannot weep; for all my body's moisture
Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart:
Nor can my tongue unload my heart's great burthen;
For selfsame wind that I should speak withal
Is kindling coals that fires all my breast,
And burns me up with flames that tears would quench.
To weep is to make less the depth of grief:
Tears then for babes; blows and revenge for me
Richard, I bear thy name; I'll venge thy death,
Or die renowned by attempting it.",945,19017
643914,726,"His name that valiant duke hath left with thee;
His dukedom and his chair with me is left.",372,19017
643915,728,"Nay, if thou be that princely eagle's bird,
Show thy descent by gazing 'gainst the sun:
For chair and dukedom, throne and kingdom say;
Either that is thine, or else thou wert not his.",945,19017
643916,732,"[March. Enter WARWICK, MONTAGUE, and their army]",1261,19017
643917,733,"How now, fair lords! What fare? what news abroad?",1247,19017
643918,734,"Great Lord of Warwick, if we should recount
Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance
Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told,
The words would add more anguish than the wounds.
O valiant lord, the Duke of York is slain!",945,19017
643919,739,"O Warwick, Warwick! that Plantagenet,
Which held three dearly as his soul's redemption,
Is by the stern Lord Clifford done to death.",372,19017
643920,742,"Ten days ago I drown'd these news in tears;
And now, to add more measure to your woes,
I come to tell you things sith then befall'n.
After the bloody fray at Wakefield fought,
Where your brave father breathed his latest gasp,
Tidings, as swiftly as the posts could run,
Were brought me of your loss and his depart.
I, then in London keeper of the king,
Muster'd my soldiers, gather'd flocks of friends,
And very well appointed, as I thought,
March'd toward Saint Alban's to intercept the queen,
Bearing the king in my behalf along;
For by my scouts I was advertised
That she was coming with a full intent
To dash our late decree in parliament
Touching King Henry's oath and your succession.
Short tale to make, we at Saint Alban's met
Our battles join'd, and both sides fiercely fought:
But whether 'twas the coldness of the king,
Who look'd full gently on his warlike queen,
That robb'd my soldiers of their heated spleen;
Or whether 'twas report of her success;
Or more than common fear of Clifford's rigour,
Who thunders to his captives blood and death,
I cannot judge: but to conclude with truth,
Their weapons like to lightning came and went;
Our soldiers', like the night-owl's lazy flight,
Or like an idle thresher with a flail,
Fell gently down, as if they struck their friends.
I cheer'd them up with justice of our cause,
With promise of high pay and great rewards:
But all in vain; they had no heart to fight,
And we in them no hope to win the day;
So that we fled; the king unto the queen;
Lord George your brother, Norfolk and myself,
In haste, post-haste, are come to join with you:
For in the marches here we heard you were,
Making another head to fight again.",1247,19017
643921,780,"Where is the Duke of Norfolk, gentle Warwick?
And when came George from Burgundy to England?",372,19017
643922,782,"Some six miles off the duke is with the soldiers;
And for your brother, he was lately sent
From your kind aunt, Duchess of Burgundy,
With aid of soldiers to this needful war.",1247,19017
643923,786,"'Twas odds, belike, when valiant Warwick fled:
Oft have I heard his praises in pursuit,
But ne'er till now his scandal of retire.",945,19017
643924,789,"Nor now my scandal, Richard, dost thou hear;
For thou shalt know this strong right hand of mine
Can pluck the diadem from faint Henry's head,
And wring the awful sceptre from his fist,
Were he as famous and as bold in war
As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer.",1247,19017
643925,795,"I know it well, Lord Warwick; blame me not:
'Tis love I bear thy glories makes me speak.
But in this troublous time what's to be done?
Shall we go throw away our coats of steel,
And wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns,
Numbering our Ave-Maries with our beads?
Or shall we on the helmets of our foes
Tell our devotion with revengeful arms?
If for the last, say ay, and to it, lords.",945,19017
643926,804,"Why, therefore Warwick came to seek you out;
And therefore comes my brother Montague.
Attend me, lords. The proud insulting queen,
With Clifford and the haught Northumberland,
And of their feather many more proud birds,
Have wrought the easy-melting king like wax.
He swore consent to your succession,
His oath enrolled in the parliament;
And now to London all the crew are gone,
To frustrate both his oath and what beside
May make against the house of Lancaster.
Their power, I think, is thirty thousand strong:
Now, if the help of Norfolk and myself,
With all the friends that thou, brave Earl of March,
Amongst the loving Welshmen canst procure,
Will but amount to five and twenty thousand,
Why, Via! to London will we march amain,
And once again bestride our foaming steeds,
And once again cry 'Charge upon our foes!'
But never once again turn back and fly.",1247,19017
643927,824,"Ay, now methinks I hear great Warwick speak:
Ne'er may he live to see a sunshine day,
That cries 'Retire,' if Warwick bid him stay.",945,19017
643928,827,"Lord Warwick, on thy shoulder will I lean;
And when thou fail'st--as God forbid the hour!--
Must Edward fall, which peril heaven forfend!",372,19017
643929,830,"No longer Earl of March, but Duke of York:
The next degree is England's royal throne;
For King of England shalt thou be proclaim'd
In every borough as we pass along;
And he that throws not up his cap for joy
Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head.
King Edward, valiant Richard, Montague,
Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown,
But sound the trumpets, and about our task.",1247,19017
643930,839,"Then, Clifford, were thy heart as hard as steel,
As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds,
I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine.",945,19017
643931,842,Then strike up drums: God and Saint George for us!,372,19017
643932,843,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19017
643933,844,How now! what news?,1247,19017
643934,845,"The Duke of Norfolk sends you word by me,
The queen is coming with a puissant host;
And craves your company for speedy counsel.",777,19017
643935,848,"Why then it sorts, brave warriors, let's away.",1247,19017
643936,849,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET,]
PRINCE EDWARD, CLIFFORD, and NORTHUMBERLAND, with
drum and trumpets]",1261,19017
643937,855,"Welcome, my lord, to this brave town of York.
Yonder's the head of that arch-enemy
That sought to be encompass'd with your crown:
Doth not the object cheer your heart, my lord?",736,19018
643938,859,"Ay, as the rocks cheer them that fear their wreck:
To see this sight, it irks my very soul.
Withhold revenge, dear God! 'tis not my fault,
Nor wittingly have I infringed my vow.",574,19018
643939,863,"My gracious liege, this too much lenity
And harmful pity must be laid aside.
To whom do lions cast their gentle looks?
Not to the beast that would usurp their den.
Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick?
Not his that spoils her young before her face.
Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting?
Not he that sets his foot upon her back.
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
Ambitious York doth level at thy crown,
Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows:
He, but a duke, would have his son a king,
And raise his issue, like a loving sire;
Thou, being a king, blest with a goodly son,
Didst yield consent to disinherit him,
Which argued thee a most unloving father.
Unreasonable creatures feed their young;
And though man's face be fearful to their eyes,
Yet, in protection of their tender ones,
Who hath not seen them, even with those wings
Which sometime they have used with fearful flight,
Make war with him that climb'd unto their nest,
Offer their own lives in their young's defence?
For shame, my liege, make them your precedent!
Were it not pity that this goodly boy
Should lose his birthright by his father's fault,
And long hereafter say unto his child,
'What my great-grandfather and his grandsire got
My careless father fondly gave away'?
Ah, what a shame were this! Look on the boy;
And let his manly face, which promiseth
Successful fortune, steel thy melting heart
To hold thine own and leave thine own with him.",680,19018
643940,897,"Full well hath Clifford play'd the orator,
Inferring arguments of mighty force.
But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear
That things ill-got had ever bad success?
And happy always was it for that son
Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?
I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind;
And would my father had left me no more!
For all the rest is held at such a rate
As brings a thousand-fold more care to keep
Than in possession and jot of pleasure.
Ah, cousin York! would thy best friends did know
How it doth grieve me that thy head is here!",574,19018
643941,910,"My lord, cheer up your spirits: our foes are nigh,
And this soft courage makes your followers faint.
You promised knighthood to our forward son:
Unsheathe your sword, and dub him presently.
Edward, kneel down.",736,19018
643942,915,"Edward Plantagenet, arise a knight;
And learn this lesson, draw thy sword in right.",574,19018
643943,917,"My gracious father, by your kingly leave,
I'll draw it as apparent to the crown,
And in that quarrel use it to the death.",916,19018
643944,920,"Why, that is spoken like a toward prince.",680,19018
643945,921,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19018
643946,922,"Royal commanders, be in readiness:
For with a band of thirty thousand men
Comes Warwick, backing of the Duke of York;
And in the towns, as they do march along,
Proclaims him king, and many fly to him:
Darraign your battle, for they are at hand.",777,19018
643947,928,"I would your highness would depart the field:
The queen hath best success when you are absent.",680,19018
643948,930,"Ay, good my lord, and leave us to our fortune.",736,19018
643949,931,"Why, that's my fortune too; therefore I'll stay.",574,19018
643950,932,Be it with resolution then to fight.,360,19018
643951,933,"My royal father, cheer these noble lords
And hearten those that fight in your defence:
Unsheathe your sword, good father; cry 'Saint George!'
[March. Enter EDWARD, GEORGE, RICHARD, WARWICK,]
NORFOLK, MONTAGUE, and Soldiers]",916,19018
643952,938,"Now, perjured Henry! wilt thou kneel for grace,
And set thy diadem upon my head;
Or bide the mortal fortune of the field?",372,19018
643953,941,"Go, rate thy minions, proud insulting boy!
Becomes it thee to be thus bold in terms
Before thy sovereign and thy lawful king?",736,19018
643954,944,"I am his king, and he should bow his knee;
I was adopted heir by his consent:
Since when, his oath is broke; for, as I hear,
You, that are king, though he do wear the crown,
Have caused him, by new act of parliament,
To blot out me, and put his own son in.",372,19018
643955,950,"And reason too:
Who should succeed the father but the son?",680,19018
643956,952,"Are you there, butcher? O, I cannot speak!",945,19018
643957,953,"Ay, crook-back, here I stand to answer thee,
Or any he the proudest of thy sort.",680,19018
643958,955,"'Twas you that kill'd young Rutland, was it not?",945,19018
643959,956,"Ay, and old York, and yet not satisfied.",680,19018
643960,957,"For God's sake, lords, give signal to the fight.",945,19018
643961,958,"What say'st thou, Henry, wilt thou yield the crown?",1247,19018
643962,959,"Why, how now, long-tongued Warwick! dare you speak?
When you and I met at Saint Alban's last,
Your legs did better service than your hands.",736,19018
643963,962,"Then 'twas my turn to fly, and now 'tis thine.",1247,19018
643964,963,"You said so much before, and yet you fled.",680,19018
643965,964,"'Twas not your valour, Clifford, drove me thence.",1247,19018
643966,965,"No, nor your manhood that durst make you stay.",360,19018
643967,966,"Northumberland, I hold thee reverently.
Break off the parley; for scarce I can refrain
The execution of my big-swoln heart
Upon that Clifford, that cruel child-killer.",945,19018
643968,970,"I slew thy father, call'st thou him a child?",680,19018
643969,971,"Ay, like a dastard and a treacherous coward,
As thou didst kill our tender brother Rutland;
But ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed.",945,19018
643970,974,"Have done with words, my lords, and hear me speak.",574,19018
643971,975,"Defy them then, or else hold close thy lips.",736,19018
643972,976,"I prithee, give no limits to my tongue:
I am a king, and privileged to speak.",574,19018
643973,978,"My liege, the wound that bred this meeting here
Cannot be cured by words; therefore be still.",680,19018
643974,980,"Then, executioner, unsheathe thy sword:
By him that made us all, I am resolved
that Clifford's manhood lies upon his tongue.",945,19018
643975,983,"Say, Henry, shall I have my right, or no?
A thousand men have broke their fasts to-day,
That ne'er shall dine unless thou yield the crown.",372,19018
643976,986,"If thou deny, their blood upon thy head;
For York in justice puts his armour on.",1247,19018
643977,988,"If that be right which Warwick says is right,
There is no wrong, but every thing is right.",916,19018
643978,990,"Whoever got thee, there thy mother stands;
For, well I wot, thou hast thy mother's tongue.",945,19018
643979,992,"But thou art neither like thy sire nor dam;
But like a foul mis-shapen stigmatic,
Mark'd by the destinies to be avoided,
As venom toads, or lizards' dreadful stings.",736,19018
643980,996,"Iron of Naples hid with English gilt,
Whose father bears the title of a king,--
As if a channel should be call'd the sea,--
Shamest thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught,
To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart?",945,19018
643981,1001,"A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns,
To make this shameless callet know herself.
Helen of Greece was fairer far than thou,
Although thy husband may be Menelaus;
And ne'er was Agamemnon's brother wrong'd
By that false woman, as this king by thee.
His father revell'd in the heart of France,
And tamed the king, and made the dauphin stoop;
And had he match'd according to his state,
He might have kept that glory to this day;
But when he took a beggar to his bed,
And graced thy poor sire with his bridal-day,
Even then that sunshine brew'd a shower for him,
That wash'd his father's fortunes forth of France,
And heap'd sedition on his crown at home.
For what hath broach'd this tumult but thy pride?
Hadst thou been meek, our title still had slept;
And we, in pity of the gentle king,
Had slipp'd our claim until another age.",372,19018
643982,1020,"But when we saw our sunshine made thy spring,
And that thy summer bred us no increase,
We set the axe to thy usurping root;
And though the edge hath something hit ourselves,
Yet, know thou, since we have begun to strike,
We'll never leave till we have hewn thee down,
Or bathed thy growing with our heated bloods.",527,19018
643983,1027,"And, in this resolution, I defy thee;
Not willing any longer conference,
Since thou deniest the gentle king to speak.
Sound trumpets! let our bloody colours wave!
And either victory, or else a grave.",372,19018
643984,1032,"Stay, Edward.",736,19018
643985,1033,"No, wrangling woman, we'll no longer stay:
These words will cost ten thousand lives this day.",372,19018
643986,1035,"[Exeunt]
Yorkshire.",1261,19018
643987,1039,[Alarum. Excursions. Enter WARWICK],1261,19019
643988,1040,"Forspent with toil, as runners with a race,
I lay me down a little while to breathe;
For strokes received, and many blows repaid,
Have robb'd my strong-knit sinews of their strength,
And spite of spite needs must I rest awhile.",1247,19019
643989,1045,"[Enter EDWARD, running]",1261,19019
643990,1046,"Smile, gentle heaven! or strike, ungentle death!
For this world frowns, and Edward's sun is clouded.",372,19019
643991,1048,"How now, my lord! what hap? what hope of good?",1247,19019
643992,1049,[Enter GEORGE],1261,19019
643993,1050,"Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair;
Our ranks are broke, and ruin follows us:
What counsel give you? whither shall we fly?",527,19019
643994,1053,"Bootless is flight, they follow us with wings;
And weak we are and cannot shun pursuit.",372,19019
643995,1055,[Enter RICHARD],1261,19019
643996,1056,"Ah, Warwick, why hast thou withdrawn thyself?
Thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath drunk,
Broach'd with the steely point of Clifford's lance;
And in the very pangs of death he cried,
Like to a dismal clangour heard from far,
'Warwick, revenge! brother, revenge my death!'
So, underneath the belly of their steeds,
That stain'd their fetlocks in his smoking blood,
The noble gentleman gave up the ghost.",945,19019
643997,1065,"Then let the earth be drunken with our blood:
I'll kill my horse, because I will not fly.
Why stand we like soft-hearted women here,
Wailing our losses, whiles the foe doth rage;
And look upon, as if the tragedy
Were play'd in jest by counterfeiting actors?
Here on my knee I vow to God above,
I'll never pause again, never stand still,
Till either death hath closed these eyes of mine
Or fortune given me measure of revenge.",1247,19019
643998,1075,"O Warwick, I do bend my knee with thine;
And in this vow do chain my soul to thine!
And, ere my knee rise from the earth's cold face,
I throw my hands, mine eyes, my heart to thee,
Thou setter up and plucker down of kings,
Beseeching thee, if with they will it stands
That to my foes this body must be prey,
Yet that thy brazen gates of heaven may ope,
And give sweet passage to my sinful soul!
Now, lords, take leave until we meet again,
Where'er it be, in heaven or in earth.",372,19019
643999,1086,"Brother, give me thy hand; and, gentle Warwick,
Let me embrace thee in my weary arms:
I, that did never weep, now melt with woe
That winter should cut off our spring-time so.",945,19019
644000,1090,"Away, away! Once more, sweet lords farewell.",1247,19019
644001,1091,"Yet let us all together to our troops,
And give them leave to fly that will not stay;
And call them pillars that will stand to us;
And, if we thrive, promise them such rewards
As victors wear at the Olympian games:
This may plant courage in their quailing breasts;
For yet is hope of life and victory.
Forslow no longer, make we hence amain.",527,19019
644002,1099,[Exeunt],1261,19019
644003,1102,[Excursions. Enter RICHARD and CLIFFORD],1261,19020
644004,1103,"Now, Clifford, I have singled thee alone:
Suppose this arm is for the Duke of York,
And this for Rutland; both bound to revenge,
Wert thou environ'd with a brazen wall.",945,19020
644005,1107,"Now, Richard, I am with thee here alone:
This is the hand that stabb'd thy father York;
And this the hand that slew thy brother Rutland;
And here's the heart that triumphs in their death
And cheers these hands that slew thy sire and brother
To execute the like upon thyself;
And so, have at thee!",680,19020
644006,1114,[They fight. WARWICK comes; CLIFFORD flies],1261,19020
644007,1115,"Nay Warwick, single out some other chase;
For I myself will hunt this wolf to death.",945,19020
644008,1117,[Exeunt],1261,19020
644009,1120,[Alarum. Enter KING HENRY VI alone],1261,19021
644010,1121,"This battle fares like to the morning's war,
When dying clouds contend with growing light,
What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,
Can neither call it perfect day nor night.
Now sways it this way, like a mighty sea
Forced by the tide to combat with the wind;
Now sways it that way, like the selfsame sea
Forced to retire by fury of the wind:
Sometime the flood prevails, and then the wind;
Now one the better, then another best;
Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast,
Yet neither conqueror nor conquered:
So is the equal of this fell war.
Here on this molehill will I sit me down.
To whom God will, there be the victory!
For Margaret my queen, and Clifford too,
Have chid me from the battle; swearing both
They prosper best of all when I am thence.
Would I were dead! if God's good will were so;
For what is in this world but grief and woe?
O God! methinks it were a happy life,
To be no better than a homely swain;
To sit upon a hill, as I do now,
To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
Thereby to see the minutes how they run,
How many make the hour full complete;
How many hours bring about the day;
How many days will finish up the year;
How many years a mortal man may live.
When this is known, then to divide the times:
So many hours must I tend my flock;
So many hours must I take my rest;
So many hours must I contemplate;
So many hours must I sport myself;
So many days my ewes have been with young;
So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean:
So many years ere I shall shear the fleece:
So minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
Pass'd over to the end they were created,
Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely!
Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy
To kings that fear their subjects' treachery?
O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth.
And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds,
His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle.
His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade,
All which secure and sweetly he enjoys,
Is far beyond a prince's delicates,
His viands sparkling in a golden cup,
His body couched in a curious bed,
When care, mistrust, and treason waits on him.
[Alarum. Enter a Son that has killed his father,]
dragging in the dead body]",574,19021
644011,1177,"Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
This man, whom hand to hand I slew in fight,
May be possessed with some store of crowns;
And I, that haply take them from him now,
May yet ere night yield both my life and them
To some man else, as this dead man doth me.
Who's this? O God! it is my father's face,
Whom in this conflict I unwares have kill'd.
O heavy times, begetting such events!
From London by the king was I press'd forth;
My father, being the Earl of Warwick's man,
Came on the part of York, press'd by his master;
And I, who at his hands received my life, him
Have by my hands of life bereaved him.
Pardon me, God, I knew not what I did!
And pardon, father, for I knew not thee!
My tears shall wipe away these bloody marks;
And no more words till they have flow'd their fill.",1139,19021
644012,1195,"O piteous spectacle! O bloody times!
Whiles lions war and battle for their dens,
Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity.
Weep, wretched man, I'll aid thee tear for tear;
And let our hearts and eyes, like civil war,
Be blind with tears, and break o'ercharged with grief.",574,19021
644013,1201,"[Enter a Father that has killed his son, bringing in the body]",1261,19021
644014,1202,"Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me,
Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold:
For I have bought it with an hundred blows.
But let me see: is this our foeman's face?
Ah, no, no, no, it is mine only son!
Ah, boy, if any life be left in thee,
Throw up thine eye! see, see what showers arise,
Blown with the windy tempest of my heart,
Upon thy words, that kill mine eye and heart!
O, pity, God, this miserable age!
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
Erroneous, mutinous and unnatural,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!
O boy, thy father gave thee life too soon,
And hath bereft thee of thy life too late!",395,19021
644015,1217,"Woe above woe! grief more than common grief!
O that my death would stay these ruthful deeds!
O pity, pity, gentle heaven, pity!
The red rose and the white are on his face,
The fatal colours of our striving houses:
The one his purple blood right well resembles;
The other his pale cheeks, methinks, presenteth:
Wither one rose, and let the other flourish;
If you contend, a thousand lives must wither.",574,19021
644016,1226,"How will my mother for a father's death
Take on with me and ne'er be satisfied!",1139,19021
644017,1228,"How will my wife for slaughter of my son
Shed seas of tears and ne'er be satisfied!",395,19021
644018,1230,"How will the country for these woful chances
Misthink the king and not be satisfied!",574,19021
644019,1232,Was ever son so rued a father's death?,1139,19021
644020,1233,Was ever father so bemoan'd his son?,395,19021
644021,1234,"Was ever king so grieved for subjects' woe?
Much is your sorrow; mine ten times so much.",574,19021
644022,1236,"I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill.",1139,19021
644023,1237,[Exit with the body],1261,19021
644024,1238,"These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet;
My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre,
For from my heart thine image ne'er shall go;
My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell;
And so obsequious will thy father be,
Even for the loss of thee, having no more,
As Priam was for all his valiant sons.
I'll bear thee hence; and let them fight that will,
For I have murdered where I should not kill.",395,19021
644025,1247,[Exit with the body],1261,19021
644026,1248,"Sad-hearted men, much overgone with care,
Here sits a king more woful than you are.
[Alarums: excursions. Enter QUEEN MARGARET, PRINCE]
EDWARD, and EXETER]",574,19021
644027,1252,"Fly, father, fly! for all your friends are fled,
And Warwick rages like a chafed bull:
Away! for death doth hold us in pursuit.",916,19021
644028,1255,"Mount you, my lord; towards Berwick post amain:
Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds
Having the fearful flying hare in sight,
With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath,
And bloody steel grasp'd in their ireful hands,
Are at our backs; and therefore hence amain.",736,19021
644029,1261,"Away! for vengeance comes along with them:
Nay, stay not to expostulate, make speed;
Or else come after: I'll away before.",389,19021
644030,1264,"Nay, take me with thee, good sweet Exeter:
Not that I fear to stay, but love to go
Whither the queen intends. Forward; away!",574,19021
644031,1267,[Exeunt],1261,19021
644032,1270,"[A loud alarum. Enter CLIFFORD, wounded]",1261,19022
644033,1271,"Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies,
Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.
O Lancaster, I fear thy overthrow
More than my body's parting with my soul!
My love and fear glued many friends to thee;
And, now I fall, thy tough commixture melts.
Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York,
The common people swarm like summer flies;
And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?
And who shines now but Henry's enemies?
O Phoebus, hadst thou never given consent
That Phaethon should cheque thy fiery steeds,
Thy burning car never had scorch'd the earth!
And, Henry, hadst thou sway'd as kings should do,
Or as thy father and his father did,
Giving no ground unto the house of York,
They never then had sprung like summer flies;
I and ten thousand in this luckless realm
Had left no mourning widows for our death;
And thou this day hadst kept thy chair in peace.
For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air?
And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?
Bootless are plaints, and cureless are my wounds;
No way to fly, nor strength to hold out flight:
The foe is merciless, and will not pity;
For at their hands I have deserved no pity.
The air hath got into my deadly wounds,
And much effuse of blood doth make me faint.
Come, York and Richard, Warwick and the rest;
I stabb'd your fathers' bosoms, split my breast.
[He faints]
[Alarum and retreat. Enter EDWARD, GEORGE, RICHARD,]
MONTAGUE, WARWICK, and Soldiers]",680,19022
644034,1304,"Now breathe we, lords: good fortune bids us pause,
And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks.
Some troops pursue the bloody-minded queen,
That led calm Henry, though he were a king,
As doth a sail, fill'd with a fretting gust,
Command an argosy to stem the waves.
But think you, lords, that Clifford fled with them?",372,19022
644035,1311,"No, 'tis impossible he should escape,
For, though before his face I speak the words
Your brother Richard mark'd him for the grave:
And wheresoe'er he is, he's surely dead.",1247,19022
644036,1315,"[CLIFFORD groans, and dies]EDWARD. Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave?",1261,19022
644037,1316,"A deadly groan, like life and death's departing.",945,19022
644038,1317,"See who it is: and, now the battle's ended,
If friend or foe, let him be gently used.",372,19022
644039,1319,"Revoke that doom of mercy, for 'tis Clifford;
Who not contented that he lopp'd the branch
In hewing Rutland when his leaves put forth,
But set his murdering knife unto the root
From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring,
I mean our princely father, Duke of York.",945,19022
644040,1325,"From off the gates of York fetch down the head,
Your father's head, which Clifford placed there;
Instead whereof let this supply the room:
Measure for measure must be answered.",1247,19022
644041,1329,"Bring forth that fatal screech-owl to our house,
That nothing sung but death to us and ours:
Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound,
And his ill-boding tongue no more shall speak.",372,19022
644042,1333,"I think his understanding is bereft.
Speak, Clifford, dost thou know who speaks to thee?
Dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life,
And he nor sees nor hears us what we say.",1247,19022
644043,1337,"O, would he did! and so perhaps he doth:
'Tis but his policy to counterfeit,
Because he would avoid such bitter taunts
Which in the time of death he gave our father.",945,19022
644044,1341,"If so thou think'st, vex him with eager words.",527,19022
644045,1342,"Clifford, ask mercy and obtain no grace.",945,19022
644046,1343,"Clifford, repent in bootless penitence.",372,19022
644047,1344,"Clifford, devise excuses for thy faults.",1247,19022
644048,1345,While we devise fell tortures for thy faults.,527,19022
644049,1346,"Thou didst love York, and I am son to York.",945,19022
644050,1347,Thou pitied'st Rutland; I will pity thee.,372,19022
644051,1348,"Where's Captain Margaret, to fence you now?",527,19022
644052,1349,"They mock thee, Clifford: swear as thou wast wont.",1247,19022
644053,1350,"What, not an oath? nay, then the world goes hard
When Clifford cannot spare his friends an oath.
I know by that he's dead; and, by my soul,
If this right hand would buy two hour's life,
That I in all despite might rail at him,
This hand should chop it off, and with the
issuing blood
Stifle the villain whose unstanched thirst
York and young Rutland could not satisfy.",945,19022
644054,1359,"Ay, but he's dead: off with the traitor's head,
And rear it in the place your father's stands.
And now to London with triumphant march,
There to be crowned England's royal king:
From whence shall Warwick cut the sea to France,
And ask the Lady Bona for thy queen:
So shalt thou sinew both these lands together;
And, having France thy friend, thou shalt not dread
The scatter'd foe that hopes to rise again;
For though they cannot greatly sting to hurt,
Yet look to have them buzz to offend thine ears.
First will I see the coronation;
And then to Brittany I'll cross the sea,
To effect this marriage, so it please my lord.",1247,19022
644055,1373,"Even as thou wilt, sweet Warwick, let it be;
For in thy shoulder do I build my seat,
And never will I undertake the thing
Wherein thy counsel and consent is wanting.
Richard, I will create thee Duke of Gloucester,
And George, of Clarence: Warwick, as ourself,
Shall do and undo as him pleaseth best.",372,19022
644056,1380,"Let me be Duke of Clarence, George of Gloucester;
For Gloucester's dukedom is too ominous.",945,19022
644057,1382,"Tut, that's a foolish observation:
Richard, be Duke of Gloucester. Now to London,
To see these honours in possession.",1247,19022
644058,1385,[Exeunt],1261,19022
644059,1388,"[Enter two Keepers, with cross-bows in their hands]",1261,19023
644060,1389,"Under this thick-grown brake we'll shroud ourselves;
For through this laund anon the deer will come;
And in this covert will we make our stand,
Culling the principal of all the deer.",428,19023
644061,1393,"I'll stay above the hill, so both may shoot.",998,19023
644062,1394,"That cannot be; the noise of thy cross-bow
Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.
Here stand we both, and aim we at the best:
And, for the time shall not seem tedious,
I'll tell thee what befell me on a day
In this self-place where now we mean to stand.",428,19023
644063,1400,Here comes a man; let's stay till he be past.,998,19023
644064,1401,"[Enter KING HENRY VI, disguised, with a prayerbook]",1261,19023
644065,1402,"From Scotland am I stol'n, even of pure love,
To greet mine own land with my wishful sight.
No, Harry, Harry, 'tis no land of thine;
Thy place is fill'd, thy sceptre wrung from thee,
Thy balm wash'd off wherewith thou wast anointed:
No bending knee will call thee Caesar now,
No humble suitors press to speak for right,
No, not a man comes for redress of thee;
For how can I help them, and not myself?",574,19023
644066,1411,"Ay, here's a deer whose skin's a keeper's fee:
This is the quondam king; let's seize upon him.",428,19023
644067,1413,"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity,
For wise men say it is the wisest course.",574,19023
644068,1415,Why linger we? let us lay hands upon him.,998,19023
644069,1416,Forbear awhile; we'll hear a little more.,428,19023
644070,1417,"My queen and son are gone to France for aid;
And, as I hear, the great commanding Warwick
Is thither gone, to crave the French king's sister
To wife for Edward: if this news be true,
Poor queen and son, your labour is but lost;
For Warwick is a subtle orator,
And Lewis a prince soon won with moving words.
By this account then Margaret may win him;
For she's a woman to be pitied much:
Her sighs will make a battery in his breast;
Her tears will pierce into a marble heart;
The tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn;
And Nero will be tainted with remorse,
To hear and see her plaints, her brinish tears.
Ay, but she's come to beg, Warwick to give;
She, on his left side, craving aid for Henry,
He, on his right, asking a wife for Edward.
She weeps, and says her Henry is deposed;
He smiles, and says his Edward is install'd;
That she, poor wretch, for grief can speak no more;
Whiles Warwick tells his title, smooths the wrong,
Inferreth arguments of mighty strength,
And in conclusion wins the king from her,
With promise of his sister, and what else,
To strengthen and support King Edward's place.
O Margaret, thus 'twill be; and thou, poor soul,
Art then forsaken, as thou went'st forlorn!",574,19023
644071,1444,"Say, what art thou that talk'st of kings and queens?",998,19023
644072,1445,"More than I seem, and less than I was born to:
A man at least, for less I should not be;
And men may talk of kings, and why not I?",574,19023
644073,1448,"Ay, but thou talk'st as if thou wert a king.",998,19023
644074,1449,"Why, so I am, in mind; and that's enough.",574,19023
644075,1450,"But, if thou be a king, where is thy crown?",998,19023
644076,1451,"My crown is in my heart, not on my head;
Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones,
Nor to be seen: my crown is called content:
A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.",574,19023
644077,1455,"Well, if you be a king crown'd with content,
Your crown content and you must be contented
To go along with us; for as we think,
You are the king King Edward hath deposed;
And we his subjects sworn in all allegiance
Will apprehend you as his enemy.",998,19023
644078,1461,"But did you never swear, and break an oath?",574,19023
644079,1462,"No, never such an oath; nor will not now.",998,19023
644080,1463,Where did you dwell when I was King of England?,574,19023
644081,1464,"Here in this country, where we now remain.",998,19023
644082,1465,"I was anointed king at nine months old;
My father and my grandfather were kings,
And you were sworn true subjects unto me:
And tell me, then, have you not broke your oaths?",574,19023
644083,1469,"No;
For we were subjects but while you were king.",428,19023
644084,1471,"Why, am I dead? do I not breathe a man?
Ah, simple men, you know not what you swear!
Look, as I blow this feather from my face,
And as the air blows it to me again,
Obeying with my wind when I do blow,
And yielding to another when it blows,
Commanded always by the greater gust;
Such is the lightness of you common men.
But do not break your oaths; for of that sin
My mild entreaty shall not make you guilty.
Go where you will, the king shall be commanded;
And be you kings, command, and I'll obey.",574,19023
644085,1483,"We are true subjects to the king, King Edward.",428,19023
644086,1484,"So would you be again to Henry,
If he were seated as King Edward is.",574,19023
644087,1486,"We charge you, in God's name, and the king's,
To go with us unto the officers.",428,19023
644088,1488,"In God's name, lead; your king's name be obey'd:
And what God will, that let your king perform;
And what he will, I humbly yield unto.",574,19023
644089,1491,[Exeunt],1261,19023
644090,1494,"[Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and LADY GREY]",1261,19024
644091,1495,"Brother of Gloucester, at Saint Alban's field
This lady's husband, Sir Richard Grey, was slain,
His lands then seized on by the conqueror:
Her suit is now to repossess those lands;
Which we in justice cannot well deny,
Because in quarrel of the house of York
The worthy gentleman did lose his life.",372,19024
644092,1502,"Your highness shall do well to grant her suit;
It were dishonour to deny it her.",945,19024
644093,1504,It were no less; but yet I'll make a pause.,372,19024
644094,1505,"[Aside to CLARENCE] Yea, is it so?
I see the lady hath a thing to grant,
Before the king will grant her humble suit.",945,19024
644095,1508,"[Aside to GLOUCESTER] He knows the game: how true
he keeps the wind!",527,19024
644096,1510,[Aside to CLARENCE] Silence!,945,19024
644097,1511,"Widow, we will consider of your suit;
And come some other time to know our mind.",372,19024
644098,1513,"Right gracious lord, I cannot brook delay:
May it please your highness to resolve me now;
And what your pleasure is, shall satisfy me.",933,19024
644099,1516,"[Aside to CLARENCE] Ay, widow? then I'll warrant
you all your lands,
An if what pleases him shall pleasure you.
Fight closer, or, good faith, you'll catch a blow.",945,19024
644100,1520,"[Aside to GLOUCESTER] I fear her not, unless she
chance to fall.",527,19024
644101,1522,"[Aside to CLARENCE] God forbid that! for he'll
take vantages.",945,19024
644102,1524,"How many children hast thou, widow? tell me.",372,19024
644103,1525,"[Aside to GLOUCESTER] I think he means to beg a
child of her.",527,19024
644104,1527,"[Aside to CLARENCE] Nay, whip me then: he'll rather
give her two.",945,19024
644105,1529,"Three, my most gracious lord.",933,19024
644106,1530,"[Aside to CLARENCE] You shall have four, if you'll
be ruled by him.",945,19024
644108,1533,"Be pitiful, dread lord, and grant it then.",933,19024
644109,1534,"Lords, give us leave: I'll try this widow's wit.",372,19024
644110,1535,"[Aside to CLARENCE] Ay, good leave have you; for
you will have leave,
Till youth take leave and leave you to the crutch.",945,19024
644111,1538,[GLOUCESTER and CLARENCE retire],1261,19024
644112,1539,"Now tell me, madam, do you love your children?",372,19024
644113,1540,"Ay, full as dearly as I love myself.",933,19024
644114,1541,And would you not do much to do them good?,372,19024
644115,1542,"To do them good, I would sustain some harm.",933,19024
644116,1543,"Then get your husband's lands, to do them good.",372,19024
644117,1544,Therefore I came unto your majesty.,933,19024
644118,1545,I'll tell you how these lands are to be got.,372,19024
644119,1546,So shall you bind me to your highness' service.,933,19024
644120,1547,"What service wilt thou do me, if I give them?",372,19024
644121,1548,"What you command, that rests in me to do.",933,19024
644122,1549,But you will take exceptions to my boon.,372,19024
644123,1550,"No, gracious lord, except I cannot do it.",933,19024
644124,1551,"Ay, but thou canst do what I mean to ask.",372,19024
644125,1552,"Why, then I will do what your grace commands.",933,19024
644126,1553,"[Aside to CLARENCE] He plies her hard; and much rain
wears the marble.",945,19024
644127,1555,"[Aside to GLOUCESTER] As red as fire! nay, then
her wax must melt.",527,19024
644128,1557,"Why stops my lord, shall I not hear my task?",933,19024
644129,1558,An easy task; 'tis but to love a king.,372,19024
644130,1559,"That's soon perform'd, because I am a subject.",933,19024
644131,1560,"Why, then, thy husband's lands I freely give thee.",372,19024
644132,1561,I take my leave with many thousand thanks.,933,19024
644133,1562,"[Aside to CLARENCE] The match is made; she seals it
with a curtsy.",945,19024
644134,1564,"But stay thee, 'tis the fruits of love I mean.",372,19024
644135,1565,"The fruits of love I mean, my loving liege.",933,19024
644136,1566,"Ay, but, I fear me, in another sense.
What love, think'st thou, I sue so much to get?",372,19024
644137,1568,"My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers;
That love which virtue begs and virtue grants.",933,19024
644138,1570,"No, by my troth, I did not mean such love.",372,19024
644139,1571,"Why, then you mean not as I thought you did.",933,19024
644140,1572,But now you partly may perceive my mind.,372,19024
644141,1573,"My mind will never grant what I perceive
Your highness aims at, if I aim aright.",933,19024
644142,1575,"To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee.",372,19024
644143,1576,"To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison.",933,19024
644144,1577,"Why, then thou shalt not have thy husband's lands.",372,19024
644145,1578,"Why, then mine honesty shall be my dower;
For by that loss I will not purchase them.",933,19024
644146,1580,Therein thou wrong'st thy children mightily.,372,19024
644147,1581,"Herein your highness wrongs both them and me.
But, mighty lord, this merry inclination
Accords not with the sadness of my suit:
Please you dismiss me either with 'ay' or 'no.'",933,19024
644148,1585,"Ay, if thou wilt say 'ay' to my request;
No if thou dost say 'no' to my demand.",372,19024
644149,1587,"Then, no, my lord. My suit is at an end.",933,19024
644150,1588,"[Aside to CLARENCE] The widow likes him not, she
knits her brows.",945,19024
644151,1590,"[Aside to GLOUCESTER] He is the bluntest wooer in
Christendom.",527,19024
644152,1592,"[Aside] Her looks do argue her replete with modesty;
Her words do show her wit incomparable;
All her perfections challenge sovereignty:
One way or other, she is for a king;
And she shall be my love, or else my queen.--
Say that King Edward take thee for his queen?",372,19024
644153,1598,"'Tis better said than done, my gracious lord:
I am a subject fit to jest withal,
But far unfit to be a sovereign.",933,19024
644154,1601,"Sweet widow, by my state I swear to thee
I speak no more than what my soul intends;
And that is, to enjoy thee for my love.",372,19024
644155,1604,"And that is more than I will yield unto:
I know I am too mean to be your queen,
And yet too good to be your concubine.",933,19024
644156,1607,"You cavil, widow: I did mean, my queen.",372,19024
644159,1615,"[Aside to CLARENCE] The ghostly father now hath done
his shrift.",945,19024
644160,1617,"[Aside to GLOUCESTER] When he was made a shriver,
'twas for shift.",527,19024
644161,1619,"Brothers, you muse what chat we two have had.",372,19024
644162,1620,"The widow likes it not, for she looks very sad.",945,19024
644163,1621,You'll think it strange if I should marry her.,372,19024
644164,1622,"To whom, my lord?",527,19024
644165,1623,"Why, Clarence, to myself.",372,19024
644166,1624,That would be ten days' wonder at the least.,945,19024
644167,1625,That's a day longer than a wonder lasts.,527,19024
644168,1626,By so much is the wonder in extremes.,945,19024
644169,1627,"Well, jest on, brothers: I can tell you both
Her suit is granted for her husband's lands.",372,19024
644170,1629,[Enter a Nobleman],1261,19024
644171,1630,"My gracious lord, Henry your foe is taken,
And brought your prisoner to your palace gate.",816,19024
644172,1632,"See that he be convey'd unto the Tower:
And go we, brothers, to the man that took him,
To question of his apprehension.
Widow, go you along. Lords, use her honourably.",372,19024
644173,1636,[Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER],1261,19024
644174,1637,"Ay, Edward will use women honourably.
Would he were wasted, marrow, bones and all,
That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring,
To cross me from the golden time I look for!
And yet, between my soul's desire and me--
The lustful Edward's title buried--
Is Clarence, Henry, and his son young Edward,
And all the unlook'd for issue of their bodies,
To take their rooms, ere I can place myself:
A cold premeditation for my purpose!
Why, then, I do but dream on sovereignty;
Like one that stands upon a promontory,
And spies a far-off shore where he would tread,
Wishing his foot were equal with his eye,
And chides the sea that sunders him from thence,
Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way:
So do I wish the crown, being so far off;
And so I chide the means that keeps me from it;
And so I say, I'll cut the causes off,
Flattering me with impossibilities.
My eye's too quick, my heart o'erweens too much,
Unless my hand and strength could equal them.
Well, say there is no kingdom then for Richard;
What other pleasure can the world afford?
I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap,
And deck my body in gay ornaments,
And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.
O miserable thought! and more unlikely
Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!
Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb:
And, for I should not deal in her soft laws,
She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe,
To shrink mine arm up like a wither'd shrub;
To make an envious mountain on my back,
Where sits deformity to mock my body;
To shape my legs of an unequal size;
To disproportion me in every part,
Like to a chaos, or an unlick'd bear-whelp
That carries no impression like the dam.
And am I then a man to be beloved?
O monstrous fault, to harbour such a thought!
Then, since this earth affords no joy to me,
But to command, to cheque, to o'erbear such
As are of better person than myself,
I'll make my heaven to dream upon the crown,
And, whiles I live, to account this world but hell,
Until my mis-shaped trunk that bears this head
Be round impaled with a glorious crown.
And yet I know not how to get the crown,
For many lives stand between me and home:
And I,--like one lost in a thorny wood,
That rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns,
Seeking a way and straying from the way;
Not knowing how to find the open air,
But toiling desperately to find it out,--
Torment myself to catch the English crown:
And from that torment I will free myself,
Or hew my way out with a bloody axe.
Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face to all occasions.
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;
I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,
Deceive more slily than Ulysses could,
And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.
I can add colours to the chameleon,
Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down.",945,19024
644175,1709,"[Exit]
[Flourish. Enter KING LEWIS XI, his sister BONA,]
his Admiral, called BOURBON, PRINCE EDWARD, QUEEN
MARGARET, and OXFORD. KING LEWIS XI sits, and
riseth up again]",1261,19024
644176,1716,"Fair Queen of England, worthy Margaret,
Sit down with us: it ill befits thy state
And birth, that thou shouldst stand while Lewis doth sit.",670,19025
644177,1719,"No, mighty King of France: now Margaret
Must strike her sail and learn awhile to serve
Where kings command. I was, I must confess,
Great Albion's queen in former golden days:
But now mischance hath trod my title down,
And with dishonour laid me on the ground;
Where I must take like seat unto my fortune,
And to my humble seat conform myself.",736,19025
644178,1727,"Why, say, fair queen, whence springs this deep despair?",670,19025
644179,1728,"From such a cause as fills mine eyes with tears
And stops my tongue, while heart is drown'd in cares.",736,19025
644180,1730,"Whate'er it be, be thou still like thyself,
And sit thee by our side:
[Seats her by him]
Yield not thy neck
To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
Be plain, Queen Margaret, and tell thy grief;
It shall be eased, if France can yield relief.",670,19025
644181,1738,"Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts
And give my tongue-tied sorrows leave to speak.
Now, therefore, be it known to noble Lewis,
That Henry, sole possessor of my love,
Is of a king become a banish'd man,
And forced to live in Scotland a forlorn;
While proud ambitious Edward Duke of York
Usurps the regal title and the seat
Of England's true-anointed lawful king.
This is the cause that I, poor Margaret,
With this my son, Prince Edward, Henry's heir,
Am come to crave thy just and lawful aid;
And if thou fail us, all our hope is done:
Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help;
Our people and our peers are both misled,
Our treasures seized, our soldiers put to flight,
And, as thou seest, ourselves in heavy plight.",736,19025
644182,1755,"Renowned queen, with patience calm the storm,
While we bethink a means to break it off.",670,19025
644183,1757,"The more we stay, the stronger grows our foe.",736,19025
644184,1758,"The more I stay, the more I'll succor thee.",670,19025
644185,1759,"O, but impatience waiteth on true sorrow.
And see where comes the breeder of my sorrow!",736,19025
644186,1761,[Enter WARWICK],1261,19025
644187,1762,What's he approacheth boldly to our presence?,670,19025
644188,1763,"Our Earl of Warwick, Edward's greatest friend.",736,19025
644189,1764,"Welcome, brave Warwick! What brings thee to France?",670,19025
644190,1765,[He descends. She ariseth],1261,19025
644191,1766,"Ay, now begins a second storm to rise;
For this is he that moves both wind and tide.",736,19025
644192,1768,"From worthy Edward, King of Albion,
My lord and sovereign, and thy vowed friend,
I come, in kindness and unfeigned love,
First, to do greetings to thy royal person;
And then to crave a league of amity;
And lastly, to confirm that amity
With a nuptial knot, if thou vouchsafe to grant
That virtuous Lady Bona, thy fair sister,
To England's king in lawful marriage.",1247,19025
644193,1777,"[Aside] If that go forward, Henry's hope is done.",736,19025
644194,1778,"[To BONA] And, gracious madam, in our king's behalf,
I am commanded, with your leave and favour,
Humbly to kiss your hand, and with my tongue
To tell the passion of my sovereign's heart;
Where fame, late entering at his heedful ears,
Hath placed thy beauty's image and thy virtue.",1247,19025
644195,1784,"King Lewis and Lady Bona, hear me speak,
Before you answer Warwick. His demand
Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,
But from deceit bred by necessity;
For how can tyrants safely govern home,
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?
To prove him tyrant this reason may suffice,
That Henry liveth still: but were he dead,
Yet here Prince Edward stands, King Henry's son.
Look, therefore, Lewis, that by this league and marriage
Thou draw not on thy danger and dishonour;
For though usurpers sway the rule awhile,
Yet heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrongs.",736,19025
644196,1797,Injurious Margaret!,1247,19025
644197,1798,And why not queen?,916,19025
644198,1799,"Because thy father Henry did usurp;
And thou no more are prince than she is queen.",1247,19025
644199,1801,"Then Warwick disannuls great John of Gaunt,
Which did subdue the greatest part of Spain;
And, after John of Gaunt, Henry the Fourth,
Whose wisdom was a mirror to the wisest;
And, after that wise prince, Henry the Fifth,
Who by his prowess conquered all France:
From these our Henry lineally descends.",361,19025
644200,1808,"Oxford, how haps it, in this smooth discourse,
You told not how Henry the Sixth hath lost
All that which Henry Fifth had gotten?
Methinks these peers of France should smile at that.
But for the rest, you tell a pedigree
Of threescore and two years; a silly time
To make prescription for a kingdom's worth.",1247,19025
644201,1815,"Why, Warwick, canst thou speak against thy liege,
Whom thou obeyed'st thirty and six years,
And not bewray thy treason with a blush?",361,19025
644202,1818,"Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right,
Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree?
For shame! leave Henry, and call Edward king.",1247,19025
644203,1821,"Call him my king by whose injurious doom
My elder brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere,
Was done to death? and more than so, my father,
Even in the downfall of his mellow'd years,
When nature brought him to the door of death?
No, Warwick, no; while life upholds this arm,
This arm upholds the house of Lancaster.",361,19025
644204,1828,And I the house of York.,1247,19025
644205,1829,"Queen Margaret, Prince Edward, and Oxford,
Vouchsafe, at our request, to stand aside,
While I use further conference with Warwick.",670,19025
644206,1832,[They stand aloof],1261,19025
644207,1833,Heavens grant that Warwick's words bewitch him not!,736,19025
644208,1834,"Now Warwick, tell me, even upon thy conscience,
Is Edward your true king? for I were loath
To link with him that were not lawful chosen.",670,19025
644209,1837,Thereon I pawn my credit and mine honour.,1247,19025
644210,1838,But is he gracious in the people's eye?,670,19025
644211,1839,The more that Henry was unfortunate.,1247,19025
644212,1840,"Then further, all dissembling set aside,
Tell me for truth the measure of his love
Unto our sister Bona.",670,19025
644213,1843,"Such it seems
As may beseem a monarch like himself.
Myself have often heard him say and swear
That this his love was an eternal plant,
Whereof the root was fix'd in virtue's ground,
The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun,
Exempt from envy, but not from disdain,
Unless the Lady Bona quit his pain.",1247,19025
644214,1851,"Now, sister, let us hear your firm resolve.",670,19025
644215,1852,"Your grant, or your denial, shall be mine:
[To WARWICK]
Yet I confess that often ere this day,
When I have heard your king's desert recounted,
Mine ear hath tempted judgment to desire.",178,19025
644216,1857,"Then, Warwick, thus: our sister shall be Edward's;
And now forthwith shall articles be drawn
Touching the jointure that your king must make,
Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.
Draw near, Queen Margaret, and be a witness
That Bona shall be wife to the English king.",670,19025
644217,1863,"To Edward, but not to the English king.",916,19025
644218,1864,"Deceitful Warwick! it was thy device
By this alliance to make void my suit:
Before thy coming Lewis was Henry's friend.",736,19025
644219,1867,"And still is friend to him and Margaret:
But if your title to the crown be weak,
As may appear by Edward's good success,
Then 'tis but reason that I be released
From giving aid which late I promised.
Yet shall you have all kindness at my hand
That your estate requires and mine can yield.",670,19025
644220,1874,"Henry now lives in Scotland at his ease,
Where having nothing, nothing can he lose.
And as for you yourself, our quondam queen,
You have a father able to maintain you;
And better 'twere you troubled him than France.",1247,19025
644221,1879,"Peace, impudent and shameless Warwick, peace,
Proud setter up and puller down of kings!
I will not hence, till, with my talk and tears,
Both full of truth, I make King Lewis behold
Thy sly conveyance and thy lord's false love;
For both of you are birds of selfsame feather.",736,19025
644222,1885,[Post blows a horn within],1261,19025
644223,1886,"Warwick, this is some post to us or thee.",670,19025
644224,1887,[Enter a Post],1261,19025
644225,1888,"[To WARWICK] My lord ambassador, these letters are for you,
Sent from your brother, Marquess Montague:
[To KING LEWIS XI]
These from our king unto your majesty:
[To QUEEN MARGARET]
And, madam, these for you; from whom I know not.",910,19025
644226,1894,[They all read their letters],1261,19025
644227,1895,"I like it well that our fair queen and mistress
Smiles at her news, while Warwick frowns at his.",361,19025
644228,1897,"Nay, mark how Lewis stamps, as he were nettled:
I hope all's for the best.",916,19025
644229,1899,"Warwick, what are thy news? and yours, fair queen?",670,19025
644230,1900,"Mine, such as fill my heart with unhoped joys.",736,19025
644231,1901,"Mine, full of sorrow and heart's discontent.",1247,19025
644232,1902,"What! has your king married the Lady Grey!
And now, to soothe your forgery and his,
Sends me a paper to persuade me patience?
Is this the alliance that he seeks with France?
Dare he presume to scorn us in this manner?",670,19025
644233,1907,"I told your majesty as much before:
This proveth Edward's love and Warwick's honesty.",736,19025
644234,1909,"King Lewis, I here protest, in sight of heaven,
And by the hope I have of heavenly bliss,
That I am clear from this misdeed of Edward's,
No more my king, for he dishonours me,
But most himself, if he could see his shame.
Did I forget that by the house of York
My father came untimely to his death?
Did I let pass the abuse done to my niece?
Did I impale him with the regal crown?
Did I put Henry from his native right?
And am I guerdon'd at the last with shame?
Shame on himself! for my desert is honour:
And to repair my honour lost for him,
I here renounce him and return to Henry.
My noble queen, let former grudges pass,
And henceforth I am thy true servitor:
I will revenge his wrong to Lady Bona,
And replant Henry in his former state.",1247,19025
644235,1927,"Warwick, these words have turn'd my hate to love;
And I forgive and quite forget old faults,
And joy that thou becomest King Henry's friend.",736,19025
644236,1930,"So much his friend, ay, his unfeigned friend,
That, if King Lewis vouchsafe to furnish us
With some few bands of chosen soldiers,
I'll undertake to land them on our coast
And force the tyrant from his seat by war.
'Tis not his new-made bride shall succor him:
And as for Clarence, as my letters tell me,
He's very likely now to fall from him,
For matching more for wanton lust than honour,
Or than for strength and safety of our country.",1247,19025
644237,1940,"Dear brother, how shall Bona be revenged
But by thy help to this distressed queen?",178,19025
644238,1942,"Renowned prince, how shall poor Henry live,
Unless thou rescue him from foul despair?",736,19025
644239,1944,My quarrel and this English queen's are one.,178,19025
644240,1945,"And mine, fair lady Bona, joins with yours.",1247,19025
644241,1946,"And mine with hers, and thine, and Margaret's.
Therefore at last I firmly am resolved
You shall have aid.",670,19025
644242,1949,Let me give humble thanks for all at once.,736,19025
644243,1950,"Then, England's messenger, return in post,
And tell false Edward, thy supposed king,
That Lewis of France is sending over masquers
To revel it with him and his new bride:
Thou seest what's past, go fear thy king withal.",670,19025
644244,1955,"Tell him, in hope he'll prove a widower shortly,
I'll wear the willow garland for his sake.",178,19025
644245,1957,"Tell him, my mourning weeds are laid aside,
And I am ready to put armour on.",736,19025
644246,1959,"Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,
And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.
There's thy reward: be gone.",1247,19025
644247,1962,[Exit Post],1261,19025
644248,1963,"But, Warwick,
Thou and Oxford, with five thousand men,
Shall cross the seas, and bid false Edward battle;
And, as occasion serves, this noble queen
And prince shall follow with a fresh supply.
Yet, ere thou go, but answer me one doubt,
What pledge have we of thy firm loyalty?",670,19025
644249,1970,"This shall assure my constant loyalty,
That if our queen and this young prince agree,
I'll join mine eldest daughter and my joy
To him forthwith in holy wedlock bands.",1247,19025
644250,1974,"Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.
Son Edward, she is fair and virtuous,
Therefore delay not, give thy hand to Warwick;
And, with thy hand, thy faith irrevocable,
That only Warwick's daughter shall be thine.",736,19025
644251,1979,"Yes, I accept her, for she well deserves it;
And here, to pledge my vow, I give my hand.",916,19025
644252,1981,[He gives his hand to WARWICK],1261,19025
644253,1982,"Why stay we now? These soldiers shall be levied,
And thou, Lord Bourbon, our high admiral,
Shalt waft them over with our royal fleet.
I long till Edward fall by war's mischance,
For mocking marriage with a dame of France.",670,19025
644254,1987,[Exeunt all but WARWICK],1261,19025
644255,1988,"I came from Edward as ambassador,
But I return his sworn and mortal foe:
Matter of marriage was the charge he gave me,
But dreadful war shall answer his demand.
Had he none else to make a stale but me?
Then none but I shall turn his jest to sorrow.
I was the chief that raised him to the crown,
And I'll be chief to bring him down again:
Not that I pity Henry's misery,
But seek revenge on Edward's mockery.",1247,19025
644256,1998,[Exit],1261,19025
644257,2001,"[Enter GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, SOMERSET, and MONTAGUE]",1261,19026
644258,2002,"Now tell me, brother Clarence, what think you
Of this new marriage with the Lady Grey?
Hath not our brother made a worthy choice?",945,19026
644259,2005,"Alas, you know, 'tis far from hence to France;
How could he stay till Warwick made return?",527,19026
644260,2007,"My lords, forbear this talk; here comes the king.",1137,19026
644261,2008,And his well-chosen bride.,945,19026
644262,2009,"I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
[Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, attended; QUEEN]
ELIZABETH, PEMBROKE, STAFFORD, HASTINGS, and others]",527,19026
644263,2012,"Now, brother of Clarence, how like you our choice,
That you stand pensive, as half malcontent?",372,19026
644264,2014,"As well as Lewis of France, or the Earl of Warwick,
Which are so weak of courage and in judgment
That they'll take no offence at our abuse.",527,19026
644265,2017,"Suppose they take offence without a cause,
They are but Lewis and Warwick: I am Edward,
Your king and Warwick's, and must have my will.",372,19026
644266,2020,"And shall have your will, because our king:
Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well.",945,19026
644267,2022,"Yea, brother Richard, are you offended too?",372,19026
644268,2023,"Not I:
No, God forbid that I should wish them sever'd
Whom God hath join'd together; ay, and 'twere pity
To sunder them that yoke so well together.",945,19026
644269,2027,"Setting your scorns and your mislike aside,
Tell me some reason why the Lady Grey
Should not become my wife and England's queen.
And you too, Somerset and Montague,
Speak freely what you think.",372,19026
644270,2032,"Then this is mine opinion: that King Lewis
Becomes your enemy, for mocking him
About the marriage of the Lady Bona.",527,19026
644271,2035,"And Warwick, doing what you gave in charge,
Is now dishonoured by this new marriage.",945,19026
644272,2037,"What if both Lewis and Warwick be appeased
By such invention as I can devise?",372,19026
644273,2039,"Yet, to have join'd with France in such alliance
Would more have strengthen'd this our commonwealth
'Gainst foreign storms than any home-bred marriage.",745,19026
644274,2042,"Why, knows not Montague that of itself
England is safe, if true within itself?",685,19026
644275,2044,But the safer when 'tis back'd with France.,745,19026
644276,2045,"'Tis better using France than trusting France:
Let us be back'd with God and with the seas
Which He hath given for fence impregnable,
And with their helps only defend ourselves;
In them and in ourselves our safety lies.",685,19026
644277,2050,"For this one speech Lord Hastings well deserves
To have the heir of the Lord Hungerford.",527,19026
644278,2052,"Ay, what of that? it was my will and grant;
And for this once my will shall stand for law.",372,19026
644279,2054,"And yet methinks your grace hath not done well,
To give the heir and daughter of Lord Scales
Unto the brother of your loving bride;
She better would have fitted me or Clarence:
But in your bride you bury brotherhood.",945,19026
644280,2059,"Or else you would not have bestow'd the heir
Of the Lord Bonville on your new wife's son,
And leave your brothers to go speed elsewhere.",527,19026
644281,2062,"Alas, poor Clarence! is it for a wife
That thou art malcontent? I will provide thee.",372,19026
644282,2064,"In choosing for yourself, you show'd your judgment,
Which being shallow, you give me leave
To play the broker in mine own behalf;
And to that end I shortly mind to leave you.",527,19026
644283,2068,"Leave me, or tarry, Edward will be king,
And not be tied unto his brother's will.",372,19026
644284,2070,"My lords, before it pleased his majesty
To raise my state to title of a queen,
Do me but right, and you must all confess
That I was not ignoble of descent;
And meaner than myself have had like fortune.
But as this title honours me and mine,
So your dislike, to whom I would be pleasing,
Doth cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow.",933,19026
644285,2078,"My love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns:
What danger or what sorrow can befall thee,
So long as Edward is thy constant friend,
And their true sovereign, whom they must obey?
Nay, whom they shall obey, and love thee too,
Unless they seek for hatred at my hands;
Which if they do, yet will I keep thee safe,
And they shall feel the vengeance of my wrath.",372,19026
644286,2086,"[Aside] I hear, yet say not much, but think the more.",945,19026
644287,2087,[Enter a Post],1261,19026
644288,2088,"Now, messenger, what letters or what news
From France?",372,19026
644289,2090,"My sovereign liege, no letters; and few words,
But such as I, without your special pardon,
Dare not relate.",910,19026
644290,2093,"Go to, we pardon thee: therefore, in brief,
Tell me their words as near as thou canst guess them.
What answer makes King Lewis unto our letters?",372,19026
644291,2096,"At my depart, these were his very words:
'Go tell false Edward, thy supposed king,
That Lewis of France is sending over masquers
To revel it with him and his new bride.'",910,19026
644292,2100,"Is Lewis so brave? belike he thinks me Henry.
But what said Lady Bona to my marriage?",372,19026
644293,2102,"These were her words, utter'd with mad disdain:
'Tell him, in hope he'll prove a widower shortly,
I'll wear the willow garland for his sake.'",910,19026
644294,2105,"I blame not her, she could say little less;
She had the wrong. But what said Henry's queen?
For I have heard that she was there in place.",372,19026
644295,2108,"'Tell him,' quoth she, 'my mourning weeds are done,
And I am ready to put armour on.'",910,19026
644296,2110,"Belike she minds to play the Amazon.
But what said Warwick to these injuries?",372,19026
644297,2112,"He, more incensed against your majesty
Than all the rest, discharged me with these words:
'Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,
And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.'",910,19026
644298,2116,"Ha! durst the traitor breathe out so proud words?
Well I will arm me, being thus forewarn'd:
They shall have wars and pay for their presumption.
But say, is Warwick friends with Margaret?",372,19026
644299,2120,"Ay, gracious sovereign; they are so link'd in
friendship
That young Prince Edward marries Warwick's daughter.",910,19026
644300,2123,"Belike the elder; Clarence will have the younger.
Now, brother king, farewell, and sit you fast,
For I will hence to Warwick's other daughter;
That, though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage
I may not prove inferior to yourself.
You that love me and Warwick, follow me.",527,19026
644301,2129,"[Exit CLARENCE, and SOMERSET follows]",1261,19026
644302,2130,"[Aside] Not I:
My thoughts aim at a further matter; I
Stay not for the love of Edward, but the crown.",945,19026
644303,2133,"Clarence and Somerset both gone to Warwick!
Yet am I arm'd against the worst can happen;
And haste is needful in this desperate case.
Pembroke and Stafford, you in our behalf
Go levy men, and make prepare for war;
They are already, or quickly will be landed:
Myself in person will straight follow you.
[Exeunt PEMBROKE and STAFFORD]
But, ere I go, Hastings and Montague,
Resolve my doubt. You twain, of all the rest,
Are near to Warwick by blood and by alliance:
Tell me if you love Warwick more than me?
If it be so, then both depart to him;
I rather wish you foes than hollow friends:
But if you mind to hold your true obedience,
Give me assurance with some friendly vow,
That I may never have you in suspect.",372,19026
644304,2150,So God help Montague as he proves true!,745,19026
644305,2151,And Hastings as he favours Edward's cause!,685,19026
644306,2152,"Now, brother Richard, will you stand by us?",372,19026
644307,2153,"Ay, in despite of all that shall withstand you.",945,19026
644308,2154,"Why, so! then am I sure of victory.
Now therefore let us hence; and lose no hour,
Till we meet Warwick with his foreign power.",372,19026
644309,2157,[Exeunt],1261,19026
644310,2160,"[Enter WARWICK and OXFORD, with French soldiers]",1261,19027
644311,2161,"Trust me, my lord, all hitherto goes well;
The common people by numbers swarm to us.
[Enter CLARENCE and SOMERSET]
But see where Somerset and Clarence come!
Speak suddenly, my lords, are we all friends?",1247,19027
644312,2166,"Fear not that, my lord.",527,19027
644313,2167,"Then, gentle Clarence, welcome unto Warwick;
And welcome, Somerset: I hold it cowardice
To rest mistrustful where a noble heart
Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love;
Else might I think that Clarence, Edward's brother,
Were but a feigned friend to our proceedings:
But welcome, sweet Clarence; my daughter shall be thine.
And now what rests but, in night's coverture,
Thy brother being carelessly encamp'd,
His soldiers lurking in the towns about,
And but attended by a simple guard,
We may surprise and take him at our pleasure?
Our scouts have found the adventure very easy:
That as Ulysses and stout Diomede
With sleight and manhood stole to Rhesus' tents,
And brought from thence the Thracian fatal steeds,
So we, well cover'd with the night's black mantle,
At unawares may beat down Edward's guard
And seize himself; I say not, slaughter him,
For I intend but only to surprise him.
You that will follow me to this attempt,
Applaud the name of Henry with your leader.
[They all cry, 'Henry!']
Why, then, let's on our way in silent sort:
For Warwick and his friends, God and Saint George!",1247,19027
644314,2192,[Exeunt],1261,19027
644315,2195,"[Enter three Watchmen, to guard KING EDWARD IV's tent]",1261,19028
644316,2196,"Come on, my masters, each man take his stand:
The king by this is set him down to sleep.",474,19028
644317,2198,"What, will he not to bed?",1039,19028
644318,2199,"Why, no; for he hath made a solemn vow
Never to lie and take his natural rest
Till Warwick or himself be quite suppress'd.",474,19028
644319,2202,"To-morrow then belike shall be the day,
If Warwick be so near as men report.",1039,19028
644320,2204,"But say, I pray, what nobleman is that
That with the king here resteth in his tent?",1189,19028
644321,2206,"'Tis the Lord Hastings, the king's chiefest friend.",474,19028
644322,2207,"O, is it so? But why commands the king
That his chief followers lodge in towns about him,
While he himself keeps in the cold field?",1189,19028
644323,2210,"'Tis the more honour, because more dangerous.",1039,19028
644324,2211,"Ay, but give me worship and quietness;
I like it better than a dangerous honour.
If Warwick knew in what estate he stands,
'Tis to be doubted he would waken him.",1189,19028
644325,2215,Unless our halberds did shut up his passage.,474,19028
644326,2216,"Ay, wherefore else guard we his royal tent,
But to defend his person from night-foes?
[Enter WARWICK, CLARENCE, OXFORD, SOMERSET, and]
French soldiers, silent all]",1039,19028
644327,2220,"This is his tent; and see where stand his guard.
Courage, my masters! honour now or never!
But follow me, and Edward shall be ours.",1247,19028
644328,2223,Who goes there?,474,19028
644329,2224,"Stay, or thou diest!
[WARWICK and the rest cry all, 'Warwick! Warwick!']
and set upon the Guard, who fly, crying, 'Arm!
arm!' WARWICK and the rest following them]
[The drum playing and trumpet sounding, reenter]
WARWICK, SOMERSET, and the rest, bringing KING
EDWARD IV out in his gown, sitting in a chair.
RICHARD and HASTINGS fly over the stage]",1039,19028
644330,2232,What are they that fly there?,1137,19028
644331,2233,Richard and Hastings: let them go; here is The duke.,1247,19028
644332,2234,"The duke! Why, Warwick, when we parted,
Thou call'dst me king.",372,19028
644333,2236,"Ay, but the case is alter'd:
When you disgraced me in my embassade,
Then I degraded you from being king,
And come now to create you Duke of York.
Alas! how should you govern any kingdom,
That know not how to use ambassadors,
Nor how to be contented with one wife,
Nor how to use your brothers brotherly,
Nor how to study for the people's welfare,
Nor how to shroud yourself from enemies?",1247,19028
644334,2246,"Yea, brother of Clarence, are thou here too?
Nay, then I see that Edward needs must down.
Yet, Warwick, in despite of all mischance,
Of thee thyself and all thy complices,
Edward will always bear himself as king:
Though fortune's malice overthrow my state,
My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.",372,19028
644335,2253,"Then, for his mind, be Edward England's king:
[Takes off his crown]
But Henry now shall wear the English crown,
And be true king indeed, thou but the shadow.
My Lord of Somerset, at my request,
See that forthwith Duke Edward be convey'd
Unto my brother, Archbishop of York.
When I have fought with Pembroke and his fellows,
I'll follow you, and tell what answer
Lewis and the Lady Bona send to him.
Now, for a while farewell, good Duke of York.",1247,19028
644336,2264,[They lead him out forcibly],1261,19028
644337,2265,"What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide.",372,19028
644338,2267,"[Exit, guarded]",1261,19028
644339,2268,"What now remains, my lords, for us to do
But march to London with our soldiers?",361,19028
644340,2270,"Ay, that's the first thing that we have to do;
To free King Henry from imprisonment
And see him seated in the regal throne.",1247,19028
644341,2273,[Exeunt],1261,19028
644342,2276,[Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and RIVERS],1261,19029
644343,2277,"Madam, what makes you in this sudden change?",692,19029
644344,2278,"Why brother Rivers, are you yet to learn
What late misfortune is befall'n King Edward?",933,19029
644345,2280,What! loss of some pitch'd battle against Warwick?,692,19029
644346,2281,"No, but the loss of his own royal person.",933,19029
644347,2282,Then is my sovereign slain?,692,19029
644348,2283,"Ay, almost slain, for he is taken prisoner,
Either betray'd by falsehood of his guard
Or by his foe surprised at unawares:
And, as I further have to understand,
Is new committed to the Bishop of York,
Fell Warwick's brother and by that our foe.",933,19029
644349,2289,"These news I must confess are full of grief;
Yet, gracious madam, bear it as you may:
Warwick may lose, that now hath won the day.",692,19029
644350,2292,"Till then fair hope must hinder life's decay.
And I the rather wean me from despair
For love of Edward's offspring in my womb:
This is it that makes me bridle passion
And bear with mildness my misfortune's cross;
Ay, ay, for this I draw in many a tear
And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs,
Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown
King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown.",933,19029
644351,2301,"But, madam, where is Warwick then become?",692,19029
644352,2302,"I am inform'd that he comes towards London,
To set the crown once more on Henry's head:
Guess thou the rest; King Edward's friends must down,
But, to prevent the tyrant's violence,--
For trust not him that hath once broken faith,--
I'll hence forthwith unto the sanctuary,
To save at least the heir of Edward's right:
There shall I rest secure from force and fraud.
Come, therefore, let us fly while we may fly:
If Warwick take us we are sure to die.",933,19029
644353,2312,[Exeunt],1261,19029
644354,2315,"[Enter GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and STANLEY]",1261,19030
644355,2316,"Now, my Lord Hastings and Sir William Stanley,
Leave off to wonder why I drew you hither,
Into this chiefest thicket of the park.
Thus stands the case: you know our king, my brother,
Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands
He hath good usage and great liberty,
And, often but attended with weak guard,
Comes hunting this way to disport himself.
I have advertised him by secret means
That if about this hour he make his way
Under the colour of his usual game,
He shall here find his friends with horse and men
To set him free from his captivity.",945,19030
644356,2329,[Enter KING EDWARD IV and a Huntsman with him],1261,19030
644357,2330,"This way, my lord; for this way lies the game.",595,19030
644358,2331,"Nay, this way, man: see where the huntsmen stand.
Now, brother of Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and the rest,
Stand you thus close, to steal the bishop's deer?",372,19030
644359,2334,"Brother, the time and case requireth haste:
Your horse stands ready at the park-corner.",945,19030
644360,2336,But whither shall we then?,372,19030
644361,2337,"To Lynn, my lord,
And ship from thence to Flanders.",685,19030
644362,2339,"Well guess'd, believe me; for that was my meaning.",945,19030
644363,2340,"Stanley, I will requite thy forwardness.",372,19030
644364,2341,But wherefore stay we? 'tis no time to talk.,945,19030
644365,2342,"Huntsman, what say'st thou? wilt thou go along?",372,19030
644366,2343,Better do so than tarry and be hang'd.,595,19030
644367,2344,"Come then, away; let's ha' no more ado.",945,19030
644368,2345,"Bishop, farewell: shield thee from Warwick's frown;
And pray that I may repossess the crown.",372,19030
644369,2347,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLARENCE, WARWICK,]
SOMERSET, HENRY OF RICHMOND, OXFORD, MONTAGUE, and
Lieutenant of the Tower]",1261,19030
644370,2353,"Master lieutenant, now that God and friends
Have shaken Edward from the regal seat,
And turn'd my captive state to liberty,
My fear to hope, my sorrows unto joys,
At our enlargement what are thy due fees?",574,19031
644371,2358,"Subjects may challenge nothing of their sovereigns;
But if an humble prayer may prevail,
I then crave pardon of your majesty.",672,19031
644372,2361,"For what, lieutenant? for well using me?
Nay, be thou sure I'll well requite thy kindness,
For that it made my imprisonment a pleasure;
Ay, such a pleasure as incaged birds
Conceive when after many moody thoughts
At last by notes of household harmony
They quite forget their loss of liberty.
But, Warwick, after God, thou set'st me free,
And chiefly therefore I thank God and thee;
He was the author, thou the instrument.
Therefore, that I may conquer fortune's spite
By living low, where fortune cannot hurt me,
And that the people of this blessed land
May not be punish'd with my thwarting stars,
Warwick, although my head still wear the crown,
I here resign my government to thee,
For thou art fortunate in all thy deeds.",574,19031
644373,2378,"Your grace hath still been famed for virtuous;
And now may seem as wise as virtuous,
By spying and avoiding fortune's malice,
For few men rightly temper with the stars:
Yet in this one thing let me blame your grace,
For choosing me when Clarence is in place.",1247,19031
644374,2384,"No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway,
To whom the heavens in thy nativity
Adjudged an olive branch and laurel crown,
As likely to be blest in peace and war;
And therefore I yield thee my free consent.",527,19031
644375,2389,And I choose Clarence only for protector.,1247,19031
644376,2390,"Warwick and Clarence give me both your hands:
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts,
That no dissension hinder government:
I make you both protectors of this land,
While I myself will lead a private life
And in devotion spend my latter days,
To sin's rebuke and my Creator's praise.",574,19031
644377,2397,What answers Clarence to his sovereign's will?,1247,19031
644378,2398,"That he consents, if Warwick yield consent;
For on thy fortune I repose myself.",527,19031
644379,2400,"Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content:
We'll yoke together, like a double shadow
To Henry's body, and supply his place;
I mean, in bearing weight of government,
While he enjoys the honour and his ease.
And, Clarence, now then it is more than needful
Forthwith that Edward be pronounced a traitor,
And all his lands and goods be confiscate.",1247,19031
644380,2408,What else? and that succession be determined.,527,19031
644381,2409,"Ay, therein Clarence shall not want his part.",1247,19031
644382,2410,"But, with the first of all your chief affairs,
Let me entreat, for I command no more,
That Margaret your queen and my son Edward
Be sent for, to return from France with speed;
For, till I see them here, by doubtful fear
My joy of liberty is half eclipsed.",574,19031
644383,2416,"It shall be done, my sovereign, with all speed.",527,19031
644384,2417,"My Lord of Somerset, what youth is that,
Of whom you seem to have so tender care?",574,19031
644385,2419,"My liege, it is young Henry, earl of Richmond.",1137,19031
644386,2420,"Come hither, England's hope.
[Lays his hand on his head]
If secret powers
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts,
This pretty lad will prove our country's bliss.
His looks are full of peaceful majesty,
His head by nature framed to wear a crown,
His hand to wield a sceptre, and himself
Likely in time to bless a regal throne.
Make much of him, my lords, for this is he
Must help you more than you are hurt by me.",574,19031
644387,2431,[Enter a Post],1261,19031
644388,2432,"What news, my friend?",1247,19031
644389,2433,"That Edward is escaped from your brother,
And fled, as he hears since, to Burgundy.",910,19031
644390,2435,Unsavoury news! but how made he escape?,1247,19031
644391,2436,"He was convey'd by Richard Duke of Gloucester
And the Lord Hastings, who attended him
In secret ambush on the forest side
And from the bishop's huntsmen rescued him;
For hunting was his daily exercise.",910,19031
644392,2441,"My brother was too careless of his charge.
But let us hence, my sovereign, to provide
A salve for any sore that may betide.",1247,19031
644393,2444,"[Exeunt all but SOMERSET, HENRY OF RICHMOND, and OXFORD]",1261,19031
644394,2445,"My lord, I like not of this flight of Edward's;
For doubtless Burgundy will yield him help,
And we shall have more wars before 't be long.
As Henry's late presaging prophecy
Did glad my heart with hope of this young Richmond,
So doth my heart misgive me, in these conflicts
What may befall him, to his harm and ours:
Therefore, Lord Oxford, to prevent the worst,
Forthwith we'll send him hence to Brittany,
Till storms be past of civil enmity.",1137,19031
644395,2455,"Ay, for if Edward repossess the crown,
'Tis like that Richmond with the rest shall down.",361,19031
644396,2457,"It shall be so; he shall to Brittany.
Come, therefore, let's about it speedily.",1137,19031
644397,2459,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER,]
HASTINGS, and Soldiers]",1261,19031
644398,2464,"Now, brother Richard, Lord Hastings, and the rest,
Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends,
And says that once more I shall interchange
My waned state for Henry's regal crown.
Well have we pass'd and now repass'd the seas
And brought desired help from Burgundy:
What then remains, we being thus arrived
From Ravenspurgh haven before the gates of York,
But that we enter, as into our dukedom?",372,19032
644399,2473,"The gates made fast! Brother, I like not this;
For many men that stumble at the threshold
Are well foretold that danger lurks within.",945,19032
644400,2476,"Tush, man, abodements must not now affright us:
By fair or foul means we must enter in,
For hither will our friends repair to us.",372,19032
644401,2479,"My liege, I'll knock once more to summon them.",685,19032
644402,2480,"[Enter, on the walls, the Mayor of York, and his Brethren]",1261,19032
644403,2481,"My lords, we were forewarned of your coming,
And shut the gates for safety of ourselves;
For now we owe allegiance unto Henry.",757,19032
644404,2484,"But, master mayor, if Henry be your king,
Yet Edward at the least is Duke of York.",372,19032
644405,2486,"True, my good lord; I know you for no less.",757,19032
644406,2487,"Why, and I challenge nothing but my dukedom,
As being well content with that alone.",372,19032
644407,2489,"[Aside] But when the fox hath once got in his nose,
He'll soon find means to make the body follow.",945,19032
644408,2491,"Why, master mayor, why stand you in a doubt?
Open the gates; we are King Henry's friends.",685,19032
644409,2493,"Ay, say you so? the gates shall then be open'd.",757,19032
644410,2494,[They descend],1261,19032
644411,2495,"A wise stout captain, and soon persuaded!",945,19032
644412,2496,"The good old man would fain that all were well,
So 'twere not 'long of him; but being enter'd,
I doubt not, I, but we shall soon persuade
Both him and all his brothers unto reason.",685,19032
644413,2500,"[Enter the Mayor and two Aldermen, below]",1261,19032
644414,2501,"So, master mayor: these gates must not be shut
But in the night or in the time of war.
What! fear not, man, but yield me up the keys;
[Takes his keys]
For Edward will defend the town and thee,
And all those friends that deign to follow me.",372,19032
644415,2507,"[March. Enter MONTGOMERY, with drum and soldiers]",1261,19032
644416,2508,"Brother, this is Sir John Montgomery,
Our trusty friend, unless I be deceived.",945,19032
644417,2510,"Welcome, Sir John! But why come you in arms?",372,19032
644418,2511,"To help King Edward in his time of storm,
As every loyal subject ought to do.",745,19032
644419,2513,"Thanks, good Montgomery; but we now forget
Our title to the crown and only claim
Our dukedom till God please to send the rest.",372,19032
644420,2516,"Then fare you well, for I will hence again:
I came to serve a king and not a duke.
Drummer, strike up, and let us march away.",745,19032
644421,2519,[The drum begins to march],1261,19032
644422,2520,"Nay, stay, Sir John, awhile, and we'll debate
By what safe means the crown may be recover'd.",372,19032
644423,2522,"What talk you of debating? in few words,
If you'll not here proclaim yourself our king,
I'll leave you to your fortune and be gone
To keep them back that come to succor you:
Why shall we fight, if you pretend no title?",745,19032
644424,2527,"Why, brother, wherefore stand you on nice points?",945,19032
644425,2528,"When we grow stronger, then we'll make our claim:
Till then, 'tis wisdom to conceal our meaning.",372,19032
644426,2530,Away with scrupulous wit! now arms must rule.,685,19032
644427,2531,"And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand:
The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.",945,19032
644428,2534,"Then be it as you will; for 'tis my right,
And Henry but usurps the diadem.",372,19032
644429,2536,"Ay, now my sovereign speaketh like himself;
And now will I be Edward's champion.",745,19032
644430,2538,"Sound trumpet; Edward shall be here proclaim'd:
Come, fellow-soldier, make thou proclamation.",685,19032
644431,2540,[Flourish],1261,19032
644432,2541,"Edward the Fourth, by the grace of God, king of
England and France, and lord of Ireland, &c.",1132,19032
644433,2543,"And whosoe'er gainsays King Edward's right,
By this I challenge him to single fight.",745,19032
644434,2545,[Throws down his gauntlet],1261,19032
644435,2546,Long live Edward the Fourth!,78,19032
644436,2547,"Thanks, brave Montgomery; and thanks unto you all:
If fortune serve me, I'll requite this kindness.
Now, for this night, let's harbour here in York;
And when the morning sun shall raise his car
Above the border of this horizon,
We'll forward towards Warwick and his mates;
For well I wot that Henry is no soldier.
Ah, froward Clarence! how evil it beseems thee
To flatter Henry and forsake thy brother!
Yet, as we may, we'll meet both thee and Warwick.
Come on, brave soldiers: doubt not of the day,
And, that once gotten, doubt not of large pay.",372,19032
644437,2559,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, WARWICK, MONTAGUE,]
CLARENCE, EXETER, and OXFORD]",1261,19032
644438,2564,"What counsel, lords? Edward from Belgia,
With hasty Germans and blunt Hollanders,
Hath pass'd in safety through the narrow seas,
And with his troops doth march amain to London;
And many giddy people flock to him.",1247,19033
644439,2569,"Let's levy men, and beat him back again.",574,19033
644440,2570,"A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.",527,19033
644441,2572,"In Warwickshire I have true-hearted friends,
Not mutinous in peace, yet bold in war;
Those will I muster up: and thou, son Clarence,
Shalt stir up in Suffolk, Norfolk, and in Kent,
The knights and gentlemen to come with thee:
Thou, brother Montague, in Buckingham,
Northampton and in Leicestershire, shalt find
Men well inclined to hear what thou command'st:
And thou, brave Oxford, wondrous well beloved,
In Oxfordshire shalt muster up thy friends.
My sovereign, with the loving citizens,
Like to his island girt in with the ocean,
Or modest Dian circled with her nymphs,
Shall rest in London till we come to him.
Fair lords, take leave and stand not to reply.
Farewell, my sovereign.",1247,19033
644442,2588,"Farewell, my Hector, and my Troy's true hope.",574,19033
644443,2589,"In sign of truth, I kiss your highness' hand.",527,19033
644444,2590,"Well-minded Clarence, be thou fortunate!",574,19033
644445,2591,"Comfort, my lord; and so I take my leave.",745,19033
644446,2592,"And thus I seal my truth, and bid adieu.",361,19033
644447,2593,"Sweet Oxford, and my loving Montague,
And all at once, once more a happy farewell.",574,19033
644448,2595,"Farewell, sweet lords: let's meet at Coventry.",1247,19033
644449,2596,[Exeunt all but KING HENRY VI and EXETER],1261,19033
644450,2597,"Here at the palace I will rest awhile.
Cousin of Exeter, what thinks your lordship?
Methinks the power that Edward hath in field
Should not be able to encounter mine.",574,19033
644451,2601,The doubt is that he will seduce the rest.,389,19033
644452,2602,"That's not my fear; my meed hath got me fame:
I have not stopp'd mine ears to their demands,
Nor posted off their suits with slow delays;
My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds,
My mildness hath allay'd their swelling griefs,
My mercy dried their water-flowing tears;
I have not been desirous of their wealth,
Nor much oppress'd them with great subsidies.
Nor forward of revenge, though they much err'd:
Then why should they love Edward more than me?
No, Exeter, these graces challenge grace:
And when the lion fawns upon the lamb,
The lamb will never cease to follow him.",574,19033
644453,2615,[Shout within. 'A Lancaster! A Lancaster!'],1261,19033
644454,2616,"Hark, hark, my lord! what shouts are these?",389,19033
644455,2617,"[Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, and soldiers]",1261,19033
644456,2618,"Seize on the shame-faced Henry, bear him hence;
And once again proclaim us King of England.
You are the fount that makes small brooks to flow:
Now stops thy spring; my sea shall suck them dry,
And swell so much the higher by their ebb.
Hence with him to the Tower; let him not speak.
[Exeunt some with KING HENRY VI]
And, lords, towards Coventry bend we our course
Where peremptory Warwick now remains:
The sun shines hot; and, if we use delay,
Cold biting winter mars our hoped-for hay.",372,19033
644457,2629,"Away betimes, before his forces join,
And take the great-grown traitor unawares:
Brave warriors, march amain towards Coventry.",945,19033
644458,2632,"[Exeunt]
[Enter WARWICK, the Mayor of Coventry, two Messengers,]
and others upon the walls]",1261,19033
644459,2637,"Where is the post that came from valiant Oxford?
How far hence is thy lord, mine honest fellow?",1247,19034
644460,2639,"By this at Dunsmore, marching hitherward.",442,19034
644461,2640,"How far off is our brother Montague?
Where is the post that came from Montague?",1247,19034
644462,2642,"By this at Daintry, with a puissant troop.",1011,19034
644463,2643,[Enter SIR JOHN SOMERVILLE],1261,19034
644464,2644,"Say, Somerville, what says my loving son?
And, by thy guess, how nigh is Clarence now?",1247,19034
644465,2646,"At Southam I did leave him with his forces,
And do expect him here some two hours hence.",1137,19034
644466,2648,[Drum heard],1261,19034
644467,2649,"Then Clarence is at hand, I hear his drum.",1247,19034
644468,2650,"It is not his, my lord; here Southam lies:
The drum your honour hears marcheth from Warwick.",1137,19034
644469,2652,"Who should that be? belike, unlook'd-for friends.",1247,19034
644470,2653,"They are at hand, and you shall quickly know.
[March: flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER,]
and soldiers]",1137,19034
644471,2656,"Go, trumpet, to the walls, and sound a parle.",372,19034
644472,2657,See how the surly Warwick mans the wall!,945,19034
644473,2658,"O unbid spite! is sportful Edward come?
Where slept our scouts, or how are they seduced,
That we could hear no news of his repair?",1247,19034
644474,2661,"Now, Warwick, wilt thou ope the city gates,
Speak gentle words and humbly bend thy knee,
Call Edward king and at his hands beg mercy?
And he shall pardon thee these outrages.",372,19034
644475,2665,"Nay, rather, wilt thou draw thy forces hence,
Confess who set thee up and pluck'd thee own,
Call Warwick patron and be penitent?
And thou shalt still remain the Duke of York.",1247,19034
644476,2669,"I thought, at least, he would have said the king;
Or did he make the jest against his will?",945,19034
644477,2671,"Is not a dukedom, sir, a goodly gift?",1247,19034
644478,2672,"Ay, by my faith, for a poor earl to give:
I'll do thee service for so good a gift.",945,19034
644481,2676,"Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight:
And weakling, Warwick takes his gift again;
And Henry is my king, Warwick his subject.",1247,19034
644482,2679,"But Warwick's king is Edward's prisoner:
And, gallant Warwick, do but answer this:
What is the body when the head is off?",372,19034
644483,2682,"Alas, that Warwick had no more forecast,
But, whiles he thought to steal the single ten,
The king was slily finger'd from the deck!
You left poor Henry at the Bishop's palace,
And, ten to one, you'll meet him in the Tower.",945,19034
644488,2698,"[Enter OXFORD, with drum and colours]",1261,19034
644489,2699,O cheerful colours! see where Oxford comes!,1247,19034
644490,2700,"Oxford, Oxford, for Lancaster!",361,19034
644491,2701,[He and his forces enter the city],1261,19034
644492,2702,"The gates are open, let us enter too.",945,19034
644493,2703,"So other foes may set upon our backs.
Stand we in good array; for they no doubt
Will issue out again and bid us battle:
If not, the city being but of small defence,
We'll quickly rouse the traitors in the same.",372,19034
644494,2708,"O, welcome, Oxford! for we want thy help.",1247,19034
644495,2709,[Enter MONTAGUE with drum and colours],1261,19034
644496,2710,"Montague, Montague, for Lancaster!",745,19034
644497,2711,[He and his forces enter the city],1261,19034
644498,2712,"Thou and thy brother both shall buy this treason
Even with the dearest blood your bodies bear.",945,19034
644499,2714,"The harder match'd, the greater victory:
My mind presageth happy gain and conquest.",372,19034
644500,2716,"[Enter SOMERSET, with drum and colours]",1261,19034
644501,2717,"Somerset, Somerset, for Lancaster!",1137,19034
644502,2718,[He and his forces enter the city],1261,19034
644503,2719,"Two of thy name, both Dukes of Somerset,
Have sold their lives unto the house of York;
And thou shalt be the third if this sword hold.",945,19034
644504,2722,"[Enter CLARENCE, with drum and colours]",1261,19034
644505,2723,"And lo, where George of Clarence sweeps along,
Of force enough to bid his brother battle;
With whom an upright zeal to right prevails
More than the nature of a brother's love!
Come, Clarence, come; thou wilt, if Warwick call.",1247,19034
644506,2728,"Father of Warwick, know you what this means?
[Taking his red rose out of his hat]
Look here, I throw my infamy at thee
I will not ruinate my father's house,
Who gave his blood to lime the stones together,
And set up Lancaster. Why, trow'st thou, Warwick,
That Clarence is so harsh, so blunt, unnatural,
To bend the fatal instruments of war
Against his brother and his lawful king?
Perhaps thou wilt object my holy oath:
To keep that oath were more impiety
Than Jephthah's, when he sacrificed his daughter.
I am so sorry for my trespass made
That, to deserve well at my brother's hands,
I here proclaim myself thy mortal foe,
With resolution, wheresoe'er I meet thee--
As I will meet thee, if thou stir abroad--
To plague thee for thy foul misleading me.
And so, proud-hearted Warwick, I defy thee,
And to my brother turn my blushing cheeks.
Pardon me, Edward, I will make amends:
And, Richard, do not frown upon my faults,
For I will henceforth be no more unconstant.",527,19034
644507,2751,"Now welcome more, and ten times more beloved,
Than if thou never hadst deserved our hate.",372,19034
644508,2753,"Welcome, good Clarence; this is brotherlike.",945,19034
644509,2754,"O passing traitor, perjured and unjust!",1247,19034
644510,2755,"What, Warwick, wilt thou leave the town and fight?
Or shall we beat the stones about thine ears?",372,19034
644511,2757,"Alas, I am not coop'd here for defence!
I will away towards Barnet presently,
And bid thee battle, Edward, if thou darest.",1247,19034
644512,2760,"Yes, Warwick, Edward dares, and leads the way.
Lords, to the field; Saint George and victory!
[Exeunt King Edward and his company. March. Warwick]
and his company follow]
[Alarum and excursions. Enter KING EDWARD IV, bringing]
forth WARWICK wounded]",372,19034
644513,2768,"So, lie thou there: die thou, and die our fear;
For Warwick was a bug that fear'd us all.
Now, Montague, sit fast; I seek for thee,
That Warwick's bones may keep thine company.",372,19035
644514,2772,[Exit],1261,19035
644515,2773,"Ah, who is nigh? come to me, friend or foe,
And tell me who is victor, York or Warwick?
Why ask I that? my mangled body shows,
My blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows.
That I must yield my body to the earth
And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe.
Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge,
Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle,
Under whose shade the ramping lion slept,
Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree
And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind.
These eyes, that now are dimm'd with death's black veil,
Have been as piercing as the mid-day sun,
To search the secret treasons of the world:
The wrinkles in my brows, now filled with blood,
Were liken'd oft to kingly sepulchres;
For who lived king, but I could dig his grave?
And who durst mine when Warwick bent his brow?
Lo, now my glory smear'd in dust and blood!
My parks, my walks, my manors that I had.
Even now forsake me, and of all my lands
Is nothing left me but my body's length.
Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
And, live we how we can, yet die we must.",1247,19035
644516,2797,[Enter OXFORD and SOMERSET],1261,19035
644517,2798,"Ah, Warwick, Warwick! wert thou as we are.
We might recover all our loss again;
The queen from France hath brought a puissant power:
Even now we heard the news: ah, could'st thou fly!",1137,19035
644518,2802,"Why, then I would not fly. Ah, Montague,
If thou be there, sweet brother, take my hand.
And with thy lips keep in my soul awhile!
Thou lovest me not; for, brother, if thou didst,
Thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood
That glues my lips and will not let me speak.
Come quickly, Montague, or I am dead.",1247,19035
644519,2809,"Ah, Warwick! Montague hath breathed his last;
And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,
And said 'Commend me to my valiant brother.'
And more he would have said, and more he spoke,
Which sounded like a clamour in a vault,
That mought not be distinguished; but at last
I well might hear, delivered with a groan,
'O, farewell, Warwick!'",1137,19035
644520,2817,"Sweet rest his soul! Fly, lords, and save yourselves;
For Warwick bids you all farewell to meet in heaven.",1247,19035
644521,2819,[Dies],1261,19035
644522,2820,"Away, away, to meet the queen's great power!",361,19035
644523,2821,"[Here they bear away his body. Exeunt]
[Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV in triumph; with]
GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and the rest]",1261,19035
644524,2826,"Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
And we are graced with wreaths of victory.
But, in the midst of this bright-shining day,
I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud,
That will encounter with our glorious sun,
Ere he attain his easeful western bed:
I mean, my lords, those powers that the queen
Hath raised in Gallia have arrived our coast
And, as we hear, march on to fight with us.",372,19036
644525,2835,"A little gale will soon disperse that cloud
And blow it to the source from whence it came:
The very beams will dry those vapours up,
For every cloud engenders not a storm.",527,19036
644526,2839,"The queen is valued thirty thousand strong,
And Somerset, with Oxford fled to her:
If she have time to breathe be well assured
Her faction will be full as strong as ours.",945,19036
644527,2843,"We are advertised by our loving friends
That they do hold their course toward Tewksbury:
We, having now the best at Barnet field,
Will thither straight, for willingness rids way;
And, as we march, our strength will be augmented
In every county as we go along.
Strike up the drum; cry 'Courage!' and away.",372,19036
644528,2850,"[Exeunt]
[March. Enter QUEEN MARGARET, PRINCE EDWARD,]
SOMERSET, OXFORD, and soldiers]",1261,19036
644529,2855,"Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
What though the mast be now blown overboard,
The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost,
And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?
Yet lives our pilot still. Is't meet that he
Should leave the helm and like a fearful lad
With tearful eyes add water to the sea
And give more strength to that which hath too much,
Whiles, in his moan, the ship splits on the rock,
Which industry and courage might have saved?
Ah, what a shame! ah, what a fault were this!
Say Warwick was our anchor; what of that?
And Montague our topmost; what of him?
Our slaughter'd friends the tackles; what of these?
Why, is not Oxford here another anchor?
And Somerset another goodly mast?
The friends of France our shrouds and tacklings?
And, though unskilful, why not Ned and I
For once allow'd the skilful pilot's charge?
We will not from the helm to sit and weep,
But keep our course, though the rough wind say no,
From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wreck.
As good to chide the waves as speak them fair.
And what is Edward but ruthless sea?
What Clarence but a quicksand of deceit?
And Richard but a ragged fatal rock?
All these the enemies to our poor bark.
Say you can swim; alas, 'tis but a while!
Tread on the sand; why, there you quickly sink:
Bestride the rock; the tide will wash you off,
Or else you famish; that's a threefold death.
This speak I, lords, to let you understand,
If case some one of you would fly from us,
That there's no hoped-for mercy with the brothers
More than with ruthless waves, with sands and rocks.
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.",736,19037
644530,2893,"Methinks a woman of this valiant spirit
Should, if a coward heard her speak these words,
Infuse his breast with magnanimity
And make him, naked, foil a man at arms.
I speak not this as doubting any here
For did I but suspect a fearful man
He should have leave to go away betimes,
Lest in our need he might infect another
And make him of like spirit to himself.
If any such be here--as God forbid!--
Let him depart before we need his help.",916,19037
644531,2904,"Women and children of so high a courage,
And warriors faint! why, 'twere perpetual shame.
O brave young prince! thy famous grandfather
Doth live again in thee: long mayst thou live
To bear his image and renew his glories!",361,19037
644532,2909,"And he that will not fight for such a hope.
Go home to bed, and like the owl by day,
If he arise, be mock'd and wonder'd at.",1137,19037
644533,2912,"Thanks, gentle Somerset; sweet Oxford, thanks.",736,19037
644534,2913,And take his thanks that yet hath nothing else.,916,19037
644535,2914,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19037
644536,2915,"Prepare you, lords, for Edward is at hand.
Ready to fight; therefore be resolute.",777,19037
644537,2917,"I thought no less: it is his policy
To haste thus fast, to find us unprovided.",361,19037
644538,2919,But he's deceived; we are in readiness.,1137,19037
644539,2920,"This cheers my heart, to see your forwardness.",736,19037
644540,2921,"Here pitch our battle; hence we will not budge.
[Flourish and march. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER,]
CLARENCE, and soldiers]",361,19037
644541,2924,"Brave followers, yonder stands the thorny wood,
Which, by the heavens' assistance and your strength,
Must by the roots be hewn up yet ere night.
I need not add more fuel to your fire,
For well I wot ye blaze to burn them out
Give signal to the fight, and to it, lords!",372,19037
644542,2930,"Lords, knights, and gentlemen, what I should say
My tears gainsay; for every word I speak,
Ye see, I drink the water of mine eyes.
Therefore, no more but this: Henry, your sovereign,
Is prisoner to the foe; his state usurp'd,
His realm a slaughter-house, his subjects slain,
His statutes cancell'd and his treasure spent;
And yonder is the wolf that makes this spoil.
You fight in justice: then, in God's name, lords,
Be valiant and give signal to the fight.",736,19037
644543,2940,"[Alarum. Retreat. Excursions. Exeunt]
[Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE,]
and soldiers; with QUEEN MARGARET, OXFORD, and
SOMERSET, prisoners]",1261,19037
644544,2946,"Now here a period of tumultuous broils.
Away with Oxford to Hames Castle straight:
For Somerset, off with his guilty head.
Go, bear them hence; I will not hear them speak.",372,19038
644545,2950,"For my part, I'll not trouble thee with words.",361,19038
644546,2951,"Nor I, but stoop with patience to my fortune.",1137,19038
644547,2952,"[Exeunt Oxford and Somerset, guarded]",1261,19038
644548,2953,"So part we sadly in this troublous world,
To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.",736,19038
644549,2955,"Is proclamation made, that who finds Edward
Shall have a high reward, and he his life?",372,19038
644550,2957,"It is: and lo, where youthful Edward comes!",945,19038
644551,2958,"[Enter soldiers, with PRINCE EDWARD]",1261,19038
644552,2959,"Bring forth the gallant, let us hear him speak.
What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?
Edward, what satisfaction canst thou make
For bearing arms, for stirring up my subjects,
And all the trouble thou hast turn'd me to?",372,19038
644553,2964,"Speak like a subject, proud ambitious York!
Suppose that I am now my father's mouth;
Resign thy chair, and where I stand kneel thou,
Whilst I propose the selfsame words to thee,
Which traitor, thou wouldst have me answer to.",916,19038
644554,2969,"Ah, that thy father had been so resolved!",736,19038
644555,2970,"That you might still have worn the petticoat,
And ne'er have stol'n the breech from Lancaster.",945,19038
644556,2972,"Let AEsop fable in a winter's night;
His currish riddles sort not with this place.",916,19038
644557,2974,"By heaven, brat, I'll plague ye for that word.",945,19038
644558,2975,"Ay, thou wast born to be a plague to men.",736,19038
644559,2976,"For God's sake, take away this captive scold.",945,19038
644560,2977,"Nay, take away this scolding crookback rather.",916,19038
644561,2978,"Peace, wilful boy, or I will charm your tongue.",372,19038
644562,2979,"Untutor'd lad, thou art too malapert.",527,19038
644563,2980,"I know my duty; you are all undutiful:
Lascivious Edward, and thou perjured George,
And thou mis-shapen Dick, I tell ye all
I am your better, traitors as ye are:
And thou usurp'st my father's right and mine.",916,19038
644564,2985,"Take that, thou likeness of this railer here.",372,19038
644565,2986,[Stabs him],1261,19038
644566,2987,"Sprawl'st thou? take that, to end thy agony.",945,19038
644567,2988,[Stabs him],1261,19038
644568,2989,And there's for twitting me with perjury.,527,19038
644569,2990,[Stabs him],1261,19038
644570,2991,"O, kill me too!",736,19038
644571,2992,"Marry, and shall.",945,19038
644572,2993,[Offers to kill her],1261,19038
644573,2994,"Hold, Richard, hold; for we have done too much.",372,19038
644574,2995,"Why should she live, to fill the world with words?",945,19038
644575,2996,"What, doth she swoon? use means for her recovery.",372,19038
644576,2997,"Clarence, excuse me to the king my brother;
I'll hence to London on a serious matter:
Ere ye come there, be sure to hear some news.",945,19038
644577,3000,What? what?,527,19038
644578,3001,"The Tower, the Tower.",945,19038
644579,3002,[Exit],1261,19038
644580,3003,"O Ned, sweet Ned! speak to thy mother, boy!
Canst thou not speak? O traitors! murderers!
They that stabb'd Caesar shed no blood at all,
Did not offend, nor were not worthy blame,
If this foul deed were by to equal it:
He was a man; this, in respect, a child:
And men ne'er spend their fury on a child.
What's worse than murderer, that I may name it?
No, no, my heart will burst, and if I speak:
And I will speak, that so my heart may burst.
Butchers and villains! bloody cannibals!
How sweet a plant have you untimely cropp'd!
You have no children, butchers! if you had,
The thought of them would have stirr'd up remorse:
But if you ever chance to have a child,
Look in his youth to have him so cut off
As, deathmen, you have rid this sweet young prince!",736,19038
644581,3020,"Away with her; go, bear her hence perforce.",372,19038
644582,3021,"Nay, never bear me hence, dispatch me here,
Here sheathe thy sword, I'll pardon thee my death:
What, wilt thou not? then, Clarence, do it thou.",736,19038
644583,3024,"By heaven, I will not do thee so much ease.",527,19038
644584,3025,"Good Clarence, do; sweet Clarence, do thou do it.",736,19038
644585,3026,Didst thou not hear me swear I would not do it?,527,19038
644586,3027,"Ay, but thou usest to forswear thyself:
'Twas sin before, but now 'tis charity.
What, wilt thou not? Where is that devil's butcher,
Hard-favour'd Richard? Richard, where art thou?
Thou art not here: murder is thy alms-deed;
Petitioners for blood thou ne'er put'st back.",736,19038
644587,3033,"Away, I say; I charge ye, bear her hence.",372,19038
644588,3034,"So come to you and yours, as to this Prince!",736,19038
644589,3035,"[Exit, led out forcibly]",1261,19038
644590,3036,Where's Richard gone?,372,19038
644591,3037,"To London, all in post; and, as I guess,
To make a bloody supper in the Tower.",527,19038
644592,3039,"He's sudden, if a thing comes in his head.
Now march we hence: discharge the common sort
With pay and thanks, and let's away to London
And see our gentle queen how well she fares:
By this, I hope, she hath a son for me.",372,19038
644593,3044,"[Exeunt]
[Enter KING HENRY VI and GLOUCESTER, with the]
Lieutenant, on the walls]",1261,19038
644594,3049,"Good day, my lord. What, at your book so hard?",945,19039
644595,3050,"Ay, my good lord:--my lord, I should say rather;
'Tis sin to flatter; 'good' was little better:
'Good Gloucester' and 'good devil' were alike,
And both preposterous; therefore, not 'good lord.'",574,19039
644596,3054,"Sirrah, leave us to ourselves: we must confer.",945,19039
644597,3055,[Exit Lieutenant],1261,19039
644598,3056,"So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf;
So first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece
And next his throat unto the butcher's knife.
What scene of death hath Roscius now to act?",574,19039
644599,3060,"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.",945,19039
644600,3062,"The bird that hath been limed in a bush,
With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush;
And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird,
Have now the fatal object in my eye
Where my poor young was limed, was caught and kill'd.",574,19039
644601,3067,"Why, what a peevish fool was that of Crete,
That taught his son the office of a fowl!
An yet, for all his wings, the fool was drown'd.",945,19039
644602,3070,"I, Daedalus; my poor boy, Icarus;
Thy father, Minos, that denied our course;
The sun that sear'd the wings of my sweet boy
Thy brother Edward, and thyself the sea
Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life.
Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words!
My breast can better brook thy dagger's point
Than can my ears that tragic history.
But wherefore dost thou come? is't for my life?",574,19039
644603,3079,Think'st thou I am an executioner?,945,19039
644604,3080,"A persecutor, I am sure, thou art:
If murdering innocents be executing,
Why, then thou art an executioner.",574,19039
644605,3083,Thy son I kill'd for his presumption.,945,19039
644606,3084,"Hadst thou been kill'd when first thou didst presume,
Thou hadst not lived to kill a son of mine.
And thus I prophesy, that many a thousand,
Which now mistrust no parcel of my fear,
And many an old man's sigh and many a widow's,
And many an orphan's water-standing eye--
Men for their sons, wives for their husbands,
And orphans for their parents timeless death--
Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born.
The owl shriek'd at thy birth,--an evil sign;
The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time;
Dogs howl'd, and hideous tempest shook down trees;
The raven rook'd her on the chimney's top,
And chattering pies in dismal discords sung.
Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain,
And, yet brought forth less than a mother's hope,
To wit, an indigested and deformed lump,
Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree.
Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,
To signify thou camest to bite the world:
And, if the rest be true which I have heard,
Thou camest--",574,19039
644607,3106,"I'll hear no more: die, prophet in thy speech:
[Stabs him]
For this amongst the rest, was I ordain'd.",945,19039
644608,3109,"Ay, and for much more slaughter after this.
God forgive my sins, and pardon thee!",574,19039
644609,3111,[Dies],1261,19039
644610,3112,"What, will the aspiring blood of Lancaster
Sink in the ground? I thought it would have mounted.
See how my sword weeps for the poor king's death!
O, may such purple tears be alway shed
From those that wish the downfall of our house!
If any spark of life be yet remaining,
Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither:
[Stabs him again]
I, that have neither pity, love, nor fear.
Indeed, 'tis true that Henry told me of;
For I have often heard my mother say
I came into the world with my legs forward:
Had I not reason, think ye, to make haste,
And seek their ruin that usurp'd our right?
The midwife wonder'd and the women cried
'O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!'
And so I was; which plainly signified
That I should snarl and bite and play the dog.
Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so,
Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it.
I have no brother, I am like no brother;
And this word 'love,' which graybeards call divine,
Be resident in men like one another
And not in me: I am myself alone.
Clarence, beware; thou keep'st me from the light:
But I will sort a pitchy day for thee;
For I will buz abroad such prophecies
That Edward shall be fearful of his life,
And then, to purge his fear, I'll be thy death.
King Henry and the prince his son are gone:
Clarence, thy turn is next, and then the rest,
Counting myself but bad till I be best.
I'll throw thy body in another room
And triumph, Henry, in thy day of doom.",945,19039
644611,3146,"[Exit, with the body]
[Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, QUEEN ELIZABETH,]
CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, a Nurse with the
young Prince, and Attendants]",1261,19039
644612,3152,"Once more we sit in England's royal throne,
Re-purchased with the blood of enemies.
What valiant foemen, like to autumn's corn,
Have we mow'd down, in tops of all their pride!
Three Dukes of Somerset, threefold renown'd
For hardy and undoubted champions;
Two Cliffords, as the father and the son,
And two Northumberlands; two braver men
Ne'er spurr'd their coursers at the trumpet's sound;
With them, the two brave bears, Warwick and Montague,
That in their chains fetter'd the kingly lion
And made the forest tremble when they roar'd.
Thus have we swept suspicion from our seat
And made our footstool of security.
Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my boy.
Young Ned, for thee, thine uncles and myself
Have in our armours watch'd the winter's night,
Went all afoot in summer's scalding heat,
That thou mightst repossess the crown in peace;
And of our labours thou shalt reap the gain.",372,19040
644613,3172,"[Aside] I'll blast his harvest, if your head were laid;
For yet I am not look'd on in the world.
This shoulder was ordain'd so thick to heave;
And heave it shall some weight, or break my back:
Work thou the way,--and thou shalt execute.",945,19040
644614,3177,"Clarence and Gloucester, love my lovely queen;
And kiss your princely nephew, brothers both.",372,19040
644615,3179,"The duty that I owe unto your majesty
I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe.",527,19040
644616,3181,"Thanks, noble Clarence; worthy brother, thanks.",933,19040
644617,3182,"And, that I love the tree from whence thou sprang'st,
Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit.
[Aside] To say the truth, so Judas kiss'd his master,]
And cried 'all hail!' when as he meant all harm.",945,19040
644618,3186,"Now am I seated as my soul delights,
Having my country's peace and brothers' loves.",372,19040
644619,3188,"What will your grace have done with Margaret?
Reignier, her father, to the king of France
Hath pawn'd the Sicils and Jerusalem,
And hither have they sent it for her ransom.",527,19040
644620,3192,"Away with her, and waft her hence to France.
And now what rests but that we spend the time
With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows,
Such as befits the pleasure of the court?
Sound drums and trumpets! farewell sour annoy!
For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.",372,19040
644621,3198,[Exeunt],1261,19040
644622,3,"I come no more to make you laugh: things now,
That bear a weighty and a serious brow,
Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe,
Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow,
We now present. Those that can pity, here
May, if they think it well, let fall a tear;
The subject will deserve it. Such as give
Their money out of hope they may believe,
May here find truth too. Those that come to see
Only a show or two, and so agree
The play may pass, if they be still and willing,
I'll undertake may see away their shilling
Richly in two short hours. Only they
That come to hear a merry bawdy play,
A noise of targets, or to see a fellow
In a long motley coat guarded with yellow,
Will be deceived; for, gentle hearers, know,
To rank our chosen truth with such a show
As fool and fight is, beside forfeiting
Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring,
To make that only true we now intend,
Will leave us never an understanding friend.
Therefore, for goodness' sake, and as you are known
The first and happiest hearers of the town,
Be sad, as we would make ye: think ye see
The very persons of our noble story
As they were living; think you see them great,
And follow'd with the general throng and sweat
Of thousand friends; then in a moment, see
How soon this mightiness meets misery:
And, if you can be merry then, I'll say
A man may weep upon his wedding-day.
[Enter NORFOLK at one door; at the other, BUCKINGHAM]
and ABERGAVENNY]",245,19041
644623,39,"Good morrow, and well met. How have ye done
Since last we saw in France?",342,19042
644624,41,"I thank your grace,
Healthful; and ever since a fresh admirer
Of what I saw there.",349,19042
644625,44,"An untimely ague
Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber when
Those suns of glory, those two lights of men,
Met in the vale of Andren.",342,19042
644626,48,"'Twixt Guynes and Arde:
I was then present, saw them salute on horseback;
Beheld them, when they lighted, how they clung
In their embracement, as they grew together;
Which had they, what four throned ones could have weigh'd
Such a compounded one?",349,19042
644627,54,"All the whole time
I was my chamber's prisoner.",342,19042
644628,56,"Then you lost
The view of earthly glory: men might say,
Till this time pomp was single, but now married
To one above itself. Each following day
Became the next day's master, till the last
Made former wonders its. To-day the French,
All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods,
Shone down the English; and, to-morrow, they
Made Britain India: every man that stood
Show'd like a mine. Their dwarfish pages were
As cherubins, all guilt: the madams too,
Not used to toil, did almost sweat to bear
The pride upon them, that their very labour
Was to them as a painting: now this masque
Was cried incomparable; and the ensuing night
Made it a fool and beggar. The two kings,
Equal in lustre, were now best, now worst,
As presence did present them; him in eye,
Still him in praise: and, being present both
'Twas said they saw but one; and no discerner
Durst wag his tongue in censure. When these suns--
For so they phrase 'em--by their heralds challenged
The noble spirits to arms, they did perform
Beyond thought's compass; that former fabulous story,
Being now seen possible enough, got credit,
That Bevis was believed.",349,19042
644629,82,"O, you go far.",342,19042
644630,83,"As I belong to worship and affect
In honour honesty, the tract of every thing
Would by a good discourser lose some life,
Which action's self was tongue to. All was royal;
To the disposing of it nought rebell'd.
Order gave each thing view; the office did
Distinctly his full function.",349,19042
644631,90,"Who did guide,
I mean, who set the body and the limbs
Of this great sport together, as you guess?",342,19042
644632,93,"One, certes, that promises no element
In such a business.",349,19042
644633,95,"I pray you, who, my lord?",342,19042
644634,96,"All this was order'd by the good discretion
Of the right reverend Cardinal of York.",349,19042
644635,98,"The devil speed him! no man's pie is freed
From his ambitious finger. What had he
To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder
That such a keech can with his very bulk
Take up the rays o' the beneficial sun
And keep it from the earth.",342,19042
644636,104,"Surely, sir,
There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends;
For, being not propp'd by ancestry, whose grace
Chalks successors their way, nor call'd upon
For high feats done to the crown; neither allied
For eminent assistants; but, spider-like,
Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note,
The force of his own merit makes his way
A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys
A place next to the king.",349,19042
644637,114,"I cannot tell
What heaven hath given him,--let some graver eye
Pierce into that; but I can see his pride
Peep through each part of him: whence has he that,
If not from hell? the devil is a niggard,
Or has given all before, and he begins
A new hell in himself.",46,19042
644638,121,"Why the devil,
Upon this French going out, took he upon him,
Without the privity o' the king, to appoint
Who should attend on him? He makes up the file
Of all the gentry; for the most part such
To whom as great a charge as little honour
He meant to lay upon: and his own letter,
The honourable board of council out,
Must fetch him in the papers.",342,19042
644639,130,"I do know
Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have
By this so sickened their estates, that never
They shall abound as formerly.",46,19042
644640,134,"O, many
Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em
For this great journey. What did this vanity
But minister communication of
A most poor issue?",342,19042
644641,139,"Grievingly I think,
The peace between the French and us not values
The cost that did conclude it.",349,19042
644642,142,"Every man,
After the hideous storm that follow'd, was
A thing inspired; and, not consulting, broke
Into a general prophecy; That this tempest,
Dashing the garment of this peace, aboded
The sudden breach on't.",342,19042
644643,148,"Which is budded out;
For France hath flaw'd the league, and hath attach'd
Our merchants' goods at Bourdeaux.",349,19042
644644,151,"Is it therefore
The ambassador is silenced?",46,19042
644645,153,"Marry, is't.",349,19042
644646,154,"A proper title of a peace; and purchased
At a superfluous rate!",46,19042
644647,156,"Why, all this business
Our reverend cardinal carried.",342,19042
644648,158,"Like it your grace,
The state takes notice of the private difference
Betwixt you and the cardinal. I advise you--
And take it from a heart that wishes towards you
Honour and plenteous safety--that you read
The cardinal's malice and his potency
Together; to consider further that
What his high hatred would effect wants not
A minister in his power. You know his nature,
That he's revengeful, and I know his sword
Hath a sharp edge: it's long and, 't may be said,
It reaches far, and where 'twill not extend,
Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counsel,
You'll find it wholesome. Lo, where comes that rock
That I advise your shunning.
[Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY, the purse borne before him,]
certain of the Guard, and two Secretaries with
papers. CARDINAL WOLSEY in his passage fixeth his
eye on BUCKINGHAM, and BUCKINGHAM on him, both full
of disdain]",349,19042
644649,178,"The Duke of Buckingham's surveyor, ha?
Where's his examination?",1258,19042
644650,180,"Here, so please you.",455,19042
644651,181,Is he in person ready?,1258,19042
644652,182,"Ay, please your grace.",455,19042
644653,183,"Well, we shall then know more; and Buckingham
Shall lessen this big look.",1258,19042
644654,185,[Exeunt CARDINAL WOLSEY and his Train],1261,19042
644655,186,"This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I
Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore best
Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book
Outworths a noble's blood.",342,19042
644656,190,"What, are you chafed?
Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance only
Which your disease requires.",349,19042
644657,193,"I read in's looks
Matter against me; and his eye reviled
Me, as his abject object: at this instant
He bores me with some trick: he's gone to the king;
I'll follow and outstare him.",342,19042
644658,198,"Stay, my lord,
And let your reason with your choler question
What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills
Requires slow pace at first: anger is like
A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way,
Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England
Can advise me like you: be to yourself
As you would to your friend.",349,19042
644659,206,"I'll to the king;
And from a mouth of honour quite cry down
This Ipswich fellow's insolence; or proclaim
There's difference in no persons.",342,19042
644660,210,"Be advised;
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself: we may outrun,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running. Know you not,
The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er,
In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advised:
I say again, there is no English soul
More stronger to direct you than yourself,
If with the sap of reason you would quench,
Or but allay, the fire of passion.",349,19042
644661,221,"Sir,
I am thankful to you; and I'll go along
By your prescription: but this top-proud fellow,
Whom from the flow of gall I name not but
From sincere motions, by intelligence,
And proofs as clear as founts in July when
We see each grain of gravel, I do know
To be corrupt and treasonous.",342,19042
644662,229,Say not 'treasonous.',349,19042
644663,230,"To the king I'll say't; and make my vouch as strong
As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox,
Or wolf, or both,--for he is equal ravenous
As he is subtle, and as prone to mischief
As able to perform't; his mind and place
Infecting one another, yea, reciprocally--
Only to show his pomp as well in France
As here at home, suggests the king our master
To this last costly treaty, the interview,
That swallow'd so much treasure, and like a glass
Did break i' the rinsing.",342,19042
644664,241,"Faith, and so it did.",349,19042
644665,242,"Pray, give me favour, sir. This cunning cardinal
The articles o' the combination drew
As himself pleased; and they were ratified
As he cried 'Thus let be': to as much end
As give a crutch to the dead: but our count-cardinal
Has done this, and 'tis well; for worthy Wolsey,
Who cannot err, he did it. Now this follows,--
Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy
To the old dam, treason,--Charles the emperor,
Under pretence to see the queen his aunt--
For 'twas indeed his colour, but he came
To whisper Wolsey,--here makes visitation:
His fears were, that the interview betwixt
England and France might, through their amity,
Breed him some prejudice; for from this league
Peep'd harms that menaced him: he privily
Deals with our cardinal; and, as I trow,--
Which I do well; for I am sure the emperor
Paid ere he promised; whereby his suit was granted
Ere it was ask'd; but when the way was made,
And paved with gold, the emperor thus desired,
That he would please to alter the king's course,
And break the foresaid peace. Let the king know,
As soon he shall by me, that thus the cardinal
Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases,
And for his own advantage.",342,19042
644666,268,"I am sorry
To hear this of him; and could wish he were
Something mistaken in't.",349,19042
644667,271,"No, not a syllable:
I do pronounce him in that very shape
He shall appear in proof.
[Enter BRANDON, a Sergeant-at-arms before him, and]
two or three of the Guard]",342,19042
644668,276,"Your office, sergeant; execute it.",199,19042
644669,277,"Sir,
My lord the Duke of Buckingham, and Earl
Of Hereford, Stafford, and Northampton, I
Arrest thee of high treason, in the name
Of our most sovereign king.",1047,19042
644670,282,"Lo, you, my lord,
The net has fall'n upon me! I shall perish
Under device and practise.",342,19042
644671,285,"I am sorry
To see you ta'en from liberty, to look on
The business present: 'tis his highness' pleasure
You shall to the Tower.",199,19042
644672,289,"It will help me nothing
To plead mine innocence; for that dye is on me
Which makes my whitest part black. The will of heaven
Be done in this and all things! I obey.
O my Lord Abergavenny, fare you well!",342,19042
644673,294,"Nay, he must bear you company. The king
[To ABERGAVENNY]
Is pleased you shall to the Tower, till you know
How he determines further.",199,19042
644674,298,"As the duke said,
The will of heaven be done, and the king's pleasure
By me obey'd!",46,19042
644675,301,"Here is a warrant from
The king to attach Lord Montacute; and the bodies
Of the duke's confessor, John de la Car,
One Gilbert Peck, his chancellor--",199,19042
644676,305,"So, so;
These are the limbs o' the plot: no more, I hope.",342,19042
644677,307,A monk o' the Chartreux.,199,19042
644678,308,"O, Nicholas Hopkins?",342,19042
644679,309,He.,199,19042
644680,310,"My surveyor is false; the o'er-great cardinal
Hath show'd him gold; my life is spann'd already:
I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,
Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on,
By darkening my clear sun. My lord, farewell.",342,19042
644681,315,"[Exeunt]
[Cornets. Enter KING HENRY VIII, leaning on]
CARDINAL WOLSEY's shoulder, the Nobles, and LOVELL;
CARDINAL WOLSEY places himself under KING HENRY
VIII's feet on his right side]",1261,19042
644682,322,"My life itself, and the best heart of it,
Thanks you for this great care: I stood i' the level
Of a full-charged confederacy, and give thanks
To you that choked it. Let be call'd before us
That gentleman of Buckingham's; in person
I'll hear him his confessions justify;
And point by point the treasons of his master
He shall again relate.
[A noise within, crying 'Room for the Queen!' Enter]
QUEEN KATHARINE, ushered by NORFOLK, and SUFFOLK:
she kneels. KING HENRY VIII riseth from his state,
takes her up, kisses and placeth her by him]",576,19043
644683,334,"Nay, we must longer kneel: I am a suitor.",934,19043
644684,335,"Arise, and take place by us: half your suit
Never name to us; you have half our power:
The other moiety, ere you ask, is given;
Repeat your will and take it.",576,19043
644685,339,"Thank your majesty.
That you would love yourself, and in that love
Not unconsider'd leave your honour, nor
The dignity of your office, is the point
Of my petition.",934,19043
644686,344,"Lady mine, proceed.",576,19043
644687,345,"I am solicited, not by a few,
And those of true condition, that your subjects
Are in great grievance: there have been commissions
Sent down among 'em, which hath flaw'd the heart
Of all their loyalties: wherein, although,
My good lord cardinal, they vent reproaches
Most bitterly on you, as putter on
Of these exactions, yet the king our master--
Whose honour heaven shield from soil!--even he
escapes not
Language unmannerly, yea, such which breaks
The sides of loyalty, and almost appears
In loud rebellion.",934,19043
644688,358,"Not almost appears,
It doth appear; for, upon these taxations,
The clothiers all, not able to maintain
The many to them longing, have put off
The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who,
Unfit for other life, compell'd by hunger
And lack of other means, in desperate manner
Daring the event to the teeth, are all in uproar,
And danger serves among then!",349,19043
644689,367,"Taxation!
Wherein? and what taxation? My lord cardinal,
You that are blamed for it alike with us,
Know you of this taxation?",576,19043
644690,371,"Please you, sir,
I know but of a single part, in aught
Pertains to the state; and front but in that file
Where others tell steps with me.",1258,19043
644691,375,"No, my lord,
You know no more than others; but you frame
Things that are known alike; which are not wholesome
To those which would not know them, and yet must
Perforce be their acquaintance. These exactions,
Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are
Most pestilent to the bearing; and, to bear 'em,
The back is sacrifice to the load. They say
They are devised by you; or else you suffer
Too hard an exclamation.",934,19043
644692,385,"Still exaction!
The nature of it? in what kind, let's know,
Is this exaction?",576,19043
644693,388,"I am much too venturous
In tempting of your patience; but am bolden'd
Under your promised pardon. The subjects' grief
Comes through commissions, which compel from each
The sixth part of his substance, to be levied
Without delay; and the pretence for this
Is named, your wars in France: this makes bold mouths:
Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze
Allegiance in them; their curses now
Live where their prayers did: and it's come to pass,
This tractable obedience is a slave
To each incensed will. I would your highness
Would give it quick consideration, for
There is no primer business.",934,19043
644694,402,"By my life,
This is against our pleasure.",576,19043
644695,404,"And for me,
I have no further gone in this than by
A single voice; and that not pass'd me but
By learned approbation of the judges. If I am
Traduced by ignorant tongues, which neither know
My faculties nor person, yet will be
The chronicles of my doing, let me say
'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake
That virtue must go through. We must not stint
Our necessary actions, in the fear
To cope malicious censurers; which ever,
As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow
That is new-trimm'd, but benefit no further
Than vainly longing. What we oft do best,
By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is
Not ours, or not allow'd; what worst, as oft,
Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up
For our best act. If we shall stand still,
In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at,
We should take root here where we sit, or sit
State-statues only.",1258,19043
644696,425,"Things done well,
And with a care, exempt themselves from fear;
Things done without example, in their issue
Are to be fear'd. Have you a precedent
Of this commission? I believe, not any.
We must not rend our subjects from our laws,
And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each?
A trembling contribution! Why, we take
From every tree lop, bark, and part o' the timber;
And, though we leave it with a root, thus hack'd,
The air will drink the sap. To every county
Where this is question'd send our letters, with
Free pardon to each man that has denied
The force of this commission: pray, look to't;
I put it to your care.",576,19043
644697,440,"A word with you.
[To the Secretary]
Let there be letters writ to every shire,
Of the king's grace and pardon. The grieved commons
Hardly conceive of me; let it be noised
That through our intercession this revokement
And pardon comes: I shall anon advise you
Further in the proceeding.",1258,19043
644698,448,[Exit Secretary],1261,19043
644699,449,[Enter Surveyor],1261,19043
644700,450,"I am sorry that the Duke of Buckingham
Is run in your displeasure.",934,19043
644701,452,"It grieves many:
The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare speaker;
To nature none more bound; his training such,
That he may furnish and instruct great teachers,
And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet see,
When these so noble benefits shall prove
Not well disposed, the mind growing once corrupt,
They turn to vicious forms, ten times more ugly
Than ever they were fair. This man so complete,
Who was enroll'd 'mongst wonders, and when we,
Almost with ravish'd listening, could not find
His hour of speech a minute; he, my lady,
Hath into monstrous habits put the graces
That once were his, and is become as black
As if besmear'd in hell. Sit by us; you shall hear--
This was his gentleman in trust--of him
Things to strike honour sad. Bid him recount
The fore-recited practises; whereof
We cannot feel too little, hear too much.",576,19043
644702,471,"Stand forth, and with bold spirit relate what you,
Most like a careful subject, have collected
Out of the Duke of Buckingham.",1258,19043
644703,474,Speak freely.,576,19043
644704,475,"First, it was usual with him, every day
It would infect his speech, that if the king
Should without issue die, he'll carry it so
To make the sceptre his: these very words
I've heard him utter to his son-in-law,
Lord Abergavenny; to whom by oath he menaced
Revenge upon the cardinal.",1152,19043
644705,482,"Please your highness, note
This dangerous conception in this point.
Not friended by by his wish, to your high person
His will is most malignant; and it stretches
Beyond you, to your friends.",1258,19043
644706,487,"My learn'd lord cardinal,
Deliver all with charity.",934,19043
644707,489,"Speak on:
How grounded he his title to the crown,
Upon our fail? to this point hast thou heard him
At any time speak aught?",576,19043
644708,493,"He was brought to this
By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Hopkins.",1152,19043
644709,495,What was that Hopkins?,576,19043
644710,496,"Sir, a Chartreux friar,
His confessor, who fed him every minute
With words of sovereignty.",1152,19043
644711,499,How know'st thou this?,576,19043
644712,500,"Not long before your highness sped to France,
The duke being at the Rose, within the parish
Saint Lawrence Poultney, did of me demand
What was the speech among the Londoners
Concerning the French journey: I replied,
Men fear'd the French would prove perfidious,
To the king's danger. Presently the duke
Said, 'twas the fear, indeed; and that he doubted
'Twould prove the verity of certain words
Spoke by a holy monk; 'that oft,' says he,
'Hath sent to me, wishing me to permit
John de la Car, my chaplain, a choice hour
To hear from him a matter of some moment:
Whom after under the confession's seal
He solemnly had sworn, that what he spoke
My chaplain to no creature living, but
To me, should utter, with demure confidence
This pausingly ensued: neither the king nor's heirs,
Tell you the duke, shall prosper: bid him strive
To gain the love o' the commonalty: the duke
Shall govern England.'",1152,19043
644713,521,"If I know you well,
You were the duke's surveyor, and lost your office
On the complaint o' the tenants: take good heed
You charge not in your spleen a noble person
And spoil your nobler soul: I say, take heed;
Yes, heartily beseech you.",934,19043
644714,527,"Let him on.
Go forward.",576,19043
644715,529,"On my soul, I'll speak but truth.
I told my lord the duke, by the devil's illusions
The monk might be deceived; and that 'twas dangerous for him
To ruminate on this so far, until
It forged him some design, which, being believed,
It was much like to do: he answer'd, 'Tush,
It can do me no damage;' adding further,
That, had the king in his last sickness fail'd,
The cardinal's and Sir Thomas Lovell's heads
Should have gone off.",1152,19043
644716,539,"Ha! what, so rank? Ah ha!
There's mischief in this man: canst thou say further?",576,19043
644717,541,"I can, my liege.",1152,19043
644718,542,Proceed.,576,19043
644719,543,"Being at Greenwich,
After your highness had reproved the duke
About Sir William Blomer,--",1152,19043
644720,546,"I remember
Of such a time: being my sworn servant,
The duke retain'd him his. But on; what hence?",576,19043
644721,549,"'If,' quoth he, 'I for this had been committed,
As, to the Tower, I thought, I would have play'd
The part my father meant to act upon
The usurper Richard; who, being at Salisbury,
Made suit to come in's presence; which if granted,
As he made semblance of his duty, would
Have put his knife to him.'",1152,19043
644722,556,A giant traitor!,576,19043
644723,557,"Now, madam, may his highness live in freedom,
and this man out of prison?",1258,19043
644724,559,God mend all!,934,19043
644725,560,There's something more would out of thee; what say'st?,576,19043
644726,561,"After 'the duke his father,' with 'the knife,'
He stretch'd him, and, with one hand on his dagger,
Another spread on's breast, mounting his eyes
He did discharge a horrible oath; whose tenor
Was,--were he evil used, he would outgo
His father by as much as a performance
Does an irresolute purpose.",1152,19043
644727,568,"There's his period,
To sheathe his knife in us. He is attach'd;
Call him to present trial: if he may
Find mercy in the law, 'tis his: if none,
Let him not seek 't of us: by day and night,
He's traitor to the height.",576,19043
644728,574,[Exeunt],1261,19043
644729,577,[Enter Chamberlain and SANDS],1261,19044
644730,578,"Is't possible the spells of France should juggle
Men into such strange mysteries?",678,19044
644731,580,"New customs,
Though they be never so ridiculous,
Nay, let 'em be unmanly, yet are follow'd.",693,19044
644732,583,"As far as I see, all the good our English
Have got by the late voyage is but merely
A fit or two o' the face; but they are shrewd ones;
For when they hold 'em, you would swear directly
Their very noses had been counsellors
To Pepin or Clotharius, they keep state so.",678,19044
644733,589,"They have all new legs, and lame ones: one would take it,
That never saw 'em pace before, the spavin
Or springhalt reign'd among 'em.",693,19044
644734,592,"Death! my lord,
Their clothes are after such a pagan cut too,
That, sure, they've worn out Christendom.
[Enter LOVELL]
How now!
What news, Sir Thomas Lovell?",678,19044
644735,598,"Faith, my lord,
I hear of none, but the new proclamation
That's clapp'd upon the court-gate.",706,19044
644736,601,What is't for?,678,19044
644737,602,"The reformation of our travell'd gallants,
That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.",706,19044
644738,604,"I'm glad 'tis there: now I would pray our monsieurs
To think an English courtier may be wise,
And never see the Louvre.",678,19044
644739,607,"They must either,
For so run the conditions, leave those remnants
Of fool and feather that they got in France,
With all their honourable point of ignorance
Pertaining thereunto, as fights and fireworks,
Abusing better men than they can be,
Out of a foreign wisdom, renouncing clean
The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings,
Short blister'd breeches, and those types of travel,
And understand again like honest men;
Or pack to their old playfellows: there, I take it,
They may, 'cum privilegio,' wear away
The lag end of their lewdness and be laugh'd at.",706,19044
644740,620,"'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases
Are grown so catching.",693,19044
644741,622,"What a loss our ladies
Will have of these trim vanities!",678,19044
644742,624,"Ay, marry,
There will be woe indeed, lords: the sly whoresons
Have got a speeding trick to lay down ladies;
A French song and a fiddle has no fellow.",706,19044
644743,628,"The devil fiddle 'em! I am glad they are going,
For, sure, there's no converting of 'em: now
An honest country lord, as I am, beaten
A long time out of play, may bring his plainsong
And have an hour of hearing; and, by'r lady,
Held current music too.",693,19044
644744,634,"Well said, Lord Sands;
Your colt's tooth is not cast yet.",678,19044
644745,636,"No, my lord;
Nor shall not, while I have a stump.",693,19044
644746,638,"Sir Thomas,
Whither were you a-going?",678,19044
644747,640,"To the cardinal's:
Your lordship is a guest too.",706,19044
644748,642,"O, 'tis true:
This night he makes a supper, and a great one,
To many lords and ladies; there will be
The beauty of this kingdom, I'll assure you.",678,19044
644749,646,"That churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed,
A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us;
His dews fall every where.",706,19044
644750,649,"No doubt he's noble;
He had a black mouth that said other of him.",678,19044
644751,651,"He may, my lord; has wherewithal: in him
Sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine:
Men of his way should be most liberal;
They are set here for examples.",693,19044
644752,655,"True, they are so:
But few now give so great ones. My barge stays;
Your lordship shall along. Come, good Sir Thomas,
We shall be late else; which I would not be,
For I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guildford
This night to be comptrollers.",678,19044
644753,661,I am your lordship's.,693,19044
644754,662,"[Exeunt]
[Hautboys. A small table under a state for CARDINAL]
WOLSEY, a longer table for the guests. Then enter
ANNE and divers other Ladies and Gentlemen as
guests, at one door; at another door, enter GUILDFORD]",1261,19044
644755,669,"Ladies, a general welcome from his grace
Salutes ye all; this night he dedicates
To fair content and you: none here, he hopes,
In all this noble bevy, has brought with her
One care abroad; he would have all as merry
As, first, good company, good wine, good welcome,
Can make good people. O, my lord, you're tardy:
[Enter Chamberlain, SANDS, and LOVELL]
The very thought of this fair company
Clapp'd wings to me.",554,19045
644756,679,"You are young, Sir Harry Guildford.",678,19045
644757,680,"Sir Thomas Lovell, had the cardinal
But half my lay thoughts in him, some of these
Should find a running banquet ere they rested,
I think would better please 'em: by my life,
They are a sweet society of fair ones.",693,19045
644758,685,"O, that your lordship were but now confessor
To one or two of these!",706,19045
644759,687,"I would I were;
They should find easy penance.",693,19045
644760,689,"Faith, how easy?",706,19045
644761,690,As easy as a down-bed would afford it.,693,19045
644762,691,"Sweet ladies, will it please you sit? Sir Harry,
Place you that side; I'll take the charge of this:
His grace is entering. Nay, you must not freeze;
Two women placed together makes cold weather:
My Lord Sands, you are one will keep 'em waking;
Pray, sit between these ladies.",678,19045
644763,697,"By my faith,
And thank your lordship. By your leave, sweet ladies:
If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;
I had it from my father.",693,19045
644764,701,"Was he mad, sir?",106,19045
644765,702,"O, very mad, exceeding mad, in love too:
But he would bite none; just as I do now,
He would kiss you twenty with a breath.",693,19045
644766,705,[Kisses her],1261,19045
644767,706,"Well said, my lord.
So, now you're fairly seated. Gentlemen,
The penance lies on you, if these fair ladies
Pass away frowning.",678,19045
644768,710,"For my little cure,
Let me alone.",693,19045
644769,712,"[Hautboys. Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY, and takes his state]",1261,19045
644770,713,"You're welcome, my fair guests: that noble lady,
Or gentleman, that is not freely merry,
Is not my friend: this, to confirm my welcome;
And to you all, good health.",1258,19045
644771,717,[Drinks],1261,19045
644772,718,"Your grace is noble:
Let me have such a bowl may hold my thanks,
And save me so much talking.",693,19045
644773,721,"My Lord Sands,
I am beholding to you: cheer your neighbours.
Ladies, you are not merry: gentlemen,
Whose fault is this?",1258,19045
644774,725,"The red wine first must rise
In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em
Talk us to silence.",693,19045
644775,728,"You are a merry gamester,
My Lord Sands.",106,19045
644776,730,"Yes, if I make my play.
Here's to your ladyship: and pledge it, madam,
For 'tis to such a thing,--",693,19045
644777,733,You cannot show me.,106,19045
644778,734,I told your grace they would talk anon.,693,19045
644779,735,"[Drum and trumpet, chambers discharged]",1261,19045
644780,736,What's that?,1258,19045
644781,737,"Look out there, some of ye.",678,19045
644782,738,[Exit Servant],1261,19045
644783,739,"What warlike voice,
And to what end is this? Nay, ladies, fear not;
By all the laws of war you're privileged.",1258,19045
644784,742,[Re-enter Servant],1261,19045
644785,743,How now! what is't?,678,19045
644786,744,"A noble troop of strangers;
For so they seem: they've left their barge and landed;
And hither make, as great ambassadors
From foreign princes.",1063,19045
644787,748,"Good lord chamberlain,
Go, give 'em welcome; you can speak the French tongue;
And, pray, receive 'em nobly, and conduct 'em
Into our presence, where this heaven of beauty
Shall shine at full upon them. Some attend him.
[Exit Chamberlain, attended. All rise, and tables removed]
You have now a broken banquet; but we'll mend it.
A good digestion to you all: and once more
I shower a welcome on ye; welcome all.
[Hautboys. Enter KING HENRY VIII and others, as]
masquers, habited like shepherds, ushered by the
Chamberlain. They pass directly before CARDINAL
WOLSEY, and gracefully salute him]
A noble company! what are their pleasures?",1258,19045
644788,762,"Because they speak no English, thus they pray'd
To tell your grace, that, having heard by fame
Of this so noble and so fair assembly
This night to meet here, they could do no less
Out of the great respect they bear to beauty,
But leave their flocks; and, under your fair conduct,
Crave leave to view these ladies and entreat
An hour of revels with 'em.",678,19045
644789,770,"Say, lord chamberlain,
They have done my poor house grace; for which I pay 'em
A thousand thanks, and pray 'em take their pleasures.
[They choose Ladies for the dance. KING HENRY VIII]
chooses ANNE]",1258,19045
644790,775,"The fairest hand I ever touch'd! O beauty,
Till now I never knew thee!",576,19045
644791,777,[Music. Dance],1261,19045
644792,778,My lord!,1258,19045
644793,779,Your grace?,678,19045
644794,780,"Pray, tell 'em thus much from me:
There should be one amongst 'em, by his person,
More worthy this place than myself; to whom,
If I but knew him, with my love and duty
I would surrender it.",1258,19045
644795,785,"I will, my lord.",678,19045
644796,786,[Whispers the Masquers],1261,19045
644797,787,What say they?,1258,19045
644798,788,"Such a one, they all confess,
There is indeed; which they would have your grace
Find out, and he will take it.",678,19045
644799,791,"Let me see, then.
By all your good leaves, gentlemen; here I'll make
My royal choice.",1258,19045
644800,794,"Ye have found him, cardinal:
[Unmasking]
You hold a fair assembly; you do well, lord:
You are a churchman, or, I'll tell you, cardinal,
I should judge now unhappily.",576,19045
644801,799,"I am glad
Your grace is grown so pleasant.",1258,19045
644802,801,"My lord chamberlain,
Prithee, come hither: what fair lady's that?",576,19045
644803,803,"An't please your grace, Sir Thomas Bullen's daughter--
The Viscount Rochford,--one of her highness' women.",678,19045
644804,805,"By heaven, she is a dainty one. Sweetheart,
I were unmannerly, to take you out,
And not to kiss you. A health, gentlemen!
Let it go round.",576,19045
644805,809,"Sir Thomas Lovell, is the banquet ready
I' the privy chamber?",1258,19045
644806,811,"Yes, my lord.",706,19045
644807,812,"Your grace,
I fear, with dancing is a little heated.",1258,19045
644808,814,"I fear, too much.",576,19045
644809,815,"There's fresher air, my lord,
In the next chamber.",1258,19045
644810,817,"Lead in your ladies, every one: sweet partner,
I must not yet forsake you: let's be merry:
Good my lord cardinal, I have half a dozen healths
To drink to these fair ladies, and a measure
To lead 'em once again; and then let's dream
Who's best in favour. Let the music knock it.",576,19045
644811,823,[Exeunt with trumpets],1261,19045
644812,826,"[Enter two Gentlemen, meeting]",1261,19046
644813,827,Whither away so fast?,423,19046
644814,828,"O, God save ye!
Even to the hall, to hear what shall become
Of the great Duke of Buckingham.",993,19046
644815,831,"I'll save you
That labour, sir. All's now done, but the ceremony
Of bringing back the prisoner.",423,19046
644816,834,Were you there?,993,19046
644817,835,"Yes, indeed, was I.",423,19046
644818,836,"Pray, speak what has happen'd.",993,19046
644819,837,You may guess quickly what.,423,19046
644820,838,Is he found guilty?,993,19046
644821,839,"Yes, truly is he, and condemn'd upon't.",423,19046
644822,840,I am sorry for't.,993,19046
644823,841,So are a number more.,423,19046
644824,842,"But, pray, how pass'd it?",993,19046
644825,843,"I'll tell you in a little. The great duke
Came to the bar; where to his accusations
He pleaded still not guilty and alleged
Many sharp reasons to defeat the law.
The king's attorney on the contrary
Urged on the examinations, proofs, confessions
Of divers witnesses; which the duke desired
To have brought viva voce to his face:
At which appear'd against him his surveyor;
Sir Gilbert Peck his chancellor; and John Car,
Confessor to him; with that devil-monk,
Hopkins, that made this mischief.",423,19046
644826,855,"That was he
That fed him with his prophecies?",993,19046
644827,857,"The same.
All these accused him strongly; which he fain
Would have flung from him, but, indeed, he could not:
And so his peers, upon this evidence,
Have found him guilty of high treason. Much
He spoke, and learnedly, for life; but all
Was either pitied in him or forgotten.",423,19046
644828,864,"After all this, how did he bear himself?",993,19046
644829,865,"When he was brought again to the bar, to hear
His knell rung out, his judgment, he was stirr'd
With such an agony, he sweat extremely,
And something spoke in choler, ill, and hasty:
But he fell to himself again, and sweetly
In all the rest show'd a most noble patience.",423,19046
644830,871,I do not think he fears death.,993,19046
644831,872,"Sure, he does not:
He never was so womanish; the cause
He may a little grieve at.",423,19046
644832,875,"Certainly
The cardinal is the end of this.",993,19046
644833,877,"'Tis likely,
By all conjectures: first, Kildare's attainder,
Then deputy of Ireland; who removed,
Earl Surrey was sent thither, and in haste too,
Lest he should help his father.",423,19046
644834,882,"That trick of state
Was a deep envious one.",993,19046
644835,884,"At his return
No doubt he will requite it. This is noted,
And generally, whoever the king favours,
The cardinal instantly will find employment,
And far enough from court too.",423,19046
644836,889,"All the commons
Hate him perniciously, and, o' my conscience,
Wish him ten fathom deep: this duke as much
They love and dote on; call him bounteous Buckingham,
The mirror of all courtesy;--",993,19046
644837,894,"Stay there, sir,
And see the noble ruin'd man you speak of.
[Enter BUCKINGHAM from his arraignment; tip-staves]
before him; the axe with the edge towards him;
halberds on each side: accompanied with LOVELL,
VAUX, SANDS, and common people]",423,19046
644838,900,"Let's stand close, and behold him.",993,19046
644839,901,"All good people,
You that thus far have come to pity me,
Hear what I say, and then go home and lose me.
I have this day received a traitor's judgment,
And by that name must die: yet, heaven bear witness,
And if I have a conscience, let it sink me,
Even as the axe falls, if I be not faithful!
The law I bear no malice for my death;
'T has done, upon the premises, but justice:
But those that sought it I could wish more Christians:
Be what they will, I heartily forgive 'em:
Yet let 'em look they glory not in mischief,
Nor build their evils on the graves of great men;
For then my guiltless blood must cry against 'em.
For further life in this world I ne'er hope,
Nor will I sue, although the king have mercies
More than I dare make faults. You few that loved me,
And dare be bold to weep for Buckingham,
His noble friends and fellows, whom to leave
Is only bitter to him, only dying,
Go with me, like good angels, to my end;
And, as the long divorce of steel falls on me,
Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,
And lift my soul to heaven. Lead on, o' God's name.",342,19046
644840,925,"I do beseech your grace, for charity,
If ever any malice in your heart
Were hid against me, now to forgive me frankly.",706,19046
644841,928,"Sir Thomas Lovell, I as free forgive you
As I would be forgiven: I forgive all;
There cannot be those numberless offences
'Gainst me, that I cannot take peace with:
no black envy
Shall mark my grave. Commend me to his grace;
And if he speak of Buckingham, pray, tell him
You met him half in heaven: my vows and prayers
Yet are the king's; and, till my soul forsake,
Shall cry for blessings on him: may he live
Longer than I have time to tell his years!
Ever beloved and loving may his rule be!
And when old time shall lead him to his end,
Goodness and he fill up one monument!",342,19046
644842,942,"To the water side I must conduct your grace;
Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux,
Who undertakes you to your end.",706,19046
644843,945,"Prepare there,
The duke is coming: see the barge be ready;
And fit it with such furniture as suits
The greatness of his person.",1229,19046
644844,949,"Nay, Sir Nicholas,
Let it alone; my state now will but mock me.
When I came hither, I was lord high constable
And Duke of Buckingham; now, poor Edward Bohun:
Yet I am richer than my base accusers,
That never knew what truth meant: I now seal it;
And with that blood will make 'em one day groan for't.
My noble father, Henry of Buckingham,
Who first raised head against usurping Richard,
Flying for succor to his servant Banister,
Being distress'd, was by that wretch betray'd,
And without trial fell; God's peace be with him!
Henry the Seventh succeeding, truly pitying
My father's loss, like a most royal prince,
Restored me to my honours, and, out of ruins,
Made my name once more noble. Now his son,
Henry the Eighth, life, honour, name and all
That made me happy at one stroke has taken
For ever from the world. I had my trial,
And, must needs say, a noble one; which makes me,
A little happier than my wretched father:
Yet thus far we are one in fortunes: both
Fell by our servants, by those men we loved most;
A most unnatural and faithless service!
Heaven has an end in all: yet, you that hear me,
This from a dying man receive as certain:
Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels
Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends
And give your hearts to, when they once perceive
The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
Like water from ye, never found again
But where they mean to sink ye. All good people,
Pray for me! I must now forsake ye: the last hour
Of my long weary life is come upon me. Farewell:
And when you would say something that is sad,
Speak how I fell. I have done; and God forgive me!",342,19046
644845,985,[Exeunt BUCKINGHAM and Train],1261,19046
644846,986,"O, this is full of pity! Sir, it calls,
I fear, too many curses on their beads
That were the authors.",423,19046
644847,989,"If the duke be guiltless,
'Tis full of woe: yet I can give you inkling
Of an ensuing evil, if it fall,
Greater than this.",993,19046
644848,993,"Good angels keep it from us!
What may it be? You do not doubt my faith, sir?",423,19046
644849,995,"This secret is so weighty, 'twill require
A strong faith to conceal it.",993,19046
644850,997,"Let me have it;
I do not talk much.",423,19046
644851,999,"I am confident,
You shall, sir: did you not of late days hear
A buzzing of a separation
Between the king and Katharine?",993,19046
644852,1003,"Yes, but it held not:
For when the king once heard it, out of anger
He sent command to the lord mayor straight
To stop the rumor, and allay those tongues
That durst disperse it.",423,19046
644853,1008,"But that slander, sir,
Is found a truth now: for it grows again
Fresher than e'er it was; and held for certain
The king will venture at it. Either the cardinal,
Or some about him near, have, out of malice
To the good queen, possess'd him with a scruple
That will undo her: to confirm this too,
Cardinal Campeius is arrived, and lately;
As all think, for this business.",993,19046
644854,1017,"'Tis the cardinal;
And merely to revenge him on the emperor
For not bestowing on him, at his asking,
The archbishopric of Toledo, this is purposed.",423,19046
644855,1021,"I think you have hit the mark: but is't not cruel
That she should feel the smart of this? The cardinal
Will have his will, and she must fall.",993,19046
644856,1024,"'Tis woful.
We are too open here to argue this;
Let's think in private more.",423,19046
644857,1027,[Exeunt],1261,19046
644858,1030,"[Enter Chamberlain, reading a letter]",1261,19047
644859,1031,"'My lord, the horses your lordship sent for, with
all the care I had, I saw well chosen, ridden, and
furnished. They were young and handsome, and of the
best breed in the north. When they were ready to
set out for London, a man of my lord cardinal's, by
commission and main power, took 'em from me; with
this reason: His master would be served before a
subject, if not before the king; which stopped our
mouths, sir.'
I fear he will indeed: well, let him have them:
He will have all, I think.",678,19047
644860,1042,"[Enter, to Chamberlain, NORFOLK and SUFFOLK]",1261,19047
644861,1043,"Well met, my lord chamberlain.",349,19047
644862,1044,Good day to both your graces.,678,19047
644863,1045,How is the king employ'd?,351,19047
644864,1046,"I left him private,
Full of sad thoughts and troubles.",678,19047
644865,1048,What's the cause?,349,19047
644866,1049,"It seems the marriage with his brother's wife
Has crept too near his conscience.",678,19047
644867,1051,"No, his conscience
Has crept too near another lady.",351,19047
644868,1053,"'Tis so:
This is the cardinal's doing, the king-cardinal:
That blind priest, like the eldest son of fortune,
Turns what he list. The king will know him one day.",349,19047
644869,1057,Pray God he do! he'll never know himself else.,351,19047
644870,1058,"How holily he works in all his business!
And with what zeal! for, now he has crack'd the league
Between us and the emperor, the queen's great nephew,
He dives into the king's soul, and there scatters
Dangers, doubts, wringing of the conscience,
Fears, and despairs; and all these for his marriage:
And out of all these to restore the king,
He counsels a divorce; a loss of her
That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years
About his neck, yet never lost her lustre;
Of her that loves him with that excellence
That angels love good men with; even of her
That, when the greatest stroke of fortune falls,
Will bless the king: and is not this course pious?",349,19047
644871,1072,"Heaven keep me from such counsel! 'Tis most true
These news are every where; every tongue speaks 'em,
And every true heart weeps for't: all that dare
Look into these affairs see this main end,
The French king's sister. Heaven will one day open
The king's eyes, that so long have slept upon
This bold bad man.",678,19047
644872,1079,And free us from his slavery.,351,19047
644873,1080,"We had need pray,
And heartily, for our deliverance;
Or this imperious man will work us all
From princes into pages: all men's honours
Lie like one lump before him, to be fashion'd
Into what pitch he please.",349,19047
644874,1086,"For me, my lords,
I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed:
As I am made without him, so I'll stand,
If the king please; his curses and his blessings
Touch me alike, they're breath I not believe in.
I knew him, and I know him; so I leave him
To him that made him proud, the pope.",351,19047
644875,1093,"Let's in;
And with some other business put the king
From these sad thoughts, that work too much upon him:
My lord, you'll bear us company?",349,19047
644876,1097,"Excuse me;
The king has sent me otherwhere: besides,
You'll find a most unfit time to disturb him:
Health to your lordships.",678,19047
644877,1101,"Thanks, my good lord chamberlain.
[Exit Chamberlain; and KING HENRY VIII draws the]
curtain, and sits reading pensively]",349,19047
644878,1104,"How sad he looks! sure, he is much afflicted.",351,19047
644879,1105,"Who's there, ha?",576,19047
644880,1106,Pray God he be not angry.,349,19047
644881,1107,"Who's there, I say? How dare you thrust yourselves
Into my private meditations?
Who am I? ha?",576,19047
644882,1110,"A gracious king that pardons all offences
Malice ne'er meant: our breach of duty this way
Is business of estate; in which we come
To know your royal pleasure.",349,19047
644883,1114,"Ye are too bold:
Go to; I'll make ye know your times of business:
Is this an hour for temporal affairs, ha?
[Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS, with]
a commission]
Who's there? my good lord cardinal? O my Wolsey,
The quiet of my wounded conscience;
Thou art a cure fit for a king.
[To CARDINAL CAMPEIUS]
You're welcome,
Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom:
Use us and it.
[To CARDINAL WOLSEY]
My good lord, have great care
I be not found a talker.",576,19047
644884,1129,"Sir, you cannot.
I would your grace would give us but an hour
Of private conference.",1258,19047
644885,1132,"[To NORFOLK and SUFFOLK]
We are busy; go.",576,19047
644886,1134,"[Aside to SUFFOLK]
This priest has no pride in him?",349,19047
644887,1136,"[Aside to NORFOLK] Not to speak of:
I would not be so sick though for his place:
But this cannot continue.",351,19047
644888,1139,"[Aside to SUFFOLK] If it do,
I'll venture one have-at-him.",349,19047
644889,1141,[Aside to NORFOLK] I another.,351,19047
644890,1142,[Exeunt NORFOLK and SUFFOLK],1261,19047
644891,1143,"Your grace has given a precedent of wisdom
Above all princes, in committing freely
Your scruple to the voice of Christendom:
Who can be angry now? what envy reach you?
The Spaniard, tied blood and favour to her,
Must now confess, if they have any goodness,
The trial just and noble. All the clerks,
I mean the learned ones, in Christian kingdoms
Have their free voices: Rome, the nurse of judgment,
Invited by your noble self, hath sent
One general tongue unto us, this good man,
This just and learned priest, Cardinal Campeius;
Whom once more I present unto your highness.",1258,19047
644892,1156,"And once more in mine arms I bid him welcome,
And thank the holy conclave for their loves:
They have sent me such a man I would have wish'd for.",576,19047
644893,1159,"Your grace must needs deserve all strangers' loves,
You are so noble. To your highness' hand
I tender my commission; by whose virtue,
The court of Rome commanding, you, my lord
Cardinal of York, are join'd with me their servant
In the unpartial judging of this business.",212,19047
644894,1165,"Two equal men. The queen shall be acquainted
Forthwith for what you come. Where's Gardiner?",576,19047
644895,1167,"I know your majesty has always loved her
So dear in heart, not to deny her that
A woman of less place might ask by law:
Scholars allow'd freely to argue for her.",1258,19047
644896,1171,"Ay, and the best she shall have; and my favour
To him that does best: God forbid else. Cardinal,
Prithee, call Gardiner to me, my new secretary:
I find him a fit fellow.",576,19047
644897,1175,[Exit CARDINAL WOLSEY],1261,19047
644898,1176,"[Re-enter CARDINAL WOLSEY, with GARDINER]",1261,19047
644899,1177,"[Aside to GARDINER] Give me your hand much joy and
favour to you;
You are the king's now.",1258,19047
644900,1180,"[Aside to CARDINAL WOLSEY]
But to be commanded
For ever by your grace, whose hand has raised me.",513,19047
644901,1183,"Come hither, Gardiner.",576,19047
644902,1184,[Walks and whispers],1261,19047
644903,1185,"My Lord of York, was not one Doctor Pace
In this man's place before him?",212,19047
644904,1187,"Yes, he was.",1258,19047
644905,1188,Was he not held a learned man?,212,19047
644906,1189,"Yes, surely.",1258,19047
644907,1190,"Believe me, there's an ill opinion spread then
Even of yourself, lord cardinal.",212,19047
644908,1192,How! of me?,1258,19047
644909,1193,"They will not stick to say you envied him,
And fearing he would rise, he was so virtuous,
Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him,
That he ran mad and died.",212,19047
644910,1197,"Heaven's peace be with him!
That's Christian care enough: for living murmurers
There's places of rebuke. He was a fool;
For he would needs be virtuous: that good fellow,
If I command him, follows my appointment:
I will have none so near else. Learn this, brother,
We live not to be grip'd by meaner persons.",1258,19047
644911,1204,"Deliver this with modesty to the queen.
[Exit GARDINER]
The most convenient place that I can think of
For such receipt of learning is Black-Friars;
There ye shall meet about this weighty business.
My Wolsey, see it furnish'd. O, my lord,
Would it not grieve an able man to leave
So sweet a bedfellow? But, conscience, conscience!
O, 'tis a tender place; and I must leave her.",576,19047
644912,1213,[Exeunt],1261,19047
644913,1216,[Enter ANNE and an Old Lady],1261,19048
644914,1217,"Not for that neither: here's the pang that pinches:
His highness having lived so long with her, and she
So good a lady that no tongue could ever
Pronounce dishonour of her; by my life,
She never knew harm-doing: O, now, after
So many courses of the sun enthroned,
Still growing in a majesty and pomp, the which
To leave a thousand-fold more bitter than
'Tis sweet at first to acquire,--after this process,
To give her the avaunt! it is a pity
Would move a monster.",106,19048
644915,1228,"Hearts of most hard temper
Melt and lament for her.",831,19048
644916,1230,"O, God's will! much better
She ne'er had known pomp: though't be temporal,
Yet, if that quarrel, fortune, do divorce
It from the bearer, 'tis a sufferance panging
As soul and body's severing.",106,19048
644917,1235,"Alas, poor lady!
She's a stranger now again.",831,19048
644918,1237,"So much the more
Must pity drop upon her. Verily,
I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief,
And wear a golden sorrow.",106,19048
644919,1243,"Our content
Is our best having.",831,19048
644920,1245,"By my troth and maidenhead,
I would not be a queen.",106,19048
644921,1247,"Beshrew me, I would,
And venture maidenhead for't; and so would you,
For all this spice of your hypocrisy:
You, that have so fair parts of woman on you,
Have too a woman's heart; which ever yet
Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty;
Which, to say sooth, are blessings; and which gifts,
Saving your mincing, the capacity
Of your soft cheveril conscience would receive,
If you might please to stretch it.",831,19048
644922,1257,"Nay, good troth.",106,19048
644923,1258,"Yes, troth, and troth; you would not be a queen?",831,19048
644924,1259,"No, not for all the riches under heaven.
Old as I am, to queen it: but, I pray you,
What think you of a duchess? have you limbs
To bear that load of title?",106,19048
644925,1264,"No, in truth.",106,19048
644926,1265,"Then you are weakly made: pluck off a little;
I would not be a young count in your way,
For more than blushing comes to: if your back
Cannot vouchsafe this burthen,'tis too weak
Ever to get a boy.",831,19048
644927,1270,"How you do talk!
I swear again, I would not be a queen
For all the world.",106,19048
644928,1273,"In faith, for little England
You'ld venture an emballing: I myself
Would for Carnarvonshire, although there long'd
No more to the crown but that. Lo, who comes here?",831,19048
644929,1277,[Enter Chamberlain],1261,19048
644930,1278,"Good morrow, ladies. What were't worth to know
The secret of your conference?",678,19048
644931,1280,"My good lord,
Not your demand; it values not your asking:
Our mistress' sorrows we were pitying.",106,19048
644932,1283,"It was a gentle business, and becoming
The action of good women: there is hope
All will be well.",678,19048
644933,1286,"Now, I pray God, amen!",106,19048
644934,1287,"You bear a gentle mind, and heavenly blessings
Follow such creatures. That you may, fair lady,
Perceive I speak sincerely, and high note's
Ta'en of your many virtues, the king's majesty
Commends his good opinion of you, and
Does purpose honour to you no less flowing
Than Marchioness of Pembroke: to which title
A thousand pound a year, annual support,
Out of his grace he adds.",678,19048
644935,1296,"I do not know
What kind of my obedience I should tender;
More than my all is nothing: nor my prayers
Are not words duly hallow'd, nor my wishes
More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes
Are all I can return. Beseech your lordship,
Vouchsafe to speak my thanks and my obedience,
As from a blushing handmaid, to his highness;
Whose health and royalty I pray for.",106,19048
644936,1305,"Lady,
I shall not fail to approve the fair conceit
The king hath of you.
[Aside]
I have perused her well;
Beauty and honour in her are so mingled
That they have caught the king: and who knows yet
But from this lady may proceed a gem
To lighten all this isle? I'll to the king,
And say I spoke with you.",678,19048
644937,1315,[Exit Chamberlain],1261,19048
644938,1316,My honour'd lord.,106,19048
644939,1317,"Why, this it is; see, see!
I have been begging sixteen years in court,
Am yet a courtier beggarly, nor could
Come pat betwixt too early and too late
For any suit of pounds; and you, O fate!
A very fresh-fish here--fie, fie, fie upon
This compell'd fortune!--have your mouth fill'd up
Before you open it.",831,19048
644940,1325,This is strange to me.,106,19048
644941,1326,"How tastes it? is it bitter? forty pence, no.
There was a lady once, 'tis an old story,
That would not be a queen, that would she not,
For all the mud in Egypt: have you heard it?",831,19048
644942,1330,"Come, you are pleasant.",106,19048
644943,1331,"With your theme, I could
O'ermount the lark. The Marchioness of Pembroke!
A thousand pounds a year for pure respect!
No other obligation! By my life,
That promises moe thousands: honour's train
Is longer than his foreskirt. By this time
I know your back will bear a duchess: say,
Are you not stronger than you were?",831,19048
644944,1339,"Good lady,
Make yourself mirth with your particular fancy,
And leave me out on't. Would I had no being,
If this salute my blood a jot: it faints me,
To think what follows.
The queen is comfortless, and we forgetful
In our long absence: pray, do not deliver
What here you've heard to her.",106,19048
644945,1347,What do you think me?,831,19048
644946,1348,"[Exeunt]
[Trumpets, sennet, and cornets. Enter two Vergers,]
with short silver wands; next them, two Scribes, in
the habit of doctors; after them, CANTERBURY alone;
after him, LINCOLN, Ely, Rochester, and Saint
Asaph; next them, with some small distance, follows
a Gentleman bearing the purse, with the great seal,
and a cardinal's hat; then two Priests, bearing
each a silver cross; then a Gentleman-usher
bare-headed, accompanied with a Sergeant-at-arms
bearing a silver mace; then two Gentlemen bearing
two great silver pillars; after them, side by side,
CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS; two Noblemen
with the sword and mace. KING HENRY VIII takes
place under the cloth of state; CARDINAL WOLSEY and
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS sit under him as judges. QUEEN
KATHARINE takes place some distance from KING
HENRY VIII. The Bishops place themselves on each
side the court, in manner of a consistory; below
them, the Scribes. The Lords sit next the Bishops.
The rest of the Attendants stand in convenient
order about the stage]",1261,19048
644947,1372,"Whilst our commission from Rome is read,
Let silence be commanded.",1258,19049
644948,1374,"What's the need?
It hath already publicly been read,
And on all sides the authority allow'd;
You may, then, spare that time.",576,19049
644949,1378,Be't so. Proceed.,1258,19049
644950,1379,"Say, Henry King of England, come into the court.",972,19049
644951,1380,"Henry King of England, &c.",293,19049
644952,1381,Here.,576,19049
644953,1382,"Say, Katharine Queen of England, come into the court.",972,19049
644954,1383,"Katharine Queen of England, &c.
[QUEEN KATHARINE makes no answer, rises out of her]
chair, goes about the court, comes to KING HENRY
VIII, and kneels at his feet; then speaks]",293,19049
644955,1387,"Sir, I desire you do me right and justice;
And to bestow your pity on me: for
I am a most poor woman, and a stranger,
Born out of your dominions; having here
No judge indifferent, nor no more assurance
Of equal friendship and proceeding. Alas, sir,
In what have I offended you? what cause
Hath my behavior given to your displeasure,
That thus you should proceed to put me off,
And take your good grace from me? Heaven witness,
I have been to you a true and humble wife,
At all times to your will conformable;
Ever in fear to kindle your dislike,
Yea, subject to your countenance, glad or sorry
As I saw it inclined: when was the hour
I ever contradicted your desire,
Or made it not mine too? Or which of your friends
Have I not strove to love, although I knew
He were mine enemy? what friend of mine
That had to him derived your anger, did I
Continue in my liking? nay, gave notice
He was from thence discharged. Sir, call to mind
That I have been your wife, in this obedience,
Upward of twenty years, and have been blest
With many children by you: if, in the course
And process of this time, you can report,
And prove it too, against mine honour aught,
My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty,
Against your sacred person, in God's name,
Turn me away; and let the foul'st contempt
Shut door upon me, and so give me up
To the sharp'st kind of justice. Please you sir,
The king, your father, was reputed for
A prince most prudent, of an excellent
And unmatch'd wit and judgment: Ferdinand,
My father, king of Spain, was reckon'd one
The wisest prince that there had reign'd by many
A year before: it is not to be question'd
That they had gather'd a wise council to them
Of every realm, that did debate this business,
Who deem'd our marriage lawful: wherefore I humbly
Beseech you, sir, to spare me, till I may
Be by my friends in Spain advised; whose counsel
I will implore: if not, i' the name of God,
Your pleasure be fulfill'd!",934,19049
644956,1432,"You have here, lady,
And of your choice, these reverend fathers; men
Of singular integrity and learning,
Yea, the elect o' the land, who are assembled
To plead your cause: it shall be therefore bootless
That longer you desire the court; as well
For your own quiet, as to rectify
What is unsettled in the king.",1258,19049
644957,1440,"His grace
Hath spoken well and justly: therefore, madam,
It's fit this royal session do proceed;
And that, without delay, their arguments
Be now produced and heard.",212,19049
644958,1445,"Lord cardinal,
To you I speak.",934,19049
644959,1447,"Your pleasure, madam?",1258,19049
644960,1448,"Sir,
I am about to weep; but, thinking that
We are a queen, or long have dream'd so, certain
The daughter of a king, my drops of tears
I'll turn to sparks of fire.",934,19049
644961,1453,Be patient yet.,1258,19049
644962,1454,"I will, when you are humble; nay, before,
Or God will punish me. I do believe,
Induced by potent circumstances, that
You are mine enemy, and make my challenge
You shall not be my judge: for it is you
Have blown this coal betwixt my lord and me;
Which God's dew quench! Therefore I say again,
I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul
Refuse you for my judge; whom, yet once more,
I hold my most malicious foe, and think not
At all a friend to truth.",934,19049
644963,1465,"I do profess
You speak not like yourself; who ever yet
Have stood to charity, and display'd the effects
Of disposition gentle, and of wisdom
O'ertopping woman's power. Madam, you do me wrong:
I have no spleen against you; nor injustice
For you or any: how far I have proceeded,
Or how far further shall, is warranted
By a commission from the consistory,
Yea, the whole consistory of Rome. You charge me
That I have blown this coal: I do deny it:
The king is present: if it be known to him
That I gainsay my deed, how may he wound,
And worthily, my falsehood! yea, as much
As you have done my truth. If he know
That I am free of your report, he knows
I am not of your wrong. Therefore in him
It lies to cure me: and the cure is, to
Remove these thoughts from you: the which before
His highness shall speak in, I do beseech
You, gracious madam, to unthink your speaking
And to say so no more.",1258,19049
644964,1487,"My lord, my lord,
I am a simple woman, much too weak
To oppose your cunning. You're meek and
humble-mouth'd;
You sign your place and calling, in full seeming,
With meekness and humility; but your heart
Is cramm'd with arrogancy, spleen, and pride.
You have, by fortune and his highness' favours,
Gone slightly o'er low steps and now are mounted
Where powers are your retainers, and your words,
Domestics to you, serve your will as't please
Yourself pronounce their office. I must tell you,
You tender more your person's honour than
Your high profession spiritual: that again
I do refuse you for my judge; and here,
Before you all, appeal unto the pope,
To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness,
And to be judged by him.",934,19049
644965,1505,"[She curtsies to KING HENRY VIII, and offers to depart]",1261,19049
644966,1506,"The queen is obstinate,
Stubborn to justice, apt to accuse it, and
Disdainful to be tried by't: 'tis not well.
She's going away.",212,19049
644967,1510,Call her again.,576,19049
644968,1511,"Katharine Queen of England, come into the court.",293,19049
644969,1512,"Madam, you are call'd back.",545,19049
644970,1513,"What need you note it? pray you, keep your way:
When you are call'd, return. Now, the Lord help,
They vex me past my patience! Pray you, pass on:
I will not tarry; no, nor ever more
Upon this business my appearance make
In any of their courts.",934,19049
644971,1519,[Exeunt QUEEN KATHARINE and her Attendants],1261,19049
644972,1520,"Go thy ways, Kate:
That man i' the world who shall report he has
A better wife, let him in nought be trusted,
For speaking false in that: thou art, alone,
If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness,
Thy meekness saint-like, wife-like government,
Obeying in commanding, and thy parts
Sovereign and pious else, could speak thee out,
The queen of earthly queens: she's noble born;
And, like her true nobility, she has
Carried herself towards me.",576,19049
644973,1531,"Most gracious sir,
In humblest manner I require your highness,
That it shall please you to declare, in hearing
Of all these ears,--for where I am robb'd and bound,
There must I be unloosed, although not there
At once and fully satisfied,--whether ever I
Did broach this business to your highness; or
Laid any scruple in your way, which might
Induce you to the question on't? or ever
Have to you, but with thanks to God for such
A royal lady, spake one the least word that might
Be to the prejudice of her present state,
Or touch of her good person?",1258,19049
644974,1544,"My lord cardinal,
I do excuse you; yea, upon mine honour,
I free you from't. You are not to be taught
That you have many enemies, that know not
Why they are so, but, like to village-curs,
Bark when their fellows do: by some of these
The queen is put in anger. You're excused:
But will you be more justified? You ever
Have wish'd the sleeping of this business; never desired
It to be stirr'd; but oft have hinder'd, oft,
The passages made toward it: on my honour,
I speak my good lord cardinal to this point,
And thus far clear him. Now, what moved me to't,
I will be bold with time and your attention:
Then mark the inducement. Thus it came; give heed to't:
My conscience first received a tenderness,
Scruple, and prick, on certain speeches utter'd
By the Bishop of Bayonne, then French ambassador;
Who had been hither sent on the debating
A marriage 'twixt the Duke of Orleans and
Our daughter Mary: i' the progress of this business,
Ere a determinate resolution, he,
I mean the bishop, did require a respite;
Wherein he might the king his lord advertise
Whether our daughter were legitimate,
Respecting this our marriage with the dowager,
Sometimes our brother's wife. This respite shook
The bosom of my conscience, enter'd me,
Yea, with a splitting power, and made to tremble
The region of my breast; which forced such way,
That many mazed considerings did throng
And press'd in with this caution. First, methought
I stood not in the smile of heaven; who had
Commanded nature, that my lady's womb,
If it conceived a male child by me, should
Do no more offices of life to't than
The grave does to the dead; for her male issue
Or died where they were made, or shortly after
This world had air'd them: hence I took a thought,
This was a judgment on me; that my kingdom,
Well worthy the best heir o' the world, should not
Be gladded in't by me: then follows, that
I weigh'd the danger which my realms stood in
By this my issue's fail; and that gave to me
Many a groaning throe. Thus hulling in
The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer
Toward this remedy, whereupon we are
Now present here together: that's to say,
I meant to rectify my conscience,--which
I then did feel full sick, and yet not well,--
By all the reverend fathers of the land
And doctors learn'd: first I began in private
With you, my Lord of Lincoln; you remember
How under my oppression I did reek,
When I first moved you.",576,19049
644975,1599,"Very well, my liege.",172,19049
644976,1600,"I have spoke long: be pleased yourself to say
How far you satisfied me.",576,19049
644977,1602,"So please your highness,
The question did at first so stagger me,
Bearing a state of mighty moment in't
And consequence of dread, that I committed
The daring'st counsel which I had to doubt;
And did entreat your highness to this course
Which you are running here.",172,19049
644978,1609,"I then moved you,
My Lord of Canterbury; and got your leave
To make this present summons: unsolicited
I left no reverend person in this court;
But by particular consent proceeded
Under your hands and seals: therefore, go on:
For no dislike i' the world against the person
Of the good queen, but the sharp thorny points
Of my alleged reasons, drive this forward:
Prove but our marriage lawful, by my life
And kingly dignity, we are contented
To wear our mortal state to come with her,
Katharine our queen, before the primest creature
That's paragon'd o' the world.",576,19049
644979,1623,"So please your highness,
The queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness
That we adjourn this court till further day:
Meanwhile must be an earnest motion
Made to the queen, to call back her appeal
She intends unto his holiness.",212,19049
644980,1629,"[Aside]. I may perceive
These cardinals trifle with me: I abhor
This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
My learn'd and well-beloved servant, Cranmer,
Prithee, return: with thy approach, I know,
My comfort comes along. Break up the court:
I say, set on.",576,19049
644981,1636,[Exeunt in manner as they entered],1261,19049
644982,1639,"[Enter QUEEN KATHARINE and her Women, as at work]",1261,19050
644983,1640,"Take thy lute, wench: my soul grows sad with troubles;
Sing, and disperse 'em, if thou canst: leave working.
[SONG]
Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he did sing:
To his music plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.
Every thing that heard him play,
Even the billows of the sea,
Hung their heads, and then lay by.
In sweet music is such art,
Killing care and grief of heart
Fall asleep, or hearing, die.",934,19050
644984,1655,[Enter a Gentleman],1261,19050
644985,1656,How now!,934,19050
644986,1657,"An't please your grace, the two great cardinals
Wait in the presence.",518,19050
644987,1659,Would they speak with me?,934,19050
644988,1660,"They will'd me say so, madam.",518,19050
644989,1661,"Pray their graces
To come near.
[Exit Gentleman]
What can be their business
With me, a poor weak woman, fall'n from favour?
I do not like their coming. Now I think on't,
They should be good men; their affairs as righteous:
But all hoods make not monks.",934,19050
644990,1669,[Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS],1261,19050
644991,1670,Peace to your highness!,1258,19050
644992,1671,"Your graces find me here part of a housewife,
I would be all, against the worst may happen.
What are your pleasures with me, reverend lords?",934,19050
644993,1674,"May it please you noble madam, to withdraw
Into your private chamber, we shall give you
The full cause of our coming.",1258,19050
644994,1677,"Speak it here:
There's nothing I have done yet, o' my conscience,
Deserves a corner: would all other women
Could speak this with as free a soul as I do!
My lords, I care not, so much I am happy
Above a number, if my actions
Were tried by every tongue, every eye saw 'em,
Envy and base opinion set against 'em,
I know my life so even. If your business
Seek me out, and that way I am wife in,
Out with it boldly: truth loves open dealing.",934,19050
644995,1688,"Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, regina
serenissima,--",1258,19050
644996,1690,"O, good my lord, no Latin;
I am not such a truant since my coming,
As not to know the language I have lived in:
A strange tongue makes my cause more strange,
suspicious;
Pray, speak in English: here are some will thank you,
If you speak truth, for their poor mistress' sake;
Believe me, she has had much wrong: lord cardinal,
The willing'st sin I ever yet committed
May be absolved in English.",934,19050
644997,1700,"Noble lady,
I am sorry my integrity should breed,
And service to his majesty and you,
So deep suspicion, where all faith was meant.
We come not by the way of accusation,
To taint that honour every good tongue blesses,
Nor to betray you any way to sorrow,
You have too much, good lady; but to know
How you stand minded in the weighty difference
Between the king and you; and to deliver,
Like free and honest men, our just opinions
And comforts to your cause.",1258,19050
644998,1712,"Most honour'd madam,
My Lord of York, out of his noble nature,
Zeal and obedience he still bore your grace,
Forgetting, like a good man your late censure
Both of his truth and him, which was too far,
Offers, as I do, in a sign of peace,
His service and his counsel.",212,19050
644999,1719,"[Aside]. To betray me.--
My lords, I thank you both for your good wills;
Ye speak like honest men; pray God, ye prove so!
But how to make ye suddenly an answer,
In such a point of weight, so near mine honour,--
More near my life, I fear,--with my weak wit,
And to such men of gravity and learning,
In truth, I know not. I was set at work
Among my maids: full little, God knows, looking
Either for such men or such business.
For her sake that I have been,--for I feel
The last fit of my greatness,--good your graces,
Let me have time and counsel for my cause:
Alas, I am a woman, friendless, hopeless!",934,19050
645000,1733,"Madam, you wrong the king's love with these fears:
Your hopes and friends are infinite.",1258,19050
645001,1735,"In England
But little for my profit: can you think, lords,
That any Englishman dare give me counsel?
Or be a known friend, 'gainst his highness' pleasure,
Though he be grown so desperate to be honest,
And live a subject? Nay, forsooth, my friends,
They that must weigh out my afflictions,
They that my trust must grow to, live not here:
They are, as all my other comforts, far hence
In mine own country, lords.",934,19050
645002,1745,"I would your grace
Would leave your griefs, and take my counsel.",212,19050
645003,1747,"How, sir?",934,19050
645004,1748,"Put your main cause into the king's protection;
He's loving and most gracious: 'twill be much
Both for your honour better and your cause;
For if the trial of the law o'ertake ye,
You'll part away disgraced.",212,19050
645005,1753,He tells you rightly.,1258,19050
645006,1754,"Ye tell me what ye wish for both,--my ruin:
Is this your Christian counsel? out upon ye!
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
That no king can corrupt.",934,19050
645007,1758,Your rage mistakes us.,212,19050
645008,1759,"The more shame for ye: holy men I thought ye,
Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues;
But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear ye:
Mend 'em, for shame, my lords. Is this your comfort?
The cordial that ye bring a wretched lady,
A woman lost among ye, laugh'd at, scorn'd?
I will not wish ye half my miseries;
I have more charity: but say, I warn'd ye;
Take heed, for heaven's sake, take heed, lest at once
The burthen of my sorrows fall upon ye.",934,19050
645009,1769,"Madam, this is a mere distraction;
You turn the good we offer into envy.",1258,19050
645010,1771,"Ye turn me into nothing: woe upon ye
And all such false professors! would you have me--
If you have any justice, any pity;
If ye be any thing but churchmen's habits--
Put my sick cause into his hands that hates me?
Alas, has banish'd me his bed already,
His love, too long ago! I am old, my lords,
And all the fellowship I hold now with him
Is only my obedience. What can happen
To me above this wretchedness? all your studies
Make me a curse like this.",934,19050
645011,1782,Your fears are worse.,212,19050
645012,1783,"Have I lived thus long--let me speak myself,
Since virtue finds no friends--a wife, a true one?
A woman, I dare say without vain-glory,
Never yet branded with suspicion?
Have I with all my full affections
Still met the king? loved him next heaven?
obey'd him?
Been, out of fondness, superstitious to him?
Almost forgot my prayers to content him?
And am I thus rewarded? 'tis not well, lords.
Bring me a constant woman to her husband,
One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure;
And to that woman, when she has done most,
Yet will I add an honour, a great patience.",934,19050
645013,1797,"Madam, you wander from the good we aim at.",1258,19050
645014,1798,"My lord, I dare not make myself so guilty,
To give up willingly that noble title
Your master wed me to: nothing but death
Shall e'er divorce my dignities.",934,19050
645015,1802,"Pray, hear me.",1258,19050
645016,1803,"Would I had never trod this English earth,
Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it!
Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your hearts.
What will become of me now, wretched lady!
I am the most unhappy woman living.
Alas, poor wenches, where are now your fortunes!
Shipwreck'd upon a kingdom, where no pity,
No friend, no hope; no kindred weep for me;
Almost no grave allow'd me: like the lily,
That once was mistress of the field and flourish'd,
I'll hang my head and perish.",934,19050
645017,1814,"If your grace
Could but be brought to know our ends are honest,
You'ld feel more comfort: why should we, good lady,
Upon what cause, wrong you? alas, our places,
The way of our profession is against it:
We are to cure such sorrows, not to sow 'em.
For goodness' sake, consider what you do;
How you may hurt yourself, ay, utterly
Grow from the king's acquaintance, by this carriage.
The hearts of princes kiss obedience,
So much they love it; but to stubborn spirits
They swell, and grow as terrible as storms.
I know you have a gentle, noble temper,
A soul as even as a calm: pray, think us
Those we profess, peace-makers, friends, and servants.",1258,19050
645018,1829,"Madam, you'll find it so. You wrong your virtues
With these weak women's fears: a noble spirit,
As yours was put into you, ever casts
Such doubts, as false coin, from it. The king loves you;
Beware you lose it not: for us, if you please
To trust us in your business, we are ready
To use our utmost studies in your service.",212,19050
645019,1836,"Do what ye will, my lords: and, pray, forgive me,
If I have used myself unmannerly;
You know I am a woman, lacking wit
To make a seemly answer to such persons.
Pray, do my service to his majesty:
He has my heart yet; and shall have my prayers
While I shall have my life. Come, reverend fathers,
Bestow your counsels on me: she now begs,
That little thought, when she set footing here,
She should have bought her dignities so dear.",934,19050
645020,1846,[Exeunt],1261,19050
645021,1849,"[Enter NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, SURREY, and Chamberlain]",1261,19051
645022,1850,"If you will now unite in your complaints,
And force them with a constancy, the cardinal
Cannot stand under them: if you omit
The offer of this time, I cannot promise
But that you shall sustain moe new disgraces,
With these you bear already.",349,19051
645023,1856,"I am joyful
To meet the least occasion that may give me
Remembrance of my father-in-law, the duke,
To be revenged on him.",364,19051
645024,1860,"Which of the peers
Have uncontemn'd gone by him, or at least
Strangely neglected? when did he regard
The stamp of nobleness in any person
Out of himself?",351,19051
645025,1865,"My lords, you speak your pleasures:
What he deserves of you and me I know;
What we can do to him, though now the time
Gives way to us, I much fear. If you cannot
Bar his access to the king, never attempt
Any thing on him; for he hath a witchcraft
Over the king in's tongue.",678,19051
645026,1872,"O, fear him not;
His spell in that is out: the king hath found
Matter against him that for ever mars
The honey of his language. No, he's settled,
Not to come off, in his displeasure.",349,19051
645027,1877,"Sir,
I should be glad to hear such news as this
Once every hour.",364,19051
645028,1880,"Believe it, this is true:
In the divorce his contrary proceedings
Are all unfolded wherein he appears
As I would wish mine enemy.",349,19051
645029,1884,"How came
His practises to light?",364,19051
645030,1886,Most strangely.,351,19051
645031,1887,"O, how, how?",364,19051
645032,1888,"The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried,
And came to the eye o' the king: wherein was read,
How that the cardinal did entreat his holiness
To stay the judgment o' the divorce; for if
It did take place, 'I do,' quoth he, 'perceive
My king is tangled in affection to
A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen.'",351,19051
645033,1895,Has the king this?,364,19051
645034,1896,Believe it.,351,19051
645035,1897,Will this work?,364,19051
645036,1898,"The king in this perceives him, how he coasts
And hedges his own way. But in this point
All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic
After his patient's death: the king already
Hath married the fair lady.",678,19051
645037,1903,Would he had!,364,19051
645038,1904,"May you be happy in your wish, my lord
For, I profess, you have it.",351,19051
645039,1906,"Now, all my joy
Trace the conjunction!",364,19051
645040,1908,My amen to't!,351,19051
645041,1909,All men's!,349,19051
645042,1910,"There's order given for her coronation:
Marry, this is yet but young, and may be left
To some ears unrecounted. But, my lords,
She is a gallant creature, and complete
In mind and feature: I persuade me, from her
Will fall some blessing to this land, which shall
In it be memorised.",351,19051
645043,1917,"But, will the king
Digest this letter of the cardinal's?
The Lord forbid!",364,19051
645044,1920,"Marry, amen!",349,19051
645045,1921,"No, no;
There be moe wasps that buzz about his nose
Will make this sting the sooner. Cardinal Campeius
Is stol'n away to Rome; hath ta'en no leave;
Has left the cause o' the king unhandled; and
Is posted, as the agent of our cardinal,
To second all his plot. I do assure you
The king cried Ha! at this.",351,19051
645046,1929,"Now, God incense him,
And let him cry Ha! louder!",678,19051
645047,1931,"But, my lord,
When returns Cranmer?",349,19051
645048,1933,"He is return'd in his opinions; which
Have satisfied the king for his divorce,
Together with all famous colleges
Almost in Christendom: shortly, I believe,
His second marriage shall be publish'd, and
Her coronation. Katharine no more
Shall be call'd queen, but princess dowager
And widow to Prince Arthur.",351,19051
645049,1941,"This same Cranmer's
A worthy fellow, and hath ta'en much pain
In the king's business.",349,19051
645050,1944,"He has; and we shall see him
For it an archbishop.",351,19051
645051,1946,So I hear.,349,19051
645052,1947,"'Tis so.
The cardinal!",351,19051
645053,1949,[Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY and CROMWELL],1261,19051
645054,1950,"Observe, observe, he's moody.",349,19051
645055,1951,"The packet, Cromwell.
Gave't you the king?",1258,19051
645056,1953,"To his own hand, in's bedchamber.",294,19051
645057,1954,Look'd he o' the inside of the paper?,1258,19051
645058,1955,"Presently
He did unseal them: and the first he view'd,
He did it with a serious mind; a heed
Was in his countenance. You he bade
Attend him here this morning.",294,19051
645059,1960,"Is he ready
To come abroad?",1258,19051
645060,1962,"I think, by this he is.",294,19051
645061,1963,"Leave me awhile.
[Exit CROMWELL]
[Aside]
It shall be to the Duchess of Alencon,
The French king's sister: he shall marry her.
Anne Bullen! No; I'll no Anne Bullens for him:
There's more in't than fair visage. Bullen!
No, we'll no Bullens. Speedily I wish
To hear from Rome. The Marchioness of Pembroke!",1258,19051
645062,1972,He's discontented.,349,19051
645063,1973,"May be, he hears the king
Does whet his anger to him.",351,19051
645064,1975,"Sharp enough,
Lord, for thy justice!",364,19051
645065,1977,"[Aside] The late queen's gentlewoman,
a knight's daughter,
To be her mistress' mistress! the queen's queen!
This candle burns not clear: 'tis I must snuff it;
Then out it goes. What though I know her virtuous
And well deserving? yet I know her for
A spleeny Lutheran; and not wholesome to
Our cause, that she should lie i' the bosom of
Our hard-ruled king. Again, there is sprung up
An heretic, an arch one, Cranmer; one
Hath crawl'd into the favour of the king,
And is his oracle.",1258,19051
645066,1989,He is vex'd at something.,349,19051
645067,1990,"I would 'twere something that would fret the string,
The master-cord on's heart!",364,19051
645068,1992,"[Enter KING HENRY VIII, reading of a schedule, and LOVELL]",1261,19051
645069,1993,"The king, the king!",351,19051
645070,1994,"What piles of wealth hath he accumulated
To his own portion! and what expense by the hour
Seems to flow from him! How, i' the name of thrift,
Does he rake this together! Now, my lords,
Saw you the cardinal?",576,19051
645071,1999,"My lord, we have
Stood here observing him: some strange commotion
Is in his brain: he bites his lip, and starts;
Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground,
Then lays his finger on his temple, straight
Springs out into fast gait; then stops again,
Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts
His eye against the moon: in most strange postures
We have seen him set himself.",349,19051
645072,2008,"It may well be;
There is a mutiny in's mind. This morning
Papers of state he sent me to peruse,
As I required: and wot you what I found
There,--on my conscience, put unwittingly?
Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing;
The several parcels of his plate, his treasure,
Rich stuffs, and ornaments of household; which
I find at such proud rate, that it out-speaks
Possession of a subject.",576,19051
645073,2018,"It's heaven's will:
Some spirit put this paper in the packet,
To bless your eye withal.",349,19051
645074,2021,"If we did think
His contemplation were above the earth,
And fix'd on spiritual object, he should still
Dwell in his musings: but I am afraid
His thinkings are below the moon, not worth
His serious considering.
[King HENRY VIII takes his seat; whispers LOVELL,]
who goes to CARDINAL WOLSEY]",576,19051
645075,2029,"Heaven forgive me!
Ever God bless your highness!",1258,19051
645076,2031,"Good my lord,
You are full of heavenly stuff, and bear the inventory
Of your best graces in your mind; the which
You were now running o'er: you have scarce time
To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span
To keep your earthly audit: sure, in that
I deem you an ill husband, and am glad
To have you therein my companion.",576,19051
645077,2039,"Sir,
For holy offices I have a time; a time
To think upon the part of business which
I bear i' the state; and nature does require
Her times of preservation, which perforce
I, her frail son, amongst my brethren mortal,
Must give my tendence to.",1258,19051
645078,2046,You have said well.,576,19051
645079,2047,"And ever may your highness yoke together,
As I will lend you cause, my doing well
With my well saying!",1258,19051
645080,2050,"'Tis well said again;
And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds. My father loved you:
His said he did; and with his deed did crown
His word upon you. Since I had my office,
I have kept you next my heart; have not alone
Employ'd you where high profits might come home,
But pared my present havings, to bestow
My bounties upon you.",576,19051
645081,2059,[Aside] What should this mean?,1258,19051
645082,2060,[Aside] The Lord increase this business!,364,19051
645083,2061,"Have I not made you,
The prime man of the state? I pray you, tell me,
If what I now pronounce you have found true:
And, if you may confess it, say withal,
If you are bound to us or no. What say you?",576,19051
645084,2066,"My sovereign, I confess your royal graces,
Shower'd on me daily, have been more than could
My studied purposes requite; which went
Beyond all man's endeavours: my endeavours
Have ever come too short of my desires,
Yet filed with my abilities: mine own ends
Have been mine so that evermore they pointed
To the good of your most sacred person and
The profit of the state. For your great graces
Heap'd upon me, poor undeserver, I
Can nothing render but allegiant thanks,
My prayers to heaven for you, my loyalty,
Which ever has and ever shall be growing,
Till death, that winter, kill it.",1258,19051
645085,2080,"Fairly answer'd;
A loyal and obedient subject is
Therein illustrated: the honour of it
Does pay the act of it; as, i' the contrary,
The foulness is the punishment. I presume
That, as my hand has open'd bounty to you,
My heart dropp'd love, my power rain'd honour, more
On you than any; so your hand and heart,
Your brain, and every function of your power,
Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty,
As 'twere in love's particular, be more
To me, your friend, than any.",576,19051
645086,2092,"I do profess
That for your highness' good I ever labour'd
More than mine own; that am, have, and will be--
Though all the world should crack their duty to you,
And throw it from their soul; though perils did
Abound, as thick as thought could make 'em, and
Appear in forms more horrid,--yet my duty,
As doth a rock against the chiding flood,
Should the approach of this wild river break,
And stand unshaken yours.",1258,19051
645087,2102,"'Tis nobly spoken:
Take notice, lords, he has a loyal breast,
For you have seen him open't. Read o'er this;
[Giving him papers]
And after, this: and then to breakfast with
What appetite you have.
[Exit KING HENRY VIII, frowning upon CARDINAL WOLSEY:]
the Nobles throng after him, smiling and whispering]",576,19051
645088,2110,"What should this mean?
What sudden anger's this? how have I reap'd it?
He parted frowning from me, as if ruin
Leap'd from his eyes: so looks the chafed lion
Upon the daring huntsman that has gall'd him;
Then makes him nothing. I must read this paper;
I fear, the story of his anger. 'Tis so;
This paper has undone me: 'tis the account
Of all that world of wealth I have drawn together
For mine own ends; indeed, to gain the popedom,
And fee my friends in Rome. O negligence!
Fit for a fool to fall by: what cross devil
Made me put this main secret in the packet
I sent the king? Is there no way to cure this?
No new device to beat this from his brains?
I know 'twill stir him strongly; yet I know
A way, if it take right, in spite of fortune
Will bring me off again. What's this? 'To the Pope!'
The letter, as I live, with all the business
I writ to's holiness. Nay then, farewell!
I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness;
And, from that full meridian of my glory,
I haste now to my setting: I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation m the evening,
And no man see me more.
[Re-enter to CARDINAL WOLSEY, NORFOLK and SUFFOLK, SURREY,]
and the Chamberlain]",1258,19051
645089,2137,"Hear the king's pleasure, cardinal: who commands you
To render up the great seal presently
Into our hands; and to confine yourself
To Asher House, my Lord of Winchester's,
Till you hear further from his highness.",349,19051
645090,2142,"Stay:
Where's your commission, lords? words cannot carry
Authority so weighty.",1258,19051
645091,2145,"Who dare cross 'em,
Bearing the king's will from his mouth expressly?",351,19051
645092,2147,"Till I find more than will or words to do it,
I mean your malice, know, officious lords,
I dare and must deny it. Now I feel
Of what coarse metal ye are moulded, envy:
How eagerly ye follow my disgraces,
As if it fed ye! and how sleek and wanton
Ye appear in every thing may bring my ruin!
Follow your envious courses, men of malice;
You have Christian warrant for 'em, and, no doubt,
In time will find their fit rewards. That seal,
You ask with such a violence, the king,
Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me;
Bade me enjoy it, with the place and honours,
During my life; and, to confirm his goodness,
Tied it by letters-patents: now, who'll take it?",1258,19051
645093,2162,"The king, that gave it.",364,19051
645094,2163,"It must be himself, then.",1258,19051
645095,2164,"Thou art a proud traitor, priest.",364,19051
645096,2165,"Proud lord, thou liest:
Within these forty hours Surrey durst better
Have burnt that tongue than said so.",1258,19051
645097,2168,"Thy ambition,
Thou scarlet sin, robb'd this bewailing land
Of noble Buckingham, my father-in-law:
The heads of all thy brother cardinals,
With thee and all thy best parts bound together,
Weigh'd not a hair of his. Plague of your policy!
You sent me deputy for Ireland;
Far from his succor, from the king, from all
That might have mercy on the fault thou gavest him;
Whilst your great goodness, out of holy pity,
Absolved him with an axe.",364,19051
645098,2179,"This, and all else
This talking lord can lay upon my credit,
I answer is most false. The duke by law
Found his deserts: how innocent I was
From any private malice in his end,
His noble jury and foul cause can witness.
If I loved many words, lord, I should tell you
You have as little honesty as honour,
That in the way of loyalty and truth
Toward the king, my ever royal master,
Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be,
And all that love his follies.",1258,19051
645099,2191,"By my soul,
Your long coat, priest, protects you; thou
shouldst feel
My sword i' the life-blood of thee else. My lords,
Can ye endure to hear this arrogance?
And from this fellow? if we live thus tamely,
To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet,
Farewell nobility; let his grace go forward,
And dare us with his cap like larks.",364,19051
645100,2200,"All goodness
Is poison to thy stomach.",1258,19051
645101,2202,"Yes, that goodness
Of gleaning all the land's wealth into one,
Into your own hands, cardinal, by extortion;
The goodness of your intercepted packets
You writ to the pope against the king: your goodness,
Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious.
My Lord of Norfolk, as you are truly noble,
As you respect the common good, the state
Of our despised nobility, our issues,
Who, if he live, will scarce be gentlemen,
Produce the grand sum of his sins, the articles
Collected from his life. I'll startle you
Worse than the scaring bell, when the brown wench
Lay kissing in your arms, lord cardinal.",364,19051
645102,2216,"How much, methinks, I could despise this man,
But that I am bound in charity against it!",1258,19051
645103,2218,"Those articles, my lord, are in the king's hand:
But, thus much, they are foul ones.",349,19051
645104,2220,"So much fairer
And spotless shall mine innocence arise,
When the king knows my truth.",1258,19051
645105,2223,"This cannot save you:
I thank my memory, I yet remember
Some of these articles; and out they shall.
Now, if you can blush and cry 'guilty,' cardinal,
You'll show a little honesty.",364,19051
645106,2228,"Speak on, sir;
I dare your worst objections: if I blush,
It is to see a nobleman want manners.",1258,19051
645107,2231,"I had rather want those than my head. Have at you!
First, that, without the king's assent or knowledge,
You wrought to be a legate; by which power
You maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops.",364,19051
645108,2235,"Then, that in all you writ to Rome, or else
To foreign princes, 'Ego et Rex meus'
Was still inscribed; in which you brought the king
To be your servant.",349,19051
645109,2239,"Then that, without the knowledge
Either of king or council, when you went
Ambassador to the emperor, you made bold
To carry into Flanders the great seal.",351,19051
645110,2243,"Item, you sent a large commission
To Gregory de Cassado, to conclude,
Without the king's will or the state's allowance,
A league between his highness and Ferrara.",364,19051
645111,2247,"That, out of mere ambition, you have caused
Your holy hat to be stamp'd on the king's coin.",351,19051
645112,2249,"Then that you have sent innumerable substance--
By what means got, I leave to your own conscience--
To furnish Rome, and to prepare the ways
You have for dignities; to the mere undoing
Of all the kingdom. Many more there are;
Which, since they are of you, and odious,
I will not taint my mouth with.",364,19051
645113,2256,"O my lord,
Press not a falling man too far! 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct him. My heart weeps to see him
So little of his great self.",678,19051
645114,2261,I forgive him.,364,19051
645115,2262,"Lord cardinal, the king's further pleasure is,
Because all those things you have done of late,
By your power legatine, within this kingdom,
Fall into the compass of a praemunire,
That therefore such a writ be sued against you;
To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements,
Chattels, and whatsoever, and to be
Out of the king's protection. This is my charge.",351,19051
645116,2270,"And so we'll leave you to your meditations
How to live better. For your stubborn answer
About the giving back the great seal to us,
The king shall know it, and, no doubt, shall thank you.
So fare you well, my little good lord cardinal.",349,19051
645117,2275,[Exeunt all but CARDINAL WOLSEY],1261,19051
645118,2276,"So farewell to the little good you bear me.
Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!
This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,
And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,
And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride
At length broke under me and now has left me,
Weary and old with service, to the mercy
Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye:
I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
More pangs and fears than wars or women have:
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
Never to hope again.
[Enter CROMWELL, and stands amazed]
Why, how now, Cromwell!",1258,19051
645119,2301,"I have no power to speak, sir.",294,19051
645120,2302,"What, amazed
At my misfortunes? can thy spirit wonder
A great man should decline? Nay, an you weep,
I am fall'n indeed.",1258,19051
645121,2306,How does your grace?,294,19051
645122,2307,"Why, well;
Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell.
I know myself now; and I feel within me
A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience. The king has cured me,
I humbly thank his grace; and from these shoulders,
These ruin'd pillars, out of pity, taken
A load would sink a navy, too much honour:
O, 'tis a burthen, Cromwell, 'tis a burthen
Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven!",1258,19051
645123,2317,I am glad your grace has made that right use of it.,294,19051
645124,2318,"I hope I have: I am able now, methinks,
Out of a fortitude of soul I feel,
To endure more miseries and greater far
Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer.
What news abroad?",1258,19051
645125,2323,"The heaviest and the worst
Is your displeasure with the king.",294,19051
645126,2325,God bless him!,1258,19051
645127,2326,"The next is, that Sir Thomas More is chosen
Lord chancellor in your place.",294,19051
645128,2328,"That's somewhat sudden:
But he's a learned man. May he continue
Long in his highness' favour, and do justice
For truth's sake and his conscience; that his bones,
When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings,
May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on em! What more?",1258,19051
645129,2334,"That Cranmer is return'd with welcome,
Install'd lord archbishop of Canterbury.",294,19051
645130,2336,That's news indeed.,1258,19051
645131,2337,"Last, that the Lady Anne,
Whom the king hath in secrecy long married,
This day was view'd in open as his queen,
Going to chapel; and the voice is now
Only about her coronation.",294,19051
645132,2342,"There was the weight that pull'd me down. O Cromwell,
The king has gone beyond me: all my glories
In that one woman I have lost for ever:
No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours,
Or gild again the noble troops that waited
Upon my smiles. Go, get thee from me, Cromwell;
I am a poor fall'n man, unworthy now
To be thy lord and master: seek the king;
That sun, I pray, may never set! I have told him
What and how true thou art: he will advance thee;
Some little memory of me will stir him--
I know his noble nature--not to let
Thy hopeful service perish too: good Cromwell,
Neglect him not; make use now, and provide
For thine own future safety.",1258,19051
645133,2357,"O my lord,
Must I, then, leave you? must I needs forego
So good, so noble and so true a master?
Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron,
With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord.
The king shall have my service: but my prayers
For ever and for ever shall be yours.",294,19051
645134,2364,"Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear
In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me,
Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman.
Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell;
And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be,
And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention
Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee,
Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory,
And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour,
Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in;
A sure and safe one, though thy master miss'd it.
Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition:
By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then,
The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?
Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;
Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not:
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st,
O Cromwell,
Thou fall'st a blessed martyr! Serve the king;
And,--prithee, lead me in:
There take an inventory of all I have,
To the last penny; 'tis the king's: my robe,
And my integrity to heaven, is all
I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell!
Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.",1258,19051
645135,2395,"Good sir, have patience.",294,19051
645136,2396,"So I have. Farewell
The hopes of court! my hopes in heaven do dwell.",1258,19051
645137,2398,[Exeunt],1261,19051
645138,2401,"[Enter two Gentlemen, meeting one another]",1261,19052
645139,2402,You're well met once again.,423,19052
645140,2403,So are you.,993,19052
645141,2404,"You come to take your stand here, and behold
The Lady Anne pass from her coronation?",423,19052
645142,2406,"'Tis all my business. At our last encounter,
The Duke of Buckingham came from his trial.",993,19052
645143,2408,"'Tis very true: but that time offer'd sorrow;
This, general joy.",423,19052
645144,2410,"'Tis well: the citizens,
I am sure, have shown at full their royal minds--
As, let 'em have their rights, they are ever forward--
In celebration of this day with shows,
Pageants and sights of honour.",993,19052
645145,2415,"Never greater,
Nor, I'll assure you, better taken, sir.",423,19052
645146,2417,"May I be bold to ask at what that contains,
That paper in your hand?",993,19052
645147,2419,"Yes; 'tis the list
Of those that claim their offices this day
By custom of the coronation.
The Duke of Suffolk is the first, and claims
To be high-steward; next, the Duke of Norfolk,
He to be earl marshal: you may read the rest.",423,19052
645148,2425,"I thank you, sir: had I not known those customs,
I should have been beholding to your paper.
But, I beseech you, what's become of Katharine,
The princess dowager? how goes her business?",993,19052
645149,2429,"That I can tell you too. The Archbishop
Of Canterbury, accompanied with other
Learned and reverend fathers of his order,
Held a late court at Dunstable, six miles off
From Ampthill where the princess lay; to which
She was often cited by them, but appear'd not:
And, to be short, for not appearance and
The king's late scruple, by the main assent
Of all these learned men she was divorced,
And the late marriage made of none effect
Since which she was removed to Kimbolton,
Where she remains now sick.",423,19052
645150,2441,"Alas, good lady!
[Trumpets]
The trumpets sound: stand close, the queen is coming.
[Hautboys]
[THE ORDER OF THE CORONATION]
1. A lively flourish of Trumpets.
2. Then, two Judges.
3. Lord Chancellor, with the purse and mace
before him.
4. Choristers, singing.
[Music]
5. Mayor of London, bearing the mace. Then
Garter, in his coat of arms, and on his
head a gilt copper crown.
6. Marquess Dorset, bearing a sceptre of gold,
on his head a demi-coronal of gold. With
him, SURREY, bearing the rod of silver with
the dove, crowned with an earl's coronet.
Collars of SS.
7. SUFFOLK, in his robe of estate, his coronet
on his head, bearing a long white wand, as
high-steward. With him, NORFOLK, with the
rod of marshalship, a coronet on his head.
Collars of SS.
8. A canopy borne by four of the Cinque-ports;
under it, QUEEN ANNE in her robe; in her hair
richly adorned with pearl, crowned. On each
side her, the Bishops of London and
Winchester.
9. The old Duchess of Norfolk, in a coronal of
gold, wrought with flowers, bearing QUEEN
ANNE's train.
10. Certain Ladies or Countesses, with plain
circlets of gold without flowers.",993,19052
645151,2475,[They pass over the stage in order and state],1261,19052
645152,2476,"A royal train, believe me. These I know:
Who's that that bears the sceptre?",993,19052
645153,2478,"Marquess Dorset:
And that the Earl of Surrey, with the rod.",423,19052
645154,2480,"A bold brave gentleman. That should be
The Duke of Suffolk?",993,19052
645159,2492,"They that bear
The cloth of honour over her, are four barons
Of the Cinque-ports.",423,19052
645160,2495,"Those men are happy; and so are all are near her.
I take it, she that carries up the train
Is that old noble lady, Duchess of Norfolk.",993,19052
645161,2498,It is; and all the rest are countesses.,423,19052
645162,2499,"Their coronets say so. These are stars indeed;
And sometimes falling ones.",993,19052
645163,2501,No more of that.,423,19052
645164,2502,"[Exit procession, and then a great flourish of trumpets]",1261,19052
645165,2503,[Enter a third Gentleman],1261,19052
645166,2504,"God save you, sir! where have you been broiling?",423,19052
645167,2505,"Among the crowd i' the Abbey; where a finger
Could not be wedged in more: I am stifled
With the mere rankness of their joy.",1168,19052
645168,2508,"You saw
The ceremony?",993,19052
645169,2510,That I did.,1168,19052
645170,2511,How was it?,423,19052
645171,2512,Well worth the seeing.,1168,19052
645172,2513,"Good sir, speak it to us.",993,19052
645173,2514,"As well as I am able. The rich stream
Of lords and ladies, having brought the queen
To a prepared place in the choir, fell off
A distance from her; while her grace sat down
To rest awhile, some half an hour or so,
In a rich chair of state, opposing freely
The beauty of her person to the people.
Believe me, sir, she is the goodliest woman
That ever lay by man: which when the people
Had the full view of, such a noise arose
As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest,
As loud, and to as many tunes: hats, cloaks--
Doublets, I think,--flew up; and had their faces
Been loose, this day they had been lost. Such joy
I never saw before. Great-bellied women,
That had not half a week to go, like rams
In the old time of war, would shake the press,
And make 'em reel before 'em. No man living
Could say 'This is my wife' there; all were woven
So strangely in one piece.",1168,19052
645174,2534,"But, what follow'd?",993,19052
645175,2535,"At length her grace rose, and with modest paces
Came to the altar; where she kneel'd, and saint-like
Cast her fair eyes to heaven and pray'd devoutly.
Then rose again and bow'd her to the people:
When by the Archbishop of Canterbury
She had all the royal makings of a queen;
As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,
The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems
Laid nobly on her: which perform'd, the choir,
With all the choicest music of the kingdom,
Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted,
And with the same full state paced back again
To York-place, where the feast is held.",1168,19052
645176,2548,"Sir,
You must no more call it York-place, that's past;
For, since the cardinal fell, that title's lost:
'Tis now the king's, and call'd Whitehall.",423,19052
645177,2552,"I know it;
But 'tis so lately alter'd, that the old name
Is fresh about me.",1168,19052
645178,2555,"What two reverend bishops
Were those that went on each side of the queen?",993,19052
645179,2557,"Stokesly and Gardiner; the one of Winchester,
Newly preferr'd from the king's secretary,
The other, London.",1168,19052
645180,2560,"He of Winchester
Is held no great good lover of the archbishop's,
The virtuous Cranmer.",993,19052
645181,2563,"All the land knows that:
However, yet there is no great breach; when it comes,
Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him.",1168,19052
645182,2566,"Who may that be, I pray you?",993,19052
645183,2567,"Thomas Cromwell;
A man in much esteem with the king, and truly
A worthy friend. The king has made him master
O' the jewel house,
And one, already, of the privy council.",1168,19052
645184,2572,He will deserve more.,993,19052
645185,2573,"Yes, without all doubt.
Come, gentlemen, ye shall go my way, which
Is to the court, and there ye shall be my guests:
Something I can command. As I walk thither,
I'll tell ye more.",1168,19052
645186,2578,"You may command us, sir.",184,19052
645187,2579,"[Exeunt]
[Enter KATHARINE, Dowager, sick; led between]
GRIFFITH, her gentleman usher, and PATIENCE, her woman]",1261,19052
645188,2584,How does your grace?,545,19053
645189,2585,"O Griffith, sick to death!
My legs, like loaden branches, bow to the earth,
Willing to leave their burthen. Reach a chair:
So; now, methinks, I feel a little ease.
Didst thou not tell me, Griffith, as thou led'st me,
That the great child of honour, Cardinal Wolsey, Was dead?",934,19053
645190,2591,"Yes, madam; but I think your grace,
Out of the pain you suffer'd, gave no ear to't.",545,19053
645191,2593,"Prithee, good Griffith, tell me how he died:
If well, he stepp'd before me, happily
For my example.",934,19053
645192,2596,"Well, the voice goes, madam:
For after the stout Earl Northumberland
Arrested him at York, and brought him forward,
As a man sorely tainted, to his answer,
He fell sick suddenly, and grew so ill
He could not sit his mule.",545,19053
645193,2602,"Alas, poor man!",934,19053
645194,2603,"At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester,
Lodged in the abbey; where the reverend abbot,
With all his covent, honourably received him;
To whom he gave these words, 'O, father abbot,
An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
Give him a little earth for charity!'
So went to bed; where eagerly his sickness
Pursued him still: and, three nights after this,
About the hour of eight, which he himself
Foretold should be his last, full of repentance,
Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows,
He gave his honours to the world again,
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.",545,19053
645195,2617,"So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!
Yet thus far, Griffith, give me leave to speak him,
And yet with charity. He was a man
Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking
Himself with princes; one that, by suggestion,
Tied all the kingdom: simony was fair-play;
His own opinion was his law: i' the presence
He would say untruths; and be ever double
Both in his words and meaning: he was never,
But where he meant to ruin, pitiful:
His promises were, as he then was, mighty;
But his performance, as he is now, nothing:
Of his own body he was ill, and gave
The clergy in example.",934,19053
645196,2631,"Noble madam,
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water. May it please your highness
To hear me speak his good now?",545,19053
645197,2635,"Yes, good Griffith;
I were malicious else.",934,19053
645198,2637,"This cardinal,
Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly
Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle.
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading:
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;
But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
And though he were unsatisfied in getting,
Which was a sin, yet in bestowing, madam,
He was most princely: ever witness for him
Those twins Of learning that he raised in you,
Ipswich and Oxford! one of which fell with him,
Unwilling to outlive the good that did it;
The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous,
So excellent in art, and still so rising,
That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue.
His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him;
For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
And found the blessedness of being little:
And, to add greater honours to his age
Than man could give him, he died fearing God.",545,19053
645199,2658,"After my death I wish no other herald,
No other speaker of my living actions,
To keep mine honour from corruption,
But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Whom I most hated living, thou hast made me,
With thy religious truth and modesty,
Now in his ashes honour: peace be with him!
Patience, be near me still; and set me lower:
I have not long to trouble thee. Good Griffith,
Cause the musicians play me that sad note
I named my knell, whilst I sit meditating
On that celestial harmony I go to.",934,19053
645200,2670,[Sad and solemn music],1261,19053
645201,2671,"She is asleep: good wench, let's sit down quiet,
For fear we wake her: softly, gentle Patience.
[The vision. Enter, solemnly tripping one after]
another, six personages, clad in white robes,
wearing on their heads garlands of bays, and golden
vizards on their faces; branches of bays or palm in
their hands. They first congee unto her, then
dance; and, at certain changes, the first two hold
a spare garland over her head; at which the other
four make reverent curtsies; then the two that held
the garland deliver the same to the other next two,
who observe the same order in their changes, and
holding the garland over her head: which done,
they deliver the same garland to the last two, who
likewise observe the same order: at which, as it
were by inspiration, she makes in her sleep signs
of rejoicing, and holdeth up her hands to heaven:
and so in their dancing vanish, carrying the
garland with them. The music continues]",545,19053
645202,2690,"Spirits of peace, where are ye? are ye all gone,
And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye?",934,19053
645203,2692,"Madam, we are here.",545,19053
645204,2693,"It is not you I call for:
Saw ye none enter since I slept?",934,19053
645205,2695,"None, madam.",545,19053
645206,2696,"No? Saw you not, even now, a blessed troop
Invite me to a banquet; whose bright faces
Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun?
They promised me eternal happiness;
And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I feel
I am not worthy yet to wear: I shall, assuredly.",934,19053
645207,2702,"I am most joyful, madam, such good dreams
Possess your fancy.",545,19053
645208,2704,"Bid the music leave,
They are harsh and heavy to me.",934,19053
645209,2706,[Music ceases],1261,19053
645210,2707,"Do you note
How much her grace is alter'd on the sudden?
How long her face is drawn? how pale she looks,
And of an earthy cold? Mark her eyes!",863,19053
645211,2711,"She is going, wench: pray, pray.",545,19053
645212,2712,Heaven comfort her!,863,19053
645213,2713,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19053
645214,2714,"An't like your grace,--",778,19053
645215,2715,"You are a saucy fellow:
Deserve we no more reverence?",934,19053
645216,2717,"You are to blame,
Knowing she will not lose her wonted greatness,
To use so rude behavior; go to, kneel.",545,19053
645217,2720,"I humbly do entreat your highness' pardon;
My haste made me unmannerly. There is staying
A gentleman, sent from the king, to see you.",778,19053
645218,2723,"Admit him entrance, Griffith: but this fellow
Let me ne'er see again.
[Exeunt GRIFFITH and Messenger]
[Re-enter GRIFFITH, with CAPUCIUS]
If my sight fail not,
You should be lord ambassador from the emperor,
My royal nephew, and your name Capucius.",934,19053
645219,2730,"Madam, the same; your servant.",222,19053
645220,2731,"O, my lord,
The times and titles now are alter'd strangely
With me since first you knew me. But, I pray you,
What is your pleasure with me?",934,19053
645221,2735,"Noble lady,
First mine own service to your grace; the next,
The king's request that I would visit you;
Who grieves much for your weakness, and by me
Sends you his princely commendations,
And heartily entreats you take good comfort.",222,19053
645222,2741,"O my good lord, that comfort comes too late;
'Tis like a pardon after execution:
That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me;
But now I am past an comforts here, but prayers.
How does his highness?",934,19053
645223,2746,"Madam, in good health.",222,19053
645224,2747,"So may he ever do! and ever flourish,
When I shall dwell with worms, and my poor name
Banish'd the kingdom! Patience, is that letter,
I caused you write, yet sent away?",934,19053
645225,2751,"No, madam.",863,19053
645226,2752,[Giving it to KATHARINE],1261,19053
645227,2753,"Sir, I most humbly pray you to deliver
This to my lord the king.",934,19053
645228,2755,"Most willing, madam.",222,19053
645229,2756,"In which I have commended to his goodness
The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter;
The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her!
Beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding--
She is young, and of a noble modest nature,
I hope she will deserve well,--and a little
To love her for her mother's sake, that loved him,
Heaven knows how dearly. My next poor petition
Is, that his noble grace would have some pity
Upon my wretched women, that so long
Have follow'd both my fortunes faithfully:
Of which there is not one, I dare avow,
And now I should not lie, but will deserve
For virtue and true beauty of the soul,
For honesty and decent carriage,
A right good husband, let him be a noble
And, sure, those men are happy that shall have 'em.
The last is, for my men; they are the poorest,
But poverty could never draw 'em from me;
That they may have their wages duly paid 'em,
And something over to remember me by:
If heaven had pleased to have given me longer life
And able means, we had not parted thus.
These are the whole contents: and, good my lord,
By that you love the dearest in this world,
As you wish Christian peace to souls departed,
Stand these poor people's friend, and urge the king
To do me this last right.",934,19053
645230,2784,"By heaven, I will,
Or let me lose the fashion of a man!",222,19053
645231,2786,"I thank you, honest lord. Remember me
In all humility unto his highness:
Say his long trouble now is passing
Out of this world; tell him, in death I bless'd him,
For so I will. Mine eyes grow dim. Farewell,
My lord. Griffith, farewell. Nay, Patience,
You must not leave me yet: I must to bed;
Call in more women. When I am dead, good wench,
Let me be used with honour: strew me over
With maiden flowers, that all the world may know
I was a chaste wife to my grave: embalm me,
Then lay me forth: although unqueen'd, yet like
A queen, and daughter to a king, inter me.
I can no more.",934,19053
645232,2800,"[Exeunt, leading KATHARINE]
[Enter GARDINER, Bishop of Winchester, a Page with a]
torch before him, met by LOVELL]",1261,19053
645233,2805,"It's one o'clock, boy, is't not?",513,19054
645234,2806,It hath struck.,850,19054
645235,2807,"These should be hours for necessities,
Not for delights; times to repair our nature
With comforting repose, and not for us
To waste these times. Good hour of night, Sir Thomas!
Whither so late?",513,19054
645236,2812,"Came you from the king, my lord",706,19054
645237,2813,"I did, Sir Thomas: and left him at primero
With the Duke of Suffolk.",513,19054
645238,2815,"I must to him too,
Before he go to bed. I'll take my leave.",706,19054
645239,2817,"Not yet, Sir Thomas Lovell. What's the matter?
It seems you are in haste: an if there be
No great offence belongs to't, give your friend
Some touch of your late business: affairs, that walk,
As they say spirits do, at midnight, have
In them a wilder nature than the business
That seeks dispatch by day.",513,19054
645240,2824,"My lord, I love you;
And durst commend a secret to your ear
Much weightier than this work. The queen's in labour,
They say, in great extremity; and fear'd
She'll with the labour end.",706,19054
645241,2829,"The fruit she goes with
I pray for heartily, that it may find
Good time, and live: but for the stock, Sir Thomas,
I wish it grubb'd up now.",513,19054
645242,2833,"Methinks I could
Cry the amen; and yet my conscience says
She's a good creature, and, sweet lady, does
Deserve our better wishes.",706,19054
645243,2837,"But, sir, sir,
Hear me, Sir Thomas: you're a gentleman
Of mine own way; I know you wise, religious;
And, let me tell you, it will ne'er be well,
'Twill not, Sir Thomas Lovell, take't of me,
Till Cranmer, Cromwell, her two hands, and she,
Sleep in their graves.",513,19054
645244,2844,"Now, sir, you speak of two
The most remark'd i' the kingdom. As for Cromwell,
Beside that of the jewel house, is made master
O' the rolls, and the king's secretary; further, sir,
Stands in the gap and trade of moe preferments,
With which the time will load him. The archbishop
Is the king's hand and tongue; and who dare speak
One syllable against him?",706,19054
645245,2852,"Yes, yes, Sir Thomas,
There are that dare; and I myself have ventured
To speak my mind of him: and indeed this day,
Sir, I may tell it you, I think I have
Incensed the lords o' the council, that he is,
For so I know he is, they know he is,
A most arch heretic, a pestilence
That does infect the land: with which they moved
Have broken with the king; who hath so far
Given ear to our complaint, of his great grace
And princely care foreseeing those fell mischiefs
Our reasons laid before him, hath commanded
To-morrow morning to the council-board
He be convented. He's a rank weed, Sir Thomas,
And we must root him out. From your affairs
I hinder you too long: good night, Sir Thomas.",513,19054
645246,2868,"Many good nights, my lord: I rest your servant.",706,19054
645247,2869,[Exeunt GARDINER and Page],1261,19054
645248,2870,[Enter KING HENRY VIII and SUFFOLK],1261,19054
645249,2871,"Charles, I will play no more tonight;
My mind's not on't; you are too hard for me.",576,19054
645250,2873,"Sir, I did never win of you before.",351,19054
645251,2874,"But little, Charles;
Nor shall not, when my fancy's on my play.
Now, Lovell, from the queen what is the news?",576,19054
645252,2877,"I could not personally deliver to her
What you commanded me, but by her woman
I sent your message; who return'd her thanks
In the great'st humbleness, and desired your highness
Most heartily to pray for her.",706,19054
645253,2882,"What say'st thou, ha?
To pray for her? what, is she crying out?",576,19054
645254,2884,"So said her woman; and that her sufferance made
Almost each pang a death.",706,19054
645255,2886,"Alas, good lady!",576,19054
645256,2887,"God safely quit her of her burthen, and
With gentle travail, to the gladding of
Your highness with an heir!",351,19054
645257,2890,"'Tis midnight, Charles;
Prithee, to bed; and in thy prayers remember
The estate of my poor queen. Leave me alone;
For I must think of that which company
Would not be friendly to.",576,19054
645258,2895,"I wish your highness
A quiet night; and my good mistress will
Remember in my prayers.",351,19054
645259,2898,"Charles, good night.
[Exit SUFFOLK]
[Enter DENNY]
Well, sir, what follows?",576,19054
645260,2902,"Sir, I have brought my lord the archbishop,
As you commanded me.",309,19054
645261,2904,Ha! Canterbury?,576,19054
645262,2905,"Ay, my good lord.",309,19054
645263,2906,"'Tis true: where is he, Denny?",576,19054
645264,2907,He attends your highness' pleasure.,309,19054
645265,2908,[Exit DENNY],1261,19054
645266,2909,"[Aside] This is about that which the bishop spake:
I am happily come hither.",706,19054
645267,2911,"[Re-enter DENNY, with CRANMER]",1261,19054
645268,2912,"Avoid the gallery.
[LOVELL seems to stay]
Ha! I have said. Be gone. What!",576,19054
645269,2915,[Exeunt LOVELL and DENNY],1261,19054
645270,2916,"[Aside]
I am fearful: wherefore frowns he thus?
'Tis his aspect of terror. All's not well.",291,19054
645271,2919,"How now, my lord! you desire to know
Wherefore I sent for you.",576,19054
645272,2921,"[Kneeling] It is my duty
To attend your highness' pleasure.",291,19054
645273,2923,"Pray you, arise,
My good and gracious Lord of Canterbury.
Come, you and I must walk a turn together;
I have news to tell you: come, come, give me your hand.
Ah, my good lord, I grieve at what I speak,
And am right sorry to repeat what follows
I have, and most unwillingly, of late
Heard many grievous, I do say, my lord,
Grievous complaints of you; which, being consider'd,
Have moved us and our council, that you shall
This morning come before us; where, I know,
You cannot with such freedom purge yourself,
But that, till further trial in those charges
Which will require your answer, you must take
Your patience to you, and be well contented
To make your house our Tower: you a brother of us,
It fits we thus proceed, or else no witness
Would come against you.",576,19054
645274,2941,"[Kneeling]
I humbly thank your highness;
And am right glad to catch this good occasion
Most throughly to be winnow'd, where my chaff
And corn shall fly asunder: for, I know,
There's none stands under more calumnious tongues
Than I myself, poor man.",291,19054
645275,2948,"Stand up, good Canterbury:
Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted
In us, thy friend: give me thy hand, stand up:
Prithee, let's walk. Now, by my holidame.
What manner of man are you? My lord, I look'd
You would have given me your petition, that
I should have ta'en some pains to bring together
Yourself and your accusers; and to have heard you,
Without indurance, further.",576,19054
645276,2957,"Most dread liege,
The good I stand on is my truth and honesty:
If they shall fail, I, with mine enemies,
Will triumph o'er my person; which I weigh not,
Being of those virtues vacant. I fear nothing
What can be said against me.",291,19054
645277,2963,"Know you not
How your state stands i' the world, with the whole world?
Your enemies are many, and not small; their practises
Must bear the same proportion; and not ever
The justice and the truth o' the question carries
The due o' the verdict with it: at what ease
Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
To swear against you? such things have been done.
You are potently opposed; and with a malice
Of as great size. Ween you of better luck,
I mean, in perjured witness, than your master,
Whose minister you are, whiles here he lived
Upon this naughty earth? Go to, go to;
You take a precipice for no leap of danger,
And woo your own destruction.",576,19054
645278,2978,"God and your majesty
Protect mine innocence, or I fall into
The trap is laid for me!",291,19054
645279,2981,"Be of good cheer;
They shall no more prevail than we give way to.
Keep comfort to you; and this morning see
You do appear before them: if they shall chance,
In charging you with matters, to commit you,
The best persuasions to the contrary
Fail not to use, and with what vehemency
The occasion shall instruct you: if entreaties
Will render you no remedy, this ring
Deliver them, and your appeal to us
There make before them. Look, the good man weeps!
He's honest, on mine honour. God's blest mother!
I swear he is true--hearted; and a soul
None better in my kingdom. Get you gone,
And do as I have bid you.
[Exit CRANMER]
He has strangled
His language in his tears.",576,19054
645280,2999,"[Enter Old Lady, LOVELL following]",1261,19054
645281,3000,[Within] Come back: what mean you?,518,19054
645282,3001,"I'll not come back; the tidings that I bring
Will make my boldness manners. Now, good angels
Fly o'er thy royal head, and shade thy person
Under their blessed wings!",831,19054
645283,3005,"Now, by thy looks
I guess thy message. Is the queen deliver'd?
Say, ay; and of a boy.",576,19054
645284,3008,"Ay, ay, my liege;
And of a lovely boy: the God of heaven
Both now and ever bless her! 'tis a girl,
Promises boys hereafter. Sir, your queen
Desires your visitation, and to be
Acquainted with this stranger 'tis as like you
As cherry is to cherry.",831,19054
645285,3015,Lovell!,576,19054
645286,3016,Sir?,706,19054
645287,3017,Give her an hundred marks. I'll to the queen.,576,19054
645288,3018,[Exit],1261,19054
645289,3019,"An hundred marks! By this light, I'll ha' more.
An ordinary groom is for such payment.
I will have more, or scold it out of him.
Said I for this, the girl was like to him?
I will have more, or else unsay't; and now,
While it is hot, I'll put it to the issue.",831,19054
645290,3025,"[Exeunt]
attending.",1261,19054
645291,3029,[Enter CRANMER],1261,19055
645292,3030,"I hope I am not too late; and yet the gentleman,
That was sent to me from the council, pray'd me
To make great haste. All fast? what means this? Ho!
Who waits there? Sure, you know me?",291,19055
645293,3034,[Enter Keeper],1261,19055
645294,3035,"Yes, my lord;
But yet I cannot help you.",633,19055
645295,3037,Why?,291,19055
645296,3038,[Enter DOCTOR BUTTS],1261,19055
645297,3039,Your grace must wait till you be call'd for.,633,19055
645298,3040,So.,291,19055
645299,3041,"[Aside] This is a piece of malice. I am glad
I came this way so happily: the king
Shall understand it presently.",319,19055
645300,3044,[Exit],1261,19055
645301,3045,"[Aside]. 'Tis Butts,
The king's physician: as he pass'd along,
How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!
Pray heaven, he sound not my disgrace! For certain,
This is of purpose laid by some that hate me--
God turn their hearts! I never sought their malice--
To quench mine honour: they would shame to make me
Wait else at door, a fellow-counsellor,
'Mong boys, grooms, and lackeys. But their pleasures
Must be fulfill'd, and I attend with patience.",291,19055
645302,3055,[Enter the KING HENRY VIII and DOCTOR BUTTS at a window above],1261,19055
645303,3056,I'll show your grace the strangest sight--,319,19055
645304,3057,"What's that, Butts?",576,19055
645305,3058,I think your highness saw this many a day.,319,19055
645306,3059,"Body o' me, where is it?",576,19055
645307,3060,"There, my lord:
The high promotion of his grace of Canterbury;
Who holds his state at door, 'mongst pursuivants,
Pages, and footboys.",319,19055
645308,3064,"Ha! 'tis he, indeed:
Is this the honour they do one another?
'Tis well there's one above 'em yet. I had thought
They had parted so much honesty among 'em
At least, good manners, as not thus to suffer
A man of his place, and so near our favour,
To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures,
And at the door too, like a post with packets.
By holy Mary, Butts, there's knavery:
Let 'em alone, and draw the curtain close:
We shall hear more anon.",576,19055
645309,3075,"[Exeunt]
[Enter Chancellor; places himself at the upper end]
of the table on the left hand; a seat being left
void above him, as for CRANMER's seat. SUFFOLK,
NORFOLK, SURREY, Chamberlain, GARDINER, seat
themselves in order on each side. CROMWELL at
lower end, as secretary. Keeper at the door]",1261,19055
645310,3084,"Speak to the business, master-secretary:
Why are we met in council?",679,19056
645311,3086,"Please your honours,
The chief cause concerns his grace of Canterbury.",294,19056
645312,3088,Has he had knowledge of it?,513,19056
645313,3089,Yes.,294,19056
645314,3090,Who waits there?,349,19056
645315,3091,"Without, my noble lords?",633,19056
645316,3092,Yes.,513,19056
645317,3093,"My lord archbishop;
And has done half an hour, to know your pleasures.",633,19056
645318,3095,Let him come in.,679,19056
645319,3096,Your grace may enter now.,633,19056
645320,3097,[CRANMER enters and approaches the council-table],1261,19056
645321,3098,"My good lord archbishop, I'm very sorry
To sit here at this present, and behold
That chair stand empty: but we all are men,
In our own natures frail, and capable
Of our flesh; few are angels: out of which frailty
And want of wisdom, you, that best should teach us,
Have misdemean'd yourself, and not a little,
Toward the king first, then his laws, in filling
The whole realm, by your teaching and your chaplains,
For so we are inform'd, with new opinions,
Divers and dangerous; which are heresies,
And, not reform'd, may prove pernicious.",679,19056
645322,3110,"Which reformation must be sudden too,
My noble lords; for those that tame wild horses
Pace 'em not in their hands to make 'em gentle,
But stop their mouths with stubborn bits, and spur 'em,
Till they obey the manage. If we suffer,
Out of our easiness and childish pity
To one man's honour, this contagious sickness,
Farewell all physic: and what follows then?
Commotions, uproars, with a general taint
Of the whole state: as, of late days, our neighbours,
The upper Germany, can dearly witness,
Yet freshly pitied in our memories.",513,19056
645323,3122,"My good lords, hitherto, in all the progress
Both of my life and office, I have labour'd,
And with no little study, that my teaching
And the strong course of my authority
Might go one way, and safely; and the end
Was ever, to do well: nor is there living,
I speak it with a single heart, my lords,
A man that more detests, more stirs against,
Both in his private conscience and his place,
Defacers of a public peace, than I do.
Pray heaven, the king may never find a heart
With less allegiance in it! Men that make
Envy and crooked malice nourishment
Dare bite the best. I do beseech your lordships,
That, in this case of justice, my accusers,
Be what they will, may stand forth face to face,
And freely urge against me.",291,19056
645324,3139,"Nay, my lord,
That cannot be: you are a counsellor,
And, by that virtue, no man dare accuse you.",351,19056
645325,3142,"My lord, because we have business of more moment,
We will be short with you. 'Tis his highness' pleasure,
And our consent, for better trial of you,
From hence you be committed to the Tower;
Where, being but a private man again,
You shall know many dare accuse you boldly,
More than, I fear, you are provided for.",513,19056
645326,3149,"Ah, my good Lord of Winchester, I thank you;
You are always my good friend; if your will pass,
I shall both find your lordship judge and juror,
You are so merciful: I see your end;
'Tis my undoing: love and meekness, lord,
Become a churchman better than ambition:
Win straying souls with modesty again,
Cast none away. That I shall clear myself,
Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience,
I make as little doubt, as you do conscience
In doing daily wrongs. I could say more,
But reverence to your calling makes me modest.",291,19056
645327,3161,"My lord, my lord, you are a sectary,
That's the plain truth: your painted gloss discovers,
To men that understand you, words and weakness.",513,19056
645328,3164,"My Lord of Winchester, you are a little,
By your good favour, too sharp; men so noble,
However faulty, yet should find respect
For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty
To load a falling man.",294,19056
645329,3169,"Good master secretary,
I cry your honour mercy; you may, worst
Of all this table, say so.",513,19056
645330,3172,"Why, my lord?",294,19056
645331,3173,"Do not I know you for a favourer
Of this new sect? ye are not sound.",513,19056
645332,3175,Not sound?,294,19056
645333,3176,"Not sound, I say.",513,19056
645334,3177,"Would you were half so honest!
Men's prayers then would seek you, not their fears.",294,19056
645335,3179,I shall remember this bold language.,513,19056
645336,3180,"Do.
Remember your bold life too.",294,19056
645337,3182,"This is too much;
Forbear, for shame, my lords.",679,19056
645338,3184,I have done.,513,19056
645339,3185,And I.,294,19056
645340,3186,"Then thus for you, my lord: it stands agreed,
I take it, by all voices, that forthwith
You be convey'd to the Tower a prisoner;
There to remain till the king's further pleasure
Be known unto us: are you all agreed, lords?",679,19056
645341,3191,We are.,79,19056
645342,3192,"Is there no other way of mercy,
But I must needs to the Tower, my lords?",291,19056
645343,3194,"What other
Would you expect? you are strangely troublesome.
Let some o' the guard be ready there.",513,19056
645344,3197,[Enter Guard],1261,19056
645345,3198,"For me?
Must I go like a traitor thither?",291,19056
645346,3200,"Receive him,
And see him safe i' the Tower.",513,19056
645347,3202,"Stay, good my lords,
I have a little yet to say. Look there, my lords;
By virtue of that ring, I take my cause
Out of the gripes of cruel men, and give it
To a most noble judge, the king my master.",291,19056
645348,3207,This is the king's ring.,678,19056
645352,3215,"'Tis now too certain:
How much more is his life in value with him?
Would I were fairly out on't!",679,19056
645353,3218,"My mind gave me,
In seeking tales and informations
Against this man, whose honesty the devil
And his disciples only envy at,
Ye blew the fire that burns ye: now have at ye!",294,19056
645354,3223,"[Enter KING, frowning on them; takes his seat]",1261,19056
645355,3224,"Dread sovereign, how much are we bound to heaven
In daily thanks, that gave us such a prince;
Not only good and wise, but most religious:
One that, in all obedience, makes the church
The chief aim of his honour; and, to strengthen
That holy duty, out of dear respect,
His royal self in judgment comes to hear
The cause betwixt her and this great offender.",513,19056
645356,3232,"You were ever good at sudden commendations,
Bishop of Winchester. But know, I come not
To hear such flattery now, and in my presence;
They are too thin and bare to hide offences.
To me you cannot reach, you play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me;
But, whatsoe'er thou takest me for, I'm sure
Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody.
[To CRANMER]
Good man, sit down. Now let me see the proudest
He, that dares most, but wag his finger at thee:
By all that's holy, he had better starve
Than but once think this place becomes thee not.",576,19056
645357,3245,"May it please your grace,--",364,19056
645358,3246,"No, sir, it does not please me.
I had thought I had had men of some understanding
And wisdom of my council; but I find none.
Was it discretion, lords, to let this man,
This good man,--few of you deserve that title,--
This honest man, wait like a lousy footboy
At chamber--door? and one as great as you are?
Why, what a shame was this! Did my commission
Bid ye so far forget yourselves? I gave ye
Power as he was a counsellor to try him,
Not as a groom: there's some of ye, I see,
More out of malice than integrity,
Would try him to the utmost, had ye mean;
Which ye shall never have while I live.",576,19056
645359,3260,"Thus far,
My most dread sovereign, may it like your grace
To let my tongue excuse all. What was purposed
Concerning his imprisonment, was rather,
If there be faith in men, meant for his trial,
And fair purgation to the world, than malice,
I'm sure, in me.",679,19056
645360,3267,"Well, well, my lords, respect him;
Take him, and use him well, he's worthy of it.
I will say thus much for him, if a prince
May be beholding to a subject, I
Am, for his love and service, so to him.
Make me no more ado, but all embrace him:
Be friends, for shame, my lords! My Lord of
Canterbury,
I have a suit which you must not deny me;
That is, a fair young maid that yet wants baptism,
You must be godfather, and answer for her.",576,19056
645361,3278,"The greatest monarch now alive may glory
In such an honour: how may I deserve it
That am a poor and humble subject to you?",291,19056
645362,3281,"Come, come, my lord, you'ld spare your spoons: you
shall have two noble partners with you; the old
Duchess of Norfolk, and Lady Marquess Dorset: will
these please you?
Once more, my Lord of Winchester, I charge you,
Embrace and love this man.",576,19056
645363,3287,"With a true heart
And brother-love I do it.",513,19056
645364,3289,"And let heaven
Witness, how dear I hold this confirmation.",291,19056
645365,3291,"Good man, those joyful tears show thy true heart:
The common voice, I see, is verified
Of thee, which says thus, 'Do my Lord of Canterbury
A shrewd turn, and he is your friend for ever.'
Come, lords, we trifle time away; I long
To have this young one made a Christian.
As I have made ye one, lords, one remain;
So I grow stronger, you more honour gain.",576,19056
645366,3299,[Exeunt],1261,19056
645367,3302,[Noise and tumult within. Enter Porter and his Man],1261,19057
645368,3303,"You'll leave your noise anon, ye rascals: do you
take the court for Paris-garden? ye rude slaves,
leave your gaping.
[Within]
Good master porter, I belong to the larder.",905,19057
645369,3308,"Belong to the gallows, and be hanged, ye rogue! is
this a place to roar in? Fetch me a dozen crab-tree
staves, and strong ones: these are but switches to
'em. I'll scratch your heads: you must be seeing
christenings? do you look for ale and cakes here,
you rude rascals?",905,19057
645370,3314,"Pray, sir, be patient: 'tis as much impossible--
Unless we sweep 'em from the door with cannons--
To scatter 'em, as 'tis to make 'em sleep
On May-day morning; which will never be:
We may as well push against Powle's, as stir em.",730,19057
645371,3319,"How got they in, and be hang'd?",905,19057
645372,3320,"Alas, I know not; how gets the tide in?
As much as one sound cudgel of four foot--
You see the poor remainder--could distribute,
I made no spare, sir.",730,19057
645373,3324,"You did nothing, sir.",905,19057
645374,3325,"I am not Samson, nor Sir Guy, nor Colbrand,
To mow 'em down before me: but if I spared any
That had a head to hit, either young or old,
He or she, cuckold or cuckold-maker,
Let me ne'er hope to see a chine again
And that I would not for a cow, God save her!
[Within]
Do you hear, master porter?",730,19057
645375,3333,"I shall be with you presently, good master puppy.
Keep the door close, sirrah.",905,19057
645376,3335,What would you have me do?,730,19057
645377,3336,"What should you do, but knock 'em down by the
dozens? Is this Moorfields to muster in? or have
we some strange Indian with the great tool come to
court, the women so besiege us? Bless me, what a
fry of fornication is at door! On my Christian
conscience, this one christening will beget a
thousand; here will be father, godfather, and all together.",905,19057
645378,3343,"The spoons will be the bigger, sir. There is a
fellow somewhat near the door, he should be a
brazier by his face, for, o' my conscience, twenty
of the dog-days now reign in's nose; all that stand
about him are under the line, they need no other
penance: that fire-drake did I hit three times on
the head, and three times was his nose discharged
against me; he stands there, like a mortar-piece, to
blow us. There was a haberdasher's wife of small
wit near him, that railed upon me till her pinked
porringer fell off her head, for kindling such a
combustion in the state. I missed the meteor once,
and hit that woman; who cried out 'Clubs!' when I
might see from far some forty truncheoners draw to
her succor, which were the hope o' the Strand, where
she was quartered. They fell on; I made good my
place: at length they came to the broom-staff to
me; I defied 'em still: when suddenly a file of
boys behind 'em, loose shot, delivered such a shower
of pebbles, that I was fain to draw mine honour in,
and let 'em win the work: the devil was amongst
'em, I think, surely.",730,19057
645379,3365,"These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse,
and fight for bitten apples; that no audience, but
the tribulation of Tower-hill, or the limbs of
Limehouse, their dear brothers, are able to endure.
I have some of 'em in Limbo Patrum, and there they
are like to dance these three days; besides the
running banquet of two beadles that is to come.",905,19057
645380,3372,[Enter Chamberlain],1261,19057
645381,3373,"Mercy o' me, what a multitude are here!
They grow still too; from all parts they are coming,
As if we kept a fair here! Where are these porters,
These lazy knaves? Ye have made a fine hand, fellows:
There's a trim rabble let in: are all these
Your faithful friends o' the suburbs? We shall have
Great store of room, no doubt, left for the ladies,
When they pass back from the christening.",678,19057
645382,3381,"An't please
your honour,
We are but men; and what so many may do,
Not being torn a-pieces, we have done:
An army cannot rule 'em.",905,19057
645383,3386,"As I live,
If the king blame me for't, I'll lay ye all
By the heels, and suddenly; and on your heads
Clap round fines for neglect: ye are lazy knaves;
And here ye lie baiting of bombards, when
Ye should do service. Hark! the trumpets sound;
They're come already from the christening:
Go, break among the press, and find a way out
To let the troop pass fairly; or I'll find
A Marshalsea shall hold ye play these two months.",678,19057
645384,3396,Make way there for the princess.,905,19057
645385,3397,"You great fellow,
Stand close up, or I'll make your head ache.",730,19057
645386,3399,"You i' the camlet, get up o' the rail;
I'll peck you o'er the pales else.",905,19057
645387,3401,"[Exeunt]
[Enter trumpets, sounding; then two Aldermen, Lord]
Mayor, Garter, CRANMER, NORFOLK with his marshal's
staff, SUFFOLK, two Noblemen bearing great
standing-bowls for the christening-gifts; then
four Noblemen bearing a canopy, under which the
Duchess of Norfolk, godmother, bearing the child
richly habited in a mantle, &c., train borne by a
Lady; then follows the Marchioness Dorset, the
other godmother, and Ladies. The troop pass once
about the stage, and Garter speaks]",1261,19057
645388,3414,"Heaven, from thy endless goodness, send prosperous
life, long, and ever happy, to the high and mighty
princess of England, Elizabeth!",514,19058
645389,3417,[Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VIII and Guard],1261,19058
645390,3418,"[Kneeling] And to your royal grace, and the good queen,
My noble partners, and myself, thus pray:
All comfort, joy, in this most gracious lady,
Heaven ever laid up to make parents happy,
May hourly fall upon ye!",291,19058
645391,3423,"Thank you, good lord archbishop:
What is her name?",576,19058
645392,3425,Elizabeth.,291,19058
645393,3426,"Stand up, lord.
[KING HENRY VIII kisses the child]
With this kiss take my blessing: God protect thee!
Into whose hand I give thy life.",576,19058
645394,3430,Amen.,291,19058
645395,3431,"My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal:
I thank ye heartily; so shall this lady,
When she has so much English.",576,19058
645396,3434,"Let me speak, sir,
For heaven now bids me; and the words I utter
Let none think flattery, for they'll find 'em truth.
This royal infant--heaven still move about her!--
Though in her cradle, yet now promises
Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings,
Which time shall bring to ripeness: she shall be--
But few now living can behold that goodness--
A pattern to all princes living with her,
And all that shall succeed: Saba was never
More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue
Than this pure soul shall be: all princely graces,
That mould up such a mighty piece as this is,
With all the virtues that attend the good,
Shall still be doubled on her: truth shall nurse her,
Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her:
She shall be loved and fear'd: her own shall bless her;
Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,
And hang their heads with sorrow: good grows with her:
In her days every man shall eat in safety,
Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing
The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours:
God shall be truly known; and those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honour,
And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
Nor shall this peace sleep with her: but as when
The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,
Her ashes new create another heir,
As great in admiration as herself;
So shall she leave her blessedness to one,
When heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness,
Who from the sacred ashes of her honour
Shall star-like rise, as great in fame as she was,
And so stand fix'd: peace, plenty, love, truth, terror,
That were the servants to this chosen infant,
Shall then be his, and like a vine grow to him:
Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,
His honour and the greatness of his name
Shall be, and make new nations: he shall flourish,
And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches
To all the plains about him: our children's children
Shall see this, and bless heaven.",291,19058
645397,3476,Thou speakest wonders.,576,19058
645398,3477,"She shall be, to the happiness of England,
An aged princess; many days shall see her,
And yet no day without a deed to crown it.
Would I had known no more! but she must die,
She must, the saints must have her; yet a virgin,
A most unspotted lily shall she pass
To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her.",291,19058
645399,3484,"O lord archbishop,
Thou hast made me now a man! never, before
This happy child, did I get any thing:
This oracle of comfort has so pleased me,
That when I am in heaven I shall desire
To see what this child does, and praise my Maker.
I thank ye all. To you, my good lord mayor,
And your good brethren, I am much beholding;
I have received much honour by your presence,
And ye shall find me thankful. Lead the way, lords:
Ye must all see the queen, and she must thank ye,
She will be sick else. This day, no man think
Has business at his house; for all shall stay:
This little one shall make it holiday.
[Exeunt]
EPILOGUE",576,19058
645400,3500,"'Tis ten to one this play can never please
All that are here: some come to take their ease,
And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear,
We have frighted with our trumpets; so, 'tis clear,
They'll say 'tis naught: others, to hear the city
Abused extremely, and to cry 'That's witty!'
Which we have not done neither: that, I fear,
All the expected good we're like to hear
For this play at this time, is only in
The merciful construction of good women;
For such a one we show'd 'em: if they smile,
And say 'twill do, I know, within a while
All the best men are ours; for 'tis ill hap,
If they hold when their ladies bid 'em clap.",245,19058
645401,3,"Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commoners",1261,19059
645402,4,"Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:
Is this a holiday? what! know you not,
Being mechanical, you ought not walk
Upon a labouring day without the sign
Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?",477,19059
645403,9,"Why, sir, a carpenter.",414,19059
645404,10,"Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
What dost thou with thy best apparel on?
You, sir, what trade are you?",750,19059
645405,13,"Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but,
as you would say, a cobbler.",986,19059
645406,15,But what trade art thou? answer me directly.,750,19059
645407,16,"A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe
conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.",986,19059
645408,18,"What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?",750,19059
645409,19,"Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet,
if you be out, sir, I can mend you.",986,19059
645410,21,"What meanest thou by that? mend me, thou saucy fellow!",750,19059
645411,22,"Why, sir, cobble you.",986,19059
645412,23,"Thou art a cobbler, art thou?",477,19059
645413,24,"Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I
meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's
matters, but with awl. I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon
to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I
recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon
neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork.",986,19059
645414,30,"But wherefore art not in thy shop today?
Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?",477,19059
645415,32,"Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself
into more work. But, indeed, sir, we make holiday,
to see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph.",986,19059
645416,35,"Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
What tributaries follow him to Rome,
To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft
Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements,
To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,
Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The livelong day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:
And when you saw his chariot but appear,
Have you not made an universal shout,
That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,
To hear the replication of your sounds
Made in her concave shores?
And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull out a holiday?
And do you now strew flowers in his way
That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone!
Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,
Pray to the gods to intermit the plague
That needs must light on this ingratitude.",750,19059
645417,58,"Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,
Assemble all the poor men of your sort;
Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears
Into the channel, till the lowest stream
Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.
[Exeunt all the Commoners]
See whether their basest metal be not moved;
They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.
Go you down that way towards the Capitol;
This way will I disrobe the images,
If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies.",477,19059
645418,69,"May we do so?
You know it is the feast of Lupercal.",750,19059
645419,71,"It is no matter; let no images
Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about,
And drive away the vulgar from the streets:
So do you too, where you perceive them thick.
These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing
Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,
Who else would soar above the view of men
And keep us all in servile fearfulness.",477,19059
645420,79,"Exeunt
[Flourish. Enter CAESAR; ANTONY, for the course;]
CALPURNIA, PORTIA, DECIUS BRUTUS, CICERO, BRUTUS,
CASSIUS, and CASCA; a great crowd following, among
them a Soothsayer",1261,19059
645421,86,Calpurnia!,624,19060
645422,87,"Peace, ho! Caesar speaks.",228,19060
645423,88,Calpurnia!,624,19060
645424,89,"Here, my lord.",209,19060
645425,90,"Stand you directly in Antonius' way,
When he doth run his course. Antonius!",624,19060
645426,92,"Caesar, my lord?",120,19060
645427,93,"Forget not, in your speed, Antonius,
To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say,
The barren, touched in this holy chase,
Shake off their sterile curse.",624,19060
645428,97,"I shall remember:
When Caesar says 'do this,' it is perform'd.",120,19060
645429,99,Set on; and leave no ceremony out.,624,19060
645430,100,Flourish,1261,19060
645431,101,Caesar!,1141,19060
645432,102,Ha! who calls?,624,19060
645433,103,Bid every noise be still: peace yet again!,228,19060
645434,104,"Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Cry 'Caesar!' Speak; Caesar is turn'd to hear.",624,19060
645435,107,Beware the ides of March.,1141,19060
645436,108,What man is that?,624,19060
645437,109,A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.,201,19060
645438,110,Set him before me; let me see his face.,624,19060
645439,111,"Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.",231,19060
645440,112,What say'st thou to me now? speak once again.,624,19060
645441,113,Beware the ides of March.,1141,19060
645442,114,He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.,624,19060
645443,115,Sennet. Exeunt all except BRUTUS and CASSIUS,1261,19060
645444,116,Will you go see the order of the course?,231,19060
645445,117,Not I.,201,19060
645446,118,"I pray you, do.",231,19060
645447,119,"I am not gamesome: I do lack some part
Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.
Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;
I'll leave you.",201,19060
645448,123,"Brutus, I do observe you now of late:
I have not from your eyes that gentleness
And show of love as I was wont to have:
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.",231,19060
645449,128,"Cassius,
Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look,
I turn the trouble of my countenance
Merely upon myself. Vexed I am
Of late with passions of some difference,
Conceptions only proper to myself,
Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors;
But let not therefore my good friends be grieved--
Among which number, Cassius, be you one--
Nor construe any further my neglect,
Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,
Forgets the shows of love to other men.",201,19060
645450,140,"Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;
By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried
Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.
Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?",231,19060
645451,144,"No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things.",201,19060
645452,146,"'Tis just:
And it is very much lamented, Brutus,
That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye,
That you might see your shadow. I have heard,
Where many of the best respect in Rome,
Except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus
And groaning underneath this age's yoke,
Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes.",231,19060
645453,155,"Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me?",201,19060
645454,158,"Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear:
And since you know you cannot see yourself
So well as by reflection, I, your glass,
Will modestly discover to yourself
That of yourself which you yet know not of.
And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus:
Were I a common laugher, or did use
To stale with ordinary oaths my love
To every new protester; if you know
That I do fawn on men and hug them hard
And after scandal them, or if you know
That I profess myself in banqueting
To all the rout, then hold me dangerous.",231,19060
645455,171,"Flourish, and shout",1261,19060
645456,172,"What means this shouting? I do fear, the people
Choose Caesar for their king.",201,19060
645457,174,"Ay, do you fear it?
Then must I think you would not have it so.",231,19060
645458,176,"I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well.
But wherefore do you hold me here so long?
What is it that you would impart to me?
If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honour in one eye and death i' the other,
And I will look on both indifferently,
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honour more than I fear death.",201,19060
645459,184,"I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,
As well as I do know your outward favour.
Well, honour is the subject of my story.
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
I was born free as Caesar; so were you:
We both have fed as well, and we can both
Endure the winter's cold as well as he:
For once, upon a raw and gusty day,
The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,
Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now
Leap in with me into this angry flood,
And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word,
Accoutred as I was, I plunged in
And bade him follow; so indeed he did.
The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it
With lusty sinews, throwing it aside
And stemming it with hearts of controversy;
But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'
I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,
Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder
The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber
Did I the tired Caesar. And this man
Is now become a god, and Cassius is
A wretched creature and must bend his body,
If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.
He had a fever when he was in Spain,
And when the fit was on him, I did mark
How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake;
His coward lips did from their colour fly,
And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world
Did lose his lustre: I did hear him groan:
Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans
Mark him and write his speeches in their books,
Alas, it cried 'Give me some drink, Tintinius,'
As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.",231,19060
645460,226,Shout. Flourish,1261,19060
645461,227,"Another general shout!
I do believe that these applauses are
For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar.",201,19060
645462,230,"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
When went there by an age, since the great flood,
But it was famed with more than with one man?
When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,
That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?
Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,
When there is in it but one only man.
O, you and I have heard our fathers say,
There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king.",231,19060
645463,257,"That you do love me, I am nothing jealous;
What you would work me to, I have some aim:
How I have thought of this and of these times,
I shall recount hereafter; for this present,
I would not, so with love I might entreat you,
Be any further moved. What you have said
I will consider; what you have to say
I will with patience hear, and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this:
Brutus had rather be a villager
Than to repute himself a son of Rome
Under these hard conditions as this time
Is like to lay upon us.",201,19060
645464,271,"I am glad that my weak words
Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus.",231,19060
645465,273,The games are done and Caesar is returning.,201,19060
645466,274,"As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve;
And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you
What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.",231,19060
645467,277,Re-enter CAESAR and his Train,1261,19060
645468,278,"I will do so. But, look you, Cassius,
The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow,
And all the rest look like a chidden train:
Calpurnia's cheek is pale; and Cicero
Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes
As we have seen him in the Capitol,
Being cross'd in conference by some senators.",201,19060
645469,285,Casca will tell us what the matter is.,231,19060
645470,286,Antonius!,624,19060
645471,287,Caesar?,120,19060
645472,288,"Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.",624,19060
645473,292,"Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous;
He is a noble Roman and well given.",120,19060
645474,294,"Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:
Yet if my name were liable to fear,
I do not know the man I should avoid
So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much;
He is a great observer and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,
As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;
Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit
That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Such men as he be never at heart's ease
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,
And therefore are they very dangerous.
I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd
Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar.
Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,
And tell me truly what thou think'st of him.",624,19060
645475,311,"Sennet. Exeunt CAESAR and all his Train, but CASCA",1261,19060
645476,312,You pull'd me by the cloak; would you speak with me?,228,19060
645477,313,"Ay, Casca; tell us what hath chanced to-day,
That Caesar looks so sad.",201,19060
645478,315,"Why, you were with him, were you not?",228,19060
645479,316,I should not then ask Casca what had chanced.,201,19060
645480,317,"Why, there was a crown offered him: and being
offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand,
thus; and then the people fell a-shouting.",228,19060
645481,320,What was the second noise for?,201,19060
645482,321,"Why, for that too.",228,19060
645483,322,They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for?,231,19060
645484,323,"Why, for that too.",228,19060
645485,324,Was the crown offered him thrice?,201,19060
645486,325,"Ay, marry, was't, and he put it by thrice, every
time gentler than other, and at every putting-by
mine honest neighbours shouted.",228,19060
645487,328,Who offered him the crown?,231,19060
645488,329,"Why, Antony.",228,19060
645489,330,"Tell us the manner of it, gentle Casca.",201,19060
645490,331,"I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it:
it was mere foolery; I did not mark it. I saw Mark
Antony offer him a crown;--yet 'twas not a crown
neither, 'twas one of these coronets;--and, as I told
you, he put it by once: but, for all that, to my
thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he
offered it to him again; then he put it by again:
but, to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his
fingers off it. And then he offered it the third
time; he put it the third time by: and still as he
refused it, the rabblement hooted and clapped their
chapped hands and threw up their sweaty night-caps
and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because
Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked
Caesar; for he swounded and fell down at it: and
for mine own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of
opening my lips and receiving the bad air.",228,19060
645491,348,"But, soft, I pray you: what, did Caesar swound?",231,19060
645492,349,"He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at
mouth, and was speechless.",228,19060
645498,373,"And after that, he came, thus sad, away?",201,19060
645499,374,Ay.,228,19060
645500,375,Did Cicero say any thing?,231,19060
645501,376,"Ay, he spoke Greek.",228,19060
645502,377,To what effect?,231,19060
645503,378,"Nay, an I tell you that, Ill ne'er look you i' the
face again: but those that understood him smiled at
one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own
part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more
news too: Marullus and Flavius, for pulling scarfs
off Caesar's images, are put to silence. Fare you
well. There was more foolery yet, if I could
remember it.",228,19060
645504,386,"Will you sup with me to-night, Casca?",231,19060
645505,387,"No, I am promised forth.",228,19060
645506,388,Will you dine with me to-morrow?,231,19060
645507,389,"Ay, if I be alive and your mind hold and your dinner
worth the eating.",228,19060
645508,391,Good: I will expect you.,231,19060
645509,392,"Do so. Farewell, both.",228,19060
645510,393,Exit,1261,19060
645511,394,"What a blunt fellow is this grown to be!
He was quick mettle when he went to school.",201,19060
645512,396,"So is he now in execution
Of any bold or noble enterprise,
However he puts on this tardy form.
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words
With better appetite.",231,19060
645513,402,"And so it is. For this time I will leave you:
To-morrow, if you please to speak with me,
I will come home to you; or, if you will,
Come home to me, and I will wait for you.",201,19060
645514,406,"I will do so: till then, think of the world.
[Exit BRUTUS]
Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet, I see,
Thy honourable metal may be wrought
From that it is disposed: therefore it is meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes;
For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
Caesar doth bear me hard; but he loves Brutus:
If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius,
He should not humour me. I will this night,
In several hands, in at his windows throw,
As if they came from several citizens,
Writings all tending to the great opinion
That Rome holds of his name; wherein obscurely
Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at:
And after this let Caesar seat him sure;
For we will shake him, or worse days endure.",231,19060
645515,423,"Exit
[Thunder and lightning. Enter from opposite sides,]
CASCA, with his sword drawn, and CICERO",1261,19060
645516,428,"Good even, Casca: brought you Caesar home?
Why are you breathless? and why stare you so?",249,19061
645517,430,"Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth
Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,
I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds
Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen
The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,
To be exalted with the threatening clouds:
But never till to-night, never till now,
Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.
Either there is a civil strife in heaven,
Or else the world, too saucy with the gods,
Incenses them to send destruction.",228,19061
645518,441,"Why, saw you any thing more wonderful?",249,19061
645519,442,"A common slave--you know him well by sight--
Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn
Like twenty torches join'd, and yet his hand,
Not sensible of fire, remain'd unscorch'd.
Besides--I ha' not since put up my sword--
Against the Capitol I met a lion,
Who glared upon me, and went surly by,
Without annoying me: and there were drawn
Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women,
Transformed with their fear; who swore they saw
Men all in fire walk up and down the streets.
And yesterday the bird of night did sit
Even at noon-day upon the market-place,
Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies
Do so conjointly meet, let not men say
'These are their reasons; they are natural;'
For, I believe, they are portentous things
Unto the climate that they point upon.",228,19061
645520,460,"Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time:
But men may construe things after their fashion,
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
Come Caesar to the Capitol to-morrow?",249,19061
645521,464,"He doth; for he did bid Antonius
Send word to you he would be there to-morrow.",228,19061
645522,466,"Good night then, Casca: this disturbed sky
Is not to walk in.",249,19061
645523,468,"Farewell, Cicero.",228,19061
645524,469,Exit CICERO,1261,19061
645525,470,Enter CASSIUS,1261,19061
645526,471,Who's there?,231,19061
645527,472,A Roman.,228,19061
645528,473,"Casca, by your voice.",231,19061
645529,474,"Your ear is good. Cassius, what night is this!",228,19061
645530,475,A very pleasing night to honest men.,231,19061
645531,476,Who ever knew the heavens menace so?,228,19061
645532,477,"Those that have known the earth so full of faults.
For my part, I have walk'd about the streets,
Submitting me unto the perilous night,
And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see,
Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone;
And when the cross blue lightning seem'd to open
The breast of heaven, I did present myself
Even in the aim and very flash of it.",231,19061
645533,485,"But wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens?
It is the part of men to fear and tremble,
When the most mighty gods by tokens send
Such dreadful heralds to astonish us.",228,19061
645534,489,"You are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life
That should be in a Roman you do want,
Or else you use not. You look pale and gaze
And put on fear and cast yourself in wonder,
To see the strange impatience of the heavens:
But if you would consider the true cause
Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts,
Why birds and beasts from quality and kind,
Why old men fool and children calculate,
Why all these things change from their ordinance
Their natures and preformed faculties
To monstrous quality,--why, you shall find
That heaven hath infused them with these spirits,
To make them instruments of fear and warning
Unto some monstrous state.
Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man
Most like this dreadful night,
That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars
As doth the lion in the Capitol,
A man no mightier than thyself or me
In personal action, yet prodigious grown
And fearful, as these strange eruptions are.",231,19061
645535,511,"'Tis Caesar that you mean; is it not, Cassius?",228,19061
645536,512,"Let it be who it is: for Romans now
Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors;
But, woe the while! our fathers' minds are dead,
And we are govern'd with our mothers' spirits;
Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.",231,19061
645537,517,"Indeed, they say the senators tomorrow
Mean to establish Caesar as a king;
And he shall wear his crown by sea and land,
In every place, save here in Italy.",228,19061
645538,521,"I know where I will wear this dagger then;
Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius:
Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong;
Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat:
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
If I know this, know all the world besides,
That part of tyranny that I do bear
I can shake off at pleasure.",231,19061
645539,533,Thunder still,1261,19061
645540,534,"So can I:
So every bondman in his own hand bears
The power to cancel his captivity.",228,19061
645541,537,"And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?
Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,
But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:
He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.
Those that with haste will make a mighty fire
Begin it with weak straws: what trash is Rome,
What rubbish and what offal, when it serves
For the base matter to illuminate
So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief,
Where hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this
Before a willing bondman; then I know
My answer must be made. But I am arm'd,
And dangers are to me indifferent.",231,19061
645542,550,"You speak to Casca, and to such a man
That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold, my hand:
Be factious for redress of all these griefs,
And I will set this foot of mine as far
As who goes farthest.",228,19061
645543,555,"There's a bargain made.
Now know you, Casca, I have moved already
Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans
To undergo with me an enterprise
Of honourable-dangerous consequence;
And I do know, by this, they stay for me
In Pompey's porch: for now, this fearful night,
There is no stir or walking in the streets;
And the complexion of the element
In favour's like the work we have in hand,
Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible.",231,19061
645544,566,"Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste.",228,19061
645545,567,"'Tis Cinna; I do know him by his gait;
He is a friend.
[Enter CINNA]
Cinna, where haste you so?",231,19061
645546,571,To find out you. Who's that? Metellus Cimber?,250,19061
645547,572,"No, it is Casca; one incorporate
To our attempts. Am I not stay'd for, Cinna?",231,19061
645548,574,"I am glad on 't. What a fearful night is this!
There's two or three of us have seen strange sights.",250,19061
645549,576,Am I not stay'd for? tell me.,231,19061
645550,577,"Yes, you are.
O Cassius, if you could
But win the noble Brutus to our party--",250,19061
645551,580,"Be you content: good Cinna, take this paper,
And look you lay it in the praetor's chair,
Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this
In at his window; set this up with wax
Upon old Brutus' statue: all this done,
Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find us.
Is Decius Brutus and Trebonius there?",231,19061
645552,587,"All but Metellus Cimber; and he's gone
To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie,
And so bestow these papers as you bade me.",250,19061
645553,590,"That done, repair to Pompey's theatre.
[Exit CINNA]
Come, Casca, you and I will yet ere day
See Brutus at his house: three parts of him
Is ours already, and the man entire
Upon the next encounter yields him ours.",231,19061
645554,596,"O, he sits high in all the people's hearts:
And that which would appear offence in us,
His countenance, like richest alchemy,
Will change to virtue and to worthiness.",228,19061
645555,600,"Him and his worth and our great need of him
You have right well conceited. Let us go,
For it is after midnight; and ere day
We will awake him and be sure of him.",231,19061
645556,604,Exeunt,1261,19061
645557,607,Enter BRUTUS,1261,19062
645558,608,"What, Lucius, ho!
I cannot, by the progress of the stars,
Give guess how near to day. Lucius, I say!
I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly.
When, Lucius, when? awake, I say! what, Lucius!",201,19062
645559,613,Enter LUCIUS,1261,19062
645560,614,"Call'd you, my lord?",717,19062
645561,615,"Get me a taper in my study, Lucius:
When it is lighted, come and call me here.",201,19062
645562,617,"I will, my lord.",717,19062
645563,618,Exit,1261,19062
645564,619,"It must be by his death: and for my part,
I know no personal cause to spurn at him,
But for the general. He would be crown'd:
How that might change his nature, there's the question.
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;
And that craves wary walking. Crown him?--that;--
And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,
That at his will he may do danger with.
The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins
Remorse from power: and, to speak truth of Caesar,
I have not known when his affections sway'd
More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof,
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round.
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.
Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel
Will bear no colour for the thing he is,
Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented,
Would run to these and these extremities:
And therefore think him as a serpent's egg
Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,
And kill him in the shell.",201,19062
645565,644,Re-enter LUCIUS,1261,19062
645566,645,"The taper burneth in your closet, sir.
Searching the window for a flint, I found
This paper, thus seal'd up; and, I am sure,
It did not lie there when I went to bed.",717,19062
645567,649,Gives him the letter,1261,19062
645568,650,"Get you to bed again; it is not day.
Is not to-morrow, boy, the ides of March?",201,19062
645569,652,"I know not, sir.",717,19062
645570,653,"Look in the calendar, and bring me word.",201,19062
645571,654,"I will, sir.",717,19062
645572,655,Exit,1261,19062
645573,656,"The exhalations whizzing in the air
Give so much light that I may read by them.
[Opens the letter and reads]
'Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake, and see thyself.
Shall Rome, &c. Speak, strike, redress!
Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake!'
Such instigations have been often dropp'd
Where I have took them up.
'Shall Rome, &c.' Thus must I piece it out:
Shall Rome stand under one man's awe? What, Rome?
My ancestors did from the streets of Rome
The Tarquin drive, when he was call'd a king.
'Speak, strike, redress!' Am I entreated
To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise:
If the redress will follow, thou receivest
Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!",201,19062
645574,672,Re-enter LUCIUS,1261,19062
645575,673,"Sir, March is wasted fourteen days.",717,19062
645576,674,Knocking within,1261,19062
645577,675,"'Tis good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks.
[Exit LUCIUS]
Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar,
I have not slept.
Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:
The Genius and the mortal instruments
Are then in council; and the state of man,
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
The nature of an insurrection.",201,19062
645578,686,Re-enter LUCIUS,1261,19062
645579,687,"Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door,
Who doth desire to see you.",717,19062
645580,689,Is he alone?,201,19062
645581,690,"No, sir, there are moe with him.",717,19062
645582,691,Do you know them?,201,19062
645583,692,"No, sir; their hats are pluck'd about their ears,
And half their faces buried in their cloaks,
That by no means I may discover them
By any mark of favour.",717,19062
645584,696,"Let 'em enter.
[Exit LUCIUS]
They are the faction. O conspiracy,
Shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,
When evils are most free? O, then by day
Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough
To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy;
Hide it in smiles and affability:
For if thou path, thy native semblance on,
Not Erebus itself were dim enough
To hide thee from prevention.
[Enter the conspirators, CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS]
BRUTUS, CINNA, METELLUS CIMBER, and TREBONIUS",201,19062
645585,709,"I think we are too bold upon your rest:
Good morrow, Brutus; do we trouble you?",231,19062
645586,711,"I have been up this hour, awake all night.
Know I these men that come along with you?",201,19062
645587,713,"Yes, every man of them, and no man here
But honours you; and every one doth wish
You had but that opinion of yourself
Which every noble Roman bears of you.
This is Trebonius.",231,19062
645588,718,He is welcome hither.,201,19062
645589,719,"This, Decius Brutus.",231,19062
645590,720,He is welcome too.,201,19062
645591,721,"This, Casca; this, Cinna; and this, Metellus Cimber.",231,19062
645592,722,"They are all welcome.
What watchful cares do interpose themselves
Betwixt your eyes and night?",201,19062
645593,725,Shall I entreat a word?,231,19062
645594,726,BRUTUS and CASSIUS whisper,1261,19062
645595,727,Here lies the east: doth not the day break here?,303,19062
645596,728,No.,228,19062
645597,729,"O, pardon, sir, it doth; and yon gray lines
That fret the clouds are messengers of day.",250,19062
645598,731,"You shall confess that you are both deceived.
Here, as I point my sword, the sun arises,
Which is a great way growing on the south,
Weighing the youthful season of the year.
Some two months hence up higher toward the north
He first presents his fire; and the high east
Stands, as the Capitol, directly here.",228,19062
645599,738,"Give me your hands all over, one by one.",201,19062
645600,739,And let us swear our resolution.,231,19062
645601,740,"No, not an oath: if not the face of men,
The sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse,--
If these be motives weak, break off betimes,
And every man hence to his idle bed;
So let high-sighted tyranny range on,
Till each man drop by lottery. But if these,
As I am sure they do, bear fire enough
To kindle cowards and to steel with valour
The melting spirits of women, then, countrymen,
What need we any spur but our own cause,
To prick us to redress? what other bond
Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word,
And will not palter? and what other oath
Than honesty to honesty engaged,
That this shall be, or we will fall for it?
Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous,
Old feeble carrions and such suffering souls
That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear
Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain
The even virtue of our enterprise,
Nor the insuppressive mettle of our spirits,
To think that or our cause or our performance
Did need an oath; when every drop of blood
That every Roman bears, and nobly bears,
Is guilty of a several bastardy,
If he do break the smallest particle
Of any promise that hath pass'd from him.",201,19062
645602,767,"But what of Cicero? shall we sound him?
I think he will stand very strong with us.",231,19062
645603,769,Let us not leave him out.,228,19062
645604,770,"No, by no means.",250,19062
645605,771,"O, let us have him, for his silver hairs
Will purchase us a good opinion
And buy men's voices to commend our deeds:
It shall be said, his judgment ruled our hands;
Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear,
But all be buried in his gravity.",792,19062
645606,777,"O, name him not: let us not break with him;
For he will never follow any thing
That other men begin.",201,19062
645607,780,Then leave him out.,231,19062
645608,781,Indeed he is not fit.,228,19062
645609,782,Shall no man else be touch'd but only Caesar?,303,19062
645610,783,"Decius, well urged: I think it is not meet,
Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar,
Should outlive Caesar: we shall find of him
A shrewd contriver; and, you know, his means,
If he improve them, may well stretch so far
As to annoy us all: which to prevent,
Let Antony and Caesar fall together.",231,19062
645611,790,"Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,
To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,
Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;
For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:
Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar;
And in the spirit of men there is no blood:
O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit,
And not dismember Caesar! But, alas,
Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends,
Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;
Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds:
And let our hearts, as subtle masters do,
Stir up their servants to an act of rage,
And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make
Our purpose necessary and not envious:
Which so appearing to the common eyes,
We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers.
And for Mark Antony, think not of him;
For he can do no more than Caesar's arm
When Caesar's head is off.",201,19062
645612,812,"Yet I fear him;
For in the ingrafted love he bears to Caesar--",231,19062
645613,814,"Alas, good Cassius, do not think of him:
If he love Caesar, all that he can do
Is to himself, take thought and die for Caesar:
And that were much he should; for he is given
To sports, to wildness and much company.",201,19062
645614,819,"There is no fear in him; let him not die;
For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter.",1208,19062
645615,821,Clock strikes,1261,19062
645616,822,Peace! count the clock.,201,19062
645617,823,The clock hath stricken three.,231,19062
645620,834,"Never fear that: if he be so resolved,
I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear
That unicorns may be betray'd with trees,
And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,
Lions with toils and men with flatterers;
But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
Let me work;
For I can give his humour the true bent,
And I will bring him to the Capitol.",303,19062
645621,844,"Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him.",231,19062
645622,845,By the eighth hour: is that the uttermost?,201,19062
645623,846,"Be that the uttermost, and fail not then.",250,19062
645624,847,"Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard,
Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey:
I wonder none of you have thought of him.",792,19062
645625,850,"Now, good Metellus, go along by him:
He loves me well, and I have given him reasons;
Send him but hither, and I'll fashion him.",201,19062
645626,853,"The morning comes upon 's: we'll leave you, Brutus.
And, friends, disperse yourselves; but all remember
What you have said, and show yourselves true Romans.",231,19062
645627,856,"Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily;
Let not our looks put on our purposes,
But bear it as our Roman actors do,
With untired spirits and formal constancy:
And so good morrow to you every one.
[Exeunt all but BRUTUS]
Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter;
Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber:
Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,
Which busy care draws in the brains of men;
Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.",201,19062
645628,867,Enter PORTIA,1261,19062
645629,868,"Brutus, my lord!",907,19062
645630,869,"Portia, what mean you? wherefore rise you now?
It is not for your health thus to commit
Your weak condition to the raw cold morning.",201,19062
645631,872,"Nor for yours neither. You've ungently, Brutus,
Stole from my bed: and yesternight, at supper,
You suddenly arose, and walk'd about,
Musing and sighing, with your arms across,
And when I ask'd you what the matter was,
You stared upon me with ungentle looks;
I urged you further; then you scratch'd your head,
And too impatiently stamp'd with your foot;
Yet I insisted, yet you answer'd not,
But, with an angry wafture of your hand,
Gave sign for me to leave you: so I did;
Fearing to strengthen that impatience
Which seem'd too much enkindled, and withal
Hoping it was but an effect of humour,
Which sometime hath his hour with every man.
It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep,
And could it work so much upon your shape
As it hath much prevail'd on your condition,
I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my lord,
Make me acquainted with your cause of grief.",907,19062
645632,892,"I am not well in health, and that is all.",201,19062
645633,893,"Brutus is wise, and, were he not in health,
He would embrace the means to come by it.",907,19062
645634,895,"Why, so I do. Good Portia, go to bed.",201,19062
645635,896,"Is Brutus sick? and is it physical
To walk unbraced and suck up the humours
Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick,
And will he steal out of his wholesome bed,
To dare the vile contagion of the night
And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
To add unto his sickness? No, my Brutus;
You have some sick offence within your mind,
Which, by the right and virtue of my place,
I ought to know of: and, upon my knees,
I charm you, by my once-commended beauty,
By all your vows of love and that great vow
Which did incorporate and make us one,
That you unfold to me, yourself, your half,
Why you are heavy, and what men to-night
Have had to resort to you: for here have been
Some six or seven, who did hide their faces
Even from darkness.",907,19062
645636,914,"Kneel not, gentle Portia.",201,19062
645637,915,"I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus.
Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,
Is it excepted I should know no secrets
That appertain to you? Am I yourself
But, as it were, in sort or limitation,
To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,
And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs
Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,
Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.",907,19062
645638,924,"You are my true and honourable wife,
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart",201,19062
645639,927,"If this were true, then should I know this secret.
I grant I am a woman; but withal
A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife:
I grant I am a woman; but withal
A woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter.
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so father'd and so husbanded?
Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em:
I have made strong proof of my constancy,
Giving myself a voluntary wound
Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience.
And not my husband's secrets?",907,19062
645640,939,"O ye gods,
Render me worthy of this noble wife!
[Knocking within]
Hark, hark! one knocks: Portia, go in awhile;
And by and by thy bosom shall partake
The secrets of my heart.
All my engagements I will construe to thee,
All the charactery of my sad brows:
Leave me with haste.
[Exit PORTIA]
Lucius, who's that knocks?",201,19062
645641,950,Re-enter LUCIUS with LIGARIUS,1261,19062
645642,951,He is a sick man that would speak with you.,717,19062
645643,952,"Caius Ligarius, that Metellus spake of.
Boy, stand aside. Caius Ligarius! how?",201,19062
645644,954,Vouchsafe good morrow from a feeble tongue.,673,19062
645645,955,"O, what a time have you chose out, brave Caius,
To wear a kerchief! Would you were not sick!",201,19062
645646,957,"I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand
Any exploit worthy the name of honour.",673,19062
645647,959,"Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius,
Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.",201,19062
645648,961,"By all the gods that Romans bow before,
I here discard my sickness! Soul of Rome!
Brave son, derived from honourable loins!
Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up
My mortified spirit. Now bid me run,
And I will strive with things impossible;
Yea, get the better of them. What's to do?",673,19062
645649,968,A piece of work that will make sick men whole.,201,19062
645650,969,But are not some whole that we must make sick?,673,19062
645651,970,"That must we also. What it is, my Caius,
I shall unfold to thee, as we are going
To whom it must be done.",201,19062
645652,973,"Set on your foot,
And with a heart new-fired I follow you,
To do I know not what: but it sufficeth
That Brutus leads me on.",673,19062
645653,977,"Follow me, then.",201,19062
645654,978,"Exeunt
[Thunder and lightning. Enter CAESAR, in his]
night-gown",1261,19062
645655,983,"Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night:
Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out,
'Help, ho! they murder Caesar!' Who's within?",624,19063
645656,986,Enter a Servant,1261,19063
645657,987,My lord?,1065,19063
645658,988,"Go bid the priests do present sacrifice
And bring me their opinions of success.",624,19063
645659,990,"I will, my lord.",1065,19063
645660,991,Exit,1261,19063
645661,992,Enter CALPURNIA,1261,19063
645662,993,"What mean you, Caesar? think you to walk forth?
You shall not stir out of your house to-day.",209,19063
645663,995,"Caesar shall forth: the things that threaten'd me
Ne'er look'd but on my back; when they shall see
The face of Caesar, they are vanished.",624,19063
645664,998,"Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,
Yet now they fright me. There is one within,
Besides the things that we have heard and seen,
Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.
A lioness hath whelped in the streets;
And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead;
Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,
In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,
Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol;
The noise of battle hurtled in the air,
Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,
And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
O Caesar! these things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them.",209,19063
645665,1012,"What can be avoided
Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions
Are to the world in general as to Caesar.",624,19063
645666,1016,"When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.",209,19063
645667,1018,"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
[Re-enter Servant]
What say the augurers?",624,19063
645668,1026,"They would not have you to stir forth to-day.
Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,
They could not find a heart within the beast.",1065,19063
645669,1029,"The gods do this in shame of cowardice:
Caesar should be a beast without a heart,
If he should stay at home to-day for fear.
No, Caesar shall not: danger knows full well
That Caesar is more dangerous than he:
We are two lions litter'd in one day,
And I the elder and more terrible:
And Caesar shall go forth.",624,19063
645670,1037,"Alas, my lord,
Your wisdom is consumed in confidence.
Do not go forth to-day: call it my fear
That keeps you in the house, and not your own.
We'll send Mark Antony to the senate-house:
And he shall say you are not well to-day:
Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this.",209,19063
645671,1044,"Mark Antony shall say I am not well,
And, for thy humour, I will stay at home.
[Enter DECIUS BRUTUS]
Here's Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so.",624,19063
645672,1048,"Caesar, all hail! good morrow, worthy Caesar:
I come to fetch you to the senate-house.",303,19063
645673,1050,"And you are come in very happy time,
To bear my greeting to the senators
And tell them that I will not come to-day:
Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser:
I will not come to-day: tell them so, Decius.",624,19063
645674,1055,Say he is sick.,209,19063
645675,1056,"Shall Caesar send a lie?
Have I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far,
To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth?
Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come.",624,19063
645676,1060,"Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,
Lest I be laugh'd at when I tell them so.",303,19063
645677,1062,"The cause is in my will: I will not come;
That is enough to satisfy the senate.
But for your private satisfaction,
Because I love you, I will let you know:
Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home:
She dreamt to-night she saw my statua,
Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,
Did run pure blood: and many lusty Romans
Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it:
And these does she apply for warnings, and portents,
And evils imminent; and on her knee
Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day.",624,19063
645678,1074,"This dream is all amiss interpreted;
It was a vision fair and fortunate:
Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,
In which so many smiling Romans bathed,
Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck
Reviving blood, and that great men shall press
For tinctures, stains, relics and cognizance.
This by Calpurnia's dream is signified.",303,19063
645679,1082,And this way have you well expounded it.,624,19063
645680,1083,"I have, when you have heard what I can say:
And know it now: the senate have concluded
To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar.
If you shall send them word you will not come,
Their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock
Apt to be render'd, for some one to say
'Break up the senate till another time,
When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams.'
If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper
'Lo, Caesar is afraid'?
Pardon me, Caesar; for my dear dear love
To our proceeding bids me tell you this;
And reason to my love is liable.",303,19063
645681,1096,"How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia!
I am ashamed I did yield to them.
Give me my robe, for I will go.
[Enter PUBLIUS, BRUTUS, LIGARIUS, METELLUS, CASCA,]
TREBONIUS, and CINNA
And look where Publius is come to fetch me.",624,19063
645682,1102,"Good morrow, Caesar.",928,19063
645683,1103,"Welcome, Publius.
What, Brutus, are you stirr'd so early too?
Good morrow, Casca. Caius Ligarius,
Caesar was ne'er so much your enemy
As that same ague which hath made you lean.
What is 't o'clock?",624,19063
645684,1109,"Caesar, 'tis strucken eight.",201,19063
645685,1110,"I thank you for your pains and courtesy.
[Enter ANTONY]
See! Antony, that revels long o' nights,
Is notwithstanding up. Good morrow, Antony.",624,19063
645686,1114,So to most noble Caesar.,120,19063
645687,1115,"Bid them prepare within:
I am to blame to be thus waited for.
Now, Cinna: now, Metellus: what, Trebonius!
I have an hour's talk in store for you;
Remember that you call on me to-day:
Be near me, that I may remember you.",624,19063
645688,1121,"Caesar, I will:
[Aside]
and so near will I be,
That your best friends shall wish I had been further.",1208,19063
645689,1125,"Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;
And we, like friends, will straightway go together.",624,19063
645690,1127,"[Aside That every like is not the same, O Caesar,
The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon!",201,19063
645691,1129,Exeunt,1261,19063
645692,1132,"Enter ARTEMIDORUS, reading a paper",1261,19064
645693,1133,"'Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius;
come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna, trust not
Trebonius: mark well Metellus Cimber: Decius Brutus
loves thee not: thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius.
There is but one mind in all these men, and it is
bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal,
look about you: security gives way to conspiracy.
The mighty gods defend thee! Thy lover,
'ARTEMIDORUS.'
Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,
And as a suitor will I give him this.
My heart laments that virtue cannot live
Out of the teeth of emulation.
If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live;
If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.",125,19064
645694,1148,Exit,1261,19064
645695,1151,Enter PORTIA and LUCIUS,1261,19065
645696,1152,"I prithee, boy, run to the senate-house;
Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone:
Why dost thou stay?",907,19065
645697,1155,"To know my errand, madam.",717,19065
645698,1156,"I would have had thee there, and here again,
Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there.
O constancy, be strong upon my side,
Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!
I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
How hard it is for women to keep counsel!
Art thou here yet?",907,19065
645699,1163,"Madam, what should I do?
Run to the Capitol, and nothing else?
And so return to you, and nothing else?",717,19065
645700,1166,"Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well,
For he went sickly forth: and take good note
What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him.
Hark, boy! what noise is that?",907,19065
645701,1170,"I hear none, madam.",717,19065
645702,1171,"Prithee, listen well;
I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray,
And the wind brings it from the Capitol.",907,19065
645703,1174,"Sooth, madam, I hear nothing.",717,19065
645704,1175,Enter the Soothsayer,1261,19065
645705,1176,"Come hither, fellow: which way hast thou been?",907,19065
645706,1177,"At mine own house, good lady.",1141,19065
645707,1178,What is't o'clock?,907,19065
645708,1179,"About the ninth hour, lady.",1141,19065
645709,1180,Is Caesar yet gone to the Capitol?,907,19065
645710,1181,"Madam, not yet: I go to take my stand,
To see him pass on to the Capitol.",1141,19065
645711,1183,"Thou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not?",907,19065
645712,1184,"That I have, lady: if it will please Caesar
To be so good to Caesar as to hear me,
I shall beseech him to befriend himself.",1141,19065
645713,1187,"Why, know'st thou any harm's intended towards him?",907,19065
645714,1188,"None that I know will be, much that I fear may chance.
Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow:
The throng that follows Caesar at the heels,
Of senators, of praetors, common suitors,
Will crowd a feeble man almost to death:
I'll get me to a place more void, and there
Speak to great Caesar as he comes along.",1141,19065
645715,1195,Exit,1261,19065
645716,1196,"I must go in. Ay me, how weak a thing
The heart of woman is! O Brutus,
The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!
Sure, the boy heard me: Brutus hath a suit
That Caesar will not grant. O, I grow faint.
Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord;
Say I am merry: come to me again,
And bring me word what he doth say to thee.",907,19065
645717,1204,"Exeunt severally
[A crowd of people; among them ARTEMIDORUS and the]
Soothsayer. Flourish. Enter CAESAR, BRUTUS,
CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS BRUTUS, METELLUS CIMBER,
TREBONIUS, CINNA, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POPILIUS,
PUBLIUS, and others",1261,19065
645718,1212,[To the Soothsayer The ides of March are come.,624,19066
645719,1213,"Ay, Caesar; but not gone.",1141,19066
645720,1214,"Hail, Caesar! read this schedule.",125,19066
645721,1215,"Trebonius doth desire you to o'erread,
At your best leisure, this his humble suit.",303,19066
645722,1217,"O Caesar, read mine first; for mine's a suit
That touches Caesar nearer: read it, great Caesar.",125,19066
645723,1219,What touches us ourself shall be last served.,624,19066
645724,1220,"Delay not, Caesar; read it instantly.",125,19066
645725,1221,"What, is the fellow mad?",624,19066
645726,1222,"Sirrah, give place.",928,19066
645727,1223,"What, urge you your petitions in the street?
Come to the Capitol.
[CAESAR goes up to the Senate-House, the rest]
following",231,19066
645728,1227,I wish your enterprise to-day may thrive.,902,19066
645729,1228,"What enterprise, Popilius?",231,19066
645730,1229,Fare you well.,902,19066
645731,1230,Advances to CAESAR,1261,19066
645732,1231,What said Popilius Lena?,201,19066
645733,1232,"He wish'd to-day our enterprise might thrive.
I fear our purpose is discovered.",231,19066
645734,1234,"Look, how he makes to Caesar; mark him.",201,19066
645735,1235,"Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.
Brutus, what shall be done? If this be known,
Cassius or Caesar never shall turn back,
For I will slay myself.",231,19066
645736,1239,"Cassius, be constant:
Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes;
For, look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change.",201,19066
645737,1242,"Trebonius knows his time; for, look you, Brutus.
He draws Mark Antony out of the way.",231,19066
645738,1244,Exeunt ANTONY and TREBONIUS,1261,19066
645739,1245,"Where is Metellus Cimber? Let him go,
And presently prefer his suit to Caesar.",303,19066
645740,1247,He is address'd: press near and second him.,201,19066
645741,1248,"Casca, you are the first that rears your hand.",250,19066
645742,1249,"Are we all ready? What is now amiss
That Caesar and his senate must redress?",624,19066
645743,1251,"Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar,
Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat
An humble heart,--",792,19066
645744,1254,Kneeling,1261,19066
645745,1255,"I must prevent thee, Cimber.
These couchings and these lowly courtesies
Might fire the blood of ordinary men,
And turn pre-ordinance and first decree
Into the law of children. Be not fond,
To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood
That will be thaw'd from the true quality
With that which melteth fools; I mean, sweet words,
Low-crooked court'sies and base spaniel-fawning.
Thy brother by decree is banished:
If thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him,
I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause
Will he be satisfied.",624,19066
645746,1269,"Is there no voice more worthy than my own
To sound more sweetly in great Caesar's ear
For the repealing of my banish'd brother?",792,19066
645747,1272,"I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar;
Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may
Have an immediate freedom of repeal.",201,19066
645748,1275,"What, Brutus!",624,19066
645749,1276,"Pardon, Caesar; Caesar, pardon:
As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall,
To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber.",231,19066
645750,1279,"I could be well moved, if I were as you:
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,
They are all fire and every one doth shine,
But there's but one in all doth hold his place:
So in the world; 'tis furnish'd well with men,
And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;
Yet in the number I do know but one
That unassailable holds on his rank,
Unshaked of motion: and that I am he,
Let me a little show it, even in this;
That I was constant Cimber should be banish'd,
And constant do remain to keep him so.",231,19066
645751,1295,"O Caesar,--",250,19066
645752,1296,Hence! wilt thou lift up Olympus?,624,19066
645753,1297,"Great Caesar,--",303,19066
645754,1298,Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?,624,19066
645755,1299,"Speak, hands for me!
[CASCA first, then the other Conspirators and]
BRUTUS stab CAESAR",228,19066
645756,1302,"Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.",624,19066
645757,1303,Dies,1261,19066
645758,1304,"Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.",250,19066
645759,1306,"Some to the common pulpits, and cry out
'Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!'",231,19066
645760,1308,"People and senators, be not affrighted;
Fly not; stand stiff: ambition's debt is paid.",201,19066
645761,1310,"Go to the pulpit, Brutus.",228,19066
645762,1311,And Cassius too.,303,19066
645763,1312,Where's Publius?,201,19066
645764,1313,"Here, quite confounded with this mutiny.",250,19066
645765,1314,"Stand fast together, lest some friend of Caesar's
Should chance--",792,19066
645766,1316,"Talk not of standing. Publius, good cheer;
There is no harm intended to your person,
Nor to no Roman else: so tell them, Publius.",201,19066
645767,1319,"And leave us, Publius; lest that the people,
Rushing on us, should do your age some mischief.",231,19066
645768,1321,"Do so: and let no man abide this deed,
But we the doers.",201,19066
645769,1323,Re-enter TREBONIUS,1261,19066
645770,1324,Where is Antony?,231,19066
645771,1325,"Fled to his house amazed:
Men, wives and children stare, cry out and run
As it were doomsday.",1208,19066
645772,1328,"Fates, we will know your pleasures:
That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time
And drawing days out, that men stand upon.",201,19066
645773,1331,"Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life
Cuts off so many years of fearing death.",231,19066
645774,1333,"Grant that, and then is death a benefit:
So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged
His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop,
And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood
Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords:
Then walk we forth, even to the market-place,
And, waving our red weapons o'er our heads,
Let's all cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!'",201,19066
645775,1341,"Stoop, then, and wash. How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!",231,19066
645776,1344,"How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport,
That now on Pompey's basis lies along
No worthier than the dust!",201,19066
645777,1347,"So oft as that shall be,
So often shall the knot of us be call'd
The men that gave their country liberty.",231,19066
645778,1350,"What, shall we forth?",303,19066
645779,1351,"Ay, every man away:
Brutus shall lead; and we will grace his heels
With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome.",231,19066
645780,1354,Enter a Servant,1261,19066
645781,1355,Soft! who comes here? A friend of Antony's.,201,19066
645782,1356,"Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me kneel:
Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down;
And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say:
Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest;
Caesar was mighty, bold, royal, and loving:
Say I love Brutus, and I honour him;
Say I fear'd Caesar, honour'd him and loved him.
If Brutus will vouchsafe that Antony
May safely come to him, and be resolved
How Caesar hath deserved to lie in death,
Mark Antony shall not love Caesar dead
So well as Brutus living; but will follow
The fortunes and affairs of noble Brutus
Thorough the hazards of this untrod state
With all true faith. So says my master Antony.",1065,19066
645783,1371,"Thy master is a wise and valiant Roman;
I never thought him worse.
Tell him, so please him come unto this place,
He shall be satisfied; and, by my honour,
Depart untouch'd.",201,19066
645784,1376,I'll fetch him presently.,1065,19066
645785,1377,Exit,1261,19066
645786,1378,I know that we shall have him well to friend.,201,19066
645787,1379,"I wish we may: but yet have I a mind
That fears him much; and my misgiving still
Falls shrewdly to the purpose.",231,19066
645788,1382,"But here comes Antony.
[Re-enter ANTONY]
Welcome, Mark Antony.",201,19066
645789,1385,"O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?
Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,
Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.
I know not, gentlemen, what you intend,
Who else must be let blood, who else is rank:
If I myself, there is no hour so fit
As Caesar's death hour, nor no instrument
Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich
With the most noble blood of all this world.
I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard,
Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke,
Fulfil your pleasure. Live a thousand years,
I shall not find myself so apt to die:
No place will please me so, no mean of death,
As here by Caesar, and by you cut off,
The choice and master spirits of this age.",120,19066
645790,1401,"O Antony, beg not your death of us.
Though now we must appear bloody and cruel,
As, by our hands and this our present act,
You see we do, yet see you but our hands
And this the bleeding business they have done:
Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful;
And pity to the general wrong of Rome--
As fire drives out fire, so pity pity--
Hath done this deed on Caesar. For your part,
To you our swords have leaden points, Mark Antony:
Our arms, in strength of malice, and our hearts
Of brothers' temper, do receive you in
With all kind love, good thoughts, and reverence.",201,19066
645791,1414,"Your voice shall be as strong as any man's
In the disposing of new dignities.",231,19066
645792,1416,"Only be patient till we have appeased
The multitude, beside themselves with fear,
And then we will deliver you the cause,
Why I, that did love Caesar when I struck him,
Have thus proceeded.",201,19066
645793,1421,"I doubt not of your wisdom.
Let each man render me his bloody hand:
First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you;
Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand;
Now, Decius Brutus, yours: now yours, Metellus;
Yours, Cinna; and, my valiant Casca, yours;
Though last, not last in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Gentlemen all,--alas, what shall I say?
My credit now stands on such slippery ground,
That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,
Either a coward or a flatterer.
That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis true:
If then thy spirit look upon us now,
Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death,
To see thy thy Anthony making his peace,
Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes,
Most noble! in the presence of thy corse?
Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds,
Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood,
It would become me better than to close
In terms of friendship with thine enemies.
Pardon me, Julius! Here wast thou bay'd, brave hart;
Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,
Sign'd in thy spoil, and crimson'd in thy lethe.
O world, thou wast the forest to this hart;
And this, indeed, O world, the heart of thee.
How like a deer, strucken by many princes,
Dost thou here lie!",120,19066
645794,1449,"Mark Antony,--",231,19066
645795,1450,"Pardon me, Caius Cassius:
The enemies of Caesar shall say this;
Then, in a friend, it is cold modesty.",120,19066
645796,1453,"I blame you not for praising Caesar so;
But what compact mean you to have with us?
Will you be prick'd in number of our friends;
Or shall we on, and not depend on you?",231,19066
645797,1457,"Therefore I took your hands, but was, indeed,
Sway'd from the point, by looking down on Caesar.
Friends am I with you all and love you all,
Upon this hope, that you shall give me reasons
Why and wherein Caesar was dangerous.",120,19066
645798,1462,"Or else were this a savage spectacle:
Our reasons are so full of good regard
That were you, Antony, the son of Caesar,
You should be satisfied.",201,19066
645799,1466,"That's all I seek:
And am moreover suitor that I may
Produce his body to the market-place;
And in the pulpit, as becomes a friend,
Speak in the order of his funeral.",120,19066
645800,1471,"You shall, Mark Antony.",201,19066
645801,1472,"Brutus, a word with you.
[Aside to BRUTUS]
You know not what you do: do not consent
That Antony speak in his funeral:
Know you how much the people may be moved
By that which he will utter?",231,19066
645802,1478,"By your pardon;
I will myself into the pulpit first,
And show the reason of our Caesar's death:
What Antony shall speak, I will protest
He speaks by leave and by permission,
And that we are contented Caesar shall
Have all true rites and lawful ceremonies.
It shall advantage more than do us wrong.",201,19066
645803,1486,I know not what may fall; I like it not.,231,19066
645804,1487,"Mark Antony, here, take you Caesar's body.
You shall not in your funeral speech blame us,
But speak all good you can devise of Caesar,
And say you do't by our permission;
Else shall you not have any hand at all
About his funeral: and you shall speak
In the same pulpit whereto I am going,
After my speech is ended.",201,19066
645805,1495,"Be it so.
I do desire no more.",120,19066
645806,1497,"Prepare the body then, and follow us.",201,19066
645807,1498,Exeunt all but ANTONY,1261,19066
645808,1499,"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,--
Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips,
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue--
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
[Enter a Servant]
You serve Octavius Caesar, do you not?",120,19066
645809,1523,"I do, Mark Antony.",1065,19066
645810,1524,Caesar did write for him to come to Rome.,120,19066
645811,1525,"He did receive his letters, and is coming;
And bid me say to you by word of mouth--
O Caesar!--",1065,19066
645812,1528,Seeing the body,1261,19066
645813,1529,"Thy heart is big, get thee apart and weep.
Passion, I see, is catching; for mine eyes,
Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine,
Began to water. Is thy master coming?",120,19066
645814,1533,He lies to-night within seven leagues of Rome.,1065,19066
645815,1534,"Post back with speed, and tell him what hath chanced:
Here is a mourning Rome, a dangerous Rome,
No Rome of safety for Octavius yet;
Hie hence, and tell him so. Yet, stay awhile;
Thou shalt not back till I have borne this corse
Into the market-place: there shall I try
In my oration, how the people take
The cruel issue of these bloody men;
According to the which, thou shalt discourse
To young Octavius of the state of things.
Lend me your hand.",120,19066
645816,1545,Exeunt with CAESAR's body,1261,19066
645817,1548,"Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS, and a throng of Citizens",1261,19067
645818,1549,We will be satisfied; let us be satisfied.,254,19067
645819,1550,"Then follow me, and give me audience, friends.
Cassius, go you into the other street,
And part the numbers.
Those that will hear me speak, let 'em stay here;
Those that will follow Cassius, go with him;
And public reasons shall be rendered
Of Caesar's death.",201,19067
645820,1557,I will hear Brutus speak.,411,19067
645821,1558,"I will hear Cassius; and compare their reasons,
When severally we hear them rendered.
[Exit CASSIUS, with some of the Citizens. BRUTUS]
goes into the pulpit",984,19067
645822,1562,The noble Brutus is ascended: silence!,1165,19067
645823,1563,"Be patient till the last.
Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my
cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me
for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that
you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and
awake your senses, that you may the better judge.
If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of
Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar
was no less than his. If then that friend demand
why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer:
--Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved
Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and
die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live
all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him;
as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was
valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I
slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his
fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his
ambition. Who is here so base that would be a
bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended.
Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If
any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so
vile that will not love his country? If any, speak;
for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.",201,19067
645824,1587,"None, Brutus, none.",81,19067
645825,1588,"Then none have I offended. I have done no more to
Caesar than you shall do to Brutus. The question of
his death is enrolled in the Capitol; his glory not
extenuated, wherein he was worthy, nor his offences
enforced, for which he suffered death.
[Enter ANTONY and others, with CAESAR's body]
Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who,
though he had no hand in his death, shall receive
the benefit of his dying, a place in the
commonwealth; as which of you shall not? With this
I depart,--that, as I slew my best lover for the
good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself,
when it shall please my country to need my death.",201,19067
645826,1601,"Live, Brutus! live, live!",81,19067
645827,1602,Bring him with triumph home unto his house.,411,19067
645828,1603,Give him a statue with his ancestors.,984,19067
645829,1604,Let him be Caesar.,1165,19067
645830,1605,"Caesar's better parts
Shall be crown'd in Brutus.",488,19067
645831,1607,"We'll bring him to his house
With shouts and clamours.",411,19067
645832,1609,"My countrymen,--",201,19067
645833,1610,"Peace, silence! Brutus speaks.",984,19067
645834,1611,"Peace, ho!",411,19067
645835,1612,"Good countrymen, let me depart alone,
And, for my sake, stay here with Antony:
Do grace to Caesar's corpse, and grace his speech
Tending to Caesar's glories; which Mark Antony,
By our permission, is allow'd to make.
I do entreat you, not a man depart,
Save I alone, till Antony have spoke.",201,19067
645836,1619,Exit,1261,19067
645837,1620,"Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony.",411,19067
645838,1621,"Let him go up into the public chair;
We'll hear him. Noble Antony, go up.",1165,19067
645839,1623,"For Brutus' sake, I am beholding to you.",120,19067
645840,1624,Goes into the pulpit,1261,19067
645841,1625,What does he say of Brutus?,488,19067
645842,1626,"He says, for Brutus' sake,
He finds himself beholding to us all.",1165,19067
645846,1632,Peace! let us hear what Antony can say.,984,19067
645847,1633,"You gentle Romans,--",120,19067
645848,1634,"Peace, ho! let us hear him.",254,19067
645849,1635,"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.",120,19067
645850,1670,Methinks there is much reason in his sayings.,411,19067
645851,1671,"If thou consider rightly of the matter,
Caesar has had great wrong.",984,19067
645852,1673,"Has he, masters?
I fear there will a worse come in his place.",1165,19067
645853,1675,"Mark'd ye his words? He would not take the crown;
Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious.",488,19067
645854,1677,"If it be found so, some will dear abide it.",411,19067
645855,1678,Poor soul! his eyes are red as fire with weeping.,984,19067
645856,1679,There's not a nobler man in Rome than Antony.,1165,19067
645857,1680,"Now mark him, he begins again to speak.",488,19067
645858,1681,"But yesterday the word of Caesar might
Have stood against the world; now lies he there.
And none so poor to do him reverence.
O masters, if I were disposed to stir
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,
Who, you all know, are honourable men:
I will not do them wrong; I rather choose
To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,
Than I will wrong such honourable men.
But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar;
I found it in his closet, 'tis his will:
Let but the commons hear this testament--
Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read--
And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds
And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,
Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,
And, dying, mention it within their wills,
Bequeathing it as a rich legacy
Unto their issue.",120,19067
645859,1701,"We'll hear the will: read it, Mark Antony.",488,19067
645860,1702,"The will, the will! we will hear Caesar's will.",81,19067
645861,1703,"Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it;
It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you.
You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
And, being men, bearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad:
'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs;
For, if you should, O, what would come of it!",120,19067
645862,1710,"Read the will; we'll hear it, Antony;
You shall read us the will, Caesar's will.",488,19067
645863,1712,"Will you be patient? will you stay awhile?
I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it:
I fear I wrong the honourable men
Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar; I do fear it.",120,19067
645864,1716,They were traitors: honourable men!,488,19067
645865,1717,The will! the testament!,81,19067
645866,1718,"They were villains, murderers: the will! read the will.",984,19067
645867,1719,"You will compel me, then, to read the will?
Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar,
And let me show you him that made the will.
Shall I descend? and will you give me leave?",120,19067
645868,1723,Come down.,1081,19067
645869,1724,Descend.,984,19067
645870,1725,You shall have leave.,1165,19067
645871,1726,ANTONY comes down,1261,19067
645872,1727,A ring; stand round.,488,19067
645873,1728,"Stand from the hearse, stand from the body.",411,19067
645874,1729,"Room for Antony, most noble Antony.",984,19067
645875,1730,"Nay, press not so upon me; stand far off.",120,19067
645876,1731,Stand back; room; bear back.,1081,19067
645877,1732,"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
You all do know this mantle: I remember
The first time ever Caesar put it on;
'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent,
That day he overcame the Nervii:
Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through:
See what a rent the envious Casca made:
Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd;
And as he pluck'd his cursed steel away,
Mark how the blood of Caesar follow'd it,
As rushing out of doors, to be resolved
If Brutus so unkindly knock'd, or no;
For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:
Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
This was the most unkindest cut of all;
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,
Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart;
And, in his mantle muffling up his face,
Even at the base of Pompey's statua,
Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.
O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel
The dint of pity: these are gracious drops.
Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold
Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here,
Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.",120,19067
645878,1761,O piteous spectacle!,411,19067
645879,1762,O noble Caesar!,984,19067
645880,1763,O woful day!,1165,19067
645881,1764,"O traitors, villains!",488,19067
645882,1765,O most bloody sight!,411,19067
645883,1766,We will be revenged.,984,19067
645884,1767,"Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay!
Let not a traitor live!",81,19067
645885,1769,"Stay, countrymen.",120,19067
645886,1770,Peace there! hear the noble Antony.,411,19067
645887,1771,"We'll hear him, we'll follow him, we'll die with him.",984,19067
645888,1772,"Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up
To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
They that have done this deed are honourable:
What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,
That made them do it: they are wise and honourable,
And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.
I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:
I am no orator, as Brutus is;
But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man,
That love my friend; and that they know full well
That gave me public leave to speak of him:
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood: I only speak right on;
I tell you that which you yourselves do know;
Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,
And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus,
And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony
Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue
In every wound of Caesar that should move
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.",120,19067
645889,1793,We'll mutiny.,81,19067
645890,1794,We'll burn the house of Brutus.,411,19067
645891,1795,"Away, then! come, seek the conspirators.",1165,19067
645892,1796,"Yet hear me, countrymen; yet hear me speak.",120,19067
645893,1797,"Peace, ho! Hear Antony. Most noble Antony!",81,19067
645894,1798,"Why, friends, you go to do you know not what:
Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves?
Alas, you know not: I must tell you then:
You have forgot the will I told you of.",120,19067
645895,1802,Most true. The will! Let's stay and hear the will.,81,19067
645896,1803,"Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal.
To every Roman citizen he gives,
To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.",120,19067
645897,1806,Most noble Caesar! We'll revenge his death.,984,19067
645898,1807,O royal Caesar!,1165,19067
645899,1808,Hear me with patience.,120,19067
645900,1809,"Peace, ho!",81,19067
645901,1810,"Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,
His private arbours and new-planted orchards,
On this side Tiber; he hath left them you,
And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures,
To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.
Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?",120,19067
645902,1816,"Never, never. Come, away, away!
We'll burn his body in the holy place,
And with the brands fire the traitors' houses.
Take up the body.",411,19067
645903,1820,Go fetch fire.,984,19067
645904,1821,Pluck down benches.,1165,19067
645905,1822,"Pluck down forms, windows, any thing.",488,19067
645906,1823,Exeunt Citizens with the body,1261,19067
645907,1824,"Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot,
Take thou what course thou wilt!
[Enter a Servant]
How now, fellow!",120,19067
645908,1828,"Sir, Octavius is already come to Rome.",1065,19067
645909,1829,Where is he?,120,19067
645910,1830,He and Lepidus are at Caesar's house.,1065,19067
645911,1831,"And thither will I straight to visit him:
He comes upon a wish. Fortune is merry,
And in this mood will give us any thing.",120,19067
645912,1834,"I heard him say, Brutus and Cassius
Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome.",1065,19067
645913,1836,"Belike they had some notice of the people,
How I had moved them. Bring me to Octavius.",120,19067
645914,1838,Exeunt,1261,19067
645915,1841,Enter CINNA the poet,1261,19068
645916,1842,"I dreamt to-night that I did feast with Caesar,
And things unlucky charge my fantasy:
I have no will to wander forth of doors,
Yet something leads me forth.",251,19068
645917,1846,Enter Citizens,1261,19068
645918,1847,What is your name?,411,19068
645919,1848,Whither are you going?,984,19068
645920,1849,Where do you dwell?,1165,19068
645921,1850,Are you a married man or a bachelor?,488,19068
645922,1851,Answer every man directly.,984,19068
645923,1852,"Ay, and briefly.",411,19068
645924,1853,"Ay, and wisely.",488,19068
645925,1854,"Ay, and truly, you were best.",1165,19068
645926,1855,"What is my name? Whither am I going? Where do I
dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then, to
answer every man directly and briefly, wisely and
truly: wisely I say, I am a bachelor.",251,19068
645927,1859,"That's as much as to say, they are fools that marry:
you'll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed; directly.",984,19068
645928,1861,"Directly, I am going to Caesar's funeral.",251,19068
645929,1862,As a friend or an enemy?,411,19068
645930,1863,As a friend.,251,19068
645931,1864,That matter is answered directly.,984,19068
645932,1865,"For your dwelling,--briefly.",488,19068
645933,1866,"Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol.",251,19068
645934,1867,"Your name, sir, truly.",1165,19068
645935,1868,"Truly, my name is Cinna.",251,19068
645936,1869,Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator.,411,19068
645937,1870,"I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.",251,19068
645938,1871,"Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.",488,19068
645939,1872,I am not Cinna the conspirator.,251,19068
645940,1873,"It is no matter, his name's Cinna; pluck but his
name out of his heart, and turn him going.",488,19068
645941,1875,"Tear him, tear him! Come, brands ho! fire-brands:
to Brutus', to Cassius'; burn all: some to Decius'
house, and some to Casca's; some to Ligarius': away, go!",1165,19068
645942,1878,Exeunt,1261,19068
645943,1881,"ANTONY, OCTAVIUS, and LEPIDUS, seated at a table",1261,19069
645944,1882,"These many, then, shall die; their names are prick'd.",120,19069
645945,1883,"Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?",824,19069
645946,1884,I do consent--,668,19069
645947,1885,"Prick him down, Antony.",824,19069
645948,1886,"Upon condition Publius shall not live,
Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony.",668,19069
645949,1888,"He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar's house;
Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine
How to cut off some charge in legacies.",120,19069
645950,1892,"What, shall I find you here?",668,19069
645951,1893,"Or here, or at the Capitol.",824,19069
645952,1894,Exit LEPIDUS,1261,19069
645953,1895,"This is a slight unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent on errands: is it fit,
The three-fold world divided, he should stand
One of the three to share it?",120,19069
645954,1899,"So you thought him;
And took his voice who should be prick'd to die,
In our black sentence and proscription.",824,19069
645955,1902,"Octavius, I have seen more days than you:
And though we lay these honours on this man,
To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads,
He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold,
To groan and sweat under the business,
Either led or driven, as we point the way;
And having brought our treasure where we will,
Then take we down his load, and turn him off,
Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears,
And graze in commons.",120,19069
645956,1912,"You may do your will;
But he's a tried and valiant soldier.",824,19069
645957,1914,"So is my horse, Octavius; and for that
I do appoint him store of provender:
It is a creature that I teach to fight,
To wind, to stop, to run directly on,
His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit.
And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so;
He must be taught and train'd and bid go forth;
A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds
On abjects, orts and imitations,
Which, out of use and staled by other men,
Begin his fashion: do not talk of him,
But as a property. And now, Octavius,
Listen great things:--Brutus and Cassius
Are levying powers: we must straight make head:
Therefore let our alliance be combined,
Our best friends made, our means stretch'd
And let us presently go sit in council,
How covert matters may be best disclosed,
And open perils surest answered.",120,19069
645958,1933,"Let us do so: for we are at the stake,
And bay'd about with many enemies;
And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,
Millions of mischiefs.",824,19069
645959,1937,"Exeunt
[Drum. Enter BRUTUS, LUCILIUS, LUCIUS, and]
Soldiers; Tintinius and PINDARUS meeting them",1261,19069
645960,1942,"Stand, ho!",201,19070
645961,1943,"Give the word, ho! and stand.",713,19070
645962,1944,"What now, Lucilius! is Cassius near?",201,19070
645963,1945,"He is at hand; and Pindarus is come
To do you salutation from his master.",713,19070
645964,1947,"He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus,
In his own change, or by ill officers,
Hath given me some worthy cause to wish
Things done, undone: but, if he be at hand,
I shall be satisfied.",201,19070
645965,1952,"I do not doubt
But that my noble master will appear
Such as he is, full of regard and honour.",889,19070
645966,1955,"He is not doubted. A word, Lucilius;
How he received you, let me be resolved.",201,19070
645967,1957,"With courtesy and with respect enough;
But not with such familiar instances,
Nor with such free and friendly conference,
As he hath used of old.",713,19070
645968,1961,"Thou hast described
A hot friend cooling: ever note, Lucilius,
When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforced ceremony.
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;
But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,
Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;
But when they should endure the bloody spur,
They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades,
Sink in the trial. Comes his army on?",201,19070
645969,1971,"They mean this night in Sardis to be quarter'd;
The greater part, the horse in general,
Are come with Cassius.",713,19070
645970,1974,"Hark! he is arrived.
[Low march within]
March gently on to meet him.",201,19070
645971,1977,Enter CASSIUS and his powers,1261,19070
645972,1978,"Stand, ho!",231,19070
645973,1979,"Stand, ho! Speak the word along.",201,19070
645974,1980,Stand!,469,19070
645975,1981,Stand!,1036,19070
645976,1982,Stand!,1187,19070
645977,1983,"Most noble brother, you have done me wrong.",231,19070
645978,1984,"Judge me, you gods! wrong I mine enemies?
And, if not so, how should I wrong a brother?",201,19070
645979,1986,"Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs;
And when you do them--",231,19070
645980,1988,"Cassius, be content.
Speak your griefs softly: I do know you well.
Before the eyes of both our armies here,
Which should perceive nothing but love from us,
Let us not wrangle: bid them move away;
Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs,
And I will give you audience.",201,19070
645981,1995,"Pindarus,
Bid our commanders lead their charges off
A little from this ground.",231,19070
645982,1998,"Lucilius, do you the like; and let no man
Come to our tent till we have done our conference.
Let Lucius and Tintinius guard our door.",201,19070
645983,2001,Exeunt,1261,19070
645984,2004,Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS,1261,19071
645985,2005,"That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this:
You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella
For taking bribes here of the Sardians;
Wherein my letters, praying on his side,
Because I knew the man, were slighted off.",231,19071
645986,2010,You wronged yourself to write in such a case.,201,19071
645987,2011,"In such a time as this it is not meet
That every nice offence should bear his comment.",231,19071
645988,2013,"Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself
Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm;
To sell and mart your offices for gold
To undeservers.",201,19071
645989,2017,"I an itching palm!
You know that you are Brutus that speak this,
Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last.",231,19071
645990,2020,"The name of Cassius honours this corruption,
And chastisement doth therefore hide his head.",201,19071
645991,2022,Chastisement!,231,19071
645992,2023,"Remember March, the ides of March remember:
Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?
What villain touch'd his body, that did stab,
And not for justice? What, shall one of us
That struck the foremost man of all this world
But for supporting robbers, shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,
And sell the mighty space of our large honours
For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman.",201,19071
645993,2034,"Brutus, bay not me;
I'll not endure it: you forget yourself,
To hedge me in; I am a soldier, I,
Older in practise, abler than yourself
To make conditions.",231,19071
645994,2039,"Go to; you are not, Cassius.",201,19071
645995,2040,I am.,231,19071
645996,2041,I say you are not.,201,19071
645997,2042,"Urge me no more, I shall forget myself;
Have mind upon your health, tempt me no further.",231,19071
645998,2044,"Away, slight man!",201,19071
645999,2045,Is't possible?,231,19071
646000,2046,"Hear me, for I will speak.
Must I give way and room to your rash choler?
Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?",201,19071
646001,2049,"O ye gods, ye gods! must I endure all this?",231,19071
646002,2050,"All this! ay, more: fret till your proud heart break;
Go show your slaves how choleric you are,
And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge?
Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch
Under your testy humour? By the gods
You shall digest the venom of your spleen,
Though it do split you; for, from this day forth,
I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,
When you are waspish.",201,19071
646003,2059,Is it come to this?,231,19071
646004,2060,"You say you are a better soldier:
Let it appear so; make your vaunting true,
And it shall please me well: for mine own part,
I shall be glad to learn of noble men.",201,19071
646005,2064,"You wrong me every way; you wrong me, Brutus;
I said, an elder soldier, not a better:
Did I say 'better'?",231,19071
646006,2067,"If you did, I care not.",201,19071
646007,2068,"When Caesar lived, he durst not thus have moved me.",231,19071
646008,2069,"Peace, peace! you durst not so have tempted him.",201,19071
646009,2070,I durst not!,231,19071
646010,2071,No.,201,19071
646011,2072,"What, durst not tempt him!",231,19071
646012,2073,For your life you durst not!,201,19071
646013,2074,"Do not presume too much upon my love;
I may do that I shall be sorry for.",231,19071
646014,2076,"You have done that you should be sorry for.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,
For I am arm'd so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which I respect not. I did send to you
For certain sums of gold, which you denied me:
For I can raise no money by vile means:
By heaven, I had rather coin my heart,
And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring
From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash
By any indirection: I did send
To you for gold to pay my legions,
Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?
Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so?
When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,
To lock such rascal counters from his friends,
Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts;
Dash him to pieces!",201,19071
646015,2094,I denied you not.,231,19071
646016,2095,You did.,201,19071
646017,2096,"I did not: he was but a fool that brought
My answer back. Brutus hath rived my heart:
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.",231,19071
646018,2100,"I do not, till you practise them on me.",201,19071
646019,2101,You love me not.,231,19071
646020,2102,I do not like your faults.,201,19071
646021,2103,A friendly eye could never see such faults.,231,19071
646022,2104,"A flatterer's would not, though they do appear
As huge as high Olympus.",201,19071
646023,2106,"Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,
Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius,
For Cassius is aweary of the world;
Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
Cheque'd like a bondman; all his faults observed,
Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote,
To cast into my teeth. O, I could weep
My spirit from mine eyes! There is my dagger,
And here my naked breast; within, a heart
Dearer than Plutus' mine, richer than gold:
If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth;
I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart:
Strike, as thou didst at Caesar; for, I know,
When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better
Than ever thou lovedst Cassius.",231,19071
646024,2121,"Sheathe your dagger:
Be angry when you will, it shall have scope;
Do what you will, dishonour shall be humour.
O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb
That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,
And straight is cold again.",201,19071
646025,2128,"Hath Cassius lived
To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus,
When grief, and blood ill-temper'd, vexeth him?",231,19071
646026,2131,"When I spoke that, I was ill-temper'd too.",201,19071
646027,2132,Do you confess so much? Give me your hand.,231,19071
646028,2133,And my heart too.,201,19071
646029,2134,O Brutus!,231,19071
646030,2135,What's the matter?,201,19071
646031,2136,"Have not you love enough to bear with me,
When that rash humour which my mother gave me
Makes me forgetful?",231,19071
646032,2139,"Yes, Cassius; and, from henceforth,
When you are over-earnest with your Brutus,
He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.",201,19071
646033,2142,"[Within Let me go in to see the generals;
There is some grudge between 'em, 'tis not meet
They be alone.",895,19071
646034,2145,[Within You shall not come to them.,713,19071
646035,2146,[Within Nothing but death shall stay me.,895,19071
646036,2147,"Enter Poet, followed by LUCILIUS, Tintinius, and LUCIUS",1261,19071
646037,2148,How now! what's the matter?,231,19071
646038,2149,"For shame, you generals! what do you mean?
Love, and be friends, as two such men should be;
For I have seen more years, I'm sure, than ye.",895,19071
646039,2152,"Ha, ha! how vilely doth this cynic rhyme!",231,19071
646040,2153,"Get you hence, sirrah; saucy fellow, hence!",201,19071
646041,2154,"Bear with him, Brutus; 'tis his fashion.",231,19071
646042,2155,"I'll know his humour, when he knows his time:
What should the wars do with these jigging fools?
Companion, hence!",201,19071
646043,2158,"Away, away, be gone.",231,19071
646044,2159,Exit Poet,1261,19071
646045,2160,"Lucilius and Tintinius, bid the commanders
Prepare to lodge their companies to-night.",201,19071
646046,2162,"And come yourselves, and bring Messala with you
Immediately to us.",231,19071
646047,2164,Exeunt LUCILIUS and Tintinius,1261,19071
646048,2165,"Lucius, a bowl of wine!",201,19071
646049,2166,Exit LUCIUS,1261,19071
646050,2167,I did not think you could have been so angry.,231,19071
646051,2168,"O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.",201,19071
646052,2169,"Of your philosophy you make no use,
If you give place to accidental evils.",231,19071
646053,2171,No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.,201,19071
646054,2172,Ha! Portia!,231,19071
646055,2173,She is dead.,201,19071
646056,2174,"How 'scaped I killing when I cross'd you so?
O insupportable and touching loss!
Upon what sickness?",231,19071
646057,2177,"Impatient of my absence,
And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony
Have made themselves so strong:--for with her death
That tidings came;--with this she fell distract,
And, her attendants absent, swallow'd fire.",201,19071
646058,2182,And died so?,231,19071
646059,2183,Even so.,201,19071
646060,2184,O ye immortal gods!,231,19071
646061,2185,"Re-enter LUCIUS, with wine and taper",1261,19071
646062,2186,"Speak no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine.
In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.",201,19071
646063,2188,"My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge.
Fill, Lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup;
I cannot drink too much of Brutus' love.",231,19071
646064,2191,"Come in, Tintinius!
[Exit LUCIUS]
[Re-enter Tintinius, with MESSALA]
Welcome, good Messala.
Now sit we close about this taper here,
And call in question our necessities.",201,19071
646065,2197,"Portia, art thou gone?",231,19071
646066,2198,"No more, I pray you.
Messala, I have here received letters,
That young Octavius and Mark Antony
Come down upon us with a mighty power,
Bending their expedition toward Philippi.",201,19071
646067,2203,Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor.,768,19071
646068,2204,With what addition?,201,19071
646069,2205,"That by proscription and bills of outlawry,
Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus,
Have put to death an hundred senators.",768,19071
646070,2208,"Therein our letters do not well agree;
Mine speak of seventy senators that died
By their proscriptions, Cicero being one.",201,19071
646071,2211,Cicero one!,231,19071
646072,2212,"Cicero is dead,
And by that order of proscription.
Had you your letters from your wife, my lord?",768,19071
646073,2215,"No, Messala.",201,19071
646074,2216,Nor nothing in your letters writ of her?,768,19071
646075,2217,"Nothing, Messala.",201,19071
646076,2218,"That, methinks, is strange.",768,19071
646077,2219,Why ask you? hear you aught of her in yours?,201,19071
646078,2220,"No, my lord.",768,19071
646079,2221,"Now, as you are a Roman, tell me true.",201,19071
646080,2222,"Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell:
For certain she is dead, and by strange manner.",768,19071
646081,2224,"Why, farewell, Portia. We must die, Messala:
With meditating that she must die once,
I have the patience to endure it now.",201,19071
646082,2227,Even so great men great losses should endure.,768,19071
646083,2228,"I have as much of this in art as you,
But yet my nature could not bear it so.",231,19071
646084,2230,"Well, to our work alive. What do you think
Of marching to Philippi presently?",201,19071
646085,2232,I do not think it good.,231,19071
646086,2233,Your reason?,201,19071
646087,2234,"This it is:
'Tis better that the enemy seek us:
So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
Doing himself offence; whilst we, lying still,
Are full of rest, defense, and nimbleness.",231,19071
646088,2239,"Good reasons must, of force, give place to better.
The people 'twixt Philippi and this ground
Do stand but in a forced affection;
For they have grudged us contribution:
The enemy, marching along by them,
By them shall make a fuller number up,
Come on refresh'd, new-added, and encouraged;
From which advantage shall we cut him off,
If at Philippi we do face him there,
These people at our back.",201,19071
646089,2249,"Hear me, good brother.",231,19071
646090,2250,"Under your pardon. You must note beside,
That we have tried the utmost of our friends,
Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe:
The enemy increaseth every day;
We, at the height, are ready to decline.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.",201,19071
646091,2262,"Then, with your will, go on;
We'll along ourselves, and meet them at Philippi.",231,19071
646092,2264,"The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
And nature must obey necessity;
Which we will niggard with a little rest.
There is no more to say?",201,19071
646093,2268,"No more. Good night:
Early to-morrow will we rise, and hence.",231,19071
646094,2270,"Lucius!
[Enter LUCIUS]
My gown.
[Exit LUCIUS]
Farewell, good Messala:
Good night, Tintinius. Noble, noble Cassius,
Good night, and good repose.",201,19071
646095,2277,"O my dear brother!
This was an ill beginning of the night:
Never come such division 'tween our souls!
Let it not, Brutus.",231,19071
646096,2281,Every thing is well.,201,19071
646097,2282,"Good night, my lord.",231,19071
646098,2283,"Good night, good brother.",201,19071
646099,2284,"[with MESSALA] Good night, Lord Brutus.",1199,19071
646100,2285,"Farewell, every one.
[Exeunt all but BRUTUS]
[Re-enter LUCIUS, with the gown]
Give me the gown. Where is thy instrument?",201,19071
646101,2289,Here in the tent.,717,19071
646102,2290,"What, thou speak'st drowsily?
Poor knave, I blame thee not; thou art o'er-watch'd.
Call Claudius and some other of my men:
I'll have them sleep on cushions in my tent.",201,19071
646103,2294,Varro and Claudius!,717,19071
646104,2295,Enter VARRO and CLAUDIUS,1261,19071
646105,2296,Calls my lord?,1226,19071
646106,2297,"I pray you, sirs, lie in my tent and sleep;
It may be I shall raise you by and by
On business to my brother Cassius.",201,19071
646107,2300,"So please you, we will stand and watch your pleasure.",1226,19071
646108,2301,"I will not have it so: lie down, good sirs;
It may be I shall otherwise bethink me.
Look, Lucius, here's the book I sought for so;
I put it in the pocket of my gown.",201,19071
646109,2305,VARRO and CLAUDIUS lie down,1261,19071
646110,2306,I was sure your lordship did not give it me.,717,19071
646111,2307,"Bear with me, good boy, I am much forgetful.
Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile,
And touch thy instrument a strain or two?",201,19071
646112,2310,"Ay, my lord, an't please you.",717,19071
646113,2311,"It does, my boy:
I trouble thee too much, but thou art willing.",201,19071
646114,2313,"It is my duty, sir.",717,19071
646115,2314,"I should not urge thy duty past thy might;
I know young bloods look for a time of rest.",201,19071
646116,2316,"I have slept, my lord, already.",717,19071
646117,2317,"It was well done; and thou shalt sleep again;
I will not hold thee long: if I do live,
I will be good to thee.
[Music, and a song]
This is a sleepy tune. O murderous slumber,
Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy,
That plays thee music? Gentle knave, good night;
I will not do thee so much wrong to wake thee:
If thou dost nod, thou break'st thy instrument;
I'll take it from thee; and, good boy, good night.
Let me see, let me see; is not the leaf turn'd down
Where I left reading? Here it is, I think.
[Enter the Ghost of CAESAR]
How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here?
I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
That shapes this monstrous apparition.
It comes upon me. Art thou any thing?
Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,
That makest my blood cold and my hair to stare?
Speak to me what thou art.",201,19071
646118,2337,"Thy evil spirit, Brutus.",624,19071
646119,2338,Why comest thou?,201,19071
646120,2339,To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi.,624,19071
646121,2340,Well; then I shall see thee again?,201,19071
646122,2341,"Ay, at Philippi.",624,19071
646123,2342,"Why, I will see thee at Philippi, then.
[Exit Ghost]
Now I have taken heart thou vanishest:
Ill spirit, I would hold more talk with thee.
Boy, Lucius! Varro! Claudius! Sirs, awake! Claudius!",201,19071
646124,2347,"The strings, my lord, are false.",717,19071
646125,2348,"He thinks he still is at his instrument.
Lucius, awake!",201,19071
646126,2350,My lord?,717,19071
646127,2351,"Didst thou dream, Lucius, that thou so criedst out?",201,19071
646128,2352,"My lord, I do not know that I did cry.",717,19071
646129,2353,"Yes, that thou didst: didst thou see any thing?",201,19071
646130,2354,"Nothing, my lord.",717,19071
646131,2355,"Sleep again, Lucius. Sirrah Claudius!
[To VARRO]
Fellow thou, awake!",201,19071
646132,2358,My lord?,1226,19071
646133,2359,My lord?,259,19071
646134,2360,"Why did you so cry out, sirs, in your sleep?",201,19071
646135,2361,"[with Claudius] Did we, my lord?",1226,19071
646136,2362,Ay: saw you any thing?,201,19071
646137,2363,"No, my lord, I saw nothing.",1226,19071
646138,2364,"Nor I, my lord.",259,19071
646139,2365,"Go and commend me to my brother Cassius;
Bid him set on his powers betimes before,
And we will follow.",201,19071
646140,2368,"[with Claudius] It shall be done, my lord.",1226,19071
646141,2369,[Exeunt],1261,19071
646142,2372,"Enter OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, and their army",1261,19072
646143,2373,"Now, Antony, our hopes are answered:
You said the enemy would not come down,
But keep the hills and upper regions;
It proves not so: their battles are at hand;
They mean to warn us at Philippi here,
Answering before we do demand of them.",824,19072
646144,2379,"Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know
Wherefore they do it: they could be content
To visit other places; and come down
With fearful bravery, thinking by this face
To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage;
But 'tis not so.",120,19072
646145,2385,Enter a Messenger,1261,19072
646146,2386,"Prepare you, generals:
The enemy comes on in gallant show;
Their bloody sign of battle is hung out,
And something to be done immediately.",780,19072
646147,2390,"Octavius, lead your battle softly on,
Upon the left hand of the even field.",120,19072
646148,2392,Upon the right hand I; keep thou the left.,824,19072
646149,2393,Why do you cross me in this exigent?,120,19072
646150,2394,"I do not cross you; but I will do so.
[March]
[Drum. Enter BRUTUS, CASSIUS, and their Army;]
LUCILIUS, Tintinius, MESSALA, and others",824,19072
646151,2398,"They stand, and would have parley.",201,19072
646152,2399,"Stand fast, Tintinius: we must out and talk.",231,19072
646153,2400,"Mark Antony, shall we give sign of battle?",824,19072
646154,2401,"No, Caesar, we will answer on their charge.
Make forth; the generals would have some words.",120,19072
646155,2403,Stir not until the signal.,824,19072
646156,2404,"Words before blows: is it so, countrymen?",201,19072
646157,2405,"Not that we love words better, as you do.",824,19072
646158,2406,"Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.",201,19072
646159,2407,"In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words:
Witness the hole you made in Caesar's heart,
Crying 'Long live! hail, Caesar!'",120,19072
646160,2410,"Antony,
The posture of your blows are yet unknown;
But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
And leave them honeyless.",231,19072
646161,2414,Not stingless too.,120,19072
646162,2415,"O, yes, and soundless too;
For you have stol'n their buzzing, Antony,
And very wisely threat before you sting.",201,19072
646163,2418,"Villains, you did not so, when your vile daggers
Hack'd one another in the sides of Caesar:
You show'd your teeth like apes, and fawn'd like hounds,
And bow'd like bondmen, kissing Caesar's feet;
Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind
Struck Caesar on the neck. O you flatterers!",120,19072
646164,2424,"Flatterers! Now, Brutus, thank yourself:
This tongue had not offended so to-day,
If Cassius might have ruled.",231,19072
646165,2427,"Come, come, the cause: if arguing make us sweat,
The proof of it will turn to redder drops. Look;
I draw a sword against conspirators;
When think you that the sword goes up again?
Never, till Caesar's three and thirty wounds
Be well avenged; or till another Caesar
Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors.",824,19072
646166,2434,"Caesar, thou canst not die by traitors' hands,
Unless thou bring'st them with thee.",201,19072
646167,2436,"So I hope;
I was not born to die on Brutus' sword.",824,19072
646168,2438,"O, if thou wert the noblest of thy strain,
Young man, thou couldst not die more honourable.",201,19072
646169,2440,"A peevish schoolboy, worthless of such honour,
Join'd with a masker and a reveller!",231,19072
646170,2442,Old Cassius still!,120,19072
646171,2443,"Come, Antony, away!
Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth:
If you dare fight to-day, come to the field;
If not, when you have stomachs.",824,19072
646172,2447,"Exeunt OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, and their army",1261,19072
646173,2448,"Why, now, blow wind, swell billow and swim bark!
The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.",231,19072
646174,2450,"Ho, Lucilius! hark, a word with you.",201,19072
646175,2451,[Standing forth. My lord?,713,19072
646176,2452,BRUTUS and LUCILIUS converse apart,1261,19072
646177,2453,Messala!,231,19072
646178,2454,[Standing forth What says my general?,768,19072
646179,2455,"Messala,
This is my birth-day; as this very day
Was Cassius born. Give me thy hand, Messala:
Be thou my witness that against my will,
As Pompey was, am I compell'd to set
Upon one battle all our liberties.
You know that I held Epicurus strong
And his opinion: now I change my mind,
And partly credit things that do presage.
Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign
Two mighty eagles fell, and there they perch'd,
Gorging and feeding from our soldiers' hands;
Who to Philippi here consorted us:
This morning are they fled away and gone;
And in their steads do ravens, crows and kites,
Fly o'er our heads and downward look on us,
As we were sickly prey: their shadows seem
A canopy most fatal, under which
Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost.",231,19072
646180,2474,Believe not so.,768,19072
646181,2475,"I but believe it partly;
For I am fresh of spirit and resolved
To meet all perils very constantly.",231,19072
646182,2478,"Even so, Lucilius.",201,19072
646183,2479,"Now, most noble Brutus,
The gods to-day stand friendly, that we may,
Lovers in peace, lead on our days to age!
But since the affairs of men rest still incertain,
Let's reason with the worst that may befall.
If we do lose this battle, then is this
The very last time we shall speak together:
What are you then determined to do?",231,19072
646184,2487,"Even by the rule of that philosophy
By which I did blame Cato for the death
Which he did give himself, I know not how,
But I do find it cowardly and vile,
For fear of what might fall, so to prevent
The time of life: arming myself with patience
To stay the providence of some high powers
That govern us below.",201,19072
646185,2495,"Then, if we lose this battle,
You are contented to be led in triumph
Thorough the streets of Rome?",231,19072
646186,2498,"No, Cassius, no: think not, thou noble Roman,
That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome;
He bears too great a mind. But this same day
Must end that work the ides of March begun;
And whether we shall meet again I know not.
Therefore our everlasting farewell take:
For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius!
If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
If not, why then, this parting was well made.",201,19072
646187,2507,"For ever, and for ever, farewell, Brutus!
If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed;
If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.",231,19072
646188,2510,"Why, then, lead on. O, that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come!
But it sufficeth that the day will end,
And then the end is known. Come, ho! away!",201,19072
646189,2514,Exeunt,1261,19072
646190,2517,Alarum. Enter BRUTUS and MESSALA,1261,19073
646191,2518,"Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills
Unto the legions on the other side.
[Loud alarum]
Let them set on at once; for I perceive
But cold demeanor in Octavius' wing,
And sudden push gives them the overthrow.
Ride, ride, Messala: let them all come down.",201,19073
646192,2525,Exeunt,1261,19073
646193,2528,Alarums. Enter CASSIUS and Tintinius,1261,19074
646194,2529,"O, look, Tintinius, look, the villains fly!
Myself have to mine own turn'd enemy:
This ensign here of mine was turning back;
I slew the coward, and did take it from him.",231,19074
646195,2533,"O Cassius, Brutus gave the word too early;
Who, having some advantage on Octavius,
Took it too eagerly: his soldiers fell to spoil,
Whilst we by Antony are all enclosed.",1199,19074
646196,2537,Enter PINDARUS,1261,19074
646197,2538,"Fly further off, my lord, fly further off;
Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord
Fly, therefore, noble Cassius, fly far off.",889,19074
646198,2541,"This hill is far enough. Look, look, Tintinius;
Are those my tents where I perceive the fire?",231,19074
646199,2543,"They are, my lord.",1199,19074
646200,2544,"Tintinius, if thou lovest me,
Mount thou my horse, and hide thy spurs in him,
Till he have brought thee up to yonder troops,
And here again; that I may rest assured
Whether yond troops are friend or enemy.",231,19074
646201,2549,"I will be here again, even with a thought.",1199,19074
646202,2550,Exit,1261,19074
646203,2551,"Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill;
My sight was ever thick; regard Tintinius,
And tell me what thou notest about the field.
[PINDARUS ascends the hill]
This day I breathed first: time is come round,
And where I did begin, there shall I end;
My life is run his compass. Sirrah, what news?",231,19074
646204,2558,[Above O my lord!,889,19074
646205,2559,What news?,231,19074
646206,2560,"[Above Tintinius is enclosed round about
With horsemen, that make to him on the spur;
Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him.
Now, Tintinius! Now some light. O, he lights too.
He's ta'en.
[Shout]
And, hark! they shout for joy.",889,19074
646207,2567,"Come down, behold no more.
O, coward that I am, to live so long,
To see my best friend ta'en before my face!
[PINDARUS descends]
Come hither, sirrah:
In Parthia did I take thee prisoner;
And then I swore thee, saving of thy life,
That whatsoever I did bid thee do,
Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath;
Now be a freeman: and with this good sword,
That ran through Caesar's bowels, search this bosom.
Stand not to answer: here, take thou the hilts;
And, when my face is cover'd, as 'tis now,
Guide thou the sword.
[PINDARUS stabs him]
Caesar, thou art revenged,
Even with the sword that kill'd thee.",231,19074
646208,2584,Dies,1261,19074
646209,2585,"So, I am free; yet would not so have been,
Durst I have done my will. O Cassius,
Far from this country Pindarus shall run,
Where never Roman shall take note of him.",889,19074
646210,2589,Exit,1261,19074
646211,2590,Re-enter Tintinius with MESSALA,1261,19074
646212,2591,"It is but change, Tintinius; for Octavius
Is overthrown by noble Brutus' power,
As Cassius' legions are by Antony.",768,19074
646213,2594,These tidings will well comfort Cassius.,1199,19074
646214,2595,Where did you leave him?,768,19074
646215,2596,"All disconsolate,
With Pindarus his bondman, on this hill.",1199,19074
646216,2598,Is not that he that lies upon the ground?,768,19074
646217,2599,He lies not like the living. O my heart!,1199,19074
646218,2600,Is not that he?,768,19074
646219,2601,"No, this was he, Messala,
But Cassius is no more. O setting sun,
As in thy red rays thou dost sink to-night,
So in his red blood Cassius' day is set;
The sun of Rome is set! Our day is gone;
Clouds, dews, and dangers come; our deeds are done!
Mistrust of my success hath done this deed.",1199,19074
646220,2608,"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.
O hateful error, melancholy's child,
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
The things that are not? O error, soon conceived,
Thou never comest unto a happy birth,
But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee!",768,19074
646221,2614,"What, Pindarus! where art thou, Pindarus?",1199,19074
646222,2615,"Seek him, Tintinius, whilst I go to meet
The noble Brutus, thrusting this report
Into his ears; I may say, thrusting it;
For piercing steel and darts envenomed
Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus
As tidings of this sight.",768,19074
646223,2621,"Hie you, Messala,
And I will seek for Pindarus the while.
[Exit MESSALA]
Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius?
Did I not meet thy friends? and did not they
Put on my brows this wreath of victory,
And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts?
Alas, thou hast misconstrued every thing!
But, hold thee, take this garland on thy brow;
Thy Brutus bid me give it thee, and I
Will do his bidding. Brutus, come apace,
And see how I regarded Caius Cassius.
By your leave, gods:--this is a Roman's part
Come, Cassius' sword, and find Tintinius' heart.
[Kills himself]
[Alarum. Re-enter MESSALA, with BRUTUS, CATO,]
STRATO, VOLUMNIUS, and LUCILIUS",1199,19074
646224,2638,"Where, where, Messala, doth his body lie?",201,19074
646225,2639,"Lo, yonder, and Tintinius mourning it.",768,19074
646226,2640,Tintinius' face is upward.,201,19074
646227,2641,He is slain.,232,19074
646228,2642,"O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!
Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords
In our own proper entrails.",201,19074
646229,2645,Low alarums,1261,19074
646230,2646,"Brave Tintinius!
Look, whether he have not crown'd dead Cassius!",232,19074
646231,2648,"Are yet two Romans living such as these?
The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!
It is impossible that ever Rome
Should breed thy fellow. Friends, I owe more tears
To this dead man than you shall see me pay.
I shall find time, Cassius, I shall find time.
Come, therefore, and to Thasos send his body:
His funerals shall not be in our camp,
Lest it discomfort us. Lucilius, come;
And come, young Cato; let us to the field.
Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on:
'Tis three o'clock; and, Romans, yet ere night
We shall try fortune in a second fight.",201,19074
646232,2661,"Exeunt
[Alarum. Enter fighting, Soldiers of both armies;]
then BRUTUS, CATO, LUCILIUS, and others",1261,19074
646233,2666,"Yet, countrymen, O, yet hold up your heads!",201,19075
646234,2667,"What bastard doth not? Who will go with me?
I will proclaim my name about the field:
I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!
A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend;
I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!",232,19075
646235,2672,"And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I;
Brutus, my country's friend; know me for Brutus!",201,19075
646236,2674,Exit,1261,19075
646237,2675,"O young and noble Cato, art thou down?
Why, now thou diest as bravely as Tintinius;
And mayst be honour'd, being Cato's son.",713,19075
646238,2678,"Yield, or thou diest.",469,19075
646239,2679,"Only I yield to die:
There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight;
[Offering money]
Kill Brutus, and be honour'd in his death.",713,19075
646240,2683,We must not. A noble prisoner!,469,19075
646241,2684,"Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta'en.",1036,19075
646242,2685,"I'll tell the news. Here comes the general.
[Enter ANTONY]
Brutus is ta'en, Brutus is ta'en, my lord.",469,19075
646243,2688,Where is he?,120,19075
646244,2689,"Safe, Antony; Brutus is safe enough:
I dare assure thee that no enemy
Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus:
The gods defend him from so great a shame!
When you do find him, or alive or dead,
He will be found like Brutus, like himself.",713,19075
646245,2695,"This is not Brutus, friend; but, I assure you,
A prize no less in worth: keep this man safe;
Give him all kindness: I had rather have
Such men my friends than enemies. Go on,
And see whether Brutus be alive or dead;
And bring us word unto Octavius' tent
How every thing is chanced.",120,19075
646246,2702,"Exeunt
[Enter BRUTUS, DARDANIUS, CLITUS, STRATO, and]
VOLUMNIUS",1261,19075
646247,2707,"Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock.",201,19076
646248,2708,"Statilius show'd the torch-light, but, my lord,
He came not back: he is or ta'en or slain.",265,19076
646249,2710,"Sit thee down, Clitus: slaying is the word;
It is a deed in fashion. Hark thee, Clitus.",201,19076
646250,2712,Whispers,1261,19076
646251,2713,"What, I, my lord? No, not for all the world.",265,19076
646252,2714,Peace then! no words.,201,19076
646253,2715,I'll rather kill myself.,265,19076
646254,2716,"Hark thee, Dardanius.",201,19076
646255,2717,Whispers,1261,19076
646256,2718,Shall I do such a deed?,300,19076
646257,2719,O Dardanius!,265,19076
646258,2720,O Clitus!,300,19076
646259,2721,What ill request did Brutus make to thee?,265,19076
646260,2722,"To kill him, Clitus. Look, he meditates.",300,19076
646261,2723,"Now is that noble vessel full of grief,
That it runs over even at his eyes.",265,19076
646262,2725,"Come hither, good Volumnius; list a word.",201,19076
646263,2726,What says my lord?,1244,19076
646264,2727,"Why, this, Volumnius:
The ghost of Caesar hath appear'd to me
Two several times by night; at Sardis once,
And, this last night, here in Philippi fields:
I know my hour is come.",201,19076
646265,2732,"Not so, my lord.",1244,19076
646266,2733,"Nay, I am sure it is, Volumnius.
Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it goes;
Our enemies have beat us to the pit:
[Low alarums]
It is more worthy to leap in ourselves,
Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius,
Thou know'st that we two went to school together:
Even for that our love of old, I prithee,
Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I run on it.",201,19076
646267,2742,"That's not an office for a friend, my lord.",1244,19076
646268,2743,Alarum still,1261,19076
646269,2744,"Fly, fly, my lord; there is no tarrying here.",265,19076
646270,2745,"Farewell to you; and you; and you, Volumnius.
Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep;
Farewell to thee too, Strato. Countrymen,
My heart doth joy that yet in all my life
I found no man but he was true to me.
I shall have glory by this losing day
More than Octavius and Mark Antony
By this vile conquest shall attain unto.
So fare you well at once; for Brutus' tongue
Hath almost ended his life's history:
Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest,
That have but labour'd to attain this hour.",201,19076
646271,2757,"Alarum. Cry within, 'Fly, fly, fly!'",1261,19076
646272,2758,"Fly, my lord, fly.",265,19076
646273,2759,"Hence! I will follow.
[Exeunt CLITUS, DARDANIUS, and VOLUMNIUS]
I prithee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord:
Thou art a fellow of a good respect;
Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it:
Hold then my sword, and turn away thy face,
While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato?",201,19076
646274,2766,"Give me your hand first. Fare you well, my lord.",1150,19076
646275,2767,"Farewell, good Strato.
[Runs on his sword]
Caesar, now be still:
I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.
[Dies]
[Alarum. Retreat. Enter OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, MESSALA,]
LUCILIUS, and the army",201,19076
646276,2774,What man is that?,824,19076
646277,2775,"My master's man. Strato, where is thy master?",768,19076
646278,2776,"Free from the bondage you are in, Messala:
The conquerors can but make a fire of him;
For Brutus only overcame himself,
And no man else hath honour by his death.",1150,19076
646279,2780,"So Brutus should be found. I thank thee, Brutus,
That thou hast proved Lucilius' saying true.",713,19076
646280,2782,"All that served Brutus, I will entertain them.
Fellow, wilt thou bestow thy time with me?",824,19076
646281,2784,"Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you.",1150,19076
646282,2785,"Do so, good Messala.",824,19076
646283,2786,"How died my master, Strato?",768,19076
646284,2787,"I held the sword, and he did run on it.",1150,19076
646285,2788,"Octavius, then take him to follow thee,
That did the latest service to my master.",768,19076
646286,2790,"This was the noblest Roman of them all:
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
He only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world 'This was a man!'",120,19076
646287,2798,"According to his virtue let us use him,
With all respect and rites of burial.
Within my tent his bones to-night shall lie,
Most like a soldier, order'd honourably.
So call the field to rest; and let's away,
To part the glories of this happy day.",824,19076
646288,2804,Exeunt,1261,19076
646289,5,"Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?",637,19077
646290,6,"Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France
In my behavior to the majesty,
The borrow'd majesty, of England here.",240,19077
646291,9,A strange beginning: 'borrow'd majesty!',932,19077
646292,10,"Silence, good mother; hear the embassy.",637,19077
646293,11,"Philip of France, in right and true behalf
Of thy deceased brother Geffrey's son,
Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim
To this fair island and the territories,
To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,
Desiring thee to lay aside the sword
Which sways usurpingly these several titles,
And put these same into young Arthur's hand,
Thy nephew and right royal sovereign.",240,19077
646294,20,What follows if we disallow of this?,637,19077
646295,21,"The proud control of fierce and bloody war,
To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld.",240,19077
646296,23,"Here have we war for war and blood for blood,
Controlment for controlment: so answer France.",637,19077
646297,25,"Then take my king's defiance from my mouth,
The farthest limit of my embassy.",240,19077
646298,27,"Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace:
Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France;
For ere thou canst report I will be there,
The thunder of my cannon shall be heard:
So hence! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath
And sullen presage of your own decay.
An honourable conduct let him have:
Pembroke, look to 't. Farewell, Chatillon.",637,19077
646299,35,[Exeunt CHATILLON and PEMBROKE],1261,19077
646300,36,"What now, my son! have I not ever said
How that ambitious Constance would not cease
Till she had kindled France and all the world,
Upon the right and party of her son?
This might have been prevented and made whole
With very easy arguments of love,
Which now the manage of two kingdoms must
With fearful bloody issue arbitrate.",932,19077
646301,44,Our strong possession and our right for us.,637,19077
646302,45,"Your strong possession much more than your right,
Or else it must go wrong with you and me:
So much my conscience whispers in your ear,
Which none but heaven and you and I shall hear.",932,19077
646303,49,[Enter a Sheriff],1261,19077
646304,50,"My liege, here is the strangest controversy
Come from country to be judged by you,
That e'er I heard: shall I produce the men?",387,19077
646305,53,"Let them approach.
Our abbeys and our priories shall pay
This expedition's charge.
[Enter ROBERT and the BASTARD]
What men are you?",637,19077
646306,58,"Your faithful subject I, a gentleman
Born in Northamptonshire and eldest son,
As I suppose, to Robert Faulconbridge,
A soldier, by the honour-giving hand
Of Coeur-de-lion knighted in the field.",882,19077
646307,63,What art thou?,637,19077
646308,64,The son and heir to that same Faulconbridge.,396,19077
646309,65,"Is that the elder, and art thou the heir?
You came not of one mother then, it seems.",637,19077
646310,67,"Most certain of one mother, mighty king;
That is well known; and, as I think, one father:
But for the certain knowledge of that truth
I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother:
Of that I doubt, as all men's children may.",882,19077
646311,72,"Out on thee, rude man! thou dost shame thy mother
And wound her honour with this diffidence.",932,19077
646312,74,"I, madam? no, I have no reason for it;
That is my brother's plea and none of mine;
The which if he can prove, a' pops me out
At least from fair five hundred pound a year:
Heaven guard my mother's honour and my land!",882,19077
646313,79,"A good blunt fellow. Why, being younger born,
Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?",637,19077
646314,81,"I know not why, except to get the land.
But once he slander'd me with bastardy:
But whether I be as true begot or no,
That still I lay upon my mother's head,
But that I am as well begot, my liege,--
Fair fall the bones that took the pains for me!--
Compare our faces and be judge yourself.
If old sir Robert did beget us both
And were our father and this son like him,
O old sir Robert, father, on my knee
I give heaven thanks I was not like to thee!",882,19077
646315,92,"Why, what a madcap hath heaven lent us here!",637,19077
646316,93,"He hath a trick of Coeur-de-lion's face;
The accent of his tongue affecteth him.
Do you not read some tokens of my son
In the large composition of this man?",932,19077
646317,97,"Mine eye hath well examined his parts
And finds them perfect Richard. Sirrah, speak,
What doth move you to claim your brother's land?",637,19077
646318,100,"Because he hath a half-face, like my father.
With half that face would he have all my land:
A half-faced groat five hundred pound a year!",882,19077
646319,103,"My gracious liege, when that my father lived,
Your brother did employ my father much,--",396,19077
646320,105,"Well, sir, by this you cannot get my land:
Your tale must be how he employ'd my mother.",882,19077
646321,107,"And once dispatch'd him in an embassy
To Germany, there with the emperor
To treat of high affairs touching that time.
The advantage of his absence took the king
And in the mean time sojourn'd at my father's;
Where how he did prevail I shame to speak,
But truth is truth: large lengths of seas and shores
Between my father and my mother lay,
As I have heard my father speak himself,
When this same lusty gentleman was got.
Upon his death-bed he by will bequeath'd
His lands to me, and took it on his death
That this my mother's son was none of his;
And if he were, he came into the world
Full fourteen weeks before the course of time.
Then, good my liege, let me have what is mine,
My father's land, as was my father's will.",396,19077
646322,124,"Sirrah, your brother is legitimate;
Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him,
And if she did play false, the fault was hers;
Which fault lies on the hazards of all husbands
That marry wives. Tell me, how if my brother,
Who, as you say, took pains to get this son,
Had of your father claim'd this son for his?
In sooth, good friend, your father might have kept
This calf bred from his cow from all the world;
In sooth he might; then, if he were my brother's,
My brother might not claim him; nor your father,
Being none of his, refuse him: this concludes;
My mother's son did get your father's heir;
Your father's heir must have your father's land.",637,19077
646323,138,"Shall then my father's will be of no force
To dispossess that child which is not his?",396,19077
646324,140,"Of no more force to dispossess me, sir,
Than was his will to get me, as I think.",882,19077
646325,142,"Whether hadst thou rather be a Faulconbridge
And like thy brother, to enjoy thy land,
Or the reputed son of Coeur-de-lion,
Lord of thy presence and no land beside?",932,19077
646326,146,"Madam, an if my brother had my shape,
And I had his, sir Robert's his, like him;
And if my legs were two such riding-rods,
My arms such eel-skins stuff'd, my face so thin
That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose
Lest men should say 'Look, where three-farthings goes!'
And, to his shape, were heir to all this land,
Would I might never stir from off this place,
I would give it every foot to have this face;
I would not be sir Nob in any case.",882,19077
646327,156,"I like thee well: wilt thou forsake thy fortune,
Bequeath thy land to him and follow me?
I am a soldier and now bound to France.",932,19077
646328,159,"Brother, take you my land, I'll take my chance.
Your face hath got five hundred pound a year,
Yet sell your face for five pence and 'tis dear.
Madam, I'll follow you unto the death.",882,19077
646329,163,"Nay, I would have you go before me thither.",932,19077
646330,164,Our country manners give our betters way.,882,19077
646331,165,What is thy name?,637,19077
646332,166,"Philip, my liege, so is my name begun,
Philip, good old sir Robert's wife's eldest son.",882,19077
646333,168,"From henceforth bear his name whose form thou bear'st:
Kneel thou down Philip, but rise more great,
Arise sir Richard and Plantagenet.",637,19077
646334,171,"Brother by the mother's side, give me your hand:
My father gave me honour, yours gave land.
Now blessed by the hour, by night or day,
When I was got, sir Robert was away!",882,19077
646335,175,"The very spirit of Plantagenet!
I am thy grandam, Richard; call me so.",932,19077
646336,177,"Madam, by chance but not by truth; what though?
Something about, a little from the right,
In at the window, or else o'er the hatch:
Who dares not stir by day must walk by night,
And have is have, however men do catch:
Near or far off, well won is still well shot,
And I am I, howe'er I was begot.",882,19077
646337,184,"Go, Faulconbridge: now hast thou thy desire;
A landless knight makes thee a landed squire.
Come, madam, and come, Richard, we must speed
For France, for France, for it is more than need.",637,19077
646338,188,"Brother, adieu: good fortune come to thee!
For thou wast got i' the way of honesty.
[Exeunt all but BASTARD]
A foot of honour better than I was;
But many a many foot of land the worse.
Well, now can I make any Joan a lady.
'Good den, sir Richard!'--'God-a-mercy, fellow!'--
And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter;
For new-made honour doth forget men's names;
'Tis too respective and too sociable
For your conversion. Now your traveller,
He and his toothpick at my worship's mess,
And when my knightly stomach is sufficed,
Why then I suck my teeth and catechise
My picked man of countries: 'My dear sir,'
Thus, leaning on mine elbow, I begin,
'I shall beseech you'--that is question now;
And then comes answer like an Absey book:
'O sir,' says answer, 'at your best command;
At your employment; at your service, sir;'
'No, sir,' says question, 'I, sweet sir, at yours:'
And so, ere answer knows what question would,
Saving in dialogue of compliment,
And talking of the Alps and Apennines,
The Pyrenean and the river Po,
It draws toward supper in conclusion so.
But this is worshipful society
And fits the mounting spirit like myself,
For he is but a bastard to the time
That doth not smack of observation;
And so am I, whether I smack or no;
And not alone in habit and device,
Exterior form, outward accoutrement,
But from the inward motion to deliver
Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth:
Which, though I will not practise to deceive,
Yet, to avoid deceit, I mean to learn;
For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising.
But who comes in such haste in riding-robes?
What woman-post is this? hath she no husband
That will take pains to blow a horn before her?
[Enter LADY FAULCONBRIDGE and GURNEY]
O me! it is my mother. How now, good lady!
What brings you here to court so hastily?",882,19077
646339,232,"Where is that slave, thy brother? where is he,
That holds in chase mine honour up and down?",644,19077
646340,234,"My brother Robert? old sir Robert's son?
Colbrand the giant, that same mighty man?
Is it sir Robert's son that you seek so?",882,19077
646341,237,"Sir Robert's son! Ay, thou unreverend boy,
Sir Robert's son: why scorn'st thou at sir Robert?
He is sir Robert's son, and so art thou.",644,19077
646342,240,"James Gurney, wilt thou give us leave awhile?",882,19077
646343,241,"Good leave, good Philip.",555,19077
646344,242,"Philip! sparrow: James,
There's toys abroad: anon I'll tell thee more.
[Exit GURNEY]
Madam, I was not old sir Robert's son:
Sir Robert might have eat his part in me
Upon Good-Friday and ne'er broke his fast:
Sir Robert could do well: marry, to confess,
Could he get me? Sir Robert could not do it:
We know his handiwork: therefore, good mother,
To whom am I beholding for these limbs?
Sir Robert never holp to make this leg.",882,19077
646345,253,"Hast thou conspired with thy brother too,
That for thine own gain shouldst defend mine honour?
What means this scorn, thou most untoward knave?",644,19077
646346,256,"Knight, knight, good mother, Basilisco-like.
What! I am dubb'd! I have it on my shoulder.
But, mother, I am not sir Robert's son;
I have disclaim'd sir Robert and my land;
Legitimation, name and all is gone:
Then, good my mother, let me know my father;
Some proper man, I hope: who was it, mother?",882,19077
646347,263,Hast thou denied thyself a Faulconbridge?,644,19077
646348,264,As faithfully as I deny the devil.,882,19077
646349,265,"King Richard Coeur-de-lion was thy father:
By long and vehement suit I was seduced
To make room for him in my husband's bed:
Heaven lay not my transgression to my charge!
Thou art the issue of my dear offence,
Which was so strongly urged past my defence.",644,19077
646350,271,"Now, by this light, were I to get again,
Madam, I would not wish a better father.
Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,
And so doth yours; your fault was not your folly:
Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,
Subjected tribute to commanding love,
Against whose fury and unmatched force
The aweless lion could not wage the fight,
Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.
He that perforce robs lions of their hearts
May easily win a woman's. Ay, my mother,
With all my heart I thank thee for my father!
Who lives and dares but say thou didst not well
When I was got, I'll send his soul to hell.
Come, lady, I will show thee to my kin;
And they shall say, when Richard me begot,
If thou hadst said him nay, it had been sin:
Who says it was, he lies; I say 'twas not.",882,19077
646351,289,"[Exeunt]
[Enter AUSTRIA and forces, drums, etc. on one side:]
on the other KING PHILIP and his power; LEWIS,
ARTHUR, CONSTANCE and attendants]",1261,19077
646352,295,"Before Angiers well met, brave Austria.
Arthur, that great forerunner of thy blood,
Richard, that robb'd the lion of his heart
And fought the holy wars in Palestine,
By this brave duke came early to his grave:
And for amends to his posterity,
At our importance hither is he come,
To spread his colours, boy, in thy behalf,
And to rebuke the usurpation
Of thy unnatural uncle, English John:
Embrace him, love him, give him welcome hither.",669,19078
646353,306,"God shall forgive you Coeur-de-lion's death
The rather that you give his offspring life,
Shadowing their right under your wings of war:
I give you welcome with a powerless hand,
But with a heart full of unstained love:
Welcome before the gates of Angiers, duke.",126,19078
646354,312,A noble boy! Who would not do thee right?,669,19078
646355,313,"Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss,
As seal to this indenture of my love,
That to my home I will no more return,
Till Angiers and the right thou hast in France,
Together with that pale, that white-faced shore,
Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides
And coops from other lands her islanders,
Even till that England, hedged in with the main,
That water-walled bulwark, still secure
And confident from foreign purposes,
Even till that utmost corner of the west
Salute thee for her king: till then, fair boy,
Will I not think of home, but follow arms.",721,19078
646356,326,"O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks,
Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength
To make a more requital to your love!",280,19078
646357,329,"The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords
In such a just and charitable war.",721,19078
646358,331,"Well then, to work: our cannon shall be bent
Against the brows of this resisting town.
Call for our chiefest men of discipline,
To cull the plots of best advantages:
We'll lay before this town our royal bones,
Wade to the market-place in Frenchmen's blood,
But we will make it subject to this boy.",638,19078
646359,338,"Stay for an answer to your embassy,
Lest unadvised you stain your swords with blood:
My Lord Chatillon may from England bring,
That right in peace which here we urge in war,
And then we shall repent each drop of blood
That hot rash haste so indirectly shed.",280,19078
646360,344,[Enter CHATILLON],1261,19078
646361,345,"A wonder, lady! lo, upon thy wish,
Our messenger Chatillon is arrived!
What England says, say briefly, gentle lord;
We coldly pause for thee; Chatillon, speak.",638,19078
646362,349,"Then turn your forces from this paltry siege
And stir them up against a mightier task.
England, impatient of your just demands,
Hath put himself in arms: the adverse winds,
Whose leisure I have stay'd, have given him time
To land his legions all as soon as I;
His marches are expedient to this town,
His forces strong, his soldiers confident.
With him along is come the mother-queen,
An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife;
With her her niece, the Lady Blanch of Spain;
With them a bastard of the king's deceased,
And all the unsettled humours of the land,
Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries,
With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens,
Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,
Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,
To make hazard of new fortunes here:
In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits
Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er
Did nearer float upon the swelling tide,
To do offence and scath in Christendom.
[Drum beats]
The interruption of their churlish drums
Cuts off more circumstance: they are at hand,
To parley or to fight; therefore prepare.",240,19078
646363,375,How much unlook'd for is this expedition!,638,19078
646364,376,"By how much unexpected, by so much
We must awake endavour for defence;
For courage mounteth with occasion:
Let them be welcome then: we are prepared.
[Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, BLANCH, the BASTARD,]
Lords, and forces]",721,19078
646365,382,"Peace be to France, if France in peace permit
Our just and lineal entrance to our own;
If not, bleed France, and peace ascend to heaven,
Whiles we, God's wrathful agent, do correct
Their proud contempt that beats His peace to heaven.",637,19078
646366,387,"Peace be to England, if that war return
From France to England, there to live in peace.
England we love; and for that England's sake
With burden of our armour here we sweat.
This toil of ours should be a work of thine;
But thou from loving England art so far,
That thou hast under-wrought his lawful king
Cut off the sequence of posterity,
Out-faced infant state and done a rape
Upon the maiden virtue of the crown.
Look here upon thy brother Geffrey's face;
These eyes, these brows, were moulded out of his:
This little abstract doth contain that large
Which died in Geffrey, and the hand of time
Shall draw this brief into as huge a volume.
That Geffrey was thy elder brother born,
And this his son; England was Geffrey's right
And this is Geffrey's: in the name of God
How comes it then that thou art call'd a king,
When living blood doth in these temples beat,
Which owe the crown that thou o'ermasterest?",638,19078
646367,408,"From whom hast thou this great commission, France,
To draw my answer from thy articles?",637,19078
646368,410,"From that supernal judge, that stirs good thoughts
In any breast of strong authority,
To look into the blots and stains of right:
That judge hath made me guardian to this boy:
Under whose warrant I impeach thy wrong
And by whose help I mean to chastise it.",638,19078
646369,416,"Alack, thou dost usurp authority.",637,19078
646370,417,Excuse; it is to beat usurping down.,638,19078
646371,418,"Who is it thou dost call usurper, France?",932,19078
646372,419,Let me make answer; thy usurping son.,280,19078
646373,420,"Out, insolent! thy bastard shall be king,
That thou mayst be a queen, and cheque the world!",932,19078
646374,422,"My bed was ever to thy son as true
As thine was to thy husband; and this boy
Liker in feature to his father Geffrey
Than thou and John in manners; being as like
As rain to water, or devil to his dam.
My boy a bastard! By my soul, I think
His father never was so true begot:
It cannot be, an if thou wert his mother.",280,19078
646375,430,"There's a good mother, boy, that blots thy father.",932,19078
646376,431,"There's a good grandam, boy, that would blot thee.",280,19078
646377,432,Peace!,721,19078
646378,433,Hear the crier.,882,19078
646379,434,What the devil art thou?,721,19078
646380,435,"One that will play the devil, sir, with you,
An a' may catch your hide and you alone:
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes,
Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard;
I'll smoke your skin-coat, an I catch you right;
Sirrah, look to't; i' faith, I will, i' faith.",882,19078
646381,441,"O, well did he become that lion's robe
That did disrobe the lion of that robe!",173,19078
646382,443,"It lies as sightly on the back of him
As great Alcides' shows upon an ass:
But, ass, I'll take that burthen from your back,
Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack.",882,19078
646383,447,"What craker is this same that deafs our ears
With this abundance of superfluous breath?",721,19078
646384,449,"Lewis, determine what we shall do straight.",638,19078
646385,450,"Women and fools, break off your conference.
King John, this is the very sum of all;
England and Ireland, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,
In right of Arthur do I claim of thee:
Wilt thou resign them and lay down thy arms?",669,19078
646386,455,"My life as soon: I do defy thee, France.
Arthur of Bretagne, yield thee to my hand;
And out of my dear love I'll give thee more
Than e'er the coward hand of France can win:
Submit thee, boy.",637,19078
646387,460,"Come to thy grandam, child.",932,19078
646388,461,"Do, child, go to it grandam, child:
Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will
Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig:
There's a good grandam.",280,19078
646389,465,"Good my mother, peace!
I would that I were low laid in my grave:
I am not worth this coil that's made for me.",126,19078
646390,468,"His mother shames him so, poor boy, he weeps.",932,19078
646391,469,"Now shame upon you, whether she does or no!
His grandam's wrongs, and not his mother's shames,
Draws those heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes,
Which heaven shall take in nature of a fee;
Ay, with these crystal beads heaven shall be bribed
To do him justice and revenge on you.",280,19078
646392,475,Thou monstrous slanderer of heaven and earth!,932,19078
646393,476,"Thou monstrous injurer of heaven and earth!
Call not me slanderer; thou and thine usurp
The dominations, royalties and rights
Of this oppressed boy: this is thy eld'st son's son,
Infortunate in nothing but in thee:
Thy sins are visited in this poor child;
The canon of the law is laid on him,
Being but the second generation
Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb.",280,19078
646394,485,"Bedlam, have done.",637,19078
646395,486,"I have but this to say,
That he is not only plagued for her sin,
But God hath made her sin and her the plague
On this removed issue, plague for her
And with her plague; her sin his injury,
Her injury the beadle to her sin,
All punish'd in the person of this child,
And all for her; a plague upon her!",280,19078
646396,494,"Thou unadvised scold, I can produce
A will that bars the title of thy son.",932,19078
646397,496,"Ay, who doubts that? a will! a wicked will:
A woman's will; a canker'd grandam's will!",280,19078
646398,498,"Peace, lady! pause, or be more temperate:
It ill beseems this presence to cry aim
To these ill-tuned repetitions.
Some trumpet summon hither to the walls
These men of Angiers: let us hear them speak
Whose title they admit, Arthur's or John's.",638,19078
646399,504,[Trumpet sounds. Enter certain Citizens upon the walls],1261,19078
646400,505,Who is it that hath warn'd us to the walls?,412,19078
646401,506,"'Tis France, for England.",638,19078
646402,507,"England, for itself.
You men of Angiers, and my loving subjects--",637,19078
646403,509,"You loving men of Angiers, Arthur's subjects,
Our trumpet call'd you to this gentle parle--",638,19078
646404,511,"For our advantage; therefore hear us first.
These flags of France, that are advanced here
Before the eye and prospect of your town,
Have hither march'd to your endamagement:
The cannons have their bowels full of wrath,
And ready mounted are they to spit forth
Their iron indignation 'gainst your walls:
All preparation for a bloody siege
All merciless proceeding by these French
Confronts your city's eyes, your winking gates;
And but for our approach those sleeping stones,
That as a waist doth girdle you about,
By the compulsion of their ordinance
By this time from their fixed beds of lime
Had been dishabited, and wide havoc made
For bloody power to rush upon your peace.
But on the sight of us your lawful king,
Who painfully with much expedient march
Have brought a countercheque before your gates,
To save unscratch'd your city's threatened cheeks,
Behold, the French amazed vouchsafe a parle;
And now, instead of bullets wrapp'd in fire,
To make a shaking fever in your walls,
They shoot but calm words folded up in smoke,
To make a faithless error in your ears:
Which trust accordingly, kind citizens,
And let us in, your king, whose labour'd spirits,
Forwearied in this action of swift speed,
Crave harbourage within your city walls.",637,19078
646405,540,"When I have said, make answer to us both.
Lo, in this right hand, whose protection
Is most divinely vow'd upon the right
Of him it holds, stands young Plantagenet,
Son to the elder brother of this man,
And king o'er him and all that he enjoys:
For this down-trodden equity, we tread
In warlike march these greens before your town,
Being no further enemy to you
Than the constraint of hospitable zeal
In the relief of this oppressed child
Religiously provokes. Be pleased then
To pay that duty which you truly owe
To that owes it, namely this young prince:
And then our arms, like to a muzzled bear,
Save in aspect, hath all offence seal'd up;
Our cannons' malice vainly shall be spent
Against the invulnerable clouds of heaven;
And with a blessed and unvex'd retire,
With unhack'd swords and helmets all unbruised,
We will bear home that lusty blood again
Which here we came to spout against your town,
And leave your children, wives and you in peace.
But if you fondly pass our proffer'd offer,
'Tis not the roundure of your old-faced walls
Can hide you from our messengers of war,
Though all these English and their discipline
Were harbour'd in their rude circumference.
Then tell us, shall your city call us lord,
In that behalf which we have challenged it?
Or shall we give the signal to our rage
And stalk in blood to our possession?",638,19078
646406,572,"In brief, we are the king of England's subjects:
For him, and in his right, we hold this town.",412,19078
646407,574,"Acknowledge then the king, and let me in.",637,19078
646408,575,"That can we not; but he that proves the king,
To him will we prove loyal: till that time
Have we ramm'd up our gates against the world.",412,19078
646409,578,"Doth not the crown of England prove the king?
And if not that, I bring you witnesses,
Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed,--",637,19078
646410,581,"Bastards, and else.",882,19078
646411,582,To verify our title with their lives.,637,19078
646412,583,"As many and as well-born bloods as those,--",638,19078
646413,584,Some bastards too.,882,19078
646414,585,Stand in his face to contradict his claim.,638,19078
646415,586,"Till you compound whose right is worthiest,
We for the worthiest hold the right from both.",412,19078
646416,588,"Then God forgive the sin of all those souls
That to their everlasting residence,
Before the dew of evening fall, shall fleet,
In dreadful trial of our kingdom's king!",637,19078
646417,592,"Amen, amen! Mount, chevaliers! to arms!",638,19078
646418,593,"Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since
Sits on his horseback at mine hostess' door,
Teach us some fence!
[To AUSTRIA]
Sirrah, were I at home,
At your den, sirrah, with your lioness
I would set an ox-head to your lion's hide,
And make a monster of you.",882,19078
646419,601,Peace! no more.,721,19078
646420,602,"O tremble, for you hear the lion roar.",882,19078
646421,603,"Up higher to the plain; where we'll set forth
In best appointment all our regiments.",637,19078
646422,605,"Speed then, to take advantage of the field.",882,19078
646423,606,"It shall be so; and at the other hill
Command the rest to stand. God and our right!
[Exeunt]
[Here after excursions, enter the Herald of France,]
with trumpets, to the gates]",638,19078
646424,611,"You men of Angiers, open wide your gates,
And let young Arthur, Duke of Bretagne, in,
Who by the hand of France this day hath made
Much work for tears in many an English mother,
Whose sons lie scattered on the bleeding ground;
Many a widow's husband grovelling lies,
Coldly embracing the discolour'd earth;
And victory, with little loss, doth play
Upon the dancing banners of the French,
Who are at hand, triumphantly display'd,
To enter conquerors and to proclaim
Arthur of Bretagne England's king and yours.",498,19078
646425,623,"[Enter English Herald, with trumpet]",1261,19078
646426,624,"Rejoice, you men of Angiers, ring your bells:
King John, your king and England's doth approach,
Commander of this hot malicious day:
Their armours, that march'd hence so silver-bright,
Hither return all gilt with Frenchmen's blood;
There stuck no plume in any English crest
That is removed by a staff of France;
Our colours do return in those same hands
That did display them when we first march'd forth;
And, like a troop of jolly huntsmen, come
Our lusty English, all with purpled hands,
Dyed in the dying slaughter of their foes:
Open your gates and gives the victors way.",381,19078
646427,637,"Heralds, from off our towers we might behold,
From first to last, the onset and retire
Of both your armies; whose equality
By our best eyes cannot be censured:
Blood hath bought blood and blows have answered blows;
Strength match'd with strength, and power confronted power:
Both are alike; and both alike we like.
One must prove greatest: while they weigh so even,
We hold our town for neither, yet for both.
[Re-enter KING JOHN and KING PHILIP, with their]
powers, severally]",412,19078
646428,648,"France, hast thou yet more blood to cast away?
Say, shall the current of our right run on?
Whose passage, vex'd with thy impediment,
Shall leave his native channel and o'erswell
With course disturb'd even thy confining shores,
Unless thou let his silver water keep
A peaceful progress to the ocean.",637,19078
646429,655,"England, thou hast not saved one drop of blood,
In this hot trial, more than we of France;
Rather, lost more. And by this hand I swear,
That sways the earth this climate overlooks,
Before we will lay down our just-borne arms,
We'll put thee down, 'gainst whom these arms we bear,
Or add a royal number to the dead,
Gracing the scroll that tells of this war's loss
With slaughter coupled to the name of kings.",638,19078
646430,664,"Ha, majesty! how high thy glory towers,
When the rich blood of kings is set on fire!
O, now doth Death line his dead chaps with steel;
The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his fangs;
And now he feasts, mousing the flesh of men,
In undetermined differences of kings.
Why stand these royal fronts amazed thus?
Cry, 'havoc!' kings; back to the stained field,
You equal potents, fiery kindled spirits!
Then let confusion of one part confirm
The other's peace: till then, blows, blood and death!",882,19078
646431,675,Whose party do the townsmen yet admit?,637,19078
646432,676,"Speak, citizens, for England; who's your king?",638,19078
646433,677,The king of England; when we know the king.,412,19078
646434,678,"Know him in us, that here hold up his right.",638,19078
646435,679,"In us, that are our own great deputy
And bear possession of our person here,
Lord of our presence, Angiers, and of you.",637,19078
646436,682,"A greater power then we denies all this;
And till it be undoubted, we do lock
Our former scruple in our strong-barr'd gates;
King'd of our fears, until our fears, resolved,
Be by some certain king purged and deposed.",412,19078
646437,687,"By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings,
And stand securely on their battlements,
As in a theatre, whence they gape and point
At your industrious scenes and acts of death.
Your royal presences be ruled by me:
Do like the mutines of Jerusalem,
Be friends awhile and both conjointly bend
Your sharpest deeds of malice on this town:
By east and west let France and England mount
Their battering cannon charged to the mouths,
Till their soul-fearing clamours have brawl'd down
The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city:
I'ld play incessantly upon these jades,
Even till unfenced desolation
Leave them as naked as the vulgar air.
That done, dissever your united strengths,
And part your mingled colours once again;
Turn face to face and bloody point to point;
Then, in a moment, Fortune shall cull forth
Out of one side her happy minion,
To whom in favour she shall give the day,
And kiss him with a glorious victory.
How like you this wild counsel, mighty states?
Smacks it not something of the policy?",882,19078
646438,711,"Now, by the sky that hangs above our heads,
I like it well. France, shall we knit our powers
And lay this Angiers even to the ground;
Then after fight who shall be king of it?",637,19078
646439,715,"An if thou hast the mettle of a king,
Being wronged as we are by this peevish town,
Turn thou the mouth of thy artillery,
As we will ours, against these saucy walls;
And when that we have dash'd them to the ground,
Why then defy each other and pell-mell
Make work upon ourselves, for heaven or hell.",882,19078
646440,722,"Let it be so. Say, where will you assault?",638,19078
646441,723,"We from the west will send destruction
Into this city's bosom.",637,19078
646442,725,I from the north.,721,19078
646443,726,"Our thunder from the south
Shall rain their drift of bullets on this town.",638,19078
646444,728,"O prudent discipline! From north to south:
Austria and France shoot in each other's mouth:
I'll stir them to it. Come, away, away!",882,19078
646445,731,"Hear us, great kings: vouchsafe awhile to stay,
And I shall show you peace and fair-faced league;
Win you this city without stroke or wound;
Rescue those breathing lives to die in beds,
That here come sacrifices for the field:
Persever not, but hear me, mighty kings.",412,19078
646446,737,Speak on with favour; we are bent to hear.,637,19078
646447,738,"That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanch,
Is niece to England: look upon the years
Of Lewis the Dauphin and that lovely maid:
If lusty love should go in quest of beauty,
Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch?
If zealous love should go in search of virtue,
Where should he find it purer than in Blanch?
If love ambitious sought a match of birth,
Whose veins bound richer blood than Lady Blanch?
Such as she is, in beauty, virtue, birth,
Is the young Dauphin every way complete:
If not complete of, say he is not she;
And she again wants nothing, to name want,
If want it be not that she is not he:
He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.
O, two such silver currents, when they join,
Do glorify the banks that bound them in;
And two such shores to two such streams made one,
Two such controlling bounds shall you be, kings,
To these two princes, if you marry them.
This union shall do more than battery can
To our fast-closed gates; for at this match,
With swifter spleen than powder can enforce,
The mouth of passage shall we fling wide ope,
And give you entrance: but without this match,
The sea enraged is not half so deaf,
Lions more confident, mountains and rocks
More free from motion, no, not Death himself
In moral fury half so peremptory,
As we to keep this city.",412,19078
646448,771,"Here's a stay
That shakes the rotten carcass of old Death
Out of his rags! Here's a large mouth, indeed,
That spits forth death and mountains, rocks and seas,
Talks as familiarly of roaring lions
As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!
What cannoneer begot this lusty blood?
He speaks plain cannon fire, and smoke and bounce;
He gives the bastinado with his tongue:
Our ears are cudgell'd; not a word of his
But buffets better than a fist of France:
Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words
Since I first call'd my brother's father dad.",882,19078
646449,784,"Son, list to this conjunction, make this match;
Give with our niece a dowry large enough:
For by this knot thou shalt so surely tie
Thy now unsured assurance to the crown,
That yon green boy shall have no sun to ripe
The bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit.
I see a yielding in the looks of France;
Mark, how they whisper: urge them while their souls
Are capable of this ambition,
Lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath
Of soft petitions, pity and remorse,
Cool and congeal again to what it was.",932,19078
646450,796,"Why answer not the double majesties
This friendly treaty of our threaten'd town?",412,19078
646451,798,"Speak England first, that hath been forward first
To speak unto this city: what say you?",638,19078
646452,800,"If that the Dauphin there, thy princely son,
Can in this book of beauty read 'I love,'
Her dowry shall weigh equal with a queen:
For Anjou and fair Touraine, Maine, Poictiers,
And all that we upon this side the sea,
Except this city now by us besieged,
Find liable to our crown and dignity,
Shall gild her bridal bed and make her rich
In titles, honours and promotions,
As she in beauty, education, blood,
Holds hand with any princess of the world.",637,19078
646453,811,"What say'st thou, boy? look in the lady's face.",638,19078
646454,812,"I do, my lord; and in her eye I find
A wonder, or a wondrous miracle,
The shadow of myself form'd in her eye:
Which being but the shadow of your son,
Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow:
I do protest I never loved myself
Till now infixed I beheld myself
Drawn in the flattering table of her eye.",669,19078
646455,820,[Whispers with BLANCH],1261,19078
646456,821,"Drawn in the flattering table of her eye!
Hang'd in the frowning wrinkle of her brow!
And quarter'd in her heart! he doth espy
Himself love's traitor: this is pity now,
That hang'd and drawn and quartered, there should be
In such a love so vile a lout as he.",882,19078
646457,827,"My uncle's will in this respect is mine:
If he see aught in you that makes him like,
That any thing he sees, which moves his liking,
I can with ease translate it to my will;
Or if you will, to speak more properly,
I will enforce it easily to my love.
Further I will not flatter you, my lord,
That all I see in you is worthy love,
Than this; that nothing do I see in you,
Though churlish thoughts themselves should be your judge,
That I can find should merit any hate.",173,19078
646458,838,What say these young ones? What say you my niece?,637,19078
646459,839,"That she is bound in honour still to do
What you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say.",173,19078
646460,841,"Speak then, prince Dauphin; can you love this lady?",637,19078
646461,842,"Nay, ask me if I can refrain from love;
For I do love her most unfeignedly.",669,19078
646462,844,"Then do I give Volquessen, Touraine, Maine,
Poictiers and Anjou, these five provinces,
With her to thee; and this addition more,
Full thirty thousand marks of English coin.
Philip of France, if thou be pleased withal,
Command thy son and daughter to join hands.",637,19078
646463,850,"It likes us well; young princes, close your hands.",638,19078
646464,851,"And your lips too; for I am well assured
That I did so when I was first assured.",721,19078
646465,853,"Now, citizens of Angiers, ope your gates,
Let in that amity which you have made;
For at Saint Mary's chapel presently
The rites of marriage shall be solemnized.
Is not the Lady Constance in this troop?
I know she is not, for this match made up
Her presence would have interrupted much:
Where is she and her son? tell me, who knows.",638,19078
646466,861,She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.,669,19078
646467,862,"And, by my faith, this league that we have made
Will give her sadness very little cure.
Brother of England, how may we content
This widow lady? In her right we came;
Which we, God knows, have turn'd another way,
To our own vantage.",638,19078
646468,868,"We will heal up all;
For we'll create young Arthur Duke of Bretagne
And Earl of Richmond; and this rich fair town
We make him lord of. Call the Lady Constance;
Some speedy messenger bid her repair
To our solemnity: I trust we shall,
If not fill up the measure of her will,
Yet in some measure satisfy her so
That we shall stop her exclamation.
Go we, as well as haste will suffer us,
To this unlook'd for, unprepared pomp.",637,19078
646469,879,[Exeunt all but the BASTARD],1261,19078
646470,880,"Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!
John, to stop Arthur's title in the whole,
Hath willingly departed with a part,
And France, whose armour conscience buckled on,
Whom zeal and charity brought to the field
As God's own soldier, rounded in the ear
With that same purpose-changer, that sly devil,
That broker, that still breaks the pate of faith,
That daily break-vow, he that wins of all,
Of kings, of beggars, old men, young men, maids,
Who, having no external thing to lose
But the word 'maid,' cheats the poor maid of that,
That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling Commodity,
Commodity, the bias of the world,
The world, who of itself is peised well,
Made to run even upon even ground,
Till this advantage, this vile-drawing bias,
This sway of motion, this Commodity,
Makes it take head from all indifferency,
From all direction, purpose, course, intent:
And this same bias, this Commodity,
This bawd, this broker, this all-changing word,
Clapp'd on the outward eye of fickle France,
Hath drawn him from his own determined aid,
From a resolved and honourable war,
To a most base and vile-concluded peace.
And why rail I on this Commodity?
But for because he hath not woo'd me yet:
Not that I have the power to clutch my hand,
When his fair angels would salute my palm;
But for my hand, as unattempted yet,
Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich.
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail
And say there is no sin but to be rich;
And being rich, my virtue then shall be
To say there is no vice but beggary.
Since kings break faith upon commodity,
Gain, be my lord, for I will worship thee.",882,19078
646471,918,[Exit],1261,19078
646472,921,"[Enter CONSTANCE, ARTHUR, and SALISBURY]",1261,19079
646473,922,"Gone to be married! gone to swear a peace!
False blood to false blood join'd! gone to be friends!
Shall Lewis have Blanch, and Blanch those provinces?
It is not so; thou hast misspoke, misheard:
Be well advised, tell o'er thy tale again:
It cannot be; thou dost but say 'tis so:
I trust I may not trust thee; for thy word
Is but the vain breath of a common man:
Believe me, I do not believe thee, man;
I have a king's oath to the contrary.
Thou shalt be punish'd for thus frighting me,
For I am sick and capable of fears,
Oppress'd with wrongs and therefore full of fears,
A widow, husbandless, subject to fears,
A woman, naturally born to fears;
And though thou now confess thou didst but jest,
With my vex'd spirits I cannot take a truce,
But they will quake and tremble all this day.
What dost thou mean by shaking of thy head?
Why dost thou look so sadly on my son?
What means that hand upon that breast of thine?
Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum,
Like a proud river peering o'er his bounds?
Be these sad signs confirmers of thy words?
Then speak again; not all thy former tale,
But this one word, whether thy tale be true.",280,19079
646474,948,"As true as I believe you think them false
That give you cause to prove my saying true.",966,19079
646475,950,"O, if thou teach me to believe this sorrow,
Teach thou this sorrow how to make me die,
And let belief and life encounter so
As doth the fury of two desperate men
Which in the very meeting fall and die.
Lewis marry Blanch! O boy, then where art thou?
France friend with England, what becomes of me?
Fellow, be gone: I cannot brook thy sight:
This news hath made thee a most ugly man.",280,19079
646476,959,"What other harm have I, good lady, done,
But spoke the harm that is by others done?",966,19079
646477,961,"Which harm within itself so heinous is
As it makes harmful all that speak of it.",280,19079
646478,963,"I do beseech you, madam, be content.",126,19079
646479,964,"If thou, that bid'st me be content, wert grim,
Ugly and slanderous to thy mother's womb,
Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains,
Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,
Patch'd with foul moles and eye-offending marks,
I would not care, I then would be content,
For then I should not love thee, no, nor thou
Become thy great birth nor deserve a crown.
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:
Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,
And with the half-blown rose. But Fortune, O,
She is corrupted, changed and won from thee;
She adulterates hourly with thine uncle John,
And with her golden hand hath pluck'd on France
To tread down fair respect of sovereignty,
And made his majesty the bawd to theirs.
France is a bawd to Fortune and King John,
That strumpet Fortune, that usurping John!
Tell me, thou fellow, is not France forsworn?
Envenom him with words, or get thee gone
And leave those woes alone which I alone
Am bound to under-bear.",280,19079
646480,987,"Pardon me, madam,
I may not go without you to the kings.",966,19079
646481,989,"Thou mayst, thou shalt; I will not go with thee:
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.
To me and to the state of my great grief
Let kings assemble; for my grief's so great
That no supporter but the huge firm earth
Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
[Seats herself on the ground]
[Enter KING JOHN, KING PHILLIP, LEWIS, BLANCH,]
QUEEN ELINOR, the BASTARD, AUSTRIA, and Attendants]",280,19079
646482,1000,"'Tis true, fair daughter; and this blessed day
Ever in France shall be kept festival:
To solemnize this day the glorious sun
Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,
Turning with splendor of his precious eye
The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold:
The yearly course that brings this day about
Shall never see it but a holiday.",638,19079
646483,1008,"A wicked day, and not a holy day!
[Rising]
What hath this day deserved? what hath it done,
That it in golden letters should be set
Among the high tides in the calendar?
Nay, rather turn this day out of the week,
This day of shame, oppression, perjury.
Or, if it must stand still, let wives with child
Pray that their burthens may not fall this day,
Lest that their hopes prodigiously be cross'd:
But on this day let seamen fear no wreck;
No bargains break that are not this day made:
This day, all things begun come to ill end,
Yea, faith itself to hollow falsehood change!",280,19079
646484,1022,"By heaven, lady, you shall have no cause
To curse the fair proceedings of this day:
Have I not pawn'd to you my majesty?",638,19079
646485,1025,"You have beguiled me with a counterfeit
Resembling majesty, which, being touch'd and tried,
Proves valueless: you are forsworn, forsworn;
You came in arms to spill mine enemies' blood,
But now in arms you strengthen it with yours:
The grappling vigour and rough frown of war
Is cold in amity and painted peace,
And our oppression hath made up this league.
Arm, arm, you heavens, against these perjured kings!
A widow cries; be husband to me, heavens!
Let not the hours of this ungodly day
Wear out the day in peace; but, ere sunset,
Set armed discord 'twixt these perjured kings!
Hear me, O, hear me!",280,19079
646486,1039,"Lady Constance, peace!",721,19079
646487,1040,"War! war! no peace! peace is to me a war
O Lymoges! O Austria! thou dost shame
That bloody spoil: thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
Thou little valiant, great in villany!
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight
But when her humorous ladyship is by
To teach thee safety! thou art perjured too,
And soothest up greatness. What a fool art thou,
A ramping fool, to brag and stamp and swear
Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave,
Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side,
Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend
Upon thy stars, thy fortune and thy strength,
And dost thou now fall over to my fores?
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.",280,19079
646488,1057,"O, that a man should speak those words to me!",721,19079
646489,1058,And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.,882,19079
646490,1059,"Thou darest not say so, villain, for thy life.",721,19079
646491,1060,And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.,882,19079
646492,1061,We like not this; thou dost forget thyself.,637,19079
646493,1062,[Enter CARDINAL PANDULPH],1261,19079
646494,1063,Here comes the holy legate of the pope.,638,19079
646495,1064,"Hail, you anointed deputies of heaven!
To thee, King John, my holy errand is.
I Pandulph, of fair Milan cardinal,
And from Pope Innocent the legate here,
Do in his name religiously demand
Why thou against the church, our holy mother,
So wilfully dost spurn; and force perforce
Keep Stephen Langton, chosen archbishop
Of Canterbury, from that holy see?
This, in our foresaid holy father's name,
Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee.",226,19079
646496,1075,"What earthy name to interrogatories
Can task the free breath of a sacred king?
Thou canst not, cardinal, devise a name
So slight, unworthy and ridiculous,
To charge me to an answer, as the pope.
Tell him this tale; and from the mouth of England
Add thus much more, that no Italian priest
Shall tithe or toll in our dominions;
But as we, under heaven, are supreme head,
So under Him that great supremacy,
Where we do reign, we will alone uphold,
Without the assistance of a mortal hand:
So tell the pope, all reverence set apart
To him and his usurp'd authority.",637,19079
646497,1089,"Brother of England, you blaspheme in this.",638,19079
646498,1090,"Though you and all the kings of Christendom
Are led so grossly by this meddling priest,
Dreading the curse that money may buy out;
And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust,
Purchase corrupted pardon of a man,
Who in that sale sells pardon from himself,
Though you and all the rest so grossly led
This juggling witchcraft with revenue cherish,
Yet I alone, alone do me oppose
Against the pope and count his friends my foes.",637,19079
646499,1100,"Then, by the lawful power that I have,
Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate.
And blessed shall he be that doth revolt
From his allegiance to an heretic;
And meritorious shall that hand be call'd,
Canonized and worshipped as a saint,
That takes away by any secret course
Thy hateful life.",226,19079
646500,1108,"O, lawful let it be
That I have room with Rome to curse awhile!
Good father cardinal, cry thou amen
To my keen curses; for without my wrong
There is no tongue hath power to curse him right.",280,19079
646501,1113,"There's law and warrant, lady, for my curse.",226,19079
646502,1114,"And for mine too: when law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong:
Law cannot give my child his kingdom here,
For he that holds his kingdom holds the law;
Therefore, since law itself is perfect wrong,
How can the law forbid my tongue to curse?",280,19079
646503,1120,"Philip of France, on peril of a curse,
Let go the hand of that arch-heretic;
And raise the power of France upon his head,
Unless he do submit himself to Rome.",226,19079
646504,1124,"Look'st thou pale, France? do not let go thy hand.",932,19079
646505,1125,"Look to that, devil; lest that France repent,
And by disjoining hands, hell lose a soul.",280,19079
646506,1127,"King Philip, listen to the cardinal.",721,19079
646507,1128,And hang a calf's-skin on his recreant limbs.,882,19079
646508,1129,"Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs, Because--",721,19079
646509,1130,Your breeches best may carry them.,882,19079
646510,1131,"Philip, what say'st thou to the cardinal?",637,19079
646511,1132,"What should he say, but as the cardinal?",280,19079
646512,1133,"Bethink you, father; for the difference
Is purchase of a heavy curse from Rome,
Or the light loss of England for a friend:
Forego the easier.",669,19079
646513,1137,That's the curse of Rome.,173,19079
646514,1138,"O Lewis, stand fast! the devil tempts thee here
In likeness of a new untrimmed bride.",280,19079
646515,1140,"The Lady Constance speaks not from her faith,
But from her need.",173,19079
646516,1142,"O, if thou grant my need,
Which only lives but by the death of faith,
That need must needs infer this principle,
That faith would live again by death of need.
O then, tread down my need, and faith mounts up;
Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down!",280,19079
646517,1148,"The king is moved, and answers not to this.",637,19079
646518,1149,"O, be removed from him, and answer well!",280,19079
646519,1150,"Do so, King Philip; hang no more in doubt.",721,19079
646520,1151,"Hang nothing but a calf's-skin, most sweet lout.",882,19079
646521,1152,"I am perplex'd, and know not what to say.",638,19079
646522,1153,"What canst thou say but will perplex thee more,
If thou stand excommunicate and cursed?",226,19079
646523,1155,"Good reverend father, make my person yours,
And tell me how you would bestow yourself.
This royal hand and mine are newly knit,
And the conjunction of our inward souls
Married in league, coupled and linked together
With all religious strength of sacred vows;
The latest breath that gave the sound of words
Was deep-sworn faith, peace, amity, true love
Between our kingdoms and our royal selves,
And even before this truce, but new before,
No longer than we well could wash our hands
To clap this royal bargain up of peace,
Heaven knows, they were besmear'd and over-stain'd
With slaughter's pencil, where revenge did paint
The fearful difference of incensed kings:
And shall these hands, so lately purged of blood,
So newly join'd in love, so strong in both,
Unyoke this seizure and this kind regreet?
Play fast and loose with faith? so jest with heaven,
Make such unconstant children of ourselves,
As now again to snatch our palm from palm,
Unswear faith sworn, and on the marriage-bed
Of smiling peace to march a bloody host,
And make a riot on the gentle brow
Of true sincerity? O, holy sir,
My reverend father, let it not be so!
Out of your grace, devise, ordain, impose
Some gentle order; and then we shall be blest
To do your pleasure and continue friends.",638,19079
646524,1184,"All form is formless, order orderless,
Save what is opposite to England's love.
Therefore to arms! be champion of our church,
Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse,
A mother's curse, on her revolting son.
France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,
A chafed lion by the mortal paw,
A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,
Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.",226,19079
646525,1193,"I may disjoin my hand, but not my faith.",638,19079
646526,1194,"So makest thou faith an enemy to faith;
And like a civil war set'st oath to oath,
Thy tongue against thy tongue. O, let thy vow
First made to heaven, first be to heaven perform'd,
That is, to be the champion of our church!
What since thou sworest is sworn against thyself
And may not be performed by thyself,
For that which thou hast sworn to do amiss
Is not amiss when it is truly done,
And being not done, where doing tends to ill,
The truth is then most done not doing it:
The better act of purposes mistook
Is to mistake again; though indirect,
Yet indirection thereby grows direct,
And falsehood falsehood cures, as fire cools fire
Within the scorched veins of one new-burn'd.
It is religion that doth make vows kept;
But thou hast sworn against religion,
By what thou swear'st against the thing thou swear'st,
And makest an oath the surety for thy truth
Against an oath: the truth thou art unsure
To swear, swears only not to be forsworn;
Else what a mockery should it be to swear!
But thou dost swear only to be forsworn;
And most forsworn, to keep what thou dost swear.
Therefore thy later vows against thy first
Is in thyself rebellion to thyself;
And better conquest never canst thou make
Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts
Against these giddy loose suggestions:
Upon which better part our prayers come in,
If thou vouchsafe them. But if not, then know
The peril of our curses light on thee
So heavy as thou shalt not shake them off,
But in despair die under their black weight.",226,19079
646527,1229,"Rebellion, flat rebellion!",721,19079
646528,1230,"Will't not be?
Will not a calfs-skin stop that mouth of thine?",882,19079
646529,1232,"Father, to arms!",669,19079
646530,1233,"Upon thy wedding-day?
Against the blood that thou hast married?
What, shall our feast be kept with slaughter'd men?
Shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums,
Clamours of hell, be measures to our pomp?
O husband, hear me! ay, alack, how new
Is husband in my mouth! even for that name,
Which till this time my tongue did ne'er pronounce,
Upon my knee I beg, go not to arms
Against mine uncle.",173,19079
646531,1243,"O, upon my knee,
Made hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee,
Thou virtuous Dauphin, alter not the doom
Forethought by heaven!",280,19079
646532,1247,"Now shall I see thy love: what motive may
Be stronger with thee than the name of wife?",173,19079
646533,1249,"That which upholdeth him that thee upholds,
His honour: O, thine honour, Lewis, thine honour!",280,19079
646534,1251,"I muse your majesty doth seem so cold,
When such profound respects do pull you on.",669,19079
646535,1253,I will denounce a curse upon his head.,226,19079
646536,1254,"Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall from thee.",638,19079
646537,1255,O fair return of banish'd majesty!,280,19079
646538,1256,O foul revolt of French inconstancy!,932,19079
646539,1257,"France, thou shalt rue this hour within this hour.",637,19079
646540,1258,"Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time,
Is it as he will? well then, France shall rue.",882,19079
646541,1260,"The sun's o'ercast with blood: fair day, adieu!
Which is the side that I must go withal?
I am with both: each army hath a hand;
And in their rage, I having hold of both,
They swirl asunder and dismember me.
Husband, I cannot pray that thou mayst win;
Uncle, I needs must pray that thou mayst lose;
Father, I may not wish the fortune thine;
Grandam, I will not wish thy fortunes thrive:
Whoever wins, on that side shall I lose
Assured loss before the match be play'd.",173,19079
646542,1271,"Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.",669,19079
646543,1272,"There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.",173,19079
646544,1273,"Cousin, go draw our puissance together.
[Exit BASTARD]
France, I am burn'd up with inflaming wrath;
A rage whose heat hath this condition,
That nothing can allay, nothing but blood,
The blood, and dearest-valued blood, of France.",637,19079
646545,1279,"Thy rage sham burn thee up, and thou shalt turn
To ashes, ere our blood shall quench that fire:
Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy.",638,19079
646546,1282,No more than he that threats. To arms let's hie!,637,19079
646547,1283,"[Exeunt]
[Alarums, excursions. Enter the BASTARD, with]
AUSTRIA'S head]",1261,19079
646548,1288,"Now, by my life, this day grows wondrous hot;
Some airy devil hovers in the sky
And pours down mischief. Austria's head lie there,
While Philip breathes.",882,19080
646549,1292,"[Enter KING JOHN, ARTHUR, and HUBERT]",1261,19080
646550,1293,"Hubert, keep this boy. Philip, make up:
My mother is assailed in our tent,
And ta'en, I fear.",637,19080
646551,1296,"My lord, I rescued her;
Her highness is in safety, fear you not:
But on, my liege; for very little pains
Will bring this labour to an happy end.",882,19080
646552,1300,"[Exeunt]
[Alarums, excursions, retreat. Enter KING JOHN,]
QUEEN ELINOR, ARTHUR, the BASTARD, HUBERT,
and Lords]",1261,19080
646553,1306,"[To QUEEN ELINOR] So shall it be; your grace shall
stay behind
So strongly guarded.
[To ARTHUR]
Cousin, look not sad:
Thy grandam loves thee; and thy uncle will
As dear be to thee as thy father was.",637,19081
646554,1313,"O, this will make my mother die with grief!",126,19081
646555,1314,"[To the BASTARD] Cousin, away for England!
haste before:
And, ere our coming, see thou shake the bags
Of hoarding abbots; imprisoned angels
Set at liberty: the fat ribs of peace
Must by the hungry now be fed upon:
Use our commission in his utmost force.",637,19081
646556,1321,"Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back,
When gold and silver becks me to come on.
I leave your highness. Grandam, I will pray,
If ever I remember to be holy,
For your fair safety; so, I kiss your hand.",882,19081
646557,1326,"Farewell, gentle cousin.",932,19081
646558,1327,"Coz, farewell.",637,19081
646559,1328,[Exit the BASTARD],1261,19081
646560,1329,"Come hither, little kinsman; hark, a word.",932,19081
646561,1330,"Come hither, Hubert. O my gentle Hubert,
We owe thee much! within this wall of flesh
There is a soul counts thee her creditor
And with advantage means to pay thy love:
And my good friend, thy voluntary oath
Lives in this bosom, dearly cherished.
Give me thy hand. I had a thing to say,
But I will fit it with some better time.
By heaven, Hubert, I am almost ashamed
To say what good respect I have of thee.",637,19081
646562,1340,I am much bounden to your majesty.,594,19081
646563,1341,"Good friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet,
But thou shalt have; and creep time ne'er so slow,
Yet it shall come from me to do thee good.
I had a thing to say, but let it go:
The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day,
Attended with the pleasures of the world,
Is all too wanton and too full of gawds
To give me audience: if the midnight bell
Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth,
Sound on into the drowsy race of night;
If this same were a churchyard where we stand,
And thou possessed with a thousand wrongs,
Or if that surly spirit, melancholy,
Had baked thy blood and made it heavy-thick,Which else runs tickling up and down the veins,
Making that idiot, laughter, keep men's eyes
And strain their cheeks to idle merriment,
A passion hateful to my purposes,
Or if that thou couldst see me without eyes,
Hear me without thine ears, and make reply
Without a tongue, using conceit alone,
Without eyes, ears and harmful sound of words;
Then, in despite of brooded watchful day,
I would into thy bosom pour my thoughts:
But, ah, I will not! yet I love thee well;
And, by my troth, I think thou lovest me well.",637,19081
646564,1366,"So well, that what you bid me undertake,
Though that my death were adjunct to my act,
By heaven, I would do it.",594,19081
646565,1369,"Do not I know thou wouldst?
Good Hubert, Hubert, Hubert, throw thine eye
On yon young boy: I'll tell thee what, my friend,
He is a very serpent in my way;
And whereso'er this foot of mine doth tread,
He lies before me: dost thou understand me?
Thou art his keeper.",637,19081
646566,1376,"And I'll keep him so,
That he shall not offend your majesty.",594,19081
646567,1378,Death.,637,19081
646568,1379,My lord?,594,19081
646569,1380,A grave.,637,19081
646570,1381,He shall not live.,594,19081
646571,1382,"Enough.
I could be merry now. Hubert, I love thee;
Well, I'll not say what I intend for thee:
Remember. Madam, fare you well:
I'll send those powers o'er to your majesty.",637,19081
646572,1387,My blessing go with thee!,932,19081
646573,1388,"For England, cousin, go:
Hubert shall be your man, attend on you
With all true duty. On toward Calais, ho!",637,19081
646574,1391,"[Exeunt]
[Enter KING PHILIP, LEWIS, CARDINAL PANDULPH,]
and Attendants]",1261,19081
646575,1396,"So, by a roaring tempest on the flood,
A whole armado of convicted sail
Is scatter'd and disjoin'd from fellowship.",638,19082
646576,1399,Courage and comfort! all shall yet go well.,226,19082
646577,1400,"What can go well, when we have run so ill?
Are we not beaten? Is not Angiers lost?
Arthur ta'en prisoner? divers dear friends slain?
And bloody England into England gone,
O'erbearing interruption, spite of France?",638,19082
646578,1405,"What he hath won, that hath he fortified:
So hot a speed with such advice disposed,
Such temperate order in so fierce a cause,
Doth want example: who hath read or heard
Of any kindred action like to this?",669,19082
646579,1410,"Well could I bear that England had this praise,
So we could find some pattern of our shame.
[Enter CONSTANCE]
Look, who comes here! a grave unto a soul;
Holding the eternal spirit against her will,
In the vile prison of afflicted breath.
I prithee, lady, go away with me.",638,19082
646580,1417,"Lo, now I now see the issue of your peace.",280,19082
646581,1418,"Patience, good lady! comfort, gentle Constance!",638,19082
646582,1419,"No, I defy all counsel, all redress,
But that which ends all counsel, true redress,
Death, death; O amiable lovely death!
Thou odouriferous stench! sound rottenness!
Arise forth from the couch of lasting night,
Thou hate and terror to prosperity,
And I will kiss thy detestable bones
And put my eyeballs in thy vaulty brows
And ring these fingers with thy household worms
And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust
And be a carrion monster like thyself:
Come, grin on me, and I will think thou smilest
And buss thee as thy wife. Misery's love,
O, come to me!",280,19082
646583,1433,"O fair affliction, peace!",638,19082
646584,1434,"No, no, I will not, having breath to cry:
O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
Then with a passion would I shake the world;
And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy
Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,
Which scorns a modern invocation.",280,19082
646585,1440,"Lady, you utter madness, and not sorrow.",226,19082
646586,1441,"Thou art not holy to belie me so;
I am not mad: this hair I tear is mine;
My name is Constance; I was Geffrey's wife;
Young Arthur is my son, and he is lost:
I am not mad: I would to heaven I were!
For then, 'tis like I should forget myself:
O, if I could, what grief should I forget!
Preach some philosophy to make me mad,
And thou shalt be canonized, cardinal;
For being not mad but sensible of grief,
My reasonable part produces reason
How I may be deliver'd of these woes,
And teaches me to kill or hang myself:
If I were mad, I should forget my son,
Or madly think a babe of clouts were he:
I am not mad; too well, too well I feel
The different plague of each calamity.",280,19082
646587,1458,"Bind up those tresses. O, what love I note
In the fair multitude of those her hairs!
Where but by chance a silver drop hath fallen,
Even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends
Do glue themselves in sociable grief,
Like true, inseparable, faithful loves,
Sticking together in calamity.",638,19082
646588,1465,"To England, if you will.",280,19082
646589,1466,Bind up your hairs.,638,19082
646590,1467,"Yes, that I will; and wherefore will I do it?
I tore them from their bonds and cried aloud
'O that these hands could so redeem my son,
As they have given these hairs their liberty!'
But now I envy at their liberty,
And will again commit them to their bonds,
Because my poor child is a prisoner.
And, father cardinal, I have heard you say
That we shall see and know our friends in heaven:
If that be true, I shall see my boy again;
For since the birth of Cain, the first male child,
To him that did but yesterday suspire,
There was not such a gracious creature born.
But now will canker-sorrow eat my bud
And chase the native beauty from his cheek
And he will look as hollow as a ghost,
As dim and meagre as an ague's fit,
And so he'll die; and, rising so again,
When I shall meet him in the court of heaven
I shall not know him: therefore never, never
Must I behold my pretty Arthur more.",280,19082
646591,1488,You hold too heinous a respect of grief.,226,19082
646592,1489,He talks to me that never had a son.,280,19082
646593,1490,You are as fond of grief as of your child.,638,19082
646594,1491,"Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;
Then, have I reason to be fond of grief?
Fare you well: had you such a loss as I,
I could give better comfort than you do.
I will not keep this form upon my head,
When there is such disorder in my wit.
O Lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son!
My life, my joy, my food, my all the world!
My widow-comfort, and my sorrows' cure!",280,19082
646595,1504,[Exit],1261,19082
646596,1505,"I fear some outrage, and I'll follow her.",638,19082
646597,1506,[Exit],1261,19082
646598,1507,"There's nothing in this world can make me joy:
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;
And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste
That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.",669,19082
646599,1512,"Before the curing of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit is strongest; evils that take leave,
On their departure most of all show evil:
What have you lost by losing of this day?",226,19082
646600,1517,"All days of glory, joy and happiness.",669,19082
646601,1518,"If you had won it, certainly you had.
No, no; when Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
'Tis strange to think how much King John hath lost
In this which he accounts so clearly won:
Are not you grieved that Arthur is his prisoner?",226,19082
646602,1524,As heartily as he is glad he hath him.,669,19082
646603,1525,"Your mind is all as youthful as your blood.
Now hear me speak with a prophetic spirit;
For even the breath of what I mean to speak
Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub,
Out of the path which shall directly lead
Thy foot to England's throne; and therefore mark.
John hath seized Arthur; and it cannot be
That, whiles warm life plays in that infant's veins,
The misplaced John should entertain an hour,
One minute, nay, one quiet breath of rest.
A sceptre snatch'd with an unruly hand
Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd;
And he that stands upon a slippery place
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up:
That John may stand, then Arthur needs must fall;
So be it, for it cannot be but so.",226,19082
646604,1541,But what shall I gain by young Arthur's fall?,669,19082
646605,1542,"You, in the right of Lady Blanch your wife,
May then make all the claim that Arthur did.",226,19082
646606,1544,"And lose it, life and all, as Arthur did.",669,19082
646607,1545,"How green you are and fresh in this old world!
John lays you plots; the times conspire with you;
For he that steeps his safety in true blood
Shall find but bloody safety and untrue.
This act so evilly born shall cool the hearts
Of all his people and freeze up their zeal,
That none so small advantage shall step forth
To cheque his reign, but they will cherish it;
No natural exhalation in the sky,
No scope of nature, no distemper'd day,
No common wind, no customed event,
But they will pluck away his natural cause
And call them meteors, prodigies and signs,
Abortives, presages and tongues of heaven,
Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John.",226,19082
646608,1560,"May be he will not touch young Arthur's life,
But hold himself safe in his prisonment.",669,19082
646609,1562,"O, sir, when he shall hear of your approach,
If that young Arthur be not gone already,
Even at that news he dies; and then the hearts
Of all his people shall revolt from him
And kiss the lips of unacquainted change
And pick strong matter of revolt and wrath
Out of the bloody fingers' ends of John.
Methinks I see this hurly all on foot:
And, O, what better matter breeds for you
Than I have named! The bastard Faulconbridge
Is now in England, ransacking the church,
Offending charity: if but a dozen French
Were there in arms, they would be as a call
To train ten thousand English to their side,
Or as a little snow, tumbled about,
Anon becomes a mountain. O noble Dauphin,
Go with me to the king: 'tis wonderful
What may be wrought out of their discontent,
Now that their souls are topful of offence.
For England go: I will whet on the king.",226,19082
646610,1582,"Strong reasons make strong actions: let us go:
If you say ay, the king will not say no.",669,19082
646611,1584,[Exeunt],1261,19082
646612,1587,[Enter HUBERT and Executioners],1261,19083
646613,1588,"Heat me these irons hot; and look thou stand
Within the arras: when I strike my foot
Upon the bosom of the ground, rush forth,
And bind the boy which you shall find with me
Fast to the chair: be heedful: hence, and watch.",594,19083
646614,1593,I hope your warrant will bear out the deed.,415,19083
646615,1594,"Uncleanly scruples! fear not you: look to't.
[Exeunt Executioners]
Young lad, come forth; I have to say with you.",594,19083
646616,1597,[Enter ARTHUR],1261,19083
646617,1598,"Good morrow, Hubert.",126,19083
646618,1599,"Good morrow, little prince.",594,19083
646619,1600,"As little prince, having so great a title
To be more prince, as may be. You are sad.",126,19083
646620,1602,"Indeed, I have been merrier.",594,19083
646621,1603,"Mercy on me!
Methinks no body should be sad but I:
Yet, I remember, when I was in France,
Young gentlemen would be as sad as night,
Only for wantonness. By my christendom,
So I were out of prison and kept sheep,
I should be as merry as the day is long;
And so I would be here, but that I doubt
My uncle practises more harm to me:
He is afraid of me and I of him:
Is it my fault that I was Geffrey's son?
No, indeed, is't not; and I would to heaven
I were your son, so you would love me, Hubert.",126,19083
646622,1616,"[Aside] If I talk to him, with his innocent prate
He will awake my mercy which lies dead:
Therefore I will be sudden and dispatch.",594,19083
646623,1619,"Are you sick, Hubert? you look pale to-day:
In sooth, I would you were a little sick,
That I might sit all night and watch with you:
I warrant I love you more than you do me.",126,19083
646624,1623,"[Aside] His words do take possession of my bosom.
Read here, young Arthur.
[Showing a paper]
[Aside]
How now, foolish rheum!
Turning dispiteous torture out of door!
I must be brief, lest resolution drop
Out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears.
Can you not read it? Is it not fair writ?",594,19083
646625,1632,"Too fairly, Hubert, for so foul effect:
Must you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes?",126,19083
646626,1634,"Young boy, I must.",594,19083
646627,1635,And will you?,126,19083
646628,1636,And I will.,594,19083
646629,1637,"Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handercher about your brows,
The best I had, a princess wrought it me,
And I did never ask it you again;
And with my hand at midnight held your head,
And like the watchful minutes to the hour,
Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time,
Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?'
Or 'What good love may I perform for you?'
Many a poor man's son would have lien still
And ne'er have spoke a loving word to you;
But you at your sick service had a prince.
Nay, you may think my love was crafty love
And call it cunning: do, an if you will:
If heaven be pleased that you must use me ill,
Why then you must. Will you put out mine eyes?
These eyes that never did nor never shall
So much as frown on you.",126,19083
646630,1655,"I have sworn to do it;
And with hot irons must I burn them out.",594,19083
646631,1657,"Ah, none but in this iron age would do it!
The iron of itself, though heat red-hot,
Approaching near these eyes, would drink my tears
And quench his fiery indignation
Even in the matter of mine innocence;
Nay, after that, consume away in rust
But for containing fire to harm mine eye.
Are you more stubborn-hard than hammer'd iron?
An if an angel should have come to me
And told me Hubert should put out mine eyes,
I would not have believed him,--no tongue but Hubert's.",126,19083
646632,1668,"Come forth.
[Stamps]
[Re-enter Executioners, with a cord, irons, &c]
Do as I bid you do.",594,19083
646633,1672,"O, save me, Hubert, save me! my eyes are out
Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men.",126,19083
646634,1674,"Give me the iron, I say, and bind him here.",594,19083
646635,1675,"Alas, what need you be so boisterous-rough?
I will not struggle, I will stand stone-still.
For heaven sake, Hubert, let me not be bound!
Nay, hear me, Hubert, drive these men away,
And I will sit as quiet as a lamb;
I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word,
Nor look upon the iron angerly:
Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you,
Whatever torment you do put me to.",126,19083
646636,1684,"Go, stand within; let me alone with him.",594,19083
646637,1685,I am best pleased to be from such a deed.,415,19083
646638,1686,[Exeunt Executioners],1261,19083
646639,1687,"Alas, I then have chid away my friend!
He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart:
Let him come back, that his compassion may
Give life to yours.",126,19083
646640,1691,"Come, boy, prepare yourself.",594,19083
646641,1692,Is there no remedy?,126,19083
646642,1693,"None, but to lose your eyes.",594,19083
646643,1694,"O heaven, that there were but a mote in yours,
A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,
Any annoyance in that precious sense!
Then feeling what small things are boisterous there,
Your vile intent must needs seem horrible.",126,19083
646644,1699,"Is this your promise? go to, hold your tongue.",594,19083
646645,1700,"Hubert, the utterance of a brace of tongues
Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes:
Let me not hold my tongue, let me not, Hubert;
Or, Hubert, if you will, cut out my tongue,
So I may keep mine eyes: O, spare mine eyes.
Though to no use but still to look on you!
Lo, by my truth, the instrument is cold
And would not harm me.",126,19083
646646,1708,"I can heat it, boy.",594,19083
646647,1709,"No, in good sooth: the fire is dead with grief,
Being create for comfort, to be used
In undeserved extremes: see else yourself;
There is no malice in this burning coal;
The breath of heaven has blown his spirit out
And strew'd repentent ashes on his head.",126,19083
646648,1715,"But with my breath I can revive it, boy.",594,19083
646649,1716,"An if you do, you will but make it blush
And glow with shame of your proceedings, Hubert:
Nay, it perchance will sparkle in your eyes;
And like a dog that is compell'd to fight,
Snatch at his master that doth tarre him on.
All things that you should use to do me wrong
Deny their office: only you do lack
That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends,
Creatures of note for mercy-lacking uses.",126,19083
646650,1725,"Well, see to live; I will not touch thine eye
For all the treasure that thine uncle owes:
Yet am I sworn and I did purpose, boy,
With this same very iron to burn them out.",594,19083
646651,1729,"O, now you look like Hubert! all this while
You were disguised.",126,19083
646652,1731,"Peace; no more. Adieu.
Your uncle must not know but you are dead;
I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports:
And, pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure,
That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world,
Will not offend thee.",594,19083
646653,1737,"O heaven! I thank you, Hubert.",126,19083
646654,1738,"Silence; no more: go closely in with me:
Much danger do I undergo for thee.",594,19083
646655,1740,[Exeunt],1261,19083
646656,1743,"[Enter KING JOHN, PEMBROKE, SALISBURY, and other Lords]",1261,19084
646657,1744,"Here once again we sit, once again crown'd,
And looked upon, I hope, with cheerful eyes.",637,19084
646658,1746,"This 'once again,' but that your highness pleased,
Was once superfluous: you were crown'd before,
And that high royalty was ne'er pluck'd off,
The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt;
Fresh expectation troubled not the land
With any long'd-for change or better state.",869,19084
646659,1752,"Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.",966,19084
646660,1760,"But that your royal pleasure must be done,
This act is as an ancient tale new told,
And in the last repeating troublesome,
Being urged at a time unseasonable.",869,19084
646661,1764,"In this the antique and well noted face
Of plain old form is much disfigured;
And, like a shifted wind unto a sail,
It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about,
Startles and frights consideration,
Makes sound opinion sick and truth suspected,
For putting on so new a fashion'd robe.",966,19084
646662,1771,"When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness;
And oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,
As patches set upon a little breach
Discredit more in hiding of the fault
Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.",869,19084
646663,1778,"To this effect, before you were new crown'd,
We breathed our counsel: but it pleased your highness
To overbear it, and we are all well pleased,
Since all and every part of what we would
Doth make a stand at what your highness will.",966,19084
646664,1783,"Some reasons of this double coronation
I have possess'd you with and think them strong;
And more, more strong, then lesser is my fear,
I shall indue you with: meantime but ask
What you would have reform'd that is not well,
And well shall you perceive how willingly
I will both hear and grant you your requests.",637,19084
646665,1790,"Then I, as one that am the tongue of these,
To sound the purpose of all their hearts,
Both for myself and them, but, chief of all,
Your safety, for the which myself and them
Bend their best studies, heartily request
The enfranchisement of Arthur; whose restraint
Doth move the murmuring lips of discontent
To break into this dangerous argument,--
If what in rest you have in right you hold,
Why then your fears, which, as they say, attend
The steps of wrong, should move you to mew up
Your tender kinsman and to choke his days
With barbarous ignorance and deny his youth
The rich advantage of good exercise?
That the time's enemies may not have this
To grace occasions, let it be our suit
That you have bid us ask his liberty;
Which for our goods we do no further ask
Than whereupon our weal, on you depending,
Counts it your weal he have his liberty.",869,19084
646666,1810,[Enter HUBERT],1261,19084
646667,1811,"Let it be so: I do commit his youth
To your direction. Hubert, what news with you?",637,19084
646668,1813,[Taking him apart],1261,19084
646669,1814,"This is the man should do the bloody deed;
He show'd his warrant to a friend of mine:
The image of a wicked heinous fault
Lives in his eye; that close aspect of his
Does show the mood of a much troubled breast;
And I do fearfully believe 'tis done,
What we so fear'd he had a charge to do.",869,19084
646670,1821,"The colour of the king doth come and go
Between his purpose and his conscience,
Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set:
His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.",966,19084
646671,1825,"And when it breaks, I fear will issue thence
The foul corruption of a sweet child's death.",869,19084
646672,1827,"We cannot hold mortality's strong hand:
Good lords, although my will to give is living,
The suit which you demand is gone and dead:
He tells us Arthur is deceased to-night.",637,19084
646673,1831,Indeed we fear'd his sickness was past cure.,966,19084
646674,1832,"Indeed we heard how near his death he was
Before the child himself felt he was sick:
This must be answer'd either here or hence.",869,19084
646675,1835,"Why do you bend such solemn brows on me?
Think you I bear the shears of destiny?
Have I commandment on the pulse of life?",637,19084
646676,1838,"It is apparent foul play; and 'tis shame
That greatness should so grossly offer it:
So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.",966,19084
646677,1841,"Stay yet, Lord Salisbury; I'll go with thee,
And find the inheritance of this poor child,
His little kingdom of a forced grave.
That blood which owed the breadth of all this isle,
Three foot of it doth hold: bad world the while!
This must not be thus borne: this will break out
To all our sorrows, and ere long I doubt.",869,19084
646678,1848,[Exeunt Lords],1261,19084
646679,1849,"They burn in indignation. I repent:
There is no sure foundation set on blood,
No certain life achieved by others' death.
[Enter a Messenger]
A fearful eye thou hast: where is that blood
That I have seen inhabit in those cheeks?
So foul a sky clears not without a storm:
Pour down thy weather: how goes all in France?",637,19084
646680,1857,"From France to England. Never such a power
For any foreign preparation
Was levied in the body of a land.
The copy of your speed is learn'd by them;
For when you should be told they do prepare,
The tidings come that they are all arrived.",781,19084
646681,1863,"O, where hath our intelligence been drunk?
Where hath it slept? Where is my mother's care,
That such an army could be drawn in France,
And she not hear of it?",637,19084
646682,1867,"My liege, her ear
Is stopp'd with dust; the first of April died
Your noble mother: and, as I hear, my lord,
The Lady Constance in a frenzy died
Three days before: but this from rumour's tongue
I idly heard; if true or false I know not.",781,19084
646683,1873,"Withhold thy speed, dreadful occasion!
O, make a league with me, till I have pleased
My discontented peers! What! mother dead!
How wildly then walks my estate in France!
Under whose conduct came those powers of France
That thou for truth givest out are landed here?",637,19084
646684,1879,Under the Dauphin.,781,19084
646685,1880,"Thou hast made me giddy
With these ill tidings.
[Enter the BASTARD and PETER of Pomfret]
Now, what says the world
To your proceedings? do not seek to stuff
My head with more ill news, for it is full.",637,19084
646686,1886,"But if you be afeard to hear the worst,
Then let the worst unheard fall on your bead.",882,19084
646687,1888,"Bear with me cousin, for I was amazed
Under the tide: but now I breathe again
Aloft the flood, and can give audience
To any tongue, speak it of what it will.",637,19084
646688,1892,"How I have sped among the clergymen,
The sums I have collected shall express.
But as I travell'd hither through the land,
I find the people strangely fantasied;
Possess'd with rumours, full of idle dreams,
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear:
And here a prophet, that I brought with me
From forth the streets of Pomfret, whom I found
With many hundreds treading on his heels;
To whom he sung, in rude harsh-sounding rhymes,
That, ere the next Ascension-day at noon,
Your highness should deliver up your crown.",882,19084
646689,1904,"Thou idle dreamer, wherefore didst thou so?",637,19084
646690,1905,Foreknowing that the truth will fall out so.,874,19084
646691,1906,"Hubert, away with him; imprison him;
And on that day at noon whereon he says
I shall yield up my crown, let him be hang'd.
Deliver him to safety; and return,
For I must use thee.
[Exeunt HUBERT with PETER]
O my gentle cousin,
Hear'st thou the news abroad, who are arrived?",637,19084
646692,1914,"The French, my lord; men's mouths are full of it:
Besides, I met Lord Bigot and Lord Salisbury,
With eyes as red as new-enkindled fire,
And others more, going to seek the grave
Of Arthur, who they say is kill'd to-night
On your suggestion.",882,19084
646693,1920,"Gentle kinsman, go,
And thrust thyself into their companies:
I have a way to win their loves again;
Bring them before me.",637,19084
646694,1924,I will seek them out.,882,19084
646695,1925,"Nay, but make haste; the better foot before.
O, let me have no subject enemies,
When adverse foreigners affright my towns
With dreadful pomp of stout invasion!
Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels,
And fly like thought from them to me again.",637,19084
646696,1931,The spirit of the time shall teach me speed.,882,19084
646697,1932,[Exit],1261,19084
646698,1933,"Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman.
Go after him; for he perhaps shall need
Some messenger betwixt me and the peers;
And be thou he.",637,19084
646699,1937,"With all my heart, my liege.",781,19084
646700,1938,[Exit],1261,19084
646701,1939,My mother dead!,637,19084
646702,1940,[Re-enter HUBERT],1261,19084
646703,1941,"My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night;
Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about
The other four in wondrous motion.",594,19084
646704,1944,Five moons!,637,19084
646705,1945,"Old men and beldams in the streets
Do prophesy upon it dangerously:
Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths:
And when they talk of him, they shake their heads
And whisper one another in the ear;
And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist,
Whilst he that hears makes fearful action,
With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes.
I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool,
With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news;
Who, with his shears and measure in his hand,
Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste
Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet,
Told of a many thousand warlike French
That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent:
Another lean unwash'd artificer
Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.",594,19084
646706,1963,"Why seek'st thou to possess me with these fears?
Why urgest thou so oft young Arthur's death?
Thy hand hath murder'd him: I had a mighty cause
To wish him dead, but thou hadst none to kill him.",637,19084
646707,1967,"No had, my lord! why, did you not provoke me?",594,19084
646708,1968,"It is the curse of kings to be attended
By slaves that take their humours for a warrant
To break within the bloody house of life,
And on the winking of authority
To understand a law, to know the meaning
Of dangerous majesty, when perchance it frowns
More upon humour than advised respect.",637,19084
646709,1975,Here is your hand and seal for what I did.,594,19084
646710,1976,"O, when the last account 'twixt heaven and earth
Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal
Witness against us to damnation!
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Make deeds ill done! Hadst not thou been by,
A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd,
Quoted and sign'd to do a deed of shame,
This murder had not come into my mind:
But taking note of thy abhorr'd aspect,
Finding thee fit for bloody villany,
Apt, liable to be employ'd in danger,
I faintly broke with thee of Arthur's death;
And thou, to be endeared to a king,
Made it no conscience to destroy a prince.",637,19084
646711,1990,My lord--,594,19084
646712,1991,"Hadst thou but shook thy head or made a pause
When I spake darkly what I purposed,
Or turn'd an eye of doubt upon my face,
As bid me tell my tale in express words,
Deep shame had struck me dumb, made me break off,
And those thy fears might have wrought fears in me:
But thou didst understand me by my signs
And didst in signs again parley with sin;
Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart consent,
And consequently thy rude hand to act
The deed, which both our tongues held vile to name.
Out of my sight, and never see me more!
My nobles leave me; and my state is braved,
Even at my gates, with ranks of foreign powers:
Nay, in the body of this fleshly land,
This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath,
Hostility and civil tumult reigns
Between my conscience and my cousin's death.",637,19084
646713,2009,"Arm you against your other enemies,
I'll make a peace between your soul and you.
Young Arthur is alive: this hand of mine
Is yet a maiden and an innocent hand,
Not painted with the crimson spots of blood.
Within this bosom never enter'd yet
The dreadful motion of a murderous thought;
And you have slander'd nature in my form,
Which, howsoever rude exteriorly,
Is yet the cover of a fairer mind
Than to be butcher of an innocent child.",594,19084
646714,2020,"Doth Arthur live? O, haste thee to the peers,
Throw this report on their incensed rage,
And make them tame to their obedience!
Forgive the comment that my passion made
Upon thy feature; for my rage was blind,
And foul imaginary eyes of blood
Presented thee more hideous than thou art.
O, answer not, but to my closet bring
The angry lords with all expedient haste.
I conjure thee but slowly; run more fast.",637,19084
646715,2030,[Exeunt],1261,19084
646716,2033,"[Enter ARTHUR, on the walls]",1261,19085
646717,2034,"The wall is high, and yet will I leap down:
Good ground, be pitiful and hurt me not!
There's few or none do know me: if they did,
This ship-boy's semblance hath disguised me quite.
I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
If I get down, and do not break my limbs,
I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:
As good to die and go, as die and stay.
[Leaps down]
O me! my uncle's spirit is in these stones:
Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!",126,19085
646718,2045,[Dies],1261,19085
646719,2046,"[Enter PEMBROKE, SALISBURY, and BIGOT]",1261,19085
646720,2047,"Lords, I will meet him at Saint Edmundsbury:
It is our safety, and we must embrace
This gentle offer of the perilous time.",966,19085
646721,2050,Who brought that letter from the cardinal?,869,19085
646722,2051,"The Count Melun, a noble lord of France,
Whose private with me of the Dauphin's love
Is much more general than these lines import.",966,19085
646723,2054,To-morrow morning let us meet him then.,168,19085
646724,2055,"Or rather then set forward; for 'twill be
Two long days' journey, lords, or ere we meet.",966,19085
646725,2057,[Enter the BASTARD],1261,19085
646726,2058,"Once more to-day well met, distemper'd lords!
The king by me requests your presence straight.",882,19085
646727,2060,"The king hath dispossess'd himself of us:
We will not line his thin bestained cloak
With our pure honours, nor attend the foot
That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.
Return and tell him so: we know the worst.",966,19085
646728,2065,"Whate'er you think, good words, I think, were best.",882,19085
646729,2066,"Our griefs, and not our manners, reason now.",966,19085
646730,2067,"But there is little reason in your grief;
Therefore 'twere reason you had manners now.",882,19085
646731,2069,"Sir, sir, impatience hath his privilege.",869,19085
646732,2070,"'Tis true, to hurt his master, no man else.",882,19085
646733,2071,This is the prison. What is he lies here?,966,19085
646734,2072,[Seeing ARTHUR],1261,19085
646735,2073,"O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!
The earth had not a hole to hide this deed.",869,19085
646736,2075,"Murder, as hating what himself hath done,
Doth lay it open to urge on revenge.",966,19085
646737,2077,"Or, when he doom'd this beauty to a grave,
Found it too precious-princely for a grave.",168,19085
646738,2079,"Sir Richard, what think you? have you beheld,
Or have you read or heard? or could you think?
Or do you almost think, although you see,
That you do see? could thought, without this object,
Form such another? This is the very top,
The height, the crest, or crest unto the crest,
Of murder's arms: this is the bloodiest shame,
The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
Presented to the tears of soft remorse.",966,19085
646739,2089,"All murders past do stand excused in this:
And this, so sole and so unmatchable,
Shall give a holiness, a purity,
To the yet unbegotten sin of times;
And prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest,
Exampled by this heinous spectacle.",869,19085
646740,2095,"It is a damned and a bloody work;
The graceless action of a heavy hand,
If that it be the work of any hand.",882,19085
646741,2098,"If that it be the work of any hand!
We had a kind of light what would ensue:
It is the shameful work of Hubert's hand;
The practise and the purpose of the king:
From whose obedience I forbid my soul,
Kneeling before this ruin of sweet life,
And breathing to his breathless excellence
The incense of a vow, a holy vow,
Never to taste the pleasures of the world,
Never to be infected with delight,
Nor conversant with ease and idleness,
Till I have set a glory to this hand,
By giving it the worship of revenge.",966,19085
646742,2111,[with Bigot] Our souls religiously confirm thy words.,869,19085
646743,2112,[Enter HUBERT],1261,19085
646744,2113,"Lords, I am hot with haste in seeking you:
Arthur doth live; the king hath sent for you.",594,19085
646745,2115,"O, he is old and blushes not at death.
Avaunt, thou hateful villain, get thee gone!",966,19085
646746,2117,I am no villain.,594,19085
646747,2118,Must I rob the law?,966,19085
646748,2119,[Drawing his sword],1261,19085
646749,2120,"Your sword is bright, sir; put it up again.",882,19085
646750,2121,Not till I sheathe it in a murderer's skin.,966,19085
646751,2122,"Stand back, Lord Salisbury, stand back, I say;
By heaven, I think my sword's as sharp as yours:
I would not have you, lord, forget yourself,
Nor tempt the danger of my true defence;
Lest I, by marking of your rage, forget
Your worth, your greatness and nobility.",594,19085
646752,2128,"Out, dunghill! darest thou brave a nobleman?",168,19085
646753,2129,"Not for my life: but yet I dare defend
My innocent life against an emperor.",594,19085
646754,2131,Thou art a murderer.,966,19085
646755,2132,"Do not prove me so;
Yet I am none: whose tongue soe'er speaks false,
Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies.",594,19085
646756,2135,Cut him to pieces.,869,19085
646757,2136,"Keep the peace, I say.",882,19085
646758,2137,"Stand by, or I shall gall you, Faulconbridge.",966,19085
646759,2138,"Thou wert better gall the devil, Salisbury:
If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot,
Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame,
I'll strike thee dead. Put up thy sword betime;
Or I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron,
That you shall think the devil is come from hell.",882,19085
646760,2144,"What wilt thou do, renowned Faulconbridge?
Second a villain and a murderer?",168,19085
646761,2146,"Lord Bigot, I am none.",594,19085
646762,2147,Who kill'd this prince?,168,19085
646763,2148,"'Tis not an hour since I left him well:
I honour'd him, I loved him, and will weep
My date of life out for his sweet life's loss.",594,19085
646764,2151,"Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
For villany is not without such rheum;
And he, long traded in it, makes it seem
Like rivers of remorse and innocency.
Away with me, all you whose souls abhor
The uncleanly savours of a slaughter-house;
For I am stifled with this smell of sin.",966,19085
646765,2158,"Away toward Bury, to the Dauphin there!",168,19085
646766,2159,There tell the king he may inquire us out.,869,19085
646767,2160,[Exeunt Lords],1261,19085
646768,2161,"Here's a good world! Knew you of this fair work?
Beyond the infinite and boundless reach
Of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death,
Art thou damn'd, Hubert.",882,19085
646769,2165,"Do but hear me, sir.",594,19085
646770,2166,"Ha! I'll tell thee what;
Thou'rt damn'd as black--nay, nothing is so black;
Thou art more deep damn'd than Prince Lucifer:
There is not yet so ugly a fiend of hell
As thou shalt be, if thou didst kill this child.",882,19085
646771,2171,Upon my soul--,594,19085
646772,2172,"If thou didst but consent
To this most cruel act, do but despair;
And if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread
That ever spider twisted from her womb
Will serve to strangle thee, a rush will be a beam
To hang thee on; or wouldst thou drown thyself,
Put but a little water in a spoon,
And it shall be as all the ocean,
Enough to stifle such a villain up.
I do suspect thee very grievously.",882,19085
646773,2182,"If I in act, consent, or sin of thought,
Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath
Which was embounded in this beauteous clay,
Let hell want pains enough to torture me.
I left him well.",594,19085
646774,2187,"Go, bear him in thine arms.
I am amazed, methinks, and lose my way
Among the thorns and dangers of this world.
How easy dost thou take all England up!
From forth this morsel of dead royalty,
The life, the right and truth of all this realm
Is fled to heaven; and England now is left
To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth
The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.
Now for the bare-pick'd bone of majesty
Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest
And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace:
Now powers from home and discontents at home
Meet in one line; and vast confusion waits,
As doth a raven on a sick-fall'n beast,
The imminent decay of wrested pomp.
Now happy he whose cloak and cincture can
Hold out this tempest. Bear away that child
And follow me with speed: I'll to the king:
A thousand businesses are brief in hand,
And heaven itself doth frown upon the land.",882,19085
646775,2208,[Exeunt],1261,19085
646776,2211,"[Enter KING JOHN, CARDINAL PANDULPH, and Attendants]",1261,19086
646777,2212,"Thus have I yielded up into your hand
The circle of my glory.",637,19086
646778,2214,[Giving the crown],1261,19086
646779,2215,"Take again
From this my hand, as holding of the pope
Your sovereign greatness and authority.",226,19086
646780,2218,"Now keep your holy word: go meet the French,
And from his holiness use all your power
To stop their marches 'fore we are inflamed.
Our discontented counties do revolt;
Our people quarrel with obedience,
Swearing allegiance and the love of soul
To stranger blood, to foreign royalty.
This inundation of mistemper'd humour
Rests by you only to be qualified:
Then pause not; for the present time's so sick,
That present medicine must be minister'd,
Or overthrow incurable ensues.",637,19086
646781,2230,"It was my breath that blew this tempest up,
Upon your stubborn usage of the pope;
But since you are a gentle convertite,
My tongue shall hush again this storm of war
And make fair weather in your blustering land.
On this Ascension-day, remember well,
Upon your oath of service to the pope,
Go I to make the French lay down their arms.",226,19086
646782,2238,[Exit],1261,19086
646783,2239,"Is this Ascension-day? Did not the prophet
Say that before Ascension-day at noon
My crown I should give off? Even so I have:
I did suppose it should be on constraint:
But, heaven be thank'd, it is but voluntary.",637,19086
646784,2244,[Enter the BASTARD],1261,19086
646785,2245,"All Kent hath yielded; nothing there holds out
But Dover castle: London hath received,
Like a kind host, the Dauphin and his powers:
Your nobles will not hear you, but are gone
To offer service to your enemy,
And wild amazement hurries up and down
The little number of your doubtful friends.",882,19086
646786,2252,"Would not my lords return to me again,
After they heard young Arthur was alive?",637,19086
646787,2254,"They found him dead and cast into the streets,
An empty casket, where the jewel of life
By some damn'd hand was robb'd and ta'en away.",882,19086
646788,2257,That villain Hubert told me he did live.,637,19086
646789,2258,"So, on my soul, he did, for aught he knew.
But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?
Be great in act, as you have been in thought;
Let not the world see fear and sad distrust
Govern the motion of a kingly eye:
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;
Threaten the threatener and outface the brow
Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes,
That borrow their behaviors from the great,
Grow great by your example and put on
The dauntless spirit of resolution.
Away, and glister like the god of war,
When he intendeth to become the field:
Show boldness and aspiring confidence.
What, shall they seek the lion in his den,
And fright him there? and make him tremble there?
O, let it not be said: forage, and run
To meet displeasure farther from the doors,
And grapple with him ere he comes so nigh.",882,19086
646790,2277,"The legate of the pope hath been with me,
And I have made a happy peace with him;
And he hath promised to dismiss the powers
Led by the Dauphin.",637,19086
646791,2281,"O inglorious league!
Shall we, upon the footing of our land,
Send fair-play orders and make compromise,
Insinuation, parley and base truce
To arms invasive? shall a beardless boy,
A cocker'd silken wanton, brave our fields,
And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
And find no cheque? Let us, my liege, to arms:
Perchance the cardinal cannot make your peace;
Or if he do, let it at least be said
They saw we had a purpose of defence.",882,19086
646792,2293,Have thou the ordering of this present time.,637,19086
646793,2294,"Away, then, with good courage! yet, I know,
Our party may well meet a prouder foe.",882,19086
646794,2296,"[Exeunt]
[Enter, in arms, LEWIS, SALISBURY, MELUN, PEMBROKE,]
BIGOT, and Soldiers]",1261,19086
646795,2301,"My Lord Melun, let this be copied out,
And keep it safe for our remembrance:
Return the precedent to these lords again;
That, having our fair order written down,
Both they and we, perusing o'er these notes,
May know wherefore we took the sacrament
And keep our faiths firm and inviolable.",669,19087
646796,2308,"Upon our sides it never shall be broken.
And, noble Dauphin, albeit we swear
A voluntary zeal and an unurged faith
To your proceedings; yet believe me, prince,
I am not glad that such a sore of time
Should seek a plaster by contemn'd revolt,
And heal the inveterate canker of one wound
By making many. O, it grieves my soul,
That I must draw this metal from my side
To be a widow-maker! O, and there
Where honourable rescue and defence
Cries out upon the name of Salisbury!
But such is the infection of the time,
That, for the health and physic of our right,
We cannot deal but with the very hand
Of stern injustice and confused wrong.
And is't not pity, O my grieved friends,
That we, the sons and children of this isle,
Were born to see so sad an hour as this;
Wherein we step after a stranger march
Upon her gentle bosom, and fill up
Her enemies' ranks,--I must withdraw and weep
Upon the spot of this enforced cause,--
To grace the gentry of a land remote,
And follow unacquainted colours here?
What, here? O nation, that thou couldst remove!
That Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about,
Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself,
And grapple thee unto a pagan shore;
Where these two Christian armies might combine
The blood of malice in a vein of league,
And not to spend it so unneighbourly!",966,19087
646797,2340,"A noble temper dost thou show in this;
And great affections wrestling in thy bosom
Doth make an earthquake of nobility.
O, what a noble combat hast thou fought
Between compulsion and a brave respect!
Let me wipe off this honourable dew,
That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks:
My heart hath melted at a lady's tears,
Being an ordinary inundation;
But this effusion of such manly drops,
This shower, blown up by tempest of the soul,
Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amazed
Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven
Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.
Lift up thy brow, renowned Salisbury,
And with a great heart heave away the storm:
Commend these waters to those baby eyes
That never saw the giant world enraged;
Nor met with fortune other than at feasts,
Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping.
Come, come; for thou shalt thrust thy hand as deep
Into the purse of rich prosperity
As Lewis himself: so, nobles, shall you all,
That knit your sinews to the strength of mine.
And even there, methinks, an angel spake:
[Enter CARDINAL PANDULPH]
Look, where the holy legate comes apace,
To give us warrant from the hand of heaven
And on our actions set the name of right
With holy breath.",669,19087
646798,2370,"Hail, noble prince of France!
The next is this, King John hath reconciled
Himself to Rome; his spirit is come in,
That so stood out against the holy church,
The great metropolis and see of Rome:
Therefore thy threatening colours now wind up;
And tame the savage spirit of wild war,
That like a lion foster'd up at hand,
It may lie gently at the foot of peace,
And be no further harmful than in show.",226,19087
646799,2380,"Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back:
I am too high-born to be propertied,
To be a secondary at control,
Or useful serving-man and instrument,
To any sovereign state throughout the world.
Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars
Between this chastised kingdom and myself,
And brought in matter that should feed this fire;
And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out
With that same weak wind which enkindled it.
You taught me how to know the face of right,
Acquainted me with interest to this land,
Yea, thrust this enterprise into my heart;
And come ye now to tell me John hath made
His peace with Rome? What is that peace to me?
I, by the honour of my marriage-bed,
After young Arthur, claim this land for mine;
And, now it is half-conquer'd, must I back
Because that John hath made his peace with Rome?
Am I Rome's slave? What penny hath Rome borne,
What men provided, what munition sent,
To underprop this action? Is't not I
That undergo this charge? who else but I,
And such as to my claim are liable,
Sweat in this business and maintain this war?
Have I not heard these islanders shout out
'Vive le roi!' as I have bank'd their towns?
Have I not here the best cards for the game,
To win this easy match play'd for a crown?
And shall I now give o'er the yielded set?
No, no, on my soul, it never shall be said.",669,19087
646800,2411,You look but on the outside of this work.,226,19087
646801,2412,"Outside or inside, I will not return
Till my attempt so much be glorified
As to my ample hope was promised
Before I drew this gallant head of war,
And cull'd these fiery spirits from the world,
To outlook conquest and to win renown
Even in the jaws of danger and of death.
[Trumpet sounds]
What lusty trumpet thus doth summon us?",669,19087
646802,2421,"[Enter the BASTARD, attended]",1261,19087
646803,2422,"According to the fair play of the world,
Let me have audience; I am sent to speak:
My holy lord of Milan, from the king
I come, to learn how you have dealt for him;
And, as you answer, I do know the scope
And warrant limited unto my tongue.",882,19087
646804,2428,"The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite,
And will not temporize with my entreaties;
He flatly says he'll not lay down his arms.",226,19087
646805,2431,"By all the blood that ever fury breathed,
The youth says well. Now hear our English king;
For thus his royalty doth speak in me.
He is prepared, and reason too he should:
This apish and unmannerly approach,
This harness'd masque and unadvised revel,
This unhair'd sauciness and boyish troops,
The king doth smile at; and is well prepared
To whip this dwarfish war, these pigmy arms,
From out the circle of his territories.
That hand which had the strength, even at your door,
To cudgel you and make you take the hatch,
To dive like buckets in concealed wells,
To crouch in litter of your stable planks,
To lie like pawns lock'd up in chests and trunks,
To hug with swine, to seek sweet safety out
In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake
Even at the crying of your nation's crow,
Thinking his voice an armed Englishman;
Shall that victorious hand be feebled here,
That in your chambers gave you chastisement?
No: know the gallant monarch is in arms
And like an eagle o'er his aery towers,
To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.
And you degenerate, you ingrate revolts,
You bloody Neroes, ripping up the womb
Of your dear mother England, blush for shame;
For your own ladies and pale-visaged maids
Like Amazons come tripping after drums,
Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change,
Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts
To fierce and bloody inclination.",882,19087
646806,2463,"There end thy brave, and turn thy face in peace;
We grant thou canst outscold us: fare thee well;
We hold our time too precious to be spent
With such a brabbler.",669,19087
646807,2467,Give me leave to speak.,226,19087
646808,2468,"No, I will speak.",882,19087
646809,2469,"We will attend to neither.
Strike up the drums; and let the tongue of war
Plead for our interest and our being here.",669,19087
646810,2472,"Indeed your drums, being beaten, will cry out;
And so shall you, being beaten: do but start
An echo with the clamour of thy drum,
And even at hand a drum is ready braced
That shall reverberate all as loud as thine;
Sound but another, and another shall
As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear
And mock the deep-mouth'd thunder: for at hand,
Not trusting to this halting legate here,
Whom he hath used rather for sport than need
Is warlike John; and in his forehead sits
A bare-ribb'd death, whose office is this day
To feast upon whole thousands of the French.",882,19087
646811,2485,"Strike up our drums, to find this danger out.",669,19087
646812,2486,"And thou shalt find it, Dauphin, do not doubt.",882,19087
646813,2487,[Exeunt],1261,19087
646814,2490,[Alarums. Enter KING JOHN and HUBERT],1261,19088
646815,2491,"How goes the day with us? O, tell me, Hubert.",637,19088
646816,2492,"Badly, I fear. How fares your majesty?",594,19088
646817,2493,"This fever, that hath troubled me so long,
Lies heavy on me; O, my heart is sick!",637,19088
646818,2495,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19088
646819,2496,"My lord, your valiant kinsman, Faulconbridge,
Desires your majesty to leave the field
And send him word by me which way you go.",781,19088
646820,2499,"Tell him, toward Swinstead, to the abbey there.",637,19088
646821,2500,"Be of good comfort; for the great supply
That was expected by the Dauphin here,
Are wreck'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands.
This news was brought to Richard but even now:
The French fight coldly, and retire themselves.",781,19088
646822,2505,"Ay me! this tyrant fever burns me up,
And will not let me welcome this good news.
Set on toward Swinstead: to my litter straight;
Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint.",637,19088
646823,2509,[Exeunt],1261,19088
646824,2512,"[Enter SALISBURY, PEMBROKE, and BIGOT]",1261,19089
646825,2513,I did not think the king so stored with friends.,966,19089
646826,2514,"Up once again; put spirit in the French:
If they miscarry, we miscarry too.",869,19089
646827,2516,"That misbegotten devil, Faulconbridge,
In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.",966,19089
646828,2518,They say King John sore sick hath left the field.,869,19089
646829,2519,"[Enter MELUN, wounded]",1261,19089
646830,2520,Lead me to the revolts of England here.,759,19089
646831,2521,When we were happy we had other names.,966,19089
646832,2522,It is the Count Melun.,869,19089
646833,2523,Wounded to death.,966,19089
646834,2524,"Fly, noble English, you are bought and sold;
Unthread the rude eye of rebellion
And welcome home again discarded faith.
Seek out King John and fall before his feet;
For if the French be lords of this loud day,
He means to recompense the pains you take
By cutting off your heads: thus hath he sworn
And I with him, and many moe with me,
Upon the altar at Saint Edmundsbury;
Even on that altar where we swore to you
Dear amity and everlasting love.",759,19089
646835,2535,May this be possible? may this be true?,966,19089
646836,2536,"Have I not hideous death within my view,
Retaining but a quantity of life,
Which bleeds away, even as a form of wax
Resolveth from his figure 'gainst the fire?
What in the world should make me now deceive,
Since I must lose the use of all deceit?
Why should I then be false, since it is true
That I must die here and live hence by truth?
I say again, if Lewis do win the day,
He is forsworn, if e'er those eyes of yours
Behold another day break in the east:
But even this night, whose black contagious breath
Already smokes about the burning crest
Of the old, feeble and day-wearied sun,
Even this ill night, your breathing shall expire,
Paying the fine of rated treachery
Even with a treacherous fine of all your lives,
If Lewis by your assistance win the day.
Commend me to one Hubert with your king:
The love of him, and this respect besides,
For that my grandsire was an Englishman,
Awakes my conscience to confess all this.
In lieu whereof, I pray you, bear me hence
From forth the noise and rumour of the field,
Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts
In peace, and part this body and my soul
With contemplation and devout desires.",759,19089
646837,2563,"We do believe thee: and beshrew my soul
But I do love the favour and the form
Of this most fair occasion, by the which
We will untread the steps of damned flight,
And like a bated and retired flood,
Leaving our rankness and irregular course,
Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlook'd
And cabby run on in obedience
Even to our ocean, to our great King John.
My arm shall give thee help to bear thee hence;
For I do see the cruel pangs of death
Right in thine eye. Away, my friends! New flight;
And happy newness, that intends old right.",966,19089
646838,2576,"[Exeunt, leading off MELUN]",1261,19089
646839,2579,[Enter LEWIS and his train],1261,19090
646840,2580,"The sun of heaven methought was loath to set,
But stay'd and made the western welkin blush,
When English measure backward their own ground
In faint retire. O, bravely came we off,
When with a volley of our needless shot,
After such bloody toil, we bid good night;
And wound our tattering colours clearly up,
Last in the field, and almost lords of it!",669,19090
646841,2588,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19090
646842,2589,"Where is my prince, the Dauphin?",781,19090
646843,2590,Here: what news?,669,19090
646844,2591,"The Count Melun is slain; the English lords
By his persuasion are again fall'n off,
And your supply, which you have wish'd so long,
Are cast away and sunk on Goodwin Sands.",781,19090
646845,2595,"Ah, foul shrewd news! beshrew thy very heart!
I did not think to be so sad to-night
As this hath made me. Who was he that said
King John did fly an hour or two before
The stumbling night did part our weary powers?",669,19090
646846,2600,"Whoever spoke it, it is true, my lord.",781,19090
646847,2601,"Well; keep good quarter and good care to-night:
The day shall not be up so soon as I,
To try the fair adventure of to-morrow.",669,19090
646848,2604,[Exeunt],1261,19090
646849,2607,"[Enter the BASTARD and HUBERT, severally]",1261,19091
646850,2608,"Who's there? speak, ho! speak quickly, or I shoot.",594,19091
646851,2609,A friend. What art thou?,882,19091
646852,2610,Of the part of England.,594,19091
646853,2611,Whither dost thou go?,882,19091
646854,2612,"What's that to thee? why may not I demand
Of thine affairs, as well as thou of mine?",594,19091
646855,2614,"Hubert, I think?",882,19091
646856,2615,"Thou hast a perfect thought:
I will upon all hazards well believe
Thou art my friend, that know'st my tongue so well.
Who art thou?",594,19091
646857,2619,"Who thou wilt: and if thou please,
Thou mayst befriend me so much as to think
I come one way of the Plantagenets.",882,19091
646858,2622,"Unkind remembrance! thou and eyeless night
Have done me shame: brave soldier, pardon me,
That any accent breaking from thy tongue
Should 'scape the true acquaintance of mine ear.",594,19091
646859,2626,"Come, come; sans compliment, what news abroad?",882,19091
646860,2627,"Why, here walk I in the black brow of night,
To find you out.",594,19091
646861,2629,"Brief, then; and what's the news?",882,19091
646862,2630,"O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
Black, fearful, comfortless and horrible.",594,19091
646863,2632,"Show me the very wound of this ill news:
I am no woman, I'll not swoon at it.",882,19091
646864,2634,"The king, I fear, is poison'd by a monk:
I left him almost speechless; and broke out
To acquaint you with this evil, that you might
The better arm you to the sudden time,
Than if you had at leisure known of this.",594,19091
646865,2639,How did he take it? who did taste to him?,882,19091
646866,2640,"A monk, I tell you; a resolved villain,
Whose bowels suddenly burst out: the king
Yet speaks and peradventure may recover.",594,19091
646867,2643,Who didst thou leave to tend his majesty?,882,19091
646868,2644,"Why, know you not? the lords are all come back,
And brought Prince Henry in their company;
At whose request the king hath pardon'd them,
And they are all about his majesty.",594,19091
646869,2648,"Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven,
And tempt us not to bear above our power!
I'll tell tree, Hubert, half my power this night,
Passing these flats, are taken by the tide;
These Lincoln Washes have devoured them;
Myself, well mounted, hardly have escaped.
Away before: conduct me to the king;
I doubt he will be dead or ere I come.",882,19091
646870,2656,[Exeunt],1261,19091
646871,2659,"[Enter PRINCE HENRY, SALISBURY, and BIGOT]",1261,19092
646872,2660,"It is too late: the life of all his blood
Is touch'd corruptibly, and his pure brain,
Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house,
Doth by the idle comments that it makes
Foretell the ending of mortality.",917,19092
646873,2665,[Enter PEMBROKE],1261,19092
646874,2666,"His highness yet doth speak, and holds belief
That, being brought into the open air,
It would allay the burning quality
Of that fell poison which assaileth him.",869,19092
646875,2670,"Let him be brought into the orchard here.
Doth he still rage?",917,19092
646876,2672,[Exit BIGOT],1261,19092
646877,2673,"He is more patient
Than when you left him; even now he sung.",869,19092
646878,2675,"O vanity of sickness! fierce extremes
In their continuance will not feel themselves.
Death, having prey'd upon the outward parts,
Leaves them invisible, and his siege is now
Against the mind, the which he pricks and wounds
With many legions of strange fantasies,
Which, in their throng and press to that last hold,
Confound themselves. 'Tis strange that death
should sing.
I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
His soul and body to their lasting rest.",917,19092
646879,2688,"Be of good comfort, prince; for you are born
To set a form upon that indigest
Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude.",966,19092
646880,2691,"[Enter Attendants, and BIGOT, carrying KING JOHN in a chair]",1261,19092
646881,2692,"Ay, marry, now my soul hath elbow-room;
It would not out at windows nor at doors.
There is so hot a summer in my bosom,
That all my bowels crumble up to dust:
I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen
Upon a parchment, and against this fire
Do I shrink up.",637,19092
646882,2699,How fares your majesty?,917,19092
646883,2700,"Poison'd,--ill fare--dead, forsook, cast off:
And none of you will bid the winter come
To thrust his icy fingers in my maw,
Nor let my kingdom's rivers take their course
Through my burn'd bosom, nor entreat the north
To make his bleak winds kiss my parched lips
And comfort me with cold. I do not ask you much,
I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait
And so ingrateful, you deny me that.",637,19092
646884,2709,"O that there were some virtue in my tears,
That might relieve you!",917,19092
646885,2711,"The salt in them is hot.
Within me is a hell; and there the poison
Is as a fiend confined to tyrannize
On unreprievable condemned blood.",637,19092
646886,2715,[Enter the BASTARD],1261,19092
646887,2716,"O, I am scalded with my violent motion,
And spleen of speed to see your majesty!",882,19092
646888,2718,"O cousin, thou art come to set mine eye:
The tackle of my heart is crack'd and burn'd,
And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail
Are turned to one thread, one little hair:
My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,
Which holds but till thy news be uttered;
And then all this thou seest is but a clod
And module of confounded royalty.",637,19092
646889,2726,"The Dauphin is preparing hitherward,
Where heaven He knows how we shall answer him;
For in a night the best part of my power,
As I upon advantage did remove,
Were in the Washes all unwarily
Devoured by the unexpected flood.",882,19092
646890,2732,[KING JOHN dies],1261,19092
646891,2733,"You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear.
My liege! my lord! but now a king, now thus.",966,19092
646892,2735,"Even so must I run on, and even so stop.
What surety of the world, what hope, what stay,
When this was now a king, and now is clay?",917,19092
646893,2738,"Art thou gone so? I do but stay behind
To do the office for thee of revenge,
And then my soul shall wait on thee to heaven,
As it on earth hath been thy servant still.
Now, now, you stars that move in your right spheres,
Where be your powers? show now your mended faiths,
And instantly return with me again,
To push destruction and perpetual shame
Out of the weak door of our fainting land.
Straight let us seek, or straight we shall be sought;
The Dauphin rages at our very heels.",882,19092
646894,2749,"It seems you know not, then, so much as we:
The Cardinal Pandulph is within at rest,
Who half an hour since came from the Dauphin,
And brings from him such offers of our peace
As we with honour and respect may take,
With purpose presently to leave this war.",966,19092
646895,2755,"He will the rather do it when he sees
Ourselves well sinewed to our defence.",882,19092
646896,2757,"Nay, it is in a manner done already;
For many carriages he hath dispatch'd
To the sea-side, and put his cause and quarrel
To the disposing of the cardinal:
With whom yourself, myself and other lords,
If you think meet, this afternoon will post
To consummate this business happily.",966,19092
646897,2764,"Let it be so: and you, my noble prince,
With other princes that may best be spared,
Shall wait upon your father's funeral.",882,19092
646898,2767,"At Worcester must his body be interr'd;
For so he will'd it.",917,19092
646899,2769,"Thither shall it then:
And happily may your sweet self put on
The lineal state and glory of the land!
To whom with all submission, on my knee
I do bequeath my faithful services
And true subjection everlastingly.",882,19092
646900,2775,"And the like tender of our love we make,
To rest without a spot for evermore.",966,19092
646901,2777,"I have a kind soul that would give you thanks
And knows not how to do it but with tears.",917,19092
646902,2779,"O, let us pay the time but needful woe,
Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs.
This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
But when it first did help to wound itself.
Now these her princes are come home again,
Come the three corners of the world in arms,
And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,
If England to itself do rest but true.",882,19092
646903,2788,[Exeunt],1261,19092
646904,3,"Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmund. [Kent and Gloucester converse. Edmund stands back.]",1261,19093
646905,4,"I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than
Cornwall.",358,19093
646906,6,"It did always seem so to us; but now, in the division of the
kingdom, it appears not which of the Dukes he values most, for
equalities are so weigh'd that curiosity in neither can make
choice of either's moiety.",532,19093
646907,10,"Is not this your son, my lord?",358,19093
646908,11,"His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge. I have so often
blush'd to acknowledge him that now I am braz'd to't.",532,19093
646909,13,I cannot conceive you.,358,19093
646910,14,"Sir, this young fellow's mother could; whereupon she grew
round-womb'd, and had indeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere she
had a husband for her bed. Do you smell a fault?",532,19093
646911,17,"I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so
proper.",358,19093
646912,19,"But I have, sir, a son by order of law, some year elder than
this, who yet is no dearer in my account. Though this knave came
something saucily into the world before he was sent for, yet was
his mother fair, there was good sport at his making, and the
whoreson must be acknowledged.- Do you know this noble gentleman,
Edmund?",532,19093
646913,25,"[comes forward] No, my lord.",369,19093
646914,26,"My Lord of Kent. Remember him hereafter as my honourable
friend.",532,19093
646915,28,My services to your lordship.,369,19093
646916,29,"I must love you, and sue to know you better.",358,19093
646917,30,"Sir, I shall study deserving.",369,19093
646918,31,"He hath been out nine years, and away he shall again.
[Sound a sennet.]
The King is coming.",532,19093
646919,34," Enter one bearing a coronet; then Lear; then the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall; next, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia, with Followers.",1261,19093
646920,35,"Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester.",659,19093
646921,36,"I shall, my liege.",532,19093
646922,37,                            Exeunt [Gloucester and Edmund].,1261,19093
646923,38,"Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.
Give me the map there. Know we have divided
In three our kingdom; and 'tis our fast intent
To shake all cares and business from our age,
Conferring them on younger strengths while we
Unburthen'd crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,
And you, our no less loving son of Albany,
We have this hour a constant will to publish
Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife
May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy,
Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,
Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,
And here are to be answer'd. Tell me, my daughters
(Since now we will divest us both of rule,
Interest of territory, cares of state),
Which of you shall we say doth love us most?
That we our largest bounty may extend
Where nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril,
Our eldest-born, speak first.",659,19093
646924,57,"Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter;
Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty;
Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare;
No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour;
As much as child e'er lov'd, or father found;
A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable.
Beyond all manner of so much I love you.",533,19093
646925,64,"[aside] What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent.",281,19093
646926,65,"Of all these bounds, even from this line to this,
With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd,
With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,
We make thee lady. To thine and Albany's issue
Be this perpetual.- What says our second daughter,
Our dearest Regan, wife to Cornwall? Speak.",659,19093
646927,71,"Sir, I am made
Of the selfsame metal that my sister is,
And prize me at her worth. In my true heart
I find she names my very deed of love;
Only she comes too short, that I profess
Myself an enemy to all other joys
Which the most precious square of sense possesses,
And find I am alone felicitate
In your dear Highness' love.",941,19093
646928,80,"[aside] Then poor Cordelia!
And yet not so; since I am sure my love's
More richer than my tongue.",281,19093
646929,83,"To thee and thine hereditary ever
Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom,
No less in space, validity, and pleasure
Than that conferr'd on Goneril.- Now, our joy,
Although the last, not least; to whose young love
The vines of France and milk of Burgundy
Strive to be interest; what can you say to draw
A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak.",659,19093
646930,91,"Nothing, my lord.",281,19093
646931,92,Nothing?,659,19093
646932,93,Nothing.,281,19093
646933,94,Nothing can come of nothing. Speak again.,659,19093
646934,95,"Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty
According to my bond; no more nor less.",281,19093
646935,98,"How, how, Cordelia? Mend your speech a little,
Lest it may mar your fortunes.",659,19093
646936,100,"Good my lord,
You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me; I
Return those duties back as are right fit,
Obey you, love you, and most honour you.
Why have my sisters husbands, if they say
They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,
That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
Half my love with him, half my care and duty.
Sure I shall never marry like my sisters,
To love my father all.",281,19093
646937,110,But goes thy heart with this?,659,19093
646938,111,"Ay, good my lord.",281,19093
646939,112,"So young, and so untender?",659,19093
646940,113,"So young, my lord, and true.",281,19093
646941,114,"Let it be so! thy truth then be thy dower!
For, by the sacred radiance of the sun,
The mysteries of Hecate and the night;
By all the operation of the orbs
From whom we do exist and cease to be;
Here I disclaim all my paternal care,
Propinquity and property of blood,
And as a stranger to my heart and me
Hold thee from this for ever. The barbarous Scythian,
Or he that makes his generation messes
To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom
Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and reliev'd,
As thou my sometime daughter.",659,19093
646942,127,Good my liege-,358,19093
646943,128,"Peace, Kent!
Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
I lov'd her most, and thought to set my rest
On her kind nursery.- Hence and avoid my sight!-
So be my grave my peace as here I give
Her father's heart from her! Call France! Who stirs?
Call Burgundy! Cornwall and Albany,
With my two daughters' dowers digest this third;
Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her.
I do invest you jointly in my power,
Preeminence, and all the large effects
That troop with majesty. Ourself, by monthly course,
With reservation of an hundred knights,
By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode
Make with you by due turns. Only we still retain
The name, and all th' additions to a king. The sway,
Revenue, execution of the rest,
Beloved sons, be yours; which to confirm,
This coronet part betwixt you.",659,19093
646944,147,"Royal Lear,
Whom I have ever honour'd as my king,
Lov'd as my father, as my master follow'd,
As my great patron thought on in my prayers-",358,19093
646945,151,The bow is bent and drawn; make from the shaft.,659,19093
646946,152,"Let it fall rather, though the fork invade
The region of my heart! Be Kent unmannerly
When Lear is mad. What wouldst thou do, old man?
Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound
When majesty falls to folly. Reverse thy doom;
And in thy best consideration check
This hideous rashness. Answer my life my judgment,
Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least,
Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound
Reverbs no hollowness.",358,19093
646947,163,"Kent, on thy life, no more!",659,19093
646948,164,"My life I never held but as a pawn
To wage against thine enemies; nor fear to lose it,
Thy safety being the motive.",358,19093
646949,167,Out of my sight!,659,19093
646950,168,"See better, Lear, and let me still remain
The true blank of thine eye.",358,19093
646951,170,Now by Apollo-,659,19093
646952,171,"Now by Apollo, King,
Thou swear'st thy gods in vain.",358,19093
646953,173,O vassal! miscreant! [Lays his hand on his sword.],659,19093
646954,174,"[with Cornwall] Dear sir, forbear!",339,19093
646955,175,"Do!
Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow
Upon the foul disease. Revoke thy gift,
Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat,
I'll tell thee thou dost evil.",358,19093
646956,180,"Hear me, recreant!
On thine allegiance, hear me!
Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow-
Which we durst never yet- and with strain'd pride
To come between our sentence and our power,-
Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,-
Our potency made good, take thy reward.
Five days we do allot thee for provision
To shield thee from diseases of the world,
And on the sixth to turn thy hated back
Upon our kingdom. If, on the tenth day following,
Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions,
The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter,
This shall not be revok'd.",659,19093
646957,194,"Fare thee well, King. Since thus thou wilt appear,
Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
[To Cordelia] The gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid,
That justly think'st and hast most rightly said!
[To Regan and Goneril] And your large speeches may your deeds
   approve,
That good effects may spring from words of love.
Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu;
He'll shape his old course in a country new. Exit.",358,19093
646958,203,"Flourish. Enter Gloucester, with France and Burgundy; Attendants.",1261,19093
646959,204,"Here's France and Burgundy, my noble lord.",532,19093
646960,205,"My Lord of Burgundy,
We first address toward you, who with this king
Hath rivall'd for our daughter. What in the least
Will you require in present dower with her,
Or cease your quest of love?",659,19093
646961,210,"Most royal Majesty,
I crave no more than hath your Highness offer'd,
Nor will you tender less.",344,19093
646962,213,"Right noble Burgundy,
When she was dear to us, we did hold her so;
But now her price is fall'n. Sir, there she stands.
If aught within that little seeming substance,
Or all of it, with our displeasure piec'd,
And nothing more, may fitly like your Grace,
She's there, and she is yours.",659,19093
646963,220,I know no answer.,344,19093
646964,221,"Will you, with those infirmities she owes,
Unfriended, new adopted to our hate,
Dow'r'd with our curse, and stranger'd with our oath,
Take her, or leave her?",659,19093
646965,225,"Pardon me, royal sir.
Election makes not up on such conditions.",344,19093
646966,227,"Then leave her, sir; for, by the pow'r that made me,
I tell you all her wealth. [To France] For you, great King,
I would not from your love make such a stray
To match you where I hate; therefore beseech you
T' avert your liking a more worthier way
Than on a wretch whom nature is asham'd
Almost t' acknowledge hers.",659,19093
646967,234,"This is most strange,
That she that even but now was your best object,
The argument of your praise, balm of your age,
Most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time
Commit a thing so monstrous to dismantle
So many folds of favour. Sure her offence
Must be of such unnatural degree
That monsters it, or your fore-vouch'd affection
Fall'n into taint; which to believe of her
Must be a faith that reason without miracle
Should never plant in me.",636,19093
646968,245,"I yet beseech your Majesty,
If for I want that glib and oily art
To speak and purpose not, since what I well intend,
I'll do't before I speak- that you make known
It is no vicious blot, murther, or foulness,
No unchaste action or dishonoured step,
That hath depriv'd me of your grace and favour;
But even for want of that for which I am richer-
A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue
As I am glad I have not, though not to have it
Hath lost me in your liking.",281,19093
646969,256,"Better thou
Hadst not been born than not t' have pleas'd me better.",659,19093
646970,258,"Is it but this- a tardiness in nature
Which often leaves the history unspoke
That it intends to do? My Lord of Burgundy,
What say you to the lady? Love's not love
When it is mingled with regards that stands
Aloof from th' entire point. Will you have her?
She is herself a dowry.",636,19093
646971,265,"Royal Lear,
Give but that portion which yourself propos'd,
And here I take Cordelia by the hand,
Duchess of Burgundy.",344,19093
646972,269,Nothing! I have sworn; I am firm.,659,19093
646973,270,"I am sorry then you have so lost a father
That you must lose a husband.",344,19093
646974,272,"Peace be with Burgundy!
Since that respects of fortune are his love,
I shall not be his wife.",281,19093
646975,275,"Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor;
Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd!
Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.
Be it lawful I take up what's cast away.
Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect
My love should kindle to inflam'd respect.
Thy dow'rless daughter, King, thrown to my chance,
Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France.
Not all the dukes in wat'rish Burgundy
Can buy this unpriz'd precious maid of me.
Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind.
Thou losest here, a better where to find.",636,19093
646976,287,"Thou hast her, France; let her be thine; for we
Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see
That face of hers again. Therefore be gone
Without our grace, our love, our benison.
Come, noble Burgundy.",659,19093
646977,292,"        Flourish. Exeunt Lear, Burgundy, [Cornwall, Albany, Gloucester, and Attendants].",1261,19093
646978,293,Bid farewell to your sisters.,636,19093
646979,294,"The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes
Cordelia leaves you. I know you what you are;
And, like a sister, am most loath to call
Your faults as they are nam'd. Use well our father.
To your professed bosoms I commit him;
But yet, alas, stood I within his grace,
I would prefer him to a better place!
So farewell to you both.",281,19093
646980,302,Prescribe not us our duties.,533,19093
646981,303,"Let your study
Be to content your lord, who hath receiv'd you
At fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted,
And well are worth the want that you have wanted.",941,19093
646982,307,"Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides.
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
Well may you prosper!",281,19093
646983,310,"Come, my fair Cordelia.",636,19093
646984,311,                                Exeunt France and Cordelia.,1261,19093
646985,312,"Sister, it is not little I have to say of what most nearly
appertains to us both. I think our father will hence to-night.",533,19093
646986,314,"That's most certain, and with you; next month with us.",941,19093
646987,315,"You see how full of changes his age is. The observation we
have made of it hath not been little. He always lov'd our
sister most, and with what poor judgment he hath now cast her
off appears too grossly.",533,19093
646988,319,"'Tis the infirmity of his age; yet he hath ever but slenderly
known himself.",941,19093
646989,321,"The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash; then
must we look to receive from his age, not alone the
imperfections of long-ingraffed condition, but therewithal
the unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years bring with
them.",533,19093
646990,326,"Such unconstant starts are we like to have from him as this
of Kent's banishment.",941,19093
646991,328,"There is further compliment of leave-taking between France and
him. Pray you let's hit together. If our father carry authority
with such dispositions as he bears, this last surrender of his
will but offend us.",533,19093
646992,332,We shall further think on't.,941,19093
646993,333,"We must do something, and i' th' heat.",533,19093
646994,334,                                               Exeunt.,1261,19093
646995,336,"Enter [Edmund the] Bastard solus, [with a letter].",1261,19094
646996,337,"Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound. Wherefore should I
Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?
When my dimensions are as well compact,
My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us
With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
More composition and fierce quality
Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
Go to th' creating a whole tribe of fops
Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well then,
Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land.
Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund
As to th' legitimate. Fine word- 'legitimate'!
Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top th' legitimate. I grow; I prosper.
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!",369,19094
646997,359,                Enter Gloucester.,1261,19094
646998,360,"Kent banish'd thus? and France in choler parted?
And the King gone to-night? subscrib'd his pow'r?
Confin'd to exhibition? All this done
Upon the gad? Edmund, how now? What news?",532,19094
646999,364,"So please your lordship, none.",369,19094
647000,365,                                 [Puts up the letter.],1261,19094
647001,366,Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?,532,19094
647002,367,"I know no news, my lord.",369,19094
647003,368,What paper were you reading?,532,19094
647004,369,"Nothing, my lord.",369,19094
647005,370,"No? What needed then that terrible dispatch of it into your
pocket? The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide
itself. Let's see. Come, if it be nothing, I shall not need
spectacles.",532,19094
647006,374,"I beseech you, sir, pardon me. It is a letter from my brother
that I have not all o'er-read; and for so much as I have
perus'd, I find it not fit for your o'erlooking.",369,19094
647007,377,"Give me the letter, sir.",532,19094
647008,378,"I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The contents, as
in part I understand them, are to blame.",369,19094
647009,380,"Let's see, let's see!",532,19094
647010,381,"I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as
an essay or taste of my virtue.",369,19094
647011,383,"[reads] 'This policy and reverence of age makes the world
bitter to the best of our times; keeps our fortunes from us
till our oldness cannot relish them. I begin to find an idle
and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways,
not as it hath power, but as it is suffer'd. Come to me, that
of this I may speak more. If our father would sleep till I
wak'd him, you should enjoy half his revenue for ever, and live
the beloved of your brother,
                                                   'EDGAR.'
Hum! Conspiracy? 'Sleep till I wak'd him, you should enjoy half
his revenue.' My son Edgar! Had he a hand to write this? a heart
and brain to breed it in? When came this to you? Who brought it?",532,19094
647012,395,"It was not brought me, my lord: there's the cunning of it. I
found it thrown in at the casement of my closet.",369,19094
647013,397,You know the character to be your brother's?,532,19094
647014,398,"If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear it were his;
but in respect of that, I would fain think it were not.",369,19094
647015,400,It is his.,532,19094
647016,401,"It is his hand, my lord; but I hope his heart is not in the
contents.",369,19094
647017,403,Hath he never before sounded you in this business?,532,19094
647018,404,"Never, my lord. But I have heard him oft maintain it to be fit
that, sons at perfect age, and fathers declining, the father
should be as ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue.",369,19094
647019,407,"O villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter! Abhorred
villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! worse than
brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him. I'll apprehend him. Abominable
villain! Where is he?",532,19094
647020,411,"I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please you to suspend
your indignation against my brother till you can derive from him
better testimony of his intent, you should run a certain course;
where, if you violently proceed against him, mistaking his
purpose, it would make a great gap in your own honour and shake
in pieces the heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my life
for him that he hath writ this to feel my affection to your
honour, and to no other pretence of danger.",369,19094
647021,419,Think you so?,532,19094
647022,420,"If your honour judge it meet, I will place you where you shall
hear us confer of this and by an auricular assurance have your
satisfaction, and that without any further delay than this very
evening.",369,19094
647023,424,He cannot be such a monster.,532,19094
647024,425,"Nor is not, sure.",369,19094
647025,426,"To his father, that so tenderly and entirely loves him.
Heaven and earth! Edmund, seek him out; wind me into him, I pray
you; frame the business after your own wisdom. I would unstate
myself to be in a due resolution.",532,19094
647026,430,"I will seek him, sir, presently; convey the business as I
shall find means, and acquaint you withal.",369,19094
647027,432,"These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to
us. Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet
nature finds itself scourg'd by the sequent effects. Love cools,
friendship falls off, brothers divide. In cities, mutinies; in
countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond crack'd
'twixt son and father. This villain of mine comes under the
prediction; there's son against father: the King falls from bias
of nature; there's father against child. We have seen the best
of our time. Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all
ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves. Find out
this villain, Edmund; it shall lose thee nothing; do it
carefully. And the noble and true-hearted Kent banish'd! his
offence, honesty! 'Tis strange.    Exit.",532,19094
647028,445,"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are
sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make
guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if
we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion;
knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance;
drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of
planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine
thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay
his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father
compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my
nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and
lecherous. Fut! I should have been that I am, had the
maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
Edgar-
[Enter Edgar.]
and pat! he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy. My
cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam.
O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! Fa, sol, la, mi.",369,19094
647029,463,"How now, brother Edmund? What serious contemplation are you
in?",367,19094
647030,465,"I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read this other day,
what should follow these eclipses.",369,19094
647031,467,Do you busy yourself with that?,367,19094
647032,468,"I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as
of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death,
dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state,
menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless
diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts,
nuptial breaches, and I know not what.",369,19094
647033,474,How long have you been a sectary astronomical?,367,19094
647034,475,"Come, come! When saw you my father last?",369,19094
647035,476,The night gone by.,367,19094
647036,477,Spake you with him?,369,19094
647037,478,"Ay, two hours together.",367,19094
647038,479,"Parted you in good terms? Found you no displeasure in him by
word or countenance",369,19094
647039,481,None at all.,367,19094
647040,482,"Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended him; and at my
entreaty forbear his presence until some little time hath
qualified the heat of his displeasure, which at this instant so
rageth in him that with the mischief of your person it would
scarcely allay.",369,19094
647041,487,Some villain hath done me wrong.,367,19094
647042,488,"That's my fear. I pray you have a continent forbearance till
the speed of his rage goes slower; and, as I say, retire with me
to my lodging, from whence I will fitly bring you to hear my
lord speak. Pray ye, go! There's my key. If you do stir abroad,
go arm'd.",369,19094
647043,493,"Arm'd, brother?",367,19094
647044,494,"Brother, I advise you to the best. Go arm'd. I am no honest man
if there be any good meaning toward you. I have told you what I
have seen and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image and
horror of it. Pray you, away!",369,19094
647045,498,Shall I hear from you anon?,367,19094
647046,499,"I do serve you in this business.
[Exit Edgar.]
A credulous father! and a brother noble,
Whose nature is so far from doing harms
That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty
My practices ride easy! I see the business.
Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;
All with me's meet that I can fashion fit. Exit.",369,19094
647047,508,Enter Goneril and [her] Steward [Oswald].,1261,19095
647048,509,Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?,533,19095
647049,510,"Ay, madam.",843,19095
647050,511,"By day and night, he wrongs me! Every hour
He flashes into one gross crime or other
That sets us all at odds. I'll not endure it.
His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us
On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,
I will not speak with him. Say I am sick.
If you come slack of former services,
You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer.",533,19095
647051,519,                                       [Horns within.],1261,19095
647052,520,"He's coming, madam; I hear him.",843,19095
647053,521,"Put on what weary negligence you please,
You and your fellows. I'd have it come to question.
If he distaste it, let him to our sister,
Whose mind and mine I know in that are one,
Not to be overrul'd. Idle old man,
That still would manage those authorities
That he hath given away! Now, by my life,
Old fools are babes again, and must be us'd
With checks as flatteries, when they are seen abus'd.
Remember what I have said.",533,19095
647054,531,"Very well, madam.",843,19095
647055,532,"And let his knights have colder looks among you.
What grows of it, no matter. Advise your fellows so.
I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,
That I may speak. I'll write straight to my sister
To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner.",533,19095
647056,537,                                               Exeunt.,1261,19095
647057,539,"If but as well I other accents borrow,
That can my speech defuse, my good intent
May carry through itself to that full issue
For which I raz'd my likeness. Now, banish'd Kent,
If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd,
So may it come, thy master, whom thou lov'st,
Shall find thee full of labours.
    Horns within. Enter Lear, [Knights,] and Attendants.",358,19096
647058,547,"Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go get it ready. [Exit
an Attendant.] How now? What art thou?",659,19096
647059,549,"A man, sir.",358,19096
647060,550,What dost thou profess? What wouldst thou with us?,659,19096
647061,551,"I do profess to be no less than I seem, to serve him truly
that will put me in trust, to love him that is honest, to
converse with him that is wise and says little, to fear
judgment, to fight when I cannot choose, and to eat no fish.",358,19096
647062,555,What art thou?,659,19096
647063,556,"A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the King.",358,19096
647064,557,"If thou be'st as poor for a subject as he's for a king, thou
art poor enough. What wouldst thou?",659,19096
647065,559,Service.,358,19096
647066,560,Who wouldst thou serve?,659,19096
647067,561,You.,358,19096
647068,562,"Dost thou know me, fellow?",659,19096
647069,563,"No, sir; but you have that in your countenance which I would
fain call master.",358,19096
647070,565,What's that?,659,19096
647071,566,Authority.,358,19096
647072,567,What services canst thou do?,659,19096
647073,568,"I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious tale in
telling it and deliver a plain message bluntly. That which
ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me
is diligence.",358,19096
647074,572,How old art thou?,659,19096
647075,573,"Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor so old to
dote on her for anything. I have years on my back forty-eight.",358,19096
647076,575,"Follow me; thou shalt serve me. If I like thee no worse after
dinner, I will not part from thee yet. Dinner, ho, dinner!
Where's my knave? my fool? Go you and call my fool hither.
[Exit an attendant.]
[Enter [Oswald the] Steward.]
You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?",659,19096
647077,581,So please you-                                      Exit.,843,19096
647078,582,"What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll back.
[Exit a Knight.] Where's my fool, ho? I think the world's
asleep.
[Enter Knight]
How now? Where's that mongrel?",659,19096
647079,587,"He says, my lord, your daughter is not well.",639,19096
647080,588,Why came not the slave back to me when I call'd him?,659,19096
647081,589,"Sir, he answered me in the roundest manner, he would not.",639,19096
647082,590,He would not?,659,19096
647083,591,"My lord, I know not what the matter is; but to my judgment
your Highness is not entertain'd with that ceremonious affection
as you were wont. There's a great abatement of kindness appears
as well in the general dependants as in the Duke himself also
and your daughter.",639,19096
647084,596,Ha! say'st thou so?,659,19096
647085,597,"I beseech you pardon me, my lord, if I be mistaken; for
my duty cannot be silent when I think your Highness wrong'd.",639,19096
647086,599,"Thou but rememb'rest me of mine own conception. I have
perceived a most faint neglect of late, which I have rather
blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than as a very pretence
and purpose of unkindness. I will look further into't. But
where's my fool? I have not seen him this two days.",659,19096
647087,604,"Since my young lady's going into France, sir, the fool
hath much pined away.",639,19096
647088,606,"No more of that; I have noted it well. Go you and tell my
daughter I would speak with her. [Exit Knight.] Go you, call
hither my fool.
[Exit an Attendant.]
[Enter [Oswald the] Steward.]
O, you, sir, you! Come you hither, sir. Who am I, sir?",659,19096
647089,612,My lady's father.,843,19096
647090,613,"'My lady's father'? My lord's knave! You whoreson dog! you
slave! you cur!",659,19096
647091,615,"I am none of these, my lord; I beseech your pardon.",843,19096
647092,616,"Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?",659,19096
647093,617,                                        [Strikes him.],1261,19096
647094,618,"I'll not be strucken, my lord.",843,19096
647095,619,"Nor tripp'd neither, you base football player?",358,19096
647096,620,                                  [Trips up his heels.,1261,19096
647097,621,"I thank thee, fellow. Thou serv'st me, and I'll love thee.",659,19096
647098,622,"Come, sir, arise, away! I'll teach you differences. Away,
away! If you will measure your lubber's length again, tarry; but
away! Go to! Have you wisdom? So.",358,19096
647099,625,                                     [Pushes him out.],1261,19096
647100,626,"Now, my friendly knave, I thank thee. There's earnest of thy
service.                  [Gives money.]",659,19096
647101,628,                   Enter Fool.,1261,19096
647102,629,Let me hire him too. Here's my coxcomb.,482,19096
647103,630,                                [Offers Kent his cap.],1261,19096
647104,631,"How now, my pretty knave? How dost thou?",659,19096
647105,632,"Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb.",482,19096
647106,633,"Why, fool?",358,19096
647107,634,"Why? For taking one's part that's out of favour. Nay, an thou
canst not smile as the wind sits, thou'lt catch cold shortly.
There, take my coxcomb! Why, this fellow hath banish'd two on's
daughters, and did the third a blessing against his will. If
thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb.- How now,
nuncle? Would I had two coxcombs and two daughters!",482,19096
647108,640,"Why, my boy?",659,19096
647109,641,"If I gave them all my living, I'ld keep my coxcombs myself.
There's mine! beg another of thy daughters.",482,19096
647110,643,"Take heed, sirrah- the whip.",659,19096
647111,644,"Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipp'd out, when
Lady the brach may stand by th' fire and stink.",482,19096
647112,646,A pestilent gall to me!,659,19096
647113,647,"Sirrah, I'll teach thee a speech.",482,19096
647114,648,Do.,659,19096
647115,649,"Mark it, nuncle.
     Have more than thou showest,
     Speak less than thou knowest,
     Lend less than thou owest,
     Ride more than thou goest,
     Learn more than thou trowest,
     Set less than thou throwest;
     Leave thy drink and thy whore,
     And keep in-a-door,
     And thou shalt have more
     Than two tens to a score.",482,19096
647116,660,"This is nothing, fool.",358,19096
647117,661,"Then 'tis like the breath of an unfeed lawyer- you gave me
nothing for't. Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?",482,19096
647118,663,"Why, no, boy. Nothing can be made out of nothing.",659,19096
647119,664,"[to Kent] Prithee tell him, so much the rent of his land
comes to. He will not believe a fool.",482,19096
647120,666,A bitter fool!,659,19096
647121,667,"Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a bitter
fool and a sweet fool?",482,19096
647122,669,"No, lad; teach me.",659,19096
647123,670,"That lord that counsell'd thee
       To give away thy land,
     Come place him here by me-
       Do thou for him stand.
     The sweet and bitter fool
       Will presently appear;
     The one in motley here,
       The other found out there.",482,19096
647124,678,"Dost thou call me fool, boy?",659,19096
647125,679,"All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast
born with.",482,19096
647126,681,"This is not altogether fool, my lord.",358,19096
647127,682,"No, faith; lords and great men will not let me. If I had a
monopoly out, they would have part on't. And ladies too, they
will not let me have all the fool to myself; they'll be
snatching. Give me an egg, nuncle, and I'll give thee two
crowns.",482,19096
647128,687,What two crowns shall they be?,659,19096
647129,688,"Why, after I have cut the egg i' th' middle and eat up the
meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou clovest thy crown i'
th' middle and gav'st away both parts, thou bor'st thine ass on
thy back o'er the dirt. Thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown
when thou gav'st thy golden one away. If I speak like myself in
this, let him be whipp'd that first finds it so.
[Sings]    Fools had ne'er less grace in a year,
             For wise men are grown foppish;
           They know not how their wits to wear,
             Their manners are so apish.",482,19096
647130,698,"When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah?",659,19096
647131,699,"I have us'd it, nuncle, ever since thou mad'st thy daughters
thy mother; for when thou gav'st them the rod, and put'st down
thine own breeches,
[Sings]    Then they for sudden joy did weep,
             And I for sorrow sung,
           That such a king should play bo-peep
             And go the fools among.
Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach thy fool to
lie. I would fain learn to lie.",482,19096
647132,708,"An you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipp'd.",659,19096
647133,709,"I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are. They'll have me
whipp'd for speaking true; thou'lt have me whipp'd for lying;
and sometimes I am whipp'd for holding my peace. I had rather be
any kind o' thing than a fool! And yet I would not be thee,
nuncle. Thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides and left nothing
i' th' middle. Here comes one o' the parings.",482,19096
647134,715,                Enter Goneril.,1261,19096
647135,716,"How now, daughter? What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you
are too much o' late i' th' frown.",659,19096
647136,718,"Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to care for
her frowning. Now thou art an O without a figure. I am better
than thou art now: I am a fool, thou art nothing.
[To Goneril] Yes, forsooth, I will hold my tongue. So your face
bids me, though you say nothing. Mum, mum!
       He that keeps nor crust nor crum,
       Weary of all, shall want some.-
[Points at Lear] That's a sheal'd peascod.",482,19096
647137,726,"Not only, sir, this your all-licens'd fool,
But other of your insolent retinue
Do hourly carp and quarrel, breaking forth
In rank and not-to-be-endured riots. Sir,
I had thought, by making this well known unto you,
To have found a safe redress, but now grow fearful,
By what yourself, too, late have spoke and done,
That you protect this course, and put it on
By your allowance; which if you should, the fault
Would not scape censure, nor the redresses sleep,
Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal,
Might in their working do you that offence
Which else were shame, that then necessity
Must call discreet proceeding.",533,19096
647138,740,"For you know, nuncle,
     The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long
     That it had it head bit off by it young.
So out went the candle, and we were left darkling.",482,19096
647139,744,Are you our daughter?,659,19096
647140,745,"Come, sir,
I would you would make use of that good wisdom
Whereof I know you are fraught, and put away
These dispositions that of late transform you
From what you rightly are.",533,19096
647141,750,"May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse?
Whoop, Jug, I love thee!",482,19096
647142,752,"Doth any here know me? This is not Lear.
Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes?
Either his notion weakens, his discernings
Are lethargied- Ha! waking? 'Tis not so!
Who is it that can tell me who I am?",659,19096
647143,757,Lear's shadow.,482,19096
647144,758,"I would learn that; for, by the marks of sovereignty,
Knowledge, and reason, I should be false persuaded
I had daughters.",659,19096
647145,761,Which they will make an obedient father.,482,19096
647146,762,"Your name, fair gentlewoman?",659,19096
647147,763,"This admiration, sir, is much o' th' savour
Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you
To understand my purposes aright.
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;
Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd, and bold
That this our court, infected with their manners,
Shows like a riotous inn. Epicurism and lust
Make it more like a tavern or a brothel
Than a grac'd palace. The shame itself doth speak
For instant remedy. Be then desir'd
By her that else will take the thing she begs
A little to disquantity your train,
And the remainder that shall still depend
To be such men as may besort your age,
Which know themselves, and you.",533,19096
647148,779,"Darkness and devils!
Saddle my horses! Call my train together!
Degenerate bastard, I'll not trouble thee;
Yet have I left a daughter.",659,19096
647149,783,"You strike my people, and your disorder'd rabble
Make servants of their betters.",533,19096
647150,785,                Enter Albany.,1261,19096
647151,786,"Woe that too late repents!- O, sir, are you come?
Is it your will? Speak, sir!- Prepare my horses.
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
Than the sea-monster!",659,19096
647152,791,"Pray, sir, be patient.",339,19096
647153,792,"[to Goneril] Detested kite, thou liest!
My train are men of choice and rarest parts,
That all particulars of duty know
And in the most exact regard support
The worships of their name.- O most small fault,
How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show!
Which, like an engine, wrench'd my frame of nature
From the fix'd place; drew from my heart all love
And added to the gall. O Lear, Lear, Lear!
Beat at this gate that let thy folly in  [Strikes his head.]
And thy dear judgment out! Go, go, my people.",659,19096
647154,803,"My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant
Of what hath mov'd you.",339,19096
647155,805,"It may be so, my lord.
Hear, Nature, hear! dear goddess, hear!
Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend
To make this creature fruitful.
Into her womb convey sterility;
Dry up in her the organs of increase;
And from her derogate body never spring
A babe to honour her! If she must teem,
Create her child of spleen, that it may live
And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her.
Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth,
With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks,
Turn all her mother's pains and benefits
To laughter and contempt, that she may feel
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! Away, away!                Exit.",659,19096
647156,821,"Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?",339,19096
647157,822,"Never afflict yourself to know the cause;
But let his disposition have that scope
That dotage gives it.",533,19096
647158,825,                 Enter Lear.,1261,19096
647159,826,"What, fifty of my followers at a clap?
Within a fortnight?",659,19096
647160,828,"What's the matter, sir?",339,19096
647161,829,"I'll tell thee. [To Goneril] Life and death! I am asham'd
That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus;
That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,
Should make thee worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee!
Th' untented woundings of a father's curse
Pierce every sense about thee!- Old fond eyes,
Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out,
And cast you, with the waters that you lose,
To temper clay. Yea, is it come to this?
Let it be so. Yet have I left a daughter,
Who I am sure is kind and comfortable.
When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails
She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find
That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think
I have cast off for ever; thou shalt, I warrant thee.",659,19096
647162,844,"                Exeunt [Lear, Kent, and Attendants].",1261,19096
647163,845,"Do you mark that, my lord?",533,19096
647164,846,"I cannot be so partial, Goneril,
To the great love I bear you--",339,19096
647165,848,"Pray you, content.- What, Oswald, ho!
[To the Fool] You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master!",533,19096
647166,850,"Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry! Take the fool with thee.
     A fox when one has caught her,
     And such a daughter,
     Should sure to the slaughter,
     If my cap would buy a halter.
     So the fool follows after.    Exit.",482,19096
647167,856,"This man hath had good counsel! A hundred knights?
'Tis politic and safe to let him keep
At point a hundred knights; yes, that on every dream,
Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike,
He may enguard his dotage with their pow'rs
And hold our lives in mercy.- Oswald, I say!",533,19096
647168,862,"Well, you may fear too far.",339,19096
647169,863,"Safer than trust too far.
Let me still take away the harms I fear,
Not fear still to be taken. I know his heart.
What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister.
If she sustain him and his hundred knights,
When I have show'd th' unfitness- [Enter [Oswald the] Steward.]
How now, Oswald?
What, have you writ that letter to my sister?",533,19096
647170,871,"Yes, madam.",843,19096
647171,872,"Take you some company, and away to horse!
Inform her full of my particular fear,
And thereto add such reasons of your own
As may compact it more. Get you gone,
And hasten your return. [Exit Oswald.] No, no, my lord!
This milky gentleness and course of yours,
Though I condemn it not, yet, under pardon,
You are much more at task for want of wisdom
Than prais'd for harmful mildness.",533,19096
647172,881,"How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.",339,19096
647173,883,Nay then-,533,19096
647174,884,"Well, well; th' event.         Exeunt.",339,19096
647175,886,"Go you before to Gloucester with these letters. Acquaint my
daughter no further with anything you know than comes from her
demand out of the letter. If your diligence be not speedy, I
shall be there afore you.",659,19097
647176,890,"I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered your letter. Exit.",358,19097
647177,891,"If a man's brains were in's heels, were't not in danger of
kibes?",482,19097
647178,893,"Ay, boy.",659,19097
647179,894,Then I prithee be merry. Thy wit shall ne'er go slip-shod.,482,19097
647180,895,"Ha, ha, ha!",659,19097
647181,896,"Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly; for though
she's as like this as a crab's like an apple, yet I can tell
what I can tell.",482,19097
647182,899,"What canst tell, boy?",659,19097
647183,900,"She'll taste as like this as a crab does to a crab. Thou
canst tell why one's nose stands i' th' middle on's face?",482,19097
647184,902,No.,659,19097
647185,903,"Why, to keep one's eyes of either side's nose, that what a
man cannot smell out, 'a may spy into.",482,19097
647186,905,I did her wrong.,659,19097
647187,906,Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell?,482,19097
647188,907,No.,659,19097
647189,908,Nor I neither; but I can tell why a snail has a house.,482,19097
647190,909,Why?,659,19097
647191,910,"Why, to put's head in; not to give it away to his daughters,
and leave his horns without a case.",482,19097
647192,912,"I will forget my nature. So kind a father!- Be my horses
ready?",659,19097
647193,914,"Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the seven stars
are no moe than seven is a pretty reason.",482,19097
647194,916,Because they are not eight?,659,19097
647195,917,Yes indeed. Thou wouldst make a good fool.,482,19097
647196,918,To tak't again perforce! Monster ingratitude!,659,19097
647197,919,"If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten for being
old before thy time.",482,19097
647198,921,How's that?,659,19097
647199,922,Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.,482,19097
647200,923,"O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!
Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! [Enter a Gentleman.]
How now? Are the horses ready?",659,19097
647201,926,"Ready, my lord.",519,19097
647202,927,"Come, boy.",659,19097
647203,928,"She that's a maid now, and laughs at my departure,
Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter",482,19097
647204,930,                                             Exeunt.,1261,19097
647205,933,"Enter [Edmund the] Bastard and Curan, meeting.",1261,19098
647206,934,"Save thee, Curan.",369,19098
647207,935,"And you, sir. I have been with your father, and given him
notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his Duchess will be
here with him this night.",296,19098
647208,938,How comes that?,369,19098
647209,939,"Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news abroad- I mean the
whisper'd ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments?",296,19098
647210,941,"Not I. Pray you, what are they?",369,19098
647211,942,"Have you heard of no likely wars toward 'twixt the two Dukes
of Cornwall and Albany?",296,19098
647212,944,Not a word.,369,19098
647213,945,"You may do, then, in time. Fare you well, sir. Exit.",296,19098
647214,946,"The Duke be here to-night? The better! best!
This weaves itself perforce into my business.
My father hath set guard to take my brother;
And I have one thing, of a queasy question,
Which I must act. Briefness and fortune, work!
Brother, a word! Descend! Brother, I say!
[Enter Edgar.]
My father watches. O sir, fly this place!
Intelligence is given where you are hid.
You have now the good advantage of the night.
Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall?
He's coming hither; now, i' th' night, i' th' haste,
And Regan with him. Have you nothing said
Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?
Advise yourself.",369,19098
647215,961,"I am sure on't, not a word.",367,19098
647216,962,"I hear my father coming. Pardon me!
In cunning I must draw my sword upon you.
Draw, seem to defend yourself; now quit you well.-
Yield! Come before my father. Light, ho, here!
Fly, brother.- Torches, torches!- So farewell.
[Exit Edgar.]
Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion
Of my more fierce endeavour. [Stabs his arm.] I have seen
   drunkards
Do more than this in sport.- Father, father!-
Stop, stop! No help?",369,19098
647217,973," Enter Gloucester, and Servants with torches.",1261,19098
647218,974,"Now, Edmund, where's the villain?",532,19098
647219,975,"Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,
Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon
To stand 's auspicious mistress.",369,19098
647220,978,But where is he?,532,19098
647221,979,"Look, sir, I bleed.",369,19098
647222,980,"Where is the villain, Edmund?",532,19098
647223,981,"Fled this way, sir. When by no means he could-",369,19098
647224,982,"Pursue him, ho! Go after. [Exeunt some Servants].
By no means what?",532,19098
647225,984,"Persuade me to the murther of your lordship;
But that I told him the revenging gods
'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend;
Spoke with how manifold and strong a bond
The child was bound to th' father- sir, in fine,
Seeing how loathly opposite I stood
To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion
With his prepared sword he charges home
My unprovided body, lanch'd mine arm;
But when he saw my best alarum'd spirits,
Bold in the quarrel's right, rous'd to th' encounter,
Or whether gasted by the noise I made,
Full suddenly he fled.",369,19098
647226,997,"Let him fly far.
Not in this land shall he remain uncaught;
And found- dispatch. The noble Duke my master,
My worthy arch and patron, comes to-night.
By his authority I will proclaim it
That he which find, him shall deserve our thanks,
Bringing the murderous caitiff to the stake;
He that conceals him, death.",532,19098
647227,1005,"When I dissuaded him from his intent
And found him pight to do it, with curst speech
I threaten'd to discover him. He replied,
'Thou unpossessing bastard, dost thou think,
If I would stand against thee, would the reposal
Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee
Make thy words faith'd? No. What I should deny
(As this I would; ay, though thou didst produce
My very character), I'ld turn it all
To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practice;
And thou must make a dullard of the world,
If they not thought the profits of my death
Were very pregnant and potential spurs
To make thee seek it.'",369,19098
647228,1019,"Strong and fast'ned villain!
Would he deny his letter? I never got him.
[Tucket within.]
Hark, the Duke's trumpets! I know not why he comes.
All ports I'll bar; the villain shall not scape;
The Duke must grant me that. Besides, his picture
I will send far and near, that all the kingdom
May have due note of him, and of my land,
Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means
To make thee capable.",532,19098
647229,1029,"    Enter Cornwall, Regan, and Attendants.",1261,19098
647230,1030,"How now, my noble friend? Since I came hither
(Which I can call but now) I have heard strange news.",346,19098
647231,1032,"If it be true, all vengeance comes too short
Which can pursue th' offender. How dost, my lord?",941,19098
647232,1034,"O madam, my old heart is crack'd, it's crack'd!",532,19098
647233,1035,"What, did my father's godson seek your life?
He whom my father nam'd? Your Edgar?",941,19098
647234,1037,"O lady, lady, shame would have it hid!",532,19098
647235,1038,"Was he not companion with the riotous knights
That tend upon my father?",941,19098
647236,1040,"I know not, madam. 'Tis too bad, too bad!",532,19098
647237,1041,"Yes, madam, he was of that consort.",369,19098
647238,1042,"No marvel then though he were ill affected.
'Tis they have put him on the old man's death,
To have th' expense and waste of his revenues.
I have this present evening from my sister
Been well inform'd of them, and with such cautions
That, if they come to sojourn at my house,
I'll not be there.",941,19098
647239,1049,"Nor I, assure thee, Regan.
Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father
A childlike office.",346,19098
647240,1052,"'Twas my duty, sir.",369,19098
647241,1053,"He did bewray his practice, and receiv'd
This hurt you see, striving to apprehend him.",532,19098
647242,1055,Is he pursued?,346,19098
647243,1056,"Ay, my good lord.",532,19098
647244,1057,"If he be taken, he shall never more
Be fear'd of doing harm. Make your own purpose,
How in my strength you please. For you, Edmund,
Whose virtue and obedience doth this instant
So much commend itself, you shall be ours.
Natures of such deep trust we shall much need;
You we first seize on.",346,19098
647245,1064,"I shall serve you, sir,
Truly, however else.",369,19098
647246,1066,For him I thank your Grace.,532,19098
647247,1067,You know not why we came to visit you-,346,19098
647248,1068,"Thus out of season, threading dark-ey'd night.
Occasions, noble Gloucester, of some poise,
Wherein we must have use of your advice.
Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister,
Of differences, which I best thought it fit
To answer from our home. The several messengers
From hence attend dispatch. Our good old friend,
Lay comforts to your bosom, and bestow
Your needful counsel to our business,
Which craves the instant use.",941,19098
647249,1078,"I serve you, madam.
Your Graces are right welcome.",532,19098
647250,1080,                                   Exeunt. Flourish.,1261,19098
647251,1082,"Good dawning to thee, friend. Art of this house?",843,19099
647252,1083,Ay.,358,19099
647253,1084,Where may we set our horses?,843,19099
647254,1085,I' th' mire.,358,19099
647255,1086,"Prithee, if thou lov'st me, tell me.",843,19099
647256,1087,I love thee not.,358,19099
647257,1088,"Why then, I care not for thee.",843,19099
647258,1089,"If I had thee in Lipsbury Pinfold, I would make thee care for
me.",358,19099
647259,1091,Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not.,843,19099
647260,1092,"Fellow, I know thee.",358,19099
647261,1093,What dost thou know me for?,843,19099
647262,1094,"A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud,
shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy,
worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking, whoreson,
glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of
good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave,
beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch;
one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deny the
least syllable of thy addition.",358,19099
647263,1103,"Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail on one
that's neither known of thee nor knows thee!",843,19099
647264,1105,"What a brazen-fac'd varlet art thou, to deny thou knowest me!
Is it two days ago since I beat thee and tripp'd up thy heels
before the King? [Draws his sword.] Draw, you rogue! for, though
it be night, yet the moon shines. I'll make a sop o' th'
moonshine o' you. Draw, you whoreson cullionly barbermonger!
draw!",358,19099
647265,1111,Away! I have nothing to do with thee.,843,19099
647266,1112,"Draw, you rascal! You come with letters against the King, and
take Vanity the puppet's part against the royalty of her father.
Draw, you rogue, or I'll so carbonado your shanks! Draw, you
rascal! Come your ways!",358,19099
647267,1116,"Help, ho! murther! help!",843,19099
647268,1117,"Strike, you slave! Stand, rogue! Stand, you neat slave!
Strike!                                        [Beats him.]",358,19099
647269,1119,"Help, ho! murther! murther!",843,19099
647270,1120,"Enter Edmund, with his rapier drawn, Gloucester, Cornwall, Regan, Servants.",1261,19099
647271,1121,How now? What's the matter?                 Parts [them].,369,19099
647272,1122,"With you, goodman boy, an you please! Come, I'll flesh ye!
Come on, young master!",358,19099
647273,1124,Weapons? arms? What's the matter here?,532,19099
647274,1125,"Keep peace, upon your lives!
He dies that strikes again. What is the matter?",346,19099
647275,1127,The messengers from our sister and the King,941,19099
647276,1128,What is your difference? Speak.,346,19099
647277,1129,"I am scarce in breath, my lord.",843,19099
647278,1130,"No marvel, you have so bestirr'd your valour. You cowardly
rascal, nature disclaims in thee; a tailor made thee.",358,19099
647279,1132,Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man?,346,19099
647280,1133,"Ay, a tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not have
made him so ill, though he had been but two hours at the trade.",358,19099
647281,1135,"Speak yet, how grew your quarrel?",346,19099
647282,1136,"This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spar'd
At suit of his grey beard-",843,19099
647283,1138,"Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if
you'll give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into
mortar and daub the walls of a jakes with him. 'Spare my grey
beard,' you wagtail?",358,19099
647284,1142,"Peace, sirrah!
You beastly knave, know you no reverence?",346,19099
647285,1144,"Yes, sir, but anger hath a privilege.",358,19099
647286,1145,Why art thou angry?,346,19099
647287,1146,"That such a slave as this should wear a sword,
Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,
Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain
Which are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passion
That in the natures of their lords rebel,
Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;
Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks
With every gale and vary of their masters,
Knowing naught (like dogs) but following.
A plague upon your epileptic visage!
Smile you my speeches, as I were a fool?
Goose, an I had you upon Sarum Plain,
I'ld drive ye cackling home to Camelot.",358,19099
647288,1159,"What, art thou mad, old fellow?",346,19099
647289,1160,How fell you out? Say that.,532,19099
647290,1161,"No contraries hold more antipathy
Than I and such a knave.",358,19099
647291,1163,Why dost thou call him knave? What is his fault?,346,19099
647292,1164,His countenance likes me not.,358,19099
647293,1165,"No more perchance does mine, or his, or hers.",346,19099
647294,1166,"Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain.
I have seen better faces in my time
Than stands on any shoulder that I see
Before me at this instant.",358,19099
647295,1170,"This is some fellow
Who, having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect
A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb
Quite from his nature. He cannot flatter, he!
An honest mind and plain- he must speak truth!
An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain.
These kind of knaves I know which in this plainness
Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends
Than twenty silly-ducking observants
That stretch their duties nicely.",346,19099
647296,1180,"Sir, in good faith, in sincere verity,
Under th' allowance of your great aspect,
Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire
On flickering Phoebus' front-",358,19099
647297,1184,What mean'st by this?,346,19099
647298,1185,"To go out of my dialect, which you discommend so much. I
know, sir, I am no flatterer. He that beguil'd you in a plain
accent was a plain knave, which, for my part, I will not be,
though I should win your displeasure to entreat me to't.",358,19099
647299,1189,What was th' offence you gave him?,346,19099
647300,1190,"I never gave him any.
It pleas'd the King his master very late
To strike at me, upon his misconstruction;
When he, conjunct, and flattering his displeasure,
Tripp'd me behind; being down, insulted, rail'd
And put upon him such a deal of man
That worthied him, got praises of the King
For him attempting who was self-subdu'd;
And, in the fleshment of this dread exploit,
Drew on me here again.",843,19099
647301,1200,"None of these rogues and cowards
But Ajax is their fool.",358,19099
647302,1202,"Fetch forth the stocks!
You stubborn ancient knave, you reverent braggart,
We'll teach you-",346,19099
647303,1205,"Sir, I am too old to learn.
Call not your stocks for me. I serve the King;
On whose employment I was sent to you.
You shall do small respect, show too bold malice
Against the grace and person of my master,
Stocking his messenger.",358,19099
647304,1211,"Fetch forth the stocks! As I have life and honour,
There shall he sit till noon.",346,19099
647305,1213,"Till noon? Till night, my lord, and all night too!",941,19099
647306,1214,"Why, madam, if I were your father's dog,
You should not use me so.",358,19099
647307,1216,"Sir, being his knave, I will.",941,19099
647308,1217,"This is a fellow of the selfsame colour
Our sister speaks of. Come, bring away the stocks!",346,19099
647309,1219,                                 Stocks brought out.,1261,19099
647310,1220,"Let me beseech your Grace not to do so.
His fault is much, and the good King his master
Will check him for't. Your purpos'd low correction
Is such as basest and contemn'dest wretches
For pilf'rings and most common trespasses
Are punish'd with. The King must take it ill
That he, so slightly valued in his messenger,
Should have him thus restrain'd.",532,19099
647311,1228,I'll answer that.,346,19099
647312,1229,"My sister may receive it much more worse,
To have her gentleman abus'd, assaulted,
For following her affairs. Put in his legs.-
[Kent is put in the stocks.]
Come, my good lord, away.",941,19099
647313,1234,               Exeunt [all but Gloucester and Kent].,1261,19099
647314,1235,"I am sorry for thee, friend. 'Tis the Duke's pleasure,
Whose disposition, all the world well knows,
Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd. I'll entreat for thee.",532,19099
647315,1238,"Pray do not, sir. I have watch'd and travell'd hard.
Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle.
A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.
Give you good morrow!",358,19099
647316,1242,The Duke 's to blame in this; 'twill be ill taken. Exit.,532,19099
647317,1243,"Good King, that must approve the common saw,
Thou out of heaven's benediction com'st
To the warm sun!
Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,
That by thy comfortable beams I may
Peruse this letter. Nothing almost sees miracles
But misery. I know 'tis from Cordelia,
Who hath most fortunately been inform'd
Of my obscured course- and [reads] 'shall find time
From this enormous state, seeking to give
Losses their remedies'- All weary and o'erwatch'd,
Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold
This shameful lodging.
Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel.",358,19099
647318,1257,                                                    Sleeps.,1261,19099
647319,1259,Enter Edgar.,1261,19100
647320,1260,"I heard myself proclaim'd,
And by the happy hollow of a tree
Escap'd the hunt. No port is free, no place
That guard and most unusual vigilance
Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may scape,
I will preserve myself; and am bethought
To take the basest and most poorest shape
That ever penury, in contempt of man,
Brought near to beast. My face I'll grime with filth,
Blanket my loins, elf all my hair in knots,
And with presented nakedness outface
The winds and persecutions of the sky.
The country gives me proof and precedent
Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices,
Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms
Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;
And with this horrible object, from low farms,
Poor pelting villages, sheepcotes, and mills,
Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,
Enforce their charity. 'Poor Turlygod! poor Tom!'
That's something yet! Edgar I nothing am. Exit.",367,19100
647321,1282,"Enter Lear, Fool, and Gentleman.",1261,19101
647322,1283,"'Tis strange that they should so depart from home,
And not send back my messenger.",659,19101
647323,1285,"As I learn'd,
The night before there was no purpose in them
Of this remove.",519,19101
647324,1288,"Hail to thee, noble master!",358,19101
647325,1289,"Ha!
Mak'st thou this shame thy pastime?",659,19101
647326,1291,"No, my lord.",358,19101
647327,1292,"Ha, ha! look! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied by the
head, dogs and bears by th' neck, monkeys by th' loins, and men
by th' legs. When a man's over-lusty at legs, then he wears
wooden nether-stocks.",482,19101
647328,1296,"What's he that hath so much thy place mistook
To set thee here?",659,19101
647329,1298,"It is both he and she-
Your son and daughter.",358,19101
647330,1300,No.,659,19101
647331,1301,Yes.,358,19101
647332,1302,"No, I say.",659,19101
647333,1303,I say yea.,358,19101
647334,1304,"No, no, they would not!",659,19101
647335,1305,"Yes, they have.",358,19101
647336,1306,"By Jupiter, I swear no!",659,19101
647337,1307,"By Juno, I swear ay!",358,19101
647338,1308,"They durst not do't;
They would not, could not do't. 'Tis worse than murther
To do upon respect such violent outrage.
Resolve me with all modest haste which way
Thou mightst deserve or they impose this usage,
Coming from us.",659,19101
647339,1314,"My lord, when at their home
I did commend your Highness' letters to them,
Ere I was risen from the place that show'd
My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,
Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth
From Goneril his mistress salutations;
Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission,
Which presently they read; on whose contents,
They summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse,
Commanded me to follow and attend
The leisure of their answer, gave me cold looks,
And meeting here the other messenger,
Whose welcome I perceiv'd had poison'd mine-
Being the very fellow which of late
Display'd so saucily against your Highness-
Having more man than wit about me, drew.
He rais'd the house with loud and coward cries.
Your son and daughter found this trespass worth
The shame which here it suffers.",358,19101
647340,1333,"Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
     Fathers that wear rags
       Do make their children blind;
     But fathers that bear bags
       Shall see their children kind.
     Fortune, that arrant whore,
     Ne'er turns the key to th' poor.
But for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours for thy
daughters as thou canst tell in a year.",482,19101
647341,1342,"O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!
Hysterica passio! Down, thou climbing sorrow!
Thy element's below! Where is this daughter?",659,19101
647342,1345,"With the Earl, sir, here within.",358,19101
647343,1346,"Follow me not;
Stay here.                         Exit.",659,19101
647344,1348,Made you no more offence but what you speak of?,519,19101
647345,1349,"None.
How chance the King comes with so small a number?",358,19101
647346,1351,"An thou hadst been set i' th' stocks for that question,
thou'dst well deserv'd it.",482,19101
647347,1353,"Why, fool?",358,19101
647348,1354,"We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no
labouring i' th' winter. All that follow their noses are led by
their eyes but blind men, and there's not a nose among twenty
but can smell him that's stinking. Let go thy hold when a great
wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following
it; but the great one that goes upward, let him draw thee after.
When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. I
would have none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it.
     That sir which serves and seeks for gain,
       And follows but for form,
     Will pack when it begins to rain
       And leave thee in the storm.
     But I will tarry; the fool will stay,
       And let the wise man fly.
     The knave turns fool that runs away;
       The fool no knave, perdy.",482,19101
647349,1370,"Where learn'd you this, fool?",358,19101
647350,1371,"Not i' th' stocks, fool.
                 Enter Lear and Gloucester",482,19101
647351,1373,"Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?
They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches-
The images of revolt and flying off!
Fetch me a better answer.",659,19101
647352,1377,"My dear lord,
You know the fiery quality of the Duke,
How unremovable and fix'd he is
In his own course.",532,19101
647353,1381,"Vengeance! plague! death! confusion!
Fiery? What quality? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,
I'ld speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife.",659,19101
647354,1384,"Well, my good lord, I have inform'd them so.",532,19101
647355,1385,"Inform'd them? Dost thou understand me, man?",659,19101
647356,1386,"Ay, my good lord.",532,19101
647357,1387,"The King would speak with Cornwall; the dear father
Would with his daughter speak, commands her service.
Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood!
Fiery? the fiery Duke? Tell the hot Duke that-
No, but not yet! May be he is not well.
Infirmity doth still neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound. We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
To suffer with the body. I'll forbear;
And am fallen out with my more headier will,
To take the indispos'd and sickly fit
For the sound man.- Death on my state! Wherefore
Should he sit here? This act persuades me
That this remotion of the Duke and her
Is practice only. Give me my servant forth.
Go tell the Duke and 's wife I'ld speak with them-
Now, presently. Bid them come forth and hear me,
Or at their chamber door I'll beat the drum
Till it cry sleep to death.",659,19101
647358,1406,I would have all well betwixt you. Exit.,532,19101
647359,1407,"O me, my heart, my rising heart! But down!",659,19101
647360,1408,"Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels when she
put 'em i' th' paste alive. She knapp'd 'em o' th' coxcombs with
a stick and cried 'Down, wantons, down!' 'Twas her brother that,
in pure kindness to his horse, buttered his hay.",482,19101
647361,1412," Enter Cornwall, Regan, Gloucester, Servants.",1261,19101
647362,1413,Good morrow to you both.,659,19101
647363,1414,Hail to your Grace!,346,19101
647364,1415,                           Kent here set at liberty.,1261,19101
647365,1416,I am glad to see your Highness.,941,19101
647366,1417,"Regan, I think you are; I know what reason
I have to think so. If thou shouldst not be glad,
I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,
Sepulchring an adultress. [To Kent] O, are you free?
Some other time for that.- Beloved Regan,
Thy sister's naught. O Regan, she hath tied
Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here!
[Lays his hand on his heart.]
I can scarce speak to thee. Thou'lt not believe
With how deprav'd a quality- O Regan!",659,19101
647367,1427,"I pray you, sir, take patience. I have hope
You less know how to value her desert
Than she to scant her duty.",941,19101
647368,1430,"Say, how is that?",659,19101
647369,1431,"I cannot think my sister in the least
Would fail her obligation. If, sir, perchance
She have restrain'd the riots of your followers,
'Tis on such ground, and to such wholesome end,
As clears her from all blame.",941,19101
647370,1436,My curses on her!,659,19101
647371,1437,"O, sir, you are old!
Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine. You should be rul'd, and led
By some discretion that discerns your state
Better than you yourself. Therefore I pray you
That to our sister you do make return;
Say you have wrong'd her, sir.",941,19101
647372,1444,"Ask her forgiveness?
Do you but mark how this becomes the house:
'Dear daughter, I confess that I am old. [Kneels.]
Age is unnecessary. On my knees I beg
That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.'",659,19101
647373,1449,"Good sir, no more! These are unsightly tricks.
Return you to my sister.",941,19101
647374,1451,"[rises] Never, Regan!
She hath abated me of half my train;
Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue,
Most serpent-like, upon the very heart.
All the stor'd vengeances of heaven fall
On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,
You taking airs, with lameness!",659,19101
647375,1458,"Fie, sir, fie!",346,19101
647376,1459,"You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames
Into her scornful eyes! Infect her beauty,
You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the pow'rful sun,
To fall and blast her pride!",659,19101
647377,1463,"O the blest gods! so will you wish on me
When the rash mood is on.",941,19101
647378,1465,"No, Regan, thou shalt never have my curse.
Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give
Thee o'er to harshness. Her eyes are fierce; but thine
Do comfort, and not burn. 'Tis not in thee
To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,
To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,
And, in conclusion, to oppose the bolt
Against my coming in. Thou better know'st
The offices of nature, bond of childhood,
Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude.
Thy half o' th' kingdom hast thou not forgot,
Wherein I thee endow'd.",659,19101
647379,1477,"Good sir, to th' purpose.",941,19101
647380,1478,                                      Tucket within.,1261,19101
647381,1479,Who put my man i' th' stocks?,659,19101
647382,1480,What trumpet's that?,346,19101
647383,1481,"I know't- my sister's. This approves her letter,
That she would soon be here.
[Enter [Oswald the] Steward.]
Is your lady come?",941,19101
647384,1485,"This is a slave, whose easy-borrowed pride
Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows.
Out, varlet, from my sight!",659,19101
647385,1488,What means your Grace?,346,19101
647386,1489,                Enter Goneril.,1261,19101
647387,1490,"Who stock'd my servant? Regan, I have good hope
Thou didst not know on't.- Who comes here? O heavens!
If you do love old men, if your sweet sway
Allow obedience- if yourselves are old,
Make it your cause! Send down, and take my part!
[To Goneril] Art not asham'd to look upon this beard?-
O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?",659,19101
647388,1497,"Why not by th' hand, sir? How have I offended?
All's not offence that indiscretion finds
And dotage terms so.",533,19101
647389,1500,"O sides, you are too tough!
Will you yet hold? How came my man i' th' stocks?",659,19101
647390,1502,"I set him there, sir; but his own disorders
Deserv'd much less advancement.",346,19101
647391,1504,You? Did you?,659,19101
647392,1505,"I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.
If, till the expiration of your month,
You will return and sojourn with my sister,
Dismissing half your train, come then to me.
I am now from home, and out of that provision
Which shall be needful for your entertainment.",941,19101
647393,1511,"Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd?
No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the enmity o' th' air,
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl-
Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her?
Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took
Our youngest born, I could as well be brought
To knee his throne, and, squire-like, pension beg
To keep base life afoot. Return with her?
Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
To this detested groom. [Points at Oswald.]",659,19101
647394,1522,"At your choice, sir.",533,19101
647395,1523,"I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad.
I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell.
We'll no more meet, no more see one another.
But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter;
Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,
Which I must needs call mine. Thou art a boil,
A plague sore, an embossed carbuncle
In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee.
Let shame come when it will, I do not call it.
I do not bid the Thunder-bearer shoot
Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove.
Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure;
I can be patient, I can stay with Regan,
I and my hundred knights.",659,19101
647396,1537,"Not altogether so.
I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided
For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;
For those that mingle reason with your passion
Must be content to think you old, and so-
But she knows what she does.",941,19101
647397,1543,Is this well spoken?,659,19101
647398,1544,"I dare avouch it, sir. What, fifty followers?
Is it not well? What should you need of more?
Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger
Speak 'gainst so great a number? How in one house
Should many people, under two commands,
Hold amity? 'Tis hard; almost impossible.",941,19101
647399,1550,"Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance
From those that she calls servants, or from mine?",533,19101
647400,1552,"Why not, my lord? If then they chanc'd to slack ye,
We could control them. If you will come to me
(For now I spy a danger), I entreat you
To bring but five-and-twenty. To no more
Will I give place or notice.",941,19101
647401,1557,I gave you all-,659,19101
647402,1558,And in good time you gave it!,941,19101
647403,1559,"Made you my guardians, my depositaries;
But kept a reservation to be followed
With such a number. What, must I come to you
With five-and-twenty, Regan? Said you so?",659,19101
647404,1563,And speak't again my lord. No more with me.,941,19101
647405,1564,"Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd
When others are more wicked; not being the worst
Stands in some rank of praise. [To Goneril] I'll go with thee.
Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty,
And thou art twice her love.",659,19101
647406,1569,"Hear, me, my lord.
What need you five-and-twenty, ten, or five,
To follow in a house where twice so many
Have a command to tend you?",533,19101
647407,1573,What need one?,941,19101
647408,1574,"O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady:
If only to go warm were gorgeous,
Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st
Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need-
You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both.
If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
Against their father, fool me not so much
To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
And let not women's weapons, water drops,
Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags!
I will have such revenges on you both
That all the world shall- I will do such things-
What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be
The terrors of the earth! You think I'll weep.
No, I'll not weep.
I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!",659,19101
647409,1597,"         Exeunt Lear, Gloucester, Kent, and Fool. Storm and tempest.",1261,19101
647410,1598,Let us withdraw; 'twill be a storm.,346,19101
647411,1599,"This house is little; the old man and 's people
Cannot be well bestow'd.",941,19101
647412,1601,"'Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest
And must needs taste his folly.",533,19101
647413,1603,"For his particular, I'll receive him gladly,
But not one follower.",941,19101
647414,1605,"So am I purpos'd.
Where is my Lord of Gloucester?",533,19101
647415,1607,"Followed the old man forth.
[Enter Gloucester.]
He is return'd.",346,19101
647416,1610,The King is in high rage.,532,19101
647417,1611,Whither is he going?,346,19101
647418,1612,"He calls to horse, but will I know not whither.",532,19101
647422,1618,"O, sir, to wilful men
The injuries that they themselves procure
Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors.
He is attended with a desperate train,
And what they may incense him to, being apt
To have his ear abus'd, wisdom bids fear.",941,19101
647423,1624,"Shut up your doors, my lord: 'tis a wild night.
My Regan counsels well. Come out o' th' storm. [Exeunt.]",346,19101
647424,1628,Enter Kent and a Gentleman at several doors.,1261,19102
647425,1629,"Who's there, besides foul weather?",358,19102
647426,1630,"One minded like the weather, most unquietly.",519,19102
647427,1631,I know you. Where's the King?,358,19102
647428,1632,"Contending with the fretful elements;
Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea,
Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main,
That things might change or cease; tears his white hair,
Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage,
Catch in their fury and make nothing of;
Strives in his little world of man to outscorn
The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.
This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,
The lion and the belly-pinched wolf
Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,
And bids what will take all.",519,19102
647429,1644,But who is with him?,358,19102
647430,1645,"None but the fool, who labours to outjest
His heart-struck injuries.",519,19102
647431,1647,"Sir, I do know you,
And dare upon the warrant of my note
Commend a dear thing to you. There is division
(Although as yet the face of it be cover'd
With mutual cunning) 'twixt Albany and Cornwall;
Who have (as who have not, that their great stars
Thron'd and set high?) servants, who seem no less,
Which are to France the spies and speculations
Intelligent of our state. What hath been seen,
Either in snuffs and packings of the Dukes,
Or the hard rein which both of them have borne
Against the old kind King, or something deeper,
Whereof, perchance, these are but furnishings-
But, true it is, from France there comes a power
Into this scattered kingdom, who already,
Wise in our negligence, have secret feet
In some of our best ports and are at point
To show their open banner. Now to you:
If on my credit you dare build so far
To make your speed to Dover, you shall find
Some that will thank you, making just report
Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow
The King hath cause to plain.
I am a gentleman of blood and breeding,
And from some knowledge and assurance offer
This office to you.",358,19102
647432,1673,I will talk further with you.,519,19102
647433,1674,"No, do not.
For confirmation that I am much more
Than my out-wall, open this purse and take
What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia
(As fear not but you shall), show her this ring,
And she will tell you who your fellow is
That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm!
I will go seek the King.",358,19102
647434,1682,Give me your hand. Have you no more to say?,519,19102
647435,1683,"Few words, but, to effect, more than all yet:
That, when we have found the King (in which your pain
That way, I'll this), he that first lights on him
Holla the other.",358,19102
647436,1687,                                 Exeunt [severally].,1261,19102
647437,1689,Enter Lear and Fool.,1261,19103
647438,1690,"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world,
Crack Nature's moulds, all germains spill at once,
That makes ingrateful man!",659,19103
647439,1699,"O nuncle, court holy water in a dry house is better than this
rain water out o' door. Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters
blessing! Here's a night pities nether wise men nor fools.",482,19103
647440,1702,"Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters.
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.
I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,
You owe me no subscription. Then let fall
Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
But yet I call you servile ministers,
That will with two pernicious daughters join
Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head
So old and white as this! O! O! 'tis foul!",659,19103
647441,1713,"He that has a house to put 's head in has a good head-piece.
     The codpiece that will house
       Before the head has any,
     The head and he shall louse:
       So beggars marry many.
     The man that makes his toe
       What he his heart should make
     Shall of a corn cry woe,
       And turn his sleep to wake.
For there was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a
glass.",482,19103
647442,1724,                 Enter Kent.,1261,19103
647443,1725,"No, I will be the pattern of all patience;
I will say nothing.",659,19103
647444,1727,Who's there?,358,19103
647445,1728,"Marry, here's grace and a codpiece; that's a wise man and a
fool.",482,19103
647446,1730,"Alas, sir, are you here? Things that love night
Love not such nights as these. The wrathful skies
Gallow the very wanderers of the dark
And make them keep their caves. Since I was man,
Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,
Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never
Remember to have heard. Man's nature cannot carry
Th' affliction nor the fear.",358,19103
647447,1738,"Let the great gods,
That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads,
Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch,
That hast within thee undivulged crimes
Unwhipp'd of justice. Hide thee, thou bloody hand;
Thou perjur'd, and thou simular man of virtue
That art incestuous. Caitiff, in pieces shake
That under covert and convenient seeming
Hast practis'd on man's life. Close pent-up guilts,
Rive your concealing continents, and cry
These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man
More sinn'd against than sinning.",659,19103
647448,1750,"Alack, bareheaded?
Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel;
Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest.
Repose you there, whilst I to this hard house
(More harder than the stones whereof 'tis rais'd,
Which even but now, demanding after you,
Denied me to come in) return, and force
Their scanted courtesy.",358,19103
647449,1758,"My wits begin to turn.
Come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art cold?
I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow?
The art of our necessities is strange,
That can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel.
Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart
That's sorry yet for thee.",659,19103
647450,1765,"[sings]
     He that has and a little tiny wit-
       With hey, ho, the wind and the rain-
     Must make content with his fortunes fit,
        For the rain it raineth every day.",482,19103
647451,1770,"True, my good boy. Come, bring us to this hovel.",659,19103
647452,1771,                             Exeunt [Lear and Kent].,1261,19103
647453,1772,"This is a brave night to cool a courtesan. I'll speak a
prophecy ere I go:
     When priests are more in word than matter;
     When brewers mar their malt with water;
     When nobles are their tailors' tutors,
     No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors;
     When every case in law is right,
     No squire in debt nor no poor knight;
     When slanders do not live in tongues,
     Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;
     When usurers tell their gold i' th' field,
     And bawds and whores do churches build:
     Then shall the realm of Albion
     Come to great confusion.
     Then comes the time, who lives to see't,
     That going shall be us'd with feet.
This prophecy Merlin shall make, for I live before his time. Exit.",482,19103
647454,1790,Enter Gloucester and Edmund.,1261,19104
647455,1791,"Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural dealing! When
I desir'd their leave that I might pity him, they took from me
the use of mine own house, charg'd me on pain of perpetual
displeasure neither to speak of him, entreat for him, nor any
way sustain him.",532,19104
647456,1796,Most savage and unnatural!,369,19104
647457,1797,"Go to; say you nothing. There is division betwixt the Dukes,
and a worse matter than that. I have received a letter this
night- 'tis dangerous to be spoken- I have lock'd the letter in
my closet. These injuries the King now bears will be revenged
home; there's part of a power already footed; we must incline to
the King. I will seek him and privily relieve him. Go you and
maintain talk with the Duke, that my charity be not of him
perceived. If he ask for me, I am ill and gone to bed. Though I
die for't, as no less is threat'ned me, the King my old master
must be relieved. There is some strange thing toward, Edmund.
Pray you be careful.               Exit.",532,19104
647458,1808,"This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the Duke
Instantly know, and of that letter too.
This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me
That which my father loses- no less than all.
The younger rises when the old doth fall. Exit.",369,19104
647459,1814,"Enter Lear, Kent, and Fool.",1261,19105
647460,1815,"Here is the place, my lord. Good my lord, enter.
The tyranny of the open night 's too rough
For nature to endure.",358,19105
647461,1818,Let me alone.,659,19105
647462,1819,"Good my lord, enter here.",358,19105
647463,1820,Wilt break my heart?,659,19105
647464,1821,"I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter.",358,19105
647465,1822,"Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm
Invades us to the skin. So 'tis to thee;
But where the greater malady is fix'd,
The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a bear;
But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea,
Thou'dst meet the bear i' th' mouth. When the mind's free,
The body's delicate. The tempest in my mind
Doth from my senses take all feeling else
Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude!
Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand
For lifting food to't? But I will punish home!
No, I will weep no more. In such a night
To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure.
In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril!
Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all!
O, that way madness lies; let me shun that!
No more of that.",659,19105
647466,1839,"Good my lord, enter here.",358,19105
647467,1840,"Prithee go in thyself; seek thine own ease.
This tempest will not give me leave to ponder
On things would hurt me more. But I'll go in.
[To the Fool] In, boy; go first.- You houseless poverty-
Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. [Exit Fool]
Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en
Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
That thou mayst shake the superflux to them
And show the heavens more just.",659,19105
647468,1854,"[within] Fathom and half, fathom and half! Poor Tom!",367,19105
647469,1855,         Enter Fool [from the hovel].,1261,19105
647470,1856,"Come not in here, nuncle, here's a spirit. Help me, help me!",482,19105
647471,1857,Give me thy hand. Who's there?,358,19105
647472,1858,"A spirit, a spirit! He says his name's poor Tom.",482,19105
647473,1859,"What art thou that dost grumble there i' th' straw?
Come forth.",358,19105
647474,1861,     Enter Edgar [disguised as a madman].,1261,19105
647475,1862,"Away! the foul fiend follows me! Through the sharp hawthorn
blows the cold wind. Humh! go to thy cold bed, and warm thee.",367,19105
647476,1864,"Hast thou given all to thy two daughters, and art thou come
to this?",659,19105
647477,1866,"Who gives anything to poor Tom? whom the foul fiend hath led
through fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool, o'er
bog and quagmire; that hath laid knives under his pillow and
halters in his pew, set ratsbane by his porridge, made him proud
of heart, to ride on a bay trotting horse over four-inch'd
bridges, to course his own shadow for a traitor. Bless thy five
wits! Tom 's acold. O, do de, do de, do de. Bless thee from
whirlwinds, star-blasting, and taking! Do poor Tom some charity,
whom the foul fiend vexes. There could I have him now- and there-
and there again- and there!",367,19105
647478,1876,                                        Storm still.,1261,19105
647479,1877,"What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?
Couldst thou save nothing? Didst thou give 'em all?",659,19105
647480,1879,"Nay, he reserv'd a blanket, else we had been all sham'd.",482,19105
647481,1880,"Now all the plagues that in the pendulous air
Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters!",659,19105
647482,1882,"He hath no daughters, sir.",358,19105
647483,1883,"Death, traitor! nothing could have subdu'd nature
To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.
Is it the fashion that discarded fathers
Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?
Judicious punishment! 'Twas this flesh begot
Those pelican daughters.",659,19105
647484,1889,"Pillicock sat on Pillicock's Hill. 'Allow, 'allow, loo, loo!",367,19105
647485,1890,This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.,482,19105
647486,1891,"Take heed o' th' foul fiend; obey thy parents: keep thy word
justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not
thy sweet heart on proud array. Tom 's acold.",367,19105
647487,1894,What hast thou been?,659,19105
647488,1895,"A servingman, proud in heart and mind; that curl'd my hair,
wore gloves in my cap; serv'd the lust of my mistress' heart and
did the act of darkness with her; swore as many oaths as I spake
words, and broke them in the sweet face of heaven; one that
slept in the contriving of lust, and wak'd to do it. Wine lov'd
I deeply, dice dearly; and in woman out-paramour'd the Turk.
False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox
in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.
Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray
thy poor heart to woman. Keep thy foot out of brothel, thy hand
out of placket, thy pen from lender's book, and defy the foul
fiend. Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind; says
suum, mun, hey, no, nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy, sessa! let
him trot by.",367,19105
647489,1909,                                        Storm still.,1261,19105
647490,1910,"Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy
uncover'd body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than
this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast
no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! Here's three
on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself;
unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked
animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come, unbutton
here.",659,19105
647491,1918,                             [Tears at his clothes.],1261,19105
647492,1919,"Prithee, nuncle, be contented! 'Tis a naughty night to swim
in. Now a little fire in a wild field were like an old lecher's
heart- a small spark, all the rest on's body cold. Look, here
comes a walking fire.",482,19105
647493,1923,        Enter Gloucester with a torch.,1261,19105
647494,1924,"This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet. He begins at curfew,
and walks till the first cock. He gives the web and the pin,
squints the eye, and makes the harelip; mildews the white wheat,
and hurts the poor creature of earth.
      Saint Withold footed thrice the 'old;
      He met the nightmare, and her nine fold;
         Bid her alight
         And her troth plight,
      And aroint thee, witch, aroint thee!",367,19105
647495,1933,How fares your Grace?,358,19105
647496,1934,What's he?,659,19105
647497,1935,Who's there? What is't you seek?,358,19105
647498,1936,What are you there? Your names?,532,19105
647499,1937,"Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole,
the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when
the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the
old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the
standing pool; who is whipp'd from tithing to tithing, and
stock-punish'd and imprison'd; who hath had three suits to his
back, six shirts to his body, horse to ride, and weapons to
wear;
     But mice and rats, and such small deer,
     Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
Beware my follower. Peace, Smulkin! peace, thou fiend!",367,19105
647500,1948,"What, hath your Grace no better company?",532,19105
647501,1949,"The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
Modo he's call'd, and Mahu.",367,19105
647502,1951,"Our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord,
That it doth hate what gets it.",532,19105
647503,1953,Poor Tom 's acold.,367,19105
647504,1954,"Go in with me. My duty cannot suffer
T' obey in all your daughters' hard commands.
Though their injunction be to bar my doors
And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you,
Yet have I ventur'd to come seek you out
And bring you where both fire and food is ready.",532,19105
647505,1960,"First let me talk with this philosopher.
What is the cause of thunder?",659,19105
647506,1962,"Good my lord, take his offer; go into th' house.",358,19105
647507,1963,"I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
What is your study?",659,19105
647508,1965,How to prevent the fiend and to kill vermin.,367,19105
647509,1966,Let me ask you one word in private.,659,19105
647510,1967,"Importune him once more to go, my lord.
His wits begin t' unsettle.",358,19105
647511,1969,"Canst thou blame him? [Storm still.]
His daughters seek his death. Ah, that good Kent!
He said it would be thus- poor banish'd man!
Thou say'st the King grows mad: I'll tell thee, friend,
I am almost mad myself. I had a son,
Now outlaw'd from my blood. He sought my life
But lately, very late. I lov'd him, friend-
No father his son dearer. True to tell thee,
The grief hath craz'd my wits. What a night 's this!
I do beseech your Grace-",532,19105
647512,1979,"O, cry you mercy, sir.
Noble philosopher, your company.",659,19105
647513,1981,Tom's acold.,367,19105
647514,1982,"In, fellow, there, into th' hovel; keep thee warm.",532,19105
647515,1983,"Come, let's in all.",659,19105
647516,1984,"This way, my lord.",358,19105
647517,1985,"With him!
I will keep still with my philosopher.",659,19105
647518,1987,"Good my lord, soothe him; let him take the fellow.",358,19105
647519,1988,Take him you on.,532,19105
647520,1989,"Sirrah, come on; go along with us.",358,19105
647521,1990,"Come, good Athenian.",659,19105
647522,1991,"No words, no words! hush.",532,19105
647523,1992,"Child Rowland to the dark tower came;
His word was still
     Fie, foh, and fum!
     I smell the blood of a British man.",367,19105
647524,1996,                                             Exeunt.,1261,19105
647525,1998,Enter Cornwall and Edmund.,1261,19106
647526,1999,I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.,346,19106
647527,2000,"How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives way to
loyalty, something fears me to think of.",369,19106
647528,2002,"I now perceive it was not altogether your brother's evil
disposition made him seek his death; but a provoking merit, set
awork by a reproveable badness in himself.",346,19106
647529,2005,"How malicious is my fortune that I must repent to be just!
This is the letter he spoke of, which approves him an
intelligent party to the advantages of France. O heavens! that
this treason were not- or not I the detector!",369,19106
647530,2009,Go with me to the Duchess.,346,19106
647531,2010,"If the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty
business in hand.",369,19106
647532,2012,"True or false, it hath made thee Earl of Gloucester.
Seek out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our
apprehension.",346,19106
647533,2015,"[aside] If I find him comforting the King, it will stuff his
suspicion more fully.- I will persever in my course of loyalty,
though the conflict be sore between that and my blood.",369,19106
647534,2018,"I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find a dearer
father in my love.",346,19106
647535,2020,                                             Exeunt.,1261,19106
647536,2022,"Enter Gloucester, Lear, Kent, Fool, and Edgar.",1261,19107
647537,2023,"Here is better than the open air; take it thankfully. I will
piece out the comfort with what addition I can. I will not be
long from you.",532,19107
647538,2026,"All the power of his wits have given way to his impatience.
The gods reward your kindness!",358,19107
647539,2028,                                  Exit [Gloucester].,1261,19107
647540,2029,"Frateretto calls me, and tells me Nero is an angler in the
lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend.",367,19107
647541,2031,"Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a gentleman or a
yeoman.",482,19107
647542,2033,"A king, a king!",659,19107
647543,2034,"No, he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son; for he's a
mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman before him.",482,19107
647544,2036,"To have a thousand with red burning spits
Come hizzing in upon 'em-",659,19107
647545,2038,The foul fiend bites my back.,367,19107
647546,2039,"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's
health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.",482,19107
647547,2041,"It shall be done; I will arraign them straight.
[To Edgar] Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer.
[To the Fool] Thou, sapient sir, sit here. Now, you she-foxes!",659,19107
647548,2044,"Look, where he stands and glares! Want'st thou eyes at trial,
madam?
        Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me.",367,19107
647549,2047,"Her boat hath a leak,
        And she must not speak
      Why she dares not come over to thee.",482,19107
647550,2050,"The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a nightingale.
Hoppedance cries in Tom's belly for two white herring. Croak
not, black angel; I have no food for thee.",367,19107
647551,2053,"How do you, sir? Stand you not so amaz'd.
Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions?",358,19107
647552,2055,"I'll see their trial first. Bring in their evidence.
[To Edgar] Thou, robed man of justice, take thy place.
[To the Fool] And thou, his yokefellow of equity,
Bench by his side. [To Kent] You are o' th' commission,
Sit you too.",659,19107
647553,2060,"Let us deal justly.
     Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?
       Thy sheep be in the corn;
     And for one blast of thy minikin mouth
       Thy sheep shall take no harm.
Purr! the cat is gray.",367,19107
647554,2066,"Arraign her first. 'Tis Goneril. I here take my oath before
this honourable assembly, she kicked the poor King her father.",659,19107
647555,2068,"Come hither, mistress. Is your name Goneril?",482,19107
647556,2069,She cannot deny it.,659,19107
647557,2070,"Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool.",482,19107
647558,2071,"And here's another, whose warp'd looks proclaim
What store her heart is made on. Stop her there!
Arms, arms! sword! fire! Corruption in the place!
False justicer, why hast thou let her scape?",659,19107
647559,2075,Bless thy five wits!,367,19107
647560,2076,"O pity! Sir, where is the patience now
That you so oft have boasted to retain?",358,19107
647561,2078,"[aside] My tears begin to take his part so much
They'll mar my counterfeiting.",367,19107
647562,2080,"The little dogs and all,
Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.",659,19107
647563,2082,"Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt, you curs!
      Be thy mouth or black or white,
      Tooth that poisons if it bite;
      Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim,
      Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,
      Bobtail tyke or trundle-tail-
      Tom will make them weep and wail;
      For, with throwing thus my head,
      Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.
Do de, de, de. Sessa! Come, march to wakes and fairs and market
towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry.",367,19107
647564,2093,"Then let them anatomize Regan. See what breeds about her
heart. Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard
hearts? [To Edgar] You, sir- I entertain you for one of my
hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments. You'll
say they are Persian attire; but let them be chang'd.",659,19107
647565,2098,"Now, good my lord, lie here and rest awhile.",358,19107
647566,2099,"Make no noise, make no noise; draw the curtains.
So, so, so. We'll go to supper i' th' morning. So, so, so.",659,19107
647567,2101,And I'll go to bed at noon.,482,19107
647568,2102,              Enter Gloucester.,1261,19107
647569,2103,"Come hither, friend. Where is the King my master?",532,19107
647570,2104,"Here, sir; but trouble him not; his wits are gone.",358,19107
647571,2105,"Good friend, I prithee take him in thy arms.
I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him.
There is a litter ready; lay him in't
And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet
Both welcome and protection. Take up thy master.
If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,
With thine, and all that offer to defend him,
Stand in assured loss. Take up, take up!
And follow me, that will to some provision
Give thee quick conduct.",532,19107
647572,2115,"Oppressed nature sleeps.
This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses,
Which, if convenience will not allow,
Stand in hard cure. [To the Fool] Come, help to bear thy master.
Thou must not stay behind.",358,19107
647573,2120,"Come, come, away!",532,19107
647574,2121,                             Exeunt [all but Edgar].,1261,19107
647575,2122,"When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind,
Leaving free things and happy shows behind;
But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip
When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.
How light and portable my pain seems now,
When that which makes me bend makes the King bow,
He childed as I fathered! Tom, away!
Mark the high noises, and thyself bewray
When false opinion, whose wrong thought defiles thee,
In thy just proof repeals and reconciles thee.
What will hap more to-night, safe scape the King!
Lurk, lurk.                      [Exit.]",367,19107
647576,2137,"[to Goneril] Post speedily to my lord your husband, show him
this letter. The army of France is landed.- Seek out the traitor
Gloucester.",346,19108
647577,2140,                      [Exeunt some of the Servants.],1261,19108
647578,2141,Hang him instantly.,941,19108
647579,2142,Pluck out his eyes.,533,19108
647580,2143,"Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep you our sister
company. The revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous
father are not fit for your beholding. Advise the Duke where you
are going, to a most festinate preparation. We are bound to the
like. Our posts shall be swift and intelligent betwixt us.
Farewell, dear sister; farewell, my Lord of Gloucester. [Enter Oswald the Steward.]
How now? Where's the King?",346,19108
647581,2150,"My Lord of Gloucester hath convey'd him hence.
Some five or six and thirty of his knights,
Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;
Who, with some other of the lord's dependants,
Are gone with him towards Dover, where they boast
To have well-armed friends.",843,19108
647582,2156,Get horses for your mistress.,346,19108
647583,2157,"Farewell, sweet lord, and sister.",533,19108
647584,2158,"Edmund, farewell. [Exeunt Goneril, Edmund, and Oswald.]
Go seek the traitor Gloucester,
Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us. [Exeunt other Servants.]
Though well we may not pass upon his life
Without the form of justice, yet our power
Shall do a court'sy to our wrath, which men
May blame, but not control. [Enter Gloucester, brought in by two or three.]
Who's there? the traitor?",346,19108
647585,2166,Ingrateful fox! 'tis he.,941,19108
647586,2167,Bind fast his corky arms.,346,19108
647587,2168,"What mean, your Graces? Good my friends, consider
You are my guests. Do me no foul play, friends.",532,19108
647588,2170,"Bind him, I say.",346,19108
647589,2171,                                [Servants bind him.],1261,19108
647590,2172,"Hard, hard. O filthy traitor!",941,19108
647591,2173,"Unmerciful lady as you are, I am none.",532,19108
647592,2174,"To this chair bind him. Villain, thou shalt find-",346,19108
647593,2175,                           [Regan plucks his beard.],1261,19108
647594,2176,"By the kind gods, 'tis most ignobly done
To pluck me by the beard.",532,19108
647595,2178,"So white, and such a traitor!",941,19108
647596,2179,"Naughty lady,
These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin
Will quicken, and accuse thee. I am your host.
With robber's hands my hospitable favours
You should not ruffle thus. What will you do?",532,19108
647597,2184,"Come, sir, what letters had you late from France?",346,19108
647598,2185,"Be simple-answer'd, for we know the truth.",941,19108
647599,2186,"And what confederacy have you with the traitors
Late footed in the kingdom?",346,19108
647600,2188,"To whose hands have you sent the lunatic King?
Speak.",941,19108
647601,2190,"I have a letter guessingly set down,
Which came from one that's of a neutral heart,
And not from one oppos'd.",532,19108
647602,2193,Cunning.,346,19108
647603,2194,And false.,941,19108
647604,2195,Where hast thou sent the King?,346,19108
647605,2196,To Dover.,532,19108
647606,2197,Wherefore to Dover? Wast thou not charg'd at peril-,941,19108
647607,2198,Wherefore to Dover? Let him first answer that.,346,19108
647608,2199,"I am tied to th' stake, and I must stand the course.",532,19108
647609,2200,"Wherefore to Dover, sir?",941,19108
647610,2201,"Because I would not see thy cruel nails
Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister
In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.
The sea, with such a storm as his bare head
In hell-black night endur'd, would have buoy'd up
And quench'd the steeled fires.
Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain.
If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time,
Thou shouldst have said, 'Good porter, turn the key.'
All cruels else subscrib'd. But I shall see
The winged vengeance overtake such children.",532,19108
647611,2212,"See't shalt thou never. Fellows, hold the chair.
Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot.",346,19108
647612,2214,"He that will think to live till he be old,
Give me some help!- O cruel! O ye gods!",532,19108
647613,2216,One side will mock another. Th' other too!,941,19108
647614,2217,If you see vengeance-,346,19108
647615,2218,"Hold your hand, my lord!
I have serv'd you ever since I was a child;
But better service have I never done you
Than now to bid you hold.",1051,19108
647616,2222,"How now, you dog?",941,19108
647617,2223,"If you did wear a beard upon your chin,
I'ld shake it on this quarrel.",1051,19108
647618,2225,What do you mean?,941,19108
647619,2226,My villain!                               Draw and fight.,346,19108
647620,2227,"Nay, then, come on, and take the chance of anger.",1051,19108
647621,2228,"Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus?
                   She takes a sword and runs at him behind.",941,19108
647622,2230,"O, I am slain! My lord, you have one eye left
To see some mischief on him. O!                     He dies.",1051,19108
647623,2232,"Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly!
Where is thy lustre now?",346,19108
647624,2234,"All dark and comfortless! Where's my son Edmund?
Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature
To quit this horrid act.",532,19108
647625,2237,"Out, treacherous villain!
Thou call'st on him that hates thee. It was he
That made the overture of thy treasons to us;
Who is too good to pity thee.",941,19108
647626,2241,"O my follies! Then Edgar was abus'd.
Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him!",532,19108
647627,2243,"Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell
His way to Dover. [Exit one with Gloucester.]
How is't, my lord? How look you?",941,19108
647628,2246,"I have receiv'd a hurt. Follow me, lady.
Turn out that eyeless villain. Throw this slave
Upon the dunghill. Regan, I bleed apace.
Untimely comes this hurt. Give me your arm.",346,19108
647629,2250,"                      Exit [Cornwall, led by Regan].",1261,19108
647630,2251,"I'll never care what wickedness I do,
If this man come to good.",1053,19108
647631,2253,"If she live long,
And in the end meet the old course of death,
Women will all turn monsters.",1055,19108
647632,2256,"Let's follow the old Earl, and get the bedlam
To lead him where he would. His roguish madness
Allows itself to anything.",1053,19108
647633,2259,"Go thou. I'll fetch some flax and whites of eggs
To apply to his bleeding face. Now heaven help him!",1055,19108
647634,2261,                                             Exeunt.,1261,19108
647635,2264,Enter Edgar.,1261,19109
647636,2265,"Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd,
Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be worst,
The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,
Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear.
The lamentable change is from the best;
The worst returns to laughter. Welcome then,
Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace!
The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst
Owes nothing to thy blasts.
[Enter Gloucester, led by an Old Man.]
But who comes here?
My father, poorly led? World, world, O world!
But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
Life would not yield to age.",367,19109
647637,2279,"O my good lord,
I have been your tenant, and your father's tenant,
These fourscore years.",832,19109
647638,2282,"Away, get thee away! Good friend, be gone.
Thy comforts can do me no good at all;
Thee they may hurt.",532,19109
647639,2285,You cannot see your way.,832,19109
647640,2286,"I have no way, and therefore want no eyes;
I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen
Our means secure us, and our mere defects
Prove our commodities. Ah dear son Edgar,
The food of thy abused father's wrath!
Might I but live to see thee in my touch,
I'ld say I had eyes again!",532,19109
647641,2293,How now? Who's there?,832,19109
647642,2294,"[aside] O gods! Who is't can say 'I am at the worst'?
I am worse than e'er I was.",367,19109
647645,2299,"Fellow, where goest?",832,19109
647646,2300,Is it a beggarman?,532,19109
647647,2301,Madman and beggar too.,832,19109
647648,2302,"He has some reason, else he could not beg.
I' th' last night's storm I such a fellow saw,
Which made me think a man a worm. My son
Came then into my mind, and yet my mind
Was then scarce friends with him. I have heard more since.
As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods.
They kill us for their sport.",532,19109
647649,2309,"[aside] How should this be?
Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
Ang'ring itself and others.- Bless thee, master!",367,19109
647650,2312,Is that the naked fellow?,532,19109
647651,2313,"Ay, my lord.",832,19109
647652,2314,"Then prithee get thee gone. If for my sake
Thou wilt o'ertake us hence a mile or twain
I' th' way toward Dover, do it for ancient love;
And bring some covering for this naked soul,
Who I'll entreat to lead me.",532,19109
647653,2319,"Alack, sir, he is mad!",832,19109
647654,2320,"'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind.
Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure.
Above the rest, be gone.",532,19109
647655,2323,"I'll bring him the best 'parel that I have,
Come on't what will.               Exit.",832,19109
647656,2325,Sirrah naked fellow-,532,19109
647657,2326,Poor Tom's acold. [Aside] I cannot daub it further.,367,19109
647658,2327,"Come hither, fellow.",532,19109
647659,2328,"[aside] And yet I must.- Bless thy sweet eyes, they bleed.",367,19109
647660,2329,Know'st thou the way to Dover?,532,19109
647661,2330,"Both stile and gate, horseway and footpath. Poor Tom hath been
scar'd out of his good wits. Bless thee, good man's son, from
the foul fiend! Five fiends have been in poor Tom at once: of
lust, as Obidicut; Hobbididence, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of
stealing; Modo, of murder; Flibbertigibbet, of mopping and
mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting women. So,
bless thee, master!",367,19109
647662,2337,"Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues
Have humbled to all strokes. That I am wretched
Makes thee the happier. Heavens, deal so still!
Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man,
That slaves your ordinance, that will not see
Because he does not feel, feel your pow'r quickly;
So distribution should undo excess,
And each man have enough. Dost thou know Dover?",532,19109
647663,2345,"Ay, master.",367,19109
647664,2346,"There is a cliff, whose high and bending head
Looks fearfully in the confined deep.
Bring me but to the very brim of it,
And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear
With something rich about me. From that place
I shall no leading need.",532,19109
647665,2352,"Give me thy arm.
Poor Tom shall lead thee.",367,19109
647666,2354,                                             Exeunt.,1261,19109
647667,2356,Enter Goneril and [Edmund the] Bastard.,1261,19110
647668,2357,"Welcome, my lord. I marvel our mild husband
Not met us on the way. [Enter Oswald the Steward.]
Now, where's your master?",533,19110
647669,2360,"Madam, within, but never man so chang'd.
I told him of the army that was landed:
He smil'd at it. I told him you were coming:
His answer was, 'The worse.' Of Gloucester's treachery
And of the loyal service of his son
When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot
And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out.
What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him;
What like, offensive.",843,19110
647670,2369,"[to Edmund] Then shall you go no further.
It is the cowish terror of his spirit,
That dares not undertake. He'll not feel wrongs
Which tie him to an answer. Our wishes on the way
May prove effects. Back, Edmund, to my brother.
Hasten his musters and conduct his pow'rs.
I must change arms at home and give the distaff
Into my husband's hands. This trusty servant
Shall pass between us. Ere long you are like to hear
(If you dare venture in your own behalf)
A mistress's command. Wear this. [Gives a favour.]
Spare speech.
Decline your head. This kiss, if it durst speak,
Would stretch thy spirits up into the air.
Conceive, and fare thee well.",533,19110
647671,2384,Yours in the ranks of death!                        Exit.,369,19110
647672,2385,"My most dear Gloucester!
O, the difference of man and man!
To thee a woman's services are due;
My fool usurps my body.",533,19110
647673,2389,"Madam, here comes my lord.       Exit.",843,19110
647674,2390,                Enter Albany.,1261,19110
647675,2391,I have been worth the whistle.,533,19110
647676,2392,"O Goneril,
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
Blows in your face! I fear your disposition.
That nature which contemns it origin
Cannot be bordered certain in itself.
She that herself will sliver and disbranch
From her material sap, perforce must wither
And come to deadly use.",339,19110
647677,2400,No more! The text is foolish.,533,19110
647678,2401,"Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;
Filths savour but themselves. What have you done?
Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform'd?
A father, and a gracious aged man,
Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick,
Most barbarous, most degenerate, have you madded.
Could my good brother suffer you to do it?
A man, a prince, by him so benefited!
If that the heavens do not their visible spirits
Send quickly down to tame these vile offences,
It will come,
Humanity must perforce prey on itself,
Like monsters of the deep.",339,19110
647679,2414,"Milk-liver'd man!
That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
Thine honour from thy suffering; that not know'st
Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd
Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?
France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,
With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,
Whiles thou, a moral fool, sit'st still, and criest
'Alack, why does he so?'",533,19110
647680,2424,"See thyself, devil!
Proper deformity seems not in the fiend
So horrid as in woman.",339,19110
647681,2427,O vain fool!,533,19110
647682,2428,"Thou changed and self-cover'd thing, for shame!
Bemonster not thy feature! Were't my fitness
To let these hands obey my blood,
They are apt enough to dislocate and tear
Thy flesh and bones. Howe'er thou art a fiend,
A woman's shape doth shield thee.",339,19110
647683,2434,"Marry, your manhood mew!",533,19110
647684,2435,              Enter a Gentleman.,1261,19110
647685,2436,What news?,339,19110
647686,2437,"O, my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall 's dead,
Slain by his servant, going to put out
The other eye of Gloucester.",519,19110
647687,2440,Gloucester's eyes?,339,19110
647688,2441,"A servant that he bred, thrill'd with remorse,
Oppos'd against the act, bending his sword
To his great master; who, thereat enrag'd,
Flew on him, and amongst them fell'd him dead;
But not without that harmful stroke which since
Hath pluck'd him after.",519,19110
647689,2447,"This shows you are above,
You justicers, that these our nether crimes
So speedily can venge! But O poor Gloucester!
Lose he his other eye?",339,19110
647690,2451,"Both, both, my lord.
This letter, madam, craves a speedy answer.
'Tis from your sister.",519,19110
647691,2454,"[aside] One way I like this well;
But being widow, and my Gloucester with her,
May all the building in my fancy pluck
Upon my hateful life. Another way
The news is not so tart.- I'll read, and answer. Exit.",533,19110
647692,2459,Where was his son when they did take his eyes?,339,19110
647693,2460,Come with my lady hither.,519,19110
647694,2461,He is not here.,339,19110
647695,2462,"No, my good lord; I met him back again.",519,19110
647696,2463,Knows he the wickedness?,339,19110
647697,2464,"Ay, my good lord. 'Twas he inform'd against him,
And quit the house on purpose, that their punishment
Might have the freer course.",519,19110
647698,2467,"Gloucester, I live
To thank thee for the love thou show'dst the King,
And to revenge thine eyes. Come hither, friend.
Tell me what more thou know'st.",339,19110
647699,2471,                                             Exeunt.,1261,19110
647700,2473,Enter Kent and a Gentleman.,1261,19111
647701,2474,"Why the King of France is so suddenly gone back know you the
reason?",358,19111
647702,2476,"Something he left imperfect in the state, which since his
coming forth is thought of, which imports to the kingdom so much
fear and danger that his personal return was most required and
necessary.",519,19111
647703,2480,Who hath he left behind him general?,358,19111
647704,2481,"The Marshal of France, Monsieur La Far.",519,19111
647705,2482,"Did your letters pierce the Queen to any demonstration of
grief?",358,19111
647706,2484,"Ay, sir. She took them, read them in my presence,
And now and then an ample tear trill'd down
Her delicate cheek. It seem'd she was a queen
Over her passion, who, most rebel-like,
Sought to be king o'er her.",519,19111
647707,2489,"O, then it mov'd her?",358,19111
647708,2490,"Not to a rage. Patience and sorrow strove
Who should express her goodliest. You have seen
Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears
Were like, a better way. Those happy smilets
That play'd on her ripe lip seem'd not to know
What guests were in her eyes, which parted thence
As pearls from diamonds dropp'd. In brief,
Sorrow would be a rarity most belov'd,
If all could so become it.",519,19111
647709,2499,Made she no verbal question?,358,19111
647710,2500,"Faith, once or twice she heav'd the name of father
Pantingly forth, as if it press'd her heart;
Cried 'Sisters, sisters! Shame of ladies! Sisters!
Kent! father! sisters! What, i' th' storm? i' th' night?
Let pity not be believ'd!' There she shook
The holy water from her heavenly eyes,
And clamour moisten'd. Then away she started
To deal with grief alone.",519,19111
647711,2508,"It is the stars,
The stars above us, govern our conditions;
Else one self mate and mate could not beget
Such different issues. You spoke not with her since?",358,19111
647712,2512,No.,519,19111
647713,2513,Was this before the King return'd?,358,19111
647714,2514,"No, since.",519,19111
647715,2515,"Well, sir, the poor distressed Lear's i' th' town;
Who sometime, in his better tune, remembers
What we are come about, and by no means
Will yield to see his daughter.",358,19111
647716,2519,"Why, good sir?",519,19111
647717,2520,"A sovereign shame so elbows him; his own unkindness,
That stripp'd her from his benediction, turn'd her
To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights
To his dog-hearted daughters- these things sting
His mind so venomously that burning shame
Detains him from Cordelia.",358,19111
647718,2526,"Alack, poor gentleman!",519,19111
647719,2527,Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?,358,19111
647722,2536,"Enter, with Drum and Colours, Cordelia, Doctor, and Soldiers.",1261,19112
647723,2537,"Alack, 'tis he! Why, he was met even now
As mad as the vex'd sea, singing aloud,
Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow weeds,
With harlocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo flow'rs,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn. A century send forth.
Search every acre in the high-grown field
And bring him to our eye. [Exit an Officer.] What can man's
   wisdom
In the restoring his bereaved sense?
He that helps him take all my outward worth.",281,19112
647724,2548,"There is means, madam.
Our foster nurse of nature is repose,
The which he lacks. That to provoke in him
Are many simples operative, whose power
Will close the eye of anguish.",321,19112
647725,2553,"All blest secrets,
All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth,
Spring with my tears! be aidant and remediate
In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him!
Lest his ungovern'd rage dissolve the life
That wants the means to lead it.",281,19112
647726,2559,               Enter Messenger.,1261,19112
647727,2560,"News, madam.
The British pow'rs are marching hitherward.",782,19112
647728,2562,"'Tis known before. Our preparation stands
In expectation of them. O dear father,
It is thy business that I go about.
Therefore great France
My mourning and important tears hath pitied.
No blown ambition doth our arms incite,
But love, dear love, and our ag'd father's right.
Soon may I hear and see him!",281,19112
647729,2570,                                             Exeunt.,1261,19112
647730,2572,Enter Regan and [Oswald the] Steward.,1261,19113
647731,2573,But are my brother's pow'rs set forth?,941,19113
647732,2574,"Ay, madam.",843,19113
647733,2575,Himself in person there?,941,19113
647734,2576,"Madam, with much ado.
Your sister is the better soldier.",843,19113
647735,2578,Lord Edmund spake not with your lord at home?,941,19113
647736,2579,"No, madam.",843,19113
647737,2580,What might import my sister's letter to him?,941,19113
647738,2581,"I know not, lady.",843,19113
647739,2582,"Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter.
It was great ignorance, Gloucester's eyes being out,
To let him live. Where he arrives he moves
All hearts against us. Edmund, I think, is gone,
In pity of his misery, to dispatch
His nighted life; moreover, to descry
The strength o' th' enemy.",941,19113
647740,2589,"I must needs after him, madam, with my letter.",843,19113
647741,2590,"Our troops set forth to-morrow. Stay with us.
The ways are dangerous.",941,19113
647742,2592,"I may not, madam.
My lady charg'd my duty in this business.",843,19113
647743,2594,"Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you
Transport her purposes by word? Belike,
Something- I know not what- I'll love thee much-
Let me unseal the letter.",941,19113
647744,2598,"Madam, I had rather-",843,19113
647745,2599,"I know your lady does not love her husband;
I am sure of that; and at her late being here
She gave strange eyeliads and most speaking looks
To noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosom.",941,19113
647746,2603,"I, madam?",843,19113
647747,2604,"I speak in understanding. Y'are! I know't.
Therefore I do advise you take this note.
My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talk'd,
And more convenient is he for my hand
Than for your lady's. You may gather more.
If you do find him, pray you give him this;
And when your mistress hears thus much from you,
I pray desire her call her wisdom to her.
So farewell.
If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,
Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.",941,19113
647748,2615,"Would I could meet him, madam! I should show
What party I do follow.",843,19113
647749,2617,Fare thee well.                Exeunt.,941,19113
647750,2619,When shall I come to th' top of that same hill?,532,19114
647751,2620,You do climb up it now. Look how we labour.,367,19114
647752,2621,Methinks the ground is even.,532,19114
647753,2622,"Horrible steep.
Hark, do you hear the sea?",367,19114
647754,2624,"No, truly.",532,19114
647755,2625,"Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect
By your eyes' anguish.",367,19114
647756,2627,"So may it be indeed.
Methinks thy voice is alter'd, and thou speak'st
In better phrase and matter than thou didst.",532,19114
647757,2630,"Y'are much deceiv'd. In nothing am I chang'd
But in my garments.",367,19114
647758,2632,Methinks y'are better spoken.,532,19114
647759,2633,"Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful
And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down
Hangs one that gathers sampire- dreadful trade!
Methinks he seems no bigger than his head.
The fishermen that walk upon the beach
Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring bark,
Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy
Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge
That on th' unnumb'red idle pebble chafes
Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,
Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight
Topple down headlong.",367,19114
647760,2647,Set me where you stand.,532,19114
647761,2648,"Give me your hand. You are now within a foot
Of th' extreme verge. For all beneath the moon
Would I not leap upright.",367,19114
647762,2651,"Let go my hand.
Here, friend, is another purse; in it a jewel
Well worth a poor man's taking. Fairies and gods
Prosper it with thee! Go thou further off;
Bid me farewell, and let me hear thee going.",532,19114
647763,2656,"Now fare ye well, good sir.",367,19114
647764,2657,With all my heart.,532,19114
647765,2658,"[aside]. Why I do trifle thus with his despair
Is done to cure it.",367,19114
647766,2660,"O you mighty gods!                            He kneels.
This world I do renounce, and, in your sights,
Shake patiently my great affliction off.
If I could bear it longer and not fall
To quarrel with your great opposeless wills,
My snuff and loathed part of nature should
Burn itself out. If Edgar live, O, bless him!
Now, fellow, fare thee well.
                             He falls [forward and swoons].",532,19114
647767,2669,"Gone, sir, farewell.-
And yet I know not how conceit may rob
The treasury of life when life itself
Yields to the theft. Had he been where he thought,
By this had thought been past.- Alive or dead?
Ho you, sir! friend! Hear you, sir? Speak!-
Thus might he pass indeed. Yet he revives.
What are you, sir?",367,19114
647768,2677,"Away, and let me die.",532,19114
647769,2678,"Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air,
So many fadom down precipitating,
Thou'dst shiver'd like an egg; but thou dost breathe;
Hast heavy substance; bleed'st not; speak'st; art sound.
Ten masts at each make not the altitude
Which thou hast perpendicularly fell.
Thy life is a miracle. Speak yet again.",367,19114
647770,2685,"But have I fall'n, or no?",532,19114
647771,2686,"From the dread summit of this chalky bourn.
Look up a-height. The shrill-gorg'd lark so far
Cannot be seen or heard. Do but look up.",367,19114
647772,2689,"Alack, I have no eyes!
Is wretchedness depriv'd that benefit
To end itself by death? 'Twas yet some comfort
When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage
And frustrate his proud will.",532,19114
647773,2694,"Give me your arm.
Up- so. How is't? Feel you your legs? You stand.",367,19114
647774,2696,"Too well, too well.",532,19114
647775,2697,"This is above all strangeness.
Upon the crown o' th' cliff what thing was that
Which parted from you?",367,19114
647776,2700,A poor unfortunate beggar.,532,19114
647777,2701,"As I stood here below, methought his eyes
Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses,Horns whelk'd and wav'd like the enridged sea.
It was some fiend. Therefore, thou happy father,
Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours
Of men's impossibility, have preserv'd thee.",367,19114
647778,2706,"I do remember now. Henceforth I'll bear
Affliction till it do cry out itself
'Enough, enough,' and die. That thing you speak of,
I took it for a man. Often 'twould say
'The fiend, the fiend'- he led me to that place.",532,19114
647779,2711,"Bear free and patient thoughts.
    Enter Lear, mad, [fantastically dressed with weeds].
But who comes here?
The safer sense will ne'er accommodate
His master thus.",367,19114
647780,2716,"No, they cannot touch me for coming;
I am the King himself.",659,19114
647781,2718,O thou side-piercing sight!,367,19114
647782,2719,"Nature 's above art in that respect. There's your press
money. That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper. Draw me
a clothier's yard. Look, look, a mouse! Peace, peace; this piece
of toasted cheese will do't. There's my gauntlet; I'll prove it
on a giant. Bring up the brown bills. O, well flown, bird! i'
th' clout, i' th' clout! Hewgh! Give the word.",659,19114
647783,2725,Sweet marjoram.,367,19114
647784,2726,Pass.,659,19114
647785,2727,I know that voice.,532,19114
647786,2728,"Ha! Goneril with a white beard? They flatter'd me like a dog,
and told me I had white hairs in my beard ere the black ones
were there. To say 'ay' and 'no' to everything I said! 'Ay' and
'no' too was no good divinity. When the rain came to wet me
once, and the wind to make me chatter; when the thunder would
not peace at my bidding; there I found 'em, there I smelt 'em
out. Go to, they are not men o' their words! They told me I was
everything. 'Tis a lie- I am not ague-proof.",659,19114
647787,2736,"The trick of that voice I do well remember.
Is't not the King?",532,19114
647788,2738,"Ay, every inch a king!
When I do stare, see how the subject quakes.
I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause?
Adultery?
Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery? No.
The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly
Does lecher in my sight.
Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son
Was kinder to his father than my daughters
Got 'tween the lawful sheets.
To't, luxury, pell-mell! for I lack soldiers.
Behold yond simp'ring dame,
Whose face between her forks presageth snow,
That minces virtue, and does shake the head
To hear of pleasure's name.
The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't
With a more riotous appetite.
Down from the waist they are Centaurs,
Though women all above.
But to the girdle do the gods inherit,
Beneath is all the fiend's.
There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit;
burning, scalding, stench, consumption. Fie, fie, fie! pah, pah!
Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my
imagination. There's money for thee.",659,19114
647789,2763,"O, let me kiss that hand!",532,19114
647790,2764,Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.,659,19114
647791,2765,"O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world
Shall so wear out to naught. Dost thou know me?",532,19114
647792,2767,"I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou squiny at me?
No, do thy worst, blind Cupid! I'll not love. Read thou this
challenge; mark but the penning of it.",659,19114
647793,2770,"Were all the letters suns, I could not see one.",532,19114
647794,2771,"[aside] I would not take this from report. It is,
And my heart breaks at it.",367,19114
647795,2773,Read.,659,19114
647796,2774,"What, with the case of eyes?",532,19114
647797,2775,"O, ho, are you there with me? No eyes in your head, nor no
money in your purse? Your eyes are in a heavy case, your purse
in a light. Yet you see how this world goes.",659,19114
647798,2778,I see it feelingly.,532,19114
647799,2779,"What, art mad? A man may see how the world goes with no eyes.
Look with thine ears. See how yond justice rails upon yond
simple thief. Hark in thine ear. Change places and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen a
farmer's dog bark at a beggar?",659,19114
647800,2784,"Ay, sir.",532,19114
647801,2785,"And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold
the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office.
Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!
Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back.
Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind
For which thou whip'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener.
Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.
None does offend, none- I say none! I'll able 'em.
Take that of me, my friend, who have the power
To seal th' accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. Now, now, now, now!
Pull off my boots. Harder, harder! So.",659,19114
647802,2801,"O, matter and impertinency mix'd!
Reason, in madness!",367,19114
647803,2803,"If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes.
I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester.
Thou must be patient. We came crying hither;
Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air
We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee. Mark.",659,19114
647804,2808,"Alack, alack the day!",532,19114
647805,2809,"When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools. This' a good block.
It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
A troop of horse with felt. I'll put't in proof,
And when I have stol'n upon these sons-in-law,
Then kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!",659,19114
647806,2815,     Enter a Gentleman [with Attendants].,1261,19114
647807,2816,"O, here he is! Lay hand upon him.- Sir,
Your most dear daughter-",519,19114
647808,2818,"No rescue? What, a prisoner? I am even
The natural fool of fortune. Use me well;
You shall have ransom. Let me have a surgeon;
I am cut to th' brains.",659,19114
647809,2822,You shall have anything.,519,19114
647810,2823,"No seconds? All myself?
Why, this would make a man a man of salt,
To use his eyes for garden waterpots,
Ay, and laying autumn's dust.",659,19114
647811,2827,Good sir-,519,19114
647812,2828,"I will die bravely, like a smug bridegroom. What!
I will be jovial. Come, come, I am a king;
My masters, know you that?",659,19114
647813,2831,"You are a royal one, and we obey you.",519,19114
647814,2832,"Then there's life in't. Nay, an you get it, you shall get it
by running. Sa, sa, sa, sa!",659,19114
647815,2834,                  Exit running. [Attendants follow.],1261,19114
647816,2835,"A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch,
Past speaking of in a king! Thou hast one daughter
Who redeems nature from the general curse
Which twain have brought her to.",519,19114
647817,2839,"Hail, gentle sir.",367,19114
647818,2840,"Sir, speed you. What's your will?",519,19114
647819,2841,"Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward?",367,19114
647820,2842,"Most sure and vulgar. Every one hears that
Which can distinguish sound.",519,19114
647821,2844,"But, by your favour,
How near's the other army?",367,19114
647822,2846,"Near and on speedy foot. The main descry
Stands on the hourly thought.",519,19114
647823,2848,I thank you sir. That's all.,367,19114
647824,2849,"Though that the Queen on special cause is here,
Her army is mov'd on.",519,19114
647825,2851,"I thank you, sir",367,19114
647826,2852,                                   Exit [Gentleman].,1261,19114
647827,2853,"You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me;
Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
To die before you please!",532,19114
647828,2856,"Well pray you, father.",367,19114
647829,2857,"Now, good sir, what are you?",532,19114
647830,2858,"A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows,
Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows,
Am pregnant to good pity. Give me your hand;
I'll lead you to some biding.",367,19114
647831,2862,"Hearty thanks.
The bounty and the benison of heaven
To boot, and boot!",532,19114
647832,2865,         Enter [Oswald the] Steward.,1261,19114
647833,2866,"A proclaim'd prize! Most happy!
That eyeless head of thine was first fram'd flesh
To raise my fortunes. Thou old unhappy traitor,
Briefly thyself remember. The sword is out
That must destroy thee.",843,19114
647834,2871,"Now let thy friendly hand
Put strength enough to't.",532,19114
647835,2873,                                 [Edgar interposes.],1261,19114
647836,2874,"Wherefore, bold peasant,
Dar'st thou support a publish'd traitor? Hence!
Lest that th' infection of his fortune take
Like hold on thee. Let go his arm.",843,19114
647837,2878,"Chill not let go, zir, without vurther 'cagion.",367,19114
647838,2879,"Let go, slave, or thou diest!",843,19114
647839,2880,"Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor voke pass. An chud
ha' bin zwagger'd out of my life, 'twould not ha' bin zo long as
'tis by a vortnight. Nay, come not near th' old man. Keep out,
che vore ye, or Ise try whether your costard or my ballow be the
harder. Chill be plain with you.",367,19114
647840,2885,"Out, dunghill!",843,19114
647841,2886,                                         They fight.,1261,19114
647842,2887,"Chill pick your teeth, zir. Come! No matter vor your foins.",367,19114
647843,2888,                                     [Oswald falls.],1261,19114
647844,2889,"Slave, thou hast slain me. Villain, take my purse.
If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body,
And give the letters which thou find'st about me
To Edmund Earl of Gloucester. Seek him out
Upon the British party. O, untimely death! Death!",843,19114
647845,2894,                                            He dies.,1261,19114
647846,2895,"I know thee well. A serviceable villain,
As duteous to the vices of thy mistress
As badness would desire.",367,19114
647847,2898,"What, is he dead?",532,19114
647848,2899,"Sit you down, father; rest you.
Let's see his pockets; these letters that he speaks of
May be my friends. He's dead. I am only sorry
He had no other deathsman. Let us see.
Leave, gentle wax; and, manners, blame us not.
To know our enemies' minds, we'ld rip their hearts;
Their papers, is more lawful. Reads the letter.
  'Let our reciprocal vows be rememb'red. You have many
opportunities to cut him off. If your will want not, time and
place will be fruitfully offer'd. There is nothing done, if he
return the conqueror. Then am I the prisoner, and his bed my
jail; from the loathed warmth whereof deliver me, and supply the
place for your labour.
      'Your (wife, so I would say) affectionate servant, 'Goneril.'
O indistinguish'd space of woman's will!
A plot upon her virtuous husband's life,
And the exchange my brother! Here in the sands
Thee I'll rake up, the post unsanctified
Of murtherous lechers; and in the mature time
With this ungracious paper strike the sight
Of the death-practis'd Duke, For him 'tis well
That of thy death and business I can tell.",367,19114
647849,2921,"The King is mad. How stiff is my vile sense,
That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling
Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract.
So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs,
And woes by wrong imaginations lose
The knowledge of themselves.",532,19114
647850,2927,                                    A drum afar off.,1261,19114
647851,2928,"Give me your hand.
Far off methinks I hear the beaten drum.
Come, father, I'll bestow you with a friend. Exeunt.",367,19114
647852,2932,"Enter Cordelia, Kent, Doctor, and Gentleman.",1261,19115
647853,2933,"O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work
To match thy goodness? My life will be too short
And every measure fail me.",281,19115
647854,2936,"To be acknowledg'd, madam, is o'erpaid.
All my reports go with the modest truth;
Nor more nor clipp'd, but so.",358,19115
647855,2939,"Be better suited.
These weeds are memories of those worser hours.
I prithee put them off.",281,19115
647856,2942,"Pardon, dear madam.
Yet to be known shortens my made intent.
My boon I make it that you know me not
Till time and I think meet.",358,19115
647857,2946,"Then be't so, my good lord. [To the Doctor] How, does the King?",281,19115
647858,2947,"Madam, sleeps still.",321,19115
647859,2948,"O you kind gods,
Cure this great breach in his abused nature!
Th' untun'd and jarring senses, O, wind up
Of this child-changed father!",281,19115
647860,2952,"So please your Majesty
That we may wake the King? He hath slept long.",321,19115
647861,2954,"Be govern'd by your knowledge, and proceed
I' th' sway of your own will. Is he array'd?",281,19115
647862,2956,  Enter Lear in a chair carried by Servants.,1261,19115
647863,2957,"Ay, madam. In the heaviness of sleep
We put fresh garments on him.",519,19115
647864,2959,"Be by, good madam, when we do awake him.
I doubt not of his temperance.",321,19115
647865,2961,Very well.,281,19115
647866,2962,                                              Music.,1261,19115
647867,2963,Please you draw near. Louder the music there!,321,19115
647868,2964,"O my dear father, restoration hang
Thy medicine on my lips, and let this kiss
Repair those violent harms that my two sisters
Have in thy reverence made!",281,19115
647869,2968,Kind and dear princess!,358,19115
647870,2969,"Had you not been their father, these white flakes
Had challeng'd pity of them. Was this a face
To be oppos'd against the warring winds?
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick cross lightning? to watch- poor perdu!-
With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog,
Though he had bit me, should have stood that night
Against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father,
To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn,
In short and musty straw? Alack, alack!
'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once
Had not concluded all.- He wakes. Speak to him.",281,19115
647871,2982,"Madam, do you; 'tis fittest.",321,19115
647872,2983,How does my royal lord? How fares your Majesty?,281,19115
647873,2984,"You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave.
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
Do scald like molten lead.",659,19115
647874,2988,"Sir, do you know me?",281,19115
647875,2989,"You are a spirit, I know. When did you die?",659,19115
647876,2990,"Still, still, far wide!",281,19115
647877,2991,He's scarce awake. Let him alone awhile.,321,19115
647878,2992,"Where have I been? Where am I? Fair daylight,
I am mightily abus'd. I should e'en die with pity,
To see another thus. I know not what to say.
I will not swear these are my hands. Let's see.
I feel this pin prick. Would I were assur'd
Of my condition!",659,19115
647879,2998,"O, look upon me, sir,
And hold your hands in benediction o'er me.
No, sir, you must not kneel.",281,19115
647880,3001,"Pray, do not mock me.
I am a very foolish fond old man,
Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;
And, to deal plainly,
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Methinks I should know you, and know this man;
Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant
What place this is; and all the skill I have
Remembers not these garments; nor I know not
Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me;
For (as I am a man) I think this lady
To be my child Cordelia.",659,19115
647881,3013,And so I am! I am!,281,19115
647882,3014,"Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray weep not.
If you have poison for me, I will drink it.
I know you do not love me; for your sisters
Have, as I do remember, done me wrong.
You have some cause, they have not.",659,19115
647883,3019,"No cause, no cause.",281,19115
647884,3020,Am I in France?,659,19115
647885,3021,"In your own kingdom, sir.",358,19115
647886,3022,Do not abuse me.,659,19115
647887,3023,"Be comforted, good madam. The great rage
You see is kill'd in him; and yet it is danger
To make him even o'er the time he has lost.
Desire him to go in. Trouble him no more
Till further settling.",321,19115
647888,3028,Will't please your Highness walk?,281,19115
647889,3029,"You must bear with me.
Pray you now, forget and forgive. I am old and foolish.",659,19115
647890,3031,                  Exeunt. Manent Kent and Gentleman.,1261,19115
647891,3032,"Holds it true, sir, that the Duke of Cornwall was so slain?",519,19115
647892,3033,"Most certain, sir.",358,19115
647893,3034,Who is conductor of his people?,519,19115
647894,3035,"As 'tis said, the bastard son of Gloucester.",358,19115
647895,3036,"They say Edgar, his banish'd son, is with the Earl of Kent
in Germany.",519,19115
647896,3038,"Report is changeable. 'Tis time to look about; the powers of
the kingdom approach apace.",358,19115
647897,3040,"The arbitrement is like to be bloody.
Fare you well, sir.              [Exit.]",519,19115
647898,3042,"My point and period will be throughly wrought,
Or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought. Exit.",358,19115
647899,3046,"Enter, with Drum and Colours, Edmund, Regan, Gentleman, and Soldiers.",1261,19116
647900,3047,"Know of the Duke if his last purpose hold,
Or whether since he is advis'd by aught
To change the course. He's full of alteration
And self-reproving. Bring his constant pleasure.",369,19116
647901,3051,                                  [Exit an Officer.],1261,19116
647902,3052,Our sister's man is certainly miscarried.,941,19116
647903,3053,"Tis to be doubted, madam.",369,19116
647904,3054,"Now, sweet lord,
You know the goodness I intend upon you.
Tell me- but truly- but then speak the truth-
Do you not love my sister?",941,19116
647905,3058,In honour'd love.,369,19116
647906,3059,"But have you never found my brother's way
To the forfended place?",941,19116
647907,3061,That thought abuses you.,369,19116
647908,3062,"I am doubtful that you have been conjunct
And bosom'd with her, as far as we call hers.",941,19116
647909,3064,"No, by mine honour, madam.",369,19116
647910,3065,"I never shall endure her. Dear my lord,
Be not familiar with her.",941,19116
647911,3067,"Fear me not.
She and the Duke her husband!
  Enter, with Drum and Colours, Albany, Goneril, Soldiers.",369,19116
647912,3070,"[aside] I had rather lose the battle than that sister
Should loosen him and me.",533,19116
647913,3072,"Our very loving sister, well bemet.
Sir, this I hear: the King is come to his daughter,
With others whom the rigour of our state
Forc'd to cry out. Where I could not be honest,
I never yet was valiant. For this business,
It toucheth us as France invades our land,
Not bolds the King, with others whom, I fear,
Most just and heavy causes make oppose.",339,19116
647914,3080,"Sir, you speak nobly.",369,19116
647915,3081,Why is this reason'd?,941,19116
647916,3082,"Combine together 'gainst the enemy;
For these domestic and particular broils
Are not the question here.",533,19116
647917,3085,"Let's then determine
With th' ancient of war on our proceeding.",339,19116
647918,3087,I shall attend you presently at your tent.,369,19116
647919,3088,"Sister, you'll go with us?",941,19116
647920,3089,No.,533,19116
647924,3095,I'll overtake you.- Speak.,339,19116
647925,3096,                  Exeunt [all but Albany and Edgar].,1261,19116
647926,3097,"Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.
If you have victory, let the trumpet sound
For him that brought it. Wretched though I seem,
I can produce a champion that will prove
What is avouched there. If you miscarry,
Your business of the world hath so an end,
And machination ceases. Fortune love you!",367,19116
647927,3104,Stay till I have read the letter.,339,19116
647928,3105,"I was forbid it.
When time shall serve, let but the herald cry,
And I'll appear again.",367,19116
647929,3108,"Why, fare thee well. I will o'erlook thy paper.",339,19116
647930,3109,                                       Exit [Edgar].,1261,19116
647931,3110,                Enter Edmund.,1261,19116
647932,3111,"The enemy 's in view; draw up your powers.
Here is the guess of their true strength and forces
By diligent discovery; but your haste
Is now urg'd on you.",369,19116
647933,3115,We will greet the time.          Exit.,339,19116
647934,3116,"To both these sisters have I sworn my love;
Each jealous of the other, as the stung
Are of the adder. Which of them shall I take?
Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoy'd,
If both remain alive. To take the widow
Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;
And hardly shall I carry out my side,
Her husband being alive. Now then, we'll use
His countenance for the battle, which being done,
Let her who would be rid of him devise
His speedy taking off. As for the mercy
Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia-
The battle done, and they within our power,
Shall never see his pardon; for my state
Stands on me to defend, not to debate. Exit.",369,19116
647935,3132,"Enter, with Drum and Colours, the Powers of France over the stage, Cordelia with her Father in her hand, and exeunt. Enter Edgar and Gloucester.",1261,19117
647936,3133,"Here, father, take the shadow of this tree
For your good host. Pray that the right may thrive.
If ever I return to you again,
I'll bring you comfort.",367,19117
647937,3137,"Grace go with you, sir!",532,19117
647938,3138,                                       Exit [Edgar].,1261,19117
647939,3139,"   Alarum and retreat within. Enter Edgar,",1261,19117
647940,3140,"Away, old man! give me thy hand! away!
King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta'en.
Give me thy hand! come on!",367,19117
647941,3143,"No further, sir. A man may rot even here.",532,19117
647942,3144,"What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither;
Ripeness is all. Come on.",367,19117
647943,3147,And that's true too.          Exeunt.,532,19117
647944,3149,"Enter, in conquest, with Drum and Colours, Edmund; Lear and Cordelia as prisoners; Soldiers, Captain.",1261,19118
647945,3150,"Some officers take them away. Good guard
Until their greater pleasures first be known
That are to censure them.",369,19118
647946,3153,"We are not the first
Who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst.
For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down;
Myself could else outfrown false Fortune's frown.
Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?",281,19118
647947,3158,"No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison.
We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too-
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out-
And take upon 's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out,
In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones
That ebb and flow by th' moon.",659,19118
647948,3170,Take them away.,369,19118
647949,3171,"Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,
The gods themselves throw incense. Have I caught thee?
He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven
And fire us hence like foxes. Wipe thine eyes.
The goodyears shall devour 'em, flesh and fell,
Ere they shall make us weep! We'll see 'em starv'd first.
Come. Exeunt [Lear and Cordelia, guarded].",659,19118
647950,3178,"Come hither, Captain; hark.
Take thou this note [gives a paper]. Go follow them to prison.
One step I have advanc'd thee. If thou dost
As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way
To noble fortunes. Know thou this, that men
Are as the time is. To be tender-minded
Does not become a sword. Thy great employment
Will not bear question. Either say thou'lt do't,
Or thrive by other means.",369,19118
647951,3187,"I'll do't, my lord.",219,19118
647952,3188,"About it! and write happy when th' hast done.
Mark- I say, instantly; and carry it so
As I have set it down.",369,19118
647953,3191,"I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;
If it be man's work, I'll do't.    Exit.",219,19118
647954,3193,"     Flourish. Enter Albany, Goneril, Regan, Soldiers.",1261,19118
647955,3194,"Sir, you have show'd to-day your valiant strain,
And fortune led you well. You have the captives
Who were the opposites of this day's strife.
We do require them of you, so to use them
As we shall find their merits and our safety
May equally determine.",339,19118
647956,3200,"Sir, I thought it fit
To send the old and miserable King
To some retention and appointed guard;
Whose age has charms in it, whose title more,
To pluck the common bosom on his side
And turn our impress'd lances in our eyes
Which do command them. With him I sent the Queen,
My reason all the same; and they are ready
To-morrow, or at further space, t' appear
Where you shall hold your session. At this time
We sweat and bleed: the friend hath lost his friend;
And the best quarrels, in the heat, are curs'd
By those that feel their sharpness.
The question of Cordelia and her father
Requires a fitter place.",369,19118
647957,3215,"Sir, by your patience,
I hold you but a subject of this war,
Not as a brother.",339,19118
647958,3218,"That's as we list to grace him.
Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded
Ere you had spoke so far. He led our powers,
Bore the commission of my place and person,
The which immediacy may well stand up
And call itself your brother.",941,19118
647959,3224,"Not so hot!
In his own grace he doth exalt himself
More than in your addition.",533,19118
647960,3227,"In my rights
By me invested, he compeers the best.",941,19118
647961,3229,That were the most if he should husband you.,533,19118
647962,3230,Jesters do oft prove prophets.,941,19118
647963,3231,"Holla, holla!
That eye that told you so look'd but asquint.",533,19118
647964,3233,"Lady, I am not well; else I should answer
From a full-flowing stomach. General,
Take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony;
Dispose of them, of me; the walls are thine.
Witness the world that I create thee here
My lord and master.",941,19118
647965,3239,Mean you to enjoy him?,533,19118
647966,3240,The let-alone lies not in your good will.,339,19118
647967,3241,"Nor in thine, lord.",369,19118
647968,3242,"Half-blooded fellow, yes.",339,19118
647969,3243,"[to Edmund] Let the drum strike, and prove my title thine.",941,19118
647970,3244,"Stay yet; hear reason. Edmund, I arrest thee
On capital treason; and, in thine attaint,
This gilded serpent [points to Goneril]. For your claim, fair
   sister,
I bar it in the interest of my wife.
'Tis she is subcontracted to this lord,
And I, her husband, contradict your banes.
If you will marry, make your loves to me;
My lady is bespoke.",339,19118
647971,3253,An interlude!,533,19118
647972,3254,"Thou art arm'd, Gloucester. Let the trumpet sound.
If none appear to prove upon thy person
Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons,
There is my pledge [throws down a glove]! I'll prove it on thy
   heart,
Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing less
Than I have here proclaim'd thee.",339,19118
647973,3261,"Sick, O, sick!",941,19118
647974,3262,"[aside] If not, I'll ne'er trust medicine.",533,19118
647975,3263,"There's my exchange [throws down a glove]. What in the world
   he is
That names me traitor, villain-like he lies.
Call by thy trumpet. He that dares approach,
On him, on you, who not? I will maintain
My truth and honour firmly.",369,19118
647976,3269,"A herald, ho!",339,19118
647977,3270,"A herald, ho, a herald!",369,19118
647978,3271,"Trust to thy single virtue; for thy soldiers,
All levied in my name, have in my name
Took their discharge.",339,19118
647979,3274,My sickness grows upon me.,941,19118
647980,3275,"She is not well. Convey her to my tent.
   [Exit Regan, led. Enter a Herald.]
Come hither, herald. Let the trumpet sound,
And read out this.",339,19118
647981,3279,"Sound, trumpet!                        A trumpet sounds.",219,19118
647982,3280,"[reads] 'If any man of quality or degree within the lists of
the army will maintain upon Edmund, supposed Earl of Gloucester,
that he is a manifold traitor, let him appear by the third sound
of the trumpet. He is bold in his defence.'",581,19118
647983,3284,Sound!                                     First trumpet.,369,19118
647984,3285,Again!                                    Second trumpet.,581,19118
647985,3286,Again!                                     Third trumpet.,581,19118
647986,3287,                             Trumpet answers within.,1261,19118
647987,3288,"Enter Edgar, armed, at the third sound, a Trumpet before him.",1261,19118
647988,3289,"Ask him his purposes, why he appears
Upon this call o' th' trumpet.",339,19118
647989,3291,"What are you?
Your name, your quality? and why you answer
This present summons?",581,19118
647990,3294,"Know my name is lost;
By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit.
Yet am I noble as the adversary
I come to cope.",367,19118
647991,3298,Which is that adversary?,339,19118
647992,3299,What's he that speaks for Edmund Earl of Gloucester?,367,19118
647993,3300,Himself. What say'st thou to him?,369,19118
647994,3301,"Draw thy sword,
That, if my speech offend a noble heart,
Thy arm may do thee justice. Here is mine.
Behold, it is the privilege of mine honours,
My oath, and my profession. I protest-
Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence,
Despite thy victor sword and fire-new fortune,
Thy valour and thy heart- thou art a traitor;
False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father;
Conspirant 'gainst this high illustrious prince;
And from th' extremest upward of thy head
To the descent and dust beneath thy foot,
A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou 'no,'
This sword, this arm, and my best spirits are bent
To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak,
Thou liest.",367,19118
647995,3317,"In wisdom I should ask thy name;
But since thy outside looks so fair and warlike,
And that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes,
What safe and nicely I might well delay
By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
Back do I toss those treasons to thy head;
With the hell-hated lie o'erwhelm thy heart;
Which- for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise-
This sword of mine shall give them instant way
Where they shall rest for ever. Trumpets, speak!",369,19118
647996,3327,                     Alarums. Fight. [Edmund falls.],1261,19118
647997,3328,"Save him, save him!",339,19118
647998,3329,"This is mere practice, Gloucester.
By th' law of arms thou wast not bound to answer
An unknown opposite. Thou art not vanquish'd,
But cozen'd and beguil'd.",533,19118
647999,3333,"Shut your mouth, dame,
Or with this paper shall I stop it. [Shows her her letter to
Edmund.]- [To Edmund]. Hold, sir.
[To Goneril] Thou worse than any name, read thine own evil.
No tearing, lady! I perceive you know it.",339,19118
648000,3338,"Say if I do- the laws are mine, not thine.
Who can arraign me for't?",533,19118
648001,3340,"Most monstrous!
Know'st thou this paper?",339,19118
648002,3342,Ask me not what I know.          Exit.,533,19118
648003,3343,Go after her. She's desperate; govern her.,339,19118
648004,3344,                                  [Exit an Officer.],1261,19118
648005,3345,"What, you have charg'd me with, that have I done,
And more, much more. The time will bring it out.
'Tis past, and so am I.- But what art thou
That hast this fortune on me? If thou'rt noble,
I do forgive thee.",369,19118
648006,3350,"Let's exchange charity.
I am no less in blood than thou art, Edmund;
If more, the more th' hast wrong'd me.
My name is Edgar and thy father's son.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to scourge us.
The dark and vicious place where thee he got
Cost him his eyes.",367,19118
648007,3358,"Th' hast spoken right; 'tis true.
The wheel is come full circle; I am here.",369,19118
648008,3360,"Methought thy very gait did prophesy
A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee.
Let sorrow split my heart if ever I
Did hate thee, or thy father!",339,19118
648009,3364,"Worthy prince, I know't.",367,19118
648010,3365,"Where have you hid yourself?
How have you known the miseries of your father?",339,19118
648011,3367,"By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale;
And when 'tis told, O that my heart would burst!
The bloody proclamation to escape
That follow'd me so near (O, our lives' sweetness!
That with the pain of death would hourly die
Rather than die at once!) taught me to shift
Into a madman's rags, t' assume a semblance
That very dogs disdain'd; and in this habit
Met I my father with his bleeding rings,
Their precious stones new lost; became his guide,
Led him, begg'd for him, sav'd him from despair;
Never (O fault!) reveal'd myself unto him
Until some half hour past, when I was arm'd,
Not sure, though hoping of this good success,
I ask'd his blessing, and from first to last
Told him my pilgrimage. But his flaw'd heart
(Alack, too weak the conflict to support!)
'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,
Burst smilingly.",367,19118
648012,3386,"This speech of yours hath mov'd me,
And shall perchance do good; but speak you on;
You look as you had something more to say.",369,19118
648013,3389,"If there be more, more woful, hold it in;
For I am almost ready to dissolve,
Hearing of this.",339,19118
648014,3392,"This would have seem'd a period
To such as love not sorrow; but another,
To amplify too much, would make much more,
And top extremity.
Whilst I was big in clamour, came there a man,
Who, having seen me in my worst estate,
Shunn'd my abhorr'd society; but then, finding
Who 'twas that so endur'd, with his strong arms
He fastened on my neck, and bellowed out
As he'd burst heaven; threw him on my father;
Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him
That ever ear receiv'd; which in recounting
His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life
Began to crack. Twice then the trumpets sounded,
And there I left him tranc'd.",367,19118
648015,3407,But who was this?,339,19118
648016,3408,"Kent, sir, the banish'd Kent; who in disguise
Followed his enemy king and did him service
Improper for a slave.",367,19118
648017,3411,    Enter a Gentleman with a bloody knife.,1261,19118
648018,3412,"Help, help! O, help!",519,19118
648019,3413,What kind of help?,367,19118
648020,3414,"Speak, man.",339,19118
648021,3415,What means that bloody knife?,367,19118
648022,3416,"'Tis hot, it smokes.
It came even from the heart of- O! she's dead!",519,19118
648023,3418,"Who dead? Speak, man.",339,19118
648024,3419,"Your lady, sir, your lady! and her sister
By her is poisoned; she hath confess'd it.",519,19118
648025,3421,"I was contracted to them both. All three
Now marry in an instant.",369,19118
648026,3423,                 Enter Kent.,1261,19118
648027,3424,Here comes Kent.,367,19118
648028,3425,"Produce their bodies, be they alive or dead.
                                   [Exit Gentleman.]
This judgement of the heavens, that makes us tremble
Touches us not with pity. O, is this he?
The time will not allow the compliment
That very manners urges.",339,19118
648029,3431,"I am come
To bid my king and master aye good night.
Is he not here?",358,19118
648030,3434,"Great thing of us forgot!
Speak, Edmund, where's the King? and where's Cordelia?
     [The bodies of Goneril and Regan are brought in.]
Seest thou this object, Kent?",339,19118
648031,3438,"Alack, why thus?",358,19118
648032,3439,"Yet Edmund was belov'd.
The one the other poisoned for my sake,
And after slew herself.",369,19118
648033,3442,Even so. Cover their faces.,339,19118
648034,3443,"I pant for life. Some good I mean to do,
Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send
(Be brief in't) to the castle; for my writ
Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia.
Nay, send in time.",369,19118
648035,3448,"Run, run, O, run!",339,19118
648036,3449,"To who, my lord? Who has the office? Send
Thy token of reprieve.",367,19118
648037,3451,"Well thought on. Take my sword;
Give it the Captain.",369,19118
648038,3453,Haste thee for thy life. [Exit Edgar.],339,19118
648039,3454,"He hath commission from thy wife and me
To hang Cordelia in the prison and
To lay the blame upon her own despair
That she fordid herself.",369,19118
648040,3458,The gods defend her! Bear him hence awhile.,339,19118
648041,3459,                              [Edmund is borne off.],1261,19118
648042,3460,"Enter Lear, with Cordelia [dead] in his arms, [Edgar, Captain, and others following].",1261,19118
648043,3461,"Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stone.
Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so
That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever!
I know when one is dead, and when one lives.
She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking glass.
If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,
Why, then she lives.",659,19118
648044,3468,Is this the promis'd end?,358,19118
648045,3469,Or image of that horror?,367,19118
648046,3470,Fall and cease!,339,19118
648047,3471,"This feather stirs; she lives! If it be so,
It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows
That ever I have felt.",659,19118
648048,3474,O my good master!,358,19118
648049,3475,Prithee away!,659,19118
648050,3476,"'Tis noble Kent, your friend.",367,19118
648051,3477,"A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all!
I might have sav'd her; now she's gone for ever!
Cordelia, Cordelia! stay a little. Ha!
What is't thou say'st, Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low- an excellent thing in woman.
I kill'd the slave that was a-hanging thee.",659,19118
648052,3483,"'Tis true, my lords, he did.",219,19118
648053,3484,"Did I not, fellow?
I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion
I would have made them skip. I am old now,
And these same crosses spoil me. Who are you?
Mine eyes are not o' th' best. I'll tell you straight.",659,19118
648054,3489,"If fortune brag of two she lov'd and hated,
One of them we behold.",358,19118
648055,3491,This' a dull sight. Are you not Kent?,659,19118
648056,3492,"The same-
Your servant Kent. Where is your servant Caius?",358,19118
648057,3494,"He's a good fellow, I can tell you that.
He'll strike, and quickly too. He's dead and rotten.",659,19118
648058,3496,"No, my good lord; I am the very man-",358,19118
648059,3497,I'll see that straight.,659,19118
648060,3498,"That from your first of difference and decay
Have followed your sad steps.",358,19118
648061,3500,You're welcome hither.,659,19118
648062,3501,"Nor no man else! All's cheerless, dark, and deadly.
Your eldest daughters have fordone themselves,
And desperately are dead.",358,19118
648063,3504,"Ay, so I think.",659,19118
648064,3505,"He knows not what he says; and vain is it
That we present us to him.",339,19118
648065,3507,Very bootless.,367,19118
648066,3508,               Enter a Captain.,1261,19118
648067,3509,"Edmund is dead, my lord.",219,19118
648068,3510,"That's but a trifle here.
You lords and noble friends, know our intent.
What comfort to this great decay may come
Shall be applied. For us, we will resign,
During the life of this old Majesty,
To him our absolute power; [to Edgar and Kent] you to your
   rights;
With boot, and such addition as your honours
Have more than merited.- All friends shall taste
The wages of their virtue, and all foes
The cup of their deservings.- O, see, see!",339,19118
648069,3521,"And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life!
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,
And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,
Never, never, never, never, never!
Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir.
Do you see this? Look on her! look! her lips!
Look there, look there!                            He dies.",659,19118
648070,3528,"He faints! My lord, my lord!",367,19118
648071,3529,"Break, heart; I prithee break!",358,19118
648072,3530,"Look up, my lord.",367,19118
648073,3531,"Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer.",358,19118
648074,3534,He is gone indeed.,367,19118
648075,3535,"The wonder is, he hath endur'd so long.
He but usurp'd his life.",358,19118
648076,3537,"Bear them from hence. Our present business
Is general woe. [To Kent and Edgar] Friends of my soul, you
   twain
Rule in this realm, and the gor'd state sustain.",339,19118
648077,3541,"I have a journey, sir, shortly to go.
My master calls me; I must not say no.",358,19118
648078,3543,"The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest have borne most; we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.",339,19118
648079,3547,                           Exeunt with a dead march.,1261,19118
648080,3548,THE END,1261,19118
648081,3,"From off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A plaintful story from a sistering vale,
My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,
And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale;
Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,
Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,
Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain.",894,19119
648082,10,"Upon her head a platted hive of straw,
Which fortified her visage from the sun,
Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw
The carcass of beauty spent and done:
Time had not scythed all that youth begun,
Nor youth all quit; but, spite of heaven's fell rage,
Some beauty peep'd through lattice of sear'd age.",894,19119
648083,17,"Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,
Which on it had conceited characters,
Laundering the silken figures in the brine
That season'd woe had pelleted in tears,
And often reading what contents it bears;
As often shrieking undistinguish'd woe,
In clamours of all size, both high and low.",894,19119
648084,24,"Sometimes her levell'd eyes their carriage ride,
As they did battery to the spheres intend;
Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied
To the orbed earth; sometimes they do extend
Their view right on; anon their gazes lend
To every place at once, and, nowhere fix'd,
The mind and sight distractedly commix'd.",894,19119
648085,31,"Her hair, nor loose nor tied in formal plat,
Proclaim'd in her a careless hand of pride
For some, untuck'd, descended her sheaved hat,
Hanging her pale and pined cheek beside;
Some in her threaden fillet still did bide,
And true to bondage would not break from thence,
Though slackly braided in loose negligence.",894,19119
648086,38,"A thousand favours from a maund she drew
Of amber, crystal, and of beaded jet,
Which one by one she in a river threw,
Upon whose weeping margent she was set;
Like usury, applying wet to wet,
Or monarch's hands that let not bounty fall
Where want cries some, but where excess begs all.",894,19119
648087,45,"Of folded schedules had she many a one,
Which she perused, sigh'd, tore, and gave the flood;
Crack'd many a ring of posied gold and bone
Bidding them find their sepulchres in mud;
Found yet moe letters sadly penn'd in blood,
With sleided silk feat and affectedly
Enswathed, and seal'd to curious secrecy.",894,19119
648088,52,"These often bathed she in her fluxive eyes,
And often kiss'd, and often 'gan to tear:
Cried 'O false blood, thou register of lies,
What unapproved witness dost thou bear!
Ink would have seem'd more black and damned here!'
This said, in top of rage the lines she rents,
Big discontent so breaking their contents.",894,19119
648089,59,"A reverend man that grazed his cattle nigh--
Sometime a blusterer, that the ruffle knew
Of court, of city, and had let go by
The swiftest hours, observed as they flew--
Towards this afflicted fancy fastly drew,
And, privileged by age, desires to know
In brief the grounds and motives of her woe.",894,19119
648090,66,"So slides he down upon his grained bat,
And comely-distant sits he by her side;
When he again desires her, being sat,
Her grievance with his hearing to divide:
If that from him there may be aught applied
Which may her suffering ecstasy assuage,
'Tis promised in the charity of age.",894,19119
648091,73,"'Father,' she says, 'though in me you behold
The injury of many a blasting hour,
Let it not tell your judgment I am old;
Not age, but sorrow, over me hath power:
I might as yet have been a spreading flower,
Fresh to myself, If I had self-applied
Love to myself and to no love beside.",894,19119
648092,80,"'But, woe is me! too early I attended
A youthful suit--it was to gain my grace--
Of one by nature's outwards so commended,
That maidens' eyes stuck over all his face:
Love lack'd a dwelling, and made him her place;
And when in his fair parts she did abide,
She was new lodged and newly deified.",894,19119
648093,87,"'His browny locks did hang in crooked curls;
And every light occasion of the wind
Upon his lips their silken parcels hurls.
What's sweet to do, to do will aptly find:
Each eye that saw him did enchant the mind,
For on his visage was in little drawn
What largeness thinks in Paradise was sawn.",894,19119
648094,94,"'Small show of man was yet upon his chin;
His phoenix down began but to appear
Like unshorn velvet on that termless skin
Whose bare out-bragg'd the web it seem'd to wear:
Yet show'd his visage by that cost more dear;
And nice affections wavering stood in doubt
If best were as it was, or best without.",894,19119
648095,101,"'His qualities were beauteous as his form,
For maiden-tongued he was, and thereof free;
Yet, if men moved him, was he such a storm
As oft 'twixt May and April is to see,
When winds breathe sweet, untidy though they be.
His rudeness so with his authorized youth
Did livery falseness in a pride of truth.",894,19119
648096,108,"'Well could he ride, and often men would say
'That horse his mettle from his rider takes:
Proud of subjection, noble by the sway,
What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop
he makes!'
And controversy hence a question takes,
Whether the horse by him became his deed,
Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.",894,19119
648097,116,"'But quickly on this side the verdict went:
His real habitude gave life and grace
To appertainings and to ornament,
Accomplish'd in himself, not in his case:
All aids, themselves made fairer by their place,
Came for additions; yet their purposed trim
Pieced not his grace, but were all graced by him.",894,19119
648098,123,"'So on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kinds of arguments and question deep,
All replication prompt, and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep:
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passions in his craft of will:",894,19119
648099,130,"'That he did in the general bosom reign
Of young, of old; and sexes both enchanted,
To dwell with him in thoughts, or to remain
In personal duty, following where he haunted:
Consents bewitch'd, ere he desire, have granted;
And dialogued for him what he would say,
Ask'd their own wills, and made their wills obey.",894,19119
648100,137,"'Many there were that did his picture get,
To serve their eyes, and in it put their mind;
Like fools that in th' imagination set
The goodly objects which abroad they find
Of lands and mansions, theirs in thought assign'd;
And labouring in moe pleasures to bestow them
Than the true gouty landlord which doth owe them:",894,19119
648101,144,"'So many have, that never touch'd his hand,
Sweetly supposed them mistress of his heart.
My woeful self, that did in freedom stand,
And was my own fee-simple, not in part,
What with his art in youth, and youth in art,
Threw my affections in his charmed power,
Reserved the stalk and gave him all my flower.",894,19119
648102,151,"'Yet did I not, as some my equals did,
Demand of him, nor being desired yielded;
Finding myself in honour so forbid,
With safest distance I mine honour shielded:
Experience for me many bulwarks builded
Of proofs new-bleeding, which remain'd the foil
Of this false jewel, and his amorous spoil.",894,19119
648103,158,"'But, ah, who ever shunn'd by precedent
The destined ill she must herself assay?
Or forced examples, 'gainst her own content,
To put the by-past perils in her way?
Counsel may stop awhile what will not stay;
For when we rage, advice is often seen
By blunting us to make our wits more keen.",894,19119
648104,165,"'Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood,
That we must curb it upon others' proof;
To be forbod the sweets that seem so good,
For fear of harms that preach in our behoof.
O appetite, from judgment stand aloof!
The one a palate hath that needs will taste,
Though Reason weep, and cry, 'It is thy last.'",894,19119
648105,172,"'For further I could say 'This man's untrue,'
And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling;
Heard where his plants in others' orchards grew,
Saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling;
Knew vows were ever brokers to defiling;
Thought characters and words merely but art,
And bastards of his foul adulterate heart.",894,19119
648106,179,"'And long upon these terms I held my city,
Till thus he gan besiege me: 'Gentle maid,
Have of my suffering youth some feeling pity,
And be not of my holy vows afraid:
That's to ye sworn to none was ever said;
For feasts of love I have been call'd unto,
Till now did ne'er invite, nor never woo.",894,19119
648107,186,"''All my offences that abroad you see
Are errors of the blood, none of the mind;
Love made them not: with acture they may be,
Where neither party is nor true nor kind:
They sought their shame that so their shame did find;
And so much less of shame in me remains,
By how much of me their reproach contains.",894,19119
648108,193,"''Among the many that mine eyes have seen,
Not one whose flame my heart so much as warm'd,
Or my affection put to the smallest teen,
Or any of my leisures ever charm'd:
Harm have I done to them, but ne'er was harm'd;
Kept hearts in liveries, but mine own was free,
And reign'd, commanding in his monarchy.",894,19119
648109,200,"''Look here, what tributes wounded fancies sent me,
Of paled pearls and rubies red as blood;
Figuring that they their passions likewise lent me
Of grief and blushes, aptly understood
In bloodless white and the encrimson'd mood;
Effects of terror and dear modesty,
Encamp'd in hearts, but fighting outwardly.",894,19119
648110,207,"''And, lo, behold these talents of their hair,
With twisted metal amorously impleach'd,
I have received from many a several fair,
Their kind acceptance weepingly beseech'd,
With the annexions of fair gems enrich'd,
And deep-brain'd sonnets that did amplify
Each stone's dear nature, worth, and quality.",894,19119
648111,214,"''The diamond,--why, 'twas beautiful and hard,
Whereto his invised properties did tend;
The deep-green emerald, in whose fresh regard
Weak sights their sickly radiance do amend;
The heaven-hued sapphire and the opal blend
With objects manifold: each several stone,
With wit well blazon'd, smiled or made some moan.",894,19119
648112,221,"''Lo, all these trophies of affections hot,
Of pensived and subdued desires the tender,
Nature hath charged me that I hoard them not,
But yield them up where I myself must render,
That is, to you, my origin and ender;
For these, of force, must your oblations be,
Since I their altar, you enpatron me.",894,19119
648113,228,"''O, then, advance of yours that phraseless hand,
Whose white weighs down the airy scale of praise;
Take all these similes to your own command,
Hallow'd with sighs that burning lungs did raise;
What me your minister, for you obeys,
Works under you; and to your audit comes
Their distract parcels in combined sums.",894,19119
648114,235,"''Lo, this device was sent me from a nun,
Or sister sanctified, of holiest note;
Which late her noble suit in court did shun,
Whose rarest havings made the blossoms dote;
For she was sought by spirits of richest coat,
But kept cold distance, and did thence remove,
To spend her living in eternal love.",894,19119
648115,242,"''But, O my sweet, what labour is't to leave
The thing we have not, mastering what not strives,
Playing the place which did no form receive,
Playing patient sports in unconstrained gyves?
She that her fame so to herself contrives,
The scars of battle 'scapeth by the flight,
And makes her absence valiant, not her might.",894,19119
648116,249,"''O, pardon me, in that my boast is true:
The accident which brought me to her eye
Upon the moment did her force subdue,
And now she would the caged cloister fly:
Religious love put out Religion's eye:
Not to be tempted, would she be immured,
And now, to tempt, all liberty procured.",894,19119
648117,256,"''How mighty then you are, O, hear me tell!
The broken bosoms that to me belong
Have emptied all their fountains in my well,
And mine I pour your ocean all among:
I strong o'er them, and you o'er me being strong,
Must for your victory us all congest,
As compound love to physic your cold breast.",894,19119
648118,263,"''My parts had power to charm a sacred nun,
Who, disciplined, ay, dieted in grace,
Believed her eyes when they to assail begun,
All vows and consecrations giving place:
O most potential love! vow, bond, nor space,
In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine,
For thou art all, and all things else are thine.",894,19119
648119,270,"''When thou impressest, what are precepts worth
Of stale example? When thou wilt inflame,
How coldly those impediments stand forth
Of wealth, of filial fear, law, kindred, fame!
Love's arms are peace, 'gainst rule, 'gainst sense,
'gainst shame,
And sweetens, in the suffering pangs it bears,
The aloes of all forces, shocks, and fears.",894,19119
648120,278,"''Now all these hearts that do on mine depend,
Feeling it break, with bleeding groans they pine;
And supplicant their sighs to you extend,
To leave the battery that you make 'gainst mine,
Lending soft audience to my sweet design,
And credent soul to that strong-bonded oath
That shall prefer and undertake my troth.'",894,19119
648121,285,"'This said, his watery eyes he did dismount,
Whose sights till then were levell'd on my face;
Each cheek a river running from a fount
With brinish current downward flow'd apace:
O, how the channel to the stream gave grace!
Who glazed with crystal gate the glowing roses
That flame through water which their hue encloses.",894,19119
648122,292,"'O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies
In the small orb of one particular tear!
But with the inundation of the eyes
What rocky heart to water will not wear?
What breast so cold that is not warmed here?
O cleft effect! cold modesty, hot wrath,
Both fire from hence and chill extincture hath.",894,19119
648123,299,"'For, lo, his passion, but an art of craft,
Even there resolved my reason into tears;
There my white stole of chastity I daff'd,
Shook off my sober guards and civil fears;
Appear to him, as he to me appears,
All melting; though our drops this difference bore,
His poison'd me, and mine did him restore.",894,19119
648124,306,"'In him a plenitude of subtle matter,
Applied to cautels, all strange forms receives,
Of burning blushes, or of weeping water,
Or swooning paleness; and he takes and leaves,
In either's aptness, as it best deceives,
To blush at speeches rank to weep at woes,
Or to turn white and swoon at tragic shows.",894,19119
648125,313,"'That not a heart which in his level came
Could 'scape the hail of his all-hurting aim,
Showing fair nature is both kind and tame;
And, veil'd in them, did win whom he would maim:
Against the thing he sought he would exclaim;
When he most burn'd in heart-wish'd luxury,
He preach'd pure maid, and praised cold chastity.",894,19119
648126,320,"'Thus merely with the garment of a Grace
The naked and concealed fiend he cover'd;
That th' unexperient gave the tempter place,
Which like a cherubin above them hover'd.
Who, young and simple, would not be so lover'd?
Ay me! I fell; and yet do question make
What I should do again for such a sake.",894,19119
648127,327,"'O, that infected moisture of his eye,
O, that false fire which in his cheek so glow'd,
O, that forced thunder from his heart did fly,
O, that sad breath his spongy lungs bestow'd,
O, all that borrow'd motion seeming owed,
Would yet again betray the fore-betray'd,
And new pervert a reconciled maid!'",894,19119
648128,5,"Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live register'd upon our brazen tombs
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
The endeavor of this present breath may buy
That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
And make us heirs of all eternity.
Therefore, brave conquerors,--for so you are,
That war against your own affections
And the huge army of the world's desires,--
Our late edict shall strongly stand in force:
Navarre shall be the wonder of the world;
Our court shall be a little Academe,
Still and contemplative in living art.
You three, Biron, Dumain, and Longaville,
Have sworn for three years' term to live with me
My fellow-scholars, and to keep those statutes
That are recorded in this schedule here:
Your oaths are pass'd; and now subscribe your names,
That his own hand may strike his honour down
That violates the smallest branch herein:
If you are arm'd to do as sworn to do,
Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too.",399,19120
648129,28,"I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast:
The mind shall banquet, though the body pine:
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits
Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.",675,19120
648130,32,"My loving lord, Dumain is mortified:
The grosser manner of these world's delights
He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves:
To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die;
With all these living in philosophy.",355,19120
648131,37,"I can but say their protestation over;
So much, dear liege, I have already sworn,
That is, to live and study here three years.
But there are other strict observances;
As, not to see a woman in that term,
Which I hope well is not enrolled there;
And one day in a week to touch no food
And but one meal on every day beside,
The which I hope is not enrolled there;
And then, to sleep but three hours in the night,
And not be seen to wink of all the day--
When I was wont to think no harm all night
And make a dark night too of half the day--
Which I hope well is not enrolled there:
O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep,
Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep!",170,19120
648132,53,Your oath is pass'd to pass away from these.,399,19120
648133,54,"Let me say no, my liege, an if you please:
I only swore to study with your grace
And stay here in your court for three years' space.",170,19120
648134,57,"You swore to that, Biron, and to the rest.",675,19120
648135,58,"By yea and nay, sir, then I swore in jest.
What is the end of study? let me know.",170,19120
648136,60,"Why, that to know, which else we should not know.",399,19120
648137,61,"Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense?",170,19120
648138,62,"Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.",399,19120
648139,63,"Come on, then; I will swear to study so,
To know the thing I am forbid to know:
As thus,--to study where I well may dine,
When I to feast expressly am forbid;
Or study where to meet some mistress fine,
When mistresses from common sense are hid;
Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath,
Study to break it and not break my troth.
If study's gain be thus and this be so,
Study knows that which yet it doth not know:
Swear me to this, and I will ne'er say no.",170,19120
648140,74,"These be the stops that hinder study quite
And train our intellects to vain delight.",399,19120
648141,76,"Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain,
Which with pain purchased doth inherit pain:
As, painfully to pore upon a book
To seek the light of truth; while truth the while
Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look:
Light seeking light doth light of light beguile:
So, ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.
Study me how to please the eye indeed
By fixing it upon a fairer eye,
Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed
And give him light that it was blinded by.
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun
That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks:
Small have continual plodders ever won
Save base authority from others' books
These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights
That give a name to every fixed star
Have no more profit of their shining nights
Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Too much to know is to know nought but fame;
And every godfather can give a name.",170,19120
648142,98,"How well he's read, to reason against reading!",399,19120
648143,99,"Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding!",355,19120
648144,100,He weeds the corn and still lets grow the weeding.,675,19120
648145,101,The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding.,170,19120
648146,102,How follows that?,355,19120
648147,103,Fit in his place and time.,170,19120
648148,104,In reason nothing.,355,19120
648149,105,Something then in rhyme.,170,19120
648150,106,"Biron is like an envious sneaping frost,
That bites the first-born infants of the spring.",399,19120
648151,108,"Well, say I am; why should proud summer boast
Before the birds have any cause to sing?
Why should I joy in any abortive birth?
At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
So you, to study now it is too late,
Climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate.",170,19120
648152,116,"Well, sit you out: go home, Biron: adieu.",399,19120
648153,117,"No, my good lord; I have sworn to stay with you:
And though I have for barbarism spoke more
Than for that angel knowledge you can say,
Yet confident I'll keep what I have swore
And bide the penance of each three years' day.
Give me the paper; let me read the same;
And to the strict'st decrees I'll write my name.",170,19120
648154,124,How well this yielding rescues thee from shame!,399,19120
648155,125,"[Reads] 'Item, That no woman shall come within a
mile of my court:' Hath this been proclaimed?",170,19120
648156,127,Four days ago.,675,19120
648157,128,"Let's see the penalty.
[Reads]
'On pain of losing her tongue.' Who devised this penalty?",170,19120
648158,131,"Marry, that did I.",675,19120
648159,132,"Sweet lord, and why?",170,19120
648160,133,To fright them hence with that dread penalty.,675,19120
648161,134,"A dangerous law against gentility!
[Reads]
'Item, If any man be seen to talk with a woman
within the term of three years, he shall endure such
public shame as the rest of the court can possibly devise.'
This article, my liege, yourself must break;
For well you know here comes in embassy
The French king's daughter with yourself to speak--
A maid of grace and complete majesty--
About surrender up of Aquitaine
To her decrepit, sick and bedrid father:
Therefore this article is made in vain,
Or vainly comes the admired princess hither.",170,19120
648162,147,"What say you, lords? Why, this was quite forgot.",399,19120
648163,148,"So study evermore is overshot:
While it doth study to have what it would
It doth forget to do the thing it should,
And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,
'Tis won as towns with fire, so won, so lost.",170,19120
648164,153,"We must of force dispense with this decree;
She must lie here on mere necessity.",399,19120
648165,155,"Necessity will make us all forsworn
Three thousand times within this three years' space;
For every man with his affects is born,
Not by might master'd but by special grace:
If I break faith, this word shall speak for me;
I am forsworn on 'mere necessity.'
So to the laws at large I write my name:
[Subscribes]
And he that breaks them in the least degree
Stands in attainder of eternal shame:
Suggestions are to other as to me;
But I believe, although I seem so loath,
I am the last that will last keep his oath.
But is there no quick recreation granted?",170,19120
648166,169,"Ay, that there is. Our court, you know, is haunted
With a refined traveller of Spain;
A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain;
One whom the music of his own vain tongue
Doth ravish like enchanting harmony;
A man of complements, whom right and wrong
Have chose as umpire of their mutiny:
This child of fancy, that Armado hight,
For interim to our studies shall relate
In high-born words the worth of many a knight
From tawny Spain lost in the world's debate.
How you delight, my lords, I know not, I;
But, I protest, I love to hear him lie
And I will use him for my minstrelsy.",399,19120
648167,184,"Armado is a most illustrious wight,
A man of fire-new words, fashion's own knight.",170,19120
648168,186,"Costard the swain and he shall be our sport;
And so to study, three years is but short.",675,19120
648169,188,"[Enter DULL with a letter, and COSTARD]",1261,19120
648170,189,Which is the duke's own person?,354,19120
648171,190,"This, fellow: what wouldst?",170,19120
648172,191,"I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his
grace's tharborough: but I would see his own person
in flesh and blood.",354,19120
648173,194,This is he.,170,19120
648174,195,"Signior Arme--Arme--commends you. There's villany
abroad: this letter will tell you more.",354,19120
648175,197,"Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me.",286,19120
648176,198,A letter from the magnificent Armado.,399,19120
648177,199,"How low soever the matter, I hope in God for high words.",170,19120
648178,200,A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!,675,19120
648179,201,To hear? or forbear laughing?,170,19120
648180,202,"To hear meekly, sir, and to laugh moderately; or to
forbear both.",675,19120
648181,204,"Well, sir, be it as the style shall give us cause to
climb in the merriness.",170,19120
648182,206,"The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta.
The manner of it is, I was taken with the manner.",286,19120
648183,208,In what manner?,170,19120
648184,209,"In manner and form following, sir; all those three:
I was seen with her in the manor-house, sitting with
her upon the form, and taken following her into the
park; which, put together, is in manner and form
following. Now, sir, for the manner,--it is the
manner of a man to speak to a woman: for the form,--
in some form.",286,19120
648185,216,"For the following, sir?",170,19120
648186,217,"As it shall follow in my correction: and God defend
the right!",286,19120
648187,219,Will you hear this letter with attention?,399,19120
648188,220,As we would hear an oracle.,170,19120
648189,221,Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh.,286,19120
648190,222,"[Reads] 'Great deputy, the welkin's vicegerent and
sole dominator of Navarre, my soul's earth's god,
and body's fostering patron.'",399,19120
648191,225,Not a word of Costard yet.,286,19120
648192,226,"[Reads] 'So it is,'--",399,19120
648193,227,"It may be so: but if he say it is so, he is, in
telling true, but so.",286,19120
648194,229,Peace!,399,19120
648195,230,Be to me and every man that dares not fight!,286,19120
648196,231,No words!,399,19120
648197,232,"Of other men's secrets, I beseech you.",286,19120
648198,233,"[Reads] 'So it is, besieged with sable-coloured
melancholy, I did commend the black-oppressing humour
to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving
air; and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to
walk. The time when. About the sixth hour; when
beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down
to that nourishment which is called supper: so much
for the time when. Now for the ground which; which,
I mean, I walked upon: it is y-cleped thy park. Then
for the place where; where, I mean, I did encounter
that obscene and preposterous event, that draweth
from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink, which
here thou viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest;
but to the place where; it standeth north-north-east
and by east from the west corner of thy curious-
knotted garden: there did I see that low-spirited
swain, that base minnow of thy mirth,'--",399,19120
648199,250,Me?,286,19120
648200,251,"[Reads] 'that unlettered small-knowing soul,'--",399,19120
648201,252,Me?,286,19120
648202,253,"[Reads] 'that shallow vassal,'--",399,19120
648203,254,Still me?,286,19120
648204,255,"[Reads] 'which, as I remember, hight Costard,'--",399,19120
648205,256,"O, me!",286,19120
648206,257,"[Reads] 'sorted and consorted, contrary to thy
established proclaimed edict and continent canon,
which with,--O, with--but with this I passion to say
wherewith,--",399,19120
648207,261,With a wench.,286,19120
648208,262,"[Reads] 'with a child of our grandmother Eve, a
female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a
woman. Him I, as my ever-esteemed duty pricks me on,
have sent to thee, to receive the meed of
punishment, by thy sweet grace's officer, Anthony
Dull; a man of good repute, carriage, bearing, and
estimation.'",399,19120
648209,269,"'Me, an't shall please you; I am Anthony Dull.",354,19120
648210,270,"[Reads] 'For Jaquenetta,--so is the weaker vessel
called which I apprehended with the aforesaid
swain,--I keep her as a vessel of the law's fury;
and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring
her to trial. Thine, in all compliments of devoted
and heart-burning heat of duty.
DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.'",399,19120
648211,277,"This is not so well as I looked for, but the best
that ever I heard.",170,19120
648212,279,"Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say
you to this?",399,19120
648213,281,"Sir, I confess the wench.",286,19120
648214,282,Did you hear the proclamation?,399,19120
648215,283,"I do confess much of the hearing it but little of
the marking of it.",286,19120
648216,285,"It was proclaimed a year's imprisonment, to be taken
with a wench.",399,19120
648217,287,"I was taken with none, sir: I was taken with a damsel.",286,19120
648218,288,"Well, it was proclaimed 'damsel.'",399,19120
648219,289,"This was no damsel, neither, sir; she was a virgin.",286,19120
648220,290,"It is so varied, too; for it was proclaimed 'virgin.'",399,19120
648221,291,"If it were, I deny her virginity: I was taken with a maid.",286,19120
648222,292,"This maid will not serve your turn, sir.",399,19120
648223,293,"This maid will serve my turn, sir.",286,19120
648224,294,"Sir, I will pronounce your sentence: you shall fast
a week with bran and water.",399,19120
648225,296,I had rather pray a month with mutton and porridge.,286,19120
648226,297,"And Don Armado shall be your keeper.
My Lord Biron, see him deliver'd o'er:
And go we, lords, to put in practise that
Which each to other hath so strongly sworn.",399,19120
648227,301,"[Exeunt FERDINAND, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN]",1261,19120
648228,302,"I'll lay my head to any good man's hat,
These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn.
Sirrah, come on.",170,19120
648229,305,"I suffer for the truth, sir; for true it is, I was
taken with Jaquenetta, and Jaquenetta is a true
girl; and therefore welcome the sour cup of
prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again; and
till then, sit thee down, sorrow!",286,19120
648230,310,[Exeunt],1261,19120
648231,313,[Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH],1261,19121
648232,314,"Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit
grows melancholy?",326,19121
648233,316,"A great sign, sir, that he will look sad.",804,19121
648234,317,"Why, sadness is one and the self-same thing, dear imp.",326,19121
648235,318,"No, no; O Lord, sir, no.",804,19121
648236,319,"How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my
tender juvenal?",326,19121
648237,321,"By a familiar demonstration of the working, my tough senior.",804,19121
648238,322,Why tough senior? why tough senior?,326,19121
648239,323,Why tender juvenal? why tender juvenal?,804,19121
648240,324,"I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton
appertaining to thy young days, which we may
nominate tender.",326,19121
648241,327,"And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your
old time, which we may name tough.",804,19121
648242,329,Pretty and apt.,326,19121
648243,330,"How mean you, sir? I pretty, and my saying apt? or
I apt, and my saying pretty?",804,19121
648244,332,"Thou pretty, because little.",326,19121
648245,333,"Little pretty, because little. Wherefore apt?",804,19121
648246,334,"And therefore apt, because quick.",326,19121
648247,335,"Speak you this in my praise, master?",804,19121
648248,336,In thy condign praise.,326,19121
648249,337,I will praise an eel with the same praise.,804,19121
648250,338,"What, that an eel is ingenious?",326,19121
648251,339,That an eel is quick.,804,19121
648252,340,I do say thou art quick in answers: thou heatest my blood.,326,19121
648253,341,"I am answered, sir.",804,19121
648254,342,I love not to be crossed.,326,19121
648255,343,[Aside] He speaks the mere contrary; crosses love not him.,804,19121
648256,344,I have promised to study three years with the duke.,326,19121
648257,345,"You may do it in an hour, sir.",804,19121
648258,346,Impossible.,326,19121
648259,347,How many is one thrice told?,804,19121
648260,348,I am ill at reckoning; it fitteth the spirit of a tapster.,326,19121
648261,349,"You are a gentleman and a gamester, sir.",804,19121
648262,350,"I confess both: they are both the varnish of a
complete man.",326,19121
648263,352,"Then, I am sure, you know how much the gross sum of
deuce-ace amounts to.",804,19121
648264,354,It doth amount to one more than two.,326,19121
648265,355,Which the base vulgar do call three.,804,19121
648266,356,True.,326,19121
648267,357,"Why, sir, is this such a piece of study? Now here
is three studied, ere ye'll thrice wink: and how
easy it is to put 'years' to the word 'three,' and
study three years in two words, the dancing horse
will tell you.",804,19121
648268,362,A most fine figure!,326,19121
648269,363,To prove you a cipher.,804,19121
648270,364,"I will hereupon confess I am in love: and as it is
base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a
base wench. If drawing my sword against the humour
of affection would deliver me from the reprobate
thought of it, I would take Desire prisoner, and
ransom him to any French courtier for a new-devised
courtesy. I think scorn to sigh: methinks I should
outswear Cupid. Comfort, me, boy: what great men
have been in love?",326,19121
648271,373,"Hercules, master.",804,19121
648272,374,"Most sweet Hercules! More authority, dear boy, name
more; and, sweet my child, let them be men of good
repute and carriage.",326,19121
648273,377,"Samson, master: he was a man of good carriage, great
carriage, for he carried the town-gates on his back
like a porter: and he was in love.",804,19121
648274,380,"O well-knit Samson! strong-jointed Samson! I do
excel thee in my rapier as much as thou didst me in
carrying gates. I am in love too. Who was Samson's
love, my dear Moth?",326,19121
648275,384,"A woman, master.",804,19121
648276,385,Of what complexion?,326,19121
648277,386,"Of all the four, or the three, or the two, or one of the four.",804,19121
648278,387,Tell me precisely of what complexion.,326,19121
648279,388,"Of the sea-water green, sir.",804,19121
648280,389,Is that one of the four complexions?,326,19121
648281,390,"As I have read, sir; and the best of them too.",804,19121
648282,391,"Green indeed is the colour of lovers; but to have a
love of that colour, methinks Samson had small reason
for it. He surely affected her for her wit.",326,19121
648283,394,"It was so, sir; for she had a green wit.",804,19121
648284,395,My love is most immaculate white and red.,326,19121
648285,396,"Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under
such colours.",804,19121
648286,398,"Define, define, well-educated infant.",326,19121
648287,399,"My father's wit and my mother's tongue, assist me!",804,19121
648288,400,"Sweet invocation of a child; most pretty and
pathetical!",326,19121
648289,402,"If she be made of white and red,
Her faults will ne'er be known,
For blushing cheeks by faults are bred
And fears by pale white shown:
Then if she fear, or be to blame,
By this you shall not know,
For still her cheeks possess the same
Which native she doth owe.
A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason of
white and red.",804,19121
648290,412,"Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar?",326,19121
648291,413,"The world was very guilty of such a ballad some
three ages since: but I think now 'tis not to be
found; or, if it were, it would neither serve for
the writing nor the tune.",804,19121
648292,417,"I will have that subject newly writ o'er, that I may
example my digression by some mighty precedent.
Boy, I do love that country girl that I took in the
park with the rational hind Costard: she deserves well.",326,19121
648293,421,"[Aside] To be whipped; and yet a better love than
my master.",804,19121
648294,423,"Sing, boy; my spirit grows heavy in love.",326,19121
648295,424,"And that's great marvel, loving a light wench.",804,19121
648296,425,"I say, sing.",326,19121
648297,426,Forbear till this company be past.,804,19121
648298,427,"[Enter DULL, COSTARD, and JAQUENETTA]",1261,19121
648299,428,"Sir, the duke's pleasure is, that you keep Costard
safe: and you must suffer him to take no delight
nor no penance; but a' must fast three days a week.
For this damsel, I must keep her at the park: she
is allowed for the day-woman. Fare you well.",354,19121
648300,433,I do betray myself with blushing. Maid!,326,19121
648301,434,Man?,608,19121
648302,435,I will visit thee at the lodge.,326,19121
648303,436,That's hereby.,608,19121
648304,437,I know where it is situate.,326,19121
648305,438,"Lord, how wise you are!",608,19121
648306,439,I will tell thee wonders.,326,19121
648307,440,With that face?,608,19121
648308,441,I love thee.,326,19121
648309,442,So I heard you say.,608,19121
648310,443,"And so, farewell.",326,19121
648311,444,Fair weather after you!,608,19121
648312,445,"Come, Jaquenetta, away!",354,19121
648313,446,[Exeunt DULL and JAQUENETTA],1261,19121
648314,447,"Villain, thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou
be pardoned.",326,19121
648315,449,"Well, sir, I hope, when I do it, I shall do it on a
full stomach.",286,19121
648316,451,Thou shalt be heavily punished.,326,19121
648317,452,"I am more bound to you than your fellows, for they
are but lightly rewarded.",286,19121
648318,454,Take away this villain; shut him up.,326,19121
648319,455,"Come, you transgressing slave; away!",804,19121
648320,456,"Let me not be pent up, sir: I will fast, being loose.",286,19121
648321,457,"No, sir; that were fast and loose: thou shalt to prison.",804,19121
648322,458,"Well, if ever I do see the merry days of desolation
that I have seen, some shall see.",286,19121
648323,460,What shall some see?,804,19121
648324,461,"Nay, nothing, Master Moth, but what they look upon.
It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their
words; and therefore I will say nothing: I thank
God I have as little patience as another man; and
therefore I can be quiet.",286,19121
648325,466,[Exeunt MOTH and COSTARD],1261,19121
648326,467,"I do affect the very ground, which is base, where
her shoe, which is baser, guided by her foot, which
is basest, doth tread. I shall be forsworn, which
is a great argument of falsehood, if I love. And
how can that be true love which is falsely
attempted? Love is a familiar; Love is a devil:
there is no evil angel but Love. Yet was Samson so
tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was
Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit.
Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club;
and therefore too much odds for a Spaniard's rapier.
The first and second cause will not serve my turn;
the passado he respects not, the duello he regards
not: his disgrace is to be called boy; but his
glory is to subdue men. Adieu, valour! rust rapier!
be still, drum! for your manager is in love; yea,
he loveth. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme,
for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit;
write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.",326,19121
648327,486,"[Exit]
[Enter the PRINCESS of France, ROSALINE, MARIA,]
KATHARINE, BOYET, Lords, and other Attendants]",1261,19121
648328,491,"Now, madam, summon up your dearest spirits:
Consider who the king your father sends,
To whom he sends, and what's his embassy:
Yourself, held precious in the world's esteem,
To parley with the sole inheritor
Of all perfections that a man may owe,
Matchless Navarre; the plea of no less weight
Than Aquitaine, a dowry for a queen.
Be now as prodigal of all dear grace
As Nature was in making graces dear
When she did starve the general world beside
And prodigally gave them all to you.",192,19122
648329,503,"Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues:
I am less proud to hear you tell my worth
Than you much willing to be counted wise
In spending your wit in the praise of mine.
But now to task the tasker: good Boyet,
You are not ignorant, all-telling fame
Doth noise abroad, Navarre hath made a vow,
Till painful study shall outwear three years,
No woman may approach his silent court:
Therefore to's seemeth it a needful course,
Before we enter his forbidden gates,
To know his pleasure; and in that behalf,
Bold of your worthiness, we single you
As our best-moving fair solicitor.
Tell him, the daughter of the King of France,
On serious business, craving quick dispatch,
Importunes personal conference with his grace:
Haste, signify so much; while we attend,
Like humble-visaged suitors, his high will.",922,19122
648330,525,"Proud of employment, willingly I go.",192,19122
648331,526,"All pride is willing pride, and yours is so.
[Exit BOYET]
Who are the votaries, my loving lords,
That are vow-fellows with this virtuous duke?",922,19122
648332,530,Lord Longaville is one.,437,19122
648333,531,Know you the man?,922,19122
648334,532,"I know him, madam: at a marriage-feast,
Between Lord Perigort and the beauteous heir
Of Jaques Falconbridge, solemnized
In Normandy, saw I this Longaville:
A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd;
Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms:
Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.
The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss,
If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil,
Is a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will;
Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still wills
It should none spare that come within his power.",739,19122
648335,544,"Some merry mocking lord, belike; is't so?",922,19122
648336,545,They say so most that most his humours know.,739,19122
648337,546,"Such short-lived wits do wither as they grow.
Who are the rest?",922,19122
648338,548,"The young Dumain, a well-accomplished youth,
Of all that virtue love for virtue loved:
Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill;
For he hath wit to make an ill shape good,
And shape to win grace though he had no wit.
I saw him at the Duke Alencon's once;
And much too little of that good I saw
Is my report to his great worthiness.",630,19122
648339,556,"Another of these students at that time
Was there with him, if I have heard a truth.
Biron they call him; but a merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal:
His eye begets occasion for his wit;
For every object that the one doth catch
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest,
Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor,
Delivers in such apt and gracious words
That aged ears play truant at his tales
And younger hearings are quite ravished;
So sweet and voluble is his discourse.",954,19122
648340,569,"God bless my ladies! are they all in love,
That every one her own hath garnished
With such bedecking ornaments of praise?",922,19122
648341,572,Here comes Boyet.,437,19122
648342,573,[Re-enter BOYET],1261,19122
648343,574,"Now, what admittance, lord?",922,19122
648344,575,"Navarre had notice of your fair approach;
And he and his competitors in oath
Were all address'd to meet you, gentle lady,
Before I came. Marry, thus much I have learnt:
He rather means to lodge you in the field,
Like one that comes here to besiege his court,
Than seek a dispensation for his oath,
To let you enter his unpeopled house.
Here comes Navarre.
[Enter FERDINAND, LONGAVILLE, DUMAIN, BIRON, and]
Attendants]",192,19122
648345,586,"Fair princess, welcome to the court of Navarre.",399,19122
648346,587,"'Fair' I give you back again; and 'welcome' I have
not yet: the roof of this court is too high to be
yours; and welcome to the wide fields too base to be mine.",922,19122
648347,590,"You shall be welcome, madam, to my court.",399,19122
648348,591,"I will be welcome, then: conduct me thither.",922,19122
648349,592,"Hear me, dear lady; I have sworn an oath.",399,19122
648350,593,Our Lady help my lord! he'll be forsworn.,922,19122
648351,594,"Not for the world, fair madam, by my will.",399,19122
648352,595,"Why, will shall break it; will and nothing else.",922,19122
648353,596,Your ladyship is ignorant what it is.,399,19122
648354,597,"Were my lord so, his ignorance were wise,
Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance.
I hear your grace hath sworn out house-keeping:
Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,
And sin to break it.
But pardon me. I am too sudden-bold:
To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me.
Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,
And suddenly resolve me in my suit.",922,19122
648355,606,"Madam, I will, if suddenly I may.",399,19122
648356,607,"You will the sooner, that I were away;
For you'll prove perjured if you make me stay.",922,19122
648357,609,Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?,170,19122
648358,610,Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?,954,19122
648359,611,I know you did.,170,19122
648360,612,How needless was it then to ask the question!,954,19122
648361,613,You must not be so quick.,170,19122
648363,615,"Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.",170,19122
648364,616,Not till it leave the rider in the mire.,954,19122
648365,617,What time o' day?,170,19122
648366,618,The hour that fools should ask.,954,19122
648367,619,Now fair befall your mask!,170,19122
648368,620,Fair fall the face it covers!,954,19122
648369,621,And send you many lovers!,170,19122
648370,622,"Amen, so you be none.",954,19122
648371,623,"Nay, then will I be gone.",170,19122
648372,624,"Madam, your father here doth intimate
The payment of a hundred thousand crowns;
Being but the one half of an entire sum
Disbursed by my father in his wars.
But say that he or we, as neither have,
Received that sum, yet there remains unpaid
A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which,
One part of Aquitaine is bound to us,
Although not valued to the money's worth.
If then the king your father will restore
But that one half which is unsatisfied,
We will give up our right in Aquitaine,
And hold fair friendship with his majesty.
But that, it seems, he little purposeth,
For here he doth demand to have repaid
A hundred thousand crowns; and not demands,
On payment of a hundred thousand crowns,
To have his title live in Aquitaine;
Which we much rather had depart withal
And have the money by our father lent
Than Aquitaine so gelded as it is.
Dear Princess, were not his requests so far
From reason's yielding, your fair self should make
A yielding 'gainst some reason in my breast
And go well satisfied to France again.",399,19122
648373,649,"You do the king my father too much wrong
And wrong the reputation of your name,
In so unseeming to confess receipt
Of that which hath so faithfully been paid.",922,19122
648374,653,"I do protest I never heard of it;
And if you prove it, I'll repay it back
Or yield up Aquitaine.",399,19122
648375,656,"We arrest your word.
Boyet, you can produce acquittances
For such a sum from special officers
Of Charles his father.",922,19122
648376,660,Satisfy me so.,399,19122
648377,661,"So please your grace, the packet is not come
Where that and other specialties are bound:
To-morrow you shall have a sight of them.",192,19122
648378,664,"It shall suffice me: at which interview
All liberal reason I will yield unto.
Meantime receive such welcome at my hand
As honour without breach of honour may
Make tender of to thy true worthiness:
You may not come, fair princess, in my gates;
But here without you shall be so received
As you shall deem yourself lodged in my heart,
Though so denied fair harbour in my house.
Your own good thoughts excuse me, and farewell:
To-morrow shall we visit you again.",399,19122
648379,675,Sweet health and fair desires consort your grace!,922,19122
648380,676,Thy own wish wish I thee in every place!,399,19122
648381,677,[Exit],1261,19122
648382,678,"Lady, I will commend you to mine own heart.",170,19122
648383,679,"Pray you, do my commendations; I would be glad to see it.",954,19122
648384,680,I would you heard it groan.,170,19122
648385,681,Is the fool sick?,954,19122
648386,682,Sick at the heart.,170,19122
648387,683,"Alack, let it blood.",954,19122
648388,684,Would that do it good?,170,19122
648389,685,My physic says 'ay.',954,19122
648390,686,Will you prick't with your eye?,170,19122
648391,687,"No point, with my knife.",954,19122
648392,688,"Now, God save thy life!",170,19122
648393,689,And yours from long living!,954,19122
648394,690,I cannot stay thanksgiving.,170,19122
648395,691,[Retiring],1261,19122
648396,692,"Sir, I pray you, a word: what lady is that same?",355,19122
648397,693,"The heir of Alencon, Katharine her name.",192,19122
648398,694,"A gallant lady. Monsieur, fare you well.",355,19122
648399,695,[Exit],1261,19122
648400,696,I beseech you a word: what is she in the white?,675,19122
648401,697,"A woman sometimes, an you saw her in the light.",192,19122
648402,698,Perchance light in the light. I desire her name.,675,19122
648403,699,She hath but one for herself; to desire that were a shame.,192,19122
648404,700,"Pray you, sir, whose daughter?",675,19122
648405,701,"Her mother's, I have heard.",192,19122
648406,702,God's blessing on your beard!,675,19122
648407,703,"Good sir, be not offended.
She is an heir of Falconbridge.",192,19122
648408,705,"Nay, my choler is ended.
She is a most sweet lady.",675,19122
648409,707,"Not unlike, sir, that may be.",192,19122
648410,708,[Exit LONGAVILLE],1261,19122
648411,709,What's her name in the cap?,170,19122
648412,710,"Rosaline, by good hap.",192,19122
648413,711,Is she wedded or no?,170,19122
648414,712,"To her will, sir, or so.",192,19122
648415,713,"You are welcome, sir: adieu.",170,19122
648416,714,"Farewell to me, sir, and welcome to you.",192,19122
648417,715,[Exit BIRON],1261,19122
648418,716,"That last is Biron, the merry madcap lord:
Not a word with him but a jest.",739,19122
648419,718,And every jest but a word.,192,19122
648420,719,It was well done of you to take him at his word.,922,19122
648421,720,I was as willing to grapple as he was to board.,192,19122
648422,721,"Two hot sheeps, marry.",739,19122
648423,722,"And wherefore not ships?
No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.",192,19122
648424,724,"You sheep, and I pasture: shall that finish the jest?",739,19122
648425,725,So you grant pasture for me.,192,19122
648426,726,[Offering to kiss her],1261,19122
648427,727,"Not so, gentle beast:
My lips are no common, though several they be.",739,19122
648428,729,Belonging to whom?,192,19122
648429,730,To my fortunes and me.,739,19122
648430,731,"Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree:
This civil war of wits were much better used
On Navarre and his book-men; for here 'tis abused.",922,19122
648431,734,"If my observation, which very seldom lies,
By the heart's still rhetoric disclosed with eyes,
Deceive me not now, Navarre is infected.",192,19122
648432,737,With what?,922,19122
648433,738,With that which we lovers entitle affected.,192,19122
648434,739,Your reason?,922,19122
648435,740,"Why, all his behaviors did make their retire
To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire:
His heart, like an agate, with your print impress'd,
Proud with his form, in his eye pride express'd:
His tongue, all impatient to speak and not see,
Did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be;
All senses to that sense did make their repair,
To feel only looking on fairest of fair:
Methought all his senses were lock'd in his eye,
As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy;
Who, tendering their own worth from where they were glass'd,
Did point you to buy them, along as you pass'd:
His face's own margent did quote such amazes
That all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes.
I'll give you Aquitaine and all that is his,
An you give him for my sake but one loving kiss.",192,19122
648436,756,Come to our pavilion: Boyet is disposed.,922,19122
648437,757,"But to speak that in words which his eye hath
disclosed.
I only have made a mouth of his eye,
By adding a tongue which I know will not lie.",192,19122
648438,761,Thou art an old love-monger and speakest skilfully.,954,19122
648439,762,He is Cupid's grandfather and learns news of him.,739,19122
648440,763,"Then was Venus like her mother, for her father is but grim.",954,19122
648441,764,"Do you hear, my mad wenches?",192,19122
648442,765,No.,739,19122
648443,766,"What then, do you see?",192,19122
648444,767,"Ay, our way to be gone.",954,19122
648445,768,You are too hard for me.,192,19122
648446,769,[Exeunt],1261,19122
648447,772,[Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH],1261,19123
648448,773,"Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.",326,19123
648449,774,Concolinel.,804,19123
648450,775,[Singing],1261,19123
648451,776,"Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years; take this key,
give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately
hither: I must employ him in a letter to my love.",326,19123
648452,779,"Master, will you win your love with a French brawl?",804,19123
648453,780,How meanest thou? brawling in French?,326,19123
648454,781,"No, my complete master: but to jig off a tune at
the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet, humour
it with turning up your eyelids, sigh a note and
sing a note, sometime through the throat, as if you
swallowed love with singing love, sometime through
the nose, as if you snuffed up love by smelling
love; with your hat penthouse-like o'er the shop of
your eyes; with your arms crossed on your thin-belly
doublet like a rabbit on a spit; or your hands in
your pocket like a man after the old painting; and
keep not too long in one tune, but a snip and away.
These are complements, these are humours; these
betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed without
these; and make them men of note--do you note
me?--that most are affected to these.",804,19123
648455,796,How hast thou purchased this experience?,326,19123
648456,797,By my penny of observation.,804,19123
648457,798,"But O,--but O,--",326,19123
648458,799,The hobby-horse is forgot.,804,19123
648459,800,Callest thou my love 'hobby-horse'?,326,19123
648460,801,"No, master; the hobby-horse is but a colt, and your
love perhaps a hackney. But have you forgot your love?",804,19123
648461,803,Almost I had.,326,19123
648462,804,Negligent student! learn her by heart.,804,19123
648463,805,"By heart and in heart, boy.",326,19123
648464,806,"And out of heart, master: all those three I will prove.",804,19123
648465,807,What wilt thou prove?,326,19123
648466,808,"A man, if I live; and this, by, in, and without, upon
the instant: by heart you love her, because your
heart cannot come by her; in heart you love her,
because your heart is in love with her; and out of
heart you love her, being out of heart that you
cannot enjoy her.",804,19123
648467,814,I am all these three.,326,19123
648468,815,"And three times as much more, and yet nothing at
all.",804,19123
648469,817,Fetch hither the swain: he must carry me a letter.,326,19123
648470,818,"A message well sympathized; a horse to be ambassador
for an ass.",804,19123
648471,820,"Ha, ha! what sayest thou?",326,19123
648472,821,"Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse,
for he is very slow-gaited. But I go.",804,19123
648473,823,The way is but short: away!,326,19123
648474,824,"As swift as lead, sir.",804,19123
648475,825,"The meaning, pretty ingenious?
Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow?",326,19123
648476,827,"Minime, honest master; or rather, master, no.",804,19123
648477,828,I say lead is slow.,326,19123
648478,829,"You are too swift, sir, to say so:
Is that lead slow which is fired from a gun?",804,19123
648479,831,"Sweet smoke of rhetoric!
He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he:
I shoot thee at the swain.",326,19123
648480,834,Thump then and I flee.,804,19123
648481,835,[Exit],1261,19123
648482,836,"A most acute juvenal; voluble and free of grace!
By thy favour, sweet welkin, I must sigh in thy face:
Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place.
My herald is return'd.",326,19123
648483,840,[Re-enter MOTH with COSTARD],1261,19123
648484,841,"A wonder, master! here's a costard broken in a shin.",804,19123
648485,842,"Some enigma, some riddle: come, thy l'envoy; begin.",326,19123
648486,843,"No enigma, no riddle, no l'envoy; no salve in the
mail, sir: O, sir, plantain, a plain plantain! no
l'envoy, no l'envoy; no salve, sir, but a plantain!",286,19123
648487,846,"By virtue, thou enforcest laughter; thy silly
thought my spleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes
me to ridiculous smiling. O, pardon me, my stars!
Doth the inconsiderate take salve for l'envoy, and
the word l'envoy for a salve?",326,19123
648488,851,Do the wise think them other? is not l'envoy a salve?,804,19123
648489,852,"No, page: it is an epilogue or discourse, to make plain
Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain.
I will example it:
The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,
Were still at odds, being but three.
There's the moral. Now the l'envoy.",326,19123
648490,858,I will add the l'envoy. Say the moral again.,804,19123
648491,859,"The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,
Were still at odds, being but three.",326,19123
648492,861,"Until the goose came out of door,
And stay'd the odds by adding four.
Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow with
my l'envoy.
The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,
Were still at odds, being but three.",804,19123
648493,867,"Until the goose came out of door,
Staying the odds by adding four.",326,19123
648494,869,"A good l'envoy, ending in the goose: would you
desire more?",804,19123
648495,871,"The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat.
Sir, your pennyworth is good, an your goose be fat.
To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose:
Let me see; a fat l'envoy; ay, that's a fat goose.",286,19123
648496,875,"Come hither, come hither. How did this argument begin?",326,19123
648497,876,"By saying that a costard was broken in a shin.
Then call'd you for the l'envoy.",804,19123
648498,878,"True, and I for a plantain: thus came your
argument in;
Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goose that you bought;
And he ended the market.",286,19123
648499,882,But tell me; how was there a costard broken in a shin?,326,19123
648500,883,I will tell you sensibly.,804,19123
648501,884,"Thou hast no feeling of it, Moth: I will speak that l'envoy:
I Costard, running out, that was safely within,
Fell over the threshold and broke my shin.",286,19123
648502,887,We will talk no more of this matter.,326,19123
648503,888,Till there be more matter in the shin.,286,19123
648504,889,"Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.",326,19123
648505,890,"O, marry me to one Frances: I smell some l'envoy,
some goose, in this.",286,19123
648506,892,"By my sweet soul, I mean setting thee at liberty,
enfreedoming thy person; thou wert immured,
restrained, captivated, bound.",326,19123
648507,895,"True, true; and now you will be my purgation and let me loose.",286,19123
648508,896,"I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance; and,
in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this:
bear this significant
[Giving a letter]
to the country maid Jaquenetta:
there is remuneration; for the best ward of mine
honour is rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow.",326,19123
648509,903,[Exit],1261,19123
648510,904,"Like the sequel, I. Signior Costard, adieu.",804,19123
648511,905,"My sweet ounce of man's flesh! my incony Jew!
[Exit MOTH]
Now will I look to his remuneration. Remuneration!
O, that's the Latin word for three farthings: three
farthings--remuneration.--'What's the price of this
inkle?'--'One penny.'--'No, I'll give you a
remuneration:' why, it carries it. Remuneration!
why, it is a fairer name than French crown. I will
never buy and sell out of this word.",286,19123
648512,914,[Enter BIRON],1261,19123
648513,915,"O, my good knave Costard! exceedingly well met.",170,19123
648514,916,"Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon may a man
buy for a remuneration?",286,19123
648515,918,What is a remuneration?,170,19123
648516,919,"Marry, sir, halfpenny farthing.",286,19123
648517,920,"Why, then, three-farthing worth of silk.",170,19123
648518,921,I thank your worship: God be wi' you!,286,19123
648519,922,"Stay, slave; I must employ thee:
As thou wilt win my favour, good my knave,
Do one thing for me that I shall entreat.",170,19123
648520,925,"When would you have it done, sir?",286,19123
648521,926,This afternoon.,170,19123
648522,927,"Well, I will do it, sir: fare you well.",286,19123
648523,928,Thou knowest not what it is.,170,19123
648524,929,"I shall know, sir, when I have done it.",286,19123
648525,930,"Why, villain, thou must know first.",170,19123
648526,931,I will come to your worship to-morrow morning.,286,19123
648527,932,"It must be done this afternoon.
Hark, slave, it is but this:
The princess comes to hunt here in the park,
And in her train there is a gentle lady;
When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name,
And Rosaline they call her: ask for her;
And to her white hand see thou do commend
This seal'd-up counsel. There's thy guerdon; go.",170,19123
648528,940,[Giving him a shilling],1261,19123
648529,941,"Gardon, O sweet gardon! better than remuneration,
a'leven-pence farthing better: most sweet gardon! I
will do it sir, in print. Gardon! Remuneration!",286,19123
648530,944,[Exit],1261,19123
648531,945,"And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip;
A very beadle to a humorous sigh;
A critic, nay, a night-watch constable;
A domineering pedant o'er the boy;
Than whom no mortal so magnificent!
This whimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy;
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents,
Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces,
Sole imperator and great general
Of trotting 'paritors:--O my little heart:--
And I to be a corporal of his field,
And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop!
What, I! I love! I sue! I seek a wife!
A woman, that is like a German clock,
Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,
And never going aright, being a watch,
But being watch'd that it may still go right!
Nay, to be perjured, which is worst of all;
And, among three, to love the worst of all;
A wightly wanton with a velvet brow,
With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes;
Ay, and by heaven, one that will do the deed
Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard:
And I to sigh for her! to watch for her!
To pray for her! Go to; it is a plague
That Cupid will impose for my neglect
Of his almighty dreadful little might.
Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue and groan:
Some men must love my lady and some Joan.",170,19123
648532,977,"[Exit]
[Enter the PRINCESS, and her train, a Forester,]
BOYET, ROSALINE, MARIA, and KATHARINE]",1261,19123
648533,982,"Was that the king, that spurred his horse so hard
Against the steep uprising of the hill?",922,19124
648534,984,I know not; but I think it was not he.,192,19124
648535,985,"Whoe'er a' was, a' show'd a mounting mind.
Well, lords, to-day we shall have our dispatch:
On Saturday we will return to France.
Then, forester, my friend, where is the bush
That we must stand and play the murderer in?",922,19124
648536,990,"Hereby, upon the edge of yonder coppice;
A stand where you may make the fairest shoot.",485,19124
648537,992,"I thank my beauty, I am fair that shoot,
And thereupon thou speak'st the fairest shoot.",922,19124
648538,994,"Pardon me, madam, for I meant not so.",485,19124
648539,995,"What, what? first praise me and again say no?
O short-lived pride! Not fair? alack for woe!",922,19124
648540,997,"Yes, madam, fair.",485,19124
648541,998,"Nay, never paint me now:
Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow.
Here, good my glass, take this for telling true:
Fair payment for foul words is more than due.",922,19124
648542,1002,Nothing but fair is that which you inherit.,485,19124
648543,1003,"See see, my beauty will be saved by merit!
O heresy in fair, fit for these days!
A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.
But come, the bow: now mercy goes to kill,
And shooting well is then accounted ill.
Thus will I save my credit in the shoot:
Not wounding, pity would not let me do't;
If wounding, then it was to show my skill,
That more for praise than purpose meant to kill.
And out of question so it is sometimes,
Glory grows guilty of detested crimes,
When, for fame's sake, for praise, an outward part,
We bend to that the working of the heart;
As I for praise alone now seek to spill
The poor deer's blood, that my heart means no ill.",922,19124
648544,1018,"Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty
Only for praise sake, when they strive to be
Lords o'er their lords?",192,19124
648545,1021,"Only for praise: and praise we may afford
To any lady that subdues a lord.",922,19124
648546,1023,Here comes a member of the commonwealth.,192,19124
648547,1024,[Enter COSTARD],1261,19124
648548,1025,"God dig-you-den all! Pray you, which is the head lady?",286,19124
648549,1026,"Thou shalt know her, fellow, by the rest that have no heads.",922,19124
648550,1027,"Which is the greatest lady, the highest?",286,19124
648551,1028,The thickest and the tallest.,922,19124
648552,1029,"The thickest and the tallest! it is so; truth is truth.
An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit,
One o' these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit.
Are not you the chief woman? you are the thickest here.",286,19124
648553,1033,"What's your will, sir? what's your will?",922,19124
648554,1034,I have a letter from Monsieur Biron to one Lady Rosaline.,286,19124
648555,1035,"O, thy letter, thy letter! he's a good friend of mine:
Stand aside, good bearer. Boyet, you can carve;
Break up this capon.",922,19124
648556,1038,"I am bound to serve.
This letter is mistook, it importeth none here;
It is writ to Jaquenetta.",192,19124
648557,1041,"We will read it, I swear.
Break the neck of the wax, and every one give ear.",922,19124
648558,1043,[Reads],1261,19124
648559,1044,"'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible;
true, that thou art beauteous; truth itself, that
thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful
than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have
commiseration on thy heroical vassal! The
magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua set
eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar
Zenelophon; and he it was that might rightly say,
Veni, vidi, vici; which to annothanize in the
vulgar,--O base and obscure vulgar!--videlicet, He
came, saw, and overcame: he came, one; saw two;
overcame, three. Who came? the king: why did he
come? to see: why did he see? to overcome: to
whom came he? to the beggar: what saw he? the
beggar: who overcame he? the beggar. The
conclusion is victory: on whose side? the king's.
The captive is enriched: on whose side? the
beggar's. The catastrophe is a nuptial: on whose
side? the king's: no, on both in one, or one in
both. I am the king; for so stands the comparison:
thou the beggar; for so witnesseth thy lowliness.
Shall I command thy love? I may: shall I enforce
thy love? I could: shall I entreat thy love? I
will. What shalt thou exchange for rags? robes;
for tittles? titles; for thyself? me. Thus,
expecting thy reply, I profane my lips on thy foot,
my eyes on thy picture. and my heart on thy every
part. Thine, in the dearest design of industry,
DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.'
Thus dost thou hear the Nemean lion roar
'Gainst thee, thou lamb, that standest as his prey.
Submissive fall his princely feet before,
And he from forage will incline to play:
But if thou strive, poor soul, what art thou then?
Food for his rage, repasture for his den.",192,19124
648560,1079,"What plume of feathers is he that indited this letter?
What vane? what weathercock? did you ever hear better?",922,19124
648561,1081,I am much deceived but I remember the style.,192,19124
648562,1082,"Else your memory is bad, going o'er it erewhile.",922,19124
648563,1083,"This Armado is a Spaniard, that keeps here in court;
A phantasime, a Monarcho, and one that makes sport
To the prince and his bookmates.",192,19124
648564,1086,"Thou fellow, a word:
Who gave thee this letter?",922,19124
648565,1088,I told you; my lord.,286,19124
648566,1089,To whom shouldst thou give it?,922,19124
648567,1090,From my lord to my lady.,286,19124
648568,1091,From which lord to which lady?,922,19124
648569,1092,"From my lord Biron, a good master of mine,
To a lady of France that he call'd Rosaline.",286,19124
648570,1094,"Thou hast mistaken his letter. Come, lords, away.
[To ROSALINE]
Here, sweet, put up this: 'twill be thine another day.",922,19124
648571,1097,[Exeunt PRINCESS and train],1261,19124
648572,1098,Who is the suitor? who is the suitor?,192,19124
648573,1099,Shall I teach you to know?,954,19124
648574,1100,"Ay, my continent of beauty.",192,19124
648575,1101,"Why, she that bears the bow.
Finely put off!",954,19124
648576,1103,"My lady goes to kill horns; but, if thou marry,
Hang me by the neck, if horns that year miscarry.
Finely put on!",192,19124
648577,1106,"Well, then, I am the shooter.",954,19124
648578,1107,And who is your deer?,192,19124
648579,1108,"If we choose by the horns, yourself come not near.
Finely put on, indeed!",954,19124
648580,1110,"You still wrangle with her, Boyet, and she strikes
at the brow.",739,19124
648581,1112,But she herself is hit lower: have I hit her now?,192,19124
648582,1113,"Shall I come upon thee with an old saying, that was
a man when King Pepin of France was a little boy, as
touching the hit it?",954,19124
648583,1116,"So I may answer thee with one as old, that was a
woman when Queen Guinover of Britain was a little
wench, as touching the hit it.",192,19124
648584,1119,"Thou canst not hit it, hit it, hit it,
Thou canst not hit it, my good man.",954,19124
648585,1121,"An I cannot, cannot, cannot,
An I cannot, another can.",192,19124
648586,1123,[Exeunt ROSALINE and KATHARINE],1261,19124
648587,1124,"By my troth, most pleasant: how both did fit it!",286,19124
648588,1125,"A mark marvellous well shot, for they both did hit it.",739,19124
648589,1126,"A mark! O, mark but that mark! A mark, says my lady!
Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at, if it may be.",192,19124
648590,1128,"Wide o' the bow hand! i' faith, your hand is out.",739,19124
648591,1129,"Indeed, a' must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout.",286,19124
648592,1130,"An if my hand be out, then belike your hand is in.",192,19124
648593,1131,Then will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin.,286,19124
648594,1132,"Come, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul.",739,19124
648595,1133,"She's too hard for you at pricks, sir: challenge her to bowl.",286,19124
648596,1134,"I fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl.",192,19124
648597,1135,[Exeunt BOYET and MARIA],1261,19124
648598,1136,"By my soul, a swain! a most simple clown!
Lord, Lord, how the ladies and I have put him down!
O' my troth, most sweet jests! most incony
vulgar wit!
When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it
were, so fit.
Armado o' th' one side,--O, a most dainty man!
To see him walk before a lady and to bear her fan!
To see him kiss his hand! and how most sweetly a'
will swear!
And his page o' t' other side, that handful of wit!
Ah, heavens, it is a most pathetical nit!
Sola, sola!",286,19124
648599,1149,[Shout within],1261,19124
648600,1150,"[Exit COSTARD, running]",1261,19124
648601,1153,"[Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL]",1261,19125
648602,1154,"Very reverend sport, truly; and done in the testimony
of a good conscience.",1110,19125
648603,1156,"The deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood; ripe
as the pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in
the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven;
and anon falleth like a crab on the face of terra,
the soil, the land, the earth.",587,19125
648604,1161,"Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly
varied, like a scholar at the least: but, sir, I
assure ye, it was a buck of the first head.",1110,19125
648605,1164,"Sir Nathaniel, haud credo.",587,19125
648607,1166,"Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind of
insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of
explication; facere, as it were, replication, or
rather, ostentare, to show, as it were, his
inclination, after his undressed, unpolished,
uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather,
unlettered, or ratherest, unconfirmed fashion, to
insert again my haud credo for a deer.",587,19125
648608,1174,I said the deer was not a haud credo; twas a pricket.,354,19125
648609,1175,"Twice-sod simplicity, his coctus!
O thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!",587,19125
648610,1177,"Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred
in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he
hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not
replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in
the duller parts:
And such barren plants are set before us, that we
thankful should be,
Which we of taste and feeling are, for those parts that
do fructify in us more than he.
For as it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet, or a fool,
So were there a patch set on learning, to see him in a school:
But omne bene, say I; being of an old father's mind,
Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.",1110,19125
648611,1190,"You two are book-men: can you tell me by your wit
What was a month old at Cain's birth, that's not five
weeks old as yet?",354,19125
648612,1193,"Dictynna, goodman Dull; Dictynna, goodman Dull.",587,19125
648613,1194,What is Dictynna?,354,19125
648614,1195,"A title to Phoebe, to Luna, to the moon.",1110,19125
648615,1196,"The moon was a month old when Adam was no more,
And raught not to five weeks when he came to
five-score.
The allusion holds in the exchange.",587,19125
648619,1206,"Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph
on the death of the deer? And, to humour the
ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket.",587,19125
648620,1209,"Perge, good Master Holofernes, perge; so it shall
please you to abrogate scurrility.",1110,19125
648621,1211,"I will something affect the letter, for it argues facility.
The preyful princess pierced and prick'd a pretty
pleasing pricket;
Some say a sore; but not a sore, till now made
sore with shooting.
The dogs did yell: put L to sore, then sorel jumps
from thicket;
Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting.
If sore be sore, then L to sore makes fifty sores
one sorel.
Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L.",587,19125
648622,1222,A rare talent!,1110,19125
648623,1223,"[Aside] If a talent be a claw, look how he claws
him with a talent.",354,19125
648624,1225,"This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a
foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures,
shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions,
revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of
memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and
delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. But the
gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am
thankful for it.",587,19125
648625,1233,"Sir, I praise the Lord for you; and so may my
parishioners; for their sons are well tutored by
you, and their daughters profit very greatly under
you: you are a good member of the commonwealth.",1110,19125
648626,1237,"Mehercle, if their sons be ingenuous, they shall
want no instruction; if their daughters be capable,
I will put it to them: but vir sapit qui pauca
loquitur; a soul feminine saluteth us.",587,19125
648627,1241,[Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD],1261,19125
648628,1242,"God give you good morrow, master Parson.",608,19125
648629,1243,"Master Parson, quasi pers-on. An if one should be
pierced, which is the one?",587,19125
648630,1245,"Marry, master schoolmaster, he that is likest to a hogshead.",286,19125
648631,1246,"Piercing a hogshead! a good lustre of conceit in a
tuft of earth; fire enough for a flint, pearl enough
for a swine: 'tis pretty; it is well.",587,19125
648632,1249,"Good master Parson, be so good as read me this
letter: it was given me by Costard, and sent me
from Don Armado: I beseech you, read it.",608,19125
648633,1252,"Fauste, precor gelida quando pecus omne sub umbra
Ruminat,--and so forth. Ah, good old Mantuan! I
may speak of thee as the traveller doth of Venice;
Venetia, Venetia,
Chi non ti vede non ti pretia.
Old Mantuan, old Mantuan! who understandeth thee
not, loves thee not. Ut, re, sol, la, mi, fa.
Under pardon, sir, what are the contents? or rather,
as Horace says in his--What, my soul, verses?",587,19125
648634,1261,"Ay, sir, and very learned.",1110,19125
648635,1262,"Let me hear a staff, a stanze, a verse; lege, domine.",587,19125
648636,1263,"[Reads]
If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?
Ah, never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd!
Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove:
Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like
osiers bow'd.
Study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes,
Where all those pleasures live that art would
comprehend:
If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice;
Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend,
All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder;
Which is to me some praise that I thy parts admire:
Thy eye Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder,
Which not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire.
Celestial as thou art, O, pardon, love, this wrong,
That sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue.",1110,19125
648637,1280,"You find not the apostraphas, and so miss the
accent: let me supervise the canzonet. Here are
only numbers ratified; but, for the elegancy,
facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret.
Ovidius Naso was the man: and why, indeed, Naso,
but for smelling out the odouriferous flowers of
fancy, the jerks of invention? Imitari is nothing:
so doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper,
the tired horse his rider. But, damosella virgin,
was this directed to you?",587,19125
648638,1290,"Ay, sir, from one Monsieur Biron, one of the strange
queen's lords.",608,19125
648639,1292,"I will overglance the superscript: 'To the
snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady
Rosaline.' I will look again on the intellect of
the letter, for the nomination of the party writing
to the person written unto: 'Your ladyship's in all
desired employment, BIRON.' Sir Nathaniel, this
Biron is one of the votaries with the king; and here
he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger
queen's, which accidentally, or by the way of
progression, hath miscarried. Trip and go, my
sweet; deliver this paper into the royal hand of the
king: it may concern much. Stay not thy
compliment; I forgive thy duty; adieu.",587,19125
648640,1305,"Good Costard, go with me. Sir, God save your life!",608,19125
648641,1306,"Have with thee, my girl.",286,19125
648642,1307,[Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA],1261,19125
648643,1308,"Sir, you have done this in the fear of God, very
religiously; and, as a certain father saith,--",1110,19125
648644,1310,"Sir tell me not of the father; I do fear colourable
colours. But to return to the verses: did they
please you, Sir Nathaniel?",587,19125
648645,1313,Marvellous well for the pen.,1110,19125
648646,1314,"I do dine to-day at the father's of a certain pupil
of mine; where, if, before repast, it shall please
you to gratify the table with a grace, I will, on my
privilege I have with the parents of the foresaid
child or pupil, undertake your ben venuto; where I
will prove those verses to be very unlearned,
neither savouring of poetry, wit, nor invention: I
beseech your society.",587,19125
648647,1322,"And thank you too; for society, saith the text, is
the happiness of life.",1110,19125
648648,1324,"And, certes, the text most infallibly concludes it.
[To DULL]
Sir, I do invite you too; you shall not
say me nay: pauca verba. Away! the gentles are at
their game, and we will to our recreation.",587,19125
648649,1329,[Exeunt],1261,19125
648650,1332,"[Enter BIRON, with a paper]",1261,19126
648651,1333,"The king he is hunting the deer; I am coursing
myself: they have pitched a toil; I am toiling in
a pitch,--pitch that defiles: defile! a foul
word. Well, set thee down, sorrow! for so they say
the fool said, and so say I, and I the fool: well
proved, wit! By the Lord, this love is as mad as
Ajax: it kills sheep; it kills me, I a sheep:
well proved again o' my side! I will not love: if
I do, hang me; i' faith, I will not. O, but her
eye,--by this light, but for her eye, I would not
love her; yes, for her two eyes. Well, I do nothing
in the world but lie, and lie in my throat. By
heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme
and to be melancholy; and here is part of my rhyme,
and here my melancholy. Well, she hath one o' my
sonnets already: the clown bore it, the fool sent
it, and the lady hath it: sweet clown, sweeter
fool, sweetest lady! By the world, I would not care
a pin, if the other three were in. Here comes one
with a paper: God give him grace to groan!",170,19126
648652,1353,[Stands aside],1261,19126
648653,1354,"[Enter FERDINAND, with a paper]",1261,19126
648654,1355,Ay me!,399,19126
648655,1356,"[Aside] Shot, by heaven! Proceed, sweet Cupid:
thou hast thumped him with thy bird-bolt under the
left pap. In faith, secrets!",170,19126
648656,1359,"[Reads]
So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not
To those fresh morning drops upon the rose,
As thy eye-beams, when their fresh rays have smote
The night of dew that on my cheeks down flows:
Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright
Through the transparent bosom of the deep,
As doth thy face through tears of mine give light;
Thou shinest in every tear that I do weep:
No drop but as a coach doth carry thee;
So ridest thou triumphing in my woe.
Do but behold the tears that swell in me,
And they thy glory through my grief will show:
But do not love thyself; then thou wilt keep
My tears for glasses, and still make me weep.
O queen of queens! how far dost thou excel,
No thought can think, nor tongue of mortal tell.
How shall she know my griefs? I'll drop the paper:
Sweet leaves, shade folly. Who is he comes here?
[Steps aside]
What, Longaville! and reading! listen, ear.",399,19126
648657,1380,"Now, in thy likeness, one more fool appear!",170,19126
648658,1381,"[Enter LONGAVILLE, with a paper]",1261,19126
648659,1382,"Ay me, I am forsworn!",675,19126
648660,1383,"Why, he comes in like a perjure, wearing papers.",170,19126
648661,1384,"In love, I hope: sweet fellowship in shame!",399,19126
648662,1385,One drunkard loves another of the name.,170,19126
648663,1386,Am I the first that have been perjured so?,675,19126
648664,1387,"I could put thee in comfort. Not by two that I know:
Thou makest the triumviry, the corner-cap of society,
The shape of Love's Tyburn that hangs up simplicity.",170,19126
648665,1390,"I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move:
O sweet Maria, empress of my love!
These numbers will I tear, and write in prose.",675,19126
648666,1393,"O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose:
Disfigure not his slop.",170,19126
648667,1395,"This same shall go.
[Reads]
Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,
'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument,
Persuade my heart to this false perjury?
Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.
A woman I forswore; but I will prove,
Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:
My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love;
Thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me.
Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is:
Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine,
Exhalest this vapour-vow; in thee it is:
If broken then, it is no fault of mine:
If by me broke, what fool is not so wise
To lose an oath to win a paradise?",675,19126
648668,1411,"This is the liver-vein, which makes flesh a deity,
A green goose a goddess: pure, pure idolatry.
God amend us, God amend! we are much out o' the way.",170,19126
648669,1414,By whom shall I send this?--Company! stay.,675,19126
648670,1415,[Steps aside],1261,19126
648671,1416,"All hid, all hid; an old infant play.
Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.
And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'ereye.
More sacks to the mill! O heavens, I have my wish!
[Enter DUMAIN, with a paper]
Dumain transform'd! four woodcocks in a dish!",170,19126
648672,1422,O most divine Kate!,355,19126
648673,1423,O most profane coxcomb!,170,19126
648674,1424,"By heaven, the wonder in a mortal eye!",355,19126
648675,1425,"By earth, she is not, corporal, there you lie.",170,19126
648676,1426,Her amber hair for foul hath amber quoted.,355,19126
648677,1427,An amber-colour'd raven was well noted.,170,19126
648678,1428,As upright as the cedar.,355,19126
648679,1429,"Stoop, I say;
Her shoulder is with child.",170,19126
648680,1431,As fair as day.,355,19126
648681,1432,"Ay, as some days; but then no sun must shine.",170,19126
648682,1433,O that I had my wish!,355,19126
648683,1434,And I had mine!,675,19126
648684,1435,"And I mine too, good Lord!",399,19126
648685,1436,"Amen, so I had mine: is not that a good word?",170,19126
648686,1437,"I would forget her; but a fever she
Reigns in my blood and will remember'd be.",355,19126
648687,1439,"A fever in your blood! why, then incision
Would let her out in saucers: sweet misprision!",170,19126
648688,1441,Once more I'll read the ode that I have writ.,355,19126
648689,1442,Once more I'll mark how love can vary wit.,170,19126
648690,1443,"[Reads]
On a day--alack the day!--
Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair
Playing in the wanton air:
Through the velvet leaves the wind,
All unseen, can passage find;
That the lover, sick to death,
Wish himself the heaven's breath.
Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow;
Air, would I might triumph so!
But, alack, my hand is sworn
Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn;
Vow, alack, for youth unmeet,
Youth so apt to pluck a sweet!
Do not call it sin in me,
That I am forsworn for thee;
Thou for whom Jove would swear
Juno but an Ethiope were;
And deny himself for Jove,
Turning mortal for thy love.
This will I send, and something else more plain,
That shall express my true love's fasting pain.
O, would the king, Biron, and Longaville,
Were lovers too! Ill, to example ill,
Would from my forehead wipe a perjured note;
For none offend where all alike do dote.",355,19126
648691,1470,"[Advancing] Dumain, thy love is far from charity.
You may look pale, but I should blush, I know,
To be o'erheard and taken napping so.",675,19126
648692,1473,"[Advancing] Come, sir, you blush; as his your case is such;
You chide at him, offending twice as much;
You do not love Maria; Longaville
Did never sonnet for her sake compile,
Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart
His loving bosom to keep down his heart.
I have been closely shrouded in this bush
And mark'd you both and for you both did blush:
I heard your guilty rhymes, observed your fashion,
Saw sighs reek from you, noted well your passion:
Ay me! says one; O Jove! the other cries;
One, her hairs were gold, crystal the other's eyes:
[To LONGAVILLE]
You would for paradise break faith, and troth;
[To DUMAIN]
And Jove, for your love, would infringe an oath.
What will Biron say when that he shall hear
Faith so infringed, which such zeal did swear?
How will he scorn! how will he spend his wit!
How will he triumph, leap and laugh at it!
For all the wealth that ever I did see,
I would not have him know so much by me.",399,19126
648693,1495,"Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy.
[Advancing]
Ah, good my liege, I pray thee, pardon me!
Good heart, what grace hast thou, thus to reprove
These worms for loving, that art most in love?
Your eyes do make no coaches; in your tears
There is no certain princess that appears;
You'll not be perjured, 'tis a hateful thing;
Tush, none but minstrels like of sonneting!
But are you not ashamed? nay, are you not,
All three of you, to be thus much o'ershot?
You found his mote; the king your mote did see;
But I a beam do find in each of three.
O, what a scene of foolery have I seen,
Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow and of teen!
O me, with what strict patience have I sat,
To see a king transformed to a gnat!
To see great Hercules whipping a gig,
And profound Solomon to tune a jig,
And Nestor play at push-pin with the boys,
And critic Timon laugh at idle toys!
Where lies thy grief, O, tell me, good Dumain?
And gentle Longaville, where lies thy pain?
And where my liege's? all about the breast:
A caudle, ho!",170,19126
648694,1520,"Too bitter is thy jest.
Are we betray'd thus to thy over-view?",399,19126
648695,1522,"Not you to me, but I betray'd by you:
I, that am honest; I, that hold it sin
To break the vow I am engaged in;
I am betray'd, by keeping company
With men like men of inconstancy.
When shall you see me write a thing in rhyme?
Or groan for love? or spend a minute's time
In pruning me? When shall you hear that I
Will praise a hand, a foot, a face, an eye,
A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist,
A leg, a limb?",170,19126
648696,1533,"Soft! whither away so fast?
A true man or a thief that gallops so?",399,19126
648697,1535,"I post from love: good lover, let me go.",170,19126
648698,1536,[Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD],1261,19126
648699,1537,God bless the king!,608,19126
648700,1538,What present hast thou there?,399,19126
648701,1539,Some certain treason.,286,19126
648702,1540,What makes treason here?,399,19126
648703,1541,"Nay, it makes nothing, sir.",286,19126
648704,1542,"If it mar nothing neither,
The treason and you go in peace away together.",399,19126
648705,1544,"I beseech your grace, let this letter be read:
Our parson misdoubts it; 'twas treason, he said.",608,19126
648706,1546,"Biron, read it over.
[Giving him the paper]
Where hadst thou it?",399,19126
648707,1549,Of Costard.,608,19126
648708,1550,Where hadst thou it?,399,19126
648709,1551,"Of Dun Adramadio, Dun Adramadio.",286,19126
648710,1552,[BIRON tears the letter],1261,19126
648711,1553,How now! what is in you? why dost thou tear it?,399,19126
648712,1554,"A toy, my liege, a toy: your grace needs not fear it.",170,19126
648713,1555,"It did move him to passion, and therefore let's hear it.",675,19126
648714,1556,"It is Biron's writing, and here is his name.",355,19126
648715,1557,[Gathering up the pieces],1261,19126
648716,1558,"[To COSTARD] Ah, you whoreson loggerhead! you were
born to do me shame.
Guilty, my lord, guilty! I confess, I confess.",170,19126
648717,1561,What?,399,19126
648718,1562,"That you three fools lack'd me fool to make up the mess:
He, he, and you, and you, my liege, and I,
Are pick-purses in love, and we deserve to die.
O, dismiss this audience, and I shall tell you more.",170,19126
648719,1566,Now the number is even.,355,19126
648720,1567,"True, true; we are four.
Will these turtles be gone?",170,19126
648721,1569,"Hence, sirs; away!",399,19126
648722,1570,"Walk aside the true folk, and let the traitors stay.",286,19126
648723,1571,[Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA],1261,19126
648724,1572,"Sweet lords, sweet lovers, O, let us embrace!
As true we are as flesh and blood can be:
The sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face;
Young blood doth not obey an old decree:
We cannot cross the cause why we were born;
Therefore of all hands must we be forsworn.",170,19126
648725,1578,"What, did these rent lines show some love of thine?",399,19126
648726,1579,"Did they, quoth you? Who sees the heavenly Rosaline,
That, like a rude and savage man of Inde,
At the first opening of the gorgeous east,
Bows not his vassal head and strucken blind
Kisses the base ground with obedient breast?
What peremptory eagle-sighted eye
Dares look upon the heaven of her brow,
That is not blinded by her majesty?",170,19126
648727,1587,"What zeal, what fury hath inspired thee now?
My love, her mistress, is a gracious moon;
She an attending star, scarce seen a light.",399,19126
648728,1590,"My eyes are then no eyes, nor I Biron:
O, but for my love, day would turn to night!
Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty
Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,
Where several worthies make one dignity,
Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues,--
Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not:
To things of sale a seller's praise belongs,
She passes praise; then praise too short doth blot.
A wither'd hermit, five-score winters worn,
Might shake off fifty, looking in her eye:
Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born,
And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy:
O, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine.",170,19126
648729,1605,"By heaven, thy love is black as ebony.",399,19126
648730,1606,"Is ebony like her? O wood divine!
A wife of such wood were felicity.
O, who can give an oath? where is a book?
That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack,
If that she learn not of her eye to look:
No face is fair that is not full so black.",170,19126
648731,1612,"O paradox! Black is the badge of hell,
The hue of dungeons and the suit of night;
And beauty's crest becomes the heavens well.",399,19126
648732,1615,"Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
O, if in black my lady's brows be deck'd,
It mourns that painting and usurping hair
Should ravish doters with a false aspect;
And therefore is she born to make black fair.
Her favour turns the fashion of the days,
For native blood is counted painting now;
And therefore red, that would avoid dispraise,
Paints itself black, to imitate her brow.",170,19126
648733,1624,To look like her are chimney-sweepers black.,355,19126
648734,1625,And since her time are colliers counted bright.,675,19126
648735,1626,And Ethiopes of their sweet complexion crack.,399,19126
648736,1627,"Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light.",355,19126
648737,1628,"Your mistresses dare never come in rain,
For fear their colours should be wash'd away.",170,19126
648738,1630,"'Twere good, yours did; for, sir, to tell you plain,
I'll find a fairer face not wash'd to-day.",399,19126
648739,1632,"I'll prove her fair, or talk till doomsday here.",170,19126
648740,1633,No devil will fright thee then so much as she.,399,19126
648741,1634,I never knew man hold vile stuff so dear.,355,19126
648742,1635,"Look, here's thy love: my foot and her face see.",675,19126
648743,1636,"O, if the streets were paved with thine eyes,
Her feet were much too dainty for such tread!",170,19126
648744,1638,"O, vile! then, as she goes, what upward lies
The street should see as she walk'd overhead.",355,19126
648745,1640,But what of this? are we not all in love?,399,19126
648746,1641,Nothing so sure; and thereby all forsworn.,170,19126
648747,1642,"Then leave this chat; and, good Biron, now prove
Our loving lawful, and our faith not torn.",399,19126
648748,1644,"Ay, marry, there; some flattery for this evil.",355,19126
648749,1645,"O, some authority how to proceed;
Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil.",675,19126
648750,1647,Some salve for perjury.,355,19126
648751,1648,"'Tis more than need.
Have at you, then, affection's men at arms.
Consider what you first did swear unto,
To fast, to study, and to see no woman;
Flat treason 'gainst the kingly state of youth.
Say, can you fast? your stomachs are too young;
And abstinence engenders maladies.
And where that you have vow'd to study, lords,
In that each of you have forsworn his book,
Can you still dream and pore and thereon look?
For when would you, my lord, or you, or you,
Have found the ground of study's excellence
Without the beauty of a woman's face?
[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive;]
They are the ground, the books, the academes
From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire]
Why, universal plodding poisons up
The nimble spirits in the arteries,
As motion and long-during action tires
The sinewy vigour of the traveller.
Now, for not looking on a woman's face,
You have in that forsworn the use of eyes
And study too, the causer of your vow;
For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself
And where we are our learning likewise is:
Then when ourselves we see in ladies' eyes,
Do we not likewise see our learning there?
O, we have made a vow to study, lords,
And in that vow we have forsworn our books.
For when would you, my liege, or you, or you,
In leaden contemplation have found out
Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes
Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with?
Other slow arts entirely keep the brain;
And therefore, finding barren practisers,
Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil:
But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,
Lives not alone immured in the brain;
But, with the motion of all elements,
Courses as swift as thought in every power,
And gives to every power a double power,
Above their functions and their offices.
It adds a precious seeing to the eye;
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind;
A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound,
When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd:
Love's feeling is more soft and sensible
Than are the tender horns of cockl'd snails;
Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste:
For valour, is not Love a Hercules,
Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?
Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical
As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair:
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Never durst poet touch a pen to write
Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs;
O, then his lines would ravish savage ears
And plant in tyrants mild humility.
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain and nourish all the world:
Else none at all in ought proves excellent.
Then fools you were these women to forswear,
Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools.
For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love,
Or for love's sake, a word that loves all men,
Or for men's sake, the authors of these women,
Or women's sake, by whom we men are men,
Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,
Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.
It is religion to be thus forsworn,
For charity itself fulfills the law,
And who can sever love from charity?",170,19126
648752,1725,"Saint Cupid, then! and, soldiers, to the field!",399,19126
648753,1726,"Advance your standards, and upon them, lords;
Pell-mell, down with them! but be first advised,
In conflict that you get the sun of them.",170,19126
648754,1729,"Now to plain-dealing; lay these glozes by:
Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?",675,19126
648755,1731,"And win them too: therefore let us devise
Some entertainment for them in their tents.",399,19126
648756,1733,"First, from the park let us conduct them thither;
Then homeward every man attach the hand
Of his fair mistress: in the afternoon
We will with some strange pastime solace them,
Such as the shortness of the time can shape;
For revels, dances, masks and merry hours
Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers.",170,19126
648757,1740,"Away, away! no time shall be omitted
That will betime, and may by us be fitted.",399,19126
648758,1742,"Allons! allons! Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn;
And justice always whirls in equal measure:
Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn;
If so, our copper buys no better treasure.",170,19126
648759,1746,[Exeunt],1261,19126
648760,1749,"[Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL]",1261,19127
648761,1750,Satis quod sufficit.,587,19127
648762,1751,"I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner
have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without
scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without
impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-
out heresy. I did converse this quondam day with
a companion of the king's, who is intituled, nomi-
nated, or called, Don Adriano de Armado.",1110,19127
648763,1758,"Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his
discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye
ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general
behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is
too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it
were, too peregrinate, as I may call it.",587,19127
648764,1764,A most singular and choice epithet.,1110,19127
648765,1765,[Draws out his table-book],1261,19127
648766,1766,"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer
than the staple of his argument. I abhor such
fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and
point-devise companions; such rackers of
orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should
say doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt,--d,
e, b, t, not d, e, t: he clepeth a calf, cauf;
half, hauf; neighbour vocatur nebor; neigh
abbreviated ne. This is abhominable,--which he
would call abbominable: it insinuateth me of
insanie: anne intelligis, domine? to make frantic, lunatic.",587,19127
648767,1777,"Laus Deo, bene intelligo.",1110,19127
648768,1778,"Bon, bon, fort bon, Priscian! a little scratch'd,
'twill serve.",587,19127
648769,1780,Videsne quis venit?,1110,19127
648770,1781,"Video, et gaudeo.",587,19127
648771,1782,"[Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, MOTH, and COSTARD]",1261,19127
648772,1783,Chirrah!,326,19127
648773,1784,[To MOTH],1261,19127
648774,1785,"Quare chirrah, not sirrah?",587,19127
648775,1786,"Men of peace, well encountered.",326,19127
648776,1787,"Most military sir, salutation.",587,19127
648777,1788,"[Aside to COSTARD] They have been at a great feast
of languages, and stolen the scraps.",804,19127
648778,1790,"O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.
I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;
for thou art not so long by the head as
honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier
swallowed than a flap-dragon.",286,19127
648779,1795,Peace! the peal begins.,804,19127
648780,1796,"[To HOLOFERNES] Monsieur, are you not lettered?",326,19127
648781,1797,"Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a,
b, spelt backward, with the horn on his head?",804,19127
648782,1799,"Ba, pueritia, with a horn added.",587,19127
648783,1800,"Ba, most silly sheep with a horn. You hear his learning.",804,19127
648784,1801,"Quis, quis, thou consonant?",587,19127
648785,1802,"The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them; or
the fifth, if I.",804,19127
648786,1804,"I will repeat them,--a, e, i,--",587,19127
648787,1805,"The sheep: the other two concludes it,--o, u.",804,19127
648788,1806,"Now, by the salt wave of the Mediterraneum, a sweet
touch, a quick venue of wit! snip, snap, quick and
home! it rejoiceth my intellect: true wit!",326,19127
648789,1809,Offered by a child to an old man; which is wit-old.,804,19127
648790,1810,What is the figure? what is the figure?,587,19127
648791,1811,Horns.,804,19127
648792,1812,"Thou disputest like an infant: go, whip thy gig.",587,19127
648793,1813,"Lend me your horn to make one, and I will whip about
your infamy circum circa,--a gig of a cuckold's horn.",804,19127
648794,1815,"An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst
have it to buy gingerbread: hold, there is the very
remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny
purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. O, an
the heavens were so pleased that thou wert but my
bastard, what a joyful father wouldst thou make me!
Go to; thou hast it ad dunghill, at the fingers'
ends, as they say.",286,19127
648795,1823,"O, I smell false Latin; dunghill for unguem.",587,19127
648796,1824,"Arts-man, preambulate, we will be singled from the
barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the
charge-house on the top of the mountain?",326,19127
648797,1827,"Or mons, the hill.",587,19127
648798,1828,"At your sweet pleasure, for the mountain.",326,19127
648799,1829,"I do, sans question.",587,19127
648800,1830,"Sir, it is the king's most sweet pleasure and
affection to congratulate the princess at her
pavilion in the posteriors of this day, which the
rude multitude call the afternoon.",326,19127
648801,1834,"The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is
liable, congruent and measurable for the afternoon:
the word is well culled, chose, sweet and apt, I do
assure you, sir, I do assure.",587,19127
648802,1838,"Sir, the king is a noble gentleman, and my familiar,
I do assure ye, very good friend: for what is
inward between us, let it pass. I do beseech thee,
remember thy courtesy; I beseech thee, apparel thy
head: and among other important and most serious
designs, and of great import indeed, too, but let
that pass: for I must tell thee, it will please his
grace, by the world, sometime to lean upon my poor
shoulder, and with his royal finger, thus, dally
with my excrement, with my mustachio; but, sweet
heart, let that pass. By the world, I recount no
fable: some certain special honours it pleaseth his
greatness to impart to Armado, a soldier, a man of
travel, that hath seen the world; but let that pass.
The very all of all is,--but, sweet heart, I do
implore secrecy,--that the king would have me
present the princess, sweet chuck, with some
delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or
antique, or firework. Now, understanding that the
curate and your sweet self are good at such
eruptions and sudden breaking out of mirth, as it
were, I have acquainted you withal, to the end to
crave your assistance.",326,19127
648803,1861,"Sir, you shall present before her the Nine Worthies.
Sir, as concerning some entertainment of time, some
show in the posterior of this day, to be rendered by
our assistants, at the king's command, and this most
gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman, before
the princess; I say none so fit as to present the
Nine Worthies.",587,19127
648804,1868,Where will you find men worthy enough to present them?,1110,19127
648805,1869,"Joshua, yourself; myself and this gallant gentleman,
Judas Maccabaeus; this swain, because of his great
limb or joint, shall pass Pompey the Great; the
page, Hercules,--",587,19127
648806,1873,"Pardon, sir; error: he is not quantity enough for
that Worthy's thumb: he is not so big as the end of his club.",326,19127
648807,1875,"Shall I have audience? he shall present Hercules in
minority: his enter and exit shall be strangling a
snake; and I will have an apology for that purpose.",587,19127
648808,1878,"An excellent device! so, if any of the audience
hiss, you may cry 'Well done, Hercules! now thou
crushest the snake!' that is the way to make an
offence gracious, though few have the grace to do it.",804,19127
648809,1882,For the rest of the Worthies?--,326,19127
648810,1883,I will play three myself.,587,19127
648811,1884,Thrice-worthy gentleman!,804,19127
648812,1885,Shall I tell you a thing?,326,19127
648813,1886,We attend.,587,19127
648814,1887,"We will have, if this fadge not, an antique. I
beseech you, follow.",326,19127
648815,1889,"Via, goodman Dull! thou hast spoken no word all this while.",587,19127
648816,1890,"Nor understood none neither, sir.",354,19127
648817,1891,Allons! we will employ thee.,587,19127
648818,1892,"I'll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play
On the tabour to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay.",354,19127
648819,1894,"Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, away!",587,19127
648820,1895,[Exeunt],1261,19127
648821,1898,"[Enter the PRINCESS, KATHARINE, ROSALINE, and MARIA]",1261,19128
648822,1899,"Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart,
If fairings come thus plentifully in:
A lady wall'd about with diamonds!
Look you what I have from the loving king.",922,19128
648823,1903,"Madame, came nothing else along with that?",954,19128
648824,1904,"Nothing but this! yes, as much love in rhyme
As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper,
Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all,
That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name.",922,19128
648825,1908,"That was the way to make his godhead wax,
For he hath been five thousand years a boy.",954,19128
648826,1910,"Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too.",630,19128
648827,1911,You'll ne'er be friends with him; a' kill'd your sister.,954,19128
648828,1912,"He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy;
And so she died: had she been light, like you,
Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,
She might ha' been a grandam ere she died:
And so may you; for a light heart lives long.",630,19128
648829,1917,"What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?",954,19128
648830,1918,A light condition in a beauty dark.,630,19128
648831,1919,We need more light to find your meaning out.,954,19128
648832,1920,"You'll mar the light by taking it in snuff;
Therefore I'll darkly end the argument.",630,19128
648833,1922,"Look what you do, you do it still i' the dark.",954,19128
648834,1923,"So do not you, for you are a light wench.",630,19128
648835,1924,"Indeed I weigh not you, and therefore light.",954,19128
648836,1925,"You weigh me not? O, that's you care not for me.",630,19128
648837,1926,Great reason; for 'past cure is still past care.',954,19128
648838,1927,"Well bandied both; a set of wit well play'd.
But Rosaline, you have a favour too:
Who sent it? and what is it?",922,19128
648839,1930,"I would you knew:
An if my face were but as fair as yours,
My favour were as great; be witness this.
Nay, I have verses too, I thank Biron:
The numbers true; and, were the numbering too,
I were the fairest goddess on the ground:
I am compared to twenty thousand fairs.
O, he hath drawn my picture in his letter!",954,19128
648840,1938,Any thing like?,922,19128
648841,1939,Much in the letters; nothing in the praise.,954,19128
648842,1940,Beauteous as ink; a good conclusion.,922,19128
648843,1941,Fair as a text B in a copy-book.,630,19128
648844,1942,"'Ware pencils, ho! let me not die your debtor,
My red dominical, my golden letter:
O, that your face were not so full of O's!",954,19128
648845,1945,A pox of that jest! and I beshrew all shrows.,630,19128
648846,1946,"But, Katharine, what was sent to you from fair Dumain?",922,19128
648847,1947,"Madam, this glove.",630,19128
648848,1948,Did he not send you twain?,922,19128
648849,1949,"Yes, madam, and moreover
Some thousand verses of a faithful lover,
A huge translation of hypocrisy,
Vilely compiled, profound simplicity.",630,19128
648850,1953,"This and these pearls to me sent Longaville:
The letter is too long by half a mile.",739,19128
648851,1955,"I think no less. Dost thou not wish in heart
The chain were longer and the letter short?",922,19128
648852,1957,"Ay, or I would these hands might never part.",739,19128
648853,1958,We are wise girls to mock our lovers so.,922,19128
648854,1959,"They are worse fools to purchase mocking so.
That same Biron I'll torture ere I go:
O that I knew he were but in by the week!
How I would make him fawn and beg and seek
And wait the season and observe the times
And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes
And shape his service wholly to my hests
And make him proud to make me proud that jests!
So perttaunt-like would I o'ersway his state
That he should be my fool and I his fate.",954,19128
648855,1969,"None are so surely caught, when they are catch'd,
As wit turn'd fool: folly, in wisdom hatch'd,
Hath wisdom's warrant and the help of school
And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool.",922,19128
648856,1973,"The blood of youth burns not with such excess
As gravity's revolt to wantonness.",954,19128
648857,1975,"Folly in fools bears not so strong a note
As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote;
Since all the power thereof it doth apply
To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity.",739,19128
648858,1979,"Here comes Boyet, and mirth is in his face.",922,19128
648859,1980,[Enter BOYET],1261,19128
648860,1981,"O, I am stabb'd with laughter! Where's her grace?",192,19128
648861,1982,Thy news Boyet?,922,19128
648862,1983,"Prepare, madam, prepare!
Arm, wenches, arm! encounters mounted are
Against your peace: Love doth approach disguised,
Armed in arguments; you'll be surprised:
Muster your wits; stand in your own defence;
Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.",192,19128
648863,1989,"Saint Denis to Saint Cupid! What are they
That charge their breath against us? say, scout, say.",922,19128
648864,1991,"Under the cool shade of a sycamore
I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour;
When, lo! to interrupt my purposed rest,
Toward that shade I might behold addrest
The king and his companions: warily
I stole into a neighbour thicket by,
And overheard what you shall overhear,
That, by and by, disguised they will be here.
Their herald is a pretty knavish page,
That well by heart hath conn'd his embassage:
Action and accent did they teach him there;
'Thus must thou speak,' and 'thus thy body bear:'
And ever and anon they made a doubt
Presence majestical would put him out,
'For,' quoth the king, 'an angel shalt thou see;
Yet fear not thou, but speak audaciously.'
The boy replied, 'An angel is not evil;
I should have fear'd her had she been a devil.'
With that, all laugh'd and clapp'd him on the shoulder,
Making the bold wag by their praises bolder:
One rubb'd his elbow thus, and fleer'd and swore
A better speech was never spoke before;
Another, with his finger and his thumb,
Cried, 'Via! we will do't, come what will come;'
The third he caper'd, and cried, 'All goes well;'
The fourth turn'd on the toe, and down he fell.
With that, they all did tumble on the ground,
With such a zealous laughter, so profound,
That in this spleen ridiculous appears,
To cheque their folly, passion's solemn tears.",192,19128
648865,2021,"But what, but what, come they to visit us?",922,19128
648866,2022,"They do, they do: and are apparell'd thus.
Like Muscovites or Russians, as I guess.
Their purpose is to parle, to court and dance;
And every one his love-feat will advance
Unto his several mistress, which they'll know
By favours several which they did bestow.",192,19128
648867,2028,"And will they so? the gallants shall be task'd;
For, ladies, we shall every one be mask'd;
And not a man of them shall have the grace,
Despite of suit, to see a lady's face.
Hold, Rosaline, this favour thou shalt wear,
And then the king will court thee for his dear;
Hold, take thou this, my sweet, and give me thine,
So shall Biron take me for Rosaline.
And change your favours too; so shall your loves
Woo contrary, deceived by these removes.",922,19128
648868,2038,"Come on, then; wear the favours most in sight.",954,19128
648869,2039,But in this changing what is your intent?,630,19128
648870,2040,"The effect of my intent is to cross theirs:
They do it but in mocking merriment;
And mock for mock is only my intent.
Their several counsels they unbosom shall
To loves mistook, and so be mock'd withal
Upon the next occasion that we meet,
With visages displayed, to talk and greet.",922,19128
648871,2047,"But shall we dance, if they desire to't?",954,19128
648872,2048,"No, to the death, we will not move a foot;
Nor to their penn'd speech render we no grace,
But while 'tis spoke each turn away her face.",922,19128
648873,2051,"Why, that contempt will kill the speaker's heart,
And quite divorce his memory from his part.",192,19128
648874,2053,"Therefore I do it; and I make no doubt
The rest will ne'er come in, if he be out
There's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown,
To make theirs ours and ours none but our own:
So shall we stay, mocking intended game,
And they, well mock'd, depart away with shame.",922,19128
648875,2059,[Trumpets sound within],1261,19128
648876,2060,"The trumpet sounds: be mask'd; the maskers come.
[The Ladies mask]
[Enter Blackamoors with music; MOTH; FERDINAND,]
BIRON, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN, in Russian habits,
and masked]",192,19128
648877,2065,"All hail, the richest beauties on the earth!--",804,19128
648878,2066,Beauties no richer than rich taffeta.,192,19128
648879,2067,"A holy parcel of the fairest dames.
[The Ladies turn their backs to him]
That ever turn'd their--backs--to mortal views!",804,19128
648880,2070,"[Aside to MOTH] Their eyes, villain, their eyes!",170,19128
648881,2071,That ever turn'd their eyes to mortal views!--Out--,804,19128
648882,2072,True; out indeed.,192,19128
648883,2073,"Out of your favours, heavenly spirits, vouchsafe
Not to behold--",804,19128
648884,2075,"[Aside to MOTH] Once to behold, rogue.",170,19128
648885,2076,"Once to behold with your sun-beamed eyes,
--with your sun-beamed eyes--",804,19128
648886,2078,"They will not answer to that epithet;
You were best call it 'daughter-beamed eyes.'",192,19128
648887,2080,"They do not mark me, and that brings me out.",804,19128
648888,2081,"Is this your perfectness? be gone, you rogue!",170,19128
648889,2082,[Exit MOTH],1261,19128
648890,2083,"What would these strangers? know their minds, Boyet:
If they do speak our language, 'tis our will:
That some plain man recount their purposes
Know what they would.",954,19128
648891,2087,What would you with the princess?,192,19128
648892,2088,Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.,170,19128
648893,2089,"What would they, say they?",954,19128
648894,2090,Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.,192,19128
648895,2091,"Why, that they have; and bid them so be gone.",954,19128
648896,2092,"She says, you have it, and you may be gone.",192,19128
648897,2093,"Say to her, we have measured many miles
To tread a measure with her on this grass.",399,19128
648898,2095,"They say, that they have measured many a mile
To tread a measure with you on this grass.",192,19128
648899,2097,"It is not so. Ask them how many inches
Is in one mile: if they have measured many,
The measure then of one is easily told.",954,19128
648900,2100,"If to come hither you have measured miles,
And many miles, the princess bids you tell
How many inches doth fill up one mile.",192,19128
648901,2103,"Tell her, we measure them by weary steps.",170,19128
648902,2104,She hears herself.,192,19128
648903,2105,"How many weary steps,
Of many weary miles you have o'ergone,
Are number'd in the travel of one mile?",954,19128
648904,2108,"We number nothing that we spend for you:
Our duty is so rich, so infinite,
That we may do it still without accompt.
Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face,
That we, like savages, may worship it.",170,19128
648905,2113,"My face is but a moon, and clouded too.",954,19128
648906,2114,"Blessed are clouds, to do as such clouds do!
Vouchsafe, bright moon, and these thy stars, to shine,
Those clouds removed, upon our watery eyne.",399,19128
648907,2117,"O vain petitioner! beg a greater matter;
Thou now request'st but moonshine in the water.",954,19128
648908,2119,"Then, in our measure do but vouchsafe one change.
Thou bid'st me beg: this begging is not strange.",399,19128
648909,2121,"Play, music, then! Nay, you must do it soon.
[Music plays]
Not yet! no dance! Thus change I like the moon.",954,19128
648910,2124,Will you not dance? How come you thus estranged?,399,19128
648911,2125,"You took the moon at full, but now she's changed.",954,19128
648912,2126,"Yet still she is the moon, and I the man.
The music plays; vouchsafe some motion to it.",399,19128
648913,2128,Our ears vouchsafe it.,954,19128
648914,2129,But your legs should do it.,399,19128
648915,2130,"Since you are strangers and come here by chance,
We'll not be nice: take hands. We will not dance.",954,19128
648916,2132,"Why take we hands, then?",399,19128
648917,2133,"Only to part friends:
Curtsy, sweet hearts; and so the measure ends.",954,19128
648918,2135,More measure of this measure; be not nice.,399,19128
648919,2136,We can afford no more at such a price.,954,19128
648920,2137,Prize you yourselves: what buys your company?,399,19128
648921,2138,Your absence only.,954,19128
648922,2139,That can never be.,399,19128
648923,2140,"Then cannot we be bought: and so, adieu;
Twice to your visor, and half once to you.",954,19128
648924,2142,"If you deny to dance, let's hold more chat.",399,19128
648925,2143,"In private, then.",954,19128
648926,2144,I am best pleased with that.,399,19128
648927,2145,[They converse apart],1261,19128
648928,2146,"White-handed mistress, one sweet word with thee.",170,19128
648929,2147,"Honey, and milk, and sugar; there is three.",922,19128
648930,2148,"Nay then, two treys, and if you grow so nice,
Metheglin, wort, and malmsey: well run, dice!
There's half-a-dozen sweets.",170,19128
648931,2151,"Seventh sweet, adieu:
Since you can cog, I'll play no more with you.",922,19128
648932,2153,One word in secret.,170,19128
648933,2154,Let it not be sweet.,922,19128
648934,2155,Thou grievest my gall.,170,19128
648935,2156,Gall! bitter.,922,19128
648936,2157,Therefore meet.,170,19128
648937,2158,[They converse apart],1261,19128
648938,2159,Will you vouchsafe with me to change a word?,355,19128
648939,2160,Name it.,739,19128
648940,2161,"Fair lady,--",355,19128
648941,2162,"Say you so? Fair lord,--
Take that for your fair lady.",739,19128
648942,2164,"Please it you,
As much in private, and I'll bid adieu.",355,19128
648943,2166,[They converse apart],1261,19128
648944,2167,"What, was your vizard made without a tongue?",630,19128
648945,2168,"I know the reason, lady, why you ask.",675,19128
648946,2169,"O for your reason! quickly, sir; I long.",630,19128
648947,2170,"You have a double tongue within your mask,
And would afford my speechless vizard half.",675,19128
648948,2172,"Veal, quoth the Dutchman. Is not 'veal' a calf?",630,19128
648949,2173,"A calf, fair lady!",675,19128
648950,2174,"No, a fair lord calf.",630,19128
648951,2175,Let's part the word.,675,19128
648952,2176,"No, I'll not be your half
Take all, and wean it; it may prove an ox.",630,19128
648953,2178,"Look, how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks!
Will you give horns, chaste lady? do not so.",675,19128
648954,2180,"Then die a calf, before your horns do grow.",630,19128
648955,2181,"One word in private with you, ere I die.",675,19128
648956,2182,Bleat softly then; the butcher hears you cry.,630,19128
648957,2183,[They converse apart],1261,19128
648958,2184,"The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
As is the razor's edge invisible,
Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen,
Above the sense of sense; so sensible
Seemeth their conference; their conceits have wings
Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things.",192,19128
648959,2190,"Not one word more, my maids; break off, break off.",954,19128
648960,2191,"By heaven, all dry-beaten with pure scoff!",170,19128
648961,2192,"Farewell, mad wenches; you have simple wits.",399,19128
648962,2193,"Twenty adieus, my frozen Muscovits.
[Exeunt FERDINAND, Lords, and Blackamoors]
Are these the breed of wits so wonder'd at?",922,19128
648963,2196,"Tapers they are, with your sweet breaths puff'd out.",192,19128
648964,2197,"Well-liking wits they have; gross, gross; fat, fat.",954,19128
648965,2198,"O poverty in wit, kingly-poor flout!
Will they not, think you, hang themselves tonight?
Or ever, but in vizards, show their faces?
This pert Biron was out of countenance quite.",922,19128
648966,2202,"O, they were all in lamentable cases!
The king was weeping-ripe for a good word.",954,19128
648967,2204,Biron did swear himself out of all suit.,922,19128
648968,2205,"Dumain was at my service, and his sword:
No point, quoth I; my servant straight was mute.",739,19128
648969,2207,"Lord Longaville said, I came o'er his heart;
And trow you what he called me?",630,19128
648970,2209,"Qualm, perhaps.",922,19128
648971,2210,"Yes, in good faith.",630,19128
648972,2211,"Go, sickness as thou art!",922,19128
648973,2212,"Well, better wits have worn plain statute-caps.
But will you hear? the king is my love sworn.",954,19128
648974,2214,And quick Biron hath plighted faith to me.,922,19128
648975,2215,And Longaville was for my service born.,630,19128
648976,2216,"Dumain is mine, as sure as bark on tree.",739,19128
648977,2217,"Madam, and pretty mistresses, give ear:
Immediately they will again be here
In their own shapes; for it can never be
They will digest this harsh indignity.",192,19128
648978,2221,Will they return?,922,19128
648979,2222,"They will, they will, God knows,
And leap for joy, though they are lame with blows:
Therefore change favours; and, when they repair,
Blow like sweet roses in this summer air.",192,19128
648980,2226,How blow? how blow? speak to be understood.,922,19128
648981,2227,"Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud;
Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shown,
Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.",192,19128
648982,2230,"Avaunt, perplexity! What shall we do,
If they return in their own shapes to woo?",922,19128
648983,2232,"Good madam, if by me you'll be advised,
Let's, mock them still, as well known as disguised:
Let us complain to them what fools were here,
Disguised like Muscovites, in shapeless gear;
And wonder what they were and to what end
Their shallow shows and prologue vilely penn'd
And their rough carriage so ridiculous,
Should be presented at our tent to us.",954,19128
648984,2240,"Ladies, withdraw: the gallants are at hand.",192,19128
648985,2241,"Whip to our tents, as roes run o'er land.
[Exeunt PRINCESS, ROSALINE, KATHARINE, and MARIA]
[Re-enter FERDINAND, BIRON, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN,]
in their proper habits]",922,19128
648986,2245,"Fair sir, God save you! Where's the princess?",399,19128
648987,2246,"Gone to her tent. Please it your majesty
Command me any service to her thither?",192,19128
648988,2248,That she vouchsafe me audience for one word.,399,19128
648989,2249,"I will; and so will she, I know, my lord.",192,19128
648990,2250,[Exit],1261,19128
648991,2251,"This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons pease,
And utters it again when God doth please:
He is wit's pedler, and retails his wares
At wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs;
And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know,
Have not the grace to grace it with such show.
This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve;
Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve;
A' can carve too, and lisp: why, this is he
That kiss'd his hand away in courtesy;
This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice,
That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice
In honourable terms: nay, he can sing
A mean most meanly; and in ushering
Mend him who can: the ladies call him sweet;
The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet:
This is the flower that smiles on every one,
To show his teeth as white as whale's bone;
And consciences, that will not die in debt,
Pay him the due of honey-tongued Boyet.",170,19128
648992,2271,"A blister on his sweet tongue, with my heart,
That put Armado's page out of his part!",399,19128
648993,2273,"See where it comes! Behavior, what wert thou
Till this madman show'd thee? and what art thou now?
[Re-enter the PRINCESS, ushered by BOYET, ROSALINE,]
MARIA, and KATHARINE]",170,19128
648994,2277,"All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day!",399,19128
648995,2278,"'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive.",922,19128
648996,2279,"Construe my speeches better, if you may.",399,19128
648997,2280,Then wish me better; I will give you leave.,922,19128
648998,2281,"We came to visit you, and purpose now
To lead you to our court; vouchsafe it then.",399,19128
648999,2283,"This field shall hold me; and so hold your vow:
Nor God, nor I, delights in perjured men.",922,19128
649000,2285,"Rebuke me not for that which you provoke:
The virtue of your eye must break my oath.",399,19128
649001,2287,"You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke;
For virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
Now by my maiden honour, yet as pure
As the unsullied lily, I protest,
A world of torments though I should endure,
I would not yield to be your house's guest;
So much I hate a breaking cause to be
Of heavenly oaths, vow'd with integrity.",922,19128
649002,2295,"O, you have lived in desolation here,
Unseen, unvisited, much to our shame.",399,19128
649003,2297,"Not so, my lord; it is not so, I swear;
We have had pastimes here and pleasant game:
A mess of Russians left us but of late.",922,19128
649004,2300,"How, madam! Russians!",399,19128
649005,2301,"Ay, in truth, my lord;
Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state.",922,19128
649006,2303,"Madam, speak true. It is not so, my lord:
My lady, to the manner of the days,
In courtesy gives undeserving praise.
We four indeed confronted were with four
In Russian habit: here they stay'd an hour,
And talk'd apace; and in that hour, my lord,
They did not bless us with one happy word.
I dare not call them fools; but this I think,
When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink.",954,19128
649007,2312,"This jest is dry to me. Fair gentle sweet,
Your wit makes wise things foolish: when we greet,
With eyes best seeing, heaven's fiery eye,
By light we lose light: your capacity
Is of that nature that to your huge store
Wise things seem foolish and rich things but poor.",170,19128
649008,2318,"This proves you wise and rich, for in my eye,--",954,19128
649009,2319,"I am a fool, and full of poverty.",170,19128
649010,2320,"But that you take what doth to you belong,
It were a fault to snatch words from my tongue.",954,19128
649011,2322,"O, I am yours, and all that I possess!",170,19128
649012,2323,All the fool mine?,954,19128
649013,2324,I cannot give you less.,170,19128
649014,2325,Which of the vizards was it that you wore?,954,19128
649015,2326,Where? when? what vizard? why demand you this?,170,19128
649016,2327,"There, then, that vizard; that superfluous case
That hid the worse and show'd the better face.",954,19128
649017,2329,We are descried; they'll mock us now downright.,399,19128
649018,2330,Let us confess and turn it to a jest.,355,19128
649019,2331,"Amazed, my lord? why looks your highness sad?",922,19128
649020,2332,"Help, hold his brows! he'll swoon! Why look you pale?
Sea-sick, I think, coming from Muscovy.",954,19128
649021,2334,"Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury.
Can any face of brass hold longer out?
Here stand I. lady, dart thy skill at me;
Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout;
Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance;
Cut me to pieces with thy keen conceit;
And I will wish thee never more to dance,
Nor never more in Russian habit wait.
O, never will I trust to speeches penn'd,
Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue,
Nor never come in vizard to my friend,
Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song!
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,
Figures pedantical; these summer-flies
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation:
I do forswear them; and I here protest,
By this white glove;--how white the hand, God knows!--
Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd
In russet yeas and honest kersey noes:
And, to begin, wench,--so God help me, la!--
My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.",170,19128
649022,2356,"Sans sans, I pray you.",954,19128
649023,2357,"Yet I have a trick
Of the old rage: bear with me, I am sick;
I'll leave it by degrees. Soft, let us see:
Write, 'Lord have mercy on us' on those three;
They are infected; in their hearts it lies;
They have the plague, and caught it of your eyes;
These lords are visited; you are not free,
For the Lord's tokens on you do I see.",170,19128
649024,2365,"No, they are free that gave these tokens to us.",922,19128
649025,2366,Our states are forfeit: seek not to undo us.,170,19128
649026,2367,"It is not so; for how can this be true,
That you stand forfeit, being those that sue?",954,19128
649027,2369,Peace! for I will not have to do with you.,170,19128
649028,2370,"Nor shall not, if I do as I intend.",954,19128
649029,2371,Speak for yourselves; my wit is at an end.,170,19128
649030,2372,"Teach us, sweet madam, for our rude transgression
Some fair excuse.",399,19128
649031,2374,"The fairest is confession.
Were not you here but even now disguised?",922,19128
649032,2376,"Madam, I was.",399,19128
649033,2377,And were you well advised?,922,19128
649034,2378,"I was, fair madam.",399,19128
649035,2379,"When you then were here,
What did you whisper in your lady's ear?",922,19128
649036,2381,That more than all the world I did respect her.,399,19128
649037,2382,"When she shall challenge this, you will reject her.",922,19128
649038,2383,"Upon mine honour, no.",399,19128
649039,2384,"Peace, peace! forbear:
Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear.",922,19128
649040,2386,"Despise me, when I break this oath of mine.",399,19128
649041,2387,"I will: and therefore keep it. Rosaline,
What did the Russian whisper in your ear?",922,19128
649042,2389,"Madam, he swore that he did hold me dear
As precious eyesight, and did value me
Above this world; adding thereto moreover
That he would wed me, or else die my lover.",954,19128
649043,2393,"God give thee joy of him! the noble lord
Most honourably doth unhold his word.",922,19128
649044,2395,"What mean you, madam? by my life, my troth,
I never swore this lady such an oath.",399,19128
649045,2397,"By heaven, you did; and to confirm it plain,
You gave me this: but take it, sir, again.",954,19128
649046,2399,"My faith and this the princess I did give:
I knew her by this jewel on her sleeve.",399,19128
649047,2401,"Pardon me, sir, this jewel did she wear;
And Lord Biron, I thank him, is my dear.
What, will you have me, or your pearl again?",922,19128
649048,2404,"Neither of either; I remit both twain.
I see the trick on't: here was a consent,
Knowing aforehand of our merriment,
To dash it like a Christmas comedy:
Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany,
Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick,
That smiles his cheek in years and knows the trick
To make my lady laugh when she's disposed,
Told our intents before; which once disclosed,
The ladies did change favours: and then we,
Following the signs, woo'd but the sign of she.
Now, to our perjury to add more terror,
We are again forsworn, in will and error.
Much upon this it is: and might not you
[To BOYET]
Forestall our sport, to make us thus untrue?
Do not you know my lady's foot by the squier,
And laugh upon the apple of her eye?
And stand between her back, sir, and the fire,
Holding a trencher, jesting merrily?
You put our page out: go, you are allow'd;
Die when you will, a smock shall be your shroud.
You leer upon me, do you? there's an eye
Wounds like a leaden sword.",170,19128
649049,2428,"Full merrily
Hath this brave manage, this career, been run.",192,19128
649050,2430,"Lo, he is tilting straight! Peace! I have done.
[Enter COSTARD]
Welcome, pure wit! thou partest a fair fray.",170,19128
649051,2433,"O Lord, sir, they would know
Whether the three Worthies shall come in or no.",286,19128
649052,2435,"What, are there but three?",170,19128
649053,2436,"No, sir; but it is vara fine,
For every one pursents three.",286,19128
649054,2438,And three times thrice is nine.,170,19128
649055,2439,"Not so, sir; under correction, sir; I hope it is not so.
You cannot beg us, sir, I can assure you, sir we know
what we know:
I hope, sir, three times thrice, sir,--",286,19128
649056,2443,Is not nine.,170,19128
649057,2444,"Under correction, sir, we know whereuntil it doth amount.",286,19128
649058,2445,"By Jove, I always took three threes for nine.",170,19128
649059,2446,"O Lord, sir, it were pity you should get your living
by reckoning, sir.",286,19128
649060,2448,How much is it?,170,19128
649061,2449,"O Lord, sir, the parties themselves, the actors,
sir, will show whereuntil it doth amount: for mine
own part, I am, as they say, but to parfect one man
in one poor man, Pompion the Great, sir.",286,19128
649062,2453,Art thou one of the Worthies?,170,19128
649063,2454,"It pleased them to think me worthy of Pompion the
Great: for mine own part, I know not the degree of
the Worthy, but I am to stand for him.",286,19128
649064,2457,"Go, bid them prepare.",170,19128
649065,2458,"We will turn it finely off, sir; we will take
some care.",286,19128
649066,2460,[Exit],1261,19128
649067,2461,"Biron, they will shame us: let them not approach.",399,19128
649068,2462,"We are shame-proof, my lord: and tis some policy
To have one show worse than the king's and his company.",170,19128
649069,2464,I say they shall not come.,399,19128
649070,2465,"Nay, my good lord, let me o'errule you now:
That sport best pleases that doth least know how:
Where zeal strives to content, and the contents
Dies in the zeal of that which it presents:
Their form confounded makes most form in mirth,
When great things labouring perish in their birth.",922,19128
649071,2471,"A right description of our sport, my lord.",170,19128
649072,2472,[Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO],1261,19128
649073,2473,"Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy royal
sweet breath as will utter a brace of words.",326,19128
649074,2475,"[Converses apart with FERDINAND, and delivers him a paper]",1261,19128
649075,2476,Doth this man serve God?,922,19128
649076,2477,Why ask you?,170,19128
649077,2478,He speaks not like a man of God's making.,922,19128
649078,2479,"That is all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch; for,
I protest, the schoolmaster is exceeding
fantastical; too, too vain, too too vain: but we
will put it, as they say, to fortuna de la guerra.
I wish you the peace of mind, most royal couplement!",326,19128
649079,2484,[Exit],1261,19128
649080,2485,"Here is like to be a good presence of Worthies. He
presents Hector of Troy; the swain, Pompey the
Great; the parish curate, Alexander; Armado's page,
Hercules; the pedant, Judas Maccabaeus: And if
these four Worthies in their first show thrive,
These four will change habits, and present the other five.",399,19128
649081,2491,There is five in the first show.,170,19128
649082,2492,You are deceived; 'tis not so.,399,19128
649083,2493,"The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool
and the boy:--
Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again
Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein.",170,19128
649084,2497,"The ship is under sail, and here she comes amain.",399,19128
649085,2498,"[Enter COSTARD, for Pompey]",1261,19128
649086,2499,"I Pompey am,--",286,19128
649087,2500,"You lie, you are not he.",192,19128
649088,2501,"I Pompey am,--",286,19128
649089,2502,With libbard's head on knee.,192,19128
649090,2503,"Well said, old mocker: I must needs be friends
with thee.",170,19128
649091,2505,"I Pompey am, Pompey surnamed the Big--",286,19128
649092,2506,The Great.,355,19128
649093,2507,"It is, 'Great,' sir:--
Pompey surnamed the Great;
That oft in field, with targe and shield, did make
my foe to sweat:
And travelling along this coast, I here am come by chance,
And lay my arms before the legs of this sweet lass of France,
If your ladyship would say, 'Thanks, Pompey,' I had done.",286,19128
649094,2514,"Great thanks, great Pompey.",922,19128
649095,2515,"'Tis not so much worth; but I hope I was perfect: I
made a little fault in 'Great.'",286,19128
649096,2517,"My hat to a halfpenny, Pompey proves the best Worthy.",170,19128
649097,2518,"[Enter SIR NATHANIEL, for Alexander]",1261,19128
649098,2519,"When in the world I lived, I was the world's
commander;
By east, west, north, and south, I spread my
conquering might:
My scutcheon plain declares that I am Alisander,--",1110,19128
649099,2524,"Your nose says, no, you are not for it stands too right.",192,19128
649100,2525,"Your nose smells 'no' in this, most tender-smelling knight.",170,19128
649101,2526,"The conqueror is dismay'd. Proceed, good Alexander.",922,19128
649102,2527,"When in the world I lived, I was the world's
commander,--",1110,19128
649103,2529,"Most true, 'tis right; you were so, Alisander.",192,19128
649104,2530,"Pompey the Great,--",170,19128
649105,2531,"Your servant, and Costard.",286,19128
649106,2532,"Take away the conqueror, take away Alisander.",170,19128
649107,2533,"[To SIR NATHANIEL] O, sir, you have overthrown
Alisander the conqueror! You will be scraped out of
the painted cloth for this: your lion, that holds
his poll-axe sitting on a close-stool, will be given
to Ajax: he will be the ninth Worthy. A conqueror,
and afeard to speak! run away for shame, Alisander.
[SIR NATHANIEL retires]
There, an't shall please you; a foolish mild man; an
honest man, look you, and soon dashed. He is a
marvellous good neighbour, faith, and a very good
bowler: but, for Alisander,--alas, you see how
'tis,--a little o'erparted. But there are Worthies
a-coming will speak their mind in some other sort.",286,19128
649108,2546,"[Enter HOLOFERNES, for Judas; and MOTH, for Hercules]",1261,19128
649109,2547,"Great Hercules is presented by this imp,
Whose club kill'd Cerberus, that three-headed canis;
And when he was a babe, a child, a shrimp,
Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus.
Quoniam he seemeth in minority,
Ergo I come with this apology.
Keep some state in thy exit, and vanish.
[MOTH retires]
Judas I am,--",587,19128
649110,2556,A Judas!,355,19128
649111,2557,"Not Iscariot, sir.
Judas I am, ycliped Maccabaeus.",587,19128
649112,2559,Judas Maccabaeus clipt is plain Judas.,355,19128
649113,2560,A kissing traitor. How art thou proved Judas?,170,19128
649114,2561,"Judas I am,--",587,19128
649115,2562,"The more shame for you, Judas.",355,19128
649116,2563,"What mean you, sir?",587,19128
649117,2564,To make Judas hang himself.,192,19128
649118,2565,"Begin, sir; you are my elder.",587,19128
649119,2566,Well followed: Judas was hanged on an elder.,170,19128
649120,2567,I will not be put out of countenance.,587,19128
649121,2568,Because thou hast no face.,170,19128
649122,2569,What is this?,587,19128
649123,2570,A cittern-head.,192,19128
649124,2571,The head of a bodkin.,355,19128
649125,2572,A Death's face in a ring.,170,19128
649126,2573,"The face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen.",675,19128
649127,2574,The pommel of Caesar's falchion.,192,19128
649128,2575,The carved-bone face on a flask.,355,19128
649129,2576,Saint George's half-cheek in a brooch.,170,19128
649130,2577,"Ay, and in a brooch of lead.",355,19128
649131,2578,"Ay, and worn in the cap of a tooth-drawer.
And now forward; for we have put thee in countenance.",170,19128
649132,2580,You have put me out of countenance.,587,19128
649133,2581,False; we have given thee faces.,170,19128
649134,2582,But you have out-faced them all.,587,19128
649135,2583,"An thou wert a lion, we would do so.",170,19128
649136,2584,"Therefore, as he is an ass, let him go.
And so adieu, sweet Jude! nay, why dost thou stay?",192,19128
649137,2586,For the latter end of his name.,355,19128
649138,2587,"For the ass to the Jude; give it him:--Jud-as, away!",170,19128
649139,2588,"This is not generous, not gentle, not humble.",587,19128
649140,2589,"A light for Monsieur Judas! it grows dark, he may stumble.",192,19128
649141,2590,[HOLOFERNES retires],1261,19128
649142,2591,"Alas, poor Maccabaeus, how hath he been baited!",922,19128
649143,2592,"[Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, for Hector]",1261,19128
649144,2593,"Hide thy head, Achilles: here comes Hector in arms.",170,19128
649145,2594,"Though my mocks come home by me, I will now be merry.",355,19128
649146,2595,Hector was but a Troyan in respect of this.,399,19128
649147,2596,But is this Hector?,192,19128
649148,2597,I think Hector was not so clean-timbered.,399,19128
649149,2598,His leg is too big for Hector's.,675,19128
649150,2599,"More calf, certain.",355,19128
649151,2600,No; he is best endued in the small.,192,19128
649152,2601,This cannot be Hector.,170,19128
649153,2602,He's a god or a painter; for he makes faces.,355,19128
649154,2603,"The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty,
Gave Hector a gift,--",326,19128
649155,2605,A gilt nutmeg.,355,19128
649156,2606,A lemon.,170,19128
649157,2607,Stuck with cloves.,675,19128
649158,2608,"No, cloven.",355,19128
649159,2609,"Peace!--
The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty
Gave Hector a gift, the heir of Ilion;
A man so breathed, that certain he would fight; yea
From morn till night, out of his pavilion.
I am that flower,--",326,19128
649160,2615,That mint.,355,19128
649161,2616,That columbine.,675,19128
649162,2617,"Sweet Lord Longaville, rein thy tongue.",326,19128
649163,2618,"I must rather give it the rein, for it runs against Hector.",675,19128
649164,2619,"Ay, and Hector's a greyhound.",355,19128
649165,2620,"The sweet war-man is dead and rotten; sweet chucks,
beat not the bones of the buried: when he breathed,
he was a man. But I will forward with my device.
[To the PRINCESS]
Sweet royalty, bestow on me the sense of hearing.",326,19128
649166,2625,"Speak, brave Hector: we are much delighted.",922,19128
649167,2626,I do adore thy sweet grace's slipper.,326,19128
649168,2627,"[Aside to DUMAIN] Loves her by the foot,--",192,19128
649169,2628,[Aside to BOYET] He may not by the yard.,355,19128
649170,2629,"This Hector far surmounted Hannibal,--",326,19128
649171,2630,"The party is gone, fellow Hector, she is gone; she
is two months on her way.",286,19128
649172,2632,What meanest thou?,326,19128
649173,2633,"Faith, unless you play the honest Troyan, the poor
wench is cast away: she's quick; the child brags in
her belly already: tis yours.",286,19128
649174,2636,"Dost thou infamonize me among potentates? thou shalt
die.",326,19128
649175,2638,"Then shall Hector be whipped for Jaquenetta that is
quick by him and hanged for Pompey that is dead by
him.",286,19128
649176,2641,Most rare Pompey!,355,19128
649177,2642,Renowned Pompey!,192,19128
649178,2643,"Greater than great, great, great, great Pompey!
Pompey the Huge!",170,19128
649179,2645,Hector trembles.,355,19128
649180,2646,"Pompey is moved. More Ates, more Ates! stir them
on! stir them on!",170,19128
649181,2648,Hector will challenge him.,355,19128
649182,2649,"Ay, if a' have no man's blood in's belly than will
sup a flea.",170,19128
649183,2651,"By the north pole, I do challenge thee.",326,19128
649184,2652,"I will not fight with a pole, like a northern man:
I'll slash; I'll do it by the sword. I bepray you,
let me borrow my arms again.",286,19128
649185,2655,Room for the incensed Worthies!,355,19128
649186,2656,I'll do it in my shirt.,286,19128
649187,2657,Most resolute Pompey!,355,19128
649188,2658,"Master, let me take you a buttonhole lower. Do you
not see Pompey is uncasing for the combat? What mean
you? You will lose your reputation.",804,19128
649189,2661,"Gentlemen and soldiers, pardon me; I will not combat
in my shirt.",326,19128
649190,2663,You may not deny it: Pompey hath made the challenge.,355,19128
649191,2664,"Sweet bloods, I both may and will.",326,19128
649192,2665,What reason have you for't?,170,19128
649193,2666,"The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt; I go
woolward for penance.",326,19128
649194,2668,"True, and it was enjoined him in Rome for want of
linen: since when, I'll be sworn, he wore none but
a dishclout of Jaquenetta's, and that a' wears next
his heart for a favour.",192,19128
649195,2672,[Enter MERCADE],1261,19128
649196,2673,"God save you, madam!",765,19128
649197,2674,"Welcome, Mercade;
But that thou interrupt'st our merriment.",922,19128
649198,2676,"I am sorry, madam; for the news I bring
Is heavy in my tongue. The king your father--",765,19128
649199,2678,"Dead, for my life!",922,19128
649200,2679,Even so; my tale is told.,765,19128
649201,2680,"Worthies, away! the scene begins to cloud.",170,19128
649202,2681,"For mine own part, I breathe free breath. I have
seen the day of wrong through the little hole of
discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.",326,19128
649203,2684,[Exeunt Worthies],1261,19128
649204,2685,How fares your majesty?,399,19128
649205,2686,"Boyet, prepare; I will away tonight.",922,19128
649206,2687,"Madam, not so; I do beseech you, stay.",399,19128
649207,2688,"Prepare, I say. I thank you, gracious lords,
For all your fair endeavors; and entreat,
Out of a new-sad soul, that you vouchsafe
In your rich wisdom to excuse or hide
The liberal opposition of our spirits,
If over-boldly we have borne ourselves
In the converse of breath: your gentleness
Was guilty of it. Farewell worthy lord!
A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue:
Excuse me so, coming too short of thanks
For my great suit so easily obtain'd.",922,19128
649208,2699,"The extreme parts of time extremely forms
All causes to the purpose of his speed,
And often at his very loose decides
That which long process could not arbitrate:
And though the mourning brow of progeny
Forbid the smiling courtesy of love
The holy suit which fain it would convince,
Yet, since love's argument was first on foot,
Let not the cloud of sorrow justle it
From what it purposed; since, to wail friends lost
Is not by much so wholesome-profitable
As to rejoice at friends but newly found.PRINCESS. I understand you not: my griefs are double.",399,19128
649209,2711,"Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief;
And by these badges understand the king.
For your fair sakes have we neglected time,
Play'd foul play with our oaths: your beauty, ladies,
Hath much deform'd us, fashioning our humours
Even to the opposed end of our intents:
And what in us hath seem'd ridiculous,--
As love is full of unbefitting strains,
All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
To every varied object in his glance:
Which parti-coated presence of loose love
Put on by us, if, in your heavenly eyes,
Have misbecomed our oaths and gravities,
Those heavenly eyes, that look into these faults,
Suggested us to make. Therefore, ladies,
Our love being yours, the error that love makes
Is likewise yours: we to ourselves prove false,
By being once false for ever to be true
To those that make us both,--fair ladies, you:
And even that falsehood, in itself a sin,
Thus purifies itself and turns to grace.",170,19128
649210,2735,"We have received your letters full of love;
Your favours, the ambassadors of love;
And, in our maiden council, rated them
At courtship, pleasant jest and courtesy,
As bombast and as lining to the time:
But more devout than this in our respects
Have we not been; and therefore met your loves
In their own fashion, like a merriment.",922,19128
649211,2743,"Our letters, madam, show'd much more than jest.",355,19128
649212,2744,So did our looks.,675,19128
649213,2745,We did not quote them so.,954,19128
649214,2746,"Now, at the latest minute of the hour,
Grant us your loves.",399,19128
649215,2748,"A time, methinks, too short
To make a world-without-end bargain in.
No, no, my lord, your grace is perjured much,
Full of dear guiltiness; and therefore this:
If for my love, as there is no such cause,
You will do aught, this shall you do for me:
Your oath I will not trust; but go with speed
To some forlorn and naked hermitage,
Remote from all the pleasures of the world;
There stay until the twelve celestial signs
Have brought about the annual reckoning.
If this austere insociable life
Change not your offer made in heat of blood;
If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weeds
Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love,
But that it bear this trial and last love;
Then, at the expiration of the year,
Come challenge me, challenge me by these deserts,
And, by this virgin palm now kissing thine
I will be thine; and till that instant shut
My woeful self up in a mourning house,
Raining the tears of lamentation
For the remembrance of my father's death.
If this thou do deny, let our hands part,
Neither entitled in the other's heart.",922,19128
649216,2773,"If this, or more than this, I would deny,
To flatter up these powers of mine with rest,
The sudden hand of death close up mine eye!
Hence ever then my heart is in thy breast.",399,19128
649217,2777,"[And what to me, my love? and what to me?",170,19128
649218,2778,"You must be purged too, your sins are rack'd,
You are attaint with faults and perjury:
Therefore if you my favour mean to get,
A twelvemonth shall you spend, and never rest,
But seek the weary beds of people sick]",954,19128
649219,2783,"But what to me, my love? but what to me? A wife?",355,19128
649220,2784,"A beard, fair health, and honesty;
With three-fold love I wish you all these three.",630,19128
649221,2786,"O, shall I say, I thank you, gentle wife?",355,19128
649222,2787,"Not so, my lord; a twelvemonth and a day
I'll mark no words that smooth-faced wooers say:
Come when the king doth to my lady come;
Then, if I have much love, I'll give you some.",630,19128
649223,2791,I'll serve thee true and faithfully till then.,355,19128
649224,2792,"Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again.",630,19128
649225,2793,What says Maria?,675,19128
649226,2794,"At the twelvemonth's end
I'll change my black gown for a faithful friend.",739,19128
649227,2796,I'll stay with patience; but the time is long.,675,19128
649228,2797,The liker you; few taller are so young.,739,19128
649229,2798,"Studies my lady? mistress, look on me;
Behold the window of my heart, mine eye,
What humble suit attends thy answer there:
Impose some service on me for thy love.",170,19128
649230,2802,"Oft have I heard of you, my Lord Biron,
Before I saw you; and the world's large tongue
Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks,
Full of comparisons and wounding flouts,
Which you on all estates will execute
That lie within the mercy of your wit.
To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain,
And therewithal to win me, if you please,
Without the which I am not to be won,
You shall this twelvemonth term from day to day
Visit the speechless sick and still converse
With groaning wretches; and your task shall be,
With all the fierce endeavor of your wit
To enforce the pained impotent to smile.",954,19128
649231,2816,"To move wild laughter in the throat of death?
It cannot be; it is impossible:
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.",170,19128
649232,2819,"Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit,
Whose influence is begot of that loose grace
Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools:
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears,
Deaf'd with the clamours of their own dear groans,
Will hear your idle scorns, continue then,
And I will have you and that fault withal;
But if they will not, throw away that spirit,
And I shall find you empty of that fault,
Right joyful of your reformation.",954,19128
649233,2831,"A twelvemonth! well; befall what will befall,
I'll jest a twelvemonth in an hospital.",170,19128
649234,2833,"[To FERDINAND] Ay, sweet my lord; and so I take my leave.",922,19128
649235,2834,"No, madam; we will bring you on your way.",399,19128
649236,2835,"Our wooing doth not end like an old play;
Jack hath not Jill: these ladies' courtesy
Might well have made our sport a comedy.",170,19128
649237,2838,"Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day,
And then 'twill end.",399,19128
649238,2840,That's too long for a play.,170,19128
649239,2841,[Re-enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO],1261,19128
649240,2842,"Sweet majesty, vouchsafe me,--",326,19128
649241,2843,Was not that Hector?,922,19128
649242,2844,The worthy knight of Troy.,355,19128
649243,2845,"I will kiss thy royal finger, and take leave. I am
a votary; I have vowed to Jaquenetta to hold the
plough for her sweet love three years. But, most
esteemed greatness, will you hear the dialogue that
the two learned men have compiled in praise of the
owl and the cuckoo? It should have followed in the
end of our show.",326,19128
649244,2852,Call them forth quickly; we will do so.,399,19128
649245,2853,"Holla! approach.
[Re-enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, MOTH, COSTARD,]
and others]
This side is Hiems, Winter, this Ver, the Spring;
the one maintained by the owl, the other by the
cuckoo. Ver, begin.
[THE SONG]
SPRING.
When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men; for thus sings he, . Cuckoo;
Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear!
When shepherds pipe on oaten straws
And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks,
When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,
And maidens bleach their summer smocks
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men; for thus sings he, . Cuckoo;
Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear!
WINTER.
When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail
And Tom bears logs into the hall
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl, . Tu-whit;
Tu-who, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
When all aloud the wind doth blow
And coughing drowns the parson's saw
And birds sit brooding in the snow
And Marian's nose looks red and raw,
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl, . Tu-whit;
Tu-who, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.",326,19128
649246,2894,"The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of
Apollo. You that way: we this way.",326,19128
649247,2896,[Exeunt],1261,19128
649248,3,[Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches],1261,19129
649249,4,"When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?",18,19129
649250,6,"When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.",33,19129
649251,8,That will be ere the set of sun.,42,19129
649252,9,Where the place?,18,19129
649253,10,Upon the heath.,33,19129
649254,11,There to meet with Macbeth.,42,19129
649255,12,"I come, Graymalkin!",18,19129
649256,13,Paddock calls.,33,19129
649257,14,Anon.,42,19129
649258,15,"Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.",86,19129
649259,17,"[Exeunt]
[Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN,]
LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant]",1261,19129
649260,21,"What bloody man is that? He can report,
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The newest state.",356,19130
649261,24,"This is the sergeant
Who like a good and hardy soldier fought
'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!
Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
As thou didst leave it.",727,19130
649262,29,"Doubtful it stood;
As two spent swimmers, that do cling together
And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald--
Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
The multiplying villanies of nature
Do swarm upon him--from the western isles
Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;
And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:
For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;
Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
And fix'd his head upon our battlements.",1048,19130
649263,46,O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!,356,19130
649264,47,"As whence the sun 'gins his reflection
Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,
So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come
Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:
No sooner justice had with valour arm'd
Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,
But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,
With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men
Began a fresh assault.",1048,19130
649265,56,"Dismay'd not this
Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?",356,19130
649266,58,"Yes;
As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorise another Golgotha,
I cannot tell.
But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.",1048,19130
649267,67,"So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;
They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.
[Exit Sergeant, attended]
Who comes here?",356,19130
649268,71,[Enter ROSS],1261,19130
649269,72,The worthy thane of Ross.,727,19130
649270,73,"What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look
That seems to speak things strange.",662,19130
649271,75,God save the king!,956,19130
649272,76,"Whence camest thou, worthy thane?",356,19130
649273,77,"From Fife, great king;
Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky
And fan our people cold. Norway himself,
With terrible numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;
Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,
Confronted him with self-comparisons,
Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm.
Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,
The victory fell on us.",956,19130
649274,88,Great happiness!,356,19130
649275,89,"That now
Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition:
Nor would we deign him burial of his men
Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch
Ten thousand dollars to our general use.",956,19130
649276,94,"No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive
Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,
And with his former title greet Macbeth.",356,19130
649277,97,I'll see it done.,956,19130
649278,98,What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.,356,19130
649279,99,[Exeunt],1261,19130
649280,101,[Thunder. Enter the three Witches],1261,19131
649281,102,"Where hast thou been, sister?",18,19131
649282,103,Killing swine.,33,19131
649283,104,"Sister, where thou?",42,19131
649284,105,"A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,
And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:--
'Give me,' quoth I:
'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.
Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:
But in a sieve I'll thither sail,
And, like a rat without a tail,
I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.",18,19131
649285,113,I'll give thee a wind.,33,19131
649286,114,Thou'rt kind.,18,19131
649287,115,And I another.,42,19131
649288,116,"I myself have all the other,
And the very ports they blow,
All the quarters that they know
I' the shipman's card.
I will drain him dry as hay:
Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid;
He shall live a man forbid:
Weary se'nnights nine times nine
Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:
Though his bark cannot be lost,
Yet it shall be tempest-tost.
Look what I have.",18,19131
649289,129,"Show me, show me.",33,19131
649290,130,"Here I have a pilot's thumb,
Wreck'd as homeward he did come.",18,19131
649291,132,[Drum within],1261,19131
649292,133,"A drum, a drum!
Macbeth doth come.",42,19131
649293,135,"The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land,
Thus do go about, about:
Thrice to thine and thrice to mine
And thrice again, to make up nine.
Peace! the charm's wound up.",86,19131
649294,141,[Enter MACBETH and BANQUO],1261,19131
649295,142,So foul and fair a day I have not seen.,724,19131
649296,143,"How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these
So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught
That man may question? You seem to understand me,
By each at once her chappy finger laying
Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so.",141,19131
649297,152,"Speak, if you can: what are you?",724,19131
649298,153,"All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!",18,19131
649299,154,"All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!",33,19131
649300,155,"All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!",42,19131
649301,156,"Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear
Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,
Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
You greet with present grace and great prediction
Of noble having and of royal hope,
That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.
If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favours nor your hate.",141,19131
649302,167,Hail!,18,19131
649303,168,Hail!,33,19131
649304,169,Hail!,42,19131
649305,170,"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.",18,19131
649306,171,"Not so happy, yet much happier.",33,19131
649307,172,"Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:
So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!",42,19131
649308,174,"Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!",18,19131
649309,175,"Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:
By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis;
But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman; and to be king
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence? or why
Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.",724,19131
649310,184,[Witches vanish],1261,19131
649311,185,"The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd?",141,19131
649312,187,"Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted
As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!",724,19131
649313,189,"Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?",141,19131
649314,192,Your children shall be kings.,724,19131
649315,193,You shall be king.,141,19131
649316,194,And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?,724,19131
649317,195,To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?,141,19131
649318,196,[Enter ROSS and ANGUS],1261,19131
649319,197,"The king hath happily received, Macbeth,
The news of thy success; and when he reads
Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,
His wonders and his praises do contend
Which should be thine or his: silenced with that,
In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,
He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks,
Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,
Strange images of death. As thick as hail
Came post with post; and every one did bear
Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,
And pour'd them down before him.",956,19131
649320,209,"We are sent
To give thee from our royal master thanks;
Only to herald thee into his sight,
Not pay thee.",105,19131
649321,213,"And, for an earnest of a greater honour,
He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor:
In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!
For it is thine.",956,19131
649322,217,"What, can the devil speak true?",141,19131
649323,218,"The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me
In borrow'd robes?",724,19131
649324,220,"Who was the thane lives yet;
But under heavy judgment bears that life
Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined
With those of Norway, or did line the rebel
With hidden help and vantage, or that with both
He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not;
But treasons capital, confess'd and proved,
Have overthrown him.",105,19131
649325,228,"[Aside] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor!
The greatest is behind.
[To ROSS and ANGUS]
Thanks for your pains.
[To BANQUO]
Do you not hope your children shall be kings,
When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me
Promised no less to them?",724,19131
649326,236,"That trusted home
Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,
Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange:
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence.
Cousins, a word, I pray you.",141,19131
649327,244,"[Aside]. Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme.--I thank you, gentlemen.
[Aside] This supernatural soliciting]
Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings:
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is
But what is not.",724,19131
649328,260,"Look, how our partner's rapt.",141,19131
649329,261,"[Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,
Without my stir.",724,19131
649330,263,"New horrors come upon him,
Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould
But with the aid of use.",141,19131
649331,266,"[Aside] Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.",724,19131
649332,268,"Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.",141,19131
649333,269,"Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought
With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains
Are register'd where every day I turn
The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king.
Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time,
The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak
Our free hearts each to other.",724,19131
649334,276,Very gladly.,141,19131
649335,277,"Till then, enough. Come, friends.",724,19131
649336,278,[Exeunt],1261,19131
649337,280,"[Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, and Attendants]",1261,19132
649338,281,"Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not
Those in commission yet return'd?",356,19132
649339,283,"My liege,
They are not yet come back. But I have spoke
With one that saw him die: who did report
That very frankly he confess'd his treasons,
Implored your highness' pardon and set forth
A deep repentance: nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it; he died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed,
As 'twere a careless trifle.",727,19132
649340,293,"There's no art
To find the mind's construction in the face:
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust.
[Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS, and ANGUS]
O worthiest cousin!
The sin of my ingratitude even now
Was heavy on me: thou art so far before
That swiftest wing of recompense is slow
To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved,
That the proportion both of thanks and payment
Might have been mine! only I have left to say,
More is thy due than more than all can pay.",356,19132
649341,306,"The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part
Is to receive our duties; and our duties
Are to your throne and state children and servants,
Which do but what they should, by doing every thing
Safe toward your love and honour.",724,19132
649342,312,"Welcome hither:
I have begun to plant thee, and will labour
To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,
That hast no less deserved, nor must be known
No less to have done so, let me enfold thee
And hold thee to my heart.",356,19132
649343,318,"There if I grow,
The harvest is your own.",141,19132
649344,320,"My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,
And you whose places are the nearest, know
We will establish our estate upon
Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter
The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must
Not unaccompanied invest him only,
But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine
On all deservers. From hence to Inverness,
And bind us further to you.",356,19132
649345,331,"The rest is labour, which is not used for you:
I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful
The hearing of my wife with your approach;
So humbly take my leave.",724,19132
649346,335,My worthy Cawdor!,356,19132
649347,336,"[Aside] The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires:
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.",724,19132
649348,342,[Exit],1261,19132
649349,343,"True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant,
And in his commendations I am fed;
It is a banquet to me. Let's after him,
Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome:
It is a peerless kinsman.",356,19132
649350,348,[Flourish. Exeunt],1261,19132
649351,350,"[Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter]",1261,19133
649352,351,"'They met me in the day of success: and I have
learned by the perfectest report, they have more in
them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire
to question them further, they made themselves air,
into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in
the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who
all-hailed me 'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title,
before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred
me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that
shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver
thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou
mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being
ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it
to thy heart, and farewell.'
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly,
That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,
And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis,
That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it;
And that which rather thou dost fear to do
Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither,
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear;
And chastise with the valour of my tongue
All that impedes thee from the golden round,
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crown'd withal.
[Enter a Messenger]
What is your tidings?",646,19133
649353,383,The king comes here to-night.,785,19133
649354,384,"Thou'rt mad to say it:
Is not thy master with him? who, were't so,
Would have inform'd for preparation.",646,19133
649355,387,"So please you, it is true: our thane is coming:
One of my fellows had the speed of him,
Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more
Than would make up his message.",785,19133
649356,391,"Give him tending;
He brings great news.
[Exit Messenger]
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry 'Hold, hold!'
[Enter MACBETH]
Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!
Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!
Thy letters have transported me beyond
This ignorant present, and I feel now
The future in the instant.",646,19133
649357,417,"My dearest love,
Duncan comes here to-night.",724,19133
649358,419,And when goes hence?,646,19133
649359,420,"To-morrow, as he purposes.",724,19133
649360,421,"O, never
Shall sun that morrow see!
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't. He that's coming
Must be provided for: and you shall put
This night's great business into my dispatch;
Which shall to all our nights and days to come
Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.",646,19133
649361,432,We will speak further.,724,19133
649362,433,"Only look up clear;
To alter favour ever is to fear:
Leave all the rest to me.",646,19133
649363,436,"[Exeunt]
[Hautboys and torches. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM,]
DONALBAIN, BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS, and Attendants]",1261,19133
649364,440,"This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air
Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
Unto our gentle senses.",356,19134
649365,443,"This guest of summer,
The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,
By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath
Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,
Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird
Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle:
Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed,
The air is delicate.",141,19134
649366,451,[Enter LADY MACBETH],1261,19134
649367,452,"See, see, our honour'd hostess!
The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,
Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you
How you shall bid God 'ild us for your pains,
And thank us for your trouble.",356,19134
649368,457,"All our service
In every point twice done and then done double
Were poor and single business to contend
Against those honours deep and broad wherewith
Your majesty loads our house: for those of old,
And the late dignities heap'd up to them,
We rest your hermits.",646,19134
649369,464,"Where's the thane of Cawdor?
We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose
To be his purveyor: but he rides well;
And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him
To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,
We are your guest to-night.",356,19134
649370,470,"Your servants ever
Have theirs, themselves and what is theirs, in compt,
To make their audit at your highness' pleasure,
Still to return your own.",646,19134
649371,474,"Give me your hand;
Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly,
And shall continue our graces towards him.
By your leave, hostess.",356,19134
649372,478,"[Exeunt]
[Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers]
Servants with dishes and service, and pass over the stage. Then enter MACBETH]",1261,19134
649373,482,"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases
We still have judgment here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice
To our own lips. He's here in double trust;
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking-off;
And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed
Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other.
[Enter LADY MACBETH]
How now! what news?",724,19135
649374,512,He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?,646,19135
649375,513,Hath he ask'd for me?,724,19135
649376,514,Know you not he has?,646,19135
649377,515,"We will proceed no further in this business:
He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people,
Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,
Not cast aside so soon.",724,19135
649378,520,"Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?
And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
At what it did so freely? From this time
Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valour
As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,
And live a coward in thine own esteem,
Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'
Like the poor cat i' the adage?",646,19135
649379,531,"Prithee, peace:
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.",724,19135
649380,534,"What beast was't, then,
That made you break this enterprise to me?
When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And, to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place
Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now
Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.",646,19135
649381,547,If we should fail?,724,19135
649382,548,"We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep--
Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey
Soundly invite him--his two chamberlains
Will I with wine and wassail so convince
That memory, the warder of the brain,
Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason
A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep
Their drenched natures lie as in a death,
What cannot you and I perform upon
The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon
His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt
Of our great quell?",646,19135
649383,562,"Bring forth men-children only;
For thy undaunted mettle should compose
Nothing but males. Will it not be received,
When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two
Of his own chamber and used their very daggers,
That they have done't?",724,19135
649384,568,"Who dares receive it other,
As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar
Upon his death?",646,19135
649385,571,"I am settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.",724,19135
649386,575,[Exeunt],1261,19135
649387,578,"[Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE bearing a torch before him]",1261,19136
649388,579,"How goes the night, boy?",141,19136
649389,580,The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.,478,19136
649390,581,And she goes down at twelve.,141,19136
649391,582,"I take't, 'tis later, sir.",478,19136
649392,583,"Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven;
Their candles are all out. Take thee that too.
A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,
And yet I would not sleep: merciful powers,
Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
Gives way to in repose!
[Enter MACBETH, and a Servant with a torch]
Give me my sword.
Who's there?",141,19136
649393,592,A friend.,724,19136
649394,593,"What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed:
He hath been in unusual pleasure, and
Sent forth great largess to your offices.
This diamond he greets your wife withal,
By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up
In measureless content.",141,19136
649395,599,"Being unprepared,
Our will became the servant to defect;
Which else should free have wrought.",724,19136
649396,602,"All's well.
I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:
To you they have show'd some truth.",141,19136
649397,605,"I think not of them:
Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,
We would spend it in some words upon that business,
If you would grant the time.",724,19136
649398,609,At your kind'st leisure.,141,19136
649399,610,"If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis,
It shall make honour for you.",724,19136
649400,612,"So I lose none
In seeking to augment it, but still keep
My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,
I shall be counsell'd.",141,19136
649401,616,Good repose the while!,724,19136
649402,617,"Thanks, sir: the like to you!",141,19136
649403,618,[Exeunt BANQUO and FLEANCE],1261,19136
649404,619,"Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.
[Exit Servant]
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
[A bell rings]
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.",724,19136
649405,655,[Exit],1261,19136
649406,657,[Enter LADY MACBETH],1261,19137
649407,658,"That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;
What hath quench'd them hath given me fire.
Hark! Peace!
It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,
Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:
The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms
Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd
their possets,
That death and nature do contend about them,
Whether they live or die.",646,19137
649408,668,"[Within] Who's there? what, ho!",724,19137
649409,669,"Alack, I am afraid they have awaked,
And 'tis not done. The attempt and not the deed
Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready;
He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done't.
[Enter MACBETH]
My husband!",646,19137
649410,676,I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?,724,19137
649411,677,"I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
Did not you speak?",646,19137
649412,679,When?,724,19137
649413,680,Now.,646,19137
649414,681,As I descended?,724,19137
649415,682,Ay.,646,19137
649416,683,"Hark!
Who lies i' the second chamber?",724,19137
649417,685,Donalbain.,646,19137
649418,686,This is a sorry sight.,724,19137
649419,687,[Looking on his hands],1261,19137
649420,688,"A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.",646,19137
649421,689,"There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried
'Murder!'
That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them:
But they did say their prayers, and address'd them
Again to sleep.",724,19137
649422,694,There are two lodged together.,646,19137
649423,695,"One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other;
As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.
Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,'
When they did say 'God bless us!'",724,19137
649424,699,Consider it not so deeply.,646,19137
649425,700,"But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'?
I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen'
Stuck in my throat.",724,19137
649426,703,"These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.",646,19137
649427,705,"Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast,--",724,19137
649428,711,What do you mean?,646,19137
649429,712,"Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house:
'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.'",724,19137
649430,715,"Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,
You do unbend your noble strength, to think
So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,
And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
They must lie there: go carry them; and smear
The sleepy grooms with blood.",646,19137
649431,722,"I'll go no more:
I am afraid to think what I have done;
Look on't again I dare not.",724,19137
649432,725,"Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,
I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal;
For it must seem their guilt.",646,19137
649433,731,[Exit. Knocking within],1261,19137
649434,732,"Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me, when every noise appals me?
What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
Making the green one red.",724,19137
649435,739,[Re-enter LADY MACBETH],1261,19137
649436,740,"My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
[Knocking within]
I hear a knocking
At the south entry: retire we to our chamber;
A little water clears us of this deed:
How easy is it, then! Your constancy
Hath left you unattended.
[Knocking within]
Hark! more knocking.
Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us,
And show us to be watchers. Be not lost
So poorly in your thoughts.",646,19137
649437,753,"To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.
[Knocking within]
Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!",724,19137
649438,756,[Exeunt],1261,19137
649439,758,[Knocking within. Enter a Porter],1261,19138
649440,759,"Here's a knocking indeed! If a
man were porter of hell-gate, he should have
old turning the key.
[Knocking within]
Knock,
knock, knock! Who's there, i' the name of
Beelzebub? Here's a farmer, that hanged
himself on the expectation of plenty: come in
time; have napkins enow about you; here
you'll sweat for't.
[Knocking within]
Knock,
knock! Who's there, in the other devil's
name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could
swear in both the scales against either scale;
who committed treason enough for God's sake,
yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come
in, equivocator.
[Knocking within]
Knock,
knock, knock! Who's there? Faith, here's an
English tailor come hither, for stealing out of
a French hose: come in, tailor; here you may
roast your goose.
[Knocking within]
Knock,
knock; never at quiet! What are you? But
this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter
it no further: I had thought to have let in
some of all professions that go the primrose
way to the everlasting bonfire.
[Knocking within]
Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter.",906,19138
649441,792,[Opens the gate],1261,19138
649442,793,[Enter MACDUFF and LENNOX],1261,19138
649443,794,"Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,
That you do lie so late?",725,19138
649444,796,"'Faith sir, we were carousing till the
second cock: and drink, sir, is a great
provoker of three things.",906,19138
649445,799,What three things does drink especially provoke?,725,19138
649446,800,"Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and
urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;
it provokes the desire, but it takes
away the performance: therefore, much drink
may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:
it makes him, and it mars him; it sets
him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him,
and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and
not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him
in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.",906,19138
649447,810,I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.,725,19138
649448,811,"That it did, sir, i' the very throat on
me: but I requited him for his lie; and, I
think, being too strong for him, though he took
up my legs sometime, yet I made a shift to cast
him.",906,19138
649449,816,"Is thy master stirring?
[Enter MACBETH]
Our knocking has awaked him; here he comes.",725,19138
649450,819,"Good morrow, noble sir.",662,19138
649451,820,"Good morrow, both.",724,19138
649452,821,"Is the king stirring, worthy thane?",725,19138
649453,822,Not yet.,724,19138
649454,823,"He did command me to call timely on him:
I have almost slipp'd the hour.",725,19138
649455,825,I'll bring you to him.,724,19138
649456,826,"I know this is a joyful trouble to you;
But yet 'tis one.",725,19138
649457,828,"The labour we delight in physics pain.
This is the door.",724,19138
649458,830,"I'll make so bold to call,
For 'tis my limited service.",725,19138
649459,832,[Exit],1261,19138
649460,833,Goes the king hence to-day?,662,19138
649461,834,He does: he did appoint so.,724,19138
649462,835,"The night has been unruly: where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,
And prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion and confused events
New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird
Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth
Was feverous and did shake.",662,19138
649468,850,"Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o' the building!",725,19138
649469,854,What is 't you say? the life?,724,19138
649470,855,Mean you his majesty?,662,19138
649471,856,"Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight
With a new Gorgon: do not bid me speak;
See, and then speak yourselves.
[Exeunt MACBETH and LENNOX]
Awake, awake!
Ring the alarum-bell. Murder and treason!
Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake!
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself! up, up, and see
The great doom's image! Malcolm! Banquo!
As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites,
To countenance this horror! Ring the bell.",725,19138
649472,868,[Bell rings],1261,19138
649473,869,[Enter LADY MACBETH],1261,19138
649474,870,"What's the business,
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
The sleepers of the house? speak, speak!",646,19138
649475,873,"O gentle lady,
'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak:
The repetition, in a woman's ear,
Would murder as it fell.
[Enter BANQUO]
O Banquo, Banquo,
Our royal master 's murder'd!",725,19138
649476,880,"Woe, alas!
What, in our house?",646,19138
649477,882,"Too cruel any where.
Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,
And say it is not so.",141,19138
649478,885,"[Re-enter MACBETH and LENNOX, with ROSS]",1261,19138
649479,886,"Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,
There 's nothing serious in mortality:
All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.",724,19138
649480,892,[Enter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN],1261,19138
649481,893,What is amiss?,327,19138
649482,894,"You are, and do not know't:
The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood
Is stopp'd; the very source of it is stopp'd.",724,19138
649483,897,Your royal father 's murder'd.,725,19138
649484,898,"O, by whom?",727,19138
649485,899,"Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done 't:
Their hands and faces were an badged with blood;
So were their daggers, which unwiped we found
Upon their pillows:
They stared, and were distracted; no man's life
Was to be trusted with them.",662,19138
649486,905,"O, yet I do repent me of my fury,
That I did kill them.",724,19138
649487,907,Wherefore did you so?,725,19138
649488,908,"Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,
Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man:
The expedition my violent love
Outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan,
His silver skin laced with his golden blood;
And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature
For ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,
Steep'd in the colours of their trade, their daggers
Unmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make 's love known?",724,19138
649489,919,"Help me hence, ho!",646,19138
649490,920,Look to the lady.,725,19138
649491,921,"[Aside to DONALBAIN] Why do we hold our tongues,
That most may claim this argument for ours?",727,19138
649492,923,"[Aside to MALCOLM] What should be spoken here,
where our fate,
Hid in an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us?
Let 's away;
Our tears are not yet brew'd.",327,19138
649493,928,"[Aside to DONALBAIN] Nor our strong sorrow
Upon the foot of motion.",727,19138
649494,930,"Look to the lady:
[LADY MACBETH is carried out]
And when we have our naked frailties hid,
That suffer in exposure, let us meet,
And question this most bloody piece of work,
To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us:
In the great hand of God I stand; and thence
Against the undivulged pretence I fight
Of treasonous malice.",141,19138
649495,939,And so do I.,725,19138
649496,940,So all.,86,19138
649497,941,"Let's briefly put on manly readiness,
And meet i' the hall together.",724,19138
649498,943,Well contented.,86,19138
649499,944,[Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain.],1261,19138
649500,945,"What will you do? Let's not consort with them:
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.",727,19138
649501,948,"To Ireland, I; our separated fortune
Shall keep us both the safer: where we are,
There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,
The nearer bloody.",327,19138
649502,952,"This murderous shaft that's shot
Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way
Is to avoid the aim. Therefore, to horse;
And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
But shift away: there's warrant in that theft
Which steals itself, when there's no mercy left.",727,19138
649503,958,[Exeunt],1261,19138
649504,960,[Enter ROSS and an old Man],1261,19139
649505,961,"Threescore and ten I can remember well:
Within the volume of which time I have seen
Hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night
Hath trifled former knowings.",833,19139
649506,965,"Ah, good father,
Thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man's act,
Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock, 'tis day,
And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp:
Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame,
That darkness does the face of earth entomb,
When living light should kiss it?",956,19139
649507,972,"'Tis unnatural,
Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last,
A falcon, towering in her pride of place,
Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.",833,19139
649508,976,"And Duncan's horses--a thing most strange and certain--
Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,
Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,
Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make
War with mankind.",956,19139
649511,986,"Why, see you not?",725,19139
649512,987,Is't known who did this more than bloody deed?,956,19139
649513,988,Those that Macbeth hath slain.,725,19139
649514,989,"Alas, the day!
What good could they pretend?",956,19139
649515,991,"They were suborn'd:
Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons,
Are stol'n away and fled; which puts upon them
Suspicion of the deed.",725,19139
649516,995,"'Gainst nature still!
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up
Thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like
The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.",956,19139
649517,999,"He is already named, and gone to Scone
To be invested.",725,19139
649518,1001,Where is Duncan's body?,956,19139
649519,1002,"Carried to Colmekill,
The sacred storehouse of his predecessors,
And guardian of their bones.",725,19139
649520,1005,Will you to Scone?,956,19139
649521,1006,"No, cousin, I'll to Fife.",725,19139
649522,1007,"Well, I will thither.",956,19139
649523,1008,"Well, may you see things well done there: adieu!
Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!",725,19139
649524,1010,"Farewell, father.",956,19139
649525,1011,"God's benison go with you; and with those
That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!",833,19139
649526,1013,[Exeunt],1261,19139
649527,1016,[Enter BANQUO],1261,19140
649528,1017,"Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the weird women promised, and, I fear,
Thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said
It should not stand in thy posterity,
But that myself should be the root and father
Of many kings. If there come truth from them--
As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine--
Why, by the verities on thee made good,
May they not be my oracles as well,
And set me up in hope? But hush! no more.
[Sennet sounded. Enter MACBETH, as king, LADY]
MACBETH, as queen, LENNOX, ROSS, Lords, Ladies, and Attendants]",141,19140
649529,1029,Here's our chief guest.,724,19140
649530,1030,"If he had been forgotten,
It had been as a gap in our great feast,
And all-thing unbecoming.",646,19140
649531,1033,"To-night we hold a solemn supper sir,
And I'll request your presence.",724,19140
649532,1035,"Let your highness
Command upon me; to the which my duties
Are with a most indissoluble tie
For ever knit.",141,19140
649533,1039,Ride you this afternoon?,724,19140
649534,1040,"Ay, my good lord.",141,19140
649535,1041,"We should have else desired your good advice,
Which still hath been both grave and prosperous,
In this day's council; but we'll take to-morrow.
Is't far you ride?",724,19140
649536,1045,"As far, my lord, as will fill up the time
'Twixt this and supper: go not my horse the better,
I must become a borrower of the night
For a dark hour or twain.",141,19140
649537,1049,Fail not our feast.,724,19140
649538,1050,"My lord, I will not.",141,19140
649539,1051,"We hear, our bloody cousins are bestow'd
In England and in Ireland, not confessing
Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers
With strange invention: but of that to-morrow,
When therewithal we shall have cause of state
Craving us jointly. Hie you to horse: adieu,
Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with you?",724,19140
649540,1058,"Ay, my good lord: our time does call upon 's.",141,19140
649541,1059,"I wish your horses swift and sure of foot;
And so I do commend you to their backs. Farewell.
[Exit BANQUO]
Let every man be master of his time
Till seven at night: to make society
The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself
Till supper-time alone: while then, God be with you!
[Exeunt all but MACBETH, and an attendant]
Sirrah, a word with you: attend those men
Our pleasure?",724,19140
649542,1069,"They are, my lord, without the palace gate.",131,19140
649543,1070,"Bring them before us.
[Exit Attendant]
To be thus is nothing;
But to be safely thus.--Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety. There is none but he
Whose being I do fear: and, under him,
My Genius is rebuked; as, it is said,
Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sisters
When first they put the name of king upon me,
And bade them speak to him: then prophet-like
They hail'd him father to a line of kings:
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so,
For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind;
For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd;
Put rancours in the vessel of my peace
Only for them; and mine eternal jewel
Given to the common enemy of man,
To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!
Rather than so, come fate into the list.
And champion me to the utterance! Who's there!
[Re-enter Attendant, with two Murderers]
Now go to the door, and stay there till we call.
[Exit Attendant]
Was it not yesterday we spoke together?",724,19140
649544,1101,"It was, so please your highness.",6,19140
649545,1102,"Well then, now
Have you consider'd of my speeches? Know
That it was he in the times past which held you
So under fortune, which you thought had been
Our innocent self: this I made good to you
In our last conference, pass'd in probation with you,
How you were borne in hand, how cross'd,
the instruments,
Who wrought with them, and all things else that might
To half a soul and to a notion crazed
Say 'Thus did Banquo.'",724,19140
649546,1113,You made it known to us.,6,19140
649547,1114,"I did so, and went further, which is now
Our point of second meeting. Do you find
Your patience so predominant in your nature
That you can let this go? Are you so gospell'd
To pray for this good man and for his issue,
Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave
And beggar'd yours for ever?",724,19140
649548,1121,"We are men, my liege.",6,19140
649549,1122,"Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept
All by the name of dogs: the valued file
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
According to the gift which bounteous nature
Hath in him closed; whereby he does receive
Particular addition. from the bill
That writes them all alike: and so of men.
Now, if you have a station in the file,
Not i' the worst rank of manhood, say 't;
And I will put that business in your bosoms,
Whose execution takes your enemy off,
Grapples you to the heart and love of us,
Who wear our health but sickly in his life,
Which in his death were perfect.",724,19140
649550,1139,"I am one, my liege,
Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
Have so incensed that I am reckless what
I do to spite the world.",23,19140
649551,1143,"And I another
So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,
That I would set my lie on any chance,
To mend it, or be rid on't.",6,19140
649552,1147,"Both of you
Know Banquo was your enemy.",724,19140
649553,1149,"[with Second Murderer] True, my lord.",6,19140
649554,1150,"So is he mine; and in such bloody distance,
That every minute of his being thrusts
Against my near'st of life: and though I could
With barefaced power sweep him from my sight
And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not,
For certain friends that are both his and mine,
Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall
Who I myself struck down; and thence it is,
That I to your assistance do make love,
Masking the business from the common eye
For sundry weighty reasons.",724,19140
649555,1161,"We shall, my lord,
Perform what you command us.",23,19140
649556,1163,Though our lives--,6,19140
649557,1164,"Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most
I will advise you where to plant yourselves;
Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' the time,
The moment on't; for't must be done to-night,
And something from the palace; always thought
That I require a clearness: and with him--
To leave no rubs nor botches in the work--
Fleance his son, that keeps him company,
Whose absence is no less material to me
Than is his father's, must embrace the fate
Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart:
I'll come to you anon.",724,19140
649558,1176,"[With Second Murderer] We are resolved, my lord.",6,19140
649559,1177,"I'll call upon you straight: abide within.
[Exeunt Murderers]
It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul's flight,
If it find heaven, must find it out to-night.",724,19140
649560,1181,[Exit],1261,19140
649561,1183,[Enter LADY MACBETH and a Servant],1261,19141
649562,1184,Is Banquo gone from court?,646,19141
649563,1185,"Ay, madam, but returns again to-night.",1068,19141
649564,1186,"Say to the king, I would attend his leisure
For a few words.",646,19141
649565,1188,"Madam, I will.",1068,19141
649566,1189,[Exit],1261,19141
649567,1190,"Nought's had, all's spent,
Where our desire is got without content:
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
[Enter MACBETH]
How now, my lord! why do you keep alone,
Of sorriest fancies your companions making,
Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
With them they think on? Things without all remedy
Should be without regard: what's done is done.",646,19141
649568,1200,"We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it:
She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice
Remains in danger of her former tooth.
But let the frame of things disjoint, both the
worlds suffer,
Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep
In the affliction of these terrible dreams
That shake us nightly: better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave;
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;
Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,
Can touch him further.",724,19141
649569,1215,"Come on;
Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks;
Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.",646,19141
649570,1218,"So shall I, love; and so, I pray, be you:
Let your remembrance apply to Banquo;
Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue:
Unsafe the while, that we
Must lave our honours in these flattering streams,
And make our faces vizards to our hearts,
Disguising what they are.",724,19141
649571,1225,You must leave this.,646,19141
649572,1226,"O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.",724,19141
649573,1228,But in them nature's copy's not eterne.,646,19141
649574,1229,"There's comfort yet; they are assailable;
Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown
His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons
The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done
A deed of dreadful note.",724,19141
649575,1235,What's to be done?,646,19141
649576,1236,"Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day;
And with thy bloody and invisible hand
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow
Makes wing to the rooky wood:
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
While night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Thou marvell'st at my words: but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
So, prithee, go with me.",724,19141
649577,1248,[Exeunt],1261,19141
649578,1250,[Enter three Murderers],1261,19142
649579,1251,But who did bid thee join with us?,6,19142
649580,1252,Macbeth.,38,19142
649581,1253,"He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers
Our offices and what we have to do
To the direction just.",23,19142
649582,1256,"Then stand with us.
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:
Now spurs the lated traveller apace
To gain the timely inn; and near approaches
The subject of our watch.",6,19142
649583,1261,Hark! I hear horses.,38,19142
649584,1262,"[Within] Give us a light there, ho!",141,19142
649585,1263,"Then 'tis he: the rest
That are within the note of expectation
Already are i' the court.",23,19142
649586,1266,His horses go about.,6,19142
649587,1267,"Almost a mile: but he does usually,
So all men do, from hence to the palace gate
Make it their walk.",38,19142
649588,1270,"A light, a light!",23,19142
649589,1271,"[Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE with a torch]",1261,19142
649592,1274,It will be rain to-night.,141,19142
649593,1275,Let it come down.,6,19142
649594,1276,[They set upon BANQUO],1261,19142
649595,1277,"O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
Thou mayst revenge. O slave!",141,19142
649596,1279,[Dies. FLEANCE escapes],1261,19142
649597,1280,Who did strike out the light?,38,19142
649598,1281,Wast not the way?,6,19142
649599,1282,There's but one down; the son is fled.,38,19142
649600,1283,"We have lost
Best half of our affair.",23,19142
649601,1285,"Well, let's away, and say how much is done.",6,19142
649602,1286,"[Exeunt]
[A banquet prepared. Enter MACBETH, LADY MACBETH,]
ROSS, LENNOX, Lords, and Attendants]",1261,19142
649603,1290,"You know your own degrees; sit down: at first
And last the hearty welcome.",724,19143
649604,1292,Thanks to your majesty.,698,19143
649605,1293,"Ourself will mingle with society,
And play the humble host.
Our hostess keeps her state, but in best time
We will require her welcome.",724,19143
649606,1297,"Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends;
For my heart speaks they are welcome.",646,19143
649607,1299,[First Murderer appears at the door],1261,19143
649608,1300,"See, they encounter thee with their hearts' thanks.
Both sides are even: here I'll sit i' the midst:
Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure
The table round.
[Approaching the door]
There's blood on thy face.",724,19143
649610,1307,"'Tis better thee without than he within.
Is he dispatch'd?",724,19143
649611,1309,"My lord, his throat is cut; that I did for him.",6,19143
649612,1310,"Thou art the best o' the cut-throats: yet he's good
That did the like for Fleance: if thou didst it,
Thou art the nonpareil.",724,19143
649613,1313,"Most royal sir,
Fleance is 'scaped.",6,19143
649614,1315,"Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,
As broad and general as the casing air:
But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo's safe?",724,19143
649615,1320,"Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head;
The least a death to nature.",6,19143
649616,1323,"Thanks for that:
There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled
Hath nature that in time will venom breed,
No teeth for the present. Get thee gone: to-morrow
We'll hear, ourselves, again.",724,19143
649617,1328,[Exit Murderer],1261,19143
649618,1329,"My royal lord,
You do not give the cheer: the feast is sold
That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a-making,
'Tis given with welcome: to feed were best at home;
From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;
Meeting were bare without it.",646,19143
649619,1335,"Sweet remembrancer!
Now, good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!",724,19143
649620,1338,"May't please your highness sit.
[The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in]
MACBETH's place]",662,19143
649621,1341,"Here had we now our country's honour roof'd,
Were the graced person of our Banquo present;
Who may I rather challenge for unkindness
Than pity for mischance!",724,19143
649622,1345,"His absence, sir,
Lays blame upon his promise. Please't your highness
To grace us with your royal company.",956,19143
649623,1348,The table's full.,724,19143
649624,1349,"Here is a place reserved, sir.",662,19143
649625,1350,Where?,724,19143
649626,1351,"Here, my good lord. What is't that moves your highness?",662,19143
649627,1352,Which of you have done this?,724,19143
649628,1353,"What, my good lord?",698,19143
649629,1354,"Thou canst not say I did it: never shake
Thy gory locks at me.",724,19143
649630,1356,"Gentlemen, rise: his highness is not well.",956,19143
649631,1357,"Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus,
And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat;
The fit is momentary; upon a thought
He will again be well: if much you note him,
You shall offend him and extend his passion:
Feed, and regard him not. Are you a man?",646,19143
649632,1363,"Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that
Which might appal the devil.",724,19143
649633,1365,"O proper stuff!
This is the very painting of your fear:
This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,
Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts,
Impostors to true fear, would well become
A woman's story at a winter's fire,
Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!
Why do you make such faces? When all's done,
You look but on a stool.",646,19143
649634,1374,"Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo!
how say you?
Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.
If charnel-houses and our graves must send
Those that we bury back, our monuments
Shall be the maws of kites.",724,19143
649635,1380,[GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes],1261,19143
649636,1381,"What, quite unmann'd in folly?",646,19143
649637,1382,"If I stand here, I saw him.",724,19143
649638,1383,"Fie, for shame!",646,19143
649639,1384,"Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,
Ere human statute purged the gentle weal;
Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd
Too terrible for the ear: the times have been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools: this is more strange
Than such a murder is.",724,19143
649640,1393,"My worthy lord,
Your noble friends do lack you.",646,19143
649641,1395,"I do forget.
Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends,
I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing
To those that know me. Come, love and health to all;
Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine; fill full.
I drink to the general joy o' the whole table,
And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss;
Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst,
And all to all.",724,19143
649642,1404,"Our duties, and the pledge.",698,19143
649643,1405,[Re-enter GHOST OF BANQUO],1261,19143
649644,1406,"Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with!",724,19143
649645,1410,"Think of this, good peers,
But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other;
Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.",646,19143
649646,1413,"What man dare, I dare:
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble: or be alive again,
And dare me to the desert with thy sword;
If trembling I inhabit then, protest me
The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mockery, hence!
[GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes]
Why, so: being gone,
I am a man again. Pray you, sit still.",724,19143
649647,1425,"You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,
With most admired disorder.",646,19143
649648,1427,"Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
Without our special wonder? You make me strange
Even to the disposition that I owe,
When now I think you can behold such sights,
And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,
When mine is blanched with fear.",724,19143
649649,1434,"What sights, my lord?",956,19143
649650,1435,"I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse;
Question enrages him. At once, good night:
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.",646,19143
649651,1439,"Good night; and better health
Attend his majesty!",662,19143
649652,1441,A kind good night to all!,646,19143
649653,1442,[Exeunt all but MACBETH and LADY MACBETH],1261,19143
649654,1443,"It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:
Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;
Augurs and understood relations have
By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth
The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?",724,19143
649655,1448,"Almost at odds with morning, which is which.",646,19143
649656,1449,"How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person
At our great bidding?",724,19143
649657,1451,"Did you send to him, sir?",646,19143
649658,1452,"I hear it by the way; but I will send:
There's not a one of them but in his house
I keep a servant fee'd. I will to-morrow,
And betimes I will, to the weird sisters:
More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know,
By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good,
All causes shall give way: I am in blood
Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er:
Strange things I have in head, that will to hand;
Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.",724,19143
649659,1463,"You lack the season of all natures, sleep.",646,19143
649660,1464,"Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse
Is the initiate fear that wants hard use:
We are yet but young in deed.",724,19143
649661,1467,[Exeunt],1261,19143
649662,1469,[Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting HECATE],1261,19144
649663,1470,"Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly.",18,19144
649664,1471,"Have I not reason, beldams as you are,
Saucy and overbold? How did you dare
To trade and traffic with Macbeth
In riddles and affairs of death;
And I, the mistress of your charms,
The close contriver of all harms,
Was never call'd to bear my part,
Or show the glory of our art?
And, which is worse, all you have done
Hath been but for a wayward son,
Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do,
Loves for his own ends, not for you.
But make amends now: get you gone,
And at the pit of Acheron
Meet me i' the morning: thither he
Will come to know his destiny:
Your vessels and your spells provide,
Your charms and every thing beside.
I am for the air; this night I'll spend
Unto a dismal and a fatal end:
Great business must be wrought ere noon:
Upon the corner of the moon
There hangs a vaporous drop profound;
I'll catch it ere it come to ground:
And that distill'd by magic sleights
Shall raise such artificial sprites
As by the strength of their illusion
Shall draw him on to his confusion:
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
He hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:
And you all know, security
Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
[Music and a song within: 'Come away, come away,' &c]
Hark! I am call'd; my little spirit, see,
Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me.",564,19144
649665,1506,[Exit],1261,19144
649666,1507,"Come, let's make haste; she'll soon be back again.",18,19144
649667,1508,[Exeunt],1261,19144
649668,1510,[Enter LENNOX and another Lord],1261,19145
649669,1511,"My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,
Which can interpret further: only, I say,
Things have been strangely borne. The
gracious Duncan
Was pitied of Macbeth: marry, he was dead:
And the right-valiant Banquo walk'd too late;
Whom, you may say, if't please you, Fleance kill'd,
For Fleance fled: men must not walk too late.
Who cannot want the thought how monstrous
It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain
To kill their gracious father? damned fact!
How it did grieve Macbeth! did he not straight
In pious rage the two delinquents tear,
That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep?
Was not that nobly done? Ay, and wisely too;
For 'twould have anger'd any heart alive
To hear the men deny't. So that, I say,
He has borne all things well: and I do think
That had he Duncan's sons under his key--
As, an't please heaven, he shall not--they
should find
What 'twere to kill a father; so should Fleance.
But, peace! for from broad words and 'cause he fail'd
His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear
Macduff lives in disgrace: sir, can you tell
Where he bestows himself?",662,19145
649670,1537,"The son of Duncan,
From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth
Lives in the English court, and is received
Of the most pious Edward with such grace
That the malevolence of fortune nothing
Takes from his high respect: thither Macduff
Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid
To wake Northumberland and warlike Siward:
That, by the help of these--with Him above
To ratify the work--we may again
Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights,
Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives,
Do faithful homage and receive free honours:
All which we pine for now: and this report
Hath so exasperate the king that he
Prepares for some attempt of war.",689,19145
649671,1553,Sent he to Macduff?,662,19145
649672,1554,"He did: and with an absolute 'Sir, not I,'
The cloudy messenger turns me his back,
And hums, as who should say 'You'll rue the time
That clogs me with this answer.'",689,19145
649673,1558,"And that well might
Advise him to a caution, to hold what distance
His wisdom can provide. Some holy angel
Fly to the court of England and unfold
His message ere he come, that a swift blessing
May soon return to this our suffering country
Under a hand accursed!",662,19145
649674,1565,I'll send my prayers with him.,689,19145
649675,1566,[Exeunt],1261,19145
649676,1569,[Thunder. Enter the three Witches],1261,19146
649677,1570,Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.,18,19146
649678,1571,Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.,33,19146
649679,1572,"Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.",42,19146
649680,1573,"Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.",18,19146
649681,1579,"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.",86,19146
649682,1581,"Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.",33,19146
649683,1589,"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.",86,19146
649684,1591,"Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.",42,19146
649685,1604,"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.",86,19146
649686,1606,"Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.",33,19146
649687,1608,[Enter HECATE to the other three Witches],1261,19146
649688,1609,"O well done! I commend your pains;
And every one shall share i' the gains;
And now about the cauldron sing,
Live elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in.",564,19146
649689,1614,"[Music and a song: 'Black spirits,' &c]",1261,19146
649690,1615,[HECATE retires],1261,19146
649691,1616,"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!",33,19146
649692,1620,[Enter MACBETH],1261,19146
649693,1621,"How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!
What is't you do?",724,19146
649694,1623,A deed without a name.,86,19146
649695,1624,"I conjure you, by that which you profess,
Howe'er you come to know it, answer me:
Though you untie the winds and let them fight
Against the churches; though the yesty waves
Confound and swallow navigation up;
Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down;
Though castles topple on their warders' heads;
Though palaces and pyramids do slope
Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure
Of nature's germens tumble all together,
Even till destruction sicken; answer me
To what I ask you.",724,19146
649696,1636,Speak.,18,19146
649697,1637,Demand.,33,19146
649698,1638,We'll answer.,42,19146
649699,1639,"Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths,
Or from our masters?",18,19146
649700,1641,Call 'em; let me see 'em.,724,19146
649701,1642,"Pour in sow's blood, that hath eaten
Her nine farrow; grease that's sweaten
From the murderer's gibbet throw
Into the flame.",18,19146
649702,1646,"Come, high or low;
Thyself and office deftly show!",86,19146
649703,1648,[Thunder. First Apparition: an armed Head],1261,19146
649704,1649,"Tell me, thou unknown power,--",724,19146
649705,1650,"He knows thy thought:
Hear his speech, but say thou nought.",18,19146
649706,1652,"Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff;
Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.",1,19146
649707,1654,[Descends],1261,19146
649708,1655,"Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks;
Thou hast harp'd my fear aright: but one
word more,--",724,19146
649709,1658,"He will not be commanded: here's another,
More potent than the first.",18,19146
649710,1660,[Thunder. Second Apparition: A bloody Child],1261,19146
649711,1661,Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!,19,19146
649712,1662,"Had I three ears, I'ld hear thee.",724,19146
649713,1663,"Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.",19,19146
649714,1666,[Descends],1261,19146
649715,1667,"Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?
But yet I'll make assurance double sure,
And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live;
That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,
And sleep in spite of thunder.
[Thunder. Third Apparition: a Child crowned, with a tree in his hand]
What is this
That rises like the issue of a king,
And wears upon his baby-brow the round
And top of sovereignty?",724,19146
649716,1677,"Listen, but speak not to't.",86,19146
649717,1678,"Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are:
Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until
Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill
Shall come against him.",34,19146
649718,1683,[Descends],1261,19146
649719,1684,"That will never be
Who can impress the forest, bid the tree
Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! good!
Rebellion's head, rise never till the wood
Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth
Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath
To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart
Throbs to know one thing: tell me, if your art
Can tell so much: shall Banquo's issue ever
Reign in this kingdom?",724,19146
649720,1694,Seek to know no more.,86,19146
649721,1695,"I will be satisfied: deny me this,
And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know.
Why sinks that cauldron? and what noise is this?",724,19146
649722,1698,[Hautboys],1261,19146
649723,1699,Show!,18,19146
649724,1700,Show!,33,19146
649725,1701,Show!,42,19146
649726,1702,"Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;
Come like shadows, so depart!
[A show of Eight Kings, the last with a glass in]
his hand; GHOST OF BANQUO following]",86,19146
649727,1706,"Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo: down!
Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls. And thy hair,
Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first.
A third is like the former. Filthy hags!
Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes!
What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more:
And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass
Which shows me many more; and some I see
That two-fold balls and treble scepters carry:
Horrible sight! Now, I see, 'tis true;
For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me,
And points at them for his.
[Apparitions vanish]
What, is this so?",724,19146
649728,1721,"Ay, sir, all this is so: but why
Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?
Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites,
And show the best of our delights:
I'll charm the air to give a sound,
While you perform your antic round:
That this great king may kindly say,
Our duties did his welcome pay.",18,19146
649729,1729,"[Music. The witches dance and then vanish, with HECATE]",1261,19146
649730,1730,"Where are they? Gone? Let this pernicious hour
Stand aye accursed in the calendar!
Come in, without there!",724,19146
649731,1733,[Enter LENNOX],1261,19146
649732,1734,What's your grace's will?,662,19146
649733,1735,Saw you the weird sisters?,724,19146
649734,1736,"No, my lord.",662,19146
649735,1737,Came they not by you?,724,19146
649736,1738,"No, indeed, my lord.",662,19146
649737,1739,"Infected be the air whereon they ride;
And damn'd all those that trust them! I did hear
The galloping of horse: who was't came by?",724,19146
649738,1742,"'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word
Macduff is fled to England.",662,19146
649739,1744,Fled to England!,724,19146
649740,1745,"Ay, my good lord.",662,19146
649741,1746,"Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits:
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook
Unless the deed go with it; from this moment
The very firstlings of my heart shall be
The firstlings of my hand. And even now,
To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done:
The castle of Macduff I will surprise;
Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o' the sword
His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls
That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool;
This deed I'll do before this purpose cool.
But no more sights!--Where are these gentlemen?
Come, bring me where they are.",724,19146
649742,1759,[Exeunt],1261,19146
649743,1761,"[Enter LADY MACDUFF, her Son, and ROSS]",1261,19147
649744,1762,"What had he done, to make him fly the land?",647,19147
649745,1763,"You must have patience, madam.",956,19147
649746,1764,"He had none:
His flight was madness: when our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors.",647,19147
649747,1767,"You know not
Whether it was his wisdom or his fear.",956,19147
649748,1769,"Wisdom! to leave his wife, to leave his babes,
His mansion and his titles in a place
From whence himself does fly? He loves us not;
He wants the natural touch: for the poor wren,
The most diminutive of birds, will fight,
Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.
All is the fear and nothing is the love;
As little is the wisdom, where the flight
So runs against all reason.",647,19147
649749,1778,"My dearest coz,
I pray you, school yourself: but for your husband,
He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows
The fits o' the season. I dare not speak
much further;
But cruel are the times, when we are traitors
And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumour
From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,
But float upon a wild and violent sea
Each way and move. I take my leave of you:
Shall not be long but I'll be here again:
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward
To what they were before. My pretty cousin,
Blessing upon you!",956,19147
649750,1792,"Father'd he is, and yet he's fatherless.",647,19147
649751,1793,"I am so much a fool, should I stay longer,
It would be my disgrace and your discomfort:
I take my leave at once.",956,19147
649752,1796,[Exit],1261,19147
649753,1797,"Sirrah, your father's dead;
And what will you do now? How will you live?",647,19147
649754,1799,"As birds do, mother.",1140,19147
649755,1800,"What, with worms and flies?",647,19147
649756,1801,"With what I get, I mean; and so do they.",1140,19147
649757,1802,"Poor bird! thou'ldst never fear the net nor lime,
The pitfall nor the gin.",647,19147
649758,1804,"Why should I, mother? Poor birds they are not set for.
My father is not dead, for all your saying.",1140,19147
649759,1806,"Yes, he is dead; how wilt thou do for a father?",647,19147
649760,1807,"Nay, how will you do for a husband?",1140,19147
649761,1808,"Why, I can buy me twenty at any market.",647,19147
649762,1809,Then you'll buy 'em to sell again.,1140,19147
649763,1810,"Thou speak'st with all thy wit: and yet, i' faith,
With wit enough for thee.",647,19147
649764,1812,"Was my father a traitor, mother?",1140,19147
649765,1813,"Ay, that he was.",647,19147
649766,1814,What is a traitor?,1140,19147
649767,1815,"Why, one that swears and lies.",647,19147
649768,1816,And be all traitors that do so?,1140,19147
649769,1817,"Every one that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged.",647,19147
649770,1818,And must they all be hanged that swear and lie?,1140,19147
649771,1819,Every one.,647,19147
649772,1820,Who must hang them?,1140,19147
649773,1821,"Why, the honest men.",647,19147
649774,1822,"Then the liars and swearers are fools,
for there are liars and swearers enow to beat
the honest men and hang up them.",1140,19147
649775,1825,"Now, God help thee, poor monkey!
But how wilt thou do for a father?",647,19147
649776,1827,"If he were dead, you'ld weep for
him: if you would not, it were a good sign
that I should quickly have a new father.",1140,19147
649777,1830,"Poor prattler, how thou talk'st!",647,19147
649778,1831,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19147
649779,1832,"Bless you, fair dame! I am not to you known,
Though in your state of honour I am perfect.
I doubt some danger does approach you nearly:
If you will take a homely man's advice,
Be not found here; hence, with your little ones.
To fright you thus, methinks, I am too savage;
To do worse to you were fell cruelty,
Which is too nigh your person. Heaven preserve you!
I dare abide no longer.",785,19147
649780,1841,[Exit],1261,19147
649781,1842,"Whither should I fly?
I have done no harm. But I remember now
I am in this earthly world; where to do harm
Is often laudable, to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly: why then, alas,
Do I put up that womanly defence,
To say I have done no harm?
[Enter Murderers]
What are these faces?",647,19147
649782,1851,Where is your husband?,6,19147
649783,1852,"I hope, in no place so unsanctified
Where such as thou mayst find him.",647,19147
649784,1854,He's a traitor.,6,19147
649785,1855,"Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain!",1140,19147
649786,1856,"What, you egg!
[Stabbing him]
Young fry of treachery!",6,19147
649787,1859,"He has kill'd me, mother:
Run away, I pray you!
[Dies]
[Exit LADY MACDUFF, crying 'Murder!' Exeunt]
Murderers, following her]",1140,19147
649788,1865,[Enter MALCOLM and MACDUFF],1261,19148
649789,1866,"Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there
Weep our sad bosoms empty.",727,19148
649790,1868,"Let us rather
Hold fast the mortal sword, and like good men
Bestride our down-fall'n birthdom: each new morn
New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows
Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds
As if it felt with Scotland and yell'd out
Like syllable of dolour.",725,19148
649791,1875,"What I believe I'll wail,
What know believe, and what I can redress,
As I shall find the time to friend, I will.
What you have spoke, it may be so perchance.
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,
Was once thought honest: you have loved him well.
He hath not touch'd you yet. I am young;
but something
You may deserve of him through me, and wisdom
To offer up a weak poor innocent lamb
To appease an angry god.",727,19148
649792,1886,I am not treacherous.,725,19148
649793,1887,"But Macbeth is.
A good and virtuous nature may recoil
In an imperial charge. But I shall crave
your pardon;
That which you are my thoughts cannot transpose:
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell;
Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet grace must still look so.",727,19148
649794,1895,I have lost my hopes.,725,19148
649795,1896,"Perchance even there where I did find my doubts.
Why in that rawness left you wife and child,
Those precious motives, those strong knots of love,
Without leave-taking? I pray you,
Let not my jealousies be your dishonours,
But mine own safeties. You may be rightly just,
Whatever I shall think.",727,19148
649796,1903,"Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great tyranny! lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not cheque thee: wear thou
thy wrongs;
The title is affeer'd! Fare thee well, lord:
I would not be the villain that thou think'st
For the whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp,
And the rich East to boot.",725,19148
649797,1911,"Be not offended:
I speak not as in absolute fear of you.
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;
It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds: I think withal
There would be hands uplifted in my right;
And here from gracious England have I offer
Of goodly thousands: but, for all this,
When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head,
Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country
Shall have more vices than it had before,
More suffer and more sundry ways than ever,
By him that shall succeed.",727,19148
649798,1924,What should he be?,725,19148
649799,1925,"It is myself I mean: in whom I know
All the particulars of vice so grafted
That, when they shall be open'd, black Macbeth
Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state
Esteem him as a lamb, being compared
With my confineless harms.",727,19148
649800,1931,"Not in the legions
Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd
In evils to top Macbeth.",725,19148
649801,1934,"I grant him bloody,
Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
That has a name: but there's no bottom, none,
In my voluptuousness: your wives, your daughters,
Your matrons and your maids, could not fill up
The cistern of my lust, and my desire
All continent impediments would o'erbear
That did oppose my will: better Macbeth
Than such an one to reign.",727,19148
649802,1944,"Boundless intemperance
In nature is a tyranny; it hath been
The untimely emptying of the happy throne
And fall of many kings. But fear not yet
To take upon you what is yours: you may
Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty,
And yet seem cold, the time you may so hoodwink.
We have willing dames enough: there cannot be
That vulture in you, to devour so many
As will to greatness dedicate themselves,
Finding it so inclined.",725,19148
649803,1955,"With this there grows
In my most ill-composed affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I king,
I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
Desire his jewels and this other's house:
And my more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more; that I should forge
Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
Destroying them for wealth.",727,19148
649804,1964,"This avarice
Sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root
Than summer-seeming lust, and it hath been
The sword of our slain kings: yet do not fear;
Scotland hath foisons to fill up your will.
Of your mere own: all these are portable,
With other graces weigh'd.",725,19148
649805,1971,"But I have none: the king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temperance, stableness,
Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
I have no relish of them, but abound
In the division of each several crime,
Acting it many ways. Nay, had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth.",727,19148
649806,1981,"O Scotland, Scotland!",725,19148
649807,1982,"If such a one be fit to govern, speak:
I am as I have spoken.",727,19148
649808,1984,"Fit to govern!
No, not to live. O nation miserable,
With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd,
When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,
Since that the truest issue of thy throne
By his own interdiction stands accursed,
And does blaspheme his breed? Thy royal father
Was a most sainted king: the queen that bore thee,
Oftener upon her knees than on her feet,
Died every day she lived. Fare thee well!
These evils thou repeat'st upon thyself
Have banish'd me from Scotland. O my breast,
Thy hope ends here!",725,19148
649809,1997,"Macduff, this noble passion,
Child of integrity, hath from my soul
Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts
To thy good truth and honour. Devilish Macbeth
By many of these trains hath sought to win me
Into his power, and modest wisdom plucks me
From over-credulous haste: but God above
Deal between thee and me! for even now
I put myself to thy direction, and
Unspeak mine own detraction, here abjure
The taints and blames I laid upon myself,
For strangers to my nature. I am yet
Unknown to woman, never was forsworn,
Scarcely have coveted what was mine own,
At no time broke my faith, would not betray
The devil to his fellow and delight
No less in truth than life: my first false speaking
Was this upon myself: what I am truly,
Is thine and my poor country's to command:
Whither indeed, before thy here-approach,
Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men,
Already at a point, was setting forth.
Now we'll together; and the chance of goodness
Be like our warranted quarrel! Why are you silent?",727,19148
649810,2021,"Such welcome and unwelcome things at once
'Tis hard to reconcile.",725,19148
649811,2023,[Enter a Doctor],1261,19148
649812,2024,"Well; more anon.--Comes the king forth, I pray you?",727,19148
649813,2025,"Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls
That stay his cure: their malady convinces
The great assay of art; but at his touch--
Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand--
They presently amend.",322,19148
649814,2030,"I thank you, doctor.",727,19148
649815,2031,[Exit Doctor],1261,19148
649816,2032,What's the disease he means?,725,19148
649817,2033,"'Tis call'd the evil:
A most miraculous work in this good king;
Which often, since my here-remain in England,
I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven,
Himself best knows: but strangely-visited people,
All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye,
The mere despair of surgery, he cures,
Hanging a golden stamp about their necks,
Put on with holy prayers: and 'tis spoken,
To the succeeding royalty he leaves
The healing benediction. With this strange virtue,
He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy,
And sundry blessings hang about his throne,
That speak him full of grace.",727,19148
649818,2047,[Enter ROSS],1261,19148
649819,2048,"See, who comes here?",725,19148
649820,2049,My countryman; but yet I know him not.,727,19148
649821,2050,"My ever-gentle cousin, welcome hither.",725,19148
649822,2051,"I know him now. Good God, betimes remove
The means that makes us strangers!",727,19148
649823,2053,"Sir, amen.",956,19148
649824,2054,Stands Scotland where it did?,725,19148
649825,2055,"Alas, poor country!
Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot
Be call'd our mother, but our grave; where nothing,
But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile;
Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air
Are made, not mark'd; where violent sorrow seems
A modern ecstasy; the dead man's knell
Is there scarce ask'd for who; and good men's lives
Expire before the flowers in their caps,
Dying or ere they sicken.",956,19148
649826,2065,"O, relation
Too nice, and yet too true!",725,19148
649827,2067,What's the newest grief?,727,19148
649828,2068,"That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker:
Each minute teems a new one.",956,19148
649829,2070,How does my wife?,725,19148
649830,2071,"Why, well.",956,19148
649831,2072,And all my children?,725,19148
649832,2073,Well too.,956,19148
649833,2074,The tyrant has not batter'd at their peace?,725,19148
649834,2075,No; they were well at peace when I did leave 'em.,956,19148
649835,2076,But not a niggard of your speech: how goes't?,725,19148
649836,2077,"When I came hither to transport the tidings,
Which I have heavily borne, there ran a rumour
Of many worthy fellows that were out;
Which was to my belief witness'd the rather,
For that I saw the tyrant's power a-foot:
Now is the time of help; your eye in Scotland
Would create soldiers, make our women fight,
To doff their dire distresses.",956,19148
649837,2085,"Be't their comfort
We are coming thither: gracious England hath
Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men;
An older and a better soldier none
That Christendom gives out.",727,19148
649838,2090,"Would I could answer
This comfort with the like! But I have words
That would be howl'd out in the desert air,
Where hearing should not latch them.",956,19148
649839,2094,"What concern they?
The general cause? or is it a fee-grief
Due to some single breast?",725,19148
649840,2097,"No mind that's honest
But in it shares some woe; though the main part
Pertains to you alone.",956,19148
649841,2100,"If it be mine,
Keep it not from me, quickly let me have it.",725,19148
649842,2102,"Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever,
Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound
That ever yet they heard.",956,19148
649843,2105,Hum! I guess at it.,725,19148
649844,2106,"Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes
Savagely slaughter'd: to relate the manner,
Were, on the quarry of these murder'd deer,
To add the death of you.",956,19148
649845,2110,"Merciful heaven!
What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows;
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.",727,19148
649846,2114,My children too?,725,19148
649847,2115,"Wife, children, servants, all
That could be found.",956,19148
649848,2117,"And I must be from thence!
My wife kill'd too?",725,19148
649849,2119,I have said.,956,19148
649850,2120,"Be comforted:
Let's make us medicines of our great revenge,
To cure this deadly grief.",727,19148
649851,2123,"He has no children. All my pretty ones?
Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?",725,19148
649852,2127,Dispute it like a man.,727,19148
649853,2128,"I shall do so;
But I must also feel it as a man:
I cannot but remember such things were,
That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on,
And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff,
They were all struck for thee! naught that I am,
Not for their own demerits, but for mine,
Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now!",725,19148
649854,2136,"Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief
Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.",727,19148
649855,2138,"O, I could play the woman with mine eyes
And braggart with my tongue! But, gentle heavens,
Cut short all intermission; front to front
Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself;
Within my sword's length set him; if he 'scape,
Heaven forgive him too!",725,19148
649856,2144,"This tune goes manly.
Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;
Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth
Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above
Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may:
The night is long that never finds the day.",727,19148
649857,2150,[Exeunt],1261,19148
649858,2153,[Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman],1261,19149
649859,2154,"I have two nights watched with you, but can perceive
no truth in your report. When was it she last walked?",322,19149
649860,2156,"Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen
her rise from her bed, throw her night-gown upon
her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it,
write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again
return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep.",525,19149
649861,2161,"A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once
the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of
watching! In this slumbery agitation, besides her
walking and other actual performances, what, at any
time, have you heard her say?",322,19149
649862,2166,"That, sir, which I will not report after her.",525,19149
649863,2167,You may to me: and 'tis most meet you should.,322,19149
649864,2168,"Neither to you nor any one; having no witness to
confirm my speech.
[Enter LADY MACBETH, with a taper]
Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise;
and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her; stand close.",525,19149
649865,2173,How came she by that light?,322,19149
649866,2174,"Why, it stood by her: she has light by her
continually; 'tis her command.",525,19149
649867,2176,"You see, her eyes are open.",322,19149
649868,2177,"Ay, but their sense is shut.",525,19149
649869,2178,"What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.",322,19149
649870,2179,"It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus
washing her hands: I have known her continue in
this a quarter of an hour.",525,19149
649871,2182,Yet here's a spot.,646,19149
649872,2183,"Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from
her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.",322,19149
649873,2185,"Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,
then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
account?--Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him.",646,19149
649874,2191,Do you mark that?,322,19149
649875,2192,"The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?--
What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o'
that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with
this starting.",646,19149
649876,2196,"Go to, go to; you have known what you should not.",322,19149
649877,2197,"She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of
that: heaven knows what she has known.",525,19149
649878,2199,"Here's the smell of the blood still: all the
perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little
hand. Oh, oh, oh!",646,19149
649879,2202,What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.,322,19149
649880,2203,"I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the
dignity of the whole body.",525,19149
649881,2205,"Well, well, well,--",322,19149
649882,2206,"Pray God it be, sir.",525,19149
649883,2207,"This disease is beyond my practise: yet I have known
those which have walked in their sleep who have died
holily in their beds.",322,19149
649884,2210,"Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so
pale.--I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he
cannot come out on's grave.",646,19149
649885,2213,Even so?,322,19149
649886,2214,"To bed, to bed! there's knocking at the gate:
come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's
done cannot be undone.--To bed, to bed, to bed!",646,19149
649887,2217,[Exit],1261,19149
649888,2218,Will she go now to bed?,322,19149
649889,2219,Directly.,525,19149
649890,2220,"Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:
More needs she the divine than the physician.
God, God forgive us all! Look after her;
Remove from her the means of all annoyance,
And still keep eyes upon her. So, good night:
My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight.
I think, but dare not speak.",322,19149
649891,2229,"Good night, good doctor.",525,19149
649892,2230,"[Exeunt]
[Drum and colours. Enter MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS,]
LENNOX, and Soldiers]",1261,19149
649893,2234,"The English power is near, led on by Malcolm,
His uncle Siward and the good Macduff:
Revenges burn in them; for their dear causes
Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm
Excite the mortified man.",764,19150
649894,2239,"Near Birnam wood
Shall we well meet them; that way are they coming.",105,19150
649895,2241,Who knows if Donalbain be with his brother?,204,19150
649896,2242,"For certain, sir, he is not: I have a file
Of all the gentry: there is Siward's son,
And many unrough youths that even now
Protest their first of manhood.",662,19150
649897,2246,What does the tyrant?,764,19150
649898,2247,"Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies:
Some say he's mad; others that lesser hate him
Do call it valiant fury: but, for certain,
He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause
Within the belt of rule.",204,19150
649899,2252,"Now does he feel
His secret murders sticking on his hands;
Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach;
Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love: now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.",105,19150
649900,2259,"Who then shall blame
His pester'd senses to recoil and start,
When all that is within him does condemn
Itself for being there?",764,19150
649901,2263,"Well, march we on,
To give obedience where 'tis truly owed:
Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal,
And with him pour we in our country's purge
Each drop of us.",204,19150
649902,2268,"Or so much as it needs,
To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.
Make we our march towards Birnam.",662,19150
649903,2271,"[Exeunt, marching]",1261,19150
649904,2273,"[Enter MACBETH, Doctor, and Attendants]",1261,19151
649905,2274,"Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?
Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know
All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:
'Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman
Shall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly,
false thanes,
And mingle with the English epicures:
The mind I sway by and the heart I bear
Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
[Enter a Servant]
The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
Where got'st thou that goose look?",724,19151
649906,2288,There is ten thousand--,1068,19151
649907,2289,"Geese, villain!",724,19151
649908,2290,"Soldiers, sir.",1068,19151
649909,2291,"Go prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,
Thou lily-liver'd boy. What soldiers, patch?
Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine
Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?",724,19151
649910,2295,"The English force, so please you.",1068,19151
649911,2296,"Take thy face hence.
[Exit Servant]
Seyton!--I am sick at heart,
When I behold--Seyton, I say!--This push
Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now.
I have lived long enough: my way of life
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf;
And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton!",724,19151
649912,2308,[Enter SEYTON],1261,19151
649913,2309,What is your gracious pleasure?,1083,19151
649914,2310,What news more?,724,19151
649915,2311,"All is confirm'd, my lord, which was reported.",1083,19151
649916,2312,"I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd.
Give me my armour.",724,19151
649919,2319,"Not so sick, my lord,
As she is troubled with thick coming fancies,
That keep her from her rest.",322,19151
649920,2322,"Cure her of that.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?",724,19151
649921,2329,"Therein the patient
Must minister to himself.",322,19151
649922,2331,"Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.
Come, put mine armour on; give me my staff.
Seyton, send out. Doctor, the thanes fly from me.
Come, sir, dispatch. If thou couldst, doctor, cast
The water of my land, find her disease,
And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again.--Pull't off, I say.--
What rhubarb, cyme, or what purgative drug,
Would scour these English hence? Hear'st thou of them?",724,19151
649923,2341,"Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation
Makes us hear something.",322,19151
649924,2343,"Bring it after me.
I will not be afraid of death and bane,
Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.",724,19151
649925,2346,"[Aside] Were I from Dunsinane away and clear,
Profit again should hardly draw me here.",322,19151
649926,2348,"[Exeunt]
[Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD and YOUNG]
SIWARD, MACDUFF, MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS,
LENNOX, ROSS, and Soldiers, marching]",1261,19151
649927,2353,"Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand
That chambers will be safe.",727,19152
649928,2355,We doubt it nothing.,764,19152
649929,2356,What wood is this before us?,1121,19152
649930,2357,The wood of Birnam.,764,19152
649931,2358,"Let every soldier hew him down a bough
And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow
The numbers of our host and make discovery
Err in report of us.",727,19152
649932,2362,It shall be done.,1133,19152
649933,2363,"We learn no other but the confident tyrant
Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure
Our setting down before 't.",1121,19152
649934,2366,"'Tis his main hope:
For where there is advantage to be given,
Both more and less have given him the revolt,
And none serve with him but constrained things
Whose hearts are absent too.",727,19152
649935,2371,"Let our just censures
Attend the true event, and put we on
Industrious soldiership.",725,19152
649936,2374,"The time approaches
That will with due decision make us know
What we shall say we have and what we owe.
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,
But certain issue strokes must arbitrate:
Towards which advance the war.",1121,19152
649937,2380,"[Exeunt, marching]",1261,19152
649938,2382,"[Enter MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers, with drum and colours]",1261,19153
649939,2383,"Hang out our banners on the outward walls;
The cry is still 'They come:' our castle's strength
Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie
Till famine and the ague eat them up:
Were they not forced with those that should be ours,
We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,
And beat them backward home.
[A cry of women within]
What is that noise?",724,19153
649940,2392,"It is the cry of women, my good lord.",1083,19153
649941,2393,[Exit],1261,19153
649942,2394,"I have almost forgot the taste of fears;
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
Cannot once start me.
[Re-enter SEYTON]
Wherefore was that cry?",724,19153
649943,2403,"The queen, my lord, is dead.",1083,19153
649944,2404,"She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
[Enter a Messenger]
Thou comest to use thy tongue; thy story quickly.",724,19153
649945,2418,"Gracious my lord,
I should report that which I say I saw,
But know not how to do it.",785,19153
649946,2421,"Well, say, sir.",724,19153
649947,2422,"As I did stand my watch upon the hill,
I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought,
The wood began to move.",785,19153
649948,2425,Liar and slave!,724,19153
649949,2426,"Let me endure your wrath, if't be not so:
Within this three mile may you see it coming;
I say, a moving grove.",785,19153
649950,2429,"If thou speak'st false,
Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,
Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,
I care not if thou dost for me as much.
I pull in resolution, and begin
To doubt the equivocation of the fiend
That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood
Do come to Dunsinane:' and now a wood
Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!
If this which he avouches does appear,
There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.
I gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.
Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
At least we'll die with harness on our back.",724,19153
649951,2444,"[Exeunt]
[Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD, MACDUFF,]
and their Army, with boughs]",1261,19153
649952,2448,"Now near enough: your leafy screens throw down.
And show like those you are. You, worthy uncle,
Shall, with my cousin, your right-noble son,
Lead our first battle: worthy Macduff and we
Shall take upon 's what else remains to do,
According to our order.",727,19154
649953,2454,"Fare you well.
Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night,
Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight.",1121,19154
649954,2457,"Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,
Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.",725,19154
649955,2459,[Exeunt],1261,19154
649956,2461,[Alarums. Enter MACBETH],1261,19155
649957,2462,"They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,
But, bear-like, I must fight the course. What's he
That was not born of woman? Such a one
Am I to fear, or none.",724,19155
649958,2466,[Enter YOUNG SIWARD],1261,19155
649959,2467,What is thy name?,1266,19155
649960,2468,Thou'lt be afraid to hear it.,724,19155
649961,2469,"No; though thou call'st thyself a hotter name
Than any is in hell.",1266,19155
649962,2471,My name's Macbeth.,724,19155
649963,2472,"The devil himself could not pronounce a title
More hateful to mine ear.",1266,19155
649964,2474,"No, nor more fearful.",724,19155
649965,2475,"Thou liest, abhorred tyrant; with my sword
I'll prove the lie thou speak'st.",1266,19155
649966,2477,[They fight and YOUNG SIWARD is slain],1261,19155
649967,2478,"Thou wast born of woman
But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn,
Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born.",724,19155
649968,2481,[Exit],1261,19155
649969,2482,[Alarums. Enter MACDUFF],1261,19155
649970,2483,"That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face!
If thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine,
My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still.
I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms
Are hired to bear their staves: either thou, Macbeth,
Or else my sword with an unbatter'd edge
I sheathe again undeeded. There thou shouldst be;
By this great clatter, one of greatest note
Seems bruited. Let me find him, fortune!
And more I beg not.",725,19155
649971,2493,[Exit. Alarums],1261,19155
649972,2494,[Enter MALCOLM and SIWARD],1261,19155
649973,2495,"This way, my lord; the castle's gently render'd:
The tyrant's people on both sides do fight;
The noble thanes do bravely in the war;
The day almost itself professes yours,
And little is to do.",1121,19155
649974,2500,"We have met with foes
That strike beside us.",727,19155
649975,2502,"Enter, sir, the castle.",1121,19155
649976,2503,[Exeunt. Alarums],1261,19155
649977,2505,[Enter MACBETH],1261,19156
649978,2506,"Why should I play the Roman fool, and die
On mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes
Do better upon them.",724,19156
649979,2509,[Enter MACDUFF],1261,19156
649980,2510,"Turn, hell-hound, turn!",725,19156
649981,2511,"Of all men else I have avoided thee:
But get thee back; my soul is too much charged
With blood of thine already.",724,19156
649982,2514,"I have no words:
My voice is in my sword: thou bloodier villain
Than terms can give thee out!",725,19156
649983,2517,[They fight],1261,19156
649984,2518,"Thou losest labour:
As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air
With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed:
Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,
To one of woman born.",724,19156
649985,2524,"Despair thy charm;
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb
Untimely ripp'd.",725,19156
649986,2528,"Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cow'd my better part of man!
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee.",724,19156
649987,2534,"Then yield thee, coward,
And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:
We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
Painted on a pole, and underwrit,
'Here may you see the tyrant.'",725,19156
649988,2539,"I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
[Exeunt, fighting. Alarums]
[Retreat. Flourish. Enter, with drum and colours,]
MALCOLM, SIWARD, ROSS, the other Thanes, and Soldiers]",724,19156
649989,2550,I would the friends we miss were safe arrived.,727,19156
649990,2551,"Some must go off: and yet, by these I see,
So great a day as this is cheaply bought.",1121,19156
649991,2553,"Macduff is missing, and your noble son.",727,19156
649992,2554,"Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt:
He only lived but till he was a man;
The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd
In the unshrinking station where he fought,
But like a man he died.",956,19156
649993,2559,Then he is dead?,1121,19156
649994,2560,"Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow
Must not be measured by his worth, for then
It hath no end.",956,19156
649995,2563,Had he his hurts before?,1121,19156
649996,2564,"Ay, on the front.",956,19156
649997,2565,"Why then, God's soldier be he!
Had I as many sons as I have hairs,
I would not wish them to a fairer death:
And so, his knell is knoll'd.",1121,19156
649998,2569,"He's worth more sorrow,
And that I'll spend for him.",727,19156
649999,2571,"He's worth no more
They say he parted well, and paid his score:
And so, God be with him! Here comes newer comfort.",1121,19156
650000,2574,"[Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH's head]",1261,19156
650001,2575,"Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands
The usurper's cursed head: the time is free:
I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl,
That speak my salutation in their minds;
Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:
Hail, King of Scotland!",725,19156
650002,2581,"Hail, King of Scotland!",86,19156
650003,2582,[Flourish],1261,19156
650004,2583,"We shall not spend a large expense of time
Before we reckon with your several loves,
And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,
Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
In such an honour named. What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exiled friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life; this, and what needful else
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,
We will perform in measure, time and place:
So, thanks to all at once and to each one,
Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.",727,19156
650005,2599,[Flourish. Exeunt],1261,19156
650006,5,Escalus.,1236,19157
650007,6,My lord.,385,19157
650008,7,"Of government the properties to unfold,
Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse;
Since I am put to know that your own science
Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice
My strength can give you: then no more remains,
But that to your sufficiency [--]
[--] as your Worth is able,]
And let them work. The nature of our people,
Our city's institutions, and the terms
For common justice, you're as pregnant in
As art and practise hath enriched any
That we remember. There is our commission,
From which we would not have you warp. Call hither,
I say, bid come before us Angelo.
[Exit an Attendant]
What figure of us Think you he will bear?
For you must know, we have with special soul
Elected him our absence to supply,
Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our love,
And given his deputation all the organs
Of our own power: what think you of it?",1236,19157
650009,28,"If any in Vienna be of worth
To undergo such ample grace and honour,
It is Lord Angelo.",385,19157
650010,31,Look where he comes.,1236,19157
650011,32,[Enter ANGELO],1261,19157
650012,33,"Always obedient to your grace's will,
I come to know your pleasure.",104,19157
650013,35,"Angelo,
There is a kind of character in thy life,
That to the observer doth thy history
Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings
Are not thine own so proper as to waste
Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd
But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends
The smallest scruple of her excellence
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
Herself the glory of a creditor,
Both thanks and use. But I do bend my speech
To one that can my part in him advertise;
Hold therefore, Angelo:--
In our remove be thou at full ourself;
Mortality and mercy in Vienna
Live in thy tongue and heart: old Escalus,
Though first in question, is thy secondary.
Take thy commission.",1236,19157
650014,57,"Now, good my lord,
Let there be some more test made of my metal,
Before so noble and so great a figure
Be stamp'd upon it.",104,19157
650015,61,"No more evasion:
We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice
Proceeded to you; therefore take your honours.
Our haste from hence is of so quick condition
That it prefers itself and leaves unquestion'd
Matters of needful value. We shall write to you,
As time and our concernings shall importune,
How it goes with us, and do look to know
What doth befall you here. So, fare you well;
To the hopeful execution do I leave you
Of your commissions.",1236,19157
650016,72,"Yet give leave, my lord,
That we may bring you something on the way.",104,19157
650017,74,"My haste may not admit it;
Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do
With any scruple; your scope is as mine own
So to enforce or qualify the laws
As to your soul seems good. Give me your hand:
I'll privily away. I love the people,
But do not like to stage me to their eyes:
Through it do well, I do not relish well
Their loud applause and Aves vehement;
Nor do I think the man of safe discretion
That does affect it. Once more, fare you well.",1236,19157
650018,85,The heavens give safety to your purposes!,104,19157
650019,86,Lead forth and bring you back in happiness!,385,19157
650020,87,I thank you. Fare you well.,1236,19157
650021,88,[Exit],1261,19157
650022,89,"I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave
To have free speech with you; and it concerns me
To look into the bottom of my place:
A power I have, but of what strength and nature
I am not yet instructed.",385,19157
650023,94,"'Tis so with me. Let us withdraw together,
And we may soon our satisfaction have
Touching that point.",104,19157
650024,97,I'll wait upon your honour.,385,19157
650025,98,[Exeunt],1261,19157
650026,101,[Enter LUCIO and two Gentlemen],1261,19158
650027,102,"If the duke with the other dukes come not to
composition with the King of Hungary, why then all
the dukes fall upon the king.",715,19158
650028,105,"Heaven grant us its peace, but not the King of
Hungary's!",419,19158
650029,107,Amen.,989,19158
650030,108,"Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that
went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped
one out of the table.",715,19158
650032,112,"Ay, that he razed.",715,19158
650033,113,"Why, 'twas a commandment to command the captain and
all the rest from their functions: they put forth
to steal. There's not a soldier of us all, that, in
the thanksgiving before meat, do relish the petition
well that prays for peace.",419,19158
650034,118,I never heard any soldier dislike it.,989,19158
650035,119,"I believe thee; for I think thou never wast where
grace was said.",715,19158
650036,121,No? a dozen times at least.,989,19158
650037,122,"What, in metre?",419,19158
650038,123,In any proportion or in any language.,715,19158
650039,124,"I think, or in any religion.",419,19158
650040,125,"Ay, why not? Grace is grace, despite of all
controversy: as, for example, thou thyself art a
wicked villain, despite of all grace.",715,19158
650041,128,"Well, there went but a pair of shears between us.",419,19158
650042,129,"I grant; as there may between the lists and the
velvet. Thou art the list.",715,19158
650043,131,"And thou the velvet: thou art good velvet; thou'rt
a three-piled piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief
be a list of an English kersey as be piled, as thou
art piled, for a French velvet. Do I speak
feelingly now?",419,19158
650044,136,"I think thou dost; and, indeed, with most painful
feeling of thy speech: I will, out of thine own
confession, learn to begin thy health; but, whilst I
live, forget to drink after thee.",715,19158
650045,140,"I think I have done myself wrong, have I not?",419,19158
650046,141,"Yes, that thou hast, whether thou art tainted or free.",989,19158
650047,142,"Behold, behold. where Madam Mitigation comes! I
have purchased as many diseases under her roof as come to--",715,19158
650048,144,"To what, I pray?",989,19158
650049,145,Judge.,715,19158
650050,146,To three thousand dolours a year.,989,19158
650051,147,"Ay, and more.",419,19158
650052,148,A French crown more.,715,19158
650053,149,"Thou art always figuring diseases in me; but thou
art full of error; I am sound.",419,19158
650054,151,"Nay, not as one would say, healthy; but so sound as
things that are hollow: thy bones are hollow;
impiety has made a feast of thee.",715,19158
650055,154,[Enter MISTRESS OVERDONE],1261,19158
650056,155,How now! which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?,419,19158
650057,156,"Well, well; there's one yonder arrested and carried
to prison was worth five thousand of you all.",796,19158
650058,158,"Who's that, I pray thee?",989,19158
650059,159,"Marry, sir, that's Claudio, Signior Claudio.",796,19158
650060,160,Claudio to prison? 'tis not so.,419,19158
650061,161,"Nay, but I know 'tis so: I saw him arrested, saw
him carried away; and, which is more, within these
three days his head to be chopped off.",796,19158
650062,164,"But, after all this fooling, I would not have it so.
Art thou sure of this?",715,19158
650063,166,"I am too sure of it: and it is for getting Madam
Julietta with child.",796,19158
650064,168,"Believe me, this may be: he promised to meet me two
hours since, and he was ever precise in
promise-keeping.",715,19158
650065,171,"Besides, you know, it draws something near to the
speech we had to such a purpose.",989,19158
650066,173,"But, most of all, agreeing with the proclamation.",419,19158
650067,174,Away! let's go learn the truth of it.,715,19158
650068,175,[Exeunt LUCIO and Gentlemen],1261,19158
650069,176,"Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what
with the gallows and what with poverty, I am
custom-shrunk.
[Enter POMPEY]
How now! what's the news with you?",796,19158
650070,181,Yonder man is carried to prison.,901,19158
650071,182,Well; what has he done?,796,19158
650072,183,A woman.,901,19158
650073,184,But what's his offence?,796,19158
650074,185,Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.,901,19158
650075,186,"What, is there a maid with child by him?",796,19158
650076,187,"No, but there's a woman with maid by him. You have
not heard of the proclamation, have you?",901,19158
650077,189,"What proclamation, man?",796,19158
650078,190,All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down.,901,19158
650079,191,And what shall become of those in the city?,796,19158
650080,192,"They shall stand for seed: they had gone down too,
but that a wise burgher put in for them.",901,19158
650081,194,"But shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be
pulled down?",796,19158
650082,196,"To the ground, mistress.",901,19158
650083,197,"Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth!
What shall become of me?",796,19158
650084,199,"Come; fear you not: good counsellors lack no
clients: though you change your place, you need not
change your trade; I'll be your tapster still.
Courage! there will be pity taken on you: you that
have worn your eyes almost out in the service, you
will be considered.",901,19158
650085,205,"What's to do here, Thomas tapster? let's withdraw.",796,19158
650086,206,"Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the provost to
prison; and there's Madam Juliet.",901,19158
650087,208,[Exeunt],1261,19158
650088,209,"[Enter Provost, CLAUDIO, JULIET, and Officers]",1261,19158
650089,210,"Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to the world?
Bear me to prison, where I am committed.",257,19158
650090,212,"I do it not in evil disposition,
But from Lord Angelo by special charge.",926,19158
650091,214,"Thus can the demigod Authority
Make us pay down for our offence by weight
The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will;
On whom it will not, so; yet still 'tis just.",257,19158
650092,218,[Re-enter LUCIO and two Gentlemen],1261,19158
650093,219,"Why, how now, Claudio! whence comes this restraint?",715,19158
650094,220,"From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty:
As surfeit is the father of much fast,
So every scope by the immoderate use
Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue,
Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,
A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.",257,19158
650095,226,"If could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would
send for certain of my creditors: and yet, to say
the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom
as the morality of imprisonment. What's thy
offence, Claudio?",715,19158
650096,231,What but to speak of would offend again.,257,19158
650097,232,"What, is't murder?",715,19158
650098,233,No.,257,19158
650099,234,Lechery?,715,19158
650100,235,Call it so.,257,19158
650101,236,"Away, sir! you must go.",926,19158
650102,237,"One word, good friend. Lucio, a word with you.",257,19158
650103,238,"A hundred, if they'll do you any good.
Is lechery so look'd after?",715,19158
650104,240,"Thus stands it with me: upon a true contract
I got possession of Julietta's bed:
You know the lady; she is fast my wife,
Save that we do the denunciation lack
Of outward order: this we came not to,
Only for propagation of a dower
Remaining in the coffer of her friends,
From whom we thought it meet to hide our love
Till time had made them for us. But it chances
The stealth of our most mutual entertainment
With character too gross is writ on Juliet.",257,19158
650105,251,"With child, perhaps?",715,19158
650106,252,"Unhappily, even so.
And the new deputy now for the duke--
Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness,
Or whether that the body public be
A horse whereon the governor doth ride,
Who, newly in the seat, that it may know
He can command, lets it straight feel the spur;
Whether the tyranny be in his place,
Or in his emmence that fills it up,
I stagger in:--but this new governor
Awakes me all the enrolled penalties
Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall
So long that nineteen zodiacs have gone round
And none of them been worn; and, for a name,
Now puts the drowsy and neglected act
Freshly on me: 'tis surely for a name.",257,19158
650107,268,"I warrant it is: and thy head stands so tickle on
thy shoulders that a milkmaid, if she be in love,
may sigh it off. Send after the duke and appeal to
him.",715,19158
650108,272,"I have done so, but he's not to be found.
I prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service:
This day my sister should the cloister enter
And there receive her approbation:
Acquaint her with the danger of my state:
Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends
To the strict deputy; bid herself assay him:
I have great hope in that; for in her youth
There is a prone and speechless dialect,
Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art
When she will play with reason and discourse,
And well she can persuade.",257,19158
650109,284,"I pray she may; as well for the encouragement of the
like, which else would stand under grievous
imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life, who I
would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a
game of tick-tack. I'll to her.",715,19158
650110,289,"I thank you, good friend Lucio.",257,19158
650111,290,Within two hours.,715,19158
650112,291,"Come, officer, away!",257,19158
650113,292,[Exeunt],1261,19158
650114,295,[Enter DUKE VINCENTIO and FRIAR THOMAS],1261,19159
650115,296,"No, holy father; throw away that thought;
Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee
To give me secret harbour, hath a purpose
More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends
Of burning youth.",1236,19159
650116,302,May your grace speak of it?,506,19159
650117,303,"My holy sir, none better knows than you
How I have ever loved the life removed
And held in idle price to haunt assemblies
Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery keeps.
I have deliver'd to Lord Angelo,
A man of stricture and firm abstinence,
My absolute power and place here in Vienna,
And he supposes me travell'd to Poland;
For so I have strew'd it in the common ear,
And so it is received. Now, pious sir,
You will demand of me why I do this?",1236,19159
650118,314,"Gladly, my lord.",506,19159
650119,315,"We have strict statutes and most biting laws.
The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds,
Which for this nineteen years we have let slip;
Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave,
That goes not out to prey. Now, as fond fathers,
Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch,
Only to stick it in their children's sight
For terror, not to use, in time the rod
Becomes more mock'd than fear'd; so our decrees,
Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead;
And liberty plucks justice by the nose;
The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart
Goes all decorum.",1236,19159
650120,328,"It rested in your grace
To unloose this tied-up justice when you pleased:
And it in you more dreadful would have seem'd
Than in Lord Angelo.",506,19159
650121,332,"I do fear, too dreadful:
Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope,
'Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them
For what I bid them do: for we bid this be done,
When evil deeds have their permissive pass
And not the punishment. Therefore indeed, my father,
I have on Angelo imposed the office;
Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home,
And yet my nature never in the fight
To do in slander. And to behold his sway,
I will, as 'twere a brother of your order,
Visit both prince and people: therefore, I prithee,
Supply me with the habit and instruct me
How I may formally in person bear me
Like a true friar. More reasons for this action
At our more leisure shall I render you;
Only, this one: Lord Angelo is precise;
Stands at a guard with envy; scarce confesses
That his blood flows, or that his appetite
Is more to bread than stone: hence shall we see,
If power change purpose, what our seemers be.",1236,19159
650122,353,[Exeunt],1261,19159
650123,356,[Enter ISABELLA and FRANCISCA],1261,19160
650124,357,And have you nuns no farther privileges?,605,19160
650125,358,Are not these large enough?,493,19160
650126,359,"Yes, truly; I speak not as desiring more;
But rather wishing a more strict restraint
Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare.",605,19160
650127,362,[Within] Ho! Peace be in this place!,715,19160
650128,363,Who's that which calls?,605,19160
650129,364,"It is a man's voice. Gentle Isabella,
Turn you the key, and know his business of him;
You may, I may not; you are yet unsworn.
When you have vow'd, you must not speak with men
But in the presence of the prioress:
Then, if you speak, you must not show your face,
Or, if you show your face, you must not speak.
He calls again; I pray you, answer him.",493,19160
650130,372,[Exit],1261,19160
650131,373,Peace and prosperity! Who is't that calls,605,19160
650132,374,[Enter LUCIO],1261,19160
650133,375,"Hail, virgin, if you be, as those cheek-roses
Proclaim you are no less! Can you so stead me
As bring me to the sight of Isabella,
A novice of this place and the fair sister
To her unhappy brother Claudio?",715,19160
650134,380,"Why 'her unhappy brother'? let me ask,
The rather for I now must make you know
I am that Isabella and his sister.",605,19160
650135,383,"Gentle and fair, your brother kindly greets you:
Not to be weary with you, he's in prison.",715,19160
650136,385,Woe me! for what?,605,19160
650137,386,"For that which, if myself might be his judge,
He should receive his punishment in thanks:
He hath got his friend with child.",715,19160
650138,389,"Sir, make me not your story.",605,19160
650139,390,"It is true.
I would not--though 'tis my familiar sin
With maids to seem the lapwing and to jest,
Tongue far from heart--play with all virgins so:
I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted.
By your renouncement an immortal spirit,
And to be talk'd with in sincerity,
As with a saint.",715,19160
650140,398,You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.,605,19160
650141,399,"Do not believe it. Fewness and truth, 'tis thus:
Your brother and his lover have embraced:
As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time
That from the seedness the bare fallow brings
To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb
Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.",715,19160
650142,405,Some one with child by him? My cousin Juliet?,605,19160
650143,406,Is she your cousin?,715,19160
650144,407,"Adoptedly; as school-maids change their names
By vain though apt affection.",605,19160
650145,409,She it is.,715,19160
650146,410,"O, let him marry her.",605,19160
650147,411,"This is the point.
The duke is very strangely gone from hence;
Bore many gentlemen, myself being one,
In hand and hope of action: but we do learn
By those that know the very nerves of state,
His givings-out were of an infinite distance
From his true-meant design. Upon his place,
And with full line of his authority,
Governs Lord Angelo; a man whose blood
Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
The wanton stings and motions of the sense,
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge
With profits of the mind, study and fast.
He--to give fear to use and liberty,
Which have for long run by the hideous law,
As mice by lions--hath pick'd out an act,
Under whose heavy sense your brother's life
Falls into forfeit: he arrests him on it;
And follows close the rigour of the statute,
To make him an example. All hope is gone,
Unless you have the grace by your fair prayer
To soften Angelo: and that's my pith of business
'Twixt you and your poor brother.",715,19160
650148,434,Doth he so seek his life?,605,19160
650149,435,"Has censured him
Already; and, as I hear, the provost hath
A warrant for his execution.",715,19160
650150,438,"Alas! what poor ability's in me
To do him good?",605,19160
650151,440,Assay the power you have.,715,19160
650152,441,"My power? Alas, I doubt--",605,19160
650153,442,"Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo,
And let him learn to know, when maidens sue,
Men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel,
All their petitions are as freely theirs
As they themselves would owe them.",715,19160
650154,449,I'll see what I can do.,605,19160
650155,450,But speedily.,715,19160
650156,451,"I will about it straight;
No longer staying but to give the mother
Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you:
Commend me to my brother: soon at night
I'll send him certain word of my success.",605,19160
650157,456,I take my leave of you.,715,19160
650158,457,"Good sir, adieu.",605,19160
650159,458,"[Exeunt]
[Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, and a Justice, Provost,]
Officers, and other Attendants, behind]",1261,19160
650160,463,"We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror.",104,19161
650161,467,"Ay, but yet
Let us be keen, and rather cut a little,
Than fall, and bruise to death. Alas, this gentleman
Whom I would save, had a most noble father!
Let but your honour know,
Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue,
That, in the working of your own affections,
Had time cohered with place or place with wishing,
Or that the resolute acting of your blood
Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose,
Whether you had not sometime in your life
Err'd in this point which now you censure him,
And pull'd the law upon you.",385,19161
650162,480,"'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Another thing to fall. I not deny,
The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,
May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try. What's open made to justice,
That justice seizes: what know the laws
That thieves do pass on thieves? 'Tis very pregnant,
The jewel that we find, we stoop and take't
Because we see it; but what we do not see
We tread upon, and never think of it.
You may not so extenuate his offence
For I have had such faults; but rather tell me,
When I, that censure him, do so offend,
Let mine own judgment pattern out my death,
And nothing come in partial. Sir, he must die.",104,19161
650163,495,Be it as your wisdom will.,385,19161
650164,496,Where is the provost?,104,19161
650165,497,"Here, if it like your honour.",926,19161
650166,498,"See that Claudio
Be executed by nine to-morrow morning:
Bring him his confessor, let him be prepared;
For that's the utmost of his pilgrimage.",104,19161
650167,502,[Exit Provost],1261,19161
650168,503,"[Aside] Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
And some condemned for a fault alone.",385,19161
650169,507,"[Enter ELBOW, and Officers with FROTH and POMPEY]",1261,19161
650170,508,"Come, bring them away: if these be good people in
a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in
common houses, I know no law: bring them away.",376,19161
650171,511,"How now, sir! What's your name? and what's the matter?",104,19161
650172,512,"If it Please your honour, I am the poor duke's
constable, and my name is Elbow: I do lean upon
justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good
honour two notorious benefactors.",376,19161
650173,516,"Benefactors? Well; what benefactors are they? are
they not malefactors?",104,19161
650174,518,"If it? please your honour, I know not well what they
are: but precise villains they are, that I am sure
of; and void of all profanation in the world that
good Christians ought to have.",376,19161
650175,522,This comes off well; here's a wise officer.,385,19161
650176,523,"Go to: what quality are they of? Elbow is your
name? why dost thou not speak, Elbow?",104,19161
650177,525,"He cannot, sir; he's out at elbow.",901,19161
650178,526,"What are you, sir?",104,19161
650179,527,"He, sir! a tapster, sir; parcel-bawd; one that
serves a bad woman; whose house, sir, was, as they
say, plucked down in the suburbs; and now she
professes a hot-house, which, I think, is a very ill house too.",376,19161
650180,531,How know you that?,385,19161
650181,532,"My wife, sir, whom I detest before heaven and your honour,--",376,19161
650182,533,How? thy wife?,385,19161
650183,534,"Ay, sir; whom, I thank heaven, is an honest woman,--",376,19161
650184,535,Dost thou detest her therefore?,385,19161
650185,536,"I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as well as
she, that this house, if it be not a bawd's house,
it is pity of her life, for it is a naughty house.",376,19161
650186,539,"How dost thou know that, constable?",385,19161
650187,540,"Marry, sir, by my wife; who, if she had been a woman
cardinally given, might have been accused in
fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness there.",376,19161
650188,543,By the woman's means?,385,19161
650189,544,"Ay, sir, by Mistress Overdone's means: but as she
spit in his face, so she defied him.",376,19161
650190,546,"Sir, if it please your honour, this is not so.",901,19161
650191,547,"Prove it before these varlets here, thou honourable
man; prove it.",376,19161
650192,549,Do you hear how he misplaces?,385,19161
650193,550,"Sir, she came in great with child; and longing,
saving your honour's reverence, for stewed prunes;
sir, we had but two in the house, which at that very
distant time stood, as it were, in a fruit-dish, a
dish of some three-pence; your honours have seen
such dishes; they are not China dishes, but very
good dishes,--",901,19161
650194,557,"Go to, go to: no matter for the dish, sir.",385,19161
650195,558,"No, indeed, sir, not of a pin; you are therein in
the right: but to the point. As I say, this
Mistress Elbow, being, as I say, with child, and
being great-bellied, and longing, as I said, for
prunes; and having but two in the dish, as I said,
Master Froth here, this very man, having eaten the
rest, as I said, and, as I say, paying for them very
honestly; for, as you know, Master Froth, I could
not give you three-pence again.",901,19161
650196,567,"No, indeed.",507,19161
650197,568,"Very well: you being then, if you be remembered,
cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes,--",901,19161
650198,570,"Ay, so I did indeed.",507,19161
650199,571,"Why, very well; I telling you then, if you be
remembered, that such a one and such a one were past
cure of the thing you wot of, unless they kept very
good diet, as I told you,--",901,19161
650200,575,All this is true.,507,19161
650201,576,"Why, very well, then,--",901,19161
650202,577,"Come, you are a tedious fool: to the purpose. What
was done to Elbow's wife, that he hath cause to
complain of? Come me to what was done to her.",385,19161
650203,580,"Sir, your honour cannot come to that yet.",901,19161
650204,581,"No, sir, nor I mean it not.",385,19161
650205,582,"Sir, but you shall come to it, by your honour's
leave. And, I beseech you, look into Master Froth
here, sir; a man of four-score pound a year; whose
father died at Hallowmas: was't not at Hallowmas,
Master Froth?",901,19161
650206,587,All-hallond eve.,507,19161
650207,588,"Why, very well; I hope here be truths. He, sir,
sitting, as I say, in a lower chair, sir; 'twas in
the Bunch of Grapes, where indeed you have a delight
to sit, have you not?",901,19161
650208,592,I have so; because it is an open room and good for winter.,507,19161
650209,593,"Why, very well, then; I hope here be truths.",901,19161
650210,594,"This will last out a night in Russia,
When nights are longest there: I'll take my leave.
And leave you to the hearing of the cause;
Hoping you'll find good cause to whip them all.",104,19161
650211,598,"I think no less. Good morrow to your lordship.
[Exit ANGELO]
Now, sir, come on: what was done to Elbow's wife, once more?",385,19161
650212,601,"Once, sir? there was nothing done to her once.",901,19161
650213,602,"I beseech you, sir, ask him what this man did to my wife.",376,19161
650214,603,"I beseech your honour, ask me.",901,19161
650215,604,"Well, sir; what did this gentleman to her?",385,19161
650216,605,"I beseech you, sir, look in this gentleman's face.
Good Master Froth, look upon his honour; 'tis for a
good purpose. Doth your honour mark his face?",901,19161
650217,608,"Ay, sir, very well.",385,19161
650218,609,"Nay; I beseech you, mark it well.",901,19161
650219,610,"Well, I do so.",385,19161
650220,611,Doth your honour see any harm in his face?,901,19161
650221,612,"Why, no.",385,19161
650222,613,"I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst
thing about him. Good, then; if his face be the
worst thing about him, how could Master Froth do the
constable's wife any harm? I would know that of
your honour.",901,19161
650223,618,"He's in the right. Constable, what say you to it?",385,19161
650224,619,"First, an it like you, the house is a respected
house; next, this is a respected fellow; and his
mistress is a respected woman.",376,19161
650225,622,"By this hand, sir, his wife is a more respected
person than any of us all.",901,19161
650226,624,"Varlet, thou liest; thou liest, wicked varlet! the
time has yet to come that she was ever respected
with man, woman, or child.",376,19161
650227,627,"Sir, she was respected with him before he married with her.",901,19161
650228,628,"Which is the wiser here? Justice or Iniquity? Is
this true?",385,19161
650229,630,"O thou caitiff! O thou varlet! O thou wicked
Hannibal! I respected with her before I was married
to her! If ever I was respected with her, or she
with me, let not your worship think me the poor
duke's officer. Prove this, thou wicked Hannibal, or
I'll have mine action of battery on thee.",376,19161
650230,636,"If he took you a box o' the ear, you might have your
action of slander too.",385,19161
650231,638,"Marry, I thank your good worship for it. What is't
your worship's pleasure I shall do with this wicked caitiff?",376,19161
650232,640,"Truly, officer, because he hath some offences in him
that thou wouldst discover if thou couldst, let him
continue in his courses till thou knowest what they
are.",385,19161
650233,644,"Marry, I thank your worship for it. Thou seest, thou
wicked varlet, now, what's come upon thee: thou art
to continue now, thou varlet; thou art to continue.",376,19161
650234,647,"Where were you born, friend?",385,19161
650235,648,"Here in Vienna, sir.",507,19161
650236,649,Are you of fourscore pounds a year?,385,19161
650237,650,"Yes, an't please you, sir.",507,19161
650238,651,"So. What trade are you of, sir?",385,19161
650239,652,Tapster; a poor widow's tapster.,901,19161
650240,653,Your mistress' name?,385,19161
650241,654,Mistress Overdone.,901,19161
650242,655,Hath she had any more than one husband?,385,19161
650243,656,"Nine, sir; Overdone by the last.",901,19161
650244,657,"Nine! Come hither to me, Master Froth. Master
Froth, I would not have you acquainted with
tapsters: they will draw you, Master Froth, and you
will hang them. Get you gone, and let me hear no
more of you.",385,19161
650245,662,"I thank your worship. For mine own part, I never
come into any room in a tap-house, but I am drawn
in.",507,19161
650246,665,"Well, no more of it, Master Froth: farewell.
[Exit FROTH]
Come you hither to me, Master tapster. What's your
name, Master tapster?",385,19161
650247,669,Pompey.,901,19161
650248,670,What else?,385,19161
650249,671,"Bum, sir.",901,19161
650250,672,"Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about you;
so that in the beastliest sense you are Pompey the
Great. Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey,
howsoever you colour it in being a tapster, are you
not? come, tell me true: it shall be the better for you.",385,19161
650251,677,"Truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that would live.",901,19161
650252,678,"How would you live, Pompey? by being a bawd? What
do you think of the trade, Pompey? is it a lawful trade?",385,19161
650253,680,"If the law would allow it, sir.",901,19161
650254,681,"But the law will not allow it, Pompey; nor it shall
not be allowed in Vienna.",385,19161
650255,683,"Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the
youth of the city?",901,19161
650256,685,"No, Pompey.",385,19161
650257,686,"Truly, sir, in my poor opinion, they will to't then.
If your worship will take order for the drabs and
the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds.",901,19161
650258,689,"There are pretty orders beginning, I can tell you:
it is but heading and hanging.",385,19161
650259,691,"If you head and hang all that offend that way but
for ten year together, you'll be glad to give out a
commission for more heads: if this law hold in
Vienna ten year, I'll rent the fairest house in it
after three-pence a bay: if you live to see this
come to pass, say Pompey told you so.",901,19161
650260,697,"Thank you, good Pompey; and, in requital of your
prophecy, hark you: I advise you, let me not find
you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever;
no, not for dwelling where you do: if I do, Pompey,
I shall beat you to your tent, and prove a shrewd
Caesar to you; in plain dealing, Pompey, I shall
have you whipt: so, for this time, Pompey, fare you well.",385,19161
650261,704,"I thank your worship for your good counsel:
[Aside]
but I shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall
better determine.
Whip me? No, no; let carman whip his jade:
The valiant heart is not whipt out of his trade.",901,19161
650262,710,[Exit],1261,19161
650263,711,"Come hither to me, Master Elbow; come hither, Master
constable. How long have you been in this place of constable?",385,19161
650264,713,"Seven year and a half, sir.",376,19161
650265,714,"I thought, by your readiness in the office, you had
continued in it some time. You say, seven years together?",385,19161
650266,716,"And a half, sir.",376,19161
650267,717,"Alas, it hath been great pains to you. They do you
wrong to put you so oft upon 't: are there not men
in your ward sufficient to serve it?",385,19161
650268,720,"Faith, sir, few of any wit in such matters: as they
are chosen, they are glad to choose me for them; I
do it for some piece of money, and go through with
all.",376,19161
650269,724,"Look you bring me in the names of some six or seven,
the most sufficient of your parish.",385,19161
650270,726,"To your worship's house, sir?",376,19161
650271,727,"To my house. Fare you well.
[Exit ELBOW]
What's o'clock, think you?",385,19161
650272,730,"Eleven, sir.",628,19161
650273,731,I pray you home to dinner with me.,385,19161
650274,732,I humbly thank you.,628,19161
650275,733,"It grieves me for the death of Claudio;
But there's no remedy.",385,19161
650276,735,Lord Angelo is severe.,628,19161
650277,736,"It is but needful:
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so;
Pardon is still the nurse of second woe:
But yet,--poor Claudio! There is no remedy.
Come, sir.",385,19161
650278,741,[Exeunt],1261,19161
650279,744,[Enter Provost and a Servant],1261,19162
650280,745,"He's hearing of a cause; he will come straight
I'll tell him of you.",1067,19162
650281,747,"Pray you, do.
[Exit Servant]
I'll know
His pleasure; may be he will relent. Alas,
He hath but as offended in a dream!
All sects, all ages smack of this vice; and he
To die for't!",926,19162
650282,754,[Enter ANGELO],1261,19162
650283,755,"Now, what's the matter. Provost?",104,19162
650284,756,Is it your will Claudio shall die tomorrow?,926,19162
650285,757,"Did not I tell thee yea? hadst thou not order?
Why dost thou ask again?",104,19162
650286,759,"Lest I might be too rash:
Under your good correction, I have seen,
When, after execution, judgment hath
Repented o'er his doom.",926,19162
650287,763,"Go to; let that be mine:
Do you your office, or give up your place,
And you shall well be spared.",104,19162
650288,766,"I crave your honour's pardon.
What shall be done, sir, with the groaning Juliet?
She's very near her hour.",926,19162
650289,769,"Dispose of her
To some more fitter place, and that with speed.",104,19162
650290,771,[Re-enter Servant],1261,19162
650291,772,"Here is the sister of the man condemn'd
Desires access to you.",1067,19162
650292,774,Hath he a sister?,104,19162
650293,775,"Ay, my good lord; a very virtuous maid,
And to be shortly of a sisterhood,
If not already.",926,19162
650294,778,"Well, let her be admitted.
[Exit Servant]
See you the fornicatress be removed:
Let have needful, but not lavish, means;
There shall be order for't.",104,19162
650295,783,[Enter ISABELLA and LUCIO],1261,19162
650296,784,God save your honour!,926,19162
650297,785,"Stay a little while.
[To ISABELLA]
You're welcome: what's your will?",104,19162
650298,788,"I am a woeful suitor to your honour,
Please but your honour hear me.",605,19162
650299,790,Well; what's your suit?,104,19162
650300,791,"There is a vice that most I do abhor,
And most desire should meet the blow of justice;
For which I would not plead, but that I must;
For which I must not plead, but that I am
At war 'twixt will and will not.",605,19162
650301,796,Well; the matter?,104,19162
650302,797,"I have a brother is condemn'd to die:
I do beseech you, let it be his fault,
And not my brother.",605,19162
650303,800,[Aside] Heaven give thee moving graces!,926,19162
650304,801,"Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
Why, every fault's condemn'd ere it be done:
Mine were the very cipher of a function,
To fine the faults whose fine stands in record,
And let go by the actor.",104,19162
650305,806,"O just but severe law!
I had a brother, then. Heaven keep your honour!",605,19162
650306,808,"[Aside to ISABELLA] Give't not o'er so: to him
again, entreat him;
Kneel down before him, hang upon his gown:
You are too cold; if you should need a pin,
You could not with more tame a tongue desire it:
To him, I say!",715,19162
650307,814,Must he needs die?,605,19162
650308,815,"Maiden, no remedy.",104,19162
650309,816,"Yes; I do think that you might pardon him,
And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy.",605,19162
650310,818,I will not do't.,104,19162
650311,819,"But can you, if you would?",605,19162
650312,820,"Look, what I will not, that I cannot do.",104,19162
650313,821,"But might you do't, and do the world no wrong,
If so your heart were touch'd with that remorse
As mine is to him?",605,19162
650314,824,He's sentenced; 'tis too late.,104,19162
650315,825,[Aside to ISABELLA] You are too cold.,715,19162
650316,826,"Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word.
May call it back again. Well, believe this,
No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,
Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,
Become them with one half so good a grace
As mercy does.
If he had been as you and you as he,
You would have slipt like him; but he, like you,
Would not have been so stern.",605,19162
650317,836,"Pray you, be gone.",104,19162
650318,837,"I would to heaven I had your potency,
And you were Isabel! should it then be thus?
No; I would tell what 'twere to be a judge,
And what a prisoner.",605,19162
650319,841,"[Aside to ISABELLA]
Ay, touch him; there's the vein.",715,19162
650320,843,"Your brother is a forfeit of the law,
And you but waste your words.",104,19162
650321,845,"Alas, alas!
Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once;
And He that might the vantage best have took
Found out the remedy. How would you be,
If He, which is the top of judgment, should
But judge you as you are? O, think on that;
And mercy then will breathe within your lips,
Like man new made.",605,19162
650322,853,"Be you content, fair maid;
It is the law, not I condemn your brother:
Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son,
It should be thus with him: he must die tomorrow.",104,19162
650323,857,"To-morrow! O, that's sudden! Spare him, spare him!
He's not prepared for death. Even for our kitchens
We kill the fowl of season: shall we serve heaven
With less respect than we do minister
To our gross selves? Good, good my lord, bethink you;
Who is it that hath died for this offence?
There's many have committed it.",605,19162
650324,864,"[Aside to ISABELLA] Ay, well said.",715,19162
650325,865,"The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept:
Those many had not dared to do that evil,
If the first that did the edict infringe
Had answer'd for his deed: now 'tis awake
Takes note of what is done; and, like a prophet,
Looks in a glass, that shows what future evils,
Either new, or by remissness new-conceived,
And so in progress to be hatch'd and born,
Are now to have no successive degrees,
But, ere they live, to end.",104,19162
650326,875,Yet show some pity.,605,19162
650327,876,"I show it most of all when I show justice;
For then I pity those I do not know,
Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall;
And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;
Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.",104,19162
650328,882,"So you must be the first that gives this sentence,
And he, that suffer's. O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.",605,19162
650329,886,[Aside to ISABELLA] That's well said.,715,19162
650330,887,"Could great men thunder
As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet,
For every pelting, petty officer
Would use his heaven for thunder;
Nothing but thunder! Merciful Heaven,
Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
Would all themselves laugh mortal.",605,19162
650331,901,"[Aside to ISABELLA] O, to him, to him, wench! he
will relent;
He's coming; I perceive 't.",715,19162
650332,904,[Aside] Pray heaven she win him!,926,19162
650333,905,"We cannot weigh our brother with ourself:
Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them,
But in the less foul profanation.",605,19162
650334,908,"Thou'rt i' the right, girl; more o, that.",715,19162
650335,909,"That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.",605,19162
650336,911,[Aside to ISABELLA] Art avised o' that? more on 't.,715,19162
650337,912,Why do you put these sayings upon me?,104,19162
650338,913,"Because authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom;
Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
That's like my brother's fault: if it confess
A natural guiltiness such as is his,
Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
Against my brother's life.",605,19162
650339,921,"[Aside] She speaks, and 'tis
Such sense, that my sense breeds with it. Fare you well.",104,19162
650340,923,"Gentle my lord, turn back.",605,19162
650341,924,I will bethink me: come again tomorrow.,104,19162
650342,925,"Hark how I'll bribe you: good my lord, turn back.",605,19162
650343,926,How! bribe me?,104,19162
650344,927,"Ay, with such gifts that heaven shall share with you.",605,19162
650345,928,[Aside to ISABELLA] You had marr'd all else.,715,19162
650346,929,"Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,
Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor
As fancy values them; but with true prayers
That shall be up at heaven and enter there
Ere sun-rise, prayers from preserved souls,
From fasting maids whose minds are dedicate
To nothing temporal.",605,19162
650347,936,Well; come to me to-morrow.,104,19162
650348,937,[Aside to ISABELLA] Go to; 'tis well; away!,715,19162
650349,938,Heaven keep your honour safe!,605,19162
650350,939,"[Aside]. Amen:
For I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.",104,19162
650351,942,"At what hour to-morrow
Shall I attend your lordship?",605,19162
650352,944,At any time 'fore noon.,104,19162
650356,974,"[Exit]
[Enter, severally, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as a]
friar, and Provost]",1261,19162
650357,979,"Hail to you, provost! so I think you are.",1236,19163
650358,980,"I am the provost. What's your will, good friar?",926,19163
650359,981,"Bound by my charity and my blest order,
I come to visit the afflicted spirits
Here in the prison. Do me the common right
To let me see them and to make me know
The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
To them accordingly.",1236,19163
650360,987,"I would do more than that, if more were needful.
[Enter JULIET]
Look, here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine,
Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,
Hath blister'd her report: she is with child;
And he that got it, sentenced; a young man
More fit to do another such offence
Than die for this.",926,19163
650361,995,When must he die?,1236,19163
650362,996,"As I do think, to-morrow.
I have provided for you: stay awhile,
[To JULIET]
And you shall be conducted.",926,19163
650363,1000,"Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?",1236,19163
650364,1001,I do; and bear the shame most patiently.,623,19163
650365,1002,"I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,
And try your penitence, if it be sound,
Or hollowly put on.",1236,19163
650366,1005,I'll gladly learn.,623,19163
650367,1006,Love you the man that wrong'd you?,1236,19163
650368,1007,"Yes, as I love the woman that wrong'd him.",623,19163
650369,1008,"So then it seems your most offenceful act
Was mutually committed?",1236,19163
650370,1010,Mutually.,623,19163
650371,1011,Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.,1236,19163
650372,1012,"I do confess it, and repent it, father.",623,19163
650373,1013,"'Tis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent,
As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,
Which sorrow is always towards ourselves, not heaven,
Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it,
But as we stand in fear,--",1236,19163
650374,1018,"I do repent me, as it is an evil,
And take the shame with joy.",623,19163
650375,1020,"There rest.
Your partner, as I hear, must die to-morrow,
And I am going with instruction to him.
Grace go with you, Benedicite!",1236,19163
650376,1024,[Exit],1261,19163
650377,1025,"Must die to-morrow! O injurious love,
That respites me a life, whose very comfort
Is still a dying horror!",623,19163
650382,1052,"One Isabel, a sister, desires access to you.",1067,19164
650383,1053,"Teach her the way.
[Exit Servant]
O heavens!
Why does my blood thus muster to my heart,
Making both it unable for itself,
And dispossessing all my other parts
Of necessary fitness?
So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons;
Come all to help him, and so stop the air
By which he should revive: and even so
The general, subject to a well-wish'd king,
Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness
Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love
Must needs appear offence.
[Enter ISABELLA]
How now, fair maid?",104,19164
650384,1069,I am come to know your pleasure.,605,19164
650385,1070,"That you might know it, would much better please me
Than to demand what 'tis. Your brother cannot live.",104,19164
650386,1072,Even so. Heaven keep your honour!,605,19164
650387,1073,"Yet may he live awhile; and, it may be,
As long as you or I. yet he must die.",104,19164
650388,1075,Under your sentence?,605,19164
650389,1076,Yea.,104,19164
650390,1077,"When, I beseech you? that in his reprieve,
Longer or shorter, he may be so fitted
That his soul sicken not.",605,19164
650391,1080,"Ha! fie, these filthy vices! It were as good
To pardon him that hath from nature stolen
A man already made, as to remit
Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven's image
In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easy
Falsely to take away a life true made
As to put metal in restrained means
To make a false one.",104,19164
650392,1088,"'Tis set down so in heaven, but not in earth.",605,19164
650393,1089,"Say you so? then I shall pose you quickly.
Which had you rather, that the most just law
Now took your brother's life; or, to redeem him,
Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness
As she that he hath stain'd?",104,19164
650394,1094,"Sir, believe this,
I had rather give my body than my soul.",605,19164
650395,1096,"I talk not of your soul: our compell'd sins
Stand more for number than for accompt.",104,19164
650396,1098,How say you?,605,19164
650397,1099,"Nay, I'll not warrant that; for I can speak
Against the thing I say. Answer to this:
I, now the voice of the recorded law,
Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life:
Might there not be a charity in sin
To save this brother's life?",104,19164
650398,1105,"Please you to do't,
I'll take it as a peril to my soul,
It is no sin at all, but charity.",605,19164
650399,1108,"Pleased you to do't at peril of your soul,
Were equal poise of sin and charity.",104,19164
650400,1110,"That I do beg his life, if it be sin,
Heaven let me bear it! you granting of my suit,
If that be sin, I'll make it my morn prayer
To have it added to the faults of mine,
And nothing of your answer.",605,19164
650401,1115,"Nay, but hear me.
Your sense pursues not mine: either you are ignorant,
Or seem so craftily; and that's not good.",104,19164
650402,1118,"Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good,
But graciously to know I am no better.",605,19164
650403,1120,"Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright
When it doth tax itself; as these black masks
Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder
Than beauty could, display'd. But mark me;
To be received plain, I'll speak more gross:
Your brother is to die.",104,19164
650404,1126,So.,605,19164
650405,1127,"And his offence is so, as it appears,
Accountant to the law upon that pain.",104,19164
650406,1129,True.,605,19164
650407,1130,"Admit no other way to save his life,--
As I subscribe not that, nor any other,
But in the loss of question,--that you, his sister,
Finding yourself desired of such a person,
Whose credit with the judge, or own great place,
Could fetch your brother from the manacles
Of the all-building law; and that there were
No earthly mean to save him, but that either
You must lay down the treasures of your body
To this supposed, or else to let him suffer;
What would you do?",104,19164
650408,1141,"As much for my poor brother as myself:
That is, were I under the terms of death,
The impression of keen whips I'ld wear as rubies,
And strip myself to death, as to a bed
That longing have been sick for, ere I'ld yield
My body up to shame.",605,19164
650409,1147,Then must your brother die.,104,19164
650410,1148,"And 'twere the cheaper way:
Better it were a brother died at once,
Than that a sister, by redeeming him,
Should die for ever.",605,19164
650411,1152,"Were not you then as cruel as the sentence
That you have slander'd so?",104,19164
650412,1154,"Ignomy in ransom and free pardon
Are of two houses: lawful mercy
Is nothing kin to foul redemption.",605,19164
650413,1157,"You seem'd of late to make the law a tyrant;
And rather proved the sliding of your brother
A merriment than a vice.",104,19164
650414,1160,"O, pardon me, my lord; it oft falls out,
To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean:
I something do excuse the thing I hate,
For his advantage that I dearly love.",605,19164
650415,1164,We are all frail.,104,19164
650416,1165,"Else let my brother die,
If not a feodary, but only he
Owe and succeed thy weakness.",605,19164
650417,1168,"Nay, women are frail too.",104,19164
650418,1169,"Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves;
Which are as easy broke as they make forms.
Women! Help Heaven! men their creation mar
In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail;
For we are soft as our complexions are,
And credulous to false prints.",605,19164
650419,1175,"I think it well:
And from this testimony of your own sex,--
Since I suppose we are made to be no stronger
Than faults may shake our frames,--let me be bold;
I do arrest your words. Be that you are,
That is, a woman; if you be more, you're none;
If you be one, as you are well express'd
By all external warrants, show it now,
By putting on the destined livery.",104,19164
650420,1184,"I have no tongue but one: gentle my lord,
Let me entreat you speak the former language.",605,19164
650421,1186,"Plainly conceive, I love you.",104,19164
650422,1187,"My brother did love Juliet,
And you tell me that he shall die for it.",605,19164
650423,1189,"He shall not, Isabel, if you give me love.",104,19164
650424,1190,"I know your virtue hath a licence in't,
Which seems a little fouler than it is,
To pluck on others.",605,19164
650425,1193,"Believe me, on mine honour,
My words express my purpose.",104,19164
650426,1195,"Ha! little honour to be much believed,
And most pernicious purpose! Seeming, seeming!
I will proclaim thee, Angelo; look for't:
Sign me a present pardon for my brother,
Or with an outstretch'd throat I'll tell the world aloud
What man thou art.",605,19164
650427,1201,"Who will believe thee, Isabel?
My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life,
My vouch against you, and my place i' the state,
Will so your accusation overweigh,
That you shall stifle in your own report
And smell of calumny. I have begun,
And now I give my sensual race the rein:
Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite;
Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,
That banish what they sue for; redeem thy brother
By yielding up thy body to my will;
Or else he must not only die the death,
But thy unkindness shall his death draw out
To lingering sufferance. Answer me to-morrow,
Or, by the affection that now guides me most,
I'll prove a tyrant to him. As for you,
Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true.",104,19164
650428,1218,[Exit],1261,19164
650429,1219,"To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,
Who would believe me? O perilous mouths,
That bear in them one and the self-same tongue,
Either of condemnation or approof;
Bidding the law make court'sy to their will:
Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite,
To follow as it draws! I'll to my brother:
Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood,
Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour.
That, had he twenty heads to tender down
On twenty bloody blocks, he'ld yield them up,
Before his sister should her body stoop
To such abhorr'd pollution.
Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die:
More than our brother is our chastity.
I'll tell him yet of Angelo's request,
And fit his mind to death, for his soul's rest.",605,19164
650430,1236,"[Exit]
[Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before, CLAUDIO,]
and Provost]",1261,19164
650431,1241,So then you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo?,1236,19165
650432,1242,"The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope:
I've hope to live, and am prepared to die.",257,19165
650433,1245,"Be absolute for death; either death or life
Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life:
If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art,
Servile to all the skyey influences,
That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st,
Hourly afflict: merely, thou art death's fool;
For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun
And yet runn'st toward him still. Thou art not noble;
For all the accommodations that thou bear'st
Are nursed by baseness. Thou'rt by no means valiant;
For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork
Of a poor worm. Thy best of rest is sleep,
And that thou oft provokest; yet grossly fear'st
Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself;
For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains
That issue out of dust. Happy thou art not;
For what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get,
And what thou hast, forget'st. Thou art not certain;
For thy complexion shifts to strange effects,
After the moon. If thou art rich, thou'rt poor;
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear's thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee. Friend hast thou none;
For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,
The mere effusion of thy proper loins,
Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum,
For ending thee no sooner. Thou hast nor youth nor age,
But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep,
Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth
Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms
Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich,
Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,
To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this
That bears the name of life? Yet in this life
Lie hid moe thousand deaths: yet death we fear,
That makes these odds all even.",1236,19165
650434,1282,"I humbly thank you.
To sue to live, I find I seek to die;
And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.",257,19165
650435,1285,"[Within] What, ho! Peace here; grace and good company!",605,19165
650436,1286,Who's there? come in: the wish deserves a welcome.,926,19165
650437,1287,"Dear sir, ere long I'll visit you again.",1236,19165
650438,1288,"Most holy sir, I thank you.",257,19165
650439,1289,[Enter ISABELLA],1261,19165
650440,1290,My business is a word or two with Claudio.,605,19165
650441,1291,"And very welcome. Look, signior, here's your sister.",926,19165
650442,1292,"Provost, a word with you.",1236,19165
650443,1293,As many as you please.,926,19165
650444,1294,"Bring me to hear them speak, where I may be concealed.",1236,19165
650445,1295,[Exeunt DUKE VINCENTIO and Provost],1261,19165
650446,1296,"Now, sister, what's the comfort?",257,19165
650447,1297,"Why,
As all comforts are; most good, most good indeed.
Lord Angelo, having affairs to heaven,
Intends you for his swift ambassador,
Where you shall be an everlasting leiger:
Therefore your best appointment make with speed;
To-morrow you set on.",605,19165
650448,1304,Is there no remedy?,257,19165
650449,1305,"None, but such remedy as, to save a head,
To cleave a heart in twain.",605,19165
650450,1307,But is there any?,257,19165
650451,1308,"Yes, brother, you may live:
There is a devilish mercy in the judge,
If you'll implore it, that will free your life,
But fetter you till death.",605,19165
650452,1312,Perpetual durance?,257,19165
650453,1313,"Ay, just; perpetual durance, a restraint,
Though all the world's vastidity you had,
To a determined scope.",605,19165
650454,1316,But in what nature?,257,19165
650455,1317,"In such a one as, you consenting to't,
Would bark your honour from that trunk you bear,
And leave you naked.",605,19165
650456,1320,Let me know the point.,257,19165
650457,1321,"O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake,
Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain,
And six or seven winters more respect
Than a perpetual honour. Darest thou die?
The sense of death is most in apprehension;
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.",605,19165
650458,1329,"Why give you me this shame?
Think you I can a resolution fetch
From flowery tenderness? If I must die,
I will encounter darkness as a bride,
And hug it in mine arms.",257,19165
650459,1334,"There spake my brother; there my father's grave
Did utter forth a voice. Yes, thou must die:
Thou art too noble to conserve a life
In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy,
Whose settled visage and deliberate word
Nips youth i' the head and follies doth emmew
As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil
His filth within being cast, he would appear
A pond as deep as hell.",605,19165
650460,1343,The prenzie Angelo!,257,19165
650461,1344,"O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell,
The damned'st body to invest and cover
In prenzie guards! Dost thou think, Claudio?
If I would yield him my virginity,
Thou mightst be freed.",605,19165
650462,1349,O heavens! it cannot be.,257,19165
650463,1350,"Yes, he would give't thee, from this rank offence,
So to offend him still. This night's the time
That I should do what I abhor to name,
Or else thou diest to-morrow.",605,19165
650464,1354,Thou shalt not do't.,257,19165
650465,1355,"O, were it but my life,
I'ld throw it down for your deliverance
As frankly as a pin.",605,19165
650466,1358,"Thanks, dear Isabel.",257,19165
650467,1359,"Be ready, Claudio, for your death tomorrow.",605,19165
650468,1360,"Yes. Has he affections in him,
That thus can make him bite the law by the nose,
When he would force it? Sure, it is no sin,
Or of the deadly seven, it is the least.",257,19165
650469,1364,Which is the least?,605,19165
650470,1365,"If it were damnable, he being so wise,
Why would he for the momentary trick
Be perdurably fined? O Isabel!",257,19165
650471,1368,What says my brother?,605,19165
650472,1369,Death is a fearful thing.,257,19165
650473,1370,And shamed life a hateful.,605,19165
650474,1371,"Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;
To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,
And blown with restless violence round about
The pendent world; or to be worse than worst
Of those that lawless and incertain thought
Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
The weariest and most loathed worldly life
That age, ache, penury and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a paradise
To what we fear of death.",257,19165
650475,1386,"Alas, alas!",605,19165
650476,1387,"Sweet sister, let me live:
What sin you do to save a brother's life,
Nature dispenses with the deed so far
That it becomes a virtue.",257,19165
650477,1391,"O you beast!
O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!
Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
Is't not a kind of incest, to take life
From thine own sister's shame? What should I think?
Heaven shield my mother play'd my father fair!
For such a warped slip of wilderness
Ne'er issued from his blood. Take my defiance!
Die, perish! Might but my bending down
Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed:
I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death,
No word to save thee.",605,19165
650478,1403,"Nay, hear me, Isabel.",257,19165
650479,1404,"O, fie, fie, fie!
Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.
Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd:
'Tis best thou diest quickly.",605,19165
650480,1408,"O hear me, Isabella!",257,19165
650481,1409,[Re-enter DUKE VINCENTIO],1261,19165
650482,1410,"Vouchsafe a word, young sister, but one word.",1236,19165
650483,1411,What is your will?,605,19165
650484,1412,"Might you dispense with your leisure, I would by and
by have some speech with you: the satisfaction I
would require is likewise your own benefit.",1236,19165
650485,1415,"I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be
stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile.",605,19165
650486,1417,[Walks apart],1261,19165
650487,1418,"Son, I have overheard what hath passed between you
and your sister. Angelo had never the purpose to
corrupt her; only he hath made an essay of her
virtue to practise his judgment with the disposition
of natures: she, having the truth of honour in her,
hath made him that gracious denial which he is most
glad to receive. I am confessor to Angelo, and I
know this to be true; therefore prepare yourself to
death: do not satisfy your resolution with hopes
that are fallible: tomorrow you must die; go to
your knees and make ready.",1236,19165
650488,1429,"Let me ask my sister pardon. I am so out of love
with life that I will sue to be rid of it.",257,19165
650489,1431,"Hold you there: farewell.
[Exit CLAUDIO]
Provost, a word with you!",1236,19165
650490,1434,[Re-enter Provost],1261,19165
650491,1435,"What's your will, father",926,19165
650492,1436,"That now you are come, you will be gone. Leave me
awhile with the maid: my mind promises with my
habit no loss shall touch her by my company.",1236,19165
650493,1439,In good time.,926,19165
650494,1440,[Exit Provost. ISABELLA comes forward],1261,19165
650495,1441,"The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good:
the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty
brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of
your complexion, shall keep the body of it ever
fair. The assault that Angelo hath made to you,
fortune hath conveyed to my understanding; and, but
that frailty hath examples for his falling, I should
wonder at Angelo. How will you do to content this
substitute, and to save your brother?",1236,19165
650496,1450,"I am now going to resolve him: I had rather my
brother die by the law than my son should be
unlawfully born. But, O, how much is the good duke
deceived in Angelo! If ever he return and I can
speak to him, I will open my lips in vain, or
discover his government.",605,19165
650497,1456,"That shall not be much amiss: Yet, as the matter
now stands, he will avoid your accusation; he made
trial of you only. Therefore fasten your ear on my
advisings: to the love I have in doing good a
remedy presents itself. I do make myself believe
that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged
lady a merited benefit; redeem your brother from
the angry law; do no stain to your own gracious
person; and much please the absent duke, if
peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of
this business.",1236,19165
650498,1467,"Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do
anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.",605,19165
650499,1469,"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Have
you not heard speak of Mariana, the sister of
Frederick the great soldier who miscarried at sea?",1236,19165
650500,1472,"I have heard of the lady, and good words went with her name.",605,19165
650501,1473,"She should this Angelo have married; was affianced
to her by oath, and the nuptial appointed: between
which time of the contract and limit of the
solemnity, her brother Frederick was wrecked at sea,
having in that perished vessel the dowry of his
sister. But mark how heavily this befell to the
poor gentlewoman: there she lost a noble and
renowned brother, in his love toward her ever most
kind and natural; with him, the portion and sinew of
her fortune, her marriage-dowry; with both, her
combinate husband, this well-seeming Angelo.",1236,19165
650502,1484,Can this be so? did Angelo so leave her?,605,19165
650503,1485,"Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them
with his comfort; swallowed his vows whole,
pretending in her discoveries of dishonour: in few,
bestowed her on her own lamentation, which she yet
wears for his sake; and he, a marble to her tears,
is washed with them, but relents not.",1236,19165
650504,1491,"What a merit were it in death to take this poor maid
from the world! What corruption in this life, that
it will let this man live! But how out of this can she avail?",605,19165
650505,1494,"It is a rupture that you may easily heal: and the
cure of it not only saves your brother, but keeps
you from dishonour in doing it.",1236,19165
650506,1497,"Show me how, good father.",605,19165
650507,1498,"This forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance
of her first affection: his unjust unkindness, that
in all reason should have quenched her love, hath,
like an impediment in the current, made it more
violent and unruly. Go you to Angelo; answer his
requiring with a plausible obedience; agree with
his demands to the point; only refer yourself to
this advantage, first, that your stay with him may
not be long; that the time may have all shadow and
silence in it; and the place answer to convenience.
This being granted in course,--and now follows
all,--we shall advise this wronged maid to stead up
your appointment, go in your place; if the encounter
acknowledge itself hereafter, it may compel him to
her recompense: and here, by this, is your brother
saved, your honour untainted, the poor Mariana
advantaged, and the corrupt deputy scaled. The maid
will I frame and make fit for his attempt. If you
think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness
of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.
What think you of it?",1236,19165
650508,1519,"The image of it gives me content already; and I
trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection.",605,19165
650509,1521,"It lies much in your holding up. Haste you speedily
to Angelo: if for this night he entreat you to his
bed, give him promise of satisfaction. I will
presently to Saint Luke's: there, at the moated
grange, resides this dejected Mariana. At that
place call upon me; and dispatch with Angelo, that
it may be quickly.",1236,19165
650510,1528,"I thank you for this comfort. Fare you well, good father.",605,19165
650511,1529,"[Exeunt severally]
[Enter, on one side, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as]
before; on the other, ELBOW, and Officers with POMPEY]",1261,19165
650512,1534,"Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will
needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we
shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.",376,19166
650513,1537,O heavens! what stuff is here,1236,19166
650514,1538,"'Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, the
merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by
order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and
furred with fox and lamb-skins too, to signify, that
craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.",901,19166
650515,1543,"Come your way, sir. 'Bless you, good father friar.",376,19166
650516,1544,"And you, good brother father. What offence hath
this man made you, sir?",1236,19166
650517,1546,"Marry, sir, he hath offended the law: and, sir, we
take him to be a thief too, sir; for we have found
upon him, sir, a strange picklock, which we have
sent to the deputy.",376,19166
650518,1550,"Fie, sirrah! a bawd, a wicked bawd!
The evil that thou causest to be done,
That is thy means to live. Do thou but think
What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back
From such a filthy vice: say to thyself,
From their abominable and beastly touches
I drink, I eat, array myself, and live.
Canst thou believe thy living is a life,
So stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend.",1236,19166
650519,1559,"Indeed, it does stink in some sort, sir; but yet,
sir, I would prove--",901,19166
650520,1561,"Nay, if the devil have given thee proofs for sin,
Thou wilt prove his. Take him to prison, officer:
Correction and instruction must both work
Ere this rude beast will profit.",1236,19166
650521,1565,"He must before the deputy, sir; he has given him
warning: the deputy cannot abide a whoremaster: if
he be a whoremonger, and comes before him, he were
as good go a mile on his errand.",376,19166
650522,1569,"That we were all, as some would seem to be,
From our faults, as faults from seeming, free!",1236,19166
650523,1571,"His neck will come to your waist,--a cord, sir.",376,19166
650524,1572,"I spy comfort; I cry bail. Here's a gentleman and a
friend of mine.",901,19166
650525,1574,[Enter LUCIO],1261,19166
650526,1575,"How now, noble Pompey! What, at the wheels of
Caesar? art thou led in triumph? What, is there
none of Pygmalion's images, newly made woman, to be
had now, for putting the hand in the pocket and
extracting it clutch'd? What reply, ha? What
sayest thou to this tune, matter and method? Is't
not drowned i' the last rain, ha? What sayest
thou, Trot? Is the world as it was, man? Which is
the way? Is it sad, and few words? or how? The
trick of it?",715,19166
650527,1585,"Still thus, and thus; still worse!",1236,19166
650528,1586,"How doth my dear morsel, thy mistress? Procures she
still, ha?",715,19166
650529,1588,"Troth, sir, she hath eaten up all her beef, and she
is herself in the tub.",901,19166
650530,1590,"Why, 'tis good; it is the right of it; it must be
so: ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd:
an unshunned consequence; it must be so. Art going
to prison, Pompey?",715,19166
650531,1594,"Yes, faith, sir.",901,19166
650532,1595,"Why, 'tis not amiss, Pompey. Farewell: go, say I
sent thee thither. For debt, Pompey? or how?",715,19166
650533,1597,"For being a bawd, for being a bawd.",376,19166
650534,1598,"Well, then, imprison him: if imprisonment be the
due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right: bawd is he
doubtless, and of antiquity too; bawd-born.
Farewell, good Pompey. Commend me to the prison,
Pompey: you will turn good husband now, Pompey; you
will keep the house.",715,19166
650535,1604,"I hope, sir, your good worship will be my bail.",901,19166
650536,1605,"No, indeed, will I not, Pompey; it is not the wear.
I will pray, Pompey, to increase your bondage: If
you take it not patiently, why, your mettle is the
more. Adieu, trusty Pompey. 'Bless you, friar.",715,19166
650537,1609,And you.,1236,19166
650538,1610,"Does Bridget paint still, Pompey, ha?",715,19166
650539,1611,"Come your ways, sir; come.",376,19166
650540,1612,"You will not bail me, then, sir?",901,19166
650541,1613,"Then, Pompey, nor now. What news abroad, friar?
what news?",715,19166
650542,1615,"Come your ways, sir; come.",376,19166
650543,1616,"Go to kennel, Pompey; go.
[Exeunt ELBOW, POMPEY and Officers]
What news, friar, of the duke?",715,19166
650544,1619,I know none. Can you tell me of any?,1236,19166
650545,1620,"Some say he is with the Emperor of Russia; other
some, he is in Rome: but where is he, think you?",715,19166
650546,1622,"I know not where; but wheresoever, I wish him well.",1236,19166
650547,1623,"It was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from
the state, and usurp the beggary he was never born
to. Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence; he
puts transgression to 't.",715,19166
650548,1627,He does well in 't.,1236,19166
650549,1628,"A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in
him: something too crabbed that way, friar.",715,19166
650550,1630,"It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it.",1236,19166
650551,1631,"Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred;
it is well allied: but it is impossible to extirp
it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put
down. They say this Angelo was not made by man and
woman after this downright way of creation: is it
true, think you?",715,19166
650552,1637,"How should he be made, then?",1236,19166
650553,1638,"Some report a sea-maid spawned him; some, that he
was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is
certain that when he makes water his urine is
congealed ice; that I know to be true: and he is a
motion generative; that's infallible.",715,19166
650554,1643,"You are pleasant, sir, and speak apace.",1236,19166
650555,1644,"Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the
rebellion of a codpiece to take away the life of a
man! Would the duke that is absent have done this?
Ere he would have hanged a man for the getting a
hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing
a thousand: he had some feeling of the sport: he
knew the service, and that instructed him to mercy.",715,19166
650556,1651,"I never heard the absent duke much detected for
women; he was not inclined that way.",1236,19166
650557,1653,"O, sir, you are deceived.",715,19166
650564,1668,"Wise! why, no question but he was.",1236,19166
650565,1669,"A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.",715,19166
650566,1670,"Either this is the envy in you, folly, or mistaking:
the very stream of his life and the business he hath
helmed must upon a warranted need give him a better
proclamation. Let him be but testimonied in his own
bringings-forth, and he shall appear to the
envious a scholar, a statesman and a soldier.
Therefore you speak unskilfully: or if your
knowledge be more it is much darkened in your malice.",1236,19166
650567,1678,"Sir, I know him, and I love him.",715,19166
650568,1679,"Love talks with better knowledge, and knowledge with
dearer love.",1236,19166
650569,1681,"Come, sir, I know what I know.",715,19166
650570,1682,"I can hardly believe that, since you know not what
you speak. But, if ever the duke return, as our
prayers are he may, let me desire you to make your
answer before him. If it be honest you have spoke,
you have courage to maintain it: I am bound to call
upon you; and, I pray you, your name?",1236,19166
650571,1688,"Sir, my name is Lucio; well known to the duke.",715,19166
650572,1689,"He shall know you better, sir, if I may live to
report you.",1236,19166
650573,1691,I fear you not.,715,19166
650574,1692,"O, you hope the duke will return no more; or you
imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. But indeed I
can do you little harm; you'll forswear this again.",1236,19166
650575,1695,"I'll be hanged first: thou art deceived in me,
friar. But no more of this. Canst thou tell if
Claudio die to-morrow or no?",715,19166
650576,1698,"Why should he die, sir?",1236,19166
650577,1699,"Why? For filling a bottle with a tundish. I would
the duke we talk of were returned again: the
ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with
continency; sparrows must not build in his
house-eaves, because they are lecherous. The duke
yet would have dark deeds darkly answered; he would
never bring them to light: would he were returned!
Marry, this Claudio is condemned for untrussing.
Farewell, good friar: I prithee, pray for me. The
duke, I say to thee again, would eat mutton on
Fridays. He's not past it yet, and I say to thee,
he would mouth with a beggar, though she smelt brown
bread and garlic: say that I said so. Farewell.",715,19166
650578,1712,[Exit],1261,19166
650579,1713,"No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
But who comes here?",1236,19166
650580,1718,"[Enter ESCALUS, Provost, and Officers with MISTRESS OVERDONE]",1261,19166
650581,1719,Go; away with her to prison!,385,19166
650582,1720,"Good my lord, be good to me; your honour is accounted
a merciful man; good my lord.",796,19166
650583,1722,"Double and treble admonition, and still forfeit in
the same kind! This would make mercy swear and play
the tyrant.",385,19166
650584,1725,"A bawd of eleven years' continuance, may it please
your honour.",926,19166
650585,1727,"My lord, this is one Lucio's information against me.
Mistress Kate Keepdown was with child by him in the
duke's time; he promised her marriage: his child
is a year and a quarter old, come Philip and Jacob:
I have kept it myself; and see how he goes about to abuse me!",796,19166
650586,1732,"That fellow is a fellow of much licence: let him be
called before us. Away with her to prison! Go to;
no more words.
[Exeunt Officers with MISTRESS OVERDONE]
Provost, my brother Angelo will not be altered;
Claudio must die to-morrow: let him be furnished
with divines, and have all charitable preparation.
if my brother wrought by my pity, it should not be
so with him.",385,19166
650587,1741,"So please you, this friar hath been with him, and
advised him for the entertainment of death.",926,19166
650588,1743,"Good even, good father.",385,19166
650589,1744,Bliss and goodness on you!,1236,19166
650590,1745,Of whence are you?,385,19166
650591,1746,"Not of this country, though my chance is now
To use it for my time: I am a brother
Of gracious order, late come from the See
In special business from his holiness.",1236,19166
650592,1750,What news abroad i' the world?,385,19166
650593,1751,"None, but that there is so great a fever on
goodness, that the dissolution of it must cure it:
novelty is only in request; and it is as dangerous
to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous
to be constant in any undertaking. There is scarce
truth enough alive to make societies secure; but
security enough to make fellowships accurst: much
upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. This
news is old enough, yet it is every day's news. I
pray you, sir, of what disposition was the duke?",1236,19166
650594,1761,"One that, above all other strifes, contended
especially to know himself.",385,19166
650595,1763,What pleasure was he given to?,1236,19166
650596,1764,"Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry at
any thing which professed to make him rejoice: a
gentleman of all temperance. But leave we him to
his events, with a prayer they may prove prosperous;
and let me desire to know how you find Claudio
prepared. I am made to understand that you have
lent him visitation.",385,19166
650597,1771,"He professes to have received no sinister measure
from his judge, but most willingly humbles himself
to the determination of justice: yet had he framed
to himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many
deceiving promises of life; which I by my good
leisure have discredited to him, and now is he
resolved to die.",1236,19166
650598,1778,"You have paid the heavens your function, and the
prisoner the very debt of your calling. I have
laboured for the poor gentleman to the extremest
shore of my modesty: but my brother justice have I
found so severe, that he hath forced me to tell him
he is indeed Justice.",385,19166
650599,1784,"If his own life answer the straitness of his
proceeding, it shall become him well; wherein if he
chance to fail, he hath sentenced himself.",1236,19166
650600,1787,I am going to visit the prisoner. Fare you well.,385,19166
650601,1788,"Peace be with you!
[Exeunt ESCALUS and Provost]
He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe;
Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue go;
More nor less to others paying
Than by self-offences weighing.
Shame to him whose cruel striking
Kills for faults of his own liking!
Twice treble shame on Angelo,
To weed my vice and let his grow!
O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
How may likeness made in crimes,
Making practise on the times,
To draw with idle spiders' strings
Most ponderous and substantial things!
Craft against vice I must apply:
With Angelo to-night shall lie
His old betrothed but despised;
So disguise shall, by the disguised,
Pay with falsehood false exacting,
And perform an old contracting.",1236,19166
650602,1812,"[Exit]
[Enter MARIANA and a Boy]
[Boy sings]
Take, O, take those lips away,
That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn:
But my kisses bring again, bring again;
Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.",1261,19166
650603,1823,"Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away:
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often still'd my brawling discontent.
[Exit Boy]
[Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before]
I cry you mercy, sir; and well could wish
You had not found me here so musical:
Let me excuse me, and believe me so,
My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.",741,19167
650604,1832,"'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
I pray, you, tell me, hath any body inquired
for me here to-day? much upon this time have
I promised here to meet.",1236,19167
650605,1837,"You have not been inquired after:
I have sat here all day.",741,19167
650606,1839,[Enter ISABELLA],1261,19167
650607,1840,"I do constantly believe you. The time is come even
now. I shall crave your forbearance a little: may
be I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself.",1236,19167
650608,1843,I am always bound to you.,741,19167
650609,1844,[Exit],1261,19167
650610,1845,"Very well met, and well come.
What is the news from this good deputy?",1236,19167
650611,1847,"He hath a garden circummured with brick,
Whose western side is with a vineyard back'd;
And to that vineyard is a planched gate,
That makes his opening with this bigger key:
This other doth command a little door
Which from the vineyard to the garden leads;
There have I made my promise
Upon the heavy middle of the night
To call upon him.",605,19167
650612,1856,But shall you on your knowledge find this way?,1236,19167
650613,1857,"I have ta'en a due and wary note upon't:
With whispering and most guilty diligence,
In action all of precept, he did show me
The way twice o'er.",605,19167
650614,1861,"Are there no other tokens
Between you 'greed concerning her observance?",1236,19167
650615,1863,"No, none, but only a repair i' the dark;
And that I have possess'd him my most stay
Can be but brief; for I have made him know
I have a servant comes with me along,
That stays upon me, whose persuasion is
I come about my brother.",605,19167
650616,1869,"'Tis well borne up.
I have not yet made known to Mariana
A word of this. What, ho! within! come forth!
[Re-enter MARIANA]
I pray you, be acquainted with this maid;
She comes to do you good.",1236,19167
650617,1875,I do desire the like.,605,19167
650618,1876,Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?,1236,19167
650619,1877,"Good friar, I know you do, and have found it.",741,19167
650620,1878,"Take, then, this your companion by the hand,
Who hath a story ready for your ear.
I shall attend your leisure: but make haste;
The vaporous night approaches.",1236,19167
650621,1882,Will't please you walk aside?,741,19167
650622,1883,[Exeunt MARIANA and ISABELLA],1261,19167
650623,1884,"O place and greatness! millions of false eyes
Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report
Run with these false and most contrarious quests
Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit
Make thee the father of their idle dreams
And rack thee in their fancies.
[Re-enter MARIANA and ISABELLA]
Welcome, how agreed?",1236,19167
650624,1892,"She'll take the enterprise upon her, father,
If you advise it.",605,19167
650625,1894,"It is not my consent,
But my entreaty too.",1236,19167
650626,1896,"Little have you to say
When you depart from him, but, soft and low,
'Remember now my brother.'",605,19167
650627,1899,Fear me not.,741,19167
650628,1900,"Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
He is your husband on a pre-contract:
To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin,
Sith that the justice of your title to him
Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go:
Our corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow.",1236,19167
650629,1906,[Exeunt],1261,19167
650630,1909,[Enter Provost and POMPEY],1261,19168
650631,1910,"Come hither, sirrah. Can you cut off a man's head?",926,19168
650632,1911,"If the man be a bachelor, sir, I can; but if he be a
married man, he's his wife's head, and I can never
cut off a woman's head.",901,19168
650633,1914,"Come, sir, leave me your snatches, and yield me a
direct answer. To-morrow morning are to die Claudio
and Barnardine. Here is in our prison a common
executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if
you will take it on you to assist him, it shall
redeem you from your gyves; if not, you shall have
your full time of imprisonment and your deliverance
with an unpitied whipping, for you have been a
notorious bawd.",926,19168
650634,1923,"Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind;
but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman. I
would be glad to receive some instruction from my
fellow partner.",901,19168
650635,1927,"What, ho! Abhorson! Where's Abhorson, there?",926,19168
650636,1928,[Enter ABHORSON],1261,19168
650637,1929,"Do you call, sir?",47,19168
650638,1930,"Sirrah, here's a fellow will help you to-morrow in
your execution. If you think it meet, compound with
him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if
not, use him for the present and dismiss him. He
cannot plead his estimation with you; he hath been a bawd.",926,19168
650639,1935,"A bawd, sir? fie upon him! he will discredit our mystery.",47,19168
650640,1936,"Go to, sir; you weigh equally; a feather will turn
the scale.",926,19168
650641,1938,[Exit],1261,19168
650642,1939,"Pray, sir, by your good favour,--for surely, sir, a
good favour you have, but that you have a hanging
look,--do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery?",901,19168
650643,1942,"Ay, sir; a mystery",47,19168
650644,1943,"Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and
your whores, sir, being members of my occupation,
using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery:
but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I
should be hanged, I cannot imagine.",901,19168
650645,1948,"Sir, it is a mystery.",47,19168
650646,1949,Proof?,901,19168
650647,1950,"Every true man's apparel fits your thief: if it be
too little for your thief, your true man thinks it
big enough; if it be too big for your thief, your
thief thinks it little enough: so every true man's
apparel fits your thief.",47,19168
650648,1955,[Re-enter Provost],1261,19168
650649,1956,Are you agreed?,926,19168
650650,1957,"Sir, I will serve him; for I do find your hangman is
a more penitent trade than your bawd; he doth
oftener ask forgiveness.",901,19168
650651,1960,"You, sirrah, provide your block and your axe
to-morrow four o'clock.",926,19168
650652,1962,"Come on, bawd; I will instruct thee in my trade; follow.",47,19168
650653,1963,"I do desire to learn, sir: and I hope, if you have
occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find
me yare; for truly, sir, for your kindness I owe you
a good turn.",901,19168
650654,1967,"Call hither Barnardine and Claudio:
[Exeunt POMPEY and ABHORSON]
The one has my pity; not a jot the other,
Being a murderer, though he were my brother.
[Enter CLAUDIO]
Look, here's the warrant, Claudio, for thy death:
'Tis now dead midnight, and by eight to-morrow
Thou must be made immortal. Where's Barnardine?",926,19168
650655,1975,"As fast lock'd up in sleep as guiltless labour
When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones:
He will not wake.",257,19168
650656,1978,"Who can do good on him?
Well, go, prepare yourself.
[Knocking within]
But, hark, what noise?
Heaven give your spirits comfort!
[Exit CLAUDIO]
By and by.
I hope it is some pardon or reprieve
For the most gentle Claudio.
[Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before]
Welcome father.",926,19168
650657,1989,"The best and wholesomest spirts of the night
Envelope you, good Provost! Who call'd here of late?",1236,19168
650658,1991,"None, since the curfew rung.",926,19168
650659,1992,Not Isabel?,1236,19168
650660,1993,No.,926,19168
650661,1994,"They will, then, ere't be long.",1236,19168
650662,1995,What comfort is for Claudio?,926,19168
650663,1996,There's some in hope.,1236,19168
650664,1997,It is a bitter deputy.,926,19168
650665,1998,"Not so, not so; his life is parallel'd
Even with the stroke and line of his great justice:
He doth with holy abstinence subdue
That in himself which he spurs on his power
To qualify in others: were he meal'd with that
Which he corrects, then were he tyrannous;
But this being so, he's just.
[Knocking within]
Now are they come.
[Exit Provost]
This is a gentle provost: seldom when
The steeled gaoler is the friend of men.
[Knocking within]
How now! what noise? That spirit's possessed with haste
That wounds the unsisting postern with these strokes.",1236,19168
650666,2013,[Re-enter Provost],1261,19168
650667,2014,"There he must stay until the officer
Arise to let him in: he is call'd up.",926,19168
650668,2016,"Have you no countermand for Claudio yet,
But he must die to-morrow?",1236,19168
650669,2018,"None, sir, none.",926,19168
650670,2019,"As near the dawning, provost, as it is,
You shall hear more ere morning.",1236,19168
650671,2021,"Happily
You something know; yet I believe there comes
No countermand; no such example have we:
Besides, upon the very siege of justice
Lord Angelo hath to the public ear
Profess'd the contrary.
[Enter a Messenger]
This is his lordship's man.",926,19168
650672,2029,And here comes Claudio's pardon.,1236,19168
650673,2030,"[Giving a paper]
My lord hath sent you this note; and by me this
further charge, that you swerve not from the
smallest article of it, neither in time, matter, or
other circumstance. Good morrow; for, as I take it,
it is almost day.",783,19168
650674,2036,I shall obey him.,926,19168
650675,2037,[Exit Messenger],1261,19168
650676,2038,"[Aside] This is his pardon, purchased by such sin
For which the pardoner himself is in.
Hence hath offence his quick celerity,
When it is born in high authority:
When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended,
That for the fault's love is the offender friended.
Now, sir, what news?",1236,19168
650677,2045,"I told you. Lord Angelo, belike thinking me remiss
in mine office, awakens me with this unwonted
putting-on; methinks strangely, for he hath not used it before.",926,19168
650678,2048,"Pray you, let's hear.",1236,19168
650679,2049,"[Reads]
'Whatsoever you may hear to the contrary, let
Claudio be executed by four of the clock; and in the
afternoon Barnardine: for my better satisfaction,
let me have Claudio's head sent me by five. Let
this be duly performed; with a thought that more
depends on it than we must yet deliver. Thus fail
not to do your office, as you will answer it at your peril.'
What say you to this, sir?",926,19168
650680,2058,"What is that Barnardine who is to be executed in the
afternoon?",1236,19168
650681,2060,"A Bohemian born, but here nursed un and bred; one
that is a prisoner nine years old.",926,19168
650682,2062,"How came it that the absent duke had not either
delivered him to his liberty or executed him? I
have heard it was ever his manner to do so.",1236,19168
650683,2065,"His friends still wrought reprieves for him: and,
indeed, his fact, till now in the government of Lord
Angelo, came not to an undoubtful proof.",926,19168
650684,2068,It is now apparent?,1236,19168
650685,2069,"Most manifest, and not denied by himself.",926,19168
650686,2070,"Hath he born himself penitently in prison? how
seems he to be touched?",1236,19168
650687,2072,"A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but
as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and fearless
of what's past, present, or to come; insensible of
mortality, and desperately mortal.",926,19168
650688,2076,He wants advice.,1236,19168
650689,2077,"He will hear none: he hath evermore had the liberty
of the prison; give him leave to escape hence, he
would not: drunk many times a day, if not many days
entirely drunk. We have very oft awaked him, as if
to carry him to execution, and showed him a seeming
warrant for it: it hath not moved him at all.",926,19168
650690,2083,"More of him anon. There is written in your brow,
provost, honesty and constancy: if I read it not
truly, my ancient skill beguiles me; but, in the
boldness of my cunning, I will lay myself in hazard.
Claudio, whom here you have warrant to execute, is
no greater forfeit to the law than Angelo who hath
sentenced him. To make you understand this in a
manifested effect, I crave but four days' respite;
for the which you are to do me both a present and a
dangerous courtesy.",1236,19168
650691,2093,"Pray, sir, in what?",926,19168
650692,2094,In the delaying death.,1236,19168
650693,2095,"A lack, how may I do it, having the hour limited,
and an express command, under penalty, to deliver
his head in the view of Angelo? I may make my case
as Claudio's, to cross this in the smallest.",926,19168
650694,2099,"By the vow of mine order I warrant you, if my
instructions may be your guide. Let this Barnardine
be this morning executed, and his head born to Angelo.",1236,19168
650695,2102,"Angelo hath seen them both, and will discover the favour.",926,19168
650696,2103,"O, death's a great disguiser; and you may add to it.
Shave the head, and tie the beard; and say it was
the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his
death: you know the course is common. If any thing
fall to you upon this, more than thanks and good
fortune, by the saint whom I profess, I will plead
against it with my life.",1236,19168
650697,2110,"Pardon me, good father; it is against my oath.",926,19168
650698,2111,"Were you sworn to the duke, or to the deputy?",1236,19168
650699,2112,"To him, and to his substitutes.",926,19168
650700,2113,"You will think you have made no offence, if the duke
avouch the justice of your dealing?",1236,19168
650701,2115,But what likelihood is in that?,926,19168
650702,2116,"Not a resemblance, but a certainty. Yet since I see
you fearful, that neither my coat, integrity, nor
persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go
further than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you.
Look you, sir, here is the hand and seal of the
duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the
signet is not strange to you.",1236,19168
650703,2123,I know them both.,926,19168
650704,2124,"The contents of this is the return of the duke: you
shall anon over-read it at your pleasure; where you
shall find, within these two days he will be here.
This is a thing that Angelo knows not; for he this
very day receives letters of strange tenor;
perchance of the duke's death; perchance entering
into some monastery; but, by chance, nothing of what
is writ. Look, the unfolding star calls up the
shepherd. Put not yourself into amazement how these
things should be: all difficulties are but easy
when they are known. Call your executioner, and off
with Barnardine's head: I will give him a present
shrift and advise him for a better place. Yet you
are amazed; but this shall absolutely resolve you.
Come away; it is almost clear dawn.",1236,19168
650705,2139,[Exeunt],1261,19168
650706,2142,[Enter POMPEY],1261,19169
650707,2143,"I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house
of profession: one would think it were Mistress
Overdone's own house, for here be many of her old
customers. First, here's young Master Rash; he's in
for a commodity of brown paper and old ginger,
ninescore and seventeen pounds; of which he made
five marks, ready money: marry, then ginger was not
much in request, for the old women were all dead.
Then is there here one Master Caper, at the suit of
Master Three-pile the mercer, for some four suits of
peach-coloured satin, which now peaches him a
beggar. Then have we here young Dizy, and young
Master Deep-vow, and Master Copperspur, and Master
Starve-lackey the rapier and dagger man, and young
Drop-heir that killed lusty Pudding, and Master
Forthlight the tilter, and brave Master Shooty the
great traveller, and wild Half-can that stabbed
Pots, and, I think, forty more; all great doers in
our trade, and are now 'for the Lord's sake.'",901,19169
650708,2162,[Enter ABHORSON],1261,19169
650709,2163,"Sirrah, bring Barnardine hither.",47,19169
650710,2164,"Master Barnardine! you must rise and be hanged.
Master Barnardine!",901,19169
650711,2166,"What, ho, Barnardine!",47,19169
650712,2167,"[Within] A pox o' your throats! Who makes that
noise there? What are you?",146,19169
650713,2169,"Your friends, sir; the hangman. You must be so
good, sir, to rise and be put to death.",901,19169
650714,2171,"[Within] Away, you rogue, away! I am sleepy.",146,19169
650715,2172,"Tell him he must awake, and that quickly too.",47,19169
650716,2173,"Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are
executed, and sleep afterwards.",901,19169
650717,2175,"Go in to him, and fetch him out.",47,19169
650718,2176,"He is coming, sir, he is coming; I hear his straw rustle.",901,19169
650719,2177,"Is the axe upon the block, sirrah?",47,19169
650720,2178,"Very ready, sir.",901,19169
650721,2179,[Enter BARNARDINE],1261,19169
650722,2180,"How now, Abhorson? what's the news with you?",146,19169
650723,2181,"Truly, sir, I would desire you to clap into your
prayers; for, look you, the warrant's come.",47,19169
650724,2183,"You rogue, I have been drinking all night; I am not
fitted for 't.",146,19169
650725,2185,"O, the better, sir; for he that drinks all night,
and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the
sounder all the next day.",901,19169
650726,2188,"Look you, sir; here comes your ghostly father: do
we jest now, think you?",47,19169
650727,2190,[Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before],1261,19169
650728,2191,"Sir, induced by my charity, and hearing how hastily
you are to depart, I am come to advise you, comfort
you and pray with you.",1236,19169
650729,2194,"Friar, not I. I have been drinking hard all night,
and I will have more time to prepare me, or they
shall beat out my brains with billets: I will not
consent to die this day, that's certain.",146,19169
650730,2198,"O, sir, you must: and therefore I beseech you
Look forward on the journey you shall go.",1236,19169
650731,2200,"I swear I will not die to-day for any man's
persuasion.",146,19169
650732,2202,But hear you.,1236,19169
650733,2203,"Not a word: if you have any thing to say to me,
come to my ward; for thence will not I to-day.",146,19169
650734,2205,[Exit],1261,19169
650735,2206,"Unfit to live or die: O gravel heart!
After him, fellows; bring him to the block.",1236,19169
650736,2208,[Exeunt ABHORSON and POMPEY],1261,19169
650737,2209,[Re-enter Provost],1261,19169
650738,2210,"Now, sir, how do you find the prisoner?",926,19169
650739,2211,"A creature unprepared, unmeet for death;
And to transport him in the mind he is
Were damnable.",1236,19169
650740,2214,"Here in the prison, father,
There died this morning of a cruel fever
One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate,
A man of Claudio's years; his beard and head
Just of his colour. What if we do omit
This reprobate till he were well inclined;
And satisfy the deputy with the visage
Of Ragozine, more like to Claudio?",926,19169
650741,2222,"O, 'tis an accident that heaven provides!
Dispatch it presently; the hour draws on
Prefix'd by Angelo: see this be done,
And sent according to command; whiles I
Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die.",1236,19169
650742,2227,"This shall be done, good father, presently.
But Barnardine must die this afternoon:
And how shall we continue Claudio,
To save me from the danger that might come
If he were known alive?",926,19169
650743,2232,"Let this be done.
Put them in secret holds, both Barnardine and Claudio:
Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting
To the under generation, you shall find
Your safety manifested.",1236,19169
650744,2237,I am your free dependant.,926,19169
650745,2238,"Quick, dispatch, and send the head to Angelo.
[Exit Provost]
Now will I write letters to Angelo,--
The provost, he shall bear them, whose contents
Shall witness to him I am near at home,
And that, by great injunctions, I am bound
To enter publicly: him I'll desire
To meet me at the consecrated fount
A league below the city; and from thence,
By cold gradation and well-balanced form,
We shall proceed with Angelo.",1236,19169
650746,2249,[Re-enter Provost],1261,19169
650747,2250,Here is the head; I'll carry it myself.,926,19169
650748,2251,"Convenient is it. Make a swift return;
For I would commune with you of such things
That want no ear but yours.",1236,19169
650749,2254,I'll make all speed.,926,19169
650750,2255,[Exit],1261,19169
650751,2256,"[Within] Peace, ho, be here!",605,19169
650752,2257,"The tongue of Isabel. She's come to know
If yet her brother's pardon be come hither:
But I will keep her ignorant of her good,
To make her heavenly comforts of despair,
When it is least expected.",1236,19169
650753,2262,[Enter ISABELLA],1261,19169
650754,2263,"Ho, by your leave!",605,19169
650755,2264,"Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.",1236,19169
650756,2265,"The better, given me by so holy a man.
Hath yet the deputy sent my brother's pardon?",605,19169
650757,2267,"He hath released him, Isabel, from the world:
His head is off and sent to Angelo.",1236,19169
650758,2269,"Nay, but it is not so.",605,19169
650759,2270,"It is no other: show your wisdom, daughter,
In your close patience.",1236,19169
650760,2272,"O, I will to him and pluck out his eyes!",605,19169
650761,2273,You shall not be admitted to his sight.,1236,19169
650762,2274,"Unhappy Claudio! wretched Isabel!
Injurious world! most damned Angelo!",605,19169
650763,2276,"This nor hurts him nor profits you a jot;
Forbear it therefore; give your cause to heaven.
Mark what I say, which you shall find
By every syllable a faithful verity:
The duke comes home to-morrow; nay, dry your eyes;
One of our convent, and his confessor,
Gives me this instance: already he hath carried
Notice to Escalus and Angelo,
Who do prepare to meet him at the gates,
There to give up their power. If you can, pace your wisdom
In that good path that I would wish it go,
And you shall have your bosom on this wretch,
Grace of the duke, revenges to your heart,
And general honour.",1236,19169
650764,2290,I am directed by you.,605,19169
650765,2291,"This letter, then, to Friar Peter give;
'Tis that he sent me of the duke's return:
Say, by this token, I desire his company
At Mariana's house to-night. Her cause and yours
I'll perfect him withal, and he shall bring you
Before the duke, and to the head of Angelo
Accuse him home and home. For my poor self,
I am combined by a sacred vow
And shall be absent. Wend you with this letter:
Command these fretting waters from your eyes
With a light heart; trust not my holy order,
If I pervert your course. Who's here?",1236,19169
650766,2303,[Enter LUCIO],1261,19169
650767,2304,"Good even. Friar, where's the provost?",715,19169
650768,2305,"Not within, sir.",1236,19169
650769,2306,"O pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine heart to see
thine eyes so red: thou must be patient. I am fain
to dine and sup with water and bran; I dare not for
my head fill my belly; one fruitful meal would set
me to 't. But they say the duke will be here
to-morrow. By my troth, Isabel, I loved thy brother:
if the old fantastical duke of dark corners had been
at home, he had lived.",715,19169
650770,2314,[Exit ISABELLA],1261,19169
650771,2315,"Sir, the duke is marvellous little beholding to your
reports; but the best is, he lives not in them.",1236,19169
650772,2317,"Friar, thou knowest not the duke so well as I do:
he's a better woodman than thou takest him for.",715,19169
650773,2319,"Well, you'll answer this one day. Fare ye well.",1236,19169
650774,2320,"Nay, tarry; I'll go along with thee
I can tell thee pretty tales of the duke.",715,19169
650775,2322,"You have told me too many of him already, sir, if
they be true; if not true, none were enough.",1236,19169
650776,2324,I was once before him for getting a wench with child.,715,19169
650777,2325,Did you such a thing?,1236,19169
650778,2326,"Yes, marry, did I. but I was fain to forswear it;
they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.",715,19169
650779,2328,"Sir, your company is fairer than honest. Rest you well.",1236,19169
650780,2329,"By my troth, I'll go with thee to the lane's end:
if bawdy talk offend you, we'll have very little of
it. Nay, friar, I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.",715,19169
650781,2332,[Exeunt],1261,19169
650782,2335,[Enter ANGELO and ESCALUS],1261,19170
650783,2336,Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.,385,19170
650784,2337,"In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions
show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be
not tainted! And why meet him at the gates, and
redeliver our authorities there",104,19170
650785,2341,I guess not.,385,19170
650786,2342,"And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his
entering, that if any crave redress of injustice,
they should exhibit their petitions in the street?",104,19170
650787,2345,"He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of
complaints, and to deliver us from devices
hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand
against us.",385,19170
650788,2349,"Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed betimes
i' the morn; I'll call you at your house: give
notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet
him.",104,19170
650789,2353,"I shall, sir. Fare you well.",385,19170
650790,2354,"Good night.
[Exit ESCALUS]
This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant
And dull to all proceedings. A deflower'd maid!
And by an eminent body that enforced
The law against it! But that her tender shame
Will not proclaim against her maiden loss,
How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no;
For my authority bears of a credent bulk,
That no particular scandal once can touch
But it confounds the breather. He should have lived,
Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge,
By so receiving a dishonour'd life
With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived!
A lack, when once our grace we have forgot,
Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not.",104,19170
650791,2371,[Exit],1261,19170
650792,2374,"[Enter DUKE VINCENTIO in his own habit, and FRIAR PETER]",1261,19171
650793,2375,"These letters at fit time deliver me
[Giving letters]
The provost knows our purpose and our plot.
The matter being afoot, keep your instruction,
And hold you ever to our special drift;
Though sometimes you do blench from this to that,
As cause doth minister. Go call at Flavius' house,
And tell him where I stay: give the like notice
To Valentinus, Rowland, and to Crassus,
And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate;
But send me Flavius first.",1236,19171
650794,2386,It shall be speeded well.,505,19171
650795,2387,[Exit],1261,19171
650796,2388,[Enter VARRIUS],1261,19171
650797,2389,"I thank thee, Varrius; thou hast made good haste:
Come, we will walk. There's other of our friends
Will greet us here anon, my gentle Varrius.",1236,19171
650798,2392,[Exeunt],1261,19171
650799,2395,[Enter ISABELLA and MARIANA],1261,19172
650800,2396,"To speak so indirectly I am loath:
I would say the truth; but to accuse him so,
That is your part: yet I am advised to do it;
He says, to veil full purpose.",605,19172
650801,2400,Be ruled by him.,741,19172
650802,2401,"Besides, he tells me that, if peradventure
He speak against me on the adverse side,
I should not think it strange; for 'tis a physic
That's bitter to sweet end.",605,19172
650803,2405,I would Friar Peter--,741,19172
650804,2406,"O, peace! the friar is come.",605,19172
650805,2407,[Enter FRIAR PETER],1261,19172
650806,2408,"Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,
Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets sounded;
The generous and gravest citizens
Have hent the gates, and very near upon
The duke is entering: therefore, hence, away!",505,19172
650807,2414,"[Exeunt]
[MARIANA veiled, ISABELLA, and FRIAR PETER, at their]
stand. Enter DUKE VINCENTIO, VARRIUS, Lords,
ANGELO, ESCALUS, LUCIO, Provost, Officers, and
Citizens, at several doors]",1261,19172
650808,2421,"My very worthy cousin, fairly met!
Our old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you.",1236,19173
650809,2423,[with Escalus] Happy return be to your royal grace!,104,19173
650810,2424,"Many and hearty thankings to you both.
We have made inquiry of you; and we hear
Such goodness of your justice, that our soul
Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks,
Forerunning more requital.",1236,19173
650811,2429,You make my bonds still greater.,104,19173
650812,2430,"O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,
To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
When it deserves, with characters of brass,
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion. Give me your hand,
And let the subject see, to make them know
That outward courtesies would fain proclaim
Favours that keep within. Come, Escalus,
You must walk by us on our other hand;
And good supporters are you.",1236,19173
650813,2440,[FRIAR PETER and ISABELLA come forward],1261,19173
650814,2441,Now is your time: speak loud and kneel before him.,505,19173
650815,2442,"Justice, O royal duke! Vail your regard
Upon a wrong'd, I would fain have said, a maid!
O worthy prince, dishonour not your eye
By throwing it on any other object
Till you have heard me in my true complaint
And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!",605,19173
650816,2448,"Relate your wrongs; in what? by whom? be brief.
Here is Lord Angelo shall give you justice:
Reveal yourself to him.",1236,19173
650817,2451,"O worthy duke,
You bid me seek redemption of the devil:
Hear me yourself; for that which I must speak
Must either punish me, not being believed,
Or wring redress from you. Hear me, O hear me, here!",605,19173
650818,2456,"My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm:
She hath been a suitor to me for her brother
Cut off by course of justice,--",104,19173
650819,2459,By course of justice!,605,19173
650820,2460,And she will speak most bitterly and strange.,104,19173
650821,2461,"Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak:
That Angelo's forsworn; is it not strange?
That Angelo's a murderer; is 't not strange?
That Angelo is an adulterous thief,
An hypocrite, a virgin-violator;
Is it not strange and strange?",605,19173
650822,2467,"Nay, it is ten times strange.",1236,19173
650823,2468,"It is not truer he is Angelo
Than this is all as true as it is strange:
Nay, it is ten times true; for truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.",605,19173
650824,2472,"Away with her! Poor soul,
She speaks this in the infirmity of sense.",1236,19173
650825,2474,"O prince, I conjure thee, as thou believest
There is another comfort than this world,
That thou neglect me not, with that opinion
That I am touch'd with madness! Make not impossible
That which but seems unlike: 'tis not impossible
But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground,
May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute
As Angelo; even so may Angelo,
In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms,
Be an arch-villain; believe it, royal prince:
If he be less, he's nothing; but he's more,
Had I more name for badness.",605,19173
650826,2486,"By mine honesty,
If she be mad,--as I believe no other,--
Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense,
Such a dependency of thing on thing,
As e'er I heard in madness.",1236,19173
650827,2491,"O gracious duke,
Harp not on that, nor do not banish reason
For inequality; but let your reason serve
To make the truth appear where it seems hid,
And hide the false seems true.",605,19173
650828,2496,"Many that are not mad
Have, sure, more lack of reason. What would you say?",1236,19173
650829,2498,"I am the sister of one Claudio,
Condemn'd upon the act of fornication
To lose his head; condemn'd by Angelo:
I, in probation of a sisterhood,
Was sent to by my brother; one Lucio
As then the messenger,--",605,19173
650830,2504,"That's I, an't like your grace:
I came to her from Claudio, and desired her
To try her gracious fortune with Lord Angelo
For her poor brother's pardon.",715,19173
650831,2508,That's he indeed.,605,19173
650832,2509,You were not bid to speak.,1236,19173
650833,2510,"No, my good lord;
Nor wish'd to hold my peace.",715,19173
650834,2512,"I wish you now, then;
Pray you, take note of it: and when you have
A business for yourself, pray heaven you then
Be perfect.",1236,19173
650835,2516,I warrant your honour.,715,19173
650836,2517,The warrants for yourself; take heed to't.,1236,19173
650837,2518,"This gentleman told somewhat of my tale,--",605,19173
650838,2519,Right.,715,19173
650839,2520,"It may be right; but you are i' the wrong
To speak before your time. Proceed.",1236,19173
650840,2522,"I went
To this pernicious caitiff deputy,--",605,19173
650841,2524,That's somewhat madly spoken.,1236,19173
650842,2525,"Pardon it;
The phrase is to the matter.",605,19173
650843,2527,Mended again. The matter; proceed.,1236,19173
650844,2528,"In brief, to set the needless process by,
How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd,
How he refell'd me, and how I replied,--
For this was of much length,--the vile conclusion
I now begin with grief and shame to utter:
He would not, but by gift of my chaste body
To his concupiscible intemperate lust,
Release my brother; and, after much debatement,
My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour,
And I did yield to him: but the next morn betimes,
His purpose surfeiting, he sends a warrant
For my poor brother's head.",605,19173
650845,2540,This is most likely!,1236,19173
650846,2541,"O, that it were as like as it is true!",605,19173
650847,2542,"By heaven, fond wretch, thou knowist not what thou speak'st,
Or else thou art suborn'd against his honour
In hateful practise. First, his integrity
Stands without blemish. Next, it imports no reason
That with such vehemency he should pursue
Faults proper to himself: if he had so offended,
He would have weigh'd thy brother by himself
And not have cut him off. Some one hath set you on:
Confess the truth, and say by whose advice
Thou camest here to complain.",1236,19173
650848,2552,"And is this all?
Then, O you blessed ministers above,
Keep me in patience, and with ripen'd time
Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up
In countenance! Heaven shield your grace from woe,
As I, thus wrong'd, hence unbelieved go!",605,19173
650849,2558,"I know you'ld fain be gone. An officer!
To prison with her! Shall we thus permit
A blasting and a scandalous breath to fall
On him so near us? This needs must be a practise.
Who knew of Your intent and coming hither?",1236,19173
650850,2563,"One that I would were here, Friar Lodowick.",605,19173
650851,2564,"A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick?",1236,19173
650852,2565,"My lord, I know him; 'tis a meddling friar;
I do not like the man: had he been lay, my lord
For certain words he spake against your grace
In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly.",715,19173
650853,2569,"Words against me? this is a good friar, belike!
And to set on this wretched woman here
Against our substitute! Let this friar be found.",1236,19173
650854,2572,"But yesternight, my lord, she and that friar,
I saw them at the prison: a saucy friar,
A very scurvy fellow.",715,19173
650855,2575,"Blessed be your royal grace!
I have stood by, my lord, and I have heard
Your royal ear abused. First, hath this woman
Most wrongfully accused your substitute,
Who is as free from touch or soil with her
As she from one ungot.",505,19173
650856,2581,"We did believe no less.
Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of?",1236,19173
650857,2583,"I know him for a man divine and holy;
Not scurvy, nor a temporary meddler,
As he's reported by this gentleman;
And, on my trust, a man that never yet
Did, as he vouches, misreport your grace.",505,19173
650858,2588,"My lord, most villanously; believe it.",715,19173
650859,2589,"Well, he in time may come to clear himself;
But at this instant he is sick my lord,
Of a strange fever. Upon his mere request,
Being come to knowledge that there was complaint
Intended 'gainst Lord Angelo, came I hither,
To speak, as from his mouth, what he doth know
Is true and false; and what he with his oath
And all probation will make up full clear,
Whensoever he's convented. First, for this woman.
To justify this worthy nobleman,
So vulgarly and personally accused,
Her shall you hear disproved to her eyes,
Till she herself confess it.",505,19173
650860,2602,"Good friar, let's hear it.
[ISABELLA is carried off guarded; and MARIANA comes forward]
Do you not smile at this, Lord Angelo?
O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo;
In this I'll be impartial; be you judge
Of your own cause. Is this the witness, friar?
First, let her show her face, and after speak.",1236,19173
650861,2610,"Pardon, my lord; I will not show my face
Until my husband bid me.",741,19173
650862,2612,"What, are you married?",1236,19173
650863,2613,"No, my lord.",741,19173
650864,2614,Are you a maid?,1236,19173
650865,2615,"No, my lord.",741,19173
650866,2616,"A widow, then?",1236,19173
650867,2617,"Neither, my lord.",741,19173
650868,2618,"Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife?",1236,19173
650869,2619,"My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are
neither maid, widow, nor wife.",715,19173
650870,2621,"Silence that fellow: I would he had some cause
To prattle for himself.",1236,19173
650871,2623,"Well, my lord.",715,19173
650872,2624,"My lord; I do confess I ne'er was married;
And I confess besides I am no maid:
I have known my husband; yet my husband
Knows not that ever he knew me.",741,19173
650873,2628,"He was drunk then, my lord: it can be no better.",715,19173
650874,2629,"For the benefit of silence, would thou wert so too!",1236,19173
650875,2630,"Well, my lord.",715,19173
650876,2631,This is no witness for Lord Angelo.,1236,19173
650877,2632,"Now I come to't my lord
She that accuses him of fornication,
In self-same manner doth accuse my husband,
And charges him my lord, with such a time
When I'll depose I had him in mine arms
With all the effect of love.",741,19173
650878,2638,Charges she more than me?,104,19173
650879,2639,Not that I know.,741,19173
650880,2640,No? you say your husband.,1236,19173
650881,2641,"Why, just, my lord, and that is Angelo,
Who thinks he knows that he ne'er knew my body,
But knows he thinks that he knows Isabel's.",741,19173
650882,2644,This is a strange abuse. Let's see thy face.,104,19173
650883,2645,"My husband bids me; now I will unmask.
[Unveiling]
This is that face, thou cruel Angelo,
Which once thou sworest was worth the looking on;
This is the hand which, with a vow'd contract,
Was fast belock'd in thine; this is the body
That took away the match from Isabel,
And did supply thee at thy garden-house
In her imagined person.",741,19173
650884,2654,Know you this woman?,1236,19173
650885,2655,"Carnally, she says.",715,19173
650886,2656,"Sirrah, no more!",1236,19173
650887,2657,"Enough, my lord.",715,19173
650888,2658,"My lord, I must confess I know this woman:
And five years since there was some speech of marriage
Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off,
Partly for that her promised proportions
Came short of composition, but in chief
For that her reputation was disvalued
In levity: since which time of five years
I never spake with her, saw her, nor heard from her,
Upon my faith and honour.",104,19173
650889,2667,"Noble prince,
As there comes light from heaven and words from breath,
As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue,
I am affianced this man's wife as strongly
As words could make up vows: and, my good lord,
But Tuesday night last gone in's garden-house
He knew me as a wife. As this is true,
Let me in safety raise me from my knees
Or else for ever be confixed here,
A marble monument!",741,19173
650890,2677,"I did but smile till now:
Now, good my lord, give me the scope of justice
My patience here is touch'd. I do perceive
These poor informal women are no more
But instruments of some more mightier member
That sets them on: let me have way, my lord,
To find this practise out.",104,19173
650891,2684,"Ay, with my heart
And punish them to your height of pleasure.
Thou foolish friar, and thou pernicious woman,
Compact with her that's gone, think'st thou thy oaths,
Though they would swear down each particular saint,
Were testimonies against his worth and credit
That's seal'd in approbation? You, Lord Escalus,
Sit with my cousin; lend him your kind pains
To find out this abuse, whence 'tis derived.
There is another friar that set them on;
Let him be sent for.",1236,19173
650892,2695,"Would he were here, my lord! for he indeed
Hath set the women on to this complaint:
Your provost knows the place where he abides
And he may fetch him.",505,19173
650893,2699,"Go do it instantly.
[Exit Provost]
And you, my noble and well-warranted cousin,
Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth,
Do with your injuries as seems you best,
In any chastisement: I for a while will leave you;
But stir not you till you have well determined
Upon these slanderers.",1236,19173
650894,2707,"My lord, we'll do it throughly.
[Exit DUKE]
Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that
Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person?",385,19173
650895,2711,"'Cucullus non facit monachum:' honest in nothing
but in his clothes; and one that hath spoke most
villanous speeches of the duke.",715,19173
650896,2714,"We shall entreat you to abide here till he come and
enforce them against him: we shall find this friar a
notable fellow.",385,19173
650897,2717,"As any in Vienna, on my word.",715,19173
650898,2718,"Call that same Isabel here once again; I would speak with her.
[Exit an Attendant]
Pray you, my lord, give me leave to question; you
shall see how I'll handle her.",385,19173
650899,2722,"Not better than he, by her own report.",715,19173
650900,2723,Say you?,385,19173
650901,2724,"Marry, sir, I think, if you handled her privately,
she would sooner confess: perchance, publicly,
she'll be ashamed.",715,19173
650902,2727,I will go darkly to work with her.,385,19173
650903,2728,"That's the way; for women are light at midnight.
[Re-enter Officers with ISABELLA; and Provost with]
the DUKE VINCENTIO in his friar's habit]",715,19173
650904,2731,"Come on, mistress: here's a gentlewoman denies all
that you have said.",385,19173
650905,2733,"My lord, here comes the rascal I spoke of; here with
the provost.",715,19173
650906,2735,"In very good time: speak not you to him till we
call upon you.",385,19173
650907,2737,Mum.,715,19173
650908,2738,"Come, sir: did you set these women on to slander
Lord Angelo? they have confessed you did.",385,19173
650912,2745,"The duke's in us; and we will hear you speak:
Look you speak justly.",385,19173
650913,2747,"Boldly, at least. But, O, poor souls,
Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox?
Good night to your redress! Is the duke gone?
Then is your cause gone too. The duke's unjust,
Thus to retort your manifest appeal,
And put your trial in the villain's mouth
Which here you come to accuse.",1236,19173
650914,2754,This is the rascal; this is he I spoke of.,715,19173
650915,2755,"Why, thou unreverend and unhallow'd friar,
Is't not enough thou hast suborn'd these women
To accuse this worthy man, but, in foul mouth
And in the witness of his proper ear,
To call him villain? and then to glance from him
To the duke himself, to tax him with injustice?
Take him hence; to the rack with him! We'll touse you
Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose.
What 'unjust'!",385,19173
650916,2764,"Be not so hot; the duke
Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he
Dare rack his own: his subject am I not,
Nor here provincial. My business in this state
Made me a looker on here in Vienna,
Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble
Till it o'er-run the stew; laws for all faults,
But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes
Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop,
As much in mock as mark.",1236,19173
650917,2774,Slander to the state! Away with him to prison!,385,19173
650918,2775,"What can you vouch against him, Signior Lucio?
Is this the man that you did tell us of?",104,19173
650919,2777,"'Tis he, my lord. Come hither, goodman baldpate:
do you know me?",715,19173
650920,2779,"I remember you, sir, by the sound of your voice: I
met you at the prison, in the absence of the duke.",1236,19173
650921,2781,"O, did you so? And do you remember what you said of the duke?",715,19173
650922,2782,"Most notedly, sir.",1236,19173
650923,2783,"Do you so, sir? And was the duke a fleshmonger, a
fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be?",715,19173
650924,2785,"You must, sir, change persons with me, ere you make
that my report: you, indeed, spoke so of him; and
much more, much worse.",1236,19173
650925,2788,"O thou damnable fellow! Did not I pluck thee by the
nose for thy speeches?",715,19173
650926,2790,I protest I love the duke as I love myself.,1236,19173
650927,2791,"Hark, how the villain would close now, after his
treasonable abuses!",104,19173
650928,2793,"Such a fellow is not to be talked withal. Away with
him to prison! Where is the provost? Away with him
to prison! lay bolts enough upon him: let him
speak no more. Away with those giglots too, and
with the other confederate companion!",385,19173
650929,2798,"[To Provost] Stay, sir; stay awhile.",1236,19173
650930,2799,"What, resists he? Help him, Lucio.",104,19173
650931,2800,"Come, sir; come, sir; come, sir; foh, sir! Why, you
bald-pated, lying rascal, you must be hooded, must
you? Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you!
show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour!
Will't not off?",715,19173
650932,2805,"[Pulls off the friar's hood, and discovers DUKE VINCENTIO]",1261,19173
650933,2806,"Thou art the first knave that e'er madest a duke.
First, provost, let me bail these gentle three.
[To LUCIO]
Sneak not away, sir; for the friar and you
Must have a word anon. Lay hold on him.",1236,19173
650934,2811,This may prove worse than hanging.,715,19173
650935,2812,"[To ESCALUS] What you have spoke I pardon: sit you down:
We'll borrow place of him.
[To ANGELO]
Sir, by your leave.
Hast thou or word, or wit, or impudence,
That yet can do thee office? If thou hast,
Rely upon it till my tale be heard,
And hold no longer out.",1236,19173
650936,2820,"O my dread lord,
I should be guiltier than my guiltiness,
To think I can be undiscernible,
When I perceive your grace, like power divine,. Hath look'd upon my passes. Then, good prince,
No longer session hold upon my shame,
But let my trial be mine own confession:
Immediate sentence then and sequent death
Is all the grace I beg.",104,19173
650937,2828,"Come hither, Mariana.
Say, wast thou e'er contracted to this woman?",1236,19173
650938,2830,"I was, my lord.",104,19173
650939,2831,"Go take her hence, and marry her instantly.
Do you the office, friar; which consummate,
Return him here again. Go with him, provost.",1236,19173
650940,2834,"[Exeunt ANGELO, MARIANA, FRIAR PETER and Provost]",1261,19173
650941,2835,"My lord, I am more amazed at his dishonour
Than at the strangeness of it.",385,19173
650942,2837,"Come hither, Isabel.
Your friar is now your prince: as I was then
Advertising and holy to your business,
Not changing heart with habit, I am still
Attorney'd at your service.",1236,19173
650943,2842,"O, give me pardon,
That I, your vassal, have employ'd and pain'd
Your unknown sovereignty!",605,19173
650944,2845,"You are pardon'd, Isabel:
And now, dear maid, be you as free to us.
Your brother's death, I know, sits at your heart;
And you may marvel why I obscured myself,
Labouring to save his life, and would not rather
Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power
Than let him so be lost. O most kind maid,
It was the swift celerity of his death,
Which I did think with slower foot came on,
That brain'd my purpose. But, peace be with him!
That life is better life, past fearing death,
Than that which lives to fear: make it your comfort,
So happy is your brother.",1236,19173
650945,2858,"I do, my lord.",605,19173
650946,2859,"[Re-enter ANGELO, MARIANA, FRIAR PETER, and Provost]",1261,19173
650947,2860,"For this new-married man approaching here,
Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd
Your well defended honour, you must pardon
For Mariana's sake: but as he adjudged your brother,--
Being criminal, in double violation
Of sacred chastity and of promise-breach
Thereon dependent, for your brother's life,--
The very mercy of the law cries out
Most audible, even from his proper tongue,
'An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!'
Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;
Like doth quit like, and MEASURE still FOR MEASURE.
Then, Angelo, thy fault's thus manifested;
Which, though thou wouldst deny, denies thee vantage.
We do condemn thee to the very block
Where Claudio stoop'd to death, and with like haste.
Away with him!",1236,19173
650948,2877,"O my most gracious lord,
I hope you will not mock me with a husband.",741,19173
650949,2879,"It is your husband mock'd you with a husband.
Consenting to the safeguard of your honour,
I thought your marriage fit; else imputation,
For that he knew you, might reproach your life
And choke your good to come; for his possessions,
Although by confiscation they are ours,
We do instate and widow you withal,
To buy you a better husband.",1236,19173
650950,2887,"O my dear lord,
I crave no other, nor no better man.",741,19173
650951,2889,Never crave him; we are definitive.,1236,19173
650952,2890,"Gentle my liege,--",741,19173
650953,2891,[Kneeling],1261,19173
650954,2892,"You do but lose your labour.
Away with him to death!
[To LUCIO]
Now, sir, to you.",1236,19173
650955,2896,"O my good lord! Sweet Isabel, take my part;
Lend me your knees, and all my life to come
I'll lend you all my life to do you service.",741,19173
650956,2899,"Against all sense you do importune her:
Should she kneel down in mercy of this fact,
Her brother's ghost his paved bed would break,
And take her hence in horror.",1236,19173
650957,2903,"Isabel,
Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me;
Hold up your hands, say nothing; I'll speak all.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults;
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad: so may my husband.
O Isabel, will you not lend a knee?",741,19173
650958,2910,He dies for Claudio's death.,1236,19173
650959,2911,"Most bounteous sir,
[Kneeling]
Look, if it please you, on this man condemn'd,
As if my brother lived: I partly think
A due sincerity govern'd his deeds,
Till he did look on me: since it is so,
Let him not die. My brother had but justice,
In that he did the thing for which he died:
For Angelo,
His act did not o'ertake his bad intent,
And must be buried but as an intent
That perish'd by the way: thoughts are no subjects;
Intents but merely thoughts.",605,19173
650960,2924,"Merely, my lord.",741,19173
650961,2925,"Your suit's unprofitable; stand up, I say.
I have bethought me of another fault.
Provost, how came it Claudio was beheaded
At an unusual hour?",1236,19173
650962,2929,It was commanded so.,926,19173
650963,2930,Had you a special warrant for the deed?,1236,19173
650964,2931,"No, my good lord; it was by private message.",926,19173
650965,2932,"For which I do discharge you of your office:
Give up your keys.",1236,19173
650966,2934,"Pardon me, noble lord:
I thought it was a fault, but knew it not;
Yet did repent me, after more advice;
For testimony whereof, one in the prison,
That should by private order else have died,
I have reserved alive.",926,19173
650967,2940,What's he?,1236,19173
650968,2941,His name is Barnardine.,926,19173
650969,2942,"I would thou hadst done so by Claudio.
Go fetch him hither; let me look upon him.",1236,19173
650970,2944,[Exit Provost],1261,19173
650971,2945,"I am sorry, one so learned and so wise
As you, Lord Angelo, have still appear'd,
Should slip so grossly, both in the heat of blood.
And lack of temper'd judgment afterward.",385,19173
650972,2949,"I am sorry that such sorrow I procure:
And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart
That I crave death more willingly than mercy;
'Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it.
[Re-enter Provost, with BARNARDINE, CLAUDIO muffled,]
and JULIET]",104,19173
650973,2955,Which is that Barnardine?,1236,19173
650974,2956,"This, my lord.",926,19173
650975,2957,"There was a friar told me of this man.
Sirrah, thou art said to have a stubborn soul.
That apprehends no further than this world,
And squarest thy life according. Thou'rt condemn'd:
But, for those earthly faults, I quit them all;
And pray thee take this mercy to provide
For better times to come. Friar, advise him;
I leave him to your hand. What muffled fellow's that?",1236,19173
650976,2965,"This is another prisoner that I saved.
Who should have died when Claudio lost his head;
As like almost to Claudio as himself.",926,19173
650977,2968,[Unmuffles CLAUDIO],1261,19173
650978,2969,"[To ISABELLA] If he be like your brother, for his sake
Is he pardon'd; and, for your lovely sake,
Give me your hand and say you will be mine.
He is my brother too: but fitter time for that.
By this Lord Angelo perceives he's safe;
Methinks I see a quickening in his eye.
Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well:
Look that you love your wife; her worth worth yours.
I find an apt remission in myself;
And yet here's one in place I cannot pardon.
[To LUCIO]
You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward,
One all of luxury, an ass, a madman;
Wherein have I so deserved of you,
That you extol me thus?",1236,19173
650979,2984,"'Faith, my lord. I spoke it but according to the
trick. If you will hang me for it, you may; but I
had rather it would please you I might be whipt.",715,19173
650980,2987,"Whipt first, sir, and hanged after.
Proclaim it, provost, round about the city.
Is any woman wrong'd by this lewd fellow,
As I have heard him swear himself there's one
Whom he begot with child, let her appear,
And he shall marry her: the nuptial finish'd,
Let him be whipt and hang'd.",1236,19173
650981,2994,"I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a whore.
Your highness said even now, I made you a duke:
good my lord, do not recompense me in making me a cuckold.",715,19173
650982,2997,"Upon mine honour, thou shalt marry her.
Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal
Remit thy other forfeits. Take him to prison;
And see our pleasure herein executed.",1236,19173
650983,3001,"Marrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death,
whipping, and hanging.",715,19173
650984,3003,"Slandering a prince deserves it.
[Exit Officers with LUCIO]
She, Claudio, that you wrong'd, look you restore.
Joy to you, Mariana! Love her, Angelo:
I have confess'd her and I know her virtue.
Thanks, good friend Escalus, for thy much goodness:
There's more behind that is more gratulate.
Thanks, provost, for thy care and secrecy:
We shill employ thee in a worthier place.
Forgive him, Angelo, that brought you home
The head of Ragozine for Claudio's:
The offence pardons itself. Dear Isabel,
I have a motion much imports your good;
Whereto if you'll a willing ear incline,
What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
So, bring us to our palace; where we'll show
What's yet behind, that's meet you all should know.",1236,19173
650985,3020,[Exeunt],1261,19173
650986,3,"[Enter ANTONIO, SALARINO, and SALANIO]",1261,19174
650987,4,"In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.",117,19174
650988,11,"Your mind is tossing on the ocean;
There, where your argosies with portly sail,
Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,
Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,
Do overpeer the petty traffickers,
That curtsy to them, do them reverence,
As they fly by them with their woven wings.",963,19174
650989,18,"Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth,
The better part of my affections would
Be with my hopes abroad. I should be still
Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind,
Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads;
And every object that might make me fear
Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt
Would make me sad.",962,19174
650990,26,"My wind cooling my broth
Would blow me to an ague, when I thought
What harm a wind too great at sea might do.
I should not see the sandy hour-glass run,
But I should think of shallows and of flats,
And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand,
Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs
To kiss her burial. Should I go to church
And see the holy edifice of stone,
And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks,
Which touching but my gentle vessel's side,
Would scatter all her spices on the stream,
Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks,
And, in a word, but even now worth this,
And now worth nothing? Shall I have the thought
To think on this, and shall I lack the thought
That such a thing bechanced would make me sad?
But tell not me; I know, Antonio
Is sad to think upon his merchandise.",963,19174
650991,45,"Believe me, no: I thank my fortune for it,
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,
Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate
Upon the fortune of this present year:
Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.",117,19174
650992,50,"Why, then you are in love.",963,19174
650993,51,"Fie, fie!",117,19174
650994,52,"Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad,
Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy
For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry,
Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus,
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time:
Some that will evermore peep through their eyes
And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper,
And other of such vinegar aspect
That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile,
Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.",963,19174
650995,62,"[Enter BASSANIO, LORENZO, and GRATIANO]",1261,19174
650996,63,"Here comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman,
Gratiano and Lorenzo. Fare ye well:
We leave you now with better company.",962,19174
650997,66,"I would have stay'd till I had made you merry,
If worthier friends had not prevented me.",963,19174
650998,68,"Your worth is very dear in my regard.
I take it, your own business calls on you
And you embrace the occasion to depart.",117,19174
650999,71,"Good morrow, my good lords.",963,19174
651000,72,"Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when?
You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?",147,19174
651001,74,We'll make our leisures to attend on yours.,963,19174
651002,75,[Exeunt Salarino and Salanio],1261,19174
651003,76,"My Lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio,
We two will leave you: but at dinner-time,
I pray you, have in mind where we must meet.",705,19174
651004,79,I will not fail you.,147,19174
651005,80,"You look not well, Signior Antonio;
You have too much respect upon the world:
They lose it that do buy it with much care:
Believe me, you are marvellously changed.",540,19174
651006,84,"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.",117,19174
651007,87,"Let me play the fool:
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
And let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Sleep when he wakes and creep into the jaundice
By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio--
I love thee, and it is my love that speaks--
There are a sort of men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
And do a wilful stillness entertain,
With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
As who should say 'I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!'
O my Antonio, I do know of these
That therefore only are reputed wise
For saying nothing; when, I am very sure,
If they should speak, would almost damn those ears,
Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools.
I'll tell thee more of this another time:
But fish not, with this melancholy bait,
For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
Come, good Lorenzo. Fare ye well awhile:
I'll end my exhortation after dinner.",540,19174
651008,113,"Well, we will leave you then till dinner-time:
I must be one of these same dumb wise men,
For Gratiano never lets me speak.",705,19174
651009,116,"Well, keep me company but two years moe,
Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue.",540,19174
651010,118,Farewell: I'll grow a talker for this gear.,117,19174
651011,119,"Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable
In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.",540,19174
651012,121,[Exeunt GRATIANO and LORENZO],1261,19174
651013,122,Is that any thing now?,117,19174
651014,123,"Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more
than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two
grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you
shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you
have them, they are not worth the search.",147,19174
651015,128,"Well, tell me now what lady is the same
To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage,
That you to-day promised to tell me of?",117,19174
651016,131,"'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,
How much I have disabled mine estate,
By something showing a more swelling port
Than my faint means would grant continuance:
Nor do I now make moan to be abridged
From such a noble rate; but my chief care
Is to come fairly off from the great debts
Wherein my time something too prodigal
Hath left me gaged. To you, Antonio,
I owe the most, in money and in love,
And from your love I have a warranty
To unburden all my plots and purposes
How to get clear of all the debts I owe.",147,19174
651017,144,"I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it;
And if it stand, as you yourself still do,
Within the eye of honour, be assured,
My purse, my person, my extremest means,
Lie all unlock'd to your occasions.",117,19174
651018,149,"In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
I shot his fellow of the self-same flight
The self-same way with more advised watch,
To find the other forth, and by adventuring both
I oft found both: I urge this childhood proof,
Because what follows is pure innocence.
I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth,
That which I owe is lost; but if you please
To shoot another arrow that self way
Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,
As I will watch the aim, or to find both
Or bring your latter hazard back again
And thankfully rest debtor for the first.",147,19174
651019,162,"You know me well, and herein spend but time
To wind about my love with circumstance;
And out of doubt you do me now more wrong
In making question of my uttermost
Than if you had made waste of all I have:
Then do but say to me what I should do
That in your knowledge may by me be done,
And I am prest unto it: therefore, speak.",117,19174
651020,170,"In Belmont is a lady richly left;
And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,
Of wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyes
I did receive fair speechless messages:
Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued
To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia:
Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,
For the four winds blow in from every coast
Renowned suitors, and her sunny locks
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece;
Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchos' strand,
And many Jasons come in quest of her.
O my Antonio, had I but the means
To hold a rival place with one of them,
I have a mind presages me such thrift,
That I should questionless be fortunate!",147,19174
651021,186,"Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea;
Neither have I money nor commodity
To raise a present sum: therefore go forth;
Try what my credit can in Venice do:
That shall be rack'd, even to the uttermost,
To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.
Go, presently inquire, and so will I,
Where money is, and I no question make
To have it of my trust or for my sake.",117,19174
651022,195,[Exeunt],1261,19174
651023,198,[Enter PORTIA and NERISSA],1261,19175
651024,199,"By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of
this great world.",908,19175
651025,201,"You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in
the same abundance as your good fortunes are: and
yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit
with too much as they that starve with nothing. It
is no mean happiness therefore, to be seated in the
mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but
competency lives longer.",813,19175
651026,208,Good sentences and well pronounced.,908,19175
651027,209,"They would be better, if well followed.",813,19175
651028,210,"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to
do, chapels had been churches and poor men's
cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that
follows his own instructions: I can easier teach
twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the
twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may
devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps
o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the
youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the
cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to
choose me a husband. O me, the word 'choose!' I may
neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I
dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed
by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard,
Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?",908,19175
651029,225,"Your father was ever virtuous; and holy men at their
death have good inspirations: therefore the lottery,
that he hath devised in these three chests of gold,
silver and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning
chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen by any
rightly but one who shall rightly love. But what
warmth is there in your affection towards any of
these princely suitors that are already come?",813,19175
651030,233,"I pray thee, over-name them; and as thou namest
them, I will describe them; and, according to my
description, level at my affection.",908,19175
651031,236,"First, there is the Neapolitan prince.",813,19175
651032,237,"Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but
talk of his horse; and he makes it a great
appropriation to his own good parts, that he can
shoe him himself. I am much afeard my lady his
mother played false with a smith.",908,19175
651033,242,Then there is the County Palatine.,813,19175
651034,243,"He doth nothing but frown, as who should say 'If you
will not have me, choose:' he hears merry tales and
smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping
philosopher when he grows old, being so full of
unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be
married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth
than to either of these. God defend me from these
two!",908,19175
651035,251,"How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le Bon?",813,19175
651036,252,"God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.
In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker: but,
he! why, he hath a horse better than the
Neapolitan's, a better bad habit of frowning than
the Count Palatine; he is every man in no man; if a
throstle sing, he falls straight a capering: he will
fence with his own shadow: if I should marry him, I
should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me
I would forgive him, for if he love me to madness, I
shall never requite him.",908,19175
651037,262,"What say you, then, to Falconbridge, the young baron
of England?",813,19175
651038,264,"You know I say nothing to him, for he understands
not me, nor I him: he hath neither Latin, French,
nor Italian, and you will come into the court and
swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English.
He is a proper man's picture, but, alas, who can
converse with a dumb-show? How oddly he is suited!
I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round
hose in France, his bonnet in Germany and his
behavior every where.",908,19175
651039,273,"What think you of the Scottish lord, his neighbour?",813,19175
651040,274,"That he hath a neighbourly charity in him, for he
borrowed a box of the ear of the Englishman and
swore he would pay him again when he was able: I
think the Frenchman became his surety and sealed
under for another.",908,19175
651041,279,"How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony's nephew?",813,19175
651042,280,"Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober, and
most vilely in the afternoon, when he is drunk: when
he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and
when he is worst, he is little better than a beast:
and the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall
make shift to go without him.",908,19175
651043,286,"If he should offer to choose, and choose the right
casket, you should refuse to perform your father's
will, if you should refuse to accept him.",813,19175
651044,289,"Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee, set a
deep glass of rhenish wine on the contrary casket,
for if the devil be within and that temptation
without, I know he will choose it. I will do any
thing, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.",908,19175
651045,294,"You need not fear, lady, the having any of these
lords: they have acquainted me with their
determinations; which is, indeed, to return to their
home and to trouble you with no more suit, unless
you may be won by some other sort than your father's
imposition depending on the caskets.",813,19175
651046,300,"If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as
chaste as Diana, unless I be obtained by the manner
of my father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooers
are so reasonable, for there is not one among them
but I dote on his very absence, and I pray God grant
them a fair departure.",908,19175
651047,306,"Do you not remember, lady, in your father's time, a
Venetian, a scholar and a soldier, that came hither
in company of the Marquis of Montferrat?",813,19175
651048,309,"Yes, yes, it was Bassanio; as I think, he was so called.",908,19175
651049,310,"True, madam: he, of all the men that ever my foolish
eyes looked upon, was the best deserving a fair lady.",813,19175
651050,312,"I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of
thy praise.
[Enter a Serving-man]
How now! what news?",908,19175
651051,316,"The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take
their leave: and there is a forerunner come from a
fifth, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the
prince his master will be here to-night.",1069,19175
651052,320,"If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good a
heart as I can bid the other four farewell, I should
be glad of his approach: if he have the condition
of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had
rather he should shrive me than wive me. Come,
Nerissa. Sirrah, go before.
Whiles we shut the gates
upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.",908,19175
651053,328,[Exeunt],1261,19175
651054,331,[Enter BASSANIO and SHYLOCK],1261,19176
651055,332,Three thousand ducats; well.,1090,19176
651056,333,"Ay, sir, for three months.",147,19176
651057,334,For three months; well.,1090,19176
651058,335,"For the which, as I told you, Antonio shall be bound.",147,19176
651059,336,Antonio shall become bound; well.,1090,19176
651060,337,"May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I
know your answer?",147,19176
651061,339,Three thousand ducats for three months and Antonio bound.,1090,19176
651062,340,Your answer to that.,147,19176
651063,341,Antonio is a good man.,1090,19176
651064,342,Have you heard any imputation to the contrary?,147,19176
651065,343,"Oh, no, no, no, no: my meaning in saying he is a
good man is to have you understand me that he is
sufficient. Yet his means are in supposition: he
hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the
Indies; I understand moreover, upon the Rialto, he
hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and
other ventures he hath, squandered abroad. But ships
are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats
and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I
mean pirates, and then there is the peril of waters,
winds and rocks. The man is, notwithstanding,
sufficient. Three thousand ducats; I think I may
take his bond.",1090,19176
651066,356,Be assured you may.,147,19176
651067,357,"I will be assured I may; and, that I may be assured,
I will bethink me. May I speak with Antonio?",1090,19176
651068,359,If it please you to dine with us.,147,19176
651069,360,"Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which
your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I
will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you,
walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat
with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What
news on the Rialto? Who is he comes here?",1090,19176
651070,366,[Enter ANTONIO],1261,19176
651071,367,This is Signior Antonio.,147,19176
651072,368,"[Aside] How like a fawning publican he looks!
I hate him for he is a Christian,
But more for that in low simplicity
He lends out money gratis and brings down
The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
If I can catch him once upon the hip,
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,
Even there where merchants most do congregate,
On me, my bargains and my well-won thrift,
Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe,
If I forgive him!",1090,19176
651073,380,"Shylock, do you hear?",147,19176
651074,381,"I am debating of my present store,
And, by the near guess of my memory,
I cannot instantly raise up the gross
Of full three thousand ducats. What of that?
Tubal, a wealthy Hebrew of my tribe,
Will furnish me. But soft! how many months
Do you desire?
[To ANTONIO]
Rest you fair, good signior;
Your worship was the last man in our mouths.",1090,19176
651075,391,"Shylock, although I neither lend nor borrow
By taking nor by giving of excess,
Yet, to supply the ripe wants of my friend,
I'll break a custom. Is he yet possess'd
How much ye would?",117,19176
651076,396,"Ay, ay, three thousand ducats.",1090,19176
651077,397,And for three months.,117,19176
651078,398,"I had forgot; three months; you told me so.
Well then, your bond; and let me see; but hear you;
Methought you said you neither lend nor borrow
Upon advantage.",1090,19176
651079,402,I do never use it.,117,19176
651080,403,"When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep--
This Jacob from our holy Abram was,
As his wise mother wrought in his behalf,
The third possessor; ay, he was the third--",1090,19176
651081,407,And what of him? did he take interest?,117,19176
651082,408,"No, not take interest, not, as you would say,
Directly interest: mark what Jacob did.
When Laban and himself were compromised
That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied
Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes, being rank,
In the end of autumn turned to the rams,
And, when the work of generation was
Between these woolly breeders in the act,
The skilful shepherd peel'd me certain wands,
And, in the doing of the deed of kind,
He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes,
Who then conceiving did in eaning time
Fall parti-colour'd lambs, and those were Jacob's.
This was a way to thrive, and he was blest:
And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not.",1090,19176
651083,423,"This was a venture, sir, that Jacob served for;
A thing not in his power to bring to pass,
But sway'd and fashion'd by the hand of heaven.
Was this inserted to make interest good?
Or is your gold and silver ewes and rams?",117,19176
651084,428,"I cannot tell; I make it breed as fast:
But note me, signior.",1090,19176
651085,430,"Mark you this, Bassanio,
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!",117,19176
651086,436,"Three thousand ducats; 'tis a good round sum.
Three months from twelve; then, let me see; the rate--",1090,19176
651087,438,"Well, Shylock, shall we be beholding to you?",117,19176
651088,439,"Signior Antonio, many a time and oft
In the Rialto you have rated me
About my moneys and my usances:
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,
For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
And all for use of that which is mine own.
Well then, it now appears you need my help:
Go to, then; you come to me, and you say
'Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so;
You, that did void your rheum upon my beard
And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
Over your threshold: moneys is your suit
What should I say to you? Should I not say
'Hath a dog money? is it possible
A cur can lend three thousand ducats?' Or
Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key,
With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this;
'Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last;
You spurn'd me such a day; another time
You call'd me dog; and for these courtesies
I'll lend you thus much moneys'?",1090,19176
651089,462,"I am as like to call thee so again,
To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too.
If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?
But lend it rather to thine enemy,
Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face
Exact the penalty.",117,19176
651090,470,"Why, look you, how you storm!
I would be friends with you and have your love,
Forget the shames that you have stain'd me with,
Supply your present wants and take no doit
Of usance for my moneys, and you'll not hear me:
This is kind I offer.",1090,19176
651091,476,This were kindness.,147,19176
651092,477,"This kindness will I show.
Go with me to a notary, seal me there
Your single bond; and, in a merry sport,
If you repay me not on such a day,
In such a place, such sum or sums as are
Express'd in the condition, let the forfeit
Be nominated for an equal pound
Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken
In what part of your body pleaseth me.",1090,19176
651093,486,"Content, i' faith: I'll seal to such a bond
And say there is much kindness in the Jew.",117,19176
651094,488,"You shall not seal to such a bond for me:
I'll rather dwell in my necessity.",147,19176
651095,490,"Why, fear not, man; I will not forfeit it:
Within these two months, that's a month before
This bond expires, I do expect return
Of thrice three times the value of this bond.",117,19176
651096,494,"O father Abram, what these Christians are,
Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
The thoughts of others! Pray you, tell me this;
If he should break his day, what should I gain
By the exaction of the forfeiture?
A pound of man's flesh taken from a man
Is not so estimable, profitable neither,
As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. I say,
To buy his favour, I extend this friendship:
If he will take it, so; if not, adieu;
And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.",1090,19176
651097,505,"Yes Shylock, I will seal unto this bond.",117,19176
651098,506,"Then meet me forthwith at the notary's;
Give him direction for this merry bond,
And I will go and purse the ducats straight,
See to my house, left in the fearful guard
Of an unthrifty knave, and presently
I will be with you.",1090,19176
651099,512,"Hie thee, gentle Jew.
[Exit Shylock]
The Hebrew will turn Christian: he grows kind.",117,19176
651100,515,I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.,147,19176
651101,516,"Come on: in this there can be no dismay;
My ships come home a month before the day.",117,19176
651102,518,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish of cornets. Enter the PRINCE OF MOROCCO]
and his train; PORTIA, NERISSA, and others
attending]",1261,19176
651103,524,"Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun,
To whom I am a neighbour and near bred.
Bring me the fairest creature northward born,
Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,
And let us make incision for your love,
To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine.
I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine
Hath fear'd the valiant: by my love I swear
The best-regarded virgins of our clime
Have loved it too: I would not change this hue,
Except to steal your thoughts, my gentle queen.",920,19177
651104,536,"In terms of choice I am not solely led
By nice direction of a maiden's eyes;
Besides, the lottery of my destiny
Bars me the right of voluntary choosing:
But if my father had not scanted me
And hedged me by his wit, to yield myself
His wife who wins me by that means I told you,
Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair
As any comer I have look'd on yet
For my affection.",908,19177
651105,546,"Even for that I thank you:
Therefore, I pray you, lead me to the caskets
To try my fortune. By this scimitar
That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince
That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,
I would outstare the sternest eyes that look,
Outbrave the heart most daring on the earth,
Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,
To win thee, lady. But, alas the while!
If Hercules and Lichas play at dice
Which is the better man, the greater throw
May turn by fortune from the weaker hand:
So is Alcides beaten by his page;
And so may I, blind fortune leading me,
Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
And die with grieving.",920,19177
651106,563,"You must take your chance,
And either not attempt to choose at all
Or swear before you choose, if you choose wrong
Never to speak to lady afterward
In way of marriage: therefore be advised.",908,19177
651107,568,"Nor will not. Come, bring me unto my chance.",920,19177
651108,569,"First, forward to the temple: after dinner
Your hazard shall be made.",908,19177
651109,571,"Good fortune then!
To make me blest or cursed'st among men.",920,19177
651110,573,"[Cornets, and exeunt]",1261,19177
651111,576,[Enter LAUNCELOT],1261,19178
651112,577,"Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from
this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and
tempts me saying to me 'Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good
Launcelot,' or 'good Gobbo,' or good Launcelot
Gobbo, use your legs, take the start, run away. My
conscience says 'No; take heed,' honest Launcelot;
take heed, honest Gobbo, or, as aforesaid, 'honest
Launcelot Gobbo; do not run; scorn running with thy
heels.' Well, the most courageous fiend bids me
pack: 'Via!' says the fiend; 'away!' says the
fiend; 'for the heavens, rouse up a brave mind,'
says the fiend, 'and run.' Well, my conscience,
hanging about the neck of my heart, says very wisely
to me 'My honest friend Launcelot, being an honest
man's son,' or rather an honest woman's son; for,
indeed, my father did something smack, something
grow to, he had a kind of taste; well, my conscience
says 'Launcelot, budge not.' 'Budge,' says the
fiend. 'Budge not,' says my conscience.
'Conscience,' say I, 'you counsel well;' ' Fiend,'
say I, 'you counsel well:' to be ruled by my
conscience, I should stay with the Jew my master,
who, God bless the mark, is a kind of devil; and, to
run away from the Jew, I should be ruled by the
fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil
himself. Certainly the Jew is the very devil
incarnal; and, in my conscience, my conscience is
but a kind of hard conscience, to offer to counsel
me to stay with the Jew. The fiend gives the more
friendly counsel: I will run, fiend; my heels are
at your command; I will run.",656,19178
651113,608,"[Enter Old GOBBO, with a basket]",1261,19178
651114,609,"Master young man, you, I pray you, which is the way
to master Jew's?",830,19178
651115,611,"[Aside] O heavens, this is my true-begotten father!
who, being more than sand-blind, high-gravel blind,
knows me not: I will try confusions with him.",656,19178
651116,614,"Master young gentleman, I pray you, which is the way
to master Jew's?",830,19178
651117,616,"Turn up on your right hand at the next turning, but,
at the next turning of all, on your left; marry, at
the very next turning, turn of no hand, but turn
down indirectly to the Jew's house.",656,19178
651118,620,"By God's sonties, 'twill be a hard way to hit. Can
you tell me whether one Launcelot,
that dwells with him, dwell with him or no?",830,19178
651119,623,"Talk you of young Master Launcelot?
[Aside]
Mark me now; now will I raise the waters. Talk you
of young Master Launcelot?",656,19178
651120,627,"No master, sir, but a poor man's son: his father,
though I say it, is an honest exceeding poor man
and, God be thanked, well to live.",830,19178
651121,630,"Well, let his father be what a' will, we talk of
young Master Launcelot.",656,19178
651122,632,"Your worship's friend and Launcelot, sir.",830,19178
651123,633,"But I pray you, ergo, old man, ergo, I beseech you,
talk you of young Master Launcelot?",656,19178
651124,635,"Of Launcelot, an't please your mastership.",830,19178
651125,636,"Ergo, Master Launcelot. Talk not of Master
Launcelot, father; for the young gentleman,
according to Fates and Destinies and such odd
sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of
learning, is indeed deceased, or, as you would say
in plain terms, gone to heaven.",656,19178
651126,642,"Marry, God forbid! the boy was the very staff of my
age, my very prop.",830,19178
651127,644,"Do I look like a cudgel or a hovel-post, a staff or
a prop? Do you know me, father?",656,19178
651128,646,"Alack the day, I know you not, young gentleman:
but, I pray you, tell me, is my boy, God rest his
soul, alive or dead?",830,19178
651129,649,"Do you not know me, father?",656,19178
651130,650,"Alack, sir, I am sand-blind; I know you not.",830,19178
651131,651,"Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of
the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his
own child. Well, old man, I will tell you news of
your son: give me your blessing: truth will come
to light; murder cannot be hid long; a man's son
may, but at the length truth will out.",656,19178
651132,657,"Pray you, sir, stand up: I am sure you are not
Launcelot, my boy.",830,19178
651133,659,"Pray you, let's have no more fooling about it, but
give me your blessing: I am Launcelot, your boy
that was, your son that is, your child that shall
be.",656,19178
651134,663,I cannot think you are my son.,830,19178
651135,664,"I know not what I shall think of that: but I am
Launcelot, the Jew's man, and I am sure Margery your
wife is my mother.",656,19178
651136,667,"Her name is Margery, indeed: I'll be sworn, if thou
be Launcelot, thou art mine own flesh and blood.
Lord worshipped might he be! what a beard hast thou
got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than
Dobbin my fill-horse has on his tail.",830,19178
651137,672,"It should seem, then, that Dobbin's tail grows
backward: I am sure he had more hair of his tail
than I have of my face when I last saw him.",656,19178
651138,675,"Lord, how art thou changed! How dost thou and thy
master agree? I have brought him a present. How
'gree you now?",830,19178
651139,678,"Well, well: but, for mine own part, as I have set
up my rest to run away, so I will not rest till I
have run some ground. My master's a very Jew: give
him a present! give him a halter: I am famished in
his service; you may tell every finger I have with
my ribs. Father, I am glad you are come: give me
your present to one Master Bassanio, who, indeed,
gives rare new liveries: if I serve not him, I
will run as far as God has any ground. O rare
fortune! here comes the man: to him, father; for I
am a Jew, if I serve the Jew any longer.",656,19178
651140,689,"[Enter BASSANIO, with LEONARDO and other followers]",1261,19178
651141,690,"You may do so; but let it be so hasted that supper
be ready at the farthest by five of the clock. See
these letters delivered; put the liveries to making,
and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging.",147,19178
651142,694,[Exit a Servant],1261,19178
651143,695,"To him, father.",656,19178
651144,696,God bless your worship!,830,19178
651145,697,Gramercy! wouldst thou aught with me?,147,19178
651146,698,"Here's my son, sir, a poor boy,--",830,19178
651147,699,"Not a poor boy, sir, but the rich Jew's man; that
would, sir, as my father shall specify--",656,19178
651148,701,"He hath a great infection, sir, as one would say, to serve--",830,19178
651149,702,"Indeed, the short and the long is, I serve the Jew,
and have a desire, as my father shall specify--",656,19178
651150,704,"His master and he, saving your worship's reverence,
are scarce cater-cousins--",830,19178
651151,706,"To be brief, the very truth is that the Jew, having
done me wrong, doth cause me, as my father, being, I
hope, an old man, shall frutify unto you--",656,19178
651152,709,"I have here a dish of doves that I would bestow upon
your worship, and my suit is--",830,19178
651153,711,"In very brief, the suit is impertinent to myself, as
your worship shall know by this honest old man; and,
though I say it, though old man, yet poor man, my father.",656,19178
651154,714,One speak for both. What would you?,147,19178
651155,715,"Serve you, sir.",656,19178
651156,716,"That is the very defect of the matter, sir.",830,19178
651157,717,"I know thee well; thou hast obtain'd thy suit:
Shylock thy master spoke with me this day,
And hath preferr'd thee, if it be preferment
To leave a rich Jew's service, to become
The follower of so poor a gentleman.",147,19178
651158,722,"The old proverb is very well parted between my
master Shylock and you, sir: you have the grace of
God, sir, and he hath enough.",656,19178
651159,725,"Thou speak'st it well. Go, father, with thy son.
Take leave of thy old master and inquire
My lodging out. Give him a livery
More guarded than his fellows': see it done.",147,19178
651160,729,"Father, in. I cannot get a service, no; I have
ne'er a tongue in my head. Well, if any man in
Italy have a fairer table which doth offer to swear
upon a book, I shall have good fortune. Go to,
here's a simple line of life: here's a small trifle
of wives: alas, fifteen wives is nothing! eleven
widows and nine maids is a simple coming-in for one
man: and then to 'scape drowning thrice, and to be
in peril of my life with the edge of a feather-bed;
here are simple scapes. Well, if Fortune be a
woman, she's a good wench for this gear. Father,
come; I'll take my leave of the Jew in the twinkling of an eye.",656,19178
651161,741,[Exeunt Launcelot and Old Gobbo],1261,19178
651162,742,"I pray thee, good Leonardo, think on this:
These things being bought and orderly bestow'd,
Return in haste, for I do feast to-night
My best-esteem'd acquaintance: hie thee, go.",147,19178
651163,746,My best endeavours shall be done herein.,663,19178
651164,747,[Enter GRATIANO],1261,19178
651165,748,Where is your master?,540,19178
651166,749,"Yonder, sir, he walks.",663,19178
651167,750,[Exit],1261,19178
651168,751,Signior Bassanio!,540,19178
651169,752,Gratiano!,147,19178
651170,753,I have a suit to you.,540,19178
651171,754,You have obtain'd it.,147,19178
651172,755,You must not deny me: I must go with you to Belmont.,540,19178
651173,756,"Why then you must. But hear thee, Gratiano;
Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice;
Parts that become thee happily enough
And in such eyes as ours appear not faults;
But where thou art not known, why, there they show
Something too liberal. Pray thee, take pain
To allay with some cold drops of modesty
Thy skipping spirit, lest through thy wild behavior
I be misconstrued in the place I go to,
And lose my hopes.",147,19178
651174,766,"Signior Bassanio, hear me:
If I do not put on a sober habit,
Talk with respect and swear but now and then,
Wear prayer-books in my pocket, look demurely,
Nay more, while grace is saying, hood mine eyes
Thus with my hat, and sigh and say 'amen,'
Use all the observance of civility,
Like one well studied in a sad ostent
To please his grandam, never trust me more.",540,19178
651175,775,"Well, we shall see your bearing.",147,19178
651176,776,"Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me
By what we do to-night.",540,19178
651177,778,"No, that were pity:
I would entreat you rather to put on
Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends
That purpose merriment. But fare you well:
I have some business.",147,19178
651178,783,"And I must to Lorenzo and the rest:
But we will visit you at supper-time.",540,19178
651179,785,[Exeunt],1261,19178
651180,788,[Enter JESSICA and LAUNCELOT],1261,19179
651181,789,"I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so:
Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil,
Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness.
But fare thee well, there is a ducat for thee:
And, Launcelot, soon at supper shalt thou see
Lorenzo, who is thy new master's guest:
Give him this letter; do it secretly;
And so farewell: I would not have my father
See me in talk with thee.",611,19179
651182,798,"Adieu! tears exhibit my tongue. Most beautiful
pagan, most sweet Jew! if a Christian did not play
the knave and get thee, I am much deceived. But,
adieu: these foolish drops do something drown my
manly spirit: adieu.",656,19179
651183,803,"Farewell, good Launcelot.
[Exit Launcelot]
Alack, what heinous sin is it in me
To be ashamed to be my father's child!
But though I am a daughter to his blood,
I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,
If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,
Become a Christian and thy loving wife.",611,19179
651184,811,[Exit],1261,19179
651185,814,"[Enter GRATIANO, LORENZO, SALARINO, and SALANIO]",1261,19180
651186,815,"Nay, we will slink away in supper-time,
Disguise us at my lodging and return,
All in an hour.",705,19180
651187,818,We have not made good preparation.,540,19180
651188,819,We have not spoke us yet of torchbearers.,963,19180
651189,820,"'Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly order'd,
And better in my mind not undertook.",962,19180
651190,822,"'Tis now but four o'clock: we have two hours
To furnish us.
[Enter LAUNCELOT, with a letter]
Friend Launcelot, what's the news?",705,19180
651191,826,"An it shall please you to break up
this, it shall seem to signify.",656,19180
651192,828,"I know the hand: in faith, 'tis a fair hand;
And whiter than the paper it writ on
Is the fair hand that writ.",705,19180
651193,831,"Love-news, in faith.",540,19180
651194,832,"By your leave, sir.",656,19180
651195,833,Whither goest thou?,705,19180
651196,834,"Marry, sir, to bid my old master the
Jew to sup to-night with my new master the Christian.",656,19180
651197,836,"Hold here, take this: tell gentle Jessica
I will not fail her; speak it privately.
Go, gentlemen,
[Exit Launcelot]
Will you prepare you for this masque tonight?
I am provided of a torch-bearer.",705,19180
651198,842,"Ay, marry, I'll be gone about it straight.",962,19180
651199,843,And so will I.,962,19180
651200,844,"Meet me and Gratiano
At Gratiano's lodging some hour hence.",705,19180
651205,860,[Exeunt],1261,19180
651206,863,[Enter SHYLOCK and LAUNCELOT],1261,19181
651207,864,"Well, thou shalt see, thy eyes shall be thy judge,
The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio:--
What, Jessica!--thou shalt not gormandise,
As thou hast done with me:--What, Jessica!--
And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out;--
Why, Jessica, I say!",1090,19181
651208,870,"Why, Jessica!",656,19181
651209,871,Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.,1090,19181
651210,872,"Your worship was wont to tell me that
I could do nothing without bidding.",656,19181
651211,874,[Enter Jessica],1261,19181
651212,875,Call you? what is your will?,611,19181
651213,876,"I am bid forth to supper, Jessica:
There are my keys. But wherefore should I go?
I am not bid for love; they flatter me:
But yet I'll go in hate, to feed upon
The prodigal Christian. Jessica, my girl,
Look to my house. I am right loath to go:
There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
For I did dream of money-bags to-night.",1090,19181
651214,884,"I beseech you, sir, go: my young master doth expect
your reproach.",656,19181
651215,886,So do I his.,1090,19181
651216,887,"An they have conspired together, I will not say you
shall see a masque; but if you do, then it was not
for nothing that my nose fell a-bleeding on
Black-Monday last at six o'clock i' the morning,
falling out that year on Ash-Wednesday was four
year, in the afternoon.",656,19181
651217,893,"What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica:
Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum
And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife,
Clamber not you up to the casements then,
Nor thrust your head into the public street
To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces,
But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:
Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter
My sober house. By Jacob's staff, I swear,
I have no mind of feasting forth to-night:
But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah;
Say I will come.",1090,19181
651218,905,"I will go before, sir. Mistress, look out at
window, for all this, There will come a Christian
boy, will be worth a Jewess' eye.",656,19181
651219,908,[Exit],1261,19181
651220,909,"What says that fool of Hagar's offspring, ha?",1090,19181
651221,910,His words were 'Farewell mistress;' nothing else.,611,19181
651222,911,"The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder;
Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
More than the wild-cat: drones hive not with me;
Therefore I part with him, and part with him
To one that would have him help to waste
His borrow'd purse. Well, Jessica, go in;
Perhaps I will return immediately:
Do as I bid you; shut doors after you:
Fast bind, fast find;
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.",1090,19181
651223,921,[Exit],1261,19181
651224,922,"Farewell; and if my fortune be not crost,
I have a father, you a daughter, lost.",611,19181
651225,924,[Exit],1261,19181
651226,927,"[Enter GRATIANO and SALARINO, masqued]",1261,19182
651227,928,"This is the pent-house under which Lorenzo
Desired us to make stand.",540,19182
651228,930,His hour is almost past.,963,19182
651229,931,"And it is marvel he out-dwells his hour,
For lovers ever run before the clock.",540,19182
651230,933,"O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly
To seal love's bonds new-made, than they are wont
To keep obliged faith unforfeited!",963,19182
651231,936,"That ever holds: who riseth from a feast
With that keen appetite that he sits down?
Where is the horse that doth untread again
His tedious measures with the unbated fire
That he did pace them first? All things that are,
Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd.
How like a younker or a prodigal
The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,
Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind!
How like the prodigal doth she return,
With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails,
Lean, rent and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!",540,19182
651232,948,Here comes Lorenzo: more of this hereafter.,963,19182
651233,949,[Enter LORENZO],1261,19182
651234,950,"Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode;
Not I, but my affairs, have made you wait:
When you shall please to play the thieves for wives,
I'll watch as long for you then. Approach;
Here dwells my father Jew. Ho! who's within?",705,19182
651235,955,"[Enter JESSICA, above, in boy's clothes]",1261,19182
651236,956,"Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty,
Albeit I'll swear that I do know your tongue.",611,19182
651237,958,"Lorenzo, and thy love.",705,19182
651238,959,"Lorenzo, certain, and my love indeed,
For who love I so much? And now who knows
But you, Lorenzo, whether I am yours?",611,19182
651239,962,Heaven and thy thoughts are witness that thou art.,705,19182
651240,963,"Here, catch this casket; it is worth the pains.
I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me,
For I am much ashamed of my exchange:
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.",611,19182
651241,970,"Descend, for you must be my torchbearer.",705,19182
651242,971,"What, must I hold a candle to my shames?
They in themselves, good-sooth, are too too light.
Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love;
And I should be obscured.",611,19182
651243,975,"So are you, sweet,
Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
But come at once;
For the close night doth play the runaway,
And we are stay'd for at Bassanio's feast.",705,19182
651244,980,"I will make fast the doors, and gild myself
With some more ducats, and be with you straight.",611,19182
651245,982,[Exit above],1261,19182
651246,983,"Now, by my hood, a Gentile and no Jew.",540,19182
651247,984,"Beshrew me but I love her heartily;
For she is wise, if I can judge of her,
And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true,
And true she is, as she hath proved herself,
And therefore, like herself, wise, fair and true,
Shall she be placed in my constant soul.
[Enter JESSICA, below]
What, art thou come? On, gentlemen; away!
Our masquing mates by this time for us stay.",705,19182
651248,993,[Exit with Jessica and Salarino],1261,19182
651249,994,[Enter ANTONIO],1261,19182
651250,995,Who's there?,117,19182
651251,996,Signior Antonio!,540,19182
651252,997,"Fie, fie, Gratiano! where are all the rest?
'Tis nine o'clock: our friends all stay for you.
No masque to-night: the wind is come about;
Bassanio presently will go aboard:
I have sent twenty out to seek for you.",117,19182
651253,1002,"I am glad on't: I desire no more delight
Than to be under sail and gone to-night.",540,19182
651254,1004,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish of cornets. Enter PORTIA, with the]
PRINCE OF MOROCCO, and their trains]",1261,19182
651255,1009,"Go draw aside the curtains and discover
The several caskets to this noble prince.
Now make your choice.",908,19183
651256,1012,"The first, of gold, who this inscription bears,
'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire;'
The second, silver, which this promise carries,
'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves;'
This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt,
'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'
How shall I know if I do choose the right?",920,19183
651257,1019,"The one of them contains my picture, prince:
If you choose that, then I am yours withal.",908,19183
651258,1021,"Some god direct my judgment! Let me see;
I will survey the inscriptions back again.
What says this leaden casket?
'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'
Must give: for what? for lead? hazard for lead?
This casket threatens. Men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages:
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;
I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.
What says the silver with her virgin hue?
'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'
As much as he deserves! Pause there, Morocco,
And weigh thy value with an even hand:
If thou be'st rated by thy estimation,
Thou dost deserve enough; and yet enough
May not extend so far as to the lady:
And yet to be afeard of my deserving
Were but a weak disabling of myself.
As much as I deserve! Why, that's the lady:
I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes,
In graces and in qualities of breeding;
But more than these, in love I do deserve.
What if I stray'd no further, but chose here?
Let's see once more this saying graved in gold
'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'
Why, that's the lady; all the world desires her;
From the four corners of the earth they come,
To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint:
The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds
Of wide Arabia are as thoroughfares now
For princes to come view fair Portia:
The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head
Spits in the face of heaven, is no bar
To stop the foreign spirits, but they come,
As o'er a brook, to see fair Portia.
One of these three contains her heavenly picture.
Is't like that lead contains her? 'Twere damnation
To think so base a thought: it were too gross
To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
Or shall I think in silver she's immured,
Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?
O sinful thought! Never so rich a gem
Was set in worse than gold. They have in England
A coin that bears the figure of an angel
Stamped in gold, but that's insculp'd upon;
But here an angel in a golden bed
Lies all within. Deliver me the key:
Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may!",920,19183
651259,1069,"There, take it, prince; and if my form lie there,
Then I am yours.",908,19183
651260,1071,[He unlocks the golden casket],1261,19183
651261,1072,"O hell! what have we here?
A carrion Death, within whose empty eye
There is a written scroll! I'll read the writing.
[Reads]
All that glitters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not been inscroll'd:
Fare you well; your suit is cold.
Cold, indeed; and labour lost:
Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost!
Portia, adieu. I have too grieved a heart
To take a tedious leave: thus losers part.",920,19183
651262,1089,[Exit with his train. Flourish of cornets],1261,19183
651263,1090,"A gentle riddance. Draw the curtains, go.
Let all of his complexion choose me so.",908,19183
651264,1092,[Exeunt],1261,19183
651265,1095,[Enter SALARINO and SALANIO],1261,19184
651266,1096,"Why, man, I saw Bassanio under sail:
With him is Gratiano gone along;
And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not.",963,19184
651267,1099,"The villain Jew with outcries raised the duke,
Who went with him to search Bassanio's ship.",962,19184
651268,1101,"He came too late, the ship was under sail:
But there the duke was given to understand
That in a gondola were seen together
Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica:
Besides, Antonio certified the duke
They were not with Bassanio in his ship.",963,19184
651269,1107,"I never heard a passion so confused,
So strange, outrageous, and so variable,
As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:
'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!
Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!
A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter!
And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl;
She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.'",962,19184
651270,1118,"Why, all the boys in Venice follow him,
Crying, his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.",963,19184
651271,1120,"Let good Antonio look he keep his day,
Or he shall pay for this.",962,19184
651272,1122,"Marry, well remember'd.
I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,
Who told me, in the narrow seas that part
The French and English, there miscarried
A vessel of our country richly fraught:
I thought upon Antonio when he told me;
And wish'd in silence that it were not his.",963,19184
651273,1129,"You were best to tell Antonio what you hear;
Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him.",962,19184
651274,1131,"A kinder gentleman treads not the earth.
I saw Bassanio and Antonio part:
Bassanio told him he would make some speed
Of his return: he answer'd, 'Do not so;
Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio
But stay the very riping of the time;
And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me,
Let it not enter in your mind of love:
Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
To courtship and such fair ostents of love
As shall conveniently become you there:'
And even there, his eye being big with tears,
Turning his face, he put his hand behind him,
And with affection wondrous sensible
He wrung Bassanio's hand; and so they parted.",963,19184
651275,1146,"I think he only loves the world for him.
I pray thee, let us go and find him out
And quicken his embraced heaviness
With some delight or other.",962,19184
651276,1150,Do we so.,963,19184
651277,1151,[Exeunt],1261,19184
651278,1154,[Enter NERISSA with a Servitor],1261,19185
651279,1155,"Quick, quick, I pray thee; draw the curtain straight:
The Prince of Arragon hath ta'en his oath,
And comes to his election presently.
[Flourish of cornets. Enter the PRINCE OF ARRAGON,]
PORTIA, and their trains]",813,19185
651280,1160,"Behold, there stand the caskets, noble prince:
If you choose that wherein I am contain'd,
Straight shall our nuptial rites be solemnized:
But if you fail, without more speech, my lord,
You must be gone from hence immediately.",908,19185
651281,1165,"I am enjoin'd by oath to observe three things:
First, never to unfold to any one
Which casket 'twas I chose; next, if I fail
Of the right casket, never in my life
To woo a maid in way of marriage: Lastly,
If I do fail in fortune of my choice,
Immediately to leave you and be gone.",915,19185
651282,1172,"To these injunctions every one doth swear
That comes to hazard for my worthless self.",908,19185
651283,1174,"And so have I address'd me. Fortune now
To my heart's hope! Gold; silver; and base lead.
'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'
You shall look fairer, ere I give or hazard.
What says the golden chest? ha! let me see:
'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'
What many men desire! that 'many' may be meant
By the fool multitude, that choose by show,
Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach;
Which pries not to the interior, but, like the martlet,
Builds in the weather on the outward wall,
Even in the force and road of casualty.
I will not choose what many men desire,
Because I will not jump with common spirits
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
Why, then to thee, thou silver treasure-house;
Tell me once more what title thou dost bear:
'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves:'
And well said too; for who shall go about
To cozen fortune and be honourable
Without the stamp of merit? Let none presume
To wear an undeserved dignity.
O, that estates, degrees and offices
Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour
Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!
How many then should cover that stand bare!
How many be commanded that command!
How much low peasantry would then be glean'd
From the true seed of honour! and how much honour
Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times
To be new-varnish'd! Well, but to my choice:
'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'
I will assume desert. Give me a key for this,
And instantly unlock my fortunes here.",915,19185
651284,1208,[He opens the silver casket],1261,19185
651285,1209,Too long a pause for that which you find there.,908,19185
651286,1210,"What's here? the portrait of a blinking idiot,
Presenting me a schedule! I will read it.
How much unlike art thou to Portia!
How much unlike my hopes and my deservings!
'Who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves.'
Did I deserve no more than a fool's head?
Is that my prize? are my deserts no better?",915,19185
651287,1217,"To offend, and judge, are distinct offices
And of opposed natures.",908,19185
651288,1219,"What is here?
[Reads]
The fire seven times tried this:
Seven times tried that judgment is,
That did never choose amiss.
Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss:
There be fools alive, I wis,
Silver'd o'er; and so was this.
Take what wife you will to bed,
I will ever be your head:
So be gone: you are sped.
Still more fool I shall appear
By the time I linger here
With one fool's head I came to woo,
But I go away with two.
Sweet, adieu. I'll keep my oath,
Patiently to bear my wroth.",915,19185
651289,1237,[Exeunt Arragon and train],1261,19185
651290,1238,"Thus hath the candle singed the moth.
O, these deliberate fools! when they do choose,
They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.",908,19185
651291,1241,"The ancient saying is no heresy,
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.",813,19185
651292,1243,"Come, draw the curtain, Nerissa.",908,19185
651293,1244,[Enter a Servant],1261,19185
651294,1245,Where is my lady?,1069,19185
651295,1246,Here: what would my lord?,908,19185
651296,1247,"Madam, there is alighted at your gate
A young Venetian, one that comes before
To signify the approaching of his lord;
From whom he bringeth sensible regreets,
To wit, besides commends and courteous breath,
Gifts of rich value. Yet I have not seen
So likely an ambassador of love:
A day in April never came so sweet,
To show how costly summer was at hand,
As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.",1069,19185
651297,1257,"No more, I pray thee: I am half afeard
Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee,
Thou spend'st such high-day wit in praising him.
Come, come, Nerissa; for I long to see
Quick Cupid's post that comes so mannerly.",908,19185
651298,1262,"Bassanio, lord Love, if thy will it be!",813,19185
651299,1263,[Exeunt],1261,19185
651300,1266,[Enter SALANIO and SALARINO],1261,19186
651301,1267,"Now, what news on the Rialto?",962,19186
651302,1268,"Why, yet it lives there uncheck'd that Antonio hath
a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas;
the Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very
dangerous flat and fatal, where the carcasses of many
a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip
Report be an honest woman of her word.",963,19186
651303,1274,"I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever
knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe she
wept for the death of a third husband. But it is
true, without any slips of prolixity or crossing the
plain highway of talk, that the good Antonio, the
honest Antonio,--O that I had a title good enough
to keep his name company!--",962,19186
651304,1281,"Come, the full stop.",963,19186
651305,1282,"Ha! what sayest thou? Why, the end is, he hath
lost a ship.",962,19186
651306,1284,I would it might prove the end of his losses.,963,19186
651307,1285,"Let me say 'amen' betimes, lest the devil cross my
prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.
[Enter SHYLOCK]
How now, Shylock! what news among the merchants?",962,19186
651308,1289,"You know, none so well, none so well as you, of my
daughter's flight.",1090,19186
651309,1291,"That's certain: I, for my part, knew the tailor
that made the wings she flew withal.",963,19186
651310,1293,"And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was
fledged; and then it is the complexion of them all
to leave the dam.",962,19186
651311,1296,She is damned for it.,1090,19186
651312,1297,"That's certain, if the devil may be her judge.",962,19186
651313,1298,My own flesh and blood to rebel!,1090,19186
651314,1299,"Out upon it, old carrion! rebels it at these years?",962,19186
651315,1300,"I say, my daughter is my flesh and blood.",1090,19186
651316,1301,"There is more difference between thy flesh and hers
than between jet and ivory; more between your bloods
than there is between red wine and rhenish. But
tell us, do you hear whether Antonio have had any
loss at sea or no?",963,19186
651317,1306,"There I have another bad match: a bankrupt, a
prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the
Rialto; a beggar, that was used to come so smug upon
the mart; let him look to his bond: he was wont to
call me usurer; let him look to his bond: he was
wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy; let him
look to his bond.",1090,19186
651318,1313,"Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take
his flesh: what's that good for?",963,19186
651319,1315,"To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else,
it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and
hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,
mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my
bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine
enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you
teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will better the instruction.",1090,19186
651320,1336,[Enter a Servant],1261,19186
651321,1337,"Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house and
desires to speak with you both.",1069,19186
651322,1339,We have been up and down to seek him.,963,19186
651323,1340,[Enter TUBAL],1261,19186
651324,1341,"Here comes another of the tribe: a third cannot be
matched, unless the devil himself turn Jew.",962,19186
651325,1343,"[Exeunt SALANIO, SALARINO, and Servant]",1261,19186
651326,1344,"How now, Tubal! what news from Genoa? hast thou
found my daughter?",1090,19186
651327,1346,"I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her.",1213,19186
651328,1347,"Why, there, there, there, there! a diamond gone,
cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! The curse
never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it
till now: two thousand ducats in that; and other
precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter
were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!
would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in
her coffin! No news of them? Why, so: and I know
not what's spent in the search: why, thou loss upon
loss! the thief gone with so much, and so much to
find the thief; and no satisfaction, no revenge:
nor no in luck stirring but what lights on my
shoulders; no sighs but of my breathing; no tears
but of my shedding.",1090,19186
651329,1361,"Yes, other men have ill luck too: Antonio, as I
heard in Genoa,--",1213,19186
651330,1363,"What, what, what? ill luck, ill luck?",1090,19186
651331,1364,"Hath an argosy cast away, coming from Tripolis.",1213,19186
651332,1365,"I thank God, I thank God. Is't true, is't true?",1090,19186
651333,1366,I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck.,1213,19186
651334,1367,"I thank thee, good Tubal: good news, good news!
ha, ha! where? in Genoa?",1090,19186
651335,1369,"Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, in one
night fourscore ducats.",1213,19186
651336,1371,"Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my
gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!
fourscore ducats!",1090,19186
651337,1374,"There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my
company to Venice, that swear he cannot choose but break.",1213,19186
651338,1376,"I am very glad of it: I'll plague him; I'll torture
him: I am glad of it.",1090,19186
651339,1378,"One of them showed me a ring that he had of your
daughter for a monkey.",1213,19186
651340,1380,"Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my
turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor:
I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.",1090,19186
651341,1383,But Antonio is certainly undone.,1213,19186
651342,1384,"Nay, that's true, that's very true. Go, Tubal, fee
me an officer; bespeak him a fortnight before. I
will have the heart of him, if he forfeit; for, were
he out of Venice, I can make what merchandise I
will. Go, go, Tubal, and meet me at our synagogue;
go, good Tubal; at our synagogue, Tubal.",1090,19186
651343,1390,"[Exeunt]
[Enter BASSANIO, PORTIA, GRATIANO, NERISSA, and]
Attendants]",1261,19186
651344,1395,"I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two
Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong,
I lose your company: therefore forbear awhile.
There's something tells me, but it is not love,
I would not lose you; and you know yourself,
Hate counsels not in such a quality.
But lest you should not understand me well,--
And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,--
I would detain you here some month or two
Before you venture for me. I could teach you
How to choose right, but I am then forsworn;
So will I never be: so may you miss me;
But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,
That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,
They have o'erlook'd me and divided me;
One half of me is yours, the other half yours,
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours. O, these naughty times
Put bars between the owners and their rights!
And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so,
Let fortune go to hell for it, not I.
I speak too long; but 'tis to peize the time,
To eke it and to draw it out in length,
To stay you from election.",908,19187
651345,1419,"Let me choose
For as I am, I live upon the rack.",147,19187
651346,1421,"Upon the rack, Bassanio! then confess
What treason there is mingled with your love.",908,19187
651347,1423,"None but that ugly treason of mistrust,
Which makes me fear the enjoying of my love:
There may as well be amity and life
'Tween snow and fire, as treason and my love.",147,19187
651348,1427,"Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack,
Where men enforced do speak anything.",908,19187
651349,1429,"Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth.",147,19187
651350,1430,"Well then, confess and live.",908,19187
651351,1431,"'Confess' and 'love'
Had been the very sum of my confession:
O happy torment, when my torturer
Doth teach me answers for deliverance!
But let me to my fortune and the caskets.",147,19187
651352,1436,"Away, then! I am lock'd in one of them:
If you do love me, you will find me out.
Nerissa and the rest, stand all aloof.
Let music sound while he doth make his choice;
Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end,
Fading in music: that the comparison
May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream
And watery death-bed for him. He may win;
And what is music then? Then music is
Even as the flourish when true subjects bow
To a new-crowned monarch: such it is
As are those dulcet sounds in break of day
That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear,
And summon him to marriage. Now he goes,
With no less presence, but with much more love,
Than young Alcides, when he did redeem
The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy
To the sea-monster: I stand for sacrifice
The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives,
With bleared visages, come forth to view
The issue of the exploit. Go, Hercules!
Live thou, I live: with much, much more dismay
I view the fight than thou that makest the fray.
[Music, whilst BASSANIO comments on the caskets to himself]
SONG.
Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart, or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?
Reply, reply.
It is engender'd in the eyes,
With gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
Let us all ring fancy's knell
I'll begin it,--Ding, dong, bell.",908,19187
651353,1470,"Ding, dong, bell.",88,19187
651354,1471,"So may the outward shows be least themselves:
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts:
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars;
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk;
And these assume but valour's excrement
To render them redoubted! Look on beauty,
And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;
Which therein works a miracle in nature,
Making them lightest that wear most of it:
So are those crisped snaky golden locks
Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,
Upon supposed fairness, often known
To be the dowry of a second head,
The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.
Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest. Therefore, thou gaudy gold,
Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee;
Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge
'Tween man and man: but thou, thou meagre lead,
Which rather threatenest than dost promise aught,
Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence;
And here choose I; joy be the consequence!",147,19187
651355,1506,"[Aside] How all the other passions fleet to air,
As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,
And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O love,
Be moderate; allay thy ecstasy,
In measure rein thy joy; scant this excess.
I feel too much thy blessing: make it less,
For fear I surfeit.",908,19187
651356,1513,"What find I here?
[Opening the leaden casket]
Fair Portia's counterfeit! What demi-god
Hath come so near creation? Move these eyes?
Or whether, riding on the balls of mine,
Seem they in motion? Here are sever'd lips,
Parted with sugar breath: so sweet a bar
Should sunder such sweet friends. Here in her hairs
The painter plays the spider and hath woven
A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men,
Faster than gnats in cobwebs; but her eyes,--
How could he see to do them? having made one,
Methinks it should have power to steal both his
And leave itself unfurnish'd. Yet look, how far
The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow
In underprizing it, so far this shadow
Doth limp behind the substance. Here's the scroll,
The continent and summary of my fortune.
[Reads]
You that choose not by the view,
Chance as fair and choose as true!
Since this fortune falls to you,
Be content and seek no new,
If you be well pleased with this
And hold your fortune for your bliss,
Turn you where your lady is
And claim her with a loving kiss.
A gentle scroll. Fair lady, by your leave;
I come by note, to give and to receive.
Like one of two contending in a prize,
That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes,
Hearing applause and universal shout,
Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt
Whether these pearls of praise be his or no;
So, thrice fair lady, stand I, even so;
As doubtful whether what I see be true,
Until confirm'd, sign'd, ratified by you.",147,19187
651357,1550,"You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,
Such as I am: though for myself alone
I would not be ambitious in my wish,
To wish myself much better; yet, for you
I would be trebled twenty times myself;
A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich;
That only to stand high in your account,
I might in virtue, beauties, livings, friends,
Exceed account; but the full sum of me
Is sum of something, which, to term in gross,
Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised;
Happy in this, she is not yet so old
But she may learn; happier than this,
She is not bred so dull but she can learn;
Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit
Commits itself to yours to be directed,
As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Myself and what is mine to you and yours
Is now converted: but now I was the lord
Of this fair mansion, master of my servants,
Queen o'er myself: and even now, but now,
This house, these servants and this same myself
Are yours, my lord: I give them with this ring;
Which when you part from, lose, or give away,
Let it presage the ruin of your love
And be my vantage to exclaim on you.",908,19187
651358,1576,"Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins;
And there is such confusion in my powers,
As after some oration fairly spoke
By a beloved prince, there doth appear
Among the buzzing pleased multitude;
Where every something, being blent together,
Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy,
Express'd and not express'd. But when this ring
Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence:
O, then be bold to say Bassanio's dead!",147,19187
651359,1587,"My lord and lady, it is now our time,
That have stood by and seen our wishes prosper,
To cry, good joy: good joy, my lord and lady!",813,19187
651360,1590,"My lord Bassanio and my gentle lady,
I wish you all the joy that you can wish;
For I am sure you can wish none from me:
And when your honours mean to solemnize
The bargain of your faith, I do beseech you,
Even at that time I may be married too.",540,19187
651361,1596,"With all my heart, so thou canst get a wife.",147,19187
651362,1597,"I thank your lordship, you have got me one.
My eyes, my lord, can look as swift as yours:
You saw the mistress, I beheld the maid;
You loved, I loved for intermission.
No more pertains to me, my lord, than you.
Your fortune stood upon the casket there,
And so did mine too, as the matter falls;
For wooing here until I sweat again,
And sweating until my very roof was dry
With oaths of love, at last, if promise last,
I got a promise of this fair one here
To have her love, provided that your fortune
Achieved her mistress.",540,19187
651363,1610,"Is this true, Nerissa?",908,19187
651364,1611,"Madam, it is, so you stand pleased withal.",813,19187
651365,1612,"And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith?",147,19187
651366,1613,"Yes, faith, my lord.",540,19187
651367,1614,Our feast shall be much honour'd in your marriage.,147,19187
651368,1615,We'll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats.,540,19187
651369,1616,"What, and stake down?",813,19187
651370,1617,"No; we shall ne'er win at that sport, and stake down.
But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel? What,
and my old Venetian friend Salerio?
[Enter LORENZO, JESSICA, and SALERIO, a Messenger]
from Venice]",540,19187
651371,1622,"Lorenzo and Salerio, welcome hither;
If that the youth of my new interest here
Have power to bid you welcome. By your leave,
I bid my very friends and countrymen,
Sweet Portia, welcome.",147,19187
651372,1627,"So do I, my lord:
They are entirely welcome.",908,19187
651373,1629,"I thank your honour. For my part, my lord,
My purpose was not to have seen you here;
But meeting with Salerio by the way,
He did entreat me, past all saying nay,
To come with him along.",705,19187
651374,1634,"I did, my lord;
And I have reason for it. Signior Antonio
Commends him to you.",964,19187
651375,1637,[Gives Bassanio a letter],1261,19187
651376,1638,"Ere I ope his letter,
I pray you, tell me how my good friend doth.",147,19187
651377,1640,"Not sick, my lord, unless it be in mind;
Nor well, unless in mind: his letter there
Will show you his estate.",964,19187
651378,1643,"Nerissa, cheer yon stranger; bid her welcome.
Your hand, Salerio: what's the news from Venice?
How doth that royal merchant, good Antonio?
I know he will be glad of our success;
We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece.",540,19187
651379,1648,I would you had won the fleece that he hath lost.,964,19187
651380,1649,"There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper,
That steals the colour from Bassanio's cheek:
Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world
Could turn so much the constitution
Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!
With leave, Bassanio: I am half yourself,
And I must freely have the half of anything
That this same paper brings you.",908,19187
651381,1657,"O sweet Portia,
Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
That ever blotted paper! Gentle lady,
When I did first impart my love to you,
I freely told you, all the wealth I had
Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman;
And then I told you true: and yet, dear lady,
Rating myself at nothing, you shall see
How much I was a braggart. When I told you
My state was nothing, I should then have told you
That I was worse than nothing; for, indeed,
I have engaged myself to a dear friend,
Engaged my friend to his mere enemy,
To feed my means. Here is a letter, lady;
The paper as the body of my friend,
And every word in it a gaping wound,
Issuing life-blood. But is it true, Salerio?
Have all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit?
From Tripolis, from Mexico and England,
From Lisbon, Barbary and India?
And not one vessel 'scape the dreadful touch
Of merchant-marring rocks?",147,19187
651382,1679,"Not one, my lord.
Besides, it should appear, that if he had
The present money to discharge the Jew,
He would not take it. Never did I know
A creature, that did bear the shape of man,
So keen and greedy to confound a man:
He plies the duke at morning and at night,
And doth impeach the freedom of the state,
If they deny him justice: twenty merchants,
The duke himself, and the magnificoes
Of greatest port, have all persuaded with him;
But none can drive him from the envious plea
Of forfeiture, of justice and his bond.",964,19187
651383,1692,"When I was with him I have heard him swear
To Tubal and to Chus, his countrymen,
That he would rather have Antonio's flesh
Than twenty times the value of the sum
That he did owe him: and I know, my lord,
If law, authority and power deny not,
It will go hard with poor Antonio.",611,19187
651384,1699,Is it your dear friend that is thus in trouble?,908,19187
651385,1700,"The dearest friend to me, the kindest man,
The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit
In doing courtesies, and one in whom
The ancient Roman honour more appears
Than any that draws breath in Italy.",147,19187
651386,1705,What sum owes he the Jew?,908,19187
651387,1706,For me three thousand ducats.,147,19187
651388,1707,"What, no more?
Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond;
Double six thousand, and then treble that,
Before a friend of this description
Shall lose a hair through Bassanio's fault.
First go with me to church and call me wife,
And then away to Venice to your friend;
For never shall you lie by Portia's side
With an unquiet soul. You shall have gold
To pay the petty debt twenty times over:
When it is paid, bring your true friend along.
My maid Nerissa and myself meantime
Will live as maids and widows. Come, away!
For you shall hence upon your wedding-day:
Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheer:
Since you are dear bought, I will love you dear.
But let me hear the letter of your friend.",908,19187
651389,1724,"[Reads] Sweet Bassanio, my ships have all
miscarried, my creditors grow cruel, my estate is
very low, my bond to the Jew is forfeit; and since
in paying it, it is impossible I should live, all
debts are cleared between you and I, if I might but
see you at my death. Notwithstanding, use your
pleasure: if your love do not persuade you to come,
let not my letter.",147,19187
651390,1732,"O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!",908,19187
651391,1733,"Since I have your good leave to go away,
I will make haste: but, till I come again,
No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay,
No rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.",147,19187
651392,1737,[Exeunt],1261,19187
651393,1740,"[Enter SHYLOCK, SALARINO, ANTONIO, and Gaoler]",1261,19188
651394,1741,"Gaoler, look to him: tell not me of mercy;
This is the fool that lent out money gratis:
Gaoler, look to him.",1090,19188
651395,1744,"Hear me yet, good Shylock.",117,19188
651396,1745,"I'll have my bond; speak not against my bond:
I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.
Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause;
But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs:
The duke shall grant me justice. I do wonder,
Thou naughty gaoler, that thou art so fond
To come abroad with him at his request.",1090,19188
651397,1752,"I pray thee, hear me speak.",117,19188
651398,1753,"I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak:
I'll have my bond; and therefore speak no more.
I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool,
To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield
To Christian intercessors. Follow not;
I'll have no speaking: I will have my bond.",1090,19188
651399,1759,[Exit],1261,19188
651400,1760,"It is the most impenetrable cur
That ever kept with men.",963,19188
651401,1762,"Let him alone:
I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
He seeks my life; his reason well I know:
I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures
Many that have at times made moan to me;
Therefore he hates me.",117,19188
651402,1768,"I am sure the duke
Will never grant this forfeiture to hold.",963,19188
651403,1770,"The duke cannot deny the course of law:
For the commodity that strangers have
With us in Venice, if it be denied,
Will much impeach the justice of his state;
Since that the trade and profit of the city
Consisteth of all nations. Therefore, go:
These griefs and losses have so bated me,
That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh
To-morrow to my bloody creditor.
Well, gaoler, on. Pray God, Bassanio come
To see me pay his debt, and then I care not!",117,19188
651404,1781,[Exeunt],1261,19188
651405,1784,"[Enter PORTIA, NERISSA, LORENZO, JESSICA, and BALTHASAR]",1261,19189
651406,1785,"Madam, although I speak it in your presence,
You have a noble and a true conceit
Of godlike amity; which appears most strongly
In bearing thus the absence of your lord.
But if you knew to whom you show this honour,
How true a gentleman you send relief,
How dear a lover of my lord your husband,
I know you would be prouder of the work
Than customary bounty can enforce you.",705,19189
651407,1794,"I never did repent for doing good,
Nor shall not now: for in companions
That do converse and waste the time together,
Whose souls do bear an equal yoke Of love,
There must be needs a like proportion
Of lineaments, of manners and of spirit;
Which makes me think that this Antonio,
Being the bosom lover of my lord,
Must needs be like my lord. If it be so,
How little is the cost I have bestow'd
In purchasing the semblance of my soul
From out the state of hellish misery!
This comes too near the praising of myself;
Therefore no more of it: hear other things.
Lorenzo, I commit into your hands
The husbandry and manage of my house
Until my lord's return: for mine own part,
I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow
To live in prayer and contemplation,
Only attended by Nerissa here,
Until her husband and my lord's return:
There is a monastery two miles off;
And there will we abide. I do desire you
Not to deny this imposition;
The which my love and some necessity
Now lays upon you.",908,19189
651408,1820,"Madam, with all my heart;
I shall obey you in all fair commands.",705,19189
651409,1822,"My people do already know my mind,
And will acknowledge you and Jessica
In place of Lord Bassanio and myself.
And so farewell, till we shall meet again.",908,19189
651410,1826,Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!,705,19189
651411,1827,I wish your ladyship all heart's content.,611,19189
651412,1828,"I thank you for your wish, and am well pleased
To wish it back on you: fare you well Jessica.
[Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO]
Now, Balthasar,
As I have ever found thee honest-true,
So let me find thee still. Take this same letter,
And use thou all the endeavour of a man
In speed to Padua: see thou render this
Into my cousin's hand, Doctor Bellario;
And, look, what notes and garments he doth give thee,
Bring them, I pray thee, with imagined speed
Unto the tranect, to the common ferry
Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,
But get thee gone: I shall be there before thee.",908,19189
651413,1842,"Madam, I go with all convenient speed.",138,19189
651414,1843,[Exit],1261,19189
651415,1844,"Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand
That you yet know not of: we'll see our husbands
Before they think of us.",908,19189
651416,1847,Shall they see us?,813,19189
651417,1848,"They shall, Nerissa; but in such a habit,
That they shall think we are accomplished
With that we lack. I'll hold thee any wager,
When we are both accoutred like young men,
I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two,
And wear my dagger with the braver grace,
And speak between the change of man and boy
With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps
Into a manly stride, and speak of frays
Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies,
How honourable ladies sought my love,
Which I denying, they fell sick and died;
I could not do withal; then I'll repent,
And wish for all that, that I had not killed them;
And twenty of these puny lies I'll tell,
That men shall swear I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth. I have within my mind
A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks,
Which I will practise.",908,19189
651418,1867,"Why, shall we turn to men?",813,19189
651419,1868,"Fie, what a question's that,
If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!
But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device
When I am in my coach, which stays for us
At the park gate; and therefore haste away,
For we must measure twenty miles to-day.",908,19189
651420,1874,[Exeunt],1261,19189
651421,1877,[Enter LAUNCELOT and JESSICA],1261,19190
651422,1878,"Yes, truly; for, look you, the sins of the father
are to be laid upon the children: therefore, I
promise ye, I fear you. I was always plain with
you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter:
therefore be of good cheer, for truly I think you
are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do
you any good; and that is but a kind of bastard
hope neither.",656,19190
651423,1886,"And what hope is that, I pray thee?",611,19190
651424,1887,"Marry, you may partly hope that your father got you
not, that you are not the Jew's daughter.",656,19190
651425,1889,"That were a kind of bastard hope, indeed: so the
sins of my mother should be visited upon me.",611,19190
651426,1891,"Truly then I fear you are damned both by father and
mother: thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I
fall into Charybdis, your mother: well, you are
gone both ways.",656,19190
651427,1895,"I shall be saved by my husband; he hath made me a
Christian.",611,19190
651428,1897,"Truly, the more to blame he: we were Christians
enow before; e'en as many as could well live, one by
another. This making Christians will raise the
price of hogs: if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we
shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.",656,19190
651429,1902,[Enter LORENZO],1261,19190
651430,1903,"I'll tell my husband, Launcelot, what you say: here he comes.",611,19190
651431,1904,"I shall grow jealous of you shortly, Launcelot, if
you thus get my wife into corners.",705,19190
651432,1906,"Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo: Launcelot and I
are out. He tells me flatly, there is no mercy for
me in heaven, because I am a Jew's daughter: and he
says, you are no good member of the commonwealth,
for in converting Jews to Christians, you raise the
price of pork.",611,19190
651433,1912,"I shall answer that better to the commonwealth than
you can the getting up of the negro's belly: the
Moor is with child by you, Launcelot.",705,19190
651434,1915,"It is much that the Moor should be more than reason:
but if she be less than an honest woman, she is
indeed more than I took her for.",656,19190
651435,1918,"How every fool can play upon the word! I think the
best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence,
and discourse grow commendable in none only but
parrots. Go in, sirrah; bid them prepare for dinner.",705,19190
651436,1922,"That is done, sir; they have all stomachs.",656,19190
651437,1923,"Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! then bid
them prepare dinner.",705,19190
651438,1925,"That is done too, sir; only 'cover' is the word.",656,19190
651439,1926,"Will you cover then, sir?",705,19190
651440,1927,"Not so, sir, neither; I know my duty.",656,19190
651441,1928,"Yet more quarrelling with occasion! Wilt thou show
the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray
tree, understand a plain man in his plain meaning:
go to thy fellows; bid them cover the table, serve
in the meat, and we will come in to dinner.",705,19190
651442,1933,"For the table, sir, it shall be served in; for the
meat, sir, it shall be covered; for your coming in
to dinner, sir, why, let it be as humours and
conceits shall govern.",656,19190
651443,1937,[Exit],1261,19190
651444,1938,"O dear discretion, how his words are suited!
The fool hath planted in his memory
An army of good words; and I do know
A many fools, that stand in better place,
Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy word
Defy the matter. How cheerest thou, Jessica?
And now, good sweet, say thy opinion,
How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio's wife?",705,19190
651445,1946,"Past all expressing. It is very meet
The Lord Bassanio live an upright life;
For, having such a blessing in his lady,
He finds the joys of heaven here on earth;
And if on earth he do not mean it, then
In reason he should never come to heaven
Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match
And on the wager lay two earthly women,
And Portia one, there must be something else
Pawn'd with the other, for the poor rude world
Hath not her fellow.",611,19190
651446,1957,"Even such a husband
Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.",705,19190
651447,1959,"Nay, but ask my opinion too of that.",611,19190
651448,1960,"I will anon: first, let us go to dinner.",705,19190
651449,1961,"Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.",611,19190
651450,1962,"No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk;
I shall digest it.",705,19190
651451,1965,"Well, I'll set you forth.",611,19190
651452,1966,"[Exeunt]
[Enter the DUKE, the Magnificoes, ANTONIO, BASSANIO,]
GRATIANO, SALERIO, and others]",1261,19190
651453,1971,"What, is Antonio here?",338,19191
651454,1972,"Ready, so please your grace.",117,19191
651455,1973,"I am sorry for thee: thou art come to answer
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch
uncapable of pity, void and empty
From any dram of mercy.",338,19191
651456,1977,"I have heard
Your grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify
His rigorous course; but since he stands obdurate
And that no lawful means can carry me
Out of his envy's reach, I do oppose
My patience to his fury, and am arm'd
To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
The very tyranny and rage of his.",117,19191
651457,1985,"Go one, and call the Jew into the court.",338,19191
651458,1986,"He is ready at the door: he comes, my lord.",964,19191
651459,1987,[Enter SHYLOCK],1261,19191
651460,1988,"Make room, and let him stand before our face.
Shylock, the world thinks, and I think so too,
That thou but lead'st this fashion of thy malice
To the last hour of act; and then 'tis thought
Thou'lt show thy mercy and remorse more strange
Than is thy strange apparent cruelty;
And where thou now exact'st the penalty,
Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh,
Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture,
But, touch'd with human gentleness and love,
Forgive a moiety of the principal;
Glancing an eye of pity on his losses,
That have of late so huddled on his back,
Enow to press a royal merchant down
And pluck commiseration of his state
From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint,
From stubborn Turks and Tartars, never train'd
To offices of tender courtesy.
We all expect a gentle answer, Jew.",338,19191
651461,2007,"I have possess'd your grace of what I purpose;
And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn
To have the due and forfeit of my bond:
If you deny it, let the danger light
Upon your charter and your city's freedom.
You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have
A weight of carrion flesh than to receive
Three thousand ducats: I'll not answer that:
But, say, it is my humour: is it answer'd?
What if my house be troubled with a rat
And I be pleased to give ten thousand ducats
To have it baned? What, are you answer'd yet?
Some men there are love not a gaping pig;
Some, that are mad if they behold a cat;
And others, when the bagpipe sings i' the nose,
Cannot contain their urine: for affection,
Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood
Of what it likes or loathes. Now, for your answer:
As there is no firm reason to be render'd,
Why he cannot abide a gaping pig;
Why he, a harmless necessary cat;
Why he, a woollen bagpipe; but of force
Must yield to such inevitable shame
As to offend, himself being offended;
So can I give no reason, nor I will not,
More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing
I bear Antonio, that I follow thus
A losing suit against him. Are you answer'd?",1090,19191
651462,2035,"This is no answer, thou unfeeling man,
To excuse the current of thy cruelty.",147,19191
651463,2037,I am not bound to please thee with my answers.,1090,19191
651464,2038,Do all men kill the things they do not love?,147,19191
651465,2039,Hates any man the thing he would not kill?,1090,19191
651466,2040,Every offence is not a hate at first.,147,19191
651467,2041,"What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?",1090,19191
651468,2042,"I pray you, think you question with the Jew:
You may as well go stand upon the beach
And bid the main flood bate his usual height;
You may as well use question with the wolf
Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;
You may as well forbid the mountain pines
To wag their high tops and to make no noise,
When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven;
You may as well do anything most hard,
As seek to soften that--than which what's harder?--
His Jewish heart: therefore, I do beseech you,
Make no more offers, use no farther means,
But with all brief and plain conveniency
Let me have judgment and the Jew his will.",117,19191
651469,2056,For thy three thousand ducats here is six.,147,19191
651470,2057,"What judgment shall I dread, doing
Were in six parts and every part a ducat,
I would not draw them; I would have my bond.",1090,19191
651471,2060,"How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?",338,19191
651472,2061,"What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong?
You have among you many a purchased slave,
Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules,
You use in abject and in slavish parts,
Because you bought them: shall I say to you,
Let them be free, marry them to your heirs?
Why sweat they under burthens? let their beds
Be made as soft as yours and let their palates
Be season'd with such viands? You will answer
'The slaves are ours:' so do I answer you:
The pound of flesh, which I demand of him,
Is dearly bought; 'tis mine and I will have it.
If you deny me, fie upon your law!
There is no force in the decrees of Venice.
I stand for judgment: answer; shall I have it?",1090,19191
651473,2076,"Upon my power I may dismiss this court,
Unless Bellario, a learned doctor,
Whom I have sent for to determine this,
Come here to-day.",338,19191
651474,2080,"My lord, here stays without
A messenger with letters from the doctor,
New come from Padua.",964,19191
651475,2083,Bring us the letter; call the messenger.,338,19191
651476,2084,"Good cheer, Antonio! What, man, courage yet!
The Jew shall have my flesh, blood, bones and all,
Ere thou shalt lose for me one drop of blood.",147,19191
651477,2087,"I am a tainted wether of the flock,
Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit
Drops earliest to the ground; and so let me
You cannot better be employ'd, Bassanio,
Than to live still and write mine epitaph.",117,19191
651478,2092,"[Enter NERISSA, dressed like a lawyer's clerk]",1261,19191
651479,2093,"Came you from Padua, from Bellario?",338,19191
651480,2094,"From both, my lord. Bellario greets your grace.",813,19191
651481,2095,[Presenting a letter],1261,19191
651482,2096,Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?,147,19191
651483,2097,To cut the forfeiture from that bankrupt there.,1090,19191
651484,2098,"Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,
Thou makest thy knife keen; but no metal can,
No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the keenness
Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce thee?",540,19191
651485,2102,"No, none that thou hast wit enough to make.",1090,19191
651486,2103,"O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
And for thy life let justice be accused.
Thou almost makest me waver in my faith
To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
Are wolvish, bloody, starved and ravenous.",540,19191
651487,2114,"Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond,
Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud:
Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall
To cureless ruin. I stand here for law.",1090,19191
651488,2118,"This letter from Bellario doth commend
A young and learned doctor to our court.
Where is he?",338,19191
651489,2121,"He attendeth here hard by,
To know your answer, whether you'll admit him.",813,19191
651490,2123,"With all my heart. Some three or four of you
Go give him courteous conduct to this place.
Meantime the court shall hear Bellario's letter.",338,19191
651491,2126,"[Reads]
Your grace shall understand that at the receipt of
your letter I am very sick: but in the instant that
your messenger came, in loving visitation was with
me a young doctor of Rome; his name is Balthasar. I
acquainted him with the cause in controversy between
the Jew and Antonio the merchant: we turned o'er
many books together: he is furnished with my
opinion; which, bettered with his own learning, the
greatness whereof I cannot enough commend, comes
with him, at my importunity, to fill up your grace's
request in my stead. I beseech you, let his lack of
years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend
estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so
old a head. I leave him to your gracious
acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his
commendation.",264,19191
651492,2143,"You hear the learn'd Bellario, what he writes:
And here, I take it, is the doctor come.
[Enter PORTIA, dressed like a doctor of laws]
Give me your hand. Come you from old Bellario?",338,19191
651493,2147,"I did, my lord.",908,19191
651494,2148,"You are welcome: take your place.
Are you acquainted with the difference
That holds this present question in the court?",338,19191
651495,2151,"I am informed thoroughly of the cause.
Which is the merchant here, and which the Jew?",908,19191
651496,2153,"Antonio and old Shylock, both stand forth.",338,19191
651497,2154,Is your name Shylock?,908,19191
651498,2155,Shylock is my name.,1090,19191
651499,2156,"Of a strange nature is the suit you follow;
Yet in such rule that the Venetian law
Cannot impugn you as you do proceed.
You stand within his danger, do you not?",908,19191
651500,2160,"Ay, so he says.",117,19191
651501,2161,Do you confess the bond?,908,19191
651502,2162,I do.,117,19191
651503,2163,Then must the Jew be merciful.,908,19191
651504,2164,On what compulsion must I? tell me that.,1090,19191
651505,2165,"The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.",908,19191
651506,2187,"My deeds upon my head! I crave the law,
The penalty and forfeit of my bond.",1090,19191
651507,2189,Is he not able to discharge the money?,908,19191
651508,2190,"Yes, here I tender it for him in the court;
Yea, twice the sum: if that will not suffice,
I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er,
On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart:
If this will not suffice, it must appear
That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you,
Wrest once the law to your authority:
To do a great right, do a little wrong,
And curb this cruel devil of his will.",147,19191
651509,2199,"It must not be; there is no power in Venice
Can alter a decree established:
'Twill be recorded for a precedent,
And many an error by the same example
Will rush into the state: it cannot be.",908,19191
651510,2204,"A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!",1090,19191
651511,2206,"I pray you, let me look upon the bond.",908,19191
651512,2207,"Here 'tis, most reverend doctor, here it is.",1090,19191
651513,2208,"Shylock, there's thrice thy money offer'd thee.",908,19191
651514,2209,"An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven:
Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?
No, not for Venice.",1090,19191
651515,2212,"Why, this bond is forfeit;
And lawfully by this the Jew may claim
A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off
Nearest the merchant's heart. Be merciful:
Take thrice thy money; bid me tear the bond.",908,19191
651516,2217,"When it is paid according to the tenor.
It doth appear you are a worthy judge;
You know the law, your exposition
Hath been most sound: I charge you by the law,
Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar,
Proceed to judgment: by my soul I swear
There is no power in the tongue of man
To alter me: I stay here on my bond.",1090,19191
651517,2225,"Most heartily I do beseech the court
To give the judgment.",117,19191
651518,2227,"Why then, thus it is:
You must prepare your bosom for his knife.",908,19191
651519,2229,O noble judge! O excellent young man!,1090,19191
651520,2230,"For the intent and purpose of the law
Hath full relation to the penalty,
Which here appeareth due upon the bond.",908,19191
651521,2233,"'Tis very true: O wise and upright judge!
How much more elder art thou than thy looks!",1090,19191
651522,2235,Therefore lay bare your bosom.,908,19191
651523,2236,"Ay, his breast:
So says the bond: doth it not, noble judge?
'Nearest his heart:' those are the very words.",1090,19191
651524,2239,"It is so. Are there balance here to weigh
The flesh?",908,19191
651525,2241,I have them ready.,1090,19191
651526,2242,"Have by some surgeon, Shylock, on your charge,
To stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death.",908,19191
651527,2244,Is it so nominated in the bond?,1090,19191
651528,2245,"It is not so express'd: but what of that?
'Twere good you do so much for charity.",908,19191
651529,2247,I cannot find it; 'tis not in the bond.,1090,19191
651530,2248,"You, merchant, have you any thing to say?",908,19191
651531,2249,"But little: I am arm'd and well prepared.
Give me your hand, Bassanio: fare you well!
Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you;
For herein Fortune shows herself more kind
Than is her custom: it is still her use
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
An age of poverty; from which lingering penance
Of such misery doth she cut me off.
Commend me to your honourable wife:
Tell her the process of Antonio's end;
Say how I loved you, speak me fair in death;
And, when the tale is told, bid her be judge
Whether Bassanio had not once a love.
Repent but you that you shall lose your friend,
And he repents not that he pays your debt;
For if the Jew do cut but deep enough,
I'll pay it presently with all my heart.",117,19191
651532,2267,"Antonio, I am married to a wife
Which is as dear to me as life itself;
But life itself, my wife, and all the world,
Are not with me esteem'd above thy life:
I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all
Here to this devil, to deliver you.",147,19191
651533,2273,"Your wife would give you little thanks for that,
If she were by, to hear you make the offer.",908,19191
651534,2275,"I have a wife, whom, I protest, I love:
I would she were in heaven, so she could
Entreat some power to change this currish Jew.",540,19191
651535,2278,"'Tis well you offer it behind her back;
The wish would make else an unquiet house.",813,19191
651536,2280,"These be the Christian husbands. I have a daughter;
Would any of the stock of Barrabas
Had been her husband rather than a Christian!
[Aside]
We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.",1090,19191
651537,2285,"A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine:
The court awards it, and the law doth give it.",908,19191
651538,2287,Most rightful judge!,1090,19191
651539,2288,"And you must cut this flesh from off his breast:
The law allows it, and the court awards it.",908,19191
651540,2290,"Most learned judge! A sentence! Come, prepare!",1090,19191
651541,2291,"Tarry a little; there is something else.
This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;
The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh:'
Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh;
But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed
One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate
Unto the state of Venice.",908,19191
651542,2299,"O upright judge! Mark, Jew: O learned judge!",540,19191
651543,2300,Is that the law?,1090,19191
651544,2301,"Thyself shalt see the act:
For, as thou urgest justice, be assured
Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirest.",908,19191
651545,2304,"O learned judge! Mark, Jew: a learned judge!",540,19191
651546,2305,"I take this offer, then; pay the bond thrice
And let the Christian go.",1090,19191
651547,2307,Here is the money.,147,19191
651548,2308,"Soft!
The Jew shall have all justice; soft! no haste:
He shall have nothing but the penalty.",908,19191
651549,2311,"O Jew! an upright judge, a learned judge!",540,19191
651550,2312,"Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh.
Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more
But just a pound of flesh: if thou cut'st more
Or less than a just pound, be it but so much
As makes it light or heavy in the substance,
Or the division of the twentieth part
Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn
But in the estimation of a hair,
Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.",908,19191
651551,2321,"A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!
Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.",540,19191
651552,2323,Why doth the Jew pause? take thy forfeiture.,908,19191
651553,2324,"Give me my principal, and let me go.",1090,19191
651554,2325,I have it ready for thee; here it is.,147,19191
651555,2326,"He hath refused it in the open court:
He shall have merely justice and his bond.",908,19191
651556,2328,"A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.",540,19191
651557,2330,Shall I not have barely my principal?,1090,19191
651558,2331,"Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture,
To be so taken at thy peril, Jew.",908,19191
651559,2333,"Why, then the devil give him good of it!
I'll stay no longer question.",1090,19191
651560,2335,"Tarry, Jew:
The law hath yet another hold on you.
It is enacted in the laws of Venice,
If it be proved against an alien
That by direct or indirect attempts
He seek the life of any citizen,
The party 'gainst the which he doth contrive
Shall seize one half his goods; the other half
Comes to the privy coffer of the state;
And the offender's life lies in the mercy
Of the duke only, 'gainst all other voice.
In which predicament, I say, thou stand'st;
For it appears, by manifest proceeding,
That indirectly and directly too
Thou hast contrived against the very life
Of the defendant; and thou hast incurr'd
The danger formerly by me rehearsed.
Down therefore and beg mercy of the duke.",908,19191
651561,2353,"Beg that thou mayst have leave to hang thyself:
And yet, thy wealth being forfeit to the state,
Thou hast not left the value of a cord;
Therefore thou must be hang'd at the state's charge.",540,19191
651562,2357,"That thou shalt see the difference of our spirits,
I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it:
For half thy wealth, it is Antonio's;
The other half comes to the general state,
Which humbleness may drive unto a fine.",338,19191
651563,2362,"Ay, for the state, not for Antonio.",908,19191
651564,2363,"Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that:
You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house; you take my life
When you do take the means whereby I live.",1090,19191
651565,2367,"What mercy can you render him, Antonio?",908,19191
651566,2368,"A halter gratis; nothing else, for God's sake.",540,19191
651567,2369,"So please my lord the duke and all the court
To quit the fine for one half of his goods,
I am content; so he will let me have
The other half in use, to render it,
Upon his death, unto the gentleman
That lately stole his daughter:
Two things provided more, that, for this favour,
He presently become a Christian;
The other, that he do record a gift,
Here in the court, of all he dies possess'd,
Unto his son Lorenzo and his daughter.",117,19191
651568,2380,"He shall do this, or else I do recant
The pardon that I late pronounced here.",338,19191
651569,2382,"Art thou contented, Jew? what dost thou say?",908,19191
651570,2383,I am content.,1090,19191
651571,2384,"Clerk, draw a deed of gift.",908,19191
651572,2385,"I pray you, give me leave to go from hence;
I am not well: send the deed after me,
And I will sign it.",1090,19191
651573,2388,"Get thee gone, but do it.",338,19191
651574,2389,"In christening shalt thou have two god-fathers:
Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten more,
To bring thee to the gallows, not the font.",540,19191
651575,2392,[Exit SHYLOCK],1261,19191
651576,2393,"Sir, I entreat you home with me to dinner.",338,19191
651577,2394,"I humbly do desire your grace of pardon:
I must away this night toward Padua,
And it is meet I presently set forth.",908,19191
651578,2397,"I am sorry that your leisure serves you not.
Antonio, gratify this gentleman,
For, in my mind, you are much bound to him.",338,19191
651579,2400,[Exeunt Duke and his train],1261,19191
651580,2401,"Most worthy gentleman, I and my friend
Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted
Of grievous penalties; in lieu whereof,
Three thousand ducats, due unto the Jew,
We freely cope your courteous pains withal.",147,19191
651581,2406,"And stand indebted, over and above,
In love and service to you evermore.",117,19191
651582,2408,"He is well paid that is well satisfied;
And I, delivering you, am satisfied
And therein do account myself well paid:
My mind was never yet more mercenary.
I pray you, know me when we meet again:
I wish you well, and so I take my leave.",908,19191
651583,2414,"Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further:
Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute,
Not as a fee: grant me two things, I pray you,
Not to deny me, and to pardon me.",147,19191
651584,2418,"You press me far, and therefore I will yield.
[To ANTONIO]
Give me your gloves, I'll wear them for your sake;
[To BASSANIO]
And, for your love, I'll take this ring from you:
Do not draw back your hand; I'll take no more;
And you in love shall not deny me this.",908,19191
651585,2425,"This ring, good sir, alas, it is a trifle!
I will not shame myself to give you this.",147,19191
651586,2427,"I will have nothing else but only this;
And now methinks I have a mind to it.",908,19191
651587,2429,"There's more depends on this than on the value.
The dearest ring in Venice will I give you,
And find it out by proclamation:
Only for this, I pray you, pardon me.",147,19191
651588,2433,"I see, sir, you are liberal in offers
You taught me first to beg; and now methinks
You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd.",908,19191
651589,2436,"Good sir, this ring was given me by my wife;
And when she put it on, she made me vow
That I should neither sell nor give nor lose it.",147,19191
651590,2439,"That 'scuse serves many men to save their gifts.
An if your wife be not a mad-woman,
And know how well I have deserved the ring,
She would not hold out enemy for ever,
For giving it to me. Well, peace be with you!",908,19191
651591,2444,[Exeunt Portia and Nerissa],1261,19191
651592,2445,"My Lord Bassanio, let him have the ring:
Let his deservings and my love withal
Be valued against your wife's commandment.",117,19191
651593,2448,"Go, Gratiano, run and overtake him;
Give him the ring, and bring him, if thou canst,
Unto Antonio's house: away! make haste.
[Exit Gratiano]
Come, you and I will thither presently;
And in the morning early will we both
Fly toward Belmont: come, Antonio.",147,19191
651594,2455,[Exeunt],1261,19191
651595,2458,[Enter PORTIA and NERISSA],1261,19192
651596,2459,"Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed
And let him sign it: we'll away to-night
And be a day before our husbands home:
This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo.",908,19192
651597,2463,[Enter GRATIANO],1261,19192
651598,2464,"Fair sir, you are well o'erta'en
My Lord Bassanio upon more advice
Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat
Your company at dinner.",540,19192
651599,2468,"That cannot be:
His ring I do accept most thankfully:
And so, I pray you, tell him: furthermore,
I pray you, show my youth old Shylock's house.",908,19192
651600,2472,That will I do.,540,19192
651601,2473,"Sir, I would speak with you.
[Aside to PORTIA]
I'll see if I can get my husband's ring,
Which I did make him swear to keep for ever.",813,19192
651602,2477,"[Aside to NERISSA] Thou mayst, I warrant.
We shall have old swearing
That they did give the rings away to men;
But we'll outface them, and outswear them too.
[Aloud]
Away! make haste: thou knowist where I will tarry.",908,19192
651603,2483,"Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?",813,19192
651604,2484,[Exeunt],1261,19192
651605,2487,[Enter LORENZO and JESSICA],1261,19193
651606,2488,"The moon shines bright: in such a night as this,
When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees
And they did make no noise, in such a night
Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls
And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents,
Where Cressid lay that night.",705,19193
651607,2494,"In such a night
Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew
And saw the lion's shadow ere himself
And ran dismay'd away.",611,19193
651608,2498,"In such a night
Stood Dido with a willow in her hand
Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love
To come again to Carthage.",705,19193
651609,2502,"In such a night
Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs
That did renew old AEson.",611,19193
651610,2505,"In such a night
Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew
And with an unthrift love did run from Venice
As far as Belmont.",705,19193
651611,2509,"In such a night
Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well,
Stealing her soul with many vows of faith
And ne'er a true one.",611,19193
651612,2513,"In such a night
Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew,
Slander her love, and he forgave it her.",705,19193
651613,2516,"I would out-night you, did no body come;
But, hark, I hear the footing of a man.",611,19193
651614,2518,[Enter STEPHANO],1261,19193
651615,2519,Who comes so fast in silence of the night?,705,19193
651616,2520,A friend.,1147,19193
651617,2521,"A friend! what friend? your name, I pray you, friend?",705,19193
651618,2522,"Stephano is my name; and I bring word
My mistress will before the break of day
Be here at Belmont; she doth stray about
By holy crosses, where she kneels and prays
For happy wedlock hours.",1147,19193
651619,2527,Who comes with her?,705,19193
651620,2528,"None but a holy hermit and her maid.
I pray you, is my master yet return'd?",1147,19193
651621,2530,"He is not, nor we have not heard from him.
But go we in, I pray thee, Jessica,
And ceremoniously let us prepare
Some welcome for the mistress of the house.",705,19193
651622,2534,[Enter LAUNCELOT],1261,19193
651623,2535,"Sola, sola! wo ha, ho! sola, sola!",656,19193
651624,2536,Who calls?,705,19193
651625,2537,"Sola! did you see Master Lorenzo?
Master Lorenzo, sola, sola!",656,19193
651626,2539,"Leave hollaing, man: here.",705,19193
651627,2540,Sola! where? where?,656,19193
651628,2541,Here.,705,19193
651629,2542,"Tell him there's a post come from my master, with
his horn full of good news: my master will be here
ere morning.",656,19193
651630,2545,[Exit],1261,19193
651631,2546,"Sweet soul, let's in, and there expect their coming.
And yet no matter: why should we go in?
My friend Stephano, signify, I pray you,
Within the house, your mistress is at hand;
And bring your music forth into the air.
[Exit Stephano]
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
[Enter Musicians]
Come, ho! and wake Diana with a hymn!
With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear,
And draw her home with music.",705,19193
651632,2568,[Music],1261,19193
651633,2569,I am never merry when I hear sweet music.,611,19193
651634,2570,"The reason is, your spirits are attentive:
For do but note a wild and wanton herd,
Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,
Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,
Which is the hot condition of their blood;
If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound,
Or any air of music touch their ears,
You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,
Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze
By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods;
Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,
But music for the time doth change his nature.
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.",705,19193
651635,2589,[Enter PORTIA and NERISSA],1261,19193
651636,2590,"That light we see is burning in my hall.
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.",908,19193
651637,2593,"When the moon shone, we did not see the candle.",813,19193
651638,2594,"So doth the greater glory dim the less:
A substitute shines brightly as a king
Unto the king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as doth an inland brook
Into the main of waters. Music! hark!",908,19193
651639,2599,"It is your music, madam, of the house.",813,19193
651640,2600,"Nothing is good, I see, without respect:
Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day.",908,19193
651641,2602,"Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam.",813,19193
651642,2603,"The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark,
When neither is attended, and I think
The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
When every goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren.
How many things by season season'd are
To their right praise and true perfection!
Peace, ho! the moon sleeps with Endymion
And would not be awaked.",908,19193
651643,2612,[Music ceases],1261,19193
651644,2613,"That is the voice,
Or I am much deceived, of Portia.",705,19193
651645,2615,"He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo,
By the bad voice.",908,19193
651646,2617,"Dear lady, welcome home.",705,19193
651647,2618,"We have been praying for our husbands' healths,
Which speed, we hope, the better for our words.
Are they return'd?",908,19193
651648,2621,"Madam, they are not yet;
But there is come a messenger before,
To signify their coming.",705,19193
651649,2624,"Go in, Nerissa;
Give order to my servants that they take
No note at all of our being absent hence;
Nor you, Lorenzo; Jessica, nor you.",908,19193
651650,2628,[A tucket sounds],1261,19193
651651,2629,"Your husband is at hand; I hear his trumpet:
We are no tell-tales, madam; fear you not.",705,19193
651652,2631,"This night methinks is but the daylight sick;
It looks a little paler: 'tis a day,
Such as the day is when the sun is hid.
[Enter BASSANIO, ANTONIO, GRATIANO, and]
their followers]",908,19193
651653,2636,"We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.",147,19193
651654,2638,"Let me give light, but let me not be light;
For a light wife doth make a heavy husband,
And never be Bassanio so for me:
But God sort all! You are welcome home, my lord.",908,19193
651655,2642,"I thank you, madam. Give welcome to my friend.
This is the man, this is Antonio,
To whom I am so infinitely bound.",147,19193
651656,2645,"You should in all sense be much bound to him.
For, as I hear, he was much bound for you.",908,19193
651657,2647,No more than I am well acquitted of.,117,19193
651658,2648,"Sir, you are very welcome to our house:
It must appear in other ways than words,
Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.",908,19193
651659,2651,"[To NERISSA] By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong;
In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk:
Would he were gelt that had it, for my part,
Since you do take it, love, so much at heart.",540,19193
651660,2655,"A quarrel, ho, already! what's the matter?",908,19193
651661,2656,"About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring
That she did give me, whose posy was
For all the world like cutler's poetry
Upon a knife, 'Love me, and leave me not.'",540,19193
651662,2660,"What talk you of the posy or the value?
You swore to me, when I did give it you,
That you would wear it till your hour of death
And that it should lie with you in your grave:
Though not for me, yet for your vehement oaths,
You should have been respective and have kept it.
Gave it a judge's clerk! no, God's my judge,
The clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that had it.",813,19193
651663,2668,"He will, an if he live to be a man.",540,19193
651664,2669,"Ay, if a woman live to be a man.",813,19193
651665,2670,"Now, by this hand, I gave it to a youth,
A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,
No higher than thyself; the judge's clerk,
A prating boy, that begg'd it as a fee:
I could not for my heart deny it him.",540,19193
651666,2675,"You were to blame, I must be plain with you,
To part so slightly with your wife's first gift:
A thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger
And so riveted with faith unto your flesh.
I gave my love a ring and made him swear
Never to part with it; and here he stands;
I dare be sworn for him he would not leave it
Nor pluck it from his finger, for the wealth
That the world masters. Now, in faith, Gratiano,
You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief:
An 'twere to me, I should be mad at it.",908,19193
651667,2686,"[Aside] Why, I were best to cut my left hand off
And swear I lost the ring defending it.",147,19193
651668,2688,"My Lord Bassanio gave his ring away
Unto the judge that begg'd it and indeed
Deserved it too; and then the boy, his clerk,
That took some pains in writing, he begg'd mine;
And neither man nor master would take aught
But the two rings.",540,19193
651669,2694,"What ring gave you my lord?
Not that, I hope, which you received of me.",908,19193
651670,2696,"If I could add a lie unto a fault,
I would deny it; but you see my finger
Hath not the ring upon it; it is gone.",147,19193
651671,2699,"Even so void is your false heart of truth.
By heaven, I will ne'er come in your bed
Until I see the ring.",908,19193
651672,2702,"Nor I in yours
Till I again see mine.",813,19193
651673,2704,"Sweet Portia,
If you did know to whom I gave the ring,
If you did know for whom I gave the ring
And would conceive for what I gave the ring
And how unwillingly I left the ring,
When nought would be accepted but the ring,
You would abate the strength of your displeasure.",147,19193
651674,2711,"If you had known the virtue of the ring,
Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,
Or your own honour to contain the ring,
You would not then have parted with the ring.
What man is there so much unreasonable,
If you had pleased to have defended it
With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty
To urge the thing held as a ceremony?
Nerissa teaches me what to believe:
I'll die for't but some woman had the ring.",908,19193
651675,2721,"No, by my honour, madam, by my soul,
No woman had it, but a civil doctor,
Which did refuse three thousand ducats of me
And begg'd the ring; the which I did deny him
And suffer'd him to go displeased away;
Even he that did uphold the very life
Of my dear friend. What should I say, sweet lady?
I was enforced to send it after him;
I was beset with shame and courtesy;
My honour would not let ingratitude
So much besmear it. Pardon me, good lady;
For, by these blessed candles of the night,
Had you been there, I think you would have begg'd
The ring of me to give the worthy doctor.",147,19193
651676,2735,"Let not that doctor e'er come near my house:
Since he hath got the jewel that I loved,
And that which you did swear to keep for me,
I will become as liberal as you;
I'll not deny him any thing I have,
No, not my body nor my husband's bed:
Know him I shall, I am well sure of it:
Lie not a night from home; watch me like Argus:
If you do not, if I be left alone,
Now, by mine honour, which is yet mine own,
I'll have that doctor for my bedfellow.",908,19193
651677,2746,"And I his clerk; therefore be well advised
How you do leave me to mine own protection.",813,19193
651678,2748,"Well, do you so; let not me take him, then;
For if I do, I'll mar the young clerk's pen.",540,19193
651679,2750,I am the unhappy subject of these quarrels.,117,19193
651680,2751,"Sir, grieve not you; you are welcome notwithstanding.",908,19193
651681,2752,"Portia, forgive me this enforced wrong;
And, in the hearing of these many friends,
I swear to thee, even by thine own fair eyes,
Wherein I see myself--",147,19193
651682,2756,"Mark you but that!
In both my eyes he doubly sees himself;
In each eye, one: swear by your double self,
And there's an oath of credit.",908,19193
651683,2760,"Nay, but hear me:
Pardon this fault, and by my soul I swear
I never more will break an oath with thee.",147,19193
651684,2763,"I once did lend my body for his wealth;
Which, but for him that had your husband's ring,
Had quite miscarried: I dare be bound again,
My soul upon the forfeit, that your lord
Will never more break faith advisedly.",117,19193
651685,2768,"Then you shall be his surety. Give him this
And bid him keep it better than the other.",908,19193
651686,2770,"Here, Lord Bassanio; swear to keep this ring.",117,19193
651687,2771,"By heaven, it is the same I gave the doctor!",147,19193
651688,2772,"I had it of him: pardon me, Bassanio;
For, by this ring, the doctor lay with me.",908,19193
651689,2774,"And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano;
For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk,
In lieu of this last night did lie with me.",813,19193
651690,2777,"Why, this is like the mending of highways
In summer, where the ways are fair enough:
What, are we cuckolds ere we have deserved it?",540,19193
651691,2780,"Speak not so grossly. You are all amazed:
Here is a letter; read it at your leisure;
It comes from Padua, from Bellario:
There you shall find that Portia was the doctor,
Nerissa there her clerk: Lorenzo here
Shall witness I set forth as soon as you
And even but now return'd; I have not yet
Enter'd my house. Antonio, you are welcome;
And I have better news in store for you
Than you expect: unseal this letter soon;
There you shall find three of your argosies
Are richly come to harbour suddenly:
You shall not know by what strange accident
I chanced on this letter.",908,19193
651692,2794,I am dumb.,117,19193
651693,2795,Were you the doctor and I knew you not?,147,19193
651694,2796,Were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold?,540,19193
651695,2797,"Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it,
Unless he live until he be a man.",813,19193
651696,2799,"Sweet doctor, you shall be my bed-fellow:
When I am absent, then lie with my wife.",147,19193
651697,2801,"Sweet lady, you have given me life and living;
For here I read for certain that my ships
Are safely come to road.",117,19193
651698,2804,"How now, Lorenzo!
My clerk hath some good comforts too for you.",908,19193
651699,2806,"Ay, and I'll give them him without a fee.
There do I give to you and Jessica,
From the rich Jew, a special deed of gift,
After his death, of all he dies possess'd of.",813,19193
651700,2810,"Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way
Of starved people.",705,19193
651701,2812,"It is almost morning,
And yet I am sure you are not satisfied
Of these events at full. Let us go in;
And charge us there upon inter'gatories,
And we will answer all things faithfully.",908,19193
651702,2817,"Let it be so: the first inter'gatory
That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is,
Whether till the next night she had rather stay,
Or go to bed now, being two hours to day:
But were the day come, I should wish it dark,
That I were couching with the doctor's clerk.
Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing
So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.",540,19193
651703,2825,[Exeunt],1261,19193
651704,3,"[Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS]",1261,19194
651705,4,"Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-
chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John
Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.",1085,19194
651706,7,"In the county of Gloucester, justice of peace and
'Coram.'",1123,19194
651707,9,"Ay, cousin Slender, and 'Custalourum.",1085,19194
651708,10,"Ay, and 'Rato-lorum' too; and a gentleman born,
master parson; who writes himself 'Armigero,' in any
bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, 'Armigero.'",1123,19194
651709,13,"Ay, that I do; and have done any time these three
hundred years.",1085,19194
651710,15,"All his successors gone before him hath done't; and
all his ancestors that come after him may: they may
give the dozen white luces in their coat.",1123,19194
651711,18,It is an old coat.,1085,19194
651712,19,"The dozen white louses do become an old coat well;
it agrees well, passant; it is a familiar beast to
man, and signifies love.",1099,19194
651713,22,The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat.,1085,19194
651714,23,"I may quarter, coz.",1123,19194
651715,24,"You may, by marrying.",1085,19194
651716,25,"It is marring indeed, if he quarter it.",1099,19194
651717,26,Not a whit.,1085,19194
651718,27,"Yes, py'r lady; if he has a quarter of your coat,
there is but three skirts for yourself, in my
simple conjectures: but that is all one. If Sir
John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto
you, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my
benevolence to make atonements and compremises
between you.",1099,19194
651719,34,The council shall bear it; it is a riot.,1085,19194
651720,35,"It is not meet the council hear a riot; there is no
fear of Got in a riot: the council, look you, shall
desire to hear the fear of Got, and not to hear a
riot; take your vizaments in that.",1099,19194
651721,39,"Ha! o' my life, if I were young again, the sword
should end it.",1085,19194
651722,41,"It is petter that friends is the sword, and end it:
and there is also another device in my prain, which
peradventure prings goot discretions with it: there
is Anne Page, which is daughter to Master Thomas
Page, which is pretty virginity.",1099,19194
651723,46,"Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and speaks
small like a woman.",1123,19194
651724,48,"It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as
you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys,
and gold and silver, is her grandsire upon his
death's-bed--Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!
--give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years
old: it were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles
and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master
Abraham and Mistress Anne Page.",1099,19194
651725,56,Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound?,1123,19194
651726,57,"Ay, and her father is make her a petter penny.",1099,19194
651727,58,I know the young gentlewoman; she has good gifts.,1123,19194
651728,59,Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is goot gifts.,1099,19194
651729,60,"Well, let us see honest Master Page. Is Falstaff there?",1085,19194
651730,61,"Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I do
despise one that is false, or as I despise one that
is not true. The knight, Sir John, is there; and, I
beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers. I will
peat the door for Master Page.
[Knocks]
What, hoa! Got pless your house here!",1099,19194
651731,68,[Within] Who's there?,851,19194
651732,69,[Enter PAGE],1261,19194
651733,70,"Here is Got's plessing, and your friend, and Justice
Shallow; and here young Master Slender, that
peradventures shall tell you another tale, if
matters grow to your likings.",1099,19194
651734,74,"I am glad to see your worships well.
I thank you for my venison, Master Shallow.",851,19194
651735,76,"Master Page, I am glad to see you: much good do it
your good heart! I wished your venison better; it
was ill killed. How doth good Mistress Page?--and I
thank you always with my heart, la! with my heart.",1085,19194
651736,80,"Sir, I thank you.",851,19194
651737,81,"Sir, I thank you; by yea and no, I do.",1085,19194
651738,82,"I am glad to see you, good Master Slender.",851,19194
651739,83,"How does your fallow greyhound, sir? I heard say he
was outrun on Cotsall.",1123,19194
651740,85,"It could not be judged, sir.",851,19194
651741,86,"You'll not confess, you'll not confess.",1123,19194
651742,87,"That he will not. 'Tis your fault, 'tis your fault;
'tis a good dog.",1085,19194
651743,89,"A cur, sir.",851,19194
651744,90,"Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog: can there be
more said? he is good and fair. Is Sir John
Falstaff here?",1085,19194
651745,93,"Sir, he is within; and I would I could do a good
office between you.",851,19194
651746,95,It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.,1099,19194
651747,96,"He hath wronged me, Master Page.",1085,19194
651748,97,"Sir, he doth in some sort confess it.",851,19194
651749,98,"If it be confessed, it is not redress'd: is not that
so, Master Page? He hath wronged me; indeed he
hath, at a word, he hath, believe me: Robert
Shallow, esquire, saith, he is wronged.",1085,19194
651750,102,Here comes Sir John.,851,19194
651751,103,"[Enter FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, NYM, and PISTOL]",1261,19194
651752,104,"Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?",393,19194
651753,105,"Knight, you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and
broke open my lodge.",1085,19194
651754,107,But not kissed your keeper's daughter?,393,19194
651755,108,"Tut, a pin! this shall be answered.",1085,19194
651756,109,"I will answer it straight; I have done all this.
That is now answered.",393,19194
651757,111,The council shall know this.,1085,19194
651758,112,"'Twere better for you if it were known in counsel:
you'll be laughed at.",393,19194
651759,114,"Pauca verba, Sir John; goot worts.",1099,19194
651760,115,"Good worts! good cabbage. Slender, I broke your
head: what matter have you against me?",393,19194
651761,117,"Marry, sir, I have matter in my head against you;
and against your cony-catching rascals, Bardolph,
Nym, and Pistol.",1123,19194
651762,120,You Banbury cheese!,145,19194
651763,121,"Ay, it is no matter.",1123,19194
651764,122,"How now, Mephostophilus!",891,19194
651765,123,"Ay, it is no matter.",1123,19194
651766,124,"Slice, I say! pauca, pauca: slice! that's my humour.",820,19194
651767,125,"Where's Simple, my man? Can you tell, cousin?",1123,19194
651768,126,"Peace, I pray you. Now let us understand. There is
three umpires in this matter, as I understand; that
is, Master Page, fidelicet Master Page; and there is
myself, fidelicet myself; and the three party is,
lastly and finally, mine host of the Garter.",1099,19194
651769,131,"We three, to hear it and end it between them.",851,19194
651770,132,"Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my note-
book; and we will afterwards ork upon the cause with
as great discreetly as we can.",1099,19194
651771,135,Pistol!,393,19194
651772,136,He hears with ears.,891,19194
651773,137,"The tevil and his tam! what phrase is this, 'He
hears with ear'? why, it is affectations.",1099,19194
651774,139,"Pistol, did you pick Master Slender's purse?",393,19194
651775,140,"Ay, by these gloves, did he, or I would I might
never come in mine own great chamber again else, of
seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two Edward
shovel-boards, that cost me two shilling and two
pence apiece of Yead Miller, by these gloves.",1123,19194
651776,145,"Is this true, Pistol?",393,19194
651777,146,"No; it is false, if it is a pick-purse.",1099,19194
651778,147,"Ha, thou mountain-foreigner! Sir John and Master mine,
I combat challenge of this latten bilbo.
Word of denial in thy labras here!
Word of denial: froth and scum, thou liest!",891,19194
651779,151,"By these gloves, then, 'twas he.",1123,19194
651780,152,"Be avised, sir, and pass good humours: I will say
'marry trap' with you, if you run the nuthook's
humour on me; that is the very note of it.",820,19194
651781,155,"By this hat, then, he in the red face had it; for
though I cannot remember what I did when you made me
drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass.",1123,19194
651782,158,"What say you, Scarlet and John?",393,19194
651783,159,"Why, sir, for my part I say the gentleman had drunk
himself out of his five sentences.",145,19194
651784,161,"It is his five senses: fie, what the ignorance is!",1099,19194
651785,162,"And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered; and
so conclusions passed the careires.",145,19194
651786,164,"Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but 'tis no
matter: I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again,
but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick:
if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have
the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.",1123,19194
651787,169,"So Got udge me, that is a virtuous mind.",1099,19194
651788,170,"You hear all these matters denied, gentlemen; you hear it.
[Enter ANNE PAGE, with wine; MISTRESS FORD]
and MISTRESS PAGE, following]",393,19194
651789,173,"Nay, daughter, carry the wine in; we'll drink within.",851,19194
651790,174,[Exit ANNE PAGE],1261,19194
651791,175,O heaven! this is Mistress Anne Page.,1123,19194
651792,176,"How now, Mistress Ford!",851,19194
651793,177,"Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well met:
by your leave, good mistress.",393,19194
651794,179,[Kisses her],1261,19194
651795,180,"Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have a
hot venison pasty to dinner: come, gentlemen, I hope
we shall drink down all unkindness.",851,19194
651796,183,"[Exeunt all except SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS]",1261,19194
651797,184,"I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of
Songs and Sonnets here.
[Enter SIMPLE]
How now, Simple! where have you been? I must wait
on myself, must I? You have not the Book of Riddles
about you, have you?",1123,19194
651798,190,"Book of Riddles! why, did you not lend it to Alice
Shortcake upon All-hallowmas last, a fortnight
afore Michaelmas?",1098,19194
651799,193,"Come, coz; come, coz; we stay for you. A word with
you, coz; marry, this, coz: there is, as 'twere, a
tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh
here. Do you understand me?",1085,19194
651800,197,"Ay, sir, you shall find me reasonable; if it be so,
I shall do that that is reason.",1123,19194
651801,199,"Nay, but understand me.",1085,19194
651802,200,"So I do, sir.",1123,19194
651803,201,"Give ear to his motions, Master Slender: I will
description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it.",1099,19194
651804,203,"Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says: I pray
you, pardon me; he's a justice of peace in his
country, simple though I stand here.",1123,19194
651805,206,"But that is not the question: the question is
concerning your marriage.",1099,19194
651806,208,"Ay, there's the point, sir.",1085,19194
651807,209,"Marry, is it; the very point of it; to Mistress Anne Page.",1099,19194
651808,210,"Why, if it be so, I will marry her upon any
reasonable demands.",1123,19194
651809,212,"But can you affection the 'oman? Let us command to
know that of your mouth or of your lips; for divers
philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the
mouth. Therefore, precisely, can you carry your
good will to the maid?",1099,19194
651810,217,"Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?",1085,19194
651811,218,"I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become one that
would do reason.",1123,19194
651812,220,"Nay, Got's lords and his ladies! you must speak
possitable, if you can carry her your desires
towards her.",1099,19194
651813,223,"That you must. Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?",1085,19194
651814,224,"I will do a greater thing than that, upon your
request, cousin, in any reason.",1123,19194
651815,226,"Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz: what I do
is to pleasure you, coz. Can you love the maid?",1085,19194
651816,228,"I will marry her, sir, at your request: but if there
be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may
decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are
married and have more occasion to know one another;
I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt:
but if you say, 'Marry her,' I will marry her; that
I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely.",1123,19194
651817,235,"It is a fery discretion answer; save the fall is in
the ort 'dissolutely:' the ort is, according to our
meaning, 'resolutely:' his meaning is good.",1099,19194
651818,238,"Ay, I think my cousin meant well.",1085,19194
651819,239,"Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la!",1123,19194
651820,240,"Here comes fair Mistress Anne.
[Re-enter ANNE PAGE]
Would I were young for your sake, Mistress Anne!",1085,19194
651821,243,"The dinner is on the table; my father desires your
worships' company.",107,19194
651822,245,"I will wait on him, fair Mistress Anne.",1085,19194
651823,246,Od's plessed will! I will not be absence at the grace.,1099,19194
651824,247,[Exeunt SHALLOW and SIR HUGH EVANS],1261,19194
651825,248,"Will't please your worship to come in, sir?",107,19194
651826,249,"No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well.",1123,19194
651827,250,"The dinner attends you, sir.",107,19194
651828,251,"I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go,
sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my
cousin Shallow.
[Exit SIMPLE]
A justice of peace sometimes may be beholding to his
friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy
yet, till my mother be dead: but what though? Yet I
live like a poor gentleman born.",1123,19194
651829,259,"I may not go in without your worship: they will not
sit till you come.",107,19194
651830,261,"I' faith, I'll eat nothing; I thank you as much as
though I did.",1123,19194
651831,263,"I pray you, sir, walk in.",107,19194
651832,264,"I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised
my shin th' other day with playing at sword and
dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a
dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot
abide the smell of hot meat since. Why do your
dogs bark so? be there bears i' the town?",1123,19194
651833,270,"I think there are, sir; I heard them talked of.",107,19194
651834,271,"I love the sport well but I shall as soon quarrel at
it as any man in England. You are afraid, if you see
the bear loose, are you not?",1123,19194
651835,274,"Ay, indeed, sir.",107,19194
651836,275,"That's meat and drink to me, now. I have seen
Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by
the chain; but, I warrant you, the women have so
cried and shrieked at it, that it passed: but women,
indeed, cannot abide 'em; they are very ill-favored
rough things.",1123,19194
651837,281,[Re-enter PAGE],1261,19194
651838,282,"Come, gentle Master Slender, come; we stay for you.",851,19194
651839,283,"I'll eat nothing, I thank you, sir.",1123,19194
651840,284,"By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! come, come.",851,19194
651841,285,"Nay, pray you, lead the way.",1123,19194
651842,286,"Come on, sir.",851,19194
651843,287,"Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first.",1123,19194
651844,288,"Not I, sir; pray you, keep on.",107,19194
651845,289,"I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome.
You do yourself wrong, indeed, la!",1123,19194
651846,291,[Exeunt],1261,19194
651847,294,[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE],1261,19195
651848,295,"Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius' house which
is the way: and there dwells one Mistress Quickly,
which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry
nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and
his wringer.",1099,19195
651849,300,"Well, sir.",1098,19195
651850,301,"Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it
is a 'oman that altogether's acquaintance with
Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire
and require her to solicit your master's desires to
Mistress Anne Page. I pray you, be gone: I will
make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come.",1099,19195
651851,307,"[Exeunt]
[Enter FALSTAFF, Host, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL,]
and ROBIN]",1261,19195
651852,312,Mine host of the Garter!,393,19196
651853,313,What says my bully-rook? speak scholarly and wisely.,515,19196
651854,314,"Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my
followers.",393,19196
651855,316,"Discard, bully Hercules; cashier: let them wag; trot, trot.",515,19196
651856,317,I sit at ten pounds a week.,393,19196
651857,318,"Thou'rt an emperor, Caesar, Keisar, and Pheezar. I
will entertain Bardolph; he shall draw, he shall
tap: said I well, bully Hector?",515,19196
651858,321,"Do so, good mine host.",393,19196
651859,322,"I have spoke; let him follow.
[To BARDOLPH]
Let me see thee froth and lime: I am at a word; follow.",515,19196
651860,325,[Exit],1261,19196
651861,326,"Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a good trade:
an old cloak makes a new jerkin; a withered
serving-man a fresh tapster. Go; adieu.",393,19196
651862,329,It is a life that I have desired: I will thrive.,145,19196
651863,330,O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?,891,19196
651864,331,[Exit BARDOLPH],1261,19196
651865,332,He was gotten in drink: is not the humour conceited?,820,19196
651866,333,"I am glad I am so acquit of this tinderbox: his
thefts were too open; his filching was like an
unskilful singer; he kept not time.",393,19196
651867,336,The good humour is to steal at a minute's rest.,820,19196
651868,337,"'Convey,' the wise it call. 'Steal!' foh! a fico
for the phrase!",891,19196
651869,339,"Well, sirs, I am almost out at heels.",393,19196
651870,340,"Why, then, let kibes ensue.",891,19196
651871,341,There is no remedy; I must cony-catch; I must shift.,393,19196
651872,342,Young ravens must have food.,891,19196
651873,343,Which of you know Ford of this town?,393,19196
651874,344,I ken the wight: he is of substance good.,891,19196
651875,345,"My honest lads, I will tell you what I am about.",393,19196
651876,346,"Two yards, and more.",891,19196
651877,347,"No quips now, Pistol! Indeed, I am in the waist two
yards about; but I am now about no waste; I am about
thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford's
wife: I spy entertainment in her; she discourses,
she carves, she gives the leer of invitation: I
can construe the action of her familiar style; and
the hardest voice of her behavior, to be Englished
rightly, is, 'I am Sir John Falstaff's.'",393,19196
651878,355,"He hath studied her will, and translated her will,
out of honesty into English.",891,19196
651879,357,The anchor is deep: will that humour pass?,820,19196
651880,358,"Now, the report goes she has all the rule of her
husband's purse: he hath a legion of angels.",393,19196
651881,360,"As many devils entertain; and 'To her, boy,' say I.",891,19196
651882,361,The humour rises; it is good: humour me the angels.,820,19196
651883,362,"I have writ me here a letter to her: and here
another to Page's wife, who even now gave me good
eyes too, examined my parts with most judicious
oeillades; sometimes the beam of her view gilded my
foot, sometimes my portly belly.",393,19196
651884,367,Then did the sun on dunghill shine.,891,19196
651885,368,I thank thee for that humour.,820,19196
651886,369,"O, she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a
greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye did
seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass! Here's
another letter to her: she bears the purse too; she
is a region in Guiana, all gold and bounty. I will
be cheater to them both, and they shall be
exchequers to me; they shall be my East and West
Indies, and I will trade to them both. Go bear thou
this letter to Mistress Page; and thou this to
Mistress Ford: we will thrive, lads, we will thrive.",393,19196
651887,379,"Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become,
And by my side wear steel? then, Lucifer take all!",891,19196
651888,381,"I will run no base humour: here, take the
humour-letter: I will keep the havior of reputation.",820,19196
651889,383,"[To ROBIN] Hold, sirrah, bear you these letters tightly;
Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores.
Rogues, hence, avaunt! vanish like hailstones, go;
Trudge, plod away o' the hoof; seek shelter, pack!
Falstaff will learn the humour of the age,
French thrift, you rogues; myself and skirted page.",393,19196
651890,389,[Exeunt FALSTAFF and ROBIN],1261,19196
651891,390,"Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd and fullam holds,
And high and low beguiles the rich and poor:
Tester I'll have in pouch when thou shalt lack,
Base Phrygian Turk!",891,19196
651892,394,I have operations which be humours of revenge.,820,19196
651893,395,Wilt thou revenge?,891,19196
651894,396,By welkin and her star!,820,19196
651895,397,With wit or steel?,891,19196
651896,398,"With both the humours, I:
I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.",820,19196
651897,400,"And I to Ford shall eke unfold
How Falstaff, varlet vile,
His dove will prove, his gold will hold,
And his soft couch defile.",891,19196
651898,404,"My humour shall not cool: I will incense Page to
deal with poison; I will possess him with
yellowness, for the revolt of mine is dangerous:
that is my true humour.",820,19196
651899,408,Thou art the Mars of malecontents: I second thee; troop on.,891,19196
651900,409,[Exeunt],1261,19196
651901,412,"[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, SIMPLE, and RUGBY]",1261,19197
651902,413,"What, John Rugby! I pray thee, go to the casement,
and see if you can see my master, Master Doctor
Caius, coming. If he do, i' faith, and find any
body in the house, here will be an old abusing of
God's patience and the king's English.",936,19197
651903,418,I'll go watch.,958,19197
651904,419,"Go; and we'll have a posset for't soon at night, in
faith, at the latter end of a sea-coal fire.
[Exit RUGBY]
An honest, willing, kind fellow, as ever servant
shall come in house withal, and, I warrant you, no
tell-tale nor no breed-bate: his worst fault is,
that he is given to prayer; he is something peevish
that way: but nobody but has his fault; but let
that pass. Peter Simple, you say your name is?",936,19197
651905,428,"Ay, for fault of a better.",1098,19197
651906,429,And Master Slender's your master?,936,19197
651907,430,"Ay, forsooth.",1098,19197
651908,431,"Does he not wear a great round beard, like a
glover's paring-knife?",936,19197
651909,433,"No, forsooth: he hath but a little wee face, with a
little yellow beard, a Cain-coloured beard.",1098,19197
651910,435,"A softly-sprighted man, is he not?",936,19197
651911,436,"Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands
as any is between this and his head; he hath fought
with a warrener.",1098,19197
651912,439,"How say you? O, I should remember him: does he not
hold up his head, as it were, and strut in his gait?",936,19197
651913,441,"Yes, indeed, does he.",1098,19197
651914,442,"Well, heaven send Anne Page no worse fortune! Tell
Master Parson Evans I will do what I can for your
master: Anne is a good girl, and I wish--",936,19197
651915,445,[Re-enter RUGBY],1261,19197
651916,446,"Out, alas! here comes my master.",958,19197
651917,447,"We shall all be shent. Run in here, good young man;
go into this closet: he will not stay long.
[Shuts SIMPLE in the closet]
What, John Rugby! John! what, John, I say!
Go, John, go inquire for my master; I doubt
he be not well, that he comes not home.
[Singing]
And down, down, adown-a, &c.",936,19197
651918,455,[Enter DOCTOR CAIUS],1261,19197
651919,456,"Vat is you sing? I do not like des toys. Pray you,
go and vetch me in my closet un boitier vert, a box,
a green-a box: do intend vat I speak? a green-a box.",320,19197
651920,459,"Ay, forsooth; I'll fetch it you.
[Aside]
I am glad he went not in himself: if he had found
the young man, he would have been horn-mad.",936,19197
651921,463,"Fe, fe, fe, fe! ma foi, il fait fort chaud. Je
m'en vais a la cour--la grande affaire.",320,19197
651922,465,"Is it this, sir?",936,19197
651923,466,"Oui; mette le au mon pocket: depeche, quickly. Vere
is dat knave Rugby?",320,19197
651924,468,"What, John Rugby! John!",936,19197
651925,469,"Here, sir!",958,19197
651926,470,"You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. Come,
take-a your rapier, and come after my heel to the court.",320,19197
651927,472,"'Tis ready, sir, here in the porch.",958,19197
651928,473,"By my trot, I tarry too long. Od's me!
Qu'ai-j'oublie! dere is some simples in my closet,
dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind.",320,19197
651929,476,"Ay me, he'll find the young man here, and be mad!",936,19197
651930,477,"O diable, diable! vat is in my closet? Villain! larron!
[Pulling SIMPLE out]
Rugby, my rapier!",320,19197
651931,480,"Good master, be content.",936,19197
651932,481,Wherefore shall I be content-a?,320,19197
651933,482,The young man is an honest man.,936,19197
651934,483,"What shall de honest man do in my closet? dere is
no honest man dat shall come in my closet.",320,19197
651935,485,"I beseech you, be not so phlegmatic. Hear the truth
of it: he came of an errand to me from Parson Hugh.",936,19197
651936,487,Vell.,320,19197
651937,488,"Ay, forsooth; to desire her to--",1098,19197
651938,489,"Peace, I pray you.",936,19197
651939,490,Peace-a your tongue. Speak-a your tale.,320,19197
651940,491,"To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to
speak a good word to Mistress Anne Page for my
master in the way of marriage.",1098,19197
651941,494,"This is all, indeed, la! but I'll ne'er put my
finger in the fire, and need not.",936,19197
651942,496,"Sir Hugh send-a you? Rugby, baille me some paper.
Tarry you a little-a while.",320,19197
651943,498,[Writes],1261,19197
651944,499,"[Aside to SIMPLE] I am glad he is so quiet: if he
had been thoroughly moved, you should have heard him
so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding,
man, I'll do you your master what good I can: and
the very yea and the no is, the French doctor, my
master,--I may call him my master, look you, for I
keep his house; and I wash, wring, brew, bake,
scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds and do
all myself,--",936,19197
651945,508,"[Aside to MISTRESS QUICKLY] 'Tis a great charge to
come under one body's hand.",1098,19197
651946,510,"[Aside to SIMPLE] Are you avised o' that? you
shall find it a great charge: and to be up early
and down late; but notwithstanding,--to tell you in
your ear; I would have no words of it,--my master
himself is in love with Mistress Anne Page: but
notwithstanding that, I know Anne's mind,--that's
neither here nor there.",936,19197
651947,517,"You jack'nape, give-a this letter to Sir Hugh; by
gar, it is a shallenge: I will cut his troat in dee
park; and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest
to meddle or make. You may be gone; it is not good
you tarry here. By gar, I will cut all his two
stones; by gar, he shall not have a stone to throw
at his dog:",320,19197
651948,524,[Exit SIMPLE],1261,19197
651949,525,"Alas, he speaks but for his friend.",936,19197
651950,526,"It is no matter-a ver dat: do not you tell-a me
dat I shall have Anne Page for myself? By gar, I
vill kill de Jack priest; and I have appointed mine
host of de Jarteer to measure our weapon. By gar, I
will myself have Anne Page.",320,19197
651951,531,"Sir, the maid loves you, and all shall be well. We
must give folks leave to prate: what, the good-jer!",936,19197
651952,533,"Rugby, come to the court with me. By gar, if I have
not Anne Page, I shall turn your head out of my
door. Follow my heels, Rugby.",320,19197
651953,536,[Exeunt DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY],1261,19197
651954,537,"You shall have An fool's-head of your own. No, I
know Anne's mind for that: never a woman in Windsor
knows more of Anne's mind than I do; nor can do more
than I do with her, I thank heaven.",936,19197
651955,541,[Within] Who's within there? ho!,398,19197
651956,542,"Who's there, I trow! Come near the house, I pray you.",936,19197
651957,543,[Enter FENTON],1261,19197
651958,544,"How now, good woman? how dost thou?",398,19197
651959,545,The better that it pleases your good worship to ask.,936,19197
651960,546,What news? how does pretty Mistress Anne?,398,19197
651961,547,"In truth, sir, and she is pretty, and honest, and
gentle; and one that is your friend, I can tell you
that by the way; I praise heaven for it.",936,19197
651962,550,"Shall I do any good, thinkest thou? shall I not lose my suit?",398,19197
651963,551,"Troth, sir, all is in his hands above: but
notwithstanding, Master Fenton, I'll be sworn on a
book, she loves you. Have not your worship a wart
above your eye?",936,19197
651964,555,"Yes, marry, have I; what of that?",398,19197
651965,556,"Well, thereby hangs a tale: good faith, it is such
another Nan; but, I detest, an honest maid as ever
broke bread: we had an hour's talk of that wart. I
shall never laugh but in that maid's company! But
indeed she is given too much to allicholy and
musing: but for you--well, go to.",936,19197
651966,562,"Well, I shall see her to-day. Hold, there's money
for thee; let me have thy voice in my behalf: if
thou seest her before me, commend me.",398,19197
651967,565,"Will I? i'faith, that we will; and I will tell your
worship more of the wart the next time we have
confidence; and of other wooers.",936,19197
651968,568,"Well, farewell; I am in great haste now.",398,19197
651969,569,"Farewell to your worship.
[Exit FENTON]
Truly, an honest gentleman: but Anne loves him not;
for I know Anne's mind as well as another does. Out
upon't! what have I forgot?",936,19197
651970,574,[Exit],1261,19197
651971,577,"[Enter MISTRESS PAGE, with a letter]",1261,19198
651972,578,"What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-
time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?
Let me see.
[Reads]
'Ask me no reason why I love you; for though
Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him
not for his counsellor. You are not young, no more
am I; go to then, there's sympathy: you are merry,
so am I; ha, ha! then there's more sympathy: you
love sack, and so do I; would you desire better
sympathy? Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page,--at
the least, if the love of soldier can suffice,--
that I love thee. I will not say, pity me; 'tis
not a soldier-like phrase: but I say, love me. By me,
Thine own true knight,
By day or night,
Or any kind of light,
With all his might
For thee to fight, JOHN FALSTAFF'
What a Herod of Jewry is this! O wicked
world! One that is well-nigh worn to pieces with
age to show himself a young gallant! What an
unweighed behavior hath this Flemish drunkard
picked--with the devil's name!--out of my
conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me?
Why, he hath not been thrice in my company! What
should I say to him? I was then frugal of my
mirth: Heaven forgive me! Why, I'll exhibit a bill
in the parliament for the putting down of men. How
shall I be revenged on him? for revenged I will be,
as sure as his guts are made of puddings.",797,19198
651973,609,[Enter MISTRESS FORD],1261,19198
651974,610,"Mistress Page! trust me, I was going to your house.",795,19198
651975,611,"And, trust me, I was coming to you. You look very
ill.",797,19198
651976,613,"Nay, I'll ne'er believe that; I have to show to the contrary.",795,19198
651977,614,"Faith, but you do, in my mind.",797,19198
651978,615,"Well, I do then; yet I say I could show you to the
contrary. O Mistress Page, give me some counsel!",795,19198
651979,617,"What's the matter, woman?",797,19198
651980,618,"O woman, if it were not for one trifling respect, I
could come to such honour!",795,19198
651981,620,"Hang the trifle, woman! take the honour. What is
it? dispense with trifles; what is it?",797,19198
651982,622,"If I would but go to hell for an eternal moment or so,
I could be knighted.",795,19198
651983,624,"What? thou liest! Sir Alice Ford! These knights
will hack; and so thou shouldst not alter the
article of thy gentry.",797,19198
651984,627,"We burn daylight: here, read, read; perceive how I
might be knighted. I shall think the worse of fat
men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of
men's liking: and yet he would not swear; praised
women's modesty; and gave such orderly and
well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness, that I
would have sworn his disposition would have gone to
the truth of his words; but they do no more adhere
and keep place together than the Hundredth Psalm to
the tune of 'Green Sleeves.' What tempest, I trow,
threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil in his
belly, ashore at Windsor? How shall I be revenged
on him? I think the best way were to entertain him
with hope, till the wicked fire of lust have melted
him in his own grease. Did you ever hear the like?",795,19198
651985,642,"Letter for letter, but that the name of Page and
Ford differs! To thy great comfort in this mystery
of ill opinions, here's the twin-brother of thy
letter: but let thine inherit first; for, I
protest, mine never shall. I warrant he hath a
thousand of these letters, writ with blank space for
different names--sure, more,--and these are of the
second edition: he will print them, out of doubt;
for he cares not what he puts into the press, when
he would put us two. I had rather be a giantess,
and lie under Mount Pelion. Well, I will find you
twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.",797,19198
651986,654,"Why, this is the very same; the very hand, the very
words. What doth he think of us?",795,19198
651987,656,"Nay, I know not: it makes me almost ready to
wrangle with mine own honesty. I'll entertain
myself like one that I am not acquainted withal;
for, sure, unless he know some strain in me, that I
know not myself, he would never have boarded me in this fury.",797,19198
651988,661,"'Boarding,' call you it? I'll be sure to keep him
above deck.",795,19198
651989,663,"So will I. if he come under my hatches, I'll never
to sea again. Let's be revenged on him: let's
appoint him a meeting; give him a show of comfort in
his suit and lead him on with a fine-baited delay,
till he hath pawned his horses to mine host of the Garter.",797,19198
651990,668,"Nay, I will consent to act any villany against him,
that may not sully the chariness of our honesty. O,
that my husband saw this letter! it would give
eternal food to his jealousy.",795,19198
651991,672,"Why, look where he comes; and my good man too: he's
as far from jealousy as I am from giving him cause;
and that I hope is an unmeasurable distance.",797,19198
651992,675,You are the happier woman.,795,19198
651993,676,"Let's consult together against this greasy knight.
Come hither.",797,19198
651994,678,[They retire],1261,19198
651995,679,"[Enter FORD with PISTOL, and PAGE with NYM]",1261,19198
651996,680,"Well, I hope it be not so.",484,19198
651997,681,"Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs:
Sir John affects thy wife.",891,19198
651998,683,"Why, sir, my wife is not young.",484,19198
651999,684,"He wooes both high and low, both rich and poor,
Both young and old, one with another, Ford;
He loves the gallimaufry: Ford, perpend.",891,19198
652000,687,Love my wife!,484,19198
652001,688,"With liver burning hot. Prevent, or go thou,
Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels:
O, odious is the name!",891,19198
652002,691,"What name, sir?",484,19198
652003,692,"The horn, I say. Farewell.
Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night:
Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing.
Away, Sir Corporal Nym!
Believe it, Page; he speaks sense.",891,19198
652004,697,[Exit],1261,19198
652005,698,[Aside] I will be patient; I will find out this.,484,19198
652006,699,"[To PAGE] And this is true; I like not the humour
of lying. He hath wronged me in some humours: I
should have borne the humoured letter to her; but I
have a sword and it shall bite upon my necessity.
He loves your wife; there's the short and the long.
My name is Corporal Nym; I speak and I avouch; 'tis
true: my name is Nym and Falstaff loves your wife.
Adieu. I love not the humour of bread and cheese,
and there's the humour of it. Adieu.",820,19198
652007,708,[Exit],1261,19198
652008,709,"'The humour of it,' quoth a'! here's a fellow
frights English out of his wits.",851,19198
652009,711,I will seek out Falstaff.,484,19198
652010,712,"I never heard such a drawling, affecting rogue.",851,19198
652011,713,If I do find it: well.,484,19198
652012,714,"I will not believe such a Cataian, though the priest
o' the town commended him for a true man.",851,19198
652021,728,"[Aside to MISTRESS PAGE] Trust me, I thought on her:
she'll fit it.",795,19198
652022,730,[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY],1261,19198
652023,731,You are come to see my daughter Anne?,797,19198
652024,732,"Ay, forsooth; and, I pray, how does good Mistress Anne?",936,19198
652025,733,"Go in with us and see: we have an hour's talk with
you.",797,19198
652026,735,"[Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and MISTRESS QUICKLY]",1261,19198
652027,736,"How now, Master Ford!",851,19198
652028,737,"You heard what this knave told me, did you not?",484,19198
652029,738,Yes: and you heard what the other told me?,851,19198
652030,739,Do you think there is truth in them?,484,19198
652031,740,"Hang 'em, slaves! I do not think the knight would
offer it: but these that accuse him in his intent
towards our wives are a yoke of his discarded men;
very rogues, now they be out of service.",851,19198
652032,744,Were they his men?,484,19198
652033,745,"Marry, were they.",851,19198
652034,746,"I like it never the better for that. Does he lie at
the Garter?",484,19198
652035,748,"Ay, marry, does he. If he should intend this voyage
towards my wife, I would turn her loose to him; and
what he gets more of her than sharp words, let it
lie on my head.",851,19198
652036,752,"I do not misdoubt my wife; but I would be loath to
turn them together. A man may be too confident: I
would have nothing lie on my head: I cannot be thus satisfied.",484,19198
652037,755,"Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes:
there is either liquor in his pate or money in his
purse when he looks so merrily.
[Enter Host]
How now, mine host!",851,19198
652038,760,"How now, bully-rook! thou'rt a gentleman.
Cavaleiro-justice, I say!",515,19198
652039,762,[Enter SHALLOW],1261,19198
652040,763,"I follow, mine host, I follow. Good even and
twenty, good Master Page! Master Page, will you go
with us? we have sport in hand.",1085,19198
652041,766,"Tell him, cavaleiro-justice; tell him, bully-rook.",515,19198
652042,767,"Sir, there is a fray to be fought between Sir Hugh
the Welsh priest and Caius the French doctor.",1085,19198
652043,769,"Good mine host o' the Garter, a word with you.",484,19198
652044,770,[Drawing him aside],1261,19198
652045,771,"What sayest thou, my bully-rook?",515,19198
652046,772,"[To PAGE] Will you go with us to behold it? My
merry host hath had the measuring of their weapons;
and, I think, hath appointed them contrary places;
for, believe me, I hear the parson is no jester.
Hark, I will tell you what our sport shall be.",1085,19198
652047,777,[They converse apart],1261,19198
652048,778,"Hast thou no suit against my knight, my
guest-cavaleire?",515,19198
652049,780,"None, I protest: but I'll give you a pottle of
burnt sack to give me recourse to him and tell him
my name is Brook; only for a jest.",484,19198
652050,783,"My hand, bully; thou shalt have egress and regress;
--said I well?--and thy name shall be Brook. It is
a merry knight. Will you go, An-heires?",515,19198
652051,786,"Have with you, mine host.",1085,19198
652052,787,"I have heard the Frenchman hath good skill in
his rapier.",851,19198
652053,789,"Tut, sir, I could have told you more. In these times
you stand on distance, your passes, stoccadoes, and
I know not what: 'tis the heart, Master Page; 'tis
here, 'tis here. I have seen the time, with my long
sword I would have made you four tall fellows skip like rats.",1085,19198
652054,794,"Here, boys, here, here! shall we wag?",515,19198
652055,795,Have with you. I would rather hear them scold than fight.,851,19198
652056,796,"[Exeunt Host, SHALLOW, and PAGE]",1261,19198
652057,797,"Though Page be a secure fool, an stands so firmly
on his wife's frailty, yet I cannot put off my
opinion so easily: she was in his company at Page's
house; and what they made there, I know not. Well,
I will look further into't: and I have a disguise
to sound Falstaff. If I find her honest, I lose not
my labour; if she be otherwise, 'tis labour well bestowed.",484,19198
652058,804,[Exit],1261,19198
652059,807,[Enter FALSTAFF and PISTOL],1261,19199
652060,808,I will not lend thee a penny.,393,19199
652061,809,"Why, then the world's mine oyster.
Which I with sword will open.",891,19199
652062,811,"Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should
lay my countenance to pawn; I have grated upon my
good friends for three reprieves for you and your
coach-fellow Nym; or else you had looked through
the grate, like a geminy of baboons. I am damned in
hell for swearing to gentlemen my friends, you were
good soldiers and tall fellows; and when Mistress
Bridget lost the handle of her fan, I took't upon
mine honour thou hadst it not.",393,19199
652063,820,Didst not thou share? hadst thou not fifteen pence?,891,19199
652064,821,"Reason, you rogue, reason: thinkest thou I'll
endanger my soul gratis? At a word, hang no more
about me, I am no gibbet for you. Go. A short knife
and a throng! To your manor of Pickt-hatch! Go.
You'll not bear a letter for me, you rogue! you
stand upon your honour! Why, thou unconfinable
baseness, it is as much as I can do to keep the
terms of my honour precise: I, I, I myself
sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand
and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to
shuffle, to hedge and to lurch; and yet you, rogue,
will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain
looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your
bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your
honour! You will not do it, you!",393,19199
652065,836,I do relent: what would thou more of man?,891,19199
652066,837,[Enter ROBIN],1261,19199
652067,838,"Sir, here's a woman would speak with you.",948,19199
652068,839,Let her approach.,393,19199
652069,840,[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY],1261,19199
652070,841,Give your worship good morrow.,936,19199
652071,842,"Good morrow, good wife.",393,19199
652072,843,"Not so, an't please your worship.",936,19199
652073,844,"Good maid, then.",393,19199
652074,845,"I'll be sworn,
As my mother was, the first hour I was born.",936,19199
652075,847,I do believe the swearer. What with me?,393,19199
652076,848,Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?,936,19199
652077,849,"Two thousand, fair woman: and I'll vouchsafe thee
the hearing.",393,19199
652078,851,"There is one Mistress Ford, sir:--I pray, come a
little nearer this ways:--I myself dwell with master
Doctor Caius,--",936,19199
652079,854,"Well, on: Mistress Ford, you say,--",393,19199
652080,855,"Your worship says very true: I pray your worship,
come a little nearer this ways.",936,19199
652081,857,"I warrant thee, nobody hears; mine own people, mine
own people.",393,19199
652082,859,Are they so? God bless them and make them his servants!,936,19199
652083,860,"Well, Mistress Ford; what of her?",393,19199
652084,861,"Why, sir, she's a good creature. Lord Lord! your
worship's a wanton! Well, heaven forgive you and all
of us, I pray!",936,19199
652085,864,"Mistress Ford; come, Mistress Ford,--",393,19199
652086,865,"Marry, this is the short and the long of it; you
have brought her into such a canaries as 'tis
wonderful. The best courtier of them all, when the
court lay at Windsor, could never have brought her
to such a canary. Yet there has been knights, and
lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches, I warrant
you, coach after coach, letter after letter, gift
after gift; smelling so sweetly, all musk, and so
rushling, I warrant you, in silk and gold; and in
such alligant terms; and in such wine and sugar of
the best and the fairest, that would have won any
woman's heart; and, I warrant you, they could never
get an eye-wink of her: I had myself twenty angels
given me this morning; but I defy all angels, in
any such sort, as they say, but in the way of
honesty: and, I warrant you, they could never get
her so much as sip on a cup with the proudest of
them all: and yet there has been earls, nay, which
is more, pensioners; but, I warrant you, all is one with her.",936,19199
652087,884,"But what says she to me? be brief, my good
she-Mercury.",393,19199
652088,886,"Marry, she hath received your letter, for the which
she thanks you a thousand times; and she gives you
to notify that her husband will be absence from his
house between ten and eleven.",936,19199
652089,890,Ten and eleven?,393,19199
652090,891,"Ay, forsooth; and then you may come and see the
picture, she says, that you wot of: Master Ford,
her husband, will be from home. Alas! the sweet
woman leads an ill life with him: he's a very
jealousy man: she leads a very frampold life with
him, good heart.",936,19199
652091,897,"Ten and eleven. Woman, commend me to her; I will
not fail her.",393,19199
652092,899,"Why, you say well. But I have another messenger to
your worship. Mistress Page hath her hearty
commendations to you too: and let me tell you in
your ear, she's as fartuous a civil modest wife, and
one, I tell you, that will not miss you morning nor
evening prayer, as any is in Windsor, whoe'er be the
other: and she bade me tell your worship that her
husband is seldom from home; but she hopes there
will come a time. I never knew a woman so dote upon
a man: surely I think you have charms, la; yes, in truth.",936,19199
652093,909,"Not I, I assure thee: setting the attractions of my
good parts aside I have no other charms.",393,19199
652094,911,Blessing on your heart for't!,936,19199
652095,912,"But, I pray thee, tell me this: has Ford's wife and
Page's wife acquainted each other how they love me?",393,19199
652096,914,"That were a jest indeed! they have not so little
grace, I hope: that were a trick indeed! but
Mistress Page would desire you to send her your
little page, of all loves: her husband has a
marvellous infection to the little page; and truly
Master Page is an honest man. Never a wife in
Windsor leads a better life than she does: do what
she will, say what she will, take all, pay all, go
to bed when she list, rise when she list, all is as
she will: and truly she deserves it; for if there
be a kind woman in Windsor, she is one. You must
send her your page; no remedy.",936,19199
652097,926,"Why, I will.",393,19199
652098,927,"Nay, but do so, then: and, look you, he may come and
go between you both; and in any case have a
nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and
the boy never need to understand any thing; for
'tis not good that children should know any
wickedness: old folks, you know, have discretion,
as they say, and know the world.",936,19199
652099,934,"Fare thee well: commend me to them both: there's
my purse; I am yet thy debtor. Boy, go along with
this woman.
[Exeunt MISTRESS QUICKLY and ROBIN]
This news distracts me!",393,19199
652100,939,"This punk is one of Cupid's carriers:
Clap on more sails; pursue; up with your fights:
Give fire: she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!",891,19199
652101,942,[Exit],1261,19199
652102,943,"Sayest thou so, old Jack? go thy ways; I'll make
more of thy old body than I have done. Will they
yet look after thee? Wilt thou, after the expense
of so much money, be now a gainer? Good body, I
thank thee. Let them say 'tis grossly done; so it be
fairly done, no matter.",393,19199
652103,949,[Enter BARDOLPH],1261,19199
652104,950,"Sir John, there's one Master Brook below would fain
speak with you, and be acquainted with you; and hath
sent your worship a morning's draught of sack.",145,19199
652105,953,Brook is his name?,393,19199
652106,954,"Ay, sir.",145,19199
652107,955,"Call him in.
[Exit BARDOLPH]
Such Brooks are welcome to me, that o'erflow such
liquor. Ah, ha! Mistress Ford and Mistress Page
have I encompassed you? go to; via!",393,19199
652108,960,"[Re-enter BARDOLPH, with FORD disguised]",1261,19199
652109,961,"Bless you, sir!",484,19199
652110,962,"And you, sir! Would you speak with me?",393,19199
652111,963,"I make bold to press with so little preparation upon
you.",484,19199
652112,965,"You're welcome. What's your will? Give us leave, drawer.",393,19199
652113,966,[Exit BARDOLPH],1261,19199
652114,967,"Sir, I am a gentleman that have spent much; my name is Brook.",484,19199
652115,968,"Good Master Brook, I desire more acquaintance of you.",393,19199
652116,969,"Good Sir John, I sue for yours: not to charge you;
for I must let you understand I think myself in
better plight for a lender than you are: the which
hath something embolden'd me to this unseasoned
intrusion; for they say, if money go before, all
ways do lie open.",484,19199
652117,975,"Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on.",393,19199
652118,976,"Troth, and I have a bag of money here troubles me:
if you will help to bear it, Sir John, take all, or
half, for easing me of the carriage.",484,19199
652119,979,"Sir, I know not how I may deserve to be your porter.",393,19199
652120,980,"I will tell you, sir, if you will give me the hearing.",484,19199
652121,981,"Speak, good Master Brook: I shall be glad to be
your servant.",393,19199
652122,983,"Sir, I hear you are a scholar,--I will be brief
with you,--and you have been a man long known to me,
though I had never so good means, as desire, to make
myself acquainted with you. I shall discover a
thing to you, wherein I must very much lay open mine
own imperfection: but, good Sir John, as you have
one eye upon my follies, as you hear them unfolded,
turn another into the register of your own; that I
may pass with a reproof the easier, sith you
yourself know how easy it is to be such an offender.",484,19199
652123,993,"Very well, sir; proceed.",393,19199
652124,994,"There is a gentlewoman in this town; her husband's
name is Ford.",484,19199
652125,996,"Well, sir.",393,19199
652126,997,"I have long loved her, and, I protest to you,
bestowed much on her; followed her with a doting
observance; engrossed opportunities to meet her;
fee'd every slight occasion that could but niggardly
give me sight of her; not only bought many presents
to give her, but have given largely to many to know
what she would have given; briefly, I have pursued
her as love hath pursued me; which hath been on the
wing of all occasions. But whatsoever I have
merited, either in my mind or, in my means, meed,
I am sure, I have received none; unless experience
be a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite
rate, and that hath taught me to say this:
'Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.'",484,19199
652127,1012,Have you received no promise of satisfaction at her hands?,393,19199
652128,1013,Never.,484,19199
652129,1014,Have you importuned her to such a purpose?,393,19199
652130,1015,Never.,484,19199
652131,1016,"Of what quality was your love, then?",393,19199
652132,1017,"Like a fair house built on another man's ground; so
that I have lost my edifice by mistaking the place
where I erected it.",484,19199
652133,1020,To what purpose have you unfolded this to me?,393,19199
652134,1021,"When I have told you that, I have told you all.
Some say, that though she appear honest to me, yet in
other places she enlargeth her mirth so far that
there is shrewd construction made of her. Now, Sir
John, here is the heart of my purpose: you are a
gentleman of excellent breeding, admirable
discourse, of great admittance, authentic in your
place and person, generally allowed for your many
war-like, court-like, and learned preparations.",484,19199
652135,1030,"O, sir!",393,19199
652136,1031,"Believe it, for you know it. There is money; spend
it, spend it; spend more; spend all I have; only
give me so much of your time in exchange of it, as
to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this
Ford's wife: use your art of wooing; win her to
consent to you: if any man may, you may as soon as
any.",484,19199
652137,1038,"Would it apply well to the vehemency of your
affection, that I should win what you would enjoy?
Methinks you prescribe to yourself very preposterously.",393,19199
652138,1041,"O, understand my drift. She dwells so securely on
the excellency of her honour, that the folly of my
soul dares not present itself: she is too bright to
be looked against. Now, could I could come to her
with any detection in my hand, my desires had
instance and argument to commend themselves: I
could drive her then from the ward of her purity,
her reputation, her marriage-vow, and a thousand
other her defences, which now are too too strongly
embattled against me. What say you to't, Sir John?",484,19199
652139,1051,"Master Brook, I will first make bold with your
money; next, give me your hand; and last, as I am a
gentleman, you shall, if you will, enjoy Ford's wife.",393,19199
652140,1054,O good sir!,484,19199
652141,1055,I say you shall.,393,19199
652142,1056,"Want no money, Sir John; you shall want none.",484,19199
652143,1057,"Want no Mistress Ford, Master Brook; you shall want
none. I shall be with her, I may tell you, by her
own appointment; even as you came in to me, her
assistant or go-between parted from me: I say I
shall be with her between ten and eleven; for at
that time the jealous rascally knave her husband
will be forth. Come you to me at night; you shall
know how I speed.",393,19199
652144,1065,"I am blest in your acquaintance. Do you know Ford,
sir?",484,19199
652145,1067,"Hang him, poor cuckoldly knave! I know him not:
yet I wrong him to call him poor; they say the
jealous wittolly knave hath masses of money; for the
which his wife seems to me well-favored. I will
use her as the key of the cuckoldly rogue's coffer;
and there's my harvest-home.",393,19199
652146,1073,"I would you knew Ford, sir, that you might avoid him
if you saw him.",484,19199
652147,1075,"Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will
stare him out of his wits; I will awe him with my
cudgel: it shall hang like a meteor o'er the
cuckold's horns. Master Brook, thou shalt know I
will predominate over the peasant, and thou shalt
lie with his wife. Come to me soon at night.
Ford's a knave, and I will aggravate his style;
thou, Master Brook, shalt know him for knave and
cuckold. Come to me soon at night.",393,19199
652148,1084,[Exit],1261,19199
652149,1085,"What a damned Epicurean rascal is this! My heart is
ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is
improvident jealousy? my wife hath sent to him; the
hour is fixed; the match is made. Would any man
have thought this? See the hell of having a false
woman! My bed shall be abused, my coffers
ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not
only receive this villanous wrong, but stand under
the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that
does me this wrong. Terms! names! Amaimon sounds
well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are
devils' additions, the names of fiends: but
Cuckold! Wittol!--Cuckold! the devil himself hath
not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass: he
will trust his wife; he will not be jealous. I will
rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh
the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my
aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling
gelding, than my wife with herself; then she plots,
then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they
think in their hearts they may effect, they will
break their hearts but they will effect. God be
praised for my jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour.
I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on
Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will about it;
better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Fie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold!",484,19199
652150,1112,[Exit],1261,19199
652151,1115,[Enter DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY],1261,19200
652152,1116,Jack Rugby!,320,19200
652153,1117,Sir?,958,19200
652154,1118,"Vat is de clock, Jack?",320,19200
652155,1119,"'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to meet.",958,19200
652156,1120,"By gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come; he
has pray his Pible well, dat he is no come: by gar,
Jack Rugby, he is dead already, if he be come.",320,19200
652157,1123,"He is wise, sir; he knew your worship would kill
him, if he came.",958,19200
652158,1125,"By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him.
Take your rapier, Jack; I vill tell you how I vill kill him.",320,19200
652159,1127,"Alas, sir, I cannot fence.",958,19200
652160,1128,"Villany, take your rapier.",320,19200
652161,1129,Forbear; here's company.,958,19200
652162,1130,"[Enter Host, SHALLOW, SLENDER, and PAGE]",1261,19200
652163,1131,"Bless thee, bully doctor!",515,19200
652164,1132,"Save you, Master Doctor Caius!",1085,19200
652165,1133,"Now, good master doctor!",851,19200
652166,1134,"Give you good morrow, sir.",1123,19200
652167,1135,"Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for?",320,19200
652168,1136,"To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee
traverse; to see thee here, to see thee there; to
see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy
distance, thy montant. Is he dead, my Ethiopian? is
he dead, my Francisco? ha, bully! What says my
AEsculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder? ha! is
he dead, bully stale? is he dead?",515,19200
652169,1143,"By gar, he is de coward Jack priest of de vorld; he
is not show his face.",320,19200
652170,1145,"Thou art a Castalion-King-Urinal. Hector of Greece, my boy!",515,19200
652171,1146,"I pray you, bear vitness that me have stay six or
seven, two, tree hours for him, and he is no come.",320,19200
652172,1148,"He is the wiser man, master doctor: he is a curer of
souls, and you a curer of bodies; if you should
fight, you go against the hair of your professions.
Is it not true, Master Page?",1085,19200
652173,1152,"Master Shallow, you have yourself been a great
fighter, though now a man of peace.",851,19200
652174,1154,"Bodykins, Master Page, though I now be old and of
the peace, if I see a sword out, my finger itches to
make one. Though we are justices and doctors and
churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our
youth in us; we are the sons of women, Master Page.",1085,19200
652175,1159,"'Tis true, Master Shallow.",851,19200
652176,1160,"It will be found so, Master Page. Master Doctor
Caius, I am come to fetch you home. I am sworn of
the peace: you have showed yourself a wise
physician, and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise
and patient churchman. You must go with me, master doctor.",1085,19200
652177,1165,"Pardon, guest-justice. A word, Mounseur Mockwater.",515,19200
652178,1166,Mock-vater! vat is dat?,320,19200
652179,1167,"Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valour, bully.",515,19200
652180,1168,"By gar, den, I have as mush mock-vater as de
Englishman. Scurvy jack-dog priest! by gar, me
vill cut his ears.",320,19200
652181,1171,"He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully.",515,19200
652182,1172,Clapper-de-claw! vat is dat?,320,19200
652183,1173,"That is, he will make thee amends.",515,19200
652184,1174,"By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me;
for, by gar, me vill have it.",320,19200
652185,1176,"And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag.",515,19200
652186,1177,Me tank you for dat.,320,19200
652187,1178,"And, moreover, bully,--but first, master guest, and
Master Page, and eke Cavaleiro Slender, go you
through the town to Frogmore.",515,19200
652188,1181,[Aside to them],1261,19200
652189,1182,"Sir Hugh is there, is he?",851,19200
652190,1183,"He is there: see what humour he is in; and I will
bring the doctor about by the fields. Will it do well?",515,19200
652191,1185,We will do it.,1085,19200
652192,1186,"[with Shallow and Slender] Adieu, good master doctor.",851,19200
652193,1187,"[Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]",1261,19200
652194,1188,"By gar, me vill kill de priest; for he speak for a
jack-an-ape to Anne Page.",320,19200
652195,1190,"Let him die: sheathe thy impatience, throw cold
water on thy choler: go about the fields with me
through Frogmore: I will bring thee where Mistress
Anne Page is, at a farm-house a-feasting; and thou
shalt woo her. Cried I aim? said I well?",515,19200
652196,1195,"By gar, me dank you for dat: by gar, I love you;
and I shall procure-a you de good guest, de earl,
de knight, de lords, de gentlemen, my patients.",320,19200
652197,1198,"For the which I will be thy adversary toward Anne
Page. Said I well?",515,19200
652198,1200,"By gar, 'tis good; vell said.",320,19200
652199,1201,"Let us wag, then.",515,19200
652200,1202,"Come at my heels, Jack Rugby.",320,19200
652201,1203,[Exeunt],1261,19200
652202,1206,[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE],1261,19201
652203,1207,"I pray you now, good master Slender's serving-man,
and friend Simple by your name, which way have you
looked for Master Caius, that calls himself doctor of physic?",1099,19201
652204,1210,"Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, every
way; old Windsor way, and every way but the town
way.",1098,19201
652205,1213,"I most fehemently desire you you will also look that
way.",1099,19201
652206,1215,"I will, sir.",1098,19201
652207,1216,[Exit],1261,19201
652208,1217,"'Pless my soul, how full of chollors I am, and
trempling of mind! I shall be glad if he have
deceived me. How melancholies I am! I will knog
his urinals about his knave's costard when I have
good opportunities for the ork. 'Pless my soul!
[Sings]
To shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sings madrigals;
There will we make our peds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant posies.
To shallow--
Mercy on me! I have a great dispositions to cry.
[Sings]
Melodious birds sing madrigals--
When as I sat in Pabylon--
And a thousand vagram posies.
To shallow &c.",1099,19201
652209,1234,[Re-enter SIMPLE],1261,19201
652210,1235,"Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh.",1098,19201
652211,1236,"He's welcome.
[Sings]
To shallow rivers, to whose falls-
Heaven prosper the right! What weapons is he?",1099,19201
652212,1240,"No weapons, sir. There comes my master, Master
Shallow, and another gentleman, from Frogmore, over
the stile, this way.",1098,19201
652213,1243,"Pray you, give me my gown; or else keep it in your arms.",1099,19201
652214,1244,"[Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]",1261,19201
652215,1245,"How now, master Parson! Good morrow, good Sir Hugh.
Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student
from his book, and it is wonderful.",1085,19201
652216,1248,"[Aside] Ah, sweet Anne Page!",1123,19201
652217,1249,"'Save you, good Sir Hugh!",851,19201
652218,1250,"'Pless you from his mercy sake, all of you!",1099,19201
652219,1251,"What, the sword and the word! do you study them
both, master parson?",1085,19201
652220,1253,"And youthful still! in your doublet and hose this
raw rheumatic day!",851,19201
652221,1255,There is reasons and causes for it.,1099,19201
652222,1256,"We are come to you to do a good office, master parson.",851,19201
652223,1257,Fery well: what is it?,1099,19201
652224,1258,"Yonder is a most reverend gentleman, who, belike
having received wrong by some person, is at most
odds with his own gravity and patience that ever you
saw.",851,19201
652225,1262,"I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never
heard a man of his place, gravity and learning, so
wide of his own respect.",1085,19201
652226,1265,What is he?,1099,19201
652227,1266,"I think you know him; Master Doctor Caius, the
renowned French physician.",851,19201
652228,1268,"Got's will, and his passion of my heart! I had as
lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge.",1099,19201
652229,1270,Why?,851,19201
652230,1271,"He has no more knowledge in Hibocrates and Galen,
--and he is a knave besides; a cowardly knave as you
would desires to be acquainted withal.",1099,19201
652231,1274,"I warrant you, he's the man should fight with him.",851,19201
652232,1275,[Aside] O sweet Anne Page!,1085,19201
652233,1276,"It appears so by his weapons. Keep them asunder:
here comes Doctor Caius.",1085,19201
652234,1278,"[Enter Host, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY]",1261,19201
652235,1279,"Nay, good master parson, keep in your weapon.",851,19201
652236,1280,"So do you, good master doctor.",1085,19201
652237,1281,"Disarm them, and let them question: let them keep
their limbs whole and hack our English.",515,19201
652238,1283,"I pray you, let-a me speak a word with your ear.
Vherefore vill you not meet-a me?",320,19201
652239,1285,"[Aside to DOCTOR CAIUS] Pray you, use your patience:
in good time.",1099,19201
652240,1287,"By gar, you are de coward, de Jack dog, John ape.",320,19201
652241,1288,"[Aside to DOCTOR CAIUS] Pray you let us not be
laughing-stocks to other men's humours; I desire you
in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.
[Aloud]
I will knog your urinals about your knave's cockscomb
for missing your meetings and appointments.",1099,19201
652242,1294,"Diable! Jack Rugby,--mine host de Jarteer,--have I
not stay for him to kill him? have I not, at de place
I did appoint?",320,19201
652243,1297,"As I am a Christians soul now, look you, this is the
place appointed: I'll be judgement by mine host of
the Garter.",1099,19201
652244,1300,"Peace, I say, Gallia and Gaul, French and Welsh,
soul-curer and body-curer!",515,19201
652245,1302,"Ay, dat is very good; excellent.",320,19201
652246,1303,"Peace, I say! hear mine host of the Garter. Am I
politic? am I subtle? am I a Machiavel? Shall I
lose my doctor? no; he gives me the potions and the
motions. Shall I lose my parson, my priest, my Sir
Hugh? no; he gives me the proverbs and the
no-verbs. Give me thy hand, terrestrial; so. Give me
thy hand, celestial; so. Boys of art, I have
deceived you both; I have directed you to wrong
places: your hearts are mighty, your skins are
whole, and let burnt sack be the issue. Come, lay
their swords to pawn. Follow me, lads of peace;
follow, follow, follow.",515,19201
652247,1315,"Trust me, a mad host. Follow, gentlemen, follow.",1085,19201
652248,1316,[Aside] O sweet Anne Page!,1123,19201
652249,1317,"[Exeunt SHALLOW, SLENDER, PAGE, and Host]",1261,19201
652250,1318,"Ha, do I perceive dat? have you make-a de sot of
us, ha, ha?",320,19201
652251,1320,"This is well; he has made us his vlouting-stog. I
desire you that we may be friends; and let us knog
our prains together to be revenge on this same
scall, scurvy cogging companion, the host of the Garter.",1099,19201
652252,1324,"By gar, with all my heart. He promise to bring me
where is Anne Page; by gar, he deceive me too.",320,19201
652253,1326,"Well, I will smite his noddles. Pray you, follow.",1099,19201
652254,1327,[Exeunt],1261,19201
652255,1330,[Enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN],1261,19202
652256,1331,"Nay, keep your way, little gallant; you were wont to
be a follower, but now you are a leader. Whether
had you rather lead mine eyes, or eye your master's heels?",797,19202
652257,1334,"I had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man
than follow him like a dwarf.",948,19202
652258,1336,"O, you are a flattering boy: now I see you'll be a courtier.",797,19202
652259,1337,[Enter FORD],1261,19202
652260,1338,"Well met, Mistress Page. Whither go you?",484,19202
652261,1339,"Truly, sir, to see your wife. Is she at home?",797,19202
652262,1340,"Ay; and as idle as she may hang together, for want
of company. I think, if your husbands were dead,
you two would marry.",484,19202
652263,1343,"Be sure of that,--two other husbands.",797,19202
652264,1344,Where had you this pretty weather-cock?,484,19202
652265,1345,"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my
husband had him of. What do you call your knight's
name, sirrah?",797,19202
652266,1348,Sir John Falstaff.,948,19202
652267,1349,Sir John Falstaff!,484,19202
652268,1350,"He, he; I can never hit on's name. There is such a
league between my good man and he! Is your wife at
home indeed?",797,19202
652269,1353,Indeed she is.,484,19202
652270,1354,"By your leave, sir: I am sick till I see her.",797,19202
652271,1355,[Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN],1261,19202
652272,1356,"Has Page any brains? hath he any eyes? hath he any
thinking? Sure, they sleep; he hath no use of them.
Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty mile, as
easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve
score. He pieces out his wife's inclination; he
gives her folly motion and advantage: and now she's
going to my wife, and Falstaff's boy with her. A
man may hear this shower sing in the wind. And
Falstaff's boy with her! Good plots, they are laid;
and our revolted wives share damnation together.
Well; I will take him, then torture my wife, pluck
the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming
Mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a secure and
wilful Actaeon; and to these violent proceedings all
my neighbours shall cry aim.
[Clock heard]
The clock gives me my cue, and my assurance bids me
search: there I shall find Falstaff: I shall be
rather praised for this than mocked; for it is as
positive as the earth is firm that Falstaff is
there: I will go.
[Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, SLENDER, Host,]
SIR HUGH EVANS, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY]",484,19202
652273,1379,"[with Page and others] Well met, Master Ford.",1085,19202
652274,1380,"Trust me, a good knot: I have good cheer at home;
and I pray you all go with me.",484,19202
652275,1382,"I must excuse myself, Master Ford.",1085,19202
652276,1383,"And so must I, sir: we have appointed to dine with
Mistress Anne, and I would not break with her for
more money than I'll speak of.",1123,19202
652277,1386,"We have lingered about a match between Anne Page and
my cousin Slender, and this day we shall have our answer.",1085,19202
652278,1388,"I hope I have your good will, father Page.",1123,19202
652279,1389,"You have, Master Slender; I stand wholly for you:
but my wife, master doctor, is for you altogether.",851,19202
652280,1391,"Ay, be-gar; and de maid is love-a me: my nursh-a
Quickly tell me so mush.",320,19202
652281,1393,"What say you to young Master Fenton? he capers, he
dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he
speaks holiday, he smells April and May: he will
carry't, he will carry't; 'tis in his buttons; he
will carry't.",515,19202
652282,1398,"Not by my consent, I promise you. The gentleman is
of no having: he kept company with the wild prince
and Poins; he is of too high a region; he knows too
much. No, he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes
with the finger of my substance: if he take her,
let him take her simply; the wealth I have waits on
my consent, and my consent goes not that way.",851,19202
652283,1405,"I beseech you heartily, some of you go home with me
to dinner: besides your cheer, you shall have
sport; I will show you a monster. Master doctor,
you shall go; so shall you, Master Page; and you, Sir Hugh.",484,19202
652284,1409,"Well, fare you well: we shall have the freer wooing
at Master Page's.",1085,19202
652285,1411,"[Exeunt SHALLOW, and SLENDER]",1261,19202
652286,1412,"Go home, John Rugby; I come anon.",320,19202
652287,1413,[Exit RUGBY],1261,19202
652288,1414,"Farewell, my hearts: I will to my honest knight
Falstaff, and drink canary with him.",515,19202
652289,1416,[Exit],1261,19202
652290,1417,"[Aside] I think I shall drink in pipe wine first
with him; I'll make him dance. Will you go, gentles?",484,19202
652291,1419,Have with you to see this monster.,89,19202
652292,1420,[Exeunt],1261,19202
652293,1423,[Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE],1261,19203
652294,1424,"What, John! What, Robert!",795,19203
652295,1425,"Quickly, quickly! is the buck-basket--",797,19203
652296,1426,"I warrant. What, Robin, I say!",795,19203
652297,1427,[Enter Servants with a basket],1261,19203
652298,1428,"Come, come, come.",797,19203
652299,1429,"Here, set it down.",795,19203
652300,1430,Give your men the charge; we must be brief.,797,19203
652301,1431,"Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be
ready here hard by in the brew-house: and when I
suddenly call you, come forth, and without any pause
or staggering take this basket on your shoulders:
that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry
it among the whitsters in Datchet-mead, and there
empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side.",795,19203
652302,1438,You will do it?,797,19203
652303,1439,"I ha' told them over and over; they lack no
direction. Be gone, and come when you are called.",795,19203
652304,1441,[Exeunt Servants],1261,19203
652305,1442,Here comes little Robin.,797,19203
652306,1443,[Enter ROBIN],1261,19203
652307,1444,"How now, my eyas-musket! what news with you?",795,19203
652308,1445,"My master, Sir John, is come in at your back-door,
Mistress Ford, and requests your company.",948,19203
652309,1447,"You little Jack-a-Lent, have you been true to us?",797,19203
652310,1448,"Ay, I'll be sworn. My master knows not of your
being here and hath threatened to put me into
everlasting liberty if I tell you of it; for he
swears he'll turn me away.",948,19203
652311,1452,"Thou'rt a good boy: this secrecy of thine shall be
a tailor to thee and shall make thee a new doublet
and hose. I'll go hide me.",797,19203
652312,1455,"Do so. Go tell thy master I am alone.
[Exit ROBIN]
Mistress Page, remember you your cue.",795,19203
652313,1458,"I warrant thee; if I do not act it, hiss me.",797,19203
652314,1459,[Exit],1261,19203
652315,1460,"Go to, then: we'll use this unwholesome humidity,
this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know
turtles from jays.",795,19203
652316,1463,[Enter FALSTAFF],1261,19203
652317,1464,"Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let
me die, for I have lived long enough: this is the
period of my ambition: O this blessed hour!",393,19203
652318,1467,O sweet Sir John!,795,19203
652319,1468,"Mistress Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate,
Mistress Ford. Now shall I sin in my wish: I would
thy husband were dead: I'll speak it before the
best lord; I would make thee my lady.",393,19203
652320,1472,"I your lady, Sir John! alas, I should be a pitiful lady!",795,19203
652321,1473,"Let the court of France show me such another. I see
how thine eye would emulate the diamond: thou hast
the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes the
ship-tire, the tire-valiant, or any tire of
Venetian admittance.",393,19203
652322,1478,"A plain kerchief, Sir John: my brows become nothing
else; nor that well neither.",795,19203
652323,1480,"By the Lord, thou art a traitor to say so: thou
wouldst make an absolute courtier; and the firm
fixture of thy foot would give an excellent motion
to thy gait in a semi-circled farthingale. I see
what thou wert, if Fortune thy foe were not, Nature
thy friend. Come, thou canst not hide it.",393,19203
652324,1486,"Believe me, there is no such thing in me.",795,19203
652325,1487,"What made me love thee? let that persuade thee
there's something extraordinary in thee. Come, I
cannot cog and say thou art this and that, like a
many of these lisping hawthorn-buds, that come like
women in men's apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury
in simple time; I cannot: but I love thee; none
but thee; and thou deservest it.",393,19203
652326,1494,"Do not betray me, sir. I fear you love Mistress Page.",795,19203
652327,1495,"Thou mightst as well say I love to walk by the
Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek
of a lime-kiln.",393,19203
652328,1498,"Well, heaven knows how I love you; and you shall one
day find it.",795,19203
652329,1500,Keep in that mind; I'll deserve it.,393,19203
652330,1501,"Nay, I must tell you, so you do; or else I could not
be in that mind.",795,19203
652331,1503,"[Within] Mistress Ford, Mistress Ford! here's
Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing and
looking wildly, and would needs speak with you presently.",948,19203
652332,1506,She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras.,393,19203
652333,1507,"Pray you, do so: she's a very tattling woman.
[FALSTAFF hides himself]
[Re-enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN]
What's the matter? how now!",795,19203
652334,1511,"O Mistress Ford, what have you done? You're shamed,
you're overthrown, you're undone for ever!",797,19203
652335,1513,"What's the matter, good Mistress Page?",795,19203
652336,1514,"O well-a-day, Mistress Ford! having an honest man
to your husband, to give him such cause of suspicion!",797,19203
652337,1516,What cause of suspicion?,795,19203
652338,1517,"What cause of suspicion! Out pon you! how am I
mistook in you!",797,19203
652339,1519,"Why, alas, what's the matter?",795,19203
652340,1520,"Your husband's coming hither, woman, with all the
officers in Windsor, to search for a gentleman that
he says is here now in the house by your consent, to
take an ill advantage of his assence: you are undone.",797,19203
652341,1524,"'Tis not so, I hope.",795,19203
652342,1525,"Pray heaven it be not so, that you have such a man
here! but 'tis most certain your husband's coming,
with half Windsor at his heels, to search for such a
one. I come before to tell you. If you know
yourself clear, why, I am glad of it; but if you
have a friend here convey, convey him out. Be not
amazed; call all your senses to you; defend your
reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever.",797,19203
652343,1533,"What shall I do? There is a gentleman my dear
friend; and I fear not mine own shame so much as his
peril: I had rather than a thousand pound he were
out of the house.",795,19203
652344,1537,"For shame! never stand 'you had rather' and 'you
had rather:' your husband's here at hand, bethink
you of some conveyance: in the house you cannot
hide him. O, how have you deceived me! Look, here
is a basket: if he be of any reasonable stature, he
may creep in here; and throw foul linen upon him, as
if it were going to bucking: or--it is whiting-time
--send him by your two men to Datchet-mead.",797,19203
652345,1545,He's too big to go in there. What shall I do?,795,19203
652346,1546,"[Coming forward] Let me see't, let me see't, O, let
me see't! I'll in, I'll in. Follow your friend's
counsel. I'll in.",393,19203
652347,1549,"What, Sir John Falstaff! Are these your letters, knight?",797,19203
652348,1550,"I love thee. Help me away. Let me creep in here.
I'll never--",393,19203
652349,1552,[Gets into the basket; they cover him with foul linen],1261,19203
652350,1553,"Help to cover your master, boy. Call your men,
Mistress Ford. You dissembling knight!",797,19203
652351,1555,"What, John! Robert! John!
[Exit ROBIN]
[Re-enter Servants]
Go take up these clothes here quickly. Where's the
cowl-staff? look, how you drumble! Carry them to
the laundress in Datchet-meat; quickly, come.",795,19203
652352,1561,"[Enter FORD, PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS]",1261,19203
652353,1562,"Pray you, come near: if I suspect without cause,
why then make sport at me; then let me be your jest;
I deserve it. How now! whither bear you this?",484,19203
652354,1565,"To the laundress, forsooth.",1070,19203
652355,1566,"Why, what have you to do whither they bear it? You
were best meddle with buck-washing.",795,19203
652356,1568,"Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck!
Buck, buck, buck! Ay, buck; I warrant you, buck;
and of the season too, it shall appear.
[Exeunt Servants with the basket]
Gentlemen, I have dreamed to-night; I'll tell you my
dream. Here, here, here be my keys: ascend my
chambers; search, seek, find out: I'll warrant
we'll unkennel the fox. Let me stop this way first.
[Locking the door]
So, now uncape.",484,19203
652357,1578,"Good Master Ford, be contented: you wrong yourself too much.",851,19203
652358,1579,"True, Master Page. Up, gentlemen: you shall see
sport anon: follow me, gentlemen.",484,19203
652359,1581,[Exit],1261,19203
652360,1582,This is fery fantastical humours and jealousies.,1099,19203
652361,1583,"By gar, 'tis no the fashion of France; it is not
jealous in France.",320,19203
652362,1585,"Nay, follow him, gentlemen; see the issue of his search.",851,19203
652363,1586,"[Exeunt PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS]",1261,19203
652364,1587,Is there not a double excellency in this?,797,19203
652365,1588,"I know not which pleases me better, that my husband
is deceived, or Sir John.",795,19203
652366,1590,"What a taking was he in when your husband asked who
was in the basket!",797,19203
652367,1592,"I am half afraid he will have need of washing; so
throwing him into the water will do him a benefit.",795,19203
652368,1594,"Hang him, dishonest rascal! I would all of the same
strain were in the same distress.",797,19203
652369,1596,"I think my husband hath some special suspicion of
Falstaff's being here; for I never saw him so gross
in his jealousy till now.",795,19203
652370,1599,"I will lay a plot to try that; and we will yet have
more tricks with Falstaff: his dissolute disease will
scarce obey this medicine.",797,19203
652371,1602,"Shall we send that foolish carrion, Mistress
Quickly, to him, and excuse his throwing into the
water; and give him another hope, to betray him to
another punishment?",795,19203
652372,1606,"We will do it: let him be sent for to-morrow,
eight o'clock, to have amends.",797,19203
652373,1608,"[Re-enter FORD, PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS]",1261,19203
652374,1609,"I cannot find him: may be the knave bragged of that
he could not compass.",484,19203
652375,1611,[Aside to MISTRESS FORD] Heard you that?,797,19203
652376,1612,"You use me well, Master Ford, do you?",795,19203
652377,1613,"Ay, I do so.",484,19203
652378,1614,Heaven make you better than your thoughts!,795,19203
652379,1615,Amen!,484,19203
652380,1616,"You do yourself mighty wrong, Master Ford.",797,19203
652381,1617,"Ay, ay; I must bear it.",484,19203
652382,1618,"If there be any pody in the house, and in the
chambers, and in the coffers, and in the presses,
heaven forgive my sins at the day of judgment!",1099,19203
652383,1621,"By gar, nor I too: there is no bodies.",320,19203
652384,1622,"Fie, fie, Master Ford! are you not ashamed? What
spirit, what devil suggests this imagination? I
would not ha' your distemper in this kind for the
wealth of Windsor Castle.",851,19203
652385,1626,"'Tis my fault, Master Page: I suffer for it.",484,19203
652386,1627,"You suffer for a pad conscience: your wife is as
honest a 'omans as I will desires among five
thousand, and five hundred too.",1099,19203
652387,1630,"By gar, I see 'tis an honest woman.",320,19203
652388,1631,"Well, I promised you a dinner. Come, come, walk in
the Park: I pray you, pardon me; I will hereafter
make known to you why I have done this. Come,
wife; come, Mistress Page. I pray you, pardon me;
pray heartily, pardon me.",484,19203
652389,1636,"Let's go in, gentlemen; but, trust me, we'll mock
him. I do invite you to-morrow morning to my house
to breakfast: after, we'll a-birding together; I
have a fine hawk for the bush. Shall it be so?",851,19203
652390,1640,Any thing.,484,19203
652391,1641,"If there is one, I shall make two in the company.",1099,19203
652392,1642,"If dere be one or two, I shall make-a the turd.",320,19203
652393,1643,"Pray you, go, Master Page.",484,19203
652394,1644,"I pray you now, remembrance tomorrow on the lousy
knave, mine host.",1099,19203
652395,1646,"Dat is good; by gar, with all my heart!",320,19203
652396,1647,"A lousy knave, to have his gibes and his mockeries!",1099,19203
652397,1648,[Exeunt],1261,19203
652398,1651,[Enter FENTON and ANNE PAGE],1261,19204
652399,1652,"I see I cannot get thy father's love;
Therefore no more turn me to him, sweet Nan.",398,19204
652400,1654,"Alas, how then?",107,19204
652401,1655,"Why, thou must be thyself.
He doth object I am too great of birth--,
And that, my state being gall'd with my expense,
I seek to heal it only by his wealth:
Besides these, other bars he lays before me,
My riots past, my wild societies;
And tells me 'tis a thing impossible
I should love thee but as a property.",398,19204
652402,1663,May be he tells you true.,107,19204
652403,1664,"No, heaven so speed me in my time to come!
Albeit I will confess thy father's wealth
Was the first motive that I woo'd thee, Anne:
Yet, wooing thee, I found thee of more value
Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;
And 'tis the very riches of thyself
That now I aim at.",398,19204
652404,1671,"Gentle Master Fenton,
Yet seek my father's love; still seek it, sir:
If opportunity and humblest suit
Cannot attain it, why, then,--hark you hither!",107,19204
652405,1675,[They converse apart],1261,19204
652406,1676,"[Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and MISTRESS QUICKLY]",1261,19204
652407,1677,"Break their talk, Mistress Quickly: my kinsman shall
speak for himself.",1085,19204
652408,1679,"I'll make a shaft or a bolt on't: 'slid, 'tis but
venturing.",1123,19204
652409,1681,Be not dismayed.,1085,19204
652410,1682,"No, she shall not dismay me: I care not for that,
but that I am afeard.",1123,19204
652411,1684,Hark ye; Master Slender would speak a word with you.,936,19204
652412,1685,"I come to him.
[Aside]
This is my father's choice.
O, what a world of vile ill-favor'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!",107,19204
652413,1690,"And how does good Master Fenton? Pray you, a word with you.",936,19204
652414,1691,"She's coming; to her, coz. O boy, thou hadst a father!",1085,19204
652415,1692,"I had a father, Mistress Anne; my uncle can tell you
good jests of him. Pray you, uncle, tell Mistress
Anne the jest, how my father stole two geese out of
a pen, good uncle.",1123,19204
652416,1696,"Mistress Anne, my cousin loves you.",1085,19204
652417,1697,"Ay, that I do; as well as I love any woman in
Gloucestershire.",1123,19204
652418,1699,He will maintain you like a gentlewoman.,1085,19204
652419,1700,"Ay, that I will, come cut and long-tail, under the
degree of a squire.",1123,19204
652420,1702,He will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure.,1085,19204
652421,1703,"Good Master Shallow, let him woo for himself.",107,19204
652422,1704,"Marry, I thank you for it; I thank you for that good
comfort. She calls you, coz: I'll leave you.",1085,19204
652423,1706,"Now, Master Slender,--",107,19204
652424,1707,"Now, good Mistress Anne,--",1123,19204
652425,1708,What is your will?,107,19204
652426,1709,"My will! 'od's heartlings, that's a pretty jest
indeed! I ne'er made my will yet, I thank heaven; I
am not such a sickly creature, I give heaven praise.",1123,19204
652427,1712,"I mean, Master Slender, what would you with me?",107,19204
652428,1713,"Truly, for mine own part, I would little or nothing
with you. Your father and my uncle hath made
motions: if it be my luck, so; if not, happy man be
his dole! They can tell you how things go better
than I can: you may ask your father; here he comes.",1123,19204
652429,1718,[Enter PAGE and MISTRESS PAGE],1261,19204
652430,1719,"Now, Master Slender: love him, daughter Anne.
Why, how now! what does Master Fenton here?
You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house:
I told you, sir, my daughter is disposed of.",851,19204
652431,1723,"Nay, Master Page, be not impatient.",398,19204
652432,1724,"Good Master Fenton, come not to my child.",797,19204
652433,1725,She is no match for you.,851,19204
652434,1726,"Sir, will you hear me?",398,19204
652435,1727,"No, good Master Fenton.
Come, Master Shallow; come, son Slender, in.
Knowing my mind, you wrong me, Master Fenton.",851,19204
652436,1730,"[Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]",1261,19204
652437,1731,Speak to Mistress Page.,936,19204
652438,1732,"Good Mistress Page, for that I love your daughter
In such a righteous fashion as I do,
Perforce, against all cheques, rebukes and manners,
I must advance the colours of my love
And not retire: let me have your good will.",398,19204
652439,1737,"Good mother, do not marry me to yond fool.",107,19204
652440,1738,I mean it not; I seek you a better husband.,797,19204
652441,1739,"That's my master, master doctor.",936,19204
652442,1740,"Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth
And bowl'd to death with turnips!",107,19204
652443,1742,"Come, trouble not yourself. Good Master Fenton,
I will not be your friend nor enemy:
My daughter will I question how she loves you,
And as I find her, so am I affected.
Till then farewell, sir: she must needs go in;
Her father will be angry.",797,19204
652444,1748,"Farewell, gentle mistress: farewell, Nan.",398,19204
652445,1749,[Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE and ANNE PAGE],1261,19204
652446,1750,"This is my doing, now: 'Nay,' said I, 'will you cast
away your child on a fool, and a physician? Look on
Master Fenton:' this is my doing.",936,19204
652447,1753,"I thank thee; and I pray thee, once to-night
Give my sweet Nan this ring: there's for thy pains.",398,19204
652448,1755,"Now heaven send thee good fortune!
[Exit FENTON]
A kind heart he hath: a woman would run through
fire and water for such a kind heart. But yet I
would my master had Mistress Anne; or I would
Master Slender had her; or, in sooth, I would Master
Fenton had her; I will do what I can for them all
three; for so I have promised, and I'll be as good
as my word; but speciously for Master Fenton. Well,
I must of another errand to Sir John Falstaff from
my two mistresses: what a beast am I to slack it!",936,19204
652449,1766,[Exit],1261,19204
652450,1769,[Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH],1261,19205
652451,1770,"Bardolph, I say,--",393,19205
652452,1771,"Here, sir.",145,19205
652453,1772,"Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in't.
[Exit BARDOLPH]
Have I lived to be carried in a basket, like a
barrow of butcher's offal, and to be thrown in the
Thames? Well, if I be served such another trick,
I'll have my brains ta'en out and buttered, and give
them to a dog for a new-year's gift. The rogues
slighted me into the river with as little remorse as
they would have drowned a blind bitch's puppies,
fifteen i' the litter: and you may know by my size
that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; if the
bottom were as deep as hell, I should down. I had
been drowned, but that the shore was shelvy and
shallow,--a death that I abhor; for the water swells
a man; and what a thing should I have been when I
had been swelled! I should have been a mountain of mummy.",393,19205
652454,1788,[Re-enter BARDOLPH with sack],1261,19205
652455,1789,"Here's Mistress Quickly, sir, to speak with you.",145,19205
652456,1790,"Let me pour in some sack to the Thames water; for my
belly's as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for
pills to cool the reins. Call her in.",393,19205
652457,1793,"Come in, woman!",145,19205
652458,1794,[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY],1261,19205
652459,1795,"By your leave; I cry you mercy: give your worship
good morrow.",936,19205
652460,1797,"Take away these chalices. Go brew me a pottle of
sack finely.",393,19205
652461,1799,"With eggs, sir?",145,19205
652462,1800,"Simple of itself; I'll no pullet-sperm in my brewage.
[Exit BARDOLPH]
How now!",393,19205
652463,1803,"Marry, sir, I come to your worship from Mistress Ford.",936,19205
652464,1804,"Mistress Ford! I have had ford enough; I was thrown
into the ford; I have my belly full of ford.",393,19205
652465,1806,"Alas the day! good heart, that was not her fault:
she does so take on with her men; they mistook their erection.",936,19205
652466,1808,"So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman's promise.",393,19205
652467,1809,"Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn
your heart to see it. Her husband goes this morning
a-birding; she desires you once more to come to her
between eight and nine: I must carry her word
quickly: she'll make you amends, I warrant you.",936,19205
652468,1814,"Well, I will visit her: tell her so; and bid her
think what a man is: let her consider his frailty,
and then judge of my merit.",393,19205
652469,1817,I will tell her.,936,19205
652470,1818,"Do so. Between nine and ten, sayest thou?",393,19205
652471,1819,"Eight and nine, sir.",936,19205
652472,1820,"Well, be gone: I will not miss her.",393,19205
652473,1821,"Peace be with you, sir.",936,19205
652474,1822,[Exit],1261,19205
652475,1823,"I marvel I hear not of Master Brook; he sent me word
to stay within: I like his money well. O, here he comes.",393,19205
652476,1825,[Enter FORD],1261,19205
652477,1826,"Bless you, sir!",484,19205
652478,1827,"Now, master Brook, you come to know what hath passed
between me and Ford's wife?",393,19205
652479,1829,"That, indeed, Sir John, is my business.",484,19205
652480,1830,"Master Brook, I will not lie to you: I was at her
house the hour she appointed me.",393,19205
652481,1832,"And sped you, sir?",484,19205
652482,1833,"Very ill-favoredly, Master Brook.",393,19205
652483,1834,"How so, sir? Did she change her determination?",484,19205
652484,1835,"No, Master Brook; but the peaking Cornuto her
husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual
'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our
encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested,
and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy;
and at his heels a rabble of his companions, thither
provoked and instigated by his distemper, and,
forsooth, to search his house for his wife's love.",393,19205
652485,1843,"What, while you were there?",484,19205
652486,1844,While I was there.,393,19205
652487,1845,"And did he search for you, and could not find you?",484,19205
652488,1846,"You shall hear. As good luck would have it, comes
in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Ford's
approach; and, in her invention and Ford's wife's
distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.",393,19205
652489,1850,A buck-basket!,484,19205
652490,1851,"By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul
shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy
napkins; that, Master Brook, there was the rankest
compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.",393,19205
652491,1855,And how long lay you there?,484,19205
652492,1856,"Nay, you shall hear, Master Brook, what I have
suffered to bring this woman to evil for your good.
Being thus crammed in the basket, a couple of Ford's
knaves, his hinds, were called forth by their
mistress to carry me in the name of foul clothes to
Datchet-lane: they took me on their shoulders; met
the jealous knave their master in the door, who
asked them once or twice what they had in their
basket: I quaked for fear, lest the lunatic knave
would have searched it; but fate, ordaining he
should be a cuckold, held his hand. Well: on went he
for a search, and away went I for foul clothes. But
mark the sequel, Master Brook: I suffered the pangs
of three several deaths; first, an intolerable
fright, to be detected with a jealous rotten
bell-wether; next, to be compassed, like a good
bilbo, in the circumference of a peck, hilt to
point, heel to head; and then, to be stopped in,
like a strong distillation, with stinking clothes
that fretted in their own grease: think of that,--a
man of my kidney,--think of that,--that am as subject
to heat as butter; a man of continual dissolution
and thaw: it was a miracle to scape suffocation.
And in the height of this bath, when I was more than
half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be
thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot,
in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of
that,--hissing hot,--think of that, Master Brook.",393,19205
652493,1884,"In good sadness, I am sorry that for my sake you
have sufferd all this. My suit then is desperate;
you'll undertake her no more?",484,19205
652494,1887,"Master Brook, I will be thrown into Etna, as I have
been into Thames, ere I will leave her thus. Her
husband is this morning gone a-birding: I have
received from her another embassy of meeting; 'twixt
eight and nine is the hour, Master Brook.",393,19205
652495,1892,"'Tis past eight already, sir.",484,19205
652496,1893,"Is it? I will then address me to my appointment.
Come to me at your convenient leisure, and you shall
know how I speed; and the conclusion shall be
crowned with your enjoying her. Adieu. You shall
have her, Master Brook; Master Brook, you shall
cuckold Ford.",393,19205
652497,1899,[Exit],1261,19205
652498,1900,"Hum! ha! is this a vision? is this a dream? do I
sleep? Master Ford awake! awake, Master Ford!
there's a hole made in your best coat, Master Ford.
This 'tis to be married! this 'tis to have linen
and buck-baskets! Well, I will proclaim myself
what I am: I will now take the lecher; he is at my
house; he cannot 'scape me; 'tis impossible he
should; he cannot creep into a halfpenny purse,
nor into a pepper-box: but, lest the devil that
guides him should aid him, I will search
impossible places. Though what I am I cannot avoid,
yet to be what I would not shall not make me tame:
if I have horns to make one mad, let the proverb go
with me: I'll be horn-mad.",484,19205
652499,1914,[Exit],1261,19205
652500,1917,"[Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, and WILLIAM PAGE]",1261,19206
652501,1918,"Is he at Master Ford's already, think'st thou?",797,19206
652502,1919,"Sure he is by this, or will be presently: but,
truly, he is very courageous mad about his throwing
into the water. Mistress Ford desires you to come suddenly.",936,19206
652503,1922,"I'll be with her by and by; I'll but bring my young
man here to school. Look, where his master comes;
'tis a playing-day, I see.
[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS]
How now, Sir Hugh! no school to-day?",797,19206
652504,1927,No; Master Slender is let the boys leave to play.,1099,19206
652505,1928,Blessing of his heart!,936,19206
652506,1929,"Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in
the world at his book. I pray you, ask him some
questions in his accidence.",797,19206
652507,1932,"Come hither, William; hold up your head; come.",1099,19206
652508,1933,"Come on, sirrah; hold up your head; answer your
master, be not afraid.",797,19206
652509,1935,"William, how many numbers is in nouns?",1099,19206
652510,1936,Two.,1256,19206
652511,1937,"Truly, I thought there had been one number more,
because they say, ''Od's nouns.'",936,19206
652512,1939,"Peace your tattlings! What is 'fair,' William?",1099,19206
652513,1940,Pulcher.,1256,19206
652514,1941,"Polecats! there are fairer things than polecats, sure.",936,19206
652515,1942,"You are a very simplicity 'oman: I pray you peace.
What is 'lapis,' William?",1099,19206
652516,1944,A stone.,1256,19206
652517,1945,"And what is 'a stone,' William?",1099,19206
652518,1946,A pebble.,1256,19206
652519,1947,"No, it is 'lapis:' I pray you, remember in your prain.",1099,19206
652520,1948,Lapis.,1256,19206
652521,1949,"That is a good William. What is he, William, that
does lend articles?",1099,19206
652522,1951,"Articles are borrowed of the pronoun, and be thus
declined, Singulariter, nominativo, hic, haec, hoc.",1256,19206
652523,1953,"Nominativo, hig, hag, hog; pray you, mark:
genitivo, hujus. Well, what is your accusative case?",1099,19206
652524,1955,"Accusativo, hinc.",1256,19206
652525,1956,"I pray you, have your remembrance, child,
accusative, hung, hang, hog.",1099,19206
652526,1958,"'Hang-hog' is Latin for bacon, I warrant you.",936,19206
652527,1959,"Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the focative
case, William?",1099,19206
652528,1961,"O,--vocativo, O.",1256,19206
652529,1962,"Remember, William; focative is caret.",1099,19206
652530,1963,And that's a good root.,936,19206
652531,1964,"'Oman, forbear.",1099,19206
652532,1965,Peace!,797,19206
652533,1966,"What is your genitive case plural, William?",1099,19206
652534,1967,Genitive case!,1256,19206
652535,1968,Ay.,1099,19206
652536,1969,"Genitive,--horum, harum, horum.",1256,19206
652537,1970,"Vengeance of Jenny's case! fie on her! never name
her, child, if she be a whore.",936,19206
652538,1972,"For shame, 'oman.",1099,19206
652539,1973,"You do ill to teach the child such words: he
teaches him to hick and to hack, which they'll do
fast enough of themselves, and to call 'horum:' fie upon you!",936,19206
652540,1976,"'Oman, art thou lunatics? hast thou no
understandings for thy cases and the numbers of the
genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as
I would desires.",1099,19206
652541,1980,"Prithee, hold thy peace.",797,19206
652542,1981,"Show me now, William, some declensions of your pronouns.",1099,19206
652543,1982,"Forsooth, I have forgot.",1256,19206
652544,1983,"It is qui, quae, quod: if you forget your 'quies,'
your 'quaes,' and your 'quods,' you must be
preeches. Go your ways, and play; go.",1099,19206
652545,1986,He is a better scholar than I thought he was.,797,19206
652546,1987,"He is a good sprag memory. Farewell, Mistress Page.",1099,19206
652547,1988,"Adieu, good Sir Hugh.
[Exit SIR HUGH EVANS]
Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long.",797,19206
652548,1991,[Exeunt],1261,19206
652549,1994,[Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS FORD],1261,19207
652550,1995,"Mistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten up my
sufferance. I see you are obsequious in your love,
and I profess requital to a hair's breadth; not
only, Mistress Ford, in the simple
office of love, but in all the accoutrement,
complement and ceremony of it. But are you
sure of your husband now?",393,19207
652551,2002,"He's a-birding, sweet Sir John.",795,19207
652552,2003,"[Within] What, ho, gossip Ford! what, ho!",797,19207
652553,2004,"Step into the chamber, Sir John.",795,19207
652554,2005,[Exit FALSTAFF],1261,19207
652555,2006,[Enter MISTRESS PAGE],1261,19207
652556,2007,"How now, sweetheart! who's at home besides yourself?",797,19207
652557,2008,"Why, none but mine own people.",795,19207
652558,2009,Indeed!,797,19207
652559,2010,"No, certainly.
[Aside to her]
Speak louder.",795,19207
652560,2013,"Truly, I am so glad you have nobody here.",797,19207
652561,2014,Why?,795,19207
652562,2015,"Why, woman, your husband is in his old lunes again:
he so takes on yonder with my husband; so rails
against all married mankind; so curses all Eve's
daughters, of what complexion soever; and so buffets
himself on the forehead, crying, 'Peer out, peer
out!' that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but
tameness, civility and patience, to this his
distemper he is in now: I am glad the fat knight is not here.",797,19207
652563,2023,"Why, does he talk of him?",795,19207
652564,2024,"Of none but him; and swears he was carried out, the
last time he searched for him, in a basket; protests
to my husband he is now here, and hath drawn him and
the rest of their company from their sport, to make
another experiment of his suspicion: but I am glad
the knight is not here; now he shall see his own foolery.",797,19207
652565,2030,"How near is he, Mistress Page?",795,19207
652566,2031,Hard by; at street end; he will be here anon.,797,19207
652567,2032,I am undone! The knight is here.,795,19207
652568,2033,"Why then you are utterly shamed, and he's but a dead
man. What a woman are you!--Away with him, away
with him! better shame than murder.",797,19207
652569,2036,"Which way should be go? how should I bestow him?
Shall I put him into the basket again?",484,19207
652570,2038,[Re-enter FALSTAFF],1261,19207
652571,2039,"No, I'll come no more i' the basket. May I not go
out ere he come?",393,19207
652572,2041,"Alas, three of Master Ford's brothers watch the door
with pistols, that none shall issue out; otherwise
you might slip away ere he came. But what make you here?",797,19207
652573,2044,What shall I do? I'll creep up into the chimney.,393,19207
652574,2045,"There they always use to discharge their
birding-pieces. Creep into the kiln-hole.",795,19207
652575,2047,Where is it?,393,19207
652576,2048,"He will seek there, on my word. Neither press,
coffer, chest, trunk, well, vault, but he hath an
abstract for the remembrance of such places, and
goes to them by his note: there is no hiding you in the house.",795,19207
652577,2052,I'll go out then.,393,19207
652578,2053,"If you go out in your own semblance, you die, Sir
John. Unless you go out disguised--",797,19207
652579,2055,How might we disguise him?,795,19207
652580,2056,"Alas the day, I know not! There is no woman's gown
big enough for him otherwise he might put on a hat,
a muffler and a kerchief, and so escape.",797,19207
652581,2059,"Good hearts, devise something: any extremity rather
than a mischief.",393,19207
652582,2061,"My maid's aunt, the fat woman of Brentford, has a
gown above.",795,19207
652583,2063,"On my word, it will serve him; she's as big as he
is: and there's her thrummed hat and her muffler
too. Run up, Sir John.",797,19207
652584,2066,"Go, go, sweet Sir John: Mistress Page and I will
look some linen for your head.",795,19207
652585,2068,"Quick, quick! we'll come dress you straight: put
on the gown the while.",797,19207
652586,2070,[Exit FALSTAFF],1261,19207
652587,2071,"I would my husband would meet him in this shape: he
cannot abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears
she's a witch; forbade her my house and hath
threatened to beat her.",795,19207
652588,2075,"Heaven guide him to thy husband's cudgel, and the
devil guide his cudgel afterwards!",797,19207
652589,2077,But is my husband coming?,795,19207
652590,2078,"Ah, in good sadness, is he; and talks of the basket
too, howsoever he hath had intelligence.",797,19207
652591,2080,"We'll try that; for I'll appoint my men to carry the
basket again, to meet him at the door with it, as
they did last time.",795,19207
652592,2083,"Nay, but he'll be here presently: let's go dress him
like the witch of Brentford.",797,19207
652593,2085,"I'll first direct my men what they shall do with the
basket. Go up; I'll bring linen for him straight.",795,19207
652594,2087,[Exit],1261,19207
652595,2088,"Hang him, dishonest varlet! we cannot misuse him enough.
We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do,
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too:
We do not act that often jest and laugh;
'Tis old, but true, Still swine eat all the draff.",797,19207
652596,2093,[Exit],1261,19207
652597,2094,[Re-enter MISTRESS FORD with two Servants],1261,19207
652598,2095,"Go, sirs, take the basket again on your shoulders:
your master is hard at door; if he bid you set it
down, obey him: quickly, dispatch.",795,19207
652599,2098,[Exit],1261,19207
652600,2099,"Come, come, take it up.",460,19207
652601,2100,Pray heaven it be not full of knight again.,1029,19207
652602,2101,I hope not; I had as lief bear so much lead.,460,19207
652603,2102,"[Enter FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS]",1261,19207
652604,2103,"Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any
way then to unfool me again? Set down the basket,
villain! Somebody call my wife. Youth in a basket!
O you panderly rascals! there's a knot, a ging, a
pack, a conspiracy against me: now shall the devil
be shamed. What, wife, I say! Come, come forth!
Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!",484,19207
652605,2110,"Why, this passes, Master Ford; you are not to go
loose any longer; you must be pinioned.",851,19207
652606,2112,"Why, this is lunatics! this is mad as a mad dog!",1099,19207
652607,2113,"Indeed, Master Ford, this is not well, indeed.",1085,19207
652608,2114,"So say I too, sir.
[Re-enter MISTRESS FORD]
Come hither, Mistress Ford; Mistress Ford the honest
woman, the modest wife, the virtuous creature, that
hath the jealous fool to her husband! I suspect
without cause, mistress, do I?",484,19207
652609,2120,"Heaven be my witness you do, if you suspect me in
any dishonesty.",795,19207
652610,2122,"Well said, brazen-face! hold it out. Come forth, sirrah!",484,19207
652611,2123,[Pulling clothes out of the basket],1261,19207
652612,2124,This passes!,851,19207
652613,2125,Are you not ashamed? let the clothes alone.,795,19207
652614,2126,I shall find you anon.,484,19207
652615,2127,"'Tis unreasonable! Will you take up your wife's
clothes? Come away.",1099,19207
652616,2129,"Empty the basket, I say!",484,19207
652617,2130,"Why, man, why?",795,19207
652618,2131,"Master Page, as I am a man, there was one conveyed
out of my house yesterday in this basket: why may
not he be there again? In my house I am sure he is:
my intelligence is true; my jealousy is reasonable.
Pluck me out all the linen.",484,19207
652619,2136,"If you find a man there, he shall die a flea's death.",795,19207
652620,2137,Here's no man.,851,19207
652621,2138,"By my fidelity, this is not well, Master Ford; this
wrongs you.",1085,19207
652622,2140,"Master Ford, you must pray, and not follow the
imaginations of your own heart: this is jealousies.",1099,19207
652623,2142,"Well, he's not here I seek for.",484,19207
652624,2143,"No, nor nowhere else but in your brain.",851,19207
652625,2144,"Help to search my house this one time. If I find
not what I seek, show no colour for my extremity; let
me for ever be your table-sport; let them say of
me, 'As jealous as Ford, Chat searched a hollow
walnut for his wife's leman.' Satisfy me once more;
once more search with me.",484,19207
652626,2150,"What, ho, Mistress Page! come you and the old woman
down; my husband will come into the chamber.",795,19207
652627,2152,Old woman! what old woman's that?,484,19207
652628,2153,"Nay, it is my maid's aunt of Brentford.",795,19207
652629,2154,"A witch, a quean, an old cozening quean! Have I not
forbid her my house? She comes of errands, does
she? We are simple men; we do not know what's
brought to pass under the profession of
fortune-telling. She works by charms, by spells,
by the figure, and such daubery as this is, beyond
our element we know nothing. Come down, you witch,
you hag, you; come down, I say!",484,19207
652630,2162,"Nay, good, sweet husband! Good gentlemen, let him
not strike the old woman.",795,19207
652631,2164,"[Re-enter FALSTAFF in woman's clothes, and MISTRESS PAGE]",1261,19207
652632,2165,"Come, Mother Prat; come, give me your hand.",797,19207
652633,2166,"I'll prat her.
[Beating him]
Out of my door, you witch, you hag, you baggage, you
polecat, you runyon! out, out! I'll conjure you,
I'll fortune-tell you.",484,19207
652634,2171,[Exit FALSTAFF],1261,19207
652635,2172,"Are you not ashamed? I think you have killed the
poor woman.",797,19207
652636,2174,"Nay, he will do it. 'Tis a goodly credit for you.",795,19207
652637,2175,"Hang her, witch!",484,19207
652638,2176,"By the yea and no, I think the 'oman is a witch
indeed: I like not when a 'oman has a great peard;
I spy a great peard under his muffler.",1099,19207
652639,2179,"Will you follow, gentlemen? I beseech you, follow;
see but the issue of my jealousy: if I cry out thus
upon no trail, never trust me when I open again.",484,19207
652640,2182,"Let's obey his humour a little further: come,
gentlemen.",851,19207
652641,2184,"[Exeunt FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS]",1261,19207
652642,2185,"Trust me, he beat him most pitifully.",797,19207
652643,2186,"Nay, by the mass, that he did not; he beat him most
unpitifully, methought.",795,19207
652644,2188,"I'll have the cudgel hallowed and hung o'er the
altar; it hath done meritorious service.",797,19207
652645,2190,"What think you? may we, with the warrant of
womanhood and the witness of a good conscience,
pursue him with any further revenge?",795,19207
652646,2193,"The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scared out of
him: if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with
fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the
way of waste, attempt us again.",797,19207
652647,2197,Shall we tell our husbands how we have served him?,795,19207
652648,2198,"Yes, by all means; if it be but to scrape the
figures out of your husband's brains. If they can
find in their hearts the poor unvirtuous fat knight
shall be any further afflicted, we two will still be
the ministers.",797,19207
652649,2203,"I'll warrant they'll have him publicly shamed: and
methinks there would be no period to the jest,
should he not be publicly shamed.",795,19207
652650,2206,"Come, to the forge with it then; shape it: I would
not have things cool.",797,19207
652651,2208,[Exeunt],1261,19207
652652,2211,[Enter Host and BARDOLPH],1261,19208
652653,2212,"Sir, the Germans desire to have three of your
horses: the duke himself will be to-morrow at
court, and they are going to meet him.",145,19208
652654,2215,"What duke should that be comes so secretly? I hear
not of him in the court. Let me speak with the
gentlemen: they speak English?",515,19208
652655,2218,"Ay, sir; I'll call them to you.",145,19208
652656,2219,"They shall have my horses; but I'll make them pay;
I'll sauce them: they have had my house a week at
command; I have turned away my other guests: they
must come off; I'll sauce them. Come.",515,19208
652657,2223,"[Exeunt]
[Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD,]
and SIR HUGH EVANS]",1261,19208
652658,2228,"'Tis one of the best discretions of a 'oman as ever
I did look upon.",1099,19209
652659,2230,And did he send you both these letters at an instant?,851,19209
652660,2231,Within a quarter of an hour.,797,19209
652661,2232,"Pardon me, wife. Henceforth do what thou wilt;
I rather will suspect the sun with cold
Than thee with wantonness: now doth thy honour stand
In him that was of late an heretic,
As firm as faith.",484,19209
652662,2237,"'Tis well, 'tis well; no more:
Be not as extreme in submission
As in offence.
But let our plot go forward: let our wives
Yet once again, to make us public sport,
Appoint a meeting with this old fat fellow,
Where we may take him and disgrace him for it.",851,19209
652663,2244,There is no better way than that they spoke of.,484,19209
652664,2245,"How? to send him word they'll meet him in the park
at midnight? Fie, fie! he'll never come.",851,19209
652665,2247,"You say he has been thrown in the rivers and has
been grievously peaten as an old 'oman: methinks
there should be terrors in him that he should not
come; methinks his flesh is punished, he shall have
no desires.",1099,19209
652666,2252,So think I too.,851,19209
652667,2253,"Devise but how you'll use him when he comes,
And let us two devise to bring him thither.",795,19209
652668,2255,"There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter,
Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest,
Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight,
Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns;
And there he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
And makes milch-kine yield blood and shakes a chain
In a most hideous and dreadful manner:
You have heard of such a spirit, and well you know
The superstitious idle-headed eld
Received and did deliver to our age
This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth.",797,19209
652669,2266,"Why, yet there want not many that do fear
In deep of night to walk by this Herne's oak:
But what of this?",851,19209
652670,2269,"Marry, this is our device;
That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us.",795,19209
652671,2271,"Well, let it not be doubted but he'll come:
And in this shape when you have brought him thither,
What shall be done with him? what is your plot?",851,19209
652672,2274,"That likewise have we thought upon, and thus:
Nan Page my daughter and my little son
And three or four more of their growth we'll dress
Like urchins, ouphes and fairies, green and white,
With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads,
And rattles in their hands: upon a sudden,
As Falstaff, she and I, are newly met,
Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once
With some diffused song: upon their sight,
We two in great amazedness will fly:
Then let them all encircle him about
And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight,
And ask him why, that hour of fairy revel,
In their so sacred paths he dares to tread
In shape profane.",797,19209
652673,2289,"And till he tell the truth,
Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound
And burn him with their tapers.",795,19209
652674,2292,"The truth being known,
We'll all present ourselves, dis-horn the spirit,
And mock him home to Windsor.",797,19209
652675,2295,"The children must
Be practised well to this, or they'll ne'er do't.",484,19209
652676,2297,"I will teach the children their behaviors; and I
will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the
knight with my taber.",1099,19209
652677,2300,That will be excellent. I'll go and buy them vizards.,484,19209
652678,2301,"My Nan shall be the queen of all the fairies,
Finely attired in a robe of white.",797,19209
652679,2303,"That silk will I go buy.
[Aside]
And in that time
Shall Master Slender steal my Nan away
And marry her at Eton. Go send to Falstaff straight.",851,19209
652680,2308,"Nay I'll to him again in name of Brook
He'll tell me all his purpose: sure, he'll come.",484,19209
652681,2310,"Fear not you that. Go get us properties
And tricking for our fairies.",797,19209
652682,2312,"Let us about it: it is admirable pleasures and fery
honest knaveries.",1099,19209
652683,2314,"[Exeunt PAGE, FORD, and SIR HUGH EVANS]",1261,19209
652684,2315,"Go, Mistress Ford,
Send quickly to Sir John, to know his mind.
[Exit MISTRESS FORD]
I'll to the doctor: he hath my good will,
And none but he, to marry with Nan Page.
That Slender, though well landed, is an idiot;
And he my husband best of all affects.
The doctor is well money'd, and his friends
Potent at court: he, none but he, shall have her,
Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her.",797,19209
652685,2325,[Exit],1261,19209
652686,2328,[Enter Host and SIMPLE],1261,19210
652687,2329,"What wouldst thou have, boor? what: thick-skin?
speak, breathe, discuss; brief, short, quick, snap.",515,19210
652688,2331,"Marry, sir, I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff
from Master Slender.",1098,19210
652689,2333,"There's his chamber, his house, his castle, his
standing-bed and truckle-bed; 'tis painted about
with the story of the Prodigal, fresh and new. Go
knock and call; hell speak like an Anthropophaginian
unto thee: knock, I say.",515,19210
652690,2338,"There's an old woman, a fat woman, gone up into his
chamber: I'll be so bold as stay, sir, till she come
down; I come to speak with her, indeed.",1098,19210
652691,2341,"Ha! a fat woman! the knight may be robbed: I'll
call. Bully knight! bully Sir John! speak from
thy lungs military: art thou there? it is thine
host, thine Ephesian, calls.",515,19210
652692,2345,"[Above] How now, mine host!",393,19210
652693,2346,"Here's a Bohemian-Tartar tarries the coming down of
thy fat woman. Let her descend, bully, let her
descend; my chambers are honourable: fie! privacy?
fie!",515,19210
652694,2350,[Enter FALSTAFF],1261,19210
652695,2351,"There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now with
me; but she's gone.",393,19210
652696,2353,"Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of
Brentford?",1098,19210
652697,2355,"Ay, marry, was it, mussel-shell: what would you with her?",393,19210
652698,2356,"My master, sir, Master Slender, sent to her, seeing
her go through the streets, to know, sir, whether
one Nym, sir, that beguiled him of a chain, had the
chain or no.",1098,19210
652699,2360,I spake with the old woman about it.,393,19210
652700,2361,"And what says she, I pray, sir?",1098,19210
652701,2362,"Marry, she says that the very same man that
beguiled Master Slender of his chain cozened him of
it.",393,19210
652702,2365,"I would I could have spoken with the woman herself;
I had other things to have spoken with her too from
him.",1098,19210
652703,2368,What are they? let us know.,393,19210
652704,2369,"Ay, come; quick.",515,19210
652705,2370,"I may not conceal them, sir.",1098,19210
652706,2371,"Conceal them, or thou diest.",515,19210
652707,2372,"Why, sir, they were nothing but about Mistress Anne
Page; to know if it were my master's fortune to
have her or no.",1098,19210
652708,2375,"'Tis, 'tis his fortune.",393,19210
652709,2376,"What, sir?",1098,19210
652710,2377,"To have her, or no. Go; say the woman told me so.",393,19210
652711,2378,"May I be bold to say so, sir?",1098,19210
652712,2379,"Ay, sir; like who more bold.",393,19210
652713,2380,"I thank your worship: I shall make my master glad
with these tidings.",1098,19210
652714,2382,[Exit],1261,19210
652715,2383,"Thou art clerkly, thou art clerkly, Sir John. Was
there a wise woman with thee?",515,19210
652716,2385,"Ay, that there was, mine host; one that hath taught
me more wit than ever I learned before in my life;
and I paid nothing for it neither, but was paid for
my learning.",393,19210
652717,2389,[Enter BARDOLPH],1261,19210
652718,2390,"Out, alas, sir! cozenage, mere cozenage!",145,19210
652719,2391,"Where be my horses? speak well of them, varletto.",515,19210
652720,2392,"Run away with the cozeners; for so soon as I came
beyond Eton, they threw me off from behind one of
them, in a slough of mire; and set spurs and away,
like three German devils, three Doctor Faustuses.",145,19210
652721,2396,"They are gone but to meet the duke, villain: do not
say they be fled; Germans are honest men.",515,19210
652722,2398,[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS],1261,19210
652723,2399,Where is mine host?,1099,19210
652724,2400,"What is the matter, sir?",515,19210
652725,2401,"Have a care of your entertainments: there is a
friend of mine come to town tells me there is three
cozen-germans that has cozened all the hosts of
Readins, of Maidenhead, of Colebrook, of horses and
money. I tell you for good will, look you: you
are wise and full of gibes and vlouting-stocks, and
'tis not convenient you should be cozened. Fare you well.",1099,19210
652726,2408,[Exit],1261,19210
652727,2409,[Enter DOCTOR CAIUS],1261,19210
652728,2410,Vere is mine host de Jarteer?,320,19210
652729,2411,"Here, master doctor, in perplexity and doubtful dilemma.",515,19210
652730,2412,"I cannot tell vat is dat: but it is tell-a me dat
you make grand preparation for a duke de Jamany: by
my trot, dere is no duke dat the court is know to
come. I tell you for good vill: adieu.",320,19210
652731,2416,[Exit],1261,19210
652732,2417,"Hue and cry, villain, go! Assist me, knight. I am
undone! Fly, run, hue and cry, villain! I am undone!",515,19210
652733,2419,[Exeunt Host and BARDOLPH],1261,19210
652734,2420,"I would all the world might be cozened; for I have
been cozened and beaten too. If it should come to
the ear of the court, how I have been transformed
and how my transformation hath been washed and
cudgelled, they would melt me out of my fat drop by
drop and liquor fishermen's boots with me; I warrant
they would whip me with their fine wits till I were
as crest-fallen as a dried pear. I never prospered
since I forswore myself at primero. Well, if my
wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.
[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY]
Now, whence come you?",393,19210
652735,2432,"From the two parties, forsooth.",936,19210
652736,2433,"The devil take one party and his dam the other! and
so they shall be both bestowed. I have suffered more
for their sakes, more than the villanous inconstancy
of man's disposition is able to bear.",393,19210
652737,2437,"And have not they suffered? Yes, I warrant;
speciously one of them; Mistress Ford, good heart,
is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see a
white spot about her.",936,19210
652738,2441,"What tellest thou me of black and blue? I was
beaten myself into all the colours of the rainbow;
and I was like to be apprehended for the witch of
Brentford: but that my admirable dexterity of wit,
my counterfeiting the action of an old woman,
delivered me, the knave constable had set me i' the
stocks, i' the common stocks, for a witch.",393,19210
652739,2448,"Sir, let me speak with you in your chamber: you
shall hear how things go; and, I warrant, to your
content. Here is a letter will say somewhat. Good
hearts, what ado here is to bring you together!
Sure, one of you does not serve heaven well, that
you are so crossed.",936,19210
652740,2454,Come up into my chamber.,393,19210
652741,2455,[Exeunt],1261,19210
652742,2458,[Enter FENTON and Host],1261,19211
652743,2459,"Master Fenton, talk not to me; my mind is heavy: I
will give over all.",515,19211
652744,2461,"Yet hear me speak. Assist me in my purpose,
And, as I am a gentleman, I'll give thee
A hundred pound in gold more than your loss.",398,19211
652745,2464,"I will hear you, Master Fenton; and I will at the
least keep your counsel.",515,19211
652746,2466,"From time to time I have acquainted you
With the dear love I bear to fair Anne Page;
Who mutually hath answer'd my affection,
So far forth as herself might be her chooser,
Even to my wish: I have a letter from her
Of such contents as you will wonder at;
The mirth whereof so larded with my matter,
That neither singly can be manifested,
Without the show of both; fat Falstaff
Hath a great scene: the image of the jest
I'll show you here at large. Hark, good mine host.
To-night at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one,
Must my sweet Nan present the Fairy Queen;
The purpose why, is here: in which disguise,
While other jests are something rank on foot,
Her father hath commanded her to slip
Away with Slender and with him at Eton
Immediately to marry: she hath consented: Now, sir,
Her mother, ever strong against that match
And firm for Doctor Caius, hath appointed
That he shall likewise shuffle her away,
While other sports are tasking of their minds,
And at the deanery, where a priest attends,
Straight marry her: to this her mother's plot
She seemingly obedient likewise hath
Made promise to the doctor. Now, thus it rests:
Her father means she shall be all in white,
And in that habit, when Slender sees his time
To take her by the hand and bid her go,
She shall go with him: her mother hath intended,
The better to denote her to the doctor,
For they must all be mask'd and vizarded,
That quaint in green she shall be loose enrobed,
With ribands pendent, flaring 'bout her head;
And when the doctor spies his vantage ripe,
To pinch her by the hand, and, on that token,
The maid hath given consent to go with him.",398,19211
652747,2503,"Which means she to deceive, father or mother?",515,19211
652748,2504,"Both, my good host, to go along with me:
And here it rests, that you'll procure the vicar
To stay for me at church 'twixt twelve and one,
And, in the lawful name of marrying,
To give our hearts united ceremony.",398,19211
652749,2509,"Well, husband your device; I'll to the vicar:
Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a priest.",515,19211
652750,2511,"So shall I evermore be bound to thee;
Besides, I'll make a present recompense.",398,19211
652751,2513,[Exeunt],1261,19211
652752,2516,[Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY],1261,19212
652753,2517,"Prithee, no more prattling; go. I'll hold. This is
the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd
numbers. Away I go. They say there is divinity in
odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Away!",393,19212
652754,2521,"I'll provide you a chain; and I'll do what I can to
get you a pair of horns.",936,19212
652755,2523,"Away, I say; time wears: hold up your head, and mince.
[Exit MISTRESS QUICKLY]
[Enter FORD]
How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter
will be known to-night, or never. Be you in the
Park about midnight, at Herne's oak, and you shall
see wonders.",393,19212
652756,2530,"Went you not to her yesterday, sir, as you told me
you had appointed?",484,19212
652757,2532,"I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor
old man: but I came from her, Master Brook, like a
poor old woman. That same knave Ford, her husband,
hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him,
Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell
you: he beat me grievously, in the shape of a
woman; for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear
not Goliath with a weaver's beam; because I know
also life is a shuttle. I am in haste; go along
with me: I'll tell you all, Master Brook. Since I
plucked geese, played truant and whipped top, I knew
not what 'twas to be beaten till lately. Follow
me: I'll tell you strange things of this knave
Ford, on whom to-night I will be revenged, and I
will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow.
Strange things in hand, Master Brook! Follow.",393,19212
652758,2548,[Exeunt],1261,19212
652759,2551,"[Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]",1261,19213
652760,2552,"Come, come; we'll couch i' the castle-ditch till we
see the light of our fairies. Remember, son Slender,
my daughter.",851,19213
652761,2555,"Ay, forsooth; I have spoke with her and we have a
nay-word how to know one another: I come to her in
white, and cry 'mum;' she cries 'budget;' and by
that we know one another.",1123,19213
652762,2559,"That's good too: but what needs either your 'mum'
or her 'budget?' the white will decipher her well
enough. It hath struck ten o'clock.",1085,19213
652763,2562,"The night is dark; light and spirits will become it
well. Heaven prosper our sport! No man means evil
but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.
Let's away; follow me.",851,19213
652764,2566,[Exeunt],1261,19213
652765,2569,"[Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS]",1261,19214
652766,2570,"Master doctor, my daughter is in green: when you
see your time, take her by the band, away with her
to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. Go before
into the Park: we two must go together.",797,19214
652767,2574,I know vat I have to do. Adieu.,320,19214
652768,2575,"Fare you well, sir.
[Exit DOCTOR CAIUS]
My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of
Falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor's marrying
my daughter: but 'tis no matter; better a little
chiding than a great deal of heart-break.",797,19214
652769,2581,"Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies, and the
Welsh devil Hugh?",795,19214
652770,2583,"They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak,
with obscured lights; which, at the very instant of
Falstaff's and our meeting, they will at once
display to the night.",797,19214
652771,2587,That cannot choose but amaze him.,795,19214
652772,2588,"If he be not amazed, he will be mocked; if he be
amazed, he will every way be mocked.",797,19214
652773,2590,We'll betray him finely.,795,19214
652774,2591,"Against such lewdsters and their lechery
Those that betray them do no treachery.",797,19214
652775,2593,"The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!",795,19214
652776,2594,[Exeunt],1261,19214
652777,2597,"[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised, with others as Fairies]",1261,19215
652778,2598,"Trib, trib, fairies; come; and remember your parts:
be pold, I pray you; follow me into the pit; and
when I give the watch-'ords, do as I pid you:
come, come; trib, trib.",1099,19215
652779,2602,[Exeunt],1261,19215
652780,2605,[Enter FALSTAFF disguised as Herne],1261,19216
652781,2606,"The Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the minute
draws on. Now, the hot-blooded gods assist me!
Remember, Jove, thou wast a bull for thy Europa; love
set on thy horns. O powerful love! that, in some
respects, makes a beast a man, in some other, a man
a beast. You were also, Jupiter, a swan for the love
of Leda. O omnipotent Love! how near the god drew
to the complexion of a goose! A fault done first in
the form of a beast. O Jove, a beastly fault! And
then another fault in the semblance of a fowl; think
on 't, Jove; a foul fault! When gods have hot
backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a
Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, i' the
forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can
blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my
doe?",393,19216
652782,2622,[Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE],1261,19216
652783,2623,"Sir John! art thou there, my deer? my male deer?",795,19216
652784,2624,"My doe with the black scut! Let the sky rain
potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of Green
Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let
there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.",393,19216
652785,2628,"Mistress Page is come with me, sweetheart.",795,19216
652786,2629,"Divide me like a bribe buck, each a haunch: I will
keep my sides to myself, my shoulders for the fellow
of this walk, and my horns I bequeath your husbands.
Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like Herne the hunter?
Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes
restitution. As I am a true spirit, welcome!",393,19216
652787,2635,[Noise within],1261,19216
652788,2636,"Alas, what noise?",797,19216
652789,2637,Heaven forgive our sins,795,19216
652790,2638,What should this be?,393,19216
652791,2639,"[with Mistress Page] Away, away!",795,19216
652792,2640,[They run off],1261,19216
652793,2641,"I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the
oil that's in me should set hell on fire; he would
never else cross me thus.
[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised as before; PISTOL,]
as Hobgoblin; MISTRESS QUICKLY, ANNE PAGE, and
others, as Fairies, with tapers]",393,19216
652794,2647,"Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
You moonshine revellers and shades of night,
You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
Attend your office and your quality.
Crier Hobgoblin, make the fairy oyes.",936,19216
652795,2652,"Elves, list your names; silence, you airy toys.
Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap:
Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept,
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry:
Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery.",891,19216
652796,2657,"They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die:
I'll wink and couch: no man their works must eye.",393,19216
652797,2659,[Lies down upon his face],1261,19216
652798,2660,"Where's Bede? Go you, and where you find a maid
That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers said,
Raise up the organs of her fantasy;
Sleep she as sound as careless infancy:
But those as sleep and think not on their sins,
Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides and shins.",1099,19216
652799,2666,"About, about;
Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out:
Strew good luck, ouphes, on every sacred room:. That it may stand till the perpetual doom,
In state as wholesome as in state 'tis fit,
Worthy the owner, and the owner it.
The several chairs of order look you scour
With juice of balm and every precious flower:
Each fair instalment, coat, and several crest,
With loyal blazon, evermore be blest!
And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing,
Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring:
The expressure that it bears, green let it be,
More fertile-fresh than all the field to see;
And 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' write
In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white;
Let sapphire, pearl and rich embroidery,
Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee:
Fairies use flowers for their charactery.
Away; disperse: but till 'tis one o'clock,
Our dance of custom round about the oak
Of Herne the hunter, let us not forget.",936,19216
652800,2687,"Pray you, lock hand in hand; yourselves in order set
And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be,
To guide our measure round about the tree.
But, stay; I smell a man of middle-earth.",1099,19216
652801,2691,"Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, lest he
transform me to a piece of cheese!",393,19216
652802,2693,"Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.",891,19216
652803,2694,"With trial-fire touch me his finger-end:
If he be chaste, the flame will back descend
And turn him to no pain; but if he start,
It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.",936,19216
652804,2698,"A trial, come.",891,19216
652805,2699,"Come, will this wood take fire?",1099,19216
652806,2700,[They burn him with their tapers],1261,19216
652807,2701,"Oh, Oh, Oh!",393,19216
652808,2702,"Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire!
About him, fairies; sing a scornful rhyme;
And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time.
SONG.
Fie on sinful fantasy!
Fie on lust and luxury!
Lust is but a bloody fire,
Kindled with unchaste desire,
Fed in heart, whose flames aspire
As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher.
Pinch him, fairies, mutually;
Pinch him for his villany;
Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about,
Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out.
[During this song they pinch FALSTAFF. DOCTOR CAIUS]
comes one way, and steals away a boy in green;
SLENDER another way, and takes off a boy in white;
and FENTON comes and steals away ANN PAGE.
A noise of hunting is heard within. All the
Fairies run away. FALSTAFF pulls off his buck's
head, and rises]",936,19216
652809,2723,"[Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, and MISTRESS FORD]",1261,19216
652810,2724,"Nay, do not fly; I think we have watch'd you now
Will none but Herne the hunter serve your turn?",851,19216
652811,2726,"I pray you, come, hold up the jest no higher
Now, good Sir John, how like you Windsor wives?
See you these, husband? do not these fair yokes
Become the forest better than the town?",797,19216
652812,2730,"Now, sir, who's a cuckold now? Master Brook,
Falstaff's a knave, a cuckoldly knave; here are his
horns, Master Brook: and, Master Brook, he hath
enjoyed nothing of Ford's but his buck-basket, his
cudgel, and twenty pounds of money, which must be
paid to Master Brook; his horses are arrested for
it, Master Brook.",484,19216
652813,2737,"Sir John, we have had ill luck; we could never meet.
I will never take you for my love again; but I will
always count you my deer.",795,19216
652814,2740,I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass.,393,19216
652815,2741,"Ay, and an ox too: both the proofs are extant.",484,19216
652816,2742,"And these are not fairies? I was three or four
times in the thought they were not fairies: and yet
the guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my
powers, drove the grossness of the foppery into a
received belief, in despite of the teeth of all
rhyme and reason, that they were fairies. See now
how wit may be made a Jack-a-Lent, when 'tis upon
ill employment!",393,19216
652817,2750,"Sir John Falstaff, serve Got, and leave your
desires, and fairies will not pinse you.",1099,19216
652818,2752,"Well said, fairy Hugh.",484,19216
652819,2753,"And leave your jealousies too, I pray you.",1099,19216
652820,2754,"I will never mistrust my wife again till thou art
able to woo her in good English.",484,19216
652821,2756,"Have I laid my brain in the sun and dried it, that
it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as
this? Am I ridden with a Welsh goat too? shall I
have a coxcomb of frize? 'Tis time I were choked
with a piece of toasted cheese.",393,19216
652822,2761,Seese is not good to give putter; your belly is all putter.,1099,19216
652823,2762,"'Seese' and 'putter'! have I lived to stand at the
taunt of one that makes fritters of English? This
is enough to be the decay of lust and late-walking
through the realm.",393,19216
652824,2766,"Why Sir John, do you think, though we would have the
virtue out of our hearts by the head and shoulders
and have given ourselves without scruple to hell,
that ever the devil could have made you our delight?",797,19216
652825,2770,"What, a hodge-pudding? a bag of flax?",484,19216
652826,2771,A puffed man?,797,19216
652827,2772,"Old, cold, withered and of intolerable entrails?",851,19216
652828,2773,And one that is as slanderous as Satan?,484,19216
652829,2774,And as poor as Job?,851,19216
652830,2775,And as wicked as his wife?,484,19216
652831,2776,"And given to fornications, and to taverns and sack
and wine and metheglins, and to drinkings and
swearings and starings, pribbles and prabbles?",1099,19216
652832,2779,"Well, I am your theme: you have the start of me; I
am dejected; I am not able to answer the Welsh
flannel; ignorance itself is a plummet o'er me: use
me as you will.",393,19216
652833,2783,"Marry, sir, we'll bring you to Windsor, to one
Master Brook, that you have cozened of money, to
whom you should have been a pander: over and above
that you have suffered, I think to repay that money
will be a biting affliction.",484,19216
652834,2788,"Yet be cheerful, knight: thou shalt eat a posset
to-night at my house; where I will desire thee to
laugh at my wife, that now laughs at thee: tell her
Master Slender hath married her daughter.",851,19216
652835,2792,"[Aside] Doctors doubt that: if Anne Page be my
daughter, she is, by this, Doctor Caius' wife.",797,19216
652836,2794,[Enter SLENDER],1261,19216
652837,2795,"Whoa ho! ho, father Page!",1123,19216
652838,2796,"Son, how now! how now, son! have you dispatched?",851,19216
652839,2797,"Dispatched! I'll make the best in Gloucestershire
know on't; would I were hanged, la, else.",1123,19216
652840,2799,"Of what, son?",851,19216
652841,2800,"I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page,
and she's a great lubberly boy. If it had not been
i' the church, I would have swinged him, or he
should have swinged me. If I did not think it had
been Anne Page, would I might never stir!--and 'tis
a postmaster's boy.",1123,19216
652842,2806,"Upon my life, then, you took the wrong.",851,19216
652843,2807,"What need you tell me that? I think so, when I took
a boy for a girl. If I had been married to him, for
all he was in woman's apparel, I would not have had
him.",1123,19216
652844,2811,"Why, this is your own folly. Did not I tell you how
you should know my daughter by her garments?",851,19216
652845,2813,"I went to her in white, and cried 'mum,' and she
cried 'budget,' as Anne and I had appointed; and yet
it was not Anne, but a postmaster's boy.",1123,19216
652846,2816,"Good George, be not angry: I knew of your purpose;
turned my daughter into green; and, indeed, she is
now with the doctor at the deanery, and there married.",797,19216
652847,2819,[Enter DOCTOR CAIUS],1261,19216
652848,2820,"Vere is Mistress Page? By gar, I am cozened: I ha'
married un garcon, a boy; un paysan, by gar, a boy;
it is not Anne Page: by gar, I am cozened.",320,19216
652849,2823,"Why, did you take her in green?",797,19216
652850,2824,"Ay, by gar, and 'tis a boy: by gar, I'll raise all Windsor.",320,19216
652851,2825,[Exit],1261,19216
652852,2826,This is strange. Who hath got the right Anne?,484,19216
652853,2827,"My heart misgives me: here comes Master Fenton.
[Enter FENTON and ANNE PAGE]
How now, Master Fenton!",851,19216
652854,2830,"Pardon, good father! good my mother, pardon!",107,19216
652855,2831,"Now, mistress, how chance you went not with Master Slender?",851,19216
652856,2832,"Why went you not with master doctor, maid?",797,19216
652857,2833,"You do amaze her: hear the truth of it.
You would have married her most shamefully,
Where there was no proportion held in love.
The truth is, she and I, long since contracted,
Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us.
The offence is holy that she hath committed;
And this deceit loses the name of craft,
Of disobedience, or unduteous title,
Since therein she doth evitate and shun
A thousand irreligious cursed hours,
Which forced marriage would have brought upon her.",398,19216
652858,2844,"Stand not amazed; here is no remedy:
In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.",484,19216
652859,2847,"I am glad, though you have ta'en a special stand to
strike at me, that your arrow hath glanced.",393,19216
652860,2849,"Well, what remedy? Fenton, heaven give thee joy!
What cannot be eschew'd must be embraced.",851,19216
652861,2851,"When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased.",393,19216
652862,2852,"Well, I will muse no further. Master Fenton,
Heaven give you many, many merry days!
Good husband, let us every one go home,
And laugh this sport o'er by a country fire;
Sir John and all.",797,19216
652863,2857,"Let it be so. Sir John,
To Master Brook you yet shall hold your word
For he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford.",484,19216
652864,2860,[Exeunt],1261,19216
652865,3,"[Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants]",1261,19217
652866,4,"Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame or a dowager
Long withering out a young man revenue.",1161,19217
652867,10,"Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities.",586,19217
652868,15,"Go, Philostrate,
Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments;
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;
Turn melancholy forth to funerals;
The pale companion is not for our pomp.
[Exit PHILOSTRATE]
Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword,
And won thy love, doing thee injuries;
But I will wed thee in another key,
With pomp, with triumph and with revelling.",1161,19217
652869,25,"[Enter EGEUS, HERMIA, LYSANDER, and DEMETRIUS]",1261,19217
652870,26,"Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke!",373,19217
652871,27,"Thanks, good Egeus: what's the news with thee?",1161,19217
652872,28,"Full of vexation come I, with complaint
Against my child, my daughter Hermia.
Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord,
This man hath my consent to marry her.
Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke,
This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child;
Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,
And interchanged love-tokens with my child:
Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung,
With feigning voice verses of feigning love,
And stolen the impression of her fantasy
With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits,
Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, messengers
Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth:
With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart,
Turn'd her obedience, which is due to me,
To stubborn harshness: and, my gracious duke,
Be it so she; will not here before your grace
Consent to marry with Demetrius,
I beg the ancient privilege of Athens,
As she is mine, I may dispose of her:
Which shall be either to this gentleman
Or to her death, according to our law
Immediately provided in that case.",373,19217
652873,52,"What say you, Hermia? be advised fair maid:
To you your father should be as a god;
One that composed your beauties, yea, and one
To whom you are but as a form in wax
By him imprinted and within his power
To leave the figure or disfigure it.
Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.",1161,19217
652874,59,So is Lysander.,583,19217
652875,60,"In himself he is;
But in this kind, wanting your father's voice,
The other must be held the worthier.",1161,19217
652876,63,I would my father look'd but with my eyes.,583,19217
652877,64,Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.,1161,19217
652878,65,"I do entreat your grace to pardon me.
I know not by what power I am made bold,
Nor how it may concern my modesty,
In such a presence here to plead my thoughts;
But I beseech your grace that I may know
The worst that may befall me in this case,
If I refuse to wed Demetrius.",583,19217
652879,72,"Either to die the death or to abjure
For ever the society of men.
Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;
Know of your youth, examine well your blood,
Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice,
You can endure the livery of a nun,
For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd,
To live a barren sister all your life,
Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood,
To undergo such maiden pilgrimage;
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.",1161,19217
652880,86,"So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,
Ere I will my virgin patent up
Unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke
My soul consents not to give sovereignty.",583,19217
652881,90,"Take time to pause; and, by the nest new moon--
The sealing-day betwixt my love and me,
For everlasting bond of fellowship--
Upon that day either prepare to die
For disobedience to your father's will,
Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would;
Or on Diana's altar to protest
For aye austerity and single life.",1161,19217
652882,98,"Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield
Thy crazed title to my certain right.",307,19217
652883,100,"You have her father's love, Demetrius;
Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.",722,19217
652884,102,"Scornful Lysander! true, he hath my love,
And what is mine my love shall render him.
And she is mine, and all my right of her
I do estate unto Demetrius.",373,19217
652885,106,"I am, my lord, as well derived as he,
As well possess'd; my love is more than his;
My fortunes every way as fairly rank'd,
If not with vantage, as Demetrius';
And, which is more than all these boasts can be,
I am beloved of beauteous Hermia:
Why should not I then prosecute my right?
Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head,
Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,
And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes,
Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,
Upon this spotted and inconstant man.",722,19217
652886,118,"I must confess that I have heard so much,
And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof;
But, being over-full of self-affairs,
My mind did lose it. But, Demetrius, come;
And come, Egeus; you shall go with me,
I have some private schooling for you both.
For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself
To fit your fancies to your father's will;
Or else the law of Athens yields you up--
Which by no means we may extenuate--
To death, or to a vow of single life.
Come, my Hippolyta: what cheer, my love?
Demetrius and Egeus, go along:
I must employ you in some business
Against our nuptial and confer with you
Of something nearly that concerns yourselves.",1161,19217
652887,134,With duty and desire we follow you.,373,19217
652888,135,[Exeunt all but LYSANDER and HERMIA],1261,19217
652889,136,"How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?
How chance the roses there do fade so fast?",722,19217
652890,138,"Belike for want of rain, which I could well
Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.",583,19217
652891,140,"Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth;
But, either it was different in blood,--",722,19217
652892,144,O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low.,583,19217
652893,145,"Or else misgraffed in respect of years,--",722,19217
652894,146,O spite! too old to be engaged to young.,583,19217
652895,147,"Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,--",722,19217
652896,148,O hell! to choose love by another's eyes.,583,19217
652897,149,"Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.",722,19217
652898,158,"If then true lovers have been ever cross'd,
It stands as an edict in destiny:
Then let us teach our trial patience,
Because it is a customary cross,
As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,
Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers.",583,19217
652899,164,"A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia.
I have a widow aunt, a dowager
Of great revenue, and she hath no child:
From Athens is her house remote seven leagues;
And she respects me as her only son.
There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee;
And to that place the sharp Athenian law
Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then,
Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night;
And in the wood, a league without the town,
Where I did meet thee once with Helena,
To do observance to a morn of May,
There will I stay for thee.",722,19217
652900,177,"My good Lysander!
I swear to thee, by Cupid's strongest bow,
By his best arrow with the golden head,
By the simplicity of Venus' doves,
By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,
And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen,
When the false Troyan under sail was seen,
By all the vows that ever men have broke,
In number more than ever women spoke,
In that same place thou hast appointed me,
To-morrow truly will I meet with thee.",583,19217
652901,188,"Keep promise, love. Look, here comes Helena.",722,19217
652902,189,[Enter HELENA],1261,19217
652903,190,God speed fair Helena! whither away?,583,19217
652904,191,"Call you me fair? that fair again unsay.
Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!
Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet air
More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,
Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;
My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.
Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,
The rest I'd give to be to you translated.
O, teach me how you look, and with what art
You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.",568,19217
652905,204,"I frown upon him, yet he loves me still.",583,19217
652906,205,O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!,568,19217
652907,206,"I give him curses, yet he gives me love.",583,19217
652908,207,O that my prayers could such affection move!,568,19217
652909,208,"The more I hate, the more he follows me.",583,19217
652910,209,"The more I love, the more he hateth me.",568,19217
652911,210,"His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine.",583,19217
652912,211,"None, but your beauty: would that fault were mine!",568,19217
652913,212,"Take comfort: he no more shall see my face;
Lysander and myself will fly this place.
Before the time I did Lysander see,
Seem'd Athens as a paradise to me:
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!",583,19217
652914,218,"Helen, to you our minds we will unfold:
To-morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold
Her silver visage in the watery glass,
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass,
A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal,
Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal.",722,19217
652915,224,"And in the wood, where often you and I
Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie,
Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,
There my Lysander and myself shall meet;
And thence from Athens turn away our eyes,
To seek new friends and stranger companies.
Farewell, sweet playfellow: pray thou for us;
And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius!
Keep word, Lysander: we must starve our sight
From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight.",583,19217
652916,234,"I will, my Hermia.
[Exit HERMIA]
Helena, adieu:
As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!",722,19217
652917,238,[Exit],1261,19217
652918,239,"How happy some o'er other some can be!
Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.
But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so;
He will not know what all but he do know:
And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,
So I, admiring of his qualities:
Things base and vile, folding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity:
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:
And therefore is Love said to be a child,
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
So the boy Love is perjured every where:
For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne,
He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.
I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:
Then to the wood will he to-morrow night
Pursue her; and for this intelligence
If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:
But herein mean I to enrich my pain,
To have his sight thither and back again.",568,19217
652919,265,[Exit],1261,19217
652920,268,"[Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING]",1261,19218
652921,269,Is all our company here?,937,19218
652922,270,"You were best to call them generally, man by man,
according to the scrip.",189,19218
652923,272,"Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is
thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our
interlude before the duke and the duchess, on his
wedding-day at night.",937,19218
652924,276,"First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats
on, then read the names of the actors, and so grow
to a point.",189,19218
652925,279,"Marry, our play is, The most lamentable comedy, and
most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.",937,19218
652926,281,"A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a
merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your
actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves.",189,19218
652927,284,"Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver.",937,19218
652928,285,"Ready. Name what part I am for, and proceed.",189,19218
652929,286,"You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.",937,19218
652930,287,"What is Pyramus? a lover, or a tyrant?",189,19218
652931,288,"A lover, that kills himself most gallant for love.",937,19218
652932,289,"That will ask some tears in the true performing of
it: if I do it, let the audience look to their
eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some
measure. To the rest: yet my chief humour is for a
tyrant: I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to
tear a cat in, to make all split.
The raging rocks
And shivering shocks
Shall break the locks
Of prison gates;
And Phibbus' car
Shall shine from far
And make and mar
The foolish Fates.
This was lofty! Now name the rest of the players.
This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein; a lover is
more condoling.",189,19218
652933,306,"Francis Flute, the bellows-mender.",937,19218
652934,307,"Here, Peter Quince.",481,19218
652935,308,"Flute, you must take Thisby on you.",937,19218
652936,309,What is Thisby? a wandering knight?,481,19218
652937,310,It is the lady that Pyramus must love.,937,19218
652938,311,"Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.",481,19218
652939,312,"That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and
you may speak as small as you will.",937,19218
652940,314,"An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too, I'll
speak in a monstrous little voice. 'Thisne,
Thisne;' 'Ah, Pyramus, lover dear! thy Thisby dear,
and lady dear!'",189,19218
652941,318,"No, no; you must play Pyramus: and, Flute, you Thisby.",937,19218
652942,319,"Well, proceed.",189,19218
652943,320,"Robin Starveling, the tailor.",937,19218
652944,321,"Here, Peter Quince.",1146,19218
652945,322,"Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby's mother.
Tom Snout, the tinker.",937,19218
652946,324,"Here, Peter Quince.",1127,19218
652947,325,"You, Pyramus' father: myself, Thisby's father:
Snug, the joiner; you, the lion's part: and, I
hope, here is a play fitted.",937,19218
652948,328,"Have you the lion's part written? pray you, if it
be, give it me, for I am slow of study.",1128,19218
652949,330,"You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.",937,19218
652950,331,"Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will
do any man's heart good to hear me; I will roar,
that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again,
let him roar again.'",189,19218
652951,335,"An you should do it too terribly, you would fright
the duchess and the ladies, that they would shriek;
and that were enough to hang us all.",937,19218
652952,338,"That would hang us, every mother's son.",87,19218
652953,339,"I grant you, friends, if that you should fright the
ladies out of their wits, they would have no more
discretion but to hang us: but I will aggravate my
voice so that I will roar you as gently as any
sucking dove; I will roar you an 'twere any
nightingale.",189,19218
652954,345,"You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a
sweet-faced man; a proper man, as one shall see in a
summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man:
therefore you must needs play Pyramus.",937,19218
652955,349,"Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best
to play it in?",189,19218
652956,351,"Why, what you will.",937,19218
652957,352,"I will discharge it in either your straw-colour
beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain
beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your
perfect yellow.",189,19218
652958,356,"Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and
then you will play bare-faced. But, masters, here
are your parts: and I am to entreat you, request
you and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night;
and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the
town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse, for if
we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with
company, and our devices known. In the meantime I
will draw a bill of properties, such as our play
wants. I pray you, fail me not.",937,19218
652959,366,"We will meet; and there we may rehearse most
obscenely and courageously. Take pains; be perfect: adieu.",189,19218
652960,368,At the duke's oak we meet.,937,19218
652961,369,Enough; hold or cut bow-strings.,189,19218
652962,370,[Exeunt],1261,19218
652963,373,"[Enter, from opposite sides, a Fairy, and PUCK]",1261,19219
652964,374,"How now, spirit! whither wander you?",929,19219
652965,375,"Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire,
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the fairy queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.
The cowslips tall her pensioners be:
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours,
In those freckles live their savours:
I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone:
Our queen and all our elves come here anon.",392,19219
652966,391,"The king doth keep his revels here to-night:
Take heed the queen come not within his sight;
For Oberon is passing fell and wrath,
Because that she as her attendant hath
A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king;
She never had so sweet a changeling;
And jealous Oberon would have the child
Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild;
But she perforce withholds the loved boy,
Crowns him with flowers and makes him all her joy:
And now they never meet in grove or green,
By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen,
But, they do square, that all their elves for fear
Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there.",929,19219
652967,405,"Either I mistake your shape and making quite,
Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite
Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he
That frights the maidens of the villagery;
Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern
And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;
And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;
Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?
Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck:
Are not you he?",392,19219
652968,416,"Thou speak'st aright;
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon and make him smile
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:
And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,
In very likeness of a roasted crab,
And when she drinks, against her lips I bob
And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.
The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,
Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;
Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,
And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough;
And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,
And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear
A merrier hour was never wasted there.
But, room, fairy! here comes Oberon.",929,19219
652969,433,And here my mistress. Would that he were gone!,392,19219
652970,434,"[Enter, from one side, OBERON, with his train; from the other, TITANIA, with hers]",1261,19219
652971,435,"Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.",822,19219
652972,436,"What, jealous Oberon! Fairies, skip hence:
I have forsworn his bed and company.",1200,19219
652973,438,"Tarry, rash wanton: am not I thy lord?",822,19219
652974,439,"Then I must be thy lady: but I know
When thou hast stolen away from fairy land,
And in the shape of Corin sat all day,
Playing on pipes of corn and versing love
To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here,
Come from the farthest Steppe of India?
But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,
Your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love,
To Theseus must be wedded, and you come
To give their bed joy and prosperity.",1200,19219
652975,449,"How canst thou thus for shame, Titania,
Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,
Knowing I know thy love to Theseus?
Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night
From Perigenia, whom he ravished?
And make him with fair AEgle break his faith,
With Ariadne and Antiopa?",822,19219
652976,456,"These are the forgeries of jealousy:
And never, since the middle summer's spring,
Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead,
By paved fountain or by rushy brook,
Or in the beached margent of the sea,
To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,
But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,
As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea
Contagious fogs; which falling in the land
Have every pelting river made so proud
That they have overborne their continents:
The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain,
The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn
Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard;
The fold stands empty in the drowned field,
And crows are fatted with the murrion flock;
The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud,
And the quaint mazes in the wanton green
For lack of tread are undistinguishable:
The human mortals want their winter here;
No night is now with hymn or carol blest:
Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
Pale in her anger, washes all the air,
That rheumatic diseases do abound:
And thorough this distemperature we see
The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer,
The childing autumn, angry winter, change
Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
By their increase, now knows not which is which:
And this same progeny of evils comes
From our debate, from our dissension;
We are their parents and original.",1200,19219
652977,493,"Do you amend it then; it lies in you:
Why should Titania cross her Oberon?
I do but beg a little changeling boy,
To be my henchman.",822,19219
652978,497,"Set your heart at rest:
The fairy land buys not the child of me.
His mother was a votaress of my order:
And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,
Full often hath she gossip'd by my side,
And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands,
Marking the embarked traders on the flood,
When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive
And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;
Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait
Following,--her womb then rich with my young squire,--
Would imitate, and sail upon the land,
To fetch me trifles, and return again,
As from a voyage, rich with merchandise.
But she, being mortal, of that boy did die;
And for her sake do I rear up her boy,
And for her sake I will not part with him.",1200,19219
652979,514,How long within this wood intend you stay?,822,19219
652980,515,"Perchance till after Theseus' wedding-day.
If you will patiently dance in our round
And see our moonlight revels, go with us;
If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts.",1200,19219
652981,519,"Give me that boy, and I will go with thee.",822,19219
652982,520,"Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away!
We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.",1200,19219
652983,522,[Exit TITANIA with her train],1261,19219
652984,523,"Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove
Till I torment thee for this injury.
My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest
Since once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea grew civil at her song
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music.",822,19219
652985,532,I remember.,929,19219
652986,533,"That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,
Flying between the cold moon and the earth,
Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took
At a fair vestal throned by the west,
And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,
As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts;
But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon,
And the imperial votaress passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once:
The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again
Ere the leviathan can swim a league.",822,19219
652987,553,"I'll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes.",929,19219
652988,555,[Exit],1261,19219
652989,556,"Having once this juice,
I'll watch Titania when she is asleep,
And drop the liquor of it in her eyes.
The next thing then she waking looks upon,
Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,
On meddling monkey, or on busy ape,
She shall pursue it with the soul of love:
And ere I take this charm from off her sight,
As I can take it with another herb,
I'll make her render up her page to me.
But who comes here? I am invisible;
And I will overhear their conference.",822,19219
652990,568,"[Enter DEMETRIUS, HELENA, following him]",1261,19219
652991,569,"I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.
Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?
The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me.
Thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood;
And here am I, and wode within this wood,
Because I cannot meet my Hermia.
Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more.",307,19219
652992,576,"You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,
And I shall have no power to follow you.",568,19219
652993,580,"Do I entice you? do I speak you fair?
Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth
Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?",307,19219
652994,583,"And even for that do I love you the more.
I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,
The more you beat me, I will fawn on you:
Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,
Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,
Unworthy as I am, to follow you.
What worser place can I beg in your love,--
And yet a place of high respect with me,--
Than to be used as you use your dog?",568,19219
652995,592,"Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit;
For I am sick when I do look on thee.",307,19219
652996,594,And I am sick when I look not on you.,568,19219
652997,595,"You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place
With the rich worth of your virginity.",307,19219
652998,601,"Your virtue is my privilege: for that
It is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;
Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,
For you in my respect are all the world:
Then how can it be said I am alone,
When all the world is here to look on me?",568,19219
652999,608,"I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,
And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.",307,19219
653000,610,"The wildest hath not such a heart as you.
Run when you will, the story shall be changed:
Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;
The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind
Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,
When cowardice pursues and valour flies.",568,19219
653001,616,"I will not stay thy questions; let me go:
Or, if thou follow me, do not believe
But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.",307,19219
653002,619,"Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,
You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius!
Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex:
We cannot fight for love, as men may do;
We should be wood and were not made to woo.
[Exit DEMETRIUS]
I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.",568,19219
653003,627,[Exit],1261,19219
653004,628,"Fare thee well, nymph: ere he do leave this grove,
Thou shalt fly him and he shall seek thy love.
[Re-enter PUCK]
Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer.",822,19219
653005,632,"Ay, there it is.",929,19219
653006,633,"I pray thee, give it me.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;
And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:
And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes,
And make her full of hateful fantasies.
Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:
A sweet Athenian lady is in love
With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes;
But do it when the next thing he espies
May be the lady: thou shalt know the man
By the Athenian garments he hath on.
Effect it with some care, that he may prove
More fond on her than she upon her love:
And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.",822,19219
653007,653,"Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so.",929,19219
653008,654,[Exeunt],1261,19219
653009,657,"[Enter TITANIA, with her train]",1261,19220
653010,658,"Come, now a roundel and a fairy song;
Then, for the third part of a minute, hence;
Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,
Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings,
To make my small elves coats, and some keep back
The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders
At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep;
Then to your offices and let me rest.
[The Fairies sing]
You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,
Come not near our fairy queen.
Philomel, with melody
Sing in our sweet lullaby;
Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:
Never harm,
Nor spell nor charm,
Come our lovely lady nigh;
So, good night, with lullaby.
Weaving spiders, come not here;
Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence!
Beetles black, approach not near;
Worm nor snail, do no offence.
Philomel, with melody, &c.",1200,19220
653011,683,"Hence, away! now all is well:
One aloof stand sentinel.",392,19220
653012,685,[Exeunt Fairies. TITANIA sleeps],1261,19220
653013,686,[Enter OBERON and squeezes the flower on TITANIA's eyelids],1261,19220
653014,687,"What thou seest when thou dost wake,
Do it for thy true-love take,
Love and languish for his sake:
Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,
Pard, or boar with bristled hair,
In thy eye that shall appear
When thou wakest, it is thy dear:
Wake when some vile thing is near.",822,19220
653015,695,[Exit],1261,19220
653016,696,[Enter LYSANDER and HERMIA],1261,19220
653017,697,"Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood;
And to speak troth, I have forgot our way:
We'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good,
And tarry for the comfort of the day.",722,19220
653018,701,"Be it so, Lysander: find you out a bed;
For I upon this bank will rest my head.",583,19220
653019,703,"One turf shall serve as pillow for us both;
One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.",722,19220
653020,705,"Nay, good Lysander; for my sake, my dear,
Lie further off yet, do not lie so near.",583,19220
653021,707,"O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit
So that but one heart we can make of it;
Two bosoms interchained with an oath;
So then two bosoms and a single troth.
Then by your side no bed-room me deny;
For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.",722,19220
653022,715,"Lysander riddles very prettily:
Now much beshrew my manners and my pride,
If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.
But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy
Lie further off; in human modesty,
Such separation as may well be said
Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,
So far be distant; and, good night, sweet friend:
Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end!",583,19220
653023,724,"Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I;
And then end life when I end loyalty!
Here is my bed: sleep give thee all his rest!",722,19220
653024,727,With half that wish the wisher's eyes be press'd!,583,19220
653025,728,[They sleep],1261,19220
653026,729,[Enter PUCK],1261,19220
653027,730,"Through the forest have I gone.
But Athenian found I none,
On whose eyes I might approve
This flower's force in stirring love.
Night and silence.--Who is here?
Weeds of Athens he doth wear:
This is he, my master said,
Despised the Athenian maid;
And here the maiden, sleeping sound,
On the dank and dirty ground.
Pretty soul! she durst not lie
Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
Churl, upon thy eyes I throw
All the power this charm doth owe.
When thou wakest, let love forbid
Sleep his seat on thy eyelid:
So awake when I am gone;
For I must now to Oberon.",929,19220
653028,748,[Exit],1261,19220
653029,749,"[Enter DEMETRIUS and HELENA, running]",1261,19220
653030,750,"Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.",568,19220
653031,751,"I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.",307,19220
653032,752,"O, wilt thou darkling leave me? do not so.",568,19220
653033,753,"Stay, on thy peril: I alone will go.",307,19220
653034,754,[Exit],1261,19220
653035,755,"O, I am out of breath in this fond chase!
The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.
Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies;
For she hath blessed and attractive eyes.
How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears:
If so, my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers.
No, no, I am as ugly as a bear;
For beasts that meet me run away for fear:
Therefore no marvel though Demetrius
Do, as a monster fly my presence thus.
What wicked and dissembling glass of mine
Made me compare with Hermia's sphery eyne?
But who is here? Lysander! on the ground!
Dead? or asleep? I see no blood, no wound.
Lysander if you live, good sir, awake.",568,19220
653036,770,"[Awaking] And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake.
Transparent Helena! Nature shows art,
That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.
Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word
Is that vile name to perish on my sword!",722,19220
653037,775,"Do not say so, Lysander; say not so
What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though?
Yet Hermia still loves you: then be content.",568,19220
653038,778,"Content with Hermia! No; I do repent
The tedious minutes I with her have spent.
Not Hermia but Helena I love:
Who will not change a raven for a dove?
The will of man is by his reason sway'd;
And reason says you are the worthier maid.
Things growing are not ripe until their season
So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason;
And touching now the point of human skill,
Reason becomes the marshal to my will
And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook
Love's stories written in love's richest book.",722,19220
653039,790,"Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man,
That I did never, no, nor never can,
Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,
But you must flout my insufficiency?
Good troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do,
In such disdainful manner me to woo.
But fare you well: perforce I must confess
I thought you lord of more true gentleness.
O, that a lady, of one man refused.
Should of another therefore be abused!",568,19220
653040,802,[Exit],1261,19220
653041,803,"She sees not Hermia. Hermia, sleep thou there:
And never mayst thou come Lysander near!
For as a surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,
Or as tie heresies that men do leave
Are hated most of those they did deceive,
So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,
Of all be hated, but the most of me!
And, all my powers, address your love and might
To honour Helen and to be her knight!",722,19220
653042,813,[Exit],1261,19220
653043,814,"[Awaking] Help me, Lysander, help me! do thy best
To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!
Ay me, for pity! what a dream was here!
Lysander, look how I do quake with fear:
Methought a serpent eat my heart away,
And you sat smiling at his cruel pray.
Lysander! what, removed? Lysander! lord!
What, out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word?
Alack, where are you speak, an if you hear;
Speak, of all loves! I swoon almost with fear.
No? then I well perceive you all not nigh
Either death or you I'll find immediately.",583,19220
653044,826,[Exit],1261,19220
653045,829,"[Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING]",1261,19221
653046,830,Are we all met?,189,19221
653047,831,"Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place
for our rehearsal. This green plot shall be our
stage, this hawthorn-brake our tiring-house; and we
will do it in action as we will do it before the duke.",937,19221
653048,835,"Peter Quince,--",189,19221
653049,836,"What sayest thou, bully Bottom?",937,19221
653050,837,"There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and
Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must
draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies
cannot abide. How answer you that?",189,19221
653051,841,"By'r lakin, a parlous fear.",1127,19221
653052,842,"I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.",1146,19221
653053,843,"Not a whit: I have a device to make all well.
Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem to
say, we will do no harm with our swords, and that
Pyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the more
better assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am not
Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put them
out of fear.",189,19221
653054,850,"Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall be
written in eight and six.",937,19221
653055,852,"No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.",189,19221
653056,853,Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?,1127,19221
653057,854,"I fear it, I promise you.",1146,19221
653058,855,"Masters, you ought to consider with yourselves: to
bring in--God shield us!--a lion among ladies, is a
most dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful
wild-fowl than your lion living; and we ought to
look to 't.",189,19221
653059,860,Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion.,1127,19221
653060,861,"Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must
be seen through the lion's neck: and he himself
must speak through, saying thus, or to the same
defect,--'Ladies,'--or 'Fair-ladies--I would wish
You,'--or 'I would request you,'--or 'I would
entreat you,--not to fear, not to tremble: my life
for yours. If you think I come hither as a lion, it
were pity of my life: no I am no such thing; I am a
man as other men are;' and there indeed let him name
his name, and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner.",189,19221
653061,871,"Well it shall be so. But there is two hard things;
that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber; for,
you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight.",937,19221
653062,874,Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?,1127,19221
653063,875,"A calendar, a calendar! look in the almanac; find
out moonshine, find out moonshine.",189,19221
653064,877,"Yes, it doth shine that night.",937,19221
653065,878,"Why, then may you leave a casement of the great
chamber window, where we play, open, and the moon
may shine in at the casement.",189,19221
653066,881,"Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns
and a lanthorn, and say he comes to disfigure, or to
present, the person of Moonshine. Then, there is
another thing: we must have a wall in the great
chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby says the story, did
talk through the chink of a wall.",937,19221
653067,887,"You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom?",1127,19221
653068,888,"Some man or other must present Wall: and let him
have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-cast
about him, to signify wall; and let him hold his
fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus
and Thisby whisper.",189,19221
653069,893,"If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit down,
every mother's son, and rehearse your parts.
Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your
speech, enter into that brake: and so every one
according to his cue.",937,19221
653070,898,[Enter PUCK behind],1261,19221
653071,899,"What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,
So near the cradle of the fairy queen?
What, a play toward! I'll be an auditor;
An actor too, perhaps, if I see cause.",929,19221
653072,903,"Speak, Pyramus. Thisby, stand forth.",937,19221
653073,904,"Thisby, the flowers of odious savours sweet,--",189,19221
653074,905,"Odours, odours.",937,19221
653075,906,"--odours savours sweet:
So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisby dear.
But hark, a voice! stay thou but here awhile,
And by and by I will to thee appear.",189,19221
653076,910,[Exit],1261,19221
653077,911,A stranger Pyramus than e'er played here.,929,19221
653078,912,[Exit],1261,19221
653079,913,Must I speak now?,481,19221
653080,914,"Ay, marry, must you; for you must understand he goes
but to see a noise that he heard, and is to come again.",937,19221
653081,916,"Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue,
Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier,
Most brisky juvenal and eke most lovely Jew,
As true as truest horse that yet would never tire,
I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb.",481,19221
653082,921,"'Ninus' tomb,' man: why, you must not speak that
yet; that you answer to Pyramus: you speak all your
part at once, cues and all Pyramus enter: your cue
is past; it is, 'never tire.'",937,19221
653083,925,"O,--As true as truest horse, that yet would
never tire.",481,19221
653084,927,"[Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass's head]",1261,19221
653085,928,"If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.",189,19221
653086,929,"O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted. Pray,
masters! fly, masters! Help!",937,19221
653087,931,"[Exeunt QUINCE, SNUG, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING]",1261,19221
653088,932,"I'll follow you, I'll lead you about a round,
Through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier:
Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound,
A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire;
And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,
Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn.",929,19221
653089,938,[Exit],1261,19221
653090,939,"Why do they run away? this is a knavery of them to
make me afeard.",189,19221
653091,941,[Re-enter SNOUT],1261,19221
653092,942,"O Bottom, thou art changed! what do I see on thee?",1127,19221
653093,943,"What do you see? you see an asshead of your own, do
you?",189,19221
653094,945,[Exit SNOUT],1261,19221
653095,946,[Re-enter QUINCE],1261,19221
653096,947,"Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art
translated.",937,19221
653097,949,[Exit],1261,19221
653098,950,"I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me;
to fright me, if they could. But I will not stir
from this place, do what they can: I will walk up
and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear
I am not afraid.
[Sings]
The ousel cock so black of hue,
With orange-tawny bill,
The throstle with his note so true,
The wren with little quill,--",189,19221
653099,960,[Awaking] What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?,1200,19221
653100,961,"[Sings]
The finch, the sparrow and the lark,
The plain-song cuckoo gray,
Whose note full many a man doth mark,
And dares not answer nay;--
for, indeed, who would set his wit to so foolish
a bird? who would give a bird the lie, though he cry
'cuckoo' never so?",189,19221
653101,969,"I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:
Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.",1200,19221
653102,974,"Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason
for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and
love keep little company together now-a-days; the
more the pity that some honest neighbours will not
make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.",189,19221
653103,979,Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.,1200,19221
653104,980,"Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough to get out
of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn.",189,19221
653105,982,"Out of this wood do not desire to go:
Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no.
I am a spirit of no common rate;
The summer still doth tend upon my state;
And I do love thee: therefore, go with me;
I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee,
And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep,
And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep;
And I will purge thy mortal grossness so
That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.
Peaseblossom! Cobweb! Moth! and Mustardseed!",1200,19221
653106,993,"[Enter PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, and MUSTARDSEED]",1261,19221
653107,994,Ready.,867,19221
653108,995,And I.,274,19221
653109,996,And I.,806,19221
653110,997,And I.,809,19221
653111,998,Where shall we go?,87,19221
653112,999,"Be kind and courteous to this gentleman;
Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes;
Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,
With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;
The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees,
And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs
And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes,
To have my love to bed and to arise;
And pluck the wings from Painted butterflies
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes:
Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.",1200,19221
653113,1010,"Hail, mortal!",867,19221
653114,1011,Hail!,274,19221
653115,1012,Hail!,806,19221
653116,1013,Hail!,809,19221
653117,1014,"I cry your worship's mercy, heartily: I beseech your
worship's name.",189,19221
653118,1016,Cobweb.,274,19221
653119,1017,"I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good Master
Cobweb: if I cut my finger, I shall make bold with
you. Your name, honest gentleman?",189,19221
653120,1020,Peaseblossom.,867,19221
653121,1021,"I pray you, commend me to Mistress Squash, your
mother, and to Master Peascod, your father. Good
Master Peaseblossom, I shall desire you of more
acquaintance too. Your name, I beseech you, sir?",189,19221
653122,1025,Mustardseed.,809,19221
653123,1026,"Good Master Mustardseed, I know your patience well:
that same cowardly, giant-like ox-beef hath
devoured many a gentleman of your house: I promise
you your kindred had made my eyes water ere now. I
desire your more acquaintance, good Master
Mustardseed.",189,19221
653124,1032,"Come, wait upon him; lead him to my bower.
The moon methinks looks with a watery eye;
And when she weeps, weeps every little flower,
Lamenting some enforced chastity.
Tie up my love's tongue bring him silently.",1200,19221
653125,1037,[Exeunt],1261,19221
653126,1040,[Enter OBERON],1261,19222
653127,1041,"I wonder if Titania be awaked;
Then, what it was that next came in her eye,
Which she must dote on in extremity.
[Enter PUCK]
Here comes my messenger.
How now, mad spirit!
What night-rule now about this haunted grove?",822,19222
653128,1048,"My mistress with a monster is in love.
Near to her close and consecrated bower,
While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,
A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,
That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,
Were met together to rehearse a play
Intended for great Theseus' nuptial-day.
The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,
Who Pyramus presented, in their sport
Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake
When I did him at this advantage take,
An ass's nole I fixed on his head:
Anon his Thisbe must be answered,
And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,
Rising and cawing at the gun's report,
Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,
So, at his sight, away his fellows fly;
And, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls;
He murder cries and help from Athens calls.
Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears
thus strong,
Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;
For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;
Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all
things catch.
I led them on in this distracted fear,
And left sweet Pyramus translated there:
When in that moment, so it came to pass,
Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.",929,19222
653129,1079,"This falls out better than I could devise.
But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes
With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do?",822,19222
653130,1082,"I took him sleeping,--that is finish'd too,--
And the Athenian woman by his side:
That, when he waked, of force she must be eyed.",929,19222
653131,1085,[Enter HERMIA and DEMETRIUS],1261,19222
653132,1086,Stand close: this is the same Athenian.,822,19222
653133,1087,"This is the woman, but not this the man.",929,19222
653134,1088,"O, why rebuke you him that loves you so?
Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.",307,19222
653135,1090,"Now I but chide; but I should use thee worse,
For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse,
If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep,
Being o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep,
And kill me too.
The sun was not so true unto the day
As he to me: would he have stolen away
From sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon
This whole earth may be bored and that the moon
May through the centre creep and so displease
Her brother's noontide with Antipodes.
It cannot be but thou hast murder'd him;
So should a murderer look, so dead, so grim.",583,19222
653136,1103,"So should the murder'd look, and so should I,
Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty:
Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear,
As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.",307,19222
653137,1107,"What's this to my Lysander? where is he?
Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?",583,19222
653138,1109,I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.,307,19222
653139,1110,"Out, dog! out, cur! thou drivest me past the bounds
Of maiden's patience. Hast thou slain him, then?
Henceforth be never number'd among men!
O, once tell true, tell true, even for my sake!
Durst thou have look'd upon him being awake,
And hast thou kill'd him sleeping? O brave touch!
Could not a worm, an adder, do so much?
An adder did it; for with doubler tongue
Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.",583,19222
653140,1119,"You spend your passion on a misprised mood:
I am not guilty of Lysander's blood;
Nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.",307,19222
653141,1122,"I pray thee, tell me then that he is well.",583,19222
653142,1123,"An if I could, what should I get therefore?",307,19222
653143,1124,"A privilege never to see me more.
And from thy hated presence part I so:
See me no more, whether he be dead or no.",583,19222
653144,1127,[Exit],1261,19222
653145,1128,"There is no following her in this fierce vein:
Here therefore for a while I will remain.
So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow
For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe:
Which now in some slight measure it will pay,
If for his tender here I make some stay.",307,19222
653146,1134,[Lies down and sleeps],1261,19222
653147,1135,"What hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite
And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight:
Of thy misprision must perforce ensue
Some true love turn'd and not a false turn'd true.",822,19222
653148,1139,"Then fate o'er-rules, that, one man holding troth,
A million fail, confounding oath on oath.",929,19222
653149,1141,"About the wood go swifter than the wind,
And Helena of Athens look thou find:
All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer,
With sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear:
By some illusion see thou bring her here:
I'll charm his eyes against she do appear.",822,19222
653150,1147,"I go, I go; look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.",929,19222
653151,1149,[Exit],1261,19222
653152,1150,"Flower of this purple dye,
Hit with Cupid's archery,
Sink in apple of his eye.
When his love he doth espy,
Let her shine as gloriously
As the Venus of the sky.
When thou wakest, if she be by,
Beg of her for remedy.",822,19222
653153,1158,[Re-enter PUCK],1261,19222
653154,1159,"Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand;
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!",929,19222
653155,1165,"Stand aside: the noise they make
Will cause Demetrius to awake.",822,19222
653156,1167,"Then will two at once woo one;
That must needs be sport alone;
And those things do best please me
That befal preposterously.",929,19222
653157,1171,[Enter LYSANDER and HELENA],1261,19222
653158,1172,"Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?
Scorn and derision never come in tears:
Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born,
In their nativity all truth appears.
How can these things in me seem scorn to you,
Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?",722,19222
653159,1178,"You do advance your cunning more and more.
When truth kills truth, O devilish-holy fray!
These vows are Hermia's: will you give her o'er?
Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh:
Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,
Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.",568,19222
653160,1184,I had no judgment when to her I swore.,722,19222
653161,1185,"Nor none, in my mind, now you give her o'er.",568,19222
653162,1186,"Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you.",722,19222
653163,1187,"[Awaking] O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!
To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?
Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show
Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!
That pure congealed white, high Taurus snow,
Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow
When thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss
This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!",307,19222
653164,1195,"O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent
To set against me for your merriment:
If you we re civil and knew courtesy,
You would not do me thus much injury.
Can you not hate me, as I know you do,
But you must join in souls to mock me too?
If you were men, as men you are in show,
You would not use a gentle lady so;
To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts,
When I am sure you hate me with your hearts.
You both are rivals, and love Hermia;
And now both rivals, to mock Helena:
A trim exploit, a manly enterprise,
To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes
With your derision! none of noble sort
Would so offend a virgin, and extort
A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport.",568,19222
653165,1212,"You are unkind, Demetrius; be not so;
For you love Hermia; this you know I know:
And here, with all good will, with all my heart,
In Hermia's love I yield you up my part;
And yours of Helena to me bequeath,
Whom I do love and will do till my death.",722,19222
653166,1218,Never did mockers waste more idle breath.,568,19222
653167,1219,"Lysander, keep thy Hermia; I will none:
If e'er I loved her, all that love is gone.
My heart to her but as guest-wise sojourn'd,
And now to Helen is it home return'd,
There to remain.",307,19222
653168,1224,"Helen, it is not so.",722,19222
653169,1225,"Disparage not the faith thou dost not know,
Lest, to thy peril, thou aby it dear.
Look, where thy love comes; yonder is thy dear.",307,19222
653170,1228,[Re-enter HERMIA],1261,19222
653171,1229,"Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,
The ear more quick of apprehension makes;
Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense,
It pays the hearing double recompense.
Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found;
Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound
But why unkindly didst thou leave me so?",583,19222
653172,1236,"Why should he stay, whom love doth press to go?",722,19222
653173,1237,What love could press Lysander from my side?,583,19222
653174,1238,"Lysander's love, that would not let him bide,
Fair Helena, who more engilds the night
Than all you fiery oes and eyes of light.
Why seek'st thou me? could not this make thee know,
The hate I bear thee made me leave thee so?",722,19222
653175,1243,You speak not as you think: it cannot be.,583,19222
653176,1244,"Lo, she is one of this confederacy!
Now I perceive they have conjoin'd all three
To fashion this false sport, in spite of me.
Injurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid!
Have you conspired, have you with these contrived
To bait me with this foul derision?
Is all the counsel that we two have shared,
The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,
When we have chid the hasty-footed time
For parting us,--O, is it all forgot?
All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?
We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,
Have with our needles created both one flower,
Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,
Both warbling of one song, both in one key,
As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds,
Had been incorporate. So we grow together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition;
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;
Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,
Due but to one and crowned with one crest.
And will you rent our ancient love asunder,
To join with men in scorning your poor friend?
It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly:
Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it,
Though I alone do feel the injury.",568,19222
653177,1272,"I am amazed at your passionate words.
I scorn you not: it seems that you scorn me.",583,19222
653178,1274,"Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn,
To follow me and praise my eyes and face?
And made your other love, Demetrius,
Who even but now did spurn me with his foot,
To call me goddess, nymph, divine and rare,
Precious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this
To her he hates? and wherefore doth Lysander
Deny your love, so rich within his soul,
And tender me, forsooth, affection,
But by your setting on, by your consent?
What thought I be not so in grace as you,
So hung upon with love, so fortunate,
But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise.",568,19222
653179,1288,I understand not what you mean by this.,583,19222
653180,1289,"Ay, do, persever, counterfeit sad looks,
Make mouths upon me when I turn my back;
Wink each at other; hold the sweet jest up:
This sport, well carried, shall be chronicled.
If you have any pity, grace, or manners,
You would not make me such an argument.
But fare ye well: 'tis partly my own fault;
Which death or absence soon shall remedy.",568,19222
653181,1297,"Stay, gentle Helena; hear my excuse:
My love, my life my soul, fair Helena!",722,19222
653182,1299,O excellent!,568,19222
653183,1300,"Sweet, do not scorn her so.",583,19222
653184,1301,"If she cannot entreat, I can compel.",307,19222
653185,1302,"Thou canst compel no more than she entreat:
Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers.
Helen, I love thee; by my life, I do:
I swear by that which I will lose for thee,
To prove him false that says I love thee not.",722,19222
653186,1307,I say I love thee more than he can do.,307,19222
653187,1308,"If thou say so, withdraw, and prove it too.",722,19222
653188,1309,"Quick, come!",307,19222
653189,1310,"Lysander, whereto tends all this?",583,19222
653190,1311,"Away, you Ethiope!",722,19222
653191,1312,"No, no; he'll
Seem to break loose; take on as you would follow,
But yet come not: you are a tame man, go!",307,19222
653192,1315,"Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose,
Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!",722,19222
653193,1317,"Why are you grown so rude? what change is this?
Sweet love,--",583,19222
653194,1319,"Thy love! out, tawny Tartar, out!
Out, loathed medicine! hated potion, hence!",722,19222
653195,1321,Do you not jest?,583,19222
653196,1322,"Yes, sooth; and so do you.",568,19222
653197,1323,"Demetrius, I will keep my word with thee.",722,19222
653198,1324,"I would I had your bond, for I perceive
A weak bond holds you: I'll not trust your word.",307,19222
653199,1326,"What, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead?
Although I hate her, I'll not harm her so.",722,19222
653200,1328,"What, can you do me greater harm than hate?
Hate me! wherefore? O me! what news, my love!
Am not I Hermia? are not you Lysander?
I am as fair now as I was erewhile.
Since night you loved me; yet since night you left
me:
Why, then you left me--O, the gods forbid!--
In earnest, shall I say?",583,19222
653201,1336,"Ay, by my life;
And never did desire to see thee more.
Therefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt;
Be certain, nothing truer; 'tis no jest
That I do hate thee and love Helena.",722,19222
653202,1341,"O me! you juggler! you canker-blossom!
You thief of love! what, have you come by night
And stolen my love's heart from him?",583,19222
653203,1344,"Fine, i'faith!
Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,
No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear
Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?
Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!",568,19222
653204,1349,"Puppet? why so? ay, that way goes the game.
Now I perceive that she hath made compare
Between our statures; she hath urged her height;
And with her personage, her tall personage,
Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him.
And are you grown so high in his esteem;
Because I am so dwarfish and so low?
How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak;
How low am I? I am not yet so low
But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.",583,19222
653205,1359,"I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen,
Let her not hurt me: I was never curst;
I have no gift at all in shrewishness;
I am a right maid for my cowardice:
Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think,
Because she is something lower than myself,
That I can match her.",568,19222
653206,1366,"Lower! hark, again.",583,19222
653207,1367,"Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me.
I evermore did love you, Hermia,
Did ever keep your counsels, never wrong'd you;
Save that, in love unto Demetrius,
I told him of your stealth unto this wood.
He follow'd you; for love I follow'd him;
But he hath chid me hence and threaten'd me
To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too:
And now, so you will let me quiet go,
To Athens will I bear my folly back
And follow you no further: let me go:
You see how simple and how fond I am.",568,19222
653208,1379,"Why, get you gone: who is't that hinders you?",583,19222
653209,1380,"A foolish heart, that I leave here behind.",568,19222
653210,1381,"What, with Lysander?",583,19222
653211,1382,With Demetrius.,568,19222
653212,1383,"Be not afraid; she shall not harm thee, Helena.",722,19222
653213,1384,"No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.",307,19222
653214,1385,"O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd!
She was a vixen when she went to school;
And though she be but little, she is fierce.",568,19222
653215,1388,"'Little' again! nothing but 'low' and 'little'!
Why will you suffer her to flout me thus?
Let me come to her.",583,19222
653216,1391,"Get you gone, you dwarf;
You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;
You bead, you acorn.",722,19222
653217,1394,"You are too officious
In her behalf that scorns your services.
Let her alone: speak not of Helena;
Take not her part; for, if thou dost intend
Never so little show of love to her,
Thou shalt aby it.",307,19222
653218,1400,"Now she holds me not;
Now follow, if thou darest, to try whose right,
Of thine or mine, is most in Helena.",722,19222
653219,1403,"Follow! nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jole.",307,19222
653220,1404,[Exeunt LYSANDER and DEMETRIUS],1261,19222
653221,1405,"You, mistress, all this coil is 'long of you:
Nay, go not back.",583,19222
653222,1407,"I will not trust you, I,
Nor longer stay in your curst company.
Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray,
My legs are longer though, to run away.",568,19222
653223,1411,[Exit],1261,19222
653224,1412,"I am amazed, and know not what to say.",583,19222
653225,1413,[Exit],1261,19222
653226,1414,"This is thy negligence: still thou mistakest,
Or else committ'st thy knaveries wilfully.",822,19222
653227,1416,"Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook.
Did not you tell me I should know the man
By the Athenian garment be had on?
And so far blameless proves my enterprise,
That I have 'nointed an Athenian's eyes;
And so far am I glad it so did sort
As this their jangling I esteem a sport.",929,19222
653228,1423,"Thou see'st these lovers seek a place to fight:
Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night;
The starry welkin cover thou anon
With drooping fog as black as Acheron,
And lead these testy rivals so astray
As one come not within another's way.
Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue,
Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong;
And sometime rail thou like Demetrius;
And from each other look thou lead them thus,
Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep
With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep:
Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye;
Whose liquor hath this virtuous property,
To take from thence all error with his might,
And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.
When they next wake, all this derision
Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision,
And back to Athens shall the lovers wend,
With league whose date till death shall never end.
Whiles I in this affair do thee employ,
I'll to my queen and beg her Indian boy;
And then I will her charmed eye release
From monster's view, and all things shall be peace.",822,19222
653229,1447,"My fairy lord, this must be done with haste,
For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,
And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;
At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,
Troop home to churchyards: damned spirits all,
That in crossways and floods have burial,
Already to their wormy beds are gone;
For fear lest day should look their shames upon,
They willfully themselves exile from light
And must for aye consort with black-brow'd night.",929,19222
653230,1457,"But we are spirits of another sort:
I with the morning's love have oft made sport,
And, like a forester, the groves may tread,
Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red,
Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams,
Turns into yellow gold his salt green streams.
But, notwithstanding, haste; make no delay:
We may effect this business yet ere day.",822,19222
653231,1465,[Exit],1261,19222
653232,1466,"Up and down, up and down,
I will lead them up and down:
I am fear'd in field and town:
Goblin, lead them up and down.
Here comes one.",929,19222
653233,1471,[Re-enter LYSANDER],1261,19222
653234,1472,"Where art thou, proud Demetrius? speak thou now.",722,19222
653235,1473,"Here, villain; drawn and ready. Where art thou?",929,19222
653236,1474,I will be with thee straight.,722,19222
653237,1475,"Follow me, then,
To plainer ground.",929,19222
653238,1477,"[Exit LYSANDER, as following the voice]",1261,19222
653239,1478,[Re-enter DEMETRIUS],1261,19222
653240,1479,"Lysander! speak again:
Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?
Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?",307,19222
653241,1482,"Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,
Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,
And wilt not come? Come, recreant; come, thou child;
I'll whip thee with a rod: he is defiled
That draws a sword on thee.",929,19222
653242,1487,"Yea, art thou there?",307,19222
653243,1488,Follow my voice: we'll try no manhood here.,929,19222
653244,1489,[Exeunt],1261,19222
653245,1490,[Re-enter LYSANDER],1261,19222
653246,1491,"He goes before me and still dares me on:
When I come where he calls, then he is gone.
The villain is much lighter-heel'd than I:
I follow'd fast, but faster he did fly;
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
And here will rest me.
[Lies down]
Come, thou gentle day!
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I'll find Demetrius and revenge this spite.",722,19222
653247,1501,[Sleeps],1261,19222
653248,1502,[Re-enter PUCK and DEMETRIUS],1261,19222
653249,1503,"Ho, ho, ho! Coward, why comest thou not?",929,19222
653250,1504,"Abide me, if thou darest; for well I wot
Thou runn'st before me, shifting every place,
And darest not stand, nor look me in the face.
Where art thou now?",307,19222
653251,1508,Come hither: I am here.,929,19222
653252,1509,"Nay, then, thou mock'st me. Thou shalt buy this dear,
If ever I thy face by daylight see:
Now, go thy way. Faintness constraineth me
To measure out my length on this cold bed.
By day's approach look to be visited.",307,19222
653253,1514,[Lies down and sleeps],1261,19222
653254,1515,[Re-enter HELENA],1261,19222
653255,1516,"O weary night, O long and tedious night,
Abate thy hour! Shine comforts from the east,
That I may back to Athens by daylight,
From these that my poor company detest:
And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye,
Steal me awhile from mine own company.",568,19222
653256,1522,[Lies down and sleeps],1261,19222
653257,1523,"Yet but three? Come one more;
Two of both kinds make up four.
Here she comes, curst and sad:
Cupid is a knavish lad,
Thus to make poor females mad.",929,19222
653258,1528,[Re-enter HERMIA],1261,19222
653259,1529,"Never so weary, never so in woe,
Bedabbled with the dew and torn with briers,
I can no further crawl, no further go;
My legs can keep no pace with my desires.
Here will I rest me till the break of day.
Heavens shield Lysander, if they mean a fray!",583,19222
653260,1535,[Lies down and sleeps],1261,19222
653261,1536,"On the ground
Sleep sound:
I'll apply
To your eye,
Gentle lover, remedy.
[Squeezing the juice on LYSANDER's eyes]
When thou wakest,
Thou takest
True delight
In the sight
Of thy former lady's eye:
And the country proverb known,
That every man should take his own,
In your waking shall be shown:
Jack shall have Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.",929,19222
653262,1553,"[Exit]
lying asleep.
[Enter TITANIA and BOTTOM; PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH,]
MUSTARDSEED, and other Fairies attending; OBERON
behind unseen]",1261,19222
653263,1560,"Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed,
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,
And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.",1200,19223
653264,1564,Where's Peaseblossom?,189,19223
653265,1565,Ready.,867,19223
653266,1566,Scratch my head Peaseblossom. Where's Mounsieur Cobweb?,189,19223
653267,1567,Ready.,274,19223
653268,1568,"Mounsieur Cobweb, good mounsieur, get you your
weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipped
humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good
mounsieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret
yourself too much in the action, mounsieur; and,
good mounsieur, have a care the honey-bag break not;
I would be loath to have you overflown with a
honey-bag, signior. Where's Mounsieur Mustardseed?",189,19223
653269,1576,Ready.,809,19223
653270,1577,"Give me your neaf, Mounsieur Mustardseed. Pray you,
leave your courtesy, good mounsieur.",189,19223
653271,1579,What's your Will?,809,19223
653272,1580,"Nothing, good mounsieur, but to help Cavalery Cobweb
to scratch. I must to the barber's, monsieur; for
methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I
am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me,
I must scratch.",189,19223
653273,1585,"What, wilt thou hear some music,
my sweet love?",1200,19223
653274,1587,"I have a reasonable good ear in music. Let's have
the tongs and the bones.",189,19223
653275,1589,"Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat.",1200,19223
653276,1590,"Truly, a peck of provender: I could munch your good
dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle
of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.",189,19223
653277,1593,"I have a venturous fairy that shall seek
The squirrel's hoard, and fetch thee new nuts.",1200,19223
653278,1595,"I had rather have a handful or two of dried peas.
But, I pray you, let none of your people stir me: I
have an exposition of sleep come upon me.",189,19223
653279,1598,"Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.
Fairies, begone, and be all ways away.
[Exeunt fairies]
So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle
Gently entwist; the female ivy so
Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.
O, how I love thee! how I dote on thee!",1200,19223
653280,1605,[They sleep],1261,19223
653281,1606,[Enter PUCK],1261,19223
653282,1607,"[Advancing] Welcome, good Robin.
See'st thou this sweet sight?
Her dotage now I do begin to pity:
For, meeting her of late behind the wood,
Seeking sweet favours from this hateful fool,
I did upbraid her and fall out with her;
For she his hairy temples then had rounded
With a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers;
And that same dew, which sometime on the buds
Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,
Stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes
Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.
When I had at my pleasure taunted her
And she in mild terms begg'd my patience,
I then did ask of her her changeling child;
Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent
To bear him to my bower in fairy land.
And now I have the boy, I will undo
This hateful imperfection of her eyes:
And, gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp
From off the head of this Athenian swain;
That, he awaking when the other do,
May all to Athens back again repair
And think no more of this night's accidents
But as the fierce vexation of a dream.
But first I will release the fairy queen.
Be as thou wast wont to be;
See as thou wast wont to see:
Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower
Hath such force and blessed power.
Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen.",822,19223
653283,1638,"My Oberon! what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.",1200,19223
653284,1640,There lies your love.,822,19223
653285,1641,"How came these things to pass?
O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!",1200,19223
653286,1643,"Silence awhile. Robin, take off this head.
Titania, music call; and strike more dead
Than common sleep of all these five the sense.",822,19223
653287,1646,"Music, ho! music, such as charmeth sleep!",1200,19223
653288,1647,"[Music, still]",1261,19223
653289,1648,"Now, when thou wakest, with thine
own fool's eyes peep.",929,19223
653290,1650,"Sound, music! Come, my queen, take hands with me,
And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.
Now thou and I are new in amity,
And will to-morrow midnight solemnly
Dance in Duke Theseus' house triumphantly,
And bless it to all fair prosperity:
There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be
Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.",822,19223
653291,1658,"Fairy king, attend, and mark:
I do hear the morning lark.",929,19223
653292,1660,"Then, my queen, in silence sad,
Trip we after the night's shade:
We the globe can compass soon,
Swifter than the wandering moon.",822,19223
653293,1664,"Come, my lord, and in our flight
Tell me how it came this night
That I sleeping here was found
With these mortals on the ground.",1200,19223
653294,1668,[Exeunt],1261,19223
653295,1669,[Horns winded within],1261,19223
653296,1670,"[Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and train]",1261,19223
653297,1671,"Go, one of you, find out the forester;
For now our observation is perform'd;
And since we have the vaward of the day,
My love shall hear the music of my hounds.
Uncouple in the western valley; let them go:
Dispatch, I say, and find the forester.
[Exit an Attendant]
We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top,
And mark the musical confusion
Of hounds and echo in conjunction.",1161,19223
653298,1681,"I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear
With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear
Such gallant chiding: for, besides the groves,
The skies, the fountains, every region near
Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.",586,19223
653299,1688,"My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,
So flew'd, so sanded, and their heads are hung
With ears that sweep away the morning dew;
Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls;
Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells,
Each under each. A cry more tuneable
Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn,
In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly:
Judge when you hear. But, soft! what nymphs are these?",1161,19223
653300,1697,"My lord, this is my daughter here asleep;
And this, Lysander; this Demetrius is;
This Helena, old Nedar's Helena:
I wonder of their being here together.",373,19223
653301,1701,"No doubt they rose up early to observe
The rite of May, and hearing our intent,
Came here in grace our solemnity.
But speak, Egeus; is not this the day
That Hermia should give answer of her choice?",1161,19223
653302,1706,"It is, my lord.",373,19223
653303,1707,"Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns.
[Horns and shout within. LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS,]
HELENA, and HERMIA wake and start up]
Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past:
Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?",1161,19223
653304,1712,"Pardon, my lord.",722,19223
653305,1713,"I pray you all, stand up.
I know you two are rival enemies:
How comes this gentle concord in the world,
That hatred is so far from jealousy,
To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity?",1161,19223
653306,1718,"My lord, I shall reply amazedly,
Half sleep, half waking: but as yet, I swear,
I cannot truly say how I came here;
But, as I think,--for truly would I speak,
And now do I bethink me, so it is,--
I came with Hermia hither: our intent
Was to be gone from Athens, where we might,
Without the peril of the Athenian law.",722,19223
653307,1726,"Enough, enough, my lord; you have enough:
I beg the law, the law, upon his head.
They would have stolen away; they would, Demetrius,
Thereby to have defeated you and me,
You of your wife and me of my consent,
Of my consent that she should be your wife.",373,19223
653308,1732,"My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth,
Of this their purpose hither to this wood;
And I in fury hither follow'd them,
Fair Helena in fancy following me.
But, my good lord, I wot not by what power,--
But by some power it is,--my love to Hermia,
Melted as the snow, seems to me now
As the remembrance of an idle gaud
Which in my childhood I did dote upon;
And all the faith, the virtue of my heart,
The object and the pleasure of mine eye,
Is only Helena. To her, my lord,
Was I betroth'd ere I saw Hermia:
But, like in sickness, did I loathe this food;
But, as in health, come to my natural taste,
Now I do wish it, love it, long for it,
And will for evermore be true to it.",307,19223
653309,1749,"Fair lovers, you are fortunately met:
Of this discourse we more will hear anon.
Egeus, I will overbear your will;
For in the temple by and by with us
These couples shall eternally be knit:
And, for the morning now is something worn,
Our purposed hunting shall be set aside.
Away with us to Athens; three and three,
We'll hold a feast in great solemnity.
Come, Hippolyta.",1161,19223
653310,1759,"[Exeunt THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and train]",1261,19223
653311,1760,"These things seem small and undistinguishable,",307,19223
653312,1761,"Methinks I see these things with parted eye,
When every thing seems double.",583,19223
653313,1763,"So methinks:
And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,
Mine own, and not mine own.",568,19223
653314,1766,"Are you sure
That we are awake? It seems to me
That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think
The duke was here, and bid us follow him?",307,19223
653315,1770,Yea; and my father.,583,19223
653316,1771,And Hippolyta.,568,19223
653317,1772,And he did bid us follow to the temple.,722,19223
653318,1773,"Why, then, we are awake: let's follow him
And by the way let us recount our dreams.",307,19223
653319,1775,[Exeunt],1261,19223
653320,1776,"[Awaking] When my cue comes, call me, and I will
answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho!
Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout,
the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen
hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare
vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to
say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go
about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there
is no man can tell what. Methought I was,--and
methought I had,--but man is but a patched fool, if
he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye
of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not
seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue
to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream
was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of
this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream,
because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the
latter end of a play, before the duke:
peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall
sing it at her death.",189,19223
653321,1796,[Exit],1261,19223
653322,1799,"[Enter QUINCE, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING]",1261,19224
653323,1800,Have you sent to Bottom's house? is he come home yet?,937,19224
653324,1801,"He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is
transported.",1146,19224
653325,1803,"If he come not, then the play is marred: it goes
not forward, doth it?",481,19224
653326,1805,"It is not possible: you have not a man in all
Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.",937,19224
653327,1807,"No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft
man in Athens.",481,19224
653328,1809,"Yea and the best person too; and he is a very
paramour for a sweet voice.",937,19224
653329,1811,"You must say 'paragon:' a paramour is, God bless us,
a thing of naught.",481,19224
653330,1813,[Enter SNUG],1261,19224
653331,1814,"Masters, the duke is coming from the temple, and
there is two or three lords and ladies more married:
if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made
men.",1128,19224
653332,1818,"O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a
day during his life; he could not have 'scaped
sixpence a day: an the duke had not given him
sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged;
he would have deserved it: sixpence a day in
Pyramus, or nothing.",481,19224
653333,1824,[Enter BOTTOM],1261,19224
653334,1825,Where are these lads? where are these hearts?,189,19224
653335,1826,Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!,937,19224
653336,1827,"Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not
what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I
will tell you every thing, right as it fell out.",189,19224
653337,1830,"Let us hear, sweet Bottom.",937,19224
653338,1831,"Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that
the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,
good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your
pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look
o'er his part; for the short and the long is, our
play is preferred. In any case, let Thisby have
clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion
pair his nails, for they shall hang out for the
lion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions
nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I
do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet
comedy. No more words: away! go, away!",189,19224
653339,1843,"[Exeunt]
[Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords and]
Attendants]",1261,19224
653340,1848,"'Tis strange my Theseus, that these
lovers speak of.",586,19225
653341,1850,"More strange than true: I never may believe
These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!",1161,19225
653342,1871,"But all the story of the night told over,
And all their minds transfigured so together,
More witnesseth than fancy's images
And grows to something of great constancy;
But, howsoever, strange and admirable.",586,19225
653343,1876,"Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.
[Enter LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HERMIA, and HELENA]
Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love
Accompany your hearts!",1161,19225
653344,1880,"More than to us
Wait in your royal walks, your board, your bed!",722,19225
653345,1882,"Come now; what masques, what dances shall we have,
To wear away this long age of three hours
Between our after-supper and bed-time?
Where is our usual manager of mirth?
What revels are in hand? Is there no play,
To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?
Call Philostrate.",1161,19225
653346,1889,"Here, mighty Theseus.",885,19225
653347,1890,"Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
What masque? what music? How shall we beguile
The lazy time, if not with some delight?",1161,19225
653348,1893,"There is a brief how many sports are ripe:
Make choice of which your highness will see first.",885,19225
653349,1895,[Giving a paper],1261,19225
653350,1896,"[Reads] 'The battle with the Centaurs, to be sung
By an Athenian eunuch to the harp.'
We'll none of that: that have I told my love,
In glory of my kinsman Hercules.
[Reads]
'The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals,
Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage.'
That is an old device; and it was play'd
When I from Thebes came last a conqueror.
[Reads]
'The thrice three Muses mourning for the death
Of Learning, late deceased in beggary.'
That is some satire, keen and critical,
Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony.
[Reads]
'A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus
And his love Thisbe; very tragical mirth.'
Merry and tragical! tedious and brief!
That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.
How shall we find the concord of this discord?",1161,19225
653351,1916,"A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,
Which is as brief as I have known a play;
But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,
Which makes it tedious; for in all the play
There is not one word apt, one player fitted:
And tragical, my noble lord, it is;
For Pyramus therein doth kill himself.
Which, when I saw rehearsed, I must confess,
Made mine eyes water; but more merry tears
The passion of loud laughter never shed.",885,19225
653352,1926,What are they that do play it?,1161,19225
653353,1927,"Hard-handed men that work in Athens here,
Which never labour'd in their minds till now,
And now have toil'd their unbreathed memories
With this same play, against your nuptial.",885,19225
653354,1931,And we will hear it.,1161,19225
653355,1932,"No, my noble lord;
It is not for you: I have heard it over,
And it is nothing, nothing in the world;
Unless you can find sport in their intents,
Extremely stretch'd and conn'd with cruel pain,
To do you service.",885,19225
653356,1938,"I will hear that play;
For never anything can be amiss,
When simpleness and duty tender it.
Go, bring them in: and take your places, ladies.",1161,19225
653357,1942,[Exit PHILOSTRATE],1261,19225
653358,1943,"I love not to see wretchedness o'er charged
And duty in his service perishing.",586,19225
653359,1945,"Why, gentle sweet, you shall see no such thing.",1161,19225
653360,1946,He says they can do nothing in this kind.,586,19225
653361,1947,"The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing.
Our sport shall be to take what they mistake:
And what poor duty cannot do, noble respect
Takes it in might, not merit.
Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
To greet me with premeditated welcomes;
Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,
Make periods in the midst of sentences,
Throttle their practised accent in their fears
And in conclusion dumbly have broke off,
Not paying me a welcome. Trust me, sweet,
Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome;
And in the modesty of fearful duty
I read as much as from the rattling tongue
Of saucy and audacious eloquence.
Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
In least speak most, to my capacity.",1161,19225
653362,1964,[Re-enter PHILOSTRATE],1261,19225
653363,1965,"So please your grace, the Prologue is address'd.",885,19225
653364,1966,Let him approach.,1161,19225
653365,1967,[Flourish of trumpets],1261,19225
653366,1968,[Enter QUINCE for the Prologue],1261,19225
653367,1969,"If we offend, it is with our good will.
That you should think, we come not to offend,
But with good will. To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
Consider then we come but in despite.
We do not come as minding to contest you,
Our true intent is. All for your delight
We are not here. That you should here repent you,
The actors are at hand and by their show
You shall know all that you are like to know.",937,19225
653368,1979,This fellow doth not stand upon points.,1161,19225
653369,1980,"He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he knows
not the stop. A good moral, my lord: it is not
enough to speak, but to speak true.",722,19225
653370,1983,"Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child
on a recorder; a sound, but not in government.",586,19225
653371,1985,"His speech, was like a tangled chain; nothing
impaired, but all disordered. Who is next?",1161,19225
653372,1987,"[Enter Pyramus and Thisbe, Wall, Moonshine, and Lion]",1261,19225
653373,1988,"Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show;
But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.
This man is Pyramus, if you would know;
This beauteous lady Thisby is certain.
This man, with lime and rough-cast, doth present
Wall, that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder;
And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content
To whisper. At the which let no man wonder.
This man, with lanthorn, dog, and bush of thorn,
Presenteth Moonshine; for, if you will know,
By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn
To meet at Ninus' tomb, there, there to woo.
This grisly beast, which Lion hight by name,
The trusty Thisby, coming first by night,
Did scare away, or rather did affright;
And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall,
Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.
Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and tall,
And finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain:
Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,
He bravely broach'd is boiling bloody breast;
And Thisby, tarrying in mulberry shade,
His dagger drew, and died. For all the rest,
Let Lion, Moonshine, Wall, and lovers twain
At large discourse, while here they do remain.",937,19225
653374,2013,"[Exeunt Prologue, Thisbe, Lion, and Moonshine]",1261,19225
653375,2014,I wonder if the lion be to speak.,1161,19225
653376,2015,"No wonder, my lord: one lion may, when many asses do.",307,19225
653377,2016,"In this same interlude it doth befall
That I, one Snout by name, present a wall;
And such a wall, as I would have you think,
That had in it a crannied hole or chink,
Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisby,
Did whisper often very secretly.
This loam, this rough-cast and this stone doth show
That I am that same wall; the truth is so:
And this the cranny is, right and sinister,
Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.",1127,19225
653378,2026,Would you desire lime and hair to speak better?,1161,19225
653379,2027,"It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard
discourse, my lord.",307,19225
653380,2029,[Enter Pyramus],1261,19225
653381,2030,Pyramus draws near the wall: silence!,1161,19225
653382,2031,"O grim-look'd night! O night with hue so black!
O night, which ever art when day is not!
O night, O night! alack, alack, alack,
I fear my Thisby's promise is forgot!
And thou, O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall,
That stand'st between her father's ground and mine!
Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,
Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne!
[Wall holds up his fingers]
Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!
But what see I? No Thisby do I see.
O wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss!
Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me!",189,19225
653383,2044,"The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again.",1161,19225
653384,2045,"No, in truth, sir, he should not. 'Deceiving me'
is Thisby's cue: she is to enter now, and I am to
spy her through the wall. You shall see, it will
fall pat as I told you. Yonder she comes.",189,19225
653385,2049,[Enter Thisbe],1261,19225
653386,2050,"[as Thisbe] O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans,
For parting my fair Pyramus and me!
My cherry lips have often kiss'd thy stones,
Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee.",481,19225
653387,2054,"I see a voice: now will I to the chink,
To spy an I can hear my Thisby's face. Thisby!",189,19225
653388,2056,"[as Thisbe] My love thou art, my love I think.",481,19225
653389,2057,"Think what thou wilt, I am thy lover's grace;
And, like Limander, am I trusty still.",189,19225
653390,2059,"[as Thisbe] And I like Helen, till the Fates me kill.",481,19225
653391,2060,Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true.,189,19225
653392,2061,"[as Thisbe] As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you.",481,19225
653393,2062,O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall!,189,19225
653394,2063,"[as Thisbe] I kiss the wall's hole, not your lips at all.",481,19225
653395,2064,Wilt thou at Ninny's tomb meet me straightway?,189,19225
653396,2065,"[as Thisbe] 'Tide life, 'tide death, I come without delay.",481,19225
653397,2066,[Exeunt Pyramus and Thisbe],1261,19225
653398,2067,"[as Wall] Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;
And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.",1127,19225
653399,2069,[Exit],1261,19225
653400,2070,Now is the mural down between the two neighbours.,1161,19225
653401,2071,"No remedy, my lord, when walls are so wilful to hear
without warning.",307,19225
653402,2073,This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.,586,19225
653403,2074,"The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst
are no worse, if imagination amend them.",1161,19225
653404,2076,"It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.",586,19225
653405,2077,"If we imagine no worse of them than they of
themselves, they may pass for excellent men. Here
come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion.",1161,19225
653406,2080,[Enter Lion and Moonshine],1261,19225
653407,2081,"[as Lion] You, ladies, you, whose gentle hearts do fear
The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,
May now perchance both quake and tremble here,
When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar.
Then know that I, one Snug the joiner, am
A lion-fell, nor else no lion's dam;
For, if I should as lion come in strife
Into this place, 'twere pity on my life.",1128,19225
653408,2089,"A very gentle beast, of a good conscience.",1161,19225
653409,2090,"The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw.",307,19225
653410,2091,This lion is a very fox for his valour.,722,19225
653411,2092,True; and a goose for his discretion.,1161,19225
653412,2093,"Not so, my lord; for his valour cannot carry his
discretion; and the fox carries the goose.",307,19225
653413,2095,"His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valour;
for the goose carries not the fox. It is well:
leave it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon.",1161,19225
653414,2098,[as Moonshine] This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;--,1146,19225
653415,2099,He should have worn the horns on his head.,307,19225
653416,2100,"He is no crescent, and his horns are
invisible within the circumference.",1161,19225
653417,2102,"[as Moonshine] This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;
Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be.",1146,19225
653418,2104,"This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man
should be put into the lanthorn. How is it else the
man i' the moon?",1161,19225
653419,2107,"He dares not come there for the candle; for, you
see, it is already in snuff.",307,19225
653420,2109,I am aweary of this moon: would he would change!,586,19225
653421,2110,"It appears, by his small light of discretion, that
he is in the wane; but yet, in courtesy, in all
reason, we must stay the time.",1161,19225
653422,2113,"Proceed, Moon.",722,19225
653423,2114,"[as Moonshine] All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the
lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this
thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.",1146,19225
653424,2117,"Why, all these should be in the lanthorn; for all
these are in the moon. But, silence! here comes Thisbe.",307,19225
653425,2119,[Enter Thisbe],1261,19225
653426,2120,[as Thisbe] This is old Ninny's tomb. Where is my love?,481,19225
653427,2121,[as Lion] [Roaring] Oh--,1128,19225
653428,2122,[Thisbe runs off],1261,19225
653429,2123,"Well roared, Lion.",307,19225
653430,2124,"Well run, Thisbe.",1161,19225
653431,2125,"Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a
good grace.",586,19225
653432,2127,"[The Lion shakes Thisbe's mantle, and exit]",1261,19225
653433,2128,"Well moused, Lion.",1161,19225
653434,2129,And so the lion vanished.,722,19225
653435,2130,And then came Pyramus.,307,19225
653436,2131,[Enter Pyramus],1261,19225
653437,2132,"Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams;
I thank thee, Moon, for shining now so bright;
For, by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams,
I trust to take of truest Thisby sight.
But stay, O spite!
But mark, poor knight,
What dreadful dole is here!
Eyes, do you see?
How can it be?
O dainty duck! O dear!
Thy mantle good,
What, stain'd with blood!
Approach, ye Furies fell!
O Fates, come, come,
Cut thread and thrum;
Quail, crush, conclude, and quell!",189,19225
653438,2148,"This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would
go near to make a man look sad.",1161,19225
653439,2150,"Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man.",586,19225
653440,2151,"O wherefore, Nature, didst thou lions frame?
Since lion vile hath here deflower'd my dear:
Which is--no, no--which was the fairest dame
That lived, that loved, that liked, that look'd
with cheer.
Come, tears, confound;
Out, sword, and wound
The pap of Pyramus;
Ay, that left pap,
Where heart doth hop:
[Stabs himself]
Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.
Now am I dead,
Now am I fled;
My soul is in the sky:
Tongue, lose thy light;
Moon take thy flight:
[Exit Moonshine]
Now die, die, die, die, die.",189,19225
653441,2170,[Dies],1261,19225
653442,2171,"No die, but an ace, for him; for he is but one.",307,19225
653443,2172,"Less than an ace, man; for he is dead; he is nothing.",722,19225
653444,2173,"With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover, and
prove an ass.",1161,19225
653445,2175,"How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe comes
back and finds her lover?",586,19225
653446,2177,"She will find him by starlight. Here she comes; and
her passion ends the play.",1161,19225
653447,2179,[Re-enter Thisbe],1261,19225
653448,2180,"Methinks she should not use a long one for such a
Pyramus: I hope she will be brief.",586,19225
653449,2182,"A mote will turn the balance, which Pyramus, which
Thisbe, is the better; he for a man, God warrant us;
she for a woman, God bless us.",307,19225
653450,2185,She hath spied him already with those sweet eyes.,722,19225
653451,2186,"And thus she means, videlicet:--",307,19225
653452,2187,"[as Thisbe] Asleep, my love?
What, dead, my dove?
O Pyramus, arise!
Speak, speak. Quite dumb?
Dead, dead? A tomb
Must cover thy sweet eyes.
These My lips,
This cherry nose,
These yellow cowslip cheeks,
Are gone, are gone:
Lovers, make moan:
His eyes were green as leeks.
O Sisters Three,
Come, come to me,
With hands as pale as milk;
Lay them in gore,
Since you have shore
With shears his thread of silk.
Tongue, not a word:
Come, trusty sword;
Come, blade, my breast imbrue:
[Stabs herself]
And, farewell, friends;
Thus Thisby ends:
Adieu, adieu, adieu.",481,19225
653453,2212,[Dies],1261,19225
653454,2213,Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead.,1161,19225
653455,2214,"Ay, and Wall too.",307,19225
653456,2215,"[Starting up] No assure you; the wall is down that
parted their fathers. Will it please you to see the
epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two
of our company?",189,19225
653457,2219,"No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no
excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all
dead, there needs none to be blamed. Marry, if he
that writ it had played Pyramus and hanged himself
in Thisbe's garter, it would have been a fine
tragedy: and so it is, truly; and very notably
discharged. But come, your Bergomask: let your
epilogue alone.
[A dance]
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
I fear we shall out-sleep the coming morn
As much as we this night have overwatch'd.
This palpable-gross play hath well beguiled
The heavy gait of night. Sweet friends, to bed.
A fortnight hold we this solemnity,
In nightly revels and new jollity.",1161,19225
653458,2236,[Exeunt],1261,19225
653459,2237,[Enter PUCK],1261,19225
653460,2238,"Now the hungry lion roars,
And the wolf behowls the moon;
Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,
All with weary task fordone.
Now the wasted brands do glow,
Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud,
Puts the wretch that lies in woe
In remembrance of a shroud.
Now it is the time of night
That the graves all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his sprite,
In the church-way paths to glide:
And we fairies, that do run
By the triple Hecate's team,
From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic: not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallow'd house:
I am sent with broom before,
To sweep the dust behind the door.",929,19225
653461,2258,[Enter OBERON and TITANIA with their train],1261,19225
653462,2259,"Through the house give gathering light,
By the dead and drowsy fire:
Every elf and fairy sprite
Hop as light as bird from brier;
And this ditty, after me,
Sing, and dance it trippingly.",822,19225
653463,2265,"First, rehearse your song by rote
To each word a warbling note:
Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
Will we sing, and bless this place.",1200,19225
653464,2269,[Song and dance],1261,19225
653465,2270,"Now, until the break of day,
Through this house each fairy stray.
To the best bride-bed will we,
Which by us shall blessed be;
And the issue there create
Ever shall be fortunate.
So shall all the couples three
Ever true in loving be;
And the blots of Nature's hand
Shall not in their issue stand;
Never mole, hare lip, nor scar,
Nor mark prodigious, such as are
Despised in nativity,
Shall upon their children be.
With this field-dew consecrate,
Every fairy take his gait;
And each several chamber bless,
Through this palace, with sweet peace;
And the owner of it blest
Ever shall in safety rest.
Trip away; make no stay;
Meet me all by break of day.",822,19225
653466,2292,"[Exeunt OBERON, TITANIA, and train]",1261,19225
653467,2293,"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.",929,19225
653468,3,"[Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger]",1261,19226
653469,4,"I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon
comes this night to Messina.",664,19226
653470,6,"He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off
when I left him.",784,19226
653471,8,How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?,664,19226
653472,9,"But few of any sort, and none of name.",784,19226
653473,10,"A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings
home full numbers. I find here that Don Peter hath
bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called Claudio.",664,19226
653474,13,"Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by
Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the
promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb,
the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better
bettered expectation than you must expect of me to
tell you how.",784,19226
653475,19,"He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much
glad of it.",664,19226
653476,21,"I have already delivered him letters, and there
appears much joy in him; even so much that joy could
not show itself modest enough without a badge of
bitterness.",784,19226
653477,25,Did he break out into tears?,664,19226
653478,26,In great measure.,784,19226
653479,27,"A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces
truer than those that are so washed. How much
better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!",664,19226
653480,30,"I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the
wars or no?",156,19226
653481,32,"I know none of that name, lady: there was none such
in the army of any sort.",784,19226
653482,34,"What is he that you ask for, niece?",664,19226
653483,35,My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua.,585,19226
653484,36,"O, he's returned; and as pleasant as ever he was.",784,19226
653485,37,"He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged
Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading
the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged
him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he
killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath
he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.",156,19226
653486,43,"Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much;
but he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not.",664,19226
653487,45,"He hath done good service, lady, in these wars.",784,19226
653488,46,"You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it:
he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an
excellent stomach.",156,19226
653489,49,"And a good soldier too, lady.",784,19226
653490,50,And a good soldier to a lady: but what is he to a lord?,156,19226
653491,51,"A lord to a lord, a man to a man; stuffed with all
honourable virtues.",784,19226
653492,53,"It is so, indeed; he is no less than a stuffed man:
but for the stuffing,--well, we are all mortal.",156,19226
653493,55,"You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a
kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:
they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit
between them.",664,19226
653494,59,"Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last
conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and
now is the whole man governed with one: so that if
he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him
bear it for a difference between himself and his
horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left,
to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his
companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.",156,19226
653495,67,Is't possible?,784,19226
653496,68,"Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as
the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the
next block.",156,19226
653497,71,"I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.",784,19226
653498,72,"No; an he were, I would burn my study. But, I pray
you, who is his companion? Is there no young
squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil?",156,19226
653499,75,He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio.,784,19226
653500,76,"O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease: he
is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker
runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio! if
he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a
thousand pound ere a' be cured.",156,19226
653501,81,"I will hold friends with you, lady.",784,19226
653502,82,"Do, good friend.",156,19226
653503,83,"You will never run mad, niece.",664,19226
653504,84,"No, not till a hot January.",156,19226
653505,85,Don Pedro is approached.,784,19226
653506,86,"[Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and BALTHASAR]",1261,19226
653507,87,"Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your
trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid
cost, and you encounter it.",329,19226
653508,90,"Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of
your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should
remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides
and happiness takes his leave.",664,19226
653509,94,"You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this
is your daughter.",329,19226
653510,96,Her mother hath many times told me so.,664,19226
653511,97,"Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?",160,19226
653512,98,"Signior Benedick, no; for then were you a child.",664,19226
653513,99,"You have it full, Benedick: we may guess by this
what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers
herself. Be happy, lady; for you are like an
honourable father.",329,19226
653514,103,"If Signior Leonato be her father, she would not
have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, as
like him as she is.",160,19226
653515,106,"I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior
Benedick: nobody marks you.",156,19226
653516,108,"What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?",160,19226
653517,109,"Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come
in her presence.",156,19226
653518,113,"Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I
am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I
would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard
heart; for, truly, I love none.",160,19226
653519,117,"A dear happiness to women: they would else have
been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God
and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I
had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man
swear he loves me.",156,19226
653520,122,"God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some
gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate
scratched face.",160,19226
653521,125,"Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such
a face as yours were.",156,19226
653522,127,"Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.",160,19226
653523,128,A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.,156,19226
653524,129,"I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and
so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's
name; I have done.",160,19226
653525,132,You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old.,156,19226
653526,133,"That is the sum of all, Leonato. Signior Claudio
and Signior Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath
invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at
the least a month; and he heartily prays some
occasion may detain us longer. I dare swear he is no
hypocrite, but prays from his heart.",329,19226
653527,139,"If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn.
[To DON JOHN]
Let me bid you welcome, my lord: being reconciled to
the prince your brother, I owe you all duty.",664,19226
653528,143,"I thank you: I am not of many words, but I thank
you.",328,19226
653529,145,Please it your grace lead on?,664,19226
653530,146,"Your hand, Leonato; we will go together.",329,19226
653531,147,[Exeunt all except BENEDICK and CLAUDIO],1261,19226
653532,148,"Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato?",256,19226
653533,149,I noted her not; but I looked on her.,160,19226
653534,150,Is she not a modest young lady?,256,19226
653535,151,"Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for
my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak
after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?",160,19226
653536,154,No; I pray thee speak in sober judgment.,256,19226
653537,155,"Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high
praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little
for a great praise: only this commendation I can
afford her, that were she other than she is, she
were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I
do not like her.",160,19226
653538,161,"Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tell me
truly how thou likest her.",256,19226
653539,163,"Would you buy her, that you inquire after her?",160,19226
653540,164,Can the world buy such a jewel?,256,19226
653541,165,"Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you this
with a sad brow? or do you play the flouting Jack,
to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a
rare carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take
you, to go in the song?",160,19226
653542,170,"In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I
looked on.",256,19226
653543,172,"I can see yet without spectacles and I see no such
matter: there's her cousin, an she were not
possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty
as the first of May doth the last of December. But I
hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you?",160,19226
653544,177,"I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the
contrary, if Hero would be my wife.",256,19226
653545,179,"Is't come to this? In faith, hath not the world
one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion?
Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?
Go to, i' faith; an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck
into a yoke, wear the print of it and sigh away
Sundays. Look Don Pedro is returned to seek you.",160,19226
653546,185,[Re-enter DON PEDRO],1261,19226
653547,186,"What secret hath held you here, that you followed
not to Leonato's?",329,19226
653548,188,I would your grace would constrain me to tell.,160,19226
653549,189,I charge thee on thy allegiance.,329,19226
653550,190,"You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as a dumb
man; I would have you think so; but, on my
allegiance, mark you this, on my allegiance. He is
in love. With who? now that is your grace's part.
Mark how short his answer is;--With Hero, Leonato's
short daughter.",160,19226
653551,196,"If this were so, so were it uttered.",256,19226
653552,197,"Like the old tale, my lord: 'it is not so, nor
'twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be
so.'",160,19226
653553,200,"If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it
should be otherwise.",256,19226
653554,202,"Amen, if you love her; for the lady is very well worthy.",329,19226
653555,203,"You speak this to fetch me in, my lord.",256,19226
653556,204,"By my troth, I speak my thought.",329,19226
653557,205,"And, in faith, my lord, I spoke mine.",256,19226
653558,206,"And, by my two faiths and troths, my lord, I spoke mine.",160,19226
653559,207,"That I love her, I feel.",256,19226
653560,208,"That she is worthy, I know.",329,19226
653561,209,"That I neither feel how she should be loved nor
know how she should be worthy, is the opinion that
fire cannot melt out of me: I will die in it at the stake.",160,19226
653562,212,"Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite
of beauty.",329,19226
653563,214,"And never could maintain his part but in the force
of his will.",256,19226
653564,216,"That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she
brought me up, I likewise give her most humble
thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my
forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick,
all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do
them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the
right to trust none; and the fine is, for the which
I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor.",160,19226
653565,224,"I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love.",329,19226
653566,225,"With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord,
not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood
with love than I will get again with drinking, pick
out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me
up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of
blind Cupid.",160,19226
653567,231,"Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou
wilt prove a notable argument.",329,19226
653568,233,"If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot
at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on
the shoulder, and called Adam.",160,19226
653569,236,"Well, as time shall try: 'In time the savage bull
doth bear the yoke.'",329,19226
653570,238,"The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible
Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set
them in my forehead: and let me be vilely painted,
and in such great letters as they write 'Here is
good horse to hire,' let them signify under my sign
'Here you may see Benedick the married man.'",160,19226
653571,244,"If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn-mad.",256,19226
653572,245,"Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in
Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.",329,19226
653573,247,"I look for an earthquake too, then.",160,19226
653574,248,"Well, you temporize with the hours. In the
meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to
Leonato's: commend me to him and tell him I will
not fail him at supper; for indeed he hath made
great preparation.",329,19226
653575,253,"I have almost matter enough in me for such an
embassage; and so I commit you--",160,19226
653576,255,"To the tuition of God: From my house, if I had it,--",256,19226
653577,256,"The sixth of July: Your loving friend, Benedick.",329,19226
653578,257,"Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your
discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and
the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere
you flout old ends any further, examine your
conscience: and so I leave you.",160,19226
653579,262,[Exit],1261,19226
653580,263,"My liege, your highness now may do me good.",256,19226
653581,264,"My love is thine to teach: teach it but how,
And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn
Any hard lesson that may do thee good.",329,19226
653582,267,"Hath Leonato any son, my lord?",256,19226
653583,268,"No child but Hero; she's his only heir.
Dost thou affect her, Claudio?",329,19226
653584,270,"O, my lord,
When you went onward on this ended action,
I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye,
That liked, but had a rougher task in hand
Than to drive liking to the name of love:
But now I am return'd and that war-thoughts
Have left their places vacant, in their rooms
Come thronging soft and delicate desires,
All prompting me how fair young Hero is,
Saying, I liked her ere I went to wars.",256,19226
653585,280,"Thou wilt be like a lover presently
And tire the hearer with a book of words.
If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,
And I will break with her and with her father,
And thou shalt have her. Was't not to this end
That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?",329,19226
653586,286,"How sweetly you do minister to love,
That know love's grief by his complexion!
But lest my liking might too sudden seem,
I would have salved it with a longer treatise.",256,19226
653587,290,"What need the bridge much broader than the flood?
The fairest grant is the necessity.
Look, what will serve is fit: 'tis once, thou lovest,
And I will fit thee with the remedy.
I know we shall have revelling to-night:
I will assume thy part in some disguise
And tell fair Hero I am Claudio,
And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart
And take her hearing prisoner with the force
And strong encounter of my amorous tale:
Then after to her father will I break;
And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
In practise let us put it presently.",329,19226
653588,303,[Exeunt],1261,19226
653589,305,"[Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, meeting]",1261,19227
653590,306,"How now, brother! Where is my cousin, your son?
hath he provided this music?",664,19227
653591,308,"He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell
you strange news that you yet dreamt not of.",115,19227
653592,310,Are they good?,664,19227
653593,311,"As the event stamps them: but they have a good
cover; they show well outward. The prince and Count
Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine
orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine:
the prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my
niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it
this night in a dance: and if he found her
accordant, he meant to take the present time by the
top and instantly break with you of it.",115,19227
653594,320,Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?,664,19227
653595,321,"A good sharp fellow: I will send for him; and
question him yourself.",115,19227
653596,323,"No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear
itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal,
that she may be the better prepared for an answer,
if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it.
[Enter Attendants]
Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you
mercy, friend; go you with me, and I will use your
skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time.",664,19227
653597,331,[Exeunt],1261,19227
653598,333,[Enter DON JOHN and CONRADE],1261,19228
653599,334,"What the good-year, my lord! why are you thus out
of measure sad?",278,19228
653600,336,"There is no measure in the occasion that breeds;
therefore the sadness is without limit.",328,19228
653601,338,You should hear reason.,278,19228
653602,339,"And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it?",328,19228
653603,340,"If not a present remedy, at least a patient
sufferance.",278,19228
653604,342,"I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayest thou art,
born under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral
medicine to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide
what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile
at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait
for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and
tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and
claw no man in his humour.",328,19228
653605,350,"Yea, but you must not make the full show of this
till you may do it without controlment. You have of
late stood out against your brother, and he hath
ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is
impossible you should take true root but by the
fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful
that you frame the season for your own harvest.",278,19228
653606,357,"I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in
his grace, and it better fits my blood to be
disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob
love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to
be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied
but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with
a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I
have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my
mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do
my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and
seek not to alter me.",328,19228
653607,368,Can you make no use of your discontent?,278,19228
653608,369,"I make all use of it, for I use it only.
Who comes here?
[Enter BORACHIO]
What news, Borachio?",328,19228
653609,373,"I came yonder from a great supper: the prince your
brother is royally entertained by Leonato: and I
can give you intelligence of an intended marriage.",179,19228
653610,376,"Will it serve for any model to build mischief on?
What is he for a fool that betroths himself to
unquietness?",328,19228
653611,379,"Marry, it is your brother's right hand.",179,19228
653612,380,Who? the most exquisite Claudio?,328,19228
653613,381,Even he.,179,19228
653614,382,"A proper squire! And who, and who? which way looks
he?",328,19228
653615,384,"Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato.",179,19228
653616,385,A very forward March-chick! How came you to this?,328,19228
653617,386,"Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a
musty room, comes me the prince and Claudio, hand
in hand in sad conference: I whipt me behind the
arras; and there heard it agreed upon that the
prince should woo Hero for himself, and having
obtained her, give her to Count Claudio.",179,19228
653618,392,"Come, come, let us thither: this may prove food to
my displeasure. That young start-up hath all the
glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I
bless myself every way. You are both sure, and will assist me?",328,19228
653619,396,"To the death, my lord.",278,19228
653620,397,"Let us to the great supper: their cheer is the
greater that I am subdued. Would the cook were of
my mind! Shall we go prove what's to be done?",328,19228
653621,400,We'll wait upon your lordship.,179,19228
653622,401,[Exeunt],1261,19228
653623,404,"[Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, HERO, BEATRICE, and others]",1261,19229
653624,405,Was not Count John here at supper?,664,19229
653625,406,I saw him not.,115,19229
653626,407,"How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see
him but I am heart-burned an hour after.",156,19229
653627,409,He is of a very melancholy disposition.,585,19229
653628,410,"He were an excellent man that were made just in the
midway between him and Benedick: the one is too
like an image and says nothing, and the other too
like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling.",156,19229
653629,414,"Then half Signior Benedick's tongue in Count John's
mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signior
Benedick's face,--",664,19229
653630,417,"With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money
enough in his purse, such a man would win any woman
in the world, if a' could get her good-will.",156,19229
653631,420,"By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a
husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.",664,19229
653632,422,"In faith, she's too curst.",115,19229
653633,423,"Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessen God's
sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a curst
cow short horns;' but to a cow too curst he sends none.",156,19229
653634,426,"So, by being too curst, God will send you no horns.",664,19229
653635,427,"Just, if he send me no husband; for the which
blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and
evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a
beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.",156,19229
653636,431,You may light on a husband that hath no beard.,664,19229
653637,432,"What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel
and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a
beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no
beard is less than a man: and he that is more than
a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a
man, I am not for him: therefore, I will even take
sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his
apes into hell.",156,19229
653638,440,"Well, then, go you into hell?",664,19229
653639,441,"No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet
me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and
say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to
heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver
I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the
heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and
there live we as merry as the day is long.",156,19229
653640,448,"[To HERO] Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled
by your father.",115,19229
653641,450,"Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy
and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all
that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else
make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please
me.'",156,19229
653642,455,"Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.",664,19229
653643,456,"Not till God make men of some other metal than
earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be
overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make
an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?
No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren;
and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.",156,19229
653644,462,"Daughter, remember what I told you: if the prince
do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer.",664,19229
653645,464,"The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be
not wooed in good time: if the prince be too
important, tell him there is measure in every thing
and so dance out the answer. For, hear me, Hero:
wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig,
a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot
and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as
fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a
measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes
repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the
cinque pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.",156,19229
653646,475,"Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly.",664,19229
653647,476,"I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight.",156,19229
653648,477,"The revellers are entering, brother: make good room.
[All put on their masks]
[Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, BALTHASAR,]
DON JOHN, BORACHIO, MARGARET, URSULA and others, masked]",664,19229
653649,481,"Lady, will you walk about with your friend?",329,19229
653650,482,"So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing,
I am yours for the walk; and especially when I walk away.",585,19229
653651,484,With me in your company?,329,19229
653652,485,"I may say so, when I please.",585,19229
653653,486,And when please you to say so?,329,19229
653654,487,"When I like your favour; for God defend the lute
should be like the case!",585,19229
653655,489,My visor is Philemon's roof; within the house is Jove.,329,19229
653656,490,"Why, then, your visor should be thatched.",585,19229
653657,491,"Speak low, if you speak love.",329,19229
653658,492,[Drawing her aside],1261,19229
653659,493,"Well, I would you did like me.",137,19229
653660,494,"So would not I, for your own sake; for I have many
ill-qualities.",735,19229
653661,496,Which is one?,137,19229
653662,497,I say my prayers aloud.,735,19229
653663,498,"I love you the better: the hearers may cry, Amen.",137,19229
653664,499,God match me with a good dancer!,735,19229
653665,500,Amen.,137,19229
653666,501,"And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is
done! Answer, clerk.",735,19229
653667,503,No more words: the clerk is answered.,137,19229
653668,504,I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.,1219,19229
653669,505,"At a word, I am not.",115,19229
653670,506,I know you by the waggling of your head.,1219,19229
653671,507,"To tell you true, I counterfeit him.",115,19229
653672,508,"You could never do him so ill-well, unless you were
the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down: you
are he, you are he.",1219,19229
653673,511,"At a word, I am not.",115,19229
653674,512,"Come, come, do you think I do not know you by your
excellent wit? can virtue hide itself? Go to,
mum, you are he: graces will appear, and there's an
end.",1219,19229
653675,516,Will you not tell me who told you so?,156,19229
653676,517,"No, you shall pardon me.",160,19229
653677,518,Nor will you not tell me who you are?,156,19229
653678,519,Not now.,160,19229
653679,520,"That I was disdainful, and that I had my good wit
out of the 'Hundred Merry Tales:'--well this was
Signior Benedick that said so.",156,19229
653680,523,What's he?,160,19229
653681,524,I am sure you know him well enough.,156,19229
653682,525,"Not I, believe me.",160,19229
653683,526,Did he never make you laugh?,156,19229
653684,527,"I pray you, what is he?",160,19229
653685,528,"Why, he is the prince's jester: a very dull fool;
only his gift is in devising impossible slanders:
none but libertines delight in him; and the
commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany;
for he both pleases men and angers them, and then
they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in
the fleet: I would he had boarded me.",156,19229
653686,535,"When I know the gentleman, I'll tell him what you say.",160,19229
653687,536,"Do, do: he'll but break a comparison or two on me;
which, peradventure not marked or not laughed at,
strikes him into melancholy; and then there's a
partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no
supper that night.
[Music]
We must follow the leaders.",156,19229
653688,543,In every good thing.,160,19229
653689,544,"Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at
the next turning.",156,19229
653690,546,"[Dance. Then exeunt all except DON JOHN, BORACHIO, and CLAUDIO]",1261,19229
653691,547,"Sure my brother is amorous on Hero and hath
withdrawn her father to break with him about it.
The ladies follow her and but one visor remains.",328,19229
653692,550,And that is Claudio: I know him by his bearing.,179,19229
653693,551,Are not you Signior Benedick?,328,19229
653694,552,You know me well; I am he.,256,19229
653695,553,"Signior, you are very near my brother in his love:
he is enamoured on Hero; I pray you, dissuade him
from her: she is no equal for his birth: you may
do the part of an honest man in it.",328,19229
653696,557,How know you he loves her?,256,19229
653697,558,I heard him swear his affection.,328,19229
653698,559,So did I too; and he swore he would marry her to-night.,179,19229
653699,560,"Come, let us to the banquet.",328,19229
653700,561,[Exeunt DON JOHN and BORACHIO],1261,19229
653701,562,"Thus answer I in the name of Benedick,
But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio.
'Tis certain so; the prince wooes for himself.
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
This is an accident of hourly proof,
Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!",256,19229
653702,573,[Re-enter BENEDICK],1261,19229
653703,574,Count Claudio?,160,19229
653704,575,"Yea, the same.",256,19229
653705,576,"Come, will you go with me?",160,19229
653706,577,Whither?,256,19229
653707,578,"Even to the next willow, about your own business,
county. What fashion will you wear the garland of?
about your neck, like an usurer's chain? or under
your arm, like a lieutenant's scarf? You must wear
it one way, for the prince hath got your Hero.",160,19229
653708,583,I wish him joy of her.,256,19229
653709,584,"Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they
sell bullocks. But did you think the prince would
have served you thus?",160,19229
653710,587,"I pray you, leave me.",256,19229
653711,588,"Ho! now you strike like the blind man: 'twas the
boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post.",160,19229
653712,590,"If it will not be, I'll leave you.",256,19229
653713,591,[Exit],1261,19229
653714,592,"Alas, poor hurt fowl! now will he creep into sedges.
But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not
know me! The prince's fool! Ha? It may be I go
under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I
am apt to do myself wrong; I am not so reputed: it
is the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice
that puts the world into her person and so gives me
out. Well, I'll be revenged as I may.",160,19229
653715,600,[Re-enter DON PEDRO],1261,19229
653716,601,"Now, signior, where's the count? did you see him?",329,19229
653717,602,"Troth, my lord, I have played the part of Lady Fame.
I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a
warren: I told him, and I think I told him true,
that your grace had got the good will of this young
lady; and I offered him my company to a willow-tree,
either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or
to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped.",160,19229
653718,609,To be whipped! What's his fault?,329,19229
653719,610,"The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who, being
overjoyed with finding a birds' nest, shows it his
companion, and he steals it.",160,19229
653720,613,"Wilt thou make a trust a transgression? The
transgression is in the stealer.",329,19229
653721,615,"Yet it had not been amiss the rod had been made,
and the garland too; for the garland he might have
worn himself, and the rod he might have bestowed on
you, who, as I take it, have stolen his birds' nest.",160,19229
653722,619,"I will but teach them to sing, and restore them to
the owner.",329,19229
653723,621,"If their singing answer your saying, by my faith,
you say honestly.",160,19229
653724,623,"The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you: the
gentleman that danced with her told her she is much
wronged by you.",329,19229
653725,626,"O, she misused me past the endurance of a block!
an oak but with one green leaf on it would have
answered her; my very visor began to assume life and
scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been
myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was
duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest
with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood
like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at
me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs:
if her breath were as terrible as her terminations,
there were no living near her; she would infect to
the north star. I would not marry her, though she
were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before
he transgressed: she would have made Hercules have
turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make
the fire too. Come, talk not of her: you shall find
her the infernal Ate in good apparel. I would to God
some scholar would conjure her; for certainly, while
she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a
sanctuary; and people sin upon purpose, because they
would go thither; so, indeed, all disquiet, horror
and perturbation follows her.",160,19229
653726,648,"Look, here she comes.",329,19229
653727,649,"[Enter CLAUDIO, BEATRICE, HERO, and LEONATO]",1261,19229
653728,650,"Will your grace command me any service to the
world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now
to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on;
I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the
furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of
Prester John's foot, fetch you a hair off the great
Cham's beard, do you any embassage to the Pigmies,
rather than hold three words' conference with this
harpy. You have no employment for me?",160,19229
653729,659,"None, but to desire your good company.",329,19229
653730,660,"O God, sir, here's a dish I love not: I cannot
endure my Lady Tongue.",160,19229
653731,662,[Exit],1261,19229
653732,663,"Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of
Signior Benedick.",329,19229
653733,665,"Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave
him use for it, a double heart for his single one:
marry, once before he won it of me with false dice,
therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.",156,19229
653734,669,"You have put him down, lady, you have put him down.",329,19229
653735,670,"So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I
should prove the mother of fools. I have brought
Count Claudio, whom you sent me to seek.",156,19229
653736,673,"Why, how now, count! wherefore are you sad?",329,19229
653737,674,"Not sad, my lord.",256,19229
653738,675,How then? sick?,329,19229
653739,676,"Neither, my lord.",256,19229
653740,677,"The count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor
well; but civil count, civil as an orange, and
something of that jealous complexion.",156,19229
653741,680,"I' faith, lady, I think your blazon to be true;
though, I'll be sworn, if he be so, his conceit is
false. Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and
fair Hero is won: I have broke with her father,
and his good will obtained: name the day of
marriage, and God give thee joy!",329,19229
653742,686,"Count, take of me my daughter, and with her my
fortunes: his grace hath made the match, and an
grace say Amen to it.",664,19229
653743,689,"Speak, count, 'tis your cue.",156,19229
653744,690,"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were
but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as
you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for
you and dote upon the exchange.",256,19229
653745,694,"Speak, cousin; or, if you cannot, stop his mouth
with a kiss, and let not him speak neither.",156,19229
653746,696,"In faith, lady, you have a merry heart.",329,19229
653747,697,"Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on
the windy side of care. My cousin tells him in his
ear that he is in her heart.",156,19229
653748,700,"And so she doth, cousin.",256,19229
653749,701,"Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the
world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a
corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!",156,19229
653750,704,"Lady Beatrice, I will get you one.",329,19229
653751,705,"I would rather have one of your father's getting.
Hath your grace ne'er a brother like you? Your
father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by them.",156,19229
653752,708,"Will you have me, lady?",329,19229
653753,709,"No, my lord, unless I might have another for
working-days: your grace is too costly to wear
every day. But, I beseech your grace, pardon me: I
was born to speak all mirth and no matter.",156,19229
653754,713,"Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best
becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in
a merry hour.",329,19229
653755,716,"No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there
was a star danced, and under that was I born.
Cousins, God give you joy!",156,19229
653756,719,"Niece, will you look to those things I told you of?",664,19229
653757,720,"I cry you mercy, uncle. By your grace's pardon.",156,19229
653758,721,[Exit],1261,19229
653759,722,"By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady.",329,19229
653760,723,"There's little of the melancholy element in her, my
lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps, and
not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say,
she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked
herself with laughing.",664,19229
653761,728,She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband.,329,19229
653762,729,"O, by no means: she mocks all her wooers out of suit.",664,19229
653763,730,She were an excellent wife for Benedict.,329,19229
653764,731,"O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married,
they would talk themselves mad.",664,19229
653765,733,"County Claudio, when mean you to go to church?",329,19229
653766,734,"To-morrow, my lord: time goes on crutches till love
have all his rites.",256,19229
653767,736,"Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just
seven-night; and a time too brief, too, to have all
things answer my mind.",664,19229
653768,739,"Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing:
but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go
dully by us. I will in the interim undertake one of
Hercules' labours; which is, to bring Signior
Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of
affection the one with the other. I would fain have
it a match, and I doubt not but to fashion it, if
you three will but minister such assistance as I
shall give you direction.",329,19229
653769,748,"My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten
nights' watchings.",664,19229
653770,750,"And I, my lord.",256,19229
653771,751,"And you too, gentle Hero?",329,19229
653772,752,"I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my
cousin to a good husband.",585,19229
653773,754,"And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband that
I know. Thus far can I praise him; he is of a noble
strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. I
will teach you how to humour your cousin, that she
shall fall in love with Benedick; and I, with your
two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in
despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he
shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this,
Cupid is no longer an archer: his glory shall be
ours, for we are the only love-gods. Go in with me,
and I will tell you my drift.",329,19229
653774,765,[Exeunt],1261,19229
653775,767,[Enter DON JOHN and BORACHIO],1261,19230
653776,768,"It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the
daughter of Leonato.",328,19230
653777,770,"Yea, my lord; but I can cross it.",179,19230
653778,771,"Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be
medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him,
and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges
evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?",328,19230
653779,775,"Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no
dishonesty shall appear in me.",179,19230
653780,777,Show me briefly how.,328,19230
653781,778,"I think I told your lordship a year since, how much
I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting
gentlewoman to Hero.",179,19230
653782,781,I remember.,328,19230
653783,782,"I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,
appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.",179,19230
653784,784,"What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage?",328,19230
653785,785,"The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to
the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that
he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned
Claudio--whose estimation do you mightily hold
up--to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.",179,19230
653786,790,What proof shall I make of that?,328,19230
653787,791,"Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio,
to undo Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for any
other issue?",179,19230
653788,794,"Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing.",328,19230
653789,795,"Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and
the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know
that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the
prince and Claudio, as,--in love of your brother's
honour, who hath made this match, and his friend's
reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the
semblance of a maid,--that you have discovered
thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial:
offer them instances; which shall bear no less
likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window,
hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me
Claudio; and bring them to see this the very night
before the intended wedding,--for in the meantime I
will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be
absent,--and there shall appear such seeming truth
of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called
assurance and all the preparation overthrown.",179,19230
653790,812,"Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put
it in practise. Be cunning in the working this, and
thy fee is a thousand ducats.",328,19230
653791,815,"Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning
shall not shame me.",179,19230
653792,817,I will presently go learn their day of marriage.,328,19230
653793,818,[Exeunt],1261,19230
653794,820,[Enter BENEDICK],1261,19231
653795,821,Boy!,160,19231
653796,822,[Enter Boy],1261,19231
653797,823,Signior?,195,19231
653798,824,"In my chamber-window lies a book: bring it hither
to me in the orchard.",160,19231
653799,826,"I am here already, sir.",195,19231
653800,827,"I know that; but I would have thee hence, and here again.
[Exit Boy]
I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much
another man is a fool when he dedicates his
behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at
such shallow follies in others, become the argument
of his own scorn by failing in love: and such a man
is Claudio. I have known when there was no music
with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he
rather hear the tabour and the pipe: I have known
when he would have walked ten mile a-foot to see a
good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake,
carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to
speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man
and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his
words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many
strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with
these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not: I will not
be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster; but
I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster
of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman
is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am
well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all
graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in
my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise,
or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her;
fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not
near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good
discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall
be of what colour it please God. Ha! the prince and
Monsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbour.",160,19231
653801,858,[Withdraws],1261,19231
653802,859,"[Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO]",1261,19231
653803,860,"Come, shall we hear this music?",329,19231
653804,861,"Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is,
As hush'd on purpose to grace harmony!",256,19231
653805,863,See you where Benedick hath hid himself?,329,19231
653806,864,"O, very well, my lord: the music ended,
We'll fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth.",256,19231
653807,866,[Enter BALTHASAR with Music],1261,19231
653808,867,"Come, Balthasar, we'll hear that song again.",329,19231
653809,868,"O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voice
To slander music any more than once.",137,19231
653810,870,"It is the witness still of excellency
To put a strange face on his own perfection.
I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more.",329,19231
653811,873,"Because you talk of wooing, I will sing;
Since many a wooer doth commence his suit
To her he thinks not worthy, yet he wooes,
Yet will he swear he loves.",137,19231
653812,877,"Now, pray thee, come;
Or, if thou wilt hold longer argument,
Do it in notes.",329,19231
653813,880,"Note this before my notes;
There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.",137,19231
653814,882,"Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks;
Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing.",329,19231
653815,884,[Air],1261,19231
653816,885,"Now, divine air! now is his soul ravished! Is it
not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out
of men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when
all's done.",160,19231
653817,889,[The Song],1261,19231
653818,890,"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never:
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no moe,
Of dumps so dull and heavy;
The fraud of men was ever so,
Since summer first was leafy:
Then sigh not so, &c.",137,19231
653819,903,"By my troth, a good song.",329,19231
653820,904,"And an ill singer, my lord.",137,19231
653821,905,"Ha, no, no, faith; thou singest well enough for a shift.",329,19231
653822,906,"An he had been a dog that should have howled thus,
they would have hanged him: and I pray God his bad
voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the
night-raven, come what plague could have come after
it.",160,19231
653823,911,"Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray thee,
get us some excellent music; for to-morrow night we
would have it at the Lady Hero's chamber-window.",329,19231
653824,914,"The best I can, my lord.",137,19231
653825,915,"Do so: farewell.
[Exit BALTHASAR]
Come hither, Leonato. What was it you told me of
to-day, that your niece Beatrice was in love with
Signior Benedick?",329,19231
653826,920,"O, ay: stalk on. stalk on; the fowl sits. I did
never think that lady would have loved any man.",256,19231
653827,922,"No, nor I neither; but most wonderful that she
should so dote on Signior Benedick, whom she hath in
all outward behaviors seemed ever to abhor.",664,19231
653828,925,Is't possible? Sits the wind in that corner?,160,19231
653829,926,"By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to think
of it but that she loves him with an enraged
affection: it is past the infinite of thought.",664,19231
653830,929,May be she doth but counterfeit.,329,19231
653831,930,"Faith, like enough.",256,19231
653832,931,"O God, counterfeit! There was never counterfeit of
passion came so near the life of passion as she
discovers it.",664,19231
653833,934,"Why, what effects of passion shows she?",329,19231
653834,935,Bait the hook well; this fish will bite.,256,19231
653835,936,"What effects, my lord? She will sit you, you heard
my daughter tell you how.",664,19231
653836,938,"She did, indeed.",256,19231
653837,939,"How, how, pray you? You amaze me: I would have I
thought her spirit had been invincible against all
assaults of affection.",329,19231
653838,942,"I would have sworn it had, my lord; especially
against Benedick.",664,19231
653839,944,"I should think this a gull, but that the
white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot,
sure, hide himself in such reverence.",160,19231
653840,947,He hath ta'en the infection: hold it up.,256,19231
653841,948,Hath she made her affection known to Benedick?,329,19231
653842,949,No; and swears she never will: that's her torment.,664,19231
653843,950,"'Tis true, indeed; so your daughter says: 'Shall
I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him
with scorn, write to him that I love him?'",256,19231
653844,953,"This says she now when she is beginning to write to
him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and
there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a
sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all.",664,19231
653845,957,"Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a
pretty jest your daughter told us of.",256,19231
653846,959,"O, when she had writ it and was reading it over, she
found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet?",664,19231
653847,961,That.,256,19231
653848,962,"O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence;
railed at herself, that she should be so immodest
to write to one that she knew would flout her; 'I
measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I
should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I
love him, I should.'",664,19231
653849,968,"Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs,
beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses; 'O
sweet Benedick! God give me patience!'",256,19231
653850,971,"She doth indeed; my daughter says so: and the
ecstasy hath so much overborne her that my daughter
is sometime afeared she will do a desperate outrage
to herself: it is very true.",664,19231
653851,975,"It were good that Benedick knew of it by some
other, if she will not discover it.",329,19231
653852,977,"To what end? He would make but a sport of it and
torment the poor lady worse.",256,19231
653853,979,"An he should, it were an alms to hang him. She's an
excellent sweet lady; and, out of all suspicion,
she is virtuous.",329,19231
653854,982,And she is exceeding wise.,256,19231
653855,983,In every thing but in loving Benedick.,329,19231
653856,984,"O, my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so tender
a body, we have ten proofs to one that blood hath
the victory. I am sorry for her, as I have just
cause, being her uncle and her guardian.",664,19231
653857,988,"I would she had bestowed this dotage on me: I would
have daffed all other respects and made her half
myself. I pray you, tell Benedick of it, and hear
what a' will say.",329,19231
653858,992,"Were it good, think you?",664,19231
653859,993,"Hero thinks surely she will die; for she says she
will die, if he love her not, and she will die, ere
she make her love known, and she will die, if he woo
her, rather than she will bate one breath of her
accustomed crossness.",256,19231
653860,998,"She doth well: if she should make tender of her
love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it; for the
man, as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit.",329,19231
653861,1001,He is a very proper man.,256,19231
653862,1002,He hath indeed a good outward happiness.,329,19231
653863,1003,"Before God! and, in my mind, very wise.",256,19231
653864,1004,He doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit.,329,19231
653865,1005,And I take him to be valiant.,256,19231
653866,1006,"As Hector, I assure you: and in the managing of
quarrels you may say he is wise; for either he
avoids them with great discretion, or undertakes
them with a most Christian-like fear.",329,19231
653867,1010,"If he do fear God, a' must necessarily keep peace:
if he break the peace, he ought to enter into a
quarrel with fear and trembling.",664,19231
653868,1013,"And so will he do; for the man doth fear God,
howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests
he will make. Well I am sorry for your niece. Shall
we go seek Benedick, and tell him of her love?",329,19231
653869,1017,"Never tell him, my lord: let her wear it out with
good counsel.",256,19231
653870,1019,"Nay, that's impossible: she may wear her heart out first.",664,19231
653871,1020,"Well, we will hear further of it by your daughter:
let it cool the while. I love Benedick well; and I
could wish he would modestly examine himself, to see
how much he is unworthy so good a lady.",329,19231
653872,1024,"My lord, will you walk? dinner is ready.",664,19231
653873,1025,"If he do not dote on her upon this, I will never
trust my expectation.",256,19231
653874,1027,"Let there be the same net spread for her; and that
must your daughter and her gentlewomen carry. The
sport will be, when they hold one an opinion of
another's dotage, and no such matter: that's the
scene that I would see, which will be merely a
dumb-show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner.",329,19231
653875,1033,"[Exeunt DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO]",1261,19231
653876,1034,"[Coming forward] This can be no trick: the
conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of
this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady: it
seems her affections have their full bent. Love me!
why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured:
they say I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive
the love come from her; they say too that she will
rather die than give any sign of affection. I did
never think to marry: I must not seem proud: happy
are they that hear their detractions and can put
them to mending. They say the lady is fair; 'tis a
truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; 'tis
so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving
me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor
no great argument of her folly, for I will be
horribly in love with her. I may chance have some
odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me,
because I have railed so long against marriage: but
doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat
in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of
the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?
No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would
die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I
were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day!
she's a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in
her.",160,19231
653877,1061,[Enter BEATRICE],1261,19231
653878,1062,Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.,156,19231
653879,1063,"Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.",160,19231
653880,1064,"I took no more pains for those thanks than you take
pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would
not have come.",156,19231
653881,1067,You take pleasure then in the message?,160,19231
653882,1068,"Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's
point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach,
signior: fare you well.",156,19231
653883,1071,[Exit],1261,19231
653884,1072,"Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in
to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that 'I took
no more pains for those thanks than you took pains
to thank me.' that's as much as to say, Any pains
that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do
not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not
love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture.",160,19231
653885,1079,[Exit],1261,19231
653886,1082,"[Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA]",1261,19232
653887,1083,"Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor;
There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice
Proposing with the prince and Claudio:
Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursula
Walk in the orchard and our whole discourse
Is all of her; say that thou overheard'st us;
And bid her steal into the pleached bower,
Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun,
Forbid the sun to enter, like favourites,
Made proud by princes, that advance their pride
Against that power that bred it: there will she hide her,
To listen our purpose. This is thy office;
Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.",585,19232
653888,1096,"I'll make her come, I warrant you, presently.",735,19232
653889,1097,[Exit],1261,19232
653890,1098,"Now, Ursula, when Beatrice doth come,
As we do trace this alley up and down,
Our talk must only be of Benedick.
When I do name him, let it be thy part
To praise him more than ever man did merit:
My talk to thee must be how Benedick
Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter
Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made,
That only wounds by hearsay.
[Enter BEATRICE, behind]
Now begin;
For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs
Close by the ground, to hear our conference.",585,19232
653891,1111,"The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
And greedily devour the treacherous bait:
So angle we for Beatrice; who even now
Is couched in the woodbine coverture.
Fear you not my part of the dialogue.",1219,19232
653892,1117,"Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing
Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it.
[Approaching the bower]
No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
I know her spirits are as coy and wild
As haggerds of the rock.",585,19232
653893,1123,"But are you sure
That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely?",1219,19232
653894,1125,So says the prince and my new-trothed lord.,585,19232
653895,1126,"And did they bid you tell her of it, madam?",1219,19232
653896,1127,"They did entreat me to acquaint her of it;
But I persuaded them, if they loved Benedick,
To wish him wrestle with affection,
And never to let Beatrice know of it.",585,19232
653897,1131,"Why did you so? Doth not the gentleman
Deserve as full as fortunate a bed
As ever Beatrice shall couch upon?",1219,19232
653898,1134,"O god of love! I know he doth deserve
As much as may be yielded to a man:
But Nature never framed a woman's heart
Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice;
Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,
Misprising what they look on, and her wit
Values itself so highly that to her
All matter else seems weak: she cannot love,
Nor take no shape nor project of affection,
She is so self-endeared.",585,19232
653899,1144,"Sure, I think so;
And therefore certainly it were not good
She knew his love, lest she make sport at it.",1219,19232
653900,1147,"Why, you speak truth. I never yet saw man,
How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured,
But she would spell him backward: if fair-faced,
She would swear the gentleman should be her sister;
If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antique,
Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed;
If low, an agate very vilely cut;
If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds;
If silent, why, a block moved with none.
So turns she every man the wrong side out
And never gives to truth and virtue that
Which simpleness and merit purchaseth.",585,19232
653901,1159,"Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable.",1219,19232
653902,1160,"No, not to be so odd and from all fashions
As Beatrice is, cannot be commendable:
But who dare tell her so? If I should speak,
She would mock me into air; O, she would laugh me
Out of myself, press me to death with wit.
Therefore let Benedick, like cover'd fire,
Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly:
It were a better death than die with mocks,
Which is as bad as die with tickling.",585,19232
653903,1169,Yet tell her of it: hear what she will say.,1219,19232
653904,1170,"No; rather I will go to Benedick
And counsel him to fight against his passion.
And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders
To stain my cousin with: one doth not know
How much an ill word may empoison liking.",585,19232
653905,1175,"O, do not do your cousin such a wrong.
She cannot be so much without true judgment--
Having so swift and excellent a wit
As she is prized to have--as to refuse
So rare a gentleman as Signior Benedick.",1219,19232
653906,1180,"He is the only man of Italy.
Always excepted my dear Claudio.",585,19232
653907,1182,"I pray you, be not angry with me, madam,
Speaking my fancy: Signior Benedick,
For shape, for bearing, argument and valour,
Goes foremost in report through Italy.",1219,19232
653908,1186,"Indeed, he hath an excellent good name.",585,19232
653909,1187,"His excellence did earn it, ere he had it.
When are you married, madam?",1219,19232
653910,1189,"Why, every day, to-morrow. Come, go in:
I'll show thee some attires, and have thy counsel
Which is the best to furnish me to-morrow.",585,19232
653911,1192,"She's limed, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.",1219,19232
653912,1193,"If it proves so, then loving goes by haps:
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.",585,19232
653913,1195,[Exeunt HERO and URSULA],1261,19232
653914,1196,"[Coming forward]
What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?
Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much?
Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu!
No glory lives behind the back of such.
And, Benedick, love on; I will requite thee,
Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand:
If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee
To bind our loves up in a holy band;
For others say thou dost deserve, and I
Believe it better than reportingly.",156,19232
653915,1207,[Exit],1261,19232
653916,1209,"[Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and LEONATO]",1261,19233
653917,1210,"I do but stay till your marriage be consummate, and
then go I toward Arragon.",329,19233
653918,1212,"I'll bring you thither, my lord, if you'll
vouchsafe me.",256,19233
653919,1214,"Nay, that would be as great a soil in the new gloss
of your marriage as to show a child his new coat
and forbid him to wear it. I will only be bold
with Benedick for his company; for, from the crown
of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all
mirth: he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's
bow-string and the little hangman dare not shoot at
him; he hath a heart as sound as a bell and his
tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks his
tongue speaks.",329,19233
653920,1224,"Gallants, I am not as I have been.",160,19233
653921,1225,So say I. methinks you are sadder.,664,19233
653922,1226,I hope he be in love.,256,19233
653923,1227,"Hang him, truant! there's no true drop of blood in
him, to be truly touched with love: if he be sad,
he wants money.",329,19233
653924,1230,I have the toothache.,160,19233
653925,1231,Draw it.,329,19233
653926,1232,Hang it!,160,19233
653927,1233,"You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards.",256,19233
653928,1234,What! sigh for the toothache?,329,19233
653929,1235,Where is but a humour or a worm.,664,19233
653930,1236,"Well, every one can master a grief but he that has
it.",160,19233
653931,1238,"Yet say I, he is in love.",256,19233
653932,1239,"There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be
a fancy that he hath to strange disguises; as, to be
a Dutchman today, a Frenchman to-morrow, or in the
shape of two countries at once, as, a German from
the waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from
the hip upward, no doublet. Unless he have a fancy
to this foolery, as it appears he hath, he is no
fool for fancy, as you would have it appear he is.",329,19233
653933,1247,"If he be not in love with some woman, there is no
believing old signs: a' brushes his hat o'
mornings; what should that bode?",256,19233
653934,1250,Hath any man seen him at the barber's?,329,19233
653935,1251,"No, but the barber's man hath been seen with him,
and the old ornament of his cheek hath already
stuffed tennis-balls.",256,19233
653936,1254,"Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard.",664,19233
653937,1255,"Nay, a' rubs himself with civet: can you smell him
out by that?",329,19233
653938,1257,"That's as much as to say, the sweet youth's in love.",256,19233
653939,1258,The greatest note of it is his melancholy.,329,19233
653940,1259,And when was he wont to wash his face?,256,19233
653941,1260,"Yea, or to paint himself? for the which, I hear
what they say of him.",329,19233
653942,1262,"Nay, but his jesting spirit; which is now crept into
a lute-string and now governed by stops.",256,19233
653943,1264,"Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him: conclude,
conclude he is in love.",329,19233
653944,1266,"Nay, but I know who loves him.",256,19233
653945,1267,"That would I know too: I warrant, one that knows him not.",329,19233
653946,1268,"Yes, and his ill conditions; and, in despite of
all, dies for him.",256,19233
653947,1270,She shall be buried with her face upwards.,329,19233
653948,1271,"Yet is this no charm for the toothache. Old
signior, walk aside with me: I have studied eight
or nine wise words to speak to you, which these
hobby-horses must not hear.",160,19233
653949,1275,[Exeunt BENEDICK and LEONATO],1261,19233
653950,1276,"For my life, to break with him about Beatrice.",329,19233
653951,1277,"'Tis even so. Hero and Margaret have by this
played their parts with Beatrice; and then the two
bears will not bite one another when they meet.",256,19233
653952,1280,[Enter DON JOHN],1261,19233
653953,1281,"My lord and brother, God save you!",328,19233
653954,1282,"Good den, brother.",329,19233
653955,1283,"If your leisure served, I would speak with you.",328,19233
653956,1284,In private?,329,19233
653957,1285,"If it please you: yet Count Claudio may hear; for
what I would speak of concerns him.",328,19233
653958,1287,What's the matter?,329,19233
653959,1288,"[To CLAUDIO] Means your lordship to be married
to-morrow?",328,19233
653960,1290,You know he does.,329,19233
653961,1291,"I know not that, when he knows what I know.",328,19233
653962,1292,"If there be any impediment, I pray you discover it.",256,19233
653963,1293,"You may think I love you not: let that appear
hereafter, and aim better at me by that I now will
manifest. For my brother, I think he holds you
well, and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect
your ensuing marriage;--surely suit ill spent and
labour ill bestowed.",328,19233
653964,1299,"Why, what's the matter?",329,19233
653965,1300,"I came hither to tell you; and, circumstances
shortened, for she has been too long a talking of,
the lady is disloyal.",328,19233
653966,1303,"Who, Hero?",256,19233
653967,1304,"Even she; Leonato's Hero, your Hero, every man's Hero:",329,19233
653968,1305,Disloyal?,256,19233
653969,1306,"The word is too good to paint out her wickedness; I
could say she were worse: think you of a worse
title, and I will fit her to it. Wonder not till
further warrant: go but with me to-night, you shall
see her chamber-window entered, even the night
before her wedding-day: if you love her then,
to-morrow wed her; but it would better fit your honour
to change your mind.",328,19233
653970,1314,May this be so?,256,19233
653971,1315,I will not think it.,329,19233
653972,1316,"If you dare not trust that you see, confess not
that you know: if you will follow me, I will show
you enough; and when you have seen more and heard
more, proceed accordingly.",328,19233
653973,1320,"If I see any thing to-night why I should not marry
her to-morrow in the congregation, where I should
wed, there will I shame her.",256,19233
653974,1323,"And, as I wooed for thee to obtain her, I will join
with thee to disgrace her.",329,19233
653975,1325,"I will disparage her no farther till you are my
witnesses: bear it coldly but till midnight, and
let the issue show itself.",328,19233
653976,1328,O day untowardly turned!,329,19233
653977,1329,O mischief strangely thwarting!,256,19233
653978,1330,"O plague right well prevented! so will you say when
you have seen the sequel.",328,19233
653979,1332,[Exeunt],1261,19233
653980,1334,[Enter DOGBERRY and VERGES with the Watch],1261,19234
653981,1335,Are you good men and true?,323,19234
653982,1336,"Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer
salvation, body and soul.",1233,19234
653983,1338,"Nay, that were a punishment too good for them, if
they should have any allegiance in them, being
chosen for the prince's watch.",323,19234
653984,1341,"Well, give them their charge, neighbour Dogberry.",1233,19234
653985,1342,"First, who think you the most desertless man to be
constable?",323,19234
653986,1344,"Hugh Otecake, sir, or George Seacole; for they can
write and read.",16,19234
653987,1346,"Come hither, neighbour Seacole. God hath blessed
you with a good name: to be a well-favoured man is
the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.",323,19234
653988,1349,"Both which, master constable,--",31,19234
653989,1350,"You have: I knew it would be your answer. Well,
for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and make
no boast of it; and for your writing and reading,
let that appear when there is no need of such
vanity. You are thought here to be the most
senseless and fit man for the constable of the
watch; therefore bear you the lantern. This is your
charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are
to bid any man stand, in the prince's name.",323,19234
653990,1359,How if a' will not stand?,31,19234
653991,1360,"Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and
presently call the rest of the watch together and
thank God you are rid of a knave.",323,19234
653992,1363,"If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none
of the prince's subjects.",1233,19234
653993,1365,"True, and they are to meddle with none but the
prince's subjects. You shall also make no noise in
the streets; for, for the watch to babble and to
talk is most tolerable and not to be endured.",323,19234
653994,1369,"We will rather sleep than talk: we know what
belongs to a watch.",1249,19234
653995,1371,"Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet
watchman; for I cannot see how sleeping should
offend: only, have a care that your bills be not
stolen. Well, you are to call at all the
ale-houses, and bid those that are drunk get them to bed.",323,19234
653996,1376,How if they will not?,1249,19234
653997,1377,"Why, then, let them alone till they are sober: if
they make you not then the better answer, you may
say they are not the men you took them for.",323,19234
653998,1380,"Well, sir.",1249,19234
653999,1381,"If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by virtue
of your office, to be no true man; and, for such
kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them,
why the more is for your honesty.",323,19234
654000,1385,"If we know him to be a thief, shall we not lay
hands on him?",1249,19234
654001,1387,"Truly, by your office, you may; but I think they
that touch pitch will be defiled: the most peaceable
way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him
show himself what he is and steal out of your company.",323,19234
654002,1391,"You have been always called a merciful man, partner.",1233,19234
654003,1392,"Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more
a man who hath any honesty in him.",323,19234
654004,1394,"If you hear a child cry in the night, you must call
to the nurse and bid her still it.",1233,19234
654005,1396,How if the nurse be asleep and will not hear us?,1249,19234
654006,1397,"Why, then, depart in peace, and let the child wake
her with crying; for the ewe that will not hear her
lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats.",323,19234
654009,1404,"Nay, by'r our lady, that I think a' cannot.",1233,19234
654010,1405,"Five shillings to one on't, with any man that knows
the statutes, he may stay him: marry, not without
the prince be willing; for, indeed, the watch ought
to offend no man; and it is an offence to stay a
man against his will.",323,19234
654011,1410,"By'r lady, I think it be so.",1233,19234
654012,1411,"Ha, ha, ha! Well, masters, good night: an there be
any matter of weight chances, call up me: keep your
fellows' counsels and your own; and good night.
Come, neighbour.",323,19234
654013,1415,"Well, masters, we hear our charge: let us go sit here
upon the church-bench till two, and then all to bed.",1249,19234
654014,1417,"One word more, honest neighbours. I pray you watch
about Signior Leonato's door; for the wedding being
there to-morrow, there is a great coil to-night.
Adieu: be vigitant, I beseech you.",323,19234
654015,1421,[Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES],1261,19234
654016,1422,[Enter BORACHIO and CONRADE],1261,19234
654017,1423,What Conrade!,179,19234
654018,1424,[Aside] Peace! stir not.,1249,19234
654019,1425,"Conrade, I say!",179,19234
654020,1426,"Here, man; I am at thy elbow.",278,19234
654021,1427,"Mass, and my elbow itched; I thought there would a
scab follow.",179,19234
654022,1429,"I will owe thee an answer for that: and now forward
with thy tale.",278,19234
654023,1431,"Stand thee close, then, under this pent-house, for
it drizzles rain; and I will, like a true drunkard,
utter all to thee.",179,19234
654024,1434,"[Aside] Some treason, masters: yet stand close.",1249,19234
654025,1435,Therefore know I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats.,179,19234
654026,1436,Is it possible that any villany should be so dear?,278,19234
654027,1437,"Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any
villany should be so rich; for when rich villains
have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what
price they will.",179,19234
654028,1441,I wonder at it.,278,19234
654029,1442,"That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou knowest that
the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a cloak, is
nothing to a man.",179,19234
654030,1445,"Yes, it is apparel.",278,19234
654031,1446,"I mean, the fashion.",179,19234
654032,1447,"Yes, the fashion is the fashion.",278,19234
654033,1448,"Tush! I may as well say the fool's the fool. But
seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion
is?",179,19234
654034,1451,"[Aside] I know that Deformed; a' has been a vile
thief this seven year; a' goes up and down like a
gentleman: I remember his name.",1249,19234
654035,1454,Didst thou not hear somebody?,179,19234
654036,1455,No; 'twas the vane on the house.,278,19234
654037,1456,"Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this
fashion is? how giddily a' turns about all the hot
bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty?
sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers
in the reeky painting, sometime like god Bel's
priests in the old church-window, sometime like the
shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry,
where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?",179,19234
654038,1464,"All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears
out more apparel than the man. But art not thou
thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast
shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?",278,19234
654039,1468,"Not so, neither: but know that I have to-night
wooed Margaret, the Lady Hero's gentlewoman, by the
name of Hero: she leans me out at her mistress'
chamber-window, bids me a thousand times good
night,--I tell this tale vilely:--I should first
tell thee how the prince, Claudio and my master,
planted and placed and possessed by my master Don
John, saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter.",179,19234
654040,1476,And thought they Margaret was Hero?,278,19234
654041,1477,"Two of them did, the prince and Claudio; but the
devil my master knew she was Margaret; and partly
by his oaths, which first possessed them, partly by
the dark night, which did deceive them, but chiefly
by my villany, which did confirm any slander that
Don John had made, away went Claudio enraged; swore
he would meet her, as he was appointed, next morning
at the temple, and there, before the whole
congregation, shame her with what he saw o'er night
and send her home again without a husband.",179,19234
654042,1487,"We charge you, in the prince's name, stand!",16,19234
654043,1488,"Call up the right master constable. We have here
recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that
ever was known in the commonwealth.",31,19234
654044,1491,"And one Deformed is one of them: I know him; a'
wears a lock.",16,19234
654045,1493,"Masters, masters,--",278,19234
654046,1494,"You'll be made bring Deformed forth, I warrant you.",31,19234
654047,1495,"Masters,--",278,19234
654048,1496,Never speak: we charge you let us obey you to go with us.,16,19234
654049,1497,"We are like to prove a goodly commodity, being taken
up of these men's bills.",179,19234
654050,1499,"A commodity in question, I warrant you. Come, we'll obey you.",278,19234
654051,1500,[Exeunt],1261,19234
654052,1502,"[Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA]",1261,19235
654053,1503,"Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire
her to rise.",585,19235
654054,1505,"I will, lady.",1219,19235
654055,1506,And bid her come hither.,585,19235
654056,1507,Well.,1219,19235
654057,1508,[Exit],1261,19235
654058,1509,"Troth, I think your other rabato were better.",735,19235
654059,1510,"No, pray thee, good Meg, I'll wear this.",585,19235
654060,1511,"By my troth, 's not so good; and I warrant your
cousin will say so.",735,19235
654061,1513,"My cousin's a fool, and thou art another: I'll wear
none but this.",585,19235
654062,1515,"I like the new tire within excellently, if the hair
were a thought browner; and your gown's a most rare
fashion, i' faith. I saw the Duchess of Milan's
gown that they praise so.",735,19235
654063,1519,"O, that exceeds, they say.",585,19235
654064,1520,"By my troth, 's but a night-gown in respect of
yours: cloth o' gold, and cuts, and laced with
silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves,
and skirts, round underborne with a bluish tinsel:
but for a fine, quaint, graceful and excellent
fashion, yours is worth ten on 't.",735,19235
654065,1526,"God give me joy to wear it! for my heart is
exceeding heavy.",585,19235
654069,1539,[Enter BEATRICE],1261,19235
654070,1540,"Good morrow, coz.",585,19235
654071,1541,"Good morrow, sweet Hero.",156,19235
654072,1542,Why how now? do you speak in the sick tune?,585,19235
654073,1543,"I am out of all other tune, methinks.",156,19235
654074,1544,"Clap's into 'Light o' love;' that goes without a
burden: do you sing it, and I'll dance it.",735,19235
654075,1546,"Ye light o' love, with your heels! then, if your
husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall
lack no barns.",156,19235
654076,1549,O illegitimate construction! I scorn that with my heels.,735,19235
654077,1550,"'Tis almost five o'clock, cousin; tis time you were
ready. By my troth, I am exceeding ill: heigh-ho!",156,19235
654078,1552,"For a hawk, a horse, or a husband?",735,19235
654079,1553,"For the letter that begins them all, H.",156,19235
654080,1554,"Well, and you be not turned Turk, there's no more
sailing by the star.",735,19235
654081,1556,"What means the fool, trow?",156,19235
654082,1557,Nothing I; but God send every one their heart's desire!,735,19235
654083,1558,"These gloves the count sent me; they are an
excellent perfume.",585,19235
654084,1560,"I am stuffed, cousin; I cannot smell.",156,19235
654085,1561,"A maid, and stuffed! there's goodly catching of cold.",735,19235
654086,1562,"O, God help me! God help me! how long have you
professed apprehension?",156,19235
654087,1564,Even since you left it. Doth not my wit become me rarely?,735,19235
654088,1565,"It is not seen enough, you should wear it in your
cap. By my troth, I am sick.",156,19235
654089,1567,"Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus,
and lay it to your heart: it is the only thing for a qualm.",735,19235
654090,1569,There thou prickest her with a thistle.,585,19235
654091,1570,"Benedictus! why Benedictus? you have some moral in
this Benedictus.",156,19235
654092,1572,"Moral! no, by my troth, I have no moral meaning; I
meant, plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance
that I think you are in love: nay, by'r lady, I am
not such a fool to think what I list, nor I list
not to think what I can, nor indeed I cannot think,
if I would think my heart out of thinking, that you
are in love or that you will be in love or that you
can be in love. Yet Benedick was such another, and
now is he become a man: he swore he would never
marry, and yet now, in despite of his heart, he eats
his meat without grudging: and how you may be
converted I know not, but methinks you look with
your eyes as other women do.",735,19235
654093,1585,What pace is this that thy tongue keeps?,156,19235
654094,1586,Not a false gallop.,735,19235
654095,1587,[Re-enter URSULA],1261,19235
654096,1588,"Madam, withdraw: the prince, the count, Signior
Benedick, Don John, and all the gallants of the
town, are come to fetch you to church.",1219,19235
654097,1591,"Help to dress me, good coz, good Meg, good Ursula.",585,19235
654098,1592,[Exeunt],1261,19235
654099,1594,"[Enter LEONATO, with DOGBERRY and VERGES]",1261,19236
654100,1595,"What would you with me, honest neighbour?",664,19236
654101,1596,"Marry, sir, I would have some confidence with you
that decerns you nearly.",323,19236
654102,1598,"Brief, I pray you; for you see it is a busy time with me.",664,19236
654103,1599,"Marry, this it is, sir.",323,19236
654104,1600,"Yes, in truth it is, sir.",1233,19236
654105,1601,"What is it, my good friends?",664,19236
654106,1602,"Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the
matter: an old man, sir, and his wits are not so
blunt as, God help, I would desire they were; but,
in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.",323,19236
654107,1606,"Yes, I thank God I am as honest as any man living
that is an old man and no honester than I.",1233,19236
654108,1608,"Comparisons are odorous: palabras, neighbour Verges.",323,19236
654109,1609,"Neighbours, you are tedious.",664,19236
654110,1610,"It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the
poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part,
if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in
my heart to bestow it all of your worship.",323,19236
654111,1614,"All thy tediousness on me, ah?",664,19236
654112,1615,"Yea, an 'twere a thousand pound more than 'tis; for
I hear as good exclamation on your worship as of any
man in the city; and though I be but a poor man, I
am glad to hear it.",323,19236
654113,1619,And so am I.,1233,19236
654114,1620,I would fain know what you have to say.,664,19236
654115,1621,"Marry, sir, our watch to-night, excepting your
worship's presence, ha' ta'en a couple of as arrant
knaves as any in Messina.",1233,19236
654116,1624,"A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they
say, when the age is in, the wit is out: God help
us! it is a world to see. Well said, i' faith,
neighbour Verges: well, God's a good man; an two men
ride of a horse, one must ride behind. An honest
soul, i' faith, sir; by my troth he is, as ever
broke bread; but God is to be worshipped; all men
are not alike; alas, good neighbour!",323,19236
654117,1632,"Indeed, neighbour, he comes too short of you.",664,19236
654118,1633,Gifts that God gives.,323,19236
654119,1634,I must leave you.,664,19236
654120,1635,"One word, sir: our watch, sir, have indeed
comprehended two aspicious persons, and we would
have them this morning examined before your worship.",323,19236
654121,1638,"Take their examination yourself and bring it me: I
am now in great haste, as it may appear unto you.",664,19236
654122,1640,It shall be suffigance.,323,19236
654123,1641,Drink some wine ere you go: fare you well.,664,19236
654124,1642,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19236
654125,1643,"My lord, they stay for you to give your daughter to
her husband.",784,19236
654126,1645,I'll wait upon them: I am ready.,664,19236
654127,1646,[Exeunt LEONATO and Messenger],1261,19236
654128,1647,"Go, good partner, go, get you to Francis Seacole;
bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the gaol: we
are now to examination these men.",323,19236
654129,1650,And we must do it wisely.,1233,19236
654130,1651,"We will spare for no wit, I warrant you; here's
that shall drive some of them to a non-come: only
get the learned writer to set down our
excommunication and meet me at the gaol.",323,19236
654131,1655,"[Exeunt]
[Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, LEONATO, FRIAR FRANCIS,]
CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, HERO, BEATRICE, and Attendants]",1261,19236
654132,1660,"Come, Friar Francis, be brief; only to the plain
form of marriage, and you shall recount their
particular duties afterwards.",664,19237
654133,1663,"You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady.",502,19237
654134,1664,No.,256,19237
654135,1665,"To be married to her: friar, you come to marry her.",664,19237
654136,1666,"Lady, you come hither to be married to this count.",502,19237
654137,1667,I do.,585,19237
654138,1668,"If either of you know any inward impediment why you
should not be conjoined, charge you, on your souls,
to utter it.",502,19237
654139,1671,"Know you any, Hero?",256,19237
654140,1672,"None, my lord.",585,19237
654141,1673,"Know you any, count?",502,19237
654142,1674,"I dare make his answer, none.",664,19237
654143,1675,"O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily
do, not knowing what they do!",256,19237
654144,1677,"How now! interjections? Why, then, some be of
laughing, as, ah, ha, he!",160,19237
654145,1679,"Stand thee by, friar. Father, by your leave:
Will you with free and unconstrained soul
Give me this maid, your daughter?",256,19237
654146,1682,"As freely, son, as God did give her me.",664,19237
654147,1683,"And what have I to give you back, whose worth
May counterpoise this rich and precious gift?",256,19237
654148,1685,"Nothing, unless you render her again.",329,19237
654149,1686,"Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.
There, Leonato, take her back again:
Give not this rotten orange to your friend;
She's but the sign and semblance of her honour.
Behold how like a maid she blushes here!
O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal!
Comes not that blood as modest evidence
To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear,
All you that see her, that she were a maid,
By these exterior shows? But she is none:
She knows the heat of a luxurious bed;
Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.",256,19237
654150,1699,"What do you mean, my lord?",664,19237
654151,1700,"Not to be married,
Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton.",256,19237
654152,1702,"Dear my lord, if you, in your own proof,
Have vanquish'd the resistance of her youth,
And made defeat of her virginity,--",664,19237
654153,1705,"I know what you would say: if I have known her,
You will say she did embrace me as a husband,
And so extenuate the 'forehand sin:
No, Leonato,
I never tempted her with word too large;
But, as a brother to his sister, show'd
Bashful sincerity and comely love.",256,19237
654154,1712,And seem'd I ever otherwise to you?,585,19237
654155,1713,"Out on thee! Seeming! I will write against it:
You seem to me as Dian in her orb,
As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown;
But you are more intemperate in your blood
Than Venus, or those pamper'd animals
That rage in savage sensuality.",256,19237
654156,1719,"Is my lord well, that he doth speak so wide?",585,19237
654157,1720,"Sweet prince, why speak not you?",664,19237
654158,1721,"What should I speak?
I stand dishonour'd, that have gone about
To link my dear friend to a common stale.",329,19237
654159,1724,"Are these things spoken, or do I but dream?",664,19237
654160,1725,"Sir, they are spoken, and these things are true.",328,19237
654161,1726,This looks not like a nuptial.,160,19237
654162,1727,True! O God!,585,19237
654163,1728,"Leonato, stand I here?
Is this the prince? is this the prince's brother?
Is this face Hero's? are our eyes our own?",256,19237
654164,1731,"All this is so: but what of this, my lord?",664,19237
654165,1732,"Let me but move one question to your daughter;
And, by that fatherly and kindly power
That you have in her, bid her answer truly.",256,19237
654166,1735,"I charge thee do so, as thou art my child.",664,19237
654167,1736,"O, God defend me! how am I beset!
What kind of catechising call you this?",585,19237
654168,1738,To make you answer truly to your name.,256,19237
654169,1739,"Is it not Hero? Who can blot that name
With any just reproach?",585,19237
654170,1741,"Marry, that can Hero;
Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue.
What man was he talk'd with you yesternight
Out at your window betwixt twelve and one?
Now, if you are a maid, answer to this.",256,19237
654171,1746,"I talk'd with no man at that hour, my lord.",585,19237
654172,1747,"Why, then are you no maiden. Leonato,
I am sorry you must hear: upon mine honour,
Myself, my brother and this grieved count
Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night
Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window
Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain,
Confess'd the vile encounters they have had
A thousand times in secret.",329,19237
654173,1755,"Fie, fie! they are not to be named, my lord,
Not to be spoke of;
There is not chastity enough in language
Without offence to utter them. Thus, pretty lady,
I am sorry for thy much misgovernment.",328,19237
654174,1760,"O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been,
If half thy outward graces had been placed
About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart!
But fare thee well, most foul, most fair! farewell,
Thou pure impiety and impious purity!
For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love,
And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang,
To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm,
And never shall it more be gracious.",256,19237
654175,1769,Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?,664,19237
654176,1770,[HERO swoons],1261,19237
654177,1771,"Why, how now, cousin! wherefore sink you down?",156,19237
654178,1772,"Come, let us go. These things, come thus to light,
Smother her spirits up.",328,19237
654179,1774,"[Exeunt DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, and CLAUDIO]",1261,19237
654180,1775,How doth the lady?,160,19237
654181,1776,"Dead, I think. Help, uncle!
Hero! why, Hero! Uncle! Signior Benedick! Friar!",156,19237
654182,1778,"O Fate! take not away thy heavy hand.
Death is the fairest cover for her shame
That may be wish'd for.",664,19237
654183,1781,"How now, cousin Hero!",156,19237
654184,1782,"Have comfort, lady.",502,19237
654185,1783,Dost thou look up?,664,19237
654186,1784,"Yea, wherefore should she not?",502,19237
654187,1785,"Wherefore! Why, doth not every earthly thing
Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny
The story that is printed in her blood?
Do not live, Hero; do not ope thine eyes:
For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,
Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames,
Myself would, on the rearward of reproaches,
Strike at thy life. Grieved I, I had but one?
Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame?
O, one too much by thee! Why had I one?
Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes?
Why had I not with charitable hand
Took up a beggar's issue at my gates,
Who smirch'd thus and mired with infamy,
I might have said 'No part of it is mine;
This shame derives itself from unknown loins'?
But mine and mine I loved and mine I praised
And mine that I was proud on, mine so much
That I myself was to myself not mine,
Valuing of her,--why, she, O, she is fallen
Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
Hath drops too few to wash her clean again
And salt too little which may season give
To her foul-tainted flesh!",664,19237
654188,1809,"Sir, sir, be patient.
For my part, I am so attired in wonder,
I know not what to say.",160,19237
654189,1812,"O, on my soul, my cousin is belied!",156,19237
654190,1813,"Lady, were you her bedfellow last night?",160,19237
654191,1814,"No, truly not; although, until last night,
I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow.",156,19237
654192,1816,"Confirm'd, confirm'd! O, that is stronger made
Which was before barr'd up with ribs of iron!
Would the two princes lie, and Claudio lie,
Who loved her so, that, speaking of her foulness,
Wash'd it with tears? Hence from her! let her die.",664,19237
654193,1821,"Hear me a little; for I have only been
Silent so long and given way unto
This course of fortune [--]
By noting of the lady I have mark'd
A thousand blushing apparitions
To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
In angel whiteness beat away those blushes;
And in her eye there hath appear'd a fire,
To burn the errors that these princes hold
Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool;
Trust not my reading nor my observations,
Which with experimental seal doth warrant
The tenor of my book; trust not my age,
My reverence, calling, nor divinity,
If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here
Under some biting error.",502,19237
654194,1837,"Friar, it cannot be.
Thou seest that all the grace that she hath left
Is that she will not add to her damnation
A sin of perjury; she not denies it:
Why seek'st thou then to cover with excuse
That which appears in proper nakedness?",664,19237
654195,1843,"Lady, what man is he you are accused of?",502,19237
654196,1844,"They know that do accuse me; I know none:
If I know more of any man alive
Than that which maiden modesty doth warrant,
Let all my sins lack mercy! O my father,
Prove you that any man with me conversed
At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight
Maintain'd the change of words with any creature,
Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death!",585,19237
654197,1852,There is some strange misprision in the princes.,502,19237
654198,1853,"Two of them have the very bent of honour;
And if their wisdoms be misled in this,
The practise of it lives in John the bastard,
Whose spirits toil in frame of villanies.",160,19237
654199,1857,"I know not. If they speak but truth of her,
These hands shall tear her; if they wrong her honour,
The proudest of them shall well hear of it.
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,
Nor age so eat up my invention,
Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,
Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,
But they shall find, awaked in such a kind,
Both strength of limb and policy of mind,
Ability in means and choice of friends,
To quit me of them throughly.",664,19237
654200,1868,"Pause awhile,
And let my counsel sway you in this case.
Your daughter here the princes left for dead:
Let her awhile be secretly kept in,
And publish it that she is dead indeed;
Maintain a mourning ostentation
And on your family's old monument
Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites
That appertain unto a burial.",502,19237
654201,1877,What shall become of this? what will this do?,664,19237
654202,1878,"Marry, this well carried shall on her behalf
Change slander to remorse; that is some good:
But not for that dream I on this strange course,
But on this travail look for greater birth.
She dying, as it must so be maintain'd,
Upon the instant that she was accused,
Shall be lamented, pitied and excused
Of every hearer: for it so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours. So will it fare with Claudio:
When he shall hear she died upon his words,
The idea of her life shall sweetly creep
Into his study of imagination,
And every lovely organ of her life
Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit,
More moving-delicate and full of life,
Into the eye and prospect of his soul,
Than when she lived indeed; then shall he mourn,
If ever love had interest in his liver,
And wish he had not so accused her,
No, though he thought his accusation true.
Let this be so, and doubt not but success
Will fashion the event in better shape
Than I can lay it down in likelihood.
But if all aim but this be levell'd false,
The supposition of the lady's death
Will quench the wonder of her infamy:
And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,
As best befits her wounded reputation,
In some reclusive and religious life,
Out of all eyes, tongues, minds and injuries.",502,19237
654203,1912,"Signior Leonato, let the friar advise you:
And though you know my inwardness and love
Is very much unto the prince and Claudio,
Yet, by mine honour, I will deal in this
As secretly and justly as your soul
Should with your body.",160,19237
654204,1918,"Being that I flow in grief,
The smallest twine may lead me.",664,19237
654205,1920,"'Tis well consented: presently away;
For to strange sores strangely they strain the cure.
Come, lady, die to live: this wedding-day
Perhaps is but prolong'd: have patience and endure.",502,19237
654206,1924,[Exeunt all but BENEDICK and BEATRICE],1261,19237
654207,1925,"Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?",160,19237
654208,1926,"Yea, and I will weep a while longer.",156,19237
654209,1927,I will not desire that.,160,19237
654210,1928,You have no reason; I do it freely.,156,19237
654211,1929,Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged.,160,19237
654212,1930,"Ah, how much might the man deserve of me that would right her!",156,19237
654213,1931,Is there any way to show such friendship?,160,19237
654214,1932,"A very even way, but no such friend.",156,19237
654215,1933,May a man do it?,160,19237
654216,1934,"It is a man's office, but not yours.",156,19237
654217,1935,"I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is
not that strange?",160,19237
654218,1937,"As strange as the thing I know not. It were as
possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as
you: but believe me not; and yet I lie not; I
confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.",156,19237
654219,1941,"By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me.",160,19237
654220,1942,"Do not swear, and eat it.",156,19237
654221,1943,"I will swear by it that you love me; and I will make
him eat it that says I love not you.",160,19237
654222,1945,Will you not eat your word?,156,19237
654223,1946,"With no sauce that can be devised to it. I protest
I love thee.",160,19237
654224,1948,"Why, then, God forgive me!",156,19237
654225,1949,"What offence, sweet Beatrice?",160,19237
654226,1950,"You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about to
protest I loved you.",156,19237
654227,1952,And do it with all thy heart.,160,19237
654228,1953,"I love you with so much of my heart that none is
left to protest.",156,19237
654229,1955,"Come, bid me do any thing for thee.",160,19237
654230,1956,Kill Claudio.,156,19237
654231,1957,Ha! not for the wide world.,160,19237
654232,1958,You kill me to deny it. Farewell.,156,19237
654233,1959,"Tarry, sweet Beatrice.",160,19237
654234,1960,"I am gone, though I am here: there is no love in
you: nay, I pray you, let me go.",156,19237
654235,1962,"Beatrice,--",160,19237
654236,1963,"In faith, I will go.",156,19237
654237,1964,We'll be friends first.,160,19237
654238,1965,You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.,156,19237
654239,1966,Is Claudio thine enemy?,160,19237
654240,1967,"Is he not approved in the height a villain, that
hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O
that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they
come to take hands; and then, with public
accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour,
--O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart
in the market-place.",156,19237
654241,1974,"Hear me, Beatrice,--",160,19237
654242,1975,Talk with a man out at a window! A proper saying!,156,19237
654243,1976,"Nay, but, Beatrice,--",160,19237
654244,1977,"Sweet Hero! She is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone.",156,19237
654245,1978,Beat--,160,19237
654246,1979,"Princes and counties! Surely, a princely testimony,
a goodly count, Count Comfect; a sweet gallant,
surely! O that I were a man for his sake! or that I
had any friend would be a man for my sake! But
manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into
compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and
trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules
that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a
man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.",156,19237
654247,1988,"Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee.",160,19237
654248,1989,Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.,156,19237
654249,1990,Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath wronged Hero?,160,19237
654250,1991,"Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.",156,19237
654251,1992,"Enough, I am engaged; I will challenge him. I will
kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand,
Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you
hear of me, so think of me. Go, comfort your
cousin: I must say she is dead: and so, farewell.",160,19237
654252,1997,"[Exeunt]
[Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and Sexton, in gowns; and]
the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO]",1261,19237
654253,2001,Is our whole dissembly appeared?,323,19238
654254,2002,"O, a stool and a cushion for the sexton.",1233,19238
654255,2003,Which be the malefactors?,1082,19238
654256,2004,"Marry, that am I and my partner.",323,19238
654257,2005,"Nay, that's certain; we have the exhibition to examine.",1233,19238
654258,2006,"But which are the offenders that are to be
examined? let them come before master constable.",1082,19238
654259,2008,"Yea, marry, let them come before me. What is your
name, friend?",323,19238
654260,2010,Borachio.,179,19238
654261,2011,"Pray, write down, Borachio. Yours, sirrah?",323,19238
654262,2012,"I am a gentleman, sir, and my name is Conrade.",278,19238
654263,2013,"Write down, master gentleman Conrade. Masters, do
you serve God?",323,19238
654264,2015,"[with Borachio] Yea, sir, we hope.",278,19238
654265,2016,"Write down, that they hope they serve God: and
write God first; for God defend but God should go
before such villains! Masters, it is proved already
that you are little better than false knaves; and it
will go near to be thought so shortly. How answer
you for yourselves?",323,19238
654266,2022,"Marry, sir, we say we are none.",278,19238
654267,2023,"A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you: but I
will go about with him. Come you hither, sirrah; a
word in your ear: sir, I say to you, it is thought
you are false knaves.",323,19238
654268,2027,"Sir, I say to you we are none.",179,19238
654269,2028,"Well, stand aside. 'Fore God, they are both in a
tale. Have you writ down, that they are none?",323,19238
654270,2030,"Master constable, you go not the way to examine:
you must call forth the watch that are their accusers.",1082,19238
654271,2032,"Yea, marry, that's the eftest way. Let the watch
come forth. Masters, I charge you, in the prince's
name, accuse these men.",323,19238
654272,2035,"This man said, sir, that Don John, the prince's
brother, was a villain.",16,19238
654273,2037,"Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is flat
perjury, to call a prince's brother villain.",323,19238
654274,2039,"Master constable,--",179,19238
654275,2040,"Pray thee, fellow, peace: I do not like thy look,
I promise thee.",323,19238
654276,2042,What heard you him say else?,1082,19238
654277,2043,"Marry, that he had received a thousand ducats of
Don John for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully.",31,19238
654278,2045,Flat burglary as ever was committed.,323,19238
654279,2046,"Yea, by mass, that it is.",1233,19238
654280,2047,"What else, fellow?",1082,19238
654281,2048,"And that Count Claudio did mean, upon his words, to
disgrace Hero before the whole assembly. and not marry her.",16,19238
654282,2050,"O villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting
redemption for this.",323,19238
654283,2052,What else?,1082,19238
654284,2053,This is all.,1249,19238
654285,2054,"And this is more, masters, than you can deny.
Prince John is this morning secretly stolen away;
Hero was in this manner accused, in this very manner
refused, and upon the grief of this suddenly died.
Master constable, let these men be bound, and
brought to Leonato's: I will go before and show
him their examination.",1082,19238
654286,2061,[Exit],1261,19238
654287,2062,"Come, let them be opinioned.",323,19238
654288,2063,Let them be in the hands--,1233,19238
654289,2064,"Off, coxcomb!",278,19238
654290,2065,"God's my life, where's the sexton? let him write
down the prince's officer coxcomb. Come, bind them.
Thou naughty varlet!",323,19238
654291,2068,"Away! you are an ass, you are an ass.",278,19238
654292,2069,"Dost thou not suspect my place? dost thou not
suspect my years? O that he were here to write me
down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an
ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not
that I am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of
piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness.
I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer,
and, which is more, a householder, and, which is
more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in
Messina, and one that knows the law, go to; and a
rich fellow enough, go to; and a fellow that hath
had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every
thing handsome about him. Bring him away. O that
I had been writ down an ass!",323,19238
654293,2083,[Exeunt],1261,19238
654294,2086,[Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO],1261,19239
654295,2087,"If you go on thus, you will kill yourself:
And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief
Against yourself.",115,19239
654296,2090,"I pray thee, cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
As water in a sieve: give not me counsel;
Nor let no comforter delight mine ear
But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
Bring me a father that so loved his child,
Whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine,
And bid him speak of patience;
Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine
And let it answer every strain for strain,
As thus for thus and such a grief for such,
In every lineament, branch, shape, and form:
If such a one will smile and stroke his beard,
Bid sorrow wag, cry 'hem!' when he should groan,
Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk
With candle-wasters; bring him yet to me,
And I of him will gather patience.
But there is no such man: for, brother, men
Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,
Their counsel turns to passion, which before
Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
Charm ache with air and agony with words:
No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience
To those that wring under the load of sorrow,
But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
To be so moral when he shall endure
The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel:
My griefs cry louder than advertisement.",664,19239
654297,2120,Therein do men from children nothing differ.,115,19239
654298,2121,"I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood;
For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently,
However they have writ the style of gods
And made a push at chance and sufferance.",664,19239
654299,2126,"Yet bend not all the harm upon yourself;
Make those that do offend you suffer too.",115,19239
654300,2128,"There thou speak'st reason: nay, I will do so.
My soul doth tell me Hero is belied;
And that shall Claudio know; so shall the prince
And all of them that thus dishonour her.",664,19239
654301,2132,Here comes the prince and Claudio hastily.,115,19239
654302,2133,[Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO],1261,19239
654303,2134,"Good den, good den.",329,19239
654304,2135,Good day to both of you.,256,19239
654305,2136,"Hear you. my lords,--",664,19239
654306,2137,"We have some haste, Leonato.",329,19239
654307,2138,"Some haste, my lord! well, fare you well, my lord:
Are you so hasty now? well, all is one.",664,19239
654308,2140,"Nay, do not quarrel with us, good old man.",329,19239
654309,2141,"If he could right himself with quarreling,
Some of us would lie low.",115,19239
654310,2143,Who wrongs him?,256,19239
654311,2144,"Marry, thou dost wrong me; thou dissembler, thou:--
Nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword;
I fear thee not.",664,19239
654312,2147,"Marry, beshrew my hand,
If it should give your age such cause of fear:
In faith, my hand meant nothing to my sword.",256,19239
654313,2150,"Tush, tush, man; never fleer and jest at me:
I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,
As under privilege of age to brag
What I have done being young, or what would do
Were I not old. Know, Claudio, to thy head,
Thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me
That I am forced to lay my reverence by
And, with grey hairs and bruise of many days,
Do challenge thee to trial of a man.
I say thou hast belied mine innocent child;
Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,
And she lies buried with her ancestors;
O, in a tomb where never scandal slept,
Save this of hers, framed by thy villany!",664,19239
654314,2164,My villany?,256,19239
654315,2165,"Thine, Claudio; thine, I say.",664,19239
654316,2166,"You say not right, old man.",329,19239
654317,2167,"My lord, my lord,
I'll prove it on his body, if he dare,
Despite his nice fence and his active practise,
His May of youth and bloom of lustihood.",664,19239
654318,2171,Away! I will not have to do with you.,256,19239
654319,2172,"Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast kill'd my child:
If thou kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man.",664,19239
654320,2174,"He shall kill two of us, and men indeed:
But that's no matter; let him kill one first;
Win me and wear me; let him answer me.
Come, follow me, boy; come, sir boy, come, follow me:
Sir boy, I'll whip you from your foining fence;
Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will.",115,19239
654321,2180,"Brother,--",664,19239
654322,2181,"Content yourself. God knows I loved my niece;
And she is dead, slander'd to death by villains,
That dare as well answer a man indeed
As I dare take a serpent by the tongue:
Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!",115,19239
654323,2186,"Brother Antony,--",664,19239
654324,2187,"Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea,
And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple,--
Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys,
That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander,
Go anticly, show outward hideousness,
And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;
And this is all.",115,19239
654325,2195,"But, brother Antony,--",664,19239
654326,2196,"Come, 'tis no matter:
Do not you meddle; let me deal in this.",115,19239
654327,2198,"Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience.
My heart is sorry for your daughter's death:
But, on my honour, she was charged with nothing
But what was true and very full of proof.",329,19239
654328,2202,"My lord, my lord,--",664,19239
654329,2203,I will not hear you.,329,19239
654330,2204,"No? Come, brother; away! I will be heard.",664,19239
654331,2205,"And shall, or some of us will smart for it.",115,19239
654332,2206,[Exeunt LEONATO and ANTONIO],1261,19239
654333,2207,"See, see; here comes the man we went to seek.",329,19239
654334,2208,[Enter BENEDICK],1261,19239
654335,2209,"Now, signior, what news?",256,19239
654336,2210,"Good day, my lord.",160,19239
654337,2211,"Welcome, signior: you are almost come to part
almost a fray.",329,19239
654338,2213,"We had like to have had our two noses snapped off
with two old men without teeth.",256,19239
654339,2215,"Leonato and his brother. What thinkest thou? Had
we fought, I doubt we should have been too young for them.",329,19239
654340,2217,"In a false quarrel there is no true valour. I came
to seek you both.",160,19239
654341,2219,"We have been up and down to seek thee; for we are
high-proof melancholy and would fain have it beaten
away. Wilt thou use thy wit?",256,19239
654342,2222,It is in my scabbard: shall I draw it?,160,19239
654343,2223,Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side?,329,19239
654344,2224,"Never any did so, though very many have been beside
their wit. I will bid thee draw, as we do the
minstrels; draw, to pleasure us.",256,19239
654345,2227,"As I am an honest man, he looks pale. Art thou
sick, or angry?",329,19239
654346,2229,"What, courage, man! What though care killed a cat,
thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.",256,19239
654347,2231,"Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career, and you
charge it against me. I pray you choose another subject.",160,19239
654348,2233,"Nay, then, give him another staff: this last was
broke cross.",256,19239
654349,2235,"By this light, he changes more and more: I think
he be angry indeed.",329,19239
654350,2237,"If he be, he knows how to turn his girdle.",256,19239
654351,2238,Shall I speak a word in your ear?,160,19239
654352,2239,God bless me from a challenge!,256,19239
654353,2240,"[Aside to CLAUDIO] You are a villain; I jest not:
I will make it good how you dare, with what you
dare, and when you dare. Do me right, or I will
protest your cowardice. You have killed a sweet
lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you. Let me
hear from you.",160,19239
654354,2246,"Well, I will meet you, so I may have good cheer.",256,19239
654355,2247,"What, a feast, a feast?",329,19239
654356,2248,"I' faith, I thank him; he hath bid me to a calf's
head and a capon; the which if I do not carve most
curiously, say my knife's naught. Shall I not find
a woodcock too?",256,19239
654357,2252,"Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily.",160,19239
654358,2253,"I'll tell thee how Beatrice praised thy wit the
other day. I said, thou hadst a fine wit: 'True,'
said she, 'a fine little one.' 'No,' said I, 'a
great wit:' 'Right,' says she, 'a great gross one.'
'Nay,' said I, 'a good wit:' 'Just,' said she, 'it
hurts nobody.' 'Nay,' said I, 'the gentleman
is wise:' 'Certain,' said she, 'a wise gentleman.'
'Nay,' said I, 'he hath the tongues:' 'That I
believe,' said she, 'for he swore a thing to me on
Monday night, which he forswore on Tuesday morning;
there's a double tongue; there's two tongues.' Thus
did she, an hour together, transshape thy particular
virtues: yet at last she concluded with a sigh, thou
wast the properest man in Italy.",329,19239
654359,2267,"For the which she wept heartily and said she cared
not.",256,19239
654360,2269,"Yea, that she did: but yet, for all that, an if she
did not hate him deadly, she would love him dearly:
the old man's daughter told us all.",329,19239
654361,2272,"All, all; and, moreover, God saw him when he was
hid in the garden.",256,19239
654362,2274,"But when shall we set the savage bull's horns on
the sensible Benedick's head?",329,19239
654363,2276,"Yea, and text underneath, 'Here dwells Benedick the
married man'?",256,19239
654364,2278,"Fare you well, boy: you know my mind. I will leave
you now to your gossip-like humour: you break jests
as braggarts do their blades, which God be thanked,
hurt not. My lord, for your many courtesies I thank
you: I must discontinue your company: your brother
the bastard is fled from Messina: you have among
you killed a sweet and innocent lady. For my Lord
Lackbeard there, he and I shall meet: and, till
then, peace be with him.",160,19239
654365,2287,[Exit],1261,19239
654366,2288,He is in earnest.,329,19239
654367,2289,"In most profound earnest; and, I'll warrant you, for
the love of Beatrice.",256,19239
654368,2291,And hath challenged thee.,329,19239
654369,2292,Most sincerely.,256,19239
654370,2293,"What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his
doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!",329,19239
654371,2295,"He is then a giant to an ape; but then is an ape a
doctor to such a man.",256,19239
654372,2297,"But, soft you, let me be: pluck up, my heart, and
be sad. Did he not say, my brother was fled?",329,19239
654373,2299,"[Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO]",1261,19239
654374,2300,"Come you, sir: if justice cannot tame you, she
shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance: nay,
an you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be looked to.",323,19239
654375,2303,"How now? two of my brother's men bound! Borachio
one!",329,19239
654376,2305,"Hearken after their offence, my lord.",256,19239
654377,2306,"Officers, what offence have these men done?",329,19239
654378,2307,"Marry, sir, they have committed false report;
moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily,
they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have
belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust
things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.",323,19239
654379,2312,"First, I ask thee what they have done; thirdly, I
ask thee what's their offence; sixth and lastly, why
they are committed; and, to conclude, what you lay
to their charge.",329,19239
654380,2316,"Rightly reasoned, and in his own division: and, by
my troth, there's one meaning well suited.",256,19239
654381,2318,"Who have you offended, masters, that you are thus
bound to your answer? this learned constable is
too cunning to be understood: what's your offence?",329,19239
654382,2321,"Sweet prince, let me go no farther to mine answer:
do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have
deceived even your very eyes: what your wisdoms
could not discover, these shallow fools have brought
to light: who in the night overheard me confessing
to this man how Don John your brother incensed me
to slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into
the orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero's
garments, how you disgraced her, when you should
marry her: my villany they have upon record; which
I had rather seal with my death than repeat over
to my shame. The lady is dead upon mine and my
master's false accusation; and, briefly, I desire
nothing but the reward of a villain.",179,19239
654383,2335,Runs not this speech like iron through your blood?,329,19239
654384,2336,I have drunk poison whiles he utter'd it.,256,19239
654385,2337,But did my brother set thee on to this?,329,19239
654386,2338,"Yea, and paid me richly for the practise of it.",179,19239
654387,2339,"He is composed and framed of treachery:
And fled he is upon this villany.",329,19239
654388,2341,"Sweet Hero! now thy image doth appear
In the rare semblance that I loved it first.",256,19239
654389,2343,"Come, bring away the plaintiffs: by this time our
sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter:
and, masters, do not forget to specify, when time
and place shall serve, that I am an ass.",323,19239
654390,2347,"Here, here comes master Signior Leonato, and the
Sexton too.",1233,19239
654391,2349,"[Re-enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, with the Sexton]",1261,19239
654392,2350,"Which is the villain? let me see his eyes,
That, when I note another man like him,
I may avoid him: which of these is he?",664,19239
654393,2353,"If you would know your wronger, look on me.",179,19239
654394,2354,"Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd
Mine innocent child?",664,19239
654395,2356,"Yea, even I alone.",179,19239
654396,2357,"No, not so, villain; thou beliest thyself:
Here stand a pair of honourable men;
A third is fled, that had a hand in it.
I thank you, princes, for my daughter's death:
Record it with your high and worthy deeds:
'Twas bravely done, if you bethink you of it.",664,19239
654397,2363,"I know not how to pray your patience;
Yet I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself;
Impose me to what penance your invention
Can lay upon my sin: yet sinn'd I not
But in mistaking.",256,19239
654398,2368,"By my soul, nor I:
And yet, to satisfy this good old man,
I would bend under any heavy weight
That he'll enjoin me to.",329,19239
654399,2372,"I cannot bid you bid my daughter live;
That were impossible: but, I pray you both,
Possess the people in Messina here
How innocent she died; and if your love
Can labour ought in sad invention,
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb
And sing it to her bones, sing it to-night:
To-morrow morning come you to my house,
And since you could not be my son-in-law,
Be yet my nephew: my brother hath a daughter,
Almost the copy of my child that's dead,
And she alone is heir to both of us:
Give her the right you should have given her cousin,
And so dies my revenge.",664,19239
654400,2386,"O noble sir,
Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me!
I do embrace your offer; and dispose
For henceforth of poor Claudio.",256,19239
654401,2390,"To-morrow then I will expect your coming;
To-night I take my leave. This naughty man
Shall face to face be brought to Margaret,
Who I believe was pack'd in all this wrong,
Hired to it by your brother.",664,19239
654402,2395,"No, by my soul, she was not,
Nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me,
But always hath been just and virtuous
In any thing that I do know by her.",179,19239
654403,2399,"Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and
black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call
me ass: I beseech you, let it be remembered in his
punishment. And also, the watch heard them talk of
one Deformed: they say be wears a key in his ear and
a lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God's
name, the which he hath used so long and never paid
that now men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing
for God's sake: pray you, examine him upon that point.",323,19239
654404,2408,I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.,664,19239
654405,2409,"Your worship speaks like a most thankful and
reverend youth; and I praise God for you.",323,19239
654406,2411,There's for thy pains.,664,19239
654407,2412,God save the foundation!,323,19239
654408,2413,"Go, I discharge thee of thy prisoner, and I thank thee.",664,19239
654409,2414,"I leave an arrant knave with your worship; which I
beseech your worship to correct yourself, for the
example of others. God keep your worship! I wish
your worship well; God restore you to health! I
humbly give you leave to depart; and if a merry
meeting may be wished, God prohibit it! Come, neighbour.",323,19239
654410,2420,[Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES],1261,19239
654411,2421,"Until to-morrow morning, lords, farewell.",664,19239
654412,2422,"Farewell, my lords: we look for you to-morrow.",115,19239
654413,2423,We will not fail.,329,19239
654414,2424,To-night I'll mourn with Hero.,256,19239
654415,2425,"[To the Watch] Bring you these fellows on. We'll
talk with Margaret,
How her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow.",664,19239
654416,2428,"[Exeunt, severally]",1261,19239
654417,2430,"[Enter BENEDICK and MARGARET, meeting]",1261,19240
654418,2431,"Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well at
my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice.",160,19240
654419,2433,Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?,735,19240
654420,2434,"In so high a style, Margaret, that no man living
shall come over it; for, in most comely truth, thou
deservest it.",160,19240
654421,2437,"To have no man come over me! why, shall I always
keep below stairs?",735,19240
654422,2439,Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth; it catches.,160,19240
654423,2440,"And yours as blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit,
but hurt not.",735,19240
654424,2442,"A most manly wit, Margaret; it will not hurt a
woman: and so, I pray thee, call Beatrice: I give
thee the bucklers.",160,19240
654425,2445,Give us the swords; we have bucklers of our own.,735,19240
654426,2446,"If you use them, Margaret, you must put in the
pikes with a vice; and they are dangerous weapons for maids.",160,19240
654427,2448,"Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I think hath legs.",735,19240
654428,2449,"And therefore will come.
[Exit MARGARET]
[Sings]
The god of love,
That sits above,
And knows me, and knows me,
How pitiful I deserve,--
I mean in singing; but in loving, Leander the good
swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and
a whole bookful of these quondam carpet-mangers,
whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a
blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned
over and over as my poor self in love. Marry, I
cannot show it in rhyme; I have tried: I can find
out no rhyme to 'lady' but 'baby,' an innocent
rhyme; for 'scorn,' 'horn,' a hard rhyme; for,
'school,' 'fool,' a babbling rhyme; very ominous
endings: no, I was not born under a rhyming planet,
nor I cannot woo in festival terms.
[Enter BEATRICE]
Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee?",160,19240
654429,2470,"Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me.",156,19240
654430,2471,"O, stay but till then!",160,19240
654431,2472,"'Then' is spoken; fare you well now: and yet, ere
I go, let me go with that I came; which is, with
knowing what hath passed between you and Claudio.",156,19240
654432,2475,Only foul words; and thereupon I will kiss thee.,160,19240
654433,2476,"Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but
foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I
will depart unkissed.",156,19240
654434,2479,"Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense,
so forcible is thy wit. But I must tell thee
plainly, Claudio undergoes my challenge; and either
I must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe
him a coward. And, I pray thee now, tell me for
which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?",160,19240
654435,2485,"For them all together; which maintained so politic
a state of evil that they will not admit any good
part to intermingle with them. But for which of my
good parts did you first suffer love for me?",156,19240
654436,2489,"Suffer love! a good epithet! I do suffer love
indeed, for I love thee against my will.",160,19240
654437,2491,"In spite of your heart, I think; alas, poor heart!
If you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for
yours; for I will never love that which my friend hates.",156,19240
654438,2494,Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.,160,19240
654439,2495,"It appears not in this confession: there's not one
wise man among twenty that will praise himself.",156,19240
654440,2497,"An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in
the lime of good neighbours. If a man do not erect
in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live
no longer in monument than the bell rings and the
widow weeps.",160,19240
654441,2502,"And how long is that, think you?",156,19240
654442,2503,"Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in
rheum: therefore is it most expedient for the
wise, if Don Worm, his conscience, find no
impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his
own virtues, as I am to myself. So much for
praising myself, who, I myself will bear witness, is
praiseworthy: and now tell me, how doth your cousin?",160,19240
654443,2510,Very ill.,156,19240
654444,2511,And how do you?,160,19240
654445,2512,Very ill too.,156,19240
654446,2513,"Serve God, love me and mend. There will I leave
you too, for here comes one in haste.",160,19240
654447,2515,[Enter URSULA],1261,19240
654448,2516,"Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old
coil at home: it is proved my Lady Hero hath been
falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily
abused; and Don John is the author of all, who is
fed and gone. Will you come presently?",1219,19240
654449,2521,"Will you go hear this news, signior?",156,19240
654450,2522,"I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be
buried in thy eyes; and moreover I will go with
thee to thy uncle's.",160,19240
654451,2525,[Exeunt],1261,19240
654452,2527,"[Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and three or four with tapers]",1261,19241
654453,2528,Is this the monument of Leonato?,256,19241
654454,2529,"It is, my lord.",688,19241
654455,2530,"[Reading out of a scroll]
Done to death by slanderous tongues
Was the Hero that here lies:
Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,
Gives her fame which never dies.
So the life that died with shame
Lives in death with glorious fame.
Hang thou there upon the tomb,
Praising her when I am dumb.
Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn.
SONG.
Pardon, goddess of the night,
Those that slew thy virgin knight;
For the which, with songs of woe,
Round about her tomb they go.
Midnight, assist our moan;
Help us to sigh and groan,
Heavily, heavily:
Graves, yawn and yield your dead,
Till death be uttered,
Heavily, heavily.",256,19241
654456,2551,"Now, unto thy bones good night!
Yearly will I do this rite.",256,19241
654457,2553,"Good morrow, masters; put your torches out:
The wolves have prey'd; and look, the gentle day,
Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey.
Thanks to you all, and leave us: fare you well.",329,19241
654458,2558,"Good morrow, masters: each his several way.",256,19241
654459,2559,"Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;
And then to Leonato's we will go.",329,19241
654460,2561,"And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's
Than this for whom we render'd up this woe.",256,19241
654461,2563,"[Exeunt]
[Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, BENEDICK, BEATRICE,]
MARGARET, URSULA, FRIAR FRANCIS, and HERO]",1261,19241
654462,2567,Did I not tell you she was innocent?,502,19242
654463,2568,"So are the prince and Claudio, who accused her
Upon the error that you heard debated:
But Margaret was in some fault for this,
Although against her will, as it appears
In the true course of all the question.",664,19242
654464,2573,"Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.",115,19242
654465,2574,"And so am I, being else by faith enforced
To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.",160,19242
654466,2576,"Well, daughter, and you gentle-women all,
Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,
And when I send for you, come hither mask'd.
[Exeunt Ladies]
The prince and Claudio promised by this hour
To visit me. You know your office, brother:
You must be father to your brother's daughter
And give her to young Claudio.",664,19242
654467,2584,Which I will do with confirm'd countenance.,115,19242
654468,2585,"Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.",160,19242
654469,2586,"To do what, signior?",502,19242
654470,2587,"To bind me, or undo me; one of them.
Signior Leonato, truth it is, good signior,
Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.",160,19242
654471,2590,That eye my daughter lent her: 'tis most true.,664,19242
654472,2591,And I do with an eye of love requite her.,160,19242
654473,2592,"The sight whereof I think you had from me,
From Claudio and the prince: but what's your will?",664,19242
654474,2594,"Your answer, sir, is enigmatical:
But, for my will, my will is your good will
May stand with ours, this day to be conjoin'd
In the state of honourable marriage:
In which, good friar, I shall desire your help.",160,19242
654475,2599,My heart is with your liking.,664,19242
654476,2600,"And my help.
Here comes the prince and Claudio.",502,19242
654477,2602,"[Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO, and two or three others]",1261,19242
654478,2603,Good morrow to this fair assembly.,329,19242
654479,2604,"Good morrow, prince; good morrow, Claudio:
We here attend you. Are you yet determined
To-day to marry with my brother's daughter?",664,19242
654480,2607,"I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope.",256,19242
654481,2608,"Call her forth, brother; here's the friar ready.",664,19242
654482,2609,[Exit ANTONIO],1261,19242
654483,2610,"Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what's the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?",329,19242
654484,2613,"I think he thinks upon the savage bull.
Tush, fear not, man; we'll tip thy horns with gold
And all Europa shall rejoice at thee,
As once Europa did at lusty Jove,
When he would play the noble beast in love.",256,19242
654485,2618,"Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low;
And some such strange bull leap'd your father's cow,
And got a calf in that same noble feat
Much like to you, for you have just his bleat.",160,19242
654486,2622,"For this I owe you: here comes other reckonings.
[Re-enter ANTONIO, with the Ladies masked]
Which is the lady I must seize upon?",256,19242
654487,2625,"This same is she, and I do give you her.",115,19242
654488,2626,"Why, then she's mine. Sweet, let me see your face.",256,19242
654489,2627,"No, that you shall not, till you take her hand
Before this friar and swear to marry her.",664,19242
654490,2629,"Give me your hand: before this holy friar,
I am your husband, if you like of me.",256,19242
654491,2631,"And when I lived, I was your other wife:
[Unmasking]
And when you loved, you were my other husband.",585,19242
654492,2634,Another Hero!,256,19242
654493,2635,"Nothing certainer:
One Hero died defiled, but I do live,
And surely as I live, I am a maid.",585,19242
654494,2638,The former Hero! Hero that is dead!,329,19242
654495,2639,"She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.",664,19242
654496,2640,"All this amazement can I qualify:
When after that the holy rites are ended,
I'll tell you largely of fair Hero's death:
Meantime let wonder seem familiar,
And to the chapel let us presently.",502,19242
654497,2645,"Soft and fair, friar. Which is Beatrice?",160,19242
654498,2646,[Unmasking] I answer to that name. What is your will?,156,19242
654499,2647,Do not you love me?,160,19242
654500,2648,"Why, no; no more than reason.",156,19242
654501,2649,"Why, then your uncle and the prince and Claudio
Have been deceived; they swore you did.",160,19242
654502,2651,Do not you love me?,156,19242
654503,2652,"Troth, no; no more than reason.",160,19242
654504,2653,"Why, then my cousin Margaret and Ursula
Are much deceived; for they did swear you did.",156,19242
654505,2655,They swore that you were almost sick for me.,160,19242
654506,2656,They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me.,156,19242
654511,2664,"And here's another
Writ in my cousin's hand, stolen from her pocket,
Containing her affection unto Benedick.",585,19242
654512,2667,"A miracle! here's our own hands against our hearts.
Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take
thee for pity.",160,19242
654513,2670,"I would not deny you; but, by this good day, I yield
upon great persuasion; and partly to save your life,
for I was told you were in a consumption.",156,19242
654514,2673,Peace! I will stop your mouth.,160,19242
654515,2674,[Kissing her],1261,19242
654516,2675,"How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?",329,19242
654517,2676,"I'll tell thee what, prince; a college of
wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour. Dost
thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? No:
if a man will be beaten with brains, a' shall wear
nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I do
purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any
purpose that the world can say against it; and
therefore never flout at me for what I have said
against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my
conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did think to
have beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be my
kinsman, live unbruised and love my cousin.",160,19242
654518,2688,"I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice,
that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy single
life, to make thee a double-dealer; which, out of
question, thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look
exceedingly narrowly to thee.",256,19242
654519,2693,"Come, come, we are friends: let's have a dance ere
we are married, that we may lighten our own hearts
and our wives' heels.",160,19242
654520,2696,We'll have dancing afterward.,664,19242
654521,2697,"First, of my word; therefore play, music. Prince,
thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife:
there is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn.",160,19242
654522,2700,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19242
654523,2701,"My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight,
And brought with armed men back to Messina.",784,19242
654524,2703,"Think not on him till to-morrow:
I'll devise thee brave punishments for him.
Strike up, pipers.",160,19242
654525,2706,[Dance],1261,19242
654526,2707,[Exeunt],1261,19242
654527,3,[Enter RODERIGO and IAGO],1261,19243
654528,4,"Tush! never tell me; I take it much unkindly
That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse
As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.",949,19243
654529,7,"'Sblood, but you will not hear me:
If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me.",600,19243
654530,9,Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate.,949,19243
654531,10,"Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city,
In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,
Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man,
I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:
But he; as loving his own pride and purposes,
Evades them, with a bombast circumstance
Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war;
And, in conclusion,
Nonsuits my mediators; for, 'Certes,' says he,
'I have already chose my officer.'
And what was he?
Forsooth, a great arithmetician,
One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,
A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife;
That never set a squadron in the field,
Nor the division of a battle knows
More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric,
Wherein the toged consuls can propose
As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise,
Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election:
And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds
Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'd
By debitor and creditor: this counter-caster,
He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,
And I--God bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient.",600,19243
654532,36,"By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman.",949,19243
654533,37,"Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service,
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself,
Whether I in any just term am affined
To love the Moor.",600,19243
654534,43,I would not follow him then.,949,19243
654535,44,"O, sir, content you;
I follow him to serve my turn upon him:
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters
Cannot be truly follow'd. You shall mark
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,
That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,
For nought but provender, and when he's old, cashier'd:
Whip me such honest knaves. Others there are
Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty,
Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,
And, throwing but shows of service on their lords,
Do well thrive by them and when they have lined
their coats
Do themselves homage: these fellows have some soul;
And such a one do I profess myself. For, sir,
It is as sure as you are Roderigo,
Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:
In following him, I follow but myself;
Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,
But seeming so, for my peculiar end:
For when my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart
In compliment extern, 'tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.",600,19243
654536,70,"What a full fortune does the thicklips owe
If he can carry't thus!",949,19243
654537,72,"Call up her father,
Rouse him: make after him, poison his delight,
Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen,
And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,
Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy,
Yet throw such changes of vexation on't,
As it may lose some colour.",600,19243
654538,79,Here is her father's house; I'll call aloud.,949,19243
654539,80,"Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell
As when, by night and negligence, the fire
Is spied in populous cities.",600,19243
654540,83,"What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!",949,19243
654541,84,"Awake! what, ho, Brabantio! thieves! thieves! thieves!
Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!
Thieves! thieves!",600,19243
654542,87,"[BRABANTIO appears above, at a window]",1261,19243
654543,88,"What is the reason of this terrible summons?
What is the matter there?",198,19243
654544,90,"Signior, is all your family within?",949,19243
654545,91,Are your doors lock'd?,600,19243
654546,92,"Why, wherefore ask you this?",198,19243
654547,93,"'Zounds, sir, you're robb'd; for shame, put on
your gown;
Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul;
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is topping your white ewe. Arise, arise;
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:
Arise, I say.",600,19243
654548,101,"What, have you lost your wits?",198,19243
654549,102,"Most reverend signior, do you know my voice?",949,19243
654550,103,Not I. what are you?,198,19243
654551,104,My name is Roderigo.,949,19243
654552,105,"The worser welcome:
I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors:
In honest plainness thou hast heard me say
My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,
Being full of supper and distempering draughts,
Upon malicious bravery, dost thou come
To start my quiet.",198,19243
654553,112,"Sir, sir, sir,--",949,19243
654554,113,"But thou must needs be sure
My spirit and my place have in them power
To make this bitter to thee.",198,19243
654555,116,"Patience, good sir.",949,19243
654556,117,"What tell'st thou me of robbing? this is Venice;
My house is not a grange.",198,19243
654557,119,"Most grave Brabantio,
In simple and pure soul I come to you.",949,19243
654558,121,"'Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not
serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to
do you service and you think we are ruffians, you'll
have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse;
you'll have your nephews neigh to you; you'll have
coursers for cousins and gennets for germans.",600,19243
654559,127,What profane wretch art thou?,198,19243
654560,128,"I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.",600,19243
654561,130,Thou art a villain.,198,19243
654562,131,You are--a senator.,600,19243
654563,132,"This thou shalt answer; I know thee, Roderigo.",198,19243
654564,133,"Sir, I will answer any thing. But, I beseech you,
If't be your pleasure and most wise consent,
As partly I find it is, that your fair daughter,
At this odd-even and dull watch o' the night,
Transported, with no worse nor better guard
But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,
To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor--
If this be known to you and your allowance,
We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs;
But if you know not this, my manners tell me
We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe
That, from the sense of all civility,
I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:
Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,
I say again, hath made a gross revolt;
Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes
In an extravagant and wheeling stranger
Of here and every where. Straight satisfy yourself:
If she be in her chamber or your house,
Let loose on me the justice of the state
For thus deluding you.",949,19243
654565,154,"Strike on the tinder, ho!
Give me a taper! call up all my people!
This accident is not unlike my dream:
Belief of it oppresses me already.
Light, I say! light!",198,19243
654566,159,[Exit above],1261,19243
654567,160,"Farewell; for I must leave you:
It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,
To be produced--as, if I stay, I shall--
Against the Moor: for, I do know, the state,
However this may gall him with some cheque,
Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embark'd
With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,
Which even now stand in act, that, for their souls,
Another of his fathom they have none,
To lead their business: in which regard,
Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains.
Yet, for necessity of present life,
I must show out a flag and sign of love,
Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him,
Lead to the Sagittary the raised search;
And there will I be with him. So, farewell.",600,19243
654568,176,[Exit],1261,19243
654569,177,"[Enter, below, BRABANTIO, and Servants with torches]",1261,19243
654570,178,"It is too true an evil: gone she is;
And what's to come of my despised time
Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo,
Where didst thou see her? O unhappy girl!
With the Moor, say'st thou? Who would be a father!
How didst thou know 'twas she? O she deceives me
Past thought! What said she to you? Get more tapers:
Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you?",198,19243
654571,186,"Truly, I think they are.",949,19243
654572,187,"O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!
Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds
By what you see them act. Is there not charms
By which the property of youth and maidhood
May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,
Of some such thing?",198,19243
654573,193,"Yes, sir, I have indeed.",949,19243
654574,194,"Call up my brother. O, would you had had her!
Some one way, some another. Do you know
Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?",198,19243
654575,197,"I think I can discover him, if you please,
To get good guard and go along with me.",949,19243
654576,199,"Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call;
I may command at most. Get weapons, ho!
And raise some special officers of night.
On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains.",198,19243
654577,203,[Exeunt],1261,19243
654578,205,"[Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Attendants with torches]",1261,19244
654579,206,"Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience
To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity
Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times
I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs.",600,19244
654582,224,"Let him do his spite:
My services which I have done the signiory
Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know,--
Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,
I shall promulgate--I fetch my life and being
From men of royal siege, and my demerits
May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune
As this that I have reach'd: for know, Iago,
But that I love the gentle Desdemona,
I would not my unhoused free condition
Put into circumscription and confine
For the sea's worth. But, look! what lights come yond?",844,19244
654583,236,"Those are the raised father and his friends:
You were best go in.",600,19244
654584,238,"Not I. I must be found:
My parts, my title and my perfect soul
Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?",844,19244
654585,241,"By Janus, I think no.",600,19244
654586,242,"[Enter CASSIO, and certain Officers with torches]",1261,19244
654587,243,"The servants of the duke, and my lieutenant.
The goodness of the night upon you, friends!
What is the news?",844,19244
654588,246,"The duke does greet you, general,
And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance,
Even on the instant.",230,19244
654589,249,"What is the matter, think you?",844,19244
654590,250,"Something from Cyprus as I may divine:
It is a business of some heat: the galleys
Have sent a dozen sequent messengers
This very night at one another's heels,
And many of the consuls, raised and met,
Are at the duke's already: you have been
hotly call'd for;
When, being not at your lodging to be found,
The senate hath sent about three several guests
To search you out.",230,19244
654591,260,"'Tis well I am found by you.
I will but spend a word here in the house,
And go with you.",844,19244
654592,263,[Exit],1261,19244
654593,264,"Ancient, what makes he here?",230,19244
654594,265,"'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack:
If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.",600,19244
654595,267,I do not understand.,230,19244
654596,268,He's married.,600,19244
654597,269,To who?,230,19244
654598,270,[Re-enter OTHELLO],1261,19244
654599,271,"Marry, to--Come, captain, will you go?",600,19244
654600,272,Have with you.,844,19244
654601,273,Here comes another troop to seek for you.,230,19244
654602,274,"It is Brabantio. General, be advised;
He comes to bad intent.",600,19244
654603,276,"[Enter BRABANTIO, RODERIGO, and Officers with torches and weapons]",1261,19244
654604,277,Holla! stand there!,844,19244
654605,278,"Signior, it is the Moor.",949,19244
654606,279,"Down with him, thief!",198,19244
654607,280,[They draw on both sides],1261,19244
654608,281,"You, Roderigo! come, sir, I am for you.",600,19244
654609,282,"Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
Good signior, you shall more command with years
Than with your weapons.",844,19244
654610,285,"O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter?
Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her;
For I'll refer me to all things of sense,
If she in chains of magic were not bound,
Whether a maid so tender, fair and happy,
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,
Would ever have, to incur a general mock,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou, to fear, not to delight.
Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense
That thou hast practised on her with foul charms,
Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals
That weaken motion: I'll have't disputed on;
'Tis probable and palpable to thinking.
I therefore apprehend and do attach thee
For an abuser of the world, a practiser
Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.
Lay hold upon him: if he do resist,
Subdue him at his peril.",198,19244
654611,305,"Hold your hands,
Both you of my inclining, and the rest:
Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
Without a prompter. Where will you that I go
To answer this your charge?",844,19244
654612,310,"To prison, till fit time
Of law and course of direct session
Call thee to answer.",198,19244
654613,313,"What if I do obey?
How may the duke be therewith satisfied,
Whose messengers are here about my side,
Upon some present business of the state
To bring me to him?",844,19244
654614,318,"'Tis true, most worthy signior;
The duke's in council and your noble self,
I am sure, is sent for.",9,19244
654615,321,"How! the duke in council!
In this time of the night! Bring him away:
Mine's not an idle cause: the duke himself,
Or any of my brothers of the state,
Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own;
For if such actions may have passage free,
Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.",198,19244
654616,328,[Exeunt],1261,19244
654617,330,[The DUKE and Senators sitting at a table; Officers attending],1261,19245
654618,331,"There is no composition in these news
That gives them credit.",353,19245
654619,333,"Indeed, they are disproportion'd;
My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.",12,19245
654620,335,"And mine, a hundred and forty.",353,19245
654621,336,"And mine, two hundred:
But though they jump not on a just account,--
As in these cases, where the aim reports,
'Tis oft with difference--yet do they all confirm
A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus.",27,19245
654622,341,"Nay, it is possible enough to judgment:
I do not so secure me in the error,
But the main article I do approve
In fearful sense.",353,19245
654623,345,"[Within] What, ho! what, ho! what, ho!",961,19245
654624,346,A messenger from the galleys.,9,19245
654625,347,[Enter a Sailor],1261,19245
654626,348,"Now, what's the business?",353,19245
654627,349,"The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes;
So was I bid report here to the state
By Signior Angelo.",961,19245
654628,352,How say you by this change?,353,19245
654629,353,"This cannot be,
By no assay of reason: 'tis a pageant,
To keep us in false gaze. When we consider
The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk,
And let ourselves again but understand,
That as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes,
So may he with more facile question bear it,
For that it stands not in such warlike brace,
But altogether lacks the abilities
That Rhodes is dress'd in: if we make thought of this,
We must not think the Turk is so unskilful
To leave that latest which concerns him first,
Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain,
To wake and wage a danger profitless.",12,19245
654630,367,"Nay, in all confidence, he's not for Rhodes.",353,19245
654631,368,Here is more news.,9,19245
654632,369,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19245
654633,370,"The Ottomites, reverend and gracious,
Steering with due course towards the isle of Rhodes,
Have there injointed them with an after fleet.",786,19245
654634,373,"Ay, so I thought. How many, as you guess?",12,19245
654635,374,"Of thirty sail: and now they do restem
Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance
Their purposes toward Cyprus. Signior Montano,
Your trusty and most valiant servitor,
With his free duty recommends you thus,
And prays you to believe him.",786,19245
654636,380,"'Tis certain, then, for Cyprus.
Marcus Luccicos, is not he in town?",353,19245
654637,382,He's now in Florence.,12,19245
654638,383,Write from us to him; post-post-haste dispatch.,353,19245
654639,384,Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor.,12,19245
654640,385,"[Enter BRABANTIO, OTHELLO, IAGO, RODERIGO, and Officers]",1261,19245
654641,386,"Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you
Against the general enemy Ottoman.
[To BRABANTIO]
I did not see you; welcome, gentle signior;
We lack'd your counsel and your help tonight.",353,19245
654642,391,"So did I yours. Good your grace, pardon me;
Neither my place nor aught I heard of business
Hath raised me from my bed, nor doth the general care
Take hold on me, for my particular grief
Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature
That it engluts and swallows other sorrows
And it is still itself.",198,19245
654643,398,"Why, what's the matter?",353,19245
654644,399,"My daughter! O, my daughter!",198,19245
654645,400,[with Senator] Dead?,353,19245
654646,401,"Ay, to me;
She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted
By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks;
For nature so preposterously to err,
Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,
Sans witchcraft could not.",198,19245
654647,407,"Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding
Hath thus beguiled your daughter of herself
And you of her, the bloody book of law
You shall yourself read in the bitter letter
After your own sense, yea, though our proper son
Stood in your action.",353,19245
654648,413,"Humbly I thank your grace.
Here is the man, this Moor, whom now, it seems,
Your special mandate for the state-affairs
Hath hither brought.",198,19245
654649,417,[with Senator] We are very sorry for't.,353,19245
654650,418,"[To OTHELLO] What, in your own part, can you say to this?",353,19245
654651,419,"Nothing, but this is so.",198,19245
654652,420,"Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,
My very noble and approved good masters,
That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter,
It is most true; true, I have married her:
The very head and front of my offending
Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech,
And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace:
For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,
Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used
Their dearest action in the tented field,
And little of this great world can I speak,
More than pertains to feats of broil and battle,
And therefore little shall I grace my cause
In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver
Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms,
What conjuration and what mighty magic,
For such proceeding I am charged withal,
I won his daughter.",844,19245
654653,439,"A maiden never bold;
Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion
Blush'd at herself; and she, in spite of nature,
Of years, of country, credit, every thing,
To fall in love with what she fear'd to look on!
It is a judgment maim'd and most imperfect
That will confess perfection so could err
Against all rules of nature, and must be driven
To find out practises of cunning hell,
Why this should be. I therefore vouch again
That with some mixtures powerful o'er the blood,
Or with some dram conjured to this effect,
He wrought upon her.",198,19245
654654,452,"To vouch this, is no proof,
Without more wider and more overt test
Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods
Of modern seeming do prefer against him.",353,19245
654655,456,"But, Othello, speak:
Did you by indirect and forced courses
Subdue and poison this young maid's affections?
Or came it by request and such fair question
As soul to soul affordeth?",12,19245
654656,461,"I do beseech you,
Send for the lady to the Sagittary,
And let her speak of me before her father:
If you do find me foul in her report,
The trust, the office I do hold of you,
Not only take away, but let your sentence
Even fall upon my life.",844,19245
654657,468,Fetch Desdemona hither.,353,19245
654658,469,"Ancient, conduct them: you best know the place.
[Exeunt IAGO and Attendants]
And, till she come, as truly as to heaven
I do confess the vices of my blood,
So justly to your grave ears I'll present
How I did thrive in this fair lady's love,
And she in mine.",844,19245
654659,476,"Say it, Othello.",353,19245
654660,477,"Her father loved me; oft invited me;
Still question'd me the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That I have passed.
I ran it through, even from my boyish days,
To the very moment that he bade me tell it;
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field
Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,
Of being taken by the insolent foe
And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence
And portance in my travels' history:
Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven
It was my hint to speak,--such was the process;
And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
The Anthropophagi and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear
Would Desdemona seriously incline:
But still the house-affairs would draw her thence:
Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,
She'ld come again, and with a greedy ear
Devour up my discourse: which I observing,
Took once a pliant hour, and found good means
To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart
That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,
Whereof by parcels she had something heard,
But not intentively: I did consent,
And often did beguile her of her tears,
When I did speak of some distressful stroke
That my youth suffer'd. My story being done,
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:
She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange,
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:
She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd
That heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me,
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
I should but teach him how to tell my story.
And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
And I loved her that she did pity them.
This only is the witchcraft I have used:
Here comes the lady; let her witness it.",844,19245
654661,520,"[Enter DESDEMONA, IAGO, and Attendants]",1261,19245
654662,521,"I think this tale would win my daughter too.
Good Brabantio,
Take up this mangled matter at the best:
Men do their broken weapons rather use
Than their bare hands.",353,19245
654663,526,"I pray you, hear her speak:
If she confess that she was half the wooer,
Destruction on my head, if my bad blame
Light on the man! Come hither, gentle mistress:
Do you perceive in all this noble company
Where most you owe obedience?",198,19245
654664,532,"My noble father,
I do perceive here a divided duty:
To you I am bound for life and education;
My life and education both do learn me
How to respect you; you are the lord of duty;
I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my husband,
And so much duty as my mother show'd
To you, preferring you before her father,
So much I challenge that I may profess
Due to the Moor my lord.",311,19245
654665,542,"God be wi' you! I have done.
Please it your grace, on to the state-affairs:
I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
Come hither, Moor:
I here do give thee that with all my heart
Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart
I would keep from thee. For your sake, jewel,
I am glad at soul I have no other child:
For thy escape would teach me tyranny,
To hang clogs on them. I have done, my lord.",198,19245
654666,552,"Let me speak like yourself, and lay a sentence,
Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers
Into your favour.
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
What cannot be preserved when fortune takes
Patience her injury a mockery makes.
The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief;
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.",353,19245
654667,563,"So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile;
We lose it not, so long as we can smile.
He bears the sentence well that nothing bears
But the free comfort which from thence he hears,
But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow
That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow.
These sentences, to sugar, or to gall,
Being strong on both sides, are equivocal:
But words are words; I never yet did hear
That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.
I humbly beseech you, proceed to the affairs of state.",198,19245
654668,574,"The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for
Cyprus. Othello, the fortitude of the place is best
known to you; and though we have there a substitute
of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a
sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer
voice on you: you must therefore be content to
slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this
more stubborn and boisterous expedition.",353,19245
654669,582,"The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down: I do agnise
A natural and prompt alacrity
I find in hardness, and do undertake
These present wars against the Ottomites.
Most humbly therefore bending to your state,
I crave fit disposition for my wife.
Due reference of place and exhibition,
With such accommodation and besort
As levels with her breeding.",844,19245
654670,593,"If you please,
Be't at her father's.",353,19245
654671,595,I'll not have it so.,198,19245
654672,596,Nor I.,844,19245
654673,597,"Nor I; I would not there reside,
To put my father in impatient thoughts
By being in his eye. Most gracious duke,
To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear;
And let me find a charter in your voice,
To assist my simpleness.",311,19245
654674,603,"What would You, Desdemona?",353,19245
654675,604,"That I did love the Moor to live with him,
My downright violence and storm of fortunes
May trumpet to the world: my heart's subdued
Even to the very quality of my lord:
I saw Othello's visage in his mind,
And to his honour and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
So that, dear lords, if I be left behind,
A moth of peace, and he go to the war,
The rites for which I love him are bereft me,
And I a heavy interim shall support
By his dear absence. Let me go with him.",311,19245
654676,616,"Let her have your voices.
Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not,
To please the palate of my appetite,
Nor to comply with heat--the young affects
In me defunct--and proper satisfaction.
But to be free and bounteous to her mind:
And heaven defend your good souls, that you think
I will your serious and great business scant
For she is with me: no, when light-wing'd toys
Of feather'd Cupid seal with wanton dullness
My speculative and officed instruments,
That my disports corrupt and taint my business,
Let housewives make a skillet of my helm,
And all indign and base adversities
Make head against my estimation!",844,19245
654677,631,"Be it as you shall privately determine,
Either for her stay or going: the affair cries haste,
And speed must answer it.",353,19245
654678,634,You must away to-night.,12,19245
654679,635,With all my heart.,844,19245
654680,636,"At nine i' the morning here we'll meet again.
Othello, leave some officer behind,
And he shall our commission bring to you;
With such things else of quality and respect
As doth import you.",353,19245
654681,641,"So please your grace, my ancient;
A man he is of honest and trust:
To his conveyance I assign my wife,
With what else needful your good grace shall think
To be sent after me.",844,19245
654682,646,"Let it be so.
Good night to every one.
[To BRABANTIO]
And, noble signior,
If virtue no delighted beauty lack,
Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.",353,19245
654683,652,"Adieu, brave Moor, use Desdemona well.",12,19245
654684,653,"Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:
She has deceived her father, and may thee.",198,19245
654685,655,"[Exeunt DUKE OF VENICE, Senators, Officers, &c]",1261,19245
654686,656,"My life upon her faith! Honest Iago,
My Desdemona must I leave to thee:
I prithee, let thy wife attend on her:
And bring them after in the best advantage.
Come, Desdemona: I have but an hour
Of love, of worldly matters and direction,
To spend with thee: we must obey the time.",844,19245
654687,663,[Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA],1261,19245
654688,664,"Iago,--",949,19245
654689,665,"What say'st thou, noble heart?",600,19245
654690,666,"What will I do, thinkest thou?",949,19245
654691,667,"Why, go to bed, and sleep.",600,19245
654692,668,I will incontinently drown myself.,949,19245
654693,669,"If thou dost, I shall never love thee after. Why,
thou silly gentleman!",600,19245
654694,671,"It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and
then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.",949,19245
654695,673,"O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four
times seven years; and since I could distinguish
betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man
that knew how to love himself. Ere I would say, I
would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I
would change my humanity with a baboon.",600,19245
654696,679,"What should I do? I confess it is my shame to be so
fond; but it is not in my virtue to amend it.",949,19245
654697,681,"Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus
or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant
nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or
distract it with many, either to have it sterile
with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power and corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills. If the balance of our lives had not one
scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
to most preposterous conclusions: but we have
reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that
you call love to be a sect or scion.",600,19245
654698,696,It cannot be.,949,19245
654699,697,"It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of
the will. Come, be a man. Drown thyself! drown
cats and blind puppies. I have professed me thy
friend and I confess me knit to thy deserving with
cables of perdurable toughness; I could never
better stead thee than now. Put money in thy
purse; follow thou the wars; defeat thy favour with
an usurped beard; I say, put money in thy purse. It
cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her
love to the Moor,-- put money in thy purse,--nor he
his to her: it was a violent commencement, and thou
shalt see an answerable sequestration:--put but
money in thy purse. These Moors are changeable in
their wills: fill thy purse with money:--the food
that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be
to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. She must
change for youth: when she is sated with his body,
she will find the error of her choice: she must
have change, she must: therefore put money in thy
purse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a
more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money
thou canst: if sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt
an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian not
too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thou
shalt enjoy her; therefore make money. A pox of
drowning thyself! it is clean out of the way: seek
thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than
to be drowned and go without her.",600,19245
654700,725,"Wilt thou be fast to my hopes, if I depend on
the issue?",949,19245
654701,727,"Thou art sure of me:--go, make money:--I have told
thee often, and I re-tell thee again and again, I
hate the Moor: my cause is hearted; thine hath no
less reason. Let us be conjunctive in our revenge
against him: if thou canst cuckold him, thou dost
thyself a pleasure, me a sport. There are many
events in the womb of time which will be delivered.
Traverse! go, provide thy money. We will have more
of this to-morrow. Adieu.",600,19245
654702,736,Where shall we meet i' the morning?,949,19245
654703,737,At my lodging.,600,19245
654704,738,I'll be with thee betimes.,949,19245
654705,739,"Go to; farewell. Do you hear, Roderigo?",600,19245
654706,740,What say you?,949,19245
654707,741,"No more of drowning, do you hear?",600,19245
654708,742,I am changed: I'll go sell all my land.,949,19245
654709,743,[Exit],1261,19245
654710,744,"Thus do I ever make my fool my purse:
For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane,
If I would time expend with such a snipe.
But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor:
And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets
He has done my office: I know not if't be true;
But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,
Will do as if for surety. He holds me well;
The better shall my purpose work on him.
Cassio's a proper man: let me see now:
To get his place and to plume up my will
In double knavery--How, how? Let's see:--
After some time, to abuse Othello's ear
That he is too familiar with his wife.
He hath a person and a smooth dispose
To be suspected, framed to make women false.
The Moor is of a free and open nature,
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
And will as tenderly be led by the nose
As asses are.
I have't. It is engender'd. Hell and night
Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.",600,19245
654711,766,[Exit],1261,19245
654712,769,[Enter MONTANO and two Gentlemen],1261,19246
654713,770,What from the cape can you discern at sea?,799,19246
654714,771,"Nothing at all: it is a highwrought flood;
I cannot, 'twixt the heaven and the main,
Descry a sail.",4,19246
654715,774,"Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land;
A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements:
If it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea,
What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,
Can hold the mortise? What shall we hear of this?",799,19246
654716,779,"A segregation of the Turkish fleet:
For do but stand upon the foaming shore,
The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds;
The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous mane,
seems to cast water on the burning bear,
And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole:
I never did like molestation view
On the enchafed flood.",21,19246
654717,787,"If that the Turkish fleet
Be not enshelter'd and embay'd, they are drown'd:
It is impossible they bear it out.",799,19246
654718,790,[Enter a third Gentleman],1261,19246
654719,791,"News, lads! our wars are done.
The desperate tempest hath so bang'd the Turks,
That their designment halts: a noble ship of Venice
Hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance
On most part of their fleet.",36,19246
654720,796,How! is this true?,799,19246
654721,797,"The ship is here put in,
A Veronesa; Michael Cassio,
Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
Is come on shore: the Moor himself at sea,
And is in full commission here for Cyprus.",36,19246
654722,802,I am glad on't; 'tis a worthy governor.,799,19246
654723,803,"But this same Cassio, though he speak of comfort
Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks sadly,
And prays the Moor be safe; for they were parted
With foul and violent tempest.",36,19246
654724,807,"Pray heavens he be;
For I have served him, and the man commands
Like a full soldier. Let's to the seaside, ho!
As well to see the vessel that's come in
As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello,
Even till we make the main and the aerial blue
An indistinct regard.",799,19246
654725,814,"Come, let's do so:
For every minute is expectancy
Of more arrivance.",36,19246
654726,817,[Enter CASSIO],1261,19246
654727,818,"Thanks, you the valiant of this warlike isle,
That so approve the Moor! O, let the heavens
Give him defence against the elements,
For I have lost us him on a dangerous sea.",230,19246
654728,822,Is he well shipp'd?,799,19246
654729,823,"His bark is stoutly timber'd, his pilot
Of very expert and approved allowance;
Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death,
Stand in bold cure.",230,19246
654730,827,"[A cry within 'A sail, a sail, a sail!']",1261,19246
654731,828,[Enter a fourth Gentleman],1261,19246
654732,829,What noise?,230,19246
654733,830,"The town is empty; on the brow o' the sea
Stand ranks of people, and they cry 'A sail!'",43,19246
654734,832,My hopes do shape him for the governor.,230,19246
654735,833,[Guns heard],1261,19246
654736,834,"They do discharge their shot of courtesy:
Our friends at least.",21,19246
654737,836,"I pray you, sir, go forth,
And give us truth who 'tis that is arrived.",230,19246
654738,838,I shall.,21,19246
654739,839,[Exit],1261,19246
654740,840,"But, good lieutenant, is your general wived?",799,19246
654741,841,"Most fortunately: he hath achieved a maid
That paragons description and wild fame;
One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,
And in the essential vesture of creation
Does tire the ingener.
[Re-enter second Gentleman]
How now! who has put in?",230,19246
654742,848,"'Tis one Iago, ancient to the general.",21,19246
654743,849,"Has had most favourable and happy speed:
Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds,
The gutter'd rocks and congregated sands--
Traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel,--
As having sense of beauty, do omit
Their mortal natures, letting go safely by
The divine Desdemona.",230,19246
654744,856,What is she?,799,19246
654745,857,"She that I spake of, our great captain's captain,
Left in the conduct of the bold Iago,
Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts
A se'nnight's speed. Great Jove, Othello guard,
And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath,
That he may bless this bay with his tall ship,
Make love's quick pants in Desdemona's arms,
Give renew'd fire to our extincted spirits
And bring all Cyprus comfort!
[Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, IAGO, RODERIGO, and Attendants]
O, behold,
The riches of the ship is come on shore!
Ye men of Cyprus, let her have your knees.
Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven,
Before, behind thee, and on every hand,
Enwheel thee round!",230,19246
654746,873,"I thank you, valiant Cassio.
What tidings can you tell me of my lord?",311,19246
654747,875,"He is not yet arrived: nor know I aught
But that he's well and will be shortly here.",230,19246
654748,877,"O, but I fear--How lost you company?",311,19246
654749,878,"The great contention of the sea and skies
Parted our fellowship--But, hark! a sail.",230,19246
654750,880,"[Within 'A sail, a sail!' Guns heard]",1261,19246
654751,881,"They give their greeting to the citadel;
This likewise is a friend.",21,19246
654752,883,"See for the news.
[Exit Gentleman]
Good ancient, you are welcome.
[To EMILIA]
Welcome, mistress.
Let it not gall your patience, good Iago,
That I extend my manners; 'tis my breeding
That gives me this bold show of courtesy.",230,19246
654753,891,[Kissing her],1261,19246
654754,892,"Sir, would she give you so much of her lips
As of her tongue she oft bestows on me,
You'll have enough.",600,19246
654755,895,"Alas, she has no speech.",311,19246
654756,896,"In faith, too much;
I find it still, when I have list to sleep:
Marry, before your ladyship, I grant,
She puts her tongue a little in her heart,
And chides with thinking.",600,19246
654757,901,You have little cause to say so.,379,19246
654758,902,"Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,
Bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens,
Saints m your injuries, devils being offended,
Players in your housewifery, and housewives' in your beds.",600,19246
654759,906,"O, fie upon thee, slanderer!",311,19246
654760,907,"Nay, it is true, or else I am a Turk:
You rise to play and go to bed to work.",600,19246
654761,909,You shall not write my praise.,379,19246
654762,910,"No, let me not.",600,19246
654763,911,"What wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst
praise me?",311,19246
654764,913,"O gentle lady, do not put me to't;
For I am nothing, if not critical.",600,19246
654765,915,Come on assay. There's one gone to the harbour?,311,19246
654766,916,"Ay, madam.",600,19246
654767,917,"I am not merry; but I do beguile
The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
Come, how wouldst thou praise me?",311,19246
654768,920,"I am about it; but indeed my invention
Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize;
It plucks out brains and all: but my Muse labours,
And thus she is deliver'd.
If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,
The one's for use, the other useth it.",600,19246
654769,926,Well praised! How if she be black and witty?,311,19246
654770,927,"If she be black, and thereto have a wit,
She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit.",600,19246
654771,929,Worse and worse.,311,19246
654772,930,How if fair and foolish?,379,19246
654773,931,"She never yet was foolish that was fair;
For even her folly help'd her to an heir.",600,19246
654774,933,"These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i'
the alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for
her that's foul and foolish?",311,19246
654775,936,"There's none so foul and foolish thereunto,
But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do.",600,19246
654776,938,"O heavy ignorance! thou praisest the worst best.
But what praise couldst thou bestow on a deserving
woman indeed, one that, in the authority of her
merit, did justly put on the vouch of very malice itself?",311,19246
654777,942,"She that was ever fair and never proud,
Had tongue at will and yet was never loud,
Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay,
Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,'
She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh,
Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly,
She that in wisdom never was so frail
To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail;
She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind,
See suitors following and not look behind,
She was a wight, if ever such wight were,--",600,19246
654778,953,To do what?,311,19246
654779,954,To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.,600,19246
654780,955,"O most lame and impotent conclusion! Do not learn
of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband. How say
you, Cassio? is he not a most profane and liberal
counsellor?",311,19246
654781,959,"He speaks home, madam: You may relish him more in
the soldier than in the scholar.",230,19246
654782,961,"[Aside] He takes her by the palm: ay, well said,
whisper: with as little a web as this will I
ensnare as great a fly as Cassio. Ay, smile upon
her, do; I will gyve thee in thine own courtship.
You say true; 'tis so, indeed: if such tricks as
these strip you out of your lieutenantry, it had
been better you had not kissed your three fingers so
oft, which now again you are most apt to play the
sir in. Very good; well kissed! an excellent
courtesy! 'tis so, indeed. Yet again your fingers
to your lips? would they were clyster-pipes for your sake!
[Trumpet within]
The Moor! I know his trumpet.",600,19246
654785,976,"Lo, where he comes!",230,19246
654786,977,[Enter OTHELLO and Attendants],1261,19246
654787,978,O my fair warrior!,844,19246
654788,979,My dear Othello!,311,19246
654789,980,"It gives me wonder great as my content
To see you here before me. O my soul's joy!
If after every tempest come such calms,
May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!
And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas
Olympus-high and duck again as low
As hell's from heaven! If it were now to die,
'Twere now to be most happy; for, I fear,
My soul hath her content so absolute
That not another comfort like to this
Succeeds in unknown fate.",844,19246
654790,991,"The heavens forbid
But that our loves and comforts should increase,
Even as our days do grow!",311,19246
654791,994,"Amen to that, sweet powers!
I cannot speak enough of this content;
It stops me here; it is too much of joy:
And this, and this, the greatest discords be
[Kissing her]
That e'er our hearts shall make!",844,19246
654792,1000,"[Aside] O, you are well tuned now!
But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,
As honest as I am.",600,19246
654793,1003,"Come, let us to the castle.
News, friends; our wars are done, the Turks
are drown'd.
How does my old acquaintance of this isle?
Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus;
I have found great love amongst them. O my sweet,
I prattle out of fashion, and I dote
In mine own comforts. I prithee, good Iago,
Go to the bay and disembark my coffers:
Bring thou the master to the citadel;
He is a good one, and his worthiness
Does challenge much respect. Come, Desdemona,
Once more, well met at Cyprus.",844,19246
654794,1016,"[Exeunt OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants]",1261,19246
654795,1017,"Do thou meet me presently at the harbour. Come
hither. If thou be'st valiant,-- as, they say, base
men being in love have then a nobility in their
natures more than is native to them--list me. The
lieutenant tonight watches on the court of
guard:--first, I must tell thee this--Desdemona is
directly in love with him.",600,19246
654796,1024,"With him! why, 'tis not possible.",949,19246
654797,1025,"Lay thy finger thus, and let thy soul be instructed.
Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor,
but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies:
and will she love him still for prating? let not
thy discreet heart think it. Her eye must be fed;
and what delight shall she have to look on the
devil? When the blood is made dull with the act of
sport, there should be, again to inflame it and to
give satiety a fresh appetite, loveliness in favour,
sympathy in years, manners and beauties; all which
the Moor is defective in: now, for want of these
required conveniences, her delicate tenderness will
find itself abused, begin to heave the gorge,
disrelish and abhor the Moor; very nature will
instruct her in it and compel her to some second
choice. Now, sir, this granted,--as it is a most
pregnant and unforced position--who stands so
eminent in the degree of this fortune as Cassio
does? a knave very voluble; no further
conscionable than in putting on the mere form of
civil and humane seeming, for the better compassing
of his salt and most hidden loose affection? why,
none; why, none: a slipper and subtle knave, a
finder of occasions, that has an eye can stamp and
counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never
present itself; a devilish knave. Besides, the
knave is handsome, young, and hath all those
requisites in him that folly and green minds look
after: a pestilent complete knave; and the woman
hath found him already.",600,19246
654798,1055,"I cannot believe that in her; she's full of
most blessed condition.",949,19246
654799,1057,"Blessed fig's-end! the wine she drinks is made of
grapes: if she had been blessed, she would never
have loved the Moor. Blessed pudding! Didst thou
not see her paddle with the palm of his hand? didst
not mark that?",600,19246
654800,1062,"Yes, that I did; but that was but courtesy.",949,19246
654801,1063,"Lechery, by this hand; an index and obscure prologue
to the history of lust and foul thoughts. They met
so near with their lips that their breaths embraced
together. Villanous thoughts, Roderigo! when these
mutualities so marshal the way, hard at hand comes
the master and main exercise, the incorporate
conclusion, Pish! But, sir, be you ruled by me: I
have brought you from Venice. Watch you to-night;
for the command, I'll lay't upon you. Cassio knows
you not. I'll not be far from you: do you find
some occasion to anger Cassio, either by speaking
too loud, or tainting his discipline; or from what
other course you please, which the time shall more
favourably minister.",600,19246
654802,1077,Well.,949,19246
654803,1078,"Sir, he is rash and very sudden in choler, and haply
may strike at you: provoke him, that he may; for
even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to
mutiny; whose qualification shall come into no true
taste again but by the displanting of Cassio. So
shall you have a shorter journey to your desires by
the means I shall then have to prefer them; and the
impediment most profitably removed, without the
which there were no expectation of our prosperity.",600,19246
654804,1087,"I will do this, if I can bring it to any
opportunity.",949,19246
654805,1089,"I warrant thee. Meet me by and by at the citadel:
I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Farewell.",600,19246
654806,1091,Adieu.,949,19246
654807,1092,[Exit],1261,19246
654808,1093,"That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it;
That she loves him, 'tis apt and of great credit:
The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not,
Is of a constant, loving, noble nature,
And I dare think he'll prove to Desdemona
A most dear husband. Now, I do love her too;
Not out of absolute lust, though peradventure
I stand accountant for as great a sin,
But partly led to diet my revenge,
For that I do suspect the lusty Moor
Hath leap'd into my seat; the thought whereof
Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards;
And nothing can or shall content my soul
Till I am even'd with him, wife for wife,
Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor
At least into a jealousy so strong
That judgment cannot cure. Which thing to do,
If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trash
For his quick hunting, stand the putting on,
I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip,
Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb--
For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too--
Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me.
For making him egregiously an ass
And practising upon his peace and quiet
Even to madness. 'Tis here, but yet confused:
Knavery's plain face is never seen tin used.",600,19246
654809,1120,[Exit],1261,19246
654810,1122,[Enter a Herald with a proclamation; People following],1261,19247
654811,1123,"It is Othello's pleasure, our noble and valiant
general, that, upon certain tidings now arrived,
importing the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet,
every man put himself into triumph; some to dance,
some to make bonfires, each man to what sport and
revels his addiction leads him: for, besides these
beneficial news, it is the celebration of his
nuptial. So much was his pleasure should be
proclaimed. All offices are open, and there is full
liberty of feasting from this present hour of five
till the bell have told eleven. Heaven bless the
isle of Cyprus and our noble general Othello!",582,19247
654812,1135,[Exeunt],1261,19247
654813,1137,"[Enter OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and Attendants]",1261,19248
654814,1138,"Good Michael, look you to the guard to-night:
Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop,
Not to outsport discretion.",844,19248
654815,1141,"Iago hath direction what to do;
But, notwithstanding, with my personal eye
Will I look to't.",230,19248
654816,1144,"Iago is most honest.
Michael, good night: to-morrow with your earliest
Let me have speech with you.
[To DESDEMONA]
Come, my dear love,
The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue;
That profit's yet to come 'tween me and you.
Good night.",844,19248
654817,1152,"[Exeunt OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants]",1261,19248
654818,1153,[Enter IAGO],1261,19248
654819,1154,"Welcome, Iago; we must to the watch.",230,19248
654820,1155,"Not this hour, lieutenant; 'tis not yet ten o' the
clock. Our general cast us thus early for the love
of his Desdemona; who let us not therefore blame:
he hath not yet made wanton the night with her; and
she is sport for Jove.",600,19248
654821,1160,She's a most exquisite lady.,230,19248
654822,1161,"And, I'll warrant her, fun of game.",600,19248
654823,1162,"Indeed, she's a most fresh and delicate creature.",230,19248
654824,1163,"What an eye she has! methinks it sounds a parley of
provocation.",600,19248
654825,1165,An inviting eye; and yet methinks right modest.,230,19248
654826,1166,"And when she speaks, is it not an alarum to love?",600,19248
654827,1167,She is indeed perfection.,230,19248
654828,1168,"Well, happiness to their sheets! Come, lieutenant, I
have a stoup of wine; and here without are a brace
of Cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to
the health of black Othello.",600,19248
654829,1172,"Not to-night, good Iago: I have very poor and
unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish
courtesy would invent some other custom of
entertainment.",230,19248
654830,1176,"O, they are our friends; but one cup: I'll drink for
you.",600,19248
654831,1178,"I have drunk but one cup to-night, and that was
craftily qualified too, and, behold, what innovation
it makes here: I am unfortunate in the infirmity,
and dare not task my weakness with any more.",230,19248
654832,1182,"What, man! 'tis a night of revels: the gallants
desire it.",600,19248
654833,1184,Where are they?,230,19248
654834,1185,"Here at the door; I pray you, call them in.",600,19248
654835,1186,I'll do't; but it dislikes me.,230,19248
654836,1187,[Exit],1261,19248
654837,1188,"If I can fasten but one cup upon him,
With that which he hath drunk to-night already,
He'll be as full of quarrel and offence
As my young mistress' dog. Now, my sick fool Roderigo,
Whom love hath turn'd almost the wrong side out,
To Desdemona hath to-night caroused
Potations pottle-deep; and he's to watch:
Three lads of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits,
That hold their honours in a wary distance,
The very elements of this warlike isle,
Have I to-night fluster'd with flowing cups,
And they watch too. Now, 'mongst this flock of drunkards,
Am I to put our Cassio in some action
That may offend the isle.--But here they come:
If consequence do but approve my dream,
My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream.",600,19248
654838,1204,[Re-enter CASSIO; with him MONTANO and Gentlemen; servants following with wine],1261,19248
654839,1205,"'Fore God, they have given me a rouse already.",230,19248
654840,1206,"Good faith, a little one; not past a pint, as I am
a soldier.",799,19248
654841,1208,"Some wine, ho!
[Sings]
And let me the canakin clink, clink;
And let me the canakin clink
A soldier's a man;
A life's but a span;
Why, then, let a soldier drink.
Some wine, boys!",600,19248
654842,1216,"'Fore God, an excellent song.",230,19248
654843,1217,"I learned it in England, where, indeed, they are
most potent in potting: your Dane, your German, and
your swag-bellied Hollander--Drink, ho!--are nothing
to your English.",600,19248
654844,1221,Is your Englishman so expert in his drinking?,230,19248
654845,1222,"Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead
drunk; he sweats not to overthrow your Almain; he
gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle
can be filled.",600,19248
654846,1226,To the health of our general!,230,19248
654847,1227,"I am for it, lieutenant; and I'll do you justice.",799,19248
654848,1228,"O sweet England!
King Stephen was a worthy peer,
His breeches cost him but a crown;
He held them sixpence all too dear,
With that he call'd the tailor lown.
He was a wight of high renown,
And thou art but of low degree:
'Tis pride that pulls the country down;
Then take thine auld cloak about thee.
Some wine, ho!",600,19248
654849,1238,"Why, this is a more exquisite song than the other.",230,19248
654850,1239,Will you hear't again?,600,19248
654851,1240,"No; for I hold him to be unworthy of his place that
does those things. Well, God's above all; and there
be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.",230,19248
654852,1243,"It's true, good lieutenant.",600,19248
654853,1244,"For mine own part,--no offence to the general, nor
any man of quality,--I hope to be saved.",230,19248
654854,1246,"And so do I too, lieutenant.",600,19248
654855,1247,"Ay, but, by your leave, not before me; the
lieutenant is to be saved before the ancient. Let's
have no more of this; let's to our affairs.--Forgive
us our sins!--Gentlemen, let's look to our business.
Do not think, gentlemen. I am drunk: this is my
ancient; this is my right hand, and this is my left:
I am not drunk now; I can stand well enough, and
speak well enough.",230,19248
654856,1255,Excellent well.,90,19248
654857,1256,"Why, very well then; you must not think then that I am drunk.",230,19248
654858,1257,[Exit],1261,19248
654859,1258,"To the platform, masters; come, let's set the watch.",799,19248
654860,1259,"You see this fellow that is gone before;
He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar
And give direction: and do but see his vice;
'Tis to his virtue a just equinox,
The one as long as the other: 'tis pity of him.
I fear the trust Othello puts him in.
On some odd time of his infirmity,
Will shake this island.",600,19248
654861,1267,But is he often thus?,799,19248
654862,1268,"'Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep:
He'll watch the horologe a double set,
If drink rock not his cradle.",600,19248
654863,1271,"It were well
The general were put in mind of it.
Perhaps he sees it not; or his good nature
Prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio,
And looks not on his evils: is not this true?",799,19248
654864,1276,[Enter RODERIGO],1261,19248
654865,1277,"[Aside to him] How now, Roderigo!
I pray you, after the lieutenant; go.",600,19248
654866,1279,[Exit RODERIGO],1261,19248
654867,1280,"And 'tis great pity that the noble Moor
Should hazard such a place as his own second
With one of an ingraft infirmity:
It were an honest action to say
So to the Moor.",799,19248
654868,1285,"Not I, for this fair island:
I do love Cassio well; and would do much
To cure him of this evil--But, hark! what noise?",600,19248
654869,1288,[Cry within: 'Help! help!'],1261,19248
654870,1289,"[Re-enter CASSIO, driving in RODERIGO]",1261,19248
654871,1290,You rogue! you rascal!,230,19248
654872,1291,"What's the matter, lieutenant?",799,19248
654873,1292,"A knave teach me my duty!
I'll beat the knave into a twiggen bottle.",230,19248
654874,1294,Beat me!,949,19248
654875,1295,"Dost thou prate, rogue?",230,19248
654876,1296,[Striking RODERIGO],1261,19248
654877,1297,"Nay, good lieutenant;
[Staying him]
I pray you, sir, hold your hand.",799,19248
654878,1300,"Let me go, sir,
Or I'll knock you o'er the mazzard.",230,19248
654879,1302,"Come, come,
you're drunk.",799,19248
654880,1304,Drunk!,230,19248
654881,1305,[They fight],1261,19248
654882,1306,"[Aside to RODERIGO] Away, I say; go out, and cry a mutiny.
[Exit RODERIGO]
Nay, good lieutenant,--alas, gentlemen;--
Help, ho!--Lieutenant,--sir,--Montano,--sir;
Help, masters!--Here's a goodly watch indeed!
[Bell rings]
Who's that which rings the bell?--Diablo, ho!
The town will rise: God's will, lieutenant, hold!
You will be shamed for ever.",600,19248
654883,1315,[Re-enter OTHELLO and Attendants],1261,19248
654884,1316,What is the matter here?,844,19248
654885,1317,"'Zounds, I bleed still; I am hurt to the death.",799,19248
654886,1318,[Faints],1261,19248
654887,1319,"Hold, for your lives!",844,19248
654888,1320,"Hold, ho! Lieutenant,--sir--Montano,--gentlemen,--
Have you forgot all sense of place and duty?
Hold! the general speaks to you; hold, hold, for shame!",600,19248
654889,1323,"Why, how now, ho! from whence ariseth this?
Are we turn'd Turks, and to ourselves do that
Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?
For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl:
He that stirs next to carve for his own rage
Holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion.
Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle
From her propriety. What is the matter, masters?
Honest Iago, that look'st dead with grieving,
Speak, who began this? on thy love, I charge thee.",844,19248
654890,1333,"I do not know: friends all but now, even now,
In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom
Devesting them for bed; and then, but now--
As if some planet had unwitted men--
Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast,
In opposition bloody. I cannot speak
Any beginning to this peevish odds;
And would in action glorious I had lost
Those legs that brought me to a part of it!",600,19248
654891,1342,"How comes it, Michael, you are thus forgot?",844,19248
654892,1343,"I pray you, pardon me; I cannot speak.",230,19248
654893,1344,"Worthy Montano, you were wont be civil;
The gravity and stillness of your youth
The world hath noted, and your name is great
In mouths of wisest censure: what's the matter,
That you unlace your reputation thus
And spend your rich opinion for the name
Of a night-brawler? give me answer to it.",844,19248
654894,1351,"Worthy Othello, I am hurt to danger:
Your officer, Iago, can inform you,--
While I spare speech, which something now
offends me,--
Of all that I do know: nor know I aught
By me that's said or done amiss this night;
Unless self-charity be sometimes a vice,
And to defend ourselves it be a sin
When violence assails us.",799,19248
654895,1360,"Now, by heaven,
My blood begins my safer guides to rule;
And passion, having my best judgment collied,
Assays to lead the way: if I once stir,
Or do but lift this arm, the best of you
Shall sink in my rebuke. Give me to know
How this foul rout began, who set it on;
And he that is approved in this offence,
Though he had twinn'd with me, both at a birth,
Shall lose me. What! in a town of war,
Yet wild, the people's hearts brimful of fear,
To manage private and domestic quarrel,
In night, and on the court and guard of safety!
'Tis monstrous. Iago, who began't?",844,19248
654896,1374,"If partially affined, or leagued in office,
Thou dost deliver more or less than truth,
Thou art no soldier.",799,19248
654897,1377,"Touch me not so near:
I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth
Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio;
Yet, I persuade myself, to speak the truth
Shall nothing wrong him. Thus it is, general.
Montano and myself being in speech,
There comes a fellow crying out for help:
And Cassio following him with determined sword,
To execute upon him. Sir, this gentleman
Steps in to Cassio, and entreats his pause:
Myself the crying fellow did pursue,
Lest by his clamour--as it so fell out--
The town might fall in fright: he, swift of foot,
Outran my purpose; and I return'd the rather
For that I heard the clink and fall of swords,
And Cassio high in oath; which till to-night
I ne'er might say before. When I came back--
For this was brief--I found them close together,
At blow and thrust; even as again they were
When you yourself did part them.
More of this matter cannot I report:
But men are men; the best sometimes forget:
Though Cassio did some little wrong to him,
As men in rage strike those that wish them best,
Yet surely Cassio, I believe, received
From him that fled some strange indignity,
Which patience could not pass.",600,19248
654898,1404,"I know, Iago,
Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter,
Making it light to Cassio. Cassio, I love thee
But never more be officer of mine.
[Re-enter DESDEMONA, attended]
Look, if my gentle love be not raised up!
I'll make thee an example.",844,19248
654899,1411,What's the matter?,311,19248
654900,1412,"All's well now, sweeting; come away to bed.
Sir, for your hurts, myself will be your surgeon:
Lead him off.
[To MONTANO, who is led off]
Iago, look with care about the town,
And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted.
Come, Desdemona: 'tis the soldiers' life
To have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.",844,19248
654901,1420,[Exeunt all but IAGO and CASSIO],1261,19248
654902,1421,"What, are you hurt, lieutenant?",600,19248
654903,1422,"Ay, past all surgery.",230,19248
654904,1423,"Marry, heaven forbid!",600,19248
654905,1424,"Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost
my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of
myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation,
Iago, my reputation!",230,19248
654906,1428,"As I am an honest man, I thought you had received
some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than
in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false
imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without
deserving: you have lost no reputation at all,
unless you repute yourself such a loser. What, man!
there are ways to recover the general again: you
are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in
policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his
offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue
to him again, and he's yours.",600,19248
654907,1439,"I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so
good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so
indiscreet an officer. Drunk? and speak parrot?
and squabble? swagger? swear? and discourse
fustian with one's own shadow? O thou invisible
spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by,
let us call thee devil!",230,19248
654908,1446,"What was he that you followed with your sword? What
had he done to you?",600,19248
654909,1448,I know not.,230,19248
654910,1449,Is't possible?,600,19248
654911,1450,"I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly;
a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men
should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away
their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance
revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!",230,19248
654912,1455,"Why, but you are now well enough: how came you thus
recovered?",600,19248
654913,1457,"It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place
to the devil wrath; one unperfectness shows me
another, to make me frankly despise myself.",230,19248
654914,1460,"Come, you are too severe a moraler: as the time,
the place, and the condition of this country
stands, I could heartily wish this had not befallen;
but, since it is as it is, mend it for your own good.",600,19248
654915,1464,"I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me
I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra,
such an answer would stop them all. To be now a
sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a
beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is
unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.",230,19248
654916,1470,"Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature,
if it be well used: exclaim no more against it.
And, good lieutenant, I think you think I love you.",600,19248
654917,1473,"I have well approved it, sir. I drunk!",230,19248
654918,1474,"You or any man living may be drunk! at a time, man.
I'll tell you what you shall do. Our general's wife
is now the general: may say so in this respect, for
that he hath devoted and given up himself to the
contemplation, mark, and denotement of her parts and
graces: confess yourself freely to her; importune
her help to put you in your place again: she is of
so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition,
she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more
than she is requested: this broken joint between
you and her husband entreat her to splinter; and, my
fortunes against any lay worth naming, this
crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before.",600,19248
654919,1487,You advise me well.,230,19248
654920,1488,"I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness.",600,19248
654921,1489,"I think it freely; and betimes in the morning I will
beseech the virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me:
I am desperate of my fortunes if they cheque me here.",230,19248
654922,1492,"You are in the right. Good night, lieutenant; I
must to the watch.",600,19248
654923,1495,[Exit],1261,19248
654924,1496,"And what's he then that says I play the villain?
When this advice is free I give and honest,
Probal to thinking and indeed the course
To win the Moor again? For 'tis most easy
The inclining Desdemona to subdue
In any honest suit: she's framed as fruitful
As the free elements. And then for her
To win the Moor--were't to renounce his baptism,
All seals and symbols of redeemed sin,
His soul is so enfetter'd to her love,
That she may make, unmake, do what she list,
Even as her appetite shall play the god
With his weak function. How am I then a villain
To counsel Cassio to this parallel course,
Directly to his good? Divinity of hell!
When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,
As I do now: for whiles this honest fool
Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes
And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,
I'll pour this pestilence into his ear,
That she repeals him for her body's lust;
And by how much she strives to do him good,
She shall undo her credit with the Moor.
So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all.
[Re-enter RODERIGO]
How now, Roderigo!",600,19248
654925,1525,"I do follow here in the chase, not like a hound that
hunts, but one that fills up the cry. My money is
almost spent; I have been to-night exceedingly well
cudgelled; and I think the issue will be, I shall
have so much experience for my pains, and so, with
no money at all and a little more wit, return again to Venice.",949,19248
654926,1531,"How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
And wit depends on dilatory time.
Does't not go well? Cassio hath beaten thee.
And thou, by that small hurt, hast cashier'd Cassio:
Though other things grow fair against the sun,
Yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe:
Content thyself awhile. By the mass, 'tis morning;
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Retire thee; go where thou art billeted:
Away, I say; thou shalt know more hereafter:
Nay, get thee gone.
[Exit RODERIGO]
Two things are to be done:
My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress;
I'll set her on;
Myself the while to draw the Moor apart,
And bring him jump when he may Cassio find
Soliciting his wife: ay, that's the way
Dull not device by coldness and delay.",600,19248
654927,1552,[Exit],1261,19248
654928,1555,[Enter CASSIO and some Musicians],1261,19249
654929,1556,"Masters, play here; I will content your pains;
Something that's brief; and bid 'Good morrow, general.'",230,19249
654930,1558,[Music],1261,19249
654931,1559,[Enter Clown],1261,19249
654932,1560,"Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples,
that they speak i' the nose thus?",271,19249
654933,1562,"How, sir, how!",7,19249
654934,1563,"Are these, I pray you, wind-instruments?",271,19249
654935,1564,"Ay, marry, are they, sir.",7,19249
654936,1565,"O, thereby hangs a tail.",271,19249
654937,1566,"Whereby hangs a tale, sir?",7,19249
654938,1567,"Marry. sir, by many a wind-instrument that I know.
But, masters, here's money for you: and the general
so likes your music, that he desires you, for love's
sake, to make no more noise with it.",271,19249
654939,1571,"Well, sir, we will not.",7,19249
654940,1572,"If you have any music that may not be heard, to't
again: but, as they say to hear music the general
does not greatly care.",271,19249
654941,1575,"We have none such, sir.",7,19249
654942,1576,"Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away:
go; vanish into air; away!",271,19249
654943,1578,[Exeunt Musicians],1261,19249
654944,1579,"Dost thou hear, my honest friend?",230,19249
654945,1580,"No, I hear not your honest friend; I hear you.",271,19249
654946,1581,"Prithee, keep up thy quillets. There's a poor piece
of gold for thee: if the gentlewoman that attends
the general's wife be stirring, tell her there's
one Cassio entreats her a little favour of speech:
wilt thou do this?",230,19249
654947,1586,"She is stirring, sir: if she will stir hither, I
shall seem to notify unto her.",271,19249
654948,1588,"Do, good my friend.
[Exit Clown]
[Enter IAGO]
In happy time, Iago.",230,19249
654949,1592,"You have not been a-bed, then?",600,19249
654950,1593,"Why, no; the day had broke
Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago,
To send in to your wife: my suit to her
Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona
Procure me some access.",230,19249
654951,1598,"I'll send her to you presently;
And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor
Out of the way, that your converse and business
May be more free.",600,19249
654952,1602,"I humbly thank you for't.
[Exit IAGO]
I never knew
A Florentine more kind and honest.",230,19249
654953,1606,[Enter EMILIA],1261,19249
654954,1607,"Good morrow, good Lieutenant: I am sorry
For your displeasure; but all will sure be well.
The general and his wife are talking of it;
And she speaks for you stoutly: the Moor replies,
That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus,
And great affinity, and that in wholesome wisdom
He might not but refuse you; but he protests he loves you
And needs no other suitor but his likings
To take the safest occasion by the front
To bring you in again.",379,19249
654955,1617,"Yet, I beseech you,
If you think fit, or that it may be done,
Give me advantage of some brief discourse
With Desdemona alone.",230,19249
654956,1621,"Pray you, come in;
I will bestow you where you shall have time
To speak your bosom freely.",379,19249
654957,1624,I am much bound to you.,230,19249
654958,1625,[Exeunt],1261,19249
654959,1627,"[Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Gentlemen]",1261,19250
654960,1628,"These letters give, Iago, to the pilot;
And by him do my duties to the senate:
That done, I will be walking on the works;
Repair there to me.",844,19250
654961,1632,"Well, my good lord, I'll do't.",600,19250
654962,1633,"This fortification, gentlemen, shall we see't?",844,19250
654963,1634,We'll wait upon your lordship.,520,19250
654964,1635,[Exeunt],1261,19250
654965,1637,"[Enter DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and EMILIA]",1261,19251
654966,1638,"Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do
All my abilities in thy behalf.",311,19251
654967,1640,"Good madam, do: I warrant it grieves my husband,
As if the case were his.",379,19251
654968,1642,"O, that's an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,
But I will have my lord and you again
As friendly as you were.",311,19251
654969,1645,"Bounteous madam,
Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,
He's never any thing but your true servant.",230,19251
654970,1648,"I know't; I thank you. You do love my lord:
You have known him long; and be you well assured
He shall in strangeness stand no further off
Than in a polite distance.",311,19251
654971,1652,"Ay, but, lady,
That policy may either last so long,
Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet,
Or breed itself so out of circumstance,
That, I being absent and my place supplied,
My general will forget my love and service.",230,19251
654972,1658,"Do not doubt that; before Emilia here
I give thee warrant of thy place: assure thee,
If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it
To the last article: my lord shall never rest;
I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience;
His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift;
I'll intermingle every thing he does
With Cassio's suit: therefore be merry, Cassio;
For thy solicitor shall rather die
Than give thy cause away.",311,19251
654973,1668,"Madam, here comes my lord.",379,19251
654974,1669,"Madam, I'll take my leave.",230,19251
654975,1670,"Why, stay, and hear me speak.",311,19251
654976,1671,"Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease,
Unfit for mine own purposes.",230,19251
654977,1673,"Well, do your discretion.",311,19251
654978,1674,[Exit CASSIO],1261,19251
654979,1675,[Enter OTHELLO and IAGO],1261,19251
654980,1676,Ha! I like not that.,600,19251
654981,1677,What dost thou say?,844,19251
654982,1678,"Nothing, my lord: or if--I know not what.",600,19251
654983,1679,Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?,844,19251
654984,1680,"Cassio, my lord! No, sure, I cannot think it,
That he would steal away so guilty-like,
Seeing you coming.",600,19251
654985,1683,I do believe 'twas he.,844,19251
654986,1684,"How now, my lord!
I have been talking with a suitor here,
A man that languishes in your displeasure.",311,19251
654987,1687,Who is't you mean?,844,19251
654988,1688,"Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,
If I have any grace or power to move you,
His present reconciliation take;
For if he be not one that truly loves you,
That errs in ignorance and not in cunning,
I have no judgment in an honest face:
I prithee, call him back.",311,19251
654989,1695,Went he hence now?,844,19251
654990,1696,"Ay, sooth; so humbled
That he hath left part of his grief with me,
To suffer with him. Good love, call him back.",311,19251
654991,1699,"Not now, sweet Desdemona; some other time.",844,19251
654992,1700,But shall't be shortly?,311,19251
654993,1701,"The sooner, sweet, for you.",844,19251
654994,1702,Shall't be to-night at supper?,311,19251
654995,1703,"No, not to-night.",844,19251
654996,1704,"To-morrow dinner, then?",311,19251
654997,1705,"I shall not dine at home;
I meet the captains at the citadel.",844,19251
654998,1707,"Why, then, to-morrow night; or Tuesday morn;
On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn:
I prithee, name the time, but let it not
Exceed three days: in faith, he's penitent;
And yet his trespass, in our common reason--
Save that, they say, the wars must make examples
Out of their best--is not almost a fault
To incur a private cheque. When shall he come?
Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,
What you would ask me, that I should deny,
Or stand so mammering on. What! Michael Cassio,
That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time,
When I have spoke of you dispraisingly,
Hath ta'en your part; to have so much to do
To bring him in! Trust me, I could do much,--",311,19251
654999,1722,"Prithee, no more: let him come when he will;
I will deny thee nothing.",844,19251
655000,1724,"Why, this is not a boon;
'Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves,
Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm,
Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit
To your own person: nay, when I have a suit
Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed,
It shall be full of poise and difficult weight
And fearful to be granted.",311,19251
655001,1732,"I will deny thee nothing:
Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,
To leave me but a little to myself.",844,19251
655002,1735,"Shall I deny you? no: farewell, my lord.",311,19251
655003,1736,"Farewell, my Desdemona: I'll come to thee straight.",844,19251
655004,1737,"Emilia, come. Be as your fancies teach you;
Whate'er you be, I am obedient.",311,19251
655005,1739,[Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA],1261,19251
655006,1740,"Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.",844,19251
655007,1743,My noble lord--,600,19251
655008,1744,"What dost thou say, Iago?",844,19251
655009,1745,"Did Michael Cassio, when you woo'd my lady,
Know of your love?",600,19251
655010,1747,"He did, from first to last: why dost thou ask?",844,19251
655011,1748,"But for a satisfaction of my thought;
No further harm.",600,19251
655012,1750,"Why of thy thought, Iago?",844,19251
655013,1751,I did not think he had been acquainted with her.,600,19251
655014,1752,"O, yes; and went between us very oft.",844,19251
655015,1753,Indeed!,600,19251
655016,1754,"Indeed! ay, indeed: discern'st thou aught in that?
Is he not honest?",844,19251
655017,1756,"Honest, my lord!",600,19251
655018,1757,"Honest! ay, honest.",844,19251
655019,1758,"My lord, for aught I know.",600,19251
655020,1759,What dost thou think?,844,19251
655021,1760,"Think, my lord!",600,19251
655022,1761,"Think, my lord!
By heaven, he echoes me,
As if there were some monster in his thought
Too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something:
I heard thee say even now, thou likedst not that,
When Cassio left my wife: what didst not like?
And when I told thee he was of my counsel
In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst 'Indeed!'
And didst contract and purse thy brow together,
As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain
Some horrible conceit: if thou dost love me,
Show me thy thought.",844,19251
655023,1773,"My lord, you know I love you.",600,19251
655024,1774,"I think thou dost;
And, for I know thou'rt full of love and honesty,
And weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath,
Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more:
For such things in a false disloyal knave
Are tricks of custom, but in a man that's just
They are close delations, working from the heart
That passion cannot rule.",844,19251
655025,1782,"For Michael Cassio,
I dare be sworn I think that he is honest.",600,19251
655026,1784,I think so too.,844,19251
655027,1785,"Men should be what they seem;
Or those that be not, would they might seem none!",600,19251
655028,1787,"Certain, men should be what they seem.",844,19251
655029,1788,"Why, then, I think Cassio's an honest man.",600,19251
655030,1789,"Nay, yet there's more in this:
I prithee, speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words.",844,19251
655031,1793,"Good my lord, pardon me:
Though I am bound to every act of duty,
I am not bound to that all slaves are free to.
Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false;
As where's that palace whereinto foul things
Sometimes intrude not? who has a breast so pure,
But some uncleanly apprehensions
Keep leets and law-days and in session sit
With meditations lawful?",600,19251
655032,1802,"Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
If thou but think'st him wrong'd and makest his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts.",844,19251
655033,1805,"I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess,
As, I confess, it is my nature's plague
To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not--that your wisdom yet,
From one that so imperfectly conceits,
Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble
Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
It were not for your quiet nor your good,
Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom,
To let you know my thoughts.",600,19251
655034,1816,What dost thou mean?,844,19251
655035,1817,"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.",600,19251
655036,1824,"By heaven, I'll know thy thoughts.",844,19251
655037,1825,"You cannot, if my heart were in your hand;
Nor shall not, whilst 'tis in my custody.",600,19251
655038,1827,Ha!,844,19251
655039,1828,"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!",600,19251
655040,1834,O misery!,844,19251
655041,1835,"Poor and content is rich and rich enough,
But riches fineless is as poor as winter
To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend
From jealousy!",600,19251
655042,1840,"Why, why is this?
Think'st thou I'ld make a lie of jealousy,
To follow still the changes of the moon
With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved: exchange me for a goat,
When I shall turn the business of my soul
To such exsufflicate and blown surmises,
Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous
To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
Is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well;
Where virtue is, these are more virtuous:
Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw
The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt;
For she had eyes, and chose me. No, Iago;
I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;
And on the proof, there is no more but this,--
Away at once with love or jealousy!",844,19251
655043,1857,"I am glad of it; for now I shall have reason
To show the love and duty that I bear you
With franker spirit: therefore, as I am bound,
Receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof.
Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio;
Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure:
I would not have your free and noble nature,
Out of self-bounty, be abused; look to't:
I know our country disposition well;
In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks
They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience
Is not to leave't undone, but keep't unknown.",600,19251
655044,1869,Dost thou say so?,844,19251
655045,1870,"She did deceive her father, marrying you;
And when she seem'd to shake and fear your looks,
She loved them most.",600,19251
655046,1873,And so she did.,844,19251
655047,1874,"Why, go to then;
She that, so young, could give out such a seeming,
To seal her father's eyes up close as oak-
He thought 'twas witchcraft--but I am much to blame;
I humbly do beseech you of your pardon
For too much loving you.",600,19251
655048,1880,I am bound to thee for ever.,844,19251
655049,1881,I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits.,600,19251
655050,1882,"Not a jot, not a jot.",844,19251
655051,1883,"I' faith, I fear it has.
I hope you will consider what is spoke
Comes from my love. But I do see you're moved:
I am to pray you not to strain my speech
To grosser issues nor to larger reach
Than to suspicion.",600,19251
655052,1889,I will not.,844,19251
655053,1890,"Should you do so, my lord,
My speech should fall into such vile success
As my thoughts aim not at. Cassio's my worthy friend--
My lord, I see you're moved.",600,19251
655054,1894,"No, not much moved:
I do not think but Desdemona's honest.",844,19251
655055,1896,Long live she so! and long live you to think so!,600,19251
655056,1897,"And yet, how nature erring from itself,--",844,19251
655057,1898,"Ay, there's the point: as--to be bold with you--
Not to affect many proposed matches
Of her own clime, complexion, and degree,
Whereto we see in all things nature tends--
Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank,
Foul disproportion thoughts unnatural.
But pardon me; I do not in position
Distinctly speak of her; though I may fear
Her will, recoiling to her better judgment,
May fall to match you with her country forms
And happily repent.",600,19251
655058,1909,"Farewell, farewell:
If more thou dost perceive, let me know more;
Set on thy wife to observe: leave me, Iago:",844,19251
655059,1912,"[Going] My lord, I take my leave.",600,19251
655060,1913,"Why did I marry? This honest creature doubtless
Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.",844,19251
655061,1915,"[Returning] My lord, I would I might entreat
your honour
To scan this thing no further; leave it to time:
Though it be fit that Cassio have his place,
For sure, he fills it up with great ability,
Yet, if you please to hold him off awhile,
You shall by that perceive him and his means:
Note, if your lady strain his entertainment
With any strong or vehement importunity;
Much will be seen in that. In the mean time,
Let me be thought too busy in my fears--
As worthy cause I have to fear I am--
And hold her free, I do beseech your honour.",600,19251
655062,1928,Fear not my government.,844,19251
655063,1929,I once more take my leave.,600,19251
655064,1930,[Exit],1261,19251
655065,1931,"This fellow's of exceeding honesty,
And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit,
Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard,
Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,
I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,
To pray at fortune. Haply, for I am black
And have not those soft parts of conversation
That chamberers have, or for I am declined
Into the vale of years,--yet that's not much--
She's gone. I am abused; and my relief
Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,
That we can call these delicate creatures ours,
And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,
And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,
Than keep a corner in the thing I love
For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones;
Prerogatived are they less than the base;
'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death:
Even then this forked plague is fated to us
When we do quicken. Desdemona comes:
[Re-enter DESDEMONA and EMILIA]
If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!
I'll not believe't.",844,19251
655066,1954,"How now, my dear Othello!
Your dinner, and the generous islanders
By you invited, do attend your presence.",311,19251
655067,1957,I am to blame.,844,19251
655068,1958,"Why do you speak so faintly?
Are you not well?",311,19251
655069,1960,I have a pain upon my forehead here.,844,19251
655070,1961,"'Faith, that's with watching; 'twill away again:
Let me but bind it hard, within this hour
It will be well.",311,19251
655071,1964,"Your napkin is too little:
[He puts the handkerchief from him; and it drops]
Let it alone. Come, I'll go in with you.",844,19251
655072,1967,I am very sorry that you are not well.,311,19251
655073,1968,[Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA],1261,19251
655074,1969,"I am glad I have found this napkin:
This was her first remembrance from the Moor:
My wayward husband hath a hundred times
Woo'd me to steal it; but she so loves the token,
For he conjured her she should ever keep it,
That she reserves it evermore about her
To kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out,
And give't Iago: what he will do with it
Heaven knows, not I;
I nothing but to please his fantasy.",379,19251
655075,1979,[Re-enter Iago],1261,19251
655076,1980,How now! what do you here alone?,600,19251
655077,1981,Do not you chide; I have a thing for you.,379,19251
655078,1982,A thing for me? it is a common thing--,600,19251
655079,1983,Ha!,379,19251
655080,1984,To have a foolish wife.,600,19251
655081,1985,"O, is that all? What will you give me now
For the same handkerchief?",379,19251
655082,1987,What handkerchief?,600,19251
655083,1988,"What handkerchief?
Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona;
That which so often you did bid me steal.",379,19251
655084,1991,Hast stol'n it from her?,600,19251
655085,1992,"No, 'faith; she let it drop by negligence.
And, to the advantage, I, being here, took't up.
Look, here it is.",379,19251
655086,1995,A good wench; give it me.,600,19251
655087,1996,"What will you do with 't, that you have been
so earnest
To have me filch it?",379,19251
655088,1999,"[Snatching it] Why, what's that to you?",600,19251
655089,2000,"If it be not for some purpose of import,
Give't me again: poor lady, she'll run mad
When she shall lack it.",379,19251
655090,2003,"Be not acknown on 't; I have use for it.
Go, leave me.
[Exit EMILIA]
I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin,
And let him find it. Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ: this may do something.
The Moor already changes with my poison:
Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.
Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
But with a little act upon the blood.
Burn like the mines of Sulphur. I did say so:
Look, where he comes!
[Re-enter OTHELLO]
Not poppy, nor mandragora,
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou owedst yesterday.",600,19251
655091,2021,Ha! ha! false to me?,844,19251
655092,2022,"Why, how now, general! no more of that.",600,19251
655093,2023,"Avaunt! be gone! thou hast set me on the rack:
I swear 'tis better to be much abused
Than but to know't a little.",844,19251
655094,2026,"How now, my lord!",600,19251
655095,2027,"What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust?
I saw't not, thought it not, it harm'd not me:
I slept the next night well, was free and merry;
I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips:
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.",844,19251
655096,2033,I am sorry to hear this.,600,19251
655097,2034,"I had been happy, if the general camp,
Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body,
So I had nothing known. O, now, for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,
That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!
And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats
The immortal Jove's dead clamours counterfeit,
Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!",844,19251
655098,2047,"Is't possible, my lord?",600,19251
655099,2048,"Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,
Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof:
Or by the worth of man's eternal soul,
Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
Than answer my waked wrath!",844,19251
655100,2053,Is't come to this?,600,19251
655101,2054,"Make me to see't; or, at the least, so prove it,
That the probation bear no hinge nor loop
To hang a doubt on; or woe upon thy life!",844,19251
655102,2057,"My noble lord,--",600,19251
655103,2058,"If thou dost slander her and torture me,
Never pray more; abandon all remorse;
On horror's head horrors accumulate;
Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;
For nothing canst thou to damnation add
Greater than that.",844,19251
655104,2064,"O grace! O heaven forgive me!
Are you a man? have you a soul or sense?
God be wi' you; take mine office. O wretched fool.
That livest to make thine honesty a vice!
O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,
To be direct and honest is not safe.
I thank you for this profit; and from hence
I'll love no friend, sith love breeds such offence.",600,19251
655105,2072,"Nay, stay: thou shouldst be honest.",844,19251
655106,2073,"I should be wise, for honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.",600,19251
655107,2075,"By the world,
I think my wife be honest and think she is not;
I think that thou art just and think thou art not.
I'll have some proof. Her name, that was as fresh
As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black
As mine own face. If there be cords, or knives,
Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,
I'll not endure it. Would I were satisfied!",844,19251
655108,2083,"I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion:
I do repent me that I put it to you.
You would be satisfied?",600,19251
655109,2086,"Would! nay, I will.",844,19251
655110,2087,"And may: but, how? how satisfied, my lord?
Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on--
Behold her topp'd?",600,19251
655111,2090,Death and damnation! O!,844,19251
655112,2091,"It were a tedious difficulty, I think,
To bring them to that prospect: damn them then,
If ever mortal eyes do see them bolster
More than their own! What then? how then?
What shall I say? Where's satisfaction?
It is impossible you should see this,
Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,
As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross
As ignorance made drunk. But yet, I say,
If imputation and strong circumstances,
Which lead directly to the door of truth,
Will give you satisfaction, you may have't.",600,19251
655113,2103,Give me a living reason she's disloyal.,844,19251
655114,2104,"I do not like the office:
But, sith I am enter'd in this cause so far,
Prick'd to't by foolish honesty and love,
I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately;
And, being troubled with a raging tooth,
I could not sleep.
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs:
One of this kind is Cassio:
In sleep I heard him say 'Sweet Desdemona,
Let us be wary, let us hide our loves;'
And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand,
Cry 'O sweet creature!' and then kiss me hard,
As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots
That grew upon my lips: then laid his leg
Over my thigh, and sigh'd, and kiss'd; and then
Cried 'Cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor!'",600,19251
655115,2121,O monstrous! monstrous!,844,19251
655116,2122,"Nay, this was but his dream.",600,19251
655117,2123,"But this denoted a foregone conclusion:
'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream.",844,19251
655118,2125,"And this may help to thicken other proofs
That do demonstrate thinly.",600,19251
655119,2127,I'll tear her all to pieces.,844,19251
655120,2128,"Nay, but be wise: yet we see nothing done;
She may be honest yet. Tell me but this,
Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief
Spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand?",600,19251
655121,2132,I gave her such a one; 'twas my first gift.,844,19251
655122,2133,"I know not that; but such a handkerchief--
I am sure it was your wife's--did I to-day
See Cassio wipe his beard with.",600,19251
655123,2136,If it be that--,844,19251
655124,2137,"If it be that, or any that was hers,
It speaks against her with the other proofs.",600,19251
655125,2139,"O, that the slave had forty thousand lives!
One is too poor, too weak for my revenge.
Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, Iago;
All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven.
'Tis gone.
Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!
Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne
To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
For 'tis of aspics' tongues!",844,19251
655126,2148,Yet be content.,600,19251
655127,2149,"O, blood, blood, blood!",844,19251
655128,2150,"Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change.",600,19251
655129,2151,"Never, Iago: Like to the Pontic sea,
Whose icy current and compulsive course
Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on
To the Propontic and the Hellespont,
Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace,
Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,
Till that a capable and wide revenge
Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven,
[Kneels]
In the due reverence of a sacred vow
I here engage my words.",844,19251
655130,2162,"Do not rise yet.
[Kneels]
Witness, you ever-burning lights above,
You elements that clip us round about,
Witness that here Iago doth give up
The execution of his wit, hands, heart,
To wrong'd Othello's service! Let him command,
And to obey shall be in me remorse,
What bloody business ever.",600,19251
655131,2171,[They rise],1261,19251
655132,2172,"I greet thy love,
Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,
And will upon the instant put thee to't:
Within these three days let me hear thee say
That Cassio's not alive.",844,19251
655133,2177,"My friend is dead; 'tis done at your request:
But let her live.",600,19251
655134,2179,"Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her!
Come, go with me apart; I will withdraw,
To furnish me with some swift means of death
For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant.",844,19251
655135,2183,I am your own for ever.,600,19251
655136,2184,[Exeunt],1261,19251
655137,2186,"[Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, and Clown]",1261,19252
655138,2187,"Do you know, sirrah, where Lieutenant Cassio lies?",311,19252
655139,2188,I dare not say he lies any where.,271,19252
655140,2189,"Why, man?",311,19252
655141,2190,"He's a soldier, and for one to say a soldier lies,
is stabbing.",271,19252
655142,2192,Go to: where lodges he?,311,19252
655143,2193,"To tell you where he lodges, is to tell you where I lie.",271,19252
655144,2194,Can any thing be made of this?,311,19252
655145,2195,"I know not where he lodges, and for me to devise a
lodging and say he lies here or he lies there, were
to lie in mine own throat.",271,19252
655146,2198,"Can you inquire him out, and be edified by report?",311,19252
655147,2199,"I will catechise the world for him; that is, make
questions, and by them answer.",271,19252
655148,2201,"Seek him, bid him come hither: tell him I have
moved my lord on his behalf, and hope all will be well.",311,19252
655149,2203,"To do this is within the compass of man's wit: and
therefore I will attempt the doing it.",271,19252
655150,2205,[Exit],1261,19252
655151,2206,"Where should I lose that handkerchief, Emilia?",311,19252
655152,2207,"I know not, madam.",379,19252
655153,2208,"Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse
Full of crusadoes: and, but my noble Moor
Is true of mind and made of no such baseness
As jealous creatures are, it were enough
To put him to ill thinking.",311,19252
655154,2213,Is he not jealous?,379,19252
655155,2214,"Who, he? I think the sun where he was born
Drew all such humours from him.",311,19252
655156,2216,"Look, where he comes.",379,19252
655157,2217,"I will not leave him now till Cassio
Be call'd to him.
[Enter OTHELLO]
How is't with you, my lord",311,19252
655158,2221,"Well, my good lady.
[Aside]
O, hardness to dissemble!--
How do you, Desdemona?",844,19252
655159,2225,"Well, my good lord.",311,19252
655160,2226,"Give me your hand: this hand is moist, my lady.",844,19252
655161,2227,It yet hath felt no age nor known no sorrow.,311,19252
655162,2228,"This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart:
Hot, hot, and moist: this hand of yours requires
A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer,
Much castigation, exercise devout;
For here's a young and sweating devil here,
That commonly rebels. 'Tis a good hand,
A frank one.",844,19252
655163,2235,"You may, indeed, say so;
For 'twas that hand that gave away my heart.",311,19252
655164,2237,"A liberal hand: the hearts of old gave hands;
But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.",844,19252
655165,2239,"I cannot speak of this. Come now, your promise.",311,19252
655166,2240,"What promise, chuck?",844,19252
655167,2241,I have sent to bid Cassio come speak with you.,311,19252
655168,2242,"I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me;
Lend me thy handkerchief.",844,19252
655169,2244,"Here, my lord.",311,19252
655170,2245,That which I gave you.,844,19252
655171,2246,I have it not about me.,311,19252
655172,2247,Not?,844,19252
655173,2248,"No, indeed, my lord.",311,19252
655174,2249,"That is a fault.
That handkerchief
Did an Egyptian to my mother give;
She was a charmer, and could almost read
The thoughts of people: she told her, while
she kept it,
'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father
Entirely to her love, but if she lost it
Or made gift of it, my father's eye
Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt
After new fancies: she, dying, gave it me;
And bid me, when my fate would have me wive,
To give it her. I did so: and take heed on't;
Make it a darling like your precious eye;
To lose't or give't away were such perdition
As nothing else could match.",844,19252
655175,2265,Is't possible?,311,19252
655176,2266,"'Tis true: there's magic in the web of it:
A sibyl, that had number'd in the world
The sun to course two hundred compasses,
In her prophetic fury sew'd the work;
The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk;
And it was dyed in mummy which the skilful
Conserved of maidens' hearts.",844,19252
655177,2273,Indeed! is't true?,311,19252
655178,2274,Most veritable; therefore look to't well.,844,19252
655179,2275,Then would to God that I had never seen't!,311,19252
655180,2276,Ha! wherefore?,844,19252
655181,2277,Why do you speak so startingly and rash?,311,19252
655182,2278,"Is't lost? is't gone? speak, is it out
o' the way?",844,19252
655183,2280,Heaven bless us!,311,19252
655184,2281,Say you?,844,19252
655185,2282,It is not lost; but what an if it were?,311,19252
655186,2283,How!,844,19252
655187,2284,"I say, it is not lost.",311,19252
655188,2285,"Fetch't, let me see't.",844,19252
655189,2286,"Why, so I can, sir, but I will not now.
This is a trick to put me from my suit:
Pray you, let Cassio be received again.",311,19252
655190,2289,Fetch me the handkerchief: my mind misgives.,844,19252
655191,2290,"Come, come;
You'll never meet a more sufficient man.",311,19252
655192,2292,The handkerchief!,844,19252
655193,2293,"I pray, talk me of Cassio.",311,19252
655194,2294,The handkerchief!,844,19252
655195,2295,"A man that all his time
Hath founded his good fortunes on your love,
Shared dangers with you,--",311,19252
655196,2298,The handkerchief!,844,19252
655197,2299,"In sooth, you are to blame.",311,19252
655198,2300,Away!,844,19252
655199,2301,[Exit],1261,19252
655200,2302,Is not this man jealous?,379,19252
655201,2303,"I ne'er saw this before.
Sure, there's some wonder in this handkerchief:
I am most unhappy in the loss of it.",311,19252
655202,2306,"'Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;
To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
They belch us. Look you, Cassio and my husband!",379,19252
655203,2310,[Enter CASSIO and IAGO],1261,19252
655204,2311,"There is no other way; 'tis she must do't:
And, lo, the happiness! go, and importune her.",600,19252
655205,2313,"How now, good Cassio! what's the news with you?",311,19252
655206,2314,"Madam, my former suit: I do beseech you
That by your virtuous means I may again
Exist, and be a member of his love
Whom I with all the office of my heart
Entirely honour: I would not be delay'd.
If my offence be of such mortal kind
That nor my service past, nor present sorrows,
Nor purposed merit in futurity,
Can ransom me into his love again,
But to know so must be my benefit;
So shall I clothe me in a forced content,
And shut myself up in some other course,
To fortune's alms.",230,19252
655207,2327,"Alas, thrice-gentle Cassio!
My advocation is not now in tune;
My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him,
Were he in favour as in humour alter'd.
So help me every spirit sanctified,
As I have spoken for you all my best
And stood within the blank of his displeasure
For my free speech! you must awhile be patient:
What I can do I will; and more I will
Than for myself I dare: let that suffice you.",311,19252
655208,2337,Is my lord angry?,600,19252
655209,2338,"He went hence but now,
And certainly in strange unquietness.",379,19252
655210,2340,"Can he be angry? I have seen the cannon,
When it hath blown his ranks into the air,
And, like the devil, from his very arm
Puff'd his own brother:--and can he be angry?
Something of moment then: I will go meet him:
There's matter in't indeed, if he be angry.",600,19252
655211,2346,"I prithee, do so.
[Exit IAGO]
Something, sure, of state,
Either from Venice, or some unhatch'd practise
Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him,
Hath puddled his clear spirit: and in such cases
Men's natures wrangle with inferior things,
Though great ones are their object. 'Tis even so;
For let our finger ache, and it indues
Our other healthful members even to that sense
Of pain: nay, we must think men are not gods,
Nor of them look for such observances
As fit the bridal. Beshrew me much, Emilia,
I was, unhandsome warrior as I am,
Arraigning his unkindness with my soul;
But now I find I had suborn'd the witness,
And he's indicted falsely.",311,19252
655212,2363,"Pray heaven it be state-matters, as you think,
And no conception nor no jealous toy
Concerning you.",379,19252
655213,2366,Alas the day! I never gave him cause.,311,19252
655214,2367,"But jealous souls will not be answer'd so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they are jealous: 'tis a monster
Begot upon itself, born on itself.",379,19252
655215,2371,Heaven keep that monster from Othello's mind!,311,19252
655216,2372,"Lady, amen.",379,19252
655217,2373,"I will go seek him. Cassio, walk hereabout:
If I do find him fit, I'll move your suit
And seek to effect it to my uttermost.",311,19252
655218,2376,I humbly thank your ladyship.,230,19252
655219,2377,[Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA],1261,19252
655220,2378,[Enter BIANCA],1261,19252
655221,2379,"Save you, friend Cassio!",167,19252
655222,2380,"What make you from home?
How is it with you, my most fair Bianca?
I' faith, sweet love, I was coming to your house.",230,19252
655223,2383,"And I was going to your lodging, Cassio.
What, keep a week away? seven days and nights?
Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent hours,
More tedious than the dial eight score times?
O weary reckoning!",167,19252
655224,2388,"Pardon me, Bianca:
I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd:
But I shall, in a more continuate time,
Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca,
[Giving her DESDEMONA's handkerchief]
Take me this work out.",230,19252
655225,2394,"O Cassio, whence came this?
This is some token from a newer friend:
To the felt absence now I feel a cause:
Is't come to this? Well, well.",167,19252
655226,2398,"Go to, woman!
Throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth,
From whence you have them. You are jealous now
That this is from some mistress, some remembrance:
No, in good troth, Bianca.",230,19252
655227,2403,"Why, whose is it?",167,19252
655228,2404,"I know not, sweet: I found it in my chamber.
I like the work well: ere it be demanded--
As like enough it will--I'ld have it copied:
Take it, and do't; and leave me for this time.",230,19252
655229,2408,Leave you! wherefore?,167,19252
655230,2409,"I do attend here on the general;
And think it no addition, nor my wish,
To have him see me woman'd.",230,19252
655231,2412,"Why, I pray you?",167,19252
655232,2413,Not that I love you not.,230,19252
655233,2414,"But that you do not love me.
I pray you, bring me on the way a little,
And say if I shall see you soon at night.",167,19252
655234,2417,"'Tis but a little way that I can bring you;
For I attend here: but I'll see you soon.",230,19252
655245,2437,What then?,844,19253
655246,2438,"Why, then, 'tis hers, my lord; and, being hers,
She may, I think, bestow't on any man.",600,19253
655247,2440,"She is protectress of her honour too:
May she give that?",844,19253
655248,2442,"Her honour is an essence that's not seen;
They have it very oft that have it not:
But, for the handkerchief,--",600,19253
655249,2445,"By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it.
Thou said'st, it comes o'er my memory,
As doth the raven o'er the infected house,
Boding to all--he had my handkerchief.",844,19253
655250,2449,"Ay, what of that?",600,19253
655251,2450,That's not so good now.,844,19253
655252,2451,"What,
If I had said I had seen him do you wrong?
Or heard him say,--as knaves be such abroad,
Who having, by their own importunate suit,
Or voluntary dotage of some mistress,
Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose
But they must blab--",600,19253
655253,2458,Hath he said any thing?,844,19253
655254,2459,"He hath, my lord; but be you well assured,
No more than he'll unswear.",600,19253
655255,2461,What hath he said?,844,19253
655256,2462,"'Faith, that he did--I know not what he did.",600,19253
655257,2463,What? what?,844,19253
655258,2464,Lie--,600,19253
655259,2465,With her?,844,19253
655260,2466,"With her, on her; what you will.",600,19253
655261,2467,"Lie with her! lie on her! We say lie on her, when
they belie her. Lie with her! that's fulsome.
--Handkerchief--confessions--handkerchief!--To
confess, and be hanged for his labour;--first, to be
hanged, and then to confess.--I tremble at it.
Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing
passion without some instruction. It is not words
that shake me thus. Pish! Noses, ears, and lips.
--Is't possible?--Confess--handkerchief!--O devil!--",844,19253
655262,2476,[Falls in a trance],1261,19253
655263,2477,"Work on,
My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught;
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach. What, ho! my lord!
My lord, I say! Othello!
[Enter CASSIO]
How now, Cassio!",600,19253
655264,2484,What's the matter?,230,19253
655265,2485,"My lord is fall'n into an epilepsy:
This is his second fit; he had one yesterday.",600,19253
655266,2487,Rub him about the temples.,230,19253
655267,2488,"No, forbear;
The lethargy must have his quiet course:
If not, he foams at mouth and by and by
Breaks out to savage madness. Look he stirs:
Do you withdraw yourself a little while,
He will recover straight: when he is gone,
I would on great occasion speak with you.
[Exit CASSIO]
How is it, general? have you not hurt your head?",600,19253
655268,2497,Dost thou mock me?,844,19253
655269,2498,"I mock you! no, by heaven.
Would you would bear your fortune like a man!",600,19253
655270,2500,A horned man's a monster and a beast.,844,19253
655271,2501,"There's many a beast then in a populous city,
And many a civil monster.",600,19253
655272,2503,Did he confess it?,844,19253
655273,2504,"Good sir, be a man;
Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked
May draw with you: there's millions now alive
That nightly lie in those unproper beds
Which they dare swear peculiar: your case is better.
O, 'tis the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock,
To lip a wanton in a secure couch,
And to suppose her chaste! No, let me know;
And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.",600,19253
655274,2513,"O, thou art wise; 'tis certain.",844,19253
655275,2514,"Stand you awhile apart;
Confine yourself but in a patient list.
Whilst you were here o'erwhelmed with your grief--
A passion most unsuiting such a man--
Cassio came hither: I shifted him away,
And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy,
Bade him anon return and here speak with me;
The which he promised. Do but encave yourself,
And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns,
That dwell in every region of his face;
For I will make him tell the tale anew,
Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when
He hath, and is again to cope your wife:
I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience;
Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen,
And nothing of a man.",600,19253
655276,2530,"Dost thou hear, Iago?
I will be found most cunning in my patience;
But--dost thou hear?--most bloody.",844,19253
655277,2533,"That's not amiss;
But yet keep time in all. Will you withdraw?
[OTHELLO retires]
Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,
A housewife that by selling her desires
Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature
That dotes on Cassio; as 'tis the strumpet's plague
To beguile many and be beguiled by one:
He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain
From the excess of laughter. Here he comes:
[Re-enter CASSIO]
As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad;
And his unbookish jealousy must construe
Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures and light behavior,
Quite in the wrong. How do you now, lieutenant?",600,19253
655278,2548,"The worser that you give me the addition
Whose want even kills me.",230,19253
655279,2550,"Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on't.
[Speaking lower]
Now, if this suit lay in Bianco's power,
How quickly should you speed!",600,19253
655280,2554,"Alas, poor caitiff!",230,19253
655281,2555,"Look, how he laughs already!",844,19253
655282,2556,I never knew woman love man so.,600,19253
655283,2557,"Alas, poor rogue! I think, i' faith, she loves me.",230,19253
655284,2558,"Now he denies it faintly, and laughs it out.",844,19253
655285,2559,"Do you hear, Cassio?",600,19253
655286,2560,"Now he importunes him
To tell it o'er: go to; well said, well said.",844,19253
655287,2562,"She gives it out that you shall marry hey:
Do you intend it?",600,19253
655288,2564,"Ha, ha, ha!",230,19253
655289,2565,"Do you triumph, Roman? do you triumph?",844,19253
655290,2566,"I marry her! what? a customer! Prithee, bear some
charity to my wit: do not think it so unwholesome.
Ha, ha, ha!",230,19253
655291,2569,"So, so, so, so: they laugh that win.",844,19253
655292,2570,"'Faith, the cry goes that you shall marry her.",600,19253
655293,2571,"Prithee, say true.",230,19253
655294,2572,I am a very villain else.,600,19253
655295,2573,Have you scored me? Well.,844,19253
655296,2574,"This is the monkey's own giving out: she is
persuaded I will marry her, out of her own love and
flattery, not out of my promise.",230,19253
655297,2577,Iago beckons me; now he begins the story.,844,19253
655298,2578,"She was here even now; she haunts me in every place.
I was the other day talking on the sea-bank with
certain Venetians; and thither comes the bauble,
and, by this hand, she falls me thus about my neck--",230,19253
655299,2582,"Crying 'O dear Cassio!' as it were: his gesture
imports it.",844,19253
655300,2584,"So hangs, and lolls, and weeps upon me; so hales,
and pulls me: ha, ha, ha!",230,19253
655301,2586,"Now he tells how she plucked him to my chamber. O,
I see that nose of yours, but not that dog I shall
throw it to.",844,19253
655302,2589,"Well, I must leave her company.",230,19253
655303,2590,"Before me! look, where she comes.",600,19253
655304,2591,"'Tis such another fitchew! marry a perfumed one.
[Enter BIANCA]
What do you mean by this haunting of me?",230,19253
655305,2594,"Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you
mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now?
I was a fine fool to take it. I must take out the
work?--A likely piece of work, that you should find
it in your chamber, and not know who left it there!
This is some minx's token, and I must take out the
work? There; give it your hobby-horse: wheresoever
you had it, I'll take out no work on't.",167,19253
655306,2602,"How now, my sweet Bianca! how now! how now!",230,19253
655307,2603,"By heaven, that should be my handkerchief!",844,19253
655308,2604,"An you'll come to supper to-night, you may; an you
will not, come when you are next prepared for.",167,19253
655309,2606,[Exit],1261,19253
655310,2607,"After her, after her.",600,19253
655311,2608,"'Faith, I must; she'll rail in the street else.",230,19253
655312,2609,Will you sup there?,600,19253
655313,2610,"'Faith, I intend so.",230,19253
655314,2611,"Well, I may chance to see you; for I would very fain
speak with you.",600,19253
655315,2613,"Prithee, come; will you?",230,19253
655316,2614,Go to; say no more.,600,19253
655317,2615,[Exit CASSIO],1261,19253
655318,2616,"[Advancing] How shall I murder him, Iago?",844,19253
655319,2617,Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?,600,19253
655320,2618,O Iago!,844,19253
655321,2619,And did you see the handkerchief?,600,19253
655322,2620,Was that mine?,844,19253
655323,2621,"Yours by this hand: and to see how he prizes the
foolish woman your wife! she gave it him, and he
hath given it his whore.",600,19253
655324,2624,"I would have him nine years a-killing.
A fine woman! a fair woman! a sweet woman!",844,19253
655325,2626,"Nay, you must forget that.",600,19253
655326,2627,"Ay, let her rot, and perish, and be damned to-night;
for she shall not live: no, my heart is turned to
stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand. O, the
world hath not a sweeter creature: she might lie by
an emperor's side and command him tasks.",844,19253
655327,2632,"Nay, that's not your way.",600,19253
655328,2633,"Hang her! I do but say what she is: so delicate
with her needle: an admirable musician: O! she
will sing the savageness out of a bear: of so high
and plenteous wit and invention:--",844,19253
655329,2637,She's the worse for all this.,600,19253
655330,2638,"O, a thousand thousand times: and then, of so
gentle a condition!",844,19253
655331,2640,"Ay, too gentle.",600,19253
655332,2641,"Nay, that's certain: but yet the pity of it, Iago!
O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!",844,19253
655333,2643,"If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her
patent to offend; for, if it touch not you, it comes
near nobody.",600,19253
655334,2646,I will chop her into messes: cuckold me!,844,19253
655335,2647,"O, 'tis foul in her.",600,19253
655336,2648,With mine officer!,844,19253
655337,2649,That's fouler.,600,19253
655338,2650,"Get me some poison, Iago; this night: I'll not
expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty
unprovide my mind again: this night, Iago.",844,19253
655339,2653,"Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed, even
the bed she hath contaminated.",600,19253
655340,2655,"Good, good: the justice of it pleases: very good.",844,19253
655341,2656,"And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker: you
shall hear more by midnight.",600,19253
655342,2658,"Excellent good.
[A trumpet within]
What trumpet is that same?",844,19253
655343,2661,"Something from Venice, sure. 'Tis Lodovico
Come from the duke: and, see, your wife is with him.",600,19253
655344,2663,"[Enter LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants]",1261,19253
655345,2664,"Save you, worthy general!",674,19253
655346,2665,"With all my heart, sir.",844,19253
655347,2666,The duke and senators of Venice greet you.,674,19253
655348,2667,[Gives him a letter],1261,19253
655349,2668,I kiss the instrument of their pleasures.,844,19253
655350,2669,"[Opens the letter, and reads]",1261,19253
655351,2670,"And what's the news, good cousin Lodovico?",311,19253
655352,2671,"I am very glad to see you, signior
Welcome to Cyprus.",600,19253
655353,2673,I thank you. How does Lieutenant Cassio?,674,19253
655354,2674,"Lives, sir.",600,19253
655355,2675,"Cousin, there's fall'n between him and my lord
An unkind breach: but you shall make all well.",311,19253
655356,2677,Are you sure of that?,844,19253
655357,2678,My lord?,311,19253
655358,2679,"[Reads] 'This fail you not to do, as you will--'",844,19253
655359,2680,"He did not call; he's busy in the paper.
Is there division 'twixt my lord and Cassio?",674,19253
655360,2682,"A most unhappy one: I would do much
To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.",311,19253
655361,2684,Fire and brimstone!,844,19253
655362,2685,My lord?,311,19253
655363,2686,Are you wise?,844,19253
655364,2687,"What, is he angry?",311,19253
655365,2688,"May be the letter moved him;
For, as I think, they do command him home,
Deputing Cassio in his government.",674,19253
655366,2691,"Trust me, I am glad on't.",311,19253
655367,2692,Indeed!,844,19253
655368,2693,My lord?,311,19253
655369,2694,I am glad to see you mad.,844,19253
655370,2695,"Why, sweet Othello,--",311,19253
655371,2696,[Striking her] Devil!,844,19253
655372,2697,I have not deserved this.,311,19253
655373,2698,"My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,
Though I should swear I saw't: 'tis very much:
Make her amends; she weeps.",674,19253
655374,2701,"O devil, devil!
If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Out of my sight!",844,19253
655375,2705,I will not stay to offend you.,311,19253
655376,2706,[Going],1261,19253
655377,2707,"Truly, an obedient lady:
I do beseech your lordship, call her back.",674,19253
655378,2709,Mistress!,844,19253
655379,2710,My lord?,311,19253
655380,2711,"What would you with her, sir?",844,19253
655381,2712,"Who, I, my lord?",674,19253
655382,2713,"Ay; you did wish that I would make her turn:
Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,
And turn again; and she can weep, sir, weep;
And she's obedient, as you say, obedient,
Very obedient. Proceed you in your tears.
Concerning this, sir,--O well-painted passion!--
I am commanded home. Get you away;
I'll send for you anon. Sir, I obey the mandate,
And will return to Venice. Hence, avaunt!
[Exit DESDEMONA]
Cassio shall have my place. And, sir, tonight,
I do entreat that we may sup together:
You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus.--Goats and monkeys!",844,19253
655383,2726,[Exit],1261,19253
655384,2727,"Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate
Call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature
Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue
The shot of accident, nor dart of chance,
Could neither graze nor pierce?",674,19253
655385,2732,He is much changed.,600,19253
655386,2733,Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain?,674,19253
655387,2734,"He's that he is: I may not breathe my censure
What he might be: if what he might he is not,
I would to heaven he were!",600,19253
655388,2737,"What, strike his wife!",674,19253
655389,2738,"'Faith, that was not so well; yet would I knew
That stroke would prove the worst!",600,19253
655390,2740,"Is it his use?
Or did the letters work upon his blood,
And new-create this fault?",674,19253
655391,2743,"Alas, alas!
It is not honesty in me to speak
What I have seen and known. You shall observe him,
And his own courses will denote him so
That I may save my speech: do but go after,
And mark how he continues.",600,19253
655392,2749,I am sorry that I am deceived in him.,674,19253
655393,2750,[Exeunt],1261,19253
655394,2752,[Enter OTHELLO and EMILIA],1261,19254
655395,2753,You have seen nothing then?,844,19254
655396,2754,"Nor ever heard, nor ever did suspect.",379,19254
655397,2755,"Yes, you have seen Cassio and she together.",844,19254
655398,2756,"But then I saw no harm, and then I heard
Each syllable that breath made up between them.",379,19254
655399,2758,"What, did they never whisper?",844,19254
655400,2759,"Never, my lord.",379,19254
655401,2760,Nor send you out o' the way?,844,19254
655402,2761,Never.,379,19254
655403,2762,"To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing?",844,19254
655404,2763,"Never, my lord.",379,19254
655405,2764,That's strange.,844,19254
655406,2765,"I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,
Lay down my soul at stake: if you think other,
Remove your thought; it doth abuse your bosom.
If any wretch have put this in your head,
Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse!
For, if she be not honest, chaste, and true,
There's no man happy; the purest of their wives
Is foul as slander.",379,19254
655407,2773,"Bid her come hither: go.
[Exit EMILIA]
She says enough; yet she's a simple bawd
That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,
A closet lock and key of villanous secrets
And yet she'll kneel and pray; I have seen her do't.",844,19254
655408,2779,[Enter DESDEMONA with EMILIA],1261,19254
655409,2780,"My lord, what is your will?",311,19254
655410,2781,"Pray, chuck, come hither.",844,19254
655411,2782,What is your pleasure?,311,19254
655412,2783,"Let me see your eyes;
Look in my face.",844,19254
655413,2785,What horrible fancy's this?,311,19254
655414,2786,"[To EMILIA] Some of your function, mistress;
Leave procreants alone and shut the door;
Cough, or cry 'hem,' if any body come:
Your mystery, your mystery: nay, dispatch.",844,19254
655415,2790,[Exit EMILIA],1261,19254
655416,2791,"Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?
I understand a fury in your words.
But not the words.",311,19254
655417,2794,"Why, what art thou?",844,19254
655418,2795,"Your wife, my lord; your true
And loyal wife.",311,19254
655419,2797,"Come, swear it, damn thyself
Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves
Should fear to seize thee: therefore be double damn'd:
Swear thou art honest.",844,19254
655420,2801,Heaven doth truly know it.,311,19254
655421,2802,Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.,844,19254
655422,2803,"To whom, my lord? with whom? how am I false?",311,19254
655423,2804,O Desdemona! away! away! away!,844,19254
655424,2805,"Alas the heavy day! Why do you weep?
Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?
If haply you my father do suspect
An instrument of this your calling back,
Lay not your blame on me: If you have lost him,
Why, I have lost him too.",311,19254
655425,2811,"Had it pleased heaven
To try me with affliction; had they rain'd
All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head.
Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips,
Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,
I should have found in some place of my soul
A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me
A fixed figure for the time of scorn
To point his slow unmoving finger at!
Yet could I bear that too; well, very well:
But there, where I have garner'd up my heart,
Where either I must live, or bear no life;
The fountain from the which my current runs,
Or else dries up; to be discarded thence!
Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there,
Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin,--
Ay, there, look grim as hell!",844,19254
655426,2829,I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.,311,19254
655427,2830,"O, ay; as summer flies are in the shambles,
That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,
Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet
That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst
ne'er been born!",844,19254
655428,2835,"Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?",311,19254
655429,2836,"Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,
Made to write 'whore' upon? What committed!
Committed! O thou public commoner!
I should make very forges of my cheeks,
That would to cinders burn up modesty,
Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed!
Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks,
The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets
Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth,
And will not hear it. What committed!
Impudent strumpet!",844,19254
655430,2847,"By heaven, you do me wrong.",311,19254
655431,2848,Are you not a strumpet?,844,19254
655432,2849,"No, as I am a Christian:
If to preserve this vessel for my lord
From any other foul unlawful touch
Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.",311,19254
655433,2853,"What, not a whore?",844,19254
655434,2854,"No, as I shall be saved.",311,19254
655435,2855,Is't possible?,844,19254
655436,2856,"O, heaven forgive us!",311,19254
655437,2857,"I cry you mercy, then:
I took you for that cunning whore of Venice
That married with Othello.
[Raising his voice]
You, mistress,
That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
And keep the gate of hell!
[Re-enter EMILIA]
You, you, ay, you!
We have done our course; there's money for your pains:
I pray you, turn the key and keep our counsel.",844,19254
655438,2868,[Exit],1261,19254
655439,2869,"Alas, what does this gentleman conceive?
How do you, madam? how do you, my good lady?",379,19254
655440,2871,"'Faith, half asleep.",311,19254
655441,2872,"Good madam, what's the matter with my lord?",379,19254
655442,2873,With who?,311,19254
655443,2874,"Why, with my lord, madam.",379,19254
655444,2875,Who is thy lord?,311,19254
655445,2876,"He that is yours, sweet lady.",379,19254
655446,2877,"I have none: do not talk to me, Emilia;
I cannot weep; nor answer have I none,
But what should go by water. Prithee, tonight
Lay on my bed my wedding sheets: remember;
And call thy husband hither.",311,19254
655447,2882,Here's a change indeed!,379,19254
655448,2883,[Exit],1261,19254
655449,2884,"'Tis meet I should be used so, very meet.
How have I been behaved, that he might stick
The small'st opinion on my least misuse?",311,19254
655450,2887,[Re-enter EMILIA with IAGO],1261,19254
655451,2888,"What is your pleasure, madam?
How is't with you?",600,19254
655452,2890,"I cannot tell. Those that do teach young babes
Do it with gentle means and easy tasks:
He might have chid me so; for, in good faith,
I am a child to chiding.",311,19254
655453,2894,"What's the matter, lady?",600,19254
655454,2895,"Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhored her.
Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her,
As true hearts cannot bear.",379,19254
655455,2898,"Am I that name, Iago?",311,19254
655456,2899,"What name, fair lady?",600,19254
655457,2900,Such as she says my lord did say I was.,311,19254
655458,2901,"He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink
Could not have laid such terms upon his callat.",379,19254
655459,2903,Why did he so?,600,19254
655460,2904,I do not know; I am sure I am none such.,311,19254
655461,2905,"Do not weep, do not weep. Alas the day!",600,19254
655462,2906,"Hath she forsook so many noble matches,
Her father and her country and her friends,
To be call'd whore? would it not make one weep?",379,19254
655463,2909,It is my wretched fortune.,311,19254
655464,2910,"Beshrew him for't!
How comes this trick upon him?",600,19254
655465,2912,"Nay, heaven doth know.",311,19254
655466,2913,"I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain,
Some busy and insinuating rogue,
Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
Have not devised this slander; I'll be hang'd else.",379,19254
655467,2917,"Fie, there is no such man; it is impossible.",600,19254
655468,2918,"If any such there be, heaven pardon him!",311,19254
655469,2919,"A halter pardon him! and hell gnaw his bones!
Why should he call her whore? who keeps her company?
What place? what time? what form? what likelihood?
The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave,
Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.
O heaven, that such companions thou'ldst unfold,
And put in every honest hand a whip
To lash the rascals naked through the world
Even from the east to the west!",379,19254
655470,2928,Speak within door.,600,19254
655471,2929,"O, fie upon them! Some such squire he was
That turn'd your wit the seamy side without,
And made you to suspect me with the Moor.",379,19254
655472,2932,You are a fool; go to.,600,19254
655473,2933,"O good Iago,
What shall I do to win my lord again?
Good friend, go to him; for, by this light of heaven,
I know not how I lost him. Here I kneel:
If e'er my will did trespass 'gainst his love,
Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,
Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense,
Delighted them in any other form;
Or that I do not yet, and ever did.
And ever will--though he do shake me off
To beggarly divorcement--love him dearly,
Comfort forswear me! Unkindness may do much;
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love. I cannot say 'whore:'
It does abhor me now I speak the word;
To do the act that might the addition earn
Not the world's mass of vanity could make me.",311,19254
655474,2950,"I pray you, be content; 'tis but his humour:
The business of the state does him offence,
And he does chide with you.",600,19254
655475,2953,If 'twere no other--,311,19254
655476,2954,"'Tis but so, I warrant.
[Trumpets within]
Hark, how these instruments summon to supper!
The messengers of Venice stay the meat;
Go in, and weep not; all things shall be well.
[Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA]
[Enter RODERIGO]
How now, Roderigo!",600,19254
655477,2962,I do not find that thou dealest justly with me.,949,19254
655478,2963,What in the contrary?,600,19254
655479,2964,"Every day thou daffest me with some device, Iago;
and rather, as it seems to me now, keepest from me
all conveniency than suppliest me with the least
advantage of hope. I will indeed no longer endure
it, nor am I yet persuaded to put up in peace what
already I have foolishly suffered.",949,19254
655480,2970,"Will you hear me, Roderigo?",600,19254
655481,2971,"'Faith, I have heard too much, for your words and
performances are no kin together.",949,19254
655482,2973,You charge me most unjustly.,600,19254
655483,2974,"With nought but truth. I have wasted myself out of
my means. The jewels you have had from me to
deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted a
votarist: you have told me she hath received them
and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden
respect and acquaintance, but I find none.",949,19254
655484,2980,Well; go to; very well.,600,19254
655485,2981,"Very well! go to! I cannot go to, man; nor 'tis
not very well: nay, I think it is scurvy, and begin
to find myself fobbed in it.",949,19254
655486,2984,Very well.,600,19254
655487,2985,"I tell you 'tis not very well. I will make myself
known to Desdemona: if she will return me my
jewels, I will give over my suit and repent my
unlawful solicitation; if not, assure yourself I
will seek satisfaction of you.",949,19254
655488,2990,You have said now.,600,19254
655489,2991,"Ay, and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing.",949,19254
655490,2992,"Why, now I see there's mettle in thee, and even from
this instant to build on thee a better opinion than
ever before. Give me thy hand, Roderigo: thou hast
taken against me a most just exception; but yet, I
protest, I have dealt most directly in thy affair.",600,19254
655491,2997,It hath not appeared.,949,19254
655492,2998,"I grant indeed it hath not appeared, and your
suspicion is not without wit and judgment. But,
Roderigo, if thou hast that in thee indeed, which I
have greater reason to believe now than ever, I mean
purpose, courage and valour, this night show it: if
thou the next night following enjoy not Desdemona,
take me from this world with treachery and devise
engines for my life.",600,19254
655493,3006,"Well, what is it? is it within reason and compass?",949,19254
655494,3007,"Sir, there is especial commission come from Venice
to depute Cassio in Othello's place.",600,19254
655495,3009,"Is that true? why, then Othello and Desdemona
return again to Venice.",949,19254
655496,3011,"O, no; he goes into Mauritania and takes away with
him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be
lingered here by some accident: wherein none can be
so determinate as the removing of Cassio.",600,19254
655497,3015,"How do you mean, removing of him?",949,19254
655498,3016,"Why, by making him uncapable of Othello's place;
knocking out his brains.",600,19254
655499,3018,And that you would have me to do?,949,19254
655500,3019,"Ay, if you dare do yourself a profit and a right.
He sups to-night with a harlotry, and thither will I
go to him: he knows not yet of his horrorable
fortune. If you will watch his going thence, which
I will fashion to fall out between twelve and one,
you may take him at your pleasure: I will be near
to second your attempt, and he shall fall between
us. Come, stand not amazed at it, but go along with
me; I will show you such a necessity in his death
that you shall think yourself bound to put it on
him. It is now high suppertime, and the night grows
to waste: about it.",600,19254
655501,3031,I will hear further reason for this.,949,19254
655502,3032,And you shall be satisfied.,600,19254
655503,3033,[Exeunt],1261,19254
655504,3035,"[Enter OTHELLO, LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, EMILIA and Attendants]",1261,19255
655505,3036,"I do beseech you, sir, trouble yourself no further.",674,19255
655506,3037,"O, pardon me: 'twill do me good to walk.",844,19255
655507,3038,"Madam, good night; I humbly thank your ladyship.",674,19255
655508,3039,Your honour is most welcome.,311,19255
655509,3040,"Will you walk, sir?
O,--Desdemona,--",844,19255
655510,3042,My lord?,311,19255
655511,3043,"Get you to bed on the instant; I will be returned
forthwith: dismiss your attendant there: look it be done.",844,19255
655512,3045,"I will, my lord.",311,19255
655513,3046,"[Exeunt OTHELLO, LODOVICO, and Attendants]",1261,19255
655514,3047,How goes it now? he looks gentler than he did.,379,19255
655515,3048,"He says he will return incontinent:
He hath commanded me to go to bed,
And bade me to dismiss you.",311,19255
655516,3051,Dismiss me!,379,19255
655517,3052,"It was his bidding: therefore, good Emilia,.
Give me my nightly wearing, and adieu:
We must not now displease him.",311,19255
655518,3055,I would you had never seen him!,379,19255
655519,3056,"So would not I. my love doth so approve him,
That even his stubbornness, his cheques, his frowns--
Prithee, unpin me,--have grace and favour in them.",311,19255
655520,3059,I have laid those sheets you bade me on the bed.,379,19255
655521,3060,"All's one. Good faith, how foolish are our minds!
If I do die before thee prithee, shroud me
In one of those same sheets.",311,19255
655522,3063,"Come, come you talk.",379,19255
655523,3064,"My mother had a maid call'd Barbara:
She was in love, and he she loved proved mad
And did forsake her: she had a song of 'willow;'
An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune,
And she died singing it: that song to-night
Will not go from my mind; I have much to do,
But to go hang my head all at one side,
And sing it like poor Barbara. Prithee, dispatch.",311,19255
655524,3072,Shall I go fetch your night-gown?,379,19255
655525,3073,"No, unpin me here.
This Lodovico is a proper man.",311,19255
655526,3075,A very handsome man.,379,19255
655527,3076,He speaks well.,311,19255
655528,3077,"I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot
to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.",379,19255
655529,3079,"[Singing] The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,
Sing all a green willow:
Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,
Sing willow, willow, willow:
The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans;
Sing willow, willow, willow;
Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones;
Lay by these:--
[Singing]
Sing willow, willow, willow;
Prithee, hie thee; he'll come anon:--
[Singing]
Sing all a green willow must be my garland.
Let nobody blame him; his scorn I approve,-
Nay, that's not next.--Hark! who is't that knocks?",311,19255
655530,3094,It's the wind.,379,19255
655531,3095,"[Singing] I call'd my love false love; but what
said he then?
Sing willow, willow, willow:
If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men!
So, get thee gone; good night Ate eyes do itch;
Doth that bode weeping?",311,19255
655539,3112,Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?,311,19255
655540,3113,"The world's a huge thing: it is a great price.
For a small vice.",379,19255
655541,3115,"In troth, I think thou wouldst not.",311,19255
655542,3116,"In troth, I think I should; and undo't when I had
done. Marry, I would not do such a thing for a
joint-ring, nor for measures of lawn, nor for
gowns, petticoats, nor caps, nor any petty
exhibition; but for the whole world,--why, who would
not make her husband a cuckold to make him a
monarch? I should venture purgatory for't.",379,19255
655543,3123,"Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong
For the whole world.",311,19255
655544,3125,"Why the wrong is but a wrong i' the world: and
having the world for your labour, tis a wrong in your
own world, and you might quickly make it right.",379,19255
655545,3128,I do not think there is any such woman.,311,19255
655546,3129,"Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage as would
store the world they played for.
But I do think it is their husbands' faults
If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,
And pour our treasures into foreign laps,
Or else break out in peevish jealousies,
Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us,
Or scant our former having in despite;
Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,
Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell
And have their palates both for sweet and sour,
As husbands have. What is it that they do
When they change us for others? Is it sport?
I think it is: and doth affection breed it?
I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs?
It is so too: and have not we affections,
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well: else let them know,
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.",379,19255
655547,3149,"Good night, good night: heaven me such uses send,
Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend!",311,19255
655548,3151,[Exeunt],1261,19255
655549,3154,[Enter IAGO and RODERIGO],1261,19256
655550,3155,"Here, stand behind this bulk; straight will he come:
Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home:
Quick, quick; fear nothing; I'll be at thy elbow:
It makes us, or it mars us; think on that,
And fix most firm thy resolution.",600,19256
655551,3160,Be near at hand; I may miscarry in't.,949,19256
655552,3161,"Here, at thy hand: be bold, and take thy stand.",600,19256
655553,3162,[Retires],1261,19256
655554,3163,"I have no great devotion to the deed;
And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons:
'Tis but a man gone. Forth, my sword: he dies.",949,19256
655555,3166,"I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense,
And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio,
Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,
Every way makes my gain: live Roderigo,
He calls me to a restitution large
Of gold and jewels that I bobb'd from him,
As gifts to Desdemona;
It must not be: if Cassio do remain,
He hath a daily beauty in his life
That makes me ugly; and, besides, the Moor
May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril:
No, he must die. But so: I hear him coming.",600,19256
655556,3178,[Enter CASSIO],1261,19256
655557,3179,"I know his gait, 'tis he.--Villain, thou diest!",949,19256
655558,3180,[Makes a pass at CASSIO],1261,19256
655559,3181,"That thrust had been mine enemy indeed,
But that my coat is better than thou know'st
I will make proof of thine.",230,19256
655560,3184,"[Draws, and wounds RODERIGO]",1261,19256
655561,3185,"O, I am slain!",949,19256
655562,3186,"[IAGO from behind wounds CASSIO in the leg, and exit]",1261,19256
655563,3187,"I am maim'd for ever. Help, ho! murder! murder!",230,19256
655564,3188,[Falls],1261,19256
655565,3189,[Enter OTHELLO],1261,19256
655566,3190,The voice of Cassio: Iago keeps his word.,844,19256
655567,3191,"O, villain that I am!",949,19256
655568,3192,It is even so.,844,19256
655569,3193,"O, help, ho! light! a surgeon!",230,19256
655570,3194,"'Tis he:--O brave Iago, honest and just,
That hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong!
Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead,
And your unblest fate hies: strumpet, I come.
Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted;
Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be spotted.",844,19256
655571,3200,[Exit],1261,19256
655572,3201,[Enter LODOVICO and GRATIANO],1261,19256
655573,3202,"What, ho! no watch? no passage? murder! murder!",230,19256
655579,3210,Nobody come? then shall I bleed to death.,949,19256
655580,3211,Hark!,674,19256
655581,3212,"[Re-enter IAGO, with a light]",1261,19256
655582,3213,"Here's one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons.",539,19256
655583,3214,Who's there? whose noise is this that ones on murder?,600,19256
655584,3215,We do not know.,674,19256
655585,3216,Did not you hear a cry?,600,19256
655586,3217,"Here, here! for heaven's sake, help me!",230,19256
655587,3218,What's the matter?,600,19256
655588,3219,"This is Othello's ancient, as I take it.",539,19256
655589,3220,The same indeed; a very valiant fellow.,674,19256
655590,3221,What are you here that cry so grievously?,600,19256
655591,3222,"Iago? O, I am spoil'd, undone by villains!
Give me some help.",230,19256
655592,3224,"O me, lieutenant! what villains have done this?",600,19256
655593,3225,"I think that one of them is hereabout,
And cannot make away.",230,19256
655594,3227,"O treacherous villains!
What are you there? come in, and give some help.",600,19256
655595,3229,[To LODOVICO and GRATIANO],1261,19256
655596,3230,"O, help me here!",949,19256
655597,3231,That's one of them.,230,19256
655598,3232,O murderous slave! O villain!,600,19256
655599,3233,[Stabs RODERIGO],1261,19256
655600,3234,O damn'd Iago! O inhuman dog!,949,19256
655601,3235,"Kill men i' the dark!--Where be these bloody thieves?--
How silent is this town!--Ho! murder! murder!--
What may you be? are you of good or evil?",600,19256
655602,3238,"As you shall prove us, praise us.",674,19256
655603,3239,Signior Lodovico?,600,19256
655604,3240,"He, sir.",674,19256
655605,3241,I cry you mercy. Here's Cassio hurt by villains.,600,19256
655606,3242,Cassio!,539,19256
655607,3243,"How is't, brother!",600,19256
655608,3244,My leg is cut in two.,230,19256
655609,3245,"Marry, heaven forbid!
Light, gentlemen; I'll bind it with my shirt.",600,19256
655610,3247,[Enter BIANCA],1261,19256
655611,3248,"What is the matter, ho? who is't that cried?",167,19256
655612,3249,Who is't that cried!,600,19256
655613,3250,"O my dear Cassio! my sweet Cassio! O Cassio,
Cassio, Cassio!",167,19256
655614,3252,"O notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect
Who they should be that have thus many led you?",600,19256
655615,3254,No.,230,19256
655616,3255,I am to find you thus: I have been to seek you.,539,19256
655617,3256,"Lend me a garter. So. O, for a chair,
To bear him easily hence!",600,19256
655618,3258,"Alas, he faints! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!",167,19256
655619,3259,"Gentlemen all, I do suspect this trash
To be a party in this injury.
Patience awhile, good Cassio. Come, come;
Lend me a light. Know we this face or no?
Alas my friend and my dear countryman
Roderigo! no:--yes, sure: O heaven! Roderigo.",600,19256
655620,3265,"What, of Venice?",539,19256
655621,3266,"Even he, sir; did you know him?",600,19256
655622,3267,Know him! ay.,539,19256
655623,3268,"Signior Gratiano? I cry you gentle pardon;
These bloody accidents must excuse my manners,
That so neglected you.",600,19256
655624,3271,I am glad to see you.,539,19256
655625,3272,"How do you, Cassio? O, a chair, a chair!",600,19256
655626,3273,Roderigo!,539,19256
655627,3274,"He, he 'tis he.
[A chair brought in]
O, that's well said; the chair!",600,19256
655628,3277,"Some good man bear him carefully from hence;
I'll fetch the general's surgeon.
[To BIANCA]
For you, mistress,
Save you your labour. He that lies slain
here, Cassio,
Was my dear friend: what malice was between you?",539,19256
655629,3284,None in the world; nor do I know the man.,230,19256
655630,3285,"[To BIANCA] What, look you pale? O, bear him out
o' the air.
[CASSIO and RODERIGO are borne off]
Stay you, good gentlemen. Look you pale, mistress?
Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?
Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon.
Behold her well; I pray you, look upon her:
Do you see, gentlemen? nay, guiltiness will speak,
Though tongues were out of use.",600,19256
655631,3294,[Enter EMILIA],1261,19256
655632,3295,"'Las, what's the matter? what's the matter, husband?",379,19256
655633,3296,"Cassio hath here been set on in the dark
By Roderigo and fellows that are scaped:
He's almost slain, and Roderigo dead.",600,19256
655634,3299,"Alas, good gentleman! alas, good Cassio!",379,19256
655635,3300,"This is the fruit of whoring. Prithee, Emilia,
Go know of Cassio where he supp'd to-night.
[To BIANCA]
What, do you shake at that?",600,19256
655636,3304,He supp'd at my house; but I therefore shake not.,167,19256
655637,3305,"O, did he so? I charge you, go with me.",600,19256
655638,3306,"Fie, fie upon thee, strumpet!",379,19256
655639,3307,"I am no strumpet; but of life as honest
As you that thus abuse me.",167,19256
655640,3309,As I! foh! fie upon thee!,379,19256
655641,3310,"Kind gentlemen, let's go see poor Cassio dress'd.
Come, mistress, you must tell's another tale.
Emilia run you to the citadel,
And tell my lord and lady what hath happ'd.
Will you go on? I pray.
[Aside]
This is the night
That either makes me or fordoes me quite.",600,19256
655642,3318,"[Exeunt]
a light burning.",1261,19256
655643,3321,[Enter OTHELLO],1261,19257
655644,3322,"It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,--
Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!--
It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood;
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,
And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.
Put out the light, and then put out the light:
If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
I can again thy former light restore,
Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,
Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,
I know not where is that Promethean heat
That can thy light relume. When I have pluck'd the rose,
I cannot give it vital growth again.
It must needs wither: I'll smell it on the tree.
[Kissing her]
Ah balmy breath, that dost almost persuade
Justice to break her sword! One more, one more.
Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee,
And love thee after. One more, and this the last:
So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep,
But they are cruel tears: this sorrow's heavenly;
It strikes where it doth love. She wakes.",844,19257
655645,3345,Who's there? Othello?,311,19257
655646,3346,Ay. Desdemona.,844,19257
655647,3347,"Will you come to bed, my lord?",311,19257
655648,3348,"Have you pray'd to-night, Desdemona?",844,19257
655649,3349,"Ay, my lord.",311,19257
655650,3350,"If you bethink yourself of any crime
Unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace,
Solicit for it straight.",844,19257
655651,3353,"Alas, my lord, what do you mean by that?",311,19257
655652,3354,"Well, do it, and be brief; I will walk by:
I would not kill thy unprepared spirit;
No; heaven forfend! I would not kill thy soul.",844,19257
655653,3357,Talk you of killing?,311,19257
655654,3358,"Ay, I do.",844,19257
655655,3359,"Then heaven
Have mercy on me!",311,19257
655656,3361,"Amen, with all my heart!",844,19257
655657,3362,"If you say so, I hope you will not kill me.",311,19257
655658,3363,Hum!,844,19257
655659,3364,"And yet I fear you; for you are fatal then
When your eyes roll so: why I should fear I know not,
Since guiltiness I know not; but yet I feel I fear.",311,19257
655660,3367,Think on thy sins.,844,19257
655661,3368,They are loves I bear to you.,311,19257
655662,3369,"Ay, and for that thou diest.",844,19257
655663,3370,"That death's unnatural that kills for loving.
Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame:
These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,
They do not point on me.",311,19257
655664,3375,"Peace, and be still!",844,19257
655665,3376,I will so. What's the matter?,311,19257
655666,3377,"That handkerchief which I so loved and gave thee
Thou gavest to Cassio.",844,19257
655667,3379,"No, by my life and soul!
Send for the man, and ask him.",311,19257
655668,3381,"Sweet soul, take heed,
Take heed of perjury; thou art on thy deathbed.",844,19257
655669,3383,"Ay, but not yet to die.",311,19257
655670,3384,"Yes, presently:
Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin;
For to deny each article with oath
Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception
That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.",844,19257
655671,3389,Then Lord have mercy on me!,311,19257
655672,3390,"I say, amen.",844,19257
655673,3391,"And have you mercy too! I never did
Offend you in my life; never loved Cassio
But with such general warranty of heaven
As I might love: I never gave him token.",311,19257
655674,3395,"By heaven, I saw my handkerchief in's hand.
O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart,
And makest me call what I intend to do
A murder, which I thought a sacrifice:
I saw the handkerchief.",844,19257
655675,3400,"He found it then;
I never gave it him: send for him hither;
Let him confess a truth.",311,19257
655676,3403,He hath confess'd.,844,19257
655677,3404,"What, my lord?",311,19257
655678,3405,That he hath used thee.,844,19257
655679,3406,How? unlawfully?,311,19257
655680,3407,Ay.,844,19257
655681,3408,He will not say so.,311,19257
655682,3409,"No, his mouth is stopp'd;
Honest Iago hath ta'en order for't.",844,19257
655683,3411,"O! my fear interprets: what, is he dead?",311,19257
655684,3412,"Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge
Had stomach for them all.",844,19257
655685,3414,Alas! he is betray'd and I undone.,311,19257
655686,3415,"Out, strumpet! weep'st thou for him to my face?",844,19257
655687,3416,"O, banish me, my lord, but kill me not!",311,19257
655688,3417,"Down, strumpet!",844,19257
655689,3418,Kill me to-morrow: let me live to-night!,311,19257
655690,3419,"Nay, if you strive--",844,19257
655691,3420,But half an hour!,311,19257
655692,3421,"Being done, there is no pause.",844,19257
655693,3422,But while I say one prayer!,311,19257
655694,3423,It is too late.,844,19257
655695,3424,[He stifles her],1261,19257
655696,3425,"[Within] My lord, my lord! what, ho! my lord, my lord!",379,19257
655697,3426,"What noise is this? Not dead? not yet quite dead?
I that am cruel am yet merciful;
I would not have thee linger in thy pain: So, so.",844,19257
655698,3429,"[Within] What, ho! my lord, my lord!",379,19257
655699,3430,Who's there?,844,19257
655700,3431,"[Within] O, good my lord, I would speak a word with you!",379,19257
655701,3432,"Yes: 'tis Emilia. By and by. She's dead.
'Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio's death.--
The noise was here. Ha! no more moving?
Still as the grave. Shall she come in? were't good?--
I think she stirs again:--no. What's best to do?
If she come in, she'll sure speak to my wife:
My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife.
O insupportable! O heavy hour!
Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse
Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe
Should yawn at alteration.",844,19257
655702,3443,"[Within] I do beseech you
That I may speak with you, O, good my lord!",379,19257
655703,3445,"I had forgot thee: O, come in, Emilia;
Soft; by and by. Let me the curtains draw.
Where art thou?
[Unlocks the door]
[Enter EMILIA]
What's the matter with thee now?",844,19257
655704,3451,"O, my good lord, yonder's foul murders done!",379,19257
655705,3452,"What, now?",844,19257
655706,3453,"But now, my lord.",379,19257
655707,3454,"It is the very error of the moon;
She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,
And makes men mad.",844,19257
655708,3457,"Cassio, my lord, hath kill'd a young Venetian
Call'd Roderigo.",379,19257
655709,3459,"Roderigo kill'd!
And Cassio kill'd!",844,19257
655710,3461,"No, Cassio is not kill'd.",379,19257
655711,3462,"Not Cassio kill'd! then murder's out of tune,
And sweet revenge grows harsh.",844,19257
655712,3464,"O, falsely, falsely murder'd!",311,19257
655713,3465,"Alas, what cry is that?",379,19257
655714,3466,That! what?,844,19257
655715,3467,"Out, and alas! that was my lady's voice.
Help! help, ho! help! O lady, speak again!
Sweet Desdemona! O sweet mistress, speak!",379,19257
655716,3470,A guiltless death I die.,311,19257
655717,3471,"O, who hath done this deed?",379,19257
655718,3472,"Nobody; I myself. Farewell
Commend me to my kind lord: O, farewell!",311,19257
655719,3474,[Dies],1261,19257
655720,3475,"Why, how should she be murder'd?",844,19257
655721,3476,"Alas, who knows?",379,19257
655722,3477,"You heard her say herself, it was not I.",844,19257
655723,3478,She said so: I must needs report the truth.,379,19257
655724,3479,"She's, like a liar, gone to burning hell:
'Twas I that kill'd her.",844,19257
655725,3481,"O, the more angel she,
And you the blacker devil!",379,19257
655726,3483,"She turn'd to folly, and she was a whore.",844,19257
655727,3484,"Thou dost belie her, and thou art a devil.",379,19257
655728,3485,She was false as water.,844,19257
655729,3486,"Thou art rash as fire, to say
That she was false: O, she was heavenly true!",379,19257
655730,3488,"Cassio did top her; ask thy husband else.
O, I were damn'd beneath all depth in hell,
But that I did proceed upon just grounds
To this extremity. Thy husband knew it all.",844,19257
655731,3492,My husband!,379,19257
655732,3493,Thy husband.,844,19257
655733,3494,That she was false to wedlock?,379,19257
655734,3495,"Ay, with Cassio. Nay, had she been true,
If heaven would make me such another world
Of one entire and Perfect chrysolite,
I'ld not have sold her for it.",844,19257
655735,3499,My husband!,379,19257
655736,3500,"Ay, 'twas he that told me first:
An honest man he is, and hates the slime
That sticks on filthy deeds.",844,19257
655737,3503,My husband!,379,19257
655738,3504,"What needs this iteration, woman? I say thy husband.",844,19257
655739,3505,"O mistress, villany hath made mocks with love,
My husband say that she was false!",379,19257
655740,3507,"He, woman;
I say thy husband: dost understand the word?
My friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago.",844,19257
655741,3510,"If he say so, may his pernicious soul
Rot half a grain a day! he lies to the heart:
She was too fond of her most filthy bargain.",379,19257
655742,3513,Ha!,844,19257
655743,3514,"Do thy worst:
This deed of thine is no more worthy heaven
Than thou wast worthy her.",379,19257
655744,3517,"Peace, you were best.",844,19257
655745,3518,"Thou hast not half that power to do me harm
As I have to be hurt. O gull! O dolt!
As ignorant as dirt! thou hast done a deed--
I care not for thy sword; I'll make thee known,
Though I lost twenty lives.--Help! help, ho! help!
The Moor hath kill'd my mistress! Murder! murder!",379,19257
655746,3524,"[Enter MONTANO, GRATIANO, IAGO, and others]",1261,19257
655747,3525,"What is the matter? How now, general!",799,19257
655748,3526,"O, are you come, Iago? you have done well,
That men must lay their murders on your neck.",379,19257
655749,3528,What is the matter?,539,19257
655750,3529,"Disprove this villain, if thou be'st a man:
He says thou told'st him that his wife was false:
I know thou didst not, thou'rt not such a villain:
Speak, for my heart is full.",379,19257
655751,3533,"I told him what I thought, and told no more
Than what he found himself was apt and true.",600,19257
655752,3535,But did you ever tell him she was false?,379,19257
655753,3536,I did.,600,19257
655754,3537,"You told a lie, an odious, damned lie;
Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
She false with Cassio!--did you say with Cassio?",379,19257
655755,3540,"With Cassio, mistress. Go to, charm your tongue.",600,19257
655756,3541,"I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak:
My mistress here lies murder'd in her bed,--",379,19257
655757,3543,O heavens forfend!,90,19257
655758,3544,And your reports have set the murder on.,379,19257
655759,3545,"Nay, stare not, masters: it is true, indeed.",844,19257
655763,3552,"What, are you mad? I charge you, get you home.",600,19257
655764,3553,"Good gentlemen, let me have leave to speak:
'Tis proper I obey him, but not now.
Perchance, Iago, I will ne'er go home.",379,19257
655765,3556,O! O! O!,844,19257
655766,3557,[He falls on the bed],1261,19257
655767,3558,"Nay, lay thee down and roar;
For thou hast kill'd the sweetest innocent
That e'er did lift up eye.",379,19257
655768,3561,"[Rising] O, she was foul!
I scarce did know you, uncle: there lies your niece,
Whose breath, indeed, these hands have newly stopp'd:
I know this act shows horrible and grim.",844,19257
655769,3565,"Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead:
Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
Shore his old thread in twain: did he live now,
This sight would make him do a desperate turn,
Yea, curse his better angel from his side,
And fall to reprobation.",539,19257
655770,3571,"'Tis pitiful; but yet Iago knows
That she with Cassio hath the act of shame
A thousand times committed; Cassio confess'd it:
And she did gratify his amorous works
With that recognizance and pledge of love
Which I first gave her; I saw it in his hand:
It was a handkerchief, an antique token
My father gave my mother.",844,19257
655771,3579,O heaven! O heavenly powers!,379,19257
655772,3580,"Come, hold your peace.",600,19257
655773,3581,"'Twill out, 'twill out: I peace!
No, I will speak as liberal as the north:
Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,
All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.",379,19257
655774,3585,"Be wise, and get you home.",600,19257
655775,3586,I will not.,379,19257
655776,3587,[IAGO offers to stab EMILIA],1261,19257
655777,3588,"Fie!
Your sword upon a woman?",539,19257
655778,3590,"O thou dull Moor! that handkerchief thou speak'st of
I found by fortune and did give my husband;
For often, with a solemn earnestness,
More than indeed belong'd to such a trifle,
He begg'd of me to steal it.",379,19257
655779,3595,Villanous whore!,600,19257
655780,3596,"She give it Cassio! no, alas! I found it,
And I did give't my husband.",379,19257
655781,3598,"Filth, thou liest!",600,19257
655782,3599,"By heaven, I do not, I do not, gentlemen.
O murderous coxcomb! what should such a fool
Do with so good a woman?",379,19257
655783,3602,"Are there no stones in heaven
But what serve for the thunder?--Precious villain!",844,19257
655784,3604,"[He runs at IAGO IAGO, from behind, stabs EMILIA, and exit]",1261,19257
655785,3605,"The woman falls; sure, he hath kill'd his wife.",539,19257
655786,3606,"Ay, ay: O, lay me by my mistress' side.",379,19257
655787,3607,"He's gone, but his wife's kill'd.",539,19257
655788,3608,"'Tis a notorious villain. Take you this weapon,
Which I have here recover'd from the Moor:
Come, guard the door without; let him not pass,
But kill him rather. I'll after that same villain,
For 'tis a damned slave.",799,19257
655789,3613,[Exeunt MONTANO and GRATIANO],1261,19257
655790,3614,"I am not valiant neither,
But ever puny whipster gets my sword:
But why should honour outlive honesty?
Let it go all.",844,19257
655791,3618,"What did thy song bode, lady?
Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan.
And die in music.
[Singing]
Willow, willow, willow,--
Moor, she was chaste; she loved thee, cruel Moor;
So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true;
So speaking as I think, I die, I die.",379,19257
655792,3626,[Dies],1261,19257
655793,3627,"I have another weapon in this chamber;
It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper:--
O, here it is. Uncle, I must come forth.",844,19257
655794,3630,"[Within] If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear:
Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer.",539,19257
655795,3632,"Look in upon me then and speak with me,
Or, naked as I am, I will assault thee.",844,19257
655796,3634,[Re-enter GRATIANO],1261,19257
655797,3635,What is the matter?,539,19257
655798,3636,"Behold, I have a weapon;
A better never did itself sustain
Upon a soldier's thigh: I have seen the day,
That, with this little arm and this good sword,
I have made my way through more impediments
Than twenty times your stop: but, O vain boast!
Who can control his fate? 'tis not so now.
Be not afraid, though you do see me weapon'd;
Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,
And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
Do you go back dismay'd? 'tis a lost fear;
Man but a rush against Othello's breast,
And he retires. Where should Othello go?
Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd wench!
Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt,
This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,
And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl!
Even like thy chastity. O cursed slave!
Whip me, ye devils,
From the possession of this heavenly sight!
Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur!
Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!
O Desdemona! Desdemona! dead!
Oh! Oh! Oh!
[Enter LODOVICO. MONTANO, CASSIO carried in a chair,]
and Officers with IAGO, prisoner]",844,19257
655799,3662,Where is this rash and most unfortunate man?,674,19257
655800,3663,That's he that was Othello: here I am.,844,19257
655801,3664,Where is that viper? bring the villain forth.,674,19257
655802,3665,"I look down towards his feet; but that's a fable.
If that thou best a devil, I cannot kill thee.",844,19257
655803,3667,[Wounds IAGO],1261,19257
655804,3668,Wrench his sword from him.,674,19257
655805,3669,"I bleed, sir; but not kill'd.",600,19257
655806,3670,"I am not sorry neither: I'ld have thee live;
For, in my sense, 'tis happiness to die.",844,19257
655807,3672,"O thou Othello, thou wert once so good,
Fall'n in the practise of a damned slave,
What shall be said to thee?",674,19257
655808,3675,"Why, any thing:
An honourable murderer, if you will;
For nought I did in hate, but all in honour.",844,19257
655809,3678,"This wretch hath part confess'd his villany:
Did you and he consent in Cassio's death?",674,19257
655810,3680,Ay.,844,19257
655811,3681,"Dear general, I never gave you cause.",230,19257
655812,3682,"I do believe it, and I ask your pardon.
Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil
Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body?",844,19257
655813,3685,"Demand me nothing: what you know, you know:
From this time forth I never will speak word.",600,19257
655814,3687,"What, not to pray?",674,19257
655815,3688,Torments will ope your lips.,539,19257
655816,3689,"Well, thou dost best.",844,19257
655817,3690,"Sir, you shall understand what hath befall'n,
Which, as I think, you know not. Here is a letter
Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo;
And here another: the one of them imports
The death of Cassio to be undertook
By Roderigo.",674,19257
655818,3696,O villain!,844,19257
655819,3697,Most heathenish and most gross!,230,19257
655820,3698,"Now here's another discontented paper,
Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems,
Roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain;
But that belike Iago in the interim
Came in and satisfied him.",674,19257
655821,3703,"O the pernicious caitiff!
How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief
That was my wife's?",844,19257
655822,3706,"I found it in my chamber:
And he himself confess'd but even now
That there he dropp'd it for a special purpose
Which wrought to his desire.",230,19257
655823,3710,O fool! fool! fool!,844,19257
655824,3711,"There is besides in Roderigo's letter,
How he upbraids Iago, that he made him
Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came
That I was cast: and even but now he spake,
After long seeming dead, Iago hurt him,
Iago set him on.",230,19257
655825,3717,"You must forsake this room, and go with us:
Your power and your command is taken off,
And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave,
If there be any cunning cruelty
That can torment him much and hold him long,
It shall be his. You shall close prisoner rest,
Till that the nature of your fault be known
To the Venetian state. Come, bring him away.",674,19257
655826,3725,"Soft you; a word or two before you go.
I have done the state some service, and they know't.
No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum. Set you down this;
And say besides, that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him, thus.",844,19257
655827,3744,[Stabs himself],1261,19257
655828,3745,O bloody period!,674,19257
655829,3746,All that's spoke is marr'd.,539,19257
655830,3747,"I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this;
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.",844,19257
655831,3749,"[Falls on the bed, and dies]",1261,19257
655832,3750,"This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon;
For he was great of heart.",230,19257
655833,3752,"[To IAGO] O Spartan dog,
More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea!
Look on the tragic loading of this bed;
This is thy work: the object poisons sight;
Let it be hid. Gratiano, keep the house,
And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
For they succeed on you. To you, lord governor,
Remains the censure of this hellish villain;
The time, the place, the torture: O, enforce it!
Myself will straight aboard: and to the state
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.",674,19257
655834,3763,[Exeunt],1261,19257
655835,3,"When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor'd youth,
Unskilful in the world's false forgeries.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although I know my years be past the best,
I smiling credit her false-speaking tongue,
Outfacing faults in love with love's ill rest.
But wherefore says my love that she is young?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
O, love's best habit is a soothing tongue,
And age, in love, loves not to have years told.
Therefore I'll lie with love, and love with me,
Since that our faults in love thus smother'd be.",894,19258
655836,18,"Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
That like two spirits do suggest me still;
My better angel is a man right fair,
My worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her fair pride.
And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend,
Suspect I may, yet not directly tell:
For being both to me, both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another's hell;
The truth I shall not know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.",894,19259
655837,33,"Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,
'Gainst whom the world could not hold argument,
Persuade my heart to this false perjury?
Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.
A woman I forswore; but I will prove,
Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:
My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love;
Thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me.
My vow was breath, and breath a vapour is;
Then, thou fair sun, that on this earth doth shine,
Exhale this vapour vow; in thee it is:
If broken, then it is no fault of mine.
If by me broke, what fool is not so wise
To break an oath, to win a paradise?",894,19260
655838,48,"Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook
With young Adonis, lovely, fresh, and green,
Did court the lad with many a lovely look,
Such looks as none could look but beauty's queen.
She told him stories to delight his ear;
She showed him favors to allure his eye;
To win his heart, she touch'd him here and there,--
Touches so soft still conquer chastity.
But whether unripe years did want conceit,
Or he refused to take her figured proffer,
The tender nibbler would not touch the bait,
But smile and jest at every gentle offer:
Then fell she on her back, fair queen, and toward:
He rose and ran away; ah, fool too froward!",894,19261
655839,63,"If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?
O never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd:
Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll constant prove;
Those thoughts, to me like oaks, to thee like osiers bow'd.
Study his bias leaves, and makes his book thine eyes,
Where all those pleasures live that art can comprehend.
If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice;
Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend;
All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder;
Which is to me some praise, that I thy parts admire:
Thine eye Jove's lightning seems, thy voice his dreadful
thunder,
Which, not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire.
Celestial as thou art, O do not love that wrong,
To sing heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue.",894,19262
655840,79,"Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn,
And scarce the herd gone to the hedge for shade,
When Cytherea, all in love forlorn,
A longing tarriance for Adonis made
Under an osier growing by a brook,
A brook where Adon used to cool his spleen:
Hot was the day; she hotter that did look
For his approach, that often there had been.
Anon he comes, and throws his mantle by,
And stood stark naked on the brook's green brim:
The sun look'd on the world with glorious eye,
Yet not so wistly as this queen on him.
He, spying her, bounced in, whereas he stood:
'O Jove,' quoth she, 'why was not I a flood!'",894,19263
655841,94,"Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle;
Mild as a dove, but neither true nor trusty;
Brighter than glass, and yet, as glass is, brittle;
Softer than wax, and yet, as iron, rusty:
A lily pale, with damask dye to grace her,
None fairer, nor none falser to deface her.",894,19264
655842,100,"Her lips to mine how often hath she joined,
Between each kiss her oaths of true love swearing!
How many tales to please me hath she coined,
Dreading my love, the loss thereof still fearing!
Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings,
Her faith, her oaths, her tears, and all were jestings.",894,19264
655843,106,"She burn'd with love, as straw with fire flameth;
She burn'd out love, as soon as straw outburneth;
She framed the love, and yet she foil'd the framing;
She bade love last, and yet she fell a-turning.
Was this a lover, or a lecher whether?
Bad in the best, though excellent in neither.",894,19264
655844,113,"If music and sweet poetry agree,
As they must needs, the sister and the brother,
Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me,
Because thou lovest the one, and I the other.
Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch
Upon the lute doth ravish human sense;
Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such
As, passing all conceit, needs no defence.
Thou lovest to hear the sweet melodious sound
That Phoebus' lute, the queen of music, makes;
And I in deep delight am chiefly drown'd
When as himself to singing he betakes.
One god is god of both, as poets feign;
One knight loves both, and both in thee remain.",894,19265
655845,128,"Fair was the morn when the fair queen of love,
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Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove,
For Adon's sake, a youngster proud and wild;
Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill:
Anon Adonis comes with horn and hounds;
She, silly queen, with more than love's good will,
Forbade the boy he should not pass those grounds:
'Once,' quoth she, 'did I see a fair sweet youth
Here in these brakes deep-wounded with a boar,
Deep in the thigh, a spectacle of ruth!
See, in my thigh,' quoth she, 'here was the sore.'
She showed hers: he saw more wounds than one,
And blushing fled, and left her all alone.",894,19266
655846,143,"Sweet rose, fair flower, untimely pluck'd, soon vaded,
Pluck'd in the bud, and vaded in the spring!
Bright orient pearl, alack, too timely shaded!
Fair creature, kill'd too soon by death's sharp sting!
Like a green plum that hangs upon a tree,
And falls, through wind, before the fall should be.",894,19267
655847,149,"I weep for thee, and yet no cause I have;
For why thou left'st me nothing in thy will:
And yet thou left'st me more than I did crave;
For why I craved nothing of thee still:
O yes, dear friend, I pardon crave of thee,
Thy discontent thou didst bequeath to me.",894,19267
655848,156,"Venus, with young Adonis sitting by her
Under a myrtle shade, began to woo him:
She told the youngling how god Mars did try her,
And as he fell to her, so fell she to him.
'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god embraced me,'
And then she clipp'd Adonis in her arms;
'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god unlaced me,'
As if the boy should use like loving charms;
'Even thus,' quoth she, 'he seized on my lips,'
And with her lips on his did act the seizure:
And as she fetched breath, away he skips,
And would not take her meaning nor her pleasure.
Ah, that I had my lady at this bay,
To kiss and clip me till I run away!",894,19268
655849,171,"Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee;
O, my love, my love is young!
Age, I do defy thee: O, sweet shepherd, hie thee,
For methinks thou stay'st too long,",894,19269
655850,184,"Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly;
A flower that dies when first it gins to bud;
A brittle glass that's broken presently:
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour.",894,19270
655851,190,"And as goods lost are seld or never found,
As vaded gloss no rubbing will refresh,
As flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground,
As broken glass no cement can redress,
So beauty blemish'd once's for ever lost,
In spite of physic, painting, pain and cost.",894,19270
655852,197,"Good night, good rest. Ah, neither be my share:
She bade good night that kept my rest away;
And daff'd me to a cabin hang'd with care,
To descant on the doubts of my decay.
'Farewell,' quoth she, 'and come again tomorrow:'
Fare well I could not, for I supp'd with sorrow.",894,19271
655853,203,"Yet at my parting sweetly did she smile,
In scorn or friendship, nill I construe whether:
'T may be, she joy'd to jest at my exile,
'T may be, again to make me wander thither:
'Wander,' a word for shadows like myself,
As take the pain, but cannot pluck the pelf.",894,19271
655854,210,"Lord, how mine eyes throw gazes to the east!
My heart doth charge the watch; the morning rise
Doth cite each moving sense from idle rest.
Not daring trust the office of mine eyes,
While Philomela sits and sings, I sit and mark,
And wish her lays were tuned like the lark;",894,19272
655855,216,"For she doth welcome daylight with her ditty,
And drives away dark dismal-dreaming night:
The night so pack'd, I post unto my pretty;
Heart hath his hope, and eyes their wished sight;
Sorrow changed to solace, solace mix'd with sorrow;
For why, she sigh'd and bade me come tomorrow.",894,19272
655856,222,"Were I with her, the night would post too soon;
But now are minutes added to the hours;
To spite me now, each minute seems a moon;
Yet not for me, shine sun to succor flowers!
Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow:
Short, night, to-night, and length thyself tomorrow.",894,19272
655857,229,"It was a lording's daughter, the fairest one of three,
That liked of her master as well as well might be,
Till looking on an Englishman, the fair'st that eye could see,
Her fancy fell a-turning.",894,19273
655858,233,"Long was the combat doubtful that love with love did fight,
To leave the master loveless, or kill the gallant knight:
To put in practise either, alas, it was a spite
Unto the silly damsel!",894,19273
655859,237,"But one must be refused; more mickle was the pain
That nothing could be used to turn them both to gain,
For of the two the trusty knight was wounded with disdain:
Alas, she could not help it!",894,19273
655860,241,"Thus art with arms contending was victor of the day,
Which by a gift of learning did bear the maid away:
Then, lullaby, the learned man hath got the lady gay;
For now my song is ended.",894,19273
655861,246,"On a day, alack the day!
Love, whose month was ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair,
Playing in the wanton air:
Through the velvet leaves the wind
All unseen, gan passage find;
That the lover, sick to death,
Wish'd himself the heaven's breath,
'Air,' quoth he, 'thy cheeks may blow;
Air, would I might triumph so!
But, alas! my hand hath sworn
Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn:
Vow, alack! for youth unmeet:
Youth, so apt to pluck a sweet.
Thou for whom Jove would swear
Juno but an Ethiope were;
And deny himself for Jove,
Turning mortal for thy love.'",894,19274
655862,265,"My flocks feed not,
My ewes breed not,
My rams speed not,
All is amiss:
Love's denying,
Faith's defying,
Heart's renying,
Causer of this.
All my merry jigs are quite forgot,
All my lady's love is lost, God wot:
Where her faith was firmly fix'd in love,
There a nay is placed without remove.
One silly cross
Wrought all my loss;
O frowning Fortune, cursed, fickle dame!
For now I see
Inconstancy
More in women than in men remain.
In black mourn I,
All fears scorn I,
Love hath forlorn me,
Living in thrall:
Heart is bleeding,
All help needing,
O cruel speeding,
Fraughted with gall.
My shepherd's pipe can sound no deal;
My wether's bell rings doleful knell;
My curtail dog, that wont to have play'd
Plays not at all, but seems afraid;
My sighs so deep
Procure to weep,
In howling wise, to see my doleful plight.
How sighs resound
Through heartless ground,
Like a thousand vanquish'd men in bloody fight!
Clear wells spring not,
Sweet birds sing not,
Green plants bring not
Forth their dye;
Herds stand weeping,
Flocks all sleeping,
Nymphs back peeping
Fearfully:
All our pleasure known to us poor swains,
All our merry meetings on the plains,
All our evening sport from us is fled,
All our love is lost, for Love is dead
Farewell, sweet lass,
Thy like ne'er was
For a sweet content, the cause of all my moan:
Poor Corydon
Must live alone;
Other help for him I see that there is none.",894,19275
655863,320,"When as thine eye hath chose the dame,
And stall'd the deer that thou shouldst strike,
Let reason rule things worthy blame,
As well as fancy partial might:
Take counsel of some wiser head,
Neither too young nor yet unwed.",894,19276
655864,326,"And when thou comest thy tale to tell,
Smooth not thy tongue with filed talk,
Lest she some subtle practise smell,--
A cripple soon can find a halt;--
But plainly say thou lovest her well,",894,19276
655865,331,"And set thy person forth to sell.
What though her frowning brows be bent,
Her cloudy looks will calm ere night:
And then too late she will repent
That thus dissembled her delight;
And twice desire, ere it be day,
That which with scorn she put away.",894,19276
655866,338,"What though she strive to try her strength,
And ban and brawl, and say thee nay,
Her feeble force will yield at length,
When craft hath taught her thus to say,
'Had women been so strong as men,
In faith, you had not had it then.'",894,19276
655867,344,"And to her will frame all thy ways;
Spare not to spend, and chiefly there
Where thy desert may merit praise,
By ringing in thy lady's ear:
The strongest castle, tower, and town,
The golden bullet beats it down.",894,19276
655868,350,"Serve always with assured trust,
And in thy suit be humble true;
Unless thy lady prove unjust,
Press never thou to choose anew:
When time shall serve, be thou not slack
To proffer, though she put thee back.",894,19276
655869,356,"The wiles and guiles that women work,
Dissembled with an outward show,
The tricks and toys that in them lurk,
The cock that treads them shall not know.
Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for nought?",894,19276
655870,362,"Think women still to strive with men,
To sin and never for to saint:
There is no heaven, by holy then,
When time with age doth them attaint.
Were kisses all the joys in bed,
One woman would another wed.",894,19276
655871,368,"But, soft! enough, too much, I fear
Lest that my mistress hear my song,
She will not stick to round me i' the ear,
To teach my tongue to be so long:
Yet will she blush, here be it said,
To hear her secrets so bewray'd.",894,19276
655872,375,"Live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
And all the craggy mountains yields.",894,19277
655873,379,"There will we sit upon the rocks,
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, by whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.",894,19277
655874,383,"There will I make thee a bed of roses,
With a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.",894,19277
655875,387,"A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Then live with me and be my love.",894,19277
655876,391,"[Love's Answer]
If that the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.",894,19277
655877,397,"As it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade
Which a grove of myrtles made,
Beasts did leap, and birds did sing,
Trees did grow, and plants did spring;
Every thing did banish moan,
Save the nightingale alone:
She, poor bird, as all forlorn,
Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn
And there sung the dolefull'st ditty,
That to hear it was great pity:
'Fie, fie, fie,' now would she cry;
'Tereu, tereu!' by and by;
That to hear her so complain,
Scarce I could from tears refrain;
For her griefs, so lively shown,
Made me think upon mine own.
Ah, thought I, thou mourn'st in vain!
None takes pity on thy pain:
Senseless trees they cannot hear thee;
Ruthless beasts they will not cheer thee:
King Pandion he is dead;
All thy friends are lapp'd in lead;
All thy fellow birds do sing,
Careless of thy sorrowing.
Even so, poor bird, like thee,
None alive will pity me.
Whilst as fickle Fortune smiled,
Thou and I were both beguiled.
Every one that flatters thee
Is no friend in misery.
Words are easy, like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find:
Every man will be thy friend
Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend;
But if store of crowns be scant,
No man will supply thy want.
If that one be prodigal,
Bountiful they will him call,
And with such-like flattering,
'Pity but he were a king;'
If he be addict to vice,
Quickly him they will entice;
If to women he be bent,
They have at commandement:
But if Fortune once do frown,
Then farewell his great renown
They that fawn'd on him before
Use his company no more.
He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep;
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.",894,19278
655878,3,[Enter GOWER],1261,19279
655879,4,"To sing a song that old was sung,
From ashes ancient Gower is come;
Assuming man's infirmities,
To glad your ear, and please your eyes.
It hath been sung at festivals,
On ember-eves and holy-ales;
And lords and ladies in their lives
Have read it for restoratives:
The purchase is to make men glorious;
Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius.
If you, born in these latter times,
When wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes.
And that to hear an old man sing
May to your wishes pleasure bring
I life would wish, and that I might
Waste it for you, like taper-light.
This Antioch, then, Antiochus the Great
Built up, this city, for his chiefest seat:
The fairest in all Syria,
I tell you what mine authors say:
This king unto him took a fere,
Who died and left a female heir,
So buxom, blithe, and full of face,
As heaven had lent her all his grace;
With whom the father liking took,
And her to incest did provoke:
Bad child; worse father! to entice his own
To evil should be done by none:
But custom what they did begin
Was with long use account no sin.
The beauty of this sinful dame
Made many princes thither frame,
To seek her as a bed-fellow,
In marriage-pleasures play-fellow:
Which to prevent he made a law,
To keep her still, and men in awe,
That whoso ask'd her for his wife,
His riddle told not, lost his life:
So for her many a wight did die,
As yon grim looks do testify.
What now ensues, to the judgment of your eye
I give, my cause who best can justify.",537,19279
655880,46,[Exit],1261,19279
655881,49,"[Enter ANTIOCHUS, Prince PERICLES, and followers]",1261,19280
655882,50,"Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received
The danger of the task you undertake.",111,19280
655883,52,"I have, Antiochus, and, with a soul
Embolden'd with the glory of her praise,
Think death no hazard in this enterprise.",872,19280
655884,55,"Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride,
For the embracements even of Jove himself;
At whose conception, till Lucina reign'd,
Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence,
The senate-house of planets all did sit,
To knit in her their best perfections.",111,19280
655885,61,[Music. Enter the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS],1261,19280
655886,62,"See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring,
Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king
Of every virtue gives renown to men!
Her face the book of praises, where is read
Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence
Sorrow were ever razed and testy wrath
Could never be her mild companion.
You gods that made me man, and sway in love,
That have inflamed desire in my breast
To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree,
Or die in the adventure, be my helps,
As I am son and servant to your will,
To compass such a boundless happiness!",872,19280
655887,75,"Prince Pericles,--",111,19280
655888,76,That would be son to great Antiochus.,872,19280
655889,77,"Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,
With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touch'd;
For death-like dragons here affright thee hard:
Her face, like heaven, enticeth thee to view
Her countless glory, which desert must gain;
And which, without desert, because thine eye
Presumes to reach, all thy whole heap must die.
Yon sometimes famous princes, like thyself,
Drawn by report, adventurous by desire,
Tell thee, with speechless tongues and semblance pale,
That without covering, save yon field of stars,
Here they stand martyrs, slain in Cupid's wars;
And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist
For going on death's net, whom none resist.",111,19280
655890,91,"Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath taught
My frail mortality to know itself,
And by those fearful objects to prepare
This body, like to them, to what I must;
For death remember'd should be like a mirror,
Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.
I'll make my will then, and, as sick men do
Who know the world, see heaven, but, feeling woe,
Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did;
So I bequeath a happy peace to you
And all good men, as every prince should do;
My riches to the earth from whence they came;
But my unspotted fire of love to you.
[To the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS]
Thus ready for the way of life or death,
I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus.",872,19280
655891,107,"Scorning advice, read the conclusion then:
Which read and not expounded, 'tis decreed,
As these before thee thou thyself shalt bleed.",111,19280
655892,110,"Of all say'd yet, mayst thou prove prosperous!
Of all say'd yet, I wish thee happiness!",112,19280
655893,112,"Like a bold champion, I assume the lists,
Nor ask advice of any other thought
But faithfulness and courage.
[He reads the riddle]
I am no viper, yet I feed
On mother's flesh which did me breed.
I sought a husband, in which labour
I found that kindness in a father:
He's father, son, and husband mild;
I mother, wife, and yet his child.
How they may be, and yet in two,
As you will live, resolve it you.
Sharp physic is the last: but, O you powers
That give heaven countless eyes to view men's acts,
Why cloud they not their sights perpetually,
If this be true, which makes me pale to read it?
Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still,
[Takes hold of the hand of the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS]
Were not this glorious casket stored with ill:
But I must tell you, now my thoughts revolt
For he's no man on whom perfections wait
That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate.
You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings;
Who, finger'd to make man his lawful music,
Would draw heaven down, and all the gods, to hearken:
But being play'd upon before your time,
Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime.
Good sooth, I care not for you.",872,19280
655894,140,"Prince Pericles, touch not, upon thy life.
For that's an article within our law,
As dangerous as the rest. Your time's expired:
Either expound now, or receive your sentence.",111,19280
655895,144,"Great king,
Few love to hear the sins they love to act;
'Twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it.
Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown:
For vice repeated is like the wandering wind.
Blows dust in other's eyes, to spread itself;
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear:
To stop the air would hurt them. The blind mole casts
Copp'd hills towards heaven, to tell the earth is throng'd
By man's oppression; and the poor worm doth die for't.
Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's
their will;
And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill?
It is enough you know; and it is fit,
What being more known grows worse, to smother it.
All love the womb that their first being bred,
Then give my tongue like leave to love my head.",872,19280
655896,163,"[Aside] Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found
the meaning:
But I will gloze with him.--Young prince of Tyre,
Though by the tenor of our strict edict,
Your exposition misinterpreting,
We might proceed to cancel of your days;
Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree
As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise:
Forty days longer we do respite you;
If by which time our secret be undone,
This mercy shows we'll joy in such a son:
And until then your entertain shall be
As doth befit our honour and your worth.",111,19280
655897,176,[Exeunt all but PERICLES],1261,19280
655898,177,"How courtesy would seem to cover sin,
When what is done is like an hypocrite,
The which is good in nothing but in sight!
If it be true that I interpret false,
Then were it certain you were not so bad
As with foul incest to abuse your soul;
Where now you're both a father and a son,
By your untimely claspings with your child,
Which pleasure fits an husband, not a father;
And she an eater of her mother's flesh,
By the defiling of her parent's bed;
And both like serpents are, who though they feed
On sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed.
Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men
Blush not in actions blacker than the night,
Will shun no course to keep them from the light.
One sin, I know, another doth provoke;
Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke:
Poison and treason are the hands of sin,
Ay, and the targets, to put off the shame:
Then, lest my lie be cropp'd to keep you clear,
By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear.",872,19280
655899,199,[Exit],1261,19280
655900,200,[Re-enter ANTIOCHUS],1261,19280
655901,201,"He hath found the meaning, for which we mean
To have his head.
He must not live to trumpet forth my infamy,
Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin
In such a loathed manner;
And therefore instantly this prince must die:
For by his fall my honour must keep high.
Who attends us there?",111,19280
655902,209,[Enter THALIARD],1261,19280
655903,210,Doth your highness call?,1159,19280
655904,211,"Thaliard,
You are of our chamber, and our mind partakes
Her private actions to your secrecy;
And for your faithfulness we will advance you.
Thaliard, behold, here's poison, and here's gold;
We hate the prince of Tyre, and thou must kill him:
It fits thee not to ask the reason why,
Because we bid it. Say, is it done?",111,19280
655905,219,"My lord,
'Tis done.",1159,19280
655906,221,"Enough.
[Enter a Messenger]
Let your breath cool yourself, telling your haste.",111,19280
655907,224,"My lord, prince Pericles is fled.",787,19280
655908,225,[Exit],1261,19280
655909,226,"As thou
Wilt live, fly after: and like an arrow shot
From a well-experienced archer hits the mark
His eye doth level at, so thou ne'er return
Unless thou say 'Prince Pericles is dead.'",111,19280
655910,231,"My lord,
If I can get him within my pistol's length,
I'll make him sure enough: so, farewell to your highness.",1159,19280
655911,234,"Thaliard, adieu!
[Exit THALIARD]
Till Pericles be dead,
My heart can lend no succor to my head.",111,19280
655912,238,[Exit],1261,19280
655913,241,[Enter PERICLES],1261,19281
655914,242,"[To Lords without] Let none disturb us.--Why should
this change of thoughts,
The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy,
Be my so used a guest as not an hour,
In the day's glorious walk, or peaceful night,
The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me quiet?
Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine eyes shun them,
And danger, which I fear'd, is at Antioch,
Whose aim seems far too short to hit me here:
Yet neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits,
Nor yet the other's distance comfort me.
Then it is thus: the passions of the mind,
That have their first conception by mis-dread,
Have after-nourishment and life by care;
And what was first but fear what might be done,
Grows elder now and cares it be not done.
And so with me: the great Antiochus,
'Gainst whom I am too little to contend,
Since he's so great can make his will his act,
Will think me speaking, though I swear to silence;
Nor boots it me to say I honour him.
If he suspect I may dishonour him:
And what may make him blush in being known,
He'll stop the course by which it might be known;
With hostile forces he'll o'erspread the land,
And with the ostent of war will look so huge,
Amazement shall drive courage from the state;
Our men be vanquish'd ere they do resist,
And subjects punish'd that ne'er thought offence:
Which care of them, not pity of myself,
Who am no more but as the tops of trees,
Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them,
Makes both my body pine and soul to languish,
And punish that before that he would punish.",872,19281
655915,276,"[Enter HELICANUS, with other Lords]",1261,19281
655916,277,Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast!,438,19281
655917,278,"And keep your mind, till you return to us,
Peaceful and comfortable!",1005,19281
655918,280,"Peace, peace, and give experience tongue.
They do abuse the king that flatter him:
For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;
The thing which is flatter'd, but a spark,
To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;
Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,
Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err.
When Signior Sooth here does proclaim a peace,
He flatters you, makes war upon your life.
Prince, pardon me, or strike me, if you please;
I cannot be much lower than my knees.",571,19281
655919,291,"All leave us else; but let your cares o'erlook
What shipping and what lading's in our haven,
And then return to us.
[Exeunt Lords]
Helicanus, thou
Hast moved us: what seest thou in our looks?",872,19281
655920,297,"An angry brow, dread lord.",571,19281
655921,298,"If there be such a dart in princes' frowns,
How durst thy tongue move anger to our face?",872,19281
655922,300,"How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence
They have their nourishment?",571,19281
655923,302,"Thou know'st I have power
To take thy life from thee.",872,19281
655924,304,"[Kneeling]
I have ground the axe myself;
Do you but strike the blow.",571,19281
655925,307,"Rise, prithee, rise.
Sit down: thou art no flatterer:
I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid
That kings should let their ears hear their
faults hid!
Fit counsellor and servant for a prince,
Who by thy wisdom makest a prince thy servant,
What wouldst thou have me do?",872,19281
655926,315,"To bear with patience
Such griefs as you yourself do lay upon yourself.",571,19281
655927,317,"Thou speak'st like a physician, Helicanus,
That minister'st a potion unto me
That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself.
Attend me, then: I went to Antioch,
Where as thou know'st, against the face of death,
I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty.
From whence an issue I might propagate,
Are arms to princes, and bring joys to subjects.
Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder;
The rest--hark in thine ear--as black as incest:
Which by my knowledge found, the sinful father
Seem'd not to strike, but smooth: but thou
know'st this,
'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
Such fear so grew in me, I hither fled,
Under the covering of a careful night,
Who seem'd my good protector; and, being here,
Bethought me what was past, what might succeed.
I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than the years:
And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth,
That I should open to the listening air
How many worthy princes' bloods were shed,
To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,
To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms,
And make pretence of wrong that I have done him:
When all, for mine, if I may call offence,
Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence:
Which love to all, of which thyself art one,
Who now reprovest me for it,--",872,19281
655928,347,"Alas, sir!",571,19281
655929,348,"Drew sleep out of mine eyes, blood from my cheeks,
Musings into my mind, with thousand doubts
How I might stop this tempest ere it came;
And finding little comfort to relieve them,
I thought it princely charity to grieve them.",872,19281
655930,353,"Well, my lord, since you have given me leave to speak.
Freely will I speak. Antiochus you fear,
And justly too, I think, you fear the tyrant,
Who either by public war or private treason
Will take away your life.
Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while,
Till that his rage and anger be forgot,
Or till the Destinies do cut his thread of life.
Your rule direct to any; if to me.
Day serves not light more faithful than I'll be.",571,19281
655931,363,"I do not doubt thy faith;
But should he wrong my liberties in my absence?",872,19281
655932,365,"We'll mingle our bloods together in the earth,
From whence we had our being and our birth.",571,19281
655933,367,"Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tarsus
Intend my travel, where I'll hear from thee;
And by whose letters I'll dispose myself.
The care I had and have of subjects' good
On thee I lay whose wisdom's strength can bear it.
I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath:
Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both:
But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe,
That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince,
Thou show'dst a subject's shine, I a true prince.",872,19281
655934,377,[Exeunt],1261,19281
655935,380,[Enter THALIARD],1261,19282
655936,381,"So, this is Tyre, and this the court. Here must I
kill King Pericles; and if I do it not, I am sure to
be hanged at home: 'tis dangerous. Well, I perceive
he was a wise fellow, and had good discretion, that,
being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired
he might know none of his secrets: now do I see he
had some reason for't; for if a king bid a man be a
villain, he's bound by the indenture of his oath to
be one! Hush! here come the lords of Tyre.",1159,19282
655937,390,"[Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES, with other Lords of Tyre]",1261,19282
655938,391,"You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre,
Further to question me of your king's departure:
His seal'd commission, left in trust with me,
Doth speak sufficiently he's gone to travel.",571,19282
655939,395,[Aside] How! the king gone!,1159,19282
655940,396,"If further yet you will be satisfied,
Why, as it were unlicensed of your loves,
He would depart, I'll give some light unto you.
Being at Antioch--",571,19282
655941,400,[Aside] What from Antioch?,1159,19282
655942,401,"Royal Antiochus--on what cause I know not--
Took some displeasure at him; at least he judged so:
And doubting lest that he had err'd or sinn'd,
To show his sorrow, he'ld correct himself;
So puts himself unto the shipman's toil,
With whom each minute threatens life or death.",571,19282
655943,407,"[Aside] Well, I perceive
I shall not be hang'd now, although I would;
But since he's gone, the king's seas must please:
He 'scaped the land, to perish at the sea.
I'll present myself. Peace to the lords of Tyre!",1159,19282
655944,412,Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome.,571,19282
655945,413,"From him I come
With message unto princely Pericles;
But since my landing I have understood
Your lord has betook himself to unknown travels,
My message must return from whence it came.",1159,19282
655946,418,"We have no reason to desire it,
Commended to our master, not to us:
Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire,
As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre.",571,19282
655947,422,"[Exeunt]
[Enter CLEON, the governor of Tarsus, with DIONYZA,]
and others]",1261,19282
655948,427,"My Dionyza, shall we rest us here,
And by relating tales of others' griefs,
See if 'twill teach us to forget our own?",261,19283
655949,430,"That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it;
For who digs hills because they do aspire
Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.
O my distressed lord, even such our griefs are;
Here they're but felt, and seen with mischief's eyes,
But like to groves, being topp'd, they higher rise.",318,19283
655950,436,"O Dionyza,
Who wanteth food, and will not say he wants it,
Or can conceal his hunger till he famish?
Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep
Our woes into the air; our eyes do weep,
Till tongues fetch breath that may proclaim them louder;
That, if heaven slumber while their creatures want,
They may awake their helps to comfort them.
I'll then discourse our woes, felt several years,
And wanting breath to speak help me with tears.",261,19283
655951,446,"I'll do my best, sir.",318,19283
655952,447,"This Tarsus, o'er which I have the government,
A city on whom plenty held full hand,
For riches strew'd herself even in the streets;
Whose towers bore heads so high they kiss'd the clouds,
And strangers ne'er beheld but wondered at;
Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn'd,
Like one another's glass to trim them by:
Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight,
And not so much to feed on as delight;
All poverty was scorn'd, and pride so great,
The name of help grew odious to repeat.",261,19283
655953,458,"O, 'tis too true.",318,19283
655954,459,"But see what heaven can do! By this our change,
These mouths, who but of late, earth, sea, and air,
Were all too little to content and please,
Although they gave their creatures in abundance,
As houses are defiled for want of use,
They are now starved for want of exercise:
Those palates who, not yet two summers younger,
Must have inventions to delight the taste,
Would now be glad of bread, and beg for it:
Those mothers who, to nousle up their babes,
Thought nought too curious, are ready now
To eat those little darlings whom they loved.
So sharp are hunger's teeth, that man and wife
Draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life:
Here stands a lord, and there a lady weeping;
Here many sink, yet those which see them fall
Have scarce strength left to give them burial.
Is not this true?",261,19283
655955,477,Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it.,318,19283
655956,478,"O, let those cities that of plenty's cup
And her prosperities so largely taste,
With their superfluous riots, hear these tears!
The misery of Tarsus may be theirs.",261,19283
655957,482,[Enter a Lord],1261,19283
655958,483,Where's the lord governor?,691,19283
655959,484,"Here.
Speak out thy sorrows which thou bring'st in haste,
For comfort is too far for us to expect.",261,19283
655960,487,"We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore,
A portly sail of ships make hitherward.",691,19283
655961,489,"I thought as much.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours: some neighbouring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy me,
Whereas no glory's got to overcome.",261,19283
655962,498,"That's the least fear; for, by the semblance
Of their white flags display'd, they bring us peace,
And come to us as favourers, not as foes.",691,19283
655963,501,"Thou speak'st like him's untutor'd to repeat:
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
But bring they what they will and what they can,
What need we fear?
The ground's the lowest, and we are half way there.
Go tell their general we attend him here,
To know for what he comes, and whence he comes,
And what he craves.",261,19283
655964,509,"I go, my lord.",691,19283
655965,510,[Exit],1261,19283
655966,511,"Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist;
If wars, we are unable to resist.",261,19283
655967,513,[Enter PERICLES with Attendants],1261,19283
655968,514,"Lord governor, for so we hear you are,
Let not our ships and number of our men
Be like a beacon fired to amaze your eyes.
We have heard your miseries as far as Tyre,
And seen the desolation of your streets:
Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears,
But to relieve them of their heavy load;
And these our ships, you happily may think
Are like the Trojan horse was stuff'd within
With bloody veins, expecting overthrow,
Are stored with corn to make your needy bread,
And give them life whom hunger starved half dead.",872,19283
655969,526,"The gods of Greece protect you!
And we'll pray for you.",92,19283
655970,528,"Arise, I pray you, rise:
We do not look for reverence, but to love,
And harbourage for ourself, our ships, and men.",872,19283
655971,531,"The which when any shall not gratify,
Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought,
Be it our wives, our children, or ourselves,
The curse of heaven and men succeed their evils!
Till when,--the which I hope shall ne'er be seen,--
Your grace is welcome to our town and us.",261,19283
655972,537,"Which welcome we'll accept; feast here awhile,
Until our stars that frown lend us a smile.",872,19283
655973,539,[Exeunt],1261,19283
655974,541,[Enter GOWER],1261,19287
655975,542,"Here have you seen a mighty king
His child, I wis, to incest bring;
A better prince and benign lord,
That will prove awful both in deed and word.
Be quiet then as men should be,
Till he hath pass'd necessity.
I'll show you those in troubles reign,
Losing a mite, a mountain gain.
The good in conversation,
To whom I give my benison,
Is still at Tarsus, where each man
Thinks all is writ he speken can;
And, to remember what he does,
Build his statue to make him glorious:
But tidings to the contrary
Are brought your eyes; what need speak I?
DUMB SHOW.
[Enter at one door PERICLES talking with CLEON; all]
the train with them. Enter at another door a
Gentleman, with a letter to PERICLES; PERICLES
shows the letter to CLEON; gives the Messenger a
reward, and knights him. Exit PERICLES at one
door, and CLEON at another]
Good Helicane, that stay'd at home,
Not to eat honey like a drone
From others' labours; for though he strive
To killen bad, keep good alive;
And to fulfil his prince' desire,
Sends word of all that haps in Tyre:
How Thaliard came full bent with sin
And had intent to murder him;
And that in Tarsus was not best
Longer for him to make his rest.
He, doing so, put forth to seas,
Where when men been, there's seldom ease;
For now the wind begins to blow;
Thunder above and deeps below
Make such unquiet, that the ship
Should house him safe is wreck'd and split;
And he, good prince, having all lost,
By waves from coast to coast is tost:
All perishen of man, of pelf,
Ne aught escapen but himself;
Till fortune, tired with doing bad,
Threw him ashore, to give him glad:
And here he comes. What shall be next,
Pardon old Gower,--this longs the text.",537,19287
655976,589,[Exit],1261,19287
655977,592,"[Enter PERICLES, wet]",1261,19284
655978,593,"Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!
Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man
Is but a substance that must yield to you;
And I, as fits my nature, do obey you:
Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks,
Wash'd me from shore to shore, and left me breath
Nothing to think on but ensuing death:
Let it suffice the greatness of your powers
To have bereft a prince of all his fortunes;
And having thrown him from your watery grave,
Here to have death in peace is all he'll crave.",872,19284
655979,604,[Enter three FISHERMEN],1261,19284
655980,605,"What, ho, Pilch!",416,19284
655981,606,"Ha, come and bring away the nets!",987,19284
655982,607,"What, Patch-breech, I say!",416,19284
655983,608,"What say you, master?",1167,19284
655984,609,"Look how thou stirrest now! come away, or I'll
fetch thee with a wanion.",416,19284
655985,611,"Faith, master, I am thinking of the poor men that
were cast away before us even now.",1167,19284
655986,613,"Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what
pitiful cries they made to us to help them, when,
well-a-day, we could scarce help ourselves.",416,19284
655987,616,"Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the
porpus how he bounced and tumbled? they say
they're half fish, half flesh: a plague on them,
they ne'er come but I look to be washed. Master, I
marvel how the fishes live in the sea.",1167,19284
655988,621,"Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the
little ones: I can compare our rich misers to
nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and
tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at
last devours them all at a mouthful: such whales
have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping
till they've swallowed the whole parish, church,
steeple, bells, and all.",416,19284
655989,629,[Aside] A pretty moral.,872,19284
655990,630,"But, master, if I had been the sexton, I would have
been that day in the belfry.",1167,19284
655991,632,"Why, man?",987,19284
655992,633,"Because he should have swallowed me too: and when I
had been in his belly, I would have kept such a
jangling of the bells, that he should never have
left, till he cast bells, steeple, church, and
parish up again. But if the good King Simonides
were of my mind,--",1167,19284
655993,639,[Aside] Simonides!,872,19284
655994,640,"We would purge the land of these drones, that rob
the bee of her honey.",1167,19284
655995,642,"[Aside] How from the finny subject of the sea
These fishers tell the infirmities of men;
And from their watery empire recollect
All that may men approve or men detect!
Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen.",872,19284
655996,647,"Honest! good fellow, what's that? If it be a day
fits you, search out of the calendar, and nobody
look after it.",987,19284
655997,650,May see the sea hath cast upon your coast.,872,19284
655998,651,"What a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our
way!",987,19284
655999,653,"A man whom both the waters and the wind,
In that vast tennis-court, have made the ball
For them to play upon, entreats you pity him:
He asks of you, that never used to beg.",872,19284
656000,657,"No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's them in our
country Greece gets more with begging than we can do
with working.",416,19284
656001,660,"Canst thou catch any fishes, then?",987,19284
656002,661,I never practised it.,872,19284
656003,662,"Nay, then thou wilt starve, sure; for here's nothing
to be got now-a-days, unless thou canst fish for't.",987,19284
656004,664,"What I have been I have forgot to know;
But what I am, want teaches me to think on:
A man throng'd up with cold: my veins are chill,
And have no more of life than may suffice
To give my tongue that heat to ask your help;
Which if you shall refuse, when I am dead,
For that I am a man, pray see me buried.",872,19284
656005,671,"Die quoth-a? Now gods forbid! I have a gown here;
come, put it on; keep thee warm. Now, afore me, a
handsome fellow! Come, thou shalt go home, and
we'll have flesh for holidays, fish for
fasting-days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks,
and thou shalt be welcome.",416,19284
656006,677,"I thank you, sir.",872,19284
656007,678,"Hark you, my friend; you said you could not beg.",987,19284
656008,679,I did but crave.,872,19284
656009,680,"But crave! Then I'll turn craver too, and so I
shall 'scape whipping.",987,19284
656010,682,"Why, are all your beggars whipped, then?",872,19284
656011,683,"O, not all, my friend, not all; for if all your
beggars were whipped, I would wish no better office
than to be beadle. But, master, I'll go draw up the
net.",987,19284
656012,687,[Exit with Third Fisherman],1261,19284
656013,688,[Aside] How well this honest mirth becomes their labour!,872,19284
656014,689,"Hark you, sir, do you know where ye are?",416,19284
656015,690,Not well.,872,19284
656016,691,"Why, I'll tell you: this is called Pentapolis, and
our king the good Simonides.",416,19284
656017,693,"The good King Simonides, do you call him.",872,19284
656018,694,"Ay, sir; and he deserves so to be called for his
peaceable reign and good government.",416,19284
656019,696,"He is a happy king, since he gains from his subjects
the name of good by his government. How far is his
court distant from this shore?",872,19284
656020,699,"Marry, sir, half a day's journey: and I'll tell
you, he hath a fair daughter, and to-morrow is her
birth-day; and there are princes and knights come
from all parts of the world to just and tourney for her love.",416,19284
656021,703,"Were my fortunes equal to my desires, I could wish
to make one there.",872,19284
656022,705,"O, sir, things must be as they may; and what a man
cannot get, he may lawfully deal for--his wife's soul.",416,19284
656023,707,"[Re-enter Second and Third Fishermen, drawing up a net]",1261,19284
656024,708,"Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net,
like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly
come out. Ha! bots on't, 'tis come at last, and
'tis turned to a rusty armour.",987,19284
656025,712,"An armour, friends! I pray you, let me see it.
Thanks, fortune, yet, that, after all my crosses,
Thou givest me somewhat to repair myself;
And though it was mine own, part of my heritage,
Which my dead father did bequeath to me.
With this strict charge, even as he left his life,
'Keep it, my Pericles; it hath been a shield
Twixt me and death;'--and pointed to this brace;--
'For that it saved me, keep it; in like necessity--
The which the gods protect thee from!--may
defend thee.'
It kept where I kept, I so dearly loved it;
Till the rough seas, that spare not any man,
Took it in rage, though calm'd have given't again:
I thank thee for't: my shipwreck now's no ill,
Since I have here my father's gift in's will.",872,19284
656026,728,"What mean you, sir?",416,19284
656027,729,"To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of worth,
For it was sometime target to a king;
I know it by this mark. He loved me dearly,
And for his sake I wish the having of it;
And that you'ld guide me to your sovereign's court,
Where with it I may appear a gentleman;
And if that ever my low fortune's better,
I'll pay your bounties; till then rest your debtor.",872,19284
656028,737,"Why, wilt thou tourney for the lady?",416,19284
656029,738,I'll show the virtue I have borne in arms.,872,19284
656030,739,"Why, do 'e take it, and the gods give thee good on't!",416,19284
656031,740,"Ay, but hark you, my friend; 'twas we that made up
this garment through the rough seams of the waters:
there are certain condolements, certain vails. I
hope, sir, if you thrive, you'll remember from
whence you had it.",987,19284
656032,745,"Believe 't, I will.
By your furtherance I am clothed in steel;
And, spite of all the rapture of the sea,
This jewel holds his building on my arm:
Unto thy value I will mount myself
Upon a courser, whose delightful steps
Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread.
Only, my friend, I yet am unprovided
Of a pair of bases.",872,19284
656033,754,"We'll sure provide: thou shalt have my best gown to
make thee a pair; and I'll bring thee to the court myself.",987,19284
656034,756,"Then honour be but a goal to my will,
This day I'll rise, or else add ill to ill.",872,19284
656035,758,"[Exeunt]
lists. A pavilion by the side of it for the
reception of King, Princess, Lords, &c.",1261,19284
656036,763,"[Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, and Attendants]",1261,19285
656037,764,Are the knights ready to begin the triumph?,1096,19285
656038,765,"They are, my liege;
And stay your coming to present themselves.",438,19285
656039,767,"Return them, we are ready; and our daughter,
In honour of whose birth these triumphs are,
Sits here, like beauty's child, whom nature gat
For men to see, and seeing wonder at.",1096,19285
656040,771,[Exit a Lord],1261,19285
656041,772,"It pleaseth you, my royal father, to express
My commendations great, whose merit's less.",1158,19285
656042,774,"It's fit it should be so; for princes are
A model which heaven makes like to itself:
As jewels lose their glory if neglected,
So princes their renowns if not respected.
'Tis now your honour, daughter, to explain
The labour of each knight in his device.",1096,19285
656043,780,"Which, to preserve mine honour, I'll perform.
[Enter a Knight; he passes over, and his Squire]
presents his shield to the Princess]",1158,19285
656044,783,Who is the first that doth prefer himself?,1096,19285
656045,784,"A knight of Sparta, my renowned father;
And the device he bears upon his shield
Is a black Ethiope reaching at the sun
The word, 'Lux tua vita mihi.'",1158,19285
656046,788,"He loves you well that holds his life of you.
[The Second Knight passes over]
Who is the second that presents himself?",1096,19285
656047,791,"A prince of Macedon, my royal father;
And the device he bears upon his shield
Is an arm'd knight that's conquer'd by a lady;
The motto thus, in Spanish, 'Piu por dulzura que por fuerza.'",1158,19285
656048,795,[The Third Knight passes over],1261,19285
656049,796,And what's the third?,1096,19285
656050,797,"The third of Antioch;
And his device, a wreath of chivalry;
The word, 'Me pompae provexit apex.'",1158,19285
656051,800,[The Fourth Knight passes over],1261,19285
656052,801,What is the fourth?,1096,19285
656053,802,"A burning torch that's turned upside down;
The word, 'Quod me alit, me extinguit.'",1158,19285
656054,804,"Which shows that beauty hath his power and will,
Which can as well inflame as it can kill.",1096,19285
656055,806,[The Fifth Knight passes over],1261,19285
656056,807,"The fifth, an hand environed with clouds,
Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried;
The motto thus, 'Sic spectanda fides.'",1158,19285
656057,810,"[The Sixth Knight, PERICLES, passes over]",1261,19285
656058,811,"And what's
The sixth and last, the which the knight himself
With such a graceful courtesy deliver'd?",1096,19285
656059,814,"He seems to be a stranger; but his present is
A wither'd branch, that's only green at top;
The motto, 'In hac spe vivo.'",1158,19285
656060,817,"A pretty moral;
From the dejected state wherein he is,
He hopes by you his fortunes yet may flourish.",1096,19285
656061,820,"He had need mean better than his outward show
Can any way speak in his just commend;
For by his rusty outside he appears
To have practised more the whipstock than the lance.",438,19285
656062,824,"He well may be a stranger, for he comes
To an honour'd triumph strangely furnished.",1005,19285
656063,826,"And on set purpose let his armour rust
Until this day, to scour it in the dust.",1174,19285
656064,828,"Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
The outward habit by the inward man.
But stay, the knights are coming: we will withdraw
Into the gallery.",1096,19285
656065,832,[Exeunt],1261,19285
656066,833,"[Great shouts within and all cry 'The mean knight!']
[Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, Attendants, and]
Knights, from tilting]",1261,19285
656067,838,"Knights,
To say you're welcome were superfluous.
To place upon the volume of your deeds,
As in a title-page, your worth in arms,
Were more than you expect, or more than's fit,
Since every worth in show commends itself.
Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast:
You are princes and my guests.",1096,19286
656068,846,"But you, my knight and guest;
To whom this wreath of victory I give,
And crown you king of this day's happiness.",1158,19286
656069,849,"'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.",872,19286
656070,850,"Call it by what you will, the day is yours;
And here, I hope, is none that envies it.
In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed,
To make some good, but others to exceed;
And you are her labour'd scholar. Come, queen o'
the feast,--
For, daughter, so you are,--here take your place:
Marshal the rest, as they deserve their grace.",1096,19286
656071,858,We are honour'd much by good Simonides.,640,19286
656072,859,"Your presence glads our days: honour we love;
For who hates honour hates the gods above.",1096,19286
656073,861,"Sir, yonder is your place.",747,19286
656074,862,Some other is more fit.,872,19286
656075,863,"Contend not, sir; for we are gentlemen
That neither in our hearts nor outward eyes
Envy the great nor do the low despise.",429,19286
656076,866,You are right courteous knights.,872,19286
656077,867,"Sit, sir, sit.",1096,19286
656078,868,"By Jove, I wonder, that is king of thoughts,
These cates resist me, she but thought upon.",872,19286
656079,870,"By Juno, that is queen of marriage,
All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury.
Wishing him my meat. Sure, he's a gallant gentleman.",1158,19286
656080,873,"He's but a country gentleman;
Has done no more than other knights have done;
Has broken a staff or so; so let it pass.",1096,19286
656081,876,To me he seems like diamond to glass.,1158,19286
656082,877,"Yon king's to me like to my father's picture,
Which tells me in that glory once he was;
Had princes sit, like stars, about his throne,
And he the sun, for them to reverence;
None that beheld him, but, like lesser lights,
Did vail their crowns to his supremacy:
Where now his son's like a glow-worm in the night,
The which hath fire in darkness, none in light:
Whereby I see that Time's the king of men,
He's both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave.",872,19286
656083,888,"What, are you merry, knights?",1096,19286
656084,889,Who can be other in this royal presence?,640,19286
656085,890,"Here, with a cup that's stored unto the brim,--
As you do love, fill to your mistress' lips,--
We drink this health to you.",1096,19286
656086,893,We thank your grace.,640,19286
656087,894,"Yet pause awhile:
Yon knight doth sit too melancholy,
As if the entertainment in our court
Had not a show might countervail his worth.
Note it not you, Thaisa?",1096,19286
656088,899,"What is it
To me, my father?",1158,19286
656089,901,"O, attend, my daughter:
Princes in this should live like gods above,
Who freely give to every one that comes
To honour them:
And princes not doing so are like to gnats,
Which make a sound, but kill'd are wonder'd at.
Therefore to make his entrance more sweet,
Here, say we drink this standing-bowl of wine to him.",1096,19286
656090,909,"Alas, my father, it befits not me
Unto a stranger knight to be so bold:
He may my proffer take for an offence,
Since men take women's gifts for impudence.",1158,19286
656091,913,"How!
Do as I bid you, or you'll move me else.",1096,19286
656092,915,"[Aside] Now, by the gods, he could not please me better.",1158,19286
656093,916,"And furthermore tell him, we desire to know of him,
Of whence he is, his name and parentage.",1096,19286
656094,918,"The king my father, sir, has drunk to you.",1158,19286
656095,919,I thank him.,872,19286
656096,920,Wishing it so much blood unto your life.,1158,19286
656097,921,"I thank both him and you, and pledge him freely.",872,19286
656098,922,"And further he desires to know of you,
Of whence you are, your name and parentage.",1158,19286
656099,924,"A gentleman of Tyre; my name, Pericles;
My education been in arts and arms;
Who, looking for adventures in the world,
Was by the rough seas reft of ships and men,
And after shipwreck driven upon this shore.",872,19286
656100,929,"He thanks your grace; names himself Pericles,
A gentleman of Tyre,
Who only by misfortune of the seas
Bereft of ships and men, cast on this shore.",1158,19286
656101,933,"Now, by the gods, I pity his misfortune,
And will awake him from his melancholy.
Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles,
And waste the time, which looks for other revels.
Even in your armours, as you are address'd,
Will very well become a soldier's dance.
I will not have excuse, with saying this
Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads,
Since they love men in arms as well as beds.
[The Knights dance]
So, this was well ask'd,'twas so well perform'd.
Come, sir;
Here is a lady that wants breathing too:
And I have heard, you knights of Tyre
Are excellent in making ladies trip;
And that their measures are as excellent.",1096,19286
656102,949,"In those that practise them they are, my lord.",872,19286
656103,950,"O, that's as much as you would be denied
Of your fair courtesy.
[The Knights and Ladies dance]
Unclasp, unclasp:
Thanks, gentlemen, to all; all have done well.
[To PERICLES]
But you the best. Pages and lights, to conduct
These knights unto their several lodgings!
[To PERICLES]
Yours, sir,
We have given order to be next our own.",1096,19286
656104,961,I am at your grace's pleasure.,872,19286
656105,962,"Princes, it is too late to talk of love;
And that's the mark I know you level at:
Therefore each one betake him to his rest;
To-morrow all for speeding do their best.",1096,19286
656106,966,[Exeunt],1261,19286
656107,969,[Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES],1261,19287
656108,970,"No, Escanes, know this of me,
Antiochus from incest lived not free:
For which, the most high gods not minding longer
To withhold the vengeance that they had in store,
Due to this heinous capital offence,
Even in the height and pride of all his glory,
When he was seated in a chariot
Of an inestimable value, and his daughter with him,
A fire from heaven came and shrivell'd up
Their bodies, even to loathing; for they so stunk,
That all those eyes adored them ere their fall
Scorn now their hand should give them burial.",571,19287
656121,1005,"Whose death indeed's the strongest in our censure:
And knowing this kingdom is without a head,--
Like goodly buildings left without a roof
Soon fall to ruin,--your noble self,
That best know how to rule and how to reign,
We thus submit unto,--our sovereign.",1005,19287
656122,1011,"Live, noble Helicane!",92,19287
656123,1012,"For honour's cause, forbear your suffrages:
If that you love Prince Pericles, forbear.
Take I your wish, I leap into the seas,
Where's hourly trouble for a minute's ease.
A twelvemonth longer, let me entreat you to
Forbear the absence of your king:
If in which time expired, he not return,
I shall with aged patience bear your yoke.
But if I cannot win you to this love,
Go search like nobles, like noble subjects,
And in your search spend your adventurous worth;
Whom if you find, and win unto return,
You shall like diamonds sit about his crown.",571,19287
656124,1025,"To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield;
And since Lord Helicane enjoineth us,
We with our travels will endeavour us.",438,19287
656125,1028,"Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands:
When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands.",571,19287
656126,1030,"[Exeunt]
[Enter SIMONIDES, reading a letter, at one door:]
the Knights meet him]",1261,19287
656127,1035,Good morrow to the good Simonides.,429,19288
656128,1036,"Knights, from my daughter this I let you know,
That for this twelvemonth she'll not undertake
A married life.
Her reason to herself is only known,
Which yet from her by no means can I get.",1096,19288
656129,1041,"May we not get access to her, my lord?",999,19288
656130,1042,"'Faith, by no means; she has so strictly tied
Her to her chamber, that 'tis impossible.
One twelve moons more she'll wear Diana's livery;
This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vow'd
And on her virgin honour will not break it.",1096,19288
656131,1047,"Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves.",1171,19288
656132,1048,[Exeunt Knights],1261,19288
656133,1049,"So,
They are well dispatch'd; now to my daughter's letter:
She tells me here, she'd wed the stranger knight,
Or never more to view nor day nor light.
'Tis well, mistress; your choice agrees with mine;
I like that well: nay, how absolute she's in't,
Not minding whether I dislike or no!
Well, I do commend her choice;
And will no longer have it be delay'd.
Soft! here he comes: I must dissemble it.",1096,19288
656134,1059,[Enter PERICLES],1261,19288
656135,1060,All fortune to the good Simonides!,872,19288
656136,1061,"To you as much, sir! I am beholding to you
For your sweet music this last night: I do
Protest my ears were never better fed
With such delightful pleasing harmony.",1096,19288
656137,1065,"It is your grace's pleasure to commend;
Not my desert.",872,19288
656138,1067,"Sir, you are music's master.",1096,19288
656139,1068,"The worst of all her scholars, my good lord.",872,19288
656140,1069,"Let me ask you one thing:
What do you think of my daughter, sir?",1096,19288
656141,1071,A most virtuous princess.,872,19288
656142,1072,"And she is fair too, is she not?",1096,19288
656143,1073,"As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair.",872,19288
656144,1074,"Sir, my daughter thinks very well of you;
Ay, so well, that you must be her master,
And she will be your scholar: therefore look to it.",1096,19288
656145,1077,I am unworthy for her schoolmaster.,872,19288
656146,1078,She thinks not so; peruse this writing else.,1096,19288
656147,1079,"[Aside] What's here?
A letter, that she loves the knight of Tyre!
'Tis the king's subtlety to have my life.
O, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord,
A stranger and distressed gentleman,
That never aim'd so high to love your daughter,
But bent all offices to honour her.",872,19288
656148,1086,"Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art
A villain.",1096,19288
656149,1088,"By the gods, I have not:
Never did thought of mine levy offence;
Nor never did my actions yet commence
A deed might gain her love or your displeasure.",872,19288
656150,1092,"Traitor, thou liest.",1096,19288
656151,1093,Traitor!,872,19288
656152,1094,"Ay, traitor.",1096,19288
656153,1095,"Even in his throat--unless it be the king--
That calls me traitor, I return the lie.",872,19288
656154,1097,"[Aside] Now, by the gods, I do applaud his courage.",1096,19288
656155,1098,"My actions are as noble as my thoughts,
That never relish'd of a base descent.
I came unto your court for honour's cause,
And not to be a rebel to her state;
And he that otherwise accounts of me,
This sword shall prove he's honour's enemy.",872,19288
656156,1104,"No?
Here comes my daughter, she can witness it.",1096,19288
656157,1106,[Enter THAISA],1261,19288
656158,1107,"Then, as you are as virtuous as fair,
Resolve your angry father, if my tongue
Did ere solicit, or my hand subscribe
To any syllable that made love to you.",872,19288
656159,1111,"Why, sir, say if you had,
Who takes offence at that would make me glad?",1158,19288
656160,1113,"Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory?
[Aside]
I am glad on't with all my heart.--
I'll tame you; I'll bring you in subjection.
Will you, not having my consent,
Bestow your love and your affections
Upon a stranger?
[Aside]
who, for aught I know,
May be, nor can I think the contrary,
As great in blood as I myself.--
Therefore hear you, mistress; either frame
Your will to mine,--and you, sir, hear you,
Either be ruled by me, or I will make you--
Man and wife:
Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal it too:
And being join'd, I'll thus your hopes destroy;
And for a further grief,--God give you joy!--
What, are you both pleased?",1096,19288
656161,1132,"Yes, if you love me, sir.",1158,19288
656162,1133,"Even as my life, or blood that fosters it.",872,19288
656163,1134,"What, are you both agreed?",1096,19288
656164,1135,"Yes, if it please your majesty.",185,19288
656165,1136,"It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed;
And then with what haste you can get you to bed.",1096,19288
656166,1138,[Exeunt],1261,19288
656167,1141,[Enter GOWER],1261,19289
656168,1142,"Now sleep y-slaked hath the rout;
No din but snores the house about,
Made louder by the o'er-fed breast
Of this most pompous marriage-feast.
The cat, with eyne of burning coal,
Now crouches fore the mouse's hole;
And crickets sing at the oven's mouth,
E'er the blither for their drouth.
Hymen hath brought the bride to bed.
Where, by the loss of maidenhead,
A babe is moulded. Be attent,
And time that is so briefly spent
With your fine fancies quaintly eche:
What's dumb in show I'll plain with speech.
DUMB SHOW.
[Enter, PERICLES and SIMONIDES at one door, with]
Attendants; a Messenger meets them, kneels, and
gives PERICLES a letter: PERICLES shows it
SIMONIDES; the Lords kneel to him. Then enter
THAISA with child, with LYCHORIDA a nurse. The
KING shows her the letter; she rejoices: she and
PERICLES takes leave of her father, and depart with
LYCHORIDA and their Attendants. Then exeunt
SIMONIDES and the rest]
By many a dern and painful perch
Of Pericles the careful search,
By the four opposing coigns
Which the world together joins,
Is made with all due diligence
That horse and sail and high expense
Can stead the quest. At last from Tyre,
Fame answering the most strange inquire,
To the court of King Simonides
Are letters brought, the tenor these:
Antiochus and his daughter dead;
The men of Tyrus on the head
Of Helicanus would set on
The crown of Tyre, but he will none:
The mutiny he there hastes t' oppress;
Says to 'em, if King Pericles
Come not home in twice six moons,
He, obedient to their dooms,
Will take the crown. The sum of this,
Brought hither to Pentapolis,
Y-ravished the regions round,
And every one with claps can sound,
'Our heir-apparent is a king!
Who dream'd, who thought of such a thing?'
Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre:
His queen with child makes her desire--
Which who shall cross?--along to go:
Omit we all their dole and woe:
Lychorida, her nurse, she takes,
And so to sea. Their vessel shakes
On Neptune's billow; half the flood
Hath their keel cut: but fortune's mood
Varies again; the grisly north
Disgorges such a tempest forth,
That, as a duck for life that dives,
So up and down the poor ship drives:
The lady shrieks, and well-a-near
Does fall in travail with her fear:
And what ensues in this fell storm
Shall for itself itself perform.
I nill relate, action may
Conveniently the rest convey;
Which might not what by me is told.
In your imagination hold
This stage the ship, upon whose deck
The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak.",537,19289
656169,1212,[Exit],1261,19289
656170,1215,"[Enter PERICLES, on shipboard]",1261,19290
656171,1216,"Thou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges,
Which wash both heaven and hell; and thou, that hast
Upon the winds command, bind them in brass,
Having call'd them from the deep! O, still
Thy deafening, dreadful thunders; gently quench
Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida,
How does my queen? Thou stormest venomously;
Wilt thou spit all thyself? The seaman's whistle
Is as a whisper in the ears of death,
Unheard. Lychorida!--Lucina, O
Divinest patroness, and midwife gentle
To those that cry by night, convey thy deity
Aboard our dancing boat; make swift the pangs
Of my queen's travails!
[Enter LYCHORIDA, with an Infant]
Now, Lychorida!",872,19290
656172,1232,"Here is a thing too young for such a place,
Who, if it had conceit, would die, as I
Am like to do: take in your arms this piece
Of your dead queen.",720,19290
656173,1236,"How, how, Lychorida!",872,19290
656174,1237,"Patience, good sir; do not assist the storm.
Here's all that is left living of your queen,
A little daughter: for the sake of it,
Be manly, and take comfort.",720,19290
656175,1241,"O you gods!
Why do you make us love your goodly gifts,
And snatch them straight away? We here below
Recall not what we give, and therein may
Use honour with you.",872,19290
656176,1246,"Patience, good sir,
Even for this charge.",720,19290
656177,1248,"Now, mild may be thy life!
For a more blustrous birth had never babe:
Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for
Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world
That ever was prince's child. Happy what follows!
Thou hast as chiding a nativity
As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make,
To herald thee from the womb: even at the first
Thy loss is more than can thy portage quit,
With all thou canst find here. Now, the good gods
Throw their best eyes upon't!",872,19290
656178,1259,[Enter two Sailors],1261,19290
656179,1260,"What courage, sir? God save you!",454,19290
656180,1261,"Courage enough: I do not fear the flaw;
It hath done to me the worst. Yet, for the love
Of this poor infant, this fresh-new sea-farer,
I would it would be quiet.",872,19290
656181,1265,"Slack the bolins there! Thou wilt not, wilt thou?
Blow, and split thyself.",454,19290
656182,1267,"But sea-room, an the brine and cloudy billow kiss
the moon, I care not.",1023,19290
656183,1269,"Sir, your queen must overboard: the sea works high,
the wind is loud, and will not lie till the ship be
cleared of the dead.",454,19290
656184,1272,That's your superstition.,872,19290
656185,1273,"Pardon us, sir; with us at sea it hath been still
observed: and we are strong in custom. Therefore
briefly yield her; for she must overboard straight.",454,19290
656186,1276,As you think meet. Most wretched queen!,872,19290
656187,1277,"Here she lies, sir.",720,19290
656188,1278,"A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear;
No light, no fire: the unfriendly elements
Forgot thee utterly: nor have I time
To give thee hallow'd to thy grave, but straight
Must cast thee, scarcely coffin'd, in the ooze;
Where, for a monument upon thy bones,
And e'er-remaining lamps, the belching whale
And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse,
Lying with simple shells. O Lychorida,
Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper,
My casket and my jewels; and bid Nicander
Bring me the satin coffer: lay the babe
Upon the pillow: hie thee, whiles I say
A priestly farewell to her: suddenly, woman.",872,19290
656189,1292,[Exit LYCHORIDA],1261,19290
656190,1293,"Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulked
and bitumed ready.",1023,19290
656191,1295,"I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this?",872,19290
656192,1296,We are near Tarsus.,1023,19290
656193,1297,"Thither, gentle mariner.
Alter thy course for Tyre. When canst thou reach it?",872,19290
656194,1299,"By break of day, if the wind cease.",1023,19290
656195,1300,"O, make for Tarsus!
There will I visit Cleon, for the babe
Cannot hold out to Tyrus: there I'll leave it
At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner:
I'll bring the body presently.",872,19290
656196,1305,"[Exeunt]
[Enter CERIMON, with a Servant, and some Persons who]
have been shipwrecked]",1261,19290
656197,1310,"Philemon, ho!",235,19291
656198,1311,[Enter PHILEMON],1261,19291
656199,1312,Doth my lord call?,881,19291
656200,1313,"Get fire and meat for these poor men:
'T has been a turbulent and stormy night.",235,19291
656201,1315,"I have been in many; but such a night as this,
Till now, I ne'er endured.",1071,19291
656202,1317,"Your master will be dead ere you return;
There's nothing can be minister'd to nature
That can recover him.
[To PHILEMON]
Give this to the 'pothecary,
And tell me how it works.",235,19291
656203,1323,[Exeunt all but CERIMON],1261,19291
656204,1324,[Enter two Gentlemen],1261,19291
656205,1325,Good morrow.,425,19291
656206,1326,Good morrow to your lordship.,995,19291
656207,1327,"Gentlemen,
Why do you stir so early?",235,19291
656208,1329,"Sir,
Our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea,
Shook as the earth did quake;
The very principals did seem to rend,
And all-to topple: pure surprise and fear
Made me to quit the house.",425,19291
656209,1335,"That is the cause we trouble you so early;
'Tis not our husbandry.",995,19291
656210,1337,"O, you say well.",235,19291
656211,1338,"But I much marvel that your lordship, having
Rich tire about you, should at these early hours
Shake off the golden slumber of repose.
'Tis most strange,
Nature should be so conversant with pain,
Being thereto not compell'd.",425,19291
656212,1344,"I hold it ever,
Virtue and cunning were endowments greater
Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs
May the two latter darken and expend;
But immortality attends the former.
Making a man a god. 'Tis known, I ever
Have studied physic, through which secret art,
By turning o'er authorities, I have,
Together with my practise, made familiar
To me and to my aid the blest infusions
That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones;
And I can speak of the disturbances
That nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me
A more content in course of true delight
Than to be thirsty after tottering honour,
Or tie my treasure up in silken bags,
To please the fool and death.",235,19291
656213,1361,"Your honour has through Ephesus pour'd forth
Your charity, and hundreds call themselves
Your creatures, who by you have been restored:
And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even
Your purse, still open, hath built Lord Cerimon
Such strong renown as time shall ne'er decay.",995,19291
656214,1367,[Enter two or three Servants with a chest],1261,19291
656215,1368,So; lift there.,461,19291
656216,1369,What is that?,235,19291
656217,1370,"Sir, even now
Did the sea toss upon our shore this chest:
'Tis of some wreck.",461,19291
656218,1373,"Set 't down, let's look upon't.",235,19291
656219,1374,"'Tis like a coffin, sir.",995,19291
656220,1375,"Whate'er it be,
'Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight:
If the sea's stomach be o'ercharged with gold,
'Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us.",235,19291
656221,1379,"'Tis so, my lord.",995,19291
656222,1380,"How close 'tis caulk'd and bitumed!
Did the sea cast it up?",235,19291
656223,1382,"I never saw so huge a billow, sir,
As toss'd it upon shore.",461,19291
656224,1384,"Wrench it open;
Soft! it smells most sweetly in my sense.",235,19291
656225,1386,A delicate odour.,995,19291
656226,1387,"As ever hit my nostril. So, up with it.
O you most potent gods! what's here? a corse!",235,19291
656227,1389,Most strange!,425,19291
656228,1390,"Shrouded in cloth of state; balm'd and entreasured
With full bags of spices! A passport too!
Apollo, perfect me in the characters!
[Reads from a scroll]
'Here I give to understand,
If e'er this coffin drive a-land,
I, King Pericles, have lost
This queen, worth all our mundane cost.
Who finds her, give her burying;
She was the daughter of a king:
Besides this treasure for a fee,
The gods requite his charity!'
If thou livest, Pericles, thou hast a heart
That even cracks for woe! This chanced tonight.",235,19291
656229,1404,"Most likely, sir.",995,19291
656230,1405,"Nay, certainly to-night;
For look how fresh she looks! They were too rough
That threw her in the sea. Make a fire within:
Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet.
[Exit a Servant]
Death may usurp on nature many hours,
And yet the fire of life kindle again
The o'erpress'd spirits. I heard of an Egyptian
That had nine hours lien dead,
Who was by good appliance recovered.
[Re-enter a Servant, with boxes, napkins, and fire]
Well said, well said; the fire and cloths.
The rough and woeful music that we have,
Cause it to sound, beseech you.
The viol once more: how thou stirr'st, thou block!
The music there!--I pray you, give her air.
Gentlemen.
This queen will live: nature awakes; a warmth
Breathes out of her: she hath not been entranced
Above five hours: see how she gins to blow
Into life's flower again!",235,19291
656231,1426,"The heavens,
Through you, increase our wonder and set up
Your fame forever.",425,19291
656232,1429,"She is alive; behold,
Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels
Which Pericles hath lost,
Begin to part their fringes of bright gold;
The diamonds of a most praised water
Do appear, to make the world twice rich. Live,
And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature,
Rare as you seem to be.",235,19291
656233,1437,[She moves],1261,19291
656234,1438,"O dear Diana,
Where am I? Where's my lord? What world is this?",1158,19291
656235,1440,Is not this strange?,995,19291
656236,1441,Most rare.,425,19291
656237,1442,"Hush, my gentle neighbours!
Lend me your hands; to the next chamber bear her.
Get linen: now this matter must be look'd to,
For her relapse is mortal. Come, come;
And AEsculapius guide us!",235,19291
656238,1447,"[Exeunt, carrying her away]
[Enter PERICLES, CLEON, DIONYZA, and LYCHORIDA with]
MARINA in her arms]",1261,19291
656239,1452,"Most honour'd Cleon, I must needs be gone;
My twelve months are expired, and Tyrus stands
In a litigious peace. You, and your lady,
Take from my heart all thankfulness! The gods
Make up the rest upon you!",872,19292
656240,1457,"Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you mortally,
Yet glance full wanderingly on us.",261,19292
656241,1459,"O your sweet queen!
That the strict fates had pleased you had brought her hither,
To have bless'd mine eyes with her!",318,19292
656242,1462,"We cannot but obey
The powers above us. Could I rage and roar
As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end
Must be as 'tis. My gentle babe Marina, whom,
For she was born at sea, I have named so, here
I charge your charity withal, leaving her
The infant of your care; beseeching you
To give her princely training, that she may be
Manner'd as she is born.",872,19292
656243,1471,"Fear not, my lord, but think
Your grace, that fed my country with your corn,
For which the people's prayers still fall upon you,
Must in your child be thought on. If neglection
Should therein make me vile, the common body,
By you relieved, would force me to my duty:
But if to that my nature need a spur,
The gods revenge it upon me and mine,
To the end of generation!",261,19292
656244,1480,"I believe you;
Your honour and your goodness teach me to't,
Without your vows. Till she be married, madam,
By bright Diana, whom we honour, all
Unscissor'd shall this hair of mine remain,
Though I show ill in't. So I take my leave.
Good madam, make me blessed in your care
In bringing up my child.",872,19292
656245,1488,"I have one myself,
Who shall not be more dear to my respect
Than yours, my lord.",318,19292
656246,1491,"Madam, my thanks and prayers.",872,19292
656247,1492,"We'll bring your grace e'en to the edge o' the shore,
Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune and
The gentlest winds of heaven.",261,19292
656248,1495,"I will embrace
Your offer. Come, dearest madam. O, no tears,
Lychorida, no tears:
Look to your little mistress, on whose grace
You may depend hereafter. Come, my lord.",872,19292
656249,1500,[Exeunt],1261,19292
656250,1503,[Enter CERIMON and THAISA],1261,19293
656251,1504,"Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels,
Lay with you in your coffer: which are now
At your command. Know you the character?",235,19293
656252,1507,"It is my lord's.
That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember,
Even on my eaning time; but whether there
Deliver'd, by the holy gods,
I cannot rightly say. But since King Pericles,
My wedded lord, I ne'er shall see again,
A vestal livery will I take me to,
And never more have joy.",1158,19293
656253,1515,"Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak,
Diana's temple is not distant far,
Where you may abide till your date expire.
Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine
Shall there attend you.",235,19293
656254,1520,"My recompense is thanks, that's all;
Yet my good will is great, though the gift small.",1158,19293
656255,1522,[Exeunt],1261,19293
656256,1525,[Enter GOWER],1261,19294
656257,1526,"Imagine Pericles arrived at Tyre,
Welcomed and settled to his own desire.
His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus,
Unto Diana there a votaress.
Now to Marina bend your mind,
Whom our fast-growing scene must find
At Tarsus, and by Cleon train'd
In music, letters; who hath gain'd
Of education all the grace,
Which makes her both the heart and place
Of general wonder. But, alack,
That monster envy, oft the wrack
Of earned praise, Marina's life
Seeks to take off by treason's knife.
And in this kind hath our Cleon
One daughter, and a wench full grown,
Even ripe for marriage-rite; this maid
Hight Philoten: and it is said
For certain in our story, she
Would ever with Marina be:
Be't when she weaved the sleided silk
With fingers long, small, white as milk;
Or when she would with sharp needle wound
The cambric, which she made more sound
By hurting it; or when to the lute
She sung, and made the night-bird mute,
That still records with moan; or when
She would with rich and constant pen
Vail to her mistress Dian; still
This Philoten contends in skill
With absolute Marina: so
With the dove of Paphos might the crow
Vie feathers white. Marina gets
All praises, which are paid as debts,
And not as given. This so darks
In Philoten all graceful marks,
That Cleon's wife, with envy rare,
A present murderer does prepare
For good Marina, that her daughter
Might stand peerless by this slaughter.
The sooner her vile thoughts to stead,
Lychorida, our nurse, is dead:
And cursed Dionyza hath
The pregnant instrument of wrath
Prest for this blow. The unborn event
I do commend to your content:
Only I carry winged time
Post on the lame feet of my rhyme;
Which never could I so convey,
Unless your thoughts went on my way.
Dionyza does appear,
With Leonine, a murderer.",537,19294
656258,1578,[Exit],1261,19294
656259,1581,[Enter DIONYZA and LEONINE],1261,19295
656260,1582,"Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do't:
'Tis but a blow, which never shall be known.
Thou canst not do a thing in the world so soon,
To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience,
Which is but cold, inflaming love i' thy bosom,
Inflame too nicely; nor let pity, which
Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be
A soldier to thy purpose.",318,19295
656261,1590,I will do't; but yet she is a goodly creature.,666,19295
656262,1591,"The fitter, then, the gods should have her. Here
she comes weeping for her only mistress' death.
Thou art resolved?",318,19295
656263,1594,I am resolved.,666,19295
656264,1595,"[Enter MARINA, with a basket of flowers]",1261,19295
656265,1596,"No, I will rob Tellus of her weed,
To strew thy green with flowers: the yellows, blues,
The purple violets, and marigolds,
Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave,
While summer-days do last. Ay me! poor maid,
Born in a tempest, when my mother died,
This world to me is like a lasting storm,
Whirring me from my friends.",742,19295
656266,1604,"How now, Marina! why do you keep alone?
How chance my daughter is not with you? Do not
Consume your blood with sorrowing: you have
A nurse of me. Lord, how your favour's changed
With this unprofitable woe!
Come, give me your flowers, ere the sea mar it.
Walk with Leonine; the air is quick there,
And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. Come,
Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her.",318,19295
656267,1613,"No, I pray you;
I'll not bereave you of your servant.",742,19295
656268,1615,"Come, come;
I love the king your father, and yourself,
With more than foreign heart. We every day
Expect him here: when he shall come and find
Our paragon to all reports thus blasted,
He will repent the breadth of his great voyage;
Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken
No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you,
Walk, and be cheerful once again; reserve
That excellent complexion, which did steal
The eyes of young and old. Care not for me
I can go home alone.",318,19295
656269,1627,"Well, I will go;
But yet I have no desire to it.",742,19295
656270,1629,"Come, come, I know 'tis good for you.
Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least:
Remember what I have said.",318,19295
656271,1632,"I warrant you, madam.",666,19295
656272,1633,"I'll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while:
Pray, walk softly, do not heat your blood:
What! I must have a care of you.",318,19295
656273,1636,"My thanks, sweet madam.
[Exit DIONYZA]
Is this wind westerly that blows?",742,19295
656274,1639,South-west.,666,19295
656275,1640,"When I was born, the wind was north.",742,19295
656276,1641,Was't so?,666,19295
656277,1642,"My father, as nurse said, did never fear,
But cried 'Good seaman!' to the sailors, galling
His kingly hands, haling ropes;
And, clasping to the mast, endured a sea
That almost burst the deck.",742,19295
656278,1647,When was this?,666,19295
656279,1648,"When I was born:
Never was waves nor wind more violent;
And from the ladder-tackle washes off
A canvas-climber. 'Ha!' says one, 'wilt out?'
And with a dropping industry they skip
From stem to stern: the boatswain whistles, and
The master calls, and trebles their confusion.",742,19295
656280,1655,"Come, say your prayers.",666,19295
656281,1656,What mean you?,742,19295
656282,1657,"If you require a little space for prayer,
I grant it: pray; but be not tedious,
For the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn
To do my work with haste.",666,19295
656283,1661,Why will you kill me?,742,19295
656284,1662,To satisfy my lady.,666,19295
656285,1663,"Why would she have me kill'd?
Now, as I can remember, by my troth,
I never did her hurt in all my life:
I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn
To any living creature: believe me, la,
I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly:
I trod upon a worm against my will,
But I wept for it. How have I offended,
Wherein my death might yield her any profit,
Or my life imply her any danger?",742,19295
656286,1673,"My commission
Is not to reason of the deed, but do it.",666,19295
656287,1675,"You will not do't for all the world, I hope.
You are well favour'd, and your looks foreshow
You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately,
When you caught hurt in parting two that fought:
Good sooth, it show'd well in you: do so now:
Your lady seeks my life; come you between,
And save poor me, the weaker.",742,19295
656288,1682,"I am sworn,
And will dispatch.",666,19295
656289,1684,[He seizes her],1261,19295
656290,1685,[Enter Pirates],1261,19295
656291,1686,"Hold, villain!",451,19295
656292,1687,[LEONINE runs away],1261,19295
656293,1688,A prize! a prize!,1020,19295
656294,1689,"Half-part, mates, half-part.
Come, let's have her aboard suddenly.",1180,19295
656295,1691,[Exeunt Pirates with MARINA],1261,19295
656296,1692,[Re-enter LEONINE],1261,19295
656297,1693,"These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes;
And they have seized Marina. Let her go:
There's no hope she will return. I'll swear
she's dead,
And thrown into the sea. But I'll see further:
Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her,
Not carry her aboard. If she remain,
Whom they have ravish'd must by me be slain.",666,19295
656298,1701,[Exit],1261,19295
656299,1704,"[Enter Pandar, Bawd, and BOULT]",1261,19296
656300,1705,Boult!,857,19296
656301,1706,Sir?,190,19296
656302,1707,"Search the market narrowly; Mytilene is full of
gallants. We lost too much money this mart by being
too wenchless.",857,19296
656303,1710,"We were never so much out of creatures. We have but
poor three, and they can do no more than they can
do; and they with continual action are even as good as rotten.",152,19296
656304,1713,"Therefore let's have fresh ones, whate'er we pay for
them. If there be not a conscience to be used in
every trade, we shall never prosper.",857,19296
656305,1716,"Thou sayest true: 'tis not our bringing up of poor
bastards,--as, I think, I have brought up some eleven--",152,19296
656306,1718,"Ay, to eleven; and brought them down again. But
shall I search the market?",190,19296
656307,1720,"What else, man? The stuff we have, a strong wind
will blow it to pieces, they are so pitifully sodden.",152,19296
656308,1722,"Thou sayest true; they're too unwholesome, o'
conscience. The poor Transylvanian is dead, that
lay with the little baggage.",857,19296
656309,1725,"Ay, she quickly pooped him; she made him roast-meat
for worms. But I'll go search the market.",190,19296
656310,1727,[Exit],1261,19296
656311,1728,"Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty a
proportion to live quietly, and so give over.",857,19296
656312,1730,"Why to give over, I pray you? is it a shame to get
when we are old?",152,19296
656313,1732,"O, our credit comes not in like the commodity, nor
the commodity wages not with the danger: therefore,
if in our youths we could pick up some pretty
estate, 'twere not amiss to keep our door hatched.
Besides, the sore terms we stand upon with the gods
will be strong with us for giving over.",857,19296
656314,1738,"Come, other sorts offend as well as we.",152,19296
656315,1739,"As well as we! ay, and better too; we offend worse.
Neither is our profession any trade; it's no
calling. But here comes Boult.",857,19296
656316,1742,"[Re-enter BOULT, with the Pirates and MARINA]",1261,19296
656317,1743,"[To MARINA] Come your ways. My masters, you say
she's a virgin?",190,19296
656318,1745,"O, sir, we doubt it not.",451,19296
656319,1746,"Master, I have gone through for this piece, you see:
if you like her, so; if not, I have lost my earnest.",190,19296
656320,1748,"Boult, has she any qualities?",152,19296
656321,1749,"She has a good face, speaks well, and has excellent
good clothes: there's no further necessity of
qualities can make her be refused.",190,19296
656322,1752,"What's her price, Boult?",152,19296
656323,1753,I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces.,190,19296
656324,1754,"Well, follow me, my masters, you shall have your
money presently. Wife, take her in; instruct her
what she has to do, that she may not be raw in her
entertainment.",857,19296
656325,1758,[Exeunt Pandar and Pirates],1261,19296
656326,1759,"Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her
hair, complexion, height, age, with warrant of her
virginity; and cry 'He that will give most shall
have her first.' Such a maidenhead were no cheap
thing, if men were as they have been. Get this done
as I command you.",152,19296
656327,1765,Performance shall follow.,190,19296
656328,1766,[Exit],1261,19296
656329,1767,"Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow!
He should have struck, not spoke; or that these pirates,
Not enough barbarous, had not o'erboard thrown me
For to seek my mother!",742,19296
656330,1771,"Why lament you, pretty one?",152,19296
656331,1772,That I am pretty.,742,19296
656332,1773,"Come, the gods have done their part in you.",152,19296
656333,1774,I accuse them not.,742,19296
656334,1775,"You are light into my hands, where you are like to live.",152,19296
656335,1776,"The more my fault
To scape his hands where I was like to die.",742,19296
656336,1778,"Ay, and you shall live in pleasure.",152,19296
656337,1779,No.,742,19296
656338,1780,"Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen of all
fashions: you shall fare well; you shall have the
difference of all complexions. What! do you stop your ears?",152,19296
656339,1783,Are you a woman?,742,19296
656340,1784,"What would you have me be, an I be not a woman?",152,19296
656341,1785,"An honest woman, or not a woman.",742,19296
656342,1786,"Marry, whip thee, gosling: I think I shall have
something to do with you. Come, you're a young
foolish sapling, and must be bowed as I would have
you.",152,19296
656343,1790,The gods defend me!,742,19296
656344,1791,"If it please the gods to defend you by men, then men
must comfort you, men must feed you, men must stir
you up. Boult's returned.
[Re-enter BOULT]
Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market?",152,19296
656345,1796,"I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs;
I have drawn her picture with my voice.",190,19296
656346,1798,"And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the
inclination of the people, especially of the younger sort?",152,19296
656347,1800,"'Faith, they listened to me as they would have
hearkened to their father's testament. There was a
Spaniard's mouth so watered, that he went to bed to
her very description.",190,19296
656348,1804,We shall have him here to-morrow with his best ruff on.,152,19296
656349,1805,"To-night, to-night. But, mistress, do you know the
French knight that cowers i' the hams?",190,19296
656350,1807,"Who, Monsieur Veroles?",152,19296
656351,1808,"Ay, he: he offered to cut a caper at the
proclamation; but he made a groan at it, and swore
he would see her to-morrow.",190,19296
656352,1811,"Well, well; as for him, he brought his disease
hither: here he does but repair it. I know he will
come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns in the
sun.",152,19296
656353,1815,"Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we
should lodge them with this sign.",190,19296
656354,1817,"[To MARINA] Pray you, come hither awhile. You
have fortunes coming upon you. Mark me: you must
seem to do that fearfully which you commit
willingly, despise profit where you have most gain.
To weep that you live as ye do makes pity in your
lovers: seldom but that pity begets you a good
opinion, and that opinion a mere profit.",152,19296
656355,1824,I understand you not.,742,19296
656356,1825,"O, take her home, mistress, take her home: these
blushes of hers must be quenched with some present practise.",190,19296
656357,1827,"Thou sayest true, i' faith, so they must; for your
bride goes to that with shame which is her way to go
with warrant.",152,19296
656358,1830,"'Faith, some do, and some do not. But, mistress, if
I have bargained for the joint,--",190,19296
656359,1832,Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit.,152,19296
656360,1833,I may so.,190,19296
656361,1834,"Who should deny it? Come, young one, I like the
manner of your garments well.",152,19296
656362,1836,"Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed yet.",190,19296
656363,1837,"Boult, spend thou that in the town: report what a
sojourner we have; you'll lose nothing by custom.
When nature flamed this piece, she meant thee a good
turn; therefore say what a paragon she is, and thou
hast the harvest out of thine own report.",152,19296
656364,1842,"I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake
the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty stir up
the lewdly-inclined. I'll bring home some to-night.",190,19296
656365,1845,Come your ways; follow me.,152,19296
656366,1846,"If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep,
Untied I still my virgin knot will keep.
Diana, aid my purpose!",742,19296
656367,1849,"What have we to do with Diana? Pray you, will you go with us?",152,19296
656368,1850,[Exeunt],1261,19296
656369,1853,[Enter CLEON and DIONYZA],1261,19297
656370,1854,"Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone?",318,19297
656371,1855,"O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter
The sun and moon ne'er look'd upon!",261,19297
656372,1857,"I think
You'll turn a child again.",318,19297
656373,1859,"Were I chief lord of all this spacious world,
I'ld give it to undo the deed. O lady,
Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess
To equal any single crown o' the earth
I' the justice of compare! O villain Leonine!
Whom thou hast poison'd too:
If thou hadst drunk to him, 't had been a kindness
Becoming well thy fact: what canst thou say
When noble Pericles shall demand his child?",261,19297
656374,1868,"That she is dead. Nurses are not the fates,
To foster it, nor ever to preserve.
She died at night; I'll say so. Who can cross it?
Unless you play the pious innocent,
And for an honest attribute cry out
'She died by foul play.'",318,19297
656375,1874,"O, go to. Well, well,
Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods
Do like this worst.",261,19297
656376,1877,"Be one of those that think
The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence,
And open this to Pericles. I do shame
To think of what a noble strain you are,
And of how coward a spirit.",318,19297
656377,1882,"To such proceeding
Who ever but his approbation added,
Though not his prime consent, he did not flow
From honourable sources.",261,19297
656378,1886,"Be it so, then:
Yet none does know, but you, how she came dead,
Nor none can know, Leonine being gone.
She did disdain my child, and stood between
Her and her fortunes: none would look on her,
But cast their gazes on Marina's face;
Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin
Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through;
And though you call my course unnatural,
You not your child well loving, yet I find
It greets me as an enterprise of kindness
Perform'd to your sole daughter.",318,19297
656379,1898,Heavens forgive it!,261,19297
656380,1899,"And as for Pericles,
What should he say? We wept after her hearse,
And yet we mourn: her monument
Is almost finish'd, and her epitaphs
In glittering golden characters express
A general praise to her, and care in us
At whose expense 'tis done.",318,19297
656381,1906,"Thou art like the harpy,
Which, to betray, dost, with thine angel's face,
Seize with thine eagle's talons.",261,19297
656382,1909,"You are like one that superstitiously
Doth swear to the gods that winter kills the flies:
But yet I know you'll do as I advise.",318,19297
656383,1912,[Exeunt],1261,19297
656384,1915,"[Enter GOWER, before the monument of MARINA at Tarsus]",1261,19298
656385,1916,"Thus time we waste, and longest leagues make short;
Sail seas in cockles, have an wish but for't;
Making, to take your imagination,
From bourn to bourn, region to region.
By you being pardon'd, we commit no crime
To use one language in each several clime
Where our scenes seem to live. I do beseech you
To learn of me, who stand i' the gaps to teach you,
The stages of our story. Pericles
Is now again thwarting the wayward seas,
Attended on by many a lord and knight.
To see his daughter, all his life's delight.
Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late
Advanced in time to great and high estate,
Is left to govern. Bear you it in mind,
Old Helicanus goes along behind.
Well-sailing ships and bounteous winds have brought
This king to Tarsus,--think his pilot thought;
So with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on,--
To fetch his daughter home, who first is gone.
Like motes and shadows see them move awhile;
Your ears unto your eyes I'll reconcile.
DUMB SHOW.
[Enter PERICLES, at one door, with all his train;]
CLEON and DIONYZA, at the other. CLEON shows
PERICLES the tomb; whereat PERICLES makes
lamentation, puts on sackcloth, and in a mighty
passion departs. Then exeunt CLEON and DIONYZA]
See how belief may suffer by foul show!
This borrow'd passion stands for true old woe;
And Pericles, in sorrow all devour'd,
With sighs shot through, and biggest tears
o'ershower'd,
Leaves Tarsus and again embarks. He swears
Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs:
He puts on sackcloth, and to sea. He bears
A tempest, which his mortal vessel tears,
And yet he rides it out. Now please you wit.
The epitaph is for Marina writ
By wicked Dionyza.
[Reads the inscription on MARINA's monument]
'The fairest, sweet'st, and best lies here,
Who wither'd in her spring of year.
She was of Tyrus the king's daughter,
On whom foul death hath made this slaughter;
Marina was she call'd; and at her birth,
Thetis, being proud, swallow'd some part o' the earth:
Therefore the earth, fearing to be o'erflow'd,
Hath Thetis' birth-child on the heavens bestow'd:
Wherefore she does, and swears she'll never stint,
Make raging battery upon shores of flint.'
No visor does become black villany
So well as soft and tender flattery.
Let Pericles believe his daughter's dead,
And bear his courses to be ordered
By Lady Fortune; while our scene must play
His daughter's woe and heavy well-a-day
In her unholy service. Patience, then,
And think you now are all in Mytilene.",537,19298
656386,1975,[Exit],1261,19298
656387,1978,"[Enter, from the brothel, two Gentlemen]",1261,19299
656388,1979,Did you ever hear the like?,425,19299
656389,1980,"No, nor never shall do in such a place as this, she
being once gone.",995,19299
656390,1982,"But to have divinity preached there! did you ever
dream of such a thing?",425,19299
656391,1984,"No, no. Come, I am for no more bawdy-houses:
shall's go hear the vestals sing?",995,19299
656392,1986,"I'll do any thing now that is virtuous; but I
am out of the road of rutting for ever.",425,19299
656393,1988,[Exeunt],1261,19299
656394,1991,"[Enter Pandar, Bawd, and BOULT]",1261,19300
656395,1992,"Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her she
had ne'er come here.",857,19300
656396,1994,"Fie, fie upon her! she's able to freeze the god
Priapus, and undo a whole generation. We must
either get her ravished, or be rid of her. When she
should do for clients her fitment, and do me the
kindness of our profession, she has me her quirks,
her reasons, her master reasons, her prayers, her
knees; that she would make a puritan of the devil,
if he should cheapen a kiss of her.",152,19300
656397,2002,"'Faith, I must ravish her, or she'll disfurnish us
of all our cavaliers, and make our swearers priests.",190,19300
656398,2004,"Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for me!",857,19300
656399,2005,"'Faith, there's no way to be rid on't but by the
way to the pox. Here comes the Lord Lysimachus disguised.",152,19300
656400,2007,"We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish
baggage would but give way to customers.",190,19300
656401,2009,[Enter LYSIMACHUS],1261,19300
656402,2010,How now! How a dozen of virginities?,723,19300
656403,2011,"Now, the gods to-bless your honour!",152,19300
656404,2012,I am glad to see your honour in good health.,190,19300
656405,2013,"You may so; 'tis the better for you that your
resorters stand upon sound legs. How now!
wholesome iniquity have you that a man may deal
withal, and defy the surgeon?",723,19300
656406,2017,"We have here one, sir, if she would--but there never
came her like in Mytilene.",152,19300
656407,2019,"If she'ld do the deed of darkness, thou wouldst say.",723,19300
656408,2020,Your honour knows what 'tis to say well enough.,152,19300
656409,2021,"Well, call forth, call forth.",723,19300
656410,2022,"For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you shall
see a rose; and she were a rose indeed, if she had but--",190,19300
656411,2024,"What, prithee?",723,19300
656412,2025,"O, sir, I can be modest.",190,19300
656413,2026,"That dignifies the renown of a bawd, no less than it
gives a good report to a number to be chaste.",723,19300
656414,2028,[Exit BOULT],1261,19300
656415,2029,"Here comes that which grows to the stalk; never
plucked yet, I can assure you.
[Re-enter BOULT with MARINA]
Is she not a fair creature?",152,19300
656416,2033,"'Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at sea.
Well, there's for you: leave us.",723,19300
656417,2035,"I beseech your honour, give me leave: a word, and
I'll have done presently.",152,19300
656418,2037,"I beseech you, do.",723,19300
656419,2038,"[To MARINA] First, I would have you note, this is
an honourable man.",152,19300
656420,2040,"I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note him.",742,19300
656421,2041,"Next, he's the governor of this country, and a man
whom I am bound to.",152,19300
656422,2043,"If he govern the country, you are bound to him
indeed; but how honourable he is in that, I know not.",742,19300
656423,2045,"Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, will
you use him kindly? He will line your apron with gold.",152,19300
656424,2047,"What he will do graciously, I will thankfully receive.",742,19300
656425,2048,Ha' you done?,723,19300
656426,2049,"My lord, she's not paced yet: you must take some
pains to work her to your manage. Come, we will
leave his honour and her together. Go thy ways.",152,19300
656427,2052,"[Exeunt Bawd, Pandar, and BOULT]",1261,19300
656428,2053,"Now, pretty one, how long have you been at this trade?",723,19300
656429,2054,"What trade, sir?",742,19300
656430,2055,"Why, I cannot name't but I shall offend.",723,19300
656431,2056,I cannot be offended with my trade. Please you to name it.,742,19300
656432,2057,How long have you been of this profession?,723,19300
656433,2058,E'er since I can remember.,742,19300
656434,2059,"Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at
five or at seven?",723,19300
656435,2061,"Earlier too, sir, if now I be one.",742,19300
656436,2062,"Why, the house you dwell in proclaims you to be a
creature of sale.",723,19300
656437,2064,"Do you know this house to be a place of such resort,
and will come into 't? I hear say you are of
honourable parts, and are the governor of this place.",742,19300
656438,2067,"Why, hath your principal made known unto you who I am?",723,19300
656439,2068,Who is my principal?,742,19300
656440,2069,"Why, your herb-woman; she that sets seeds and roots
of shame and iniquity. O, you have heard something
of my power, and so stand aloof for more serious
wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my
authority shall not see thee, or else look friendly
upon thee. Come, bring me to some private place:
come, come.",723,19300
656441,2076,"If you were born to honour, show it now;
If put upon you, make the judgment good
That thought you worthy of it.",742,19300
656442,2079,How's this? how's this? Some more; be sage.,723,19300
656443,2080,"For me,
That am a maid, though most ungentle fortune
Have placed me in this sty, where, since I came,
Diseases have been sold dearer than physic,
O, that the gods
Would set me free from this unhallow'd place,
Though they did change me to the meanest bird
That flies i' the purer air!",742,19300
656444,2088,"I did not think
Thou couldst have spoke so well; ne'er dream'd thou couldst.
Had I brought hither a corrupted mind,
Thy speech had alter'd it. Hold, here's gold for thee:
Persever in that clear way thou goest,
And the gods strengthen thee!",723,19300
656445,2094,The good gods preserve you!,742,19300
656446,2095,"For me, be you thoughten
That I came with no ill intent; for to me
The very doors and windows savour vilely.
Fare thee well. Thou art a piece of virtue, and
I doubt not but thy training hath been noble.
Hold, here's more gold for thee.
A curse upon him, die he like a thief,
That robs thee of thy goodness! If thou dost
Hear from me, it shall be for thy good.",723,19300
656447,2104,[Re-enter BOULT],1261,19300
656448,2105,"I beseech your honour, one piece for me.",190,19300
656449,2106,"Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper!
Your house, but for this virgin that doth prop it,
Would sink and overwhelm you. Away!",723,19300
656450,2109,[Exit],1261,19300
656451,2110,"How's this? We must take another course with you.
If your peevish chastity, which is not worth a
breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope,
shall undo a whole household, let me be gelded like
a spaniel. Come your ways.",190,19300
656452,2115,Whither would you have me?,742,19300
656453,2116,"I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common
hangman shall execute it. Come your ways. We'll
have no more gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I say.",190,19300
656454,2119,[Re-enter Bawd],1261,19300
656455,2120,How now! what's the matter?,152,19300
656456,2121,"Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken holy
words to the Lord Lysimachus.",190,19300
656457,2123,O abominable!,152,19300
656458,2124,"She makes our profession as it were to stink afore
the face of the gods.",190,19300
656459,2126,"Marry, hang her up for ever!",152,19300
656460,2127,"The nobleman would have dealt with her like a
nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a
snowball; saying his prayers too.",190,19300
656461,2130,"Boult, take her away; use her at thy pleasure:
crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest malleable.",152,19300
656462,2132,"An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she
is, she shall be ploughed.",190,19300
656463,2134,"Hark, hark, you gods!",742,19300
656464,2135,"She conjures: away with her! Would she had never
come within my doors! Marry, hang you! She's born
to undo us. Will you not go the way of women-kind?
Marry, come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays!",152,19300
656465,2139,[Exit],1261,19300
656466,2140,"Come, mistress; come your ways with me.",190,19300
656467,2141,Whither wilt thou have me?,742,19300
656468,2142,To take from you the jewel you hold so dear.,190,19300
656469,2143,"Prithee, tell me one thing first.",742,19300
656470,2144,"Come now, your one thing.",190,19300
656471,2145,What canst thou wish thine enemy to be?,742,19300
656472,2146,"Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather, my mistress.",190,19300
656473,2147,"Neither of these are so bad as thou art,
Since they do better thee in their command.
Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend
Of hell would not in reputation change:
Thou art the damned doorkeeper to every
Coistrel that comes inquiring for his Tib;
To the choleric fisting of every rogue
Thy ear is liable; thy food is such
As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.",742,19300
656474,2156,"What would you have me do? go to the wars, would
you? where a man may serve seven years for the loss
of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to
buy him a wooden one?",190,19300
656475,2160,"Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty
OLD receptacles, or common shores, of filth;
Serve by indenture to the common hangman:
Any of these ways are yet better than this;
For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak,
Would own a name too dear. O, that the gods
Would safely deliver me from this place!
Here, here's gold for thee.
If that thy master would gain by thee,
Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance,
With other virtues, which I'll keep from boast:
And I will undertake all these to teach.
I doubt not but this populous city will
Yield many scholars.",742,19300
656476,2174,But can you teach all this you speak of?,190,19300
656477,2175,"Prove that I cannot, take me home again,
And prostitute me to the basest groom
That doth frequent your house.",742,19300
656478,2178,"Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I can
place thee, I will.",190,19300
656479,2180,But amongst honest women.,742,19300
656480,2181,"'Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them.
But since my master and mistress have bought you,
there's no going but by their consent: therefore I
will make them acquainted with your purpose, and I
doubt not but I shall find them tractable enough.
Come, I'll do for thee what I can; come your ways.",190,19300
656481,2187,[Exeunt],1261,19300
656482,2190,[Enter GOWER],1261,19301
656483,2191,"Marina thus the brothel 'scapes, and chances
Into an honest house, our story says.
She sings like one immortal, and she dances
As goddess-like to her admired lays;
Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composes
Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry,
That even her art sisters the natural roses;
Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry:
That pupils lacks she none of noble race,
Who pour their bounty on her; and her gain
She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place;
And to her father turn our thoughts again,
Where we left him, on the sea. We there him lost;
Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived
Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast
Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived
God Neptune's annual feast to keep: from whence
Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies,
His banners sable, trimm'd with rich expense;
And to him in his barge with fervor hies.
In your supposing once more put your sight
Of heavy Pericles; think this his bark:
Where what is done in action, more, if might,
Shall be discover'd; please you, sit and hark.",537,19301
656484,2215,"[Exit]
pavilion on deck, with a curtain before it; PERICLES
within it, reclined on a couch. A barge lying
beside the Tyrian vessel.
[Enter two Sailors, one belonging to the Tyrian]
vessel, the other to the barge; to them HELICANUS]",1261,19301
656485,2223,"[To the Sailor of Mytilene] Where is lord Helicanus?
he can resolve you.
O, here he is.
Sir, there's a barge put off from Mytilene,
And in it is Lysimachus the governor,
Who craves to come aboard. What is your will?",1217,19302
656486,2229,That he have his. Call up some gentlemen.,571,19302
656487,2230,"Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls.",1217,19302
656488,2231,[Enter two or three Gentlemen],1261,19302
656489,2232,Doth your lordship call?,425,19302
656490,2233,"Gentlemen, there's some of worth would come aboard;
I pray ye, greet them fairly.
[The Gentlemen and the two Sailors descend, and go]
on board the barge]
[Enter, from thence, LYSIMACHUS and Lords; with the]
Gentlemen and the two Sailors]",571,19302
656491,2239,"Sir,
This is the man that can, in aught you would,
Resolve you.",1217,19302
656492,2242,"Hail, reverend sir! the gods preserve you!",723,19302
656493,2243,"And you, sir, to outlive the age I am,
And die as I would do.",571,19302
656494,2245,"You wish me well.
Being on shore, honouring of Neptune's triumphs,
Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us,
I made to it, to know of whence you are.",723,19302
656495,2249,"First, what is your place?",571,19302
656496,2250,I am the governor of this place you lie before.,723,19302
656497,2251,"Sir,
Our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king;
A man who for this three months hath not spoken
To any one, nor taken sustenance
But to prorogue his grief.",571,19302
656498,2256,Upon what ground is his distemperature?,723,19302
656499,2257,"'Twould be too tedious to repeat;
But the main grief springs from the loss
Of a beloved daughter and a wife.",571,19302
656500,2260,May we not see him?,723,19302
656501,2261,"You may;
But bootless is your sight: he will not speak To any.",571,19302
656502,2263,Yet let me obtain my wish.,723,19302
656503,2264,"Behold him.
[PERICLES discovered]
This was a goodly person,
Till the disaster that, one mortal night,
Drove him to this.",571,19302
656504,2269,"Sir king, all hail! the gods preserve you!
Hail, royal sir!",723,19302
656505,2271,It is in vain; he will not speak to you.,571,19302
656506,2272,"Sir,
We have a maid in Mytilene, I durst wager,
Would win some words of him.",438,19302
656507,2275,"'Tis well bethought.
She questionless with her sweet harmony
And other chosen attractions, would allure,
And make a battery through his deafen'd parts,
Which now are midway stopp'd:
She is all happy as the fairest of all,
And, with her fellow maids is now upon
The leafy shelter that abuts against
The island's side.",723,19302
656508,2284,"[Whispers a Lord, who goes off in the barge of LYSIMACHUS]",1261,19302
656509,2285,"Sure, all's effectless; yet nothing we'll omit
That bears recovery's name. But, since your kindness
We have stretch'd thus far, let us beseech you
That for our gold we may provision have,
Wherein we are not destitute for want,
But weary for the staleness.",571,19302
656510,2291,"O, sir, a courtesy
Which if we should deny, the most just gods
For every graff would send a caterpillar,
And so afflict our province. Yet once more
Let me entreat to know at large the cause
Of your king's sorrow.",723,19302
656511,2297,"Sit, sir, I will recount it to you:
But, see, I am prevented.
[Re-enter, from the barge, Lord, with MARINA, and a]
young Lady]",571,19302
656512,2301,"O, here is
The lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one!
Is't not a goodly presence?",723,19302
656513,2304,She's a gallant lady.,571,19302
656514,2305,"She's such a one, that, were I well assured
Came of a gentle kind and noble stock,
I'ld wish no better choice, and think me rarely wed.
Fair one, all goodness that consists in bounty
Expect even here, where is a kingly patient:
If that thy prosperous and artificial feat
Can draw him but to answer thee in aught,
Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay
As thy desires can wish.",723,19302
656515,2314,"Sir, I will use
My utmost skill in his recovery, Provided
That none but I and my companion maid
Be suffer'd to come near him.",742,19302
656516,2318,"Come, let us leave her;
And the gods make her prosperous!",723,19302
656517,2320,[MARINA sings],1261,19302
656518,2321,Mark'd he your music?,723,19302
656519,2322,"No, nor look'd on us.",742,19302
656520,2323,"See, she will speak to him.",723,19302
656521,2324,"Hail, sir! my lord, lend ear.",742,19302
656522,2325,"Hum, ha!",872,19302
656523,2326,"I am a maid,
My lord, that ne'er before invited eyes,
But have been gazed on like a comet: she speaks,
My lord, that, may be, hath endured a grief
Might equal yours, if both were justly weigh'd.
Though wayward fortune did malign my state,
My derivation was from ancestors
Who stood equivalent with mighty kings:
But time hath rooted out my parentage,
And to the world and awkward casualties
Bound me in servitude.
[Aside]
I will desist;
But there is something glows upon my cheek,
And whispers in mine ear, 'Go not till he speak.'",742,19302
656524,2341,"My fortunes--parentage--good parentage--
To equal mine!--was it not thus? what say you?",872,19302
656525,2343,"I said, my lord, if you did know my parentage,
You would not do me violence.",742,19302
656526,2345,"I do think so. Pray you, turn your eyes upon me.
You are like something that--What country-woman?
Here of these shores?",872,19302
656527,2348,"No, nor of any shores:
Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am
No other than I appear.",742,19302
656528,2351,"I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping.
My dearest wife was like this maid, and such a one
My daughter might have been: my queen's square brows;
Her stature to an inch; as wand-like straight;
As silver-voiced; her eyes as jewel-like
And cased as richly; in pace another Juno;
Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry,
The more she gives them speech. Where do you live?",872,19302
656529,2359,"Where I am but a stranger: from the deck
You may discern the place.",742,19302
656530,2361,"Where were you bred?
And how achieved you these endowments, which
You make more rich to owe?",872,19302
656531,2364,"If I should tell my history, it would seem
Like lies disdain'd in the reporting.",742,19302
656532,2366,"Prithee, speak:
Falseness cannot come from thee; for thou look'st
Modest as Justice, and thou seem'st a palace
For the crown'd Truth to dwell in: I will
believe thee,
And make my senses credit thy relation
To points that seem impossible; for thou look'st
Like one I loved indeed. What were thy friends?
Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back--
Which was when I perceived thee--that thou camest
From good descending?",872,19302
656533,2377,So indeed I did.,742,19302
656534,2378,"Report thy parentage. I think thou said'st
Thou hadst been toss'd from wrong to injury,
And that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine,
If both were open'd.",872,19302
656535,2382,"Some such thing
I said, and said no more but what my thoughts
Did warrant me was likely.",742,19302
656536,2385,"Tell thy story;
If thine consider'd prove the thousandth part
Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I
Have suffer'd like a girl: yet thou dost look
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling
Extremity out of act. What were thy friends?
How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind virgin?
Recount, I do beseech thee: come, sit by me.",872,19302
656537,2393,My name is Marina.,742,19302
656538,2394,"O, I am mock'd,
And thou by some incensed god sent hither
To make the world to laugh at me.",872,19302
656539,2397,"Patience, good sir,
Or here I'll cease.",742,19302
656540,2399,"Nay, I'll be patient.
Thou little know'st how thou dost startle me,
To call thyself Marina.",872,19302
656541,2402,"The name
Was given me by one that had some power,
My father, and a king.",742,19302
656542,2405,"How! a king's daughter?
And call'd Marina?",872,19302
656543,2407,"You said you would believe me;
But, not to be a troubler of your peace,
I will end here.",742,19302
656544,2410,"But are you flesh and blood?
Have you a working pulse? and are no fairy?
Motion! Well; speak on. Where were you born?
And wherefore call'd Marina?",872,19302
656545,2414,"Call'd Marina
For I was born at sea.",742,19302
656546,2416,At sea! what mother?,872,19302
656547,2417,"My mother was the daughter of a king;
Who died the minute I was born,
As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft
Deliver'd weeping.",742,19302
656548,2421,"O, stop there a little!
[Aside]
This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep
Did mock sad fools withal: this cannot be:
My daughter's buried. Well: where were you bred?
I'll hear you more, to the bottom of your story,
And never interrupt you.",872,19302
656549,2428,"You scorn: believe me, 'twere best I did give o'er.",742,19302
656550,2429,"I will believe you by the syllable
Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave:
How came you in these parts? where were you bred?",872,19302
656551,2432,"The king my father did in Tarsus leave me;
Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife,
Did seek to murder me: and having woo'd
A villain to attempt it, who having drawn to do't,
A crew of pirates came and rescued me;
Brought me to Mytilene. But, good sir,
Whither will you have me? Why do you weep?
It may be,
You think me an impostor: no, good faith;
I am the daughter to King Pericles,
If good King Pericles be.",742,19302
656552,2443,"Ho, Helicanus!",872,19302
656553,2444,Calls my lord?,571,19302
656554,2445,"Thou art a grave and noble counsellor,
Most wise in general: tell me, if thou canst,
What this maid is, or what is like to be,
That thus hath made me weep?",872,19302
656555,2449,"I know not; but
Here is the regent, sir, of Mytilene
Speaks nobly of her.",571,19302
656556,2452,"She would never tell
Her parentage; being demanded that,
She would sit still and weep.",723,19302
656557,2455,"O Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir;
Give me a gash, put me to present pain;
Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me
O'erbear the shores of my mortality,
And drown me with their sweetness. O, come hither,
Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget;
Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tarsus,
And found at sea again! O Helicanus,
Down on thy knees, thank the holy gods as loud
As thunder threatens us: this is Marina.
What was thy mother's name? tell me but that,
For truth can never be confirm'd enough,
Though doubts did ever sleep.",872,19302
656558,2468,"First, sir, I pray,
What is your title?",742,19302
656559,2470,"I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now
My drown'd queen's name, as in the rest you said
Thou hast been godlike perfect,
The heir of kingdoms and another like
To Pericles thy father.",872,19302
656560,2475,"Is it no more to be your daughter than
To say my mother's name was Thaisa?
Thaisa was my mother, who did end
The minute I began.",742,19302
656561,2479,"Now, blessing on thee! rise; thou art my child.
Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus;
She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been,
By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all;
When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge
She is thy very princess. Who is this?",872,19302
656562,2485,"Sir, 'tis the governor of Mytilene,
Who, hearing of your melancholy state,
Did come to see you.",571,19302
656563,2488,"I embrace you.
Give me my robes. I am wild in my beholding.
O heavens bless my girl! But, hark, what music?
Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him
O'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt,
How sure you are my daughter. But, what music?",872,19302
656564,2494,"My lord, I hear none.",571,19302
656565,2495,"None!
The music of the spheres! List, my Marina.",872,19302
656566,2497,It is not good to cross him; give him way.,723,19302
656567,2498,Rarest sounds! Do ye not hear?,872,19302
656568,2499,"My lord, I hear.",723,19302
656569,2500,[Music],1261,19302
656570,2501,"Most heavenly music!
It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber
Hangs upon mine eyes: let me rest.",872,19302
656571,2504,[Sleeps],1261,19302
656572,2505,"A pillow for his head:
So, leave him all. Well, my companion friends,
If this but answer to my just belief,
I'll well remember you.",723,19302
656573,2509,[Exeunt all but PERICLES],1261,19302
656574,2510,[DIANA appears to PERICLES as in a vision],1261,19302
656575,2511,"My temple stands in Ephesus: hie thee thither,
And do upon mine altar sacrifice.
There, when my maiden priests are met together,
Before the people all,
Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife:
To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call
And give them repetition to the life.
Or perform my bidding, or thou livest in woe;
Do it, and happy; by my silver bow!
Awake, and tell thy dream.",313,19302
656576,2521,[Disappears],1261,19302
656577,2522,"Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,
I will obey thee. Helicanus!",872,19302
656578,2524,"[Re-enter HELICANUS, LYSIMACHUS, and MARINA]",1261,19302
656579,2525,Sir?,571,19302
656580,2526,"My purpose was for Tarsus, there to strike
The inhospitable Cleon; but I am
For other service first: toward Ephesus
Turn our blown sails; eftsoons I'll tell thee why.
[To LYSIMACHUS]
Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,
And give you gold for such provision
As our intents will need?",872,19302
656581,2534,"Sir,
With all my heart; and, when you come ashore,
I have another suit.",723,19302
656582,2537,"You shall prevail,
Were it to woo my daughter; for it seems
You have been noble towards her.",872,19302
656583,2540,"Sir, lend me your arm.",723,19302
656584,2541,"Come, my Marina.",872,19302
656585,2542,[Exeunt],1261,19302
656586,2545,"[Enter GOWER, before the temple of DIANA at Ephesus]",1261,19303
656587,2546,"Now our sands are almost run;
More a little, and then dumb.
This, my last boon, give me,
For such kindness must relieve me,
That you aptly will suppose
What pageantry, what feats, what shows,
What minstrelsy, and pretty din,
The regent made in Mytilene
To greet the king. So he thrived,
That he is promised to be wived
To fair Marina; but in no wise
Till he had done his sacrifice,
As Dian bade: whereto being bound,
The interim, pray you, all confound.
In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd,
And wishes fall out as they're will'd.
At Ephesus, the temple see,
Our king and all his company.
That he can hither come so soon,
Is by your fancy's thankful doom.",537,19303
656588,2566,"[Exit]
near the altar, as high priestess; a number of
Virgins on each side; CERIMON and other Inhabitants
of Ephesus attending.
[Enter PERICLES, with his train; LYSIMACHUS,]
HELICANUS, MARINA, and a Lady]",1261,19303
656589,2574,"Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command,
I here confess myself the king of Tyre;
Who, frighted from my country, did wed
At Pentapolis the fair Thaisa.
At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth
A maid-child call'd Marina; who, O goddess,
Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tarsus
Was nursed with Cleon; who at fourteen years
He sought to murder: but her better stars
Brought her to Mytilene; 'gainst whose shore
Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us,
Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she
Made known herself my daughter.",872,19304
656590,2587,"Voice and favour!
You are, you are--O royal Pericles!",1158,19304
656591,2589,[Faints],1261,19304
656592,2590,"What means the nun? she dies! help, gentlemen!",872,19304
656593,2591,"Noble sir,
If you have told Diana's altar true,
This is your wife.",235,19304
656594,2594,"Reverend appearer, no;
I threw her overboard with these very arms.",872,19304
656595,2596,"Upon this coast, I warrant you.",235,19304
656598,2603,May we see them?,872,19304
656599,2604,"Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house,
Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is recovered.",235,19304
656600,2606,"O, let me look!
If he be none of mine, my sanctity
Will to my sense bend no licentious ear,
But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,
Are you not Pericles? Like him you spake,
Like him you are: did you not name a tempest,
A birth, and death?",1158,19304
656601,2613,The voice of dead Thaisa!,872,19304
656602,2614,"That Thaisa am I, supposed dead
And drown'd.",1158,19304
656603,2616,Immortal Dian!,872,19304
656604,2617,"Now I know you better.
When we with tears parted Pentapolis,
The king my father gave you such a ring.",1158,19304
656605,2620,[Shows a ring],1261,19304
656606,2621,"This, this: no more, you gods! your present kindness
Makes my past miseries sports: you shall do well,
That on the touching of her lips I may
Melt and no more be seen. O, come, be buried
A second time within these arms.",872,19304
656607,2626,"My heart
Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom.",742,19304
656608,2628,[Kneels to THAISA],1261,19304
656609,2629,"Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa;
Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina
For she was yielded there.",872,19304
656610,2632,"Blest, and mine own!",1158,19304
656611,2633,"Hail, madam, and my queen!",571,19304
656612,2634,I know you not.,1158,19304
656613,2635,"You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre,
I left behind an ancient substitute:
Can you remember what I call'd the man?
I have named him oft.",872,19304
656620,2665,"Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, sir,
My father's dead.",1158,19304
656621,2667,"Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen,
We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves
Will in that kingdom spend our following days:
Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign.
Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay
To hear the rest untold: sir, lead's the way.",872,19304
656622,2673,[Exeunt],1261,19304
656623,2674,[Enter GOWER],1261,19304
656624,2675,"In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard
Of monstrous lust the due and just reward:
In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen,
Although assail'd with fortune fierce and keen,
Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast,
Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last:
In Helicanus may you well descry
A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty:
In reverend Cerimon there well appears
The worth that learned charity aye wears:
For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame
Had spread their cursed deed, and honour'd name
Of Pericles, to rage the city turn,
That him and his they in his palace burn;
The gods for murder seemed so content
To punish them; although not done, but meant.
So, on your patience evermore attending,
New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending.",537,19304
656625,2693,[Exit],1261,19304
656626,3,"Let the bird of loudest lay,
On the sole Arabian tree,
Herald sad and trumpet be,
To whose sound chaste wings obey.",894,19305
656627,7,"But thou shrieking harbinger,
Foul precurrer of the fiend,
Augur of the fever's end,
To this troop come thou not near!",894,19305
656628,11,"From this session interdict
Every fowl of tyrant wing,
Save the eagle, feather'd king:
Keep the obsequy so strict.",894,19305
656629,15,"Let the priest in surplice white,
That defunctive music can,
Be the death-divining swan,
Lest the requiem lack his right.",894,19305
656630,19,"And thou treble-dated crow,
That thy sable gender makest
With the breath thou givest and takest,
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.",894,19305
656631,23,"Here the anthem doth commence:
Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence.",894,19305
656632,27,"So they loved, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none:
Number there in love was slain.",894,19305
656633,31,"Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Distance, and no space was seen
'Twixt the turtle and his queen:
But in them it were a wonder.",894,19305
656634,35,"So between them love did shine,
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight;
Either was the other's mine.",894,19305
656635,39,"Property was thus appalled,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was called.",894,19305
656636,43,"Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together,
To themselves yet either neither,
Simple were so well compounded,",894,19305
656637,47,"That it cried, How true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none,
If what parts can so remain.",894,19305
656638,51,"Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove,
Co-supremes and stars of love,
As chorus to their tragic scene.",894,19305
656639,55,THRENOS.,894,19305
656640,56,"Beauty, truth, and rarity,
Grace in all simplicity,
Here enclosed in cinders lie.",894,19305
656641,59,"Death is now the phoenix' nest
And the turtle's loyal breast
To eternity doth rest,",894,19305
656642,62,"Leaving no posterity:
'Twas not their infirmity,
It was married chastity.",894,19305
656643,65,"Truth may seem, but cannot be:
Beauty brag, but 'tis not she;
Truth and beauty buried be.",894,19305
656644,68,"To this urn let those repair
That are either true or fair
For these dead birds sigh a prayer.",894,19305
656645,3,"TO THE
RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,
Earl of Southampton, and Baron of Tichfield.",894,19306
656646,6,"The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end; whereof
this pamphlet, without beginning, is but a superfluous moiety.
The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth
of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I
have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in
all I have, devoted yours. Were my worth greater, my duty would
show greater; meantime, as it is, it is bound to your lordship,
to whom I wish long life, still lengthened with all happiness.",894,19306
656647,14,"Your lordship's in all duty,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.",894,19306
656648,17,"Lucius Tarquinius, for his excessive pride surnamed Superbus,
after he had caused his own father-in-law Servius Tullius to be
cruelly murdered, and, contrary to the Roman laws and customs,
not requiring or staying for the people's suffrages, had
possessed himself of the kingdom, went, accompanied with his sons
and other noblemen of Rome, to besiege Ardea. During which siege
the principal men of the army meeting one evening at the tent of
Sextus Tarquinius, the king's son, in their discourses after
supper every one commended the virtues of his own wife: among
whom Collatinus extolled the incomparable chastity of his wife
Lucretia. In that pleasant humour they posted to Rome; and
intending, by their secret and sudden arrival, to make trial of
that which every one had before avouched, only Collatinus finds
his wife, though it were late in the night, spinning amongst her
maids: the other ladies were all found dancing and revelling, or
in several disports. Whereupon the noblemen yielded Collatinus
the victory, and his wife the fame. At that time Sextus
Tarquinius being inflamed with Lucrece' beauty, yet smothering
his passions for the present, departed with the rest back to the
camp; from whence he shortly after privily withdrew himself, and
was, according to his estate, royally entertained and lodged by
Lucrece at Collatium. The same night he treacherously stealeth
into her chamber, violently ravished her, and early in the
morning speedeth away. Lucrece, in this lamentable plight,
hastily dispatcheth messengers, one to Rome for her father,
another to the camp for Collatine. They came, the one
accompanied with Junius Brutus, the other with Publius Valerius;
and finding Lucrece attired in mourning habit, demanded the cause
of her sorrow. She, first taking an oath of them for her
revenge, revealed the actor, and whole manner of his dealing, and
withal suddenly stabbed herself. Which done, with one consent
they all vowed to root out the whole hated family of the
Tarquins; and bearing the dead body to Rome, Brutus acquainted
the people with the doer and manner of the vile deed, with a
bitter invective against the tyranny of the king: wherewith the
people were so moved, that with one consent and a general
acclamation the Tarquins were all exiled, and the state
government changed from kings to consuls.",894,19307
656649,56,"From the besieged Ardea all in post,
Borne by the trustless wings of false desire,
Lust-breathed Tarquin leaves the Roman host,
And to Collatium bears the lightless fire
Which, in pale embers hid, lurks to aspire
And girdle with embracing flames the waist
Of Collatine's fair love, Lucrece the chaste.",894,19308
656650,63,"Haply that name of 'chaste' unhappily set
This bateless edge on his keen appetite;
When Collatine unwisely did not let
To praise the clear unmatched red and white
Which triumph'd in that sky of his delight,
Where mortal stars, as bright as heaven's beauties,
With pure aspects did him peculiar duties.",894,19308
656651,70,"For he the night before, in Tarquin's tent,
Unlock'd the treasure of his happy state;
What priceless wealth the heavens had him lent
In the possession of his beauteous mate;
Reckoning his fortune at such high-proud rate,
That kings might be espoused to more fame,
But king nor peer to such a peerless dame.",894,19308
656652,77,"O happiness enjoy'd but of a few!
And, if possess'd, as soon decay'd and done
As is the morning's silver-melting dew
Against the golden splendor of the sun!
An expired date, cancell'd ere well begun:
Honour and beauty, in the owner's arms,
Are weakly fortress'd from a world of harms.",894,19308
656653,84,"Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator;
What needeth then apologies be made,
To set forth that which is so singular?
Or why is Collatine the publisher
Of that rich jewel he should keep unknown
From thievish ears, because it is his own?",894,19308
656654,91,"Perchance his boast of Lucrece' sovereignty
Suggested this proud issue of a king;
For by our ears our hearts oft tainted be:
Perchance that envy of so rich a thing,
Braving compare, disdainfully did sting
His high-pitch'd thoughts, that meaner men should vaunt
That golden hap which their superiors want.",894,19308
656655,98,"But some untimely thought did instigate
His all-too-timeless speed, if none of those:
His honour, his affairs, his friends, his state,
Neglected all, with swift intent he goes
To quench the coal which in his liver glows.
O rash false heat, wrapp'd in repentant cold,
Thy hasty spring still blasts, and ne'er grows old!",894,19308
656656,105,"When at Collatium this false lord arrived,
Well was he welcomed by the Roman dame,
Within whose face beauty and virtue strived
Which of them both should underprop her fame:
When virtue bragg'd, beauty would blush for shame;
When beauty boasted blushes, in despite
Virtue would stain that o'er with silver white.",894,19308
656657,112,"But beauty, in that white intituled,
From Venus' doves doth challenge that fair field:
Then virtue claims from beauty beauty's red,
Which virtue gave the golden age to gild
Their silver cheeks, and call'd it then their shield;
Teaching them thus to use it in the fight,
When shame assail'd, the red should fence the white.",894,19308
656658,119,"This heraldry in Lucrece' face was seen,
Argued by beauty's red and virtue's white
Of either's colour was the other queen,
Proving from world's minority their right:
Yet their ambition makes them still to fight;
The sovereignty of either being so great,
That oft they interchange each other's seat.",894,19308
656659,126,"Their silent war of lilies and of roses,
Which Tarquin view'd in her fair face's field,
In their pure ranks his traitor eye encloses;
Where, lest between them both it should be kill'd,
The coward captive vanquished doth yield
To those two armies that would let him go,
Rather than triumph in so false a foe.",894,19308
656660,133,"Now thinks he that her husband's shallow tongue,--
The niggard prodigal that praised her so,--
In that high task hath done her beauty wrong,
Which far exceeds his barren skill to show:
Therefore that praise which Collatine doth owe
Enchanted Tarquin answers with surmise,
In silent wonder of still-gazing eyes.",894,19308
656661,140,"This earthly saint, adored by this devil,
Little suspecteth the false worshipper;
For unstain'd thoughts do seldom dream on evil;
Birds never limed no secret bushes fear:
So guiltless she securely gives good cheer
And reverend welcome to her princely guest,
Whose inward ill no outward harm express'd:",894,19308
656662,147,"For that he colour'd with his high estate,
Hiding base sin in plaits of majesty;
That nothing in him seem'd inordinate,
Save something too much wonder of his eye,
Which, having all, all could not satisfy;
But, poorly rich, so wanteth in his store,
That, cloy'd with much, he pineth still for more.",894,19308
656663,154,"But she, that never coped with stranger eyes,
Could pick no meaning from their parling looks,
Nor read the subtle-shining secrecies
Writ in the glassy margents of such books:
She touch'd no unknown baits, nor fear'd no hooks;
Nor could she moralize his wanton sight,
More than his eyes were open'd to the light.",894,19308
656664,161,"He stories to her ears her husband's fame,
Won in the fields of fruitful Italy;
And decks with praises Collatine's high name,
Made glorious by his manly chivalry
With bruised arms and wreaths of victory:
Her joy with heaved-up hand she doth express,
And, wordless, so greets heaven for his success.",894,19308
656665,168,"Far from the purpose of his coming hither,
He makes excuses for his being there:
No cloudy show of stormy blustering weather
Doth yet in his fair welkin once appear;
Till sable Night, mother of Dread and Fear,
Upon the world dim darkness doth display,
And in her vaulty prison stows the Day.",894,19308
656666,175,"For then is Tarquin brought unto his bed,
Intending weariness with heavy spright;
For, after supper, long he questioned
With modest Lucrece, and wore out the night:
Now leaden slumber with life's strength doth fight;
And every one to rest themselves betake,
Save thieves, and cares, and troubled minds, that wake.",894,19308
656667,182,"As one of which doth Tarquin lie revolving
The sundry dangers of his will's obtaining;
Yet ever to obtain his will resolving,
Though weak-built hopes persuade him to abstaining:
Despair to gain doth traffic oft for gaining;
And when great treasure is the meed proposed,
Though death be adjunct, there's no death supposed.",894,19308
656668,189,"Those that much covet are with gain so fond,
For what they have not, that which they possess
They scatter and unloose it from their bond,
And so, by hoping more, they have but less;
Or, gaining more, the profit of excess
Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,
That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.",894,19308
656669,196,"The aim of all is but to nurse the life
With honour, wealth, and ease, in waning age;
And in this aim there is such thwarting strife,
That one for all, or all for one we gage;
As life for honour in fell battle's rage;
Honour for wealth; and oft that wealth doth cost
The death of all, and all together lost.",894,19308
656670,203,"So that in venturing ill we leave to be
The things we are for that which we expect;
And this ambitious foul infirmity,
In having much, torments us with defect
Of that we have: so then we do neglect
The thing we have; and, all for want of wit,
Make something nothing by augmenting it.",894,19308
656671,210,"Such hazard now must doting Tarquin make,
Pawning his honour to obtain his lust;
And for himself himself be must forsake:
Then where is truth, if there be no self-trust?
When shall he think to find a stranger just,
When he himself himself confounds, betrays
To slanderous tongues and wretched hateful days?",894,19308
656672,217,"Now stole upon the time the dead of night,
When heavy sleep had closed up mortal eyes:
No comfortable star did lend his light,
No noise but owls' and wolves' death-boding cries;
Now serves the season that they may surprise
The silly lambs: pure thoughts are dead and still,
While lust and murder wake to stain and kill.",894,19308
656673,224,"And now this lustful lord leap'd from his bed,
Throwing his mantle rudely o'er his arm;
Is madly toss'd between desire and dread;
Th' one sweetly flatters, th' other feareth harm;
But honest fear, bewitch'd with lust's foul charm,
Doth too too oft betake him to retire,
Beaten away by brain-sick rude desire.",894,19308
656674,231,"His falchion on a flint he softly smiteth,
That from the cold stone sparks of fire do fly;
Whereat a waxen torch forthwith he lighteth,
Which must be lode-star to his lustful eye;
And to the flame thus speaks advisedly,
'As from this cold flint I enforced this fire,
So Lucrece must I force to my desire.'",894,19308
656675,238,"Here pale with fear he doth premeditate
The dangers of his loathsome enterprise,
And in his inward mind he doth debate
What following sorrow may on this arise:
Then looking scornfully, he doth despise
His naked armour of still-slaughter'd lust,
And justly thus controls his thoughts unjust:",894,19308
656676,245,"'Fair torch, burn out thy light, and lend it not
To darken her whose light excelleth thine:
And die, unhallow'd thoughts, before you blot
With your uncleanness that which is divine;
Offer pure incense to so pure a shrine:
Let fair humanity abhor the deed
That spots and stains love's modest snow-white weed.",894,19308
656677,252,"'O shame to knighthood and to shining arms!
O foul dishonour to my household's grave!
O impious act, including all foul harms!
A martial man to be soft fancy's slave!
True valour still a true respect should have;
Then my digression is so vile, so base,
That it will live engraven in my face.",894,19308
656678,259,"'Yea, though I die, the scandal will survive,
And be an eye-sore in my golden coat;
Some loathsome dash the herald will contrive,
To cipher me how fondly I did dote;
That my posterity, shamed with the note
Shall curse my bones, and hold it for no sin
To wish that I their father had not bin.",894,19308
656679,266,"'What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?",894,19308
656680,273,"'If Collatinus dream of my intent,
Will he not wake, and in a desperate rage
Post hither, this vile purpose to prevent?
This siege that hath engirt his marriage,
This blur to youth, this sorrow to the sage,
This dying virtue, this surviving shame,
Whose crime will bear an ever-during blame?",894,19308
656681,280,"'O, what excuse can my invention make,
When thou shalt charge me with so black a deed?
Will not my tongue be mute, my frail joints shake,
Mine eyes forego their light, my false heart bleed?
The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed;
And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly,
But coward-like with trembling terror die.",894,19308
656682,287,"'Had Collatinus kill'd my son or sire,
Or lain in ambush to betray my life,
Or were he not my dear friend, this desire
Might have excuse to work upon his wife,
As in revenge or quittal of such strife:
But as he is my kinsman, my dear friend,
The shame and fault finds no excuse nor end.",894,19308
656683,294,"'Shameful it is; ay, if the fact be known:
Hateful it is; there is no hate in loving:
I'll beg her love; but she is own:
The worst is but denial and reproving:
My will is strong, past reason's weak removing.
Who fears a sentence or an old man's saw
Shall by a painted cloth be kept in awe.'",894,19308
656684,301,"Thus, graceless, holds he disputation
'Tween frozen conscience and hot-burning will,
And with good thoughts make dispensation,
Urging the worser sense for vantage still;
Which in a moment doth confound and kill
All pure effects, and doth so far proceed,
That what is vile shows like a virtuous deed.",894,19308
656685,308,"Quoth he, 'She took me kindly by the hand,
And gazed for tidings in my eager eyes,
Fearing some hard news from the warlike band,
Where her beloved Collatinus lies.
O, how her fear did make her colour rise!
First red as roses that on lawn we lay,
Then white as lawn, the roses took away.",894,19308
656686,315,"'And how her hand, in my hand being lock'd
Forced it to tremble with her loyal fear!
Which struck her sad, and then it faster rock'd,
Until her husband's welfare she did hear;
Whereat she smiled with so sweet a cheer,
That had Narcissus seen her as she stood,
Self-love had never drown'd him in the flood.",894,19308
656687,322,"'Why hunt I then for colour or excuses?
All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth;
Poor wretches have remorse in poor abuses;
Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth:
Affection is my captain, and he leadeth;
And when his gaudy banner is display'd,
The coward fights and will not be dismay'd.",894,19308
656688,329,"'Then, childish fear, avaunt! debating, die!
Respect and reason, wait on wrinkled age!
My heart shall never countermand mine eye:
Sad pause and deep regard beseem the sage;
My part is youth, and beats these from the stage:
Desire my pilot is, beauty my prize;
Then who fears sinking where such treasure lies?'",894,19308
656689,336,"As corn o'ergrown by weeds, so heedful fear
Is almost choked by unresisted lust.
Away he steals with open listening ear,
Full of foul hope and full of fond mistrust;
Both which, as servitors to the unjust,
So cross him with their opposite persuasion,
That now he vows a league, and now invasion.",894,19308
656690,343,"Within his thought her heavenly image sits,
And in the self-same seat sits Collatine:
That eye which looks on her confounds his wits;
That eye which him beholds, as more divine,
Unto a view so false will not incline;
But with a pure appeal seeks to the heart,
Which once corrupted takes the worser part;",894,19308
656691,350,"And therein heartens up his servile powers,
Who, flatter'd by their leader's jocund show,
Stuff up his lust, as minutes fill up hours;
And as their captain, so their pride doth grow,
Paying more slavish tribute than they owe.
By reprobate desire thus madly led,
The Roman lord marcheth to Lucrece' bed.",894,19308
656692,357,"The locks between her chamber and his will,
Each one by him enforced, retires his ward;
But, as they open, they all rate his ill,
Which drives the creeping thief to some regard:
The threshold grates the door to have him heard;
Night-wandering weasels shriek to see him there;
They fright him, yet he still pursues his fear.",894,19308
656693,364,"As each unwilling portal yields him way,
Through little vents and crannies of the place
The wind wars with his torch to make him stay,
And blows the smoke of it into his face,
Extinguishing his conduct in this case;
But his hot heart, which fond desire doth scorch,
Puffs forth another wind that fires the torch:",894,19308
656694,371,"And being lighted, by the light he spies
Lucretia's glove, wherein her needle sticks:
He takes it from the rushes where it lies,
And griping it, the needle his finger pricks;
As who should say 'This glove to wanton tricks
Is not inured; return again in haste;
Thou see'st our mistress' ornaments are chaste.'",894,19308
656695,378,"But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him;
He in the worst sense construes their denial:
The doors, the wind, the glove, that did delay him,
He takes for accidental things of trial;
Or as those bars which stop the hourly dial,
Who with a lingering slay his course doth let,
Till every minute pays the hour his debt.",894,19308
656696,385,"'So, so,' quoth he, 'these lets attend the time,
Like little frosts that sometime threat the spring,
To add a more rejoicing to the prime,
And give the sneaped birds more cause to sing.
Pain pays the income of each precious thing;
Huge rocks, high winds, strong pirates, shelves and sands,
The merchant fears, ere rich at home he lands.'",894,19308
656697,392,"Now is he come unto the chamber-door,
That shuts him from the heaven of his thought,
Which with a yielding latch, and with no more,
Hath barr'd him from the blessed thing be sought.
So from himself impiety hath wrought,
That for his prey to pray he doth begin,
As if the heavens should countenance his sin.",894,19308
656698,399,"But in the midst of his unfruitful prayer,
Having solicited th' eternal power
That his foul thoughts might compass his fair fair,
And they would stand auspicious to the hour,
Even there he starts: quoth he, 'I must deflower:
The powers to whom I pray abhor this fact,
How can they then assist me in the act?",894,19308
656699,406,"'Then Love and Fortune be my gods, my guide!
My will is back'd with resolution:
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried;
The blackest sin is clear'd with absolution;
Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.
The eye of heaven is out, and misty night
Covers the shame that follows sweet delight.'",894,19308
656700,413,"This said, his guilty hand pluck'd up the latch,
And with his knee the door he opens wide.
The dove sleeps fast that this night-owl will catch:
Thus treason works ere traitors be espied.
Who sees the lurking serpent steps aside;
But she, sound sleeping, fearing no such thing,
Lies at the mercy of his mortal sting.",894,19308
656701,420,"Into the chamber wickedly he stalks,
And gazeth on her yet unstained bed.
The curtains being close, about he walks,
Rolling his greedy eyeballs in his head:
By their high treason is his heart misled;
Which gives the watch-word to his hand full soon
To draw the cloud that hides the silver moon.",894,19308
656702,427,"Look, as the fair and fiery-pointed sun,
Rushing from forth a cloud, bereaves our sight;
Even so, the curtain drawn, his eyes begun
To wink, being blinded with a greater light:
Whether it is that she reflects so bright,
That dazzleth them, or else some shame supposed;
But blind they are, and keep themselves enclosed.",894,19308
656703,434,"O, had they in that darksome prison died!
Then had they seen the period of their ill;
Then Collatine again, by Lucrece' side,
In his clear bed might have reposed still:
But they must ope, this blessed league to kill;
And holy-thoughted Lucrece to their sight
Must sell her joy, her life, her world's delight.",894,19308
656704,441,"Her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under,
Cozening the pillow of a lawful kiss;
Who, therefore angry, seems to part in sunder,
Swelling on either side to want his bliss;
Between whose hills her head entombed is:
Where, like a virtuous monument, she lies,
To be admired of lewd unhallow'd eyes.",894,19308
656705,448,"Without the bed her other fair hand was,
On the green coverlet; whose perfect white
Show'd like an April daisy on the grass,
With pearly sweat, resembling dew of night.
Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheathed their light,
And canopied in darkness sweetly lay,
Till they might open to adorn the day.",894,19308
656706,455,"Her hair, like golden threads, play'd with her breath;
O modest wantons! wanton modesty!
Showing life's triumph in the map of death,
And death's dim look in life's mortality:
Each in her sleep themselves so beautify,
As if between them twain there were no strife,
But that life lived in death, and death in life.",894,19308
656707,462,"Her breasts, like ivory globes circled with blue,
A pair of maiden worlds unconquered,
Save of their lord no bearing yoke they knew,
And him by oath they truly honoured.
These worlds in Tarquin new ambition bred;
Who, like a foul ursurper, went about
From this fair throne to heave the owner out.",894,19308
656708,469,"What could he see but mightily he noted?
What did he note but strongly he desired?
What he beheld, on that he firmly doted,
And in his will his wilful eye he tired.
With more than admiration he admired
Her azure veins, her alabaster skin,
Her coral lips, her snow-white dimpled chin.",894,19308
656709,476,"As the grim lion fawneth o'er his prey,
Sharp hunger by the conquest satisfied,
So o'er this sleeping soul doth Tarquin stay,
His rage of lust by gazing qualified;
Slack'd, not suppress'd; for standing by her side,
His eye, which late this mutiny restrains,
Unto a greater uproar tempts his veins:",894,19308
656710,483,"And they, like straggling slaves for pillage fighting,
Obdurate vassals fell exploits effecting,
In bloody death and ravishment delighting,
Nor children's tears nor mothers' groans respecting,
Swell in their pride, the onset still expecting:
Anon his beating heart, alarum striking,
Gives the hot charge and bids them do their liking.",894,19308
656711,490,"His drumming heart cheers up his burning eye,
His eye commends the leading to his hand;
His hand, as proud of such a dignity,
Smoking with pride, march'd on to make his stand
On her bare breast, the heart of all her land;
Whose ranks of blue veins, as his hand did scale,
Left there round turrets destitute and pale.",894,19308
656712,497,"They, mustering to the quiet cabinet
Where their dear governess and lady lies,
Do tell her she is dreadfully beset,
And fright her with confusion of their cries:
She, much amazed, breaks ope her lock'd-up eyes,
Who, peeping forth this tumult to behold,
Are by his flaming torch dimm'd and controll'd.",894,19308
656713,504,"Imagine her as one in dead of night
From forth dull sleep by dreadful fancy waking,
That thinks she hath beheld some ghastly sprite,
Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking;
What terror or 'tis! but she, in worser taking,
From sleep disturbed, heedfully doth view
The sight which makes supposed terror true.",894,19308
656714,511,"Wrapp'd and confounded in a thousand fears,
Like to a new-kill'd bird she trembling lies;
She dares not look; yet, winking, there appears
Quick-shifting antics, ugly in her eyes:
Such shadows are the weak brain's forgeries;
Who, angry that the eyes fly from their lights,
In darkness daunts them with more dreadful sights.",894,19308
656715,518,"His hand, that yet remains upon her breast,--
Rude ram, to batter such an ivory wall!--
May feel her heart-poor citizen!--distress'd,
Wounding itself to death, rise up and fall,
Beating her bulk, that his hand shakes withal.
This moves in him more rage and lesser pity,
To make the breach and enter this sweet city.",894,19308
656716,525,"First, like a trumpet, doth his tongue begin
To sound a parley to his heartless foe;
Who o'er the white sheet peers her whiter chin,
The reason of this rash alarm to know,
Which he by dumb demeanor seeks to show;
But she with vehement prayers urgeth still
Under what colour he commits this ill.",894,19308
656717,532,"Thus he replies: 'The colour in thy face,
That even for anger makes the lily pale,
And the red rose blush at her own disgrace,
Shall plead for me and tell my loving tale:
Under that colour am I come to scale
Thy never-conquer'd fort: the fault is thine,
For those thine eyes betray thee unto mine.",894,19308
656718,539,"'Thus I forestall thee, if thou mean to chide:
Thy beauty hath ensnared thee to this night,
Where thou with patience must my will abide;
My will that marks thee for my earth's delight,
Which I to conquer sought with all my might;
But as reproof and reason beat it dead,
By thy bright beauty was it newly bred.",894,19308
656719,546,"'I see what crosses my attempt will bring;
I know what thorns the growing rose defends;
I think the honey guarded with a sting;
All this beforehand counsel comprehends:
But will is deaf and hears no heedful friends;
Only he hath an eye to gaze on beauty,
And dotes on what he looks, 'gainst law or duty.",894,19308
656720,553,"'I have debated, even in my soul,
What wrong, what shame, what sorrow I shall breed;
But nothing can affection's course control,
Or stop the headlong fury of his speed.
I know repentant tears ensue the deed,
Reproach, disdain, and deadly enmity;
Yet strive I to embrace mine infamy.'",894,19308
656721,560,"This said, he shakes aloft his Roman blade,
Which, like a falcon towering in the skies,
Coucheth the fowl below with his wings' shade,
Whose crooked beak threats if he mount he dies:
So under his insulting falchion lies
Harmless Lucretia, marking what he tells
With trembling fear, as fowl hear falcon's bells.",894,19308
656722,567,"'Lucrece,' quoth he,'this night I must enjoy thee:
If thou deny, then force must work my way,
For in thy bed I purpose to destroy thee:
That done, some worthless slave of thine I'll slay,
To kill thine honour with thy life's decay;
And in thy dead arms do I mean to place him,
Swearing I slew him, seeing thee embrace him.",894,19308
656723,574,"'So thy surviving husband shall remain
The scornful mark of every open eye;
Thy kinsmen hang their heads at this disdain,
Thy issue blurr'd with nameless bastardy:
And thou, the author of their obloquy,
Shalt have thy trespass cited up in rhymes,
And sung by children in succeeding times.",894,19308
656724,581,"'But if thou yield, I rest thy secret friend:
The fault unknown is as a thought unacted;
A little harm done to a great good end
For lawful policy remains enacted.
The poisonous simple sometimes is compacted
In a pure compound; being so applied,
His venom in effect is purified.",894,19308
656725,588,"'Then, for thy husband and thy children's sake,
Tender my suit: bequeath not to their lot
The shame that from them no device can take,
The blemish that will never be forgot;
Worse than a slavish wipe or birth-hour's blot:
For marks descried in men's nativity
Are nature's faults, not their own infamy.'",894,19308
656726,595,"Here with a cockatrice' dead-killing eye
He rouseth up himself and makes a pause;
While she, the picture of pure piety,
Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws,
Pleads, in a wilderness where are no laws,
To the rough beast that knows no gentle right,
Nor aught obeys but his foul appetite.",894,19308
656727,602,"But when a black-faced cloud the world doth threat,
In his dim mist the aspiring mountains hiding,
From earth's dark womb some gentle gust doth get,
Which blows these pitchy vapours from their bidding,
Hindering their present fall by this dividing;
So his unhallow'd haste her words delays,
And moody Pluto winks while Orpheus plays.",894,19308
656728,609,"Yet, foul night-waking cat, he doth but dally,
While in his hold-fast foot the weak mouse panteth:
Her sad behavior feeds his vulture folly,
A swallowing gulf that even in plenty wanteth:
His ear her prayers admits, but his heart granteth
No penetrable entrance to her plaining:
Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.",894,19308
656729,616,"Her pity-pleading eyes are sadly fix'd
In the remorseless wrinkles of his face;
Her modest eloquence with sighs is mix'd,
Which to her oratory adds more grace.
She puts the period often from his place;
And midst the sentence so her accent breaks,
That twice she doth begin ere once she speaks.",894,19308
656730,623,"She conjures him by high almighty Jove,
By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath,
By her untimely tears, her husband's love,
By holy human law, and common troth,
By heaven and earth, and all the power of both,
That to his borrow'd bed he make retire,
And stoop to honour, not to foul desire.",894,19308
656731,630,"Quoth she, 'Reward not hospitality
With such black payment as thou hast pretended;
Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee;
Mar not the thing that cannot be amended;
End thy ill aim before thy shoot be ended;
He is no woodman that doth bend his bow
To strike a poor unseasonable doe.",894,19308
656732,637,"'My husband is thy friend; for his sake spare me:
Thyself art mighty; for thine own sake leave me:
Myself a weakling; do not then ensnare me:
Thou look'st not like deceit; do not deceive me.
My sighs, like whirlwinds, labour hence to heave thee:
If ever man were moved with woman moans,
Be moved with my tears, my sighs, my groans:",894,19308
656733,644,"'All which together, like a troubled ocean,
Beat at thy rocky and wreck-threatening heart,
To soften it with their continual motion;
For stones dissolved to water do convert.
O, if no harder than a stone thou art,
Melt at my tears, and be compassionate!
Soft pity enters at an iron gate.",894,19308
656734,651,"'In Tarquin's likeness I did entertain thee:
Hast thou put on his shape to do him shame?
To all the host of heaven I complain me,
Thou wrong'st his honour, wound'st his princely name.
Thou art not what thou seem'st; and if the same,
Thou seem'st not what thou art, a god, a king;
For kings like gods should govern everything.",894,19308
656735,658,"'How will thy shame be seeded in thine age,
When thus thy vices bud before thy spring!
If in thy hope thou darest do such outrage,
What darest thou not when once thou art a king?
O, be remember'd, no outrageous thing
From vassal actors can be wiped away;
Then kings' misdeeds cannot be hid in clay.",894,19308
656736,665,"'This deed will make thee only loved for fear;
But happy monarchs still are fear'd for love:
With foul offenders thou perforce must bear,
When they in thee the like offences prove:
If but for fear of this, thy will remove;
For princes are the glass, the school, the book,
Where subjects' eyes do learn, do read, do look.",894,19308
656737,672,"'And wilt thou be the school where Lust shall learn?
Must he in thee read lectures of such shame?
Wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern
Authority for sin, warrant for blame,
To privilege dishonour in thy name?
Thou black'st reproach against long-living laud,
And makest fair reputation but a bawd.",894,19308
656738,679,"'Hast thou command? by him that gave it thee,
From a pure heart command thy rebel will:
Draw not thy sword to guard iniquity,
For it was lent thee all that brood to kill.
Thy princely office how canst thou fulfil,
When, pattern'd by thy fault, foul sin may say,
He learn'd to sin, and thou didst teach the way?",894,19308
656739,686,"'Think but how vile a spectacle it were,
To view thy present trespass in another.
Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear;
Their own transgressions partially they smother:
This guilt would seem death-worthy in thy brother.
O, how are they wrapp'd in with infamies
That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!",894,19308
656740,693,"'To thee, to thee, my heaved-up hands appeal,
Not to seducing lust, thy rash relier:
I sue for exiled majesty's repeal;
Let him return, and flattering thoughts retire:
His true respect will prison false desire,
And wipe the dim mist from thy doting eyne,
That thou shalt see thy state and pity mine.'",894,19308
656741,700,"'Have done,' quoth he: 'my uncontrolled tide
Turns not, but swells the higher by this let.
Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide,
And with the wind in greater fury fret:
The petty streams that pay a daily debt
To their salt sovereign, with their fresh falls' haste
Add to his flow, but alter not his taste.'",894,19308
656742,707,"'Thou art,' quoth she, 'a sea, a sovereign king;
And, lo, there falls into thy boundless flood
Black lust, dishonour, shame, misgoverning,
Who seek to stain the ocean of thy blood.
If all these pretty ills shall change thy good,
Thy sea within a puddle's womb is hearsed,
And not the puddle in thy sea dispersed.",894,19308
656743,714,"'So shall these slaves be king, and thou their slave;
Thou nobly base, they basely dignified;
Thou their fair life, and they thy fouler grave:
Thou loathed in their shame, they in thy pride:
The lesser thing should not the greater hide;
The cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot,
But low shrubs wither at the cedar's root.",894,19308
656744,721,"'So let thy thoughts, low vassals to thy state'--
No more,' quoth he; 'by heaven, I will not hear thee:
Yield to my love; if not, enforced hate,
Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee;
That done, despitefully I mean to bear thee
Unto the base bed of some rascal groom,
To be thy partner in this shameful doom.'",894,19308
656745,728,"This said, he sets his foot upon the light,
For light and lust are deadly enemies:
Shame folded up in blind concealing night,
When most unseen, then most doth tyrannize.
The wolf hath seized his prey, the poor lamb cries;
Till with her own white fleece her voice controll'd
Entombs her outcry in her lips' sweet fold:",894,19308
656746,735,"For with the nightly linen that she wears
He pens her piteous clamours in her head;
Cooling his hot face in the chastest tears
That ever modest eyes with sorrow shed.
O, that prone lust should stain so pure a bed!
The spots whereof could weeping purify,
Her tears should drop on them perpetually.",894,19308
656747,742,"But she hath lost a dearer thing than life,
And he hath won what he would lose again:
This forced league doth force a further strife;
This momentary joy breeds months of pain;
This hot desire converts to cold disdain:
Pure Chastity is rifled of her store,
And Lust, the thief, far poorer than before.",894,19308
656748,749,"Look, as the full-fed hound or gorged hawk,
Unapt for tender smell or speedy flight,
Make slow pursuit, or altogether balk
The prey wherein by nature they delight;
So surfeit-taking Tarquin fares this night:
His taste delicious, in digestion souring,
Devours his will, that lived by foul devouring.",894,19308
656749,756,"O, deeper sin than bottomless conceit
Can comprehend in still imagination!
Drunken Desire must vomit his receipt,
Ere he can see his own abomination.
While Lust is in his pride, no exclamation
Can curb his heat or rein his rash desire,
Till like a jade Self-will himself doth tire.",894,19308
656750,763,"And then with lank and lean discolour'd cheek,
With heavy eye, knit brow, and strengthless pace,
Feeble Desire, all recreant, poor, and meek,
Like to a bankrupt beggar wails his case:
The flesh being proud, Desire doth fight with Grace,
For there it revels; and when that decays,
The guilty rebel for remission prays.",894,19308
656751,770,"So fares it with this faultful lord of Rome,
Who this accomplishment so hotly chased;
For now against himself he sounds this doom,
That through the length of times he stands disgraced:
Besides, his soul's fair temple is defaced;
To whose weak ruins muster troops of cares,
To ask the spotted princess how she fares.",894,19308
656752,777,"She says, her subjects with foul insurrection
Have batter'd down her consecrated wall,
And by their mortal fault brought in subjection
Her immortality, and made her thrall
To living death and pain perpetual:
Which in her prescience she controlled still,
But her foresight could not forestall their will.",894,19308
656753,784,"Even in this thought through the dark night he stealeth,
A captive victor that hath lost in gain;
Bearing away the wound that nothing healeth,
The scar that will, despite of cure, remain;
Leaving his spoil perplex'd in greater pain.
She bears the load of lust he left behind,
And he the burden of a guilty mind.",894,19308
656754,791,"He like a thievish dog creeps sadly thence;
She like a wearied lamb lies panting there;
He scowls and hates himself for his offence;
She, desperate, with her nails her flesh doth tear;
He faintly flies, sneaking with guilty fear;
She stays, exclaiming on the direful night;
He runs, and chides his vanish'd, loathed delight.",894,19308
656755,798,"He thence departs a heavy convertite;
She there remains a hopeless castaway;
He in his speed looks for the morning light;
She prays she never may behold the day,
'For day,' quoth she, 'nights scapes doth open lay,
And my true eyes have never practised how
To cloak offences with a cunning brow.",894,19308
656756,805,"'They think not but that every eye can see
The same disgrace which they themselves behold;
And therefore would they still in darkness be,
To have their unseen sin remain untold;
For they their guilt with weeping will unfold,
And grave, like water that doth eat in steel,
Upon my cheeks what helpless shame I feel.'",894,19308
656757,812,"Here she exclaims against repose and rest,
And bids her eyes hereafter still be blind.
She wakes her heart by beating on her breast,
And bids it leap from thence, where it may find
Some purer chest to close so pure a mind.
Frantic with grief thus breathes she forth her spite
Against the unseen secrecy of night:",894,19308
656758,819,"'O comfort-killing Night, image of hell!
Dim register and notary of shame!
Black stage for tragedies and murders fell!
Vast sin-concealing chaos! nurse of blame!
Blind muffled bawd! dark harbour for defame!
Grim cave of death! whispering conspirator
With close-tongued treason and the ravisher!",894,19308
656759,826,"'O hateful, vaporous, and foggy Night!
Since thou art guilty of my cureless crime,
Muster thy mists to meet the eastern light,
Make war against proportion'd course of time;
Or if thou wilt permit the sun to climb
His wonted height, yet ere he go to bed,
Knit poisonous clouds about his golden head.",894,19308
656760,833,"'With rotten damps ravish the morning air;
Let their exhaled unwholesome breaths make sick
The life of purity, the supreme fair,
Ere he arrive his weary noon-tide prick;
And let thy misty vapours march so thick,
That in their smoky ranks his smother'd light
May set at noon and make perpetual night.",894,19308
656761,840,"'Were Tarquin Night, as he is but Night's child,
The silver-shining queen he would distain;
Her twinkling handmaids too, by him defiled,
Through Night's black bosom should not peep again:
So should I have co-partners in my pain;
And fellowship in woe doth woe assuage,
As palmers' chat makes short their pilgrimage.",894,19308
656762,847,"'Where now I have no one to blush with me,
To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine,
To mask their brows and hide their infamy;
But I alone alone must sit and pine,
Seasoning the earth with showers of silver brine,
Mingling my talk with tears, my grief with groans,
Poor wasting monuments of lasting moans.",894,19308
656763,854,"'O Night, thou furnace of foul-reeking smoke,
Let not the jealous Day behold that face
Which underneath thy black all-hiding cloak
Immodestly lies martyr'd with disgrace!
Keep still possession of thy gloomy place,
That all the faults which in thy reign are made
May likewise be sepulchred in thy shade!",894,19308
656764,861,"'Make me not object to the tell-tale Day!
The light will show, character'd in my brow,
The story of sweet chastity's decay,
The impious breach of holy wedlock vow:
Yea the illiterate, that know not how
To cipher what is writ in learned books,
Will quote my loathsome trespass in my looks.",894,19308
656765,868,"'The nurse, to still her child, will tell my story,
And fright her crying babe with Tarquin's name;
The orator, to deck his oratory,
Will couple my reproach to Tarquin's shame;
Feast-finding minstrels, tuning my defame,
Will tie the hearers to attend each line,
How Tarquin wronged me, I Collatine.",894,19308
656766,875,"'Let my good name, that senseless reputation,
For Collatine's dear love be kept unspotted:
If that be made a theme for disputation,
The branches of another root are rotted,
And undeserved reproach to him allotted
That is as clear from this attaint of mine
As I, ere this, was pure to Collatine.",894,19308
656767,882,"'O unseen shame! invisible disgrace!
O unfelt sore! crest-wounding, private scar!
Reproach is stamp'd in Collatinus' face,
And Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar,
How he in peace is wounded, not in war.
Alas, how many bear such shameful blows,
Which not themselves, but he that gives them knows!",894,19308
656768,889,"'If, Collatine, thine honour lay in me,
From me by strong assault it is bereft.
My honour lost, and I, a drone-like bee,
Have no perfection of my summer left,
But robb'd and ransack'd by injurious theft:
In thy weak hive a wandering wasp hath crept,
And suck'd the honey which thy chaste bee kept.",894,19308
656769,896,"'Yet am I guilty of thy honour's wrack;
Yet for thy honour did I entertain him;
Coming from thee, I could not put him back,
For it had been dishonour to disdain him:
Besides, of weariness he did complain him,
And talk'd of virtue: O unlook'd-for evil,
When virtue is profaned in such a devil!",894,19308
656770,903,"'Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud?
Or hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows' nests?
Or toads infect fair founts with venom mud?
Or tyrant folly lurk in gentle breasts?
Or kings be breakers of their own behests?
But no perfection is so absolute,
That some impurity doth not pollute.",894,19308
656771,910,"'The aged man that coffers-up his gold
Is plagued with cramps and gouts and painful fits;
And scarce hath eyes his treasure to behold,
But like still-pining Tantalus he sits,
And useless barns the harvest of his wits;
Having no other pleasure of his gain
But torment that it cannot cure his pain.",894,19308
656772,917,"'So then he hath it when he cannot use it,
And leaves it to be master'd by his young;
Who in their pride do presently abuse it:
Their father was too weak, and they too strong,
To hold their cursed-blessed fortune long.
The sweets we wish for turn to loathed sours
Even in the moment that we call them ours.",894,19308
656773,924,"'Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring;
Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers;
The adder hisses where the sweet birds sing;
What virtue breeds iniquity devours:
We have no good that we can say is ours,
But ill-annexed Opportunity
Or kills his life or else his quality.",894,19308
656774,931,"'O Opportunity, thy guilt is great!
'Tis thou that executest the traitor's treason:
Thou set'st the wolf where he the lamb may get;
Whoever plots the sin, thou 'point'st the season;
'Tis thou that spurn'st at right, at law, at reason;
And in thy shady cell, where none may spy him,
Sits Sin, to seize the souls that wander by him.",894,19308
656775,938,"'Thou makest the vestal violate her oath;
Thou blow'st the fire when temperance is thaw'd;
Thou smother'st honesty, thou murder'st troth;
Thou foul abettor! thou notorious bawd!
Thou plantest scandal and displacest laud:
Thou ravisher, thou traitor, thou false thief,
Thy honey turns to gall, thy joy to grief!",894,19308
656776,945,"'Thy secret pleasure turns to open shame,
Thy private feasting to a public fast,
Thy smoothing titles to a ragged name,
Thy sugar'd tongue to bitter wormwood taste:
Thy violent vanities can never last.
How comes it then, vile Opportunity,
Being so bad, such numbers seek for thee?",894,19308
656777,952,"'When wilt thou be the humble suppliant's friend,
And bring him where his suit may be obtain'd?
When wilt thou sort an hour great strifes to end?
Or free that soul which wretchedness hath chain'd?
Give physic to the sick, ease to the pain'd?
The poor, lame, blind, halt, creep, cry out for thee;
But they ne'er meet with Opportunity.",894,19308
656778,959,"'The patient dies while the physician sleeps;
The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds;
Justice is feasting while the widow weeps;
Advice is sporting while infection breeds:
Thou grant'st no time for charitable deeds:
Wrath, envy, treason, rape, and murder's rages,
Thy heinous hours wait on them as their pages.",894,19308
656779,966,"'When Truth and Virtue have to do with thee,
A thousand crosses keep them from thy aid:
They buy thy help; but Sin ne'er gives a fee,
He gratis comes; and thou art well appaid
As well to hear as grant what he hath said.
My Collatine would else have come to me
When Tarquin did, but he was stay'd by thee.",894,19308
656780,973,"Guilty thou art of murder and of theft,
Guilty of perjury and subornation,
Guilty of treason, forgery, and shift,
Guilty of incest, that abomination;
An accessary by thine inclination
To all sins past, and all that are to come,
From the creation to the general doom.",894,19308
656781,980,"'Mis-shapen Time, copesmate of ugly Night,
Swift subtle post, carrier of grisly care,
Eater of youth, false slave to false delight,
Base watch of woes, sin's pack-horse, virtue's snare;
Thou nursest all and murder'st all that are:
O, hear me then, injurious, shifting Time!
Be guilty of my death, since of my crime.",894,19308
656782,987,"'Why hath thy servant, Opportunity,
Betray'd the hours thou gavest me to repose,
Cancell'd my fortunes, and enchained me
To endless date of never-ending woes?
Time's office is to fine the hate of foes;
To eat up errors by opinion bred,
Not spend the dowry of a lawful bed.",894,19308
656783,994,"'Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light,
To stamp the seal of time in aged things,
To wake the morn and sentinel the night,
To wrong the wronger till he render right,
To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours,
And smear with dust their glittering golden towers;",894,19308
656784,1001,"'To fill with worm-holes stately monuments,
To feed oblivion with decay of things,
To blot old books and alter their contents,
To pluck the quills from ancient ravens' wings,
To dry the old oak's sap and cherish springs,
To spoil antiquities of hammer'd steel,
And turn the giddy round of Fortune's wheel;",894,19308
656785,1008,"'To show the beldam daughters of her daughter,
To make the child a man, the man a child,
To slay the tiger that doth live by slaughter,
To tame the unicorn and lion wild,
To mock the subtle in themselves beguiled,
To cheer the ploughman with increaseful crops,
And waste huge stones with little water drops.",894,19308
656786,1015,"'Why work'st thou mischief in thy pilgrimage,
Unless thou couldst return to make amends?
One poor retiring minute in an age
Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends,
Lending him wit that to bad debtors lends:
O, this dread night, wouldst thou one hour come back,
I could prevent this storm and shun thy wrack!",894,19308
656787,1022,"'Thou ceaseless lackey to eternity,
With some mischance cross Tarquin in his flight:
Devise extremes beyond extremity,
To make him curse this cursed crimeful night:
Let ghastly shadows his lewd eyes affright;
And the dire thought of his committed evil
Shape every bush a hideous shapeless devil.",894,19308
656788,1029,"'Disturb his hours of rest with restless trances,
Afflict him in his bed with bedrid groans;
Let there bechance him pitiful mischances,
To make him moan; but pity not his moans:
Stone him with harden'd hearts harder than stones;
And let mild women to him lose their mildness,
Wilder to him than tigers in their wildness.",894,19308
656789,1036,"'Let him have time to tear his curled hair,
Let him have time against himself to rave,
Let him have time of Time's help to despair,
Let him have time to live a loathed slave,
Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave,
And time to see one that by alms doth live
Disdain to him disdained scraps to give.",894,19308
656790,1043,"'Let him have time to see his friends his foes,
And merry fools to mock at him resort;
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes
In time of sorrow, and how swift and short
His time of folly and his time of sport;
And ever let his unrecalling crime
Have time to wail th' abusing of his time.",894,19308
656791,1050,"'O Time, thou tutor both to good and bad,
Teach me to curse him that thou taught'st this ill!
At his own shadow let the thief run mad,
Himself himself seek every hour to kill!
Such wretched hands such wretched blood should spill;
For who so base would such an office have
As slanderous death's-man to so base a slave?",894,19308
656792,1057,"'The baser is he, coming from a king,
To shame his hope with deeds degenerate:
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honour'd, or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
The moon being clouded presently is miss'd,
But little stars may hide them when they list.",894,19308
656793,1064,"'The crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire,
And unperceived fly with the filth away;
But if the like the snow-white swan desire,
The stain upon his silver down will stay.
Poor grooms are sightless night, kings glorious day:
Gnats are unnoted wheresoe'er they fly,
But eagles gazed upon with every eye.",894,19308
656794,1071,"'Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools!
Unprofitable sounds, weak arbitrators!
Busy yourselves in skill-contending schools;
Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters;
To trembling clients be you mediators:
For me, I force not argument a straw,
Since that my case is past the help of law.",894,19308
656795,1078,"'In vain I rail at Opportunity,
At Time, at Tarquin, and uncheerful Night;
In vain I cavil with mine infamy,
In vain I spurn at my confirm'd despite:
This helpless smoke of words doth me no right.
The remedy indeed to do me good
Is to let forth my foul-defiled blood.",894,19308
656796,1085,"'Poor hand, why quiver'st thou at this decree?
Honour thyself to rid me of this shame:
For if I die, my honour lives in thee;
But if I live, thou livest in my defame:
Since thou couldst not defend thy loyal dame,
And wast afeard to scratch her wicked foe,
Kill both thyself and her for yielding so.'",894,19308
656797,1092,"This said, from her be-tumbled couch she starteth,
To find some desperate instrument of death:
But this no slaughterhouse no tool imparteth
To make more vent for passage of her breath;
Which, thronging through her lips, so vanisheth
As smoke from AEtna, that in air consumes,
Or that which from discharged cannon fumes.",894,19308
656798,1099,"'In vain,' quoth she, 'I live, and seek in vain
Some happy mean to end a hapless life.
I fear'd by Tarquin's falchion to be slain,
Yet for the self-same purpose seek a knife:
But when I fear'd I was a loyal wife:
So am I now: O no, that cannot be;
Of that true type hath Tarquin rifled me.",894,19308
656799,1106,"'O, that is gone for which I sought to live,
And therefore now I need not fear to die.
To clear this spot by death, at least I give
A badge of fame to slander's livery;
A dying life to living infamy:
Poor helpless help, the treasure stol'n away,
To burn the guiltless casket where it lay!",894,19308
656800,1113,"'Well, well, dear Collatine, thou shalt not know
The stained taste of violated troth;
I will not wrong thy true affection so,
To flatter thee with an infringed oath;
This bastard graff shall never come to growth:
He shall not boast who did thy stock pollute
That thou art doting father of his fruit.",894,19308
656801,1120,"'Nor shall he smile at thee in secret thought,
Nor laugh with his companions at thy state:
But thou shalt know thy interest was not bought
Basely with gold, but stol'n from forth thy gate.
For me, I am the mistress of my fate,
And with my trespass never will dispense,
Till life to death acquit my forced offence.",894,19308
656802,1127,"'I will not poison thee with my attaint,
Nor fold my fault in cleanly-coin'd excuses;
My sable ground of sin I will not paint,
To hide the truth of this false night's abuses:
My tongue shall utter all; mine eyes, like sluices,
As from a mountain-spring that feeds a dale,
Shall gush pure streams to purge my impure tale.'",894,19308
656803,1134,"By this, lamenting Philomel had ended
The well-tuned warble of her nightly sorrow,
And solemn night with slow sad gait descended
To ugly hell; when, lo, the blushing morrow
Lends light to all fair eyes that light will borrow:
But cloudy Lucrece shames herself to see,
And therefore still in night would cloister'd be.",894,19308
656804,1141,"Revealing day through every cranny spies,
And seems to point her out where she sits weeping;
To whom she sobbing speaks: 'O eye of eyes,
Why pry'st thou through my window? leave thy peeping:
Mock with thy tickling beams eyes that are sleeping:
Brand not my forehead with thy piercing light,
For day hath nought to do what's done by night.'",894,19308
656805,1148,"Thus cavils she with every thing she sees:
True grief is fond and testy as a child,
Who wayward once, his mood with nought agrees:
Old woes, not infant sorrows, bear them mild;
Continuance tames the one; the other wild,
Like an unpractised swimmer plunging still,
With too much labour drowns for want of skill.",894,19308
656806,1155,"So she, deep-drenched in a sea of care,
Holds disputation with each thing she views,
And to herself all sorrow doth compare;
No object but her passion's strength renews;
And as one shifts, another straight ensues:
Sometime her grief is dumb and hath no words;
Sometime 'tis mad and too much talk affords.",894,19308
656807,1162,"The little birds that tune their morning's joy
Make her moans mad with their sweet melody:
For mirth doth search the bottom of annoy;
Sad souls are slain in merry company;
Grief best is pleased with grief's society:
True sorrow then is feelingly sufficed
When with like semblance it is sympathized.",894,19308
656808,1169,"'Tis double death to drown in ken of shore;
He ten times pines that pines beholding food;
To see the salve doth make the wound ache more;
Great grief grieves most at that would do it good;
Deep woes roll forward like a gentle flood,
Who being stopp'd, the bounding banks o'erflows;
Grief dallied with nor law nor limit knows.",894,19308
656809,1176,"'You mocking-birds,' quoth she, 'your tunes entomb
Within your hollow-swelling feather'd breasts,
And in my hearing be you mute and dumb:
My restless discord loves no stops nor rests;
A woeful hostess brooks not merry guests:
Relish your nimble notes to pleasing ears;
Distress likes dumps when time is kept with tears.",894,19308
656810,1183,"'Come, Philomel, that sing'st of ravishment,
Make thy sad grove in my dishevell'd hair:
As the dank earth weeps at thy languishment,
So I at each sad strain will strain a tear,
And with deep groans the diapason bear;
For burden-wise I'll hum on Tarquin still,
While thou on Tereus descant'st better skill.",894,19308
656811,1190,"'And whiles against a thorn thou bear'st thy part,
To keep thy sharp woes waking, wretched I,
To imitate thee well, against my heart
Will fix a sharp knife to affright mine eye;
Who, if it wink, shall thereon fall and die.
These means, as frets upon an instrument,
Shall tune our heart-strings to true languishment.",894,19308
656812,1197,"'And for, poor bird, thou sing'st not in the day,
As shaming any eye should thee behold,
Some dark deep desert, seated from the way,
That knows not parching heat nor freezing cold,
Will we find out; and there we will unfold
To creatures stern sad tunes, to change their kinds:
Since men prove beasts, let beasts bear gentle minds.'",894,19308
656813,1204,"As the poor frighted deer, that stands at gaze,
Wildly determining which way to fly,
Or one encompass'd with a winding maze,
That cannot tread the way out readily;
So with herself is she in mutiny,
To live or die which of the twain were better,
When life is shamed, and death reproach's debtor.",894,19308
656814,1211,"'To kill myself,' quoth she, 'alack, what were it,
But with my body my poor soul's pollution?
They that lose half with greater patience bear it
Than they whose whole is swallow'd in confusion.
That mother tries a merciless conclusion
Who, having two sweet babes, when death takes one,
Will slay the other and be nurse to none.",894,19308
656815,1218,"'My body or my soul, which was the dearer,
When the one pure, the other made divine?
Whose love of either to myself was nearer,
When both were kept for heaven and Collatine?
Ay me! the bark peel'd from the lofty pine,
His leaves will wither and his sap decay;
So must my soul, her bark being peel'd away.",894,19308
656816,1225,"'Her house is sack'd, her quiet interrupted,
Her mansion batter'd by the enemy;
Her sacred temple spotted, spoil'd, corrupted,
Grossly engirt with daring infamy:
Then let it not be call'd impiety,
If in this blemish'd fort I make some hole
Through which I may convey this troubled soul.",894,19308
656817,1232,"'Yet die I will not till my Collatine
Have heard the cause of my untimely death;
That he may vow, in that sad hour of mine,
Revenge on him that made me stop my breath.
My stained blood to Tarquin I'll bequeath,
Which by him tainted shall for him be spent,
And as his due writ in my testament.",894,19308
656818,1239,"'My honour I'll bequeath unto the knife
That wounds my body so dishonoured.
'Tis honour to deprive dishonour'd life;
The one will live, the other being dead:
So of shame's ashes shall my fame be bred;
For in my death I murder shameful scorn:
My shame so dead, mine honour is new-born.",894,19308
656819,1246,"'Dear lord of that dear jewel I have lost,
What legacy shall I bequeath to thee?
My resolution, love, shall be thy boast,
By whose example thou revenged mayest be.
How Tarquin must be used, read it in me:
Myself, thy friend, will kill myself, thy foe,
And for my sake serve thou false Tarquin so.",894,19308
656820,1253,"'This brief abridgement of my will I make:
My soul and body to the skies and ground;
My resolution, husband, do thou take;
Mine honour be the knife's that makes my wound;
My shame be his that did my fame confound;
And all my fame that lives disbursed be
To those that live, and think no shame of me.",894,19308
656821,1260,"'Thou, Collatine, shalt oversee this will;
How was I overseen that thou shalt see it!
My blood shall wash the slander of mine ill;
My life's foul deed, my life's fair end shall free it.
Faint not, faint heart, but stoutly say 'So be it:'
Yield to my hand; my hand shall conquer thee:
Thou dead, both die, and both shall victors be.'",894,19308
656822,1267,"This Plot of death when sadly she had laid,
And wiped the brinish pearl from her bright eyes,
With untuned tongue she hoarsely calls her maid,
Whose swift obedience to her mistress hies;
For fleet-wing'd duty with thought's feathers flies.
Poor Lucrece' cheeks unto her maid seem so
As winter meads when sun doth melt their snow.",894,19308
656823,1274,"Her mistress she doth give demure good-morrow,
With soft-slow tongue, true mark of modesty,
And sorts a sad look to her lady's sorrow,
For why her face wore sorrow's livery;
But durst not ask of her audaciously
Why her two suns were cloud-eclipsed so,
Nor why her fair cheeks over-wash'd with woe.",894,19308
656824,1281,"But as the earth doth weep, the sun being set,
Each flower moisten'd like a melting eye;
Even so the maid with swelling drops gan wet
Her circled eyne, enforced by sympathy
Of those fair suns set in her mistress' sky,
Who in a salt-waved ocean quench their light,
Which makes the maid weep like the dewy night.",894,19308
656825,1288,"A pretty while these pretty creatures stand,
Like ivory conduits coral cisterns filling:
One justly weeps; the other takes in hand
No cause, but company, of her drops spilling:
Their gentle sex to weep are often willing;
Grieving themselves to guess at others' smarts,
And then they drown their eyes or break their hearts.",894,19308
656826,1295,"For men have marble, women waxen, minds,
And therefore are they form'd as marble will;
The weak oppress'd, the impression of strange kinds
Is form'd in them by force, by fraud, or skill:
Then call them not the authors of their ill,
No more than wax shall be accounted evil
Wherein is stamp'd the semblance of a devil.",894,19308
656827,1302,"Their smoothness, like a goodly champaign plain,
Lays open all the little worms that creep;
In men, as in a rough-grown grove, remain
Cave-keeping evils that obscurely sleep:
Through crystal walls each little mote will peep:
Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks,
Poor women's faces are their own fault's books.",894,19308
656828,1309,"No man inveigh against the wither'd flower,
But chide rough winter that the flower hath kill'd:
Not that devour'd, but that which doth devour,
Is worthy blame. O, let it not be hild
Poor women's faults, that they are so fulfill'd
With men's abuses: those proud lords, to blame,
Make weak-made women tenants to their shame.",894,19308
656829,1316,"The precedent whereof in Lucrece view,
Assail'd by night with circumstances strong
Of present death, and shame that might ensue
By that her death, to do her husband wrong:
Such danger to resistance did belong,
That dying fear through all her body spread;
And who cannot abuse a body dead?",894,19308
656830,1323,"By this, mild patience bid fair Lucrece speak
To the poor counterfeit of her complaining:
'My girl,' quoth she, 'on what occasion break
Those tears from thee, that down thy cheeks are
raining?
If thou dost weep for grief of my sustaining,
Know, gentle wench, it small avails my mood:
If tears could help, mine own would do me good.",894,19308
656831,1331,"'But tell me, girl, when went'--and there she stay'd
Till after a deep groan--'Tarquin from hence?'
'Madam, ere I was up,' replied the maid,
'The more to blame my sluggard negligence:
Yet with the fault I thus far can dispense;
Myself was stirring ere the break of day,
And, ere I rose, was Tarquin gone away.",894,19308
656832,1338,"'But, lady, if your maid may be so bold,
She would request to know your heaviness.'
'O, peace!' quoth Lucrece: 'if it should be told,
The repetition cannot make it less;
For more it is than I can well express:
And that deep torture may be call'd a hell
When more is felt than one hath power to tell.",894,19308
656833,1345,"'Go, get me hither paper, ink, and pen:
Yet save that labour, for I have them here.
What should I say? One of my husband's men
Bid thou be ready, by and by, to bear
A letter to my lord, my love, my dear;
Bid him with speed prepare to carry it;
The cause craves haste, and it will soon be writ.'",894,19308
656834,1352,"Her maid is gone, and she prepares to write,
First hovering o'er the paper with her quill:
Conceit and grief an eager combat fight;
What wit sets down is blotted straight with will;
This is too curious-good, this blunt and ill:
Much like a press of people at a door,
Throng her inventions, which shall go before.",894,19308
656835,1359,"At last she thus begins: 'Thou worthy lord
Of that unworthy wife that greeteth thee,
Health to thy person! next vouchsafe t' afford--
If ever, love, thy Lucrece thou wilt see--
Some present speed to come and visit me.
So, I commend me from our house in grief:
My woes are tedious, though my words are brief.'",894,19308
656836,1366,"Here folds she up the tenor of her woe,
Her certain sorrow writ uncertainly.
By this short schedule Collatine may know
Her grief, but not her grief's true quality:
She dares not thereof make discovery,
Lest he should hold it her own gross abuse,
Ere she with blood had stain'd her stain'd excuse.",894,19308
656837,1373,"Besides, the life and feeling of her passion
She hoards, to spend when he is by to hear her:
When sighs and groans and tears may grace the fashion
Of her disgrace, the better so to clear her
From that suspicion which the world might bear her.
To shun this blot, she would not blot the letter
With words, till action might become them better.",894,19308
656838,1380,"To see sad sights moves more than hear them told;
For then eye interprets to the ear
The heavy motion that it doth behold,
When every part a part of woe doth bear.
'Tis but a part of sorrow that we hear:
Deep sounds make lesser noise than shallow fords,
And sorrow ebbs, being blown with wind of words.",894,19308
656839,1387,"Her letter now is seal'd, and on it writ
'At Ardea to my lord with more than haste.'
The post attends, and she delivers it,
Charging the sour-faced groom to hie as fast
As lagging fowls before the northern blast:
Speed more than speed but dull and slow she deems:
Extremity still urgeth such extremes.",894,19308
656840,1394,"The homely villain court'sies to her low;
And, blushing on her, with a steadfast eye
Receives the scroll without or yea or no,
And forth with bashful innocence doth hie.
But they whose guilt within their bosoms lie
Imagine every eye beholds their blame;
For Lucrece thought he blush'd to her see shame:",894,19308
656841,1401,"When, silly groom! God wot, it was defect
Of spirit, Life, and bold audacity.
Such harmless creatures have a true respect
To talk in deeds, while others saucily
Promise more speed, but do it leisurely:
Even so this pattern of the worn-out age
Pawn'd honest looks, but laid no words to gage.",894,19308
656842,1408,"His kindled duty kindled her mistrust,
That two red fires in both their faces blazed;
She thought he blush'd, as knowing Tarquin's lust,
And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed;
Her earnest eye did make him more amazed:
The more she saw the blood his cheeks replenish,
The more she thought he spied in her some blemish.",894,19308
656843,1415,"But long she thinks till he return again,
And yet the duteous vassal scarce is gone.
The weary time she cannot entertain,
For now 'tis stale to sigh, to weep, and groan:
So woe hath wearied woe, moan tired moan,
That she her plaints a little while doth stay,
Pausing for means to mourn some newer way.",894,19308
656844,1422,"At last she calls to mind where hangs a piece
Of skilful painting, made for Priam's Troy:
Before the which is drawn the power of Greece.
For Helen's rape the city to destroy,
Threatening cloud-kissing Ilion with annoy;
Which the conceited painter drew so proud,
As heaven, it seem'd, to kiss the turrets bow'd.",894,19308
656845,1429,"A thousand lamentable objects there,
In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life:
Many a dry drop seem'd a weeping tear,
Shed for the slaughter'd husband by the wife:
The red blood reek'd, to show the painter's strife;
And dying eyes gleam'd forth their ashy lights,
Like dying coals burnt out in tedious nights.",894,19308
656846,1436,"There might you see the labouring pioner
Begrimed with sweat, and smeared all with dust;
And from the towers of Troy there would appear
The very eyes of men through loop-holes thrust,
Gazing upon the Greeks with little lust:
Such sweet observance in this work was had,
That one might see those far-off eyes look sad.",894,19308
656847,1443,"In great commanders grace and majesty
You might behold, triumphing in their faces;
In youth, quick bearing and dexterity;
Pale cowards, marching on with trembling paces;
Which heartless peasants did so well resemble,
That one would swear he saw them quake and tremble.",894,19308
656848,1449,"In Ajax and Ulysses, O, what art
Of physiognomy might one behold!
The face of either cipher'd either's heart;
Their face their manners most expressly told:
In Ajax' eyes blunt rage and rigor roll'd;
But the mild glance that sly Ulysses lent
Show'd deep regard and smiling government.",894,19308
656849,1456,"There pleading might you see grave Nestor stand,
As 'twere encouraging the Greeks to fight;
Making such sober action with his hand,
That it beguiled attention, charm'd the sight:
In speech, it seem'd, his beard, all silver white,
Wagg'd up and down, and from his lips did fly
Thin winding breath, which purl'd up to the sky.",894,19308
656850,1463,"About him were a press of gaping faces,
Which seem'd to swallow up his sound advice;
All jointly listening, but with several graces,
As if some mermaid did their ears entice,
Some high, some low, the painter was so nice;
The scalps of many, almost hid behind,
To jump up higher seem'd, to mock the mind.",894,19308
656851,1470,"Here one man's hand lean'd on another's head,
His nose being shadow'd by his neighbour's ear;
Here one being throng'd bears back, all boll'n and
red;
Another smother'd seems to pelt and swear;
And in their rage such signs of rage they bear,
As, but for loss of Nestor's golden words,
It seem'd they would debate with angry swords.",894,19308
656852,1478,"For much imaginary work was there;
Conceit deceitful, so compact, so kind,
That for Achilles' image stood his spear,
Griped in an armed hand; himself, behind,
Was left unseen, save to the eye of mind:
A hand, a foot, a face, a leg, a head,
Stood for the whole to be imagined.",894,19308
656853,1485,"And from the walls of strong-besieged Troy
When their brave hope, bold Hector, march'd to
field,
Stood many Trojan mothers, sharing joy
To see their youthful sons bright weapons wield;
And to their hope they such odd action yield,
That through their light joy seemed to appear,
Like bright things stain'd, a kind of heavy fear.",894,19308
656854,1493,"And from the strand of Dardan, where they fought,
To Simois' reedy banks the red blood ran,
Whose waves to imitate the battle sought
With swelling ridges; and their ranks began
To break upon the galled shore, and than
Retire again, till, meeting greater ranks,
They join and shoot their foam at Simois' banks.",894,19308
656855,1500,"To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come,
To find a face where all distress is stell'd.
Many she sees where cares have carved some,
But none where all distress and dolour dwell'd,
Till she despairing Hecuba beheld,
Staring on Priam's wounds with her old eyes,
Which bleeding under Pyrrhus' proud foot lies.",894,19308
656856,1507,"In her the painter had anatomized
Time's ruin, beauty's wreck, and grim care's reign:
Her cheeks with chaps and wrinkles were disguised;
Of what she was no semblance did remain:
Her blue blood changed to black in every vein,
Wanting the spring that those shrunk pipes had fed,
Show'd life imprison'd in a body dead.",894,19308
656857,1514,"On this sad shadow Lucrece spends her eyes,
And shapes her sorrow to the beldam's woes,
Who nothing wants to answer her but cries,
And bitter words to ban her cruel foes:
The painter was no god to lend her those;
And therefore Lucrece swears he did her wrong,
To give her so much grief and not a tongue.",894,19308
656858,1521,"'Poor instrument,' quoth she,'without a sound,
I'll tune thy woes with my lamenting tongue;
And drop sweet balm in Priam's painted wound,
And rail on Pyrrhus that hath done him wrong;
And with my tears quench Troy that burns so long;
And with my knife scratch out the angry eyes
Of all the Greeks that are thine enemies.",894,19308
656859,1528,"'Show me the strumpet that began this stir,
That with my nails her beauty I may tear.
Thy heat of lust, fond Paris, did incur
This load of wrath that burning Troy doth bear:
Thy eye kindled the fire that burneth here;
And here in Troy, for trespass of thine eye,
The sire, the son, the dame, and daughter die.",894,19308
656860,1535,"'Why should the private pleasure of some one
Become the public plague of many moe?
Let sin, alone committed, light alone
Upon his head that hath transgressed so;
Let guiltless souls be freed from guilty woe:
For one's offence why should so many fall,
To plague a private sin in general?",894,19308
656861,1542,"'Lo, here weeps Hecuba, here Priam dies,
Here manly Hector faints, here Troilus swounds,
Here friend by friend in bloody channel lies,
And friend to friend gives unadvised wounds,
And one man's lust these many lives confounds:
Had doting Priam cheque'd his son's desire,
Troy had been bright with fame and not with fire.'",894,19308
656862,1549,"Here feelingly she weeps Troy's painted woes:
For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell,
Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes;
Then little strength rings out the doleful knell:
So Lucrece, set a-work, sad tales doth tell
To pencill'd pensiveness and colour'd sorrow;
She lends them words, and she their looks doth borrow.",894,19308
656863,1556,"She throws her eyes about the painting round,
And whom she finds forlorn she doth lament.
At last she sees a wretched image bound,
That piteous looks to Phrygian shepherds lent:
His face, though full of cares, yet show'd content;
Onward to Troy with the blunt swains he goes,
So mild, that Patience seem'd to scorn his woes.",894,19308
656864,1563,"In him the painter labour'd with his skill
To hide deceit, and give the harmless show
An humble gait, calm looks, eyes wailing still,
A brow unbent, that seem'd to welcome woe;
Cheeks neither red nor pale, but mingled so
That blushing red no guilty instance gave,
Nor ashy pale the fear that false hearts have.",894,19308
656865,1570,"But, like a constant and confirmed devil,
He entertain'd a show so seeming just,
And therein so ensconced his secret evil,
That jealousy itself could not mistrust
False-creeping craft and perjury should thrust
Into so bright a day such black-faced storms,
Or blot with hell-born sin such saint-like forms.",894,19308
656866,1577,"The well-skill'd workman this mild image drew
For perjured Sinon, whose enchanting story
The credulous old Priam after slew;
Whose words like wildfire burnt the shining glory
Of rich-built Ilion, that the skies were sorry,
And little stars shot from their fixed places,
When their glass fell wherein they view'd their faces.",894,19308
656867,1584,"This picture she advisedly perused,
And chid the painter for his wondrous skill,
Saying, some shape in Sinon's was abused;
So fair a form lodged not a mind so ill:
And still on him she gazed; and gazing still,
Such signs of truth in his plain face she spied,
That she concludes the picture was belied.",894,19308
656868,1591,"'It cannot be,' quoth she,'that so much guile'--
She would have said 'can lurk in such a look;'
But Tarquin's shape came in her mind the while,
And from her tongue 'can lurk' from 'cannot' took:
'It cannot be' she in that sense forsook,
And turn'd it thus,' It cannot be, I find,
But such a face should bear a wicked mind.",894,19308
656869,1598,"'For even as subtle Sinon here is painted.
So sober-sad, so weary, and so mild,
As if with grief or travail he had fainted,
To me came Tarquin armed; so beguiled
With outward honesty, but yet defiled
With inward vice: as Priam him did cherish,
So did I Tarquin; so my Troy did perish.",894,19308
656870,1605,"'Look, look, how listening Priam wets his eyes,
To see those borrow'd tears that Sinon sheds!
Priam, why art thou old and yet not wise?
For every tear he falls a Trojan bleeds:
His eye drops fire, no water thence proceeds;
Those round clear pearls of his, that move thy pity,
Are balls of quenchless fire to burn thy city.",894,19308
656871,1612,"'Such devils steal effects from lightless hell;
For Sinon in his fire doth quake with cold,
And in that cold hot-burning fire doth dwell;
These contraries such unity do hold,
Only to flatter fools and make them bold:
So Priam's trust false Sinon's tears doth flatter,
That he finds means to burn his Troy with water.'",894,19308
656872,1619,"Here, all enraged, such passion her assails,
That patience is quite beaten from her breast.
She tears the senseless Sinon with her nails,
Comparing him to that unhappy guest
Whose deed hath made herself herself detest:
At last she smilingly with this gives o'er;
'Fool, fool!' quoth she, 'his wounds will not be sore.'",894,19308
656873,1626,"Thus ebbs and flows the current of her sorrow,
And time doth weary time with her complaining.
She looks for night, and then she longs for morrow,
And both she thinks too long with her remaining:
Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining:
Though woe be heavy, yet it seldom sleeps,
And they that watch see time how slow it creeps.",894,19308
656874,1633,"Which all this time hath overslipp'd her thought,
That she with painted images hath spent;
Being from the feeling of her own grief brought
By deep surmise of others' detriment;
Losing her woes in shows of discontent.
It easeth some, though none it ever cured,
To think their dolour others have endured.",894,19308
656875,1640,"But now the mindful messenger, come back,
Brings home his lord and other company;
Who finds his Lucrece clad in mourning black:
And round about her tear-stained eye
Blue circles stream'd; like rainbows in the sky:
These water-galls in her dim element
Foretell new storms to those already spent.",894,19308
656876,1647,"Which when her sad-beholding husband saw,
Amazedly in her sad face he stares:
Her eyes, though sod in tears, look'd red and raw,
Her lively colour kill'd with deadly cares.
He hath no power to ask her how she fares:
Both stood, like old acquaintance in a trance,
Met far from home, wondering each other's chance.",894,19308
656877,1654,"At last he takes her by the bloodless hand,
And thus begins: 'What uncouth ill event
Hath thee befall'n, that thou dost trembling stand?
Sweet love, what spite hath thy fair colour spent?
Why art thou thus attired in discontent?
Unmask, dear dear, this moody heaviness,
And tell thy grief, that we may give redress.'",894,19308
656878,1661,"Three times with sighs she gives her sorrow fire,
Ere once she can discharge one word of woe:
At length address'd to answer his desire,
She modestly prepares to let them know
Her honour is ta'en prisoner by the foe;
While Collatine and his consorted lords
With sad attention long to hear her words.",894,19308
656879,1668,"And now this pale swan in her watery nest
Begins the sad dirge of her certain ending;
'Few words,' quoth she, 'Shall fit the trespass best,
Where no excuse can give the fault amending:
In me moe woes than words are now depending;
And my laments would be drawn out too long,
To tell them all with one poor tired tongue.",894,19308
656880,1675,"'Then be this all the task it hath to say
Dear husband, in the interest of thy bed
A stranger came, and on that pillow lay
Where thou was wont to rest thy weary head;
And what wrong else may be imagined
By foul enforcement might be done to me,
From that, alas, thy Lucrece is not free.",894,19308
656881,1682,"'For in the dreadful dead of dark midnight,
With shining falchion in my chamber came
A creeping creature, with a flaming light,
And softly cried 'Awake, thou Roman dame,
And entertain my love; else lasting shame
On thee and thine this night I will inflict,
If thou my love's desire do contradict.",894,19308
656882,1689,"''For some hard-favour'd groom of thine,' quoth he,
'Unless thou yoke thy liking to my will,
I'll murder straight, and then I'll slaughter thee
And swear I found you where you did fulfil
The loathsome act of lust, and so did kill
The lechers in their deed: this act will be
My fame and thy perpetual infamy.'",894,19308
656883,1696,"'With this, I did begin to start and cry;
And then against my heart he sets his sword,
Swearing, unless I took all patiently,
I should not live to speak another word;
So should my shame still rest upon record,
And never be forgot in mighty Rome
Th' adulterate death of Lucrece and her groom.",894,19308
656884,1703,"'Mine enemy was strong, my poor self weak,
And far the weaker with so strong a fear:
My bloody judge forbade my tongue to speak;
No rightful plea might plead for justice there:
His scarlet lust came evidence to swear
That my poor beauty had purloin'd his eyes;
And when the judge is robb'd the prisoner dies.",894,19308
656885,1710,"'O, teach me how to make mine own excuse!
Or at the least this refuge let me find;
Though my gross blood be stain'd with this abuse,
Immaculate and spotless is my mind;
That was not forced; that never was inclined
To accessary yieldings, but still pure
Doth in her poison'd closet yet endure.'",894,19308
656886,1717,"Lo, here, the hopeless merchant of this loss,
With head declined, and voice damm'd up with woe,
With sad set eyes, and wretched arms across,
From lips new-waxen pale begins to blow
The grief away that stops his answer so:
But, wretched as he is, he strives in vain;
What he breathes out his breath drinks up again.",894,19308
656887,1724,"As through an arch the violent roaring tide
Outruns the eye that doth behold his haste,
Yet in the eddy boundeth in his pride
Back to the strait that forced him on so fast;
In rage sent out, recall'd in rage, being past:
Even so his sighs, his sorrows, make a saw,
To push grief on, and back the same grief draw.",894,19308
656888,1731,"Which speechless woe of his poor she attendeth,
And his untimely frenzy thus awaketh:
'Dear lord, thy sorrow to my sorrow lendeth
Another power; no flood by raining slaketh.
My woe too sensible thy passion maketh
More feeling-painful: let it then suffice
To drown one woe, one pair of weeping eyes.",894,19308
656889,1738,"'And for my sake, when I might charm thee so,
For she that was thy Lucrece, now attend me:
Be suddenly revenged on my foe,
Thine, mine, his own: suppose thou dost defend me
From what is past: the help that thou shalt lend me
Comes all too late, yet let the traitor die;
For sparing justice feeds iniquity.",894,19308
656890,1745,"'But ere I name him, you fair lords,' quoth she,
Speaking to those that came with Collatine,
'Shall plight your honourable faiths to me,
With swift pursuit to venge this wrong of mine;
For 'tis a meritorious fair design
To chase injustice with revengeful arms:
Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies' harms.'",894,19308
656891,1752,"At this request, with noble disposition
Each present lord began to promise aid,
As bound in knighthood to her imposition,
Longing to hear the hateful foe bewray'd.
But she, that yet her sad task hath not said,
The protestation stops. 'O, speak, ' quoth she,
'How may this forced stain be wiped from me?",894,19308
656892,1759,"'What is the quality of mine offence,
Being constrain'd with dreadful circumstance?
May my pure mind with the foul act dispense,
My low-declined honour to advance?
May any terms acquit me from this chance?
The poison'd fountain clears itself again;
And why not I from this compelled stain?'",894,19308
656893,1766,"With this, they all at once began to say,
Her body's stain her mind untainted clears;
While with a joyless smile she turns away
The face, that map which deep impression bears
Of hard misfortune, carved in it with tears.
'No, no,' quoth she, 'no dame, hereafter living,
By my excuse shall claim excuse's giving.'",894,19308
656894,1773,"Here with a sigh, as if her heart would break,
She throws forth Tarquin's name; 'He, he,' she says,
But more than 'he' her poor tongue could not speak;
Till after many accents and delays,
Untimely breathings, sick and short assays,
She utters this, 'He, he, fair lords, 'tis he,
That guides this hand to give this wound to me.'",894,19308
656895,1780,"Even here she sheathed in her harmless breast
A harmful knife, that thence her soul unsheathed:
That blow did that it from the deep unrest
Of that polluted prison where it breathed:
Her contrite sighs unto the clouds bequeath'd
Her winged sprite, and through her wounds doth fly
Life's lasting date from cancell'd destiny.",894,19308
656896,1787,"Stone-still, astonish'd with this deadly deed,
Stood Collatine and all his lordly crew;
Till Lucrece' father, that beholds her bleed,
Himself on her self-slaughter'd body threw;
And from the purple fountain Brutus drew
The murderous knife, and, as it left the place,
Her blood, in poor revenge, held it in chase;",894,19308
656897,1794,"And bubbling from her breast, it doth divide
In two slow rivers, that the crimson blood
Circles her body in on every side,
Who, like a late-sack'd island, vastly stood
Bare and unpeopled in this fearful flood.
Some of her blood still pure and red remain'd,
And some look'd black, and that false Tarquin stain'd.",894,19308
656898,1801,"About the mourning and congealed face
Of that black blood a watery rigol goes,
Which seems to weep upon the tainted place:
And ever since, as pitying Lucrece' woes,
Corrupted blood some watery token shows;
And blood untainted still doth red abide,
Blushing at that which is so putrified.",894,19308
656899,1808,"'Daughter, dear daughter,' old Lucretius cries,
'That life was mine which thou hast here deprived.
If in the child the father's image lies,
Where shall I live now Lucrece is unlived?
Thou wast not to this end from me derived.
If children predecease progenitors,
We are their offspring, and they none of ours.",894,19308
656900,1815,"'Poor broken glass, I often did behold
In thy sweet semblance my old age new born;
But now that fresh fair mirror, dim and old,
Shows me a bare-boned death by time out-worn:
O, from thy cheeks my image thou hast torn,
And shivered all the beauty of my glass,
That I no more can see what once I was!",894,19308
656901,1822,"'O time, cease thou thy course and last no longer,
If they surcease to be that should survive.
Shall rotten death make conquest of the stronger
And leave the faltering feeble souls alive?
The old bees die, the young possess their hive:
Then live, sweet Lucrece, live again and see
Thy father die, and not thy father thee!",894,19308
656902,1829,"By this, starts Collatine as from a dream,
And bids Lucretius give his sorrow place;
And then in key-cold Lucrece' bleeding stream
He falls, and bathes the pale fear in his face,
And counterfeits to die with her a space;
Till manly shame bids him possess his breath
And live to be revenged on her death.",894,19308
656903,1836,"The deep vexation of his inward soul
Hath served a dumb arrest upon his tongue;
Who, mad that sorrow should his use control,
Or keep him from heart-easing words so long,
Begins to talk; but through his lips do throng
Weak words, so thick come in his poor heart's aid,
That no man could distinguish what he said.",894,19308
656904,1843,"Yet sometime 'Tarquin' was pronounced plain,
But through his teeth, as if the name he tore.
This windy tempest, till it blow up rain,
Held back his sorrow's tide, to make it more;
At last it rains, and busy winds give o'er:
Then son and father weep with equal strife
Who should weep most, for daughter or for wife.",894,19308
656905,1850,"The one doth call her his, the other his,
Yet neither may possess the claim they lay.
The father says 'She's mine.' 'O, mine she is,'
Replies her husband: 'do not take away
My sorrow's interest; let no mourner say
He weeps for her, for she was only mine,
And only must be wail'd by Collatine.'",894,19308
656906,1857,"'O,' quoth Lucretius,' I did give that life
Which she too early and too late hath spill'd.'
'Woe, woe,' quoth Collatine, 'she was my wife,
I owed her, and 'tis mine that she hath kill'd.'
'My daughter' and 'my wife' with clamours fill'd
The dispersed air, who, holding Lucrece' life,
Answer'd their cries, 'my daughter' and 'my wife.'",894,19308
656907,1864,"Brutus, who pluck'd the knife from Lucrece' side,
Seeing such emulation in their woe,
Began to clothe his wit in state and pride,
Burying in Lucrece' wound his folly's show.
He with the Romans was esteemed so
As silly-jeering idiots are with kings,
For sportive words and uttering foolish things:",894,19308
656908,1871,"But now he throws that shallow habit by,
Wherein deep policy did him disguise;
And arm'd his long-hid wits advisedly,
To cheque the tears in Collatinus' eyes.
'Thou wronged lord of Rome,' quoth be, 'arise:
Let my unsounded self, supposed a fool,
Now set thy long-experienced wit to school.",894,19308
656909,1878,"'Why, Collatine, is woe the cure for woe?
Do wounds help wounds, or grief help grievous deeds?
Is it revenge to give thyself a blow
For his foul act by whom thy fair wife bleeds?
Such childish humour from weak minds proceeds:
Thy wretched wife mistook the matter so,
To slay herself, that should have slain her foe.",894,19308
656910,1885,"'Courageous Roman, do not steep thy heart
In such relenting dew of lamentations;
But kneel with me and help to bear thy part,
To rouse our Roman gods with invocations,
That they will suffer these abominations,
Since Rome herself in them doth stand disgraced,
By our strong arms from forth her fair streets chased.",894,19308
656911,1892,"'Now, by the Capitol that we adore,
And by this chaste blood so unjustly stain'd,
By heaven's fair sun that breeds the fat earth's
store,
By all our country rights in Rome maintain'd,
And by chaste Lucrece' soul that late complain'd
Her wrongs to us, and by this bloody knife,
We will revenge the death of this true wife.'",894,19308
656912,1900,"This said, he struck his hand upon his breast,
And kiss'd the fatal knife, to end his vow;
And to his protestation urged the rest,
Who, wondering at him, did his words allow:
Then jointly to the ground their knees they bow;
And that deep vow, which Brutus made before,
He doth again repeat, and that they swore.",894,19308
656913,1907,"When they had sworn to this advised doom,
They did conclude to bear dead Lucrece thence;
To show her bleeding body thorough Rome,
And so to publish Tarquin's foul offence:
Which being done with speedy diligence,
The Romans plausibly did give consent
To Tarquin's everlasting banishment.",894,19308
656914,5,"Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster,
Hast thou, according to thy oath and band,
Brought hither Henry Hereford thy bold son,
Here to make good the boisterous late appeal,
Which then our leisure would not let us hear,
Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?",944,19309
656915,11,"I have, my liege.",614,19309
656916,12,"Tell me, moreover, hast thou sounded him,
If he appeal the duke on ancient malice;
Or worthily, as a good subject should,
On some known ground of treachery in him?",944,19309
656917,16,"As near as I could sift him on that argument,
On some apparent danger seen in him
Aim'd at your highness, no inveterate malice.",614,19309
656918,19,"Then call them to our presence; face to face,
And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear
The accuser and the accused freely speak:
High-stomach'd are they both, and full of ire,
In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.",944,19309
656919,24,[Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE and THOMAS MOWBRAY],1261,19309
656920,25,"Many years of happy days befal
My gracious sovereign, my most loving liege!",572,19309
656921,27,"Each day still better other's happiness;
Until the heavens, envying earth's good hap,
Add an immortal title to your crown!",1190,19309
656922,30,"We thank you both: yet one but flatters us,
As well appeareth by the cause you come;
Namely to appeal each other of high treason.
Cousin of Hereford, what dost thou object
Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?",944,19309
656923,35,"First, heaven be the record to my speech!
In the devotion of a subject's love,
Tendering the precious safety of my prince,
And free from other misbegotten hate,
Come I appellant to this princely presence.
Now, Thomas Mowbray, do I turn to thee,
And mark my greeting well; for what I speak
My body shall make good upon this earth,
Or my divine soul answer it in heaven.
Thou art a traitor and a miscreant,
Too good to be so and too bad to live,
Since the more fair and crystal is the sky,
The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly.
Once more, the more to aggravate the note,
With a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat;
And wish, so please my sovereign, ere I move,
What my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove.",572,19309
656924,52,"Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal:
'Tis not the trial of a woman's war,
The bitter clamour of two eager tongues,
Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain;
The blood is hot that must be cool'd for this:
Yet can I not of such tame patience boast
As to be hush'd and nought at all to say:
First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me
From giving reins and spurs to my free speech;
Which else would post until it had return'd
These terms of treason doubled down his throat.
Setting aside his high blood's royalty,
And let him be no kinsman to my liege,
I do defy him, and I spit at him;
Call him a slanderous coward and a villain:
Which to maintain I would allow him odds,
And meet him, were I tied to run afoot
Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps,
Or any other ground inhabitable,
Where ever Englishman durst set his foot.
Mean time let this defend my loyalty,
By all my hopes, most falsely doth he lie.",1190,19309
656925,74,"Pale trembling coward, there I throw my gage,
Disclaiming here the kindred of the king,
And lay aside my high blood's royalty,
Which fear, not reverence, makes thee to except.
If guilty dread have left thee so much strength
As to take up mine honour's pawn, then stoop:
By that and all the rites of knighthood else,
Will I make good against thee, arm to arm,
What I have spoke, or thou canst worse devise.",572,19309
656926,83,"I take it up; and by that sword I swear
Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder,
I'll answer thee in any fair degree,
Or chivalrous design of knightly trial:
And when I mount, alive may I not light,
If I be traitor or unjustly fight!",1190,19309
656927,89,"What doth our cousin lay to Mowbray's charge?
It must be great that can inherit us
So much as of a thought of ill in him.",944,19309
656928,92,"Look, what I speak, my life shall prove it true;
That Mowbray hath received eight thousand nobles
In name of lendings for your highness' soldiers,
The which he hath detain'd for lewd employments,
Like a false traitor and injurious villain.
Besides I say and will in battle prove,
Or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge
That ever was survey'd by English eye,
That all the treasons for these eighteen years
Complotted and contrived in this land
Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.
Further I say and further will maintain
Upon his bad life to make all this good,
That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death,
Suggest his soon-believing adversaries,
And consequently, like a traitor coward,
Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood:
Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries,
Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth,
To me for justice and rough chastisement;
And, by the glorious worth of my descent,
This arm shall do it, or this life be spent.",572,19309
656929,114,"How high a pitch his resolution soars!
Thomas of Norfolk, what say'st thou to this?",944,19309
656930,116,"O, let my sovereign turn away his face
And bid his ears a little while be deaf,
Till I have told this slander of his blood,
How God and good men hate so foul a liar.",1190,19309
656931,120,"Mowbray, impartial are our eyes and ears:
Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir,
As he is but my father's brother's son,
Now, by my sceptre's awe, I make a vow,
Such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood
Should nothing privilege him, nor partialize
The unstooping firmness of my upright soul:
He is our subject, Mowbray; so art thou:
Free speech and fearless I to thee allow.",944,19309
656932,129,"Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart,
Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest.
Three parts of that receipt I had for Calais
Disbursed I duly to his highness' soldiers;
The other part reserved I by consent,
For that my sovereign liege was in my debt
Upon remainder of a dear account,
Since last I went to France to fetch his queen:
Now swallow down that lie. For Gloucester's death,
I slew him not; but to my own disgrace
Neglected my sworn duty in that case.
For you, my noble Lord of Lancaster,
The honourable father to my foe
Once did I lay an ambush for your life,
A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul
But ere I last received the sacrament
I did confess it, and exactly begg'd
Your grace's pardon, and I hope I had it.
This is my fault: as for the rest appeall'd,
It issues from the rancour of a villain,
A recreant and most degenerate traitor
Which in myself I boldly will defend;
And interchangeably hurl down my gage
Upon this overweening traitor's foot,
To prove myself a loyal gentleman
Even in the best blood chamber'd in his bosom.
In haste whereof, most heartily I pray
Your highness to assign our trial day.",1190,19309
656933,157,"Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me;
Let's purge this choler without letting blood:
This we prescribe, though no physician;
Deep malice makes too deep incision;
Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed;
Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.
Good uncle, let this end where it begun;
We'll calm the Duke of Norfolk, you your son.",944,19309
656934,165,"To be a make-peace shall become my age:
Throw down, my son, the Duke of Norfolk's gage.",614,19309
656935,167,"And, Norfolk, throw down his.",944,19309
656936,168,"When, Harry, when?
Obedience bids I should not bid again.",614,19309
656937,170,"Norfolk, throw down, we bid; there is no boot.",944,19309
656938,171,"Myself I throw, dread sovereign, at thy foot.
My life thou shalt command, but not my shame:
The one my duty owes; but my fair name,
Despite of death that lives upon my grave,
To dark dishonour's use thou shalt not have.
I am disgraced, impeach'd and baffled here,
Pierced to the soul with slander's venom'd spear,
The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood
Which breathed this poison.",1190,19309
656939,180,"Rage must be withstood:
Give me his gage: lions make leopards tame.",944,19309
656940,182,"Yea, but not change his spots: take but my shame.
And I resign my gage. My dear dear lord,
The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation: that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest
Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one:
Take honour from me, and my life is done:
Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try;
In that I live and for that will I die.",1190,19309
656941,193,"Cousin, throw up your gage; do you begin.",944,19309
656942,194,"O, God defend my soul from such deep sin!
Shall I seem crest-fall'n in my father's sight?
Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height
Before this out-dared dastard? Ere my tongue
Shall wound my honour with such feeble wrong,
Or sound so base a parle, my teeth shall tear
The slavish motive of recanting fear,
And spit it bleeding in his high disgrace,
Where shame doth harbour, even in Mowbray's face.",572,19309
656943,203,[Exit JOHN OF GAUNT],1261,19309
656944,204,"We were not born to sue, but to command;
Which since we cannot do to make you friends,
Be ready, as your lives shall answer it,
At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day:
There shall your swords and lances arbitrate
The swelling difference of your settled hate:
Since we can not atone you, we shall see
Justice design the victor's chivalry.
Lord marshal, command our officers at arms
Be ready to direct these home alarms.",944,19309
656945,214,[Exeunt],1261,19309
656946,217,[Enter JOHN OF GAUNT with DUCHESS],1261,19310
656947,218,"Alas, the part I had in Woodstock's blood
Doth more solicit me than your exclaims,
To stir against the butchers of his life!
But since correction lieth in those hands
Which made the fault that we cannot correct,
Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven;
Who, when they see the hours ripe on earth,
Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads.",614,19310
656948,226,"Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur?
Hath love in thy old blood no living fire?
Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one,
Were as seven vials of his sacred blood,
Or seven fair branches springing from one root:
Some of those seven are dried by nature's course,
Some of those branches by the Destinies cut;
But Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my Gloucester,
One vial full of Edward's sacred blood,
One flourishing branch of his most royal root,
Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor spilt,
Is hack'd down, and his summer leaves all faded,
By envy's hand and murder's bloody axe.
Ah, Gaunt, his blood was thine! that bed, that womb,
That metal, that self-mould, that fashion'd thee
Made him a man; and though thou livest and breathest,
Yet art thou slain in him: thou dost consent
In some large measure to thy father's death,
In that thou seest thy wretched brother die,
Who was the model of thy father's life.
Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:
In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughter'd,
Thou showest the naked pathway to thy life,
Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee:
That which in mean men we intitle patience
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
What shall I say? to safeguard thine own life,
The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death.",335,19310
656949,254,"God's is the quarrel; for God's substitute,
His deputy anointed in His sight,
Hath caused his death: the which if wrongfully,
Let heaven revenge; for I may never lift
An angry arm against His minister.",614,19310
656950,259,"Where then, alas, may I complain myself?",335,19310
656951,260,"To God, the widow's champion and defence.",614,19310
656952,261,"Why, then, I will. Farewell, old Gaunt.
Thou goest to Coventry, there to behold
Our cousin Hereford and fell Mowbray fight:
O, sit my husband's wrongs on Hereford's spear,
That it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast!
Or, if misfortune miss the first career,
Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom,
They may break his foaming courser's back,
And throw the rider headlong in the lists,
A caitiff recreant to my cousin Hereford!
Farewell, old Gaunt: thy sometimes brother's wife
With her companion grief must end her life.",335,19310
656953,273,"Sister, farewell; I must to Coventry:
As much good stay with thee as go with me!",614,19310
656954,275,"Yet one word more: grief boundeth where it falls,
Not with the empty hollowness, but weight:
I take my leave before I have begun,
For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done.
Commend me to thy brother, Edmund York.
Lo, this is all:--nay, yet depart not so;
Though this be all, do not so quickly go;
I shall remember more. Bid him--ah, what?--
With all good speed at Plashy visit me.
Alack, and what shall good old York there see
But empty lodgings and unfurnish'd walls,
Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones?
And what hear there for welcome but my groans?
Therefore commend me; let him not come there,
To seek out sorrow that dwells every where.
Desolate, desolate, will I hence and die:
The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye.",335,19310
656955,292,[Exeunt],1261,19310
656956,295,[Enter the Lord Marshal and the DUKE OF AUMERLE],1261,19311
656957,296,"My Lord Aumerle, is Harry Hereford arm'd?",690,19311
656958,297,"Yea, at all points; and longs to enter in.",133,19311
656959,298,"The Duke of Norfolk, sprightfully and bold,
Stays but the summons of the appellant's trumpet.",690,19311
656960,300,"Why, then, the champions are prepared, and stay
For nothing but his majesty's approach.
[The trumpets sound, and KING RICHARD enters with]
his nobles, JOHN OF GAUNT, BUSHY, BAGOT, GREEN, and
others. When they are set, enter THOMAS MOWBRAY in
arms, defendant, with a Herald]",133,19311
656961,306,"Marshal, demand of yonder champion
The cause of his arrival here in arms:
Ask him his name and orderly proceed
To swear him in the justice of his cause.",944,19311
656962,310,"In God's name and the king's, say who thou art
And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms,
Against what man thou comest, and what thy quarrel:
Speak truly, on thy knighthood and thy oath;
As so defend thee heaven and thy valour!",690,19311
656963,315,"My name is Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk;
Who hither come engaged by my oath--
Which God defend a knight should violate!--
Both to defend my loyalty and truth
To God, my king and my succeeding issue,
Against the Duke of Hereford that appeals me
And, by the grace of God and this mine arm,
To prove him, in defending of myself,
A traitor to my God, my king, and me:
And as I truly fight, defend me heaven!
[The trumpets sound. Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE,]
appellant, in armour, with a Herald]",1190,19311
656964,327,"Marshal, ask yonder knight in arms,
Both who he is and why he cometh hither
Thus plated in habiliments of war,
And formally, according to our law,
Depose him in the justice of his cause.",944,19311
656965,332,"What is thy name? and wherefore comest thou hither,
Before King Richard in his royal lists?
Against whom comest thou? and what's thy quarrel?
Speak like a true knight, so defend thee heaven!",690,19311
656966,336,"Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby
Am I; who ready here do stand in arms,
To prove, by God's grace and my body's valour,
In lists, on Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,
That he is a traitor, foul and dangerous,
To God of heaven, King Richard and to me;
And as I truly fight, defend me heaven!",572,19311
656967,343,"On pain of death, no person be so bold
Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists,
Except the marshal and such officers
Appointed to direct these fair designs.",690,19311
656968,347,"Lord marshal, let me kiss my sovereign's hand,
And bow my knee before his majesty:
For Mowbray and myself are like two men
That vow a long and weary pilgrimage;
Then let us take a ceremonious leave
And loving farewell of our several friends.",572,19311
656969,353,"The appellant in all duty greets your highness,
And craves to kiss your hand and take his leave.",690,19311
656970,355,"We will descend and fold him in our arms.
Cousin of Hereford, as thy cause is right,
So be thy fortune in this royal fight!
Farewell, my blood; which if to-day thou shed,
Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead.",944,19311
656971,360,"O let no noble eye profane a tear
For me, if I be gored with Mowbray's spear:
As confident as is the falcon's flight
Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight.
My loving lord, I take my leave of you;
Of you, my noble cousin, Lord Aumerle;
Not sick, although I have to do with death,
But lusty, young, and cheerly drawing breath.
Lo, as at English feasts, so I regreet
The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet:
O thou, the earthly author of my blood,
Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate,
Doth with a twofold vigour lift me up
To reach at victory above my head,
Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers;
And with thy blessings steel my lance's point,
That it may enter Mowbray's waxen coat,
And furbish new the name of John a Gaunt,
Even in the lusty havior of his son.",572,19311
656972,379,"God in thy good cause make thee prosperous!
Be swift like lightning in the execution;
And let thy blows, doubly redoubled,
Fall like amazing thunder on the casque
Of thy adverse pernicious enemy:
Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant and live.",614,19311
656973,385,Mine innocency and Saint George to thrive!,572,19311
656974,386,"However God or fortune cast my lot,
There lives or dies, true to King Richard's throne,
A loyal, just and upright gentleman:
Never did captive with a freer heart
Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace
His golden uncontroll'd enfranchisement,
More than my dancing soul doth celebrate
This feast of battle with mine adversary.
Most mighty liege, and my companion peers,
Take from my mouth the wish of happy years:
As gentle and as jocund as to jest
Go I to fight: truth hath a quiet breast.",1190,19311
656975,398,"Farewell, my lord: securely I espy
Virtue with valour couched in thine eye.
Order the trial, marshal, and begin.",944,19311
656976,401,"Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby,
Receive thy lance; and God defend the right!",690,19311
656977,403,"Strong as a tower in hope, I cry amen.",572,19311
656978,404,"Go bear this lance to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk.",690,19311
656979,405,"Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby,
Stands here for God, his sovereign and himself,
On pain to be found false and recreant,
To prove the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray,
A traitor to his God, his king and him;
And dares him to set forward to the fight.",427,19311
656980,411,"Here standeth Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,
On pain to be found false and recreant,
Both to defend himself and to approve
Henry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby,
To God, his sovereign and to him disloyal;
Courageously and with a free desire
Attending but the signal to begin.",997,19311
656981,418,"Sound, trumpets; and set forward, combatants.
[A charge sounded]
Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.",690,19311
656982,421,"Let them lay by their helmets and their spears,
And both return back to their chairs again:
Withdraw with us: and let the trumpets sound
While we return these dukes what we decree.
[A long flourish]
Draw near,
And list what with our council we have done.
For that our kingdom's earth should not be soil'd
With that dear blood which it hath fostered;
And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect
Of civil wounds plough'd up with neighbours' sword;
And for we think the eagle-winged pride
Of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts,
With rival-hating envy, set on you
To wake our peace, which in our country's cradle
Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep;
Which so roused up with boisterous untuned drums,
With harsh resounding trumpets' dreadful bray,
And grating shock of wrathful iron arms,
Might from our quiet confines fright fair peace
And make us wade even in our kindred's blood,
Therefore, we banish you our territories:
You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of life,
Till twice five summers have enrich'd our fields
Shall not regreet our fair dominions,
But tread the stranger paths of banishment.",944,19311
656983,447,"Your will be done: this must my comfort be,
Sun that warms you here shall shine on me;
And those his golden beams to you here lent
Shall point on me and gild my banishment.",572,19311
656984,451,"Norfolk, for thee remains a heavier doom,
Which I with some unwillingness pronounce:
The sly slow hours shall not determinate
The dateless limit of thy dear exile;
The hopeless word of 'never to return'
Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life.",944,19311
656985,457,"A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege,
And all unlook'd for from your highness' mouth:
A dearer merit, not so deep a maim
As to be cast forth in the common air,
Have I deserved at your highness' hands.
The language I have learn'd these forty years,
My native English, now I must forego:
And now my tongue's use is to me no more
Than an unstringed viol or a harp,
Or like a cunning instrument cased up,
Or, being open, put into his hands
That knows no touch to tune the harmony:
Within my mouth you have engaol'd my tongue,
Doubly portcullis'd with my teeth and lips;
And dull unfeeling barren ignorance
Is made my gaoler to attend on me.
I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
Too far in years to be a pupil now:
What is thy sentence then but speechless death,
Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath?",1190,19311
656986,477,"It boots thee not to be compassionate:
After our sentence plaining comes too late.",944,19311
656987,479,"Then thus I turn me from my country's light,
To dwell in solemn shades of endless night.",1190,19311
656988,481,"Return again, and take an oath with thee.
Lay on our royal sword your banish'd hands;
Swear by the duty that you owe to God--
Our part therein we banish with yourselves--
To keep the oath that we administer:
You never shall, so help you truth and God!
Embrace each other's love in banishment;
Nor never look upon each other's face;
Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile
This louring tempest of your home-bred hate;
Nor never by advised purpose meet
To plot, contrive, or complot any ill
'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land.",944,19311
656989,494,I swear.,572,19311
656990,495,"And I, to keep all this.",1190,19311
656991,496,"Norfolk, so far as to mine enemy:--
By this time, had the king permitted us,
One of our souls had wander'd in the air.
Banish'd this frail sepulchre of our flesh,
As now our flesh is banish'd from this land:
Confess thy treasons ere thou fly the realm;
Since thou hast far to go, bear not along
The clogging burthen of a guilty soul.",572,19311
656992,504,"No, Bolingbroke: if ever I were traitor,
My name be blotted from the book of life,
And I from heaven banish'd as from hence!
But what thou art, God, thou, and I do know;
And all too soon, I fear, the king shall rue.
Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray;
Save back to England, all the world's my way.",1190,19311
656993,511,[Exit],1261,19311
656994,512,"Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes
I see thy grieved heart: thy sad aspect
Hath from the number of his banish'd years
Pluck'd four away.
[To HENRY BOLINGBROKE]
Six frozen winter spent,
Return with welcome home from banishment.",944,19311
656995,519,"How long a time lies in one little word!
Four lagging winters and four wanton springs
End in a word: such is the breath of kings.",572,19311
656996,522,"I thank my liege, that in regard of me
He shortens four years of my son's exile:
But little vantage shall I reap thereby;
For, ere the six years that he hath to spend
Can change their moons and bring their times about
My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light
Shall be extinct with age and endless night;
My inch of taper will be burnt and done,
And blindfold death not let me see my son.",614,19311
656997,531,"Why uncle, thou hast many years to live.",944,19311
656998,532,"But not a minute, king, that thou canst give:
Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;
Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage;
Thy word is current with him for my death,
But dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath.",614,19311
656999,539,"Thy son is banish'd upon good advice,
Whereto thy tongue a party-verdict gave:
Why at our justice seem'st thou then to lour?",944,19311
657000,542,"Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
You urged me as a judge; but I had rather
You would have bid me argue like a father.
O, had it been a stranger, not my child,
To smooth his fault I should have been more mild:
A partial slander sought I to avoid,
And in the sentence my own life destroy'd.
Alas, I look'd when some of you should say,
I was too strict to make mine own away;
But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue
Against my will to do myself this wrong.",614,19311
657001,553,"Cousin, farewell; and, uncle, bid him so:
Six years we banish him, and he shall go.",944,19311
657002,555,[Flourish. Exeunt KING RICHARD II and train],1261,19311
657003,556,"Cousin, farewell: what presence must not know,
From where you do remain let paper show.",133,19311
657004,558,"My lord, no leave take I; for I will ride,
As far as land will let me, by your side.",690,19311
657005,560,"O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words,
That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends?",614,19311
657006,562,"I have too few to take my leave of you,
When the tongue's office should be prodigal
To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart.",572,19311
657007,565,Thy grief is but thy absence for a time.,614,19311
657008,566,"Joy absent, grief is present for that time.",572,19311
657009,567,What is six winters? they are quickly gone.,614,19311
657010,568,To men in joy; but grief makes one hour ten.,572,19311
657011,569,Call it a travel that thou takest for pleasure.,614,19311
657012,570,"My heart will sigh when I miscall it so,
Which finds it an inforced pilgrimage.",572,19311
657013,572,"The sullen passage of thy weary steps
Esteem as foil wherein thou art to set
The precious jewel of thy home return.",614,19311
657014,575,"Nay, rather, every tedious stride I make
Will but remember me what a deal of world
I wander from the jewels that I love.
Must I not serve a long apprenticehood
To foreign passages, and in the end,
Having my freedom, boast of nothing else
But that I was a journeyman to grief?",572,19311
657015,582,"All places that the eye of heaven visits
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
Teach thy necessity to reason thus;
There is no virtue like necessity.
Think not the king did banish thee,
But thou the king. Woe doth the heavier sit,
Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.
Go, say I sent thee forth to purchase honour
And not the king exiled thee; or suppose
Devouring pestilence hangs in our air
And thou art flying to a fresher clime:
Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it
To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou comest:
Suppose the singing birds musicians,
The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strew'd,
The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more
Than a delightful measure or a dance;
For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it and sets it light.",614,19311
657016,601,"O, who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow
By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
O, no! the apprehension of the good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse:
Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more
Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore.",572,19311
657017,611,"Come, come, my son, I'll bring thee on thy way:
Had I thy youth and cause, I would not stay.",614,19311
657018,613,"Then, England's ground, farewell; sweet soil, adieu;
My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet!
Where'er I wander, boast of this I can,
Though banish'd, yet a trueborn Englishman.",572,19311
657019,617,"[Exeunt]
[Enter KING RICHARD II, with BAGOT and GREEN at one]
door; and the DUKE OF AUMERLE at another]",1261,19311
657020,622,"We did observe. Cousin Aumerle,
How far brought you high Hereford on his way?",944,19312
657021,624,"I brought high Hereford, if you call him so,
But to the next highway, and there I left him.",133,19312
657022,626,"And say, what store of parting tears were shed?",944,19312
657023,627,"Faith, none for me; except the north-east wind,
Which then blew bitterly against our faces,
Awaked the sleeping rheum, and so by chance
Did grace our hollow parting with a tear.",133,19312
657024,631,What said our cousin when you parted with him?,944,19312
657025,632,"'Farewell:'
And, for my heart disdained that my tongue
Should so profane the word, that taught me craft
To counterfeit oppression of such grief
That words seem'd buried in my sorrow's grave.
Marry, would the word 'farewell' have lengthen'd hours
And added years to his short banishment,
He should have had a volume of farewells;
But since it would not, he had none of me.",133,19312
657026,641,"He is our cousin, cousin; but 'tis doubt,
When time shall call him home from banishment,
Whether our kinsman come to see his friends.
Ourself and Bushy, Bagot here and Green
Observed his courtship to the common people;
How he did seem to dive into their hearts
With humble and familiar courtesy,
What reverence he did throw away on slaves,
Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles
And patient underbearing of his fortune,
As 'twere to banish their affects with him.
Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench;
A brace of draymen bid God speed him well
And had the tribute of his supple knee,
With 'Thanks, my countrymen, my loving friends;'
As were our England in reversion his,
And he our subjects' next degree in hope.",944,19312
657027,658,"Well, he is gone; and with him go these thoughts.
Now for the rebels which stand out in Ireland,
Expedient manage must be made, my liege,
Ere further leisure yield them further means
For their advantage and your highness' loss.",541,19312
657028,663,"We will ourself in person to this war:
And, for our coffers, with too great a court
And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,
We are inforced to farm our royal realm;
The revenue whereof shall furnish us
For our affairs in hand: if that come short,
Our substitutes at home shall have blank charters;
Whereto, when they shall know what men are rich,
They shall subscribe them for large sums of gold
And send them after to supply our wants;
For we will make for Ireland presently.
[Enter BUSHY]
Bushy, what news?",944,19312
657029,676,"Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick, my lord,
Suddenly taken; and hath sent post haste
To entreat your majesty to visit him.",203,19312
657030,679,Where lies he?,944,19312
657031,680,At Ely House.,203,19312
657032,681,"Now put it, God, in the physician's mind
To help him to his grave immediately!
The lining of his coffers shall make coats
To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars.
Come, gentlemen, let's all go visit him:
Pray God we may make haste, and come too late!",944,19312
657033,687,Amen.,82,19312
657034,688,"[Exeunt]
[Enter JOHN OF GAUNT sick, with the DUKE OF YORK,]
&c]",1261,19312
657035,693,"Will the king come, that I may breathe my last
In wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth?",614,19313
657036,695,"Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath;
For all in vain comes counsel to his ear.",370,19313
657037,697,"O, but they say the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony:
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
He that no more must say is listen'd more
Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose;
More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before:
The setting sun, and music at the close,
As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,
Writ in remembrance more than things long past:
Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear,
My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear.",614,19313
657038,709,"No; it is stopp'd with other flattering sounds,
As praises, of whose taste the wise are fond,
Lascivious metres, to whose venom sound
The open ear of youth doth always listen;
Report of fashions in proud Italy,
Whose manners still our tardy apish nation
Limps after in base imitation.
Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity--
So it be new, there's no respect how vile--
That is not quickly buzzed into his ears?
Then all too late comes counsel to be heard,
Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard.
Direct not him whose way himself will choose:
'Tis breath thou lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.",370,19313
657039,723,"Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus expiring do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,
Renowned for their deeds as far from home,
For Christian service and true chivalry,
As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry,
Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son,
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,
Like to a tenement or pelting farm:
England, bound in with the triumphant sea
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,
How happy then were my ensuing death!
[Enter KING RICHARD II and QUEEN, DUKE OF AUMERLE,]
BUSHY, GREEN, BAGOT, LORD ROSS, and LORD WILLOUGHBY]",614,19313
657040,763,"The king is come: deal mildly with his youth;
For young hot colts being raged do rage the more.",370,19313
657041,765,"How fares our noble uncle, Lancaster?",935,19313
657042,766,"What comfort, man? how is't with aged Gaunt?",944,19313
657043,767,"O how that name befits my composition!
Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old:
Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast;
And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?
For sleeping England long time have I watch'd;
Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt:
The pleasure that some fathers feed upon,
Is my strict fast; I mean, my children's looks;
And therein fasting, hast thou made me gaunt:
Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave,
Whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones.",614,19313
657044,778,Can sick men play so nicely with their names?,944,19313
657045,779,"No, misery makes sport to mock itself:
Since thou dost seek to kill my name in me,
I mock my name, great king, to flatter thee.",614,19313
657046,782,Should dying men flatter with those that live?,944,19313
657047,783,"No, no, men living flatter those that die.",614,19313
657048,784,"Thou, now a-dying, say'st thou flatterest me.",944,19313
657049,785,"O, no! thou diest, though I the sicker be.",614,19313
657050,786,"I am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill.",944,19313
657051,787,"Now He that made me knows I see thee ill;
Ill in myself to see, and in thee seeing ill.
Thy death-bed is no lesser than thy land
Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
And thou, too careless patient as thou art,
Commit'st thy anointed body to the cure
Of those physicians that first wounded thee:
A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown,
Whose compass is no bigger than thy head;
And yet, incaged in so small a verge,
The waste is no whit lesser than thy land.
O, had thy grandsire with a prophet's eye
Seen how his son's son should destroy his sons,
From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame,
Deposing thee before thou wert possess'd,
Which art possess'd now to depose thyself.
Why, cousin, wert thou regent of the world,
It were a shame to let this land by lease;
But for thy world enjoying but this land,
Is it not more than shame to shame it so?
Landlord of England art thou now, not king:
Thy state of law is bondslave to the law; And thou--",614,19313
657052,809,"A lunatic lean-witted fool,
Presuming on an ague's privilege,
Darest with thy frozen admonition
Make pale our cheek, chasing the royal blood
With fury from his native residence.
Now, by my seat's right royal majesty,
Wert thou not brother to great Edward's son,
This tongue that runs so roundly in thy head
Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.",944,19313
657053,818,"O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son,
For that I was his father Edward's son;
That blood already, like the pelican,
Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:
My brother Gloucester, plain well-meaning soul,
Whom fair befal in heaven 'mongst happy souls!
May be a precedent and witness good
That thou respect'st not spilling Edward's blood:
Join with the present sickness that I have;
And thy unkindness be like crooked age,
To crop at once a too long wither'd flower.
Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!
These words hereafter thy tormentors be!
Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:
Love they to live that love and honour have.",614,19313
657054,833,"[Exit, borne off by his Attendants]",1261,19313
657055,834,"And let them die that age and sullens have;
For both hast thou, and both become the grave.",944,19313
657056,836,"I do beseech your majesty, impute his words
To wayward sickliness and age in him:
He loves you, on my life, and holds you dear
As Harry Duke of Hereford, were he here.",370,19313
657057,840,"Right, you say true: as Hereford's love, so his;
As theirs, so mine; and all be as it is.",944,19313
657058,842,[Enter NORTHUMBERLAND],1261,19313
657059,843,"My liege, old Gaunt commends him to your majesty.",359,19313
657060,844,What says he?,944,19313
657061,845,"Nay, nothing; all is said
His tongue is now a stringless instrument;
Words, life and all, old Lancaster hath spent.",359,19313
657062,848,"Be York the next that must be bankrupt so!
Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.",370,19313
657063,850,"The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he;
His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.
So much for that. Now for our Irish wars:
We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns,
Which live like venom where no venom else
But only they have privilege to live.
And for these great affairs do ask some charge,
Towards our assistance we do seize to us
The plate, corn, revenues and moveables,
Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess'd.",944,19313
657064,860,"How long shall I be patient? ah, how long
Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong?
Not Gloucester's death, nor Hereford's banishment
Not Gaunt's rebukes, nor England's private wrongs,
Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke
About his marriage, nor my own disgrace,
Have ever made me sour my patient cheek,
Or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign's face.
I am the last of noble Edward's sons,
Of whom thy father, Prince of Wales, was first:
In war was never lion raged more fierce,
In peace was never gentle lamb more mild,
Than was that young and princely gentleman.
His face thou hast, for even so look'd he,
Accomplish'd with the number of thy hours;
But when he frown'd, it was against the French
And not against his friends; his noble hand
Did will what he did spend and spent not that
Which his triumphant father's hand had won;
His hands were guilty of no kindred blood,
But bloody with the enemies of his kin.
O Richard! York is too far gone with grief,
Or else he never would compare between.",370,19313
657065,883,"Why, uncle, what's the matter?",944,19313
657066,884,"O my liege,
Pardon me, if you please; if not, I, pleased
Not to be pardon'd, am content withal.
Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands
The royalties and rights of banish'd Hereford?
Is not Gaunt dead, and doth not Hereford live?
Was not Gaunt just, and is not Harry true?
Did not the one deserve to have an heir?
Is not his heir a well-deserving son?
Take Hereford's rights away, and take from Time
His charters and his customary rights;
Let not to-morrow then ensue to-day;
Be not thyself; for how art thou a king
But by fair sequence and succession?
Now, afore God--God forbid I say true!--
If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights,
Call in the letters patent that he hath
By his attorneys-general to sue
His livery, and deny his offer'd homage,
You pluck a thousand dangers on your head,
You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts
And prick my tender patience, to those thoughts
Which honour and allegiance cannot think.",370,19313
657067,907,"Think what you will, we seize into our hands
His plate, his goods, his money and his lands.",944,19313
657068,909,"I'll not be by the while: my liege, farewell:
What will ensue hereof, there's none can tell;
But by bad courses may be understood
That their events can never fall out good.",370,19313
657069,913,[Exit],1261,19313
657070,914,"Go, Bushy, to the Earl of Wiltshire straight:
Bid him repair to us to Ely House
To see this business. To-morrow next
We will for Ireland; and 'tis time, I trow:
And we create, in absence of ourself,
Our uncle York lord governor of England;
For he is just and always loved us well.
Come on, our queen: to-morrow must we part;
Be merry, for our time of stay is short
[Flourish. Exeunt KING RICHARD II, QUEEN, DUKE OF]
AUMERLE, BUSHY, GREEN, and BAGOT]",944,19313
657071,925,"Well, lords, the Duke of Lancaster is dead.",359,19313
657072,926,And living too; for now his son is duke.,957,19313
657073,927,"Barely in title, not in revenue.",703,19313
657074,928,"Richly in both, if justice had her right.",359,19313
657075,929,"My heart is great; but it must break with silence,
Ere't be disburden'd with a liberal tongue.",957,19313
657076,931,"Nay, speak thy mind; and let him ne'er speak more
That speaks thy words again to do thee harm!",359,19313
657077,933,"Tends that thou wouldst speak to the Duke of Hereford?
If it be so, out with it boldly, man;
Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him.",703,19313
657078,936,"No good at all that I can do for him;
Unless you call it good to pity him,
Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.",957,19313
657079,939,"Now, afore God, 'tis shame such wrongs are borne
In him, a royal prince, and many moe
Of noble blood in this declining land.
The king is not himself, but basely led
By flatterers; and what they will inform,
Merely in hate, 'gainst any of us all,
That will the king severely prosecute
'Gainst us, our lives, our children, and our heirs.",359,19313
657080,947,"The commons hath he pill'd with grievous taxes,
And quite lost their hearts: the nobles hath he fined
For ancient quarrels, and quite lost their hearts.",957,19313
657081,950,"And daily new exactions are devised,
As blanks, benevolences, and I wot not what:
But what, o' God's name, doth become of this?",703,19313
657082,953,"Wars have not wasted it, for warr'd he hath not,
But basely yielded upon compromise
That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows:
More hath he spent in peace than they in wars.",359,19313
657083,957,The Earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm.,957,19313
657084,958,"The king's grown bankrupt, like a broken man.",703,19313
657085,959,Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him.,359,19313
657086,960,"He hath not money for these Irish wars,
His burthenous taxations notwithstanding,
But by the robbing of the banish'd duke.",957,19313
657087,963,"His noble kinsman: most degenerate king!
But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing,
Yet see no shelter to avoid the storm;
We see the wind sit sore upon our sails,
And yet we strike not, but securely perish.",359,19313
657088,968,"We see the very wreck that we must suffer;
And unavoided is the danger now,
For suffering so the causes of our wreck.",957,19313
657089,971,"Not so; even through the hollow eyes of death
I spy life peering; but I dare not say
How near the tidings of our comfort is.",359,19313
657090,974,"Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours.",703,19313
657091,975,"Be confident to speak, Northumberland:
We three are but thyself; and, speaking so,
Thy words are but as thoughts; therefore, be bold.",957,19313
657092,978,"Then thus: I have from Port le Blanc, a bay
In Brittany, received intelligence
That Harry Duke of Hereford, Rainold Lord Cobham,
[--]
That late broke from the Duke of Exeter,
His brother, Archbishop late of Canterbury,
Sir Thomas Erpingham, Sir John Ramston,
Sir John Norbery, Sir Robert Waterton and Francis Quoint,
All these well furnish'd by the Duke of Bretagne
With eight tall ships, three thousand men of war,
Are making hither with all due expedience
And shortly mean to touch our northern shore:
Perhaps they had ere this, but that they stay
The first departing of the king for Ireland.
If then we shall shake off our slavish yoke,
Imp out our drooping country's broken wing,
Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown,
Wipe off the dust that hides our sceptre's gilt
And make high majesty look like itself,
Away with me in post to Ravenspurgh;
But if you faint, as fearing to do so,
Stay and be secret, and myself will go.",359,19313
657093,1000,"To horse, to horse! urge doubts to them that fear.",957,19313
657094,1001,"Hold out my horse, and I will first be there.",703,19313
657095,1002,[Exeunt],1261,19313
657096,1005,"[Enter QUEEN, BUSHY, and BAGOT]",1261,19314
657097,1006,"Madam, your majesty is too much sad:
You promised, when you parted with the king,
To lay aside life-harming heaviness
And entertain a cheerful disposition.",203,19314
657098,1010,"To please the king I did; to please myself
I cannot do it; yet I know no cause
Why I should welcome such a guest as grief,
Save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest
As my sweet Richard: yet again, methinks,
Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb,
Is coming towards me, and my inward soul
With nothing trembles: at some thing it grieves,
More than with parting from my lord the king.",935,19314
657099,1019,"Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
Which shows like grief itself, but is not so;
For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects;
Like perspectives, which rightly gazed upon
Show nothing but confusion, eyed awry
Distinguish form: so your sweet majesty,
Looking awry upon your lord's departure,
Find shapes of grief, more than himself, to wail;
Which, look'd on as it is, is nought but shadows
Of what it is not. Then, thrice-gracious queen,
More than your lord's departure weep not: more's not seen;
Or if it be, 'tis with false sorrow's eye,
Which for things true weeps things imaginary.",203,19314
657100,1033,"It may be so; but yet my inward soul
Persuades me it is otherwise: howe'er it be,
I cannot but be sad; so heavy sad
As, though on thinking on no thought I think,
Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink.",935,19314
657101,1038,"'Tis nothing but conceit, my gracious lady.",203,19314
657102,1039,"'Tis nothing less: conceit is still derived
From some forefather grief; mine is not so,
For nothing had begot my something grief;
Or something hath the nothing that I grieve:
'Tis in reversion that I do possess;
But what it is, that is not yet known; what
I cannot name; 'tis nameless woe, I wot.",935,19314
657103,1046,[Enter GREEN],1261,19314
657104,1047,"God save your majesty! and well met, gentlemen:
I hope the king is not yet shipp'd for Ireland.",541,19314
657105,1049,"Why hopest thou so? 'tis better hope he is;
For his designs crave haste, his haste good hope:
Then wherefore dost thou hope he is not shipp'd?",935,19314
657106,1052,"That he, our hope, might have retired his power,
And driven into despair an enemy's hope,
Who strongly hath set footing in this land:
The banish'd Bolingbroke repeals himself,
And with uplifted arms is safe arrived
At Ravenspurgh.",541,19314
657107,1058,Now God in heaven forbid!,935,19314
657108,1059,"Ah, madam, 'tis too true: and that is worse,
The Lord Northumberland, his son young Henry Percy,
The Lords of Ross, Beaumond, and Willoughby,
With all their powerful friends, are fled to him.",541,19314
657109,1063,"Why have you not proclaim'd Northumberland
And all the rest revolted faction traitors?",203,19314
657110,1065,"We have: whereupon the Earl of Worcester
Hath broke his staff, resign'd his stewardship,
And all the household servants fled with him
To Bolingbroke.",541,19314
657111,1069,"So, Green, thou art the midwife to my woe,
And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir:
Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy,
And I, a gasping new-deliver'd mother,
Have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow join'd.",935,19314
657112,1074,"Despair not, madam.",203,19314
657113,1075,"Who shall hinder me?
I will despair, and be at enmity
With cozening hope: he is a flatterer,
A parasite, a keeper back of death,
Who gently would dissolve the bands of life,
Which false hope lingers in extremity.",935,19314
657114,1081,[Enter DUKE OF YORK],1261,19314
657115,1082,Here comes the Duke of York.,541,19314
657116,1083,"With signs of war about his aged neck:
O, full of careful business are his looks!
Uncle, for God's sake, speak comfortable words.",935,19314
657117,1086,"Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts:
Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth,
Where nothing lives but crosses, cares and grief.
Your husband, he is gone to save far off,
Whilst others come to make him lose at home:
Here am I left to underprop his land,
Who, weak with age, cannot support myself:
Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made;
Now shall he try his friends that flatter'd him.",370,19314
657118,1095,[Enter a Servant],1261,19314
657119,1096,"My lord, your son was gone before I came.",1066,19314
657120,1097,"He was? Why, so! go all which way it will!
The nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold,
And will, I fear, revolt on Hereford's side.
Sirrah, get thee to Plashy, to my sister Gloucester;
Bid her send me presently a thousand pound:
Hold, take my ring.",370,19314
657121,1103,"My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship,
To-day, as I came by, I called there;
But I shall grieve you to report the rest.",1066,19314
657122,1106,"What is't, knave?",370,19314
657123,1107,"An hour before I came, the duchess died.",1066,19314
657124,1108,"God for his mercy! what a tide of woes
Comes rushing on this woeful land at once!
I know not what to do: I would to God,
So my untruth had not provoked him to it,
The king had cut off my head with my brother's.
What, are there no posts dispatch'd for Ireland?
How shall we do for money for these wars?
Come, sister,--cousin, I would say--pray, pardon me.
Go, fellow, get thee home, provide some carts
And bring away the armour that is there.
[Exit Servant]
Gentlemen, will you go muster men?
If I know how or which way to order these affairs
Thus thrust disorderly into my hands,
Never believe me. Both are my kinsmen:
The one is my sovereign, whom both my oath
And duty bids defend; the other again
Is my kinsman, whom the king hath wrong'd,
Whom conscience and my kindred bids to right.
Well, somewhat we must do. Come, cousin, I'll
Dispose of you.
Gentlemen, go, muster up your men,
And meet me presently at Berkeley.
I should to Plashy too;
But time will not permit: all is uneven,
And every thing is left at six and seven.",370,19314
657125,1134,[Exeunt DUKE OF YORK and QUEEN],1261,19314
657126,1135,"The wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland,
But none returns. For us to levy power
Proportionable to the enemy
Is all unpossible.",203,19314
657127,1139,"Besides, our nearness to the king in love
Is near the hate of those love not the king.",541,19314
657128,1141,"And that's the wavering commons: for their love
Lies in their purses, and whoso empties them
By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.",135,19314
657129,1144,Wherein the king stands generally condemn'd.,203,19314
657130,1145,"If judgement lie in them, then so do we,
Because we ever have been near the king.",135,19314
657131,1147,"Well, I will for refuge straight to Bristol castle:
The Earl of Wiltshire is already there.",541,19314
657132,1149,"Thither will I with you; for little office
The hateful commons will perform for us,
Except like curs to tear us all to pieces.
Will you go along with us?",203,19314
657133,1153,"No; I will to Ireland to his majesty.
Farewell: if heart's presages be not vain,
We three here art that ne'er shall meet again.",135,19314
657134,1156,That's as York thrives to beat back Bolingbroke.,203,19314
657135,1157,"Alas, poor duke! the task he undertakes
Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry:
Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.
Farewell at once, for once, for all, and ever.",541,19314
657136,1161,"Well, we may meet again.",203,19314
657137,1162,"I fear me, never.",135,19314
657138,1163,[Exeunt],1261,19314
657139,1166,"[Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE and NORTHUMBERLAND, with Forces]",1261,19315
657140,1167,"How far is it, my lord, to Berkeley now?",572,19315
657141,1168,"Believe me, noble lord,
I am a stranger here in Gloucestershire:
These high wild hills and rough uneven ways
Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome,
And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,
Making the hard way sweet and delectable.
But I bethink me what a weary way
From Ravenspurgh to Cotswold will be found
In Ross and Willoughby, wanting your company,
Which, I protest, hath very much beguiled
The tediousness and process of my travel:
But theirs is sweetened with the hope to have
The present benefit which I possess;
And hope to joy is little less in joy
Than hope enjoy'd: by this the weary lords
Shall make their way seem short, as mine hath done
By sight of what I have, your noble company.",359,19315
657142,1185,"Of much less value is my company
Than your good words. But who comes here?",572,19315
657143,1187,[Enter HENRY PERCY],1261,19315
657144,1188,"It is my son, young Harry Percy,
Sent from my brother Worcester, whencesoever.
Harry, how fares your uncle?",359,19315
657145,1191,"I had thought, my lord, to have learn'd his health of you.",593,19315
657146,1192,"Why, is he not with the queen?",359,19315
657147,1193,"No, my good Lord; he hath forsook the court,
Broken his staff of office and dispersed
The household of the king.",593,19315
657148,1196,"What was his reason?
He was not so resolved when last we spake together.",359,19315
657149,1198,"Because your lordship was proclaimed traitor.
But he, my lord, is gone to Ravenspurgh,
To offer service to the Duke of Hereford,
And sent me over by Berkeley, to discover
What power the Duke of York had levied there;
Then with directions to repair to Ravenspurgh.",593,19315
657150,1204,"Have you forgot the Duke of Hereford, boy?",359,19315
657151,1205,"No, my good lord, for that is not forgot
Which ne'er I did remember: to my knowledge,
I never in my life did look on him.",593,19315
657152,1208,Then learn to know him now; this is the duke.,359,19315
657153,1209,"My gracious lord, I tender you my service,
Such as it is, being tender, raw and young:
Which elder days shall ripen and confirm
To more approved service and desert.",593,19315
657154,1213,"I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure
I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends;
And, as my fortune ripens with thy love,
It shall be still thy true love's recompense:
My heart this covenant makes, my hand thus seals it.",572,19315
657155,1219,"How far is it to Berkeley? and what stir
Keeps good old York there with his men of war?",359,19315
657156,1221,"There stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees,
Mann'd with three hundred men, as I have heard;
And in it are the Lords of York, Berkeley, and Seymour;
None else of name and noble estimate.",593,19315
657157,1225,[Enter LORD ROSS and LORD WILLOUGHBY],1261,19315
657158,1226,"Here come the Lords of Ross and Willoughby,
Bloody with spurring, fiery-red with haste.",359,19315
657159,1228,"Welcome, my lords. I wot your love pursues
A banish'd traitor: all my treasury
Is yet but unfelt thanks, which more enrich'd
Shall be your love and labour's recompense.",572,19315
657160,1232,"Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord.",957,19315
657161,1233,And far surmounts our labour to attain it.,703,19315
657162,1234,"Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor;
Which, till my infant fortune comes to years,
Stands for my bounty. But who comes here?",572,19315
657163,1237,[Enter LORD BERKELEY],1261,19315
657164,1238,"It is my Lord of Berkeley, as I guess.",359,19315
657165,1239,"My Lord of Hereford, my message is to you.",677,19315
657166,1240,"My lord, my answer is--to Lancaster;
And I am come to seek that name in England;
And I must find that title in your tongue,
Before I make reply to aught you say.",572,19315
657167,1244,"Mistake me not, my lord; 'tis not my meaning
To raze one title of your honour out:
To you, my lord, I come, what lord you will,
From the most gracious regent of this land,
The Duke of York, to know what pricks you on
To take advantage of the absent time
And fright our native peace with self-born arms.",677,19315
657168,1251,[Enter DUKE OF YORK attended],1261,19315
657169,1252,"I shall not need transport my words by you;
Here comes his grace in person. My noble uncle!",572,19315
657170,1254,[Kneels],1261,19315
657171,1255,"Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee,
Whose duty is deceiveable and false.",370,19315
657172,1257,My gracious uncle--,572,19315
657173,1258,"Tut, tut!
Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle:
I am no traitor's uncle; and that word 'grace.'
In an ungracious mouth is but profane.
Why have those banish'd and forbidden legs
Dared once to touch a dust of England's ground?
But then more 'why?' why have they dared to march
So many miles upon her peaceful bosom,
Frighting her pale-faced villages with war
And ostentation of despised arms?
Comest thou because the anointed king is hence?
Why, foolish boy, the king is left behind,
And in my loyal bosom lies his power.
Were I but now the lord of such hot youth
As when brave Gaunt, thy father, and myself
Rescued the Black Prince, that young Mars of men,
From forth the ranks of many thousand French,
O, then how quickly should this arm of mine.
Now prisoner to the palsy, chastise thee
And minister correction to thy fault!",370,19315
657174,1278,"My gracious uncle, let me know my fault:
On what condition stands it and wherein?",572,19315
657175,1280,"Even in condition of the worst degree,
In gross rebellion and detested treason:
Thou art a banish'd man, and here art come
Before the expiration of thy time,
In braving arms against thy sovereign.",370,19315
657176,1285,"As I was banish'd, I was banish'd Hereford;
But as I come, I come for Lancaster.
And, noble uncle, I beseech your grace
Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye:
You are my father, for methinks in you
I see old Gaunt alive; O, then, my father,
Will you permit that I shall stand condemn'd
A wandering vagabond; my rights and royalties
Pluck'd from my arms perforce and given away
To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born?
If that my cousin king be King of England,
It must be granted I am Duke of Lancaster.
You have a son, Aumerle, my noble cousin;
Had you first died, and he been thus trod down,
He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father,
To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay.
I am denied to sue my livery here,
And yet my letters-patents give me leave:
My father's goods are all distrain'd and sold,
And these and all are all amiss employ'd.
What would you have me do? I am a subject,
And I challenge law: attorneys are denied me;
And therefore, personally I lay my claim
To my inheritance of free descent.",572,19315
657177,1309,The noble duke hath been too much abused.,359,19315
657178,1310,It stands your grace upon to do him right.,957,19315
657179,1311,Base men by his endowments are made great.,703,19315
657180,1312,"My lords of England, let me tell you this:
I have had feeling of my cousin's wrongs
And laboured all I could to do him right;
But in this kind to come, in braving arms,
Be his own carver and cut out his way,
To find out right with wrong, it may not be;
And you that do abet him in this kind
Cherish rebellion and are rebels all.",370,19315
657181,1320,"The noble duke hath sworn his coming is
But for his own; and for the right of that
We all have strongly sworn to give him aid;
And let him ne'er see joy that breaks that oath!",359,19315
657182,1324,"Well, well, I see the issue of these arms:
I cannot mend it, I must needs confess,
Because my power is weak and all ill left:
But if I could, by Him that gave me life,
I would attach you all and make you stoop
Unto the sovereign mercy of the king;
But since I cannot, be it known to you
I do remain as neuter. So, fare you well;
Unless you please to enter in the castle
And there repose you for this night.",370,19315
657183,1334,"An offer, uncle, that we will accept:
But we must win your grace to go with usTo Bristol castle, which they say is held
By Bushy, Bagot and their complices,
The caterpillars of the commonwealth,
Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.",572,19315
657184,1339,"It may be I will go with you: but yet I'll pause;
For I am loath to break our country's laws.
Nor friends nor foes, to me welcome you are:
Things past redress are now with me past care.",370,19315
657185,1343,[Exeunt],1261,19315
657186,1346,[Enter EARL OF SALISBURY and a Welsh Captain],1261,19316
657187,1347,"My lord of Salisbury, we have stay'd ten days,
And hardly kept our countrymen together,
And yet we hear no tidings from the king;
Therefore we will disperse ourselves: farewell.",220,19316
657188,1351,"Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman:
The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.",967,19316
657189,1353,"'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay.
The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;
The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth
And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change;
Rich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap,
The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
The other to enjoy by rage and war:
These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
Farewell: our countrymen are gone and fled,
As well assured Richard their king is dead.",220,19316
657190,1364,[Exit],1261,19316
657191,1365,"Ah, Richard, with the eyes of heavy mind
I see thy glory like a shooting star
Fall to the base earth from the firmament.
Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west,
Witnessing storms to come, woe and unrest:
Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes,
And crossly to thy good all fortune goes.",967,19316
657192,1372,"[Exit]
[Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, DUKE OF YORK,]
NORTHUMBERLAND, LORD ROSS, HENRY PERCY, LORD
WILLOUGHBY, with BUSHY and GREEN, prisoners]",1261,19316
657193,1378,"Bring forth these men.
Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls--
Since presently your souls must part your bodies--
With too much urging your pernicious lives,
For 'twere no charity; yet, to wash your blood
From off my hands, here in the view of men
I will unfold some causes of your deaths.
You have misled a prince, a royal king,
A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,
By you unhappied and disfigured clean:
You have in manner with your sinful hours
Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him,
Broke the possession of a royal bed
And stain'd the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks
With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs.
Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth,
Near to the king in blood, and near in love
Till you did make him misinterpret me,
Have stoop'd my neck under your injuries,
And sigh'd my English breath in foreign clouds,
Eating the bitter bread of banishment;
Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
Dispark'd my parks and fell'd my forest woods,
From my own windows torn my household coat,
Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign,
Save men's opinions and my living blood,
To show the world I am a gentleman.
This and much more, much more than twice all this,
Condemns you to the death. See them deliver'd over
To execution and the hand of death.",572,19317
657194,1408,"More welcome is the stroke of death to me
Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell.",203,19317
657195,1410,"My comfort is that heaven will take our souls
And plague injustice with the pains of hell.",541,19317
657196,1412,"My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatch'd.
[Exeunt NORTHUMBERLAND and others, with the]
prisoners]
Uncle, you say the queen is at your house;
For God's sake, fairly let her be entreated:
Tell her I send to her my kind commends;
Take special care my greetings be deliver'd.",572,19317
657197,1419,"A gentleman of mine I have dispatch'd
With letters of your love to her at large.",370,19317
657198,1421,"Thank, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away.
To fight with Glendower and his complices:
Awhile to work, and after holiday.",572,19317
657199,1424,"[Exeunt]
[Drums; flourish and colours. Enter KING RICHARD]
II, the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, DUKE OF AUMERLE, and Soldiers]",1261,19317
657200,1429,Barkloughly castle call they this at hand?,944,19318
657201,1430,"Yea, my lord. How brooks your grace the air,
After your late tossing on the breaking seas?",133,19318
657202,1432,"Needs must I like it well: I weep for joy
To stand upon my kingdom once again.
Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand,
Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs:
As a long-parted mother with her child
Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting,
So, weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth,
And do thee favours with my royal hands.
Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle earth,
Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense;
But let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom,
And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way,
Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet
Which with usurping steps do trample thee:
Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies;
And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower,
Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder
Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch
Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies.
Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords:
This earth shall have a feeling and these stones
Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king
Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.",944,19318
657203,1455,"Fear not, my lord: that Power that made you king
Hath power to keep you king in spite of all.
The means that heaven yields must be embraced,
And not neglected; else, if heaven would,
And we will not, heaven's offer we refuse,
The proffer'd means of succor and redress.",171,19318
657204,1461,"He means, my lord, that we are too remiss;
Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security,
Grows strong and great in substance and in power.",133,19318
657205,1464,"Discomfortable cousin! know'st thou not
That when the searching eye of heaven is hid,
Behind the globe, that lights the lower world,
Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen
In murders and in outrage, boldly here;
But when from under this terrestrial ball
He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines
And darts his light through every guilty hole,
Then murders, treasons and detested sins,
The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs,
Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves?
So when this thief, this traitor, Bolingbroke,
Who all this while hath revell'd in the night
Whilst we were wandering with the antipodes,
Shall see us rising in our throne, the east,
His treasons will sit blushing in his face,
Not able to endure the sight of day,
But self-affrighted tremble at his sin.
Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm off from an anointed king;
The breath of worldly men cannot depose
The deputy elected by the Lord:
For every man that Bolingbroke hath press'd
To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay
A glorious angel: then, if angels fight,
Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.
[Enter EARL OF SALISBURY]
Welcome, my lord. how far off lies your power?",944,19318
657206,1493,"Nor near nor farther off, my gracious lord,
Than this weak arm: discomfort guides my tongue
And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,
Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth:
O, call back yesterday, bid time return,
And thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting men!
To-day, to-day, unhappy day, too late,
O'erthrows thy joys, friends, fortune and thy state:
For all the Welshmen, hearing thou wert dead.
Are gone to Bolingbroke, dispersed and fled.",967,19318
657207,1504,"Comfort, my liege; why looks your grace so pale?",133,19318
657208,1505,"But now the blood of twenty thousand men
Did triumph in my face, and they are fled;
And, till so much blood thither come again,
Have I not reason to look pale and dead?
All souls that will be safe fly from my side,
For time hath set a blot upon my pride.",944,19318
657209,1511,"Comfort, my liege; remember who you are.",133,19318
657210,1512,"I had forgot myself; am I not king?
Awake, thou coward majesty! thou sleepest.
Is not the king's name twenty thousand names?
Arm, arm, my name! a puny subject strikes
At thy great glory. Look not to the ground,
Ye favourites of a king: are we not high?
High be our thoughts: I know my uncle York
Hath power enough to serve our turn. But who comes here?",944,19318
657211,1520,[Enter SIR STEPHEN SCROOP],1261,19318
657212,1521,"More health and happiness betide my liege
Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!",1113,19318
657213,1523,"Mine ear is open and my heart prepared;
The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold.
Say, is my kingdom lost? why, 'twas my care
And what loss is it to be rid of care?
Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we?
Greater he shall not be; if he serve God,
We'll serve Him too and be his fellow so:
Revolt our subjects? that we cannot mend;
They break their faith to God as well as us:
Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay:
The worst is death, and death will have his day.",944,19318
657214,1534,"Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd
To bear the tidings of calamity.
Like an unseasonable stormy day,
Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores,
As if the world were all dissolved to tears,
So high above his limits swells the rage
Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land
With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel.
White-beards have arm'd their thin and hairless scalps
Against thy majesty; boys, with women's voices,
Strive to speak big and clap their female joints
In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown:
The very beadsmen learn to bend their bows
Of double-fatal yew against thy state;
Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills
Against thy seat: both young and old rebel,
And all goes worse than I have power to tell.",1113,19318
657215,1551,"Too well, too well thou tell'st a tale so ill.
Where is the Earl of Wiltshire? where is Bagot?
What is become of Bushy? where is Green?
That they have let the dangerous enemy
Measure our confines with such peaceful steps?
If we prevail, their heads shall pay for it:
I warrant they have made peace with Bolingbroke.",944,19318
657216,1558,"Peace have they made with him indeed, my lord.",1113,19318
657217,1559,"O villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption!
Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!
Snakes, in my heart-blood warm'd, that sting my heart!
Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas!
Would they make peace? terrible hell make war
Upon their spotted souls for this offence!",944,19318
657218,1565,"Sweet love, I see, changing his property,
Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate:
Again uncurse their souls; their peace is made
With heads, and not with hands; those whom you curse
Have felt the worst of death's destroying wound
And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.",1113,19318
657219,1571,"Is Bushy, Green, and the Earl of Wiltshire dead?",133,19318
657220,1572,"Ay, all of them at Bristol lost their heads.",1113,19318
657221,1573,Where is the duke my father with his power?,133,19318
657222,1574,"No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let's choose executors and talk of wills:
And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
Save our deposed bodies to the ground?
Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's,
And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
All murder'd: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus
Comes at the last and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood
With solemn reverence: throw away respect,
Tradition, form and ceremonious duty,
For you have but mistook me all this while:
I live with bread like you, feel want,
Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,
How can you say to me, I am a king?",944,19318
657223,1608,"My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes,
But presently prevent the ways to wail.
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe,
And so your follies fight against yourself.
Fear and be slain; no worse can come to fight:
And fight and die is death destroying death;
Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.",171,19318
657224,1616,"My father hath a power; inquire of him
And learn to make a body of a limb.",133,19318
657225,1618,"Thou chidest me well: proud Bolingbroke, I come
To change blows with thee for our day of doom.
This ague fit of fear is over-blown;
An easy task it is to win our own.
Say, Scroop, where lies our uncle with his power?
Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour.",944,19318
657226,1624,"Men judge by the complexion of the sky
The state and inclination of the day:
So may you by my dull and heavy eye,
My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say.
I play the torturer, by small and small
To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken:
Your uncle York is join'd with Bolingbroke,
And all your northern castles yielded up,
And all your southern gentlemen in arms
Upon his party.",1113,19318
657227,1634,"Thou hast said enough.
Beshrew thee, cousin, which didst lead me forth
[To DUKE OF AUMERLE]
Of that sweet way I was in to despair!
What say you now? what comfort have we now?
By heaven, I'll hate him everlastingly
That bids me be of comfort any more.
Go to Flint castle: there I'll pine away;
A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey.
That power I have, discharge; and let them go
To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,
For I have none: let no man speak again
To alter this, for counsel is but vain.",944,19318
657228,1647,"My liege, one word.",133,19318
657229,1648,"He does me double wrong
That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
Discharge my followers: let them hence away,
From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day.",944,19318
657230,1652,"[Exeunt]
[Enter, with drum and colours, HENRY BOLINGBROKE,]
DUKE OF YORK, NORTHUMBERLAND, Attendants, and forces]",1261,19318
657231,1657,"So that by this intelligence we learn
The Welshmen are dispersed, and Salisbury
Is gone to meet the king, who lately landed
With some few private friends upon this coast.",572,19319
657232,1661,"The news is very fair and good, my lord:
Richard not far from hence hath hid his head.",359,19319
657233,1663,"It would beseem the Lord Northumberland
To say 'King Richard:' alack the heavy day
When such a sacred king should hide his head.",370,19319
657234,1666,"Your grace mistakes; only to be brief
Left I his title out.",359,19319
657235,1668,"The time hath been,
Would you have been so brief with him, he would
Have been so brief with you, to shorten you,
For taking so the head, your whole head's length.",370,19319
657236,1672,"Mistake not, uncle, further than you should.",572,19319
657237,1673,"Take not, good cousin, further than you should.
Lest you mistake the heavens are o'er our heads.",370,19319
657238,1675,"I know it, uncle, and oppose not myself
Against their will. But who comes here?
[Enter HENRY PERCY]
Welcome, Harry: what, will not this castle yield?",572,19319
657239,1679,"The castle royally is mann'd, my lord,
Against thy entrance.",593,19319
657240,1681,"Royally!
Why, it contains no king?",572,19319
657241,1683,"Yes, my good lord,
It doth contain a king; King Richard lies
Within the limits of yon lime and stone:
And with him are the Lord Aumerle, Lord Salisbury,
Sir Stephen Scroop, besides a clergyman
Of holy reverence; who, I cannot learn.",593,19319
657242,1689,"O, belike it is the Bishop of Carlisle.",359,19319
657243,1690,"Noble lords,
Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle;
Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parley
Into his ruin'd ears, and thus deliver:
Henry Bolingbroke
On both his knees doth kiss King Richard's hand
And sends allegiance and true faith of heart
To his most royal person, hither come
Even at his feet to lay my arms and power,
Provided that my banishment repeal'd
And lands restored again be freely granted:
If not, I'll use the advantage of my power
And lay the summer's dust with showers of blood
Rain'd from the wounds of slaughter'd Englishmen:
The which, how far off from the mind of Bolingbroke
It is, such crimson tempest should bedrench
The fresh green lap of fair King Richard's land,
My stooping duty tenderly shall show.
Go, signify as much, while here we march
Upon the grassy carpet of this plain.
Let's march without the noise of threatening drum,
That from this castle's tatter'd battlements
Our fair appointments may be well perused.
Methinks King Richard and myself should meet
With no less terror than the elements
Of fire and water, when their thundering shock
At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven.
Be he the fire, I'll be the yielding water:
The rage be his, whilst on the earth I rain
My waters; on the earth, and not on him.
March on, and mark King Richard how he looks.
[Parle without, and answer within. Then a flourish.]
Enter on the walls, KING RICHARD II, the BISHOP OF
CARLISLE, DUKE OF AUMERLE, SIR STEPHEN SCROOP, and EARL OF SALISBURY]
See, see, King Richard doth himself appear,
As doth the blushing discontented sun
From out the fiery portal of the east,
When he perceives the envious clouds are bent
To dim his glory and to stain the track
Of his bright passage to the occident.",572,19319
657244,1730,"Yet looks he like a king: behold, his eye,
As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth
Controlling majesty: alack, alack, for woe,
That any harm should stain so fair a show!",370,19319
657245,1734,"We are amazed; and thus long have we stood
To watch the fearful bending of thy knee,
[To NORTHUMBERLAND]
Because we thought ourself thy lawful king:
And if we be, how dare thy joints forget
To pay their awful duty to our presence?
If we be not, show us the hand of God
That hath dismissed us from our stewardship;
For well we know, no hand of blood and bone
Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre,
Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp.
And though you think that all, as you have done,
Have torn their souls by turning them from us,
And we are barren and bereft of friends;
Yet know, my master, God omnipotent,
Is mustering in his clouds on our behalf
Armies of pestilence; and they shall strike
Your children yet unborn and unbegot,
That lift your vassal hands against my head
And threat the glory of my precious crown.
Tell Bolingbroke--for yond methinks he stands--
That every stride he makes upon my land
Is dangerous treason: he is come to open
The purple testament of bleeding war;
But ere the crown he looks for live in peace,
Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' sons
Shall ill become the flower of England's face,
Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace
To scarlet indignation and bedew
Her pastures' grass with faithful English blood.",944,19319
657246,1764,"The king of heaven forbid our lord the king
Should so with civil and uncivil arms
Be rush'd upon! Thy thrice noble cousin
Harry Bolingbroke doth humbly kiss thy hand;
And by the honourable tomb he swears,
That stands upon your royal grandsire's bones,
And by the royalties of both your bloods,
Currents that spring from one most gracious head,
And by the buried hand of warlike Gaunt,
And by the worth and honour of himself,
Comprising all that may be sworn or said,
His coming hither hath no further scope
Than for his lineal royalties and to beg
Enfranchisement immediate on his knees:
Which on thy royal party granted once,
His glittering arms he will commend to rust,
His barbed steeds to stables, and his heart
To faithful service of your majesty.
This swears he, as he is a prince, is just;
And, as I am a gentleman, I credit him.",359,19319
657247,1784,"Northumberland, say thus the king returns:
His noble cousin is right welcome hither;
And all the number of his fair demands
Shall be accomplish'd without contradiction:
With all the gracious utterance thou hast
Speak to his gentle hearing kind commends.
We do debase ourselves, cousin, do we not,
[To DUKE OF AUMERLE]
To look so poorly and to speak so fair?
Shall we call back Northumberland, and send
Defiance to the traitor, and so die?",944,19319
657248,1795,"No, good my lord; let's fight with gentle words
Till time lend friends and friends their helpful swords.",133,19319
657249,1797,"O God, O God! that e'er this tongue of mine,
That laid the sentence of dread banishment
On yon proud man, should take it off again
With words of sooth! O that I were as great
As is my grief, or lesser than my name!
Or that I could forget what I have been,
Or not remember what I must be now!
Swell'st thou, proud heart? I'll give thee scope to beat,
Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me.",944,19319
657250,1806,Northumberland comes back from Bolingbroke.,133,19319
657251,1807,"What must the king do now? must he submit?
The king shall do it: must he be deposed?
The king shall be contented: must he lose
The name of king? o' God's name, let it go:
I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,
My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,
My figured goblets for a dish of wood,
My sceptre for a palmer's walking staff,
My subjects for a pair of carved saints
And my large kingdom for a little grave,
A little little grave, an obscure grave;
Or I'll be buried in the king's highway,
Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet
May hourly trample on their sovereign's head;
For on my heart they tread now whilst I live;
And buried once, why not upon my head?
Aumerle, thou weep'st, my tender-hearted cousin!
We'll make foul weather with despised tears;
Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn,
And make a dearth in this revolting land.
Or shall we play the wantons with our woes,
And make some pretty match with shedding tears?
As thus, to drop them still upon one place,
Till they have fretted us a pair of graves
Within the earth; and, therein laid,--there lies
Two kinsmen digg'd their graves with weeping eyes.
Would not this ill do well? Well, well, I see
I talk but idly, and you laugh at me.
Most mighty prince, my Lord Northumberland,
What says King Bolingbroke? will his majesty
Give Richard leave to live till Richard die?
You make a leg, and Bolingbroke says ay.",944,19319
657252,1840,"My lord, in the base court he doth attend
To speak with you; may it please you to come down.",359,19319
657253,1842,"Down, down I come; like glistering Phaethon,
Wanting the manage of unruly jades.
In the base court? Base court, where kings grow base,
To come at traitors' calls and do them grace.
In the base court? Come down? Down, court!
down, king!
For night-owls shriek where mounting larks
should sing.",944,19319
657254,1850,[Exeunt from above],1261,19319
657255,1851,What says his majesty?,572,19319
657256,1852,"Sorrow and grief of heart
Makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man
Yet he is come.",359,19319
657257,1855,[Enter KING RICHARD and his attendants below],1261,19319
657258,1856,"Stand all apart,
And show fair duty to his majesty.
[He kneels down]
My gracious lord,--",572,19319
657259,1860,"Fair cousin, you debase your princely knee
To make the base earth proud with kissing it:
Me rather had my heart might feel your love
Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy.
Up, cousin, up; your heart is up, I know,
Thus high at least, although your knee be low.",944,19319
657260,1866,"My gracious lord, I come but for mine own.",572,19319
657261,1867,"Your own is yours, and I am yours, and all.",944,19319
657262,1868,"So far be mine, my most redoubted lord,
As my true service shall deserve your love.",572,19319
657263,1870,"Well you deserve: they well deserve to have,
That know the strong'st and surest way to get.
Uncle, give me your hands: nay, dry your eyes;
Tears show their love, but want their remedies.
Cousin, I am too young to be your father,
Though you are old enough to be my heir.
What you will have, I'll give, and willing too;
For do we must what force will have us do.
Set on towards London, cousin, is it so?",944,19319
657264,1879,"Yea, my good lord.",572,19319
657265,1880,Then I must not say no.,944,19319
657266,1881,[Flourish. Exeunt],1261,19319
657267,1884,[Enter the QUEEN and two Ladies],1261,19320
657268,1885,"What sport shall we devise here in this garden,
To drive away the heavy thought of care?",935,19320
657269,1887,"Madam, we'll play at bowls.",645,19320
657270,1888,"'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs,
And that my fortune rubs against the bias.",935,19320
657271,1890,"Madam, we'll dance.",645,19320
657272,1891,"My legs can keep no measure in delight,
When my poor heart no measure keeps in grief:
Therefore, no dancing, girl; some other sport.",935,19320
657273,1894,"Madam, we'll tell tales.",645,19320
657274,1895,Of sorrow or of joy?,935,19320
657275,1896,"Of either, madam.",645,19320
657276,1897,"Of neither, girl:
For of joy, being altogether wanting,
It doth remember me the more of sorrow;
Or if of grief, being altogether had,
It adds more sorrow to my want of joy:
For what I have I need not to repeat;
And what I want it boots not to complain.",935,19320
657277,1904,"Madam, I'll sing.",645,19320
657278,1905,"'Tis well that thou hast cause
But thou shouldst please me better, wouldst thou weep.",935,19320
657279,1907,"I could weep, madam, would it do you good.",645,19320
657280,1908,"And I could sing, would weeping do me good,
And never borrow any tear of thee.
[Enter a Gardener, and two Servants]
But stay, here come the gardeners:
Let's step into the shadow of these trees.
My wretchedness unto a row of pins,
They'll talk of state; for every one doth so
Against a change; woe is forerun with woe.",935,19320
657281,1916,[QUEEN and Ladies retire],1261,19320
657282,1917,"Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks,
Which, like unruly children, make their sire
Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight:
Give some supportance to the bending twigs.
Go thou, and like an executioner,
Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays,
That look too lofty in our commonwealth:
All must be even in our government.
You thus employ'd, I will go root away
The noisome weeds, which without profit suck
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.",512,19320
657283,1928,"Why should we in the compass of a pale
Keep law and form and due proportion,
Showing, as in a model, our firm estate,
When our sea-walled garden, the whole land,
Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,
Her fruit-trees all upturned, her hedges ruin'd,
Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs
Swarming with caterpillars?",1066,19320
657284,1936,"Hold thy peace:
He that hath suffer'd this disorder'd spring
Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf:
The weeds which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter,
That seem'd in eating him to hold him up,
Are pluck'd up root and all by Bolingbroke,
I mean the Earl of Wiltshire, Bushy, Green.",512,19320
657285,1943,"What, are they dead?",1066,19320
657286,1944,"They are; and Bolingbroke
Hath seized the wasteful king. O, what pity is it
That he had not so trimm'd and dress'd his land
As we this garden! We at time of year
Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit-trees,
Lest, being over-proud in sap and blood,
With too much riches it confound itself:
Had he done so to great and growing men,
They might have lived to bear and he to taste
Their fruits of duty: superfluous branches
We lop away, that bearing boughs may live:
Had he done so, himself had borne the crown,
Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down.",512,19320
657287,1957,"What, think you then the king shall be deposed?",1066,19320
657288,1958,"Depress'd he is already, and deposed
'Tis doubt he will be: letters came last night
To a dear friend of the good Duke of York's,
That tell black tidings.",512,19320
657289,1962,"O, I am press'd to death through want of speaking!
[Coming forward]
Thou, old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden,
How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news?
What Eve, what serpent, hath suggested thee
To make a second fall of cursed man?
Why dost thou say King Richard is deposed?
Darest thou, thou little better thing than earth,
Divine his downfall? Say, where, when, and how,
Camest thou by this ill tidings? speak, thou wretch.",935,19320
657290,1972,"Pardon me, madam: little joy have I
To breathe this news; yet what I say is true.
King Richard, he is in the mighty hold
Of Bolingbroke: their fortunes both are weigh'd:
In your lord's scale is nothing but himself,
And some few vanities that make him light;
But in the balance of great Bolingbroke,
Besides himself, are all the English peers,
And with that odds he weighs King Richard down.
Post you to London, and you will find it so;
I speak no more than every one doth know.",512,19320
657291,1983,"Nimble mischance, that art so light of foot,
Doth not thy embassage belong to me,
And am I last that knows it? O, thou think'st
To serve me last, that I may longest keep
Thy sorrow in my breast. Come, ladies, go,
To meet at London London's king in woe.
What, was I born to this, that my sad look
Should grace the triumph of great Bolingbroke?
Gardener, for telling me these news of woe,
Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.",935,19320
657292,1993,[Exeunt QUEEN and Ladies],1261,19320
657293,1994,"Poor queen! so that thy state might be no worse,
I would my skill were subject to thy curse.
Here did she fall a tear; here in this place
I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace:
Rue, even for ruth, here shortly shall be seen,
In the remembrance of a weeping queen.",512,19320
657294,2000,"[Exeunt]
[Enter, as to the Parliament, HENRY BOLINGBROKE,]
DUKE OF AUMERLE, NORTHUMBERLAND, HENRY PERCY, LORD
FITZWATER, DUKE OF SURREY, the BISHOP OF CARLISLE,
the Abbot Of Westminster, and another Lord, Herald,
Officers, and BAGOT]",1261,19320
657295,2008,"Call forth Bagot.
Now, Bagot, freely speak thy mind;
What thou dost know of noble Gloucester's death,
Who wrought it with the king, and who perform'd
The bloody office of his timeless end.",572,19321
657296,2013,Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle.,135,19321
657297,2014,"Cousin, stand forth, and look upon that man.",572,19321
657298,2015,"My Lord Aumerle, I know your daring tongue
Scorns to unsay what once it hath deliver'd.
In that dead time when Gloucester's death was plotted,
I heard you say, 'Is not my arm of length,
That reacheth from the restful English court
As far as Calais, to mine uncle's head?'
Amongst much other talk, that very time,
I heard you say that you had rather refuse
The offer of an hundred thousand crowns
Than Bolingbroke's return to England;
Adding withal how blest this land would be
In this your cousin's death.",135,19321
657299,2027,"Princes and noble lords,
What answer shall I make to this base man?
Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars,
On equal terms to give him chastisement?
Either I must, or have mine honour soil'd
With the attainder of his slanderous lips.
There is my gage, the manual seal of death,
That marks thee out for hell: I say, thou liest,
And will maintain what thou hast said is false
In thy heart-blood, though being all too base
To stain the temper of my knightly sword.",133,19321
657300,2038,"Bagot, forbear; thou shalt not take it up.",572,19321
657301,2039,"Excepting one, I would he were the best
In all this presence that hath moved me so.",133,19321
657302,2041,"If that thy valour stand on sympathy,
There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine:
By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st,
I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spakest it
That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester's death.
If thou deny'st it twenty times, thou liest;
And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart,
Where it was forged, with my rapier's point.",682,19321
657303,2049,"Thou darest not, coward, live to see that day.",133,19321
657304,2050,"Now by my soul, I would it were this hour.",682,19321
657305,2051,"Fitzwater, thou art damn'd to hell for this.",133,19321
657306,2052,"Aumerle, thou liest; his honour is as true
In this appeal as thou art all unjust;
And that thou art so, there I throw my gage,
To prove it on thee to the extremest point
Of mortal breathing: seize it, if thou darest.",593,19321
657307,2057,"An if I do not, may my hands rot off
And never brandish more revengeful steel
Over the glittering helmet of my foe!",133,19321
657308,2060,"I task the earth to the like, forsworn Aumerle;
And spur thee on with full as many lies
As may be holloa'd in thy treacherous ear
From sun to sun: there is my honour's pawn;
Engage it to the trial, if thou darest.",686,19321
657309,2065,"Who sets me else? by heaven, I'll throw at all:
I have a thousand spirits in one breast,
To answer twenty thousand such as you.",133,19321
657310,2068,"My Lord Fitzwater, I do remember well
The very time Aumerle and you did talk.",352,19321
657311,2070,"'Tis very true: you were in presence then;
And you can witness with me this is true.",682,19321
657312,2072,"As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true.",352,19321
657313,2073,"Surrey, thou liest.",682,19321
657314,2074,"Dishonourable boy!
That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword,
That it shall render vengeance and revenge
Till thou the lie-giver and that lie do lie
In earth as quiet as thy father's skull:
In proof whereof, there is my honour's pawn;
Engage it to the trial, if thou darest.",352,19321
657315,2081,"How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse!
If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live,
I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness,
And spit upon him, whilst I say he lies,
And lies, and lies: there is my bond of faith,
To tie thee to my strong correction.
As I intend to thrive in this new world,
Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal:
Besides, I heard the banish'd Norfolk say
That thou, Aumerle, didst send two of thy men
To execute the noble duke at Calais.",682,19321
657316,2092,"Some honest Christian trust me with a gage
That Norfolk lies: here do I throw down this,
If he may be repeal'd, to try his honour.",133,19321
657317,2095,"These differences shall all rest under gage
Till Norfolk be repeal'd: repeal'd he shall be,
And, though mine enemy, restored again
To all his lands and signories: when he's return'd,
Against Aumerle we will enforce his trial.",572,19321
657318,2100,"That honourable day shall ne'er be seen.
Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought
For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field,
Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross
Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens:
And toil'd with works of war, retired himself
To Italy; and there at Venice gave
His body to that pleasant country's earth,
And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,
Under whose colours he had fought so long.",171,19321
657319,2110,"Why, bishop, is Norfolk dead?",572,19321
657320,2111,"As surely as I live, my lord.",171,19321
657321,2112,"Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom
Of good old Abraham! Lords appellants,
Your differences shall all rest under gage
Till we assign you to your days of trial.",572,19321
657322,2116,"[Enter DUKE OF YORK, attended]",1261,19321
657323,2117,"Great Duke of Lancaster, I come to thee
From plume-pluck'd Richard; who with willing soul
Adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields
To the possession of thy royal hand:
Ascend his throne, descending now from him;
And long live Henry, fourth of that name!",370,19321
657324,2123,"In God's name, I'll ascend the regal throne.",572,19321
657325,2124,"Marry. God forbid!
Worst in this royal presence may I speak,
Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth.
Would God that any in this noble presence
Were enough noble to be upright judge
Of noble Richard! then true noblesse would
Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong.
What subject can give sentence on his king?
And who sits here that is not Richard's subject?
Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear,
Although apparent guilt be seen in them;
And shall the figure of God's majesty,
His captain, steward, deputy-elect,
Anointed, crowned, planted many years,
Be judged by subject and inferior breath,
And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God,
That in a Christian climate souls refined
Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!
I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks,
Stirr'd up by God, thus boldly for his king:
My Lord of Hereford here, whom you call king,
Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford's king:
And if you crown him, let me prophesy:
The blood of English shall manure the ground,
And future ages groan for this foul act;
Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels,
And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars
Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound;
Disorder, horror, fear and mutiny
Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd
The field of Golgotha and dead men's skulls.
O, if you raise this house against this house,
It will the woefullest division prove
That ever fell upon this cursed earth.
Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so,
Lest child, child's children, cry against you woe!",171,19321
657326,2160,"Well have you argued, sir; and, for your pains,
Of capital treason we arrest you here.
My Lord of Westminster, be it your charge
To keep him safely till his day of trial.
May it please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit.",359,19321
657327,2165,"Fetch hither Richard, that in common view
He may surrender; so we shall proceed
Without suspicion.",572,19321
657328,2168,I will be his conduct.,370,19321
657329,2169,[Exit],1261,19321
657330,2170,"Lords, you that here are under our arrest,
Procure your sureties for your days of answer.
Little are we beholding to your love,
And little look'd for at your helping hands.
[Re-enter DUKE OF YORK, with KING RICHARD II, and]
Officers bearing the regalia]",572,19321
657331,2176,"Alack, why am I sent for to a king,
Before I have shook off the regal thoughts
Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet have learn'd
To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs:
Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me
To this submission. Yet I well remember
The favours of these men: were they not mine?
Did they not sometime cry, 'all hail!' to me?
So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve,
Found truth in all but one: I, in twelve thousand, none.
God save the king! Will no man say amen?
Am I both priest and clerk? well then, amen.
God save the king! although I be not he;
And yet, amen, if heaven do think him me.
To do what service am I sent for hither?",944,19321
657332,2191,"To do that office of thine own good will
Which tired majesty did make thee offer,
The resignation of thy state and crown
To Henry Bolingbroke.",370,19321
657333,2195,"Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown;
Here cousin:
On this side my hand, and on that side yours.
Now is this golden crown like a deep well
That owes two buckets, filling one another,
The emptier ever dancing in the air,
The other down, unseen and full of water:
That bucket down and full of tears am I,
Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.",944,19321
657334,2204,I thought you had been willing to resign.,572,19321
657335,2205,"My crown I am; but still my griefs are mine:
You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.",944,19321
657336,2208,Part of your cares you give me with your crown.,572,19321
657337,2209,"Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down.
My care is loss of care, by old care done;
Your care is gain of care, by new care won:
The cares I give I have, though given away;
They tend the crown, yet still with me they stay.",944,19321
657338,2214,Are you contented to resign the crown?,572,19321
657339,2215,"Ay, no; no, ay; for I must nothing be;
Therefore no no, for I resign to thee.
Now mark me, how I will undo myself;
I give this heavy weight from off my head
And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,
The pride of kingly sway from out my heart;
With mine own tears I wash away my balm,
With mine own hands I give away my crown,
With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,
With mine own breath release all duty's rites:
All pomp and majesty I do forswear;
My manors, rents, revenues I forego;
My acts, decrees, and statutes I deny:
God pardon all oaths that are broke to me!
God keep all vows unbroke that swear to thee!
Make me, that nothing have, with nothing grieved,
And thou with all pleased, that hast all achieved!
Long mayst thou live in Richard's seat to sit,
And soon lie Richard in an earthly pit!
God save King Harry, unking'd Richard says,
And send him many years of sunshine days!
What more remains?",944,19321
657340,2237,"No more, but that you read
These accusations and these grievous crimes
Committed by your person and your followers
Against the state and profit of this land;
That, by confessing them, the souls of men
May deem that you are worthily deposed.",359,19321
657341,2243,"Must I do so? and must I ravel out
My weaved-up folly? Gentle Northumberland,
If thy offences were upon record,
Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop
To read a lecture of them? If thou wouldst,
There shouldst thou find one heinous article,
Containing the deposing of a king
And cracking the strong warrant of an oath,
Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the book of heaven:
Nay, all of you that stand and look upon,
Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself,
Though some of you with Pilate wash your hands
Showing an outward pity; yet you Pilates
Have here deliver'd me to my sour cross,
And water cannot wash away your sin.",944,19321
657342,2258,"My lord, dispatch; read o'er these articles.",359,19321
657343,2259,"Mine eyes are full of tears, I cannot see:
And yet salt water blinds them not so much
But they can see a sort of traitors here.
Nay, if I turn mine eyes upon myself,
I find myself a traitor with the rest;
For I have given here my soul's consent
To undeck the pompous body of a king;
Made glory base and sovereignty a slave,
Proud majesty a subject, state a peasant.",944,19321
657344,2268,"My lord,--",359,19321
657345,2269,"No lord of thine, thou haught insulting man,
Nor no man's lord; I have no name, no title,
No, not that name was given me at the font,
But 'tis usurp'd: alack the heavy day,
That I have worn so many winters out,
And know not now what name to call myself!
O that I were a mockery king of snow,
Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,
To melt myself away in water-drops!
Good king, great king, and yet not greatly good,
An if my word be sterling yet in England,
Let it command a mirror hither straight,
That it may show me what a face I have,
Since it is bankrupt of his majesty.",944,19321
657346,2283,Go some of you and fetch a looking-glass.,572,19321
657347,2284,[Exit an attendant],1261,19321
657348,2285,Read o'er this paper while the glass doth come.,359,19321
657349,2286,"Fiend, thou torment'st me ere I come to hell!",944,19321
657350,2287,"Urge it no more, my Lord Northumberland.",572,19321
657351,2288,The commons will not then be satisfied.,359,19321
657352,2289,"They shall be satisfied: I'll read enough,
When I do see the very book indeed
Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.
[Re-enter Attendant, with a glass]
Give me the glass, and therein will I read.
No deeper wrinkles yet? hath sorrow struck
So many blows upon this face of mine,
And made no deeper wounds? O flattering glass,
Like to my followers in prosperity,
Thou dost beguile me! Was this face the face
That every day under his household roof
Did keep ten thousand men? was this the face
That, like the sun, did make beholders wink?
Was this the face that faced so many follies,
And was at last out-faced by Bolingbroke?
A brittle glory shineth in this face:
As brittle as the glory is the face;
[Dashes the glass against the ground]
For there it is, crack'd in a hundred shivers.
Mark, silent king, the moral of this sport,
How soon my sorrow hath destroy'd my face.",944,19321
657353,2310,"The shadow of your sorrow hath destroy'd
The shadow or your face.",572,19321
657354,2312,"Say that again.
The shadow of my sorrow! ha! let's see:
'Tis very true, my grief lies all within;
And these external manners of laments
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
That swells with silence in the tortured soul;
There lies the substance: and I thank thee, king,
For thy great bounty, that not only givest
Me cause to wail but teachest me the way
How to lament the cause. I'll beg one boon,
And then be gone and trouble you no more.
Shall I obtain it?",944,19321
657355,2324,"Name it, fair cousin.",572,19321
657356,2325,"'Fair cousin'? I am greater than a king:
For when I was a king, my flatterers
Were then but subjects; being now a subject,
I have a king here to my flatterer.
Being so great, I have no need to beg.",944,19321
657357,2330,Yet ask.,572,19321
657358,2331,And shall I have?,944,19321
657359,2332,You shall.,572,19321
657360,2333,Then give me leave to go.,944,19321
657361,2334,Whither?,572,19321
657362,2335,"Whither you will, so I were from your sights.",944,19321
657363,2336,"Go, some of you convey him to the Tower.",572,19321
657364,2337,"O, good! convey? conveyers are you all,
That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall.",944,19321
657365,2339,"[Exeunt KING RICHARD II, some Lords, and a Guard]",1261,19321
657366,2340,"On Wednesday next we solemnly set down
Our coronation: lords, prepare yourselves.
[Exeunt all except the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, the Abbot]
of Westminster, and DUKE OF AUMERLE]",572,19321
657367,2344,A woeful pageant have we here beheld.,45,19321
657368,2345,"The woe's to come; the children yet unborn.
Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn.",171,19321
657369,2347,"You holy clergymen, is there no plot
To rid the realm of this pernicious blot?",133,19321
657370,2349,"My lord,
Before I freely speak my mind herein,
You shall not only take the sacrament
To bury mine intents, but also to effect
Whatever I shall happen to devise.
I see your brows are full of discontent,
Your hearts of sorrow and your eyes of tears:
Come home with me to supper; and I'll lay
A plot shall show us all a merry day.",45,19321
657371,2358,[Exeunt],1261,19321
657372,2361,[Enter QUEEN and Ladies],1261,19322
657373,2362,"This way the king will come; this is the way
To Julius Caesar's ill-erected tower,
To whose flint bosom my condemned lord
Is doom'd a prisoner by proud Bolingbroke:
Here let us rest, if this rebellious earth
Have any resting for her true king's queen.
[Enter KING RICHARD II and Guard]
But soft, but see, or rather do not see,
My fair rose wither: yet look up, behold,
That you in pity may dissolve to dew,
And wash him fresh again with true-love tears.
Ah, thou, the model where old Troy did stand,
Thou map of honour, thou King Richard's tomb,
And not King Richard; thou most beauteous inn,
Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodged in thee,
When triumph is become an alehouse guest?",935,19322
657374,2378,"Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,
To make my end too sudden: learn, good soul,
To think our former state a happy dream;
From which awaked, the truth of what we are
Shows us but this: I am sworn brother, sweet,
To grim Necessity, and he and I
Will keep a league till death. Hie thee to France
And cloister thee in some religious house:
Our holy lives must win a new world's crown,
Which our profane hours here have stricken down.",944,19322
657375,2388,"What, is my Richard both in shape and mind
Transform'd and weaken'd? hath Bolingbroke deposed
Thine intellect? hath he been in thy heart?
The lion dying thrusteth forth his paw,
And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage
To be o'erpower'd; and wilt thou, pupil-like,
Take thy correction mildly, kiss the rod,
And fawn on rage with base humility,
Which art a lion and a king of beasts?",935,19322
657376,2397,"A king of beasts, indeed; if aught but beasts,
I had been still a happy king of men.
Good sometime queen, prepare thee hence for France:
Think I am dead and that even here thou takest,
As from my death-bed, thy last living leave.
In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire
With good old folks and let them tell thee tales
Of woeful ages long ago betid;
And ere thou bid good night, to quit their griefs,
Tell thou the lamentable tale of me
And send the hearers weeping to their beds:
For why, the senseless brands will sympathize
The heavy accent of thy moving tongue
And in compassion weep the fire out;
And some will mourn in ashes, some coal-black,
For the deposing of a rightful king.",944,19322
657377,2413,[Enter NORTHUMBERLAND and others],1261,19322
657378,2414,"My lord, the mind of Bolingbroke is changed:
You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower.
And, madam, there is order ta'en for you;
With all swift speed you must away to France.",359,19322
657379,2418,"Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal
The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne,
The time shall not be many hours of age
More than it is ere foul sin gathering head
Shalt break into corruption: thou shalt think,
Though he divide the realm and give thee half,
It is too little, helping him to all;
And he shall think that thou, which know'st the way
To plant unrightful kings, wilt know again,
Being ne'er so little urged, another way
To pluck him headlong from the usurped throne.
The love of wicked men converts to fear;
That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
To worthy danger and deserved death.",944,19322
657380,2432,"My guilt be on my head, and there an end.
Take leave and part; for you must part forthwith.",359,19322
657381,2434,"Doubly divorced! Bad men, you violate
A twofold marriage, 'twixt my crown and me,
And then betwixt me and my married wife.
Let me unkiss the oath 'twixt thee and me;
And yet not so, for with a kiss 'twas made.
Part us, Northumberland; I toward the north,
Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime;
My wife to France: from whence, set forth in pomp,
She came adorned hither like sweet May,
Sent back like Hallowmas or short'st of day.",944,19322
657382,2444,And must we be divided? must we part?,935,19322
657383,2445,"Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart.",944,19322
657384,2446,Banish us both and send the king with me.,935,19322
657385,2447,That were some love but little policy.,359,19322
657386,2448,"Then whither he goes, thither let me go.",935,19322
657387,2449,"So two, together weeping, make one woe.
Weep thou for me in France, I for thee here;
Better far off than near, be ne'er the near.
Go, count thy way with sighs; I mine with groans.",944,19322
657388,2453,So longest way shall have the longest moans.,935,19322
657389,2454,"Twice for one step I'll groan, the way being short,
And piece the way out with a heavy heart.
Come, come, in wooing sorrow let's be brief,
Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief;
One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part;
Thus give I mine, and thus take I thy heart.",944,19322
657390,2460,"Give me mine own again; 'twere no good part
To take on me to keep and kill thy heart.
So, now I have mine own again, be gone,
That I might strive to kill it with a groan.",935,19322
657391,2464,"We make woe wanton with this fond delay:
Once more, adieu; the rest let sorrow say.",944,19322
657392,2466,[Exeunt],1261,19322
657393,2469,[Enter DUKE OF YORK and DUCHESS OF YORK],1261,19323
657394,2470,"My lord, you told me you would tell the rest,
When weeping made you break the story off,
of our two cousins coming into London.",336,19323
657395,2473,Where did I leave?,370,19323
657396,2474,"At that sad stop, my lord,
Where rude misgovern'd hands from windows' tops
Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head.",336,19323
657397,2477,"Then, as I said, the duke, great Bolingbroke,
Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed
Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know,
With slow but stately pace kept on his course,
Whilst all tongues cried 'God save thee,
Bolingbroke!'
You would have thought the very windows spake,
So many greedy looks of young and old
Through casements darted their desiring eyes
Upon his visage, and that all the walls
With painted imagery had said at once
'Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke!'
Whilst he, from the one side to the other turning,
Bareheaded, lower than his proud steed's neck,
Bespake them thus: 'I thank you, countrymen:'
And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.",370,19323
657398,2493,"Alack, poor Richard! where rode he the whilst?",336,19323
657399,2494,"As in a theatre, the eyes of men,
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Are idly bent on him that enters next,
Thinking his prattle to be tedious;
Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes
Did scowl on gentle Richard; no man cried 'God save him!'
No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home:
But dust was thrown upon his sacred head:
Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off,
His face still combating with tears and smiles,
The badges of his grief and patience,
That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd
The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted
And barbarism itself have pitied him.
But heaven hath a hand in these events,
To whose high will we bound our calm contents.
To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now,
Whose state and honour I for aye allow.",370,19323
657400,2512,Here comes my son Aumerle.,336,19323
657401,2513,"Aumerle that was;
But that is lost for being Richard's friend,
And, madam, you must call him Rutland now:
I am in parliament pledge for his truth
And lasting fealty to the new-made king.",370,19323
657402,2518,[Enter DUKE OF AUMERLE],1261,19323
657403,2519,"Welcome, my son: who are the violets now
That strew the green lap of the new come spring?",336,19323
657404,2521,"Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not:
God knows I had as lief be none as one.",133,19323
657405,2523,"Well, bear you well in this new spring of time,
Lest you be cropp'd before you come to prime.
What news from Oxford? hold those justs and triumphs?",370,19323
657406,2526,"For aught I know, my lord, they do.",133,19323
657407,2527,"You will be there, I know.",370,19323
657408,2528,"If God prevent not, I purpose so.",133,19323
657409,2529,"What seal is that, that hangs without thy bosom?
Yea, look'st thou pale? let me see the writing.",370,19323
657410,2531,"My lord, 'tis nothing.",133,19323
657411,2532,"No matter, then, who see it;
I will be satisfied; let me see the writing.",370,19323
657412,2534,"I do beseech your grace to pardon me:
It is a matter of small consequence,
Which for some reasons I would not have seen.",133,19323
657413,2537,"Which for some reasons, sir, I mean to see.
I fear, I fear,--",370,19323
657414,2539,"What should you fear?
'Tis nothing but some bond, that he is enter'd into
For gay apparel 'gainst the triumph day.",336,19323
657415,2542,"Bound to himself! what doth he with a bond
That he is bound to? Wife, thou art a fool.
Boy, let me see the writing.",370,19323
657416,2545,"I do beseech you, pardon me; I may not show it.",133,19323
657417,2546,"I will be satisfied; let me see it, I say.
[He plucks it out of his bosom and reads it]
Treason! foul treason! Villain! traitor! slave!",370,19323
657418,2549,"What is the matter, my lord?",336,19323
657419,2550,"Ho! who is within there?
[Enter a Servant]
Saddle my horse.
God for his mercy, what treachery is here!",370,19323
657420,2554,"Why, what is it, my lord?",336,19323
657421,2555,"Give me my boots, I say; saddle my horse.
Now, by mine honour, by my life, by my troth,
I will appeach the villain.",370,19323
657422,2558,What is the matter?,336,19323
657423,2559,"Peace, foolish woman.",370,19323
657424,2560,"I will not peace. What is the matter, Aumerle.",336,19323
657425,2561,"Good mother, be content; it is no more
Than my poor life must answer.",133,19323
657426,2563,Thy life answer!,336,19323
657427,2564,Bring me my boots: I will unto the king.,370,19323
657428,2565,[Re-enter Servant with boots],1261,19323
657429,2566,"Strike him, Aumerle. Poor boy, thou art amazed.
Hence, villain! never more come in my sight.",336,19323
657430,2568,"Give me my boots, I say.",370,19323
657431,2569,"Why, York, what wilt thou do?
Wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine own?
Have we more sons? or are we like to have?
Is not my teeming date drunk up with time?
And wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age,
And rob me of a happy mother's name?
Is he not like thee? is he not thine own?",336,19323
657432,2576,"Thou fond mad woman,
Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy?
A dozen of them here have ta'en the sacrament,
And interchangeably set down their hands,
To kill the king at Oxford.",370,19323
657433,2581,"He shall be none;
We'll keep him here: then what is that to him?",336,19323
657434,2583,"Away, fond woman! were he twenty times my son,
I would appeach him.",370,19323
657435,2585,"Hadst thou groan'd for him
As I have done, thou wouldst be more pitiful.
But now I know thy mind; thou dost suspect
That I have been disloyal to thy bed,
And that he is a bastard, not thy son:
Sweet York, sweet husband, be not of that mind:
He is as like thee as a man may be,
Not like to me, or any of my kin,
And yet I love him.",336,19323
657436,2594,"Make way, unruly woman!",370,19323
657437,2595,[Exit],1261,19323
657438,2596,"After, Aumerle! mount thee upon his horse;
Spur post, and get before him to the king,
And beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee.
I'll not be long behind; though I be old,
I doubt not but to ride as fast as York:
And never will I rise up from the ground
Till Bolingbroke have pardon'd thee. Away, be gone!",336,19323
657439,2603,[Exeunt],1261,19323
657440,2606,"[Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, HENRY PERCY, and other Lords]",1261,19324
657441,2607,"Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son?
'Tis full three months since I did see him last;
If any plague hang over us, 'tis he.
I would to God, my lords, he might be found:
Inquire at London, 'mongst the taverns there,
For there, they say, he daily doth frequent,
With unrestrained loose companions,
Even such, they say, as stand in narrow lanes,
And beat our watch, and rob our passengers;
Which he, young wanton and effeminate boy,
Takes on the point of honour to support
So dissolute a crew.",572,19324
657442,2619,"My lord, some two days since I saw the prince,
And told him of those triumphs held at Oxford.",593,19324
657443,2621,And what said the gallant?,572,19324
657444,2622,"His answer was, he would unto the stews,
And from the common'st creature pluck a glove,
And wear it as a favour; and with that
He would unhorse the lustiest challenger.",593,19324
657445,2626,"As dissolute as desperate; yet through both
I see some sparks of better hope, which elder years
May happily bring forth. But who comes here?",572,19324
657446,2629,[Enter DUKE OF AUMERLE],1261,19324
657447,2630,Where is the king?,133,19324
657448,2631,"What means our cousin, that he stares and looks
So wildly?",572,19324
657449,2633,"God save your grace! I do beseech your majesty,
To have some conference with your grace alone.",133,19324
657450,2635,"Withdraw yourselves, and leave us here alone.
[Exeunt HENRY PERCY and Lords]
What is the matter with our cousin now?",572,19324
657451,2638,"For ever may my knees grow to the earth,
My tongue cleave to my roof within my mouth
Unless a pardon ere I rise or speak.",133,19324
657452,2641,"Intended or committed was this fault?
If on the first, how heinous e'er it be,
To win thy after-love I pardon thee.",572,19324
657453,2644,"Then give me leave that I may turn the key,
That no man enter till my tale be done.",133,19324
657454,2646,Have thy desire.,572,19324
657455,2647,"[Within] My liege, beware; look to thyself;
Thou hast a traitor in thy presence there.",370,19324
657456,2649,"Villain, I'll make thee safe.",572,19324
657457,2650,[Drawing],1261,19324
657458,2651,Stay thy revengeful hand; thou hast no cause to fear.,133,19324
657459,2652,"[Within] Open the door, secure, foolhardy king:
Shall I for love speak treason to thy face?
Open the door, or I will break it open.",370,19324
657460,2655,[Enter DUKE OF YORK],1261,19324
657461,2656,"What is the matter, uncle? speak;
Recover breath; tell us how near is danger,
That we may arm us to encounter it.",572,19324
657462,2659,"Peruse this writing here, and thou shalt know
The treason that my haste forbids me show.",370,19324
657463,2661,"Remember, as thou read'st, thy promise pass'd:
I do repent me; read not my name there
My heart is not confederate with my hand.",133,19324
657464,2664,"It was, villain, ere thy hand did set it down.
I tore it from the traitor's bosom, king;
Fear, and not love, begets his penitence:
Forget to pity him, lest thy pity prove
A serpent that will sting thee to the heart.",370,19324
657465,2669,"O heinous, strong and bold conspiracy!
O loyal father of a treacherous son!
Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain,
From when this stream through muddy passages
Hath held his current and defiled himself!
Thy overflow of good converts to bad,
And thy abundant goodness shall excuse
This deadly blot in thy digressing son.",572,19324
657466,2677,"So shall my virtue be his vice's bawd;
And he shall spend mine honour with his shame,
As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold.
Mine honour lives when his dishonour dies,
Or my shamed life in his dishonour lies:
Thou kill'st me in his life; giving him breath,
The traitor lives, the true man's put to death.",370,19324
657467,2684,"[Within] What ho, my liege! for God's sake,
let me in.",336,19324
657468,2686,What shrill-voiced suppliant makes this eager cry?,572,19324
657469,2687,"A woman, and thy aunt, great king; 'tis I.
Speak with me, pity me, open the door.
A beggar begs that never begg'd before.",336,19324
657470,2690,"Our scene is alter'd from a serious thing,
And now changed to 'The Beggar and the King.'
My dangerous cousin, let your mother in:
I know she is come to pray for your foul sin.",572,19324
657471,2694,"If thou do pardon, whosoever pray,
More sins for this forgiveness prosper may.
This fester'd joint cut off, the rest rest sound;
This let alone will all the rest confound.",370,19324
657472,2698,[Enter DUCHESS OF YORK],1261,19324
657473,2699,"O king, believe not this hard-hearted man!
Love loving not itself none other can.",336,19324
657474,2701,"Thou frantic woman, what dost thou make here?
Shall thy old dugs once more a traitor rear?",370,19324
657475,2703,"Sweet York, be patient. Hear me, gentle liege.",336,19324
657476,2704,[Kneels],1261,19324
657477,2705,"Rise up, good aunt.",572,19324
657478,2706,"Not yet, I thee beseech:
For ever will I walk upon my knees,
And never see day that the happy sees,
Till thou give joy; until thou bid me joy,
By pardoning Rutland, my transgressing boy.",336,19324
657479,2711,Unto my mother's prayers I bend my knee.,133,19324
657480,2712,"Against them both my true joints bended be.
Ill mayst thou thrive, if thou grant any grace!",370,19324
657481,2714,"Pleads he in earnest? look upon his face;
His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in jest;
His words come from his mouth, ours from our breast:
He prays but faintly and would be denied;
We pray with heart and soul and all beside:
His weary joints would gladly rise, I know;
Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow:
His prayers are full of false hypocrisy;
Ours of true zeal and deep integrity.
Our prayers do out-pray his; then let them have
That mercy which true prayer ought to have.",336,19324
657482,2725,"Good aunt, stand up.",572,19324
657483,2726,"Nay, do not say, 'stand up;'
Say, 'pardon' first, and afterwards 'stand up.'
And if I were thy nurse, thy tongue to teach,
'Pardon' should be the first word of thy speech.
I never long'd to hear a word till now;
Say 'pardon,' king; let pity teach thee how:
The word is short, but not so short as sweet;
No word like 'pardon' for kings' mouths so meet.",336,19324
657484,2734,"Speak it in French, king; say, 'pardonne moi.'",370,19324
657485,2735,"Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy?
Ah, my sour husband, my hard-hearted lord,
That set'st the word itself against the word!
Speak 'pardon' as 'tis current in our land;
The chopping French we do not understand.
Thine eye begins to speak; set thy tongue there;
Or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear;
That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce,
Pity may move thee 'pardon' to rehearse.",336,19324
657486,2744,"Good aunt, stand up.",572,19324
657487,2745,"I do not sue to stand;
Pardon is all the suit I have in hand.",336,19324
657488,2747,"I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.",572,19324
657489,2748,"O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!
Yet am I sick for fear: speak it again;
Twice saying 'pardon' doth not pardon twain,
But makes one pardon strong.",336,19324
657490,2752,"With all my heart
I pardon him.",572,19324
657491,2754,A god on earth thou art.,336,19324
657492,2755,"But for our trusty brother-in-law and the abbot,
With all the rest of that consorted crew,
Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels.
Good uncle, help to order several powers
To Oxford, or where'er these traitors are:
They shall not live within this world, I swear,
But I will have them, if I once know where.
Uncle, farewell: and, cousin too, adieu:
Your mother well hath pray'd, and prove you true.",572,19324
657493,2764,"Come, my old son: I pray God make thee new.",336,19324
657494,2765,[Exeunt],1261,19324
657495,2768,[Enter EXTON and Servant],1261,19325
657496,2769,"Didst thou not mark the king, what words he spake,
'Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?'
Was it not so?",390,19325
657497,2772,These were his very words.,1066,19325
657498,2773,"'Have I no friend?' quoth he: he spake it twice,
And urged it twice together, did he not?",390,19325
657499,2775,He did.,1066,19325
657500,2776,"And speaking it, he wistly look'd on me,
And who should say, 'I would thou wert the man'
That would divorce this terror from my heart;'
Meaning the king at Pomfret. Come, let's go:
I am the king's friend, and will rid his foe.",390,19325
657501,2781,[Exeunt],1261,19325
657502,2784,[Enter KING RICHARD],1261,19326
657503,2785,"I have been studying how I may compare
This prison where I live unto the world:
And for because the world is populous
And here is not a creature but myself,
I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out.
My brain I'll prove the female to my soul,
My soul the father; and these two beget
A generation of still-breeding thoughts,
And these same thoughts people this little world,
In humours like the people of this world,
For no thought is contented. The better sort,
As thoughts of things divine, are intermix'd
With scruples and do set the word itself
Against the word:
As thus, 'Come, little ones,' and then again,
'It is as hard to come as for a camel
To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.'
Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot
Unlikely wonders; how these vain weak nails
May tear a passage through the flinty ribs
Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls,
And, for they cannot, die in their own pride.
Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves
That they are not the first of fortune's slaves,
Nor shall not be the last; like silly beggars
Who sitting in the stocks refuge their shame,
That many have and others must sit there;
And in this thought they find a kind of ease,
Bearing their own misfortunes on the back
Of such as have before endured the like.
Thus play I in one person many people,
And none contented: sometimes am I king;
Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar,
And so I am: then crushing penury
Persuades me I was better when a king;
Then am I king'd again: and by and by
Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke,
And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be,
Nor I nor any man that but man is
With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased
With being nothing. Music do I hear?
[Music]
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
So is it in the music of men's lives.
And here have I the daintiness of ear
To cheque time broke in a disorder'd string;
But for the concord of my state and time
Had not an ear to hear my true time broke.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
For now hath time made me his numbering clock:
My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar
Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,
Whereto my finger, like a dial's point,
Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears.
Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is
Are clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart,
Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans
Show minutes, times, and hours: but my time
Runs posting on in Bolingbroke's proud joy,
While I stand fooling here, his Jack o' the clock.
This music mads me; let it sound no more;
For though it have holp madmen to their wits,
In me it seems it will make wise men mad.
Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me!
For 'tis a sign of love; and love to Richard
Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world.",944,19326
657504,2852,[Enter a Groom of the Stable],1261,19326
657505,2853,"Hail, royal prince!",546,19326
657506,2854,"Thanks, noble peer;
The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.
What art thou? and how comest thou hither,
Where no man never comes but that sad dog
That brings me food to make misfortune live?",944,19326
657507,2859,"I was a poor groom of thy stable, king,
When thou wert king; who, travelling towards York,
With much ado at length have gotten leave
To look upon my sometimes royal master's face.
O, how it yearn'd my heart when I beheld
In London streets, that coronation-day,
When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary,
That horse that thou so often hast bestrid,
That horse that I so carefully have dress'd!",546,19326
657508,2868,"Rode he on Barbary? Tell me, gentle friend,
How went he under him?",944,19326
657509,2870,So proudly as if he disdain'd the ground.,546,19326
657510,2871,"So proud that Bolingbroke was on his back!
That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand;
This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.
Would he not stumble? would he not fall down,
Since pride must have a fall, and break the neck
Of that proud man that did usurp his back?
Forgiveness, horse! why do I rail on thee,
Since thou, created to be awed by man,
Wast born to bear? I was not made a horse;
And yet I bear a burthen like an ass,
Spurr'd, gall'd and tired by jouncing Bolingbroke.",944,19326
657511,2882,"[Enter Keeper, with a dish]",1261,19326
657512,2883,"Fellow, give place; here is no longer stay.",632,19326
657513,2884,"If thou love me, 'tis time thou wert away.",944,19326
657514,2885,"What my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say.",546,19326
657515,2886,[Exit],1261,19326
657516,2887,"My lord, will't please you to fall to?",632,19326
657517,2888,"Taste of it first, as thou art wont to do.",944,19326
657518,2889,"My lord, I dare not: Sir Pierce of Exton, who
lately came from the king, commands the contrary.",632,19326
657519,2891,"The devil take Henry of Lancaster and thee!
Patience is stale, and I am weary of it.",944,19326
657520,2893,[Beats the keeper],1261,19326
657521,2894,"Help, help, help!",632,19326
657522,2895,"[Enter EXTON and Servants, armed]",1261,19326
657523,2896,"How now! what means death in this rude assault?
Villain, thy own hand yields thy death's instrument.
[Snatching an axe from a Servant and killing him]
Go thou, and fill another room in hell.
[He kills another. Then Exton strikes him down]
That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire
That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand
Hath with the king's blood stain'd the king's own land.
Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high;
Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die.",944,19326
657524,2906,[Dies],1261,19326
657525,2907,"As full of valour as of royal blood:
Both have I spill'd; O would the deed were good!
For now the devil, that told me I did well,
Says that this deed is chronicled in hell.
This dead king to the living king I'll bear
Take hence the rest, and give them burial here.",390,19326
657526,2913,"[Exeunt]
[Flourish. Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, DUKE OF YORK,]
with other Lords, and Attendants]",1261,19326
657527,2918,"Kind uncle York, the latest news we hear
Is that the rebels have consumed with fire
Our town of Cicester in Gloucestershire;
But whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not.
[Enter NORTHUMBERLAND]
Welcome, my lord. what is the news?",572,19327
657528,2924,"First, to thy sacred state wish I all happiness.
The next news is, I have to London sent
The heads of Oxford, Salisbury, Blunt, and Kent:
The manner of their taking may appear
At large discoursed in this paper here.",359,19327
657529,2929,"We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains;
And to thy worth will add right worthy gains.",572,19327
657530,2931,[Enter LORD FITZWATER],1261,19327
657531,2932,"My lord, I have from Oxford sent to London
The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely,
Two of the dangerous consorted traitors
That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow.",682,19327
657532,2936,"Thy pains, Fitzwater, shall not be forgot;
Right noble is thy merit, well I wot.",572,19327
657533,2938,"[Enter HENRY PERCY, and the BISHOP OF CARLISLE]",1261,19327
657534,2939,"The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster,
With clog of conscience and sour melancholy
Hath yielded up his body to the grave;
But here is Carlisle living, to abide
Thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride.",593,19327
657535,2944,"Carlisle, this is your doom:
Choose out some secret place, some reverend room,
More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life;
So as thou livest in peace, die free from strife:
For though mine enemy thou hast ever been,
High sparks of honour in thee have I seen.",572,19327
657536,2950,"[Enter EXTON, with persons bearing a coffin]",1261,19327
657537,2951,"Great king, within this coffin I present
Thy buried fear: herein all breathless lies
The mightiest of thy greatest enemies,
Richard of Bordeaux, by me hither brought.",390,19327
657538,2955,"Exton, I thank thee not; for thou hast wrought
A deed of slander with thy fatal hand
Upon my head and all this famous land.",572,19327
657539,2958,"From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed.",390,19327
657540,2959,"They love not poison that do poison need,
Nor do I thee: though I did wish him dead,
I hate the murderer, love him murdered.
The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour,
But neither my good word nor princely favour:
With Cain go wander through shades of night,
And never show thy head by day nor light.
Lords, I protest, my soul is full of woe,
That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow:
Come, mourn with me for that I do lament,
And put on sullen black incontinent:
I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land,
To wash this blood off from my guilty hand:
March sadly after; grace my mournings here;
In weeping after this untimely bier.",572,19327
657541,2974,[Exeunt],1261,19327
657542,3,"[Enter GLOUCESTER, solus]",1261,19328
657543,4,"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,
About a prophecy, which says that 'G'
Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here
Clarence comes.
[Enter CLARENCE, guarded, and BRAKENBURY]
Brother, good day; what means this armed guard
That waits upon your grace?",531,19328
657544,49,"His majesty
Tendering my person's safety, hath appointed
This conduct to convey me to the Tower.",527,19328
657545,52,Upon what cause?,531,19328
657546,53,Because my name is George.,527,19328
657547,54,"Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours;
He should, for that, commit your godfathers:
O, belike his majesty hath some intent
That you shall be new-christen'd in the Tower.
But what's the matter, Clarence? may I know?",531,19328
657548,59,"Yea, Richard, when I know; for I protest
As yet I do not: but, as I can learn,
He hearkens after prophecies and dreams;
And from the cross-row plucks the letter G.
And says a wizard told him that by G
His issue disinherited should be;
And, for my name of George begins with G,
It follows in his thought that I am he.
These, as I learn, and such like toys as these
Have moved his highness to commit me now.",527,19328
657549,69,"Why, this it is, when men are ruled by women:
'Tis not the king that sends you to the Tower:
My Lady Grey his wife, Clarence, 'tis she
That tempers him to this extremity.
Was it not she and that good man of worship,
Anthony Woodville, her brother there,
That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower,
From whence this present day he is deliver'd?
We are not safe, Clarence; we are not safe.",531,19328
657550,78,"By heaven, I think there's no man is secure
But the queen's kindred and night-walking heralds
That trudge betwixt the king and Mistress Shore.
Heard ye not what an humble suppliant
Lord hastings was to her for his delivery?",527,19328
657551,83,"Humbly complaining to her deity
Got my lord chamberlain his liberty.
I'll tell you what; I think it is our way,
If we will keep in favour with the king,
To be her men and wear her livery:
The jealous o'erworn widow and herself,
Since that our brother dubb'd them gentlewomen.
Are mighty gossips in this monarchy.",531,19328
657552,91,"I beseech your graces both to pardon me;
His majesty hath straitly given in charge
That no man shall have private conference,
Of what degree soever, with his brother.",1112,19328
657553,95,"Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,
You may partake of any thing we say:
We speak no treason, man: we say the king
Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen
Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;
We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,
A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;
And that the queen's kindred are made gentle-folks:
How say you sir? Can you deny all this?",531,19328
657554,104,"With this, my lord, myself have nought to do.",1112,19328
657555,105,"Naught to do with mistress Shore! I tell thee, fellow,
He that doth naught with her, excepting one,
Were best he do it secretly, alone.",531,19328
657556,108,"What one, my lord?",1112,19328
657557,109,"Her husband, knave: wouldst thou betray me?",531,19328
657558,110,"I beseech your grace to pardon me, and withal
Forbear your conference with the noble duke.",1112,19328
657559,112,"We know thy charge, Brakenbury, and will obey.",527,19328
657560,113,"We are the queen's abjects, and must obey.
Brother, farewell: I will unto the king;
And whatsoever you will employ me in,
Were it to call King Edward's widow sister,
I will perform it to enfranchise you.
Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood
Touches me deeper than you can imagine.",531,19328
657561,120,I know it pleaseth neither of us well.,527,19328
657562,121,"Well, your imprisonment shall not be long;
Meantime, have patience.",531,19328
657563,123,I must perforce. Farewell.,527,19328
657564,124,"[Exeunt CLARENCE, BRAKENBURY, and Guard]",1261,19328
657565,125,"Go, tread the path that thou shalt ne'er return.
Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so,
That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,
If heaven will take the present at our hands.
But who comes here? the new-deliver'd Hastings?",531,19328
657566,130,[Enter HASTINGS],1261,19328
657567,131,Good time of day unto my gracious lord!,685,19328
657568,132,"As much unto my good lord chamberlain!
Well are you welcome to the open air.
How hath your lordship brook'd imprisonment?",531,19328
657569,135,"With patience, noble lord, as prisoners must:
But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks
That were the cause of my imprisonment.",685,19328
657570,138,"No doubt, no doubt; and so shall Clarence too;
For they that were your enemies are his,
And have prevail'd as much on him as you.",531,19328
657571,141,"More pity that the eagle should be mew'd,
While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.",685,19328
657572,143,What news abroad?,531,19328
657573,144,"No news so bad abroad as this at home;
The King is sickly, weak and melancholy,
And his physicians fear him mightily.",685,19328
657574,147,"Now, by Saint Paul, this news is bad indeed.
O, he hath kept an evil diet long,
And overmuch consumed his royal person:
'Tis very grievous to be thought upon.
What, is he in his bed?",531,19328
657575,152,He is.,685,19328
657576,153,"Go you before, and I will follow you.
[Exit HASTINGS]
He cannot live, I hope; and must not die
Till George be pack'd with post-horse up to heaven.
I'll in, to urge his hatred more to Clarence,
With lies well steel'd with weighty arguments;
And, if I fall not in my deep intent,
Clarence hath not another day to live:
Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy,
And leave the world for me to bustle in!
For then I'll marry Warwick's youngest daughter.
What though I kill'd her husband and her father?
The readiest way to make the wench amends
Is to become her husband and her father:
The which will I; not all so much for love
As for another secret close intent,
By marrying her which I must reach unto.
But yet I run before my horse to market:
Clarence still breathes; Edward still lives and reigns:
When they are gone, then must I count my gains.",531,19328
657577,173,"[Exit]
[Enter the corpse of KING HENRY the Sixth, Gentlemen]
with halberds to guard it; LADY ANNE being the mourner]",1261,19328
657578,178,"Set down, set down your honourable load,
If honour may be shrouded in a hearse,
Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.
Poor key-cold figure of a holy king!
Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster!
Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood!
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 selfsame hand that made these wounds!
Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life,
I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes.
Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes!
Cursed be the heart that had the heart to do it!
Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence!
More direful hap betide that hated wretch,
That makes us wretched by the death of thee,
Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads,
Or any creeping venom'd thing that lives!
If ever he have child, abortive be it,
Prodigious, and untimely brought to light,
Whose ugly and unnatural aspect
May fright the hopeful mother at the view;
And that be heir to his unhappiness!
If ever he have wife, let her he made
A miserable by the death of him
As I am made by my poor lord and thee!
Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load,
Taken from Paul's to be interred there;
And still, as you are weary of the weight,
Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse.",641,19329
657579,210,[Enter GLOUCESTER],1261,19329
657580,211,"Stay, you that bear the corse, and set it down.",531,19329
657581,212,"What black magician conjures up this fiend,
To stop devoted charitable deeds?",641,19329
657582,214,"Villains, set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul,
I'll make a corse of him that disobeys.",531,19329
657583,216,"My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass.",521,19329
657584,217,"Unmanner'd dog! stand thou, when I command:
Advance thy halbert higher than my breast,
Or, by Saint Paul, I'll strike thee to my foot,
And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness.",531,19329
657585,221,"What, do you tremble? are you all afraid?
Alas, I blame you not; for you are mortal,
And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil.
Avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell!
Thou hadst but power over his mortal body,
His soul thou canst not have; therefore be gone.",641,19329
657586,227,"Sweet saint, for charity, be not so curst.",531,19329
657587,228,"Foul devil, for God's sake, hence, and trouble us not;
For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,
Fill'd it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.
If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,
Behold this pattern of thy butcheries.
O, gentlemen, see, see! dead Henry's wounds
Open their congeal'd mouths and bleed afresh!
Blush, Blush, thou lump of foul deformity;
For 'tis thy presence that exhales this blood
From cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells;
Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural,
Provokes this deluge most unnatural.
O God, which this blood madest, revenge his death!
O earth, which this blood drink'st revenge his death!
Either heaven with lightning strike the
murderer dead,
Or earth, gape open wide and eat him quick,
As thou dost swallow up this good king's blood
Which his hell-govern'd arm hath butchered!",641,19329
657588,247,"Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.",531,19329
657589,249,"Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man:
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.",641,19329
657590,251,"But I know none, and therefore am no beast.",531,19329
657591,252,"O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!",641,19329
657592,253,"More wonderful, when angels are so angry.
Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman,
Of these supposed-evils, to give me leave,
By circumstance, but to acquit myself.",531,19329
657593,257,"Vouchsafe, defused infection of a man,
For these known evils, but to give me leave,
By circumstance, to curse thy cursed self.",641,19329
657594,260,"Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have
Some patient leisure to excuse myself.",531,19329
657595,262,"Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make
No excuse current, but to hang thyself.",641,19329
657596,264,"By such despair, I should accuse myself.",531,19329
657597,265,"And, by despairing, shouldst thou stand excused;
For doing worthy vengeance on thyself,
Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others.",641,19329
657598,268,Say that I slew them not?,531,19329
657599,269,"Why, then they are not dead:
But dead they are, and devilish slave, by thee.",641,19329
657600,271,I did not kill your husband.,531,19329
657601,272,"Why, then he is alive.",641,19329
657602,273,"Nay, he is dead; and slain by Edward's hand.",531,19329
657603,274,"In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw
Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood;
The which thou once didst bend against her breast,
But that thy brothers beat aside the point.",641,19329
657604,278,"I was provoked by her slanderous tongue,
which laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders.",531,19329
657605,280,"Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind.
Which never dreamt on aught but butcheries:
Didst thou not kill this king?",641,19329
657606,283,I grant ye.,531,19329
657607,284,"Dost grant me, hedgehog? then, God grant me too
Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed!
O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous!",641,19329
657608,287,"The fitter for the King of heaven, that hath him.",531,19329
657609,288,"He is in heaven, where thou shalt never come.",641,19329
657610,289,"Let him thank me, that holp to send him thither;
For he was fitter for that place than earth.",531,19329
657611,291,And thou unfit for any place but hell.,641,19329
657612,292,"Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it.",531,19329
657613,293,Some dungeon.,641,19329
657614,294,Your bed-chamber.,531,19329
657615,295,I'll rest betide the chamber where thou liest!,641,19329
657616,296,"So will it, madam till I lie with you.",531,19329
657617,297,I hope so.,641,19329
657618,298,"I know so. But, gentle Lady Anne,
To leave this keen encounter of our wits,
And fall somewhat into a slower method,
Is not the causer of the timeless deaths
Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward,
As blameful as the executioner?",531,19329
657619,304,"Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.",641,19329
657620,305,"Your beauty was the cause of that effect;
Your beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep
To undertake the death of all the world,
So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.",531,19329
657621,309,"If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide,
These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.",641,19329
657622,311,"These eyes could never endure sweet beauty's wreck;
You should not blemish it, if I stood by:
As all the world is cheered by the sun,
So I by that; it is my day, my life.",531,19329
657623,315,"Black night o'ershade thy day, and death thy life!",641,19329
657624,316,"Curse not thyself, fair creature thou art both.",531,19329
657625,317,"I would I were, to be revenged on thee.",641,19329
657626,318,"It is a quarrel most unnatural,
To be revenged on him that loveth you.",531,19329
657627,320,"It is a quarrel just and reasonable,
To be revenged on him that slew my husband.",641,19329
657628,322,"He that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband,
Did it to help thee to a better husband.",531,19329
657629,324,His better doth not breathe upon the earth.,641,19329
657630,325,He lives that loves thee better than he could.,531,19329
657631,326,Name him.,641,19329
657632,327,Plantagenet.,531,19329
657633,328,"Why, that was he.",641,19329
657634,329,"The selfsame name, but one of better nature.",531,19329
657635,330,Where is he?,641,19329
657636,331,"Here.
[She spitteth at him]
Why dost thou spit at me?",531,19329
657637,334,"Would it were mortal poison, for thy sake!",641,19329
657638,335,Never came poison from so sweet a place.,531,19329
657639,336,"Never hung poison on a fouler toad.
Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes.",641,19329
657640,338,"Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.",531,19329
657641,339,"Would they were basilisks, to strike thee dead!",641,19329
657642,340,"I would they were, that I might die at once;
For now they kill me with a living death.
Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears,
Shamed their aspect with store of childish drops:
These eyes that never shed remorseful tear,
No, when my father York and Edward wept,
To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made
When black-faced Clifford shook his sword at him;
Nor when thy warlike father, like a child,
Told the sad story of my father's death,
And twenty times made pause to sob and weep,
That all the standers-by had wet their cheeks
Like trees bedash'd with rain: in that sad time
My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear;
And what these sorrows could not thence exhale,
Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping.
I never sued to friend nor enemy;
My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing word;
But now thy beauty is proposed my fee,
My proud heart sues, and prompts my tongue to speak.
[She looks scornfully at him]
Teach not thy lips such scorn, for they were made
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive,
Lo, here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword;
Which if thou please to hide in this true bosom.
And let the soul forth that adoreth thee,
I lay it naked to the deadly stroke,
And humbly beg the death upon my knee.
[He lays his breast open: she offers at it with his sword]
Nay, do not pause; for I did kill King Henry,
But 'twas thy beauty that provoked me.
Nay, now dispatch; 'twas I that stabb'd young Edward,
But 'twas thy heavenly face that set me on.
[Here she lets fall the sword]
Take up the sword again, or take up me.",531,19329
657643,376,"Arise, dissembler: though I wish thy death,
I will not be the executioner.",641,19329
657644,378,"Then bid me kill myself, and I will do it.",531,19329
657645,379,I have already.,641,19329
657646,380,"Tush, that was in thy rage:
Speak it again, and, even with the word,
That hand, which, for thy love, did kill thy love,
Shall, for thy love, kill a far truer love;
To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary.",531,19329
657647,385,I would I knew thy heart.,641,19329
657661,412,"With all my heart; and much it joys me too,
To see you are become so penitent.
Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me.",641,19329
657662,415,Bid me farewell.,531,19329
657663,416,"'Tis more than you deserve;
But since you teach me how to flatter you,
Imagine I have said farewell already.",641,19329
657664,419,"[Exeunt LADY ANNE, TRESSEL, and BERKELEY]",1261,19329
657665,420,"Sirs, take up the corse.",531,19329
657666,421,"Towards Chertsey, noble lord?",523,19329
657667,422,"No, to White-Friars; there attend my coining.
[Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER]
Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?
Was ever woman in this humour won?
I'll have her; but I will not keep her long.
What! I, that kill'd her husband and his father,
To take her in her heart's extremest hate,
With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,
The bleeding witness of her hatred by;
Having God, her conscience, and these bars
against me,
And I nothing to back my suit at all,
But the plain devil and dissembling looks,
And yet to win her, all the world to nothing!
Ha!
Hath she forgot already that brave prince,
Edward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,
Stabb'd in my angry mood at Tewksbury?
A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,
Framed in the prodigality of nature,
Young, valiant, wise, and, no doubt, right royal,
The spacious world cannot again afford
And will she yet debase her eyes on me,
That cropp'd the golden prime of this sweet prince,
And made her widow to a woful bed?
On me, whose all not equals Edward's moiety?
On me, that halt and am unshapen thus?
My dukedom to a beggarly denier,
I do mistake my person all this while:
Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,
Myself to be a marvellous proper man.
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass,
And entertain some score or two of tailors,
To study fashions to adorn my body:
Since I am crept in favour with myself,
Will maintain it with some little cost.
But first I'll turn yon fellow in his grave;
And then return lamenting to my love.
Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass.",531,19329
657668,462,[Exit],1261,19329
657669,465,"[Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, RIVERS, and GREY]",1261,19330
657670,466,"Have patience, madam: there's no doubt his majesty
Will soon recover his accustom'd health.",692,19330
657671,468,"In that you brook it in, it makes him worse:
Therefore, for God's sake, entertain good comfort,
And cheer his grace with quick and merry words.",683,19330
657672,471,"If he were dead, what would betide of me?",933,19330
657673,472,No other harm but loss of such a lord.,692,19330
657674,473,The loss of such a lord includes all harm.,933,19330
657675,474,"The heavens have bless'd you with a goodly son,
To be your comforter when he is gone.",683,19330
657676,476,"Oh, he is young and his minority
Is put unto the trust of Richard Gloucester,
A man that loves not me, nor none of you.",933,19330
657677,479,Is it concluded that he shall be protector?,692,19330
657678,480,"It is determined, not concluded yet:
But so it must be, if the king miscarry.",933,19330
657679,482,[Enter BUCKINGHAM and DERBY],1261,19330
657680,483,Here come the lords of Buckingham and Derby.,683,19330
657681,484,Good time of day unto your royal grace!,343,19330
657682,485,God make your majesty joyful as you have been!,1120,19330
657683,486,"The Countess Richmond, good my Lord of Derby.
To your good prayers will scarcely say amen.
Yet, Derby, notwithstanding she's your wife,
And loves not me, be you, good lord, assured
I hate not you for her proud arrogance.",933,19330
657684,491,"I do beseech you, either not believe
The envious slanders of her false accusers;
Or, if she be accused in true report,
Bear with her weakness, which, I think proceeds
From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.",1120,19330
657685,496,"Saw you the king to-day, my Lord of Derby?",692,19330
657686,497,"But now the Duke of Buckingham and I
Are come from visiting his majesty.",1120,19330
657687,499,"What likelihood of his amendment, lords?",933,19330
657688,500,"Madam, good hope; his grace speaks cheerfully.",343,19330
657689,501,God grant him health! Did you confer with him?,933,19330
657690,502,"Madam, we did: he desires to make atonement
Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers,
And betwixt them and my lord chamberlain;
And sent to warn them to his royal presence.",343,19330
657691,506,"Would all were well! but that will never be
I fear our happiness is at the highest.",933,19330
657692,508,"[Enter GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and DORSET]",1261,19330
657693,509,"They do me wrong, and I will not endure it:
Who are they that complain unto the king,
That I, forsooth, am stern, and love them not?
By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly
That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours.
Because I cannot flatter and speak fair,
Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog,
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
I must be held a rancorous enemy.
Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,
But thus his simple truth must be abused
By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?",531,19330
657694,521,To whom in all this presence speaks your grace?,692,19330
657695,522,"To thee, that hast nor honesty nor grace.
When have I injured thee? when done thee wrong?
Or thee? or thee? or any of your faction?
A plague upon you all! His royal person,--
Whom God preserve better than you would wish!--
Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing-while,
But you must trouble him with lewd complaints.",531,19330
657696,529,"Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.
The king, of his own royal disposition,
And not provoked by any suitor else;
Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred,
Which in your outward actions shows itself
Against my kindred, brothers, and myself,
Makes him to send; that thereby he may gather
The ground of your ill-will, and so remove it.",933,19330
657697,537,"I cannot tell: the world is grown so bad,
That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch:
Since every Jack became a gentleman
There's many a gentle person made a Jack.",531,19330
657698,541,"Come, come, we know your meaning, brother
Gloucester;
You envy my advancement and my friends':
God grant we never may have need of you!",933,19330
657699,545,"Meantime, God grants that we have need of you:
Your brother is imprison'd by your means,
Myself disgraced, and the nobility
Held in contempt; whilst many fair promotions
Are daily given to ennoble those
That scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble.",531,19330
657700,551,"By Him that raised me to this careful height
From that contented hap which I enjoy'd,
I never did incense his majesty
Against the Duke of Clarence, but have been
An earnest advocate to plead for him.
My lord, you do me shameful injury,
Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects.",933,19330
657701,558,"You may deny that you were not the cause
Of my Lord Hastings' late imprisonment.",531,19330
657702,560,"She may, my lord, for--",692,19330
657703,561,"She may, Lord Rivers! why, who knows not so?
She may do more, sir, than denying that:
She may help you to many fair preferments,
And then deny her aiding hand therein,
And lay those honours on your high deserts.
What may she not? She may, yea, marry, may she--",531,19330
657704,567,"What, marry, may she?",692,19330
657705,568,"What, marry, may she! marry with a king,
A bachelor, a handsome stripling too:
I wis your grandam had a worser match.",531,19330
657706,571,"My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne
Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs:
By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty
With those gross taunts I often have endured.
I had rather be a country servant-maid
Than a great queen, with this condition,
To be thus taunted, scorn'd, and baited at:
[Enter QUEEN MARGARET, behind]
Small joy have I in being England's queen.",933,19330
657707,580,"And lessen'd be that small, God, I beseech thee!
Thy honour, state and seat is due to me.",736,19330
657708,582,"What! threat you me with telling of the king?
Tell him, and spare not: look, what I have said
I will avouch in presence of the king:
I dare adventure to be sent to the Tower.
'Tis time to speak; my pains are quite forgot.",531,19330
657709,587,"Out, devil! I remember them too well:
Thou slewest my husband Henry in the Tower,
And Edward, my poor son, at Tewksbury.",736,19330
657710,590,"Ere you were queen, yea, or your husband king,
I was a pack-horse in his great affairs;
A weeder-out of his proud adversaries,
A liberal rewarder of his friends:
To royalize his blood I spilt mine own.",531,19330
657711,595,"Yea, and much better blood than his or thine.",736,19330
657712,596,"In all which time you and your husband Grey
Were factious for the house of Lancaster;
And, Rivers, so were you. Was not your husband
In Margaret's battle at Saint Alban's slain?
Let me put in your minds, if you forget,
What you have been ere now, and what you are;
Withal, what I have been, and what I am.",531,19330
657713,603,"A murderous villain, and so still thou art.",736,19330
657714,604,"Poor Clarence did forsake his father, Warwick;
Yea, and forswore himself,--which Jesu pardon!--",531,19330
657715,606,Which God revenge!,736,19330
657716,607,"To fight on Edward's party for the crown;
And for his meed, poor lord, he is mew'd up.
I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's;
Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine
I am too childish-foolish for this world.",531,19330
657717,612,"Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave the world,
Thou cacodemon! there thy kingdom is.",736,19330
657718,614,"My Lord of Gloucester, in those busy days
Which here you urge to prove us enemies,
We follow'd then our lord, our lawful king:
So should we you, if you should be our king.",692,19330
657719,618,"If I should be! I had rather be a pedlar:
Far be it from my heart, the thought of it!",531,19330
657720,620,"As little joy, my lord, as you suppose
You should enjoy, were you this country's king,
As little joy may you suppose in me.
That I enjoy, being the queen thereof.",933,19330
657721,624,"A little joy enjoys the queen thereof;
For I am she, and altogether joyless.
I can no longer hold me patient.
[Advancing]
Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out
In sharing that which you have pill'd from me!
Which of you trembles not that looks on me?
If not, that, I being queen, you bow like subjects,
Yet that, by you deposed, you quake like rebels?
O gentle villain, do not turn away!",736,19330
657722,634,"Foul wrinkled witch, what makest thou in my sight?",531,19330
657723,635,"But repetition of what thou hast marr'd;
That will I make before I let thee go.",736,19330
657724,637,Wert thou not banished on pain of death?,531,19330
657725,638,"I was; but I do find more pain in banishment
Than death can yield me here by my abode.
A husband and a son thou owest to me;
And thou a kingdom; all of you allegiance:
The sorrow that I have, by right is yours,
And all the pleasures you usurp are mine.",736,19330
657726,644,"The curse my noble father laid on thee,
When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper
And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes,
And then, to dry them, gavest the duke a clout
Steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland--
His curses, then from bitterness of soul
Denounced against thee, are all fall'n upon thee;
And God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed.",531,19330
657727,652,"So just is God, to right the innocent.",933,19330
657728,653,"O, 'twas the foulest deed to slay that babe,
And the most merciless that e'er was heard of!",685,19330
657729,655,Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported.,692,19330
657730,656,No man but prophesied revenge for it.,746,19330
657731,657,"Northumberland, then present, wept to see it.",343,19330
657732,658,"What were you snarling all before I came,
Ready to catch each other by the throat,
And turn you all your hatred now on me?
Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven?
That Henry's death, my lovely Edward's death,
Their kingdom's loss, my woful banishment,
Could all but answer for that peevish brat?
Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven?
Why, then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses!
If not by war, by surfeit die your king,
As ours by murder, to make him a king!
Edward thy son, which now is Prince of Wales,
For Edward my son, which was Prince of Wales,
Die in his youth by like untimely violence!
Thyself a queen, for me that was a queen,
Outlive thy glory, like my wretched self!
Long mayst thou live to wail thy children's loss;
And see another, as I see thee now,
Deck'd in thy rights, as thou art stall'd in mine!
Long die thy happy days before thy death;
And, after many lengthen'd hours of grief,
Die neither mother, wife, nor England's queen!
Rivers and Dorset, you were standers by,
And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son
Was stabb'd with bloody daggers: God, I pray him,
That none of you may live your natural age,
But by some unlook'd accident cut off!",736,19330
657733,685,"Have done thy charm, thou hateful wither'd hag!",531,19330
657734,686,"And leave out thee? stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.
If heaven have any grievous plague in store
Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,
And then hurl down their indignation
On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace!
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!
Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou livest,
And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends!
No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,
Unless it be whilst some tormenting dream
Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils!
Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog!
Thou that wast seal'd in thy nativity
The slave of nature and the son of hell!
Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb!
Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins!
Thou rag of honour! thou detested--",736,19330
657735,704,Margaret.,531,19330
657736,705,Richard!,736,19330
657737,706,Ha!,531,19330
657738,707,I call thee not.,736,19330
657739,708,"I cry thee mercy then, for I had thought
That thou hadst call'd me all these bitter names.",531,19330
657740,710,"Why, so I did; but look'd for no reply.
O, let me make the period to my curse!",736,19330
657741,712,"'Tis done by me, and ends in 'Margaret.'",531,19330
657742,713,Thus have you breathed your curse against yourself.,933,19330
657743,714,"Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune!
Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider,
Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?
Fool, fool! thou whet'st a knife to kill thyself.
The time will come when thou shalt wish for me
To help thee curse that poisonous bunchback'd toad.",736,19330
657744,720,"False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse,
Lest to thy harm thou move our patience.",685,19330
657745,722,Foul shame upon you! you have all moved mine.,736,19330
657746,723,"Were you well served, you would be taught your duty.",692,19330
657747,724,"To serve me well, you all should do me duty,
Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects:
O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty!",736,19330
657748,727,Dispute not with her; she is lunatic.,746,19330
657749,728,"Peace, master marquess, you are malapert:
Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current.
O, that your young nobility could judge
What 'twere to lose it, and be miserable!
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them;
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.",736,19330
657750,734,"Good counsel, marry: learn it, learn it, marquess.",531,19330
657751,735,"It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me.",746,19330
657752,736,"Yea, and much more: but I was born so high,
Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top,
And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.",531,19330
657753,739,"And turns the sun to shade; alas! alas!
Witness my son, now in the shade of death;
Whose bright out-shining beams thy cloudy wrath
Hath in eternal darkness folded up.
Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest.
O God, that seest it, do not suffer it!
As it was won with blood, lost be it so!",736,19330
657754,746,"Have done! for shame, if not for charity.",343,19330
657755,747,"Urge neither charity nor shame to me:
Uncharitably with me have you dealt,
And shamefully by you my hopes are butcher'd.
My charity is outrage, life my shame
And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage.",736,19330
657756,752,"Have done, have done.",343,19330
657757,753,"O princely Buckingham I'll kiss thy hand,
In sign of league and amity with thee:
Now fair befal thee and thy noble house!
Thy garments are not spotted with our blood,
Nor thou within the compass of my curse.",736,19330
657758,758,"Nor no one here; for curses never pass
The lips of those that breathe them in the air.",343,19330
657759,760,"I'll not believe but they ascend the sky,
And there awake God's gentle-sleeping peace.
O Buckingham, take heed of yonder dog!
Look, when he fawns, he bites; and when he bites,
His venom tooth will rankle to the death:
Have not to do with him, beware of him;
Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,
And all their ministers attend on him.",736,19330
657760,768,"What doth she say, my Lord of Buckingham?",531,19330
657761,769,"Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord.",343,19330
657762,770,"What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel?
And soothe the devil that I warn thee from?
O, but remember this another day,
When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow,
And say poor Margaret was a prophetess!
Live each of you the subjects to his hate,
And he to yours, and all of you to God's!",736,19330
657763,777,[Exit],1261,19330
657764,778,My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses.,685,19330
657765,779,And so doth mine: I muse why she's at liberty.,692,19330
657766,780,"I cannot blame her: by God's holy mother,
She hath had too much wrong; and I repent
My part thereof that I have done to her.",531,19330
657767,783,"I never did her any, to my knowledge.",933,19330
657768,784,"But you have all the vantage of her wrong.
I was too hot to do somebody good,
That is too cold in thinking of it now.
Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid,
He is frank'd up to fatting for his pains
God pardon them that are the cause of it!",531,19330
657769,790,"A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion,
To pray for them that have done scathe to us.",692,19330
657770,792,"So do I ever:
[Aside]
being well-advised.
For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.",531,19330
657771,796,[Enter CATESBY],1261,19330
657772,797,"Madam, his majesty doth call for you,
And for your grace; and you, my noble lords.",1117,19330
657773,799,"Catesby, we come. Lords, will you go with us?",933,19330
657774,800,"Madam, we will attend your grace.",692,19330
657775,801,[Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER],1261,19330
657776,802,"I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.
The secret mischiefs that I set abroach
I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,
I do beweep to many simple gulls
Namely, to Hastings, Derby, Buckingham;
And say it is the queen and her allies
That stir the king against the duke my brother.
Now, they believe it; and withal whet me
To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey:
But then I sigh; and, with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
[Enter two Murderers]
But, soft! here come my executioners.
How now, my hardy, stout resolved mates!
Are you now going to dispatch this deed?",531,19330
657777,821,"We are, my lord; and come to have the warrant
That we may be admitted where he is.",444,19330
657778,823,"Well thought upon; I have it here about me.
[Gives the warrant]
When you have done, repair to Crosby Place.
But, sirs, be sudden in the execution,
Withal obdurate, do not hear him plead;
For Clarence is well-spoken, and perhaps
May move your hearts to pity if you mark him.",531,19330
657779,830,"Tush!
Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;
Talkers are no good doers: be assured
We come to use our hands and not our tongues.",444,19330
657780,834,"Your eyes drop millstones, when fools' eyes drop tears:
I like you, lads; about your business straight;
Go, go, dispatch.",531,19330
657781,837,"We will, my noble lord.",444,19330
657782,838,[Exeunt],1261,19330
657783,841,[Enter CLARENCE and BRAKENBURY],1261,19331
657784,842,Why looks your grace so heavily today?,1112,19331
657785,843,"O, I have pass'd a miserable night,
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night,
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days,
So full of dismal terror was the time!",527,19331
657786,849,What was your dream? I long to hear you tell it.,1112,19331
657787,850,"Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower,
And was embark'd to cross to Burgundy;
And, in my company, my brother Gloucester;
Who from my cabin tempted me to walk
Upon the hatches: thence we looked toward England,
And cited up a thousand fearful times,
During the wars of York and Lancaster
That had befall'n us. As we paced along
Upon the giddy footing of the hatches,
Methought that Gloucester stumbled; and, in falling,
Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard,
Into the tumbling billows of the main.
Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!
What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!
What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks;
Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon;
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,
All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea:
Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes
Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,
As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,
Which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep,
And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.",527,19331
657788,875,"Had you such leisure in the time of death
To gaze upon the secrets of the deep?",1112,19331
657789,877,"Methought I had; and often did I strive
To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood
Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth
To seek the empty, vast and wandering air;
But smother'd it within my panting bulk,
Which almost burst to belch it in the sea.",527,19331
657790,883,Awaked you not with this sore agony?,1112,19331
657791,884,"O, no, my dream was lengthen'd after life;
O, then began the tempest to my soul,
Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood,
With that grim ferryman which poets write of,
Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
The first that there did greet my stranger soul,
Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick;
Who cried aloud, 'What scourge for perjury
Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?'
And so he vanish'd: then came wandering by
A shadow like an angel, with bright hair
Dabbled in blood; and he squeak'd out aloud,
'Clarence is come; false, fleeting, perjured Clarence,
That stabb'd me in the field by Tewksbury;
Seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!'
With that, methoughts, a legion of foul fiends
Environ'd me about, and howled in mine ears
Such hideous cries, that with the very noise
I trembling waked, and for a season after
Could not believe but that I was in hell,
Such terrible impression made the dream.",527,19331
657792,905,"No marvel, my lord, though it affrighted you;
I promise, I am afraid to hear you tell it.",1112,19331
657793,907,"O Brakenbury, I have done those things,
Which now bear evidence against my soul,
For Edward's sake; and see how he requites me!
O God! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee,
But thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,
Yet execute thy wrath in me alone,
O, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children!
I pray thee, gentle keeper, stay by me;
My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.",527,19331
657794,916,"I will, my lord: God give your grace good rest!
[CLARENCE sleeps]
Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide night.
Princes have but their tides for their glories,
An outward honour for an inward toil;
And, for unfelt imagination,
They often feel a world of restless cares:
So that, betwixt their tides and low names,
There's nothing differs but the outward fame.",1112,19331
657795,926,[Enter the two Murderers],1261,19331
657796,927,Ho! who's here?,444,19331
657797,928,"In God's name what are you, and how came you hither?",1112,19331
657798,929,"I would speak with Clarence, and I came hither on my legs.",444,19331
657799,930,"Yea, are you so brief?",1112,19331
657800,931,"O sir, it is better to be brief than tedious. Show
him our commission; talk no more.",1013,19331
657801,933,[BRAKENBURY reads it],1261,19331
657802,934,"I am, in this, commanded to deliver
The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands:
I will not reason what is meant hereby,
Because I will be guiltless of the meaning.
Here are the keys, there sits the duke asleep:
I'll to the king; and signify to him
That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.",1112,19331
657803,941,"Do so, it is a point of wisdom: fare you well.",444,19331
657804,942,[Exit BRAKENBURY],1261,19331
657805,943,"What, shall we stab him as he sleeps?",1013,19331
657806,944,"No; then he will say 'twas done cowardly, when he wakes.",444,19331
657807,945,"When he wakes! why, fool, he shall never wake till
the judgment-day.",1013,19331
657808,947,"Why, then he will say we stabbed him sleeping.",444,19331
657809,948,"The urging of that word 'judgment' hath bred a kind
of remorse in me.",1013,19331
657810,950,"What, art thou afraid?",444,19331
657811,951,"Not to kill him, having a warrant for it; but to be
damned for killing him, from which no warrant can defend us.",1013,19331
657812,953,I thought thou hadst been resolute.,444,19331
657813,954,"So I am, to let him live.",1013,19331
657814,955,"Back to the Duke of Gloucester, tell him so.",444,19331
657815,956,"I pray thee, stay a while: I hope my holy humour
will change; 'twas wont to hold me but while one
would tell twenty.",1013,19331
657816,959,How dost thou feel thyself now?,444,19331
657817,960,"'Faith, some certain dregs of conscience are yet
within me.",1013,19331
657818,962,"Remember our reward, when the deed is done.",444,19331
657819,963,"'Zounds, he dies: I had forgot the reward.",1013,19331
657820,964,Where is thy conscience now?,444,19331
657821,965,In the Duke of Gloucester's purse.,1013,19331
657822,966,"So when he opens his purse to give us our reward,
thy conscience flies out.",444,19331
657823,968,Let it go; there's few or none will entertain it.,1013,19331
657824,969,How if it come to thee again?,444,19331
657825,970,"I'll not meddle with it: it is a dangerous thing: it
makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal, but it
accuseth him; he cannot swear, but it cheques him;
he cannot lie with his neighbour's wife, but it
detects him: 'tis a blushing shamefast spirit that
mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of
obstacles: it made me once restore a purse of gold
that I found; it beggars any man that keeps it: it
is turned out of all towns and cities for a
dangerous thing; and every man that means to live
well endeavours to trust to himself and to live
without it.",1013,19331
657826,982,"'Zounds, it is even now at my elbow, persuading me
not to kill the duke.",444,19331
657827,984,"Take the devil in thy mind, and relieve him not: he
would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh.",1013,19331
657828,986,"Tut, I am strong-framed, he cannot prevail with me,
I warrant thee.",444,19331
657829,988,"Spoke like a tail fellow that respects his
reputation. Come, shall we to this gear?",1013,19331
657830,990,"Take him over the costard with the hilts of thy
sword, and then we will chop him in the malmsey-butt
in the next room.",444,19331
657831,993,O excellent devise! make a sop of him.,1013,19331
657832,994,Hark! he stirs: shall I strike?,444,19331
657833,995,"No, first let's reason with him.",1013,19331
657834,996,"Where art thou, keeper? give me a cup of wine.",527,19331
657835,997,"You shall have wine enough, my lord, anon.",1013,19331
657836,998,"In God's name, what art thou?",527,19331
657837,999,"A man, as you are.",1013,19331
657838,1000,"But not, as I am, royal.",527,19331
657839,1001,"Nor you, as we are, loyal.",1013,19331
657840,1002,"Thy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble.",527,19331
657841,1003,"My voice is now the king's, my looks mine own.",1013,19331
657842,1004,"How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak!
Your eyes do menace me: why look you pale?
Who sent you hither? Wherefore do you come?",527,19331
657843,1007,"To, to, to--",186,19331
657844,1008,To murder me?,527,19331
657845,1009,"Ay, ay.",186,19331
657846,1010,"You scarcely have the hearts to tell me so,
And therefore cannot have the hearts to do it.
Wherein, my friends, have I offended you?",527,19331
657847,1013,"Offended us you have not, but the king.",444,19331
657848,1014,I shall be reconciled to him again.,527,19331
657849,1015,"Never, my lord; therefore prepare to die.",1013,19331
657850,1016,"Are you call'd forth from out a world of men
To slay the innocent? What is my offence?
Where are the evidence that do accuse me?
What lawful quest have given their verdict up
Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced
The bitter sentence of poor Clarence' death?
Before I be convict by course of law,
To threaten me with death is most unlawful.
I charge you, as you hope to have redemption
By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,
That you depart and lay no hands on me
The deed you undertake is damnable.",527,19331
657851,1028,"What we will do, we do upon command.",444,19331
657852,1029,And he that hath commanded is the king.,1013,19331
657853,1030,"Erroneous vassal! the great King of kings
Hath in the tables of his law commanded
That thou shalt do no murder: and wilt thou, then,
Spurn at his edict and fulfil a man's?
Take heed; for he holds vengeance in his hands,
To hurl upon their heads that break his law.",527,19331
657854,1036,"And that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee,
For false forswearing and for murder too:
Thou didst receive the holy sacrament,
To fight in quarrel of the house of Lancaster.",1013,19331
657855,1040,"And, like a traitor to the name of God,
Didst break that vow; and with thy treacherous blade
Unrip'dst the bowels of thy sovereign's son.",444,19331
657856,1043,Whom thou wert sworn to cherish and defend.,1013,19331
657857,1044,"How canst thou urge God's dreadful law to us,
When thou hast broke it in so dear degree?",444,19331
657858,1046,"Alas! for whose sake did I that ill deed?
For Edward, for my brother, for his sake: Why, sirs,
He sends ye not to murder me for this
For in this sin he is as deep as I.
If God will be revenged for this deed.
O, know you yet, he doth it publicly,
Take not the quarrel from his powerful arm;
He needs no indirect nor lawless course
To cut off those that have offended him.",527,19331
657859,1055,"Who made thee, then, a bloody minister,
When gallant-springing brave Plantagenet,
That princely novice, was struck dead by thee?",444,19331
657860,1058,"My brother's love, the devil, and my rage.",527,19331
657861,1059,"Thy brother's love, our duty, and thy fault,
Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee.",444,19331
657862,1061,"Oh, if you love my brother, hate not me;
I am his brother, and I love him well.
If you be hired for meed, go back again,
And I will send you to my brother Gloucester,
Who shall reward you better for my life
Than Edward will for tidings of my death.",527,19331
657863,1067,"You are deceived, your brother Gloucester hates you.",1013,19331
657864,1068,"O, no, he loves me, and he holds me dear:
Go you to him from me.",527,19331
657865,1070,"Ay, so we will.",186,19331
657866,1071,"Tell him, when that our princely father York
Bless'd his three sons with his victorious arm,
And charged us from his soul to love each other,
He little thought of this divided friendship:
Bid Gloucester think of this, and he will weep.",527,19331
657867,1076,"Ay, millstones; as be lesson'd us to weep.",444,19331
657868,1077,"O, do not slander him, for he is kind.",527,19331
657869,1078,"Right,
As snow in harvest. Thou deceivest thyself:
'Tis he that sent us hither now to slaughter thee.",444,19331
657870,1081,"It cannot be; for when I parted with him,
He hugg'd me in his arms, and swore, with sobs,
That he would labour my delivery.",527,19331
657871,1084,"Why, so he doth, now he delivers thee
From this world's thraldom to the joys of heaven.",1013,19331
657872,1086,"Make peace with God, for you must die, my lord.",444,19331
657873,1087,"Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul,
To counsel me to make my peace with God,
And art thou yet to thy own soul so blind,
That thou wilt war with God by murdering me?
Ah, sirs, consider, he that set you on
To do this deed will hate you for the deed.",527,19331
657874,1093,What shall we do?,1013,19331
657875,1094,"Relent, and save your souls.",527,19331
657876,1095,Relent! 'tis cowardly and womanish.,444,19331
657877,1096,"Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish.
Which of you, if you were a prince's son,
Being pent from liberty, as I am now,
if two such murderers as yourselves came to you,
Would not entreat for life?
My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks:
O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,
Come thou on my side, and entreat for me,
As you would beg, were you in my distress
A begging prince what beggar pities not?",527,19331
657878,1106,"Look behind you, my lord.",1013,19331
657879,1107,"Take that, and that: if all this will not do,
[Stabs him]
I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within.",444,19331
657880,1110,"[Exit, with the body]",1261,19331
657881,1111,"A bloody deed, and desperately dispatch'd!
How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands
Of this most grievous guilty murder done!",1013,19331
657882,1114,[Re-enter First Murderer],1261,19331
657883,1115,"How now! what mean'st thou, that thou help'st me not?
By heavens, the duke shall know how slack thou art!",444,19331
657884,1117,"I would he knew that I had saved his brother!
Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say;
For I repent me that the duke is slain.",1013,19331
657885,1120,[Exit],1261,19331
657886,1121,"So do not I: go, coward as thou art.
Now must I hide his body in some hole,
Until the duke take order for his burial:
And when I have my meed, I must away;
For this will out, and here I must not stay.
[Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV sick, QUEEN]
ELIZABETH, DORSET, RIVERS, HASTINGS, BUCKINGHAM,
GREY, and others]",444,19331
657887,1131,"Why, so: now have I done a good day's work:
You peers, continue this united league:
I every day expect an embassage
From my Redeemer to redeem me hence;
And now in peace my soul shall part to heaven,
Since I have set my friends at peace on earth.
Rivers and Hastings, take each other's hand;
Dissemble not your hatred, swear your love.",372,19332
657888,1139,"By heaven, my heart is purged from grudging hate:
And with my hand I seal my true heart's love.",692,19332
657889,1141,"So thrive I, as I truly swear the like!",685,19332
657890,1142,"Take heed you dally not before your king;
Lest he that is the supreme King of kings
Confound your hidden falsehood, and award
Either of you to be the other's end.",372,19332
657891,1146,"So prosper I, as I swear perfect love!",685,19332
657892,1147,"And I, as I love Hastings with my heart!",692,19332
657893,1148,"Madam, yourself are not exempt in this,
Nor your son Dorset, Buckingham, nor you;
You have been factious one against the other,
Wife, love Lord Hastings, let him kiss your hand;
And what you do, do it unfeignedly.",372,19332
657894,1153,"Here, Hastings; I will never more remember
Our former hatred, so thrive I and mine!",933,19332
657895,1155,"Dorset, embrace him; Hastings, love lord marquess.",372,19332
657896,1156,"This interchange of love, I here protest,
Upon my part shall be unviolable.",746,19332
657897,1158,"And so swear I, my lord",685,19332
657898,1159,[They embrace],1261,19332
657899,1160,"Now, princely Buckingham, seal thou this league
With thy embracements to my wife's allies,
And make me happy in your unity.",372,19332
657900,1163,"Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate
On you or yours,
[To the Queen]
but with all duteous love
Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me
With hate in those where I expect most love!
When I have most need to employ a friend,
And most assured that he is a friend
Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile,
Be he unto me! this do I beg of God,
When I am cold in zeal to yours.",343,19332
657901,1174,"A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham,
is this thy vow unto my sickly heart.
There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here,
To make the perfect period of this peace.",372,19332
657902,1178,"And, in good time, here comes the noble duke.",343,19332
657903,1179,[Enter GLOUCESTER],1261,19332
657904,1180,"Good morrow to my sovereign king and queen:
And, princely peers, a happy time of day!",531,19332
657905,1182,"Happy, indeed, as we have spent the day.
Brother, we done deeds of charity;
Made peace enmity, fair love of hate,
Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.",372,19332
657906,1186,"A blessed labour, my most sovereign liege:
Amongst this princely heap, if any here,
By false intelligence, or wrong surmise,
Hold me a foe;
If I unwittingly, or in my rage,
Have aught committed that is hardly borne
By any in this presence, I desire
To reconcile me to his friendly peace:
'Tis death to me to be at enmity;
I hate it, and desire all good men's love.
First, madam, I entreat true peace of you,
Which I will purchase with my duteous service;
Of you, my noble cousin Buckingham,
If ever any grudge were lodged between us;
Of you, Lord Rivers, and, Lord Grey, of you;
That without desert have frown'd on me;
Dukes, earls, lords, gentlemen; indeed, of all.
I do not know that Englishman alive
With whom my soul is any jot at odds
More than the infant that is born to-night
I thank my God for my humility.",531,19332
657907,1207,"A holy day shall this be kept hereafter:
I would to God all strifes were well compounded.
My sovereign liege, I do beseech your majesty
To take our brother Clarence to your grace.",933,19332
657908,1211,"Why, madam, have I offer'd love for this
To be so bouted in this royal presence?
Who knows not that the noble duke is dead?
[They all start]
You do him injury to scorn his corse.",531,19332
657909,1216,Who knows not he is dead! who knows he is?,692,19332
657910,1217,"All seeing heaven, what a world is this!",933,19332
657911,1218,"Look I so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest?",343,19332
657912,1219,"Ay, my good lord; and no one in this presence
But his red colour hath forsook his cheeks.",746,19332
657913,1221,Is Clarence dead? the order was reversed.,372,19332
657914,1222,"But he, poor soul, by your first order died,
And that a winged Mercury did bear:
Some tardy cripple bore the countermand,
That came too lag to see him buried.
God grant that some, less noble and less loyal,
Nearer in bloody thoughts, but not in blood,
Deserve not worse than wretched Clarence did,
And yet go current from suspicion!",531,19332
657915,1230,[Enter DERBY],1261,19332
657916,1231,"A boon, my sovereign, for my service done!",746,19332
657917,1232,"I pray thee, peace: my soul is full of sorrow.",372,19332
657918,1233,"I will not rise, unless your highness grant.",746,19332
657919,1234,Then speak at once what is it thou demand'st.,372,19332
657920,1235,"The forfeit, sovereign, of my servant's life;
Who slew to-day a righteous gentleman
Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk.",746,19332
657921,1238,"Have a tongue to doom my brother's death,
And shall the same give pardon to a slave?
My brother slew no man; his fault was thought,
And yet his punishment was cruel death.
Who sued to me for him? who, in my rage,
Kneel'd at my feet, and bade me be advised
Who spake of brotherhood? who spake of love?
Who told me how the poor soul did forsake
The mighty Warwick, and did fight for me?
Who told me, in the field by Tewksbury
When Oxford had me down, he rescued me,
And said, 'Dear brother, live, and be a king'?
Who told me, when we both lay in the field
Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me
Even in his own garments, and gave himself,
All thin and naked, to the numb cold night?
All this from my remembrance brutish wrath
Sinfully pluck'd, and not a man of you
Had so much grace to put it in my mind.
But when your carters or your waiting-vassals
Have done a drunken slaughter, and defaced
The precious image of our dear Redeemer,
You straight are on your knees for pardon, pardon;
And I unjustly too, must grant it you
But for my brother not a man would speak,
Nor I, ungracious, speak unto myself
For him, poor soul. The proudest of you all
Have been beholding to him in his life;
Yet none of you would once plead for his life.
O God, I fear thy justice will take hold
On me, and you, and mine, and yours for this!
Come, Hastings, help me to my closet.
Oh, poor Clarence!",372,19332
657922,1271,[Exeunt some with KING EDWARD IV and QUEEN MARGARET],1261,19332
657923,1272,"This is the fruit of rashness! Mark'd you not
How that the guilty kindred of the queen
Look'd pale when they did hear of Clarence' death?
O, they did urge it still unto the king!
God will revenge it. But come, let us in,
To comfort Edward with our company.",531,19332
657924,1278,We wait upon your grace.,343,19332
657925,1279,[Exeunt],1261,19332
657926,1282,"[Enter the DUCHESS OF YORK, with the two children of CLARENCE]",1261,19333
657927,1283,"Tell me, good grandam, is our father dead?",196,19333
657928,1284,"No, boy.",337,19333
657929,1285,"Why do you wring your hands, and beat your breast,
And cry 'O Clarence, my unhappy son!'",196,19333
657930,1287,"Why do you look on us, and shake your head,
And call us wretches, orphans, castaways
If that our noble father be alive?",529,19333
657931,1290,"My pretty cousins, you mistake me much;
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.",337,19333
657932,1294,"Then, grandam, you conclude that he is dead.
The king my uncle is to blame for this:
God will revenge it; whom I will importune
With daily prayers all to that effect.",196,19333
657933,1298,And so will I.,529,19333
657934,1299,"Peace, children, peace! the king doth love you well:
Incapable and shallow innocents,
You cannot guess who caused your father's death.",337,19333
657935,1302,"Grandam, we can; for my good uncle Gloucester
Told me, the king, provoked by the queen,
Devised impeachments to imprison him :
And when my uncle told me so, he wept,
And hugg'd me in his arm, and kindly kiss'd my cheek;
Bade me rely on him as on my father,
And he would love me dearly as his child.",196,19333
657936,1309,"Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile!
He is my son; yea, and therein my shame;
Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit.",337,19333
657937,1313,"Think you my uncle did dissemble, grandam?",196,19333
657938,1314,"Ay, boy.",337,19333
657939,1315,"I cannot think it. Hark! what noise is this?
[Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, with her hair about her]
ears; RIVERS, and DORSET after her]",196,19333
657940,1318,"Oh, who shall hinder me to wail and weep,
To chide my fortune, and torment myself?
I'll join with black despair against my soul,
And to myself become an enemy.",933,19333
657941,1322,What means this scene of rude impatience?,337,19333
657942,1323,"To make an act of tragic violence:
Edward, my lord, your son, our king, is dead.
Why grow the branches now the root is wither'd?
Why wither not the leaves the sap being gone?
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.",933,19333
657943,1331,"Ah, so much interest have I in thy sorrow
As I had title in thy noble husband!
I have bewept a worthy husband's death,
And lived by looking on his images:
But now two mirrors of his princely semblance
Are crack'd in pieces by malignant death,
And I for comfort have but one false glass,
Which grieves me when I see my shame in him.
Thou art a widow; yet thou art a mother,
And hast the comfort of thy children left thee:
But death hath snatch'd my husband from mine arms,
And pluck'd two crutches from my feeble limbs,
Edward and Clarence. O, what cause have I,
Thine being but a moiety of my grief,
To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!",337,19333
657944,1346,"Good aunt, you wept not for our father's death;
How can we aid you with our kindred tears?",196,19333
657945,1348,"Our fatherless distress was left unmoan'd;
Your widow-dolour likewise be unwept!",529,19333
657946,1350,"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!
Oh for my husband, for my dear lord Edward!",933,19333
657947,1356,"Oh for our father, for our dear lord Clarence!",242,19333
657948,1357,"Alas for both, both mine, Edward and Clarence!",337,19333
657949,1358,What stay had I but Edward? and he's gone.,933,19333
657950,1359,What stay had we but Clarence? and he's gone.,242,19333
657951,1360,What stays had I but they? and they are gone.,337,19333
657952,1361,Was never widow had so dear a loss!,933,19333
657953,1362,Were never orphans had so dear a loss!,242,19333
657954,1363,"Was never mother had so dear a loss!
Alas, I am the mother of these moans!
Their woes are parcell'd, mine are general.
She for an Edward weeps, and so do I;
I for a Clarence weep, so doth not she:
These babes for Clarence weep and so do I;
I for an Edward weep, so do not they:
Alas, you three, on me, threefold distress'd,
Pour all your tears! I am your sorrow's nurse,
And I will pamper it with lamentations.",337,19333
657955,1373,"Comfort, dear mother: God is much displeased
That you take with unthankfulness, his doing:
In common worldly things, 'tis call'd ungrateful,
With dull unwilligness to repay a debt
Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent;
Much more to be thus opposite with heaven,
For it requires the royal debt it lent you.",746,19333
657956,1380,"Madam, bethink you, like a careful mother,
Of the young prince your son: send straight for him
Let him be crown'd; in him your comfort lives:
Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave,
And plant your joys in living Edward's throne.",692,19333
657957,1385,"[Enter GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, and RATCLIFF]",1261,19333
657958,1386,"Madam, have comfort: all of us have cause
To wail the dimming of our shining star;
But none can cure their harms by wailing them.
Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy;
I did not see your grace: humbly on my knee
I crave your blessing.",531,19333
657959,1392,"God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind,
Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!",337,19333
657960,1394,"[Aside] Amen; and make me die a good old man!
That is the butt-end of a mother's blessing:
I marvel why her grace did leave it out.",531,19333
657961,1397,"You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers,
That bear this mutual heavy load of moan,
Now cheer each other in each other's love
Though we have spent our harvest of this king,
We are to reap the harvest of his son.
The broken rancour of your high-swoln hearts,
But lately splinter'd, knit, and join'd together,
Must gently be preserved, cherish'd, and kept:
Me seemeth good, that, with some little train,
Forthwith from Ludlow the young prince be fetch'd
Hither to London, to be crown'd our king.",343,19333
657962,1408,"Why with some little train, my Lord of Buckingham?",692,19333
657963,1409,"Marry, my lord, lest, by a multitude,
The new-heal'd wound of malice should break out,
Which would be so much the more dangerous
By how much the estate is green and yet ungovern'd:
Where every horse bears his commanding rein,
And may direct his course as please himself,
As well the fear of harm, as harm apparent,
In my opinion, ought to be prevented.",343,19333
657964,1417,"I hope the king made peace with all of us
And the compact is firm and true in me.",531,19333
657965,1419,"And so in me; and so, I think, in all:
Yet, since it is but green, it should be put
To no apparent likelihood of breach,
Which haply by much company might be urged:
Therefore I say with noble Buckingham,
That it is meet so few should fetch the prince.",692,19333
657966,1425,And so say I.,685,19333
657967,1426,"Then be it so; and go we to determine
Who they shall be that straight shall post to Ludlow.
Madam, and you, my mother, will you go
To give your censures in this weighty business?",531,19333
657968,1430,[with the Duchess of York] With all our harts.,933,19333
657969,1431,[Exeunt all but BUCKINGHAM and GLOUCESTER],1261,19333
657970,1432,"My lord, whoever journeys to the Prince,
For God's sake, let not us two be behind;
For, by the way, I'll sort occasion,
As index to the story we late talk'd of,
To part the queen's proud kindred from the king.",343,19333
657971,1437,"My other self, my counsel's consistory,
My oracle, my prophet! My dear cousin,
I, like a child, will go by thy direction.
Towards Ludlow then, for we'll not stay behind.",531,19333
657972,1441,[Exeunt],1261,19333
657973,1444,[Enter two Citizens meeting],1261,19334
657974,1445,"Neighbour, well met: whither away so fast?",413,19334
657975,1446,"I promise you, I scarcely know myself:
Hear you the news abroad?",985,19334
657976,1448,"Ay, that the king is dead.",413,19334
657977,1449,"Bad news, by'r lady; seldom comes the better:
I fear, I fear 'twill prove a troublous world.",985,19334
657978,1451,[Enter another Citizen],1261,19334
657979,1452,"Neighbours, God speed!",1166,19334
657980,1453,"Give you good morrow, sir.",413,19334
657981,1454,Doth this news hold of good King Edward's death?,1166,19334
657982,1455,"Ay, sir, it is too true; God help the while!",985,19334
657983,1456,"Then, masters, look to see a troublous world.",1166,19334
657984,1457,"No, no; by God's good grace his son shall reign.",413,19334
657985,1458,Woe to the land that's govern'd by a child!,1166,19334
657986,1459,"In him there is a hope of government,
That in his nonage council under him,
And in his full and ripen'd years himself,
No doubt, shall then and till then govern well.",985,19334
657987,1463,"So stood the state when Henry the Sixth
Was crown'd in Paris but at nine months old.",413,19334
657988,1465,"Stood the state so? No, no, good friends, God wot;
For then this land was famously enrich'd
With politic grave counsel; then the king
Had virtuous uncles to protect his grace.",1166,19334
657989,1469,"Why, so hath this, both by the father and mother.",413,19334
657990,1470,"Better it were they all came by the father,
Or by the father there were none at all;
For emulation now, who shall be nearest,
Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not.
O, full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester!
And the queen's sons and brothers haught and proud:
And were they to be ruled, and not to rule,
This sickly land might solace as before.",1166,19334
657991,1478,"Come, come, we fear the worst; all shall be well.",413,19334
657992,1479,"When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand;
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.
All may be well; but, if God sort it so,
'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect.",1166,19334
657993,1485,"Truly, the souls of men are full of dread:
Ye cannot reason almost with a man
That looks not heavily and full of fear.",985,19334
657994,1488,"Before the times of change, still is it so:
By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust
Ensuing dangers; as by proof, we see
The waters swell before a boisterous storm.
But leave it all to God. whither away?",1166,19334
657995,1493,"Marry, we were sent for to the justices.",985,19334
657996,1494,And so was I: I'll bear you company.,1166,19334
657997,1495,"[Exeunt]
[Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, young YORK, QUEEN]
ELIZABETH, and the DUCHESS OF YORK]",1261,19334
657998,1500,"Last night, I hear, they lay at Northampton;
At Stony-Stratford will they be to-night:
To-morrow, or next day, they will be here.",1193,19335
657999,1503,"I long with all my heart to see the prince:
I hope he is much grown since last I saw him.",337,19335
658000,1505,"But I hear, no; they say my son of York
Hath almost overta'en him in his growth.",933,19335
658001,1507,"Ay, mother; but I would not have it so.",946,19335
658002,1508,"Why, my young cousin, it is good to grow.",337,19335
658003,1509,"Grandam, one night, as we did sit at supper,
My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow
More than my brother: 'Ay,' quoth my uncle
Gloucester,
'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace:'
And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,
Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.",946,19335
658004,1516,"Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold
In him that did object the same to thee;
He was the wretched'st thing when he was young,
So long a-growing and so leisurely,
That, if this rule were true, he should be gracious.",337,19335
658005,1521,"Why, madam, so, no doubt, he is.",1193,19335
658006,1522,I hope he is; but yet let mothers doubt.,337,19335
658007,1523,"Now, by my troth, if I had been remember'd,
I could have given my uncle's grace a flout,
To touch his growth nearer than he touch'd mine.",946,19335
658008,1526,"How, my pretty York? I pray thee, let me hear it.",337,19335
658009,1527,"Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast
That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old
'Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth.
Grandam, this would have been a biting jest.",946,19335
658010,1531,"I pray thee, pretty York, who told thee this?",337,19335
658011,1532,"Grandam, his nurse.",946,19335
658012,1533,"His nurse! why, she was dead ere thou wert born.",337,19335
658013,1534,"If 'twere not she, I cannot tell who told me.",946,19335
658014,1535,"A parlous boy: go to, you are too shrewd.",933,19335
658015,1536,"Good madam, be not angry with the child.",1193,19335
658016,1537,Pitchers have ears.,933,19335
658017,1538,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19335
658018,1539,Here comes a messenger. What news?,1193,19335
658019,1540,"Such news, my lord, as grieves me to unfold.",788,19335
658020,1541,How fares the prince?,933,19335
658021,1542,"Well, madam, and in health.",788,19335
658022,1543,What is thy news then?,337,19335
658023,1544,"Lord Rivers and Lord Grey are sent to Pomfret,
With them Sir Thomas Vaughan, prisoners.",788,19335
658024,1546,Who hath committed them?,337,19335
658025,1547,"The mighty dukes
Gloucester and Buckingham.",788,19335
658026,1549,For what offence?,933,19335
658027,1550,"The sum of all I can, I have disclosed;
Why or for what these nobles were committed
Is all unknown to me, my gracious lady.",788,19335
658028,1553,"Ay me, I see the downfall of our house!
The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind;
Insulting tyranny begins to jet
Upon the innocent and aweless throne:
Welcome, destruction, death, and massacre!
I see, as in a map, the end of all.",933,19335
658029,1559,"Accursed and unquiet wrangling days,
How many of you have mine eyes beheld!
My husband lost his life to get the crown;
And often up and down my sons were toss'd,
For me to joy and weep their gain and loss:
And being seated, and domestic broils
Clean over-blown, themselves, the conquerors.
Make war upon themselves; blood against blood,
Self against self: O, preposterous
And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen;
Or let me die, to look on death no more!",337,19335
658030,1570,"Come, come, my boy; we will to sanctuary.
Madam, farewell.",933,19335
658031,1572,I'll go along with you.,337,19335
658032,1573,You have no cause.,933,19335
658033,1574,"My gracious lady, go;
And thither bear your treasure and your goods.
For my part, I'll resign unto your grace
The seal I keep: and so betide to me
As well I tender you and all of yours!
Come, I'll conduct you to the sanctuary.",1193,19335
658034,1580,"[Exeunt]
[The trumpets sound. Enter the young PRINCE EDWARD,]
GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM, CARDINAL, CATESBY, and others]",1261,19335
658035,1585,"Welcome, sweet prince, to London, to your chamber.",343,19336
658036,1586,"Welcome, dear cousin, my thoughts' sovereign
The weary way hath made you melancholy.",531,19336
658037,1588,"No, uncle; but our crosses on the way
Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy
I want more uncles here to welcome me.",916,19336
658038,1591,"Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years
Hath not yet dived into the world's deceit
Nor more can you distinguish of a man
Than of his outward show; which, God he knows,
Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.
Those uncles which you want were dangerous;
Your grace attended to their sugar'd words,
But look'd not on the poison of their hearts :
God keep you from them, and from such false friends!",531,19336
658039,1600,God keep me from false friends! but they were none.,916,19336
658040,1601,"My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.",531,19336
658041,1602,[Enter the Lord Mayor and his train],1261,19336
658042,1603,God bless your grace with health and happy days!,756,19336
658043,1604,"I thank you, good my lord; and thank you all.
I thought my mother, and my brother York,
Would long ere this have met us on the way
Fie, what a slug is Hastings, that he comes not
To tell us whether they will come or no!",916,19336
658044,1609,[Enter HASTINGS],1261,19336
658045,1610,"And, in good time, here comes the sweating lord.",343,19336
658046,1611,"Welcome, my lord: what, will our mother come?",916,19336
658047,1612,"On what occasion, God he knows, not I,
The queen your mother, and your brother York,
Have taken sanctuary: the tender prince
Would fain have come with me to meet your grace,
But by his mother was perforce withheld.",685,19336
658048,1617,"Fie, what an indirect and peevish course
Is this of hers! Lord cardinal, will your grace
Persuade the queen to send the Duke of York
Unto his princely brother presently?
If she deny, Lord Hastings, go with him,
And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce.",343,19336
658049,1623,"My Lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory
Can from his mother win the Duke of York,
Anon expect him here; but if she be obdurate
To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid
We should infringe the holy privilege
Of blessed sanctuary! not for all this land
Would I be guilty of so deep a sin.",225,19336
658050,1630,"You are too senseless--obstinate, my lord,
Too ceremonious and traditional
Weigh it but with the grossness of this age,
You break not sanctuary in seizing him.
The benefit thereof is always granted
To those whose dealings have deserved the place,
And those who have the wit to claim the place:
This prince hath neither claim'd it nor deserved it;
And therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it:
Then, taking him from thence that is not there,
You break no privilege nor charter there.
Oft have I heard of sanctuary men;
But sanctuary children ne'er till now.",343,19336
658051,1643,"My lord, you shall o'er-rule my mind for once.
Come on, Lord Hastings, will you go with me?",225,19336
658052,1645,"I go, my lord.",685,19336
658053,1646,"Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may.
[Exeunt CARDINAL and HASTINGS]
Say, uncle Gloucester, if our brother come,
Where shall we sojourn till our coronation?",916,19336
658054,1650,"Where it seems best unto your royal self.
If I may counsel you, some day or two
Your highness shall repose you at the Tower:
Then where you please, and shall be thought most fit
For your best health and recreation.",531,19336
658055,1655,"I do not like the Tower, of any place.
Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord?",916,19336
658056,1657,"He did, my gracious lord, begin that place;
Which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified.",343,19336
658057,1659,"Is it upon record, or else reported
Successively from age to age, he built it?",916,19336
658058,1661,"Upon record, my gracious lord.",343,19336
658059,1662,"But say, my lord, it were not register'd,
Methinks the truth should live from age to age,
As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,
Even to the general all-ending day.",916,19336
658060,1666,"[Aside] So wise so young, they say, do never
live long.",531,19336
658061,1668,"What say you, uncle?",916,19336
658062,1669,"I say, without characters, fame lives long.
[Aside]
Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity,
I moralize two meanings in one word.",531,19336
658063,1673,"That Julius Caesar was a famous man;
With what his valour did enrich his wit,
His wit set down to make his valour live
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror;
For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
I'll tell you what, my cousin Buckingham,--",916,19336
658064,1679,"What, my gracious lord?",343,19336
658065,1680,"An if I live until I be a man,
I'll win our ancient right in France again,
Or die a soldier, as I lived a king.",916,19336
658066,1683,[Aside] Short summers lightly have a forward spring.,531,19336
658067,1684,"[Enter young YORK, HASTINGS, and the CARDINAL]",1261,19336
658068,1685,"Now, in good time, here comes the Duke of York.",343,19336
658069,1686,Richard of York! how fares our loving brother?,916,19336
658070,1687,"Well, my dread lord; so must I call you now.",946,19336
658071,1688,"Ay, brother, to our grief, as it is yours:
Too late he died that might have kept that title,
Which by his death hath lost much majesty.",916,19336
658072,1691,"How fares our cousin, noble Lord of York?",531,19336
658073,1692,"I thank you, gentle uncle. O, my lord,
You said that idle weeds are fast in growth
The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.",946,19336
658074,1695,"He hath, my lord.",531,19336
658075,1696,And therefore is he idle?,946,19336
658076,1697,"O, my fair cousin, I must not say so.",531,19336
658077,1698,Then is he more beholding to you than I.,946,19336
658078,1699,"He may command me as my sovereign;
But you have power in me as in a kinsman.",531,19336
658079,1701,"I pray you, uncle, give me this dagger.",946,19336
658080,1702,"My dagger, little cousin? with all my heart.",531,19336
658081,1703,"A beggar, brother?",916,19336
658082,1704,"Of my kind uncle, that I know will give;
And being but a toy, which is no grief to give.",946,19336
658083,1706,A greater gift than that I'll give my cousin.,531,19336
658084,1707,"A greater gift! O, that's the sword to it.",946,19336
658085,1708,"A gentle cousin, were it light enough.",531,19336
658086,1709,"O, then, I see, you will part but with light gifts;
In weightier things you'll say a beggar nay.",946,19336
658087,1711,It is too heavy for your grace to wear.,531,19336
658088,1712,"I weigh it lightly, were it heavier.",946,19336
658089,1713,"What, would you have my weapon, little lord?",531,19336
658090,1714,"I would, that I might thank you as you call me.",946,19336
658091,1715,How?,531,19336
658092,1716,Little.,946,19336
658093,1717,"My Lord of York will still be cross in talk:
Uncle, your grace knows how to bear with him.",916,19336
658094,1719,"You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me:
Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me;
Because that I am little, like an ape,
He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders.",946,19336
658095,1723,"With what a sharp-provided wit he reasons!
To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle,
He prettily and aptly taunts himself:
So cunning and so young is wonderful.",343,19336
658096,1727,"My lord, will't please you pass along?
Myself and my good cousin Buckingham
Will to your mother, to entreat of her
To meet you at the Tower and welcome you.",531,19336
658097,1731,"What, will you go unto the Tower, my lord?",946,19336
658098,1732,My lord protector needs will have it so.,916,19336
658099,1733,I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower.,946,19336
658100,1734,"Why, what should you fear?",531,19336
658101,1735,"Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost:
My grandam told me he was murdered there.",946,19336
658102,1737,I fear no uncles dead.,916,19336
658103,1738,"Nor none that live, I hope.",531,19336
658104,1739,"An if they live, I hope I need not fear.
But come, my lord; and with a heavy heart,
Thinking on them, go I unto the Tower.
[A Sennet. Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM]
and CATESBY]",916,19336
658105,1744,"Think you, my lord, this little prating York
Was not incensed by his subtle mother
To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?",343,19336
658106,1747,"No doubt, no doubt; O, 'tis a parlous boy;
Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable
He is all the mother's, from the top to toe.",531,19336
658107,1750,"Well, let them rest. Come hither, Catesby.
Thou art sworn as deeply to effect what we intend
As closely to conceal what we impart:
Thou know'st our reasons urged upon the way;
What think'st thou? is it not an easy matter
To make William Lord Hastings of our mind,
For the instalment of this noble duke
In the seat royal of this famous isle?",343,19336
658108,1758,"He for his father's sake so loves the prince,
That he will not be won to aught against him.",1117,19336
658109,1760,"What think'st thou, then, of Stanley? what will he?",343,19336
658110,1761,He will do all in all as Hastings doth.,1117,19336
658111,1762,"Well, then, no more but this: go, gentle Catesby,
And, as it were far off sound thou Lord Hastings,
How doth he stand affected to our purpose;
And summon him to-morrow to the Tower,
To sit about the coronation.
If thou dost find him tractable to us,
Encourage him, and show him all our reasons:
If he be leaden, icy-cold, unwilling,
Be thou so too; and so break off your talk,
And give us notice of his inclination:
For we to-morrow hold divided councils,
Wherein thyself shalt highly be employ'd.",343,19336
658112,1774,"Commend me to Lord William: tell him, Catesby,
His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
To-morrow are let blood at Pomfret-castle;
And bid my friend, for joy of this good news,
Give mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more.",531,19336
658113,1779,"Good Catesby, go, effect this business soundly.",343,19336
658114,1780,"My good lords both, with all the heed I may.",1117,19336
658115,1781,"Shall we hear from you, Catesby, ere we sleep?",531,19336
658116,1782,"You shall, my lord.",1117,19336
658117,1783,"At Crosby Place, there shall you find us both.",531,19336
658118,1784,[Exit CATESBY],1261,19336
658119,1785,"Now, my lord, what shall we do, if we perceive
Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots?",343,19336
658120,1787,"Chop off his head, man; somewhat we will do:
And, look, when I am king, claim thou of me
The earldom of Hereford, and the moveables
Whereof the king my brother stood possess'd.",531,19336
658121,1791,I'll claim that promise at your grace's hands.,343,19336
658122,1792,"And look to have it yielded with all willingness.
Come, let us sup betimes, that afterwards
We may digest our complots in some form.",531,19336
658123,1795,[Exeunt],1261,19336
658124,1798,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19337
658125,1799,"What, ho! my lord!",788,19337
658126,1800,[Within] Who knocks at the door?,685,19337
658127,1801,A messenger from the Lord Stanley.,788,19337
658128,1802,[Enter HASTINGS],1261,19337
658129,1803,What is't o'clock?,685,19337
658130,1804,Upon the stroke of four.,788,19337
658131,1805,Cannot thy master sleep these tedious nights?,685,19337
658132,1806,"So it should seem by that I have to say.
First, he commends him to your noble lordship.",788,19337
658133,1808,And then?,685,19337
658134,1809,"And then he sends you word
He dreamt to-night the boar had razed his helm:
Besides, he says there are two councils held;
And that may be determined at the one
which may make you and him to rue at the other.
Therefore he sends to know your lordship's pleasure,
If presently you will take horse with him,
And with all speed post with him toward the north,
To shun the danger that his soul divines.",788,19337
658135,1818,"Go, fellow, go, return unto thy lord;
Bid him not fear the separated councils
His honour and myself are at the one,
And at the other is my servant Catesby
Where nothing can proceed that toucheth us
Whereof I shall not have intelligence.
Tell him his fears are shallow, wanting instance:
And for his dreams, I wonder he is so fond
To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers
To fly the boar before the boar pursues,
Were to incense the boar to follow us
And make pursuit where he did mean no chase.
Go, bid thy master rise and come to me
And we will both together to the Tower,
Where, he shall see, the boar will use us kindly.",685,19337
658136,1833,"My gracious lord, I'll tell him what you say.",788,19337
658137,1834,[Exit],1261,19337
658138,1835,[Enter CATESBY],1261,19337
658139,1836,Many good morrows to my noble lord!,1117,19337
658140,1837,"Good morrow, Catesby; you are early stirring
What news, what news, in this our tottering state?",685,19337
658141,1839,"It is a reeling world, indeed, my lord;
And I believe twill never stand upright
Tim Richard wear the garland of the realm.",1117,19337
658142,1842,How! wear the garland! dost thou mean the crown?,685,19337
658143,1843,"Ay, my good lord.",1117,19337
658144,1844,"I'll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders
Ere I will see the crown so foul misplaced.
But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it?",685,19337
658145,1847,"Ay, on my life; and hopes to find forward
Upon his party for the gain thereof:
And thereupon he sends you this good news,
That this same very day your enemies,
The kindred of the queen, must die at Pomfret.",1117,19337
658146,1852,"Indeed, I am no mourner for that news,
Because they have been still mine enemies:
But, that I'll give my voice on Richard's side,
To bar my master's heirs in true descent,
God knows I will not do it, to the death.",685,19337
658147,1857,God keep your lordship in that gracious mind!,1117,19337
658148,1858,"But I shall laugh at this a twelve-month hence,
That they who brought me in my master's hate
I live to look upon their tragedy.
I tell thee, Catesby--",685,19337
658149,1862,"What, my lord?",1117,19337
658150,1863,"Ere a fortnight make me elder,
I'll send some packing that yet think not on it.",685,19337
658151,1865,"'Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord,
When men are unprepared and look not for it.",1117,19337
658152,1867,"O monstrous, monstrous! and so falls it out
With Rivers, Vaughan, Grey: and so 'twill do
With some men else, who think themselves as safe
As thou and I; who, as thou know'st, are dear
To princely Richard and to Buckingham.",685,19337
658153,1872,"The princes both make high account of you;
[Aside]
For they account his head upon the bridge.",1117,19337
658154,1875,"I know they do; and I have well deserved it.
[Enter STANLEY]
Come on, come on; where is your boar-spear, man?
Fear you the boar, and go so unprovided?",685,19337
658155,1879,"My lord, good morrow; good morrow, Catesby:
You may jest on, but, by the holy rood,
I do not like these several councils, I.",1120,19337
658156,1882,"My lord,
I hold my life as dear as you do yours;
And never in my life, I do protest,
Was it more precious to me than 'tis now:
Think you, but that I know our state secure,
I would be so triumphant as I am?",685,19337
658157,1888,"The lords at Pomfret, when they rode from London,
Were jocund, and supposed their state was sure,
And they indeed had no cause to mistrust;
But yet, you see how soon the day o'ercast.
This sudden stag of rancour I misdoubt:
Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward!
What, shall we toward the Tower? the day is spent.",1120,19337
658158,1895,"Come, come, have with you. Wot you what, my lord?
To-day the lords you talk of are beheaded.",685,19337
658159,1897,"They, for their truth, might better wear their heads
Than some that have accused them wear their hats.
But come, my lord, let us away.",1120,19337
658160,1900,[Enter a Pursuivant],1261,19337
658161,1901,"Go on before; I'll talk with this good fellow.
[Exeunt STANLEY and CATESBY]
How now, sirrah! how goes the world with thee?",685,19337
658162,1904,The better that your lordship please to ask.,930,19337
658163,1905,"I tell thee, man, 'tis better with me now
Than when I met thee last where now we meet:
Then was I going prisoner to the Tower,
By the suggestion of the queen's allies;
But now, I tell thee--keep it to thyself--
This day those enemies are put to death,
And I in better state than e'er I was.",685,19337
658164,1912,"God hold it, to your honour's good content!",930,19337
658165,1913,"Gramercy, fellow: there, drink that for me.",685,19337
658166,1914,[Throws him his purse],1261,19337
658167,1915,God save your lordship!,930,19337
658168,1916,[Exit],1261,19337
658169,1917,[Enter a Priest],1261,19337
658170,1918,"Well met, my lord; I am glad to see your honour.",914,19337
658171,1919,"I thank thee, good Sir John, with all my heart.
I am in your debt for your last exercise;
Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.",685,19337
658172,1922,[He whispers in his ear],1261,19337
658173,1923,[Enter BUCKINGHAM],1261,19337
658174,1924,"What, talking with a priest, lord chamberlain?
Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the priest;
Your honour hath no shriving work in hand.",343,19337
658175,1927,"Good faith, and when I met this holy man,
Those men you talk of came into my mind.
What, go you toward the Tower?",685,19337
658176,1930,"I do, my lord; but long I shall not stay
I shall return before your lordship thence.",343,19337
658177,1932,"'Tis like enough, for I stay dinner there.",685,19337
658178,1933,"[Aside] And supper too, although thou know'st it not.
Come, will you go?",343,19337
658179,1935,I'll wait upon your lordship.,685,19337
658180,1936,"[Exeunt]
[Enter RATCLIFF, with halberds, carrying RIVERS,]
GREY, and VAUGHAN to death]",1261,19337
658181,1941,"Come, bring forth the prisoners.",1111,19338
658182,1942,"Sir Richard Ratcliff, let me tell thee this:
To-day shalt thou behold a subject die
For truth, for duty, and for loyalty.",692,19338
658183,1945,"God keep the prince from all the pack of you!
A knot you are of damned blood-suckers!",683,19338
658184,1947,You live that shall cry woe for this after.,1115,19338
658185,1948,Dispatch; the limit of your lives is out.,1111,19338
658186,1949,"O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,
Fatal and ominous to noble peers!
Within the guilty closure of thy walls
Richard the second here was hack'd to death;
And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,
We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.",692,19338
658187,1955,"Now Margaret's curse is fall'n upon our heads,
For standing by when Richard stabb'd her son.",683,19338
658188,1957,"Then cursed she Hastings, then cursed she Buckingham,
Then cursed she Richard. O, remember, God
To hear her prayers for them, as now for us
And for my sister and her princely sons,
Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood,
Which, as thou know'st, unjustly must be spilt.",692,19338
658189,1963,Make haste; the hour of death is expiate.,1111,19338
658190,1964,"Come, Grey, come, Vaughan, let us all embrace:
And take our leave, until we meet in heaven.",692,19338
658191,1966,"[Exeunt]
[Enter BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, the BISHOP OF]
ELY, RATCLIFF, LOVEL, with others, and take their
seats at a table]",1261,19338
658192,1972,"My lords, at once: the cause why we are met
Is, to determine of the coronation.
In God's name, speak: when is the royal day?",685,19339
658193,1975,Are all things fitting for that royal time?,343,19339
658194,1976,"It is, and wants but nomination.",1120,19339
658195,1977,"To-morrow, then, I judge a happy day.",617,19339
658196,1978,"Who knows the lord protector's mind herein?
Who is most inward with the royal duke?",343,19339
658197,1980,"Your grace, we think, should soonest know his mind.",617,19339
658198,1981,"Who, I, my lord I we know each other's faces,
But for our hearts, he knows no more of mine,
Than I of yours;
Nor I no more of his, than you of mine.
Lord Hastings, you and he are near in love.",343,19339
658199,1986,"I thank his grace, I know he loves me well;
But, for his purpose in the coronation.
I have not sounded him, nor he deliver'd
His gracious pleasure any way therein:
But you, my noble lords, may name the time;
And in the duke's behalf I'll give my voice,
Which, I presume, he'll take in gentle part.",685,19339
658200,1993,[Enter GLOUCESTER],1261,19339
658201,1994,"Now in good time, here comes the duke himself.",617,19339
658202,1995,"My noble lords and cousins all, good morrow.
I have been long a sleeper; but, I hope,
My absence doth neglect no great designs,
Which by my presence might have been concluded.",531,19339
658203,1999,"Had not you come upon your cue, my lord
William Lord Hastings had pronounced your part,--
I mean, your voice,--for crowning of the king.",343,19339
658204,2002,"Than my Lord Hastings no man might be bolder;
His lordship knows me well, and loves me well.",531,19339
658205,2004,I thank your grace.,685,19339
658206,2005,My lord of Ely!,531,19339
658207,2006,My lord?,617,19339
658208,2007,"When I was last in Holborn,
I saw good strawberries in your garden there
I do beseech you send for some of them.",531,19339
658209,2010,"Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart.",617,19339
658210,2011,[Exit],1261,19339
658211,2012,"Cousin of Buckingham, a word with you.
[Drawing him aside]
Catesby hath sounded Hastings in our business,
And finds the testy gentleman so hot,
As he will lose his head ere give consent
His master's son, as worshipful as he terms it,
Shall lose the royalty of England's throne.",531,19339
658212,2019,"Withdraw you hence, my lord, I'll follow you.",343,19339
658213,2020,"[Exit GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM following]",1261,19339
658214,2021,"We have not yet set down this day of triumph.
To-morrow, in mine opinion, is too sudden;
For I myself am not so well provided
As else I would be, were the day prolong'd.",1120,19339
658215,2025,[Re-enter BISHOP OF ELY],1261,19339
658216,2026,"Where is my lord protector? I have sent for these
strawberries.",617,19339
658217,2028,"His grace looks cheerfully and smooth to-day;
There's some conceit or other likes him well,
When he doth bid good morrow with such a spirit.
I think there's never a man in Christendom
That can less hide his love or hate than he;
For by his face straight shall you know his heart.",685,19339
658218,2034,"What of his heart perceive you in his face
By any likelihood he show'd to-day?",1120,19339
658219,2036,"Marry, that with no man here he is offended;
For, were he, he had shown it in his looks.",685,19339
658220,2038,"I pray God he be not, I say.",1120,19339
658221,2039,[Re-enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM],1261,19339
658222,2040,"I pray you all, tell me what they deserve
That do conspire my death with devilish plots
Of damned witchcraft, and that have prevail'd
Upon my body with their hellish charms?",531,19339
658223,2044,"The tender love I bear your grace, my lord,
Makes me most forward in this noble presence
To doom the offenders, whatsoever they be
I say, my lord, they have deserved death.",685,19339
658224,2048,"Then be your eyes the witness of this ill:
See how I am bewitch'd; behold mine arm
Is, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up:
And this is Edward's wife, that monstrous witch,
Consorted with that harlot strumpet Shore,
That by their witchcraft thus have marked me.",531,19339
658225,2054,"If they have done this thing, my gracious lord--",685,19339
658226,2055,"If I thou protector of this damned strumpet--
Tellest thou me of 'ifs'? Thou art a traitor:
Off with his head! Now, by Saint Paul I swear,
I will not dine until I see the same.
Lovel and Ratcliff, look that it be done:
The rest, that love me, rise and follow me.",531,19339
658227,2061,"[Exeunt all but HASTINGS, RATCLIFF, and LOVEL]",1261,19339
658228,2062,"Woe, woe for England! not a whit for me;
For I, too fond, might have prevented this.
Stanley did dream the boar did raze his helm;
But I disdain'd it, and did scorn to fly:
Three times to-day my foot-cloth horse did stumble,
And startled, when he look'd upon the Tower,
As loath to bear me to the slaughter-house.
O, now I want the priest that spake to me:
I now repent I told the pursuivant
As 'twere triumphing at mine enemies,
How they at Pomfret bloodily were butcher'd,
And I myself secure in grace and favour.
O Margaret, Margaret, now thy heavy curse
Is lighted on poor Hastings' wretched head!",685,19339
658229,2076,"Dispatch, my lord; the duke would be at dinner:
Make a short shrift; he longs to see your head.",1111,19339
658230,2078,"O momentary grace of mortal men,
Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks,
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,
Ready, with every nod, to tumble down
Into the fatal bowels of the deep.",685,19339
658231,2084,"Come, come, dispatch; 'tis bootless to exclaim.",687,19339
658232,2085,"O bloody Richard! miserable England!
I prophesy the fearful'st time to thee
That ever wretched age hath look'd upon.
Come, lead me to the block; bear him my head.
They smile at me that shortly shall be dead.",685,19339
658233,2090,"[Exeunt]
[Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, in rotten armour,]
marvellous ill-favoured]",1261,19339
658234,2095,"Come, cousin, canst thou quake, and change thy colour,
Murder thy breath in the middle of a word,
And then begin again, and stop again,
As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror?",531,19340
658235,2099,"Tut, I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;
Speak and look back, and pry on every side,
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,
Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks
Are at my service, like enforced smiles;
And both are ready in their offices,
At any time, to grace my stratagems.
But what, is Catesby gone?",343,19340
658236,2107,"He is; and, see, he brings the mayor along.",531,19340
658237,2108,[Enter the Lord Mayor and CATESBY],1261,19340
658238,2109,"Lord mayor,--",343,19340
658239,2110,Look to the drawbridge there!,531,19340
658240,2111,Hark! a drum.,343,19340
658241,2112,"Catesby, o'erlook the walls.",531,19340
658242,2113,"Lord mayor, the reason we have sent--",343,19340
658243,2114,"Look back, defend thee, here are enemies.",531,19340
658244,2115,God and our innocency defend and guard us!,343,19340
658245,2116,"Be patient, they are friends, Ratcliff and Lovel.",531,19340
658246,2117,"[Enter LOVEL and RATCLIFF, with HASTINGS' head]",1261,19340
658247,2118,"Here is the head of that ignoble traitor,
The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings.",687,19340
658248,2120,"So dear I loved the man, that I must weep.
I took him for the plainest harmless creature
That breathed upon this earth a Christian;
Made him my book wherein my soul recorded
The history of all her secret thoughts:
So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue,
That, his apparent open guilt omitted,
I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife,
He lived from all attainder of suspect.",531,19340
658249,2129,"Well, well, he was the covert'st shelter'd traitor
That ever lived.
Would you imagine, or almost believe,
Were't not that, by great preservation,
We live to tell it you, the subtle traitor
This day had plotted, in the council-house
To murder me and my good Lord of Gloucester?",343,19340
658250,2136,"What, had he so?",756,19340
658251,2137,"What, think You we are Turks or infidels?
Or that we would, against the form of law,
Proceed thus rashly to the villain's death,
But that the extreme peril of the case,
The peace of England and our persons' safety,
Enforced us to this execution?",531,19340
658252,2143,"Now, fair befall you! he deserved his death;
And you my good lords, both have well proceeded,
To warn false traitors from the like attempts.
I never look'd for better at his hands,
After he once fell in with Mistress Shore.",756,19340
658253,2148,"Yet had not we determined he should die,
Until your lordship came to see his death;
Which now the loving haste of these our friends,
Somewhat against our meaning, have prevented:
Because, my lord, we would have had you heard
The traitor speak, and timorously confess
The manner and the purpose of his treason;
That you might well have signified the same
Unto the citizens, who haply may
Misconstrue us in him and wail his death.",531,19340
658254,2158,"But, my good lord, your grace's word shall serve,
As well as I had seen and heard him speak
And doubt you not, right noble princes both,
But I'll acquaint our duteous citizens
With all your just proceedings in this cause.",756,19340
658255,2163,"And to that end we wish'd your lord-ship here,
To avoid the carping censures of the world.",531,19340
658256,2165,"But since you come too late of our intents,
Yet witness what you hear we did intend:
And so, my good lord mayor, we bid farewell.",343,19340
658257,2168,[Exit Lord Mayor],1261,19340
658258,2169,"Go, after, after, cousin Buckingham.
The mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post:
There, at your meet'st advantage of the time,
Infer the bastardy of Edward's children:
Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen,
Only for saying he would make his son
Heir to the crown; meaning indeed his house,
Which, by the sign thereof was termed so.
Moreover, urge his hateful luxury
And bestial appetite in change of lust;
Which stretched to their servants, daughters, wives,
Even where his lustful eye or savage heart,
Without control, listed to make his prey.
Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person:
Tell them, when that my mother went with child
Of that unsatiate Edward, noble York
My princely father then had wars in France
And, by just computation of the time,
Found that the issue was not his begot;
Which well appeared in his lineaments,
Being nothing like the noble duke my father:
But touch this sparingly, as 'twere far off,
Because you know, my lord, my mother lives.",531,19340
658259,2192,"Fear not, my lord, I'll play the orator
As if the golden fee for which I plead
Were for myself: and so, my lord, adieu.",343,19340
658260,2195,"If you thrive well, bring them to Baynard's Castle;
Where you shall find me well accompanied
With reverend fathers and well-learned bishops.",531,19340
658261,2198,"I go: and towards three or four o'clock
Look for the news that the Guildhall affords.",343,19340
658262,2200,[Exit BUCKINGHAM],1261,19340
658263,2201,"Go, Lovel, with all speed to Doctor Shaw;
[To CATESBY]
Go thou to Friar Penker; bid them both
Meet me within this hour at Baynard's Castle.
[Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER]
Now will I in, to take some privy order,
To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight;
And to give notice, that no manner of person
At any time have recourse unto the princes.",531,19340
658264,2210,[Exit],1261,19340
658265,2213,"[Enter a Scrivener, with a paper in his hand]",1261,19341
658266,2214,"This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings;
Which in a set hand fairly is engross'd,
That it may be this day read over in Paul's.
And mark how well the sequel hangs together:
Eleven hours I spent to write it over,
For yesternight by Catesby was it brought me;
The precedent was full as long a-doing:
And yet within these five hours lived Lord Hastings,
Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty
Here's a good world the while! Why who's so gross,
That seeth not this palpable device?
Yet who's so blind, but says he sees it not?
Bad is the world; and all will come to nought,
When such bad dealings must be seen in thought.",973,19341
658267,2228,[Exit],1261,19341
658268,2231,"[Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, at several doors]",1261,19342
658269,2232,"How now, my lord, what say the citizens?",531,19342
658270,2233,"Now, by the holy mother of our Lord,
The citizens are mum and speak not a word.",343,19342
658271,2235,Touch'd you the bastardy of Edward's children?,531,19342
658272,2236,"I did; with his contract with Lady Lucy,
And his contract by deputy in France;
The insatiate greediness of his desires,
And his enforcement of the city wives;
His tyranny for trifles; his own bastardy,
As being got, your father then in France,
His resemblance, being not like the duke;
Withal I did infer your lineaments,
Being the right idea of your father,
Both in your form and nobleness of mind;
Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
Your dicipline in war, wisdom in peace,
Your bounty, virtue, fair humility:
Indeed, left nothing fitting for the purpose
Untouch'd, or slightly handled, in discourse
And when mine oratory grew to an end
I bid them that did love their country's good
Cry 'God save Richard, England's royal king!'",343,19342
658273,2254,Ah! and did they so?,531,19342
658274,2255,"No, so God help me, they spake not a word;
But, like dumb statues or breathing stones,
Gazed each on other, and look'd deadly pale.
Which when I saw, I reprehended them;
And ask'd the mayor what meant this wilful silence:
His answer was, the people were not wont
To be spoke to but by the recorder.
Then he was urged to tell my tale again,
'Thus saith the duke, thus hath the duke inferr'd;'
But nothing spake in warrant from himself.
When he had done, some followers of mine own,
At the lower end of the hall, hurl'd up their caps,
And some ten voices cried 'God save King Richard!'
And thus I took the vantage of those few,
'Thanks, gentle citizens and friends,' quoth I;
'This general applause and loving shout
Argues your wisdoms and your love to Richard:'
And even here brake off, and came away.",343,19342
658275,2273,What tongueless blocks were they! would not they speak?,531,19342
658276,2274,"No, by my troth, my lord.",343,19342
658277,2275,Will not the mayor then and his brethren come?,531,19342
658278,2276,"The mayor is here at hand: intend some fear;
Be not you spoke with, but by mighty suit:
And look you get a prayer-book in your hand,
And stand betwixt two churchmen, good my lord;
For on that ground I'll build a holy descant:
And be not easily won to our request:
Play the maid's part, still answer nay, and take it.",343,19342
658279,2283,"I go; and if you plead as well for them
As I can say nay to thee for myself,
No doubt well bring it to a happy issue.",531,19342
658280,2286,"Go, go, up to the leads; the lord mayor knocks.
[Exit GLOUCESTER]
[Enter the Lord Mayor and Citizens]
Welcome my lord; I dance attendance here;
I think the duke will not be spoke withal.
[Enter CATESBY]
Here comes his servant: how now, Catesby,
What says he?",343,19342
658281,2294,"My lord: he doth entreat your grace;
To visit him to-morrow or next day:
He is within, with two right reverend fathers,
Divinely bent to meditation;
And no worldly suit would he be moved,
To draw him from his holy exercise.",1117,19342
658282,2300,"Return, good Catesby, to thy lord again;
Tell him, myself, the mayor and citizens,
In deep designs and matters of great moment,
No less importing than our general good,
Are come to have some conference with his grace.",343,19342
658283,2305,"I'll tell him what you say, my lord.",1117,19342
658284,2306,[Exit],1261,19342
658285,2307,"Ah, ha, my lord, this prince is not an Edward!
He is not lolling on a lewd day-bed,
But on his knees at meditation;
Not dallying with a brace of courtezans,
But meditating with two deep divines;
Not sleeping, to engross his idle body,
But praying, to enrich his watchful soul:
Happy were England, would this gracious prince
Take on himself the sovereignty thereof:
But, sure, I fear, we shall ne'er win him to it.",343,19342
658286,2317,"Marry, God forbid his grace should say us nay!",756,19342
658287,2318,"I fear he will.
[Re-enter CATESBY]
How now, Catesby, what says your lord?",343,19342
658288,2321,"My lord,
He wonders to what end you have assembled
Such troops of citizens to speak with him,
His grace not being warn'd thereof before:
My lord, he fears you mean no good to him.",1117,19342
658289,2326,"Sorry I am my noble cousin should
Suspect me, that I mean no good to him:
By heaven, I come in perfect love to him;
And so once more return and tell his grace.
[Exit CATESBY]
When holy and devout religious men
Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence,
So sweet is zealous contemplation.
[Enter GLOUCESTER aloft, between two Bishops.]
CATESBY returns]",343,19342
658290,2336,"See, where he stands between two clergymen!",756,19342
658291,2337,"Two props of virtue for a Christian prince,
To stay him from the fall of vanity:
And, see, a book of prayer in his hand,
True ornaments to know a holy man.
Famous Plantagenet, most gracious prince,
Lend favourable ears to our request;
And pardon us the interruption
Of thy devotion and right Christian zeal.",343,19342
658292,2345,"My lord, there needs no such apology:
I rather do beseech you pardon me,
Who, earnest in the service of my God,
Neglect the visitation of my friends.
But, leaving this, what is your grace's pleasure?",531,19342
658293,2350,"Even that, I hope, which pleaseth God above,
And all good men of this ungovern'd isle.",343,19342
658294,2352,"I do suspect I have done some offence
That seems disgracious in the city's eyes,
And that you come to reprehend my ignorance.",531,19342
658295,2355,"You have, my lord: would it might please your grace,
At our entreaties, to amend that fault!",343,19342
658296,2357,Else wherefore breathe I in a Christian land?,531,19342
658297,2358,"Then know, it is your fault that you resign
The supreme seat, the throne majestical,
The scepter'd office of your ancestors,
Your state of fortune and your due of birth,
The lineal glory of your royal house,
To the corruption of a blemished stock:
Whilst, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts,
Which here we waken to our country's good,
This noble isle doth want her proper limbs;
Her face defaced with scars of infamy,
Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants,
And almost shoulder'd in the swallowing gulf
Of blind forgetfulness and dark oblivion.
Which to recure, we heartily solicit
Your gracious self to take on you the charge
And kingly government of this your land,
Not as protector, steward, substitute,
Or lowly factor for another's gain;
But as successively from blood to blood,
Your right of birth, your empery, your own.
For this, consorted with the citizens,
Your very worshipful and loving friends,
And by their vehement instigation,
In this just suit come I to move your grace.",343,19342
658298,2382,"I know not whether to depart in silence,
Or bitterly to speak in your reproof.
Best fitteth my degree or your condition
If not to answer, you might haply think
Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded
To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,
Which fondly you would here impose on me;
If to reprove you for this suit of yours,
So season'd with your faithful love to me.
Then, on the other side, I cheque'd my friends.
Therefore, to speak, and to avoid the first,
And then, in speaking, not to incur the last,
Definitively thus I answer you.
Your love deserves my thanks; but my desert
Unmeritable shuns your high request.
First if all obstacles were cut away,
And that my path were even to the crown,
As my ripe revenue and due by birth
Yet so much is my poverty of spirit,
So mighty and so many my defects,
As I had rather hide me from my greatness,
Being a bark to brook no mighty sea,
Than in my greatness covet to be hid,
And in the vapour of my glory smother'd.
But, God be thank'd, there's no need of me,
And much I need to help you, if need were;
The royal tree hath left us royal fruit,
Which, mellow'd by the stealing hours of time,
Will well become the seat of majesty,
And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign.
On him I lay what you would lay on me,
The right and fortune of his happy stars;
Which God defend that I should wring from him!",531,19342
658299,2415,"My lord, this argues conscience in your grace;
But the respects thereof are nice and trivial,
All circumstances well considered.
You say that Edward is your brother's son:
So say we too, but not by Edward's wife;
For first he was contract to Lady Lucy--
Your mother lives a witness to that vow--
And afterward by substitute betroth'd
To Bona, sister to the King of France.
These both put by a poor petitioner,
A care-crazed mother of a many children,
A beauty-waning and distressed widow,
Even in the afternoon of her best days,
Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye,
Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts
To base declension and loathed bigamy
By her, in his unlawful bed, he got
This Edward, whom our manners term the prince.
More bitterly could I expostulate,
Save that, for reverence to some alive,
I give a sparing limit to my tongue.
Then, good my lord, take to your royal self
This proffer'd benefit of dignity;
If non to bless us and the land withal,
Yet to draw forth your noble ancestry
From the corruption of abusing times,
Unto a lineal true-derived course.",343,19342
658300,2442,"Do, good my lord, your citizens entreat you.",756,19342
658301,2443,"Refuse not, mighty lord, this proffer'd love.",343,19342
658302,2444,"O, make them joyful, grant their lawful suit!",1117,19342
658303,2445,"Alas, why would you heap these cares on me?
I am unfit for state and majesty;
I do beseech you, take it not amiss;
I cannot nor I will not yield to you.",531,19342
658304,2449,"If you refuse it,--as, in love and zeal,
Loath to depose the child, Your brother's son;
As well we know your tenderness of heart
And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse,
Which we have noted in you to your kin,
And egally indeed to all estates,--
Yet whether you accept our suit or no,
Your brother's son shall never reign our king;
But we will plant some other in the throne,
To the disgrace and downfall of your house:
And in this resolution here we leave you.--
Come, citizens: 'zounds! I'll entreat no more.",343,19342
658305,2461,"O, do not swear, my lord of Buckingham.",531,19342
658306,2462,[Exit BUCKINGHAM with the Citizens],1261,19342
658307,2463,"Call them again, my lord, and accept their suit.",1117,19342
658308,2464,"Do, good my lord, lest all the land do rue it.",108,19342
658309,2465,"Would you enforce me to a world of care?
Well, call them again. I am not made of stone,
But penetrable to your. kind entreats,
Albeit against my conscience and my soul.
[Re-enter BUCKINGHAM and the rest]
Cousin of Buckingham, and you sage, grave men,
Since you will buckle fortune on my back,
To bear her burthen, whether I will or no,
I must have patience to endure the load:
But if black scandal or foul-faced reproach
Attend the sequel of your imposition,
Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me
From all the impure blots and stains thereof;
For God he knows, and you may partly see,
How far I am from the desire thereof.",531,19342
658310,2480,"God bless your grace! we see it, and will say it.",756,19342
658311,2481,"In saying so, you shall but say the truth.",531,19342
658312,2482,"Then I salute you with this kingly title:
Long live Richard, England's royal king!",343,19342
658313,2484,[with citizens] Amen.,756,19342
658314,2485,To-morrow will it please you to be crown'd?,343,19342
658315,2486,"Even when you please, since you will have it so.",531,19342
658316,2487,"To-morrow, then, we will attend your grace:
And so most joyfully we take our leave.",343,19342
658317,2489,"Come, let us to our holy task again.
Farewell, good cousin; farewell, gentle friends.",531,19342
658318,2491,"[Exeunt]
[Enter, on one side, QUEEN ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF]
YORK, and DORSET; on the other, ANNE, Duchess of
Gloucester, leading Lady Margaret Plantagenet,
CLARENCE's young Daughter]",1261,19342
658319,2498,"Who meets us here? my niece Plantagenet
Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Gloucester?
Now, for my life, she's wandering to the Tower,
On pure heart's love to greet the tender princes.
Daughter, well met.",337,19343
658320,2503,"God give your graces both
A happy and a joyful time of day!",641,19343
658321,2505,"As much to you, good sister! Whither away?",933,19343
658322,2506,"No farther than the Tower; and, as I guess,
Upon the like devotion as yourselves,
To gratulate the gentle princes there.",641,19343
658323,2509,"Kind sister, thanks: we'll enter all together.
[Enter BRAKENBURY]
And, in good time, here the lieutenant comes.
Master lieutenant, pray you, by your leave,
How doth the prince, and my young son of York?",933,19343
658324,2514,"Right well, dear madam. By your patience,
I may not suffer you to visit them;
The king hath straitly charged the contrary.",1112,19343
658325,2517,"The king! why, who's that?",933,19343
658326,2518,I cry you mercy: I mean the lord protector.,1112,19343
658327,2519,"The Lord protect him from that kingly title!
Hath he set bounds betwixt their love and me?
I am their mother; who should keep me from them?",933,19343
658328,2522,I am their fathers mother; I will see them.,337,19343
658329,2523,"Their aunt I am in law, in love their mother:
Then bring me to their sights; I'll bear thy blame
And take thy office from thee, on my peril.",641,19343
658330,2526,"No, madam, no; I may not leave it so:
I am bound by oath, and therefore pardon me.",1112,19343
658331,2528,[Exit],1261,19343
658332,2529,[Enter LORD STANLEY],1261,19343
658333,2530,"Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence,
And I'll salute your grace of York as mother,
And reverend looker on, of two fair queens.
[To LADY ANNE]
Come, madam, you must straight to Westminster,
There to be crowned Richard's royal queen.",1120,19343
658334,2536,"O, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart
May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon
With this dead-killing news!",933,19343
658335,2539,Despiteful tidings! O unpleasing news!,641,19343
658336,2540,"Be of good cheer: mother, how fares your grace?",746,19343
658337,2541,"O Dorset, speak not to me, get thee hence!
Death and destruction dog thee at the heels;
Thy mother's name is ominous to children.
If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas,
And live with Richmond, from the reach of hell
Go, hie thee, hie thee from this slaughter-house,
Lest thou increase the number of the dead;
And make me die the thrall of Margaret's curse,
Nor mother, wife, nor England's counted queen.",933,19343
658338,2550,"Full of wise care is this your counsel, madam.
Take all the swift advantage of the hours;
You shall have letters from me to my son
To meet you on the way, and welcome you.
Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay.",1120,19343
658339,2555,"O ill-dispersing wind of misery!
O my accursed womb, the bed of death!
A cockatrice hast thou hatch'd to the world,
Whose unavoided eye is murderous.",337,19343
658340,2559,"Come, madam, come; I in all haste was sent.",1120,19343
658341,2560,"And I in all unwillingness will go.
I would to God that the inclusive verge
Of golden metal that must round my brow
Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brain!
Anointed let me be with deadly venom,
And die, ere men can say, God save the queen!",641,19343
658342,2566,"Go, go, poor soul, I envy not thy glory
To feed my humour, wish thyself no harm.",933,19343
658343,2568,"No! why? When he that is my husband now
Came to me, as I follow'd Henry's corse,
When scarce the blood was well wash'd from his hands
Which issued from my other angel husband
And that dead saint which then I weeping follow'd;
O, when, I say, I look'd on Richard's face,
This was my wish: 'Be thou,' quoth I, ' accursed,
For making me, so young, so old a widow!
And, when thou wed'st, let sorrow haunt thy bed;
And be thy wife--if any be so mad--
As miserable by the life of thee
As thou hast made me by my dear lord's death!
Lo, ere I can repeat this curse again,
Even in so short a space, my woman's heart
Grossly grew captive to his honey words
And proved the subject of my own soul's curse,
Which ever since hath kept my eyes from rest;
For never yet one hour in his bed
Have I enjoy'd the golden dew of sleep,
But have been waked by his timorous dreams.
Besides, he hates me for my father Warwick;
And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me.",641,19343
658344,2590,"Poor heart, adieu! I pity thy complaining.",933,19343
658345,2591,No more than from my soul I mourn for yours.,641,19343
658346,2592,"Farewell, thou woful welcomer of glory!",933,19343
658347,2593,"Adieu, poor soul, that takest thy leave of it!",641,19343
658348,2594,"[To DORSET]
Go thou to Richmond, and good fortune guide thee!
[To LADY ANNE]
Go thou to Richard, and good angels guard thee!
[To QUEEN ELIZABETH]
Go thou to sanctuary, and good thoughts possess thee!
I to my grave, where peace and rest lie with me!
Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen,
And each hour's joy wrecked with a week of teen.",337,19343
658349,2603,"Stay, yet look back with me unto the Tower.
Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes
Whom envy hath immured within your walls!
Rough cradle for such little pretty ones!
Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow
For tender princes, use my babies well!
So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell.",933,19343
658350,2610,"[Exeunt]
[Sennet. Enter KING RICHARD III, in pomp, crowned;]
BUCKINGHAM, CATESBY, a page, and others]",1261,19343
658351,2615,Stand all apart Cousin of Buckingham!,945,19344
658352,2616,My gracious sovereign?,343,19344
658353,2617,"Give me thy hand.
[Here he ascendeth his throne]
Thus high, by thy advice
And thy assistance, is King Richard seated;
But shall we wear these honours for a day?
Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?",945,19344
658354,2623,Still live they and for ever may they last!,343,19344
658355,2624,"O Buckingham, now do I play the touch,
To try if thou be current gold indeed
Young Edward lives: think now what I would say.",945,19344
658356,2627,"Say on, my loving lord.",343,19344
658357,2628,"Why, Buckingham, I say, I would be king,",945,19344
658358,2629,"Why, so you are, my thrice renowned liege.",343,19344
658359,2630,Ha! am I king? 'tis so: but Edward lives.,945,19344
658360,2631,"True, noble prince.",343,19344
658361,2632,"O bitter consequence,
That Edward still should live! 'True, noble prince!'
Cousin, thou wert not wont to be so dull:
Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead;
And I would have it suddenly perform'd.
What sayest thou? speak suddenly; be brief.",945,19344
658362,2638,Your grace may do your pleasure.,343,19344
658363,2639,"Tut, tut, thou art all ice, thy kindness freezeth:
Say, have I thy consent that they shall die?",945,19344
658364,2641,"Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord
Before I positively herein:
I will resolve your grace immediately.",343,19344
658365,2644,[Exit],1261,19344
658366,2645,"[Aside to a stander by]
The king is angry: see, he bites the lip.",1117,19344
658367,2647,"I will converse with iron-witted fools
And unrespective boys: none are for me
That look into me with considerate eyes:
High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect.
Boy!",945,19344
658368,2652,My lord?,852,19344
658369,2653,"Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold
Would tempt unto a close exploit of death?",945,19344
658370,2655,"My lord, I know a discontented gentleman,
Whose humble means match not his haughty mind:
Gold were as good as twenty orators,
And will, no doubt, tempt him to any thing.",852,19344
658371,2659,What is his name?,945,19344
658372,2660,"His name, my lord, is Tyrrel.",852,19344
658373,2661,"I partly know the man: go, call him hither.
[Exit Page]
The deep-revolving witty Buckingham
No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel:
Hath he so long held out with me untired,
And stops he now for breath?
[Enter STANLEY]
How now! what news with you?",945,19344
658374,2669,"My lord, I hear the Marquis Dorset's fled
To Richmond, in those parts beyond the sea
Where he abides.",1120,19344
658375,2672,[Stands apart],1261,19344
658376,2673,Catesby!,945,19344
658377,2674,My lord?,1117,19344
658378,2675,"Rumour it abroad
That Anne, my wife, is sick and like to die:
I will take order for her keeping close.
Inquire me out some mean-born gentleman,
Whom I will marry straight to Clarence' daughter:
The boy is foolish, and I fear not him.
Look, how thou dream'st! I say again, give out
That Anne my wife is sick and like to die:
About it; for it stands me much upon,
To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me.
[Exit CATESBY]
I must be married to my brother's daughter,
Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.
Murder her brothers, and then marry her!
Uncertain way of gain! But I am in
So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin:
Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
[Re-enter Page, with TYRREL]
Is thy name Tyrrel?",945,19344
658379,2694,"James Tyrrel, and your most obedient subject.",1103,19344
658380,2695,"Art thou, indeed?",945,19344
658381,2696,"Prove me, my gracious sovereign.",1103,19344
658382,2697,Darest thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?,945,19344
658383,2698,"Ay, my lord;
But I had rather kill two enemies.",1103,19344
658384,2700,"Why, there thou hast it: two deep enemies,
Foes to my rest and my sweet sleep's disturbers
Are they that I would have thee deal upon:
Tyrrel, I mean those bastards in the Tower.",945,19344
658385,2704,"Let me have open means to come to them,
And soon I'll rid you from the fear of them.",1103,19344
658386,2706,"Thou sing'st sweet music. Hark, come hither, Tyrrel
Go, by this token: rise, and lend thine ear:
[Whispers]
There is no more but so: say it is done,
And I will love thee, and prefer thee too.",945,19344
658387,2711,"'Tis done, my gracious lord.",1103,19344
658388,2712,"Shall we hear from thee, Tyrrel, ere we sleep?",945,19344
658389,2713,"Ye shall, my Lord.",1103,19344
658390,2714,[Exit],1261,19344
658391,2715,[Re-enter BUCKINGHAM],1261,19344
658392,2716,"My Lord, I have consider'd in my mind. The late demand that you did sound me in.",343,19344
658393,2717,"Well, let that pass. Dorset is fled to Richmond.",945,19344
658394,2718,"I hear that news, my lord.",343,19344
658395,2719,"Stanley, he is your wife's son well, look to it.",945,19344
658396,2720,"My lord, I claim your gift, my due by promise,
For which your honour and your faith is pawn'd;
The earldom of Hereford and the moveables
The which you promised I should possess.",343,19344
658397,2724,"Stanley, look to your wife; if she convey
Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it.",945,19344
658398,2726,What says your highness to my just demand?,343,19344
658399,2727,"As I remember, Henry the Sixth
Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,
When Richmond was a little peevish boy.
A king, perhaps, perhaps,--",945,19344
658400,2731,My lord!,343,19344
658401,2732,"How chance the prophet could not at that time
Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him?",945,19344
658402,2734,"My lord, your promise for the earldom,--",343,19344
658403,2735,"Richmond! When last I was at Exeter,
The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle,
And call'd it Rougemont: at which name I started,
Because a bard of Ireland told me once
I should not live long after I saw Richmond.",945,19344
658404,2740,My Lord!,343,19344
658405,2741,"Ay, what's o'clock?",945,19344
658406,2742,"I am thus bold to put your grace in mind
Of what you promised me.",343,19344
658407,2744,"Well, but what's o'clock?",945,19344
658408,2745,Upon the stroke of ten.,343,19344
658409,2746,"Well, let it strike.",945,19344
658410,2747,Why let it strike?,343,19344
658411,2748,"Because that, like a Jack, thou keep'st the stroke
Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.
I am not in the giving vein to-day.",945,19344
658412,2751,"Why, then resolve me whether you will or no.",343,19344
658413,2752,"Tut, tut,
Thou troublest me; am not in the vein.",945,19344
658414,2754,[Exeunt all but BUCKINGHAM],1261,19344
658415,2755,"Is it even so? rewards he my true service
With such deep contempt made I him king for this?
O, let me think on Hastings, and be gone
To Brecknock, while my fearful head is on!",343,19344
658416,2759,[Exit],1261,19344
658417,2762,[Enter TYRREL],1261,19345
658418,2763,"The tyrannous and bloody deed is done.
The most arch of piteous massacre
That ever yet this land was guilty of.
Dighton and Forrest, whom I did suborn
To do this ruthless piece of butchery,
Although they were flesh'd villains, bloody dogs,
Melting with tenderness and kind compassion
Wept like two children in their deaths' sad stories.
'Lo, thus' quoth Dighton, 'lay those tender babes:'
'Thus, thus,' quoth Forrest, 'girdling one another
Within their innocent alabaster arms:
Their lips were four red roses on a stalk,
Which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other.
A book of prayers on their pillow lay;
Which once,' quoth Forrest, 'almost changed my mind;
But O! the devil'--there the villain stopp'd
Whilst Dighton thus told on: 'We smothered
The most replenished sweet work of nature,
That from the prime creation e'er she framed.'
Thus both are gone with conscience and remorse;
They could not speak; and so I left them both,
To bring this tidings to the bloody king.
And here he comes.
[Enter KING RICHARD III]
All hail, my sovereign liege!",1103,19345
658419,2788,"Kind Tyrrel, am I happy in thy news?",945,19345
658420,2789,"If to have done the thing you gave in charge
Beget your happiness, be happy then,
For it is done, my lord.",1103,19345
658421,2792,But didst thou see them dead?,945,19345
658422,2793,"I did, my lord.",1103,19345
658423,2794,"And buried, gentle Tyrrel?",945,19345
658424,2795,"The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them;
But how or in what place I do not know.",1103,19345
658425,2797,"Come to me, Tyrrel, soon at after supper,
And thou shalt tell the process of their death.
Meantime, but think how I may do thee good,
And be inheritor of thy desire.
Farewell till soon.
[Exit TYRREL]
The son of Clarence have I pent up close;
His daughter meanly have I match'd in marriage;
The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom,
And Anne my wife hath bid the world good night.
Now, for I know the Breton Richmond aims
At young Elizabeth, my brother's daughter,
And, by that knot, looks proudly o'er the crown,
To her I go, a jolly thriving wooer.",945,19345
658426,2811,[Enter CATESBY],1261,19345
658427,2812,My lord!,1117,19345
658428,2813,"Good news or bad, that thou comest in so bluntly?",945,19345
658429,2814,"Bad news, my lord: Ely is fled to Richmond;
And Buckingham, back'd with the hardy Welshmen,
Is in the field, and still his power increaseth.",1117,19345
658430,2817,"Ely with Richmond troubles me more near
Than Buckingham and his rash-levied army.
Come, I have heard that fearful commenting
Is leaden servitor to dull delay;
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary
Then fiery expedition be my wing,
Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king!
Come, muster men: my counsel is my shield;
We must be brief when traitors brave the field.",945,19345
658431,2826,[Exeunt],1261,19345
658432,2829,[Enter QUEEN MARGARET],1261,19346
658433,2830,"So, now prosperity begins to mellow
And drop into the rotten mouth of death.
Here in these confines slily have I lurk'd,
To watch the waning of mine adversaries.
A dire induction am I witness to,
And will to France, hoping the consequence
Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical.
Withdraw thee, wretched Margaret: who comes here?",736,19346
658434,2838,[Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and the DUCHESS OF YORK],1261,19346
658435,2839,"Ah, my young princes! ah, my tender babes!
My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets!
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!",933,19346
658436,2845,"Hover about her; say, that right for right
Hath dimm'd your infant morn to aged night.",736,19346
658437,2847,"So many miseries have crazed my voice,
That my woe-wearied tongue is mute and dumb,
Edward Plantagenet, why art thou dead?",337,19346
658438,2850,"Plantagenet doth quit Plantagenet.
Edward for Edward pays a dying debt.",736,19346
658439,2852,"Wilt thou, O God, fly from such gentle lambs,
And throw them in the entrails of the wolf?
When didst thou sleep when such a deed was done?",933,19346
658440,2855,"When holy Harry died, and my sweet son.",736,19346
658441,2856,"Blind sight, dead life, poor mortal living ghost,
Woe's scene, world's shame, grave's due by life usurp'd,
Brief abstract and record of tedious days,
Rest thy unrest on England's lawful earth,
[Sitting down]
Unlawfully made drunk with innocents' blood!",337,19346
658442,2862,"O, that thou wouldst as well afford a grave
As thou canst yield a melancholy seat!
Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here.
O, who hath any cause to mourn but I?",933,19346
658443,2866,[Sitting down by her],1261,19346
658444,2867,"If ancient sorrow be most reverend,
Give mine the benefit of seniory,
And let my woes frown on the upper hand.
If sorrow can admit society,
[Sitting down with them]
Tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine:
I had an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him;
I had a Harry, till a Richard kill'd him:
Thou hadst an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him;
Thou hadst a Richard, till a Richard killed him;",736,19346
658445,2877,"I had a Richard too, and thou didst kill him;
I had a Rutland too, thou holp'st to kill him.",337,19346
658446,2879,"Thou hadst a Clarence too, and Richard kill'd him.
From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept
A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death:
That dog, that had his teeth before his eyes,
To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood,
That foul defacer of God's handiwork,
That excellent grand tyrant of the earth,
That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls,
Thy womb let loose, to chase us to our graves.
O upright, just, and true-disposing God,
How do I thank thee, that this carnal cur
Preys on the issue of his mother's body,
And makes her pew-fellow with others' moan!",736,19346
658447,2892,"O Harry's wife, triumph not in my woes!
God witness with me, I have wept for thine.",337,19346
658448,2894,"Bear with me; I am hungry for revenge,
And now I cloy me with beholding it.
Thy Edward he is dead, that stabb'd my Edward:
Thy other Edward dead, to quit my Edward;
Young York he is but boot, because both they
Match not the high perfection of my loss:
Thy Clarence he is dead that kill'd my Edward;
And the beholders of this tragic play,
The adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey,
Untimely smother'd in their dusky graves.
Richard yet lives, hell's black intelligencer,
Only reserved their factor, to buy souls
And send them thither: but at hand, at hand,
Ensues his piteous and unpitied end:
Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray.
To have him suddenly convey'd away.
Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I prey,
That I may live to say, The dog is dead!",736,19346
658449,2912,"O, thou didst prophesy the time would come
That I should wish for thee to help me curse
That bottled spider, that foul bunch-back'd toad!",933,19346
658450,2915,"I call'd thee then vain flourish of my fortune;
I call'd thee then poor shadow, painted queen;
The presentation of but what I was;
The flattering index of a direful pageant;
One heaved a-high, to be hurl'd down below;
A mother only mock'd with two sweet babes;
A dream of what thou wert, a breath, a bubble,
A sign of dignity, a garish flag,
To be the aim of every dangerous shot,
A queen in jest, only to fill the scene.
Where is thy husband now? where be thy brothers?
Where are thy children? wherein dost thou, joy?
Who sues to thee and cries 'God save the queen'?
Where be the bending peers that flatter'd thee?
Where be the thronging troops that follow'd thee?
Decline all this, and see what now thou art:
For happy wife, a most distressed widow;
For joyful mother, one that wails the name;
For queen, a very caitiff crown'd with care;
For one being sued to, one that humbly sues;
For one that scorn'd at me, now scorn'd of me;
For one being fear'd of all, now fearing one;
For one commanding all, obey'd of none.
Thus hath the course of justice wheel'd about,
And left thee but a very prey to time;
Having no more but thought of what thou wert,
To torture thee the more, being what thou art.
Thou didst usurp my place, and dost thou not
Usurp the just proportion of my sorrow?
Now thy proud neck bears half my burthen'd yoke;
From which even here I slip my weary neck,
And leave the burthen of it all on thee.
Farewell, York's wife, and queen of sad mischance:
These English woes will make me smile in France.",736,19346
658451,2949,"O thou well skill'd in curses, stay awhile,
And teach me how to curse mine enemies!",933,19346
658452,2951,"Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days;
Compare dead happiness with living woe;
Think that thy babes were fairer than they were,
And he that slew them fouler than he is:
Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse:
Revolving this will teach thee how to curse.",736,19346
658453,2957,"My words are dull; O, quicken them with thine!",933,19346
658454,2958,"Thy woes will make them sharp, and pierce like mine.",736,19346
658455,2959,[Exit],1261,19346
658456,2960,Why should calamity be full of words?,337,19346
658457,2961,"Windy attorneys to their client woes,
Airy succeeders of intestate joys,
Poor breathing orators of miseries!
Let them have scope: though what they do impart
Help not all, yet do they ease the heart.",933,19346
658458,2966,"If so, then be not tongue-tied: go with me.
And in the breath of bitter words let's smother
My damned son, which thy two sweet sons smother'd.
I hear his drum: be copious in exclaims.",337,19346
658459,2970,"[Enter KING RICHARD III, marching, with drums and trumpets]",1261,19346
658460,2971,Who intercepts my expedition?,945,19346
658461,2972,"O, she that might have intercepted thee,
By strangling thee in her accursed womb
From all the slaughters, wretch, that thou hast done!",337,19346
658462,2975,"Hidest thou that forehead with a golden crown,
Where should be graven, if that right were right,
The slaughter of the prince that owed that crown,
And the dire death of my two sons and brothers?
Tell me, thou villain slave, where are my children?",933,19346
658463,2980,"Thou toad, thou toad, where is thy brother Clarence?
And little Ned Plantagenet, his son?",337,19346
658464,2982,"Where is kind Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey?",933,19346
658465,2983,"A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!
Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women
Rail on the Lord's enointed: strike, I say!
[Flourish. Alarums]
Either be patient, and entreat me fair,
Or with the clamorous report of war
Thus will I drown your exclamations.",945,19346
658466,2990,Art thou my son?,337,19346
658467,2991,"Ay, I thank God, my father, and yourself.",945,19346
658468,2992,Then patiently hear my impatience.,337,19346
658469,2993,"Madam, I have a touch of your condition,
Which cannot brook the accent of reproof.",945,19346
658470,2995,"O, let me speak!",337,19346
658471,2996,Do then: but I'll not hear.,945,19346
658472,2997,I will be mild and gentle in my speech.,337,19346
658473,2998,"And brief, good mother; for I am in haste.",945,19346
658474,2999,"Art thou so hasty? I have stay'd for thee,
God knows, in anguish, pain and agony.",337,19346
658475,3001,And came I not at last to comfort you?,945,19346
658476,3002,"No, by the holy rood, thou know'st it well,
Thou camest on earth to make the earth my hell.
A grievous burthen was thy birth to me;
Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy;
Thy school-days frightful, desperate, wild, and furious,
Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous,
Thy age confirm'd, proud, subdued, bloody,
treacherous,
More mild, but yet more harmful, kind in hatred:
What comfortable hour canst thou name,
That ever graced me in thy company?",337,19346
658477,3013,"Faith, none, but Humphrey Hour, that call'd
your grace
To breakfast once forth of my company.
If I be so disgracious in your sight,
Let me march on, and not offend your grace.
Strike the drum.",945,19346
658478,3019,"I prithee, hear me speak.",337,19346
658479,3020,You speak too bitterly.,945,19346
658480,3021,"Hear me a word;
For I shall never speak to thee again.",337,19346
658481,3023,So.,945,19346
658482,3024,"Either thou wilt die, by God's just ordinance,
Ere from this war thou turn a conqueror,
Or I with grief and extreme age shall perish
And never look upon thy face again.
Therefore take with thee my most heavy curse;
Which, in the day of battle, tire thee more
Than all the complete armour that thou wear'st!
My prayers on the adverse party fight;
And there the little souls of Edward's children
Whisper the spirits of thine enemies
And promise them success and victory.
Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.",337,19346
658483,3037,[Exit],1261,19346
658484,3038,"Though far more cause, yet much less spirit to curse
Abides in me; I say amen to all.",933,19346
658485,3040,"Stay, madam; I must speak a word with you.",945,19346
658486,3041,"I have no more sons of the royal blood
For thee to murder: for my daughters, Richard,
They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens;
And therefore level not to hit their lives.",933,19346
658487,3045,"You have a daughter call'd Elizabeth,
Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.",945,19346
658488,3047,"And must she die for this? O, let her live,
And I'll corrupt her manners, stain her beauty;
Slander myself as false to Edward's bed;
Throw over her the veil of infamy:
So she may live unscarr'd of bleeding slaughter,
I will confess she was not Edward's daughter.",933,19346
658489,3053,"Wrong not her birth, she is of royal blood.",945,19346
658490,3054,"To save her life, I'll say she is not so.",933,19346
658491,3055,Her life is only safest in her birth.,945,19346
658492,3056,And only in that safety died her brothers.,933,19346
658493,3057,"Lo, at their births good stars were opposite.",945,19346
658494,3058,"No, to their lives bad friends were contrary.",933,19346
658495,3059,All unavoided is the doom of destiny.,945,19346
658496,3060,"True, when avoided grace makes destiny:
My babes were destined to a fairer death,
If grace had bless'd thee with a fairer life.",933,19346
658497,3063,You speak as if that I had slain my cousins.,945,19346
658498,3064,"Cousins, indeed; and by their uncle cozen'd
Of comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life.
Whose hand soever lanced their tender hearts,
Thy head, all indirectly, gave direction:
No doubt the murderous knife was dull and blunt
Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart,
To revel in the entrails of my lambs.
But that still use of grief makes wild grief tame,
My tongue should to thy ears not name my boys
Till that my nails were anchor'd in thine eyes;
And I, in such a desperate bay of death,
Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft,
Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom.",933,19346
658499,3077,"Madam, so thrive I in my enterprise
And dangerous success of bloody wars,
As I intend more good to you and yours,
Than ever you or yours were by me wrong'd!",945,19346
658500,3081,"What good is cover'd with the face of heaven,
To be discover'd, that can do me good?",933,19346
658501,3083,"The advancement of your children, gentle lady.",945,19346
658502,3084,"Up to some scaffold, there to lose their heads?",933,19346
658503,3085,"No, to the dignity and height of honour
The high imperial type of this earth's glory.",945,19346
658504,3087,"Flatter my sorrows with report of it;
Tell me what state, what dignity, what honour,
Canst thou demise to any child of mine?",933,19346
658505,3090,"Even all I have; yea, and myself and all,
Will I withal endow a child of thine;
So in the Lethe of thy angry soul
Thou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs
Which thou supposest I have done to thee.",945,19346
658506,3095,"Be brief, lest that be process of thy kindness
Last longer telling than thy kindness' date.",933,19346
658507,3097,"Then know, that from my soul I love thy daughter.",945,19346
658508,3098,My daughter's mother thinks it with her soul.,933,19346
658509,3099,What do you think?,945,19346
658510,3100,"That thou dost love my daughter from thy soul:
So from thy soul's love didst thou love her brothers;
And from my heart's love I do thank thee for it.",933,19346
658511,3103,"Be not so hasty to confound my meaning:
I mean, that with my soul I love thy daughter,
And mean to make her queen of England.",945,19346
658512,3106,"Say then, who dost thou mean shall be her king?",933,19346
658513,3107,Even he that makes her queen who should be else?,945,19346
658514,3108,"What, thou?",933,19346
658515,3109,"I, even I: what think you of it, madam?",945,19346
658516,3110,How canst thou woo her?,933,19346
658517,3111,"That would I learn of you,
As one that are best acquainted with her humour.",945,19346
658518,3113,And wilt thou learn of me?,933,19346
658519,3114,"Madam, with all my heart.",945,19346
658520,3115,"Send to her, by the man that slew her brothers,
A pair of bleeding-hearts; thereon engrave
Edward and York; then haply she will weep:
Therefore present to her--as sometime Margaret
Did to thy father, steep'd in Rutland's blood,--
A handkerchief; which, say to her, did drain
The purple sap from her sweet brother's body
And bid her dry her weeping eyes therewith.
If this inducement force her not to love,
Send her a story of thy noble acts;
Tell her thou madest away her uncle Clarence,
Her uncle Rivers; yea, and, for her sake,
Madest quick conveyance with her good aunt Anne.",933,19346
658521,3128,"Come, come, you mock me; this is not the way
To win our daughter.",945,19346
658522,3130,"There is no other way
Unless thou couldst put on some other shape,
And not be Richard that hath done all this.",933,19346
658523,3133,Say that I did all this for love of her.,945,19346
658524,3134,"Nay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee,
Having bought love with such a bloody spoil.",933,19346
658525,3136,"Look, what is done cannot be now amended:
Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,
Which after hours give leisure to repent.
If I did take the kingdom from your sons,
To make amends, Ill give it to your daughter.
If I have kill'd the issue of your womb,
To quicken your increase, I will beget
Mine issue of your blood upon your daughter
A grandam's name is little less in love
Than is the doting title of a mother;
They are as children but one step below,
Even of your mettle, of your very blood;
Of an one pain, save for a night of groans
Endured of her, for whom you bid like sorrow.
Your children were vexation to your youth,
But mine shall be a comfort to your age.
The loss you have is but a son being king,
And by that loss your daughter is made queen.
I cannot make you what amends I would,
Therefore accept such kindness as I can.
Dorset your son, that with a fearful soul
Leads discontented steps in foreign soil,
This fair alliance quickly shall call home
To high promotions and great dignity:
The king, that calls your beauteous daughter wife.
Familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother;
Again shall you be mother to a king,
And all the ruins of distressful times
Repair'd with double riches of content.
What! we have many goodly days to see:
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,
Advantaging their loan with interest
Of ten times double gain of happiness.
Go, then my mother, to thy daughter go
Make bold her bashful years with your experience;
Prepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale
Put in her tender heart the aspiring flame
Of golden sovereignty; acquaint the princess
With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys
And when this arm of mine hath chastised
The petty rebel, dull-brain'd Buckingham,
Bound with triumphant garlands will I come
And lead thy daughter to a conqueror's bed;
To whom I will retail my conquest won,
And she shall be sole victress, Caesar's Caesar.",945,19346
658526,3182,"What were I best to say? her father's brother
Would be her lord? or shall I say, her uncle?
Or, he that slew her brothers and her uncles?
Under what title shall I woo for thee,
That God, the law, my honour and her love,
Can make seem pleasing to her tender years?",933,19346
658527,3188,Infer fair England's peace by this alliance.,945,19346
658528,3189,Which she shall purchase with still lasting war.,933,19346
658529,3190,"Say that the king, which may command, entreats.",945,19346
658530,3191,That at her hands which the king's King forbids.,933,19346
658531,3192,"Say, she shall be a high and mighty queen.",945,19346
658532,3193,"To wail the tide, as her mother doth.",933,19346
658533,3194,"Say, I will love her everlastingly.",945,19346
658534,3195,But how long shall that title 'ever' last?,933,19346
658535,3196,Sweetly in force unto her fair life's end.,945,19346
658536,3197,But how long fairly shall her sweet lie last?,933,19346
658537,3198,So long as heaven and nature lengthens it.,945,19346
658538,3199,So long as hell and Richard likes of it.,933,19346
658539,3200,"Say, I, her sovereign, am her subject love.",945,19346
658540,3201,"But she, your subject, loathes such sovereignty.",933,19346
658541,3202,Be eloquent in my behalf to her.,945,19346
658542,3203,An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.,933,19346
658543,3204,Then in plain terms tell her my loving tale.,945,19346
658544,3205,Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.,933,19346
658545,3206,Your reasons are too shallow and too quick.,945,19346
658546,3207,"O no, my reasons are too deep and dead;
Too deep and dead, poor infants, in their grave.",933,19346
658547,3209,"Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.",945,19346
658548,3210,Harp on it still shall I till heart-strings break.,933,19346
658549,3211,"Now, by my George, my garter, and my crown,--",945,19346
658550,3212,"Profaned, dishonour'd, and the third usurp'd.",933,19346
658551,3213,I swear--,945,19346
658552,3214,"By nothing; for this is no oath:
The George, profaned, hath lost his holy honour;
The garter, blemish'd, pawn'd his knightly virtue;
The crown, usurp'd, disgraced his kingly glory.
if something thou wilt swear to be believed,
Swear then by something that thou hast not wrong'd.",933,19346
658553,3220,"Now, by the world--",945,19346
658556,3223,Thy life hath that dishonour'd.,933,19346
658557,3224,"Then, by myself--",945,19346
658558,3225,Thyself thyself misusest.,933,19346
658559,3226,"Why then, by God--",945,19346
658560,3227,"God's wrong is most of all.
If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by Him,
The unity the king thy brother made
Had not been broken, nor my brother slain:
If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by Him,
The imperial metal, circling now thy brow,
Had graced the tender temples of my child,
And both the princes had been breathing here,
Which now, two tender playfellows to dust,
Thy broken faith hath made a prey for worms.
What canst thou swear by now?",933,19346
658561,3238,The time to come.,945,19346
658562,3239,"That thou hast wronged in the time o'erpast;
For I myself have many tears to wash
Hereafter time, for time past wrong'd by thee.
The children live, whose parents thou hast
slaughter'd,
Ungovern'd youth, to wail it in their age;
The parents live, whose children thou hast butcher'd,
Old wither'd plants, to wail it with their age.
Swear not by time to come; for that thou hast
Misused ere used, by time misused o'erpast.",933,19346
658563,3249,"As I intend to prosper and repent,
So thrive I in my dangerous attempt
Of hostile arms! myself myself confound!
Heaven and fortune bar me happy hours!
Day, yield me not thy light; nor, night, thy rest!
Be opposite all planets of good luck
To my proceedings, if, with pure heart's love,
Immaculate devotion, holy thoughts,
I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter!
In her consists my happiness and thine;
Without her, follows to this land and me,
To thee, herself, and many a Christian soul,
Death, desolation, ruin and decay:
It cannot be avoided but by this;
It will not be avoided but by this.
Therefore, good mother,--I must can you so--
Be the attorney of my love to her:
Plead what I will be, not what I have been;
Not my deserts, but what I will deserve:
Urge the necessity and state of times,
And be not peevish-fond in great designs.",945,19346
658564,3270,Shall I be tempted of the devil thus?,933,19346
658565,3271,"Ay, if the devil tempt thee to do good.",945,19346
658566,3272,Shall I forget myself to be myself?,933,19346
658567,3273,"Ay, if yourself's remembrance wrong yourself.",945,19346
658568,3274,But thou didst kill my children.,933,19346
658569,3275,"But in your daughter's womb I bury them:
Where in that nest of spicery they shall breed
Selves of themselves, to your recomforture.",945,19346
658570,3278,Shall I go win my daughter to thy will?,933,19346
658571,3279,And be a happy mother by the deed.,945,19346
658572,3280,"I go. Write to me very shortly.
And you shall understand from me her mind.",933,19346
658573,3282,"Bear her my true love's kiss; and so, farewell.
[Exit QUEEN ELIZABETH]
Relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman!
[Enter RATCLIFF; CATESBY following]
How now! what news?",945,19346
658574,3287,"My gracious sovereign, on the western coast
Rideth a puissant navy; to the shore
Throng many doubtful hollow-hearted friends,
Unarm'd, and unresolved to beat them back:
'Tis thought that Richmond is their admiral;
And there they hull, expecting but the aid
Of Buckingham to welcome them ashore.",1111,19346
658575,3294,"Some light-foot friend post to the Duke of Norfolk:
Ratcliff, thyself, or Catesby; where is he?",945,19346
658576,3296,"Here, my lord.",1117,19346
658577,3297,"Fly to the duke:
[To RATCLIFF]
Post thou to Salisbury
When thou comest thither--
[To CATESBY]
Dull, unmindful villain,
Why stand'st thou still, and go'st not to the duke?",945,19346
658578,3304,"First, mighty sovereign, let me know your mind,
What from your grace I shall deliver to him.",1117,19346
658579,3306,"O, true, good Catesby: bid him levy straight
The greatest strength and power he can make,
And meet me presently at Salisbury.",945,19346
658580,3309,I go.,1117,19346
658581,3310,[Exit],1261,19346
658582,3311,"What is't your highness' pleasure I shall do at
Salisbury?",1111,19346
658583,3313,"Why, what wouldst thou do there before I go?",945,19346
658584,3314,Your highness told me I should post before.,1111,19346
658585,3315,"My mind is changed, sir, my mind is changed.
[Enter STANLEY]
How now, what news with you?",945,19346
658586,3318,"None good, my lord, to please you with the hearing;
Nor none so bad, but it may well be told.",1120,19346
658587,3320,"Hoyday, a riddle! neither good nor bad!
Why dost thou run so many mile about,
When thou mayst tell thy tale a nearer way?
Once more, what news?",945,19346
658588,3324,Richmond is on the seas.,1120,19346
658589,3325,"There let him sink, and be the seas on him!
White-liver'd runagate, what doth he there?",945,19346
658590,3327,"I know not, mighty sovereign, but by guess.",1120,19346
658591,3328,"Well, sir, as you guess, as you guess?",945,19346
658592,3329,"Stirr'd up by Dorset, Buckingham, and Ely,
He makes for England, there to claim the crown.",1120,19346
658593,3331,"Is the chair empty? is the sword unsway'd?
Is the king dead? the empire unpossess'd?
What heir of York is there alive but we?
And who is England's king but great York's heir?
Then, tell me, what doth he upon the sea?",945,19346
658594,3336,"Unless for that, my liege, I cannot guess.",1120,19346
658595,3337,"Unless for that he comes to be your liege,
You cannot guess wherefore the Welshman comes.
Thou wilt revolt, and fly to him, I fear.",945,19346
658596,3340,"No, mighty liege; therefore mistrust me not.",1120,19346
658597,3341,"Where is thy power, then, to beat him back?
Where are thy tenants and thy followers?
Are they not now upon the western shore.
Safe-conducting the rebels from their ships!",945,19346
658598,3345,"No, my good lord, my friends are in the north.",1120,19346
658599,3346,"Cold friends to Richard: what do they in the north,
When they should serve their sovereign in the west?",945,19346
658600,3348,"They have not been commanded, mighty sovereign:
Please it your majesty to give me leave,
I'll muster up my friends, and meet your grace
Where and what time your majesty shall please.",1120,19346
658601,3352,"Ay, ay. thou wouldst be gone to join with Richmond:
I will not trust you, sir.",945,19346
658602,3354,"Most mighty sovereign,
You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful:
I never was nor never will be false.",1120,19346
658603,3357,"Well,
Go muster men; but, hear you, leave behind
Your son, George Stanley: look your faith be firm.
Or else his head's assurance is but frail.",945,19346
658604,3361,So deal with him as I prove true to you.,1120,19346
658605,3362,[Exit],1261,19346
658606,3363,[Enter a Messenger],1261,19346
658607,3364,"My gracious sovereign, now in Devonshire,
As I by friends am well advertised,
Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate
Bishop of Exeter, his brother there,
With many more confederates, are in arms.",788,19346
658608,3369,[Enter another Messenger],1261,19346
658609,3370,"My liege, in Kent the Guildfords are in arms;
And every hour more competitors
Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth.",1008,19346
658610,3373,[Enter another Messenger],1261,19346
658611,3374,"My lord, the army of the Duke of Buckingham--",1176,19346
658612,3375,"Out on you, owls! nothing but songs of death?
[He striketh him]
Take that, until thou bring me better news.",945,19346
658613,3378,"The news I have to tell your majesty
Is, that by sudden floods and fall of waters,
Buckingham's army is dispersed and scatter'd;
And he himself wander'd away alone,
No man knows whither.",1176,19346
658614,3383,"I cry thee mercy:
There is my purse to cure that blow of thine.
Hath any well-advised friend proclaim'd
Reward to him that brings the traitor in?",945,19346
658615,3387,"Such proclamation hath been made, my liege.",1176,19346
658616,3388,[Enter another Messenger],1261,19346
658617,3389,"Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis Dorset,
'Tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms.
Yet this good comfort bring I to your grace,
The Breton navy is dispersed by tempest:
Richmond, in Yorkshire, sent out a boat
Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks
If they were his assistants, yea or no;
Who answer'd him, they came from Buckingham.
Upon his party: he, mistrusting them,
Hoisted sail and made away for Brittany.",491,19346
658618,3399,"March on, march on, since we are up in arms;
If not to fight with foreign enemies,
Yet to beat down these rebels here at home.",945,19346
658619,3402,[Re-enter CATESBY],1261,19346
658620,3403,"My liege, the Duke of Buckingham is taken;
That is the best news: that the Earl of Richmond
Is with a mighty power landed at Milford,
Is colder tidings, yet they must be told.",1117,19346
658621,3407,"Away towards Salisbury! while we reason here,
A royal battle might be won and lost
Some one take order Buckingham be brought
To Salisbury; the rest march on with me.",945,19346
658622,3411,[Flourish. Exeunt],1261,19346
658623,3414,[Enter DERBY and SIR CHRISTOPHER URSWICK],1261,19347
658624,3415,"Sir Christopher, tell Richmond this from me:
That in the sty of this most bloody boar
My son George Stanley is frank'd up in hold:
If I revolt, off goes young George's head;
The fear of that withholds my present aid.
But, tell me, where is princely Richmond now?",1120,19347
658625,3421,"At Pembroke, or at Harford-west, in Wales.",248,19347
658626,3422,What men of name resort to him?,1120,19347
658627,3423,"Sir Walter Herbert, a renowned soldier;
Sir Gilbert Talbot, Sir William Stanley;
Oxford, redoubted Pembroke, Sir James Blunt,
And Rice ap Thomas with a valiant crew;
And many more of noble fame and worth:
And towards London they do bend their course,
If by the way they be not fought withal.",248,19347
658628,3430,"Return unto thy lord; commend me to him:
Tell him the queen hath heartily consented
He shall espouse Elizabeth her daughter.
These letters will resolve him of my mind. Farewell.",1120,19347
658629,3434,"[Exeunt]
[Enter the Sheriff, and BUCKINGHAM, with halberds,]
led to execution]",1261,19347
658630,3439,Will not King Richard let me speak with him?,343,19348
658631,3440,"No, my good lord; therefore be patient.",1089,19348
658632,3441,"Hastings, and Edward's children, Rivers, Grey,
Holy King Henry, and thy fair son Edward,
Vaughan, and all that have miscarried
By underhand corrupted foul injustice,
If that your moody discontented souls
Do through the clouds behold this present hour,
Even for revenge mock my destruction!
This is All-Souls' day, fellows, is it not?",343,19348
658633,3449,"It is, my lord.",1089,19348
658634,3450,"Why, then All-Souls' day is my body's doomsday.
This is the day that, in King Edward's time,
I wish't might fall on me, when I was found
False to his children or his wife's allies
This is the day wherein I wish'd to fall
By the false faith of him I trusted most;
This, this All-Souls' day to my fearful soul
Is the determined respite of my wrongs:
That high All-Seer that I dallied with
Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head
And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest.
Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men
To turn their own points on their masters' bosoms:
Now Margaret's curse is fallen upon my head;
'When he,' quoth she, 'shall split thy heart with sorrow,
Remember Margaret was a prophetess.'
Come, sirs, convey me to the block of shame;
Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.",343,19348
658635,3468,"[Exeunt]
[Enter RICHMOND, OXFORD, BLUNT, HERBERT, and others,]
with drum and colours]",1261,19348
658636,3473,"Fellows in arms, and my most loving friends,
Bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny,
Thus far into the bowels of the land
Have we march'd on without impediment;
And here receive we from our father Stanley
Lines of fair comfort and encouragement.
The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar,
That spoil'd your summer fields and fruitful vines,
Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough
In your embowell'd bosoms, this foul swine
Lies now even in the centre of this isle,
Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn
From Tamworth thither is but one day's march.
In God's name, cheerly on, courageous friends,
To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
By this one bloody trial of sharp war.",575,19349
658637,3489,"Every man's conscience is a thousand swords,
To fight against that bloody homicide.",361,19349
658638,3491,I doubt not but his friends will fly to us.,1116,19349
658639,3492,"He hath no friends but who are friends for fear.
Which in his greatest need will shrink from him.",175,19349
658640,3494,"All for our vantage. Then, in God's name, march:
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings:
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.",575,19349
658641,3497,"[Exeunt]
[Enter KING RICHARD III in arms, with NORFOLK,]
SURREY, and others]",1261,19349
658642,3502,"Here pitch our tents, even here in Bosworth field.
My Lord of Surrey, why look you so sad?",945,19350
658643,3504,My heart is ten times lighter than my looks.,365,19350
658644,3505,"My Lord of Norfolk,--",945,19350
658645,3506,"Here, most gracious liege.",350,19350
658646,3507,"Norfolk, we must have knocks; ha! must we not?",945,19350
658647,3508,"We must both give and take, my gracious lord.",350,19350
658648,3509,"Up with my tent there! here will I lie tonight;
But where to-morrow? Well, all's one for that.
Who hath descried the number of the foe?",945,19350
658649,3512,Six or seven thousand is their utmost power.,350,19350
658650,3513,"Why, our battalion trebles that account:
Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,
Which they upon the adverse party want.
Up with my tent there! Valiant gentlemen,
Let us survey the vantage of the field
Call for some men of sound direction
Let's want no discipline, make no delay,
For, lords, to-morrow is a busy day.
[Exeunt]
[Enter, on the other side of the field, RICHMOND,]
Sir William Brandon, OXFORD, and others. Some of
the Soldiers pitch RICHMOND's tent]",945,19350
658651,3525,"The weary sun hath made a golden set,
And by the bright track of his fiery car,
Gives signal, of a goodly day to-morrow.
Sir William Brandon, you shall bear my standard.
Give me some ink and paper in my tent
I'll draw the form and model of our battle,
Limit each leader to his several charge,
And part in just proportion our small strength.
My Lord of Oxford, you, Sir William Brandon,
And you, Sir Walter Herbert, stay with me.
The Earl of Pembroke keeps his regiment:
Good Captain Blunt, bear my good night to him
And by the second hour in the morning
Desire the earl to see me in my tent:
Yet one thing more, good Blunt, before thou go'st,
Where is Lord Stanley quarter'd, dost thou know?",575,19350
658652,3541,"Unless I have mista'en his colours much,
Which well I am assured I have not done,
His regiment lies half a mile at least
South from the mighty power of the king.",175,19350
658653,3545,"If without peril it be possible,
Good Captain Blunt, bear my good-night to him,
And give him from me this most needful scroll.",575,19350
658654,3548,"Upon my life, my lord, I'll under-take it;
And so, God give you quiet rest to-night!",175,19350
658655,3550,"Good night, good Captain Blunt. Come gentlemen,
Let us consult upon to-morrow's business
In to our tent; the air is raw and cold.
[They withdraw into the tent]
[Enter, to his tent, KING RICHARD III, NORFOLK,]
RATCLIFF, CATESBY, and others]",575,19350
658656,3556,What is't o'clock?,945,19350
658657,3557,"It's supper-time, my lord;
It's nine o'clock.",1117,19350
658658,3559,"I will not sup to-night.
Give me some ink and paper.
What, is my beaver easier than it was?
And all my armour laid into my tent?",945,19350
658659,3563,"If is, my liege; and all things are in readiness.",1117,19350
658660,3564,"Good Norfolk, hie thee to thy charge;
Use careful watch, choose trusty sentinels.",945,19350
658661,3566,"I go, my lord.",350,19350
658662,3567,"Stir with the lark to-morrow, gentle Norfolk.",945,19350
658663,3568,"I warrant you, my lord.",350,19350
658664,3569,[Exit],1261,19350
658665,3570,Catesby!,945,19350
658666,3571,My lord?,1117,19350
658667,3572,"Send out a pursuivant at arms
To Stanley's regiment; bid him bring his power
Before sunrising, lest his son George fall
Into the blind cave of eternal night.
[Exit CATESBY]
Fill me a bowl of wine. Give me a watch.
Saddle white Surrey for the field to-morrow.
Look that my staves be sound, and not too heavy.
Ratcliff!",945,19350
658668,3581,My lord?,1111,19350
658669,3582,Saw'st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland?,945,19350
658670,3583,"Thomas the Earl of Surrey, and himself,
Much about cock-shut time, from troop to troop
Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers.",1111,19350
658671,3586,"So, I am satisfied. Give me a bowl of wine:
I have not that alacrity of spirit,
Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.
Set it down. Is ink and paper ready?",945,19350
658672,3590,"It is, my lord.",1111,19350
658673,3591,"Bid my guard watch; leave me.
Ratcliff, about the mid of night come to my tent
And help to arm me. Leave me, I say.
[Exeunt RATCLIFF and the other Attendants]
[Enter DERBY to RICHMOND in his tent, Lords and]
others attending]",945,19350
658674,3597,Fortune and victory sit on thy helm!,1120,19350
658675,3598,"All comfort that the dark night can afford
Be to thy person, noble father-in-law!
Tell me, how fares our loving mother?",575,19350
658676,3601,"I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother
Who prays continually for Richmond's good:
So much for that. The silent hours steal on,
And flaky darkness breaks within the east.
In brief,--for so the season bids us be,--
Prepare thy battle early in the morning,
And put thy fortune to the arbitrement
Of bloody strokes and mortal-staring war.
I, as I may--that which I would I cannot,--
With best advantage will deceive the time,
And aid thee in this doubtful shock of arms:
But on thy side I may not be too forward
Lest, being seen, thy brother, tender George,
Be executed in his father's sight.
Farewell: the leisure and the fearful time
Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love
And ample interchange of sweet discourse,
Which so long sunder'd friends should dwell upon:
God give us leisure for these rites of love!
Once more, adieu: be valiant, and speed well!",1120,19350
658677,3621,"Good lords, conduct him to his regiment:
I'll strive, with troubled thoughts, to take a nap,
Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow,
When I should mount with wings of victory:
Once more, good night, kind lords and gentlemen.
[Exeunt all but RICHMOND]
O Thou, whose captain I account myself,
Look on my forces with a gracious eye;
Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath,
That they may crush down with a heavy fall
The usurping helmets of our adversaries!
Make us thy ministers of chastisement,
That we may praise thee in the victory!
To thee I do commend my watchful soul,
Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes:
Sleeping and waking, O, defend me still!",575,19350
658678,3637,[Sleeps],1261,19350
658679,3638,"[Enter the Ghost of Prince Edward, son to King Henry VI]",1261,19350
658680,3639,"[To KING RICHARD III]
Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!
Think, how thou stab'dst me in my prime of youth
At Tewksbury: despair, therefore, and die!
[To RICHMOND]
Be cheerful, Richmond; for the wronged souls
Of butcher'd princes fight in thy behalf
King Henry's issue, Richmond, comforts thee.",916,19350
658681,3647,[Enter the Ghost of King Henry VI],1261,19350
658682,3648,"[To KING RICHARD III]
When I was mortal, my anointed body
By thee was punched full of deadly holes
Think on the Tower and me: despair, and die!
Harry the Sixth bids thee despair, and die!
[To RICHMOND]
Virtuous and holy, be thou conqueror!
Harry, that prophesied thou shouldst be king,
Doth comfort thee in thy sleep: live, and flourish!",574,19350
658683,3657,[Enter the Ghost of CLARENCE],1261,19350
658684,3658,"[To KING RICHARD III]
Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!
I, that was wash'd to death with fulsome wine,
Poor Clarence, by thy guile betrayed to death!
To-morrow in the battle think on me,
And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!--
[To RICHMOND]
Thou offspring of the house of Lancaster
The wronged heirs of York do pray for thee
Good angels guard thy battle! live, and flourish!",527,19350
658685,3668,"[Enter the Ghosts of RIVERS, GRAY, and VAUGHAN]",1261,19350
658686,3669,"[To KING RICHARD III]
Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow,
Rivers. that died at Pomfret! despair, and die!",692,19350
658687,3672,"[To KING RICHARD III]
Think upon Grey, and let thy soul despair!",683,19350
658688,3674,"[To KING RICHARD III]
Think upon Vaughan, and, with guilty fear,
Let fall thy lance: despair, and die!",1115,19350
658689,3677,"[To RICHMOND]
Awake, and think our wrongs in Richard's bosom
Will conquer him! awake, and win the day!",93,19350
658690,3680,[Enter the Ghost of HASTINGS],1261,19350
658691,3681,"[To KING RICHARD III]
Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake,
And in a bloody battle end thy days!
Think on Lord Hastings: despair, and die!
[To RICHMOND]
Quiet untroubled soul, awake, awake!
Arm, fight, and conquer, for fair England's sake!",685,19350
658692,3688,[Enter the Ghosts of the two young Princes],1261,19350
658693,3689,"[To KING RICHARD III]
Dream on thy cousins smother'd in the Tower:
Let us be led within thy bosom, Richard,
And weigh thee down to ruin, shame, and death!
Thy nephews' souls bid thee despair and die!
[To RICHMOND]
Sleep, Richmond, sleep in peace, and wake in joy;
Good angels guard thee from the boar's annoy!
Live, and beget a happy race of kings!
Edward's unhappy sons do bid thee flourish.",921,19350
658694,3699,[Enter the Ghost of LADY ANNE],1261,19350
658695,3700,"[To KING RICHARD III]
Richard, thy wife, that wretched Anne thy wife,
That never slept a quiet hour with thee,
Now fills thy sleep with perturbations
To-morrow in the battle think on me,
And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!
[To RICHMOND]
Thou quiet soul, sleep thou a quiet sleep
Dream of success and happy victory!
Thy adversary's wife doth pray for thee.",641,19350
658696,3710,[Enter the Ghost of BUCKINGHAM],1261,19350
658697,3711,"[To KING RICHARD III]
The last was I that helped thee to the crown;
The last was I that felt thy tyranny:
O, in the battle think on Buckingham,
And die in terror of thy guiltiness!
Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death:
Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath!
[To RICHMOND]
I died for hope ere I could lend thee aid:
But cheer thy heart, and be thou not dismay'd:
God and good angel fight on Richmond's side;
And Richard falls in height of all his pride.",343,19350
658698,3723,[The Ghosts vanish],1261,19350
658699,3724,[KING RICHARD III starts out of his dream],1261,19350
658700,3725,"Give me another horse: bind up my wounds.
Have mercy, Jesu!--Soft! I did but dream.
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.
Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
What do I fear? myself? there's none else by:
Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am:
Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why:
Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself?
Alack. I love myself. Wherefore? for any good
That I myself have done unto myself?
O, no! alas, I rather hate myself
For hateful deeds committed by myself!
I am a villain: yet I lie. I am not.
Fool, of thyself speak well: fool, do not flatter.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree
Murder, stem murder, in the direst degree;
All several sins, all used in each degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, Guilty! guilty!
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?
Methought the souls of all that I had murder'd
Came to my tent; and every one did threat
To-morrow's vengeance on the head of Richard.",945,19350
658701,3755,[Enter RATCLIFF],1261,19350
658702,3756,My lord!,1111,19350
658705,3761,"O Ratcliff, I have dream'd a fearful dream!
What thinkest thou, will our friends prove all true?",945,19350
658706,3763,"No doubt, my lord.",1111,19350
658707,3764,"O Ratcliff, I fear, I fear,--",945,19350
658708,3765,"Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows.",1111,19350
658709,3766,"By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
It is not yet near day. Come, go with me;
Under our tents I'll play the eaves-dropper,
To see if any mean to shrink from me.",945,19350
658710,3773,[Exeunt],1261,19350
658711,3774,"[Enter the Lords to RICHMOND, sitting in his tent]",1261,19350
658712,3775,"Good morrow, Richmond!",699,19350
658713,3776,"Cry mercy, lords and watchful gentlemen,
That you have ta'en a tardy sluggard here.",575,19350
658714,3778,"How have you slept, my lord?",699,19350
658715,3779,"The sweetest sleep, and fairest-boding dreams
That ever enter'd in a drowsy head,
Have I since your departure had, my lords.
Methought their souls, whose bodies Richard murder'd,
Came to my tent, and cried on victory:
I promise you, my soul is very jocund
In the remembrance of so fair a dream.
How far into the morning is it, lords?",575,19350
658716,3787,Upon the stroke of four.,699,19350
658717,3788,"Why, then 'tis time to arm and give direction.
[His oration to his soldiers]
More than I have said, loving countrymen,
The leisure and enforcement of the time
Forbids to dwell upon: yet remember this,
God and our good cause fight upon our side;
The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls,
Like high-rear'd bulwarks, stand before our faces;
Richard except, those whom we fight against
Had rather have us win than him they follow:
For what is he they follow? truly, gentlemen,
A bloody tyrant and a homicide;
One raised in blood, and one in blood establish'd;
One that made means to come by what he hath,
And slaughter'd those that were the means to help him;
Abase foul stone, made precious by the foil
Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;
One that hath ever been God's enemy:
Then, if you fight against God's enemy,
God will in justice ward you as his soldiers;
If you do sweat to put a tyrant down,
You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain;
If you do fight against your country's foes,
Your country's fat shall pay your pains the hire;
If you do fight in safeguard of your wives,
Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors;
If you do free your children from the sword,
Your children's children quit it in your age.
Then, in the name of God and all these rights,
Advance your standards, draw your willing swords.
For me, the ransom of my bold attempt
Shall be this cold corpse on the earth's cold face;
But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt
The least of you shall share his part thereof.
Sound drums and trumpets boldly and cheerfully;
God and Saint George! Richmond and victory!
[Exeunt]
[Re-enter KING RICHARD, RATCLIFF, Attendants]
and Forces]",575,19350
658718,3827,What said Northumberland as touching Richmond?,945,19350
658719,3828,That he was never trained up in arms.,1111,19350
658720,3829,He said the truth: and what said Surrey then?,945,19350
658721,3830,He smiled and said 'The better for our purpose.',1111,19350
658722,3831,"He was in the right; and so indeed it is.
[Clock striketh]
Ten the clock there. Give me a calendar.
Who saw the sun to-day?",945,19350
658723,3835,"Not I, my lord.",1111,19350
658724,3836,"Then he disdains to shine; for by the book
He should have braved the east an hour ago
A black day will it be to somebody. Ratcliff!",945,19350
658725,3839,My lord?,1111,19350
658726,3840,"The sun will not be seen to-day;
The sky doth frown and lour upon our army.
I would these dewy tears were from the ground.
Not shine to-day! Why, what is that to me
More than to Richmond? for the selfsame heaven
That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.",945,19350
658727,3846,[Enter NORFOLK],1261,19350
658728,3847,"Arm, arm, my lord; the foe vaunts in the field.",350,19350
658729,3848,"Come, bustle, bustle; caparison my horse.
Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power:
I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,
And thus my battle shall be ordered:
My foreward shall be drawn out all in length,
Consisting equally of horse and foot;
Our archers shall be placed in the midst
John Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Earl of Surrey,
Shall have the leading of this foot and horse.
They thus directed, we will follow
In the main battle, whose puissance on either side
Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.
This, and Saint George to boot! What think'st thou, Norfolk?",945,19350
658730,3861,"A good direction, warlike sovereign.
This found I on my tent this morning.",350,19350
658731,3863,[He sheweth him a paper],1261,19350
658732,3864,"[Reads]
'Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold,
For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.'
A thing devised by the enemy.
Go, gentleman, every man unto his charge
Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls:
Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.
March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell
If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.
[His oration to his Army]
What shall I say more than I have inferr'd?
Remember whom you are to cope withal;
A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways,
A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants,
Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth
To desperate ventures and assured destruction.
You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest;
You having lands, and blest with beauteous wives,
They would restrain the one, distain the other.
And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow,
Long kept in Bretagne at our mother's cost?
A milk-sop, one that never in his life
Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow?
Let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again;
Lash hence these overweening rags of France,
These famish'd beggars, weary of their lives;
Who, but for dreaming on this fond exploit,
For want of means, poor rats, had hang'd themselves:
If we be conquer'd, let men conquer us,
And not these bastard Bretons; whom our fathers
Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd,
And in record, left them the heirs of shame.
Shall these enjoy our lands? lie with our wives?
Ravish our daughters?
[Drum afar off]
Hark! I hear their drum.
Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yoemen!
Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;
Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
[Enter a Messenger]
What says Lord Stanley? will he bring his power?",945,19350
658733,3908,"My lord, he doth deny to come.",788,19350
658734,3909,Off with his son George's head!,945,19350
658735,3910,"My lord, the enemy is past the marsh
After the battle let George Stanley die.",350,19350
658736,3912,"A thousand hearts are great within my bosom:
Advance our standards, set upon our foes
Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!
Upon them! victory sits on our helms.",945,19350
658737,3917,"[Exeunt]
[Alarum: excursions. Enter NORFOLK and forces]
fighting; to him CATESBY]",1261,19350
658738,3922,"Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue!
The king enacts more wonders than a man,
Daring an opposite to every danger:
His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,
Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death.
Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost!",1117,19351
658739,3928,[Alarums. Enter KING RICHARD III],1261,19351
658740,3929,A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!,945,19351
658741,3930,"Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a horse.",1117,19351
658742,3931,"Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die:
I think there be six Richmonds in the field;
Five have I slain to-day instead of him.
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!",945,19351
658743,3936,"[Exeunt]
[Alarum. Enter KING RICHARD III and RICHMOND; they]
fight. KING RICHARD III is slain. Retreat and
flourish. Re-enter RICHMOND, DERBY bearing the
crown, with divers other Lords]",1261,19351
658744,3943,"God and your arms be praised, victorious friends,
The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead.",575,19352
658745,3945,"Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee.
Lo, here, this long-usurped royalty
From the dead temples of this bloody wretch
Have I pluck'd off, to grace thy brows withal:
Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.",1120,19352
658746,3950,"Great God of heaven, say Amen to all!
But, tell me, is young George Stanley living?",575,19352
658747,3952,"He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town;
Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.",1120,19352
658748,3954,What men of name are slain on either side?,575,19352
658749,3955,"John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lord Ferrers,
Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon.",1120,19352
658750,3957,"Inter their bodies as becomes their births:
Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
That in submission will return to us:
And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,
We will unite the white rose and the red:
Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,
That long have frown'd upon their enmity!
What traitor hears me, and says not amen?
England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself;
The brother blindly shed the brother's blood,
The father rashly slaughter'd his own son,
The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire:
All this divided York and Lancaster,
Divided in their dire division,
O, now, let Richmond and Elizabeth,
The true succeeders of each royal house,
By God's fair ordinance conjoin together!
And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so.
Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,
With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
That would reduce these bloody days again,
And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
Let them not live to taste this land's increase
That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again:
That she may long live here, God say amen!",575,19352
658751,3984,[Exeunt],1261,19352
658752,3,"Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.",246,19353
658753,19,"[Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers]",1261,19354
658754,20,"Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.",968,19354
658755,21,"Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.",542,19354
658756,22,"No, for then we should be colliers.",542,19354
658757,23,"I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.",968,19354
658758,24,"Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.",542,19354
658759,25,"I strike quickly, being moved.",968,19354
658760,26,But thou art not quickly moved to strike.,542,19354
658761,27,A dog of the house of Montague moves me.,968,19354
658762,28,"To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand:
therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.",542,19354
658763,30,"A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will
take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.",968,19354
658764,32,"That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes
to the wall.",542,19354
658765,34,"True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,
are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push
Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids
to the wall.",968,19354
658766,38,The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.,542,19354
658767,39,"'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I
have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the
maids, and cut off their heads.",968,19354
658768,42,The heads of the maids?,542,19354
658769,43,"Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;
take it in what sense thou wilt.",968,19354
658770,45,They must take it in sense that feel it.,542,19354
658771,46,"Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and
'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.",968,19354
658772,48,"'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou
hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes
two of the house of the Montagues.",542,19354
658773,51,"My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.",968,19354
658774,52,How! turn thy back and run?,542,19354
658775,53,Fear me not.,968,19354
658776,54,"No, marry; I fear thee!",542,19354
658777,55,Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.,968,19354
658778,56,"I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as
they list.",542,19354
658779,58,"Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;
which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.",968,19354
658780,60,[Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR],1261,19354
658781,61,"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?",48,19354
658782,62,"I do bite my thumb, sir.",968,19354
658783,63,"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?",48,19354
658784,64,"[Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say
ay?",968,19354
658785,66,No.,542,19354
658786,67,"No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I
bite my thumb, sir.",968,19354
658787,69,"Do you quarrel, sir?",542,19354
658788,70,"Quarrel sir! no, sir.",48,19354
658789,71,"If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.",968,19354
658790,72,No better.,48,19354
658791,73,"Well, sir.",968,19354
658792,74,Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.,542,19354
658793,75,"Yes, better, sir.",968,19354
658794,76,You lie.,48,19354
658795,77,"Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.",968,19354
658796,78,[They fight],1261,19354
658797,79,[Enter BENVOLIO],1261,19354
658798,80,"Part, fools!
Put up your swords; you know not what you do.",161,19354
658799,82,[Beats down their swords],1261,19354
658800,83,[Enter TYBALT],1261,19354
658801,84,"What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?
Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.",1216,19354
658802,86,"I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,
Or manage it to part these men with me.",161,19354
658803,88,"What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:
Have at thee, coward!
[They fight]
[Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray;]
then enter Citizens, with clubs]",1216,19354
658804,94,"Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!
Down with the Capulets! down with the Montagues!",2,19354
658805,96,"[Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET]",1261,19354
658806,97,"What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!",223,19354
658807,98,"A crutch, a crutch! why call you for a sword?",642,19354
658808,99,"My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,
And flourishes his blade in spite of me.",223,19354
658809,101,[Enter MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE],1261,19354
658810,102,"Thou villain Capulet,--Hold me not, let me go.",798,19354
658811,103,Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe.,648,19354
658812,104,"[Enter PRINCE, with Attendants]",1261,19354
658813,105,"Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,--
Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,
And hear the sentence of your moved prince.
Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,
And made Verona's ancient citizens
Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,
To wield old partisans, in hands as old,
Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:
If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
For this time, all the rest depart away:
You Capulet; shall go along with me:
And, Montague, come you this afternoon,
To know our further pleasure in this case,
To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.
Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.",384,19354
658814,128,"[Exeunt all but MONTAGUE, LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO]",1261,19354
658815,129,"Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach?
Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?",798,19354
658816,131,"Here were the servants of your adversary,
And yours, close fighting ere I did approach:
I drew to part them: in the instant came
The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared,
Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears,
He swung about his head and cut the winds,
Who nothing hurt withal hiss'd him in scorn:
While we were interchanging thrusts and blows,
Came more and more and fought on part and part,
Till the prince came, who parted either part.",161,19354
658817,141,"O, where is Romeo? saw you him to-day?
Right glad I am he was not at this fray.",648,19354
658818,143,"Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun
Peer'd forth the golden window of the east,
A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad;
Where, underneath the grove of sycamore
That westward rooteth from the city's side,
So early walking did I see your son:
Towards him I made, but he was ware of me
And stole into the covert of the wood:
I, measuring his affections by my own,
That most are busied when they're most alone,
Pursued my humour not pursuing his,
And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me.",161,19354
658819,155,"Many a morning hath he there been seen,
With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew.
Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;
But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
Should in the furthest east begin to draw
The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,
Away from the light steals home my heavy son,
And private in his chamber pens himself,
Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out
And makes himself an artificial night:
Black and portentous must this humour prove,
Unless good counsel may the cause remove.",798,19354
658820,167,"My noble uncle, do you know the cause?",161,19354
658821,168,I neither know it nor can learn of him.,798,19354
658822,169,Have you importuned him by any means?,161,19354
658823,170,"Both by myself and many other friends:
But he, his own affections' counsellor,
Is to himself--I will not say how true--
But to himself so secret and so close,
So far from sounding and discovery,
As is the bud bit with an envious worm,
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow.
We would as willingly give cure as know.",798,19354
658824,180,[Enter ROMEO],1261,19354
658825,181,"See, where he comes: so please you, step aside;
I'll know his grievance, or be much denied.",161,19354
658826,183,"I would thou wert so happy by thy stay,
To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away.",798,19354
658827,185,[Exeunt MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE],1261,19354
658828,186,"Good-morrow, cousin.",161,19354
658829,187,Is the day so young?,952,19354
658830,188,But new struck nine.,161,19354
658831,189,"Ay me! sad hours seem long.
Was that my father that went hence so fast?",952,19354
658832,191,It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?,161,19354
658833,192,"Not having that, which, having, makes them short.",952,19354
658834,193,In love?,161,19354
658835,194,Out--,952,19354
658836,195,Of love?,161,19354
658837,196,"Out of her favour, where I am in love.",952,19354
658838,197,"Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!",161,19354
658839,199,"Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,
Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!
Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?
Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.
Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Dost thou not laugh?",952,19354
658840,213,"No, coz, I rather weep.",161,19354
658841,214,"Good heart, at what?",952,19354
658842,215,At thy good heart's oppression.,161,19354
658843,216,"Why, such is love's transgression.
Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,
Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest
With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown
Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Farewell, my coz.",952,19354
658844,227,"Soft! I will go along;
An if you leave me so, you do me wrong.",161,19354
658845,229,"Tut, I have lost myself; I am not here;
This is not Romeo, he's some other where.",952,19354
658846,231,"Tell me in sadness, who is that you love.",161,19354
658847,232,"What, shall I groan and tell thee?",952,19354
658848,233,"Groan! why, no.
But sadly tell me who.",161,19354
658849,235,"Bid a sick man in sadness make his will:
Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill!
In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.",952,19354
658850,238,"I aim'd so near, when I supposed you loved.",161,19354
658851,239,A right good mark-man! And she's fair I love.,952,19354
658852,240,"A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.",161,19354
658853,241,"Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit;
And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd,
From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd.
She will not stay the siege of loving terms,
Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes,
Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold:
O, she is rich in beauty, only poor,
That when she dies with beauty dies her store.",952,19354
658854,250,Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?,161,19354
658855,251,"She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste,
For beauty starved with her severity
Cuts beauty off from all posterity.
She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,
To merit bliss by making me despair:
She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow
Do I live dead that live to tell it now.",952,19354
658856,258,"Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.",161,19354
658857,259,"O, teach me how I should forget to think.",952,19354
658858,260,"By giving liberty unto thine eyes;
Examine other beauties.",161,19354
658859,262,"'Tis the way
To call hers exquisite, in question more:
These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows
Being black put us in mind they hide the fair;
He that is strucken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost:
Show me a mistress that is passing fair,
What doth her beauty serve, but as a note
Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget.",952,19354
658860,272,"I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt.",161,19354
658861,273,[Exeunt],1261,19354
658862,275,"[Enter CAPULET, PARIS, and Servant]",1261,19355
658863,276,"But Montague is bound as well as I,
In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think,
For men so old as we to keep the peace.",223,19355
658864,279,"Of honourable reckoning are you both;
And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long.
But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?",860,19355
658865,282,"But saying o'er what I have said before:
My child is yet a stranger in the world;
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,
Let two more summers wither in their pride,
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.",223,19355
658866,287,Younger than she are happy mothers made.,860,19355
658867,288,"And too soon marr'd are those so early made.
The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she,
She is the hopeful lady of my earth:
But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,
My will to her consent is but a part;
An she agree, within her scope of choice
Lies my consent and fair according voice.
This night I hold an old accustom'd feast,
Whereto I have invited many a guest,
Such as I love; and you, among the store,
One more, most welcome, makes my number more.
At my poor house look to behold this night
Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light:
Such comfort as do lusty young men feel
When well-apparell'd April on the heel
Of limping winter treads, even such delight
Among fresh female buds shall you this night
Inherit at my house; hear all, all see,
And like her most whose merit most shall be:
Which on more view, of many mine being one
May stand in number, though in reckoning none,
Come, go with me.
[To Servant, giving a paper]
Go, sirrah, trudge about
Through fair Verona; find those persons out
Whose names are written there, and to them say,
My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.",223,19355
658868,315,[Exeunt CAPULET and PARIS],1261,19355
658869,316,"Find them out whose names are written here! It is
written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his
yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with
his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am
sent to find those persons whose names are here
writ, and can never find what names the writing
person hath here writ. I must to the learned.--In good time.",1072,19355
658870,323,[Enter BENVOLIO and ROMEO],1261,19355
658871,324,"Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish:
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.",161,19355
658872,330,Your plaintain-leaf is excellent for that.,952,19355
658873,331,"For what, I pray thee?",161,19355
658874,332,For your broken shin.,952,19355
658875,333,"Why, Romeo, art thou mad?",161,19355
658876,334,"Not mad, but bound more than a mad-man is;
Shut up in prison, kept without my food,
Whipp'd and tormented and--God-den, good fellow.",952,19355
658877,337,"God gi' god-den. I pray, sir, can you read?",1072,19355
658878,338,"Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.",952,19355
658879,339,"Perhaps you have learned it without book: but, I
pray, can you read any thing you see?",1072,19355
658880,341,"Ay, if I know the letters and the language.",952,19355
658881,342,Ye say honestly: rest you merry!,1072,19355
658882,343,"Stay, fellow; I can read.
[Reads]
'Signior Martino and his wife and daughters;
County Anselme and his beauteous sisters; the lady
widow of Vitravio; Signior Placentio and his lovely
nieces; Mercutio and his brother Valentine; mine
uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters; my fair niece
Rosaline; Livia; Signior Valentio and his cousin
Tybalt, Lucio and the lively Helena.' A fair
assembly: whither should they come?",952,19355
658883,353,Up.,1072,19355
658884,354,Whither?,952,19355
658885,355,To supper; to our house.,1072,19355
658886,356,Whose house?,952,19355
658887,357,My master's.,1072,19355
658888,358,"Indeed, I should have ask'd you that before.",952,19355
658889,359,"Now I'll tell you without asking: my master is the
great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house
of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine.
Rest you merry!",1072,19355
658890,363,[Exit],1261,19355
658891,364,"At this same ancient feast of Capulet's
Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest,
With all the admired beauties of Verona:
Go thither; and, with unattainted eye,
Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.",161,19355
658892,370,"When the devout religion of mine eye
Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires;
And these, who often drown'd could never die,
Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!
One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.",952,19355
658893,376,"Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by,
Herself poised with herself in either eye:
But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
Your lady's love against some other maid
That I will show you shining at this feast,
And she shall scant show well that now shows best.",161,19355
658894,382,"I'll go along, no such sight to be shown,
But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.",952,19355
658895,384,[Exeunt],1261,19355
658896,386,[Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse],1261,19356
658897,387,"Nurse, where's my daughter? call her forth to me.",642,19356
658898,388,"Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old,
I bade her come. What, lamb! what, ladybird!
God forbid! Where's this girl? What, Juliet!",818,19356
658899,391,[Enter JULIET],1261,19356
658900,392,How now! who calls?,622,19356
658901,393,Your mother.,818,19356
658902,394,"Madam, I am here.
What is your will?",622,19356
658903,396,"This is the matter:--Nurse, give leave awhile,
We must talk in secret:--nurse, come back again;
I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel.
Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age.",642,19356
658904,400,"Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.",818,19356
658905,401,She's not fourteen.,642,19356
658906,402,"I'll lay fourteen of my teeth,--
And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but four--
She is not fourteen. How long is it now
To Lammas-tide?",818,19356
658907,406,A fortnight and odd days.,642,19356
658908,407,"Even or odd, of all days in the year,
Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!--
Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;
She was too good for me: but, as I said,
On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;
That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;
And she was wean'd,--I never shall forget it,--
Of all the days of the year, upon that day:
For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,
Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;
My lord and you were then at Mantua:--
Nay, I do bear a brain:--but, as I said,
When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!
Shake quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,
To bid me trudge:
And since that time it is eleven years;
For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,
She could have run and waddled all about;
For even the day before, she broke her brow:
And then my husband--God be with his soul!
A' was a merry man--took up the child:
'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;
Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidame,
The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'
To see, now, how a jest shall come about!
I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,
I never should forget it: 'Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he;
And, pretty fool, it stinted and said 'Ay.'",818,19356
658909,440,"Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace.",642,19356
658910,441,"Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh,
To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.'
And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow
A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone;
A parlous knock; and it cried bitterly:
'Yea,' quoth my husband,'fall'st upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age;
Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay.'",818,19356
658911,449,"And stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I.",622,19356
658912,450,"Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace!
Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed:
An I might live to see thee married once,
I have my wish.",818,19356
658913,454,"Marry, that 'marry' is the very theme
I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,
How stands your disposition to be married?",642,19356
658914,457,It is an honour that I dream not of.,622,19356
658915,458,"An honour! were not I thine only nurse,
I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat.",818,19356
658916,460,"Well, think of marriage now; younger than you,
Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,
Are made already mothers: by my count,
I was your mother much upon these years
That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief:
The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.",642,19356
658917,466,"A man, young lady! lady, such a man
As all the world--why, he's a man of wax.",818,19356
658918,468,Verona's summer hath not such a flower.,642,19356
658919,469,"Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower.",818,19356
658920,470,"What say you? can you love the gentleman?
This night you shall behold him at our feast;
Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,
And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;
Examine every married lineament,
And see how one another lends content
And what obscured in this fair volume lies
Find written in the margent of his eyes.
This precious book of love, this unbound lover,
To beautify him, only lacks a cover:
The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride
For fair without the fair within to hide:
That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story;
So shall you share all that he doth possess,
By having him, making yourself no less.",642,19356
658921,486,"No less! nay, bigger; women grow by men.",818,19356
658922,487,"Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?",642,19356
658923,488,"I'll look to like, if looking liking move:
But no more deep will I endart mine eye
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.",622,19356
658924,491,[Enter a Servant],1261,19356
658925,492,"Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you
called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in
the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must
hence to wait; I beseech you, follow straight.",1072,19356
658926,496,"We follow thee.
[Exit Servant]
Juliet, the county stays.",642,19356
658927,499,"Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.",818,19356
658928,500,"[Exeunt]
[Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, with five or six]
Maskers, Torch-bearers, and others]",1261,19356
658929,504,"What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse?
Or shall we on without a apology?",952,19357
658930,506,"The date is out of such prolixity:
We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf,
Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath,
Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper;
Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke
After the prompter, for our entrance:
But let them measure us by what they will;
We'll measure them a measure, and be gone.",161,19357
658931,514,"Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling;
Being but heavy, I will bear the light.",952,19357
658932,516,"Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.",767,19357
658933,517,"Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes
With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.",952,19357
658934,520,"You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,
And soar with them above a common bound.",767,19357
658935,522,"I am too sore enpierced with his shaft
To soar with his light feathers, and so bound,
I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe:
Under love's heavy burden do I sink.",952,19357
658936,526,"And, to sink in it, should you burden love;
Too great oppression for a tender thing.",767,19357
658937,528,"Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.",952,19357
658938,530,"If love be rough with you, be rough with love;
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
Give me a case to put my visage in:
A visor for a visor! what care I
What curious eye doth quote deformities?
Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.",767,19357
658939,536,"Come, knock and enter; and no sooner in,
But every man betake him to his legs.",161,19357
658940,538,"A torch for me: let wantons light of heart
Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels,
For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase;
I'll be a candle-holder, and look on.
The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done.",952,19357
658941,543,"Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word:
If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire
Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st
Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!",767,19357
658942,547,"Nay, that's not so.",952,19357
658943,548,"I mean, sir, in delay
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits
Five times in that ere once in our five wits.",767,19357
658944,552,"And we mean well in going to this mask;
But 'tis no wit to go.",952,19357
658945,554,"Why, may one ask?",767,19357
658946,555,I dream'd a dream to-night.,952,19357
658947,556,And so did I.,767,19357
658948,557,"Well, what was yours?",952,19357
658949,558,That dreamers often lie.,767,19357
658950,559,"In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.",952,19357
658951,560,"O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;
Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' legs,
The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
The traces of the smallest spider's web,
The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,
Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,
Not so big as a round little worm
Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid;
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight,
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees,
O'er ladies ' lips, who straight on kisses dream,
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:
Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail
Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,
Then dreams, he of another benefice:
Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon
Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
And sleeps again. This is that very Mab
That plats the manes of horses in the night,
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage:
This is she--",767,19357
658952,603,"Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!
Thou talk'st of nothing.",952,19357
658953,605,"True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes
Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.",767,19357
658954,613,"This wind, you talk of, blows us from ourselves;
Supper is done, and we shall come too late.",161,19357
658955,615,"I fear, too early: for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
But He, that hath the steerage of my course,
Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.",952,19357
658956,623,"Strike, drum.",161,19357
658957,624,[Exeunt],1261,19357
658958,626,[Musicians waiting. Enter Servingmen with napkins],1261,19358
658959,627,"Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away? He
shift a trencher? he scrape a trencher!",13,19358
658960,629,"When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's
hands and they unwashed too, 'tis a foul thing.",28,19358
658961,631,"Away with the joint-stools, remove the
court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save
me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let
the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.
Antony, and Potpan!",13,19358
658962,636,"Ay, boy, ready.",28,19358
658963,637,"You are looked for and called for, asked for and
sought for, in the great chamber.",13,19358
658964,639,"We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; be
brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.",28,19358
658965,641,"[Enter CAPULET, with JULIET and others of his house, meeting the Guests and Maskers]",1261,19358
658966,642,"Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes
Unplagued with corns will have a bout with you.
Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all
Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty,
She, I'll swear, hath corns; am I come near ye now?
Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day
That I have worn a visor and could tell
A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear,
Such as would please: 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone:
You are welcome, gentlemen! come, musicians, play.
A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls.
[Music plays, and they dance]
More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up,
And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.
Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well.
Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet;
For you and I are past our dancing days:
How long is't now since last yourself and I
Were in a mask?",223,19358
658967,661,"By'r lady, thirty years.",224,19358
658968,662,"What, man! 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much:
'Tis since the nuptials of Lucentio,
Come pentecost as quickly as it will,
Some five and twenty years; and then we mask'd.",223,19358
658969,666,"'Tis more, 'tis more, his son is elder, sir;
His son is thirty.",224,19358
658970,668,"Will you tell me that?
His son was but a ward two years ago.",223,19358
658971,670,"[To a Servingman] What lady is that, which doth
enrich the hand
Of yonder knight?",952,19358
658972,673,"I know not, sir.",1072,19358
658973,674,"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.",952,19358
658974,684,"This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.",1216,19358
658975,690,"Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?",223,19358
658976,691,"Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,
A villain that is hither come in spite,
To scorn at our solemnity this night.",1216,19358
658977,694,Young Romeo is it?,223,19358
658978,695,"'Tis he, that villain Romeo.",1216,19358
658979,696,"Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone;
He bears him like a portly gentleman;
And, to say truth, Verona brags of him
To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:
I would not for the wealth of all the town
Here in my house do him disparagement:
Therefore be patient, take no note of him:
It is my will, the which if thou respect,
Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,
And ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.",223,19358
658980,706,"It fits, when such a villain is a guest:
I'll not endure him.",1216,19358
658981,708,"He shall be endured:
What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to;
Am I the master here, or you? go to.
You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul!
You'll make a mutiny among my guests!
You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man!",223,19358
658982,714,"Why, uncle, 'tis a shame.",1216,19358
658983,715,"Go to, go to;
You are a saucy boy: is't so, indeed?
This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what:
You must contrary me! marry, 'tis time.
Well said, my hearts! You are a princox; go:
Be quiet, or--More light, more light! For shame!
I'll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts!",223,19358
658984,722,"Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting
Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.
I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall
Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.",1216,19358
658985,726,[Exit],1261,19358
658986,727,"[To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.",952,19358
658987,731,"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.",622,19358
658988,735,"Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?",952,19358
658989,736,"Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.",622,19358
658990,737,"O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.",952,19358
658991,739,"Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.",622,19358
658992,740,"Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.",952,19358
658993,742,Then have my lips the sin that they have took.,622,19358
658994,743,"Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.",952,19358
658995,745,You kiss by the book.,622,19358
658996,746,"Madam, your mother craves a word with you.",818,19358
658997,747,What is her mother?,952,19358
658998,748,"Marry, bachelor,
Her mother is the lady of the house,
And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous
I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal;
I tell you, he that can lay hold of her
Shall have the chinks.",818,19358
658999,754,"Is she a Capulet?
O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.",952,19358
659000,756,"Away, begone; the sport is at the best.",161,19358
659001,757,"Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest.",952,19358
659002,758,"Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone;
We have a trifling foolish banquet towards.
Is it e'en so? why, then, I thank you all
I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night.
More torches here! Come on then, let's to bed.
Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late:
I'll to my rest.",223,19358
659003,765,[Exeunt all but JULIET and Nurse],1261,19358
659004,766,"Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?",622,19358
659005,767,The son and heir of old Tiberio.,818,19358
659006,768,What's he that now is going out of door?,622,19358
659007,769,"Marry, that, I think, be young Petrucio.",818,19358
659008,770,"What's he that follows there, that would not dance?",622,19358
659009,771,I know not.,818,19358
659010,772,"Go ask his name: if he be married.
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.",622,19358
659011,774,"His name is Romeo, and a Montague;
The only son of your great enemy.",818,19358
659012,776,"My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.",622,19358
659013,780,What's this? what's this?,818,19358
659014,781,"A rhyme I learn'd even now
Of one I danced withal.",622,19358
659015,783,[One calls within 'Juliet.'],1261,19358
659016,784,"Anon, anon!
Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone.",818,19358
659017,786,[Exeunt],1261,19358
659018,789,[Enter Chorus],1261,19359
659019,790,"Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,
And young affection gapes to be his heir;
That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,
With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.
Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,
Alike betwitched by the charm of looks,
But to his foe supposed he must complain,
And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks:
Being held a foe, he may not have access
To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear;
And she as much in love, her means much less
To meet her new-beloved any where:
But passion lends them power, time means, to meet
Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.",246,19359
659020,804,[Exit],1261,19359
659021,806,[Enter ROMEO],1261,19360
659022,807,"Can I go forward when my heart is here?
Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.",952,19360
659023,809,"[He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it]",1261,19360
659024,810,[Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO],1261,19360
659025,811,Romeo! my cousin Romeo!,161,19360
659026,812,"He is wise;
And, on my lie, hath stol'n him home to bed.",767,19360
659027,814,"He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall:
Call, good Mercutio.",161,19360
659028,816,"Nay, I'll conjure too.
Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover!
Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh:
Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied;
Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove;'
Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,
One nick-name for her purblind son and heir,
Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim,
When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!
He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not;
The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.
I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,
By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,
By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh
And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
That in thy likeness thou appear to us!",767,19360
659029,832,"And if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.",161,19360
659030,833,"This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him
To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle
Of some strange nature, letting it there stand
Till she had laid it and conjured it down;
That were some spite: my invocation
Is fair and honest, and in his mistress' name
I conjure only but to raise up him.",767,19360
659031,840,"Come, he hath hid himself among these trees,
To be consorted with the humorous night:
Blind is his love and best befits the dark.",161,19360
659032,843,"If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
Now will he sit under a medlar tree,
And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.
Romeo, that she were, O, that she were
An open et caetera, thou a poperin pear!
Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed;
This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:
Come, shall we go?",767,19360
659033,852,"Go, then; for 'tis in vain
To seek him here that means not to be found.",161,19360
659034,854,[Exeunt],1261,19360
659035,856,[Enter ROMEO],1261,19361
659036,857,"He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
[JULIET appears above at a window]
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!",952,19361
659037,883,Ay me!,622,19361
659038,884,"She speaks:
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds
And sails upon the bosom of the air.",952,19361
659039,892,"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.",622,19361
659040,896,"[Aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?",952,19361
659041,897,"'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.",622,19361
659042,909,"I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.",952,19361
659043,912,"What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night
So stumblest on my counsel?",622,19361
659044,914,"By a name
I know not how to tell thee who I am:
My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
Because it is an enemy to thee;
Had I it written, I would tear the word.",952,19361
659045,919,"My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound:
Art thou not Romeo and a Montague?",622,19361
659046,922,"Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.",952,19361
659047,923,"How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?
The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,
And the place death, considering who thou art,
If any of my kinsmen find thee here.",622,19361
659048,927,"With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do that dares love attempt;
Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.",952,19361
659049,931,"If they do see thee, they will murder thee.",622,19361
659050,932,"Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.",952,19361
659051,935,I would not for the world they saw thee here.,622,19361
659052,936,"I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;
And but thou love me, let them find me here:
My life were better ended by their hate,
Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.",952,19361
659053,940,By whose direction found'st thou out this place?,622,19361
659054,941,"By love, who first did prompt me to inquire;
He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes.
I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far
As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea,
I would adventure for such merchandise.",952,19361
659055,946,"Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face,
Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night
Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny
What I have spoke: but farewell compliment!
Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,'
And I will take thy word: yet if thou swear'st,
Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries
Then say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:
Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,
I'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay,
So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world.
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,
And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light:
But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true
Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
I should have been more strange, I must confess,
But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,
My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,
And not impute this yielding to light love,
Which the dark night hath so discovered.",622,19361
659056,968,"Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear
That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops--",952,19361
659057,970,"O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.",622,19361
659058,973,What shall I swear by?,952,19361
659059,974,"Do not swear at all;
Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the god of my idolatry,
And I'll believe thee.",622,19361
659060,978,If my heart's dear love--,952,19361
659061,979,"Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this contract to-night:
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night!
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest
Come to thy heart as that within my breast!",622,19361
659062,988,"O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?",952,19361
659063,989,What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?,622,19361
659064,990,The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.,952,19361
659065,991,"I gave thee mine before thou didst request it:
And yet I would it were to give again.",622,19361
659066,993,"Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love?",952,19361
659067,994,"But to be frank, and give it thee again.
And yet I wish but for the thing I have:
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
[Nurse calls within]
I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu!
Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true.
Stay but a little, I will come again.",622,19361
659068,1003,"[Exit, above]",1261,19361
659069,1004,"O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard.
Being in night, all this is but a dream,
Too flattering-sweet to be substantial.",952,19361
659070,1007,"[Re-enter JULIET, above]",1261,19361
659071,1008,"Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed.
If that thy bent of love be honourable,
Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow,
By one that I'll procure to come to thee,
Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite;
And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay
And follow thee my lord throughout the world.",622,19361
659072,1015,[Within] Madam!,818,19361
659073,1016,"I come, anon.--But if thou mean'st not well,
I do beseech thee--",622,19361
659074,1018,[Within] Madam!,818,19361
659075,1019,"By and by, I come:--
To cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief:
To-morrow will I send.",622,19361
659076,1022,So thrive my soul--,952,19361
659077,1023,A thousand times good night!,622,19361
659078,1024,"[Exit, above]",1261,19361
659079,1025,"A thousand times the worse, to want thy light.
Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from
their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.",952,19361
659080,1029,[Retiring],1261,19361
659081,1030,"[Re-enter JULIET, above]",1261,19361
659082,1031,"Hist! Romeo, hist! O, for a falconer's voice,
To lure this tassel-gentle back again!
Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud;
Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies,
And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine,
With repetition of my Romeo's name.",622,19361
659083,1037,"It is my soul that calls upon my name:
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears!",952,19361
659084,1040,Romeo!,622,19361
659085,1041,My dear?,952,19361
659086,1042,"At what o'clock to-morrow
Shall I send to thee?",622,19361
659087,1044,At the hour of nine.,952,19361
659088,1045,"I will not fail: 'tis twenty years till then.
I have forgot why I did call thee back.",622,19361
659089,1047,Let me stand here till thou remember it.,952,19361
659090,1048,"I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,
Remembering how I love thy company.",622,19361
659091,1050,"And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget,
Forgetting any other home but this.",952,19361
659092,1052,"'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone:
And yet no further than a wanton's bird;
Who lets it hop a little from her hand,
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silk thread plucks it back again,
So loving-jealous of his liberty.",622,19361
659093,1058,I would I were thy bird.,952,19361
659094,1059,"Sweet, so would I:
Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
Good night, good night! parting is such
sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.",622,19361
659095,1064,[Exit above],1261,19361
659096,1065,"Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!
Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!
Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell,
His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.",952,19361
659097,1069,[Exit],1261,19361
659098,1071,"[Enter FRIAR LAURENCE, with a basket]",1261,19362
659099,1072,"The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels:
Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,
I must up-fill this osier cage of ours
With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;
What is her burying grave that is her womb,
And from her womb children of divers kind
We sucking on her natural bosom find,
Many for many virtues excellent,
None but for some and yet all different.
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:
For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give,
Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;
And vice sometimes by action dignified.
Within the infant rind of this small flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power:
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
Two such opposed kings encamp them still
In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;
And where the worser is predominant,
Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.",504,19362
659100,1102,[Enter ROMEO],1261,19362
659101,1103,"Good morrow, father.",952,19362
659102,1104,"Benedicite!
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?
Young son, it argues a distemper'd head
So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed:
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:
Therefore thy earliness doth me assure
Thou art up-roused by some distemperature;
Or if not so, then here I hit it right,
Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night.",504,19362
659103,1116,That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine.,952,19362
659104,1117,God pardon sin! wast thou with Rosaline?,504,19362
659105,1118,"With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no;
I have forgot that name, and that name's woe.",952,19362
659106,1120,"That's my good son: but where hast thou been, then?",504,19362
659107,1121,"I'll tell thee, ere thou ask it me again.
I have been feasting with mine enemy,
Where on a sudden one hath wounded me,
That's by me wounded: both our remedies
Within thy help and holy physic lies:
I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo,
My intercession likewise steads my foe.",952,19362
659108,1128,"Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift;
Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.",504,19362
659109,1130,"Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set
On the fair daughter of rich Capulet:
As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine;
And all combined, save what thou must combine
By holy marriage: when and where and how
We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow,
I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray,
That thou consent to marry us to-day.",952,19362
659110,1138,"Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!
Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,
So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine
Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!
How much salt water thrown away in waste,
To season love, that of it doth not taste!
The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,
Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears;
Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit
Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet:
If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,
Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline:
And art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then,
Women may fall, when there's no strength in men.",504,19362
659111,1154,Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline.,952,19362
659112,1155,"For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.",504,19362
659113,1156,And bad'st me bury love.,952,19362
659114,1157,"Not in a grave,
To lay one in, another out to have.",504,19362
659115,1159,"I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love now
Doth grace for grace and love for love allow;
The other did not so.",952,19362
659116,1162,"O, she knew well
Thy love did read by rote and could not spell.
But come, young waverer, come, go with me,
In one respect I'll thy assistant be;
For this alliance may so happy prove,
To turn your households' rancour to pure love.",504,19362
659117,1168,"O, let us hence; I stand on sudden haste.",952,19362
659118,1169,Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.,504,19362
659119,1170,[Exeunt],1261,19362
659120,1172,[Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO],1261,19363
659121,1173,"Where the devil should this Romeo be?
Came he not home to-night?",767,19363
659122,1175,Not to his father's; I spoke with his man.,161,19363
659123,1176,"Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline.
Torments him so, that he will sure run mad.",767,19363
659124,1178,"Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet,
Hath sent a letter to his father's house.",161,19363
659125,1180,"A challenge, on my life.",767,19363
659126,1181,Romeo will answer it.,161,19363
659127,1182,Any man that can write may answer a letter.,767,19363
659128,1183,"Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he
dares, being dared.",161,19363
659129,1185,"Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a
white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a
love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the
blind bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to
encounter Tybalt?",767,19363
659130,1190,"Why, what is Tybalt?",161,19363
659131,1191,"More than prince of cats, I can tell you. O, he is
the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as
you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and
proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and
the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk
button, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of the
very first house, of the first and second cause:
ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the
hai!",767,19363
659132,1200,The what?,161,19363
659133,1201,"The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting
fantasticoes; these new tuners of accents! 'By Jesu,
a very good blade! a very tall man! a very good
whore!' Why, is not this a lamentable thing,
grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted with
these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these
perdona-mi's, who stand so much on the new form,
that they cannot at ease on the old bench? O, their
bones, their bones!",767,19363
659134,1210,[Enter ROMEO],1261,19363
659135,1211,"Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.",161,19363
659136,1212,"Without his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh,
how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers
that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a
kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to
be-rhyme her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy;
Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe a grey
eye or so, but not to the purpose. Signior
Romeo, bon jour! there's a French salutation
to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit
fairly last night.",767,19363
659137,1222,Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?,952,19363
659138,1223,"The ship, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?",767,19363
659139,1224,"Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great; and in
such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.",952,19363
659140,1226,"That's as much as to say, such a case as yours
constrains a man to bow in the hams.",767,19363
659141,1228,"Meaning, to court'sy.",952,19363
659142,1229,Thou hast most kindly hit it.,767,19363
659143,1230,A most courteous exposition.,952,19363
659144,1231,"Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.",767,19363
659145,1232,Pink for flower.,952,19363
659146,1233,Right.,767,19363
659147,1234,"Why, then is my pump well flowered.",952,19363
659148,1235,"Well said: follow me this jest now till thou hast
worn out thy pump, that when the single sole of it
is worn, the jest may remain after the wearing sole singular.",767,19363
659149,1238,"O single-soled jest, solely singular for the
singleness.",952,19363
659150,1240,"Come between us, good Benvolio; my wits faint.",767,19363
659151,1241,"Switch and spurs, switch and spurs; or I'll cry a match.",952,19363
659152,1242,"Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have
done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of
thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five:
was I with you there for the goose?",767,19363
659153,1246,"Thou wast never with me for any thing when thou wast
not there for the goose.",952,19363
659154,1248,I will bite thee by the ear for that jest.,767,19363
659155,1249,"Nay, good goose, bite not.",952,19363
659156,1250,"Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most
sharp sauce.",767,19363
659157,1252,And is it not well served in to a sweet goose?,952,19363
659158,1253,"O here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an
inch narrow to an ell broad!",767,19363
659159,1255,"I stretch it out for that word 'broad;' which added
to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.",952,19363
659160,1257,"Why, is not this better now than groaning for love?
now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art
thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature:
for this drivelling love is like a great natural,
that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.",767,19363
659161,1262,"Stop there, stop there.",161,19363
659162,1263,Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair.,767,19363
659163,1264,Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large.,161,19363
659164,1265,"O, thou art deceived; I would have made it short:
for I was come to the whole depth of my tale; and
meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.",767,19363
659165,1268,Here's goodly gear!,952,19363
659166,1269,[Enter Nurse and PETER],1261,19363
659167,1270,"A sail, a sail!",767,19363
659168,1271,"Two, two; a shirt and a smock.",161,19363
659169,1272,Peter!,818,19363
659170,1273,Anon!,875,19363
659171,1274,"My fan, Peter.",818,19363
659172,1275,"Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the
fairer face.",767,19363
659173,1277,"God ye good morrow, gentlemen.",818,19363
659174,1278,"God ye good den, fair gentlewoman.",767,19363
659175,1279,Is it good den?,818,19363
659176,1280,"'Tis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand of the
dial is now upon the prick of noon.",767,19363
659177,1282,Out upon you! what a man are you!,818,19363
659178,1283,"One, gentlewoman, that God hath made for himself to
mar.",952,19363
659179,1285,"By my troth, it is well said; 'for himself to mar,'
quoth a'? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I
may find the young Romeo?",818,19363
659180,1288,"I can tell you; but young Romeo will be older when
you have found him than he was when you sought him:
I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse.",952,19363
659181,1291,You say well.,818,19363
659182,1292,"Yea, is the worst well? very well took, i' faith;
wisely, wisely.",767,19363
659183,1294,"if you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with
you.",818,19363
659184,1296,She will indite him to some supper.,161,19363
659185,1297,"A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! so ho!",767,19363
659186,1298,What hast thou found?,952,19363
659187,1299,"No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie,
that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent.
[Sings]
An old hare hoar,
And an old hare hoar,
Is very good meat in lent
But a hare that is hoar
Is too much for a score,
When it hoars ere it be spent.
Romeo, will you come to your father's? we'll
to dinner, thither.",767,19363
659188,1310,I will follow you.,952,19363
659189,1311,"Farewell, ancient lady; farewell,
[Singing]
'lady, lady, lady.'",767,19363
659190,1314,[Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO],1261,19363
659191,1315,"Marry, farewell! I pray you, sir, what saucy
merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?",818,19363
659192,1317,"A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk,
and will speak more in a minute than he will stand
to in a month.",952,19363
659193,1320,"An a' speak any thing against me, I'll take him
down, an a' were lustier than he is, and twenty such
Jacks; and if I cannot, I'll find those that shall.
Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills; I am
none of his skains-mates. And thou must stand by
too, and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure?",818,19363
659194,1326,"I saw no man use you a pleasure; if I had, my weapon
should quickly have been out, I warrant you: I dare
draw as soon as another man, if I see occasion in a
good quarrel, and the law on my side.",875,19363
659195,1330,"Now, afore God, I am so vexed, that every part about
me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word:
and as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire you
out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself:
but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into
a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross
kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman
is young; and, therefore, if you should deal double
with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered
to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing.",818,19363
659196,1340,"Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I
protest unto thee--",952,19363
659197,1342,"Good heart, and, i' faith, I will tell her as much:
Lord, Lord, she will be a joyful woman.",818,19363
659198,1344,"What wilt thou tell her, nurse? thou dost not mark me.",952,19363
659199,1345,"I will tell her, sir, that you do protest; which, as
I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.",818,19363
659200,1347,"Bid her devise
Some means to come to shrift this afternoon;
And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell
Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains.",952,19363
659201,1351,No truly sir; not a penny.,818,19363
659202,1352,Go to; I say you shall.,952,19363
659203,1353,"This afternoon, sir? well, she shall be there.",818,19363
659204,1354,"And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall:
Within this hour my man shall be with thee
And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair;
Which to the high top-gallant of my joy
Must be my convoy in the secret night.
Farewell; be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains:
Farewell; commend me to thy mistress.",952,19363
659205,1361,"Now God in heaven bless thee! Hark you, sir.",818,19363
659206,1362,"What say'st thou, my dear nurse?",952,19363
659207,1363,"Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say,
Two may keep counsel, putting one away?",818,19363
659208,1365,"I warrant thee, my man's as true as steel.",952,19363
659209,1366,"Well, sir; my mistress is the sweetest lady--Lord,
Lord! when 'twas a little prating thing:--O, there
is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain
lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as lief
see a toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her
sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer
man; but, I'll warrant you, when I say so, she looks
as pale as any clout in the versal world. Doth not
rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter?",818,19363
659210,1375,"Ay, nurse; what of that? both with an R.",952,19363
659211,1376,"Ah. mocker! that's the dog's name; R is for
the--No; I know it begins with some other
letter:--and she hath the prettiest sententious of
it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good
to hear it.",818,19363
659212,1381,Commend me to thy lady.,952,19363
659213,1382,"Ay, a thousand times.
[Exit Romeo]
Peter!",818,19363
659214,1385,Anon!,875,19363
659215,1386,"Peter, take my fan, and go before and apace.",818,19363
659216,1387,[Exeunt],1261,19363
659217,1389,[Enter JULIET],1261,19364
659218,1390,"The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;
In half an hour she promised to return.
Perchance she cannot meet him: that's not so.
O, she is lame! love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams,
Driving back shadows over louring hills:
Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love,
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
Now is the sun upon the highmost hill
Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve
Is three long hours, yet she is not come.
Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball;
My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
And his to me:
But old folks, many feign as they were dead;
Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.
O God, she comes!
[Enter Nurse and PETER]
O honey nurse, what news?
Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away.",622,19364
659219,1411,"Peter, stay at the gate.",818,19364
659220,1412,[Exit PETER],1261,19364
659221,1413,"Now, good sweet nurse,--O Lord, why look'st thou sad?
Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;
If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news
By playing it to me with so sour a face.",622,19364
659222,1417,"I am a-weary, give me leave awhile:
Fie, how my bones ache! what a jaunt have I had!",818,19364
659223,1419,"I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news:
Nay, come, I pray thee, speak; good, good nurse, speak.",622,19364
659224,1421,"Jesu, what haste? can you not stay awhile?
Do you not see that I am out of breath?",818,19364
659225,1423,"How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?
The excuse that thou dost make in this delay
Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.
Is thy news good, or bad? answer to that;
Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance:
Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad?",622,19364
659226,1430,"Well, you have made a simple choice; you know not
how to choose a man: Romeo! no, not he; though his
face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels
all men's; and for a hand, and a foot, and a body,
though they be not to be talked on, yet they are
past compare: he is not the flower of courtesy,
but, I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. Go thy
ways, wench; serve God. What, have you dined at home?",818,19364
659227,1438,"No, no: but all this did I know before.
What says he of our marriage? what of that?",622,19364
659228,1440,"Lord, how my head aches! what a head have I!
It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.
My back o' t' other side,--O, my back, my back!
Beshrew your heart for sending me about,
To catch my death with jaunting up and down!",818,19364
659229,1445,"I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.
Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?",622,19364
659230,1447,"Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a
courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I
warrant, a virtuous,--Where is your mother?",818,19364
659231,1450,"Where is my mother! why, she is within;
Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest!
'Your love says, like an honest gentleman,
Where is your mother?'",622,19364
659232,1454,"O God's lady dear!
Are you so hot? marry, come up, I trow;
Is this the poultice for my aching bones?
Henceforward do your messages yourself.",818,19364
659233,1458,"Here's such a coil! come, what says Romeo?",622,19364
659234,1459,Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?,818,19364
659235,1460,I have.,622,19364
659236,1461,"Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell;
There stays a husband to make you a wife:
Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks,
They'll be in scarlet straight at any news.
Hie you to church; I must another way,
To fetch a ladder, by the which your love
Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark:
I am the drudge and toil in your delight,
But you shall bear the burden soon at night.
Go; I'll to dinner: hie you to the cell.",818,19364
659237,1471,"Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell.",622,19364
659238,1472,[Exeunt],1261,19364
659239,1474,[Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and ROMEO],1261,19365
659240,1475,"So smile the heavens upon this holy act,
That after hours with sorrow chide us not!",504,19365
659241,1477,"Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight:
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine.",952,19365
659242,1483,"These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
[Enter JULIET]
Here comes the lady: O, so light a foot
Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint:
A lover may bestride the gossamer
That idles in the wanton summer air,
And yet not fall; so light is vanity.",504,19365
659243,1496,Good even to my ghostly confessor.,622,19365
659244,1497,"Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.",504,19365
659245,1498,"As much to him, else is his thanks too much.",622,19365
659246,1499,"Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
Be heap'd like mine and that thy skill be more
To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue
Unfold the imagined happiness that both
Receive in either by this dear encounter.",952,19365
659247,1505,"Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.",622,19365
659248,1510,"Come, come with me, and we will make short work;
For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone
Till holy church incorporate two in one.",504,19365
659249,1513,[Exeunt],1261,19365
659250,1516,"[Enter MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, Page, and Servants]",1261,19366
659251,1517,"I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire:
The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,
And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl;
For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.",161,19366
659252,1521,"Thou art like one of those fellows that when he
enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword
upon the table and says 'God send me no need of
thee!' and by the operation of the second cup draws
it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need.",767,19366
659253,1526,Am I like such a fellow?,161,19366
659254,1527,"Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as
any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and as
soon moody to be moved.",767,19366
659255,1530,And what to?,161,19366
659256,1531,"Nay, an there were two such, we should have none
shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou! why,
thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more,
or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast: thou
wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no
other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes: what
eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel?
Thy head is as fun of quarrels as an egg is full of
meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as
an egg for quarrelling: thou hast quarrelled with a
man for coughing in the street, because he hath
wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun:
didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing
his new doublet before Easter? with another, for
tying his new shoes with old riband? and yet thou
wilt tutor me from quarrelling!",767,19366
659257,1547,"An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man
should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.",161,19366
659258,1549,The fee-simple! O simple!,767,19366
659259,1550,"By my head, here come the Capulets.",161,19366
659260,1551,"By my heel, I care not.",767,19366
659261,1552,[Enter TYBALT and others],1261,19366
659262,1553,"Follow me close, for I will speak to them.
Gentlemen, good den: a word with one of you.",1216,19366
659263,1555,"And but one word with one of us? couple it with
something; make it a word and a blow.",767,19366
659264,1557,"You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you
will give me occasion.",1216,19366
659265,1559,Could you not take some occasion without giving?,767,19366
659266,1560,"Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo,--",1216,19366
659267,1561,"Consort! what, dost thou make us minstrels? an
thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but
discords: here's my fiddlestick; here's that shall
make you dance. 'Zounds, consort!",767,19366
659268,1565,"We talk here in the public haunt of men:
Either withdraw unto some private place,
And reason coldly of your grievances,
Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us.",161,19366
659269,1569,"Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze;
I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I.",767,19366
659270,1571,[Enter ROMEO],1261,19366
659271,1572,"Well, peace be with you, sir: here comes my man.",1216,19366
659272,1573,"But I'll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery:
Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower;
Your worship in that sense may call him 'man.'",767,19366
659273,1576,"Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford
No better term than this,--thou art a villain.",1216,19366
659274,1578,"Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Doth much excuse the appertaining rage
To such a greeting: villain am I none;
Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not.",952,19366
659275,1582,"Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries
That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw.",1216,19366
659276,1584,"I do protest, I never injured thee,
But love thee better than thou canst devise,
Till thou shalt know the reason of my love:
And so, good Capulet,--which name I tender
As dearly as my own,--be satisfied.",952,19366
659277,1589,"O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!
Alla stoccata carries it away.
[Draws]
Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?",767,19366
659278,1593,What wouldst thou have with me?,1216,19366
659279,1594,"Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine
lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as you
shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the
eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher
by the ears? make haste, lest mine be about your
ears ere it be out.",767,19366
659280,1600,I am for you.,1216,19366
659281,1601,[Drawing],1261,19366
659282,1602,"Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.",952,19366
659283,1603,"Come, sir, your passado.",767,19366
659284,1604,[They fight],1261,19366
659285,1605,"Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons.
Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage!
Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath
Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:
Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!",952,19366
659286,1610,"[TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his followers]",1261,19366
659287,1611,"I am hurt.
A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.
Is he gone, and hath nothing?",767,19366
659288,1614,"What, art thou hurt?",161,19366
659289,1615,"Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.
Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.",767,19366
659290,1617,[Exit Page],1261,19366
659291,1618,"Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.",952,19366
659292,1619,"No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for
me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I
am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o'
both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a
cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a
rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of
arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I
was hurt under your arm.",767,19366
659293,1628,I thought all for the best.,952,19366
659294,1629,"Help me into some house, Benvolio,
Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me: I have it,
And soundly too: your houses!",767,19366
659295,1633,[Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO],1261,19366
659296,1634,"This gentleman, the prince's near ally,
My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt
In my behalf; my reputation stain'd
With Tybalt's slander,--Tybalt, that an hour
Hath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet,
Thy beauty hath made me effeminate
And in my temper soften'd valour's steel!",952,19366
659297,1641,[Re-enter BENVOLIO],1261,19366
659298,1642,"O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead!
That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.",161,19366
659299,1645,"This day's black fate on more days doth depend;
This but begins the woe, others must end.",952,19366
659300,1647,Here comes the furious Tybalt back again.,161,19366
659301,1648,"Alive, in triumph! and Mercutio slain!
Away to heaven, respective lenity,
And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!
[Re-enter TYBALT]
Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again,
That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul
Is but a little way above our heads,
Staying for thine to keep him company:
Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.",952,19366
659302,1657,"Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,
Shalt with him hence.",1216,19366
659303,1659,This shall determine that.,952,19366
659304,1660,[They fight; TYBALT falls],1261,19366
659305,1661,"Romeo, away, be gone!
The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.
Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee death,
If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away!",161,19366
659306,1665,"O, I am fortune's fool!",952,19366
659307,1666,Why dost thou stay?,161,19366
659308,1667,[Exit ROMEO],1261,19366
659309,1668,"[Enter Citizens, &c]",1261,19366
659310,1669,"Which way ran he that kill'd Mercutio?
Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he?",2,19366
659311,1671,There lies that Tybalt.,161,19366
659312,1672,"Up, sir, go with me;
I charge thee in the princes name, obey.
[Enter Prince, attended; MONTAGUE, CAPULET, their]
Wives, and others]",2,19366
659313,1676,Where are the vile beginners of this fray?,384,19366
659314,1677,"O noble prince, I can discover all
The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl:
There lies the man, slain by young Romeo,
That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio.",161,19366
659315,1681,"Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother's child!
O prince! O cousin! husband! O, the blood is spilt
O my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true,
For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague.
O cousin, cousin!",642,19366
659316,1686,"Benvolio, who began this bloody fray?",384,19366
659317,1687,"Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay;
Romeo that spoke him fair, bade him bethink
How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal
Your high displeasure: all this uttered
With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow'd,
Could not take truce with the unruly spleen
Of Tybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts
With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast,
Who all as hot, turns deadly point to point,
And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats
Cold death aside, and with the other sends
It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity,
Retorts it: Romeo he cries aloud,
'Hold, friends! friends, part!' and, swifter than
his tongue,
His agile arm beats down their fatal points,
And 'twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm
An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life
Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled;
But by and by comes back to Romeo,
Who had but newly entertain'd revenge,
And to 't they go like lightning, for, ere I
Could draw to part them, was stout Tybalt slain.
And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly.
This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.",161,19366
659318,1712,"He is a kinsman to the Montague;
Affection makes him false; he speaks not true:
Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,
And all those twenty could but kill one life.
I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give;
Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live.",642,19366
659319,1718,"Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio;
Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?",384,19366
659320,1720,"Not Romeo, prince, he was Mercutio's friend;
His fault concludes but what the law should end,
The life of Tybalt.",798,19366
659321,1723,"And for that offence
Immediately we do exile him hence:
I have an interest in your hate's proceeding,
My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding;
But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine
That you shall all repent the loss of mine:
I will be deaf to pleading and excuses;
Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses:
Therefore use none: let Romeo hence in haste,
Else, when he's found, that hour is his last.
Bear hence this body and attend our will:
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.",384,19366
659322,1735,[Exeunt],1261,19366
659323,1737,[Enter JULIET],1261,19367
659324,1738,"Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
Towards Phoebus' lodging: such a wagoner
As Phaethon would whip you to the west,
And bring in cloudy night immediately.
Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,
That runaway's eyes may wink and Romeo
Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen.
Lovers can see to do their amorous rites
By their own beauties; or, if love be blind,
It best agrees with night. Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron, all in black,
And learn me how to lose a winning match,
Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:
Hood my unmann'd blood, bating in my cheeks,
With thy black mantle; till strange love, grown bold,
Think true love acted simple modesty.
Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.
Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,
Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
O, I have bought the mansion of a love,
But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold,
Not yet enjoy'd: so tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them. O, here comes my nurse,
And she brings news; and every tongue that speaks
But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence.
[Enter Nurse, with cords]
Now, nurse, what news? What hast thou there? the cords
That Romeo bid thee fetch?",622,19367
659325,1774,"Ay, ay, the cords.",818,19367
659326,1775,[Throws them down],1261,19367
659327,1776,Ay me! what news? why dost thou wring thy hands?,622,19367
659328,1777,"Ah, well-a-day! he's dead, he's dead, he's dead!
We are undone, lady, we are undone!
Alack the day! he's gone, he's kill'd, he's dead!",818,19367
659329,1780,Can heaven be so envious?,622,19367
659330,1781,"Romeo can,
Though heaven cannot: O Romeo, Romeo!
Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!",818,19367
659331,1784,"What devil art thou, that dost torment me thus?
This torture should be roar'd in dismal hell.
Hath Romeo slain himself? say thou but 'I,'
And that bare vowel 'I' shall poison more
Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice:
I am not I, if there be such an I;
Or those eyes shut, that make thee answer 'I.'
If he be slain, say 'I'; or if not, no:
Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe.",622,19367
659332,1793,"I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes,--
God save the mark!--here on his manly breast:
A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse;
Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood,
All in gore-blood; I swounded at the sight.",818,19367
659333,1798,"O, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once!
To prison, eyes, ne'er look on liberty!
Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here;
And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!",622,19367
659334,1802,"O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had!
O courteous Tybalt! honest gentleman!
That ever I should live to see thee dead!",818,19367
659335,1805,"What storm is this that blows so contrary?
Is Romeo slaughter'd, and is Tybalt dead?
My dear-loved cousin, and my dearer lord?
Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom!
For who is living, if those two are gone?",622,19367
659336,1810,"Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished;
Romeo that kill'd him, he is banished.",818,19367
659337,1812,O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?,622,19367
659338,1813,"It did, it did; alas the day, it did!",818,19367
659339,1814,"O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,
A damned saint, an honourable villain!
O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In moral paradise of such sweet flesh?
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!",622,19367
659340,1827,"There's no trust,
No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
Ah, where's my man? give me some aqua vitae:
These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.
Shame come to Romeo!",818,19367
659341,1833,"Blister'd be thy tongue
For such a wish! he was not born to shame:
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;
For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd
Sole monarch of the universal earth.
O, what a beast was I to chide at him!",622,19367
659342,1839,Will you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin?,818,19367
659343,1840,"Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?
Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,
When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?
But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?
That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband:
Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring;
Your tributary drops belong to woe,
Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.
My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;
And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband:
All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?
Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death,
That murder'd me: I would forget it fain;
But, O, it presses to my memory,
Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds:
'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo--banished;'
That 'banished,' that one word 'banished,'
Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death
Was woe enough, if it had ended there:
Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship
And needly will be rank'd with other griefs,
Why follow'd not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,'
Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both,
Which modern lamentations might have moved?
But with a rear-ward following Tybalt's death,
'Romeo is banished,' to speak that word,
Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,
All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished!'
There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,
In that word's death; no words can that woe sound.
Where is my father, and my mother, nurse?",622,19367
659344,1871,"Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse:
Will you go to them? I will bring you thither.",818,19367
659345,1873,"Wash they his wounds with tears: mine shall be spent,
When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment.
Take up those cords: poor ropes, you are beguiled,
Both you and I; for Romeo is exiled:
He made you for a highway to my bed;
But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed.
Come, cords, come, nurse; I'll to my wedding-bed;
And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!",622,19367
659346,1881,"Hie to your chamber: I'll find Romeo
To comfort you: I wot well where he is.
Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night:
I'll to him; he is hid at Laurence' cell.",818,19367
659347,1885,"O, find him! give this ring to my true knight,
And bid him come to take his last farewell.",622,19367
659348,1887,[Exeunt],1261,19367
659349,1889,[Enter FRIAR LAURENCE],1261,19368
659350,1890,"Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man:
Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.",504,19368
659351,1893,[Enter ROMEO],1261,19368
659352,1894,"Father, what news? what is the prince's doom?
What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,
That I yet know not?",952,19368
659353,1897,"Too familiar
Is my dear son with such sour company:
I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.",504,19368
659354,1900,What less than dooms-day is the prince's doom?,952,19368
659355,1901,"A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips,
Not body's death, but body's banishment.",504,19368
659356,1903,"Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;'
For exile hath more terror in his look,
Much more than death: do not say 'banishment.'",952,19368
659357,1906,"Hence from Verona art thou banished:
Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.",504,19368
659358,1908,"There is no world without Verona walls,
But purgatory, torture, hell itself.
Hence-banished is banish'd from the world,
And world's exile is death: then banished,
Is death mis-term'd: calling death banishment,
Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe,
And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.",952,19368
659359,1915,"O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind prince,
Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law,
And turn'd that black word death to banishment:
This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.",504,19368
659360,1920,"'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here,
Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog
And little mouse, every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her;
But Romeo may not: more validity,
More honourable state, more courtship lives
In carrion-flies than Romeo: they my seize
On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand
And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
Who even in pure and vestal modesty,
Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin;
But Romeo may not; he is banished:
Flies may do this, but I from this must fly:
They are free men, but I am banished.
And say'st thou yet that exile is not death?
Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife,
No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,
But 'banished' to kill me?--'banished'?
O friar, the damned use that word in hell;
Howlings attend it: how hast thou the heart,
Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd,
To mangle me with that word 'banished'?",952,19368
659361,1943,"Thou fond mad man, hear me but speak a word.",504,19368
659362,1944,"O, thou wilt speak again of banishment.",952,19368
659363,1945,"I'll give thee armour to keep off that word:
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,
To comfort thee, though thou art banished.",504,19368
659364,1948,"Yet 'banished'? Hang up philosophy!
Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom,
It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more.",952,19368
659365,1952,"O, then I see that madmen have no ears.",504,19368
659366,1953,"How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?",952,19368
659367,1954,Let me dispute with thee of thy estate.,504,19368
659368,1955,"Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel:
Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,
An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,
Doting like me and like me banished,
Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,
And fall upon the ground, as I do now,
Taking the measure of an unmade grave.",952,19368
659369,1962,[Knocking within],1261,19368
659370,1963,"Arise; one knocks; good Romeo, hide thyself.",504,19368
659371,1964,"Not I; unless the breath of heartsick groans,
Mist-like, infold me from the search of eyes.",952,19368
659372,1966,[Knocking],1261,19368
659373,1967,"Hark, how they knock! Who's there? Romeo, arise;
Thou wilt be taken. Stay awhile! Stand up;
[Knocking]
Run to my study. By and by! God's will,
What simpleness is this! I come, I come!
[Knocking]
Who knocks so hard? whence come you? what's your will?",504,19368
659374,1974,"[Within] Let me come in, and you shall know
my errand;
I come from Lady Juliet.",818,19368
659375,1977,"Welcome, then.",504,19368
659376,1978,[Enter Nurse],1261,19368
659377,1979,"O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar,
Where is my lady's lord, where's Romeo?",818,19368
659378,1981,"There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.",504,19368
659379,1982,"O, he is even in my mistress' case,
Just in her case! O woful sympathy!
Piteous predicament! Even so lies she,
Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering.
Stand up, stand up; stand, and you be a man:
For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand;
Why should you fall into so deep an O?",818,19368
659380,1989,Nurse!,952,19368
659381,1990,"Ah sir! ah sir! Well, death's the end of all.",818,19368
659382,1991,"Spakest thou of Juliet? how is it with her?
Doth she not think me an old murderer,
Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy
With blood removed but little from her own?
Where is she? and how doth she? and what says
My conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love?",952,19368
659383,1997,"O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps;
And now falls on her bed; and then starts up,
And Tybalt calls; and then on Romeo cries,
And then down falls again.",818,19368
659384,2001,"As if that name,
Shot from the deadly level of a gun,
Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand
Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me,
In what vile part of this anatomy
Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack
The hateful mansion.",952,19368
659385,2008,[Drawing his sword],1261,19368
659386,2009,"Hold thy desperate hand:
Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast:
Unseemly woman in a seeming man!
Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!
Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order,
I thought thy disposition better temper'd.
Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself?
And stay thy lady too that lives in thee,
By doing damned hate upon thyself?
Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth?
Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet
In thee at once; which thou at once wouldst lose.
Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit;
Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all,
And usest none in that true use indeed
Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit:
Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,
Digressing from the valour of a man;
Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,
Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish;
Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,
Misshapen in the conduct of them both,
Like powder in a skitless soldier's flask,
Is set afire by thine own ignorance,
And thou dismember'd with thine own defence.
What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive,
For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead;
There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee,
But thou slew'st Tybalt; there are thou happy too:
The law that threaten'd death becomes thy friend
And turns it to exile; there art thou happy:
A pack of blessings lights up upon thy back;
Happiness courts thee in her best array;
But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,
Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love:
Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.
Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,
Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her:
But look thou stay not till the watch be set,
For then thou canst not pass to Mantua;
Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time
To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back
With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.
Go before, nurse: commend me to thy lady;
And bid her hasten all the house to bed,
Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto:
Romeo is coming.",504,19368
659387,2060,"O Lord, I could have stay'd here all the night
To hear good counsel: O, what learning is!
My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come.",818,19368
659388,2063,"Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.",952,19368
659389,2064,"Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir:
Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late.",818,19368
659390,2066,[Exit],1261,19368
659391,2067,How well my comfort is revived by this!,952,19368
659392,2068,"Go hence; good night; and here stands all your state:
Either be gone before the watch be set,
Or by the break of day disguised from hence:
Sojourn in Mantua; I'll find out your man,
And he shall signify from time to time
Every good hap to you that chances here:
Give me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good night.",504,19368
659393,2075,"But that a joy past joy calls out on me,
It were a grief, so brief to part with thee: Farewell.",952,19368
659394,2077,[Exeunt],1261,19368
659395,2079,"[Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and PARIS]",1261,19369
659396,2080,"Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily,
That we have had no time to move our daughter:
Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,
And so did I:--Well, we were born to die.
'Tis very late, she'll not come down to-night:
I promise you, but for your company,
I would have been a-bed an hour ago.",223,19369
659397,2087,"These times of woe afford no time to woo.
Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter.",860,19369
659398,2089,"I will, and know her mind early to-morrow;
To-night she is mew'd up to her heaviness.",642,19369
659399,2091,"Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender
Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled
In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not.
Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;
Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love;
And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next--
But, soft! what day is this?",223,19369
659400,2098,"Monday, my lord,",860,19369
659401,2099,"Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon,
O' Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her,
She shall be married to this noble earl.
Will you be ready? do you like this haste?
We'll keep no great ado,--a friend or two;
For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,
It may be thought we held him carelessly,
Being our kinsman, if we revel much:
Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends,
And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?",223,19369
659402,2109,"My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow.",860,19369
659403,2110,"Well get you gone: o' Thursday be it, then.
Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,
Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day.
Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho!
Afore me! it is so very very late,
That we may call it early by and by.
Good night.",223,19369
659404,2117,[Exeunt],1261,19369
659405,2119,"[Enter ROMEO and JULIET above, at the window]",1261,19370
659406,2120,"Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;
Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree:
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.",622,19370
659407,2125,"It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.",952,19370
659408,2131,"Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I:
It is some meteor that the sun exhales,
To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,
And light thee on thy way to Mantua:
Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone.",622,19370
659409,2136,"Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death;
I am content, so thou wilt have it so.
I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,
'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;
Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat
The vaulty heaven so high above our heads:
I have more care to stay than will to go:
Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.
How is't, my soul? let's talk; it is not day.",952,19370
659410,2145,"It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!
It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
Some say the lark makes sweet division;
This doth not so, for she divideth us:
Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,
O, now I would they had changed voices too!
Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,
Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day,
O, now be gone; more light and light it grows.",622,19370
659411,2155,More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!,952,19370
659412,2156,"[Enter Nurse, to the chamber]",1261,19370
659413,2157,Madam!,818,19370
659414,2158,Nurse?,622,19370
659415,2159,"Your lady mother is coming to your chamber:
The day is broke; be wary, look about.",818,19370
659416,2161,[Exit],1261,19370
659417,2162,"Then, window, let day in, and let life out.",622,19370
659418,2163,"Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend.",952,19370
659419,2164,[He goeth down],1261,19370
659420,2165,"Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay, husband, friend!
I must hear from thee every day in the hour,
For in a minute there are many days:
O, by this count I shall be much in years
Ere I again behold my Romeo!",622,19370
659421,2170,"Farewell!
I will omit no opportunity
That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.",952,19370
659422,2173,O think'st thou we shall ever meet again?,622,19370
659423,2174,"I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve
For sweet discourses in our time to come.",952,19370
659424,2176,"O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:
Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.",622,19370
659425,2180,"And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:
Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!",952,19370
659426,2182,[Exit],1261,19370
659427,2183,"O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle:
If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him.
That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune;
For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,
But send him back.",622,19370
659428,2188,"[Within] Ho, daughter! are you up?",642,19370
659429,2189,"Who is't that calls? is it my lady mother?
Is she not down so late, or up so early?
What unaccustom'd cause procures her hither?",622,19370
659430,2192,[Enter LADY CAPULET],1261,19370
659431,2193,"Why, how now, Juliet!",642,19370
659432,2194,"Madam, I am not well.",622,19370
659433,2195,"Evermore weeping for your cousin's death?
What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?
An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live;
Therefore, have done: some grief shows much of love;
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.",642,19370
659434,2200,Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.,622,19370
659435,2201,"So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend
Which you weep for.",642,19370
659436,2203,"Feeling so the loss,
Cannot choose but ever weep the friend.",622,19370
659437,2205,"Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death,
As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him.",642,19370
659438,2207,What villain madam?,622,19370
659439,2208,"That same villain, Romeo.",642,19370
659440,2209,"[Aside] Villain and he be many miles asunder.--
God Pardon him! I do, with all my heart;
And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.",622,19370
659441,2212,"That is, because the traitor murderer lives.",642,19370
659442,2213,"Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands:
Would none but I might venge my cousin's death!",622,19370
659443,2215,"We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not:
Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,
Where that same banish'd runagate doth live,
Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram,
That he shall soon keep Tybalt company:
And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied.",642,19370
659444,2221,"Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
With Romeo, till I behold him--dead--
Is my poor heart for a kinsman vex'd.
Madam, if you could find out but a man
To bear a poison, I would temper it;
That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,
Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors
To hear him named, and cannot come to him.
To wreak the love I bore my cousin
Upon his body that slaughter'd him!",622,19370
659445,2231,"Find thou the means, and I'll find such a man.
But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings, girl.",642,19370
659446,2233,"And joy comes well in such a needy time:
What are they, I beseech your ladyship?",622,19370
659447,2235,"Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child;
One who, to put thee from thy heaviness,
Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy,
That thou expect'st not nor I look'd not for.",642,19370
659448,2239,"Madam, in happy time, what day is that?",622,19370
659449,2240,"Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn,
The gallant, young and noble gentleman,
The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church,
Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.",642,19370
659450,2244,"Now, by Saint Peter's Church and Peter too,
He shall not make me there a joyful bride.
I wonder at this haste; that I must wed
Ere he, that should be husband, comes to woo.
I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam,
I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear,
It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,
Rather than Paris. These are news indeed!",622,19370
659451,2252,"Here comes your father; tell him so yourself,
And see how he will take it at your hands.",642,19370
659452,2254,[Enter CAPULET and Nurse],1261,19370
659453,2255,"When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;
But for the sunset of my brother's son
It rains downright.
How now! a conduit, girl? what, still in tears?
Evermore showering? In one little body
Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind;
For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,
Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,
Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs;
Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them,
Without a sudden calm, will overset
Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife!
Have you deliver'd to her our decree?",223,19370
659454,2268,"Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks.
I would the fool were married to her grave!",642,19370
659455,2270,"Soft! take me with you, take me with you, wife.
How! will she none? doth she not give us thanks?
Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest,
Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought
So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?",223,19370
659456,2275,"Not proud, you have; but thankful, that you have:
Proud can I never be of what I hate;
But thankful even for hate, that is meant love.",622,19370
659457,2278,"How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this?
'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;'
And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you,
Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds,
But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next,
To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church,
Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.
Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage!
You tallow-face!",223,19370
659458,2287,"Fie, fie! what, are you mad?",642,19370
659459,2288,"Good father, I beseech you on my knees,
Hear me with patience but to speak a word.",622,19370
659460,2290,"Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!
I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,
Or never after look me in the face:
Speak not, reply not, do not answer me;
My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest
That God had lent us but this only child;
But now I see this one is one too much,
And that we have a curse in having her:
Out on her, hilding!",223,19370
659461,2299,"God in heaven bless her!
You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.",818,19370
659462,2301,"And why, my lady wisdom? hold your tongue,
Good prudence; smatter with your gossips, go.",223,19370
659463,2303,I speak no treason.,818,19370
659464,2304,"O, God ye god-den.",223,19370
659465,2305,May not one speak?,818,19370
659466,2306,"Peace, you mumbling fool!
Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl;
For here we need it not.",223,19370
659467,2309,You are too hot.,642,19370
659468,2310,"God's bread! it makes me mad:
Day, night, hour, tide, time, work, play,
Alone, in company, still my care hath been
To have her match'd: and having now provided
A gentleman of noble parentage,
Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,
Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,
Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man;
And then to have a wretched puling fool,
A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,
To answer 'I'll not wed; I cannot love,
I am too young; I pray you, pardon me.'
But, as you will not wed, I'll pardon you:
Graze where you will you shall not house with me:
Look to't, think on't, I do not use to jest.
Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise:
An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend;
And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in
the streets,
For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee,
Nor what is mine shall never do thee good:
Trust to't, bethink you; I'll not be forsworn.",223,19370
659469,2332,[Exit],1261,19370
659470,2333,"Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
O, sweet my mother, cast me not away!
Delay this marriage for a month, a week;
Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.",622,19370
659471,2339,"Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word:
Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.",642,19370
659472,2341,[Exit],1261,19370
659473,2342,"O God!--O nurse, how shall this be prevented?
My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven;
How shall that faith return again to earth,
Unless that husband send it me from heaven
By leaving earth? comfort me, counsel me.
Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems
Upon so soft a subject as myself!
What say'st thou? hast thou not a word of joy?
Some comfort, nurse.",622,19370
659474,2351,"Faith, here it is.
Romeo is banish'd; and all the world to nothing,
That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you;
Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.
Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,
I think it best you married with the county.
O, he's a lovely gentleman!
Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam,
Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye
As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,
I think you are happy in this second match,
For it excels your first: or if it did not,
Your first is dead; or 'twere as good he were,
As living here and you no use of him.",818,19370
659475,2365,Speakest thou from thy heart?,622,19370
659476,2366,"And from my soul too;
Or else beshrew them both.",818,19370
659477,2368,Amen!,622,19370
659478,2369,What?,818,19370
659479,2370,"Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much.
Go in: and tell my lady I am gone,
Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell,
To make confession and to be absolved.",622,19370
659480,2374,"Marry, I will; and this is wisely done.",818,19370
659481,2375,[Exit],1261,19370
659482,2376,"Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!
Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,
Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue
Which she hath praised him with above compare
So many thousand times? Go, counsellor;
Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.
I'll to the friar, to know his remedy:
If all else fail, myself have power to die.",622,19370
659483,2384,[Exit],1261,19370
659484,2387,[Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS],1261,19371
659485,2388,"On Thursday, sir? the time is very short.",504,19371
659486,2389,"My father Capulet will have it so;
And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.",860,19371
659487,2391,"You say you do not know the lady's mind:
Uneven is the course, I like it not.",504,19371
659488,2393,"Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,
And therefore have I little talk'd of love;
For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.
Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous
That she doth give her sorrow so much sway,
And in his wisdom hastes our marriage,
To stop the inundation of her tears;
Which, too much minded by herself alone,
May be put from her by society:
Now do you know the reason of this haste.",860,19371
659489,2403,"[Aside] I would I knew not why it should be slow'd.
Look, sir, here comes the lady towards my cell.",504,19371
659490,2405,[Enter JULIET],1261,19371
659491,2406,"Happily met, my lady and my wife!",860,19371
659492,2407,"That may be, sir, when I may be a wife.",622,19371
659493,2408,"That may be must be, love, on Thursday next.",860,19371
659494,2409,What must be shall be.,622,19371
659495,2410,That's a certain text.,504,19371
659496,2411,Come you to make confession to this father?,860,19371
659497,2412,"To answer that, I should confess to you.",622,19371
659498,2413,Do not deny to him that you love me.,860,19371
659499,2414,I will confess to you that I love him.,622,19371
659500,2415,"So will ye, I am sure, that you love me.",860,19371
659501,2416,"If I do so, it will be of more price,
Being spoke behind your back, than to your face.",622,19371
659502,2418,"Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears.",860,19371
659503,2419,"The tears have got small victory by that;
For it was bad enough before their spite.",622,19371
659504,2421,"Thou wrong'st it, more than tears, with that report.",860,19371
659505,2422,"That is no slander, sir, which is a truth;
And what I spake, I spake it to my face.",622,19371
659506,2424,"Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it.",860,19371
659507,2425,"It may be so, for it is not mine own.
Are you at leisure, holy father, now;
Or shall I come to you at evening mass?",622,19371
659508,2428,"My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now.
My lord, we must entreat the time alone.",504,19371
659509,2430,"God shield I should disturb devotion!
Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye:
Till then, adieu; and keep this holy kiss.",860,19371
659510,2433,[Exit],1261,19371
659511,2434,"O shut the door! and when thou hast done so,
Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help!",622,19371
659512,2436,"Ah, Juliet, I already know thy grief;
It strains me past the compass of my wits:
I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,
On Thursday next be married to this county.",504,19371
659513,2440,"Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this,
Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it:
If, in thy wisdom, thou canst give no help,
Do thou but call my resolution wise,
And with this knife I'll help it presently.
God join'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands;
And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd,
Shall be the label to another deed,
Or my true heart with treacherous revolt
Turn to another, this shall slay them both:
Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time,
Give me some present counsel, or, behold,
'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife
Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that
Which the commission of thy years and art
Could to no issue of true honour bring.
Be not so long to speak; I long to die,
If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy.",622,19371
659514,2458,"Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope,
Which craves as desperate an execution.
As that is desperate which we would prevent.
If, rather than to marry County Paris,
Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,
Then is it likely thou wilt undertake
A thing like death to chide away this shame,
That copest with death himself to scape from it:
And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.",504,19371
659515,2467,"O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,
From off the battlements of yonder tower;
Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk
Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;
Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,
O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,
With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
Or bid me go into a new-made grave
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
And I will do it without fear or doubt,
To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.",622,19371
659516,2479,"Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent
To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow:
To-morrow night look that thou lie alone;
Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:
Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
And this distilled liquor drink thou off;
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:
No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall,
Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;
Each part, deprived of supple government,
Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:
And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death
Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.
Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes
To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead:
Then, as the manner of our country is,
In thy best robes uncover'd on the bier
Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault
Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.
In the mean time, against thou shalt awake,
Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,
And hither shall he come: and he and I
Will watch thy waking, and that very night
Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.
And this shall free thee from this present shame;
If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear,
Abate thy valour in the acting it.",504,19371
659517,2511,"Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!",622,19371
659518,2512,"Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous
In this resolve: I'll send a friar with speed
To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord.",504,19371
659519,2515,"Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford.
Farewell, dear father!",622,19371
659520,2517,[Exeunt],1261,19371
659521,2519,"[Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, Nurse, and two Servingmen]",1261,19372
659522,2520,"So many guests invite as here are writ.
[Exit First Servant]
Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks.",223,19372
659523,2523,"You shall have none ill, sir; for I'll try if they
can lick their fingers.",28,19372
659524,2525,How canst thou try them so?,223,19372
659525,2526,"Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his
own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his
fingers goes not with me.",28,19372
659526,2529,"Go, be gone.
[Exit Second Servant]
We shall be much unfurnished for this time.
What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence?",223,19372
659527,2533,"Ay, forsooth.",818,19372
659528,2534,"Well, he may chance to do some good on her:
A peevish self-will'd harlotry it is.",223,19372
659529,2536,See where she comes from shrift with merry look.,818,19372
659530,2537,[Enter JULIET],1261,19372
659531,2538,"How now, my headstrong! where have you been gadding?",223,19372
659532,2539,"Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin
Of disobedient opposition
To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd
By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here,
And beg your pardon: pardon, I beseech you!
Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.",622,19372
659533,2545,"Send for the county; go tell him of this:
I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.",223,19372
659534,2547,"I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell;
And gave him what becomed love I might,
Not step o'er the bounds of modesty.",622,19372
659535,2550,"Why, I am glad on't; this is well: stand up:
This is as't should be. Let me see the county;
Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither.
Now, afore God! this reverend holy friar,
Our whole city is much bound to him.",223,19372
659536,2555,"Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,
To help me sort such needful ornaments
As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow?",622,19372
659537,2558,"No, not till Thursday; there is time enough.",642,19372
659538,2559,"Go, nurse, go with her: we'll to church to-morrow.",223,19372
659539,2560,[Exeunt JULIET and Nurse],1261,19372
659540,2561,"We shall be short in our provision:
'Tis now near night.",642,19372
659541,2563,"Tush, I will stir about,
And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife:
Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her;
I'll not to bed to-night; let me alone;
I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho!
They are all forth. Well, I will walk myself
To County Paris, to prepare him up
Against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light,
Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.",223,19372
659542,2572,[Exeunt],1261,19372
659543,2574,[Enter JULIET and Nurse],1261,19373
659544,2575,"Ay, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse,
I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night,
For I have need of many orisons
To move the heavens to smile upon my state,
Which, well thou know'st, is cross, and full of sin.",622,19373
659545,2580,[Enter LADY CAPULET],1261,19373
659546,2581,"What, are you busy, ho? need you my help?",642,19373
659547,2582,"No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries
As are behoveful for our state to-morrow:
So please you, let me now be left alone,
And let the nurse this night sit up with you;
For, I am sure, you have your hands full all,
In this so sudden business.",622,19373
659548,2588,"Good night:
Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need.",642,19373
659549,2590,[Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse],1261,19373
659550,2591,"Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life:
I'll call them back again to comfort me:
Nurse! What should she do here?
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Come, vial.
What if this mixture do not work at all?
Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?
No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there.
[Laying down her dagger]
What if it be a poison, which the friar
Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead,
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd,
Because he married me before to Romeo?
I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,
For he hath still been tried a holy man.
How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point!
Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
Or, if I live, is it not very like,
The horrible conceit of death and night,
Together with the terror of the place,--
As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
Where, for these many hundred years, the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are packed:
Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,
At some hours in the night spirits resort;--
Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
So early waking, what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth,
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:--
O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,
Environed with all these hideous fears?
And madly play with my forefather's joints?
And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?
And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone,
As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?
O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost
Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body
Upon a rapier's point: stay, Tybalt, stay!
Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.",622,19373
659551,2637,"[She falls upon her bed, within the curtains]",1261,19373
659552,2639,[Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse],1261,19374
659553,2640,"Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.",642,19374
659554,2641,They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.,818,19374
659555,2642,[Enter CAPULET],1261,19374
659556,2643,"Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd,
The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:
Look to the baked meats, good Angelica:
Spare not for the cost.",223,19374
659557,2647,"Go, you cot-quean, go,
Get you to bed; faith, You'll be sick to-morrow
For this night's watching.",818,19374
659558,2650,"No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now
All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.",223,19374
659559,2652,"Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;
But I will watch you from such watching now.",642,19374
659560,2654,[Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse],1261,19374
659561,2655,"A jealous hood, a jealous hood!",223,19374
659562,2656,"[Enter three or four Servingmen, with spits, logs, and baskets]",1261,19374
659563,2657,"Now, fellow,
What's there?",223,19374
659564,2659,"Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.",13,19374
659565,2660,"Make haste, make haste.
[Exit First Servant]
Sirrah, fetch drier logs:
Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.",223,19374
659566,2664,"I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,
And never trouble Peter for the matter.",28,19374
659567,2666,[Exit],1261,19374
659568,2667,"Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha!
Thou shalt be logger-head. Good faith, 'tis day:
The county will be here with music straight,
For so he said he would: I hear him near.
[Music within]
Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say!
[Re-enter Nurse]
Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;
I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste,
Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already:
Make haste, I say.",223,19374
659569,2678,[Exeunt],1261,19374
659570,2680,[Enter Nurse],1261,19375
659571,2681,"Mistress! what, mistress! Juliet! fast, I warrant her, she:
Why, lamb! why, lady! fie, you slug-a-bed!
Why, love, I say! madam! sweet-heart! why, bride!
What, not a word? you take your pennyworths now;
Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant,
The County Paris hath set up his rest,
That you shall rest but little. God forgive me,
Marry, and amen, how sound is she asleep!
I must needs wake her. Madam, madam, madam!
Ay, let the county take you in your bed;
He'll fright you up, i' faith. Will it not be?
[Undraws the curtains]
What, dress'd! and in your clothes! and down again!
I must needs wake you; Lady! lady! lady!
Alas, alas! Help, help! my lady's dead!
O, well-a-day, that ever I was born!
Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! my lady!",818,19375
659572,2698,[Enter LADY CAPULET],1261,19375
659573,2699,What noise is here?,642,19375
659574,2700,O lamentable day!,818,19375
659575,2701,What is the matter?,642,19375
659576,2702,"Look, look! O heavy day!",818,19375
659577,2703,"O me, O me! My child, my only life,
Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!
Help, help! Call help.",642,19375
659578,2706,[Enter CAPULET],1261,19375
659579,2707,"For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come.",223,19375
659580,2708,"She's dead, deceased, she's dead; alack the day!",818,19375
659581,2709,"Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!",642,19375
659582,2710,"Ha! let me see her: out, alas! she's cold:
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.",223,19375
659583,2715,O lamentable day!,818,19375
659584,2716,O woful time!,642,19375
659585,2717,"Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail,
Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak.",223,19375
659586,2719,"[Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS, with Musicians]",1261,19375
659587,2720,"Come, is the bride ready to go to church?",504,19375
659588,2721,"Ready to go, but never to return.
O son! the night before thy wedding-day
Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowered by him.
Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;
My daughter he hath wedded: I will die,
And leave him all; life, living, all is Death's.",223,19375
659589,2728,"Have I thought long to see this morning's face,
And doth it give me such a sight as this?",860,19375
659590,2730,"Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!
Most miserable hour that e'er time saw
In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!
But one, poor one, one poor and loving child,
But one thing to rejoice and solace in,
And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight!",642,19375
659591,2736,"O woe! O woful, woful, woful day!
Most lamentable day, most woful day,
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
O day! O day! O day! O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this:
O woful day, O woful day!",818,19375
659592,2742,"Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!
Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd,
By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown!
O love! O life! not life, but love in death!",860,19375
659593,2746,"Despised, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd!
Uncomfortable time, why camest thou now
To murder, murder our solemnity?
O child! O child! my soul, and not my child!
Dead art thou! Alack! my child is dead;
And with my child my joys are buried.",223,19375
659594,2752,"Peace, ho, for shame! confusion's cure lives not
In these confusions. Heaven and yourself
Had part in this fair maid; now heaven hath all,
And all the better is it for the maid:
Your part in her you could not keep from death,
But heaven keeps his part in eternal life.
The most you sought was her promotion;
For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced:
And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced
Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?
O, in this love, you love your child so ill,
That you run mad, seeing that she is well:
She's not well married that lives married long;
But she's best married that dies married young.
Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary
On this fair corse; and, as the custom is,
In all her best array bear her to church:
For though fond nature bids us an lament,
Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment.",504,19375
659595,2771,"All things that we ordained festival,
Turn from their office to black funeral;
Our instruments to melancholy bells,
Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,
Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
And all things change them to the contrary.",223,19375
659596,2778,"Sir, go you in; and, madam, go with him;
And go, Sir Paris; every one prepare
To follow this fair corse unto her grave:
The heavens do lour upon you for some ill;
Move them no more by crossing their high will.",504,19375
659597,2783,"[Exeunt CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, PARIS, and FRIAR LAURENCE]",1261,19375
659598,2784,"Faith, we may put up our pipes, and be gone.",8,19375
659599,2785,"Honest goodfellows, ah, put up, put up;
For, well you know, this is a pitiful case.",818,19375
659600,2787,[Exit],1261,19375
659601,2788,"Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended.",8,19375
659602,2789,[Enter PETER],1261,19375
659603,2790,"Musicians, O, musicians, 'Heart's ease, Heart's
ease:' O, an you will have me live, play 'Heart's ease.'",875,19375
659604,2792,Why 'Heart's ease?',8,19375
659605,2793,"O, musicians, because my heart itself plays 'My
heart is full of woe:' O, play me some merry dump,
to comfort me.",875,19375
659606,2796,Not a dump we; 'tis no time to play now.,8,19375
659607,2797,"You will not, then?",875,19375
659608,2798,No.,8,19375
659609,2799,I will then give it you soundly.,875,19375
659610,2800,What will you give us?,8,19375
659611,2801,"No money, on my faith, but the gleek;
I will give you the minstrel.",875,19375
659612,2803,Then I will give you the serving-creature.,8,19375
659613,2804,"Then will I lay the serving-creature's dagger on
your pate. I will carry no crotchets: I'll re you,
I'll fa you; do you note me?",875,19375
659614,2807,"An you re us and fa us, you note us.",8,19375
659615,2808,"Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out your wit.",24,19375
659616,2809,"Then have at you with my wit! I will dry-beat you
with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. Answer
me like men:
'When griping grief the heart doth wound,
And doleful dumps the mind oppress,
Then music with her silver sound'--
why 'silver sound'? why 'music with her silver
sound'? What say you, Simon Catling?",875,19375
659617,2817,"Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound.",8,19375
659618,2818,"Pretty! What say you, Hugh Rebeck?",875,19375
659619,2819,"I say 'silver sound,' because musicians sound for silver.",24,19375
659620,2820,"Pretty too! What say you, James Soundpost?",875,19375
659621,2821,"Faith, I know not what to say.",39,19375
659622,2822,"O, I cry you mercy; you are the singer: I will say
for you. It is 'music with her silver sound,'
because musicians have no gold for sounding:
'Then music with her silver sound
With speedy help doth lend redress.'",875,19375
659623,2827,[Exit],1261,19375
659624,2828,What a pestilent knave is this same!,8,19375
659625,2829,"Hang him, Jack! Come, we'll in here; tarry for the
mourners, and stay dinner.",24,19375
659626,2831,[Exeunt],1261,19375
659627,2834,[Enter ROMEO],1261,19376
659628,2835,"If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand:
My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne;
And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead--
Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave
to think!--
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips,
That I revived, and was an emperor.
Ah me! how sweet is love itself possess'd,
When but love's shadows are so rich in joy!
[Enter BALTHASAR, booted]
News from Verona!--How now, Balthasar!
Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?
How doth my lady? Is my father well?
How fares my Juliet? that I ask again;
For nothing can be ill, if she be well.",952,19376
659629,2853,"Then she is well, and nothing can be ill:
Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,
And her immortal part with angels lives.
I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,
And presently took post to tell it you:
O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,
Since you did leave it for my office, sir.",136,19376
659630,2860,"Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!
Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper,
And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night.",952,19376
659631,2863,"I do beseech you, sir, have patience:
Your looks are pale and wild, and do import
Some misadventure.",136,19376
659632,2866,"Tush, thou art deceived:
Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.
Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?",952,19376
659633,2869,"No, my good lord.",136,19376
659634,2870,"No matter: get thee gone,
And hire those horses; I'll be with thee straight.
[Exit BALTHASAR]
Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night.
Let's see for means: O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
I do remember an apothecary,--
And hereabouts he dwells,--which late I noted
In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Culling of simples; meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:
And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuff'd, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
A beggarly account of empty boxes,
Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds,
Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses,
Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show.
Noting this penury, to myself I said
'An if a man did need a poison now,
Whose sale is present death in Mantua,
Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.'
O, this same thought did but forerun my need;
And this same needy man must sell it me.
As I remember, this should be the house.
Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.
What, ho! apothecary!",952,19376
659635,2897,[Enter Apothecary],1261,19376
659636,2898,Who calls so loud?,122,19376
659637,2899,"Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor:
Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have
A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
As will disperse itself through all the veins
That the life-weary taker may fall dead
And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
As violently as hasty powder fired
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.",952,19376
659638,2907,"Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law
Is death to any he that utters them.",122,19376
659639,2909,"Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks,
Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,
Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back;
The world is not thy friend nor the world's law;
The world affords no law to make thee rich;
Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.",952,19376
659640,2916,"My poverty, but not my will, consents.",122,19376
659641,2917,"I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.",952,19376
659642,2918,"Put this in any liquid thing you will,
And drink it off; and, if you had the strength
Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.",122,19376
659643,2921,"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murders in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.
Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh.
Come, cordial and not poison, go with me
To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.",952,19376
659644,2928,[Exeunt],1261,19376
659645,2930,[Enter FRIAR JOHN],1261,19377
659646,2931,"Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho!",503,19377
659647,2932,[Enter FRIAR LAURENCE],1261,19377
659648,2933,"This same should be the voice of Friar John.
Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo?
Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.",504,19377
659649,2936,"Going to find a bare-foot brother out
One of our order, to associate me,
Here in this city visiting the sick,
And finding him, the searchers of the town,
Suspecting that we both were in a house
Where the infectious pestilence did reign,
Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth;
So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd.",503,19377
659650,2944,"Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo?",504,19377
659651,2945,"I could not send it,--here it is again,--
Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,
So fearful were they of infection.",503,19377
659652,2948,"Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood,
The letter was not nice but full of charge
Of dear import, and the neglecting it
May do much danger. Friar John, go hence;
Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight
Unto my cell.",504,19377
659653,2954,"Brother, I'll go and bring it thee.",503,19377
659654,2955,[Exit],1261,19377
659655,2956,"Now must I to the monument alone;
Within three hours will fair Juliet wake:
She will beshrew me much that Romeo
Hath had no notice of these accidents;
But I will write again to Mantua,
And keep her at my cell till Romeo come;
Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb!",504,19377
659656,2963,[Exit],1261,19377
659657,2965,"[Enter PARIS, and his Page bearing flowers and a torch]",1261,19378
659658,2966,"Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof:
Yet put it out, for I would not be seen.
Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along,
Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground;
So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread,
Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves,
But thou shalt hear it: whistle then to me,
As signal that thou hear'st something approach.
Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go.",860,19378
659659,2975,"[Aside] I am almost afraid to stand alone
Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure.",853,19378
659660,2977,[Retires],1261,19378
659661,2978,"Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,--
O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones;--
Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,
Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans:
The obsequies that I for thee will keep
Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
[The Page whistles]
The boy gives warning something doth approach.
What cursed foot wanders this way to-night,
To cross my obsequies and true love's rite?
What with a torch! muffle me, night, awhile.",860,19378
659662,2989,[Retires],1261,19378
659663,2990,"[Enter ROMEO and BALTHASAR, with a torch, mattock, &c]",1261,19378
659664,2991,"Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.
Hold, take this letter; early in the morning
See thou deliver it to my lord and father.
Give me the light: upon thy life, I charge thee,
Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,
And do not interrupt me in my course.
Why I descend into this bed of death,
Is partly to behold my lady's face;
But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger
A precious ring, a ring that I must use
In dear employment: therefore hence, be gone:
But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry
In what I further shall intend to do,
By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint
And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:
The time and my intents are savage-wild,
More fierce and more inexorable far
Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.",952,19378
659665,3009,"I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.",136,19378
659666,3010,"So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that:
Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.",952,19378
659667,3012,"[Aside] For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout:
His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.",136,19378
659668,3014,[Retires],1261,19378
659669,3015,"Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,
And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food!",952,19378
659670,3019,[Opens the tomb],1261,19378
659671,3020,"This is that banish'd haughty Montague,
That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief,
It is supposed, the fair creature died;
And here is come to do some villanous shame
To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him.
[Comes forward]
Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!
Can vengeance be pursued further than death?
Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee:
Obey, and go with me; for thou must die.",860,19378
659672,3030,"I must indeed; and therefore came I hither.
Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man;
Fly hence, and leave me: think upon these gone;
Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,
Put not another sin upon my head,
By urging me to fury: O, be gone!
By heaven, I love thee better than myself;
For I come hither arm'd against myself:
Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say,
A madman's mercy bade thee run away.",952,19378
659673,3040,"I do defy thy conjurations,
And apprehend thee for a felon here.",860,19378
659674,3042,"Wilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy!",952,19378
659675,3043,[They fight],1261,19378
659676,3044,"O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.",853,19378
659677,3045,[Exit],1261,19378
659678,3046,"O, I am slain!
[Falls]
If thou be merciful,
Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.",860,19378
659679,3050,[Dies],1261,19378
659680,3051,"In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face.
Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris!
What said my man, when my betossed soul
Did not attend him as we rode? I think
He told me Paris should have married Juliet:
Said he not so? or did I dream it so?
Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,
To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,
One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!
I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave;
A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughter'd youth,
For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes
This vault a feasting presence full of light.
Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd.
[Laying PARIS in the tomb]
How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death: O, how may I
Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:
Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
O, what more favour can I do to thee,
Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
To sunder his that was thine enemy?
Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,
Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe
That unsubstantial death is amorous,
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
For fear of that, I still will stay with thee;
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again: here, here will I remain
With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here's to my love!
[Drinks]
O true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
[Dies]
[Enter, at the other end of the churchyard, FRIAR]
LAURENCE, with a lantern, crow, and spade]",952,19378
659681,3104,"Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night
Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there?",504,19378
659682,3106,"Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well.",136,19378
659683,3107,"Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend,
What torch is yond, that vainly lends his light
To grubs and eyeless skulls? as I discern,
It burneth in the Capel's monument.",504,19378
659684,3111,"It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master,
One that you love.",136,19378
659685,3113,Who is it?,504,19378
659686,3114,Romeo.,136,19378
659687,3115,How long hath he been there?,504,19378
659688,3116,Full half an hour.,136,19378
659689,3117,Go with me to the vault.,504,19378
659690,3118,"I dare not, sir
My master knows not but I am gone hence;
And fearfully did menace me with death,
If I did stay to look on his intents.",136,19378
659691,3122,"Stay, then; I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me:
O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing.",504,19378
659692,3124,"As I did sleep under this yew-tree here,
I dreamt my master and another fought,
And that my master slew him.",136,19378
659693,3127,"Romeo!
[Advances]
Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains
The stony entrance of this sepulchre?
What mean these masterless and gory swords
To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?
[Enters the tomb]
Romeo! O, pale! Who else? what, Paris too?
And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour
Is guilty of this lamentable chance!
The lady stirs.",504,19378
659694,3138,[JULIET wakes],1261,19378
659695,3139,"O comfortable friar! where is my lord?
I do remember well where I should be,
And there I am. Where is my Romeo?",622,19378
659696,3142,[Noise within],1261,19378
659697,3143,"I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest
Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep:
A greater power than we can contradict
Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.
Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead;
And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee
Among a sisterhood of holy nuns:
Stay not to question, for the watch is coming;
Come, go, good Juliet,
[Noise again]
I dare no longer stay.",504,19378
659698,3154,"Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.
[Exit FRIAR LAURENCE]
What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:
O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop
To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
To make die with a restorative.
[Kisses him]
Thy lips are warm.",622,19378
659699,3164,"[Within] Lead, boy: which way?",17,19378
659700,3165,"Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!
[Snatching ROMEO's dagger]
This is thy sheath;
[Stabs herself]
there rust, and let me die.",622,19378
659701,3170,"[Falls on ROMEO's body, and dies]",1261,19378
659702,3171,"[Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS]",1261,19378
659703,3172,"This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn.",853,19378
659704,3173,"The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard:
Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach.
Pitiful sight! here lies the county slain,
And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,
Who here hath lain these two days buried.
Go, tell the prince: run to the Capulets:
Raise up the Montagues: some others search:
We see the ground whereon these woes do lie;
But the true ground of all these piteous woes
We cannot without circumstance descry.",17,19378
659705,3183,"[Re-enter some of the Watch, with BALTHASAR]",1261,19378
659706,3184,Here's Romeo's man; we found him in the churchyard.,32,19378
659707,3185,"Hold him in safety, till the prince come hither.",17,19378
659708,3186,"[Re-enter others of the Watch, with FRIAR LAURENCE]",1261,19378
659709,3187,"Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs and weeps:
We took this mattock and this spade from him,
As he was coming from this churchyard side.",41,19378
659710,3190,A great suspicion: stay the friar too.,17,19378
659711,3191,[Enter the PRINCE and Attendants],1261,19378
659712,3192,"What misadventure is so early up,
That calls our person from our morning's rest?",384,19378
659713,3194,"[Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and others]",1261,19378
659714,3195,"What should it be, that they so shriek abroad?",223,19378
659715,3196,"The people in the street cry Romeo,
Some Juliet, and some Paris; and all run,
With open outcry toward our monument.",642,19378
659716,3199,What fear is this which startles in our ears?,384,19378
659717,3200,"Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain;
And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before,
Warm and new kill'd.",17,19378
659718,3203,"Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.",384,19378
659719,3204,"Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man;
With instruments upon them, fit to open
These dead men's tombs.",17,19378
659720,3207,"O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!
This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house
Is empty on the back of Montague,--
And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom!",223,19378
659721,3211,"O me! this sight of death is as a bell,
That warns my old age to a sepulchre.",642,19378
659722,3213,[Enter MONTAGUE and others],1261,19378
659723,3214,"Come, Montague; for thou art early up,
To see thy son and heir more early down.",384,19378
659724,3216,"Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night;
Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:
What further woe conspires against mine age?",798,19378
659725,3219,"Look, and thou shalt see.",384,19378
659726,3220,"O thou untaught! what manners is in this?
To press before thy father to a grave?",798,19378
659727,3222,"Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,
Till we can clear these ambiguities,
And know their spring, their head, their
true descent;
And then will I be general of your woes,
And lead you even to death: meantime forbear,
And let mischance be slave to patience.
Bring forth the parties of suspicion.",384,19378
659728,3230,"I am the greatest, able to do least,
Yet most suspected, as the time and place
Doth make against me of this direful murder;
And here I stand, both to impeach and purge
Myself condemned and myself excused.",504,19378
659729,3235,Then say at once what thou dost know in this.,384,19378
659730,3236,"I will be brief, for my short date of breath
Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet;
And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife:
I married them; and their stol'n marriage-day
Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death
Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the city,
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
Betroth'd and would have married her perforce
To County Paris: then comes she to me,
And, with wild looks, bid me devise some mean
To rid her from this second marriage,
Or in my cell there would she kill herself.
Then gave I her, so tutor'd by my art,
A sleeping potion; which so took effect
As I intended, for it wrought on her
The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo,
That he should hither come as this dire night,
To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,
Being the time the potion's force should cease.
But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
Was stay'd by accident, and yesternight
Return'd my letter back. Then all alone
At the prefixed hour of her waking,
Came I to take her from her kindred's vault;
Meaning to keep her closely at my cell,
Till I conveniently could send to Romeo:
But when I came, some minute ere the time
Of her awaking, here untimely lay
The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.
She wakes; and I entreated her come forth,
And bear this work of heaven with patience:
But then a noise did scare me from the tomb;
And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
All this I know; and to the marriage
Her nurse is privy: and, if aught in this
Miscarried by my fault, let my old life
Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,
Unto the rigour of severest law.",504,19378
659731,3277,"We still have known thee for a holy man.
Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this?",384,19378
659732,3279,"I brought my master news of Juliet's death;
And then in post he came from Mantua
To this same place, to this same monument.
This letter he early bid me give his father,
And threatened me with death, going in the vault,
I departed not and left him there.",136,19378
659733,3285,"Give me the letter; I will look on it.
Where is the county's page, that raised the watch?
Sirrah, what made your master in this place?",384,19378
659734,3288,"He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave;
And bid me stand aloof, and so I did:
Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb;
And by and by my master drew on him;
And then I ran away to call the watch.",853,19378
659735,3293,"This letter doth make good the friar's words,
Their course of love, the tidings of her death:
And here he writes that he did buy a poison
Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal
Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.
Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!
See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
And I for winking at your discords too
Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd.",384,19378
659736,3303,"O brother Montague, give me thy hand:
This is my daughter's jointure, for no more
Can I demand.",223,19378
659737,3306,"But I can give thee more:
For I will raise her statue in pure gold;
That while Verona by that name is known,
There shall no figure at such rate be set
As that of true and faithful Juliet.",798,19378
659738,3311,"As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie;
Poor sacrifices of our enmity!",223,19378
659739,3313,"A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.",384,19378
659740,3319,[Exeunt],1261,19378
659741,3,"From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.
  Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
  To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.",894,19379
659742,18,"When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now,
Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:
Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days,
To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use,
If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,'
Proving his beauty by succession thine!
  This were to be new made when thou art old,
  And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.",894,19380
659743,33,"Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time that face should form another;
Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime:
So thou through windows of thine age shall see
Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.
  But if thou live, remember'd not to be,
  Die single, and thine image dies with thee.",894,19381
659744,48,"Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thyself thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free.
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For having traffic with thyself alone,
Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.
Then how, when nature calls thee to be gone,
What acceptable audit canst thou leave?
  Thy unused beauty must be tomb'd with thee,
  Which, used, lives th' executor to be.",894,19382
659745,63,"Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel:
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter and confounds him there;
Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where:
Then, were not summer's distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it nor no remembrance what it was:
  But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet,
  Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.",894,19383
659746,78,"Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure, ere it be self-kill'd.
That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thyself to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:
Then what could death do, if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in posterity?
  Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
  To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.",894,19384
659747,93,"Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage;
But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract and look another way:
  So thou, thyself out-going in thy noon,
  Unlook'd on diest, unless thou get a son.",894,19385
659748,108,"Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly,
Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,
Resembling sire and child and happy mother
Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
  Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
  Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.'",894,19386
659749,123,"Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
That thou consumest thyself in single life?
Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die.
The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife;
The world will be thy widow and still weep
That thou no form of thee hast left behind,
When every private widow well may keep
By children's eyes her husband's shape in mind.
Look, what an unthrift in the world doth spend
Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;
But beauty's waste hath in the world an end,
And kept unused, the user so destroys it.
  No love toward others in that bosom sits
  That on himself such murderous shame commits.",894,19387
659750,138,"For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any,
Who for thyself art so unprovident.
Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,
But that thou none lovest is most evident;
For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate
That 'gainst thyself thou stick'st not to conspire.
Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate
Which to repair should be thy chief desire.
O, change thy thought, that I may change my mind!
Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love?
Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind,
Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove:
  Make thee another self, for love of me,
  That beauty still may live in thine or thee.",894,19388
659751,153,"As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest
In one of thine, from that which thou departest;
And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestowest
Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest.
Herein lives wisdom, beauty and increase:
Without this, folly, age and cold decay:
If all were minded so, the times should cease
And threescore year would make the world away.
Let those whom Nature hath not made for store,
Harsh featureless and rude, barrenly perish:
Look, whom she best endow'd she gave the more;
Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:
  She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby
  Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.",894,19389
659752,168,"When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
And die as fast as they see others grow;
  And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
  Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.",894,19390
659753,183,"O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are
No longer yours than you yourself here live:
Against this coming end you should prepare,
And your sweet semblance to some other give.
So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Find no determination: then you were
Yourself again after yourself's decease,
When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.
Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
Which husbandry in honour might uphold
Against the stormy gusts of winter's day
And barren rage of death's eternal cold?
  O, none but unthrifts! Dear my love, you know
  You had a father: let your son say so.",894,19391
659754,198,"Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;
And yet methinks I have astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well,
By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And, constant stars, in them I read such art
As truth and beauty shall together thrive,
If from thyself to store thou wouldst convert;
  Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
  Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.",894,19392
659755,213,"When I consider every thing that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheered and cheque'd even by the self-same sky,
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,
To change your day of youth to sullied night;
  And all in war with Time for love of you,
  As he takes from you, I engraft you new.",894,19393
659756,228,"But wherefore do not you a mightier way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
And fortify yourself in your decay
With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?
Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
And many maiden gardens yet unset
With virtuous wish would bear your living flowers,
Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
So should the lines of life that life repair,
Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen,
Neither in inward worth nor outward fair,
Can make you live yourself in eyes of men.
  To give away yourself keeps yourself still,
  And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill.",894,19394
659757,243,"Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers yellow'd with their age
Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song:
  But were some child of yours alive that time,
  You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme.",894,19395
659758,258,"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
  So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
  So long lives this and this gives life to thee.",894,19396
659759,273,"Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,
And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood;
Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,
And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,
To the wide world and all her fading sweets;
But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:
O, carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,
Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen;
Him in thy course untainted do allow
For beauty's pattern to succeeding men.
  Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong,
  My love shall in my verse ever live young.",894,19397
659760,288,"A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion;
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling,
Much steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou first created;
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,
And by addition me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
  But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,
  Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.",894,19398
659761,303,"So is it not with me as with that Muse
Stirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse,
Who heaven itself for ornament doth use
And every fair with his fair doth rehearse
Making a couplement of proud compare,
With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,
With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare
That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.
O' let me, true in love, but truly write,
And then believe me, my love is as fair
As any mother's child, though not so bright
As those gold candles fix'd in heaven's air:
  Let them say more than like of hearsay well;
  I will not praise that purpose not to sell.",894,19399
659762,318,"My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
For all that beauty that doth cover thee
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:
How can I then be elder than thou art?
O, therefore, love, be of thyself so wary
As I, not for myself, but for thee will;
Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary
As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.
  Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain;
  Thou gavest me thine, not to give back again.",894,19400
659763,333,"As an unperfect actor on the stage
Who with his fear is put besides his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart.
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
O'ercharged with burden of mine own love's might.
O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
Who plead for love and look for recompense
More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
  O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
  To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.",894,19401
659764,348,"Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
And perspective it is the painter's art.
For through the painter must you see his skill,
To find where your true image pictured lies;
Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,
That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.
Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:
Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me
Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun
Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee;
  Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art;
  They draw but what they see, know not the heart.",894,19402
659765,363,"Let those who are in favour with their stars
Of public honour and proud titles boast,
Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars,
Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most.
Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread
But as the marigold at the sun's eye,
And in themselves their pride lies buried,
For at a frown they in their glory die.
The painful warrior famoused for fight,
After a thousand victories once foil'd,
Is from the book of honour razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd:
  Then happy I, that love and am beloved
  Where I may not remove nor be removed.",894,19403
659766,378,"Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,
To thee I send this written embassage,
To witness duty, not to show my wit:
Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine
May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it,
But that I hope some good conceit of thine
In thy soul's thought, all naked, will bestow it;
Till whatsoever star that guides my moving
Points on me graciously with fair aspect
And puts apparel on my tatter'd loving,
To show me worthy of thy sweet respect:
  Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee;
  Till then not show my head where thou mayst prove me.",894,19404
659767,393,"Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head,
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.
  Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,
  For thee and for myself no quiet find.",894,19405
659768,408,"How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?
When day's oppression is not eased by night,
But day by night, and night by day, oppress'd?
And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me;
The one by toil, the other to complain
How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
I tell the day, to please them thou art bright
And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,
When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even.
  But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer
  And night doth nightly make grief's strength seem stronger.",894,19406
659769,423,"When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
  For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
  That then I scorn to change my state with kings.",894,19407
659770,438,"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
  But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
  All losses are restored and sorrows end.",894,19408
659771,453,"Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have supposed dead,
And there reigns love and all love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
How many a holy and obsequious tear
Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye
As interest of the dead, which now appear
But things removed that hidden in thee lie!
Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,
Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone,
Who all their parts of me to thee did give;
That due of many now is thine alone:
  Their images I loved I view in thee,
  And thou, all they, hast all the all of me.",894,19409
659772,468,"If thou survive my well-contented day,
When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover,
And shalt by fortune once more re-survey
These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover,
Compare them with the bettering of the time,
And though they be outstripp'd by every pen,
Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,
Exceeded by the height of happier men.
O, then vouchsafe me but this loving thought:
'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age,
A dearer birth than this his love had brought,
To march in ranks of better equipage:
  But since he died and poets better prove,
  Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love.'",894,19410
659773,483,"Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine
With all triumphant splendor on my brow;
But out, alack! he was but one hour mine;
The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now.
  Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;
  Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.",894,19411
659774,498,"Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,
To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,
For no man well of such a salve can speak
That heals the wound and cures not the disgrace:
Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;
Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss:
The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief
To him that bears the strong offence's cross.
  Ah! but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds,
  And they are rich and ransom all ill deeds.",894,19412
659775,513,"No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;
For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense--
Thy adverse party is thy advocate--
And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence:
Such civil war is in my love and hate
  That I an accessary needs must be
  To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.",894,19413
659776,528,"Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our undivided loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain
Without thy help by me be borne alone.
In our two loves there is but one respect,
Though in our lives a separable spite,
Which though it alter not love's sole effect,
Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,
Nor thou with public kindness honour me,
Unless thou take that honour from thy name:
  But do not so; I love thee in such sort
  As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.",894,19414
659777,543,"As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite,
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit,
I make my love engrafted to this store:
So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised,
Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give
That I in thy abundance am sufficed
And by a part of all thy glory live.
  Look, what is best, that best I wish in thee:
  This wish I have; then ten times happy me!",894,19415
659778,558,"How can my Muse want subject to invent,
While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse
Thine own sweet argument, too excellent
For every vulgar paper to rehearse?
O, give thyself the thanks, if aught in me
Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;
For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,
When thou thyself dost give invention light?
Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth
Than those old nine which rhymers invocate;
And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth
Eternal numbers to outlive long date.
  If my slight Muse do please these curious days,
  The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise.",894,19416
659779,573,"O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can mine own praise to mine own self bring?
And what is 't but mine own when I praise thee?
Even for this let us divided live,
And our dear love lose name of single one,
That by this separation I may give
That due to thee which thou deservest alone.
O absence, what a torment wouldst thou prove,
Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave
To entertain the time with thoughts of love,
Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive,
  And that thou teachest how to make one twain,
  By praising him here who doth hence remain!",894,19417
659780,588,"Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;
All mine was thine before thou hadst this more.
Then if for my love thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest;
But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty;
And yet, love knows, it is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury.
  Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
  Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes.",894,19418
659781,603,"Those petty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty and thy years full well befits,
For still temptation follows where thou art.
Gentle thou art and therefore to be won,
Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed;
And when a woman woos, what woman's son
Will sourly leave her till she have prevailed?
Ay me! but yet thou mightest my seat forbear,
And chide try beauty and thy straying youth,
Who lead thee in their riot even there
Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth,
  Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee,
  Thine, by thy beauty being false to me.",894,19419
659782,618,"That thou hast her, it is not all my grief,
And yet it may be said I loved her dearly;
That she hath thee, is of my wailing chief,
A loss in love that touches me more nearly.
Loving offenders, thus I will excuse ye:
Thou dost love her, because thou knowst I love her;
And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,
Suffering my friend for my sake to approve her.
If I lose thee, my loss is my love's gain,
And losing her, my friend hath found that loss;
Both find each other, and I lose both twain,
And both for my sake lay on me this cross:
  But here's the joy; my friend and I are one;
  Sweet flattery! then she loves but me alone.",894,19420
659783,633,"When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
  All days are nights to see till I see thee,
  And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.",894,19421
659784,648,"If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth removed from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that so much of earth and water wrought
I must attend time's leisure with my moan,
  Receiving nought by elements so slow
  But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.",894,19422
659785,663,"The other two, slight air and purging fire,
Are both with thee, wherever I abide;
The first my thought, the other my desire,
These present-absent with swift motion slide.
For when these quicker elements are gone
In tender embassy of love to thee,
My life, being made of four, with two alone
Sinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy;
Until life's composition be recured
By those swift messengers return'd from thee,
Who even but now come back again, assured
Of thy fair health, recounting it to me:
  This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,
  I send them back again and straight grow sad.",894,19423
659786,678,"Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie--
A closet never pierced with crystal eyes--
But the defendant doth that plea deny
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To 'cide this title is impanneled
A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part:
  As thus; mine eye's due is thy outward part,
  And my heart's right thy inward love of heart.",894,19424
659787,693,"Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other:
When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast
And to the painted banquet bids my heart;
Another time mine eye is my heart's guest
And in his thoughts of love doth share a part:
So, either by thy picture or my love,
Thyself away art resent still with me;
For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them and they with thee;
  Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
  Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight.",894,19425
659788,708,"How careful was I, when I took my way,
Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,
That to my use it might unused stay
From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!
But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
Most worthy of comfort, now my greatest grief,
Thou, best of dearest and mine only care,
Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.
Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,
Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art,
Within the gentle closure of my breast,
From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part;
  And even thence thou wilt be stol'n, I fear,
  For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear.",894,19426
659789,723,"Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall see thee frown on my defects,
When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,
Call'd to that audit by advised respects;
Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass
And scarcely greet me with that sun thine eye,
When love, converted from the thing it was,
Shall reasons find of settled gravity,--
Against that time do I ensconce me here
Within the knowledge of mine own desert,
And this my hand against myself uprear,
To guard the lawful reasons on thy part:
  To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws,
  Since why to love I can allege no cause.",894,19427
659790,738,"How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say
'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider loved not speed, being made from thee:
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on
That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide;
Which heavily he answers with a groan,
More sharp to me than spurring to his side;
  For that same groan doth put this in my mind;
  My grief lies onward and my joy behind.",894,19428
659791,753,"Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
Of my dull bearer when from thee I speed:
From where thou art why should I haste me thence?
Till I return, of posting is no need.
O, what excuse will my poor beast then find,
When swift extremity can seem but slow?
Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind;
In winged speed no motion shall I know:
Then can no horse with my desire keep pace;
Therefore desire of perfect'st love being made,
Shall neigh--no dull flesh--in his fiery race;
But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade;
  Since from thee going he went wilful-slow,
  Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go.",894,19429
659792,768,"So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,
The which he will not every hour survey,
For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.
Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,
Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
So is the time that keeps you as my chest,
Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,
To make some special instant special blest,
By new unfolding his imprison'd pride.
  Blessed are you, whose worthiness gives scope,
  Being had, to triumph, being lack'd, to hope.",894,19430
659793,783,"What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Since every one hath, every one, one shade,
And you, but one, can every shadow lend.
Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit
Is poorly imitated after you;
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new:
Speak of the spring and foison of the year;
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
The other as your bounty doth appear;
And you in every blessed shape we know.
  In all external grace you have some part,
  But you like none, none you, for constant heart.",894,19431
659794,798,"O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade,
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:
  And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
  When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.",894,19432
659795,813,"Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
  So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
  You live in this, and dwell in lover's eyes.",894,19433
659796,828,"Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,
To-morrow sharpen'd in his former might:
So, love, be thou; although to-day thou fill
Thy hungry eyes even till they wink with fullness,
To-morrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love with a perpetual dullness.
Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where two contracted new
Come daily to the banks, that, when they see
Return of love, more blest may be the view;
  Else call it winter, which being full of care
  Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.",894,19434
659797,843,"Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do, till you require.
Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour
When you have bid your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are how happy you make those.
  So true a fool is love that in your will,
  Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill.",894,19435
659798,858,"That god forbid that made me first your slave,
I should in thought control your times of pleasure,
Or at your hand the account of hours to crave,
Being your vassal, bound to stay your leisure!
O, let me suffer, being at your beck,
The imprison'd absence of your liberty;
And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each cheque,
Without accusing you of injury.
Be where you list, your charter is so strong
That you yourself may privilege your time
To what you will; to you it doth belong
Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.
  I am to wait, though waiting so be hell;
  Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.",894,19436
659799,873,"If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled,
Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss
The second burden of a former child!
O, that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done!
That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your frame;
Whether we are mended, or whether better they,
Or whether revolution be the same.
  O, sure I am, the wits of former days
  To subjects worse have given admiring praise.",894,19437
659800,888,"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,
Crooked elipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
  And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,
  Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.",894,19438
659801,903,"Is it thy will thy image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee
So far from home into my deeds to pry,
To find out shames and idle hours in me,
The scope and tenor of thy jealousy?
O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great:
It is my love that keeps mine eye awake;
Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,
To play the watchman ever for thy sake:
  For thee watch I whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
  From me far off, with others all too near.",894,19439
659802,918,"Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
And all my soul and all my every part;
And for this sin there is no remedy,
It is so grounded inward in my heart.
Methinks no face so gracious is as mine,
No shape so true, no truth of such account;
And for myself mine own worth do define,
As I all other in all worths surmount.
But when my glass shows me myself indeed,
Beated and chopp'd with tann'd antiquity,
Mine own self-love quite contrary I read;
Self so self-loving were iniquity.
  'Tis thee, myself, that for myself I praise,
  Painting my age with beauty of thy days.",894,19440
659803,933,"Against my love shall be, as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'er-worn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night,
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing or vanish'd out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify
Against confounding age's cruel knife,
That he shall never cut from memory
My sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life:
  His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,
  And they shall live, and he in them still green.",894,19441
659804,948,"When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
  This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
  But weep to have that which it fears to lose.",894,19442
659805,963,"Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
O fearful meditation! where, alack,
Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?
Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?
Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
  O, none, unless this miracle have might,
  That in black ink my love may still shine bright.",894,19443
659806,978,"Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As, to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And guilded honour shamefully misplaced,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,
And strength by limping sway disabled,
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly doctor-like controlling skill,
And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill:
  Tired with all these, from these would I be gone,
  Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.",894,19444
659807,993,"Ah! wherefore with infection should he live,
And with his presence grace impiety,
That sin by him advantage should achieve
And lace itself with his society?
Why should false painting imitate his cheek
And steal dead seeing of his living hue?
Why should poor beauty indirectly seek
Roses of shadow, since his rose is true?
Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is,
Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins?
For she hath no exchequer now but his,
And, proud of many, lives upon his gains.
  O, him she stores, to show what wealth she had
  In days long since, before these last so bad.",894,19445
659808,1008,"Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before the bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,
Making no summer of another's green,
Robbing no old to dress his beauty new;
  And him as for a map doth Nature store,
  To show false Art what beauty was of yore.",894,19446
659809,1023,"Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due,
Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.
Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;
But those same tongues that give thee so thine own
In other accents do this praise confound
By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.
They look into the beauty of thy mind,
And that, in guess, they measure by thy deeds;
Then, churls, their thoughts, although their eyes were kind,
To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds:
  But why thy odour matcheth not thy show,
  The solve is this, that thou dost common grow.",894,19447
659810,1038,"That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
So thou be good, slander doth but approve
Thy worth the greater, being woo'd of time;
For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,
And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.
Thou hast pass'd by the ambush of young days,
Either not assail'd or victor being charged;
Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise,
To tie up envy evermore enlarged:
  If some suspect of ill mask'd not thy show,
  Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe.",894,19448
659811,1053,"No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O, if, I say, you look upon this verse
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse.
But let your love even with my life decay,
  Lest the wise world should look into your moan
  And mock you with me after I am gone.",894,19449
659812,1068,"O, lest the world should task you to recite
What merit lived in me, that you should love
After my death, dear love, forget me quite,
For you in me can nothing worthy prove;
Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,
To do more for me than mine own desert,
And hang more praise upon deceased I
Than niggard truth would willingly impart:
O, lest your true love may seem false in this,
That you for love speak well of me untrue,
My name be buried where my body is,
And live no more to shame nor me nor you.
  For I am shamed by that which I bring forth,
  And so should you, to love things nothing worth.",894,19450
659813,1083,"That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire
Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.
  This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
  To love that well which thou must leave ere long.",894,19451
659814,1098,"But be contented: when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away,
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to thee:
The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being dead,
The coward conquest of a wretch's knife,
Too base of thee to be remembered.
  The worth of that is that which it contains,
  And that is this, and this with thee remains.",894,19452
659815,1113,"So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found;
Now proud as an enjoyer and anon
Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure,
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure;
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight
And by and by clean starved for a look;
Possessing or pursuing no delight,
Save what is had or must from you be took.
  Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,
  Or gluttoning on all, or all away.",894,19453
659816,1128,"Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth and where they did proceed?
O, know, sweet love, I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent:
  For as the sun is daily new and old,
  So is my love still telling what is told.",894,19454
659817,1143,"Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;
The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,
And of this book this learning mayst thou taste.
The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show
Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;
Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know
Time's thievish progress to eternity.
Look, what thy memory can not contain
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
Those children nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,
To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.
  These offices, so oft as thou wilt look,
  Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book.",894,19455
659818,1158,"So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse
And found such fair assistance in my verse
As every alien pen hath got my use
And under thee their poesy disperse.
Thine eyes that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly
Have added feathers to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose influence is thine and born of thee:
In others' works thou dost but mend the style,
And arts with thy sweet graces graced be;
  But thou art all my art and dost advance
  As high as learning my rude ignorance.",894,19456
659819,1173,"Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
My verse alone had all thy gentle grace,
But now my gracious numbers are decay'd
And my sick Muse doth give another place.
I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument
Deserves the travail of a worthier pen,
Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent
He robs thee of and pays it thee again.
He lends thee virtue and he stole that word
From thy behavior; beauty doth he give
And found it in thy cheek; he can afford
No praise to thee but what in thee doth live.
  Then thank him not for that which he doth say,
  Since what he owes thee thou thyself dost pay.",894,19457
659820,1188,"O, how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his might,
To make me tongue-tied, speaking of your fame!
But since your worth, wide as the ocean is,
The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,
My saucy bark inferior far to his
On your broad main doth wilfully appear.
Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;
Or being wreck'd, I am a worthless boat,
He of tall building and of goodly pride:
  Then if he thrive and I be cast away,
  The worst was this; my love was my decay.",894,19458
659821,1203,"Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten;
From hence your memory death cannot take,
Although in me each part will be forgotten.
Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie.
Your monument shall be my gentle verse,
Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read,
And tongues to be your being shall rehearse
When all the breathers of this world are dead;
  You still shall live--such virtue hath my pen--
  Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.",894,19459
659822,1218,"I grant thou wert not married to my Muse
And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book
Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise,
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days
And do so, love; yet when they have devised
What strained touches rhetoric can lend,
Thou truly fair wert truly sympathized
In true plain words by thy true-telling friend;
  And their gross painting might be better used
  Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.",894,19460
659823,1233,"I never saw that you did painting need
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
The barren tender of a poet's debt;
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself being extant well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
This silence for my sin you did impute,
Which shall be most my glory, being dumb;
For I impair not beauty being mute,
When others would give life and bring a tomb.
  There lives more life in one of your fair eyes
  Than both your poets can in praise devise.",894,19461
659824,1248,"Who is it that says most? which can say more
Than this rich praise, that you alone are you?
In whose confine immured is the store
Which should example where your equal grew.
Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies his story,
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature made so clear,
And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,
Making his style admired every where.
  You to your beauteous blessings add a curse,
  Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.",894,19462
659825,1263,"My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,
While comments of your praise, richly compiled,
Reserve their character with golden quill
And precious phrase by all the Muses filed.
I think good thoughts whilst other write good words,
And like unletter'd clerk still cry 'Amen'
To every hymn that able spirit affords
In polish'd form of well-refined pen.
Hearing you praised, I say ''Tis so, 'tis true,'
And to the most of praise add something more;
But that is in my thought, whose love to you,
Though words come hindmost, holds his rank before.
  Then others for the breath of words respect,
  Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.",894,19463
659826,1278,"Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too precious you,
That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,
Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew?
Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write
Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?
No, neither he, nor his compeers by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
He, nor that affable familiar ghost
Which nightly gulls him with intelligence
As victors of my silence cannot boast;
I was not sick of any fear from thence:
  But when your countenance fill'd up his line,
  Then lack'd I matter; that enfeebled mine.",894,19464
659827,1293,"Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,
And like enough thou know'st thy estimate:
The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;
My bonds in thee are all determinate.
For how do I hold thee but by thy granting?
And for that riches where is my deserving?
The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,
And so my patent back again is swerving.
Thyself thou gavest, thy own worth then not knowing,
Or me, to whom thou gavest it, else mistaking;
So thy great gift, upon misprision growing,
Comes home again, on better judgment making.
  Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter,
  In sleep a king, but waking no such matter.",894,19465
659828,1308,"When thou shalt be disposed to set me light,
And place my merit in the eye of scorn,
Upon thy side against myself I'll fight,
And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn.
With mine own weakness being best acquainted,
Upon thy part I can set down a story
Of faults conceal'd, wherein I am attainted,
That thou in losing me shalt win much glory:
And I by this will be a gainer too;
For bending all my loving thoughts on thee,
The injuries that to myself I do,
Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me.
  Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
  That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.",894,19466
659829,1323,"Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will comment upon that offence;
Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,
Against thy reasons making no defence.
Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill,
To set a form upon desired change,
As I'll myself disgrace: knowing thy will,
I will acquaintance strangle and look strange,
Be absent from thy walks, and in my tongue
Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell,
Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong
And haply of our old acquaintance tell.
  For thee against myself I'll vow debate,
  For I must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate.",894,19467
659830,1338,"Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,
And do not drop in for an after-loss:
Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scoped this sorrow,
Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe;
Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,
To linger out a purposed overthrow.
If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
When other petty griefs have done their spite
But in the onset come; so shall I taste
At first the very worst of fortune's might,
  And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
  Compared with loss of thee will not seem so.",894,19468
659831,1353,"Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
Some in their wealth, some in their bodies' force,
Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill,
Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;
And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure,
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest:
But these particulars are not my measure;
All these I better in one general best.
Thy love is better than high birth to me,
Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' cost,
Of more delight than hawks or horses be;
And having thee, of all men's pride I boast:
  Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take
  All this away and me most wretched make.",894,19469
659832,1368,"But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
For term of life thou art assured mine,
And life no longer than thy love will stay,
For it depends upon that love of thine.
Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs,
When in the least of them my life hath end.
I see a better state to me belongs
Than that which on thy humour doth depend;
Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind,
Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie.
O, what a happy title do I find,
Happy to have thy love, happy to die!
  But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot?
  Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.",894,19470
659833,1383,"So shall I live, supposing thou art true,
Like a deceived husband; so love's face
May still seem love to me, though alter'd new;
Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place:
For there can live no hatred in thine eye,
Therefore in that I cannot know thy change.
In many's looks the false heart's history
Is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange,
But heaven in thy creation did decree
That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell;
Whate'er thy thoughts or thy heart's workings be,
Thy looks should nothing thence but sweetness tell.
  How like Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow,
  if thy sweet virtue answer not thy show!",894,19471
659834,1398,"They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow,
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
  For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
  Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.",894,19472
659835,1413,"How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
O, in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose!
That tongue that tells the story of thy days,
Making lascivious comments on thy sport,
Cannot dispraise but in a kind of praise;
Naming thy name blesses an ill report.
O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot,
And all things turn to fair that eyes can see!
  Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege;
  The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.",894,19473
659836,1428,"Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;
Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport;
Both grace and faults are loved of more and less;
Thou makest faults graces that to thee resort.
As on the finger of a throned queen
The basest jewel will be well esteem'd,
So are those errors that in thee are seen
To truths translated and for true things deem'd.
How many lambs might the stem wolf betray,
If like a lamb he could his looks translate!
How many gazers mightst thou lead away,
If thou wouldst use the strength of all thy state!
  But do not so; I love thee in such sort
  As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.",894,19474
659837,1443,"How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness every where!
And yet this time removed was summer's time,
The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,
Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:
Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me
But hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit;
For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
And, thou away, the very birds are mute;
  Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer
  That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.",894,19475
659838,1458,"From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April dress'd in all his trim
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue
Could make me any summer's story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew;
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.
  Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away,
  As with your shadow I with these did play:",894,19476
659839,1473,"The forward violet thus did I chide:
Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells,
If not from my love's breath? The purple pride
Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells
In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed.
The lily I condemned for thy hand,
And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair:
The roses fearfully on thorns did stand,
One blushing shame, another white despair;
A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both
And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath;
But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth
A vengeful canker eat him up to death.
  More flowers I noted, yet I none could see
  But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.",894,19477
659840,1489,"Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?
Return, forgetful Muse, and straight redeem
In gentle numbers time so idly spent;
Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem
And gives thy pen both skill and argument.
Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,
If Time have any wrinkle graven there;
If any, be a satire to decay,
And make Time's spoils despised every where.
  Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life;
  So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.",894,19478
659841,1504,"O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed?
Both truth and beauty on my love depends;
So dost thou too, and therein dignified.
Make answer, Muse: wilt thou not haply say
'Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd;
Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;
But best is best, if never intermix'd?'
Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
Excuse not silence so; for't lies in thee
To make him much outlive a gilded tomb,
And to be praised of ages yet to be.
  Then do thy office, Muse; I teach thee how
  To make him seem long hence as he shows now.",894,19479
659842,1519,"My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear:
That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming
The owner's tongue doth publish every where.
Our love was new and then but in the spring
When I was wont to greet it with my lays,
As Philomel in summer's front doth sing
And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:
Not that the summer is less pleasant now
Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,
But that wild music burthens every bough
And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
  Therefore like her I sometime hold my tongue,
  Because I would not dull you with my song.",894,19480
659843,1534,"Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O, blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?
For to no other pass my verses tend
Than of your graces and your gifts to tell;
  And more, much more, than in my verse can sit
  Your own glass shows you when you look in it.",894,19481
659844,1549,"To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure and no pace perceived;
So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion and mine eye may be deceived:
  For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred;
  Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.",894,19482
659845,1564,"Let not my love be call'd idolatry,
Nor my beloved as an idol show,
Since all alike my songs and praises be
To one, of one, still such, and ever so.
Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
Still constant in a wondrous excellence;
Therefore my verse to constancy confined,
One thing expressing, leaves out difference.
'Fair, kind and true' is all my argument,
'Fair, kind, and true' varying to other words;
And in this change is my invention spent,
Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.
  'Fair, kind, and true,' have often lived alone,
  Which three till now never kept seat in one.",894,19483
659846,1579,"When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express'd
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;
And, for they look'd but with divining eyes,
They had not skill enough your worth to sing:
  For we, which now behold these present days,
  Had eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.",894,19484
659847,1594,"Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured
And the sad augurs mock their own presage;
Incertainties now crown themselves assured
And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Now with the drops of this most balmy time
My love looks fresh, and death to me subscribes,
Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme,
While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes:
  And thou in this shalt find thy monument,
  When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.",894,19485
659848,1609,"What's in the brain that ink may character
Which hath not figured to thee my true spirit?
What's new to speak, what new to register,
That may express my love or thy dear merit?
Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine,
I must, each day say o'er the very same,
Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine,
Even as when first I hallow'd thy fair name.
So that eternal love in love's fresh case
Weighs not the dust and injury of age,
Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place,
But makes antiquity for aye his page,
  Finding the first conceit of love there bred
  Where time and outward form would show it dead.",894,19486
659849,1624,"O, never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify.
As easy might I from myself depart
As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie:
That is my home of love: if I have ranged,
Like him that travels I return again,
Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,
So that myself bring water for my stain.
Never believe, though in my nature reign'd
All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,
That it could so preposterously be stain'd,
To leave for nothing all thy sum of good;
  For nothing this wide universe I call,
  Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.",894,19487
659850,1639,"Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there
And made myself a motley to the view,
Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear,
Made old offences of affections new;
Most true it is that I have look'd on truth
Askance and strangely: but, by all above,
These blenches gave my heart another youth,
And worse essays proved thee my best of love.
Now all is done, have what shall have no end:
Mine appetite I never more will grind
On newer proof, to try an older friend,
A god in love, to whom I am confined.
  Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best,
  Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.",894,19488
659851,1654,"O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdued
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
Pity me then and wish I were renew'd;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection
No bitterness that I will bitter think,
Nor double penance, to correct correction.
  Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure ye
  Even that your pity is enough to cure me.",894,19489
659852,1669,"Your love and pity doth the impression fill
Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
You are my all the world, and I must strive
To know my shames and praises from your tongue:
None else to me, nor I to none alive,
That my steel'd sense or changes right or wrong.
In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
To critic and to flatterer stopped are.
Mark how with my neglect I do dispense:
  You are so strongly in my purpose bred
  That all the world besides methinks are dead.",894,19490
659853,1684,"Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;
And that which governs me to go about
Doth part his function and is partly blind,
Seems seeing, but effectually is out;
For it no form delivers to the heart
Of bird of flower, or shape, which it doth latch:
Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,
Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch:
For if it see the rudest or gentlest sight,
The most sweet favour or deformed'st creature,
The mountain or the sea, the day or night,
The crow or dove, it shapes them to your feature:
  Incapable of more, replete with you,
  My most true mind thus makes mine eye untrue.",894,19491
659854,1699,"Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery?
Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true,
And that your love taught it this alchemy,
To make of monsters and things indigest
Such cherubins as your sweet self resemble,
Creating every bad a perfect best,
As fast as objects to his beams assemble?
O,'tis the first; 'tis flattery in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
  If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
  That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.",894,19492
659855,1714,"Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
Even those that said I could not love you dearer:
Yet then my judgment knew no reason why
My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer.
But reckoning time, whose million'd accidents
Creep in 'twixt vows and change decrees of kings,
Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp'st intents,
Divert strong minds to the course of altering things;
Alas, why, fearing of time's tyranny,
Might I not then say 'Now I love you best,'
When I was certain o'er incertainty,
Crowning the present, doubting of the rest?
  Love is a babe; then might I not say so,
  To give full growth to that which still doth grow?",894,19493
659856,1729,"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
  If this be error and upon me proved,
  I never writ, nor no man ever loved.",894,19494
659857,1744,"Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;
That I have frequent been with unknown minds
And given to time your own dear-purchased right
That I have hoisted sail to all the winds
Which should transport me farthest from your sight.
Book both my wilfulness and errors down
And on just proof surmise accumulate;
Bring me within the level of your frown,
But shoot not at me in your waken'd hate;
  Since my appeal says I did strive to prove
  The constancy and virtue of your love.",894,19495
659858,1759,"Like as, to make our appetites more keen,
With eager compounds we our palate urge,
As, to prevent our maladies unseen,
We sicken to shun sickness when we purge,
Even so, being tuff of your ne'er-cloying sweetness,
To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding
And, sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness
To be diseased ere that there was true needing.
Thus policy in love, to anticipate
The ills that were not, grew to faults assured
And brought to medicine a healthful state
Which, rank of goodness, would by ill be cured:
  But thence I learn, and find the lesson true,
  Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you.",894,19496
659859,1774,"What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!
What wretched errors hath my heart committed,
Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!
How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted
In the distraction of this madding fever!
O benefit of ill! now I find true
That better is by evil still made better;
And ruin'd love, when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
  So I return rebuked to my content
  And gain by ill thrice more than I have spent.",894,19497
659860,1789,"That you were once unkind befriends me now,
And for that sorrow which I then did feel
Needs must I under my transgression bow,
Unless my nerves were brass or hammer'd steel.
For if you were by my unkindness shaken
As I by yours, you've pass'd a hell of time,
And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken
To weigh how once I suffered in your crime.
O, that our night of woe might have remember'd
My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits,
And soon to you, as you to me, then tender'd
The humble slave which wounded bosoms fits!
  But that your trespass now becomes a fee;
  Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.",894,19498
659861,1804,"'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,
When not to be receives reproach of being,
And the just pleasure lost which is so deem'd
Not by our feeling but by others' seeing:
For why should others false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,
Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses reckon up their own:
I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel;
By their rank thoughts my deeds must not be shown;
  Unless this general evil they maintain,
  All men are bad, and in their badness reign.",894,19499
659862,1819,"Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full character'd with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain
Beyond all date, even to eternity;
Or at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be miss'd.
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Therefore to give them from me was I bold,
To trust those tables that receive thee more:
  To keep an adjunct to remember thee
  Were to import forgetfulness in me.",894,19500
659863,1834,"No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but dressings of a former sight.
Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
What thou dost foist upon us that is old,
And rather make them born to our desire
Than think that we before have heard them told.
Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not wondering at the present nor the past,
For thy records and what we see doth lie,
Made more or less by thy continual haste.
  This I do vow and this shall ever be;
  I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee.",894,19501
659864,1849,"If my dear love were but the child of state,
It might for Fortune's bastard be unfather'd'
As subject to Time's love or to Time's hate,
Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gather'd.
No, it was builded far from accident;
It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls
Under the blow of thralled discontent,
Whereto the inviting time our fashion calls:
It fears not policy, that heretic,
Which works on leases of short-number'd hours,
But all alone stands hugely politic,
That it nor grows with heat nor drowns with showers.
  To this I witness call the fools of time,
  Which die for goodness, who have lived for crime.",894,19502
659865,1864,"Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy,
With my extern the outward honouring,
Or laid great bases for eternity,
Which prove more short than waste or ruining?
Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour
Lose all, and more, by paying too much rent,
For compound sweet forgoing simple savour,
Pitiful thrivers, in their gazing spent?
No, let me be obsequious in thy heart,
And take thou my oblation, poor but free,
Which is not mix'd with seconds, knows no art,
But mutual render, only me for thee.
  Hence, thou suborn'd informer! a true soul
  When most impeach'd stands least in thy control.",894,19503
659866,1879,"O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein show'st
Thy lovers withering as thy sweet self grow'st;
If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.
Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!
She may detain, but not still keep, her treasure:
Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be,
And her quietus is to render thee.
  (  )
  (  )",894,19504
659867,1894,"In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on nature's power,
Fairing the foul with art's false borrow'd face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' brows are raven black,
Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem
At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,
Slandering creation with a false esteem:
  Yet so they mourn, becoming of their woe,
  That every tongue says beauty should look so.",894,19505
659868,1909,"How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st,
Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds
With thy sweet fingers, when thou gently sway'st
The wiry concord that mine ear confounds,
Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap
To kiss the tender inward of thy hand,
Whilst my poor lips, which should that harvest reap,
At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand!
To be so tickled, they would change their state
And situation with those dancing chips,
O'er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait,
Making dead wood more blest than living lips.
  Since saucy jacks so happy are in this,
  Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss.",894,19506
659869,1924,"The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
  All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
  To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.",894,19507
659870,1939,"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
  And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
  As any she belied with false compare.",894,19508
659871,1954,"Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,
As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel;
For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart
Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold
Thy face hath not the power to make love groan:
To say they err I dare not be so bold,
Although I swear it to myself alone.
And, to be sure that is not false I swear,
A thousand groans, but thinking on thy face,
One on another's neck, do witness bear
Thy black is fairest in my judgment's place.
  In nothing art thou black save in thy deeds,
  And thence this slander, as I think, proceeds.",894,19509
659872,1969,"Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain,
Have put on black and loving mourners be,
Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.
And truly not the morning sun of heaven
Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,
Nor that full star that ushers in the even
Doth half that glory to the sober west,
As those two mourning eyes become thy face:
O, let it then as well beseem thy heart
To mourn for me, since mourning doth thee grace,
And suit thy pity like in every part.
  Then will I swear beauty herself is black
  And all they foul that thy complexion lack.",894,19510
659873,1984,"Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!
Is't not enough to torture me alone,
But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken,
And my next self thou harder hast engross'd:
Of him, myself, and thee, I am forsaken;
A torment thrice threefold thus to be cross'd.
Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward,
But then my friend's heart let my poor heart bail;
Whoe'er keeps me, let my heart be his guard;
Thou canst not then use rigor in my gaol:
  And yet thou wilt; for I, being pent in thee,
  Perforce am thine, and all that is in me.",894,19511
659874,1999,"So, now I have confess'd that he is thine,
And I myself am mortgaged to thy will,
Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine
Thou wilt restore, to be my comfort still:
But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
For thou art covetous and he is kind;
He learn'd but surety-like to write for me
Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.
The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
Thou usurer, that put'st forth all to use,
And sue a friend came debtor for my sake;
So him I lose through my unkind abuse.
  Him have I lost; thou hast both him and me:
  He pays the whole, and yet am I not free.",894,19512
659875,2014,"Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'
And 'Will' to boot, and 'Will' in overplus;
More than enough am I that vex thee still,
To thy sweet will making addition thus.
Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,
Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?
Shall will in others seem right gracious,
And in my will no fair acceptance shine?
The sea all water, yet receives rain still
And in abundance addeth to his store;
So thou, being rich in 'Will,' add to thy 'Will'
One will of mine, to make thy large 'Will' more.
  Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill;
  Think all but one, and me in that one 'Will.'",894,19513
659876,2029,"If thy soul cheque thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy 'Will,'
And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;
Thus far for love my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
'Will' will fulfil the treasure of thy love,
Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.
In things of great receipt with ease we prove
Among a number one is reckon'd none:
Then in the number let me pass untold,
Though in thy stores' account I one must be;
For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold
That nothing me, a something sweet to thee:
  Make but my name thy love, and love that still,
  And then thou lovest me, for my name is 'Will.'",894,19514
659877,2044,"Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,
That they behold, and see not what they see?
They know what beauty is, see where it lies,
Yet what the best is take the worst to be.
If eyes corrupt by over-partial looks
Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,
Why of eyes' falsehood hast thou forged hooks,
Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?
Why should my heart think that a several plot
Which my heart knows the wide world's common place?
Or mine eyes seeing this, say this is not,
To put fair truth upon so foul a face?
  In things right true my heart and eyes have erred,
  And to this false plague are they now transferr'd.",894,19515
659878,2059,"When my love swears that she is made of truth
I do believe her, though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor'd youth,
Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd.
But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
O, love's best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in love loves not to have years told:
  Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
  And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.",894,19516
659879,2074,"O, call not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;
Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue;
Use power with power and slay me not by art.
Tell me thou lovest elsewhere, but in my sight,
Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:
What need'st thou wound with cunning when thy might
Is more than my o'er-press'd defense can bide?
Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows
Her pretty looks have been mine enemies,
And therefore from my face she turns my foes,
That they elsewhere might dart their injuries:
  Yet do not so; but since I am near slain,
  Kill me outright with looks and rid my pain.",894,19517
659880,2089,"Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;
Lest sorrow lend me words and words express
The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
If I might teach thee wit, better it were,
Though not to love, yet, love, to tell me so;
As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,
No news but health from their physicians know;
For if I should despair, I should grow mad,
And in my madness might speak ill of thee:
Now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad,
Mad slanderers by mad ears believed be,
  That I may not be so, nor thou belied,
  Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide.",894,19518
659881,2104,"In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who in despite of view is pleased to dote;
Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted,
Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone,
Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited
To any sensual feast with thee alone:
But my five wits nor my five senses can
Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee,
Who leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man,
Thy proud hearts slave and vassal wretch to be:
  Only my plague thus far I count my gain,
  That she that makes me sin awards me pain.",894,19519
659882,2119,"Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:
O, but with mine compare thou thine own state,
And thou shalt find it merits not reproving;
Or, if it do, not from those lips of thine,
That have profaned their scarlet ornaments
And seal'd false bonds of love as oft as mine,
Robb'd others' beds' revenues of their rents.
Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lovest those
Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee:
Root pity in thy heart, that when it grows
Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.
  If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,
  By self-example mayst thou be denied!",894,19520
659883,2134,"Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch
One of her feather'd creatures broke away,
Sets down her babe and makes an swift dispatch
In pursuit of the thing she would have stay,
Whilst her neglected child holds her in chase,
Cries to catch her whose busy care is bent
To follow that which flies before her face,
Not prizing her poor infant's discontent;
So runn'st thou after that which flies from thee,
Whilst I thy babe chase thee afar behind;
But if thou catch thy hope, turn back to me,
And play the mother's part, kiss me, be kind:
  So will I pray that thou mayst have thy 'Will,'
  If thou turn back, and my loud crying still.",894,19521
659884,2149,"Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend
Suspect I may, but not directly tell;
But being both from me, both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another's hell:
  Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,
  Till my bad angel fire my good one out.",894,19522
659885,2164,"Those lips that Love's own hand did make
Breathed forth the sound that said 'I hate'
To me that languish'd for her sake;
But when she saw my woeful state,
Straight in her heart did mercy come,
Chiding that tongue that ever sweet
Was used in giving gentle doom,
And taught it thus anew to greet:
'I hate' she alter'd with an end,
That follow'd it as gentle day
Doth follow night, who like a fiend
From heaven to hell is flown away;
  'I hate' from hate away she threw,
  And saved my life, saying 'not you.'",894,19523
659886,2179,"Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
[         ] these rebel powers that thee array;
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?
Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,
Eat up thy charge? is this thy body's end?
Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to aggravate thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
  So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
  And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.",894,19524
659887,2194,"My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are,
At random from the truth vainly express'd;
  For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright,
  Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.",894,19525
659888,2209,"O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight!
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's 'No.'
How can it? O, how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vex'd with watching and with tears?
No marvel then, though I mistake my view;
The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.
  O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind,
  Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find.",894,19526
659889,2224,"Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,
When I against myself with thee partake?
Do I not think on thee, when I forgot
Am of myself, all tyrant, for thy sake?
Who hateth thee that I do call my friend?
On whom frown'st thou that I do fawn upon?
Nay, if thou lour'st on me, do I not spend
Revenge upon myself with present moan?
What merit do I in myself respect,
That is so proud thy service to despise,
When all my best doth worship thy defect,
Commanded by the motion of thine eyes?
  But, love, hate on, for now I know thy mind;
  Those that can see thou lovest, and I am blind.",894,19527
659890,2239,"O, from what power hast thou this powerful might
With insufficiency my heart to sway?
To make me give the lie to my true sight,
And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?
Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,
That in the very refuse of thy deeds
There is such strength and warrantize of skill
That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?
Who taught thee how to make me love thee more
The more I hear and see just cause of hate?
O, though I love what others do abhor,
With others thou shouldst not abhor my state:
  If thy unworthiness raised love in me,
  More worthy I to be beloved of thee.",894,19528
659891,2254,"Love is too young to know what conscience is;
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:
For, thou betraying me, I do betray
My nobler part to my gross body's treason;
My soul doth tell my body that he may
Triumph in love; flesh stays no father reason;
But, rising at thy name, doth point out thee
As his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride,
He is contented thy poor drudge to be,
To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
  No want of conscience hold it that I call
  Her 'love' for whose dear love I rise and fall.",894,19529
659892,2269,"In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,
But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing,
In act thy bed-vow broke and new faith torn,
In vowing new hate after new love bearing.
But why of two oaths' breach do I accuse thee,
When I break twenty? I am perjured most;
For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee
And all my honest faith in thee is lost,
For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy,
And, to enlighten thee, gave eyes to blindness,
Or made them swear against the thing they see;
  For I have sworn thee fair; more perjured I,
  To swear against the truth so foul a lie!",894,19530
659893,2284,"Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep:
A maid of Dian's this advantage found,
And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep
In a cold valley-fountain of that ground;
Which borrow'd from this holy fire of Love
A dateless lively heat, still to endure,
And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.
But at my mistress' eye Love's brand new-fired,
The boy for trial needs would touch my breast;
I, sick withal, the help of bath desired,
And thither hied, a sad distemper'd guest,
  But found no cure: the bath for my help lies
  Where Cupid got new fire--my mistress' eyes.",894,19531
659894,2299,"The little Love-god lying once asleep
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd;
And so the general of hot desire
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm'd.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual,
Growing a bath and healthful remedy
For men diseased; but I, my mistress' thrall,
  Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,
  Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.",894,19532
659895,3,             Enter HOSTESS and SLY,1261,19533
659896,4,"I'll pheeze you, in faith.",1124,19533
659897,5,"A pair of stocks, you rogue!",592,19533
659898,6,"Y'are a baggage; the Slys are no rogues. Look in the
chronicles: we came in with Richard Conqueror. Therefore, paucas
pallabris; let the world slide. Sessa!",1124,19533
659899,9,You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?,592,19533
659900,10,"No, not a denier. Go by, Saint Jeronimy, go to thy cold bed
and warm thee.",1124,19533
659901,12,I know my remedy; I must go fetch the third-borough.,592,19533
659902,13, Exit,1261,19533
659903,14,"Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I'll answer him by law.
I'll not budge an inch, boy; let him come, and kindly.
[Falls asleep]
   Wind horns. Enter a LORD from hunting, with his train",1124,19533
659904,18,"Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds;
Brach Merriman, the poor cur, is emboss'd;
And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth'd brach.
Saw'st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good
At the hedge corner, in the coldest fault?
I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.",702,19533
659905,24,"Why, Belman is as good as he, my lord;
He cried upon it at the merest loss,
And twice to-day pick'd out the dullest scent;
Trust me, I take him for the better dog.",596,19533
659906,28,"Thou art a fool; if Echo were as fleet,
I would esteem him worth a dozen such.
But sup them well, and look unto them all;
To-morrow I intend to hunt again.",702,19533
659907,32,"I will, my lord.",596,19533
659908,33,"What's here? One dead, or drunk?
See, doth he breathe?",702,19533
659909,35,"He breathes, my lord. Were he not warm'd with ale,
This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.",597,19533
659910,37,"O monstrous beast, how like a swine he lies!
Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image!
Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man.
What think you, if he were convey'd to bed,
Wrapp'd in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,
A most delicious banquet by his bed,
And brave attendants near him when he wakes,
Would not the beggar then forget himself?",702,19533
659911,45,"Believe me, lord, I think he cannot choose.",596,19533
659912,46,It would seem strange unto him when he wak'd.,597,19533
659913,47,"Even as a flatt'ring dream or worthless fancy.
Then take him up, and manage well the jest:
Carry him gently to my fairest chamber,
And hang it round with all my wanton pictures;
Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters,
And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet;
Procure me music ready when he wakes,
To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound;
And if he chance to speak, be ready straight,
And with a low submissive reverence
Say 'What is it your honour will command?'
Let one attend him with a silver basin
Full of rose-water and bestrew'd with flowers;
Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper,
And say 'Will't please your lordship cool your hands?'
Some one be ready with a costly suit,
And ask him what apparel he will wear;
Another tell him of his hounds and horse,
And that his lady mourns at his disease;
Persuade him that he hath been lunatic,
And, when he says he is, say that he dreams,
For he is nothing but a mighty lord.
This do, and do it kindly, gentle sirs;
It will be pastime passing excellent,
If it be husbanded with modesty.",702,19533
659914,72,"My lord, I warrant you we will play our part
As he shall think by our true diligence
He is no less than what we say he is.",596,19533
659915,75,"Take him up gently, and to bed with him;
And each one to his office when he wakes.
[SLY is carried out. A trumpet sounds]
Sirrah, go see what trumpet 'tis that sounds-
[Exit SERVANT]
Belike some noble gentleman that means,
Travelling some journey, to repose him here.
[Re-enter a SERVINGMAN]
How now! who is it?",702,19533
659916,84,"An't please your honour, players
That offer service to your lordship.",1076,19533
659917,86,"Bid them come near.
Now, fellows, you are welcome.",702,19533
659918,89,We thank your honour.,892,19533
659919,90,Do you intend to stay with me to-night?,702,19533
659920,91,So please your lordship to accept our duty.,893,19533
659921,92,"With all my heart. This fellow I remember
Since once he play'd a farmer's eldest son;
'Twas where you woo'd the gentlewoman so well.
I have forgot your name; but, sure, that part
Was aptly fitted and naturally perform'd.",702,19533
659922,97,I think 'twas Soto that your honour means.,893,19533
659923,98,"'Tis very true; thou didst it excellent.
Well, you are come to me in happy time,
The rather for I have some sport in hand
Wherein your cunning can assist me much.
There is a lord will hear you play to-night;
But I am doubtful of your modesties,
Lest, over-eying of his odd behaviour,
For yet his honour never heard a play,
You break into some merry passion
And so offend him; for I tell you, sirs,
If you should smile, he grows impatient.",702,19533
659924,109,"Fear not, my lord; we can contain ourselves,
Were he the veriest antic in the world.",893,19533
659925,111,"Go, sirrah, take them to the buttery,
And give them friendly welcome every one;
Let them want nothing that my house affords.
[Exit one with the PLAYERS]
Sirrah, go you to Bartholomew my page,
And see him dress'd in all suits like a lady;
That done, conduct him to the drunkard's chamber,
And call him 'madam,' do him obeisance.
Tell him from me- as he will win my love-
He bear himself with honourable action,
Such as he hath observ'd in noble ladies
Unto their lords, by them accomplished;
Such duty to the drunkard let him do,
With soft low tongue and lowly courtesy,
And say 'What is't your honour will command,
Wherein your lady and your humble wife
May show her duty and make known her love?'
And then with kind embracements, tempting kisses,
And with declining head into his bosom,
Bid him shed tears, as being overjoyed
To see her noble lord restor'd to health,
Who for this seven years hath esteemed him
No better than a poor and loathsome beggar.
And if the boy have not a woman's gift
To rain a shower of commanded tears,
An onion will do well for such a shift,
Which, in a napkin being close convey'd,
Shall in despite enforce a watery eye.
See this dispatch'd with all the haste thou canst;
Anon I'll give thee more instructions. Exit a SERVINGMAN
I know the boy will well usurp the grace,
Voice, gait, and action, of a gentlewoman;
I long to hear him call the drunkard 'husband';
And how my men will stay themselves from laughter
When they do homage to this simple peasant.
I'll in to counsel them; haply my presence
May well abate the over-merry spleen,
Which otherwise would grow into extremes.        Exeunt",702,19533
659926,150,"Enter aloft SLY, with ATTENDANTS; some with apparel, basin and ewer, and other appurtenances; and LORD",1261,19534
659927,151,"For God's sake, a pot of small ale.",1124,19534
659928,152,Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack?,1052,19534
659929,153,Will't please your honour taste of these conserves?,1054,19534
659930,154,What raiment will your honour wear to-day?,1056,19534
659931,155,"I am Christophero Sly; call not me 'honour' nor 'lordship.' I
ne'er drank sack in my life; and if you give me any conserves,
give me conserves of beef. Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear,
for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than
legs, nor no more shoes than feet- nay, sometime more feet than
shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.",1124,19534
659932,161,"Heaven cease this idle humour in your honour!
O, that a mighty man of such descent,
Of such possessions, and so high esteem,
Should be infused with so foul a spirit!",702,19534
659933,165,"What, would you make me mad? Am not I Christopher Sly, old
Sly's son of Burton Heath; by birth a pedlar, by education a
cardmaker, by transmutation a bear-herd, and now by present
profession a tinker? Ask Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of
Wincot, if she know me not; if she say I am not fourteen pence on
the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lying'st knave in
Christendom. What! I am not bestraught. [Taking a pot of ale]
Here's-",1124,19534
659934,173,"O, this it is that makes your lady mourn!",1056,19534
659935,174,"O, this is it that makes your servants droop!",1054,19534
659936,175,"Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house,
As beaten hence by your strange lunacy.
O noble lord, bethink thee of thy birth!
Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment,
And banish hence these abject lowly dreams.
Look how thy servants do attend on thee,
Each in his office ready at thy beck.
Wilt thou have music? Hark! Apollo plays,            [Music]
And twenty caged nightingales do sing.
Or wilt thou sleep? We'll have thee to a couch
Softer and sweeter than the lustful bed
On purpose trimm'd up for Semiramis.
Say thou wilt walk: we will bestrew the ground.
Or wilt thou ride? Thy horses shall be trapp'd,
Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.
Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar
Above the morning lark. Or wilt thou hunt?
Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them
And fetch shall echoes from the hollow earth.",702,19534
659937,194,"Say thou wilt course; thy greyhounds are as swift
As breathed stags; ay, fleeter than the roe.",1052,19534
659938,196,"Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee
  straight
Adonis painted by a running brook,
And Cytherea all in sedges hid,
Which seem to move and wanton with her breath
Even as the waving sedges play wi' th' wind.",1054,19534
659939,202,"We'll show thee Io as she was a maid
And how she was beguiled and surpris'd,
As lively painted as the deed was done.",702,19534
659940,205,"Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,
Scratching her legs, that one shall swear she bleeds
And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,
So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.",1056,19534
659941,209,"Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord.
Thou hast a lady far more beautiful
Than any woman in this waning age.",702,19534
659942,212,"And, till the tears that she hath shed for thee
Like envious floods o'er-run her lovely face,
She was the fairest creature in the world;
And yet she is inferior to none.",1052,19534
659943,216,"Am I a lord and have I such a lady?
Or do I dream? Or have I dream'd till now?
I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speak;
I smell sweet savours, and I feel soft things.
Upon my life, I am a lord indeed,
And not a tinker, nor Christopher Sly.
Well, bring our lady hither to our sight;
And once again, a pot o' th' smallest ale.",1124,19534
659944,224,"Will't please your Mightiness to wash your hands?
O, how we joy to see your wit restor'd!
O, that once more you knew but what you are!
These fifteen years you have been in a dream;
Or, when you wak'd, so wak'd as if you slept.",1054,19534
659945,229,"These fifteen years! by my fay, a goodly nap.
But did I never speak of all that time?",1124,19534
659946,231,"O, yes, my lord, but very idle words;
For though you lay here in this goodly chamber,
Yet would you say ye were beaten out of door;
And rail upon the hostess of the house,
And say you would present her at the leet,
Because she brought stone jugs and no seal'd quarts.
Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket.",1052,19534
659947,238,"Ay, the woman's maid of the house.",1124,19534
659948,239,"Why, sir, you know no house nor no such maid,
Nor no such men as you have reckon'd up,
As Stephen Sly, and old John Naps of Greece,
And Peter Turph, and Henry Pimpernell;
And twenty more such names and men as these,
Which never were, nor no man ever saw.",1056,19534
659949,245,"Now, Lord be thanked for my good amends!",1124,19534
659950,246,Amen.,98,19534
659951,247,"  Enter the PAGE as a lady, with ATTENDANTS",1261,19534
659952,248,I thank thee; thou shalt not lose by it.,1124,19534
659953,249,How fares my noble lord?,855,19534
659954,250,"Marry, I fare well; for here is cheer enough.
Where is my wife?",1124,19534
659955,252,"Here, noble lord; what is thy will with her?",855,19534
659956,253,"Are you my wife, and will not call me husband?
My men should call me 'lord'; I am your goodman.",1124,19534
659957,255,"My husband and my lord, my lord and husband;
I am your wife in all obedience.",855,19534
659958,257,I know it well. What must I call her?,1124,19534
659959,258,Madam.,702,19534
659960,259,"Al'ce madam, or Joan madam?",1124,19534
659961,260,"Madam, and nothing else; so lords call ladies.",702,19534
659962,261,"Madam wife, they say that I have dream'd
And slept above some fifteen year or more.",1124,19534
659963,263,"Ay, and the time seems thirty unto me,
Being all this time abandon'd from your bed.",855,19534
659964,265,"'Tis much. Servants, leave me and her alone.
[Exeunt SERVANTS]
Madam, undress you, and come now to bed.",1124,19534
659965,268,"Thrice noble lord, let me entreat of you
To pardon me yet for a night or two;
Or, if not so, until the sun be set.
For your physicians have expressly charg'd,
In peril to incur your former malady,
That I should yet absent me from your bed.
I hope this reason stands for my excuse.",855,19534
659966,275,"Ay, it stands so that I may hardly tarry so long. But I would be
loath to fall into my dreams again. I will therefore tarry in
despite of the flesh and the blood.",1124,19534
659967,278,              Enter a MESSENGER,1261,19534
659968,279,"Your honour's players, hearing your amendment,
Are come to play a pleasant comedy;
For so your doctors hold it very meet,
Seeing too much sadness hath congeal'd your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
Therefore they thought it good you hear a play
And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.",791,19534
659969,287,"Marry, I will; let them play it. Is not a comonty a
Christmas gambold or a tumbling-trick?",1124,19534
659970,289,"No, my good lord, it is more pleasing stuff.",855,19534
659971,290,"What, household stuff?",1124,19534
659972,291,It is a kind of history.,855,19534
659973,292,"Well, we'll see't. Come, madam wife, sit by my side and let
the world slip;-we shall ne'er be younger.",1124,19534
659974,294,[They sit down],1261,19534
659975,295, A flourish of trumpets announces the play,1261,19534
659976,298,Enter LUCENTIO and his man TRANIO,1261,19535
659977,299,"Tranio, since for the great desire I had
To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,
I am arriv'd for fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant garden of great Italy,
And by my father's love and leave am arm'd
With his good will and thy good company,
My trusty servant well approv'd in all,
Here let us breathe, and haply institute
A course of learning and ingenious studies.
Pisa, renowned for grave citizens,
Gave me my being and my father first,
A merchant of great traffic through the world,
Vincentio, come of the Bentivolii;
Vincentio's son, brought up in Florence,
It shall become to serve all hopes conceiv'd,
To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds.
And therefore, Tranio, for the time I study,
Virtue and that part of philosophy
Will I apply that treats of happiness
By virtue specially to be achiev'd.
Tell me thy mind; for I have Pisa left
And am to Padua come as he that leaves
A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep,
And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.",708,19535
659978,323,"Mi perdonato, gentle master mine;
I am in all affected as yourself;
Glad that you thus continue your resolve
To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
Only, good master, while we do admire
This virtue and this moral discipline,
Let's be no Stoics nor no stocks, I pray,
Or so devote to Aristotle's checks
As Ovid be an outcast quite abjur'd.
Balk logic with acquaintance that you have,
And practise rhetoric in your common talk;
Music and poesy use to quicken you;
The mathematics and the metaphysics,
Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you.
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.",1205,19535
659979,339,"Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise.
If, Biondello, thou wert come ashore,
We could at once put us in readiness,
And take a lodging fit to entertain
Such friends as time in Padua shall beget.
  Enter BAPTISTA with his two daughters, KATHERINA
    and BIANCA; GREMIO, a pantaloon; HORTENSIO,
    suitor to BIANCA. LUCENTIO and TRANIO stand by
But stay awhile; what company is this?",708,19535
659980,348,"Master, some show to welcome us to town.",1205,19535
659981,349,"Gentlemen, importune me no farther,
For how I firmly am resolv'd you know;
That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter
Before I have a husband for the elder.
If either of you both love Katherina,
Because I know you well and love you well,
Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.",142,19535
659982,356,"To cart her rather. She's too rough for me.
There, there, Hortensio, will you any wife?",543,19535
659983,358,"[To BAPTISTA]  I pray you, sir, is it your will
To make a stale of me amongst these mates?",631,19535
659984,360,"Mates, maid! How mean you that? No mates for you,
Unless you were of gentler, milder mould.",589,19535
659985,362,"I' faith, sir, you shall never need to fear;
Iwis it is not halfway to her heart;
But if it were, doubt not her care should be
To comb your noddle with a three-legg'd stool,
And paint your face, and use you like a fool.",631,19535
659986,367,"From all such devils, good Lord deliver us!",589,19535
659987,368,"And me, too, good Lord!",543,19535
659988,369,"Husht, master! Here's some good pastime toward;
That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward.",1205,19535
659989,371,"But in the other's silence do I see
Maid's mild behaviour and sobriety.
Peace, Tranio!",708,19535
659990,374,"Well said, master; mum! and gaze your fill.",1205,19535
659991,375,"Gentlemen, that I may soon make good
What I have said- Bianca, get you in;
And let it not displease thee, good Bianca,
For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl.",142,19535
659992,379,"A pretty peat! it is best
Put finger in the eye, an she knew why.",631,19535
659993,381,"Sister, content you in my discontent.
Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe;
My books and instruments shall be my company,
On them to look, and practise by myself.",166,19535
659994,385,"Hark, Tranio, thou mayst hear Minerva speak!",708,19535
659995,386,"Signior Baptista, will you be so strange?
Sorry am I that our good will effects
Bianca's grief.",589,19535
659996,389,"Why will you mew her up,
Signior Baptista, for this fiend of hell,
And make her bear the penance of her tongue?",543,19535
659997,392,"Gentlemen, content ye; I am resolv'd.
Go in, Bianca.                              Exit BIANCA
And for I know she taketh most delight
In music, instruments, and poetry,
Schoolmasters will I keep within my house
Fit to instruct her youth. If you, Hortensio,
Or, Signior Gremio, you, know any such,
Prefer them hither; for to cunning men
I will be very kind, and liberal
To mine own children in good bringing-up;
And so, farewell. Katherina, you may stay;
For I have more to commune with Bianca.            Exit",142,19535
659998,404,"Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not?
What! shall I be appointed hours, as though, belike,
I knew not what to take and what to leave? Ha!          Exit",631,19535
659999,407,"You may go to the devil's dam; your gifts are so good
here's none will hold you. There! Love is not so great,
Hortensio, but we may blow our nails together, and fast it fairly
out; our cake's dough on both sides. Farewell; yet, for the love
I bear my sweet Bianca, if I can by any means light on a fit man
to teach her that wherein she delights, I will wish him to her
father.",543,19535
660000,414,"So Will I, Signior Gremio; but a word, I pray. Though
the nature of our quarrel yet never brook'd parle, know now, upon
advice, it toucheth us both- that we may yet again have access to
our fair mistress, and be happy rivals in Bianca's love- to
labour and effect one thing specially.",589,19535
660001,419,"What's that, I pray?",543,19535
660002,420,"Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister.",589,19535
660003,421,A husband? a devil.,543,19535
660004,422,I say a husband.,589,19535
660005,423,"I say a devil. Think'st thou, Hortensio, though her father
be very rich, any man is so very a fool to be married to hell?",543,19535
660006,425,"Tush, Gremio! Though it pass your patience and mine to
endure her loud alarums, why, man, there be good fellows in the
world, an a man could light on them, would take her with all
faults, and money enough.",589,19535
660007,429,"I cannot tell; but I had as lief take her dowry with this
condition: to be whipp'd at the high cross every morning.",543,19535
660008,431,"Faith, as you say, there's small choice in rotten
apples. But, come; since this bar in law makes us friends, it
shall be so far forth friendly maintain'd till by helping
Baptista's eldest daughter to a husband we set his youngest free
for a husband, and then have to't afresh. Sweet Bianca! Happy man
be his dole! He that runs fastest gets the ring. How say you,
Signior Gremio?",589,19535
660009,438,"I am agreed; and would I had given him the best horse in
Padua to begin his wooing that would thoroughly woo her, wed her,
and bed her, and rid the house of her! Come on.",543,19535
660010,441,                            Exeunt GREMIO and HORTENSIO,1261,19535
660011,442,"I pray, sir, tell me, is it possible
That love should of a sudden take such hold?",1205,19535
660012,444,"O Tranio, till I found it to be true,
I never thought it possible or likely.
But see! while idly I stood looking on,
I found the effect of love in idleness;
And now in plainness do confess to thee,
That art to me as secret and as dear
As Anna to the Queen of Carthage was-
Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio,
If I achieve not this young modest girl.
Counsel me, Tranio, for I know thou canst;
Assist me, Tranio, for I know thou wilt.",708,19535
660013,455,"Master, it is no time to chide you now;
Affection is not rated from the heart;
If love have touch'd you, nought remains but so:
'Redime te captum quam queas minimo.'",1205,19535
660014,459,"Gramercies, lad. Go forward; this contents;
The rest will comfort, for thy counsel's sound.",708,19535
660015,461,"Master, you look'd so longly on the maid.
Perhaps you mark'd not what's the pith of all.",1205,19535
660016,463,"O, yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face,
Such as the daughter of Agenor had,
That made great Jove to humble him to her hand,
When with his knees he kiss'd the Cretan strand.",708,19535
660017,467,"Saw you no more? Mark'd you not how her sister
Began to scold and raise up such a storm
That mortal ears might hardly endure the din?",1205,19535
660018,470,"Tranio, I saw her coral lips to move,
And with her breath she did perfume the air;
Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her.",708,19535
660019,473,"Nay, then 'tis time to stir him from his trance.
I pray, awake, sir. If you love the maid,
Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus it stands:
Her elder sister is so curst and shrewd
That, till the father rid his hands of her,
Master, your love must live a maid at home;
And therefore has he closely mew'd her up,
Because she will not be annoy'd with suitors.",1205,19535
660020,481,"Ah, Tranio, what a cruel father's he!
But art thou not advis'd he took some care
To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her?",708,19535
660021,484,"Ay, marry, am I, sir, and now 'tis plotted.",1205,19535
660022,485,"I have it, Tranio.",708,19535
660023,486,"Master, for my hand,
Both our inventions meet and jump in one.",1205,19535
660024,488,Tell me thine first.,708,19535
660025,489,"You will be schoolmaster,
And undertake the teaching of the maid-
That's your device.",1205,19535
660026,492,It is. May it be done?,708,19535
660027,493,"Not possible; for who shall bear your part
And be in Padua here Vincentio's son;
Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends,
Visit his countrymen, and banquet them?",1205,19535
660028,497,"Basta, content thee, for I have it full.
We have not yet been seen in any house,
Nor can we be distinguish'd by our faces
For man or master. Then it follows thus:
Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead,
Keep house and port and servants, as I should;
I will some other be- some Florentine,
Some Neapolitan, or meaner man of Pisa.
'Tis hatch'd, and shall be so. Tranio, at once
Uncase thee; take my colour'd hat and cloak.
When Biondello comes, he waits on thee;
But I will charm him first to keep his tongue.",708,19535
660029,509,"So had you need.           [They exchange habits]
In brief, sir, sith it your pleasure is,
And I am tied to be obedient-
For so your father charg'd me at our parting:
'Be serviceable to my son' quoth he,
Although I think 'twas in another sense-
I am content to be Lucentio,
Because so well I love Lucentio.",1205,19535
660030,517,"Tranio, be so because Lucentio loves;
And let me be a slave t' achieve that maid
Whose sudden sight hath thrall'd my wounded eye.
[Enter BIONDELLO.]
Here comes the rogue. Sirrah, where have you been?",708,19535
660031,522,"Where have I been! Nay, how now! where are you?
Master, has my fellow Tranio stol'n your clothes?
Or you stol'n his? or both? Pray, what's the news?",169,19535
660032,525,"Sirrah, come hither; 'tis no time to jest,
And therefore frame your manners to the time.
Your fellow Tranio here, to save my life,
Puts my apparel and my count'nance on,
And I for my escape have put on his;
For in a quarrel since I came ashore
I kill'd a man, and fear I was descried.
Wait you on him, I charge you, as becomes,
While I make way from hence to save my life.
You understand me?",708,19535
660033,535,"I, sir? Ne'er a whit.",169,19535
660034,536,"And not a jot of Tranio in your mouth:
Tranio is chang'd into Lucentio.",708,19535
660035,538,The better for him; would I were so too!,169,19535
660036,539,"So could I, faith, boy, to have the next wish after,
That Lucentio indeed had Baptista's youngest daughter.
But, sirrah, not for my sake but your master's, I advise
You use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies.
When I am alone, why, then I am Tranio;
But in all places else your master Lucentio.",1205,19535
660037,545,"Tranio, let's go.
One thing more rests, that thyself execute-
To make one among these wooers. If thou ask me why-
Sufficeth, my reasons are both good and weighty. Exeunt.",708,19535
660038,549,        The Presenters above speak ,1261,19535
660039,550,"My lord, you nod; you do not mind the play.",1052,19535
660040,551,"Yes, by Saint Anne do I. A good matter, surely; comes there
any more of it?",1124,19535
660041,553,"My lord, 'tis but begun.",855,19535
660042,554,"'Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady
Would 'twere done!                        [They sit and mark]",1124,19535
660043,557,Enter PETRUCHIO and his man GRUMIO,1261,19536
660044,558,"Verona, for a while I take my leave,
To see my friends in Padua; but of all
My best beloved and approved friend,
Hortensio; and I trow this is his house.
Here, sirrah Grumio, knock, I say.",878,19536
660045,563,"Knock, sir! Whom should I knock?
Is there any man has rebus'd your worship?",550,19536
660046,565,"Villain, I say, knock me here soundly.",878,19536
660047,566,"Knock you here, sir? Why, sir, what am I, sir, that I
should knock you here, sir?",550,19536
660048,568,"Villain, I say, knock me at this gate,
And rap me well, or I'll knock your knave's pate.",878,19536
660049,570,"My master is grown quarrelsome. I should knock you first,
And then I know after who comes by the worst.",550,19536
660050,572,"Will it not be?
Faith, sirrah, an you'll not knock I'll ring it;
I'll try how you can sol-fa, and sing it.",878,19536
660051,575,                            [He wrings him by the ears],1261,19536
660052,576,"Help, masters, help! My master is mad.",550,19536
660053,577,"Now knock when I bid you, sirrah villain!",878,19536
660054,578,               Enter HORTENSIO,1261,19536
660055,579,"How now! what's the matter? My old friend Grumio and my
good friend Petruchio! How do you all at Verona?",589,19536
660056,581,"Signior Hortensio, come you to part the fray?
'Con tutto il cuore ben trovato' may I say.",878,19536
660057,583,"Alla nostra casa ben venuto,
Molto honorato signor mio Petruchio.
Rise, Grumio, rise; we will compound this quarrel.",589,19536
660058,586,"Nay, 'tis no matter, sir, what he 'leges in Latin. If this
be not a lawful cause for me to leave his service- look you, sir:
he bid me knock him and rap him soundly, sir. Well, was it fit
for a servant to use his master so; being, perhaps, for aught I
see, two and thirty, a pip out?
Whom would to God I had well knock'd at first,
Then had not Grumio come by the worst.",550,19536
660059,593,"A senseless villain! Good Hortensio,
I bade the rascal knock upon your gate,
And could not get him for my heart to do it.",878,19536
660060,596,"Knock at the gate? O heavens! Spake you not these words
plain: 'Sirrah knock me here, rap me here, knock me well, and
knock me soundly'? And come you now with 'knocking at the gate'?",550,19536
660061,599,"Sirrah, be gone, or talk not, I advise you.",878,19536
660062,600,"Petruchio, patience; I am Grumio's pledge;
Why, this's a heavy chance 'twixt him and you,
Your ancient, trusty, pleasant servant Grumio.
And tell me now, sweet friend, what happy gale
Blows you to Padua here from old Verona?",589,19536
660063,605,"Such wind as scatters young men through the world
To seek their fortunes farther than at home,
Where small experience grows. But in a few,
Signior Hortensio, thus it stands with me:
Antonio, my father, is deceas'd,
And I have thrust myself into this maze,
Haply to wive and thrive as best I may;
Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,
And so am come abroad to see the world.",878,19536
660064,614,"Petruchio, shall I then come roundly to thee
And wish thee to a shrewd ill-favour'd wife?
Thou'dst thank me but a little for my counsel,
And yet I'll promise thee she shall be rich,
And very rich; but th'art too much my friend,
And I'll not wish thee to her.",589,19536
660065,620,"Signior Hortensio, 'twixt such friends as we
Few words suffice; and therefore, if thou know
One rich enough to be Petruchio's wife,
As wealth is burden of my wooing dance,
Be she as foul as was Florentius' love,
As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd
As Socrates' Xanthippe or a worse-
She moves me not, or not removes, at least,
Affection's edge in me, were she as rough
As are the swelling Adriatic seas.
I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;
If wealthily, then happily in Padua.",878,19536
660066,632,"Nay, look you, sir, he tells you flatly what his mind is.
Why, give him gold enough and marry him to a puppet or an
aglet-baby, or an old trot with ne'er a tooth in her head, though
she has as many diseases as two and fifty horses. Why, nothing
comes amiss, so money comes withal.",550,19536
660067,637,"Petruchio, since we are stepp'd thus far in,
I will continue that I broach'd in jest.
I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife
With wealth enough, and young and beauteous;
Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman;
Her only fault, and that is faults enough,
Is- that she is intolerable curst,
And shrewd and froward so beyond all measure
That, were my state far worser than it is,
I would not wed her for a mine of gold.",589,19536
660068,647,"Hortensio, peace! thou know'st not gold's effect.
Tell me her father's name, and 'tis enough;
For I will board her though she chide as loud
As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.",878,19536
660069,651,"Her father is Baptista Minola,
An affable and courteous gentleman;
Her name is Katherina Minola,
Renown'd in Padua for her scolding tongue.",589,19536
660070,655,"I know her father, though I know not her;
And he knew my deceased father well.
I will not sleep, Hortensio, till I see her;
And therefore let me be thus bold with you
To give you over at this first encounter,
Unless you will accompany me thither.",878,19536
660071,661,"I pray you, sir, let him go while the humour lasts. O' my
word, and she knew him as well as I do, she would think scolding
would do little good upon him. She may perhaps call him half a
score knaves or so. Why, that's nothing; and he begin once, he'll
rail in his rope-tricks. I'll tell you what, sir: an she stand
him but a little, he will throw a figure in her face, and so
disfigure her with it that she shall have no more eyes to see
withal than a cat. You know him not, sir.",550,19536
660072,669,"Tarry, Petruchio, I must go with thee,
For in Baptista's keep my treasure is.
He hath the jewel of my life in hold,
His youngest daughter, beautiful Bianca;
And her withholds from me, and other more,
Suitors to her and rivals in my love;
Supposing it a thing impossible-
For those defects I have before rehears'd-
That ever Katherina will be woo'd.
Therefore this order hath Baptista ta'en,
That none shall have access unto Bianca
Till Katherine the curst have got a husband.",589,19536
660073,681,"Katherine the curst!
A title for a maid of all titles the worst.",550,19536
660074,683,"Now shall my friend Petruchio do me grace,
And offer me disguis'd in sober robes
To old Baptista as a schoolmaster
Well seen in music, to instruct Bianca;
That so I may by this device at least
Have leave and leisure to make love to her,
And unsuspected court her by herself.
    Enter GREMIO with LUCENTIO disguised as CAMBIO",589,19536
660075,691,"Here's no knavery! See, to beguile the old folks, how the
young folks lay their heads together! Master, master, look about
you. Who goes there, ha?",550,19536
660076,694,"Peace, Grumio! It is the rival of my love. Petruchio,
stand by awhile.",589,19536
660077,696,"A proper stripling, and an amorous!",550,19536
660078,697,                                     [They stand aside],1261,19536
660079,698,"O, very well; I have perus'd the note.
Hark you, sir; I'll have them very fairly bound-
All books of love, see that at any hand;
And see you read no other lectures to her.
You understand me- over and beside
Signior Baptista's liberality,
I'll mend it with a largess. Take your paper too,
And let me have them very well perfum'd;
For she is sweeter than perfume itself
To whom they go to. What will you read to her?",543,19536
660080,708,"Whate'er I read to her, I'll plead for you
As for my patron, stand you so assur'd,
As firmly as yourself were still in place;
Yea, and perhaps with more successful words
Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir.",708,19536
660081,713,"O this learning, what a thing it is!",543,19536
660082,714,"O this woodcock, what an ass it is!",550,19536
660083,715,"Peace, sirrah!",878,19536
660084,716,"Grumio, mum!                       [Coming forward]
God save you, Signior Gremio!",589,19536
660085,718,"And you are well met, Signior Hortensio.
Trow you whither I am going? To Baptista Minola.
I promis'd to enquire carefully
About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca;
And by good fortune I have lighted well
On this young man; for learning and behaviour
Fit for her turn, well read in poetry
And other books- good ones, I warrant ye.",543,19536
660086,726,"'Tis well; and I have met a gentleman
Hath promis'd me to help me to another,
A fine musician to instruct our mistress;
So shall I no whit be behind in duty
To fair Bianca, so beloved of me.",589,19536
660087,731,Beloved of me- and that my deeds shall prove.,543,19536
660088,732,And that his bags shall prove.,550,19536
660089,733,"Gremio, 'tis now no time to vent our love.
Listen to me, and if you speak me fair
I'll tell you news indifferent good for either.
Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met,
Upon agreement from us to his liking,
Will undertake to woo curst Katherine;
Yea, and to marry her, if her dowry please.",589,19536
660090,740,"So said, so done, is well.
Hortensio, have you told him all her faults?",543,19536
660091,742,"I know she is an irksome brawling scold;
If that be all, masters, I hear no harm.",878,19536
660092,744,"No, say'st me so, friend? What countryman?",543,19536
660093,745,"Born in Verona, old Antonio's son.
My father dead, my fortune lives for me;
And I do hope good days and long to see.",878,19536
660094,748,"O Sir, such a life with such a wife were strange!
But if you have a stomach, to't a God's name;
You shall have me assisting you in all.
But will you woo this wild-cat?",543,19536
660095,752,Will I live?,878,19536
660096,753,"Will he woo her? Ay, or I'll hang her.",550,19536
660097,754,"Why came I hither but to that intent?
Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
Have I not heard the sea, puff'd up with winds,
Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat?
Have I not heard great ordnance in the field,
And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies?
Have I not in a pitched battle heard
Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang?
And do you tell me of a woman's tongue,
That gives not half so great a blow to hear
As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire?
Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs.",878,19536
660098,767,For he fears none.,550,19536
660099,768,"Hortensio, hark:
This gentleman is happily arriv'd,
My mind presumes, for his own good and ours.",543,19536
660100,771,"I promis'd we would be contributors
And bear his charge of wooing, whatsoe'er.",589,19536
660101,773,And so we will- provided that he win her.,543,19536
660102,774,"I would I were as sure of a good dinner.
Enter TRANIO, bravely apparelled as LUCENTIO, and BIONDELLO",550,19536
660103,776,"Gentlemen, God save you! If I may be bold,
Tell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way
To the house of Signior Baptista Minola?",1205,19536
660104,779,He that has the two fair daughters; is't he you mean?,169,19536
660105,780,"Even he, Biondello.",1205,19536
660106,781,"Hark you, sir, you mean not her to-",543,19536
660107,782,"Perhaps him and her, sir; what have you to do?",1205,19536
660108,783,"Not her that chides, sir, at any hand, I pray.",878,19536
660109,784,"I love no chiders, sir. Biondello, let's away.",1205,19536
660110,785,"[Aside]  Well begun, Tranio.",708,19536
660111,786,"Sir, a word ere you go.
Are you a suitor to the maid you talk of, yea or no?",589,19536
660112,788,"And if I be, sir, is it any offence?",1205,19536
660113,789,No; if without more words you will get you hence.,543,19536
660114,790,"Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
For me as for you?",1205,19536
660115,792,But so is not she.,543,19536
660116,793,"For what reason, I beseech you?",1205,19536
660117,794,"For this reason, if you'll know,
That she's the choice love of Signior Gremio.",543,19536
660118,796,That she's the chosen of Signior Hortensio.,589,19536
660119,797,"Softly, my masters! If you be gentlemen,
Do me this right- hear me with patience.
Baptista is a noble gentleman,
To whom my father is not all unknown,
And, were his daughter fairer than she is,
She may more suitors have, and me for one.
Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers;
Then well one more may fair Bianca have;
And so she shall: Lucentio shall make one,
Though Paris came in hope to speed alone.",1205,19536
660120,807,"What, this gentleman will out-talk us all!",543,19536
660121,808,"Sir, give him head; I know he'll prove a jade.",708,19536
660122,809,"Hortensio, to what end are all these words?",878,19536
660123,810,"Sir, let me be so bold as ask you,
Did you yet ever see Baptista's daughter?",589,19536
660124,812,"No, sir, but hear I do that he hath two:
The one as famous for a scolding tongue
As is the other for beauteous modesty.",1205,19536
660125,815,"Sir, sir, the first's for me; let her go by.",878,19536
660126,816,"Yea, leave that labour to great Hercules,
And let it be more than Alcides' twelve.",543,19536
660127,818,"Sir, understand you this of me, in sooth:
The youngest daughter, whom you hearken for,
Her father keeps from all access of suitors,
And will not promise her to any man
Until the elder sister first be wed.
The younger then is free, and not before.",878,19536
660128,824,"If it be so, sir, that you are the man
Must stead us all, and me amongst the rest;
And if you break the ice, and do this feat,
Achieve the elder, set the younger free
For our access- whose hap shall be to have her
Will not so graceless be to be ingrate.",1205,19536
660129,830,"Sir, you say well, and well you do conceive;
And since you do profess to be a suitor,
You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman,
To whom we all rest generally beholding.",589,19536
660130,834,"Sir, I shall not be slack; in sign whereof,
Please ye we may contrive this afternoon,
And quaff carouses to our mistress' health;
And do as adversaries do in law-
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.",1205,19536
660131,839,"[with BIONDELLO:] O excellent motion! Fellows, let's be gone.",550,19536
660132,840,"The motion's good indeed, and be it so.
Petruchio, I shall be your ben venuto.           Exeunt",589,19536
660133,844,Enter KATHERINA and BIANCA,1261,19537
660134,845,"Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself,
To make a bondmaid and a slave of me-
That I disdain; but for these other gawds,
Unbind my hands, I'll pull them off myself,
Yea, all my raiment, to my petticoat;
Or what you will command me will I do,
So well I know my duty to my elders.",166,19537
660135,852,"Of all thy suitors here I charge thee tell
Whom thou lov'st best. See thou dissemble not.",631,19537
660136,854,"Believe me, sister, of all the men alive
I never yet beheld that special face
Which I could fancy more than any other.",166,19537
660137,857,"Minion, thou liest. Is't not Hortensio?",631,19537
660138,858,"If you affect him, sister, here I swear
I'll plead for you myself but you shall have him.",166,19537
660139,860,"O then, belike, you fancy riches more:
You will have Gremio to keep you fair.",631,19537
660140,862,"Is it for him you do envy me so?
Nay, then you jest; and now I well perceive
You have but jested with me all this while.
I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands.",166,19537
660141,866,"[Strikes her]  If that be jest, then an the rest was so.",631,19537
660142,867,                   Enter BAPTISTA,1261,19537
660143,868,"Why, how now, dame! Whence grows this insolence?
Bianca, stand aside- poor girl! she weeps.
[He unbinds her]
Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her.
For shame, thou hilding of a devilish spirit,
Why dost thou wrong her that did ne'er wrong thee?
When did she cross thee with a bitter word?",142,19537
660144,875,"Her silence flouts me, and I'll be reveng'd.",631,19537
660145,876,                                   [Flies after BIANCA],1261,19537
660146,877,"What, in my sight? Bianca, get thee in.",142,19537
660147,878,[Exit BIANCA],1261,19537
660148,879,"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see
She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
I must dance bare-foot on her wedding-day,
And for your love to her lead apes in hell.
Talk not to me; I will go sit and weep,
Till I can find occasion of revenge.     Exit KATHERINA",631,19537
660149,885,"Was ever gentleman thus griev'd as I?
But who comes here?",142,19537
660150,887,"    Enter GREMIO, with LUCENTIO in the habit of a mean man; PETRUCHIO, with HORTENSIO as a musician; and TRANIO, as LUCENTIO, with his boy, BIONDELLO, bearing a lute and books",1261,19537
660151,888,"Good morrow, neighbour Baptista.",543,19537
660152,889,"Good morrow, neighbour Gremio.
God save you, gentlemen!",142,19537
660153,891,"And you, good sir! Pray, have you not a daughter
Call'd Katherina, fair and virtuous?",878,19537
660154,893,"I have a daughter, sir, call'd Katherina.",142,19537
660155,894,You are too blunt; go to it orderly.,543,19537
660156,895,"You wrong me, Signior Gremio; give me leave.
I am a gentleman of Verona, sir,
That, hearing of her beauty and her wit,
Her affability and bashful modesty,
Her wondrous qualities and mild behaviour,
Am bold to show myself a forward guest
Within your house, to make mine eye the witness
Of that report which I so oft have heard.
And, for an entrance to my entertainment,
I do present you with a man of mine,
[Presenting HORTENSIO]
Cunning in music and the mathematics,
To instruct her fully in those sciences,
Whereof I know she is not ignorant.
Accept of him, or else you do me wrong-
His name is Licio, born in Mantua.",878,19537
660157,911,"Y'are welcome, sir, and he for your good sake;
But for my daughter Katherine, this I know,
She is not for your turn, the more my grief.",142,19537
660158,914,"I see you do not mean to part with her;
Or else you like not of my company.",878,19537
660159,916,"Mistake me not; I speak but as I find.
Whence are you, sir? What may I call your name?",142,19537
660160,918,"Petruchio is my name, Antonio's son,
A man well known throughout all Italy.",878,19537
660161,920,I know him well; you are welcome for his sake.,142,19537
660162,921,"Saving your tale, Petruchio, I pray,
Let us that are poor petitioners speak too.
Bacare! you are marvellous forward.",543,19537
660163,924,"O, pardon me, Signior Gremio! I would fain be doing.",878,19537
660164,925,"I doubt it not, sir; but you will curse your wooing.
Neighbour, this is a gift very grateful, I am sure of it. To
express the like kindness, myself, that have been more kindly
beholding to you than any, freely give unto you this young
scholar  [Presenting LUCENTIO]  that hath been long studying at
Rheims; as cunning in Greek, Latin, and other languages, as the
other in music and mathematics. His name is Cambio. Pray accept
his service.",543,19537
660165,933,"A thousand thanks, Signior Gremio. Welcome, good Cambio.
[To TRANIO]  But, gentle sir, methinks you walk like a stranger.
May I be so bold to know the cause of your coming?",142,19537
660166,936,"Pardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own
That, being a stranger in this city here,
Do make myself a suitor to your daughter,
Unto Bianca, fair and virtuous.
Nor is your firm resolve unknown to me
In the preferment of the eldest sister.
This liberty is all that I request-
That, upon knowledge of my parentage,
I may have welcome 'mongst the rest that woo,
And free access and favour as the rest.
And toward the education of your daughters
I here bestow a simple instrument,
And this small packet of Greek and Latin books.
If you accept them, then their worth is great.",1205,19537
660167,950,"Lucentio is your name? Of whence, I pray?",142,19537
660168,951,"Of Pisa, sir; son to Vincentio.",1205,19537
660169,952,"A mighty man of Pisa. By report
I know him well. You are very welcome, sir.
Take you the lute, and you the set of books;
You shall go see your pupils presently.
Holla, within!
[Enter a SERVANT]
Sirrah, lead these gentlemen
To my daughters; and tell them both
These are their tutors. Bid them use them well.
[Exit SERVANT leading HORTENSIO carrying the lute and LUCENTIO with the books]
We will go walk a little in the orchard,
And then to dinner. You are passing welcome,
And so I pray you all to think yourselves.",142,19537
660170,965,"Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste,
And every day I cannot come to woo.
You knew my father well, and in him me,
Left solely heir to all his lands and goods,
Which I have bettered rather than decreas'd.
Then tell me, if I get your daughter's love,
What dowry shall I have with her to wife?",878,19537
660171,972,"After my death, the one half of my lands
And, in possession, twenty thousand crowns.",142,19537
660172,974,"And for that dowry, I'll assure her of
Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,
In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
Let specialities be therefore drawn between us,
That covenants may be kept on either hand.",878,19537
660173,979,"Ay, when the special thing is well obtain'd,
That is, her love; for that is all in all.",142,19537
660174,981,"Why, that is nothing; for I tell you, father,
I am as peremptory as she proud-minded;
And where two raging fires meet together,
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.
So I to her, and so she yields to me;
For I am rough, and woo not like a babe.",878,19537
660175,989,"Well mayst thou woo, and happy be thy speed
But be thou arm'd for some unhappy words.",142,19537
660176,991,"Ay, to the proof, as mountains are for winds,
That shake not though they blow perpetually.",878,19537
660177,993,"    Re-enter HORTENSIO, with his head broke",1261,19537
660178,994,"How now, my friend! Why dost thou look so pale?",142,19537
660179,995,"For fear, I promise you, if I look pale.",589,19537
660180,996,"What, will my daughter prove a good musician?",142,19537
660181,997,"I think she'll sooner prove a soldier:
Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.",589,19537
660182,999,"Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?",142,19537
660183,1000,"Why, no; for she hath broke the lute to me.
I did but tell her she mistook her frets,
And bow'd her hand to teach her fingering,
When, with a most impatient devilish spirit,
'Frets, call you these?' quoth she 'I'll fume with them.'
And with that word she struck me on the head,
And through the instrument my pate made way;
And there I stood amazed for a while,
As on a pillory, looking through the lute,
While she did call me rascal fiddler
And twangling Jack, with twenty such vile terms,
As she had studied to misuse me so.",589,19537
660184,1012,"Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench;
I love her ten times more than e'er I did.
O, how I long to have some chat with her!",878,19537
660185,1015,"Well, go with me, and be not so discomfited;
Proceed in practice with my younger daughter;
She's apt to learn, and thankful for good turns.
Signior Petruchio, will you go with us,
Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you?",142,19537
660186,1020,"I pray you do.        Exeunt all but PETRUCHIO
I'll attend her here,
And woo her with some spirit when she comes.
Say that she rail; why, then I'll tell her plain
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale.
Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew.
Say she be mute, and will not speak a word;
Then I'll commend her volubility,
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.
If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks,
As though she bid me stay by her a week;
If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day
When I shall ask the banns, and when be married.
But here she comes; and now, Petruchio, speak.
[Enter KATHERINA]
Good morrow, Kate- for that's your name, I hear.",878,19537
660187,1037,"Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing:
They call me Katherine that do talk of me.",631,19537
660188,1039,"You lie, in faith, for you are call'd plain Kate,
And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst;
But, Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,
Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate,
For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate,
Take this of me, Kate of my consolation-
Hearing thy mildness prais'd in every town,
Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded,
Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs,
Myself am mov'd to woo thee for my wife.",878,19537
660189,1049,"Mov'd! in good time! Let him that mov'd you hither
Remove you hence. I knew you at the first
You were a moveable.",631,19537
660190,1052,"Why, what's a moveable?",878,19537
660191,1053,A join'd-stool.,631,19537
660192,1054,"Thou hast hit it. Come, sit on me.",878,19537
660193,1055,"Asses are made to bear, and so are you.",631,19537
660194,1056,"Women are made to bear, and so are you.",878,19537
660195,1057,"No such jade as you, if me you mean.",631,19537
660196,1058,"Alas, good Kate, I will not burden thee!
For, knowing thee to be but young and light-",878,19537
660197,1060,"Too light for such a swain as you to catch;
And yet as heavy as my weight should be.",631,19537
660198,1062,Should be! should- buzz!,878,19537
660199,1063,"Well ta'en, and like a buzzard.",631,19537
660200,1064,"O, slow-wing'd turtle, shall a buzzard take thee?",878,19537
660201,1065,"Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard.",631,19537
660202,1066,"Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry.",878,19537
660203,1067,"If I be waspish, best beware my sting.",631,19537
660204,1068,My remedy is then to pluck it out.,878,19537
660205,1069,"Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies.",631,19537
660206,1070,"Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting?
In his tail.",878,19537
660207,1072,In his tongue.,631,19537
660208,1073,Whose tongue?,878,19537
660209,1074,"Yours, if you talk of tales; and so farewell.",631,19537
660210,1075,"What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again,
Good Kate; I am a gentleman.",878,19537
660211,1077,That I'll try.               [She strikes him],631,19537
660212,1078,"I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.",878,19537
660213,1079,"So may you lose your arms.
If you strike me, you are no gentleman;
And if no gentleman, why then no arms.",631,19537
660214,1082,"A herald, Kate? O, put me in thy books!",878,19537
660215,1083,What is your crest- a coxcomb?,631,19537
660216,1084,"A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen.",878,19537
660217,1085,No cock of mine: you crow too like a craven.,631,19537
660218,1086,"Nay, come, Kate, come; you must not look so sour.",878,19537
660219,1087,"It is my fashion, when I see a crab.",631,19537
660220,1088,"Why, here's no crab; and therefore look not sour.",878,19537
660221,1089,"There is, there is.",631,19537
660222,1090,Then show it me.,878,19537
660223,1091,Had I a glass I would.,631,19537
660224,1092,"What, you mean my face?",878,19537
660225,1093,Well aim'd of such a young one.,631,19537
660226,1094,"Now, by Saint George, I am too young for you.",878,19537
660227,1095,Yet you are wither'd.,631,19537
660233,1115,"Go, fool, and whom thou keep'st command.",631,19537
660234,1116,"Did ever Dian so become a grove
As Kate this chamber with her princely gait?
O, be thou Dian, and let her be Kate;
And then let Kate be chaste, and Dian sportful!",878,19537
660235,1120,Where did you study all this goodly speech?,631,19537
660236,1121,"It is extempore, from my mother wit.",878,19537
660237,1122,A witty mother! witless else her son.,631,19537
660238,1123,Am I not wise?,878,19537
660239,1124,"Yes, keep you warm.",631,19537
660240,1125,"Marry, so I mean, sweet Katherine, in thy bed.
And therefore, setting all this chat aside,
Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented
That you shall be my wife your dowry greed on;
And will you, nill you, I will marry you.
Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn;
For, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,
Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well,
Thou must be married to no man but me;
For I am he am born to tame you, Kate,
And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate
Conformable as other household Kates.
[Re-enter BAPTISTA, GREMIO, and TRANIO]
Here comes your father. Never make denial;
I must and will have Katherine to my wife.",878,19537
660241,1140,"Now, Signior Petruchio, how speed you with my daughter?",142,19537
660242,1141,"How but well, sir? how but well?
It were impossible I should speed amiss.",878,19537
660243,1143,"Why, how now, daughter Katherine, in your dumps?",142,19537
660244,1144,"Call you me daughter? Now I promise you
You have show'd a tender fatherly regard
To wish me wed to one half lunatic,
A mad-cap ruffian and a swearing Jack,
That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.",631,19537
660245,1149,"Father, 'tis thus: yourself and all the world
That talk'd of her have talk'd amiss of her.
If she be curst, it is for policy,
For,she's not froward, but modest as the dove;
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn;
For patience she will prove a second Grissel,
And Roman Lucrece for her chastity.
And, to conclude, we have 'greed so well together
That upon Sunday is the wedding-day.",878,19537
660246,1158,I'll see thee hang'd on Sunday first.,631,19537
660247,1159,"Hark, Petruchio; she says she'll see thee hang'd first.",543,19537
660248,1160,"Is this your speeding? Nay, then good-night our part!",1205,19537
660249,1161,"Be patient, gentlemen. I choose her for myself;
If she and I be pleas'd, what's that to you?
'Tis bargain'd 'twixt us twain, being alone,
That she shall still be curst in company.
I tell you 'tis incredible to believe.
How much she loves me- O, the kindest Kate!
She hung about my neck, and kiss on kiss
She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath,
That in a twink she won me to her love.
O, you are novices! 'Tis a world to see,
How tame, when men and women are alone,
A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
Give me thy hand, Kate; I will unto Venice,
To buy apparel 'gainst the wedding-day.
Provide the feast, father, and bid the guests;
I will be sure my Katherine shall be fine.",878,19537
660250,1177,"I know not what to say; but give me your hands.
God send you joy, Petruchio! 'Tis a match.",142,19537
660251,1179,"[with TRANIO:] Amen, say we; we will be witnesses.",543,19537
660252,1180,"Father, and wife, and gentlemen, adieu.
I will to Venice; Sunday comes apace;
We will have rings and things, and fine array;
And kiss me, Kate; we will be married a Sunday.",878,19537
660253,1184,               Exeunt PETRUCHIO and KATHERINA severally,1261,19537
660254,1185,Was ever match clapp'd up so suddenly?,543,19537
660255,1186,"Faith, gentlemen, now I play a merchant's part,
And venture madly on a desperate mart.",142,19537
660256,1188,"'Twas a commodity lay fretting by you;
'Twill bring you gain, or perish on the seas.",1205,19537
660257,1190,The gain I seek is quiet in the match.,142,19537
660258,1191,"No doubt but he hath got a quiet catch.
But now, Baptista, to your younger daughter:
Now is the day we long have looked for;
I am your neighbour, and was suitor first.",543,19537
660259,1195,"And I am one that love Bianca more
Than words can witness or your thoughts can guess.",1205,19537
660260,1197,"Youngling, thou canst not love so dear as I.",543,19537
660261,1198,"Greybeard, thy love doth freeze.",1205,19537
660262,1199,"But thine doth fry.
Skipper, stand back; 'tis age that nourisheth.",543,19537
660263,1201,But youth in ladies' eyes that flourisheth.,1205,19537
660264,1202,"Content you, gentlemen; I will compound this strife.
'Tis deeds must win the prize, and he of both
That can assure my daughter greatest dower
Shall have my Bianca's love.
Say, Signior Gremio, what can you assure her?",142,19537
660265,1207,"First, as you know, my house within the city
Is richly furnished with plate and gold,
Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;
My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry;
In ivory coffers I have stuff'd my crowns;
In cypress chests my arras counterpoints,
Costly apparel, tents, and canopies,
Fine linen, Turkey cushions boss'd with pearl,
Valance of Venice gold in needle-work;
Pewter and brass, and all things that belongs
To house or housekeeping. Then at my farm
I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail,
Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls,
And all things answerable to this portion.
Myself am struck in years, I must confess;
And if I die to-morrow this is hers,
If whilst I live she will be only mine.",543,19537
660266,1224,"That 'only' came well in. Sir, list to me:
I am my father's heir and only son;
If I may have your daughter to my wife,
I'll leave her houses three or four as good
Within rich Pisa's walls as any one
Old Signior Gremio has in Padua;
Besides two thousand ducats by the year
Of fruitful land, all which shall be her jointure.
What, have I pinch'd you, Signior Gremio?",1205,19537
660267,1233,"Two thousand ducats by the year of land!
[Aside]  My land amounts not to so much in all.-
That she shall have, besides an argosy
That now is lying in Marseilles road.
What, have I chok'd you with an argosy?",543,19537
660268,1238,"Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less
Than three great argosies, besides two galliasses,
And twelve tight galleys. These I will assure her,
And twice as much whate'er thou off'rest next.",1205,19537
660269,1242,"Nay, I have off'red all; I have no more;
And she can have no more than all I have;
If you like me, she shall have me and mine.",543,19537
660270,1245,"Why, then the maid is mine from all the world
By your firm promise; Gremio is out-vied.",1205,19537
660271,1247,"I must confess your offer is the best;
And let your father make her the assurance,
She is your own. Else, you must pardon me;
If you should die before him, where's her dower?",142,19537
660272,1251,"That's but a cavil; he is old, I young.",1205,19537
660273,1252,And may not young men die as well as old?,543,19537
660274,1253,"Well, gentlemen,
I am thus resolv'd: on Sunday next you know
My daughter Katherine is to be married;
Now, on the Sunday following shall Bianca
Be bride to you, if you make this assurance;
If not, to Signior Gremio.
And so I take my leave, and thank you both.",142,19537
660275,1260,"Adieu, good neighbour.              Exit BAPTISTA
Now, I fear thee not.
Sirrah young gamester, your father were a fool
To give thee all, and in his waning age
Set foot under thy table. Tut, a toy!
An old Italian fox is not so kind, my boy.         Exit",543,19537
660276,1266,"A vengeance on your crafty withered hide!
Yet I have fac'd it with a card of ten.
'Tis in my head to do my master good:
I see no reason but suppos'd Lucentio
Must get a father, call'd suppos'd Vincentio;
And that's a wonder- fathers commonly
Do get their children; but in this case of wooing
A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning.",1205,19537
660277,1274, Exit,1261,19537
660278,1277,"Enter LUCENTIO as CAMBIO, HORTENSIO as LICIO, and BIANCA",1261,19538
660279,1278,"Fiddler, forbear; you grow too forward, sir.
Have you so soon forgot the entertainment
Her sister Katherine welcome'd you withal?",708,19538
660280,1281,"But, wrangling pedant, this is
The patroness of heavenly harmony.
Then give me leave to have prerogative;
And when in music we have spent an hour,
Your lecture shall have leisure for as much.",589,19538
660281,1286,"Preposterous ass, that never read so far
To know the cause why music was ordain'd!
Was it not to refresh the mind of man
After his studies or his usual pain?
Then give me leave to read philosophy,
And while I pause serve in your harmony.",708,19538
660282,1292,"Sirrah, I will not bear these braves of thine.",589,19538
660283,1293,"Why, gentlemen, you do me double wrong
To strive for that which resteth in my choice.
I am no breeching scholar in the schools,
I'll not be tied to hours nor 'pointed times,
But learn my lessons as I please myself.
And to cut off all strife: here sit we down;
Take you your instrument, play you the whiles!
His lecture will be done ere you have tun'd.",166,19538
660284,1301,You'll leave his lecture when I am in tune?,589,19538
660285,1302,That will be never- tune your instrument.,708,19538
660286,1303,Where left we last?,166,19538
660287,1304,"Here, madam:
'Hic ibat Simois, hic est Sigeia tellus,
Hic steterat Priami regia celsa senis.'",708,19538
660288,1307,Construe them.,166,19538
660289,1308,"'Hic ibat' as I told you before- 'Simois' I am Lucentio-
'hic est' son unto Vincentio of Pisa- 'Sigeia tellus' disguised
thus to get your love- 'Hic steterat' and that Lucentio that
comes a-wooing- 'Priami' is my man Tranio- 'regia' bearing my
port- 'celsa senis' that we might beguile the old pantaloon.",708,19538
660290,1313,"Madam, my instrument's in tune.",589,19538
660291,1314,Let's hear. O fie! the treble jars.,166,19538
660292,1315,"Spit in the hole, man, and tune again.",708,19538
660293,1316,"Now let me see if I can construe it: 'Hic ibat Simois' I
know you not- 'hic est Sigeia tellus' I trust you not- 'Hic
steterat Priami' take heed he hear us not- 'regia' presume not-
'celsa senis' despair not.",166,19538
660294,1320,"Madam, 'tis now in tune.",589,19538
660295,1321,All but the bass.,708,19538
660296,1322,"The bass is right; 'tis the base knave that jars.
[Aside]  How fiery and forward our pedant is!
Now, for my life, the knave doth court my love.
Pedascule, I'll watch you better yet.",589,19538
660297,1326,"In time I may believe, yet I mistrust.",166,19538
660298,1327,"Mistrust it not- for sure, AEacides
Was Ajax, call'd so from his grandfather.",708,19538
660299,1329,"I must believe my master; else, I promise you,
I should be arguing still upon that doubt;
But let it rest. Now, Licio, to you.
Good master, take it not unkindly, pray,
That I have been thus pleasant with you both.",166,19538
660300,1334,"[To LUCENTIO]  You may go walk and give me leave
  awhile;
My lessons make no music in three Parts.",589,19538
660301,1337,"Are you so formal, sir? Well, I must wait,
[Aside]  And watch withal; for, but I be deceiv'd,
Our fine musician groweth amorous.",708,19538
660302,1340,"Madam, before you touch the instrument
To learn the order of my fingering,
I must begin with rudiments of art,
To teach you gamut in a briefer sort,
More pleasant, pithy, and effectual,
Than hath been taught by any of my trade;
And there it is in writing fairly drawn.",589,19538
660303,1347,"Why, I am past my gamut long ago.",166,19538
660304,1348,Yet read the gamut of Hortensio.,589,19538
660305,1349,"[Reads]
     '""Gamut"" I am, the ground of all accord-
     ""A re"" to plead Hortensio's passion-
     ""B mi"" Bianca, take him for thy lord-
     ""C fa ut"" that loves with all affection-
     ""D sol re"" one clef, two notes have I-
     ""E la mi"" show pity or I die.'
Call you this gamut? Tut, I like it not!
Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice
To change true rules for odd inventions.",166,19538
660306,1359,              Enter a SERVANT,1261,19538
660307,1360,"Mistress, your father prays you leave your books
And help to dress your sister's chamber up.
You know to-morrow is the wedding-day.",1076,19538
660308,1363,"Farewell, sweet masters, both; I must be gone.",166,19538
660309,1364,                              Exeunt BIANCA and SERVANT,1261,19538
660310,1365,"Faith, mistress, then I have no cause to stay.",708,19538
660311,1366, Exit,1261,19538
660312,1367,"But I have cause to pry into this pedant;
Methinks he looks as though he were in love.
Yet if thy thoughts, Bianca, be so humble
To cast thy wand'ring eyes on every stale-
Seize thee that list. If once I find thee ranging,
Hortensio will be quit with thee by changing.        Exit",589,19538
660313,1374,"Enter BAPTISTA, GREMIO, TRANIO as LUCENTIO, KATHERINA, BIANCA, LUCENTIO as CAMBIO, and ATTENDANTS",1261,19539
660314,1375,"[To TRANIO]  Signior Lucentio, this is the 'pointed day
That Katherine and Petruchio should be married,
And yet we hear not of our son-in-law.
What will be said? What mockery will it be
To want the bridegroom when the priest attends
To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage!
What says Lucentio to this shame of ours?",142,19539
660315,1382,"No shame but mine; I must, forsooth, be forc'd
To give my hand, oppos'd against my heart,
Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen,
Who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure.
I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,
Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviour;
And, to be noted for a merry man,
He'll woo a thousand, 'point the day of marriage,
Make friends invited, and proclaim the banns;
Yet never means to wed where he hath woo'd.
Now must the world point at poor Katherine,
And say 'Lo, there is mad Petruchio's wife,
If it would please him come and marry her!'",631,19539
660316,1395,"Patience, good Katherine, and Baptista too.
Upon my life, Petruchio means but well,
Whatever fortune stays him from his word.
Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise;
Though he be merry, yet withal he's honest.",1205,19539
660317,1400,Would Katherine had never seen him though!,631,19539
660318,1401,"           Exit, weeping, followed by BIANCA and others",1261,19539
660319,1402,"Go, girl, I cannot blame thee now to weep,
For such an injury would vex a very saint;
Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour.
[Enter BIONDELLO]
Master, master! News, and such old news as you never heard of!",142,19539
660320,1407,Is it new and old too? How may that be?,142,19539
660321,1408,"Why, is it not news to hear of Petruchio's coming?",169,19539
660322,1409,Is he come?,142,19539
660323,1410,"Why, no, sir.",169,19539
660324,1411,What then?,142,19539
660325,1412,He is coming.,169,19539
660326,1413,When will he be here?,142,19539
660327,1414,When he stands where I am and sees you there.,169,19539
660328,1415,"But, say, what to thine old news?",1205,19539
660329,1416,"Why, Petruchio is coming- in a new hat and an old
jerkin; a pair of old breeches thrice turn'd; a pair of boots
that have been candle-cases, one buckled, another lac'd; an old
rusty sword ta'en out of the town armoury, with a broken hilt,
and chapeless; with two broken points; his horse hipp'd, with an
old motley saddle and stirrups of no kindred; besides, possess'd
with the glanders and like to mose in the chine, troubled with
the lampass, infected with the fashions, full of windgalls, sped
with spavins, rayed with the yellows, past cure of the fives,
stark spoil'd with the staggers, begnawn with the bots, sway'd in
the back and shoulder-shotten, near-legg'd before, and with a
half-cheek'd bit, and a head-stall of sheep's leather which,
being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often
burst, and now repaired with knots; one girth six times piec'd,
and a woman's crupper of velure, which hath two letters for her
name fairly set down in studs, and here and there piec'd with
pack-thread.",169,19539
660330,1433,Who comes with him?,142,19539
660331,1434,"O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparison'd like
the horse- with a linen stock on one leg and a kersey boot-hose
on the other, gart'red with a red and blue list; an old hat, and
the humour of forty fancies prick'd in't for a feather; a
monster, a very monster in apparel, and not like a Christian
footboy or a gentleman's lackey.",169,19539
660332,1440,"'Tis some odd humour pricks him to this fashion;
Yet oftentimes lie goes but mean-apparell'd.",1205,19539
660333,1442,"I am glad he's come, howsoe'er he comes.",142,19539
660334,1443,"Why, sir, he comes not.",169,19539
660335,1444,Didst thou not say he comes?,142,19539
660336,1445,Who? that Petruchio came?,169,19539
660337,1446,"Ay, that Petruchio came.",142,19539
660338,1447,"No, sir; I say his horse comes with him on his back.",169,19539
660339,1448,"Why, that's all one.",142,19539
660340,1449,"Nay, by Saint Jamy,
         I hold you a penny,
         A horse and a man
         Is more than one,
         And yet not many.",169,19539
660341,1454,         Enter PETRUCHIO and GRUMIO,1261,19539
660342,1455,"Come, where be these gallants? Who's at home?",878,19539
660343,1456,"You are welcome, sir.",142,19539
660344,1457,And yet I come not well.,878,19539
660345,1458,And yet you halt not.,142,19539
660346,1459,"Not so well apparell'd
As I wish you were.",1205,19539
660347,1461,"Were it better, I should rush in thus.
But where is Kate? Where is my lovely bride?
How does my father? Gentles, methinks you frown;
And wherefore gaze this goodly company
As if they saw some wondrous monument,
Some comet or unusual prodigy?",878,19539
660348,1467,"Why, sir, you know this is your wedding-day.
First were we sad, fearing you would not come;
Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.
Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate,
An eye-sore to our solemn festival!",142,19539
660349,1472,"And tell us what occasion of import
Hath all so long detain'd you from your wife,
And sent you hither so unlike yourself?",1205,19539
660350,1475,"Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear;
Sufficeth I am come to keep my word,
Though in some part enforced to digress,
Which at more leisure I will so excuse
As you shall well be satisfied withal.
But where is Kate? I stay too long from her;
The morning wears, 'tis time we were at church.",878,19539
660351,1482,"See not your bride in these unreverent robes;
Go to my chamber, put on clothes of mine.",1205,19539
660352,1484,"Not I, believe me; thus I'll visit her.",878,19539
660353,1485,"But thus, I trust, you will not marry her.",142,19539
660354,1486,"Good sooth, even thus; therefore ha' done with words;
To me she's married, not unto my clothes.
Could I repair what she will wear in me
As I can change these poor accoutrements,
'Twere well for Kate and better for myself.
But what a fool am I to chat with you,
When I should bid good-morrow to my bride
And seal the title with a lovely kiss!",878,19539
660355,1494,                         Exeunt PETRUCHIO and PETRUCHIO,1261,19539
660356,1495,"He hath some meaning in his mad attire.
We will persuade him, be it possible,
To put on better ere he go to church.",1205,19539
660357,1498,I'll after him and see the event of this.,142,19539
660358,1499,"     Exeunt BAPTISTA, GREMIO, BIONDELLO, and ATTENDENTS",1261,19539
660359,1500,"But to her love concerneth us to add
Her father's liking; which to bring to pass,
As I before imparted to your worship,
I am to get a man- whate'er he be
It skills not much; we'll fit him to our turn-
And he shall be Vincentio of Pisa,
And make assurance here in Padua
Of greater sums than I have promised.
So shall you quietly enjoy your hope
And marry sweet Bianca with consent.",1205,19539
660360,1510,"Were it not that my fellow schoolmaster
Doth watch Bianca's steps so narrowly,
'Twere good, methinks, to steal our marriage;
Which once perform'd, let all the world say no,
I'll keep mine own despite of all the world.",708,19539
660361,1515,"That by degrees we mean to look into
And watch our vantage in this business;
We'll over-reach the greybeard, Gremio,
The narrow-prying father, Minola,
The quaint musician, amorous Licio-
All for my master's sake, Lucentio.
[Re-enter GREMIO]
Signior Gremio, came you from the church?",1205,19539
660362,1523,As willingly as e'er I came from school.,543,19539
660363,1524,And is the bride and bridegroom coming home?,1205,19539
660364,1525,"A bridegroom, say you? 'Tis a groom indeed,
A grumbling groom, and that the girl shall find.",543,19539
660365,1527,"Curster than she? Why, 'tis impossible.",1205,19539
660366,1528,"Why, he's a devil, a devil, a very fiend.",543,19539
660367,1529,"Why, she's a devil, a devil, the devil's dam.",1205,19539
660368,1530,"Tut, she's a lamb, a dove, a fool, to him!
I'll tell you, Sir Lucentio: when the priest
Should ask if Katherine should be his wife,
'Ay, by gogs-wouns' quoth he, and swore so loud
That, all amaz'd, the priest let fall the book;
And as he stoop'd again to take it up,
This mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff
That down fell priest and book, and book and priest.
'Now take them up,' quoth he 'if any list.'",543,19539
660369,1539,"What said the wench, when he rose again?",1205,19539
660370,1540,"Trembled and shook, for why he stamp'd and swore
As if the vicar meant to cozen him.
But after many ceremonies done
He calls for wine: 'A health!' quoth he, as if
He had been abroad, carousing to his mates
After a storm; quaff'd off the muscadel,
And threw the sops all in the sexton's face,
Having no other reason
But that his beard grew thin and hungerly
And seem'd to ask him sops as he was drinking.
This done, he took the bride about the neck,
And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack
That at the parting all the church did echo.
And I, seeing this, came thence for very shame;
And after me, I know, the rout is coming.
Such a mad marriage never was before.
Hark, hark! I hear the minstrels play.    [Music plays]
   Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHERINA, BIANCA, BAPTISTA, HORTENSIO, GRUMIO, and train",543,19539
660371,1558,"Gentlemen and friends, I thank you for your pains.
I know you think to dine with me to-day,
And have prepar'd great store of wedding cheer
But so it is- my haste doth call me hence,
And therefore here I mean to take my leave.",878,19539
660372,1563,Is't possible you will away to-night?,142,19539
660373,1564,"I must away to-day before night come.
Make it no wonder; if you knew my business,
You would entreat me rather go than stay.
And, honest company, I thank you all
That have beheld me give away myself
To this most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife.
Dine with my father, drink a health to me.
For I must hence; and farewell to you all.",878,19539
660374,1572,Let us entreat you stay till after dinner.,1205,19539
660375,1573,It may not be.,878,19539
660376,1574,Let me entreat you.,543,19539
660377,1575,It cannot be.,878,19539
660378,1576,Let me entreat you.,631,19539
660379,1577,I am content.,878,19539
660380,1578,Are you content to stay?,631,19539
660381,1579,"I am content you shall entreat me stay;
But yet not stay, entreat me how you can.",878,19539
660382,1581,"Now, if you love me, stay.",631,19539
660383,1582,"Grumio, my horse.",878,19539
660384,1583,"Ay, sir, they be ready; the oats have eaten the horses.",550,19539
660385,1584,"Nay, then,
Do what thou canst, I will not go to-day;
No, nor to-morrow, not till I please myself.
The door is open, sir; there lies your way;
You may be jogging whiles your boots are green;
For me, I'll not be gone till I please myself.
'Tis like you'll prove a jolly surly groom
That take it on you at the first so roundly.",631,19539
660386,1592,"O Kate, content thee; prithee be not angry.",878,19539
660387,1593,"I will be angry; what hast thou to do?
Father, be quiet; he shall stay my leisure.",631,19539
660388,1595,"Ay, marry, sir, now it begins to work.",543,19539
660389,1596,"Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner.
I see a woman may be made a fool
If she had not a spirit to resist.",631,19539
660390,1599,"They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command.
Obey the bride, you that attend on her;
Go to the feast, revel and domineer,
Carouse full measure to her maidenhead;
Be mad and merry, or go hang yourselves.
But for my bonny Kate, she must with me.
Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret;
I will be master of what is mine own-
She is my goods, my chattels, she is my house,
My household stuff, my field, my barn,
My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing,
And here she stands; touch her whoever dare;
I'll bring mine action on the proudest he
That stops my way in Padua. Grumio,
Draw forth thy weapon; we are beset with thieves;
Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man.
Fear not, sweet wench; they shall not touch thee, Kate;
I'll buckler thee against a million.",878,19539
660391,1617,"                Exeunt PETRUCHIO, KATHERINA, and GRUMIO",1261,19539
660392,1618,"Nay, let them go, a couple of quiet ones.",142,19539
660393,1619,"Went they not quickly, I should die with laughing.",543,19539
660394,1620,"Of all mad matches, never was the like.",1205,19539
660395,1621,"Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?",708,19539
660396,1622,"That, being mad herself, she's madly mated.",166,19539
660397,1623,"I warrant him, Petruchio is Kated.",543,19539
660398,1624,"Neighbours and friends, though bride and bridegroom wants
For to supply the places at the table,
You know there wants no junkets at the feast.
Lucentio, you shall supply the bridegroom's place;
And let Bianca take her sister's room.",142,19539
660399,1629,Shall sweet Bianca practise how to bride it?,1205,19539
660400,1630,"She shall, Lucentio. Come, gentlemen, let's go.",142,19539
660401,1633,Enter GRUMIO,1261,19540
660402,1634,"Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and all
foul ways! Was ever man so beaten? Was ever man so ray'd? Was
ever man so weary? I am sent before to make a fire, and they are
coming after to warm them. Now were not I a little pot and soon
hot, my very lips might freeze to my teeth, my tongue to the roof
of my mouth, my heart in my belly, ere I should come by a fire to
thaw me. But I with blowing the fire shall warm myself; for,
considering the weather, a taller man than I will take cold.
Holla, ho! Curtis!",550,19540
660403,1643,                   Enter CURTIS,1261,19540
660404,1644,Who is that calls so coldly?,298,19540
660405,1645,"A piece of ice. If thou doubt it, thou mayst slide from my
shoulder to my heel with no greater a run but my head and my
neck. A fire, good Curtis.",550,19540
660406,1648,"Is my master and his wife coming, Grumio?",298,19540
660407,1649,"O, ay, Curtis, ay; and therefore fire, fire; cast on no
water.",550,19540
660408,1651,Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported?,298,19540
660409,1652,"She was, good Curtis, before this frost; but thou know'st
winter tames man, woman, and beast; for it hath tam'd my old
master, and my new mistress, and myself, fellow Curtis.",550,19540
660410,1655,"Away, you three-inch fool! I am no beast.",298,19540
660411,1656,"Am I but three inches? Why, thy horn is a foot, and so long
am I at the least. But wilt thou make a fire, or shall I complain
on thee to our mistress, whose hand- she being now at hand- thou
shalt soon feel, to thy cold comfort, for being slow in thy hot
office?",550,19540
660412,1661,"I prithee, good Grumio, tell me how goes the world?",298,19540
660413,1662,"A cold world, Curtis, in every office but thine; and
therefore fire. Do thy duty, and have thy duty, for my master and
mistress are almost frozen to death.",550,19540
660414,1665,"There's fire ready; and therefore, good Grumio, the news?",298,19540
660415,1666,"Why, 'Jack boy! ho, boy!' and as much news as thou wilt.",550,19540
660416,1667,"Come, you are so full of cony-catching!",298,19540
660417,1668,"Why, therefore, fire; for I have caught extreme cold.
Where's the cook? Is supper ready, the house trimm'd, rushes
strew'd, cobwebs swept, the serving-men in their new fustian,
their white stockings, and every officer his wedding-garment on?
Be the jacks fair within, the jills fair without, the carpets
laid, and everything in order?",550,19540
660418,1674,"All ready; and therefore, I pray thee, news.",298,19540
660419,1675,"First know my horse is tired; my master and mistress fall'n
out.",550,19540
660420,1677,How?,298,19540
660421,1678,"Out of their saddles into the dirt; and thereby hangs a
tale.",550,19540
660422,1680,"Let's ha't, good Grumio.",298,19540
660423,1681,Lend thine ear.,550,19540
660424,1682,Here.,298,19540
660425,1683,There.                             [Striking him],550,19540
660426,1684,"This 'tis to feel a tale, not to hear a tale.",298,19540
660427,1685,"And therefore 'tis call'd a sensible tale; and this cuff
was but to knock at your car and beseech list'ning. Now I begin:
Imprimis, we came down a foul hill, my master riding behind my
mistress-",550,19540
660428,1689,Both of one horse?,298,19540
660429,1690,What's that to thee?,550,19540
660430,1691,"Why, a horse.",298,19540
660431,1692,"Tell thou the tale. But hadst thou not cross'd me, thou
shouldst have heard how her horse fell and she under her horse;
thou shouldst have heard in how miry a place, how she was
bemoil'd, how he left her with the horse upon her, how he beat me
because her horse stumbled, how she waded through the dirt to
pluck him off me, how he swore, how she pray'd that never pray'd
before, how I cried, how the horses ran away, how her bridle was
burst, how I lost my crupper- with many things of worthy memory,
which now shall die in oblivion, and thou return unexperienc'd to
thy grave.",550,19540
660432,1702,By this reck'ning he is more shrew than she.,298,19540
660433,1703,"Ay, and that thou and the proudest of you all shall find
when he comes home. But what talk I of this? Call forth
Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, Philip, Walter, Sugarsop, and the
rest; let their heads be sleekly comb'd, their blue coats brush'd
and their garters of an indifferent knit; let them curtsy with
their left legs, and not presume to touch a hair of my mastcr's
horse-tail till they kiss their hands. Are they all ready?",550,19540
660434,1710,They are.,298,19540
660435,1711,Call them forth.,550,19540
660436,1712,"Do you hear, ho? You must meet my master, to countenance my
mistress.",298,19540
660437,1714,"Why, she hath a face of her own.",550,19540
660438,1715,Who knows not that?,298,19540
660439,1716,"Thou, it seems, that calls for company to countenance her.",550,19540
660440,1717,I call them forth to credit her.,298,19540
660441,1718,"Why, she comes to borrow nothing of them.",550,19540
660442,1719,            Enter four or five SERVINGMEN,1261,19540
660443,1720,"Welcome home, Grumio!",812,19540
660444,1721,"How now, Grumio!",883,19540
660445,1722,"What, Grumio!",619,19540
660446,1723,Fellow Grumio!,815,19540
660447,1724,"How now, old lad!",812,19540
660448,1725,"Welcome, you!- how now, you!- what, you!- fellow, you!- and
thus much for greeting. Now, my spruce companions, is all ready,
and all things neat?",550,19540
660449,1728,All things is ready. How near is our master?,812,19540
660450,1729,"E'en at hand, alighted by this; and therefore be not-
Cock's passion, silence! I hear my master.",550,19540
660451,1731,            Enter PETRUCHIO and KATHERINA,1261,19540
660452,1732,"Where be these knaves? What, no man at door
To hold my stirrup nor to take my horse!
Where is Nathaniel, Gregory, Philip?",878,19540
660453,1735,"Here, here, sir; here, sir.",1074,19540
660454,1736,"Here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here, sir!
You logger-headed and unpolish'd grooms!
What, no attendance? no regard? no duty?
Where is the foolish knave I sent before?",878,19540
660455,1740,"Here, sir; as foolish as I was before.",550,19540
660456,1741,"YOU peasant swain! you whoreson malt-horse drudge!
Did I not bid thee meet me in the park
And bring along these rascal knaves with thee?",878,19540
660457,1744,"Nathaniel's coat, sir, was not fully made,
And Gabriel's pumps were all unpink'd i' th' heel;
There was no link to colour Peter's hat,
And Walter's dagger was not come from sheathing;
There were none fine but Adam, Ralph, and Gregory;
The rest were ragged, old, and beggarly;
Yet, as they are, here are they come to meet you.",550,19540
660458,1751,"Go, rascals, go and fetch my supper in.
[Exeunt some of the SERVINGMEN]
[Sings]  Where is the life that late I led?
         Where are those-
Sit down, Kate, and welcome. Soud, soud, soud, soud!
[Re-enter SERVANTS with supper]
Why, when, I say? Nay, good sweet Kate, be merry.
Off with my boots, you rogues! you villains, when?
[Sings]  It was the friar of orders grey,
         As he forth walked on his way-
Out, you rogue! you pluck my foot awry;
Take that, and mend the plucking off the other.
[Strikes him]
Be merry, Kate. Some water, here, what, ho!
[Enter one with water]
Where's my spaniel Troilus? Sirrah, get you hence,
And bid my cousin Ferdinand come hither:
[Exit SERVINGMAN]
One, Kate, that you must kiss and be acquainted with.
Where are my slippers? Shall I have some water?
Come, Kate, and wash, and welcome heartily.
You whoreson villain! will you let it fall?    [Strikes him]",878,19540
660459,1773,"Patience, I pray you; 'twas a fault unwilling.",631,19540
660460,1774,"A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-ear'd knave!
Come, Kate, sit down; I know you have a stomach.
Will you give thanks, sweet Kate, or else shall I?
What's this? Mutton?",878,19540
660461,1778,Ay.,1052,19540
660462,1779,Who brought it?,878,19540
660463,1780,I.,876,19540
660464,1781,"'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat.
What dogs are these? Where is the rascal cook?
How durst you villains bring it from the dresser
And serve it thus to me that love it not?
There, take it to you, trenchers, cups, and all;
[Throws the meat, etc., at them]
You heedless joltheads and unmanner'd slaves!
What, do you grumble? I'll be with you straight.",878,19540
660465,1789,[Exeunt SERVANTS],1261,19540
660466,1790,"I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet;
The meat was well, if you were so contented.",631,19540
660467,1792,"I tell thee, Kate, 'twas burnt and dried away,
And I expressly am forbid to touch it;
For it engenders choler, planteth anger;
And better 'twere that both of us did fast,
Since, of ourselves, ourselves are choleric,
Than feed it with such over-roasted flesh.
Be patient; to-morrow 't shall be mended.
And for this night we'll fast for company.
Come, I will bring thee to thy bridal chamber.   Exeunt",878,19540
660468,1801,            Re-enter SERVANTS severally,1261,19540
660469,1802,"Peter, didst ever see the like?",812,19540
660470,1803,He kills her in her own humour.,876,19540
660471,1804,                   Re-enter CURTIS,1261,19540
660472,1805,Where is he?,550,19540
660473,1806,"In her chamber. Making a sermon of continency to her,
And rails, and swears, and rates, that she, poor soul,
Knows not which way to stand, to look, to speak.
And sits as one new risen from a dream.
Away, away! for he is coming hither.             Exeunt",298,19540
660474,1811,              Re-enter PETRUCHIO,1261,19540
660475,1812,"Thus have I politicly begun my reign,
And 'tis my hope to end successfully.
My falcon now is sharp and passing empty.
And till she stoop she must not be full-gorg'd,
For then she never looks upon her lure.
Another way I have to man my haggard,
To make her come, and know her keeper's call,
That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites
That bate and beat, and will not be obedient.
She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat;
Last night she slept not, nor to-night she shall not;
As with the meat, some undeserved fault
I'll find about the making of the bed;
And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster,
This way the coverlet, another way the sheets;
Ay, and amid this hurly I intend
That all is done in reverend care of her-
And, in conclusion, she shall watch all night;
And if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl
And with the clamour keep her still awake.
This is a way to kill a wife with kindness,
And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour.
He that knows better how to tame a shrew,
Now let him speak; 'tis charity to show.           Exit",878,19540
660476,1837,"Enter TRANIO as LUCENTIO, and HORTENSIO as LICIO",1261,19541
660477,1838,"Is 't possible, friend Licio, that Mistress Bianca
Doth fancy any other but Lucentio?
I tell you, sir, she bears me fair in hand.",1205,19541
660478,1841,"Sir, to satisfy you in what I have said,
Stand by and mark the manner of his teaching.",589,19541
660479,1843,                                     [They stand aside],1261,19541
660480,1844,"      Enter BIANCA, and LUCENTIO as CAMBIO",1261,19541
660481,1845,"Now, mistress, profit you in what you read?",708,19541
660482,1846,"What, master, read you, First resolve me that.",166,19541
660483,1847,"I read that I profess, 'The Art to Love.'",708,19541
660484,1848,"And may you prove, sir, master of your art!",166,19541
660485,1849,"While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart.",708,19541
660486,1850,                                          [They retire],1261,19541
660487,1851,"Quick proceeders, marry! Now tell me, I pray,
You that durst swear that your Mistress Bianca
Lov'd none in the world so well as Lucentio.",589,19541
660488,1854,"O despiteful love! unconstant womankind!
I tell thee, Licio, this is wonderful.",1205,19541
660489,1856,"Mistake no more; I am not Licio.
Nor a musician as I seem to be;
But one that scorn to live in this disguise
For such a one as leaves a gentleman
And makes a god of such a cullion.
Know, sir, that I am call'd Hortensio.",589,19541
660490,1862,"Signior Hortensio, I have often heard
Of your entire affection to Bianca;
And since mine eyes are witness of her lightness,
I will with you, if you be so contented,
Forswear Bianca and her love for ever.",1205,19541
660491,1867,"See, how they kiss and court! Signior Lucentio,
Here is my hand, and here I firmly vow
Never to woo her more, but do forswear her,
As one unworthy all the former favours
That I have fondly flatter'd her withal.",589,19541
660492,1872,"And here I take the like unfeigned oath,
Never to marry with her though she would entreat;
Fie on her! See how beastly she doth court him!",1205,19541
660493,1875,"Would all the world but he had quite forsworn!
For me, that I may surely keep mine oath,
I will be married to a wealtlly widow
Ere three days pass, which hath as long lov'd me
As I have lov'd this proud disdainful haggard.
And so farewell, Signior Lucentio.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love; and so I take my leave,
In resolution as I swore before.                   Exit",589,19541
660494,1884,"Mistress Bianca, bless you with such grace
As 'longeth to a lover's blessed case!
Nay, I have ta'en you napping, gentle love,
And have forsworn you with Hortensio.",1205,19541
660495,1888,"Tranio, you jest; but have you both forsworn me?",166,19541
660496,1889,"Mistress, we have.",1205,19541
660497,1890,Then we are rid of Licio.,708,19541
660498,1891,"I' faith, he'll have a lusty widow now,
That shall be woo'd and wedded in a day.",1205,19541
660499,1893,God give him joy!,166,19541
660500,1894,"Ay, and he'll tame her.",1205,19541
660501,1895,"He says so, Tranio.",166,19541
660502,1896,"Faith, he is gone unto the taming-school.",1205,19541
660503,1897,"The taming-school! What, is there such a place?",166,19541
660504,1898,"Ay, mistress; and Petruchio is the master,
That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long,
To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue.",1205,19541
660505,1901,              Enter BIONDELLO,1261,19541
660506,1902,"O master, master I have watch'd so long
That I am dog-weary; but at last I spied
An ancient angel coming down the hill
Will serve the turn.",169,19541
660507,1906,"What is he, Biondello?",1205,19541
660508,1907,"Master, a mercatante or a pedant,
I know not what; but formal in apparel,
In gait and countenance surely like a father.",169,19541
660509,1910,"And what of him, Tranio?",708,19541
660510,1911,"If he be credulous and trust my tale,
I'll make him glad to seem Vincentio,
And give assurance to Baptista Minola
As if he were the right Vincentio.
Take in your love, and then let me alone.",1205,19541
660511,1916,                             Exeunt LUCENTIO and BIANCA,1261,19541
660512,1917,                Enter a PEDANT,1261,19541
660513,1918,"God save you, sir!",868,19541
660514,1919,"And you, sir; you are welcome.
Travel you far on, or are you at the farthest?",1205,19541
660515,1921,"Sir, at the farthest for a week or two;
But then up farther, and as far as Rome;
And so to Tripoli, if God lend me life.",868,19541
660516,1924,"What countryman, I pray?",1205,19541
660517,1925,Of Mantua.,868,19541
660518,1926,"Of Mantua, sir? Marry, God forbid,
And come to Padua, careless of your life!",1205,19541
660519,1928,"My life, sir! How, I pray? For that goes hard.",868,19541
660520,1929,"'Tis death for any one in Mantua
To come to Padua. Know you not the cause?
Your ships are stay'd at Venice; and the Duke,
For private quarrel 'twixt your Duke and him,
Hath publish'd and proclaim'd it openly.
'Tis marvel- but that you are but newly come,
You might have heard it else proclaim'd about.",1205,19541
660521,1936,"Alas, sir, it is worse for me than so!
For I have bills for money by exchange
From Florence, and must here deliver them.",868,19541
660522,1939,"Well, sir, to do you courtesy,
This will I do, and this I will advise you-
First, tell me, have you ever been at Pisa?",1205,19541
660523,1942,"Ay, sir, in Pisa have I often been,
Pisa renowned for grave citizens.",868,19541
660524,1944,Among them know you one Vincentio?,1205,19541
660525,1945,"I know him not, but I have heard of him,
A merchant of incomparable wealth.",868,19541
660526,1947,"He is my father, sir; and, sooth to say,
In count'nance somewhat doth resemble you.",1205,19541
660527,1949,"[Aside]  As much as an apple doth an oyster, and all
one.",169,19541
660528,1951,"To save your life in this extremity,
This favour will I do you for his sake;
And think it not the worst of all your fortunes
That you are like to Sir Vincentio.
His name and credit shall you undertake,
And in my house you shall be friendly lodg'd;
Look that you take upon you as you should.
You understand me, sir. So shall you stay
Till you have done your business in the city.
If this be court'sy, sir, accept of it.",1205,19541
660529,1961,"O, sir, I do; and will repute you ever
The patron of my life and liberty.",868,19541
660530,1963,"Then go with me to make the matter good.
This, by the way, I let you understand:
My father is here look'd for every day
To pass assurance of a dow'r in marriage
'Twixt me and one Baptista's daughter here.
In all these circumstances I'll instruct you.
Go with me to clothe you as becomes you.         Exeunt",1205,19541
660531,1971,Enter KATHERINA and GRUMIO,1261,19542
660532,1972,"No, no, forsooth; I dare not for my life.",550,19542
660533,1973,"The more my wrong, the more his spite appears.
What, did he marry me to famish me?
Beggars that come unto my father's door
Upon entreaty have a present alms;
If not, elsewhere they meet with charity;
But I, who never knew how to entreat,
Nor never needed that I should entreat,
Am starv'd for meat, giddy for lack of sleep;
With oaths kept waking, and with brawling fed;
And that which spites me more than all these wants-
He does it under name of perfect love;
As who should say, if I should sleep or eat,
'Twere deadly sickness or else present death.
I prithee go and get me some repast;
I care not what, so it be wholesome food.",631,19542
660534,1988,What say you to a neat's foot?,550,19542
660537,1992,"I like it well; good Grumio, fetch it me.",631,19542
660538,1993,"I cannot tell; I fear 'tis choleric.
What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?",550,19542
660539,1995,A dish that I do love to feed upon.,631,19542
660540,1996,"Ay, but the mustard is too hot a little.",550,19542
660541,1997,"Why then the beef, and let the mustard rest.",631,19542
660542,1998,"Nay, then I will not; you shall have the mustard,
Or else you get no beef of Grumio.",550,19542
660543,2000,"Then both, or one, or anything thou wilt.",631,19542
660544,2001,Why then the mustard without the beef.,550,19542
660545,2002,"Go, get thee gone, thou false deluding slave,
[Beats him]
That feed'st me with the very name of meat.
Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you
That triumph thus upon my misery!
Go, get thee gone, I say.",631,19542
660546,2008,"      Enter PETRUCHIO, and HORTENSIO with meat",1261,19542
660547,2009,"How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?",878,19542
660548,2010,"Mistress, what cheer?",589,19542
660549,2011,"Faith, as cold as can be.",631,19542
660550,2012,"Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me.
Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am,
To dress thy meat myself, and bring it thee.
I am sure, sweet Kate, this kindness merits thanks.
What, not a word? Nay, then thou lov'st it not,
And all my pains is sorted to no proof.
Here, take away this dish.",878,19542
660551,2019,"I pray you, let it stand.",631,19542
660552,2020,"The poorest service is repaid with thanks;
And so shall mine, before you touch the meat.",878,19542
660553,2022,"I thank you, sir.",631,19542
660554,2023,"Signior Petruchio, fie! you are to blame.
Come, Mistress Kate, I'll bear you company.",589,19542
660555,2025,"[Aside]  Eat it up all, Hortensio, if thou lovest me.-
Much good do it unto thy gentle heart!
Kate, eat apace. And now, my honey love,
Will we return unto thy father's house
And revel it as bravely as the best,
With silken coats and caps, and golden rings,
With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things,
With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry.
With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.
What, hast thou din'd? The tailor stays thy leisure,
To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure.
[Enter TAILOR]
Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments;
Lay forth the gown.
[Enter HABERDASHER]
What news with you, sir?",878,19542
660556,2041,Here is the cap your worship did bespeak.,556,19542
660557,2042,"Why, this was moulded on a porringer;
A velvet dish. Fie, fie! 'tis lewd and filthy;
Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell,
A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap.
Away with it. Come, let me have a bigger.",878,19542
660558,2047,"I'll have no bigger; this doth fit the time,
And gentlewomen wear such caps as these.",631,19542
660559,2049,"When you are gentle, you shall have one too,
And not till then.",878,19542
660560,2051,[Aside]  That will not be in haste.,589,19542
660561,2052,"Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak;
And speak I will. I am no child, no babe.
Your betters have endur'd me say my mind,
And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Or else my heart, concealing it, will break;
And rather than it shall, I will be free
Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.",631,19542
660562,2060,"Why, thou say'st true; it is a paltry cap,
A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie;
I love thee well in that thou lik'st it not.",878,19542
660563,2063,"Love me or love me not, I like the cap;
And it I will have, or I will have none. Exit HABERDASHER",631,19542
660564,2065,"Thy gown? Why, ay. Come, tailor, let us see't.
O mercy, God! what masquing stuff is here?
What's this? A sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.
What, up and down, carv'd like an appletart?
Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,
Like to a censer in a barber's shop.
Why, what a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?",878,19542
660565,2072,[Aside]  I see she's like to have neither cap nor gown.,589,19542
660566,2073,"You bid me make it orderly and well,
According to the fashion and the time.",1153,19542
660567,2075,"Marry, and did; but if you be rememb'red,
I did not bid you mar it to the time.
Go, hop me over every kennel home,
For you shall hop without my custom, sir.
I'll none of it; hence! make your best of it.",878,19542
660568,2080,"I never saw a better fashion'd gown,
More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable;
Belike you mean to make a puppet of me.",631,19542
660569,2083,"Why, true; he means to make a puppet of thee.",878,19542
660570,2084,She says your worship means to make a puppet of her.,1153,19542
660571,2085,"O monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread, thou
  thimble,
Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail,
Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou-
Brav'd in mine own house with a skein of thread!
Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant;
Or I shall so bemete thee with thy yard
As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou liv'st!
I tell thee, I, that thou hast marr'd her gown.",878,19542
660572,2094,"Your worship is deceiv'd; the gown is made
Just as my master had direction.
Grumio gave order how it should be done.",1153,19542
660573,2097,I gave him no order; I gave him the stuff.,550,19542
660574,2098,But how did you desire it should be made?,1153,19542
660575,2099,"Marry, sir, with needle and thread.",550,19542
660576,2100,But did you not request to have it cut?,1153,19542
660577,2101,Thou hast fac'd many things.,550,19542
660578,2102,I have.,1153,19542
660579,2103,"Face not me. Thou hast brav'd many men; brave not me. I
will neither be fac'd nor brav'd. I say unto thee, I bid thy
master cut out the gown; but I did not bid him cut it to pieces.
Ergo, thou liest.",550,19542
660580,2107,"Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify.",1153,19542
660581,2108,Read it.,878,19542
660582,2109,"The note lies in's throat, if he say I said so.",550,19542
660583,2110,"[Reads]  'Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown'-",1153,19542
660584,2111,"Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me in the
skirts of it and beat me to death with a bottom of brown bread; I
said a gown.",550,19542
660585,2114,Proceed.,878,19542
660586,2115,[Reads]  'With a small compass'd cape'-,1153,19542
660587,2116,I confess the cape.,550,19542
660588,2117,[Reads]  'With a trunk sleeve'-,1153,19542
660589,2118,I confess two sleeves.,550,19542
660590,2119,[Reads]  'The sleeves curiously cut.',1153,19542
660591,2120,"Ay, there's the villainy.",878,19542
660592,2121,"Error i' th' bill, sir; error i' th' bill! I commanded the
sleeves should be cut out, and sew'd up again; and that I'll
prove upon thee, though thy little finger be armed in a thimble.",550,19542
660593,2124,"This is true that I say; an I had thee in place where, thou
shouldst know it.",1153,19542
660594,2126,"I am for thee straight; take thou the bill, give me thy
meteyard, and spare not me.",550,19542
660595,2128,"God-a-mercy, Grumio! Then he shall have no odds.",589,19542
660596,2129,"Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me.",878,19542
660597,2130,"You are i' th' right, sir; 'tis for my mistress.",550,19542
660598,2131,"Go, take it up unto thy master's use.",878,19542
660599,2132,"Villain, not for thy life! Take up my mistress' gown for
thy master's use!",550,19542
660600,2134,"Why, sir, what's your conceit in that?",878,19542
660601,2135,"O, sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for.
Take up my mistress' gown to his master's use!
O fie, fie, fie!",550,19542
660602,2138,"[Aside]  Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor paid.-
Go take it hence; be gone, and say no more.",878,19542
660603,2140,"Tailor, I'll pay thee for thy gown to-morrow;
Take no unkindness of his hasty words.
Away, I say; commend me to thy master.      Exit TAILOR",589,19542
660604,2143,"Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's
Even in these honest mean habiliments;
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor;
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
What, is the jay more precious than the lark
Because his feathers are more beautiful?
Or is the adder better than the eel
Because his painted skin contents the eye?
O no, good Kate; neither art thou the worse
For this poor furniture and mean array.
If thou account'st it shame, lay it on me;
And therefore frolic; we will hence forthwith
To feast and sport us at thy father's house.
Go call my men, and let us straight to him;
And bring our horses unto Long-lane end;
There will we mount, and thither walk on foot.
Let's see; I think 'tis now some seven o'clock,
And well we may come there by dinner-time.",878,19542
660605,2163,"I dare assure you, sir, 'tis almost two,
And 'twill be supper-time ere you come there.",631,19542
660606,2165,"It shall be seven ere I go to horse.
Look what I speak, or do, or think to do,
You are still crossing it. Sirs, let 't alone;
I will not go to-day; and ere I do,
It shall be what o'clock I say it is.",878,19542
660607,2170,"Why, so this gallant will command the sun.",589,19542
660608,2171,[Exeunt],1261,19542
660609,2173,"Enter TRANIO as LUCENTIO, and the PEDANT dressed like VINCENTIO",1261,19543
660610,2174,"Sir, this is the house; please it you that I call?",1205,19543
660611,2175,"Ay, what else? And, but I be deceived,
Signior Baptista may remember me
Near twenty years ago in Genoa,
Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus.",868,19543
660612,2179,"'Tis well; and hold your own, in any case,
With such austerity as longeth to a father.",1205,19543
660613,2181,              Enter BIONDELLO,1261,19543
660614,2182,"I warrant you. But, sir, here comes your boy;
'Twere good he were school'd.",868,19543
660615,2184,"Fear you not him. Sirrah Biondello,
Now do your duty throughly, I advise you.
Imagine 'twere the right Vincentio.",1205,19543
660616,2187,"Tut, fear not me.",169,19543
660617,2188,But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista?,1205,19543
660618,2189,"I told him that your father was at Venice,
And that you look'd for him this day in Padua.",169,19543
660619,2191,"Th'art a tall fellow; hold thee that to drink.
Here comes Baptista. Set your countenance, sir.
[Enter BAPTISTA, and LUCENTIO as CAMBIO]
Signior Baptista, you are happily met.
[To To the PEDANT] Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of;
I pray you stand good father to me now;
Give me Bianca for my patrimony.",1205,19543
660620,2198,"Soft, son!
Sir, by your leave: having come to Padua
To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio
Made me acquainted with a weighty cause
Of love between your daughter and himself;
And- for the good report I hear of you,
And for the love he beareth to your daughter,
And she to him- to stay him not too long,
I am content, in a good father's care,
To have him match'd; and, if you please to like
No worse than I, upon some agreement
Me shall you find ready and willing
With one consent to have her so bestow'd;
For curious I cannot be with you,
Signior Baptista, of whom I hear so well.",868,19543
660621,2213,"Sir, pardon me in what I have to say.
Your plainness and your shortness please me well.
Right true it is your son Lucentio here
Doth love my daughter, and she loveth him,
Or both dissemble deeply their affections;
And therefore, if you say no more than this,
That like a father you will deal with him,
And pass my daughter a sufficient dower,
The match is made, and all is done-
Your son shall have my daughter with consent.",142,19543
660622,2223,"I thank you, sir. Where then do you know best
We be affied, and such assurance ta'en
As shall with either part's agreement stand?",1205,19543
660623,2226,"Not in my house, Lucentio, for you know
Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants;
Besides, old Gremio is heark'ning still,
And happily we might be interrupted.",142,19543
660624,2230,"Then at my lodging, an it like you.
There doth my father lie; and there this night
We'll pass the business privately and well.
Send for your daughter by your servant here;
My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently.
The worst is this, that at so slender warning
You are like to have a thin and slender pittance.",1205,19543
660625,2237,"It likes me well. Cambio, hie you home,
And bid Bianca make her ready straight;
And, if you will, tell what hath happened-
Lucentio's father is arriv'd in Padua,
And how she's like to be Lucentio's wife. Exit LUCENTIO",142,19543
660626,2242,"I pray the gods she may, with all my heart.",169,19543
660627,2243,"Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone.
[Exit BIONDELLO]
Signior Baptista, shall I lead the way?
Welcome! One mess is like to be your cheer;
Come, sir; we will better it in Pisa.",1205,19543
660628,2248,I follow you.                            Exeunt,142,19543
660629,2249,"   Re-enter LUCENTIO as CAMBIO, and BIONDELLO",1261,19543
660630,2250,Cambio.,169,19543
660631,2251,"What say'st thou, Biondello?",708,19543
660632,2252,You saw my master wink and laugh upon you?,169,19543
660633,2253,"Biondello, what of that?",708,19543
660634,2254,"Faith, nothing; but has left me here behind to expound
the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens.",169,19543
660635,2256,I pray thee moralize them.,708,19543
660636,2257,"Then thus: Baptista is safe, talking with the deceiving
father of a deceitful son.",169,19543
660637,2259,And what of him?,708,19543
660638,2260,His daughter is to be brought by you to the supper.,169,19543
660639,2261,And then?,708,19543
660640,2262,"The old priest at Saint Luke's church is at your command
at all hours.",169,19543
660641,2264,And what of all this?,708,19543
660642,2265,"I cannot tell, except they are busied about a
counterfeit assurance. Take your assurance of her, cum privilegio
ad imprimendum solum; to th' church take the priest, clerk, and
some sufficient honest witnesses.
If this be not that you look for, I have more to say,
But bid Bianca farewell for ever and a day.",169,19543
660643,2271,"Hear'st thou, Biondello?",708,19543
660644,2272,"I cannot tarry. I knew a wench married in an afternoon
as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit; and so
may you, sir; and so adieu, sir. My master hath appointed me to
go to Saint Luke's to bid the priest be ready to come against you
come with your appendix.",169,19543
660645,2277,Exit,1261,19543
660646,2278,"I may and will, if she be so contented.
She will be pleas'd; then wherefore should I doubt?
Hap what hap may, I'll roundly go about her;
It shall go hard if Cambio go without her.         Exit",708,19543
660647,2283,"Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHERINA, HORTENSIO, and SERVANTS",1261,19544
660648,2284,"Come on, a God's name; once more toward our father's.
Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!",878,19544
660649,2286,The moon? The sun! It is not moonlight now.,631,19544
660650,2287,I say it is the moon that shines so bright.,878,19544
660651,2288,I know it is the sun that shines so bright.,631,19544
660652,2289,"Now by my mother's son, and that's myself,
It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,
Or ere I journey to your father's house.
Go on and fetch our horses back again.
Evermore cross'd and cross'd; nothing but cross'd!",878,19544
660653,2294,"Say as he says, or we shall never go.",589,19544
660654,2295,"Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
And be it moon, or sun, or what you please;
And if you please to call it a rush-candle,
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.",631,19544
660655,2299,I say it is the moon.,878,19544
660656,2300,I know it is the moon.,631,19544
660657,2301,"Nay, then you lie; it is the blessed sun.",878,19544
660658,2302,"Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun;
But sun it is not, when you say it is not;
And the moon changes even as your mind.
What you will have it nam'd, even that it is,
And so it shall be so for Katherine.",631,19544
660659,2307,"Petruchio, go thy ways, the field is won.",589,19544
660660,2308,"Well, forward, forward! thus the bowl should run,
And not unluckily against the bias.
But, soft! Company is coming here.
[Enter VINCENTIO]
[To VINCENTIO]  Good-morrow, gentle mistress; where away?-
Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too,
Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman?
Such war of white and red within her cheeks!
What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty
As those two eyes become that heavenly face?
Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee.
Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty's sake.",878,19544
660661,2320,"'A will make the man mad, to make a woman of him.",589,19544
660662,2321,"Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
Whither away, or where is thy abode?
Happy the parents of so fair a child;
Happier the man whom favourable stars
Allots thee for his lovely bed-fellow.",631,19544
660663,2326,"Why, how now, Kate, I hope thou art not mad!
This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered,
And not a maiden, as thou sayst he is.",878,19544
660664,2329,"Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes,
That have been so bedazzled with the sun
That everything I look on seemeth green;
Now I perceive thou art a reverend father.
Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.",631,19544
660665,2334,"Do, good old grandsire, and withal make known
Which way thou travellest- if along with us,
We shall be joyful of thy company.",878,19544
660666,2337,"Fair sir, and you my merry mistress,
That with your strange encounter much amaz'd me,
My name is call'd Vincentio, my dwelling Pisa,
And bound I am to Padua, there to visit
A son of mine, which long I have not seen.",1235,19544
660667,2342,What is his name?,878,19544
660668,2343,"Lucentio, gentle sir.",1235,19544
660669,2344,"Happily met; the happier for thy son.
And now by law, as well as reverend age,
I may entitle thee my loving father:
The sister to my wife, this gentlewoman,
Thy son by this hath married. Wonder not,
Nor be not grieved- she is of good esteem,
Her dowry wealthy, and of worthy birth;
Beside, so qualified as may beseem
The spouse of any noble gentleman.
Let me embrace with old Vincentio;
And wander we to see thy honest son,
Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.",878,19544
660670,2356,"But is this true; or is it else your pleasure,
Like pleasant travellers, to break a jest
Upon the company you overtake?",1235,19544
660671,2359,"I do assure thee, father, so it is.",589,19544
660672,2360,"Come, go along, and see the truth hereof;
For our first merriment hath made thee jealous.",878,19544
660673,2362,                               Exeunt all but HORTENSIO,1261,19544
660674,2363,"Well, Petruchio, this has put me in heart.
Have to my widow; and if she be froward,
Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward.    Exit",589,19544
660675,2368,"Enter BIONDELLO, LUCENTIO, and BIANCA; GREMIO is out before",1261,19545
660676,2369,"Softly and swiftly, sir, for the priest is ready.",169,19545
660677,2370,"I fly, Biondello; but they may chance to need the at
home, therefore leave us.",708,19545
660678,2372,"Nay, faith, I'll see the church a your back, and then
come back to my master's as soon as I can.",169,19545
660679,2374,"                 Exeunt LUCENTIO, BIANCA, and BIONDELLO",1261,19545
660680,2375,I marvel Cambio comes not all this while.,543,19545
660681,2376,"  Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHERINA, VINCENTIO, GRUMIO, and ATTENDANTS",1261,19545
660682,2377,"Sir, here's the door; this is Lucentio's house;
My father's bears more toward the market-place;
Thither must I, and here I leave you, sir.",878,19545
660683,2380,"You shall not choose but drink before you go;
I think I shall command your welcome here,
And by all likelihood some cheer is toward.    [Knocks]",1235,19545
660684,2383,They're busy within; you were best knock louder.,543,19545
660685,2384,                       [PEDANT looks out of the window],1261,19545
660686,2385,What's he that knocks as he would beat down the gate?,868,19545
660687,2386,"Is Signior Lucentio within, sir?",1235,19545
660688,2387,"He's within, sir, but not to be spoken withal.",868,19545
660689,2388,"What if a man bring him a hundred pound or two to make
merry withal?",1235,19545
660690,2390,"Keep your hundred pounds to yourself; he shall need none so
long as I live.",868,19545
660691,2392,"Nay, I told you your son was well beloved in Padua. Do
you hear, sir? To leave frivolous circumstances, I pray you tell
Signior Lucentio that his father is come from Pisa, and is here
at the door to speak with him.",878,19545
660692,2396,"Thou liest: his father is come from Padua, and here looking
out at the window.",868,19545
660693,2398,Art thou his father?,1235,19545
660694,2399,"Ay, sir; so his mother says, if I may believe her.",868,19545
660695,2400,"[To VINCENTIO]  Why, how now, gentleman!
Why, this is flat knavery to take upon you another man's name.",878,19545
660696,2402,"Lay hands on the villain; I believe 'a means to cozen
somebody in this city under my countenance.",868,19545
660697,2404,              Re-enter BIONDELLO,1261,19545
660698,2405,"I have seen them in the church together. God send 'em
good shipping! But who is here? Mine old master, Vincentio! Now we
are undone and brought to nothing.",169,19545
660699,2408,"[Seeing BIONDELLO]  Come hither, crack-hemp.",1235,19545
660700,2409,"I hope I may choose, sir.",169,19545
660701,2410,"Come hither, you rogue. What, have you forgot me?",1235,19545
660702,2411,"Forgot you! No, sir. I could not forget you, for I never
saw you before in all my life.",169,19545
660703,2413,"What, you notorious villain, didst thou never see thy
master's father, Vincentio?",1235,19545
660704,2415,"What, my old worshipful old master? Yes, marry, sir; see
where he looks out of the window.",169,19545
660705,2417,"Is't so, indeed?               [He beats BIONDELLO]",1235,19545
660706,2418,"Help, help, help! Here's a madman will murder me.",169,19545
660707,2419, Exit,1261,19545
660708,2420,"Help, son! help, Signior Baptista!     Exit from above",868,19545
660709,2421,"Prithee, Kate, let's stand aside and see the end of this
controversy.                         [They stand aside]
   Re-enter PEDANT below; BAPTISTA, TRANIO, and SERVANTS",878,19545
660710,2424,"Sir, what are you that offer to beat my servant?",1205,19545
660711,2425,"What am I, sir? Nay, what are you, sir? O immortal gods!
O fine villain! A silken doublet, a velvet hose, a scarlet cloak,
and a copatain hat! O, I am undone! I am undone! While I play the
good husband at home, my son and my servant spend all at the
university.",1235,19545
660712,2430,How now! what's the matter?,1205,19545
660713,2431,"What, is the man lunatic?",142,19545
660714,2432,"Sir, you seem a sober ancient gentleman by your habit, but
your words show you a madman. Why, sir, what 'cerns it you if I
wear pearl and gold? I thank my good father, I am able to
maintain it.",1205,19545
660715,2436,Thy father! O villain! he is a sailmaker in Bergamo.,1235,19545
660716,2437,"You mistake, sir; you mistake, sir. Pray, what do you
think is his name?",142,19545
660717,2439,"His name! As if I knew not his name! I have brought him
up ever since he was three years old, and his name is Tranio.",1235,19545
660718,2441,"Away, away, mad ass! His name is Lucentio; and he is mine
only son, and heir to the lands of me, Signior Vicentio.",868,19545
660719,2443,"Lucentio! O, he hath murd'red his master! Lay hold on
him, I charge you, in the Duke's name. O, my son, my son! Tell
me, thou villain, where is my son, Lucentio?",1235,19545
660720,2446,"Call forth an officer.
[Enter one with an OFFICER]
Carry this mad knave to the gaol. Father Baptista, I charge you
see that he be forthcoming.",1205,19545
660721,2450,Carry me to the gaol!,1235,19545
660722,2451,"Stay, Officer; he shall not go to prison.",543,19545
660723,2452,"Talk not, Signior Gremio; I say he shall go to prison.",142,19545
660724,2453,"Take heed, Signior Baptista, lest you be cony-catch'd in
this business; I dare swear this is the right Vincentio.",543,19545
660725,2455,Swear if thou dar'st.,868,19545
660726,2456,"Nay, I dare not swear it.",543,19545
660727,2457,Then thou wert best say that I am not Lucentio.,1205,19545
660728,2458,"Yes, I know thee to be Signior Lucentio.",543,19545
660729,2459,Away with the dotard; to the gaol with him!,142,19545
660730,2460,"Thus strangers may be hal'd and abus'd. O monstrous
villain!",1235,19545
660731,2462," Re-enter BIONDELLO, with LUCENTIO and BIANCA",1261,19545
660732,2463,"O, we are spoil'd; and yonder he is! Deny him, forswear
him, or else we are all undone.",169,19545
660733,2465,"Exeunt BIONDELLO, TRANIO, and PEDANT, as fast as may be",1261,19545
660734,2466,"[Kneeling]  Pardon, sweet father.",708,19545
660735,2467,Lives my sweet son?,1235,19545
660736,2468,"Pardon, dear father.",166,19545
660737,2469,"How hast thou offended?
Where is Lucentio?",142,19545
660738,2471,"Here's Lucentio,
Right son to the right Vincentio,
That have by marriage made thy daughter mine,
While counterfeit supposes blear'd thine eyne.",708,19545
660739,2475,"Here's packing, with a witness, to deceive us all!",543,19545
660740,2476,"Where is that damned villain, Tranio,
That fac'd and brav'd me in this matter so?",1235,19545
660741,2478,"Why, tell me, is not this my Cambio?",142,19545
660742,2479,Cambio is chang'd into Lucentio.,166,19545
660743,2480,"Love wrought these miracles. Bianca's love
Made me exchange my state with Tranio,
While he did bear my countenance in the town;
And happily I have arrived at the last
Unto the wished haven of my bliss.
What Tranio did, myself enforc'd him to;
Then pardon him, sweet father, for my sake.",708,19545
660744,2487,"I'll slit the villain's nose that would have sent me to
the gaol.",1235,19545
660745,2489,"[To LUCENTIO]  But do you hear, sir? Have you married my
daughter without asking my good will?",142,19545
660746,2491,"Fear not, Baptista; we will content you, go to; but I
will in to be revenged for this villainy.          Exit",1235,19545
660747,2493,And I to sound the depth of this knavery.  Exit,142,19545
660748,2494,"Look not pale, Bianca; thy father will not frown.",708,19545
660749,2495,                             Exeunt LUCENTIO and BIANCA,1261,19545
660750,2496,"My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest;
Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.      Exit",543,19545
660751,2498,"Husband, let's follow to see the end of this ado.",631,19545
660752,2499,"First kiss me, Kate, and we will.",878,19545
660753,2500,"What, in the midst of the street?",631,19545
660754,2501,"What, art thou asham'd of me?",878,19545
660755,2502,"No, sir; God forbid; but asham'd to kiss.",631,19545
660756,2503,"Why, then, let's home again. Come, sirrah, let's away.",878,19545
660757,2504,"Nay, I will give thee a kiss; now pray thee, love, stay.",631,19545
660758,2505,"Is not this well? Come, my sweet Kate:
Better once than never, for never too late.      Exeunt",878,19545
660759,2508,"Enter BAPTISTA, VINCENTIO, GREMIO, the PEDANT, LUCENTIO, BIANCA, PETRUCHIO, KATHERINA, HORTENSIO, and WIDOW. The SERVINGMEN with TRANIO, BIONDELLO, and GRUMIO, bringing in a banquet",1261,19546
660760,2509,"At last, though long, our jarring notes agree;
And time it is when raging war is done
To smile at scapes and perils overblown.
My fair Bianca, bid my father welcome,
While I with self-same kindness welcome thine.
Brother Petruchio, sister Katherina,
And thou, Hortensio, with thy loving widow,
Feast with the best, and welcome to my house.
My banquet is to close our stomachs up
After our great good cheer. Pray you, sit down;
For now we sit to chat as well as eat.       [They sit]",708,19546
660761,2520,"Nothing but sit and sit, and eat and eat!",878,19546
660762,2521,"Padua affords this kindness, son Petruchio.",142,19546
660763,2522,Padua affords nothing but what is kind.,878,19546
660764,2523,For both our sakes I would that word were true.,589,19546
660765,2524,"Now, for my life, Hortensio fears his widow.",878,19546
660766,2525,Then never trust me if I be afeard.,1251,19546
660767,2526,"YOU are very sensible, and yet you miss my sense:
I mean Hortensio is afeard of you.",878,19546
660768,2528,He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.,1251,19546
660769,2529,Roundly replied.,878,19546
660770,2530,"Mistress, how mean you that?",631,19546
660771,2531,Thus I conceive by him.,1251,19546
660772,2532,Conceives by me! How likes Hortensio that?,878,19546
660773,2533,My widow says thus she conceives her tale.,589,19546
660774,2534,"Very well mended. Kiss him for that, good widow.",878,19546
660775,2535,"'He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.'
I pray you tell me what you meant by that.",631,19546
660776,2537,"Your husband, being troubled with a shrew,
Measures my husband's sorrow by his woe;
And now you know my meaning.",1251,19546
660777,2540,A very mean meaning.,631,19546
660778,2541,"Right, I mean you.",1251,19546
660779,2542,"And I am mean, indeed, respecting you.",631,19546
660780,2543,"To her, Kate!",878,19546
660781,2544,"To her, widow!",589,19546
660782,2545,"A hundred marks, my Kate does put her down.",878,19546
660783,2546,That's my office.,589,19546
660784,2547,"Spoke like an officer- ha' to thee, lad.",878,19546
660785,2548,                                  [Drinks to HORTENSIO],1261,19546
660786,2549,How likes Gremio these quick-witted folks?,142,19546
660787,2550,"Believe me, sir, they butt together well.",543,19546
660788,2551,"Head and butt! An hasty-witted body
Would say your head and butt were head and horn.",166,19546
660789,2553,"Ay, mistress bride, hath that awakened you?",1235,19546
660790,2554,"Ay, but not frighted me; therefore I'll sleep again.",166,19546
660791,2555,"Nay, that you shall not; since you have begun,
Have at you for a bitter jest or two.",878,19546
660792,2557,"Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush,
And then pursue me as you draw your bow.
You are welcome all.",166,19546
660793,2560,"                    Exeunt BIANCA, KATHERINA, and WIDOW",1261,19546
660794,2561,"She hath prevented me. Here, Signior Tranio,
This bird you aim'd at, though you hit her not;
Therefore a health to all that shot and miss'd.",878,19546
660795,2564,"O, sir, Lucentio slipp'd me like his greyhound,
Which runs himself, and catches for his master.",1205,19546
660796,2566,"A good swift simile, but something currish.",878,19546
660797,2567,"'Tis well, sir, that you hunted for yourself;
'Tis thought your deer does hold you at a bay.",1205,19546
660798,2569,"O, O, Petruchio! Tranio hits you now.",142,19546
660799,2570,"I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.",708,19546
660800,2571,"Confess, confess; hath he not hit you here?",589,19546
660801,2572,"'A has a little gall'd me, I confess;
And, as the jest did glance away from me,
'Tis ten to one it maim'd you two outright.",878,19546
660802,2575,"Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio,
I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all.",142,19546
660803,2577,"Well, I say no; and therefore, for assurance,
Let's each one send unto his wife,
And he whose wife is most obedient,
To come at first when he doth send for her,
Shall win the wager which we will propose.",878,19546
660804,2582,Content. What's the wager?,589,19546
660805,2583,Twenty crowns.,708,19546
660806,2584,"Twenty crowns?
I'll venture so much of my hawk or hound,
But twenty times so much upon my wife.",878,19546
660807,2587,A hundred then.,708,19546
660808,2588,Content.,589,19546
660809,2589,A match! 'tis done.,878,19546
660810,2590,Who shall begin?,589,19546
660811,2591,"That will I.
Go, Biondello, bid your mistress come to me.",708,19546
660812,2593,I go.                                     Exit,169,19546
660813,2594,"Son, I'll be your half Bianca comes.",142,19546
660814,2595,"I'll have no halves; I'll bear it all myself.
[Re-enter BIONDELLO]
How now! what news?",708,19546
660815,2598,"Sir, my mistress sends you word
That she is busy and she cannot come.",169,19546
660816,2600,"How! She's busy, and she cannot come!
Is that an answer?",878,19546
660817,2602,"Ay, and a kind one too.
Pray God, sir, your wife send you not a worse.",543,19546
660818,2604,I hope better.,878,19546
660819,2605,"Sirrah Biondello, go and entreat my wife
To come to me forthwith.                 Exit BIONDELLO",589,19546
660820,2607,"O, ho! entreat her!
Nay, then she must needs come.",878,19546
660821,2609,"I am afraid, sir,
Do what you can, yours will not be entreated.
[Re-enter BIONDELLO]
Now, where's my wife?",589,19546
660822,2613,"She says you have some goodly jest in hand:
She will not come; she bids you come to her.",169,19546
660823,2615,"Worse and worse; she will not come! O vile,
Intolerable, not to be endur'd!
Sirrah Grumio, go to your mistress;
Say I command her come to me.               Exit GRUMIO",878,19546
660824,2619,I know her answer.,589,19546
660825,2620,What?,878,19546
660826,2621,She will not.,589,19546
660827,2622,"The fouler fortune mine, and there an end.",878,19546
660828,2623,                    Re-enter KATHERINA,1261,19546
660829,2624,"Now, by my holidame, here comes Katherina!",142,19546
660830,2625,"What is your sir, that you send for me?",631,19546
660831,2626,"Where is your sister, and Hortensio's wife?",878,19546
660832,2627,They sit conferring by the parlour fire.,631,19546
660833,2628,"Go, fetch them hither; if they deny to come.
Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands.
Away, I say, and bring them hither straight.",878,19546
660834,2631,[Exit KATHERINA],1261,19546
660835,2632,"Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder.",708,19546
660836,2633,And so it is. I wonder what it bodes.,589,19546
660837,2634,"Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life,
An awful rule, and right supremacy;
And, to be short, what not that's sweet and happy.",878,19546
660838,2637,"Now fair befall thee, good Petruchio!
The wager thou hast won; and I will add
Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns;
Another dowry to another daughter,
For she is chang'd, as she had never been.",142,19546
660839,2642,"Nay, I will win my wager better yet,
And show more sign of her obedience,
Her new-built virtue and obedience.
[Re-enter KATHERINA with BIANCA and WIDOW]
See where she comes, and brings your froward wives
As prisoners to her womanly persuasion.
Katherine, that cap of yours becomes you not:
Off with that bauble, throw it underfoot.",878,19546
660840,2650,                                   [KATHERINA complies],1261,19546
660841,2651,"Lord, let me never have a cause to sigh
Till I be brought to such a silly pass!",1251,19546
660842,2653,Fie! what a foolish duty call you this?,166,19546
660843,2654,"I would your duty were as foolish too;
The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca,
Hath cost me a hundred crowns since supper-time!",708,19546
660844,2657,The more fool you for laying on my duty.,166,19546
660845,2658,"Katherine, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women
What duty they do owe their lords and husbands.",878,19546
660846,2660,"Come, come, you're mocking; we will have no telling.",1251,19546
660847,2661,"Come on, I say; and first begin with her.",878,19546
660848,2662,She shall not.,1251,19546
660849,2663,I say she shall. And first begin with her.,878,19546
660850,2664,"Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow,
And dart not scornful glances from those eyes
To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor.
It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,
Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,
And in no sense is meet or amiable.
A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled-
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty;
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.
Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
And for thy maintenance commits his body
To painful labour both by sea and land,
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
And craves no other tribute at thy hands
But love, fair looks, and true obedience-
Too little payment for so great a debt.
Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband;
And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
And not obedient to his honest will,
What is she but a foul contending rebel
And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
I am asham'd that women are so simple
To offer war where they should kneel for peace;
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway,
When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.
Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,
Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
But that our soft conditions and our hearts
Should well agree with our external parts?
Come, come, you forward and unable worms!
My mind hath been as big as one of yours,
My heart as great, my reason haply more,
To bandy word for word and frown for frown;
But now I see our lances are but straws,
Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,
That seeming to be most which we indeed least are.
Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,
And place your hands below your husband's foot;
In token of which duty, if he please,
My hand is ready, may it do him ease.",631,19546
660851,2708,"Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.",878,19546
660852,2709,"Well, go thy ways, old lad, for thou shalt ha't.",708,19546
660856,2716,[Exeunt PETRUCHIO and KATHERINA],1261,19546
660857,2717,Now go thy ways; thou hast tam'd a curst shrow.,589,19546
660858,2718,"'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tam'd so.",708,19546
660859,2719,[Exeunt],1261,19546
660860,4,[Enter a Master and a Boatswain],1261,19547
660861,5,Boatswain!,753,19547
660862,6,"Here, master: what cheer?",176,19547
660863,7,"Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely,
or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.",753,19547
660864,9,[Exit],1261,19547
660865,10,[Enter Mariners],1261,19547
660866,11,"Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!
yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to the
master's whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind,
if room enough!
[Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND,]
GONZALO, and others]",176,19547
660867,17,"Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master?
Play the men.",99,19547
660868,19,"I pray now, keep below.",176,19547
660869,20,"Where is the master, boatswain?",118,19547
660870,21,"Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your
cabins: you do assist the storm.",176,19547
660871,23,"Nay, good, be patient.",534,19547
660872,24,"When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers
for the name of king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not.",176,19547
660873,26,"Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.",534,19547
660874,27,"None that I more love than myself. You are a
counsellor; if you can command these elements to
silence, and work the peace of the present, we will
not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you
cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make
yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of
the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out
of our way, I say.",176,19547
660875,35,[Exit],1261,19547
660876,36,"I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he
hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is
perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his
hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable,
for our own doth little advantage. If he be not
born to be hanged, our case is miserable.",534,19547
660877,42,[Exeunt],1261,19547
660878,43,[Re-enter Boatswain],1261,19547
660879,44,"Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring
her to try with main-course.
[A cry within]
A plague upon this howling! they are louder than
the weather or our office.
[Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO]
Yet again! what do you here? Shall we give o'er
and drown? Have you a mind to sink?",176,19547
660880,52,"A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,
incharitable dog!",977,19547
660881,54,Work you then.,176,19547
660882,55,"Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!
We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.",118,19547
660883,57,"I'll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were
no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an
unstanched wench.",534,19547
660884,60,"Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses off to
sea again; lay her off.",176,19547
660885,62,[Enter Mariners wet],1261,19547
660886,63,"All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!",743,19547
660887,64,"What, must our mouths be cold?",176,19547
660888,65,"The king and prince at prayers! let's assist them,
For our case is as theirs.",534,19547
660889,67,I'm out of patience.,977,19547
660890,68,"We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:
This wide-chapp'd rascal--would thou mightst lie drowning
The washing of ten tides!",118,19547
660891,71,"He'll be hang'd yet,
Though every drop of water swear against it
And gape at widest to glut him.
[A confused noise within: 'Mercy on us!'--]
'We split, we split!'--'Farewell, my wife and
children!'--
'Farewell, brother!'--'We split, we split, we split!']",534,19547
660892,78,Let's all sink with the king.,118,19547
660893,79,Let's take leave of him.,977,19547
660894,80,[Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN],1261,19547
660895,81,"Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an
acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any
thing. The wills above be done! but I would fain
die a dry death.",534,19547
660896,85,[Exeunt],1261,19547
660897,88,[Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA],1261,19548
660898,89,"If by your art, my dearest father, you have
Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,
Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,
Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock
Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd.
Had I been any god of power, I would
Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere
It should the good ship so have swallow'd and
The fraughting souls within her.",794,19548
660899,102,"Be collected:
No more amazement: tell your piteous heart
There's no harm done.",924,19548
660900,105,"O, woe the day!",794,19548
660901,106,"No harm.
I have done nothing but in care of thee,
Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing
Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
And thy no greater father.",924,19548
660902,113,"More to know
Did never meddle with my thoughts.",794,19548
660903,115,"'Tis time
I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand,
And pluck my magic garment from me. So:
[Lays down his mantle]
Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.
The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd
The very virtue of compassion in thee,
I have with such provision in mine art
So safely ordered that there is no soul--
No, not so much perdition as an hair
Betid to any creature in the vessel
Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down;
For thou must now know farther.",924,19548
660904,128,"You have often
Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd
And left me to a bootless inquisition,
Concluding 'Stay: not yet.'",794,19548
660905,132,"The hour's now come;
The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;
Obey and be attentive. Canst thou remember
A time before we came unto this cell?
I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not
Out three years old.",924,19548
660906,138,"Certainly, sir, I can.",794,19548
660907,139,"By what? by any other house or person?
Of any thing the image tell me that
Hath kept with thy remembrance.",924,19548
660908,142,"'Tis far off
And rather like a dream than an assurance
That my remembrance warrants. Had I not
Four or five women once that tended me?",794,19548
660909,146,"Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it
That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
If thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here,
How thou camest here thou mayst.",924,19548
660910,151,But that I do not.,794,19548
660911,152,"Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since,
Thy father was the Duke of Milan and
A prince of power.",924,19548
660912,155,"Sir, are not you my father?",794,19548
660913,156,"Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and
She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father
Was Duke of Milan; and thou his only heir
And princess no worse issued.",924,19548
660914,160,"O the heavens!
What foul play had we, that we came from thence?
Or blessed was't we did?",794,19548
660915,163,"Both, both, my girl:
By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence,
But blessedly holp hither.",924,19548
660916,166,"O, my heart bleeds
To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to,
Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther.",794,19548
660917,169,"My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio--
I pray thee, mark me--that a brother should
Be so perfidious!--he whom next thyself
Of all the world I loved and to him put
The manage of my state; as at that time
Through all the signories it was the first
And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed
In dignity, and for the liberal arts
Without a parallel; those being all my study,
The government I cast upon my brother
And to my state grew stranger, being transported
And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle--
Dost thou attend me?",924,19548
660918,182,"Sir, most heedfully.",794,19548
660919,183,"Being once perfected how to grant suits,
How to deny them, who to advance and who
To trash for over-topping, new created
The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em,
Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key
Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state
To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was
The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,
And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not.",924,19548
660920,192,"O, good sir, I do.",794,19548
660921,193,"I pray thee, mark me.
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind
With that which, but by being so retired,
O'er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother
Awaked an evil nature; and my trust,
Like a good parent, did beget of him
A falsehood in its contrary as great
As my trust was; which had indeed no limit,
A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded,
Not only with what my revenue yielded,
But what my power might else exact, like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie, he did believe
He was indeed the duke; out o' the substitution
And executing the outward face of royalty,
With all prerogative: hence his ambition growing--
Dost thou hear?",924,19548
660922,212,"Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.",794,19548
660923,213,"To have no screen between this part he play'd
And him he play'd it for, he needs will be
Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties
He thinks me now incapable; confederates--
So dry he was for sway--wi' the King of Naples
To give him annual tribute, do him homage,
Subject his coronet to his crown and bend
The dukedom yet unbow'd--alas, poor Milan!--
To most ignoble stooping.",924,19548
660924,223,O the heavens!,794,19548
660925,224,"Mark his condition and the event; then tell me
If this might be a brother.",924,19548
660926,226,"I should sin
To think but nobly of my grandmother:
Good wombs have borne bad sons.",794,19548
660927,229,"Now the condition.
The King of Naples, being an enemy
To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit;
Which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises
Of homage and I know not how much tribute,
Should presently extirpate me and mine
Out of the dukedom and confer fair Milan
With all the honours on my brother: whereon,
A treacherous army levied, one midnight
Fated to the purpose did Antonio open
The gates of Milan, and, i' the dead of darkness,
The ministers for the purpose hurried thence
Me and thy crying self.",924,19548
660928,242,"Alack, for pity!
I, not remembering how I cried out then,
Will cry it o'er again: it is a hint
That wrings mine eyes to't.",794,19548
660929,246,"Hear a little further
And then I'll bring thee to the present business
Which now's upon's; without the which this story
Were most impertinent.",924,19548
660930,250,"Wherefore did they not
That hour destroy us?",794,19548
660931,252,"Well demanded, wench:
My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not,
So dear the love my people bore me, nor set
A mark so bloody on the business, but
With colours fairer painted their foul ends.
In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared
A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd,
Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats
Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us,
To cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh
To the winds whose pity, sighing back again,
Did us but loving wrong.",924,19548
660932,265,"Alack, what trouble
Was I then to you!",794,19548
660933,267,"O, a cherubim
Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile.
Infused with a fortitude from heaven,
When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt,
Under my burthen groan'd; which raised in me
An undergoing stomach, to bear up
Against what should ensue.",924,19548
660934,274,How came we ashore?,794,19548
660935,275,"By Providence divine.
Some food we had and some fresh water that
A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,
Out of his charity, being then appointed
Master of this design, did give us, with
Rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries,
Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness,
Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.",924,19548
660936,285,"Would I might
But ever see that man!",794,19548
660937,287,"Now I arise:
[Resumes his mantle]
Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow.
Here in this island we arrived; and here
Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit
Than other princesses can that have more time
For vainer hours and tutors not so careful.",924,19548
660938,294,"Heavens thank you for't! And now, I pray you, sir,
For still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason
For raising this sea-storm?",794,19548
660939,297,"Know thus far forth.
By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune,
Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies
Brought to this shore; and by my prescience
I find my zenith doth depend upon
A most auspicious star, whose influence
If now I court not but omit, my fortunes
Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions:
Thou art inclined to sleep; 'tis a good dulness,
And give it way: I know thou canst not choose.
[MIRANDA sleeps]
Come away, servant, come. I am ready now.
Approach, my Ariel, come.",924,19548
660940,310,[Enter ARIEL],1261,19548
660941,311,"All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come
To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly,
To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task
Ariel and all his quality.",124,19548
660942,316,"Hast thou, spirit,
Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee?",924,19548
660943,318,"To every article.
I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak,
Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,
I flamed amazement: sometime I'ld divide,
And burn in many places; on the topmast,
The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,
Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors
O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary
And sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks
Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune
Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,
Yea, his dread trident shake.",124,19548
660944,330,"My brave spirit!
Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil
Would not infect his reason?",924,19548
660945,333,"Not a soul
But felt a fever of the mad and play'd
Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners
Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,
Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand,
With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,--
Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty
And all the devils are here.'",124,19548
660946,341,"Why that's my spirit!
But was not this nigh shore?",924,19548
660947,343,"Close by, my master.",124,19548
660948,344,"But are they, Ariel, safe?",924,19548
660949,345,"Not a hair perish'd;
On their sustaining garments not a blemish,
But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me,
In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle.
The king's son have I landed by himself;
Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs
In an odd angle of the isle and sitting,
His arms in this sad knot.",124,19548
660950,353,"Of the king's ship
The mariners say how thou hast disposed
And all the rest o' the fleet.",924,19548
660951,356,"Safely in harbour
Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once
Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew
From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid:
The mariners all under hatches stow'd;
Who, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour,
I have left asleep; and for the rest o' the fleet
Which I dispersed, they all have met again
And are upon the Mediterranean flote,
Bound sadly home for Naples,
Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd
And his great person perish.",124,19548
660952,368,"Ariel, thy charge
Exactly is perform'd: but there's more work.
What is the time o' the day?",924,19548
660953,371,Past the mid season.,124,19548
660954,372,"At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now
Must by us both be spent most preciously.",924,19548
660955,374,"Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,
Let me remember thee what thou hast promised,
Which is not yet perform'd me.",124,19548
660956,377,"How now? moody?
What is't thou canst demand?",924,19548
660957,379,My liberty.,124,19548
660958,380,Before the time be out? no more!,924,19548
660959,381,"I prithee,
Remember I have done thee worthy service;
Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served
Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise
To bate me a full year.",124,19548
660960,386,"Dost thou forget
From what a torment I did free thee?",924,19548
660961,388,No.,124,19548
660962,389,"Thou dost, and think'st it much to tread the ooze
Of the salt deep,
To run upon the sharp wind of the north,
To do me business in the veins o' the earth
When it is baked with frost.",924,19548
660963,394,"I do not, sir.",124,19548
660964,395,"Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot
The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy
Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her?",924,19548
660965,398,"No, sir.",124,19548
660966,399,Thou hast. Where was she born? speak; tell me.,924,19548
660967,400,"Sir, in Argier.",124,19548
660968,401,"O, was she so? I must
Once in a month recount what thou hast been,
Which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch Sycorax,
For mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible
To enter human hearing, from Argier,
Thou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did
They would not take her life. Is not this true?",924,19548
660969,408,"Ay, sir.",124,19548
660970,409,"This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child
And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave,
As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant;
And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate
To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,
Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
By help of her more potent ministers
And in her most unmitigable rage,
Into a cloven pine; within which rift
Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain
A dozen years; within which space she died
And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans
As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island--
Save for the son that she did litter here,
A freckled whelp hag-born--not honour'd with
A human shape.",924,19548
660971,425,"Yes, Caliban her son.",124,19548
660972,426,"Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban
Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st
What torment I did find thee in; thy groans
Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts
Of ever angry bears: it was a torment
To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax
Could not again undo: it was mine art,
When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape
The pine and let thee out.",924,19548
660973,435,"I thank thee, master.",124,19548
660974,436,"If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak
And peg thee in his knotty entrails till
Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.",924,19548
660975,439,"Pardon, master;
I will be correspondent to command
And do my spiriting gently.",124,19548
660976,442,"Do so, and after two days
I will discharge thee.",924,19548
660977,444,"That's my noble master!
What shall I do? say what; what shall I do?",124,19548
660978,446,"Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea: be subject
To no sight but thine and mine, invisible
To every eyeball else. Go take this shape
And hither come in't: go, hence with diligence!
[Exit ARIEL]
Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake!",924,19548
660979,452,"The strangeness of your story put
Heaviness in me.",794,19548
660980,454,"Shake it off. Come on;
We'll visit Caliban my slave, who never
Yields us kind answer.",924,19548
660981,457,"'Tis a villain, sir,
I do not love to look on.",794,19548
660982,459,"But, as 'tis,
We cannot miss him: he does make our fire,
Fetch in our wood and serves in offices
That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban!
Thou earth, thou! speak.",924,19548
660983,464,[Within] There's wood enough within.,208,19548
660984,465,"Come forth, I say! there's other business for thee:
Come, thou tortoise! when?
[Re-enter ARIEL like a water-nymph]
Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,
Hark in thine ear.",924,19548
660985,470,My lord it shall be done.,124,19548
660986,471,[Exit],1261,19548
660987,472,"Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!",924,19548
660988,474,[Enter CALIBAN],1261,19548
660989,475,"As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd
With raven's feather from unwholesome fen
Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye
And blister you all o'er!",208,19548
660990,479,"For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps,
Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins
Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,
All exercise on thee; thou shalt be pinch'd
As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
Than bees that made 'em.",924,19548
660991,485,"I must eat my dinner.
This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,
Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first,
Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me
Water with berries in't, and teach me how
To name the bigger light, and how the less,
That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee
And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle,
The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile:
Cursed be I that did so! All the charms
Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
For I am all the subjects that you have,
Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me
In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
The rest o' the island.",208,19548
660992,500,"Thou most lying slave,
Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used thee,
Filth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee
In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate
The honour of my child.",924,19548
660993,505,"O ho, O ho! would't had been done!
Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else
This isle with Calibans.",208,19548
660994,508,"Abhorred slave,
Which any print of goodness wilt not take,
Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,
Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour
One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,
Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes
With words that made them known. But thy vile race,
Though thou didst learn, had that in't which
good natures
Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou
Deservedly confined into this rock,
Who hadst deserved more than a prison.",924,19548
660995,521,"You taught me language; and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!",208,19548
660996,524,"Hag-seed, hence!
Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best,
To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice?
If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly
What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps,
Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar
That beasts shall tremble at thy din.",924,19548
660997,531,"No, pray thee.
[Aside]
I must obey: his art is of such power,
It would control my dam's god, Setebos,
and make a vassal of him.",208,19548
660998,536,"So, slave; hence!
[Exit CALIBAN]
[Re-enter ARIEL, invisible, playing and singing;]
FERDINAND following]
ARIEL'S song.
Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Courtsied when you have and kiss'd
The wild waves whist,
Foot it featly here and there;
And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.
Hark, hark!
[Burthen [dispersedly, within] Bow-wow]
The watch-dogs bark!
[Burthen Bow-wow]
Hark, hark! I hear
The strain of strutting chanticleer
Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.",924,19548
660999,554,"Where should this music be? i' the air or the earth?
It sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon
Some god o' the island. Sitting on a bank,
Weeping again the king my father's wreck,
This music crept by me upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,
Or it hath drawn me rather. But 'tis gone.
No, it begins again.
[ARIEL sings]
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell
[Burthen Ding-dong]
Hark! now I hear them,--Ding-dong, bell.",400,19548
661000,573,"The ditty does remember my drown'd father.
This is no mortal business, nor no sound
That the earth owes. I hear it now above me.",400,19548
661001,576,"The fringed curtains of thine eye advance
And say what thou seest yond.",924,19548
661002,578,"What is't? a spirit?
Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,
It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit.",794,19548
661003,581,"No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses
As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest
Was in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'd
With grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him
A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows
And strays about to find 'em.",924,19548
661004,587,"I might call him
A thing divine, for nothing natural
I ever saw so noble.",794,19548
661005,590,"[Aside] It goes on, I see,
As my soul prompts it. Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free thee
Within two days for this.",924,19548
661006,593,"Most sure, the goddess
On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer
May know if you remain upon this island;
And that you will some good instruction give
How I may bear me here: my prime request,
Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!
If you be maid or no?",400,19548
661007,600,"No wonder, sir;
But certainly a maid.",794,19548
661008,602,"My language! heavens!
I am the best of them that speak this speech,
Were I but where 'tis spoken.",400,19548
661009,605,"How? the best?
What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?",924,19548
661010,607,"A single thing, as I am now, that wonders
To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me;
And that he does I weep: myself am Naples,
Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld
The king my father wreck'd.",400,19548
661011,612,"Alack, for mercy!",794,19548
661012,613,"Yes, faith, and all his lords; the Duke of Milan
And his brave son being twain.",400,19548
661013,615,"[Aside]. The Duke of Milan
And his more braver daughter could control thee,
If now 'twere fit to do't. At the first sight
They have changed eyes. Delicate Ariel,
I'll set thee free for this.
[To FERDINAND]
A word, good sir;
I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word.",924,19548
661014,623,"Why speaks my father so ungently? This
Is the third man that e'er I saw, the first
That e'er I sigh'd for: pity move my father
To be inclined my way!",794,19548
661015,627,"O, if a virgin,
And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you
The queen of Naples.",400,19548
661016,630,"Soft, sir! one word more.
[Aside]
They are both in either's powers; but this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
[To FERDINAND]
One word more; I charge thee
That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp
The name thou owest not; and hast put thyself
Upon this island as a spy, to win it
From me, the lord on't.",924,19548
661017,641,"No, as I am a man.",400,19548
661018,642,"There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with't.",794,19548
661019,645,"Follow me.
Speak not you for him; he's a traitor. Come;
I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:
Sea-water shalt thou drink; thy food shall be
The fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots and husks
Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow.",924,19548
661020,651,"No;
I will resist such entertainment till
Mine enemy has more power.",400,19548
661021,654,"[Draws, and is charmed from moving]",1261,19548
661022,655,"O dear father,
Make not too rash a trial of him, for
He's gentle and not fearful.",794,19548
661023,658,"What? I say,
My foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor;
Who makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience
Is so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward,
For I can here disarm thee with this stick
And make thy weapon drop.",924,19548
661024,664,"Beseech you, father.",794,19548
661025,665,Hence! hang not on my garments.,924,19548
661026,666,"Sir, have pity;
I'll be his surety.",794,19548
661027,668,"Silence! one word more
Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!
An advocate for an imposter! hush!
Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he,
Having seen but him and Caliban: foolish wench!
To the most of men this is a Caliban
And they to him are angels.",924,19548
661028,675,"My affections
Are then most humble; I have no ambition
To see a goodlier man.",794,19548
661029,678,"Come on; obey:
Thy nerves are in their infancy again
And have no vigour in them.",924,19548
661030,681,"So they are;
My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up.
My father's loss, the weakness which I feel,
The wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats,
To whom I am subdued, are but light to me,
Might I but through my prison once a day
Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth
Let liberty make use of; space enough
Have I in such a prison.",400,19548
661031,690,"[Aside] It works.
[To FERDINAND]
Come on.
Thou hast done well, fine Ariel!
[To FERDINAND]
Follow me.
[To ARIEL]
Hark what thou else shalt do me.",924,19548
661032,698,"Be of comfort;
My father's of a better nature, sir,
Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted
Which now came from him.",794,19548
661033,702,"Thou shalt be free
As mountain winds: but then exactly do
All points of my command.",924,19548
661034,705,To the syllable.,124,19548
661035,706,"Come, follow. Speak not for him.",924,19548
661036,707,"[Exeunt]
[Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,]
ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others]",1261,19548
661037,712,"Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause,
So have we all, of joy; for our escape
Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe
Is common; every day some sailor's wife,
The masters of some merchant and the merchant
Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle,
I mean our preservation, few in millions
Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh
Our sorrow with our comfort.",534,19549
661038,721,"Prithee, peace.",99,19549
661039,722,He receives comfort like cold porridge.,977,19549
661040,723,The visitor will not give him o'er so.,118,19549
661041,724,"Look he's winding up the watch of his wit;
by and by it will strike.",977,19549
661042,726,"Sir,--",534,19549
661043,727,One: tell.,977,19549
661044,728,"When every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd,
Comes to the entertainer--",534,19549
661045,730,A dollar.,977,19549
661046,731,"Dolour comes to him, indeed: you
have spoken truer than you purposed.",534,19549
661047,733,You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.,977,19549
661048,734,"Therefore, my lord,--",534,19549
661049,735,"Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!",118,19549
661050,736,"I prithee, spare.",99,19549
661051,737,"Well, I have done: but yet,--",534,19549
661052,738,He will be talking.,977,19549
661053,739,"Which, of he or Adrian, for a good
wager, first begins to crow?",118,19549
661054,741,The old cock.,977,19549
661055,742,The cockerel.,118,19549
661056,743,Done. The wager?,977,19549
661057,744,A laughter.,118,19549
661058,745,A match!,977,19549
661059,746,"Though this island seem to be desert,--",52,19549
661060,747,"Ha, ha, ha! So, you're paid.",977,19549
661061,748,"Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible,--",52,19549
661062,749,"Yet,--",977,19549
661063,750,"Yet,--",52,19549
661064,751,He could not miss't.,118,19549
661065,752,"It must needs be of subtle, tender and delicate
temperance.",52,19549
661066,754,Temperance was a delicate wench.,118,19549
661067,755,"Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered.",977,19549
661068,756,The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.,52,19549
661069,757,As if it had lungs and rotten ones.,977,19549
661070,758,Or as 'twere perfumed by a fen.,118,19549
661071,759,Here is everything advantageous to life.,534,19549
661072,760,True; save means to live.,118,19549
661073,761,"Of that there's none, or little.",977,19549
661074,762,How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!,534,19549
661075,763,The ground indeed is tawny.,118,19549
661076,764,With an eye of green in't.,977,19549
661077,765,He misses not much.,118,19549
661078,766,No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.,977,19549
661079,767,"But the rarity of it is,--which is indeed almost
beyond credit,--",534,19549
661080,769,As many vouched rarities are.,977,19549
661081,770,"That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in
the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and
glosses, being rather new-dyed than stained with
salt water.",534,19549
661082,774,"If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not
say he lies?",118,19549
661083,776,"Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report",977,19549
661084,777,"Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we
put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of
the king's fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis.",534,19549
661085,780,"'Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return.",977,19549
661086,781,"Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to
their queen.",52,19549
661087,783,Not since widow Dido's time.,534,19549
661088,784,"Widow! a pox o' that! How came that widow in?
widow Dido!",118,19549
661089,786,"What if he had said 'widower AEneas' too? Good Lord,
how you take it!",977,19549
661090,788,"'Widow Dido' said you? you make me study of that:
she was of Carthage, not of Tunis.",52,19549
661091,790,"This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.",534,19549
661092,791,Carthage?,52,19549
661093,792,"I assure you, Carthage.",534,19549
661094,793,"His word is more than the miraculous harp; he hath
raised the wall and houses too.",977,19549
661095,795,What impossible matter will he make easy next?,118,19549
661096,796,"I think he will carry this island home in his pocket
and give it his son for an apple.",977,19549
661097,798,"And, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring
forth more islands.",118,19549
661098,800,Ay.,534,19549
661099,801,"Why, in good time.",118,19549
661100,802,"Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now
as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage
of your daughter, who is now queen.",534,19549
661101,805,And the rarest that e'er came there.,118,19549
661102,806,"Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido.",977,19549
661103,807,"O, widow Dido! ay, widow Dido.",118,19549
661104,808,"Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I
wore it? I mean, in a sort.",534,19549
661105,810,That sort was well fished for.,118,19549
661106,811,When I wore it at your daughter's marriage?,534,19549
661107,812,"You cram these words into mine ears against
The stomach of my sense. Would I had never
Married my daughter there! for, coming thence,
My son is lost and, in my rate, she too,
Who is so far from Italy removed
I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir
Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish
Hath made his meal on thee?",99,19549
661108,820,"Sir, he may live:
I saw him beat the surges under him,
And ride upon their backs; he trod the water,
Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
The surge most swoln that met him; his bold head
'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd
Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke
To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd,
As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt
He came alive to land.",495,19549
661109,830,"No, no, he's gone.",99,19549
661110,831,"Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss,
That would not bless our Europe with your daughter,
But rather lose her to an African;
Where she at least is banish'd from your eye,
Who hath cause to wet the grief on't.",977,19549
661111,836,"Prithee, peace.",99,19549
661112,837,"You were kneel'd to and importuned otherwise
By all of us, and the fair soul herself
Weigh'd between loathness and obedience, at
Which end o' the beam should bow. We have lost your
son,
I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have
More widows in them of this business' making
Than we bring men to comfort them:
The fault's your own.",977,19549
661113,846,So is the dear'st o' the loss.,99,19549
661114,847,"My lord Sebastian,
The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
And time to speak it in: you rub the sore,
When you should bring the plaster.",534,19549
661115,851,Very well.,977,19549
661116,852,And most chirurgeonly.,118,19549
661117,853,"It is foul weather in us all, good sir,
When you are cloudy.",534,19549
661118,855,Foul weather?,977,19549
661119,856,Very foul.,118,19549
661120,857,"Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,--",534,19549
661121,858,He'ld sow't with nettle-seed.,118,19549
661122,859,"Or docks, or mallows.",977,19549
661123,860,"And were the king on't, what would I do?",534,19549
661126,872,Yet he would be king on't.,977,19549
661127,873,"The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the
beginning.",118,19549
661128,875,"All things in common nature should produce
Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony,
Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,
Would I not have; but nature should bring forth,
Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance,
To feed my innocent people.",534,19549
661129,881,No marrying 'mong his subjects?,977,19549
661130,882,"None, man; all idle: whores and knaves.",118,19549
661131,883,"I would with such perfection govern, sir,
To excel the golden age.",534,19549
661132,885,God save his majesty!,977,19549
661133,886,Long live Gonzalo!,118,19549
661134,887,"And,--do you mark me, sir?",534,19549
661135,888,"Prithee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me.",99,19549
661136,889,"I do well believe your highness; and
did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen,
who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that
they always use to laugh at nothing.",534,19549
661155,924,"Why
Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I find not
Myself disposed to sleep.",977,19549
661156,927,"Nor I; my spirits are nimble.
They fell together all, as by consent;
They dropp'd, as by a thunder-stroke. What might,
Worthy Sebastian? O, what might?--No more:--
And yet me thinks I see it in thy face,
What thou shouldst be: the occasion speaks thee, and
My strong imagination sees a crown
Dropping upon thy head.",118,19549
661157,935,"What, art thou waking?",977,19549
661158,936,Do you not hear me speak?,118,19549
661159,937,"I do; and surely
It is a sleepy language and thou speak'st
Out of thy sleep. What is it thou didst say?
This is a strange repose, to be asleep
With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving,
And yet so fast asleep.",977,19549
661160,943,"Noble Sebastian,
Thou let'st thy fortune sleep--die, rather; wink'st
Whiles thou art waking.",118,19549
661161,946,"Thou dost snore distinctly;
There's meaning in thy snores.",977,19549
661162,948,"I am more serious than my custom: you
Must be so too, if heed me; which to do
Trebles thee o'er.",118,19549
661163,951,"Well, I am standing water.",977,19549
661164,952,I'll teach you how to flow.,118,19549
661165,953,"Do so: to ebb
Hereditary sloth instructs me.",977,19549
661166,955,"O,
If you but knew how you the purpose cherish
Whiles thus you mock it! how, in stripping it,
You more invest it! Ebbing men, indeed,
Most often do so near the bottom run
By their own fear or sloth.",118,19549
661167,961,"Prithee, say on:
The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim
A matter from thee, and a birth indeed
Which throes thee much to yield.",977,19549
661168,965,"Thus, sir:
Although this lord of weak remembrance, this,
Who shall be of as little memory
When he is earth'd, hath here almost persuade,--
For he's a spirit of persuasion, only
Professes to persuade,--the king his son's alive,
'Tis as impossible that he's undrown'd
And he that sleeps here swims.",118,19549
661169,973,"I have no hope
That he's undrown'd.",977,19549
661170,975,"O, out of that 'no hope'
What great hope have you! no hope that way is
Another way so high a hope that even
Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond,
But doubt discovery there. Will you grant with me
That Ferdinand is drown'd?",118,19549
661171,981,He's gone.,977,19549
661172,982,"Then, tell me,
Who's the next heir of Naples?",118,19549
661173,984,Claribel.,977,19549
661174,985,"She that is queen of Tunis; she that dwells
Ten leagues beyond man's life; she that from Naples
Can have no note, unless the sun were post--
The man i' the moon's too slow--till new-born chins
Be rough and razorable; she that--from whom?
We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again,
And by that destiny to perform an act
Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come
In yours and my discharge.",118,19549
661175,994,"What stuff is this! how say you?
'Tis true, my brother's daughter's queen of Tunis;
So is she heir of Naples; 'twixt which regions
There is some space.",977,19549
661176,998,"A space whose every cubit
Seems to cry out, 'How shall that Claribel
Measure us back to Naples? Keep in Tunis,
And let Sebastian wake.' Say, this were death
That now hath seized them; why, they were no worse
Than now they are. There be that can rule Naples
As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate
As amply and unnecessarily
As this Gonzalo; I myself could make
A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore
The mind that I do! what a sleep were this
For your advancement! Do you understand me?",118,19549
661177,1010,Methinks I do.,977,19549
661178,1011,"And how does your content
Tender your own good fortune?",118,19549
661179,1013,"I remember
You did supplant your brother Prospero.",977,19549
661180,1015,"True:
And look how well my garments sit upon me;
Much feater than before: my brother's servants
Were then my fellows; now they are my men.",118,19549
661181,1019,"But, for your conscience?",977,19549
661182,1020,"Ay, sir; where lies that? if 'twere a kibe,
'Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not
This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences,
That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they
And melt ere they molest! Here lies your brother,
No better than the earth he lies upon,
If he were that which now he's like, that's dead;
Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it,
Can lay to bed for ever; whiles you, doing thus,
To the perpetual wink for aye might put
This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who
Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest,
They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk;
They'll tell the clock to any business that
We say befits the hour.",118,19549
661183,1035,"Thy case, dear friend,
Shall be my precedent; as thou got'st Milan,
I'll come by Naples. Draw thy sword: one stroke
Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest;
And I the king shall love thee.",977,19549
661184,1040,"Draw together;
And when I rear my hand, do you the like,
To fall it on Gonzalo.",118,19549
661185,1043,"O, but one word.",977,19549
661186,1044,[They talk apart],1261,19549
661187,1045,"[Re-enter ARIEL, invisible]",1261,19549
661188,1046,"My master through his art foresees the danger
That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth--
For else his project dies--to keep them living.
[Sings in GONZALO's ear]
While you here do snoring lie,
Open-eyed conspiracy
His time doth take.
If of life you keep a care,
Shake off slumber, and beware:
Awake, awake!",124,19549
661189,1056,Then let us both be sudden.,118,19549
661190,1057,"Now, good angels
Preserve the king.",534,19549
661191,1059,[They wake],1261,19549
661192,1060,"Why, how now? ho, awake! Why are you drawn?
Wherefore this ghastly looking?",99,19549
661193,1062,What's the matter?,534,19549
661194,1063,"Whiles we stood here securing your repose,
Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing
Like bulls, or rather lions: did't not wake you?
It struck mine ear most terribly.",977,19549
661195,1067,I heard nothing.,99,19549
661196,1068,"O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear,
To make an earthquake! sure, it was the roar
Of a whole herd of lions.",118,19549
661197,1071,"Heard you this, Gonzalo?",99,19549
661198,1072,"Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming,
And that a strange one too, which did awake me:
I shaked you, sir, and cried: as mine eyes open'd,
I saw their weapons drawn: there was a noise,
That's verily. 'Tis best we stand upon our guard,
Or that we quit this place; let's draw our weapons.",534,19549
661199,1078,"Lead off this ground; and let's make further search
For my poor son.",99,19549
661200,1080,"Heavens keep him from these beasts!
For he is, sure, i' the island.",534,19549
661201,1082,Lead away.,99,19549
661202,1083,"Prospero my lord shall know what I have done:
So, king, go safely on to seek thy son.",124,19549
661203,1085,"[Exeunt]
[Enter CALIBAN with a burden of wood. A noise of]
thunder heard]",1261,19549
661204,1090,"All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him
By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me
And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch,
Fright me with urchin--shows, pitch me i' the mire,
Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark
Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but
For every trifle are they set upon me;
Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me
And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which
Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount
Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I
All wound with adders who with cloven tongues
Do hiss me into madness.
[Enter TRINCULO]
Lo, now, lo!
Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me
For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat;
Perchance he will not mind me.",208,19550
661205,1109,"Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off
any weather at all, and another storm brewing;
I hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black
cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul
bombard that would shed his liquor. If it
should thunder as it did before, I know not
where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot
choose but fall by pailfuls. What have we
here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish:
he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-
like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-
John. A strange fish! Were I in England now,
as once I was, and had but this fish painted,
not a holiday fool there but would give a piece
of silver: there would this monster make a
man; any strange beast there makes a man:
when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame
beggar, they will lazy out ten to see a dead
Indian. Legged like a man and his fins like
arms! Warm o' my troth! I do now let loose
my opinion; hold it no longer: this is no fish,
but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a
thunderbolt.
[Thunder]
Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to
creep under his gaberdine; there is no other
shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with
strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the
dregs of the storm be past.",1211,19550
661206,1138,"[Enter STEPHANO, singing: a bottle in his hand]",1261,19550
661207,1139,"I shall no more to sea, to sea,
Here shall I die ashore--
This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's
funeral: well, here's my comfort. [Drinks]
[Sings]
The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,
The gunner and his mate
Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery,
But none of us cared for Kate;
For she had a tongue with a tang,
Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!
She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,
Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch:
Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang!
This is a scurvy tune too: but here's my comfort.",1148,19550
661208,1154,[Drinks],1261,19550
661209,1155,Do not torment me: Oh!,208,19550
661210,1156,"What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put
tricks upon's with savages and men of Ind, ha? I
have not scaped drowning to be afeard now of your
four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man as
ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground;
and it shall be said so again while Stephano
breathes at's nostrils.",1148,19550
661211,1163,The spirit torments me; Oh!,208,19550
661212,1164,"This is some monster of the isle with four legs, who
hath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devil
should he learn our language? I will give him some
relief, if it be but for that. if I can recover him
and keep him tame and get to Naples with him, he's a
present for any emperor that ever trod on neat's leather.",1148,19550
661213,1170,"Do not torment me, prithee; I'll bring my wood home faster.",208,19550
661214,1171,"He's in his fit now and does not talk after the
wisest. He shall taste of my bottle: if he have
never drunk wine afore will go near to remove his
fit. If I can recover him and keep him tame, I will
not take too much for him; he shall pay for him that
hath him, and that soundly.",1148,19550
661215,1177,"Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, I
know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee.",208,19550
661216,1179,"Come on your ways; open your mouth; here is that
which will give language to you, cat: open your
mouth; this will shake your shaking, I can tell you,
and that soundly: you cannot tell who's your friend:
open your chaps again.",1148,19550
661217,1184,"I should know that voice: it should be--but he is
drowned; and these are devils: O defend me!",1211,19550
661218,1186,"Four legs and two voices: a most delicate monster!
His forward voice now is to speak well of his
friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches
and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will
recover him, I will help his ague. Come. Amen! I
will pour some in thy other mouth.",1148,19550
661219,1192,Stephano!,1211,19550
661220,1193,"Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy, mercy! This is
a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no
long spoon.",1148,19550
661221,1196,"Stephano! If thou beest Stephano, touch me and
speak to me: for I am Trinculo--be not afeard--thy
good friend Trinculo.",1211,19550
661222,1199,"If thou beest Trinculo, come forth: I'll pull thee
by the lesser legs: if any be Trinculo's legs,
these are they. Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How
camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? can
he vent Trinculos?",1148,19550
661223,1204,"I took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke. But
art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope now thou art
not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me
under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of
the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O
Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scaped!",1211,19550
661224,1210,"Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not constant.",1148,19550
661225,1211,"[Aside] These be fine things, an if they be
not sprites.
That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor.
I will kneel to him.",208,19550
661226,1215,"How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither?
swear by this bottle how thou camest hither. I
escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors
heaved o'erboard, by this bottle; which I made of
the bark of a tree with mine own hands since I was
cast ashore.",1148,19550
661227,1221,"I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject;
for the liquor is not earthly.",208,19550
661228,1223,Here; swear then how thou escapedst.,1148,19550
661229,1224,"Swum ashore. man, like a duck: I can swim like a
duck, I'll be sworn.",1211,19550
661230,1226,"Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a
duck, thou art made like a goose.",1148,19550
661231,1228,O Stephano. hast any more of this?,1211,19550
661232,1229,"The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by the
sea-side where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf!
how does thine ague?",1148,19550
661233,1232,Hast thou not dropp'd from heaven?,208,19550
661234,1233,"Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man i'
the moon when time was.",1148,19550
661235,1235,"I have seen thee in her and I do adore thee:
My mistress show'd me thee and thy dog and thy bush.",208,19550
661236,1237,"Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish
it anon with new contents swear.",1148,19550
661237,1239,"By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!
I afeard of him! A very weak monster! The man i'
the moon! A most poor credulous monster! Well
drawn, monster, in good sooth!",1211,19550
661238,1243,"I'll show thee every fertile inch o' th' island;
And I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god.",208,19550
661239,1245,"By this light, a most perfidious and drunken
monster! when 's god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.",1211,19550
661240,1247,I'll kiss thy foot; I'll swear myself thy subject.,208,19550
661241,1248,"Come on then; down, and swear.",1148,19550
661242,1249,"I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed
monster. A most scurvy monster! I could find in my
heart to beat him,--",1211,19550
661243,1252,"Come, kiss.",1148,19550
661244,1253,But that the poor monster's in drink: an abominable monster!,1211,19550
661245,1254,"I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries;
I'll fish for thee and get thee wood enough.
A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!
I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
Thou wondrous man.",208,19550
661246,1259,"A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a
Poor drunkard!",1211,19550
661247,1261,"I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;
And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts;
Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how
To snare the nimble marmoset; I'll bring thee
To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee
Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?",208,19550
661248,1267,"I prithee now, lead the way without any more
talking. Trinculo, the king and all our company
else being drowned, we will inherit here: here;
bear my bottle: fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by
and by again.",1148,19550
661249,1272,"[Sings drunkenly]
Farewell master; farewell, farewell!",208,19550
661250,1274,A howling monster: a drunken monster!,1211,19550
661251,1275,"No more dams I'll make for fish
Nor fetch in firing
At requiring;
Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish
'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban
Has a new master: get a new man.
Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom,
hey-day, freedom!",208,19550
661252,1283,O brave monster! Lead the way.,1148,19550
661253,1284,[Exeunt],1261,19550
661254,1287,"[Enter FERDINAND, bearing a log]",1261,19551
661255,1288,"There be some sports are painful, and their labour
Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone and most poor matters
Point to rich ends. This my mean task
Would be as heavy to me as odious, but
The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead
And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is
Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed,
And he's composed of harshness. I must remove
Some thousands of these logs and pile them up,
Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress
Weeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness
Had never like executor. I forget:
But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours,
Most busy lest, when I do it.",400,19551
661256,1303,"[Enter MIRANDA; and PROSPERO at a distance, unseen]",1261,19551
661257,1304,"Alas, now, pray you,
Work not so hard: I would the lightning had
Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile!
Pray, set it down and rest you: when this burns,
'Twill weep for having wearied you. My father
Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself;
He's safe for these three hours.",794,19551
661258,1311,"O most dear mistress,
The sun will set before I shall discharge
What I must strive to do.",400,19551
661259,1314,"If you'll sit down,
I'll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that;
I'll carry it to the pile.",794,19551
661260,1317,"No, precious creature;
I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,
Than you should such dishonour undergo,
While I sit lazy by.",400,19551
661261,1321,"It would become me
As well as it does you: and I should do it
With much more ease; for my good will is to it,
And yours it is against.",794,19551
661262,1325,"Poor worm, thou art infected!
This visitation shows it.",924,19551
661263,1327,You look wearily.,794,19551
661264,1328,"No, noble mistress;'tis fresh morning with me
When you are by at night. I do beseech you--
Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers--
What is your name?",400,19551
661265,1332,"Miranda.--O my father,
I have broke your hest to say so!",794,19551
661266,1334,"Admired Miranda!
Indeed the top of admiration! worth
What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady
I have eyed with best regard and many a time
The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
Have I liked several women; never any
With so fun soul, but some defect in her
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed
And put it to the foil: but you, O you,
So perfect and so peerless, are created
Of every creature's best!",400,19551
661267,1346,"I do not know
One of my sex; no woman's face remember,
Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen
More that I may call men than you, good friend,
And my dear father: how features are abroad,
I am skilless of; but, by my modesty,
The jewel in my dower, I would not wish
Any companion in the world but you,
Nor can imagination form a shape,
Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle
Something too wildly and my father's precepts
I therein do forget.",794,19551
661268,1358,"I am in my condition
A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;
I would, not so!--and would no more endure
This wooden slavery than to suffer
The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you, did
My heart fly to your service; there resides,
To make me slave to it; and for your sake
Am I this patient log--man.",400,19551
661269,1367,Do you love me?,794,19551
661270,1368,"O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound
And crown what I profess with kind event
If I speak true! if hollowly, invert
What best is boded me to mischief! I
Beyond all limit of what else i' the world
Do love, prize, honour you.",400,19551
661271,1374,"I am a fool
To weep at what I am glad of.",794,19551
661272,1376,"Fair encounter
Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
On that which breeds between 'em!",924,19551
661273,1379,Wherefore weep you?,400,19551
661274,1380,"At mine unworthiness that dare not offer
What I desire to give, and much less take
What I shall die to want. But this is trifling;
And all the more it seeks to hide itself,
The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning!
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
I am your wife, it you will marry me;
If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow
You may deny me; but I'll be your servant,
Whether you will or no.",794,19551
661275,1390,"My mistress, dearest;
And I thus humble ever.",400,19551
661276,1392,"My husband, then?",794,19551
661277,1393,"Ay, with a heart as willing
As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand.",400,19551
661278,1395,"And mine, with my heart in't; and now farewell
Till half an hour hence.",794,19551
661279,1397,A thousand thousand!,400,19551
661280,1398,[Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA severally],1261,19551
661281,1399,"So glad of this as they I cannot be,
Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing
At nothing can be more. I'll to my book,
For yet ere supper-time must I perform
Much business appertaining.",924,19551
661282,1404,[Exit],1261,19551
661283,1407,"[Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO]",1261,19552
661284,1408,"Tell not me; when the butt is out, we will drink
water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and
board 'em. Servant-monster, drink to me.",1148,19552
661285,1411,"Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They
say there's but five upon this isle: we are three
of them; if th' other two be brained like us, the
state totters.",1211,19552
661286,1415,"Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes
are almost set in thy head.",1148,19552
661287,1417,"Where should they be set else? he were a brave
monster indeed, if they were set in his tail.",1211,19552
661288,1419,"My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in sack:
for my part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I
could recover the shore, five and thirty leagues off
and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant,
monster, or my standard.",1148,19552
661289,1424,"Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard.",1211,19552
661290,1425,"We'll not run, Monsieur Monster.",1148,19552
661291,1426,"Nor go neither; but you'll lie like dogs and yet say
nothing neither.",1211,19552
661292,1428,"Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a
good moon-calf.",1148,19552
661293,1430,"How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe.
I'll not serve him; he's not valiant.",208,19552
661294,1432,"Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to
justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish thou,
was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much
sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie,
being but half a fish and half a monster?",1211,19552
661295,1437,"Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord?",208,19552
661297,1439,"Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee.",208,19552
661298,1440,"Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you
prove a mutineer,--the next tree! The poor monster's
my subject and he shall not suffer indignity.",1148,19552
661299,1443,"I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to
hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?",208,19552
661300,1445,"Marry, will I. kneel and repeat it; I will stand,
and so shall Trinculo.",1148,19552
661301,1447,"[Enter ARIEL, invisible]",1261,19552
661302,1448,"As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a
sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.",208,19552
661303,1450,Thou liest.,124,19552
661304,1451,"Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou: I would my
valiant master would destroy thee! I do not lie.",208,19552
661305,1453,"Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by
this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.",1148,19552
661306,1455,"Why, I said nothing.",1211,19552
661307,1456,"Mum, then, and no more. Proceed.",1148,19552
661308,1457,"I say, by sorcery he got this isle;
From me he got it. if thy greatness will
Revenge it on him,--for I know thou darest,
But this thing dare not,--",208,19552
661309,1461,That's most certain.,1148,19552
661310,1462,Thou shalt be lord of it and I'll serve thee.,208,19552
661311,1463,"How now shall this be compassed?
Canst thou bring me to the party?",1148,19552
661312,1465,"Yea, yea, my lord: I'll yield him thee asleep,
Where thou mayst knock a nail into his bead.",208,19552
661313,1467,Thou liest; thou canst not.,124,19552
661314,1468,"What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch!
I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows
And take his bottle from him: when that's gone
He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not show him
Where the quick freshes are.",208,19552
661315,1473,"Trinculo, run into no further danger:
interrupt the monster one word further, and,
by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out o' doors
and make a stock-fish of thee.",1148,19552
661316,1477,"Why, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go farther
off.",1211,19552
661317,1479,Didst thou not say he lied?,1148,19552
661318,1480,Thou liest.,124,19552
661319,1481,"Do I so? take thou that.
[Beats TRINCULO]
As you like this, give me the lie another time.",1148,19552
661320,1484,"I did not give the lie. Out o' your
wits and bearing too? A pox o' your bottle!
this can sack and drinking do. A murrain on
your monster, and the devil take your fingers!",1211,19552
661321,1488,"Ha, ha, ha!",208,19552
661322,1489,"Now, forward with your tale. Prithee, stand farther
off.",1148,19552
661323,1491,"Beat him enough: after a little time
I'll beat him too.",208,19552
661324,1493,"Stand farther. Come, proceed.",1148,19552
661325,1494,"Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him,
I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him,
Having first seized his books, or with a log
Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember
First to possess his books; for without them
He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not
One spirit to command: they all do hate him
As rootedly as I. Burn but his books.
He has brave utensils,--for so he calls them--
Which when he has a house, he'll deck withal
And that most deeply to consider is
The beauty of his daughter; he himself
Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman,
But only Sycorax my dam and she;
But she as far surpasseth Sycorax
As great'st does least.",208,19552
661326,1511,Is it so brave a lass?,1148,19552
661327,1512,"Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant.
And bring thee forth brave brood.",208,19552
661328,1514,"Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I
will be king and queen--save our graces!--and
Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys. Dost thou
like the plot, Trinculo?",1148,19552
661329,1518,Excellent.,1211,19552
661330,1519,"Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee; but,
while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.",1148,19552
661331,1521,"Within this half hour will he be asleep:
Wilt thou destroy him then?",208,19552
661332,1523,"Ay, on mine honour.",1148,19552
661333,1524,This will I tell my master.,124,19552
661334,1525,"Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure:
Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch
You taught me but while-ere?",208,19552
661335,1528,"At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any
reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing.
[Sings]
Flout 'em and scout 'em
And scout 'em and flout 'em
Thought is free.",1148,19552
661336,1534,That's not the tune.,208,19552
661337,1535,[Ariel plays the tune on a tabour and pipe],1261,19552
661338,1536,What is this same?,1148,19552
661339,1537,"This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture
of Nobody.",1211,19552
661340,1539,"If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness:
if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list.",1148,19552
661341,1541,"O, forgive me my sins!",1211,19552
661342,1542,He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!,1148,19552
661343,1543,Art thou afeard?,208,19552
661344,1544,"No, monster, not I.",1148,19552
661345,1545,"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.",208,19552
661346,1554,"This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall
have my music for nothing.",1148,19552
661347,1556,When Prospero is destroyed.,208,19552
661348,1557,That shall be by and by: I remember the story.,1148,19552
661349,1558,"The sound is going away; let's follow it, and
after do our work.",1211,19552
661350,1560,"Lead, monster; we'll follow. I would I could see
this tabourer; he lays it on.",1148,19552
661351,1562,"Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.",1211,19552
661352,1563,"[Exeunt]
[Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,]
ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others]",1261,19552
661353,1568,"By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir;
My old bones ache: here's a maze trod indeed
Through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience,
I needs must rest me.",534,19553
661354,1572,"Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
Who am myself attach'd with weariness,
To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd
Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.",99,19553
661355,1579,"[Aside to SEBASTIAN] I am right glad that he's so
out of hope.
Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
That you resolved to effect.",118,19553
661356,1583,"[Aside to ANTONIO] The next advantage
Will we take throughly.",977,19553
661357,1585,"[Aside to SEBASTIAN] Let it be to-night;
For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance
As when they are fresh.",118,19553
661358,1589,"[Aside to ANTONIO] I say, to-night: no more.",977,19553
661359,1590,[Solemn and strange music],1261,19553
661360,1591,"What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!",99,19553
661361,1592,"Marvellous sweet music!
[Enter PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter several]
strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet;
they dance about it with gentle actions of
salutation; and, inviting the King, &c. to
eat, they depart]",534,19553
661362,1598,"Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?",99,19553
661363,1599,"A living drollery. Now I will believe
That there are unicorns, that in Arabia
There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.",977,19553
661364,1603,"I'll believe both;
And what does else want credit, come to me,
And I'll be sworn 'tis true: travellers ne'er did
lie,
Though fools at home condemn 'em.",118,19553
661365,1608,"If in Naples
I should report this now, would they believe me?
If I should say, I saw such islanders--
For, certes, these are people of the island--
Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,
Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
Our human generation you shall find
Many, nay, almost any.",534,19553
661366,1616,"[Aside] Honest lord,
Thou hast said well; for some of you there present
Are worse than devils.",924,19553
661367,1619,"I cannot too much muse
Such shapes, such gesture and such sound, expressing,
Although they want the use of tongue, a kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.",99,19553
661368,1623,[Aside]. Praise in departing.,924,19553
661369,1624,They vanish'd strangely.,495,19553
661370,1625,"No matter, since
They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.
Will't please you taste of what is here?",977,19553
661371,1628,Not I.,99,19553
661372,1629,"Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,
Who would believe that there were mountaineers
Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em
Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men
Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find
Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
Good warrant of.",534,19553
661373,1636,"I will stand to and feed,
Although my last: no matter, since I feel
The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to and do as we.
[Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL, like a]
harpy; claps his wings upon the table; and,
with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes]",99,19553
661374,1643,"You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in't, the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island
Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;
And even with such-like valour men hang and drown
Their proper selves.
[ALONSO, SEBASTIAN &c. draw their swords]
You fools! I and my fellows
Are ministers of Fate: the elements,
Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
One dowle that's in my plume: my fellow-ministers
Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths
And will not be uplifted. But remember--
For that's my business to you--that you three
From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,
Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed
The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso,
They have bereft; and do pronounce by me:
Lingering perdition, worse than any death
Can be at once, shall step by step attend
You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from--
Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
Upon your heads--is nothing but heart-sorrow
And a clear life ensuing.
[He vanishes in thunder; then, to soft music]
enter the Shapes again, and dance, with
mocks and mows, and carrying out the table]",124,19553
661375,1678,"Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring:
Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life
And observation strange, my meaner ministers
Their several kinds have done. My high charms work
And these mine enemies are all knit up
In their distractions; they now are in my power;
And in these fits I leave them, while I visit
Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drown'd,
And his and mine loved darling.",924,19553
661376,1689,[Exit above],1261,19553
661377,1690,"I' the name of something holy, sir, why stand you
In this strange stare?",534,19553
661378,1692,"O, it is monstrous, monstrous:
Methought the billows spoke and told me of it;
The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced
The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.
Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded, and
I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
And with him there lie mudded.",99,19553
661379,1700,[Exit],1261,19553
661380,1701,"But one fiend at a time,
I'll fight their legions o'er.",977,19553
661381,1703,I'll be thy second.,118,19553
661382,1704,"[Exeunt SEBASTIAN, and ANTONIO]",1261,19553
661383,1705,"All three of them are desperate: their great guilt,
Like poison given to work a great time after,
Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you
That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly
And hinder them from what this ecstasy
May now provoke them to.",534,19553
661384,1711,"Follow, I pray you.",52,19553
661385,1712,[Exeunt],1261,19553
661386,1715,"[Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA]",1261,19554
661387,1716,"If I have too austerely punish'd you,
Your compensation makes amends, for I
Have given you here a third of mine own life,
Or that for which I live; who once again
I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations
Were but my trials of thy love and thou
Hast strangely stood the test here, afore Heaven,
I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,
Do not smile at me that I boast her off,
For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise
And make it halt behind her.",924,19554
661388,1727,"I do believe it
Against an oracle.",400,19554
661389,1729,"Then, as my gift and thine own acquisition
Worthily purchased take my daughter: but
If thou dost break her virgin-knot before
All sanctimonious ceremonies may
With full and holy rite be minister'd,
No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
To make this contract grow: but barren hate,
Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew
The union of your bed with weeds so loathly
That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,
As Hymen's lamps shall light you.",924,19554
661390,1740,"As I hope
For quiet days, fair issue and long life,
With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,
The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion.
Our worser genius can, shall never melt
Mine honour into lust, to take away
The edge of that day's celebration
When I shall think: or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd,
Or Night kept chain'd below.",400,19554
661391,1749,"Fairly spoke.
Sit then and talk with her; she is thine own.
What, Ariel! my industrious servant, Ariel!",924,19554
661392,1752,[Enter ARIEL],1261,19554
661393,1753,What would my potent master? here I am.,124,19554
661394,1754,"Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service
Did worthily perform; and I must use you
In such another trick. Go bring the rabble,
O'er whom I give thee power, here to this place:
Incite them to quick motion; for I must
Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple
Some vanity of mine art: it is my promise,
And they expect it from me.",924,19554
661395,1762,Presently?,124,19554
661396,1763,"Ay, with a twink.",924,19554
661397,1764,"Before you can say 'come' and 'go,'
And breathe twice and cry 'so, so,'
Each one, tripping on his toe,
Will be here with mop and mow.
Do you love me, master? no?",124,19554
661398,1769,"Dearly my delicate Ariel. Do not approach
Till thou dost hear me call.",924,19554
661399,1771,"Well, I conceive.",124,19554
661400,1772,[Exit],1261,19554
661401,1773,"Look thou be true; do not give dalliance
Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw
To the fire i' the blood: be more abstemious,
Or else, good night your vow!",924,19554
661402,1777,"I warrant you sir;
The white cold virgin snow upon my heart
Abates the ardour of my liver.",400,19554
661403,1780,"Well.
Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary,
Rather than want a spirit: appear and pertly!
No tongue! all eyes! be silent.",924,19554
661404,1784,[Soft music],1261,19554
661405,1785,[Enter IRIS],1261,19554
661406,1786,"Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas
Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and pease;
Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep;
Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,
Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,
To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom -groves,
Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
Being lass-lorn: thy pole-clipt vineyard;
And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,
Where thou thyself dost air;--the queen o' the sky,
Whose watery arch and messenger am I,
Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,
Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,
To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain:
Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.",603,19554
661407,1802,[Enter CERES],1261,19554
661408,1803,"Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er
Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;
Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers
Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers,
And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down,
Rich scarf to my proud earth; why hath thy queen
Summon'd me hither, to this short-grass'd green?",234,19554
661409,1811,"A contract of true love to celebrate;
And some donation freely to estate
On the blest lovers.",603,19554
661410,1814,"Tell me, heavenly bow,
If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,
Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot
The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,
Her and her blind boy's scandal'd company
I have forsworn.",234,19554
661411,1820,"Of her society
Be not afraid: I met her deity
Cutting the clouds towards Paphos and her son
Dove-drawn with her. Here thought they to have done
Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,
Whose vows are, that no bed-right shall be paid
Till Hymen's torch be lighted: but vain;
Mars's hot minion is returned again;
Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,
Swears he will shoot no more but play with sparrows
And be a boy right out.",603,19554
661412,1831,"High'st queen of state,
Great Juno, comes; I know her by her gait.",234,19554
661413,1833,[Enter JUNO],1261,19554
661414,1834,"How does my bounteous sister? Go with me
To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be
And honour'd in their issue.",626,19554
661415,1837,[They sing:],1261,19554
661416,1838,"Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
Juno sings her blessings upon you.",626,19554
661417,1842,"Earth's increase, foison plenty,
Barns and garners never empty,
Vines and clustering bunches growing,
Plants with goodly burthen bowing;
Spring come to you at the farthest
In the very end of harvest!
Scarcity and want shall shun you;
Ceres' blessing so is on you.",234,19554
661418,1850,"This is a most majestic vision, and
Harmoniously charmingly. May I be bold
To think these spirits?",400,19554
661419,1853,"Spirits, which by mine art
I have from their confines call'd to enact
My present fancies.",924,19554
661420,1856,"Let me live here ever;
So rare a wonder'd father and a wife
Makes this place Paradise.
[Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on]
employment]",400,19554
661421,1861,"Sweet, now, silence!
Juno and Ceres whisper seriously;
There's something else to do: hush, and be mute,
Or else our spell is marr'd.",924,19554
661422,1865,"You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the windring brooks,
With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks,
Leave your crisp channels and on this green land
Answer your summons; Juno does command:
Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate
A contract of true love; be not too late.
[Enter certain Nymphs]
You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary,
Come hither from the furrow and be merry:
Make holiday; your rye-straw hats put on
And these fresh nymphs encounter every one
In country footing.
[Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they]
join with the Nymphs in a graceful dance;
towards the end whereof PROSPERO starts
suddenly, and speaks; after which, to a
strange, hollow, and confused noise, they
heavily vanish]",603,19554
661423,1883,"[Aside] I had forgot that foul conspiracy
Of the beast Caliban and his confederates
Against my life: the minute of their plot
Is almost come.
[To the Spirits]
Well done! avoid; no more!",924,19554
661424,1889,"This is strange: your father's in some passion
That works him strongly.",400,19554
661425,1891,"Never till this day
Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd.",794,19554
661426,1893,"You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd;
Bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled:
Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:
If you be pleased, retire into my cell
And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk,
To still my beating mind.",924,19554
661427,1911,[with Miranda] We wish your peace.,400,19554
661428,1912,[Exeunt],1261,19554
661429,1913,"Come with a thought I thank thee, Ariel: come.",924,19554
661430,1914,[Enter ARIEL],1261,19554
661431,1915,Thy thoughts I cleave to. What's thy pleasure?,124,19554
661432,1916,"Spirit,
We must prepare to meet with Caliban.",924,19554
661433,1918,"Ay, my commander: when I presented Ceres,
I thought to have told thee of it, but I fear'd
Lest I might anger thee.",124,19554
661434,1921,"Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets?",924,19554
661435,1922,"I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking;
So fun of valour that they smote the air
For breathing in their faces; beat the ground
For kissing of their feet; yet always bending
Towards their project. Then I beat my tabour;
At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd
their ears,
Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses
As they smelt music: so I charm'd their ears
That calf-like they my lowing follow'd through
Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns,
Which entered their frail shins: at last I left them
I' the filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell,
There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake
O'erstunk their feet.",124,19554
661436,1937,"This was well done, my bird.
Thy shape invisible retain thou still:
The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,
For stale to catch these thieves.",924,19554
661437,1941,"I go, I go.",124,19554
661438,1942,[Exit],1261,19554
661439,1943,"A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;
And as with age his body uglier grows,
So his mind cankers. I will plague them all,
Even to roaring.
[Re-enter ARIEL, loaden with glistering apparel, &c]
Come, hang them on this line.
[PROSPERO and ARIEL remain invisible. Enter]
CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, all wet]",924,19554
661440,1953,"Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not
Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell.",208,19554
661441,1955,"Monster, your fairy, which you say is
a harmless fairy, has done little better than
played the Jack with us.",1148,19554
661442,1958,"Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at
which my nose is in great indignation.",1211,19554
661443,1960,"So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should take
a displeasure against you, look you,--",1148,19554
661444,1962,Thou wert but a lost monster.,1211,19554
661445,1963,"Good my lord, give me thy favour still.
Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to
Shall hoodwink this mischance: therefore speak softly.
All's hush'd as midnight yet.",208,19554
661446,1967,"Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,--",1211,19554
661447,1968,"There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that,
monster, but an infinite loss.",1148,19554
661448,1970,"That's more to me than my wetting: yet this is your
harmless fairy, monster.",1211,19554
661449,1972,"I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears
for my labour.",1148,19554
661450,1974,"Prithee, my king, be quiet. Seest thou here,
This is the mouth o' the cell: no noise, and enter.
Do that good mischief which may make this island
Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,
For aye thy foot-licker.",208,19554
661451,1979,Give me thy hand. I do begin to have bloody thoughts.,1148,19554
661452,1980,"O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look
what a wardrobe here is for thee!",1211,19554
661453,1982,"Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash.",208,19554
661454,1983,"O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery.
O king Stephano!",1211,19554
661455,1985,"Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'll have
that gown.",1148,19554
661456,1987,Thy grace shall have it.,1211,19554
661457,1988,"The dropsy drown this fool I what do you mean
To dote thus on such luggage? Let's alone
And do the murder first: if he awake,
From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches,
Make us strange stuff.",208,19554
661458,1993,"Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line,
is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under
the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your
hair and prove a bald jerkin.",1148,19554
661459,1997,"Do, do: we steal by line and level, an't like your grace.",1211,19554
661460,1998,"I thank thee for that jest; here's a garment for't:
wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this
country. 'Steal by line and level' is an excellent
pass of pate; there's another garment for't.",1148,19554
661461,2002,"Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and
away with the rest.",1211,19554
661462,2004,"I will have none on't: we shall lose our time,
And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes
With foreheads villanous low.",208,19554
661463,2007,"Monster, lay-to your fingers: help to bear this
away where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you
out of my kingdom: go to, carry this.",1148,19554
661464,2010,And this.,1211,19554
661465,2011,"Ay, and this.
[A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits,]
in shape of dogs and hounds, and hunt them about,
PROSPERO and ARIEL setting them on]",1148,19554
661466,2015,"Hey, Mountain, hey!",924,19554
661467,2016,"Silver I there it goes, Silver!",124,19554
661468,2017,"Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark! hark!
[CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, are]
driven out]
Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints
With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews
With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them
Than pard or cat o' mountain.",924,19554
661469,2024,"Hark, they roar!",124,19554
661470,2025,"Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour
Lie at my mercy all mine enemies:
Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou
Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little
Follow, and do me service.",924,19554
661471,2030,[Exeunt],1261,19554
661472,2033,"[Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL]",1261,19555
661473,2034,"Now does my project gather to a head:
My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time
Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day?",924,19555
661474,2037,"On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord,
You said our work should cease.",124,19555
661475,2039,"I did say so,
When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit,
How fares the king and's followers?",924,19555
661476,2042,"Confined together
In the same fashion as you gave in charge,
Just as you left them; all prisoners, sir,
In the line-grove which weather-fends your cell;
They cannot budge till your release. The king,
His brother and yours, abide all three distracted
And the remainder mourning over them,
Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly
Him that you term'd, sir, 'The good old lord Gonzalo;'
His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops
From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works 'em
That if you now beheld them, your affections
Would become tender.",124,19555
661477,2055,"Dost thou think so, spirit?",924,19555
661478,2056,"Mine would, sir, were I human.",124,19555
661479,2057,"And mine shall.
Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,
One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,
Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,
Yet with my nobler reason 'gaitist my fury
Do I take part: the rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel:
My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,
And they shall be themselves.",924,19555
661480,2070,"I'll fetch them, sir.",124,19555
661481,2071,[Exit],1261,19555
661482,2072,"Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,
And ye that on the sands with printless foot
Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him
When he comes back; you demi-puppets that
By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime
Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice
To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid,
Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd
The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault
Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak
With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory
Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up
The pine and cedar: graves at my command
Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth
By my so potent art. But this rough magic
I here abjure, and, when I have required
Some heavenly music, which even now I do,
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book.
[Solemn music]
[Re-enter ARIEL before: then ALONSO, with a]
frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO;
SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner,
attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO they all
enter the circle which PROSPERO had made,
and there stand charmed; which PROSPERO
observing, speaks:]
A solemn air and the best comforter
To an unsettled fancy cure thy brains,
Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand,
For you are spell-stopp'd.
Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,
Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine,
Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves apace,
And as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason. O good Gonzalo,
My true preserver, and a loyal sir
To him you follow'st! I will pay thy graces
Home both in word and deed. Most cruelly
Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:
Thy brother was a furtherer in the act.
Thou art pinch'd fort now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood,
You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian,
Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,
Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee,
Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding
Begins to swell, and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shore
That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them
That yet looks on me, or would know me Ariel,
Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell:
I will discase me, and myself present
As I was sometime Milan: quickly, spirit;
Thou shalt ere long be free.
[ARIEL sings and helps to attire him]
Where the bee sucks. there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.",924,19555
661483,2143,"Why, that's my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee:
But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so.
To the king's ship, invisible as thou art:
There shalt thou find the mariners asleep
Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain
Being awake, enforce them to this place,
And presently, I prithee.",924,19555
661484,2150,"I drink the air before me, and return
Or ere your pulse twice beat.",124,19555
661485,2152,[Exit],1261,19555
661486,2153,"All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!",534,19555
661487,2156,"Behold, sir king,
The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero:
For more assurance that a living prince
Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;
And to thee and thy company I bid
A hearty welcome.",924,19555
661488,2162,"Whether thou best he or no,
Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me,
As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse
Beats as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee,
The affliction of my mind amends, with which,
I fear, a madness held me: this must crave,
An if this be at all, a most strange story.
Thy dukedom I resign and do entreat
Thou pardon me my wrongs. But how should Prospero
Be living and be here?",99,19555
661489,2172,"First, noble friend,
Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot
Be measured or confined.",924,19555
661490,2175,"Whether this be
Or be not, I'll not swear.",534,19555
661491,2177,"You do yet taste
Some subtilties o' the isle, that will not let you
Believe things certain. Welcome, my friends all!
[Aside to SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO]
But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,
I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you
And justify you traitors: at this time
I will tell no tales.",924,19555
661492,2185,[Aside] The devil speaks in him.,977,19555
661493,2186,"No.
For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother
Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive
Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require
My dukedom of thee, which perforce, I know,
Thou must restore.",924,19555
661494,2192,"If thou be'st Prospero,
Give us particulars of thy preservation;
How thou hast met us here, who three hours since
Were wreck'd upon this shore; where I have lost--
How sharp the point of this remembrance is!--
My dear son Ferdinand.",99,19555
661495,2198,"I am woe for't, sir.",924,19555
661496,2199,"Irreparable is the loss, and patience
Says it is past her cure.",99,19555
661497,2201,"I rather think
You have not sought her help, of whose soft grace
For the like loss I have her sovereign aid
And rest myself content.",924,19555
661498,2205,You the like loss!,99,19555
661499,2206,"As great to me as late; and, supportable
To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker
Than you may call to comfort you, for I
Have lost my daughter.",924,19555
661500,2210,"A daughter?
O heavens, that they were living both in Naples,
The king and queen there! that they were, I wish
Myself were mudded in that oozy bed
Where my son lies. When did you lose your daughter?",99,19555
661501,2215,"In this last tempest. I perceive these lords
At this encounter do so much admire
That they devour their reason and scarce think
Their eyes do offices of truth, their words
Are natural breath: but, howsoe'er you have
Been justled from your senses, know for certain
That I am Prospero and that very duke
Which was thrust forth of Milan, who most strangely
Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was landed,
To be the lord on't. No more yet of this;
For 'tis a chronicle of day by day,
Not a relation for a breakfast nor
Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir;
This cell's my court: here have I few attendants
And subjects none abroad: pray you, look in.
My dukedom since you have given me again,
I will requite you with as good a thing;
At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye
As much as me my dukedom.
[Here PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA]
playing at chess]",924,19555
661502,2236,"Sweet lord, you play me false.",794,19555
661503,2237,"No, my dear'st love,
I would not for the world.",400,19555
661504,2239,"Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,
And I would call it, fair play.",794,19555
661505,2241,"If this prove
A vision of the Island, one dear son
Shall I twice lose.",99,19555
661506,2244,A most high miracle!,977,19555
661507,2245,"Though the seas threaten, they are merciful;
I have cursed them without cause.",400,19555
661508,2247,[Kneels],1261,19555
661509,2248,"Now all the blessings
Of a glad father compass thee about!
Arise, and say how thou camest here.",99,19555
661510,2251,"O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!",794,19555
661513,2260,"Sir, she is mortal;
But by immortal Providence she's mine:
I chose her when I could not ask my father
For his advice, nor thought I had one. She
Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,
Of whom so often I have heard renown,
But never saw before; of whom I have
Received a second life; and second father
This lady makes him to me.",400,19555
661514,2269,"I am hers:
But, O, how oddly will it sound that I
Must ask my child forgiveness!",99,19555
661515,2272,"There, sir, stop:
Let us not burthen our remembrance with
A heaviness that's gone.",924,19555
661516,2275,"I have inly wept,
Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you god,
And on this couple drop a blessed crown!
For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way
Which brought us hither.",534,19555
661517,2280,"I say, Amen, Gonzalo!",99,19555
661518,2281,"Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue
Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice
Beyond a common joy, and set it down
With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage
Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,
And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife
Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom
In a poor isle and all of us ourselves
When no man was his own.",534,19555
661519,2290,"[To FERDINAND and MIRANDA] Give me your hands:
Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart
That doth not wish you joy!",99,19555
661520,2293,"Be it so! Amen!
[Re-enter ARIEL, with the Master and Boatswain]
amazedly following]
O, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us:
I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,
This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,
That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore?
Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?",534,19555
661521,2301,"The best news is, that we have safely found
Our king and company; the next, our ship--
Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split--
Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when
We first put out to sea.",176,19555
661522,2306,"[Aside to PROSPERO] Sir, all this service
Have I done since I went.",124,19555
661523,2308,[Aside to ARIEL] My tricksy spirit!,924,19555
661524,2309,"These are not natural events; they strengthen
From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither?",99,19555
661525,2311,"If I did think, sir, I were well awake,
I'ld strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep,
And--how we know not--all clapp'd under hatches;
Where but even now with strange and several noises
Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,
And more diversity of sounds, all horrible,
We were awaked; straightway, at liberty;
Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld
Our royal, good and gallant ship, our master
Capering to eye her: on a trice, so please you,
Even in a dream, were we divided from them
And were brought moping hither.",176,19555
661526,2323,[Aside to PROSPERO] Was't well done?,124,19555
661527,2324,"[Aside to ARIEL] Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free.",924,19555
661528,2325,"This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod
And there is in this business more than nature
Was ever conduct of: some oracle
Must rectify our knowledge.",99,19555
661529,2329,"Sir, my liege,
Do not infest your mind with beating on
The strangeness of this business; at pick'd leisure
Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you,
Which to you shall seem probable, of every
These happen'd accidents; till when, be cheerful
And think of each thing well.
[Aside to ARIEL]
Come hither, spirit:
Set Caliban and his companions free;
Untie the spell.
[Exit ARIEL]
How fares my gracious sir?
There are yet missing of your company
Some few odd lads that you remember not.
[Re-enter ARIEL, driving in CALIBAN, STEPHANO]
and TRINCULO, in their stolen apparel]",924,19555
661530,2346,"Every man shift for all the rest, and
let no man take care for himself; for all is
but fortune. Coragio, bully-monster, coragio!",1148,19555
661531,2349,"If these be true spies which I wear in my head,
here's a goodly sight.",1211,19555
661532,2351,"O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!
How fine my master is! I am afraid
He will chastise me.",208,19555
661533,2354,"Ha, ha!
What things are these, my lord Antonio?
Will money buy 'em?",977,19555
661534,2357,"Very like; one of them
Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable.",118,19555
661535,2359,"Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,
Then say if they be true. This mis-shapen knave,
His mother was a witch, and one so strong
That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,
And deal in her command without her power.
These three have robb'd me; and this demi-devil--
For he's a bastard one--had plotted with them
To take my life. Two of these fellows you
Must know and own; this thing of darkness!
Acknowledge mine.",924,19555
661536,2369,I shall be pinch'd to death.,208,19555
661537,2370,"Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?",99,19555
661538,2371,He is drunk now: where had he wine?,977,19555
661539,2372,"And Trinculo is reeling ripe: where should they
Find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em?
How camest thou in this pickle?",99,19555
661540,2375,"I have been in such a pickle since I
saw you last that, I fear me, will never out of
my bones: I shall not fear fly-blowing.",1211,19555
661541,2378,"Why, how now, Stephano!",977,19555
661542,2379,"O, touch me not; I am not Stephano, but a cramp.",1148,19555
661543,2380,"You'ld be king o' the isle, sirrah?",924,19555
661544,2381,I should have been a sore one then.,1148,19555
661545,2382,This is a strange thing as e'er I look'd on.,99,19555
661546,2383,[Pointing to Caliban],1261,19555
661547,2384,"He is as disproportion'd in his manners
As in his shape. Go, sirrah, to my cell;
Take with you your companions; as you look
To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.",924,19555
661548,2388,"Ay, that I will; and I'll be wise hereafter
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god
And worship this dull fool!",208,19555
661549,2392,Go to; away!,924,19555
661550,2393,"Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.",99,19555
661551,2394,"Or stole it, rather.",977,19555
661552,2395,"[Exeunt CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO]",1261,19555
661553,2396,"Sir, I invite your highness and your train
To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest
For this one night; which, part of it, I'll waste
With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it
Go quick away; the story of my life
And the particular accidents gone by
Since I came to this isle: and in the morn
I'll bring you to your ship and so to Naples,
Where I have hope to see the nuptial
Of these our dear-beloved solemnized;
And thence retire me to my Milan, where
Every third thought shall be my grave.",924,19555
661554,2408,"I long
To hear the story of your life, which must
Take the ear strangely.",99,19555
661555,2411,"I'll deliver all;
And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales
And sail so expeditious that shall catch
Your royal fleet far off.
[Aside to ARIEL]
My Ariel, chick,
That is thy charge: then to the elements
Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near.
[Exeunt]
EPILOGUE",924,19555
661556,2421,[Spoken by PROSPERO],1261,19555
661557,2422,"Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I have's mine own,
Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,
I must be here confined by you,
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got
And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island by your spell;
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands:
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
Let your indulgence set me free.",924,19555
661558,5,"Good day, sir.",896,19556
661559,6,I am glad you're well.,856,19556
661560,7,I have not seen you long: how goes the world?,896,19556
661561,8,"It wears, sir, as it grows.",856,19556
661562,9,"Ay, that's well known:
But what particular rarity? what strange,
Which manifold record not matches? See,
Magic of bounty! all these spirits thy power
Hath conjured to attend. I know the merchant.",896,19556
661563,14,I know them both; th' other's a jeweller.,856,19556
661564,15,"O, 'tis a worthy lord.",766,19556
661565,16,"Nay, that's most fix'd.",612,19556
661566,17,"A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were,
To an untirable and continuate goodness:
He passes.",766,19556
661567,21,"O, pray, let's see't: for the Lord Timon, sir?",766,19556
661568,23,"[Reciting to himself] 'When we for recompense have
praised the vile,
It stains the glory in that happy verse
Which aptly sings the good.'",896,19556
661574,38,"A picture, sir. When comes your book forth?",856,19556
661575,39,"Upon the heels of my presentment, sir.
Let's see your piece.",896,19556
661578,43,Indifferent.,856,19556
661579,44,"Admirable: how this grace
Speaks his own standing! what a mental power
This eye shoots forth! how big imagination
Moves in this lip! to the dumbness of the gesture
One might interpret.",896,19556
661580,49,"It is a pretty mocking of the life.
Here is a touch; is't good?",856,19556
661581,51,"I will say of it,
It tutors nature: artificial strife
Lives in these touches, livelier than life.",896,19556
661582,54,"[Enter certain Senators, and pass over]",1261,19556
661583,55,How this lord is follow'd!,856,19556
661584,56,The senators of Athens: happy man!,896,19556
661585,57,"Look, more!",856,19556
661586,58,"You see this confluence, this great flood
of visitors.
I have, in this rough work, shaped out a man,
Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug
With amplest entertainment: my free drift
Halts not particularly, but moves itself
In a wide sea of wax: no levell'd malice
Infects one comma in the course I hold;
But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,
Leaving no tract behind.",896,19556
661587,68,How shall I understand you?,856,19556
661588,69,"I will unbolt to you.
You see how all conditions, how all minds,
As well of glib and slippery creatures as
Of grave and austere quality, tender down
Their services to Lord Timon: his large fortune
Upon his good and gracious nature hanging
Subdues and properties to his love and tendance
All sorts of hearts; yea, from the glass-faced flatterer
To Apemantus, that few things loves better
Than to abhor himself: even he drops down
The knee before him, and returns in peace
Most rich in Timon's nod.",896,19556
661589,81,I saw them speak together.,856,19556
661590,82,"Sir, I have upon a high and pleasant hill
Feign'd Fortune to be throned: the base o' the mount
Is rank'd with all deserts, all kind of natures,
That labour on the bosom of this sphere
To propagate their states: amongst them all,
Whose eyes are on this sovereign lady fix'd,
One do I personate of Lord Timon's frame,
Whom Fortune with her ivory hand wafts to her;
Whose present grace to present slaves and servants
Translates his rivals.",896,19556
661591,92,"'Tis conceived to scope.
This throne, this Fortune, and this hill, methinks,
With one man beckon'd from the rest below,
Bowing his head against the sleepy mount
To climb his happiness, would be well express'd
In our condition.",856,19556
661592,98,"Nay, sir, but hear me on.
All those which were his fellows but of late,
Some better than his value, on the moment
Follow his strides, his lobbies fill with tendance,
Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear,
Make sacred even his stirrup, and through him
Drink the free air.",896,19556
661593,105,"Ay, marry, what of these?",856,19556
661594,106,"When Fortune in her shift and change of mood
Spurns down her late beloved, all his dependants
Which labour'd after him to the mountain's top
Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down,
Not one accompanying his declining foot.",896,19556
661595,111,"'Tis common:
A thousand moral paintings I can show
That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's
More pregnantly than words. Yet you do well
To show Lord Timon that mean eyes have seen
The foot above the head.
[Trumpets sound. Enter TIMON, addressing himself]
courteously to every suitor; a Messenger from
VENTIDIUS talking with him; LUCILIUS and other
servants following]",856,19556
661596,121,"Imprison'd is he, say you?",1198,19556
661597,122,"Ay, my good lord: five talents is his debt,
His means most short, his creditors most strait:
Your honourable letter he desires
To those have shut him up; which failing,
Periods his comfort.",790,19556
661598,127,"Noble Ventidius! Well;
I am not of that feather to shake off
My friend when he must need me. I do know him
A gentleman that well deserves a help:
Which he shall have: I'll pay the debt,
and free him.",1198,19556
661599,133,Your lordship ever binds him.,790,19556
661600,134,"Commend me to him: I will send his ransom;
And being enfranchised, bid him come to me.
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
But to support him after. Fare you well.",1198,19556
661601,138,All happiness to your honour!,790,19556
661602,139,[Exit],1261,19556
661603,140,[Enter an old Athenian],1261,19556
661604,141,"Lord Timon, hear me speak.",829,19556
661605,142,"Freely, good father.",1198,19556
661606,143,Thou hast a servant named Lucilius.,829,19556
661607,144,I have so: what of him?,1198,19556
661608,145,"Most noble Timon, call the man before thee.",829,19556
661609,146,"Attends he here, or no? Lucilius!",1198,19556
661610,147,"Here, at your lordship's service.",712,19556
661611,148,"This fellow here, Lord Timon, this thy creature,
By night frequents my house. I am a man
That from my first have been inclined to thrift;
And my estate deserves an heir more raised
Than one which holds a trencher.",829,19556
661612,153,Well; what further?,1198,19556
661613,154,"One only daughter have I, no kin else,
On whom I may confer what I have got:
The maid is fair, o' the youngest for a bride,
And I have bred her at my dearest cost
In qualities of the best. This man of thine
Attempts her love: I prithee, noble lord,
Join with me to forbid him her resort;
Myself have spoke in vain.",829,19556
661614,162,The man is honest.,1198,19556
661615,163,"Therefore he will be, Timon:
His honesty rewards him in itself;
It must not bear my daughter.",829,19556
661616,166,Does she love him?,1198,19556
661617,167,"She is young and apt:
Our own precedent passions do instruct us
What levity's in youth.",829,19556
661618,170,[To LUCILIUS] Love you the maid?,1198,19556
661619,171,"Ay, my good lord, and she accepts of it.",712,19556
661620,172,"If in her marriage my consent be missing,
I call the gods to witness, I will choose
Mine heir from forth the beggars of the world,
And dispossess her all.",829,19556
661621,176,"How shall she be endow'd,
if she be mated with an equal husband?",1198,19556
661622,178,"Three talents on the present; in future, all.",829,19556
661623,179,"This gentleman of mine hath served me long:
To build his fortune I will strain a little,
For 'tis a bond in men. Give him thy daughter:
What you bestow, in him I'll counterpoise,
And make him weigh with her.",1198,19556
661624,184,"Most noble lord,
Pawn me to this your honour, she is his.",829,19556
661625,186,My hand to thee; mine honour on my promise.,1198,19556
661626,187,"Humbly I thank your lordship: never may
The state or fortune fall into my keeping,
Which is not owed to you!",712,19556
661627,190,[Exeunt LUCILIUS and Old Athenian],1261,19556
661628,191,"Vouchsafe my labour, and long live your lordship!",896,19556
661629,192,"I thank you; you shall hear from me anon:
Go not away. What have you there, my friend?",1198,19556
661630,194,"A piece of painting, which I do beseech
Your lordship to accept.",856,19556
661631,196,"Painting is welcome.
The painting is almost the natural man;
or since dishonour traffics with man's nature,
He is but outside: these pencill'd figures are
Even such as they give out. I like your work;
And you shall find I like it: wait attendance
Till you hear further from me.",1198,19556
661632,203,The gods preserve ye!,856,19556
661633,204,"Well fare you, gentleman: give me your hand;
We must needs dine together. Sir, your jewel
Hath suffer'd under praise.",1198,19556
661634,207,"What, my lord! dispraise?",612,19556
661635,208,"A more satiety of commendations.
If I should pay you for't as 'tis extoll'd,
It would unclew me quite.",1198,19556
661636,211,"My lord, 'tis rated
As those which sell would give: but you well know,
Things of like value differing in the owners
Are prized by their masters: believe't, dear lord,
You mend the jewel by the wearing it.",612,19556
661637,216,Well mock'd.,1198,19556
661638,217,"No, my good lord; he speaks the common tongue,
Which all men speak with him.",766,19556
661639,219,"Look, who comes here: will you be chid?",1198,19556
661640,220,[Enter APEMANTUS],1261,19556
661641,222,He'll spare none.,766,19556
661642,223,"Good morrow to thee, gentle Apemantus!",1198,19556
661643,224,"Till I be gentle, stay thou for thy good morrow;
When thou art Timon's dog, and these knaves honest.",121,19556
661644,226,Why dost thou call them knaves? thou know'st them not.,1198,19556
661645,227,Are they not Athenians?,121,19556
661646,228,Yes.,1198,19556
661647,229,Then I repent not.,121,19556
661648,231,Thou know'st I do: I call'd thee by thy name.,121,19556
661649,232,"Thou art proud, Apemantus.",1198,19556
661650,233,Of nothing so much as that I am not like Timon.,121,19556
661651,234,Whither art going?,1198,19556
661652,235,To knock out an honest Athenian's brains.,121,19556
661653,236,That's a deed thou'lt die for.,1198,19556
661654,237,"Right, if doing nothing be death by the law.",121,19556
661655,238,"How likest thou this picture, Apemantus?",1198,19556
661656,239,"The best, for the innocence.",121,19556
661657,240,Wrought he not well that painted it?,1198,19556
661658,241,"He wrought better that made the painter; and yet
he's but a filthy piece of work.",121,19556
661659,243,You're a dog.,856,19556
661660,244,"Thy mother's of my generation: what's she, if I be a dog?",121,19556
661661,245,"Wilt dine with me, Apemantus?",1198,19556
661662,246,No; I eat not lords.,121,19556
661663,247,"An thou shouldst, thou 'ldst anger ladies.",1198,19556
661664,248,"O, they eat lords; so they come by great bellies.",121,19556
661665,249,That's a lascivious apprehension.,1198,19556
661666,250,So thou apprehendest it: take it for thy labour.,121,19556
661667,251,"How dost thou like this jewel, Apemantus?",1198,19556
661668,252,"Not so well as plain-dealing, which will not cost a
man a doit.",121,19556
661669,254,What dost thou think 'tis worth?,1198,19556
661670,255,"Not worth my thinking. How now, poet!",121,19556
661671,256,"How now, philosopher!",896,19556
661672,257,Thou liest.,121,19556
661673,258,Art not one?,896,19556
661674,259,Yes.,121,19556
661675,260,Then I lie not.,896,19556
661676,261,Art not a poet?,121,19556
661677,262,Yes.,896,19556
661678,263,"Then thou liest: look in thy last work, where thou
hast feigned him a worthy fellow.",121,19556
661679,265,That's not feigned; he is so.,896,19556
661680,266,"Yes, he is worthy of thee, and to pay thee for thy
labour: he that loves to be flattered is worthy o'
the flatterer. Heavens, that I were a lord!",121,19556
661681,269,"What wouldst do then, Apemantus?",1198,19556
661682,270,E'en as Apemantus does now; hate a lord with my heart.,121,19556
661683,271,"What, thyself?",1198,19556
661684,272,Ay.,121,19556
661685,273,Wherefore?,1198,19556
661686,274,"That I had no angry wit to be a lord.
Art not thou a merchant?",121,19556
661687,276,"Ay, Apemantus.",766,19556
661688,277,"Traffic confound thee, if the gods will not!",121,19556
661689,278,"If traffic do it, the gods do it.",766,19556
661690,279,Traffic's thy god; and thy god confound thee!,121,19556
661691,280,[Trumpet sounds. Enter a Messenger],1261,19556
661692,281,What trumpet's that?,1198,19556
661693,282,"'Tis Alcibiades, and some twenty horse,
All of companionship.",790,19556
661694,284,"Pray, entertain them; give them guide to us.
[Exeunt some Attendants]
You must needs dine with me: go not you hence
Till I have thank'd you: when dinner's done,
Show me this piece. I am joyful of your sights.
[Enter ALCIBIADES, with the rest]
Most welcome, sir!",1198,19556
661695,291,"So, so, there!
Aches contract and starve your supple joints!
That there should be small love 'mongst these
sweet knaves,
And all this courtesy! The strain of man's bred out
Into baboon and monkey.",121,19556
661696,297,"Sir, you have saved my longing, and I feed
Most hungerly on your sight.",63,19556
661697,299,"Right welcome, sir!
Ere we depart, we'll share a bounteous time
In different pleasures. Pray you, let us in.",1198,19556
661698,302,[Exeunt all except APEMANTUS],1261,19556
661699,303,[Enter two Lords],1261,19556
661700,304,"What time o' day is't, Apemantus?",439,19556
661701,305,Time to be honest.,121,19556
661702,306,That time serves still.,439,19556
661703,307,"The more accursed thou, that still omitt'st it.",121,19556
661704,308,Thou art going to Lord Timon's feast?,1006,19556
661705,309,"Ay, to see meat fill knaves and wine heat fools.",121,19556
661706,310,"Fare thee well, fare thee well.",1006,19556
661707,311,Thou art a fool to bid me farewell twice.,121,19556
661708,312,"Why, Apemantus?",1006,19556
661709,313,"Shouldst have kept one to thyself, for I mean to
give thee none.",121,19556
661710,315,Hang thyself!,439,19556
661711,316,"No, I will do nothing at thy bidding: make thy
requests to thy friend.",121,19556
661712,318,"Away, unpeaceable dog, or I'll spurn thee hence!",1006,19556
661713,319,"I will fly, like a dog, the heels o' the ass.",121,19556
661714,320,[Exit],1261,19556
661715,321,"He's opposite to humanity. Come, shall we in,
And taste Lord Timon's bounty? he outgoes
The very heart of kindness.",439,19556
661716,324,"He pours it out; Plutus, the god of gold,
Is but his steward: no meed, but he repays
Sevenfold above itself; no gift to him,
But breeds the giver a return exceeding
All use of quittance.",1006,19556
661717,329,"The noblest mind he carries
That ever govern'd man.",439,19556
661718,331,Long may he live in fortunes! Shall we in?,1006,19556
661719,332,I'll keep you company.,439,19556
661720,333,"[Exeunt]
[Hautboys playing loud music. A great banquet]
served in; FLAVIUS and others attending; then enter
TIMON, ALCIBIADES, Lords, Senators, and VENTIDIUS.
Then comes, dropping, after all, APEMANTUS,
discontentedly, like himself]",1261,19556
661721,341,"Most honour'd Timon,
It hath pleased the gods to remember my father's age,
And call him to long peace.
He is gone happy, and has left me rich:
Then, as in grateful virtue I am bound
To your free heart, I do return those talents,
Doubled with thanks and service, from whose help
I derived liberty.",1231,19557
661722,349,"O, by no means,
Honest Ventidius; you mistake my love:
I gave it freely ever; and there's none
Can truly say he gives, if he receives:
If our betters play at that game, we must not dare
To imitate them; faults that are rich are fair.",1198,19557
661723,355,A noble spirit!,1231,19557
661724,356,"Nay, my lords,
[They all stand ceremoniously looking on TIMON]
Ceremony was but devised at first
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs none.
Pray, sit; more welcome are ye to my fortunes
Than my fortunes to me.",1198,19557
661725,364,[They sit],1261,19557
661726,365,"My lord, we always have confess'd it.",439,19557
661727,366,"Ho, ho, confess'd it! hang'd it, have you not?",121,19557
661728,367,"O, Apemantus, you are welcome.",1198,19557
661729,368,"No;
You shall not make me welcome:
I come to have thee thrust me out of doors.",121,19557
661730,371,"Fie, thou'rt a churl; ye've got a humour there
Does not become a man: 'tis much to blame.
They say, my lords, 'ira furor brevis est;' but yond
man is ever angry. Go, let him have a table by
himself, for he does neither affect company, nor is
he fit for't, indeed.",1198,19557
661731,377,"Let me stay at thine apperil, Timon: I come to
observe; I give thee warning on't.",121,19557
661732,379,"I take no heed of thee; thou'rt an Athenian,
therefore welcome: I myself would have no power;
prithee, let my meat make thee silent.",1198,19557
661733,382,"I scorn thy meat; 'twould choke me, for I should
ne'er flatter thee. O you gods, what a number of
men eat Timon, and he sees 'em not! It grieves me
to see so many dip their meat in one man's blood;
and all the madness is, he cheers them up too.
I wonder men dare trust themselves with men:
Methinks they should invite them without knives;
Good for their meat, and safer for their lives.
There's much example for't; the fellow that sits
next him now, parts bread with him, pledges the
breath of him in a divided draught, is the readiest
man to kill him: 't has been proved. If I were a
huge man, I should fear to drink at meals;
Lest they should spy my windpipe's dangerous notes:
Great men should drink with harness on their throats.",121,19557
661734,397,"My lord, in heart; and let the health go round.",1198,19557
661735,398,"Let it flow this way, my good lord.",1006,19557
661736,399,"Flow this way! A brave fellow! he keeps his tides
well. Those healths will make thee and thy state
look ill, Timon. Here's that which is too weak to
be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire:
This and my food are equals; there's no odds:
Feasts are too proud to give thanks to the gods.
Apemantus' grace.
Immortal gods, I crave no pelf;
I pray for no man but myself:
Grant I may never prove so fond,
To trust man on his oath or bond;
Or a harlot, for her weeping;
Or a dog, that seems a-sleeping:
Or a keeper with my freedom;
Or my friends, if I should need 'em.
Amen. So fall to't:
Rich men sin, and I eat root.
[Eats and drinks]
Much good dich thy good heart, Apemantus!",121,19557
661737,418,"Captain Alcibiades, your heart's in the field now.",1198,19557
661738,419,"My heart is ever at your service, my lord.",63,19557
661739,420,"You had rather be at a breakfast of enemies than a
dinner of friends.",1198,19557
661740,422,"So the were bleeding-new, my lord, there's no meat
like 'em: I could wish my best friend at such a feast.",63,19557
661741,424,"Would all those fatterers were thine enemies then,
that then thou mightst kill 'em and bid me to 'em!",121,19557
661742,426,"Might we but have that happiness, my lord, that you
would once use our hearts, whereby we might express
some part of our zeals, we should think ourselves
for ever perfect.",439,19557
661743,430,"O, no doubt, my good friends, but the gods
themselves have provided that I shall have much help
from you: how had you been my friends else? why
have you that charitable title from thousands, did
not you chiefly belong to my heart? I have told
more of you to myself than you can with modesty
speak in your own behalf; and thus far I confirm
you. O you gods, think I, what need we have any
friends, if we should ne'er have need of 'em? they
were the most needless creatures living, should we
ne'er have use for 'em, and would most resemble
sweet instruments hung up in cases that keep their
sounds to themselves. Why, I have often wished
myself poorer, that I might come nearer to you. We
are born to do benefits: and what better or
properer can we can our own than the riches of our
friends? O, what a precious comfort 'tis, to have
so many, like brothers, commanding one another's
fortunes! O joy, e'en made away ere 't can be born!
Mine eyes cannot hold out water, methinks: to
forget their faults, I drink to you.",1198,19557
661744,451,"Thou weepest to make them drink, Timon.",121,19557
661745,452,"Joy had the like conception in our eyes
And at that instant like a babe sprung up.",1006,19557
661746,454,"Ho, ho! I laugh to think that babe a bastard.",121,19557
661747,455,"I promise you, my lord, you moved me much.",1175,19557
661748,456,Much!,121,19557
661749,457,"[Tucket, within]",1261,19557
661750,458,"What means that trump?
[Enter a Servant]
How now?",1198,19557
661751,461,"Please you, my lord, there are certain
ladies most desirous of admittance.",1075,19557
661752,463,Ladies! what are their wills?,1198,19557
661753,464,"There comes with them a forerunner, my lord, which
bears that office, to signify their pleasures.",1075,19557
661754,466,"I pray, let them be admitted.",1198,19557
661755,467,[Enter Cupid],1261,19557
661756,468,"Hail to thee, worthy Timon, and to all
That of his bounties taste! The five best senses
Acknowledge thee their patron; and come freely
To gratulate thy plenteous bosom: th' ear,
Taste, touch and smell, pleased from thy tale rise;
They only now come but to feast thine eyes.",295,19557
661757,474,"They're welcome all; let 'em have kind admittance:
Music, make their welcome!",1198,19557
661758,476,[Exit Cupid],1261,19557
661759,477,"You see, my lord, how ample you're beloved.
[Music. Re-enter Cupid with a mask of Ladies]
as Amazons, with lutes in their hands,
dancing and playing]",439,19557
661760,481,"Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!
They dance! they are mad women.
Like madness is the glory of this life.
As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.
We make ourselves fools, to disport ourselves;
And spend our flatteries, to drink those men
Upon whose age we void it up again,
With poisonous spite and envy.
Who lives that's not depraved or depraves?
Who dies, that bears not one spurn to their graves
Of their friends' gift?
I should fear those that dance before me now
Would one day stamp upon me: 't has been done;
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
[The Lords rise from table, with much adoring of]
TIMON; and to show their loves, each singles out an
Amazon, and all dance, men with women, a lofty
strain or two to the hautboys, and cease]",121,19557
661761,499,"You have done our pleasures much grace, fair ladies,
Set a fair fashion on our entertainment,
Which was not half so beautiful and kind;
You have added worth unto 't and lustre,
And entertain'd me with mine own device;
I am to thank you for 't.",1198,19557
661762,505,"My lord, you take us even at the best.",430,19557
661763,506,"'Faith, for the worst is filthy; and would not hold
taking, I doubt me.",121,19557
661764,508,"Ladies, there is an idle banquet attends you:
Please you to dispose yourselves.",1198,19557
661765,510,"Most thankfully, my lord.",83,19557
661766,511,[Exeunt Cupid and Ladies],1261,19557
661767,512,Flavius.,1198,19557
661768,513,My lord?,476,19557
661769,514,The little casket bring me hither.,1198,19557
661770,515,"Yes, my lord. More jewels yet!
There is no crossing him in 's humour;
[Aside]
Else I should tell him,--well, i' faith I should,
When all's spent, he 'ld be cross'd then, an he could.
'Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind,
That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind.",476,19557
661771,522,[Exit],1261,19557
661772,523,Where be our men?,439,19557
661773,524,"Here, my lord, in readiness.",1075,19557
661774,525,Our horses!,1006,19557
661775,526,"[Re-enter FLAVIUS, with the casket]",1261,19557
661776,527,"O my friends,
I have one word to say to you: look you, my good lord,
I must entreat you, honour me so much
As to advance this jewel; accept it and wear it,
Kind my lord.",1198,19557
661777,532,"I am so far already in your gifts,--",439,19557
661778,533,So are we all.,97,19557
661779,534,[Enter a Servant],1261,19557
661780,535,"My lord, there are certain nobles of the senate
Newly alighted, and come to visit you.",1075,19557
661781,537,They are fairly welcome.,1198,19557
661782,538,"I beseech your honour,
Vouchsafe me a word; it does concern you near.",476,19557
661783,540,"Near! why then, another time I'll hear thee:
I prithee, let's be provided to show them
entertainment.",1198,19557
661784,543,[Aside] I scarce know how.,476,19557
661785,544,[Enter a Second Servant],1261,19557
661786,545,"May it please your honour, Lord Lucius,
Out of his free love, hath presented to you
Four milk-white horses, trapp'd in silver.",1030,19557
661787,548,"I shall accept them fairly; let the presents
Be worthily entertain'd.
[Enter a third Servant]
How now! what news?",1198,19557
661788,552,"Please you, my lord, that honourable
gentleman, Lord Lucullus, entreats your company
to-morrow to hunt with him, and has sent your honour
two brace of greyhounds.",1183,19557
661789,556,"I'll hunt with him; and let them be received,
Not without fair reward.",1198,19557
661790,558,"[Aside] What will this come to?
He commands us to provide, and give great gifts,
And all out of an empty coffer:
Nor will he know his purse, or yield me this,
To show him what a beggar his heart is,
Being of no power to make his wishes good:
His promises fly so beyond his state
That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes
For every word: he is so kind that he now
Pays interest for 't; his land's put to their books.
Well, would I were gently put out of office
Before I were forced out!
Happier is he that has no friend to feed
Than such that do e'en enemies exceed.
I bleed inwardly for my lord.",476,19557
661791,573,[Exit],1261,19557
661792,574,"You do yourselves
Much wrong, you bate too much of your own merits:
Here, my lord, a trifle of our love.",1198,19557
661793,577,With more than common thanks I will receive it.,1006,19557
661794,578,"O, he's the very soul of bounty!",1175,19557
661795,579,"And now I remember, my lord, you gave
Good words the other day of a bay courser
I rode on: it is yours, because you liked it.",1198,19557
661796,582,"O, I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, in that.",1006,19557
661797,583,"You may take my word, my lord; I know, no man
Can justly praise but what he does affect:
I weigh my friend's affection with mine own;
I'll tell you true. I'll call to you.",1198,19557
661798,587,"O, none so welcome.",85,19557
661799,588,"I take all and your several visitations
So kind to heart, 'tis not enough to give;
Methinks, I could deal kingdoms to my friends,
And ne'er be weary. Alcibiades,
Thou art a soldier, therefore seldom rich;
It comes in charity to thee: for all thy living
Is 'mongst the dead, and all the lands thou hast
Lie in a pitch'd field.",1198,19557
661800,596,"Ay, defiled land, my lord.",63,19557
661801,597,We are so virtuously bound--,439,19557
661802,598,"And so
Am I to you.",1198,19557
661803,600,So infinitely endear'd--,1006,19557
661804,601,"All to you. Lights, more lights!",1198,19557
661805,602,"The best of happiness,
Honour and fortunes, keep with you, Lord Timon!",439,19557
661806,604,Ready for his friends.,1198,19557
661807,605,[Exeunt all but APEMANTUS and TIMON],1261,19557
661808,606,"What a coil's here!
Serving of becks and jutting-out of bums!
I doubt whether their legs be worth the sums
That are given for 'em. Friendship's full of dregs:
Methinks, false hearts should never have sound legs,
Thus honest fools lay out their wealth on court'sies.",121,19557
661809,612,"Now, Apemantus, if thou wert not sullen, I would be
good to thee.",1198,19557
661810,614,"No, I'll nothing: for if I should be bribed too,
there would be none left to rail upon thee, and then
thou wouldst sin the faster. Thou givest so long,
Timon, I fear me thou wilt give away thyself in
paper shortly: what need these feasts, pomps and
vain-glories?",121,19557
661811,620,"Nay, an you begin to rail on society once, I am
sworn not to give regard to you. Farewell; and come
with better music.",1198,19557
661812,623,[Exit],1261,19557
661813,624,"So:
Thou wilt not hear me now; thou shalt not then:
I'll lock thy heaven from thee.
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!",121,19557
661814,629,[Exit],1261,19557
661815,632,"[Enter Senator, with papers in his hand]",1261,19558
661816,633,"And late, five thousand: to Varro and to Isidore
He owes nine thousand; besides my former sum,
Which makes it five and twenty. Still in motion
Of raging waste? It cannot hold; it will not.
If I want gold, steal but a beggar's dog,
And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold.
If I would sell my horse, and buy twenty more
Better than he, why, give my horse to Timon,
Ask nothing, give it him, it foals me, straight,
And able horses. No porter at his gate,
But rather one that smiles and still invites
All that pass by. It cannot hold: no reason
Can found his state in safety. Caphis, ho!
Caphis, I say!",1044,19558
661817,647,[Enter CAPHIS],1261,19558
661818,648,"Here, sir; what is your pleasure?",215,19558
661819,649,"Get on your cloak, and haste you to Lord Timon;
Importune him for my moneys; be not ceased
With slight denial, nor then silenced when--
'Commend me to your master'--and the cap
Plays in the right hand, thus: but tell him,
My uses cry to me, I must serve my turn
Out of mine own; his days and times are past
And my reliances on his fracted dates
Have smit my credit: I love and honour him,
But must not break my back to heal his finger;
Immediate are my needs, and my relief
Must not be toss'd and turn'd to me in words,
But find supply immediate. Get you gone:
Put on a most importunate aspect,
A visage of demand; for, I do fear,
When every feather sticks in his own wing,
Lord Timon will be left a naked gull,
Which flashes now a phoenix. Get you gone.",1044,19558
661820,667,"I go, sir.",215,19558
661821,668,"'I go, sir!'--Take the bonds along with you,
And have the dates in contempt.",1044,19558
661822,670,"I will, sir.",215,19558
661823,671,Go.,1044,19558
661824,672,[Exeunt],1261,19558
661825,674,"[Enter FLAVIUS, with many bills in his hand]",1261,19559
661826,675,"No care, no stop! so senseless of expense,
That he will neither know how to maintain it,
Nor cease his flow of riot: takes no account
How things go from him, nor resumes no care
Of what is to continue: never mind
Was to be so unwise, to be so kind.
What shall be done? he will not hear, till feel:
I must be round with him, now he comes from hunting.
Fie, fie, fie, fie!",476,19559
661827,684,"[Enter CAPHIS, and the Servants of Isidore and Varro]",1261,19559
661828,685,"Good even, Varro: what,
You come for money?",215,19559
661829,688,"It is: and yours too, Isidore?",215,19559
661830,690,Would we were all discharged!,215,19559
661831,692,Here comes the lord.,215,19559
661832,693,"[Enter TIMON, ALCIBIADES, and Lords, &c]",1261,19559
661833,694,"So soon as dinner's done, we'll forth again,
My Alcibiades. With me? what is your will?",1198,19559
661834,696,"My lord, here is a note of certain dues.",215,19559
661835,697,Dues! Whence are you?,1198,19559
661836,698,"Of Athens here, my lord.",215,19559
661837,699,Go to my steward.,1198,19559
661838,700,"Please it your lordship, he hath put me off
To the succession of new days this month:
My master is awaked by great occasion
To call upon his own, and humbly prays you
That with your other noble parts you'll suit
In giving him his right.",215,19559
661839,706,"Mine honest friend,
I prithee, but repair to me next morning.",1198,19559
661840,708,"Nay, good my lord,--",215,19559
661841,709,"Contain thyself, good friend.
He humbly prays your speedy payment.",1198,19559
661842,713,"If you did know, my lord, my master's wants--
And I am sent expressly to your lordship.",215,19559
661843,717,"Give me breath.
I do beseech you, good my lords, keep on;
I'll wait upon you instantly.
[Exeunt ALCIBIADES and Lords]
[To FLAVIUS]
Come hither: pray you,
How goes the world, that I am thus encounter'd
With clamourous demands of date-broke bonds,
And the detention of long-since-due debts,
Against my honour?",1198,19559
661844,727,"Please you, gentlemen,
The time is unagreeable to this business:
Your importunacy cease till after dinner,
That I may make his lordship understand
Wherefore you are not paid.",476,19559
661845,732,"Do so, my friends. See them well entertain'd.",1198,19559
661846,733,[Exit],1261,19559
661847,734,"Pray, draw near.",476,19559
661848,735,[Exit],1261,19559
661849,736,[Enter APEMANTUS and Fool],1261,19559
661850,737,"Stay, stay, here comes the fool with Apemantus:
let's ha' some sport with 'em.",215,19559
661851,742,Dost dialogue with thy shadow?,121,19559
661852,744,"No,'tis to thyself.
[To the Fool]
Come away.",121,19559
661853,748,"No, thou stand'st single, thou'rt not on him yet.",121,19559
661854,749,Where's the fool now?,215,19559
661855,750,"He last asked the question. Poor rogues, and
usurers' men! bawds between gold and want!",121,19559
661856,752,"What are we, Apemantus?",94,19559
661857,753,Asses.,121,19559
661858,754,Why?,94,19559
661859,755,"That you ask me what you are, and do not know
yourselves. Speak to 'em, fool.",121,19559
661860,757,"How do you, gentlemen?",483,19559
661861,758,"Gramercies, good fool: how does your mistress?",94,19559
661862,759,"She's e'en setting on water to scald such chickens
as you are. Would we could see you at Corinth!",483,19559
661863,761,Good! gramercy.,121,19559
661864,762,[Enter Page],1261,19559
661865,763,"Look you, here comes my mistress' page.",483,19559
661866,764,"[To the Fool] Why, how now, captain! what do you
in this wise company? How dost thou, Apemantus?",854,19559
661867,766,"Would I had a rod in my mouth, that I might answer
thee profitably.",121,19559
661868,768,"Prithee, Apemantus, read me the superscription of
these letters: I know not which is which.",854,19559
661869,770,Canst not read?,121,19559
661870,771,No.,854,19559
661871,772,"There will little learning die then, that day thou
art hanged. This is to Lord Timon; this to
Alcibiades. Go; thou wast born a bastard, and thou't
die a bawd.",121,19559
661872,776,"Thou wast whelped a dog, and thou shalt famish a
dog's death. Answer not; I am gone.",854,19559
661873,778,[Exit],1261,19559
661874,779,"E'en so thou outrunnest grace. Fool, I will go with
you to Lord Timon's.",121,19559
661875,781,Will you leave me there?,483,19559
661876,782,If Timon stay at home. You three serve three usurers?,121,19559
661877,783,Ay; would they served us!,94,19559
661878,784,"So would I,--as good a trick as ever hangman served thief.",121,19559
661879,785,Are you three usurers' men?,483,19559
661880,786,"Ay, fool.",94,19559
661881,787,"I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant: my
mistress is one, and I am her fool. When men come
to borrow of your masters, they approach sadly, and
go away merry; but they enter my mistress' house
merrily, and go away sadly: the reason of this?",483,19559
661882,793,"Do it then, that we may account thee a whoremaster
and a knave; which not-withstanding, thou shalt be
no less esteemed.",121,19559
661883,797,"A fool in good clothes, and something like thee.
'Tis a spirit: sometime't appears like a lord;
sometime like a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher,
with two stones moe than's artificial one: he is
very often like a knight; and, generally, in all
shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore
to thirteen, this spirit walks in.",483,19559
661884,805,"Nor thou altogether a wise man: as much foolery as
I have, so much wit thou lackest.",483,19559
661885,807,That answer might have become Apemantus.,121,19559
661886,808,"Aside, aside; here comes Lord Timon.",94,19559
661887,809,[Re-enter TIMON and FLAVIUS],1261,19559
661888,810,"Come with me, fool, come.",121,19559
661889,811,"I do not always follow lover, elder brother and
woman; sometime the philosopher.",483,19559
661890,813,[Exeunt APEMANTUS and Fool],1261,19559
661891,814,"Pray you, walk near: I'll speak with you anon.",476,19559
661892,815,[Exeunt Servants],1261,19559
661893,816,"You make me marvel: wherefore ere this time
Had you not fully laid my state before me,
That I might so have rated my expense,
As I had leave of means?",1198,19559
661894,820,"You would not hear me,
At many leisures I proposed.",476,19559
661895,822,"Go to:
Perchance some single vantages you took.
When my indisposition put you back:
And that unaptness made your minister,
Thus to excuse yourself.",1198,19559
661896,827,"O my good lord,
At many times I brought in my accounts,
Laid them before you; you would throw them off,
And say, you found them in mine honesty.
When, for some trifling present, you have bid me
Return so much, I have shook my head and wept;
Yea, 'gainst the authority of manners, pray'd you
To hold your hand more close: I did endure
Not seldom, nor no slight cheques, when I have
Prompted you in the ebb of your estate
And your great flow of debts. My loved lord,
Though you hear now, too late--yet now's a time--
The greatest of your having lacks a half
To pay your present debts.",476,19559
661897,841,Let all my land be sold.,1198,19559
661898,842,"'Tis all engaged, some forfeited and gone;
And what remains will hardly stop the mouth
Of present dues: the future comes apace:
What shall defend the interim? and at length
How goes our reckoning?",476,19559
661899,847,To Lacedaemon did my land extend.,1198,19559
661900,848,"O my good lord, the world is but a word:
Were it all yours to give it in a breath,
How quickly were it gone!",476,19559
661901,851,You tell me true.,1198,19559
661902,852,"If you suspect my husbandry or falsehood,
Call me before the exactest auditors
And set me on the proof. So the gods bless me,
When all our offices have been oppress'd
With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept
With drunken spilth of wine, when every room
Hath blazed with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy,
I have retired me to a wasteful cock,
And set mine eyes at flow.",476,19559
661903,861,"Prithee, no more.",1198,19559
661904,862,"Heavens, have I said, the bounty of this lord!
How many prodigal bits have slaves and peasants
This night englutted! Who is not Timon's?
What heart, head, sword, force, means, but is
Lord Timon's?
Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon!
Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise,
The breath is gone whereof this praise is made:
Feast-won, fast-lost; one cloud of winter showers,
These flies are couch'd.",476,19559
661905,872,"Come, sermon me no further:
No villanous bounty yet hath pass'd my heart;
Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.
Why dost thou weep? Canst thou the conscience lack,
To think I shall lack friends? Secure thy heart;
If I would broach the vessels of my love,
And try the argument of hearts by borrowing,
Men and men's fortunes could I frankly use
As I can bid thee speak.",1198,19559
661906,881,Assurance bless your thoughts!,476,19559
661907,882,"And, in some sort, these wants of mine are crown'd,
That I account them blessings; for by these
Shall I try friends: you shall perceive how you
Mistake my fortunes; I am wealthy in my friends.
Within there! Flaminius! Servilius!",1198,19559
661908,887,"[Enter FLAMINIUS, SERVILIUS, and other Servants]",1261,19559
661909,888,My lord? my lord?,94,19559
661910,889,"I will dispatch you severally; you to Lord Lucius;
to Lord Lucullus you: I hunted with his honour
to-day: you, to Sempronius: commend me to their
loves, and, I am proud, say, that my occasions have
found time to use 'em toward a supply of money: let
the request be fifty talents.",1198,19559
661911,895,"As you have said, my lord.",475,19559
661912,896,[Aside] Lord Lucius and Lucullus? hum!,476,19559
661913,897,"Go you, sir, to the senators--
Of whom, even to the state's best health, I have
Deserved this hearing--bid 'em send o' the instant
A thousand talents to me.",1198,19559
661914,901,"I have been bold--
For that I knew it the most general way--
To them to use your signet and your name;
But they do shake their heads, and I am here
No richer in return.",476,19559
661915,906,Is't true? can't be?,1198,19559
661916,907,"They answer, in a joint and corporate voice,
That now they are at fall, want treasure, cannot
Do what they would; are sorry--you are honourable,--
But yet they could have wish'd--they know not--
Something hath been amiss--a noble nature
May catch a wrench--would all were well--'tis pity;--
And so, intending other serious matters,
After distasteful looks and these hard fractions,
With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods
They froze me into silence.",476,19559
661917,917,"You gods, reward them!
Prithee, man, look cheerly. These old fellows
Have their ingratitude in them hereditary:
Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows;
'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind;
And nature, as it grows again toward earth,
Is fashion'd for the journey, dull and heavy.
[To a Servant]
Go to Ventidius.
[To FLAVIUS]
Prithee, be not sad,
Thou art true and honest; ingeniously I speak.
No blame belongs to thee.
[To Servant]
Ventidius lately
Buried his father; by whose death he's stepp'd
Into a great estate: when he was poor,
Imprison'd and in scarcity of friends,
I clear'd him with five talents: greet him from me;
Bid him suppose some good necessity
Touches his friend, which craves to be remember'd
With those five talents.
[Exit Servant]
[To FLAVIUS]
That had, give't these fellows
To whom 'tis instant due. Ne'er speak, or think,
That Timon's fortunes 'mong his friends can sink.",1198,19559
661918,944,"I would I could not think it: that thought is
bounty's foe;
Being free itself, it thinks all others so.",476,19559
661919,947,[Exeunt],1261,19559
661920,950,[FLAMINIUS waiting. Enter a Servant to him],1261,19560
661921,951,I have told my lord of you; he is coming down to you.,1075,19560
661922,952,"I thank you, sir.",475,19560
661923,953,[Enter LUCULLUS],1261,19560
661924,954,Here's my lord.,1075,19560
661925,955,"[Aside] One of Lord Timon's men? a gift, I
warrant. Why, this hits right; I dreamt of a silver
basin and ewer to-night. Flaminius, honest
Flaminius; you are very respectively welcome, sir.
Fill me some wine.
[Exit Servants]
And how does that honourable, complete, free-hearted
gentleman of Athens, thy very bountiful good lord
and master?",719,19560
661926,964,His health is well sir.,475,19560
661927,965,"I am right glad that his health is well, sir: and
what hast thou there under thy cloak, pretty Flaminius?",719,19560
661928,967,"'Faith, nothing but an empty box, sir; which, in my
lord's behalf, I come to entreat your honour to
supply; who, having great and instant occasion to
use fifty talents, hath sent to your lordship to
furnish him, nothing doubting your present
assistance therein.",475,19560
661929,973,"La, la, la, la! 'nothing doubting,' says he? Alas,
good lord! a noble gentleman 'tis, if he would not
keep so good a house. Many a time and often I ha'
dined with him, and told him on't, and come again to
supper to him, of purpose to have him spend less,
and yet he would embrace no counsel, take no warning
by my coming. Every man has his fault, and honesty
is his: I ha' told him on't, but I could ne'er get
him from't.",719,19560
661930,982,"[Re-enter Servant, with wine]",1261,19560
661931,983,"Please your lordship, here is the wine.",1075,19560
661932,984,"Flaminius, I have noted thee always wise. Here's to thee.",719,19560
661933,985,Your lordship speaks your pleasure.,475,19560
661934,986,"I have observed thee always for a towardly prompt
spirit--give thee thy due--and one that knows what
belongs to reason; and canst use the time well, if
the time use thee well: good parts in thee.
[To Servant]
Get you gone, sirrah.
[Exit Servant]
Draw nearer, honest Flaminius. Thy lord's a
bountiful gentleman: but thou art wise; and thou
knowest well enough, although thou comest to me,
that this is no time to lend money, especially upon
bare friendship, without security. Here's three
solidares for thee: good boy, wink at me, and say
thou sawest me not. Fare thee well.",719,19560
661935,1000,"Is't possible the world should so much differ,
And we alive that lived? Fly, damned baseness,
To him that worships thee!",475,19560
661936,1003,[Throwing the money back],1261,19560
661937,1004,"Ha! now I see thou art a fool, and fit for thy master.",719,19560
661938,1005,[Exit],1261,19560
661939,1006,"May these add to the number that may scald thee!
Let moulten coin be thy damnation,
Thou disease of a friend, and not himself!
Has friendship such a faint and milky heart,
It turns in less than two nights? O you gods,
I feel master's passion! this slave,
Unto his honour, has my lord's meat in him:
Why should it thrive and turn to nutriment,
When he is turn'd to poison?
O, may diseases only work upon't!
And, when he's sick to death, let not that part of nature
Which my lord paid for, be of any power
To expel sickness, but prolong his hour!",475,19560
661940,1019,[Exit],1261,19560
661941,1021,"[Enter LUCILIUS, with three Strangers]",1261,19561
661942,1022,"Who, the Lord Timon? he is my very good friend, and
an honourable gentleman.",712,19561
661943,1024,"We know him for no less, though we are but strangers
to him. But I can tell you one thing, my lord, and
which I hear from common rumours: now Lord Timon's
happy hours are done and past, and his estate
shrinks from him.",470,19561
661944,1029,"Fie, no, do not believe it; he cannot want for money.",712,19561
661945,1030,"But believe you this, my lord, that, not long ago,
one of his men was with the Lord Lucullus to borrow
so many talents, nay, urged extremely for't and
showed what necessity belonged to't, and yet was denied.",1037,19561
661946,1034,How!,712,19561
661947,1035,"I tell you, denied, my lord.",1037,19561
661948,1036,"What a strange case was that! now, before the gods,
I am ashamed on't. Denied that honourable man!
there was very little honour showed in't. For my own
part, I must needs confess, I have received some
small kindnesses from him, as money, plate, jewels
and such-like trifles, nothing comparing to his;
yet, had he mistook him and sent to me, I should
ne'er have denied his occasion so many talents.",712,19561
661949,1044,[Enter SERVILIUS],1261,19561
661950,1045,"See, by good hap, yonder's my lord;
I have sweat to see his honour. My honoured lord,--",1078,19561
661951,1047,[To LUCIUS],1261,19561
661952,1048,"Servilius! you are kindly met, sir. Fare thee well:
commend me to thy honourable virtuous lord, my very
exquisite friend.",712,19561
661953,1051,"May it please your honour, my lord hath sent--",1078,19561
661954,1052,"Ha! what has he sent? I am so much endeared to
that lord; he's ever sending: how shall I thank
him, thinkest thou? And what has he sent now?",712,19561
661955,1055,"Has only sent his present occasion now, my lord;
requesting your lordship to supply his instant use
with so many talents.",1078,19561
661956,1058,"I know his lordship is but merry with me;
He cannot want fifty five hundred talents.",712,19561
661957,1060,"But in the mean time he wants less, my lord.
If his occasion were not virtuous,
I should not urge it half so faithfully.",1078,19561
661958,1063,"Dost thou speak seriously, Servilius?",712,19561
661959,1064,"Upon my soul,'tis true, sir.",1078,19561
661960,1065,"What a wicked beast was I to disfurnish myself
against such a good time, when I might ha' shown
myself honourable! how unluckily it happened, that I
should purchase the day before for a little part,
and undo a great deal of honoured! Servilius, now,
before the gods, I am not able to do,--the more
beast, I say:--I was sending to use Lord Timon
myself, these gentlemen can witness! but I would
not, for the wealth of Athens, I had done't now.
Commend me bountifully to his good lordship; and I
hope his honour will conceive the fairest of me,
because I have no power to be kind: and tell him
this from me, I count it one of my greatest
afflictions, say, that I cannot pleasure such an
honourable gentleman. Good Servilius, will you
befriend me so far, as to use mine own words to him?",712,19561
661961,1081,"Yes, sir, I shall.",1078,19561
661962,1082,"I'll look you out a good turn, Servilius.
[Exit SERVILIUS]
True as you said, Timon is shrunk indeed;
And he that's once denied will hardly speed.",712,19561
661963,1086,[Exit],1261,19561
661964,1087,"Do you observe this, Hostilius?",470,19561
661965,1088,"Ay, too well.",1037,19561
661966,1089,"Why, this is the world's soul; and just of the
same piece
Is every flatterer's spirit. Who can call him
His friend that dips in the same dish? for, in
My knowing, Timon has been this lord's father,
And kept his credit with his purse,
Supported his estate; nay, Timon's money
Has paid his men their wages: he ne'er drinks,
But Timon's silver treads upon his lip;
And yet--O, see the monstrousness of man
When he looks out in an ungrateful shape!--
He does deny him, in respect of his,
What charitable men afford to beggars.",470,19561
661967,1102,Religion groans at it.,1188,19561
661968,1103,"For mine own part,
I never tasted Timon in my life,
Nor came any of his bounties over me,
To mark me for his friend; yet, I protest,
For his right noble mind, illustrious virtue
And honourable carriage,
Had his necessity made use of me,
I would have put my wealth into donation,
And the best half should have return'd to him,
So much I love his heart: but, I perceive,
Men must learn now with pity to dispense;
For policy sits above conscience.",470,19561
661969,1115,[Exeunt],1261,19561
661970,1117,"[Enter SEMPRONIUS, and a Servant of TIMON's]",1261,19562
661971,1118,"Must he needs trouble me in 't,--hum!--'bove
all others?
He might have tried Lord Lucius or Lucullus;
And now Ventidius is wealthy too,
Whom he redeem'd from prison: all these
Owe their estates unto him.",1042,19562
661972,1124,"My lord,
They have all been touch'd and found base metal, for
They have au denied him.",1075,19562
661973,1127,"How! have they denied him?
Has Ventidius and Lucullus denied him?
And does he send to me? Three? hum!
It shows but little love or judgment in him:
Must I be his last refuge! His friends, like
physicians,
Thrive, give him over: must I take the cure upon me?
Has much disgraced me in't; I'm angry at him,
That might have known my place: I see no sense for't,
But his occasion might have woo'd me first;
For, in my conscience, I was the first man
That e'er received gift from him:
And does he think so backwardly of me now,
That I'll requite its last? No:
So it may prove an argument of laughter
To the rest, and 'mongst lords I be thought a fool.
I'ld rather than the worth of thrice the sum,
Had sent to me first, but for my mind's sake;
I'd such a courage to do him good. But now return,
And with their faint reply this answer join;
Who bates mine honour shall not know my coin.",1042,19562
661974,1148,[Exit],1261,19562
661975,1149,"Excellent! Your lordship's a goodly villain. The
devil knew not what he did when he made man
politic; he crossed himself by 't: and I cannot
think but, in the end, the villainies of man will
set him clear. How fairly this lord strives to
appear foul! takes virtuous copies to be wicked,
like those that under hot ardent zeal would set
whole realms on fire: Of such a nature is his
politic love.
This was my lord's best hope; now all are fled,
Save only the gods: now his friends are dead,
Doors, that were ne'er acquainted with their wards
Many a bounteous year must be employ'd
Now to guard sure their master.
And this is all a liberal course allows;
Who cannot keep his wealth must keep his house.",1075,19562
661976,1165,"[Exit]
[Enter two Servants of Varro, and the Servant of]
LUCIUS, meeting TITUS, HORTENSIUS, and other
Servants of TIMON's creditors, waiting his coming out]",1261,19562
661977,1171,"Well met; good morrow, Titus and Hortensius.",462,19563
661978,1172,The like to you kind Varro.,1202,19563
661979,1173,"Lucius!
What, do we meet together?
One business does command us all; for mine Is money.",590,19563
661980,1177,So is theirs and ours.,1202,19563
661981,1178,[Enter PHILOTUS],1261,19563
661982,1180,"Good day at once.
What do you think the hour?",886,19563
661983,1183,Labouring for nine.,886,19563
661984,1185,Is not my lord seen yet?,886,19563
661985,1187,"I wonder on't; he was wont to shine at seven.
You must consider that a prodigal course
Is like the sun's; but not, like his, recoverable.
I fear 'tis deepest winter in Lord Timon's purse;
That is one may reach deep enough, and yet
Find little.",886,19563
661986,1194,I am of your fear for that.,886,19563
661987,1195,"I'll show you how to observe a strange event.
Your lord sends now for money.",1202,19563
661988,1197,"Most true, he does.",590,19563
661989,1198,"And he wears jewels now of Timon's gift,
For which I wait for money.",1202,19563
661990,1200,"It is against my heart.
Timon in this should pay more than he owes:
And e'en as if your lord should wear rich jewels,
And send for money for 'em.",590,19563
661991,1205,"I'm weary of this charge, the gods can witness:
I know my lord hath spent of Timon's wealth,
And now ingratitude makes it worse than stealth.",590,19563
661992,1209,"Yes, mine's three thousand crowns: what's yours?",462,19563
661993,1212,"'Tis much deep: and it should seem by the sun,
Your master's confidence was above mine;
Else, surely, his had equall'd.
Enter Flaminius.",462,19563
661994,1216,"One of Lord Timon's men.
come forth?",1202,19563
661995,1219,"No, indeed, he is not.",475,19563
661996,1220,"We attend his lordship; pray, signify so much.",1202,19563
661997,1221,I need not tell him that; he knows you are too diligent.,475,19563
661998,1222,[Exit],1261,19563
661999,1223,"[Enter FLAVIUS in a cloak, muffled]
He goes away in a cloud: call him, call him.",1261,19563
662000,1226,"Do you hear, sir?",1202,19563
662001,1228,"By your leave, sir,--",1030,19563
662002,1229,"What do ye ask of me, my friend?",476,19563
662003,1230,"We wait for certain money here, sir.",1202,19563
662004,1231,"Ay,
If money were as certain as your waiting,
'Twere sure enough.
Why then preferr'd you not your sums and bills,
When your false masters eat of my lord's meat?
Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts
And take down the interest into their
gluttonous maws.
You do yourselves but wrong to stir me up;
Let me pass quietly:
Believe 't, my lord and I have made an end;
I have no more to reckon, he to spend.",476,19563
662005,1244,"If 'twill not serve,'tis not so base as you;
For you serve knaves.",476,19563
662006,1246,[Exit],1261,19563
662007,1248,How! what does his cashiered worship mutter?,462,19563
662008,1250,"No matter what; he's poor, and that's revenge
enough. Who can speak broader than he that has no
house to put his head in? such may rail against
great buildings.",1030,19563
662009,1254,[Enter SERVILIUS],1261,19563
662010,1255,"O, here's Servilius; now we shall know some answer.",1202,19563
662011,1256,"If I might beseech you, gentlemen, to repair some
other hour, I should derive much from't; for,
take't of my soul, my lord leans wondrously to
discontent: his comfortable temper has forsook him;
he's much out of health, and keeps his chamber.
And, if it be so far beyond his health,
Methinks he should the sooner pay his debts,
And make a clear way to the gods.",1078,19563
662012,1265,Good gods!,1078,19563
662013,1266,"We cannot take this for answer, sir.",1202,19563
662014,1267,"[Within] Servilius, help! My lord! my lord!",475,19563
662015,1268,"[Enter TIMON, in a rage, FLAMINIUS following]",1261,19563
662016,1269,"What, are my doors opposed against my passage?
Have I been ever free, and must my house
Be my retentive enemy, my gaol?
The place which I have feasted, does it now,
Like all mankind, show me an iron heart?",1198,19563
662017,1275,"My lord, here is my bill.",1202,19563
662018,1277,"And mine, my lord.",590,19563
662019,1280,All our bills.,886,19563
662020,1281,Knock me down with 'em: cleave me to the girdle.,1198,19563
662021,1283,Cut my heart in sums.,1198,19563
662022,1284,"Mine, fifty talents.",1202,19563
662023,1285,Tell out my blood.,1198,19563
662024,1287,"Five thousand drops pays that.
What yours?--and yours?",1198,19563
662025,1290,"My lord,--",462,19563
662026,1292,"My lord,--",1030,19563
662027,1293,"Tear me, take me, and the gods fall upon you!",1198,19563
662028,1294,[Exit],1261,19563
662029,1295,"'Faith, I perceive our masters may throw their caps
at their money: these debts may well be called
desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em.",590,19563
662030,1298,[Exeunt],1261,19563
662031,1299,[Re-enter TIMON and FLAVIUS],1261,19563
662032,1300,"They have e'en put my breath from me, the slaves.
Creditors? devils!",1198,19563
662033,1302,"My dear lord,--",476,19563
662034,1303,What if it should be so?,1198,19563
662035,1304,"My lord,--",476,19563
662036,1305,I'll have it so. My steward!,1198,19563
662037,1306,"Here, my lord.",476,19563
662038,1307,"So fitly? Go, bid all my friends again,
Lucius, Lucullus, and Sempronius:
All, sirrah, all:
I'll once more feast the rascals.",1198,19563
662039,1311,"O my lord,
You only speak from your distracted soul;
There is not so much left, to furnish out
A moderate table.",476,19563
662040,1315,"Be't not in thy care; go,
I charge thee, invite them all: let in the tide
Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.",1198,19563
662041,1318,[Exeunt],1261,19563
662042,1320,"My lord, you have my voice to it; the fault's
Bloody; 'tis necessary he should die:
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.",456,19564
662043,1323,Most true; the law shall bruise him.,1026,19564
662044,1324,"[Enter ALCIBIADES, with Attendants]",1261,19564
662045,1325,"Honour, health, and compassion to the senate!",63,19564
662046,1326,"Now, captain?",456,19564
662047,1327,"I am an humble suitor to your virtues;
For pity is the virtue of the law,
And none but tyrants use it cruelly.
It pleases time and fortune to lie heavy
Upon a friend of mine, who, in hot blood,
Hath stepp'd into the law, which is past depth
To those that, without heed, do plunge into 't.
He is a man, setting his fate aside,
Of comely virtues:
Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice--
An honour in him which buys out his fault--
But with a noble fury and fair spirit,
Seeing his reputation touch'd to death,
He did oppose his foe:
And with such sober and unnoted passion
He did behave his anger, ere 'twas spent,
As if he had but proved an argument.",63,19564
662048,1344,"You undergo too strict a paradox,
Striving to make an ugly deed look fair:
Your words have took such pains as if they labour'd
To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling
Upon the head of valour; which indeed
Is valour misbegot and came into the world
When sects and factions were newly born:
He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer
The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs
His outsides, to wear them like his raiment,
carelessly,
And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart,
To bring it into danger.
If wrongs be evils and enforce us kill,
What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill!",456,19564
662049,1359,"My lord,--",63,19564
662050,1360,"You cannot make gross sins look clear:
To revenge is no valour, but to bear.",456,19564
662051,1362,"My lords, then, under favour, pardon me,
If I speak like a captain.
Why do fond men expose themselves to battle,
And not endure all threats? sleep upon't,
And let the foes quietly cut their throats,
Without repugnancy? If there be
Such valour in the bearing, what make we
Abroad? why then, women are more valiant
That stay at home, if bearing carry it,
And the ass more captain than the lion, the felon
Loaden with irons wiser than the judge,
If wisdom be in suffering. O my lords,
As you are great, be pitifully good:
Who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood?
To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust;
But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.
To be in anger is impiety;
But who is man that is not angry?
Weigh but the crime with this.",63,19564
662052,1381,You breathe in vain.,1026,19564
662053,1382,"In vain! his service done
At Lacedaemon and Byzantium
Were a sufficient briber for his life.",63,19564
662054,1385,What's that?,456,19564
662055,1386,"I say, my lords, he has done fair service,
And slain in fight many of your enemies:
How full of valour did he bear himself
In the last conflict, and made plenteous wounds!",63,19564
662056,1390,"He has made too much plenty with 'em;
He's a sworn rioter: he has a sin that often
Drowns him, and takes his valour prisoner:
If there were no foes, that were enough
To overcome him: in that beastly fury
He has been known to commit outrages,
And cherish factions: 'tis inferr'd to us,
His days are foul and his drink dangerous.",1026,19564
662057,1398,He dies.,456,19564
662058,1399,"Hard fate! he might have died in war.
My lords, if not for any parts in him--
Though his right arm might purchase his own time
And be in debt to none--yet, more to move you,
Take my deserts to his, and join 'em both:
And, for I know your reverend ages love
Security, I'll pawn my victories, all
My honours to you, upon his good returns.
If by this crime he owes the law his life,
Why, let the war receive 't in valiant gore
For law is strict, and war is nothing more.",63,19564
662059,1410,"We are for law: he dies; urge it no more,
On height of our displeasure: friend or brother,
He forfeits his own blood that spills another.",456,19564
662060,1413,"Must it be so? it must not be. My lords,
I do beseech you, know me.",63,19564
662061,1415,How!,1026,19564
662062,1416,Call me to your remembrances.,63,19564
662063,1417,What!,1182,19564
662064,1418,"I cannot think but your age has forgot me;
It could not else be, I should prove so base,
To sue, and be denied such common grace:
My wounds ache at you.",63,19564
662065,1422,"Do you dare our anger?
'Tis in few words, but spacious in effect;
We banish thee for ever.",456,19564
662066,1425,"Banish me!
Banish your dotage; banish usury,
That makes the senate ugly.",63,19564
662067,1428,"If, after two days' shine, Athens contain thee,
Attend our weightier judgment. And, not to swell
our spirit,
He shall be executed presently.",456,19564
662068,1432,[Exeunt Senators],1261,19564
662069,1433,"Now the gods keep you old enough; that you may live
Only in bone, that none may look on you!
I'm worse than mad: I have kept back their foes,
While they have told their money and let out
Their coin upon large interest, I myself
Rich only in large hurts. All those for this?
Is this the balsam that the usuring senate
Pours into captains' wounds? Banishment!
It comes not ill; I hate not to be banish'd;
It is a cause worthy my spleen and fury,
That I may strike at Athens. I'll cheer up
My discontented troops, and lay for hearts.
'Tis honour with most lands to be at odds;
Soldiers should brook as little wrongs as gods.",63,19564
662070,1447,"[Exit]
[Music. Tables set out: Servants attending.]
Enter divers Lords, Senators and others, at
several doors]",1261,19564
662071,1452,"The good time of day to you, sir.",439,19565
662072,1453,"I also wish it to you. I think this honourable lord
did but try us this other day.",1006,19565
662073,1455,"Upon that were my thoughts tiring, when we
encountered: I hope it is not so low with him as
he made it seem in the trial of his several friends.",439,19565
662074,1458,"It should not be, by the persuasion of his new feasting.",1006,19565
662075,1459,"I should think so: he hath sent me an earnest
inviting, which many my near occasions did urge me
to put off; but he hath conjured me beyond them, and
I must needs appear.",439,19565
662076,1463,"In like manner was I in debt to my importunate
business, but he would not hear my excuse. I am
sorry, when he sent to borrow of me, that my
provision was out.",1006,19565
662077,1467,"I am sick of that grief too, as I understand how all
things go.",439,19565
662078,1469,"Every man here's so. What would he have borrowed of
you?",1006,19565
662079,1471,A thousand pieces.,439,19565
662080,1472,A thousand pieces!,1006,19565
662081,1473,What of you?,439,19565
662082,1474,"He sent to me, sir,--Here he comes.",1006,19565
662083,1475,[Enter TIMON and Attendants],1261,19565
662084,1476,"With all my heart, gentlemen both; and how fare you?",1198,19565
662085,1477,"Ever at the best, hearing well of your lordship.",439,19565
662086,1478,"The swallow follows not summer more willing than we
your lordship.",1006,19565
662087,1480,"[Aside] Nor more willingly leaves winter; such
summer-birds are men. Gentlemen, our dinner will not
recompense this long stay: feast your ears with the
music awhile, if they will fare so harshly o' the
trumpet's sound; we shall to 't presently.",1198,19565
662088,1485,"I hope it remains not unkindly with your lordship
that I returned you an empty messenger.",439,19565
662089,1487,"O, sir, let it not trouble you.",1198,19565
662090,1488,"My noble lord,--",1006,19565
662091,1489,"Ah, my good friend, what cheer?",1198,19565
662092,1490,"My most honourable lord, I am e'en sick of shame,
that, when your lordship this other day sent to me,
I was so unfortunate a beggar.",1006,19565
662093,1493,"Think not on 't, sir.",1198,19565
662094,1494,"If you had sent but two hours before,--",1006,19565
662095,1495,"Let it not cumber your better remembrance.
[The banquet brought in]
Come, bring in all together.",1198,19565
662096,1498,All covered dishes!,1006,19565
662097,1499,"Royal cheer, I warrant you.",439,19565
662098,1500,"Doubt not that, if money and the season can yield
it.",1175,19565
662099,1502,How do you? What's the news?,439,19565
662100,1503,Alcibiades is banished: hear you of it?,1175,19565
662101,1504,[with Second Lord] Alcibiades banished!,439,19565
662102,1505,"'Tis so, be sure of it.",1175,19565
662103,1506,How! how!,439,19565
662104,1507,"I pray you, upon what?",1006,19565
662105,1508,"My worthy friends, will you draw near?",1198,19565
662106,1509,I'll tell you more anon. Here's a noble feast toward.,1175,19565
662107,1510,This is the old man still.,1006,19565
662108,1511,Will 't hold? will 't hold?,1175,19565
662109,1512,It does: but time will--and so--,1006,19565
662110,1513,I do conceive.,1175,19565
662111,1514,"Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to
the lip of his mistress: your diet shall be in all
places alike. Make not a city feast of it, to let
the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place:
sit, sit. The gods require our thanks.
You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with
thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves
praised: but reserve still to give, lest your
deities be despised. Lend to each man enough, that
one need not lend to another; for, were your
godheads to borrow of men, men would forsake the
gods. Make the meat be beloved more than the man
that gives it. Let no assembly of twenty be without
a score of villains: if there sit twelve women at
the table, let a dozen of them be--as they are. The
rest of your fees, O gods--the senators of Athens,
together with the common lag of people--what is
amiss in them, you gods, make suitable for
destruction. For these my present friends, as they
are to me nothing, so in nothing bless them, and to
nothing are they welcome.
Uncover, dogs, and lap.
[The dishes are uncovered and seen to be full of]
warm water]",1198,19565
662112,1538,What does his lordship mean?,1138,19565
662113,1539,I know not.,1136,19565
662114,1540,"May you a better feast never behold,
You knot of mouth-friends I smoke and lukewarm water
Is your perfection. This is Timon's last;
Who, stuck and spangled with your flatteries,
Washes it off, and sprinkles in your faces
Your reeking villany.
[Throwing the water in their faces]
Live loathed and long,
Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies,
Cap and knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks!
Of man and beast the infinite malady
Crust you quite o'er! What, dost thou go?
Soft! take thy physic first--thou too--and thou;--
Stay, I will lend thee money, borrow none.
[Throws the dishes at them, and drives them out]
What, all in motion? Henceforth be no feast,
Whereat a villain's not a welcome guest.
Burn, house! sink, Athens! henceforth hated be
Of Timon man and all humanity!",1198,19565
662115,1561,[Exit],1261,19565
662116,1562,"[Re-enter the Lords, Senators, &c]",1261,19565
662117,1563,"How now, my lords!",439,19565
662118,1564,Know you the quality of Lord Timon's fury?,1006,19565
662119,1565,Push! did you see my cap?,1175,19565
662120,1566,I have lost my gown.,489,19565
662121,1567,"He's but a mad lord, and nought but humour sways him.
He gave me a jewel th' other day, and now he has
beat it out of my hat: did you see my jewel?",439,19565
662122,1570,Did you see my cap?,1175,19565
662123,1571,Here 'tis.,1006,19565
662124,1572,Here lies my gown.,489,19565
662125,1573,Let's make no stay.,439,19565
662126,1574,Lord Timon's mad.,1006,19565
662127,1575,I feel 't upon my bones.,1175,19565
662128,1576,"One day he gives us diamonds, next day stones.",489,19565
662129,1577,[Exeunt],1261,19565
662130,1580,[Enter TIMON],1261,19566
662131,1581,"Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall,
That girdlest in those wolves, dive in the earth,
And fence not Athens! Matrons, turn incontinent!
Obedience fail in children! slaves and fools,
Pluck the grave wrinkled senate from the bench,
And minister in their steads! to general filths
Convert o' the instant, green virginity,
Do 't in your parents' eyes! bankrupts, hold fast;
Rather than render back, out with your knives,
And cut your trusters' throats! bound servants, steal!
Large-handed robbers your grave masters are,
And pill by law. Maid, to thy master's bed;
Thy mistress is o' the brothel! Son of sixteen,
pluck the lined crutch from thy old limping sire,
With it beat out his brains! Piety, and fear,
Religion to the gods, peace, justice, truth,
Domestic awe, night-rest, and neighbourhood,
Instruction, manners, mysteries, and trades,
Degrees, observances, customs, and laws,
Decline to your confounding contraries,
And let confusion live! Plagues, incident to men,
Your potent and infectious fevers heap
On Athens, ripe for stroke! Thou cold sciatica,
Cripple our senators, that their limbs may halt
As lamely as their manners. Lust and liberty
Creep in the minds and marrows of our youth,
That 'gainst the stream of virtue they may strive,
And drown themselves in riot! Itches, blains,
Sow all the Athenian bosoms; and their crop
Be general leprosy! Breath infect breath,
at their society, as their friendship, may
merely poison! Nothing I'll bear from thee,
But nakedness, thou detestable town!
Take thou that too, with multiplying bans!
Timon will to the woods; where he shall find
The unkindest beast more kinder than mankind.
The gods confound--hear me, you good gods all--
The Athenians both within and out that wall!
And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow
To the whole race of mankind, high and low! Amen.",1198,19566
662132,1621,[Exit],1261,19566
662133,1623,"[Enter FLAVIUS, with two or three Servants]",1261,19567
662134,1624,"Hear you, master steward, where's our master?
Are we undone? cast off? nothing remaining?",462,19567
662135,1626,"Alack, my fellows, what should I say to you?
Let me be recorded by the righteous gods,
I am as poor as you.",476,19567
662136,1629,"Such a house broke!
So noble a master fall'n! All gone! and not
One friend to take his fortune by the arm,
And go along with him!",462,19567
662137,1633,"As we do turn our backs
From our companion thrown into his grave,
So his familiars to his buried fortunes
Slink all away, leave their false vows with him,
Like empty purses pick'd; and his poor self,
A dedicated beggar to the air,
With his disease of all-shunn'd poverty,
Walks, like contempt, alone. More of our fellows.",1030,19567
662138,1641,[Enter other Servants],1261,19567
662139,1642,All broken implements of a ruin'd house.,476,19567
662140,1643,"Yet do our hearts wear Timon's livery;
That see I by our faces; we are fellows still,
Serving alike in sorrow: leak'd is our bark,
And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck,
Hearing the surges threat: we must all part
Into this sea of air.",1183,19567
662141,1649,"Good fellows all,
The latest of my wealth I'll share amongst you.
Wherever we shall meet, for Timon's sake,
Let's yet be fellows; let's shake our heads, and say,
As 'twere a knell unto our master's fortunes,
'We have seen better days.' Let each take some;
Nay, put out all your hands. Not one word more:
Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor.
[Servants embrace, and part several ways]
O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!
Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
Since riches point to misery and contempt?
Who would be so mock'd with glory? or to live
But in a dream of friendship?
To have his pomp and all what state compounds
But only painted, like his varnish'd friends?
Poor honest lord, brought low by his own heart,
Undone by goodness! Strange, unusual blood,
When man's worst sin is, he does too much good!
Who, then, dares to be half so kind again?
For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men.
My dearest lord, bless'd, to be most accursed,
Rich, only to be wretched, thy great fortunes
Are made thy chief afflictions. Alas, kind lord!
He's flung in rage from this ingrateful seat
Of monstrous friends, nor has he with him to
Supply his life, or that which can command it.
I'll follow and inquire him out:
I'll ever serve his mind with my best will;
Whilst I have gold, I'll be his steward still.",476,19567
662142,1679,[Exit],1261,19567
662143,1681,"[Enter TIMON, from the cave]",1261,19568
662144,1682,"O blessed breeding sun, draw from the earth
Rotten humidity; below thy sister's orb
Infect the air! Twinn'd brothers of one womb,
Whose procreation, residence, and birth,
Scarce is dividant, touch them with several fortunes;
The greater scorns the lesser: not nature,
To whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune,
But by contempt of nature.
Raise me this beggar, and deny 't that lord;
The senator shall bear contempt hereditary,
The beggar native honour.
It is the pasture lards the rother's sides,
The want that makes him lean. Who dares, who dares,
In purity of manhood stand upright,
And say 'This man's a flatterer?' if one be,
So are they all; for every grise of fortune
Is smooth'd by that below: the learned pate
Ducks to the golden fool: all is oblique;
There's nothing level in our cursed natures,
But direct villany. Therefore, be abhorr'd
All feasts, societies, and throngs of men!
His semblable, yea, himself, Timon disdains:
Destruction fang mankind! Earth, yield me roots!
[Digging]
Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate
With thy most operant poison! What is here?
Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold? No, gods,
I am no idle votarist: roots, you clear heavens!
Thus much of this will make black white, foul fair,
Wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant.
Ha, you gods! why this? what this, you gods? Why, this
Will lug your priests and servants from your sides,
Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads:
This yellow slave
Will knit and break religions, bless the accursed,
Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves
And give them title, knee and approbation
With senators on the bench: this is it
That makes the wappen'd widow wed again;
She, whom the spital-house and ulcerous sores
Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices
To the April day again. Come, damned earth,
Thou common whore of mankind, that put'st odds
Among the route of nations, I will make thee
Do thy right nature.
[March afar off]
Ha! a drum? Thou'rt quick,
But yet I'll bury thee: thou'lt go, strong thief,
When gouty keepers of thee cannot stand.
Nay, stay thou out for earnest.
[Keeping some gold]
[Enter ALCIBIADES, with drum and fife, in]
warlike manner; PHRYNIA and TIMANDRA]",1198,19568
662145,1735,What art thou there? speak.,63,19568
662146,1736,"A beast, as thou art. The canker gnaw thy heart,
For showing me again the eyes of man!",1198,19568
662147,1738,"What is thy name? Is man so hateful to thee,
That art thyself a man?",63,19568
662148,1740,"I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind.
For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog,
That I might love thee something.",1198,19568
662149,1743,"I know thee well;
But in thy fortunes am unlearn'd and strange.",63,19568
662150,1745,"I know thee too; and more than that I know thee,
I not desire to know. Follow thy drum;
With man's blood paint the ground, gules, gules:
Religious canons, civil laws are cruel;
Then what should war be? This fell whore of thine
Hath in her more destruction than thy sword,
For all her cherubim look.",1198,19568
662151,1752,Thy lips rot off!,887,19568
662152,1753,"I will not kiss thee; then the rot returns
To thine own lips again.",1198,19568
662153,1755,How came the noble Timon to this change?,63,19568
662154,1756,"As the moon does, by wanting light to give:
But then renew I could not, like the moon;
There were no suns to borrow of.",1198,19568
662155,1759,"Noble Timon,
What friendship may I do thee?",63,19568
662156,1761,"None, but to
Maintain my opinion.",1198,19568
662157,1763,"What is it, Timon?",63,19568
662158,1764,"Promise me friendship, but perform none: if thou
wilt not promise, the gods plague thee, for thou art
a man! if thou dost perform, confound thee, for
thou art a man!",1198,19568
662159,1768,I have heard in some sort of thy miseries.,63,19568
662160,1769,"Thou saw'st them, when I had prosperity.",1198,19568
662161,1770,I see them now; then was a blessed time.,63,19568
662162,1771,"As thine is now, held with a brace of harlots.",1198,19568
662163,1772,"Is this the Athenian minion, whom the world
Voiced so regardfully?",1196,19568
662164,1774,Art thou Timandra?,1198,19568
662165,1775,Yes.,1196,19568
662166,1776,"Be a whore still: they love thee not that use thee;
Give them diseases, leaving with thee their lust.
Make use of thy salt hours: season the slaves
For tubs and baths; bring down rose-cheeked youth
To the tub-fast and the diet.",1198,19568
662167,1781,"Hang thee, monster!",1196,19568
662168,1782,"Pardon him, sweet Timandra; for his wits
Are drown'd and lost in his calamities.
I have but little gold of late, brave Timon,
The want whereof doth daily make revolt
In my penurious band: I have heard, and grieved,
How cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth,
Forgetting thy great deeds, when neighbour states,
But for thy sword and fortune, trod upon them,--",63,19568
662169,1790,"I prithee, beat thy drum, and get thee gone.",1198,19568
662170,1791,"I am thy friend, and pity thee, dear Timon.",63,19568
662171,1792,"How dost thou pity him whom thou dost trouble?
I had rather be alone.",1198,19568
662172,1794,"Why, fare thee well:
Here is some gold for thee.",63,19568
662173,1796,"Keep it, I cannot eat it.",1198,19568
662174,1797,"When I have laid proud Athens on a heap,--",63,19568
662175,1798,Warr'st thou 'gainst Athens?,1198,19568
662176,1799,"Ay, Timon, and have cause.",63,19568
662177,1800,"The gods confound them all in thy conquest;
And thee after, when thou hast conquer'd!",1198,19568
662178,1802,"Why me, Timon?",63,19568
662179,1803,"That, by killing of villains,
Thou wast born to conquer my country.
Put up thy gold: go on,--here's gold,--go on;
Be as a planetary plague, when Jove
Will o'er some high-viced city hang his poison
In the sick air: let not thy sword skip one:
Pity not honour'd age for his white beard;
He is an usurer: strike me the counterfeit matron;
It is her habit only that is honest,
Herself's a bawd: let not the virgin's cheek
Make soft thy trenchant sword; for those milk-paps,
That through the window-bars bore at men's eyes,
Are not within the leaf of pity writ,
But set them down horrible traitors: spare not the babe,
Whose dimpled smiles from fools exhaust their mercy;
Think it a bastard, whom the oracle
Hath doubtfully pronounced thy throat shall cut,
And mince it sans remorse: swear against objects;
Put armour on thine ears and on thine eyes;
Whose proof, nor yells of mothers, maids, nor babes,
Nor sight of priests in holy vestments bleeding,
Shall pierce a jot. There's gold to pay soldiers:
Make large confusion; and, thy fury spent,
Confounded be thyself! Speak not, be gone.",1198,19568
662180,1827,"Hast thou gold yet? I'll take the gold thou
givest me,
Not all thy counsel.",63,19568
662181,1830,"Dost thou, or dost thou not, heaven's curse
upon thee!",1198,19568
662182,1832,"[with Timandra] Give us some gold, good Timon: hast thou more?",887,19568
662183,1833,"Enough to make a whore forswear her trade,
And to make whores, a bawd. Hold up, you sluts,
Your aprons mountant: you are not oathable,
Although, I know, you 'll swear, terribly swear
Into strong shudders and to heavenly agues
The immortal gods that hear you,--spare your oaths,
I'll trust to your conditions: be whores still;
And he whose pious breath seeks to convert you,
Be strong in whore, allure him, burn him up;
Let your close fire predominate his smoke,
And be no turncoats: yet may your pains, six months,
Be quite contrary: and thatch your poor thin roofs
With burthens of the dead;--some that were hang'd,
No matter:--wear them, betray with them: whore still;
Paint till a horse may mire upon your face,
A pox of wrinkles!",1198,19568
662184,1849,"[with Timandra] Well, more gold: what then?",887,19568
662185,1850,"Consumptions sow
In hollow bones of man; strike their sharp shins,
And mar men's spurring. Crack the lawyer's voice,
That he may never more false title plead,
Nor sound his quillets shrilly: hoar the flamen,
That scolds against the quality of flesh,
And not believes himself: down with the nose,
Down with it flat; take the bridge quite away
Of him that, his particular to foresee,
Smells from the general weal: make curl'd-pate
ruffians bald;
And let the unscarr'd braggarts of the war
Derive some pain from you: plague all;
That your activity may defeat and quell
The source of all erection. There's more gold:
Do you damn others, and let this damn you,
And ditches grave you all!",1198,19568
662186,1867,"[with Timandra] More counsel with more money, bounteous Timon.",887,19568
662187,1868,"More whore, more mischief first; I have given you earnest.",1198,19568
662188,1869,"Strike up the drum towards Athens! Farewell, Timon:
If I thrive well, I'll visit thee again.",63,19568
662189,1871,"If I hope well, I'll never see thee more.",1198,19568
662190,1872,I never did thee harm.,63,19568
662191,1873,"Yes, thou spokest well of me.",1198,19568
662192,1874,Call'st thou that harm?,63,19568
662193,1875,"Men daily find it. Get thee away, and take
Thy beagles with thee.",1198,19568
662194,1877,"We but offend him. Strike!
[Drum beats. Exeunt ALCIBIADES, PHRYNIA,]
and TIMANDRA]",63,19568
662195,1880,"That nature, being sick of man's unkindness,
Should yet be hungry! Common mother, thou,
[Digging]
Whose womb unmeasurable, and infinite breast,
Teems, and feeds all; whose self-same mettle,
Whereof thy proud child, arrogant man, is puff'd,
Engenders the black toad and adder blue,
The gilded newt and eyeless venom'd worm,
With all the abhorred births below crisp heaven
Whereon Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine;
Yield him, who all thy human sons doth hate,
From forth thy plenteous bosom, one poor root!
Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb,
Let it no more bring out ingrateful man!
Go great with tigers, dragons, wolves, and bears;
Teem with new monsters, whom thy upward face
Hath to the marbled mansion all above
Never presented!--O, a root,--dear thanks!--
Dry up thy marrows, vines, and plough-torn leas;
Whereof ungrateful man, with liquorish draughts
And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind,
That from it all consideration slips!
[Enter APEMANTUS]
More man? plague, plague!",1198,19568
662196,1904,"I was directed hither: men report
Thou dost affect my manners, and dost use them.",121,19568
662197,1906,"'Tis, then, because thou dost not keep a dog,
Whom I would imitate: consumption catch thee!",1198,19568
662198,1908,"This is in thee a nature but infected;
A poor unmanly melancholy sprung
From change of fortune. Why this spade? this place?
This slave-like habit? and these looks of care?
Thy flatterers yet wear silk, drink wine, lie soft;
Hug their diseased perfumes, and have forgot
That ever Timon was. Shame not these woods,
By putting on the cunning of a carper.
Be thou a flatterer now, and seek to thrive
By that which has undone thee: hinge thy knee,
And let his very breath, whom thou'lt observe,
Blow off thy cap; praise his most vicious strain,
And call it excellent: thou wast told thus;
Thou gavest thine ears like tapsters that bid welcome
To knaves and all approachers: 'tis most just
That thou turn rascal; hadst thou wealth again,
Rascals should have 't. Do not assume my likeness.",121,19568
662199,1925,"Were I like thee, I'ld throw away myself.",1198,19568
662200,1926,"Thou hast cast away thyself, being like thyself;
A madman so long, now a fool. What, think'st
That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain,
Will put thy shirt on warm? will these moss'd trees,
That have outlived the eagle, page thy heels,
And skip where thou point'st out? will the
cold brook,
Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste,
To cure thy o'er-night's surfeit? Call the creatures
Whose naked natures live in an the spite
Of wreakful heaven, whose bare unhoused trunks,
To the conflicting elements exposed,
Answer mere nature; bid them flatter thee;
O, thou shalt find--",121,19568
662201,1940,A fool of thee: depart.,1198,19568
662202,1941,I love thee better now than e'er I did.,121,19568
662203,1942,I hate thee worse.,1198,19568
662204,1943,Why?,121,19568
662205,1944,Thou flatter'st misery.,1198,19568
662206,1945,I flatter not; but say thou art a caitiff.,121,19568
662207,1946,Why dost thou seek me out?,1198,19568
662208,1947,To vex thee.,121,19568
662209,1948,"Always a villain's office or a fool's.
Dost please thyself in't?",1198,19568
662210,1950,Ay.,121,19568
662211,1951,What! a knave too?,1198,19568
662212,1952,"If thou didst put this sour-cold habit on
To castigate thy pride, 'twere well: but thou
Dost it enforcedly; thou'ldst courtier be again,
Wert thou not beggar. Willing misery
Outlives encertain pomp, is crown'd before:
The one is filling still, never complete;
The other, at high wish: best state, contentless,
Hath a distracted and most wretched being,
Worse than the worst, content.
Thou shouldst desire to die, being miserable.",121,19568
662213,1962,"Not by his breath that is more miserable.
Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm
With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.
Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded
The sweet degrees that this brief world affords
To such as may the passive drugs of it
Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself
In general riot; melted down thy youth
In different beds of lust; and never learn'd
The icy precepts of respect, but follow'd
The sugar'd game before thee. But myself,
Who had the world as my confectionary,
The mouths, the tongues, the eyes and hearts of men
At duty, more than I could frame employment,
That numberless upon me stuck as leaves
Do on the oak, hive with one winter's brush
Fell from their boughs and left me open, bare
For every storm that blows: I, to bear this,
That never knew but better, is some burden:
Thy nature did commence in sufferance, time
Hath made thee hard in't. Why shouldst thou hate men?
They never flatter'd thee: what hast thou given?
If thou wilt curse, thy father, that poor rag,
Must be thy subject, who in spite put stuff
To some she beggar and compounded thee
Poor rogue hereditary. Hence, be gone!
If thou hadst not been born the worst of men,
Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer.",1198,19568
662214,1990,Art thou proud yet?,121,19568
662215,1991,"Ay, that I am not thee.",1198,19568
662216,1992,"I, that I was
No prodigal.",121,19568
662217,1994,"I, that I am one now:
Were all the wealth I have shut up in thee,
I'ld give thee leave to hang it. Get thee gone.
That the whole life of Athens were in this!
Thus would I eat it.",1198,19568
662218,1999,[Eating a root],1261,19568
662219,2000,Here; I will mend thy feast.,121,19568
662220,2001,[Offering him a root],1261,19568
662221,2002,"First mend my company, take away thyself.",1198,19568
662222,2003,"So I shall mend mine own, by the lack of thine.",121,19568
662223,2004,"'Tis not well mended so, it is but botch'd;
if not, I would it were.",1198,19568
662224,2006,What wouldst thou have to Athens?,121,19568
662225,2007,"Thee thither in a whirlwind. If thou wilt,
Tell them there I have gold; look, so I have.",1198,19568
662226,2009,Here is no use for gold.,121,19568
662227,2010,"The best and truest;
For here it sleeps, and does no hired harm.",1198,19568
662228,2012,"Where liest o' nights, Timon?",121,19568
662229,2013,"Under that's above me.
Where feed'st thou o' days, Apemantus?",1198,19568
662230,2015,"Where my stomach finds meat; or, rather, where I eat
it.",121,19568
662231,2017,Would poison were obedient and knew my mind!,1198,19568
662232,2018,Where wouldst thou send it?,121,19568
662233,2019,To sauce thy dishes.,1198,19568
662234,2020,"The middle of humanity thou never knewest, but the
extremity of both ends: when thou wast in thy gilt
and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much
curiosity; in thy rags thou knowest none, but art
despised for the contrary. There's a medlar for
thee, eat it.",121,19568
662235,2026,On what I hate I feed not.,1198,19568
662236,2027,Dost hate a medlar?,121,19568
662237,2028,"Ay, though it look like thee.",1198,19568
662238,2029,"An thou hadst hated meddlers sooner, thou shouldst
have loved thyself better now. What man didst thou
ever know unthrift that was beloved after his means?",121,19568
662239,2032,"Who, without those means thou talkest of, didst thou
ever know beloved?",1198,19568
662240,2034,Myself.,121,19568
662241,2035,"I understand thee; thou hadst some means to keep a
dog.",1198,19568
662242,2037,"What things in the world canst thou nearest compare
to thy flatterers?",121,19568
662243,2039,"Women nearest; but men, men are the things
themselves. What wouldst thou do with the world,
Apemantus, if it lay in thy power?",1198,19568
662244,2042,"Give it the beasts, to be rid of the men.",121,19568
662245,2043,"Wouldst thou have thyself fall in the confusion of
men, and remain a beast with the beasts?",1198,19568
662246,2045,"Ay, Timon.",121,19568
662247,2046,"A beastly ambition, which the gods grant thee t'
attain to! If thou wert the lion, the fox would
beguile thee; if thou wert the lamb, the fox would
eat three: if thou wert the fox, the lion would
suspect thee, when peradventure thou wert accused by
the ass: if thou wert the ass, thy dulness would
torment thee, and still thou livedst but as a
breakfast to the wolf: if thou wert the wolf, thy
greediness would afflict thee, and oft thou shouldst
hazard thy life for thy dinner: wert thou the
unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee and
make thine own self the conquest of thy fury: wert
thou a bear, thou wouldst be killed by the horse:
wert thou a horse, thou wouldst be seized by the
leopard: wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to
the lion and the spots of thy kindred were jurors on
thy life: all thy safety were remotion and thy
defence absence. What beast couldst thou be, that
were not subject to a beast? and what a beast art
thou already, that seest not thy loss in
transformation!",1198,19568
662248,2067,"If thou couldst please me with speaking to me, thou
mightst have hit upon it here: the commonwealth of
Athens is become a forest of beasts.",121,19568
662249,2070,"How has the ass broke the wall, that thou art out of the city?",1198,19568
662250,2071,"Yonder comes a poet and a painter: the plague of
company light upon thee! I will fear to catch it
and give way: when I know not what else to do, I'll
see thee again.",121,19568
662251,2075,"When there is nothing living but thee, thou shalt be
welcome. I had rather be a beggar's dog than Apemantus.",1198,19568
662252,2077,Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.,121,19568
662253,2078,Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!,1198,19568
662254,2079,A plague on thee! thou art too bad to curse.,121,19568
662255,2080,All villains that do stand by thee are pure.,1198,19568
662256,2081,There is no leprosy but what thou speak'st.,121,19568
662257,2082,"If I name thee.
I'll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.",1198,19568
662258,2084,I would my tongue could rot them off!,121,19568
662259,2085,"Away, thou issue of a mangy dog!
Choler does kill me that thou art alive;
I swound to see thee.",1198,19568
662260,2088,Would thou wouldst burst!,121,19568
662261,2089,"Away,
Thou tedious rogue! I am sorry I shall lose
A stone by thee.",1198,19568
662262,2092,[Throws a stone at him],1261,19568
662263,2093,Beast!,121,19568
662264,2094,Slave!,1198,19568
662265,2095,Toad!,121,19568
662266,2096,"Rogue, rogue, rogue!
I am sick of this false world, and will love nought
But even the mere necessities upon 't.
Then, Timon, presently prepare thy grave;
Lie where the light foam the sea may beat
Thy grave-stone daily: make thine epitaph,
That death in me at others' lives may laugh.
[To the gold]
O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce
'Twixt natural son and sire! thou bright defiler
Of Hymen's purest bed! thou valiant Mars!
Thou ever young, fresh, loved and delicate wooer,
Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
That lies on Dian's lap! thou visible god,
That solder'st close impossibilities,
And makest them kiss! that speak'st with
every tongue,
To every purpose! O thou touch of hearts!
Think, thy slave man rebels, and by thy virtue
Set them into confounding odds, that beasts
May have the world in empire!",1198,19568
662267,2117,"Would 'twere so!
But not till I am dead. I'll say thou'st gold:
Thou wilt be throng'd to shortly.",121,19568
662268,2120,Throng'd to!,1198,19568
662269,2121,Ay.,121,19568
662270,2122,"Thy back, I prithee.",1198,19568
662271,2123,"Live, and love thy misery.",121,19568
662272,2124,"Long live so, and so die.
[Exit APEMANTUS]
I am quit.
Moe things like men! Eat, Timon, and abhor them.",1198,19568
662273,2128,[Enter Banditti],1261,19568
662274,2129,"Where should he have this gold? It is some poor
fragment, some slender sort of his remainder: the
mere want of gold, and the falling-from of his
friends, drove him into this melancholy.",405,19568
662275,2133,It is noised he hath a mass of treasure.,979,19568
662276,2134,"Let us make the assay upon him: if he care not
for't, he will supply us easily; if he covetously
reserve it, how shall's get it?",1163,19568
662277,2137,"True; for he bears it not about him, 'tis hid.",979,19568
662278,2138,Is not this he?,405,19568
662279,2139,Where?,140,19568
662286,2146,"We are not thieves, but men that much do want.",140,19568
662287,2147,"Your greatest want is, you want much of meat.
Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots;
Within this mile break forth a hundred springs;
The oaks bear mast, the briers scarlet hips;
The bounteous housewife, nature, on each bush
Lays her full mess before you. Want! why want?",1198,19568
662288,2153,"We cannot live on grass, on berries, water,
As beasts and birds and fishes.",405,19568
662289,2155,"Nor on the beasts themselves, the birds, and fishes;
You must eat men. Yet thanks I must you con
That you are thieves profess'd, that you work not
In holier shapes: for there is boundless theft
In limited professions. Rascal thieves,
Here's gold. Go, suck the subtle blood o' the grape,
Till the high fever seethe your blood to froth,
And so 'scape hanging: trust not the physician;
His antidotes are poison, and he slays
Moe than you rob: take wealth and lives together;
Do villany, do, since you protest to do't,
Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery.
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun:
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears: the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement: each thing's a thief:
The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power
Have uncheque'd theft. Love not yourselves: away,
Rob one another. There's more gold. Cut throats:
All that you meet are thieves: to Athens go,
Break open shops; nothing can you steal,
But thieves do lose it: steal no less for this
I give you; and gold confound you howsoe'er! Amen.",1198,19568
662290,2181,"Has almost charmed me from my profession, by
persuading me to it.",1163,19568
662291,2183,"'Tis in the malice of mankind that he thus advises
us; not to have us thrive in our mystery.",405,19568
662292,2185,"I'll believe him as an enemy, and give over my trade.",979,19568
662293,2186,"Let us first see peace in Athens: there is no time
so miserable but a man may be true.",405,19568
662294,2188,[Exeunt Banditti],1261,19568
662295,2189,[Enter FLAVIUS],1261,19568
662296,2190,"O you gods!
Is yond despised and ruinous man my lord?
Full of decay and failing? O monument
And wonder of good deeds evilly bestow'd!
What an alteration of honour
Has desperate want made!
What viler thing upon the earth than friends
Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends!
How rarely does it meet with this time's guise,
When man was wish'd to love his enemies!
Grant I may ever love, and rather woo
Those that would mischief me than those that do!
Has caught me in his eye: I will present
My honest grief unto him; and, as my lord,
Still serve him with my life. My dearest master!",476,19568
662297,2205,Away! what art thou?,1198,19568
662298,2206,"Have you forgot me, sir?",476,19568
662299,2207,"Why dost ask that? I have forgot all men;
Then, if thou grant'st thou'rt a man, I have forgot thee.",1198,19568
662300,2209,An honest poor servant of yours.,476,19568
662301,2210,"Then I know thee not:
I never had honest man about me, I; all
I kept were knaves, to serve in meat to villains.",1198,19568
662302,2213,"The gods are witness,
Ne'er did poor steward wear a truer grief
For his undone lord than mine eyes for you.",476,19568
662303,2216,"What, dost thou weep? Come nearer. Then I
love thee,
Because thou art a woman, and disclaim'st
Flinty mankind; whose eyes do never give
But thorough lust and laughter. Pity's sleeping:
Strange times, that weep with laughing, not with weeping!",1198,19568
662304,2222,"I beg of you to know me, good my lord,
To accept my grief and whilst this poor wealth lasts
To entertain me as your steward still.",476,19568
662305,2225,"Had I a steward
So true, so just, and now so comfortable?
It almost turns my dangerous nature mild.
Let me behold thy face. Surely, this man
Was born of woman.
Forgive my general and exceptless rashness,
You perpetual-sober gods! I do proclaim
One honest man--mistake me not--but one;
No more, I pray,--and he's a steward.
How fain would I have hated all mankind!
And thou redeem'st thyself: but all, save thee,
I fell with curses.
Methinks thou art more honest now than wise;
For, by oppressing and betraying me,
Thou mightst have sooner got another service:
For many so arrive at second masters,
Upon their first lord's neck. But tell me true--
For I must ever doubt, though ne'er so sure--
Is not thy kindness subtle, covetous,
If not a usuring kindness, and, as rich men deal gifts,
Expecting in return twenty for one?",1198,19568
662306,2246,"No, my most worthy master; in whose breast
Doubt and suspect, alas, are placed too late:
You should have fear'd false times when you did feast:
Suspect still comes where an estate is least.
That which I show, heaven knows, is merely love,
Duty and zeal to your unmatched mind,
Care of your food and living; and, believe it,
My most honour'd lord,
For any benefit that points to me,
Either in hope or present, I'ld exchange
For this one wish, that you had power and wealth
To requite me, by making rich yourself.",476,19568
662307,2258,"Look thee, 'tis so! Thou singly honest man,
Here, take: the gods out of my misery
Have sent thee treasure. Go, live rich and happy;
But thus condition'd: thou shalt build from men;
Hate all, curse all, show charity to none,
But let the famish'd flesh slide from the bone,
Ere thou relieve the beggar; give to dogs
What thou deny'st to men; let prisons swallow 'em,
Debts wither 'em to nothing; be men like
blasted woods,
And may diseases lick up their false bloods!
And so farewell and thrive.",1198,19568
662308,2270,"O, let me stay,
And comfort you, my master.",476,19568
662309,2272,"If thou hatest curses,
Stay not; fly, whilst thou art blest and free:
Ne'er see thou man, and let me ne'er see thee.",1198,19568
662310,2275,"[Exit FLAVIUS. TIMON retires to his cave]
[Enter Poet and Painter; TIMON watching]
them from his cave]",1261,19568
662311,2280,"As I took note of the place, it cannot be far where
he abides.",856,19569
662312,2282,"What's to be thought of him? does the rumour hold
for true, that he's so full of gold?",896,19569
662313,2284,"Certain: Alcibiades reports it; Phrynia and
Timandra had gold of him: he likewise enriched poor
straggling soldiers with great quantity: 'tis said
he gave unto his steward a mighty sum.",856,19569
662314,2288,Then this breaking of his has been but a try for his friends.,896,19569
662315,2289,"Nothing else: you shall see him a palm in Athens
again, and flourish with the highest. Therefore
'tis not amiss we tender our loves to him, in this
supposed distress of his: it will show honestly in
us; and is very likely to load our purposes with
what they travail for, if it be a just true report
that goes of his having.",856,19569
662316,2296,What have you now to present unto him?,896,19569
662317,2297,"Nothing at this time but my visitation: only I will
promise him an excellent piece.",856,19569
662318,2299,"I must serve him so too, tell him of an intent
that's coming toward him.",896,19569
662319,2301,"Good as the best. Promising is the very air o' the
time: it opens the eyes of expectation:
performance is ever the duller for his act; and,
but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the
deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is
most courtly and fashionable: performance is a kind
of will or testament which argues a great sickness
in his judgment that makes it.",856,19569
662320,2309,"[TIMON comes from his cave, behind]",1261,19569
662321,2310,"[Aside] Excellent workman! thou canst not paint a
man so bad as is thyself.",1198,19569
662322,2312,"I am thinking what I shall say I have provided for
him: it must be a personating of himself; a satire
against the softness of prosperity, with a discovery
of the infinite flatteries that follow youth and opulency.",896,19569
662323,2316,"[Aside] Must thou needs stand for a villain in
thine own work? wilt thou whip thine own faults in
other men? Do so, I have gold for thee.",1198,19569
662324,2319,"Nay, let's seek him:
Then do we sin against our own estate,
When we may profit meet, and come too late.",896,19569
662325,2322,"True;
When the day serves, before black-corner'd night,
Find what thou want'st by free and offer'd light. Come.",856,19569
662326,2325,"[Aside] I'll meet you at the turn. What a
god's gold,
That he is worshipp'd in a baser temple
Than where swine feed!
'Tis thou that rigg'st the bark and plough'st the foam,
Settlest admired reverence in a slave:
To thee be worship! and thy saints for aye
Be crown'd with plagues that thee alone obey!
Fit I meet them.",1198,19569
662327,2334,[Coming forward],1261,19569
662328,2335,"Hail, worthy Timon!",896,19569
662329,2336,Our late noble master!,856,19569
662330,2337,Have I once lived to see two honest men?,1198,19569
662331,2338,"Sir,
Having often of your open bounty tasted,
Hearing you were retired, your friends fall'n off,
Whose thankless natures--O abhorred spirits!--
Not all the whips of heaven are large enough:
What! to you,
Whose star-like nobleness gave life and influence
To their whole being! I am rapt and cannot cover
The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude
With any size of words.",896,19569
662332,2348,"Let it go naked, men may see't the better:
You that are honest, by being what you are,
Make them best seen and known.",1198,19569
662333,2351,"He and myself
Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts,
And sweetly felt it.",856,19569
662334,2354,"Ay, you are honest men.",1198,19569
662335,2355,We are hither come to offer you our service.,856,19569
662336,2356,"Most honest men! Why, how shall I requite you?
Can you eat roots, and drink cold water? no.",1198,19569
662337,2358,"What we can do, we'll do, to do you service.",187,19569
662338,2359,"Ye're honest men: ye've heard that I have gold;
I am sure you have: speak truth; ye're honest men.",1198,19569
662339,2361,"So it is said, my noble lord; but therefore
Came not my friend nor I.",856,19569
662340,2363,"Good honest men! Thou draw'st a counterfeit
Best in all Athens: thou'rt, indeed, the best;
Thou counterfeit'st most lively.",1198,19569
662341,2366,"So, so, my lord.",856,19569
662342,2367,"E'en so, sir, as I say. And, for thy fiction,
Why, thy verse swells with stuff so fine and smooth
That thou art even natural in thine art.
But, for all this, my honest-natured friends,
I must needs say you have a little fault:
Marry, 'tis not monstrous in you, neither wish I
You take much pains to mend.",1198,19569
662343,2374,"Beseech your honour
To make it known to us.",187,19569
662344,2376,You'll take it ill.,1198,19569
662345,2377,"Most thankfully, my lord.",187,19569
662346,2378,"Will you, indeed?",1198,19569
662347,2379,"Doubt it not, worthy lord.",187,19569
662348,2380,"There's never a one of you but trusts a knave,
That mightily deceives you.",1198,19569
662349,2382,"Do we, my lord?",187,19569
662350,2383,"Ay, and you hear him cog, see him dissemble,
Know his gross patchery, love him, feed him,
Keep in your bosom: yet remain assured
That he's a made-up villain.",1198,19569
662351,2387,"I know none such, my lord.",856,19569
662352,2388,Nor I.,896,19569
662353,2389,"Look you, I love you well; I'll give you gold,
Rid me these villains from your companies:
Hang them or stab them, drown them in a draught,
Confound them by some course, and come to me,
I'll give you gold enough.",1198,19569
662354,2394,"Name them, my lord, let's know them.",187,19569
662355,2395,"You that way and you this, but two in company;
Each man apart, all single and alone,
Yet an arch-villain keeps him company.
If where thou art two villains shall not be,
Come not near him. If thou wouldst not reside
But where one villain is, then him abandon.
Hence, pack! there's gold; you came for gold, ye slaves:
[To Painter]
You have work'd for me; there's payment for you: hence!
[To Poet]
You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
Out, rascal dogs!",1198,19569
662356,2407,"[Beats them out, and then retires to his cave]",1261,19569
662357,2408,[Enter FLAVIUS and two Senators],1261,19569
662358,2409,"It is in vain that you would speak with Timon;
For he is set so only to himself
That nothing but himself which looks like man
Is friendly with him.",476,19569
662359,2413,"Bring us to his cave:
It is our part and promise to the Athenians
To speak with Timon.",456,19569
662360,2416,"At all times alike
Men are not still the same: 'twas time and griefs
That framed him thus: time, with his fairer hand,
Offering the fortunes of his former days,
The former man may make him. Bring us to him,
And chance it as it may.",1026,19569
662361,2422,"Here is his cave.
Peace and content be here! Lord Timon! Timon!
Look out, and speak to friends: the Athenians,
By two of their most reverend senate, greet thee:
Speak to them, noble Timon.",476,19569
662362,2427,[TIMON comes from his cave],1261,19569
662363,2428,"Thou sun, that comfort'st, burn! Speak, and
be hang'd:
For each true word, a blister! and each false
Be as cauterizing to the root o' the tongue,
Consuming it with speaking!",1198,19569
662364,2433,"Worthy Timon,--",456,19569
662365,2434,"Of none but such as you, and you of Timon.",1198,19569
662366,2435,"The senators of Athens greet thee, Timon.",456,19569
662367,2436,"I thank them; and would send them back the plague,
Could I but catch it for them.",1198,19569
662368,2438,"O, forget
What we are sorry for ourselves in thee.
The senators with one consent of love
Entreat thee back to Athens; who have thought
On special dignities, which vacant lie
For thy best use and wearing.",456,19569
662369,2444,"They confess
Toward thee forgetfulness too general, gross:
Which now the public body, which doth seldom
Play the recanter, feeling in itself
A lack of Timon's aid, hath sense withal
Of its own fail, restraining aid to Timon;
And send forth us, to make their sorrow'd render,
Together with a recompense more fruitful
Than their offence can weigh down by the dram;
Ay, even such heaps and sums of love and wealth
As shall to thee blot out what wrongs were theirs
And write in thee the figures of their love,
Ever to read them thine.",1026,19569
662370,2457,"You witch me in it;
Surprise me to the very brink of tears:
Lend me a fool's heart and a woman's eyes,
And I'll beweep these comforts, worthy senators.",1198,19569
662371,2461,"Therefore, so please thee to return with us
And of our Athens, thine and ours, to take
The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks,
Allow'd with absolute power and thy good name
Live with authority: so soon we shall drive back
Of Alcibiades the approaches wild,
Who, like a boar too savage, doth root up
His country's peace.",456,19569
662372,2469,"And shakes his threatening sword
Against the walls of Athens.",1026,19569
662373,2471,"Therefore, Timon,--",456,19569
662374,2472,"Well, sir, I will; therefore, I will, sir; thus:
If Alcibiades kill my countrymen,
Let Alcibiades know this of Timon,
That Timon cares not. But if be sack fair Athens,
And take our goodly aged men by the beards,
Giving our holy virgins to the stain
Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd war,
Then let him know, and tell him Timon speaks it,
In pity of our aged and our youth,
I cannot choose but tell him, that I care not,
And let him take't at worst; for their knives care not,
While you have throats to answer: for myself,
There's not a whittle in the unruly camp
But I do prize it at my love before
The reverend'st throat in Athens. So I leave you
To the protection of the prosperous gods,
As thieves to keepers.",1198,19569
662375,2489,"Stay not, all's in vain.",476,19569
662376,2490,"Why, I was writing of my epitaph;
it will be seen to-morrow: my long sickness
Of health and living now begins to mend,
And nothing brings me all things. Go, live still;
Be Alcibiades your plague, you his,
And last so long enough!",1198,19569
662377,2496,We speak in vain.,456,19569
662378,2497,"But yet I love my country, and am not
One that rejoices in the common wreck,
As common bruit doth put it.",1198,19569
662379,2500,That's well spoke.,456,19569
662380,2501,"Commend me to my loving countrymen,--",1198,19569
662381,2502,"These words become your lips as they pass
thorough them.",456,19569
662382,2504,"And enter in our ears like great triumphers
In their applauding gates.",1026,19569
662383,2506,"Commend me to them,
And tell them that, to ease them of their griefs,
Their fears of hostile strokes, their aches, losses,
Their pangs of love, with other incident throes
That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain
In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them:
I'll teach them to prevent wild Alcibiades' wrath.",1198,19569
662384,2513,I like this well; he will return again.,456,19569
662385,2514,"I have a tree, which grows here in my close,
That mine own use invites me to cut down,
And shortly must I fell it: tell my friends,
Tell Athens, in the sequence of degree
From high to low throughout, that whoso please
To stop affliction, let him take his haste,
Come hither, ere my tree hath felt the axe,
And hang himself. I pray you, do my greeting.",1198,19569
662386,2522,Trouble him no further; thus you still shall find him.,476,19569
662387,2523,"Come not to me again: but say to Athens,
Timon hath made his everlasting mansion
Upon the beached verge of the salt flood;
Who once a day with his embossed froth
The turbulent surge shall cover: thither come,
And let my grave-stone be your oracle.
Lips, let sour words go by and language end:
What is amiss plague and infection mend!
Graves only be men's works and death their gain!
Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign.",1198,19569
662388,2533,[Retires to his cave],1261,19569
662389,2534,"His discontents are unremoveably
Coupled to nature.",456,19569
662390,2536,"Our hope in him is dead: let us return,
And strain what other means is left unto us
In our dear peril.",1026,19569
662391,2539,It requires swift foot.,456,19569
662392,2540,[Exeunt],1261,19569
662393,2543,[Enter two Senators and a Messenger],1261,19570
662394,2544,"Thou hast painfully discover'd: are his files
As full as thy report?",456,19570
662395,2546,"have spoke the least:
Besides, his expedition promises
Present approach.",790,19570
662396,2549,"We stand much hazard, if they bring not Timon.",1026,19570
662397,2550,"I met a courier, one mine ancient friend;
Whom, though in general part we were opposed,
Yet our old love made a particular force,
And made us speak like friends: this man was riding
From Alcibiades to Timon's cave,
With letters of entreaty, which imported
His fellowship i' the cause against your city,
In part for his sake moved.",790,19570
662398,2558,Here come our brothers.,456,19570
662399,2559,[Enter the Senators from TIMON],1261,19570
662400,2560,"No talk of Timon, nothing of him expect.
The enemies' drum is heard, and fearful scouring
Doth choke the air with dust: in, and prepare:
Ours is the fall, I fear; our foes the snare.",1182,19570
662401,2564,[Exeunt],1261,19570
662402,2567,"[Enter a Soldier, seeking TIMON]",1261,19571
662403,2568,"By all description this should be the place.
Who's here? speak, ho! No answer! What is this?
Timon is dead, who hath outstretch'd his span:
Some beast rear'd this; there does not live a man.
Dead, sure; and this his grave. What's on this tomb
I cannot read; the character I'll take with wax:
Our captain hath in every figure skill,
An aged interpreter, though young in days:
Before proud Athens he's set down by this,
Whose fall the mark of his ambition is.",1134,19571
662404,2578,[Exit],1261,19571
662405,2581,[Trumpets sound. Enter ALCIBIADES with his powers],1261,19572
662406,2582,"Sound to this coward and lascivious town
Our terrible approach.
[A parley sounded]
[Enter Senators on the walls]
Till now you have gone on and fill'd the time
With all licentious measure, making your wills
The scope of justice; till now myself and such
As slept within the shadow of your power
Have wander'd with our traversed arms and breathed
Our sufferance vainly: now the time is flush,
When crouching marrow in the bearer strong
Cries of itself 'No more:' now breathless wrong
Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease,
And pursy insolence shall break his wind
With fear and horrid flight.",63,19572
662407,2597,"Noble and young,
When thy first griefs were but a mere conceit,
Ere thou hadst power or we had cause of fear,
We sent to thee, to give thy rages balm,
To wipe out our ingratitude with loves
Above their quantity.",456,19572
662408,2603,"So did we woo
Transformed Timon to our city's love
By humble message and by promised means:
We were not all unkind, nor all deserve
The common stroke of war.",1026,19572
662409,2608,"These walls of ours
Were not erected by their hands from whom
You have received your griefs; nor are they such
That these great towers, trophies and schools
should fall
For private faults in them.",456,19572
662410,2614,"Nor are they living
Who were the motives that you first went out;
Shame that they wanted cunning, in excess
Hath broke their hearts. March, noble lord,
Into our city with thy banners spread:
By decimation, and a tithed death--
If thy revenges hunger for that food
Which nature loathes--take thou the destined tenth,
And by the hazard of the spotted die
Let die the spotted.",1026,19572
662411,2624,"All have not offended;
For those that were, it is not square to take
On those that are, revenges: crimes, like lands,
Are not inherited. Then, dear countryman,
Bring in thy ranks, but leave without thy rage:
Spare thy Athenian cradle and those kin
Which in the bluster of thy wrath must fall
With those that have offended: like a shepherd,
Approach the fold and cull the infected forth,
But kill not all together.",456,19572
662412,2634,"What thou wilt,
Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile
Than hew to't with thy sword.",1026,19572
662413,2637,"Set but thy foot
Against our rampired gates, and they shall ope;
So thou wilt send thy gentle heart before,
To say thou'lt enter friendly.",456,19572
662414,2641,"Throw thy glove,
Or any token of thine honour else,
That thou wilt use the wars as thy redress
And not as our confusion, all thy powers
Shall make their harbour in our town, till we
Have seal'd thy full desire.",1026,19572
662415,2647,"Then there's my glove;
Descend, and open your uncharged ports:
Those enemies of Timon's and mine own
Whom you yourselves shall set out for reproof
Fall and no more: and, to atone your fears
With my more noble meaning, not a man
Shall pass his quarter, or offend the stream
Of regular justice in your city's bounds,
But shall be render'd to your public laws
At heaviest answer.",63,19572
662421,2666,"[Reads the epitaph] 'Here lies a
wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft:
Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked
caitiffs left!
Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate:
Pass by and curse thy fill, but pass and stay
not here thy gait.'
These well express in thee thy latter spirits:
Though thou abhorr'dst in us our human griefs,
Scorn'dst our brain's flow and those our
droplets which
From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit
Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye
On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead
Is noble Timon: of whose memory
Hereafter more. Bring me into your city,
And I will use the olive with my sword,
Make war breed peace, make peace stint war, make each
Prescribe to other as each other's leech.
Let our drums strike.",63,19572
662422,2686,[Exeunt],1261,19572
662423,7,"Noble patricians, patrons of my right,
Defend the justice of my cause with arms,
And, countrymen, my loving followers,
Plead my successive title with your swords:
I am his first-born son, that was the last
That wore the imperial diadem of Rome;
Then let my father's honours live in me,
Nor wrong mine age with this indignity.",969,19573
662424,15,"Romans, friends, followers, favorers of my right,
If ever Bassianus, Caesar's son,
Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome,
Keep then this passage to the Capitol
And suffer not dishonour to approach
The imperial seat, to virtue consecrate,
To justice, continence and nobility;
But let desert in pure election shine,
And, Romans, fight for freedom in your choice.",149,19573
662425,24,"[Enter MARCUS ANDRONICUS, aloft, with the crown]",1261,19573
662426,25,"Princes, that strive by factions and by friends
Ambitiously for rule and empery,
Know that the people of Rome, for whom we stand
A special party, have, by common voice,
In election for the Roman empery,
Chosen Andronicus, surnamed Pius
For many good and great deserts to Rome:
A nobler man, a braver warrior,
Lives not this day within the city walls:
He by the senate is accit'd home
From weary wars against the barbarous Goths;
That, with his sons, a terror to our foes,
Hath yoked a nation strong, train'd up in arms.
Ten years are spent since first he undertook
This cause of Rome and chastised with arms
Our enemies' pride: five times he hath return'd
Bleeding to Rome, bearing his valiant sons
In coffins from the field;
And now at last, laden with horror's spoils,
Returns the good Andronicus to Rome,
Renowned Titus, flourishing in arms.
Let us entreat, by honour of his name,
Whom worthily you would have now succeed.
And in the Capitol and senate's right,
Whom you pretend to honour and adore,
That you withdraw you and abate your strength;
Dismiss your followers and, as suitors should,
Plead your deserts in peace and humbleness.",732,19573
662427,53,How fair the tribune speaks to calm my thoughts!,969,19573
662428,54,"Marcus Andronicus, so I do ally
In thy uprightness and integrity,
And so I love and honour thee and thine,
Thy noble brother Titus and his sons,
And her to whom my thoughts are humbled all,
Gracious Lavinia, Rome's rich ornament,
That I will here dismiss my loving friends,
And to my fortunes and the people's favor
Commit my cause in balance to be weigh'd.",149,19573
662429,63,[Exeunt the followers of BASSIANUS],1261,19573
662430,64,"Friends, that have been thus forward in my right,
I thank you all and here dismiss you all,
And to the love and favor of my country
Commit myself, my person and the cause.
[Exeunt the followers of SATURNINUS]
Rome, be as just and gracious unto me
As I am confident and kind to thee.
Open the gates, and let me in.",969,19573
662431,72,"Tribunes, and me, a poor competitor.",149,19573
662432,73,[Flourish. SATURNINUS and BASSIANUS go up into the Capitol],1261,19573
662433,74,[Enter a Captain],1261,19573
662434,75,"Romans, make way: the good Andronicus.
Patron of virtue, Rome's best champion,
Successful in the battles that he fights,
With honour and with fortune is return'd
From where he circumscribed with his sword,
And brought to yoke, the enemies of Rome.
[Drums and trumpets sounded. Enter MARTIUS and]
MUTIUS; After them, two Men bearing a coffin
covered with black; then LUCIUS and QUINTUS. After
them, TITUS ANDRONICUS; and then TAMORA, with
ALARBUS, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, AARON, and other Goths,
prisoners; Soldiers and people following. The
Bearers set down the coffin, and TITUS speaks]",221,19573
662435,88,"Hail, Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds!
Lo, as the bark, that hath discharged her fraught,
Returns with precious jading to the bay
From whence at first she weigh'd her anchorage,
Cometh Andronicus, bound with laurel boughs,
To re-salute his country with his tears,
Tears of true joy for his return to Rome.
Thou great defender of this Capitol,
Stand gracious to the rites that we intend!
Romans, of five and twenty valiant sons,
Half of the number that King Priam had,
Behold the poor remains, alive and dead!
These that survive let Rome reward with love;
These that I bring unto their latest home,
With burial amongst their ancestors:
Here Goths have given me leave to sheathe my sword.
Titus, unkind and careless of thine own,
Why suffer'st thou thy sons, unburied yet,
To hover on the dreadful shore of Styx?
Make way to lay them by their brethren.
[The tomb is opened]
There greet in silence, as the dead are wont,
And sleep in peace, slain in your country's wars!
O sacred receptacle of my joys,
Sweet cell of virtue and nobility,
How many sons of mine hast thou in store,
That thou wilt never render to me more!",1201,19573
662436,115,"Give us the proudest prisoner of the Goths,
That we may hew his limbs, and on a pile
Ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh,
Before this earthy prison of their bones;
That so the shadows be not unappeased,
Nor we disturb'd with prodigies on earth.",716,19573
662437,121,"I give him you, the noblest that survives,
The eldest son of this distressed queen.",1201,19573
662438,123,"Stay, Roman brethren! Gracious conqueror,
Victorious Titus, rue the tears I shed,
A mother's tears in passion for her son:
And if thy sons were ever dear to thee,
O, think my son to be as dear to me!
Sufficeth not that we are brought to Rome,
To beautify thy triumphs and return,
Captive to thee and to thy Roman yoke,
But must my sons be slaughter'd in the streets,
For valiant doings in their country's cause?
O, if to fight for king and commonweal
Were piety in thine, it is in these.
Andronicus, stain not thy tomb with blood:
Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods?
Draw near them then in being merciful:
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge:
Thrice noble Titus, spare my first-born son.",1155,19573
662439,140,"Patient yourself, madam, and pardon me.
These are their brethren, whom you Goths beheld
Alive and dead, and for their brethren slain
Religiously they ask a sacrifice:
To this your son is mark'd, and die he must,
To appease their groaning shadows that are gone.",1201,19573
662440,146,"Away with him! and make a fire straight;
And with our swords, upon a pile of wood,
Let's hew his limbs till they be clean consumed.",716,19573
662441,149,"[Exeunt LUCIUS, QUINTUS, MARTIUS, and MUTIUS, with ALARBUS]",1261,19573
662442,150,"O cruel, irreligious piety!",1155,19573
662443,151,Was ever Scythia half so barbarous?,243,19573
662444,152,"Oppose not Scythia to ambitious Rome.
Alarbus goes to rest; and we survive
To tremble under Titus' threatening looks.
Then, madam, stand resolved, but hope withal
The self-same gods that arm'd the Queen of Troy
With opportunity of sharp revenge
Upon the Thracian tyrant in his tent,
May favor Tamora, the Queen of Goths--
When Goths were Goths and Tamora was queen--
To quit the bloody wrongs upon her foes.
[Re-enter LUCIUS, QUINTUS, MARTIUS and MUTIUS, with]
their swords bloody]",305,19573
662445,164,"See, lord and father, how we have perform'd
Our Roman rites: Alarbus' limbs are lopp'd,
And entrails feed the sacrificing fire,
Whose smoke, like incense, doth perfume the sky.
Remaineth nought, but to inter our brethren,
And with loud 'larums welcome them to Rome.",716,19573
662446,170,"Let it be so; and let Andronicus
Make this his latest farewell to their souls.
[Trumpets sounded, and the coffin laid in the tomb]
In peace and honour rest you here, my sons;
Rome's readiest champions, repose you here in rest,
Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!
Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells,
Here grow no damned grudges; here are no storms,
No noise, but silence and eternal sleep:
In peace and honour rest you here, my sons!",1201,19573
662447,180,[Enter LAVINIA],1261,19573
662448,181,"In peace and honour live Lord Titus long;
My noble lord and father, live in fame!
Lo, at this tomb my tributary tears
I render, for my brethren's obsequies;
And at thy feet I kneel, with tears of joy,
Shed on the earth, for thy return to Rome:
O, bless me here with thy victorious hand,
Whose fortunes Rome's best citizens applaud!",657,19573
662449,189,"Kind Rome, that hast thus lovingly reserved
The cordial of mine age to glad my heart!
Lavinia, live; outlive thy father's days,
And fame's eternal date, for virtue's praise!
[Enter, below, MARCUS ANDRONICUS and Tribunes;]
re-enter SATURNINUS and BASSIANUS, attended]",1201,19573
662450,195,"Long live Lord Titus, my beloved brother,
Gracious triumpher in the eyes of Rome!",732,19573
662451,197,"Thanks, gentle tribune, noble brother Marcus.",1201,19573
662452,198,"And welcome, nephews, from successful wars,
You that survive, and you that sleep in fame!
Fair lords, your fortunes are alike in all,
That in your country's service drew your swords:
But safer triumph is this funeral pomp,
That hath aspired to Solon's happiness
And triumphs over chance in honour's bed.
Titus Andronicus, the people of Rome,
Whose friend in justice thou hast ever been,
Send thee by me, their tribune and their trust,
This palliament of white and spotless hue;
And name thee in election for the empire,
With these our late-deceased emperor's sons:
Be candidatus then, and put it on,
And help to set a head on headless Rome.",732,19573
662453,213,"A better head her glorious body fits
Than his that shakes for age and feebleness:
What should I don this robe, and trouble you?
Be chosen with proclamations to-day,
To-morrow yield up rule, resign my life,
And set abroad new business for you all?
Rome, I have been thy soldier forty years,
And led my country's strength successfully,
And buried one and twenty valiant sons,
Knighted in field, slain manfully in arms,
In right and service of their noble country
Give me a staff of honour for mine age,
But not a sceptre to control the world:
Upright he held it, lords, that held it last.",1201,19573
662454,227,"Titus, thou shalt obtain and ask the empery.",732,19573
662455,228,"Proud and ambitious tribune, canst thou tell?",969,19573
662456,229,"Patience, Prince Saturninus.",1201,19573
662457,230,"Romans, do me right:
Patricians, draw your swords: and sheathe them not
Till Saturninus be Rome's emperor.
Andronicus, would thou wert shipp'd to hell,
Rather than rob me of the people's hearts!",969,19573
662458,235,"Proud Saturnine, interrupter of the good
That noble-minded Titus means to thee!",716,19573
662459,237,"Content thee, prince; I will restore to thee
The people's hearts, and wean them from themselves.",1201,19573
662460,239,"Andronicus, I do not flatter thee,
But honour thee, and will do till I die:
My faction if thou strengthen with thy friends,
I will most thankful be; and thanks to men
Of noble minds is honourable meed.",149,19573
662461,244,"People of Rome, and people's tribunes here,
I ask your voices and your suffrages:
Will you bestow them friendly on Andronicus?",1201,19573
662462,247,"To gratify the good Andronicus,
And gratulate his safe return to Rome,
The people will accept whom he admits.",1210,19573
662463,250,"Tribunes, I thank you: and this suit I make,
That you create your emperor's eldest son,
Lord Saturnine; whose virtues will, I hope,
Reflect on Rome as Titan's rays on earth,
And ripen justice in this commonweal:
Then, if you will elect by my advice,
Crown him and say 'Long live our emperor!'",1201,19573
662464,257,"With voices and applause of every sort,
Patricians and plebeians, we create
Lord Saturninus Rome's great emperor,
And say 'Long live our Emperor Saturnine!'",732,19573
662465,261,[A long flourish till they come down],1261,19573
662466,262,"Titus Andronicus, for thy favors done
To us in our election this day,
I give thee thanks in part of thy deserts,
And will with deeds requite thy gentleness:
And, for an onset, Titus, to advance
Thy name and honourable family,
Lavinia will I make my empress,
Rome's royal mistress, mistress of my heart,
And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse:
Tell me, Andronicus, doth this motion please thee?",969,19573
662467,272,"It doth, my worthy lord; and in this match
I hold me highly honour'd of your grace:
And here in sight of Rome to Saturnine,
King and commander of our commonweal,
The wide world's emperor, do I consecrate
My sword, my chariot and my prisoners;
Presents well worthy Rome's imperial lord:
Receive them then, the tribute that I owe,
Mine honour's ensigns humbled at thy feet.",1201,19573
662468,281,"Thanks, noble Titus, father of my life!
How proud I am of thee and of thy gifts
Rome shall record, and when I do forget
The least of these unspeakable deserts,
Romans, forget your fealty to me.",969,19573
662469,286,"[To TAMORA] Now, madam, are you prisoner to
an emperor;
To him that, for your honour and your state,
Will use you nobly and your followers.",1201,19573
662470,290,"A goodly lady, trust me; of the hue
That I would choose, were I to choose anew.
Clear up, fair queen, that cloudy countenance:
Though chance of war hath wrought this change of cheer,
Thou comest not to be made a scorn in Rome:
Princely shall be thy usage every way.
Rest on my word, and let not discontent
Daunt all your hopes: madam, he comforts you
Can make you greater than the Queen of Goths.
Lavinia, you are not displeased with this?",969,19573
662471,300,"Not I, my lord; sith true nobility
Warrants these words in princely courtesy.",657,19573
662472,302,"Thanks, sweet Lavinia. Romans, let us go;
Ransomless here we set our prisoners free:
Proclaim our honours, lords, with trump and drum.",969,19573
662473,305,[Flourish. SATURNINUS courts TAMORA in dumb show],1261,19573
662474,306,"Lord Titus, by your leave, this maid is mine.",149,19573
662475,307,[Seizing LAVINIA],1261,19573
662476,308,"How, sir! are you in earnest then, my lord?",1201,19573
662477,309,"Ay, noble Titus; and resolved withal
To do myself this reason and this right.",149,19573
662478,311,"'Suum cuique' is our Roman justice:
This prince in justice seizeth but his own.",732,19573
662479,313,"And that he will, and shall, if Lucius live.",716,19573
662480,314,"Traitors, avaunt! Where is the emperor's guard?
Treason, my lord! Lavinia is surprised!",1201,19573
662481,316,Surprised! by whom?,969,19573
662482,317,"By him that justly may
Bear his betroth'd from all the world away.",149,19573
662483,319,[Exeunt BASSIANUS and MARCUS with LAVINIA],1261,19573
662484,320,"Brothers, help to convey her hence away,
And with my sword I'll keep this door safe.",810,19573
662485,322,"[Exeunt LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS]",1261,19573
662486,323,"Follow, my lord, and I'll soon bring her back.",1201,19573
662487,324,"My lord, you pass not here.",810,19573
662488,325,"What, villain boy!
Barr'st me my way in Rome?",1201,19573
662489,327,[Stabbing MUTIUS],1261,19573
662490,328,"Help, Lucius, help!
[Dies]
[During the fray, SATURNINUS, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS,]
CHIRON and AARON go out and re-enter, above]",810,19573
662491,332,[Re-enter LUCIUS],1261,19573
662492,333,"My lord, you are unjust, and, more than so,
In wrongful quarrel you have slain your son.",716,19573
662493,335,"Nor thou, nor he, are any sons of mine;
My sons would never so dishonour me:
Traitor, restore Lavinia to the emperor.",1201,19573
662494,338,"Dead, if you will; but not to be his wife,
That is another's lawful promised love.",716,19573
662495,340,[Exit],1261,19573
662496,341,"No, Titus, no; the emperor needs her not,
Nor her, nor thee, nor any of thy stock:
I'll trust, by leisure, him that mocks me once;
Thee never, nor thy traitorous haughty sons,
Confederates all thus to dishonour me.
Was there none else in Rome to make a stale,
But Saturnine? Full well, Andronicus,
Agree these deeds with that proud brag of thine,
That said'st I begg'd the empire at thy hands.",969,19573
662497,350,O monstrous! what reproachful words are these?,1201,19573
662498,351,"But go thy ways; go, give that changing piece
To him that flourish'd for her with his sword
A valiant son-in-law thou shalt enjoy;
One fit to bandy with thy lawless sons,
To ruffle in the commonwealth of Rome.",969,19573
662499,356,These words are razors to my wounded heart.,1201,19573
662500,357,"And therefore, lovely Tamora, queen of Goths,
That like the stately Phoebe 'mongst her nymphs
Dost overshine the gallant'st dames of Rome,
If thou be pleased with this my sudden choice,
Behold, I choose thee, Tamora, for my bride,
And will create thee empress of Rome,
Speak, Queen of Goths, dost thou applaud my choice?
And here I swear by all the Roman gods,
Sith priest and holy water are so near
And tapers burn so bright and every thing
In readiness for Hymenaeus stand,
I will not re-salute the streets of Rome,
Or climb my palace, till from forth this place
I lead espoused my bride along with me.",969,19573
662501,371,"And here, in sight of heaven, to Rome I swear,
If Saturnine advance the Queen of Goths,
She will a handmaid be to his desires,
A loving nurse, a mother to his youth.",1155,19573
662502,375,"Ascend, fair queen, Pantheon. Lords, accompany
Your noble emperor and his lovely bride,
Sent by the heavens for Prince Saturnine,
Whose wisdom hath her fortune conquered:
There shall we consummate our spousal rites.",969,19573
662503,380,[Exeunt all but TITUS],1261,19573
662504,381,"I am not bid to wait upon this bride.
Titus, when wert thou wont to walk alone,
Dishonour'd thus, and challenged of wrongs?",1201,19573
662505,384,"[Re-enter MARCUS, LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS]",1261,19573
662506,385,"O Titus, see, O, see what thou hast done!
In a bad quarrel slain a virtuous son.",732,19573
662507,387,"No, foolish tribune, no; no son of mine,
Nor thou, nor these, confederates in the deed
That hath dishonour'd all our family;
Unworthy brother, and unworthy sons!",1201,19573
662508,391,"But let us give him burial, as becomes;
Give Mutius burial with our brethren.",716,19573
662509,393,"Traitors, away! he rests not in this tomb:
This monument five hundred years hath stood,
Which I have sumptuously re-edified:
Here none but soldiers and Rome's servitors
Repose in fame; none basely slain in brawls:
Bury him where you can; he comes not here.",1201,19573
662510,399,"My lord, this is impiety in you:
My nephew Mutius' deeds do plead for him
He must be buried with his brethren.",732,19573
662511,402,"And shall, or him we will accompany.",938,19573
662512,403,"'And shall!' what villain was it that spake
that word?",1201,19573
662513,405,He that would vouch it in any place but here.,938,19573
662514,406,"What, would you bury him in my despite?",1201,19573
662515,407,"No, noble Titus, but entreat of thee
To pardon Mutius and to bury him.",732,19573
662516,409,"Marcus, even thou hast struck upon my crest,
And, with these boys, mine honour thou hast wounded:
My foes I do repute you every one;
So, trouble me no more, but get you gone.",1201,19573
662517,413,He is not with himself; let us withdraw.,749,19573
662518,414,"Not I, till Mutius' bones be buried.",938,19573
662519,415,[MARCUS and the Sons of TITUS kneel],1261,19573
662520,416,"Brother, for in that name doth nature plead,--",732,19573
662521,417,"Father, and in that name doth nature speak,--",938,19573
662522,418,"Speak thou no more, if all the rest will speed.",1201,19573
662523,419,"Renowned Titus, more than half my soul,--",732,19573
662524,420,"Dear father, soul and substance of us all,--",716,19573
662525,421,"Suffer thy brother Marcus to inter
His noble nephew here in virtue's nest,
That died in honour and Lavinia's cause.
Thou art a Roman; be not barbarous:
The Greeks upon advice did bury Ajax
That slew himself; and wise Laertes' son
Did graciously plead for his funerals:
Let not young Mutius, then, that was thy joy
Be barr'd his entrance here.",732,19573
662526,430,"Rise, Marcus, rise.
The dismall'st day is this that e'er I saw,
To be dishonour'd by my sons in Rome!
Well, bury him, and bury me the next.",1201,19573
662527,434,[MUTIUS is put into the tomb],1261,19573
662528,435,"There lie thy bones, sweet Mutius, with thy friends,
Till we with trophies do adorn thy tomb.",716,19573
662529,437,"[Kneeling] No man shed tears for noble Mutius;
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.",95,19573
662530,439,"My lord, to step out of these dreary dumps,
How comes it that the subtle Queen of Goths
Is of a sudden thus advanced in Rome?",732,19573
662531,442,"I know not, Marcus; but I know it is,
Whether by device or no, the heavens can tell:
Is she not then beholding to the man
That brought her for this high good turn so far?
Yes, and will nobly him remunerate.
[Flourish. Re-enter, from one side, SATURNINUS]
attended, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON and AARON; from
the other, BASSIANUS, LAVINIA, and others]",1201,19573
662532,450,"So, Bassianus, you have play'd your prize:
God give you joy, sir, of your gallant bride!",969,19573
662533,452,"And you of yours, my lord! I say no more,
Nor wish no less; and so, I take my leave.",149,19573
662534,454,"Traitor, if Rome have law or we have power,
Thou and thy faction shall repent this rape.",969,19573
662535,456,"Rape, call you it, my lord, to seize my own,
My truth-betrothed love and now my wife?
But let the laws of Rome determine all;
Meanwhile I am possess'd of that is mine.",149,19573
662536,460,"'Tis good, sir: you are very short with us;
But, if we live, we'll be as sharp with you.",969,19573
662537,462,"My lord, what I have done, as best I may,
Answer I must and shall do with my life.
Only thus much I give your grace to know:
By all the duties that I owe to Rome,
This noble gentleman, Lord Titus here,
Is in opinion and in honour wrong'd;
That in the rescue of Lavinia
With his own hand did slay his youngest son,
In zeal to you and highly moved to wrath
To be controll'd in that he frankly gave:
Receive him, then, to favor, Saturnine,
That hath express'd himself in all his deeds
A father and a friend to thee and Rome.",149,19573
662538,475,"Prince Bassianus, leave to plead my deeds:
'Tis thou and those that have dishonour'd me.
Rome and the righteous heavens be my judge,
How I have loved and honour'd Saturnine!",1201,19573
662539,479,"My worthy lord, if ever Tamora
Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine,
Then hear me speak in indifferently for all;
And at my suit, sweet, pardon what is past.",1155,19573
662540,483,"What, madam! be dishonour'd openly,
And basely put it up without revenge?",969,19573
662541,485,"Not so, my lord; the gods of Rome forfend
I should be author to dishonour you!
But on mine honour dare I undertake
For good Lord Titus' innocence in all;
Whose fury not dissembled speaks his griefs:
Then, at my suit, look graciously on him;
Lose not so noble a friend on vain suppose,
Nor with sour looks afflict his gentle heart.
[Aside to SATURNINUS] My lord, be ruled by me,]
be won at last;
Dissemble all your griefs and discontents:
You are but newly planted in your throne;
Lest, then, the people, and patricians too,
Upon a just survey, take Titus' part,
And so supplant you for ingratitude,
Which Rome reputes to be a heinous sin,
Yield at entreats; and then let me alone:
I'll find a day to massacre them all
And raze their faction and their family,
The cruel father and his traitorous sons,
To whom I sued for my dear son's life,
And make them know what 'tis to let a queen
Kneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain.
[Aloud]
Come, come, sweet emperor; come, Andronicus;
Take up this good old man, and cheer the heart
That dies in tempest of thy angry frown.",1155,19573
662542,512,"Rise, Titus, rise; my empress hath prevail'd.",969,19573
662543,513,"I thank your majesty, and her, my lord:
These words, these looks, infuse new life in me.",1201,19573
662544,515,"Titus, I am incorporate in Rome,
A Roman now adopted happily,
And must advise the emperor for his good.
This day all quarrels die, Andronicus;
And let it be mine honour, good my lord,
That I have reconciled your friends and you.
For you, Prince Bassianus, I have pass'd
My word and promise to the emperor,
That you will be more mild and tractable.
And fear not lords, and you, Lavinia;
By my advice, all humbled on your knees,
You shall ask pardon of his majesty.",1155,19573
662545,527,"We do, and vow to heaven and to his highness,
That what we did was mildly as we might,
Tendering our sister's honour and our own.",716,19573
662546,530,"That, on mine honour, here I do protest.",732,19573
662547,531,"Away, and talk not; trouble us no more.",969,19573
662548,532,"Nay, nay, sweet emperor, we must all be friends:
The tribune and his nephews kneel for grace;
I will not be denied: sweet heart, look back.",1155,19573
662549,535,"Marcus, for thy sake and thy brother's here,
And at my lovely Tamora's entreats,
I do remit these young men's heinous faults: Stand up.
Lavinia, though you left me like a churl,
I found a friend, and sure as death I swore
I would not part a bachelor from the priest.
Come, if the emperor's court can feast two brides,
You are my guest, Lavinia, and your friends.
This day shall be a love-day, Tamora.",969,19573
662550,544,"To-morrow, an it please your majesty
To hunt the panther and the hart with me,
With horn and hound we'll give your grace bonjour.",1201,19573
662551,547,"Be it so, Titus, and gramercy too.",969,19573
662552,548,[Flourish. Exeunt],1261,19573
662553,551,[Enter AARON],1261,19574
662554,552,"Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top,
Safe out of fortune's shot; and sits aloft,
Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash;
Advanced above pale envy's threatening reach.
As when the golden sun salutes the morn,
And, having gilt the ocean with his beams,
Gallops the zodiac in his glistering coach,
And overlooks the highest-peering hills;
So Tamora:
Upon her wit doth earthly honour wait,
And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown.
Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts,
To mount aloft with thy imperial mistress,
And mount her pitch, whom thou in triumph long
Hast prisoner held, fetter'd in amorous chains
And faster bound to Aaron's charming eyes
Than is Prometheus tied to Caucasus.
Away with slavish weeds and servile thoughts!
I will be bright, and shine in pearl and gold,
To wait upon this new-made empress.
To wait, said I? to wanton with this queen,
This goddess, this Semiramis, this nymph,
This siren, that will charm Rome's Saturnine,
And see his shipwreck and his commonweal's.
Holloa! what storm is this?",44,19574
662555,577,"[Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON, braving]",1261,19574
662556,578,"Chiron, thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge,
And manners, to intrude where I am graced;
And may, for aught thou know'st, affected be.",305,19574
662557,581,"Demetrius, thou dost over-ween in all;
And so in this, to bear me down with braves.
'Tis not the difference of a year or two
Makes me less gracious or thee more fortunate:
I am as able and as fit as thou
To serve, and to deserve my mistress' grace;
And that my sword upon thee shall approve,
And plead my passions for Lavinia's love.",243,19574
662558,589,"[Aside] Clubs, clubs! these lovers will not keep
the peace.",44,19574
662559,591,"Why, boy, although our mother, unadvised,
Gave you a dancing-rapier by your side,
Are you so desperate grown, to threat your friends?
Go to; have your lath glued within your sheath
Till you know better how to handle it.",305,19574
662560,596,"Meanwhile, sir, with the little skill I have,
Full well shalt thou perceive how much I dare.",243,19574
662561,598,"Ay, boy, grow ye so brave?",305,19574
662562,599,[They draw],1261,19574
662563,600,"[Coming forward] Why, how now, lords!
So near the emperor's palace dare you draw,
And maintain such a quarrel openly?
Full well I wot the ground of all this grudge:
I would not for a million of gold
The cause were known to them it most concerns;
Nor would your noble mother for much more
Be so dishonour'd in the court of Rome.
For shame, put up.",44,19574
662564,609,"Not I, till I have sheathed
My rapier in his bosom and withal
Thrust these reproachful speeches down his throat
That he hath breathed in my dishonour here.",305,19574
662565,613,"For that I am prepared and full resolved.
Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue,
And with thy weapon nothing darest perform!",243,19574
662566,616,"Away, I say!
Now, by the gods that warlike Goths adore,
This petty brabble will undo us all.
Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous
It is to jet upon a prince's right?
What, is Lavinia then become so loose,
Or Bassianus so degenerate,
That for her love such quarrels may be broach'd
Without controlment, justice, or revenge?
Young lords, beware! and should the empress know
This discord's ground, the music would not please.",44,19574
662567,627,"I care not, I, knew she and all the world:
I love Lavinia more than all the world.",243,19574
662568,629,"Youngling, learn thou to make some meaner choice:
Lavinia is thine elder brother's hope.",305,19574
662569,631,"Why, are ye mad? or know ye not, in Rome
How furious and impatient they be,
And cannot brook competitors in love?
I tell you, lords, you do but plot your deaths
By this device.",44,19574
662570,636,"Aaron, a thousand deaths
Would I propose to achieve her whom I love.",243,19574
662571,638,To achieve her! how?,44,19574
662572,639,"Why makest thou it so strange?
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd;
She is a woman, therefore may be won;
She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved.
What, man! more water glideth by the mill
Than wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know:
Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother.
Better than he have worn Vulcan's badge.",305,19574
662573,648,"[Aside] Ay, and as good as Saturninus may.",44,19574
662574,649,"Then why should he despair that knows to court it
With words, fair looks and liberality?
What, hast not thou full often struck a doe,
And borne her cleanly by the keeper's nose?",305,19574
662575,653,"Why, then, it seems, some certain snatch or so
Would serve your turns.",44,19574
662576,655,"Ay, so the turn were served.",243,19574
662577,656,"Aaron, thou hast hit it.",305,19574
662578,657,"Would you had hit it too!
Then should not we be tired with this ado.
Why, hark ye, hark ye! and are you such fools
To square for this? would it offend you, then
That both should speed?",44,19574
662579,662,"Faith, not me.",243,19574
662580,663,"Nor me, so I were one.",305,19574
662581,664,"For shame, be friends, and join for that you jar:
'Tis policy and stratagem must do
That you affect; and so must you resolve,
That what you cannot as you would achieve,
You must perforce accomplish as you may.
Take this of me: Lucrece was not more chaste
Than this Lavinia, Bassianus' love.
A speedier course than lingering languishment
Must we pursue, and I have found the path.
My lords, a solemn hunting is in hand;
There will the lovely Roman ladies troop:
The forest walks are wide and spacious;
And many unfrequented plots there are
Fitted by kind for rape and villany:
Single you thither then this dainty doe,
And strike her home by force, if not by words:
This way, or not at all, stand you in hope.
Come, come, our empress, with her sacred wit
To villany and vengeance consecrate,
Will we acquaint with all that we intend;
And she shall file our engines with advice,
That will not suffer you to square yourselves,
But to your wishes' height advance you both.
The emperor's court is like the house of Fame,
The palace full of tongues, of eyes, and ears:
The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and dull;
There speak, and strike, brave boys, and take
your turns;
There serve your lusts, shadow'd from heaven's eye,
And revel in Lavinia's treasury.",44,19574
662582,694,"Thy counsel, lad, smells of no cowardice,",243,19574
662583,695,"Sit fas aut nefas, till I find the stream
To cool this heat, a charm to calm these fits.
Per Styga, per manes vehor.",305,19574
662584,698,"[Exeunt]
[Enter TITUS ANDRONICUS, with Hunters, &c., MARCUS,]
LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS]",1261,19574
662585,702,"The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey,
The fields are fragrant and the woods are green:
Uncouple here and let us make a bay
And wake the emperor and his lovely bride
And rouse the prince and ring a hunter's peal,
That all the court may echo with the noise.
Sons, let it be your charge, as it is ours,
To attend the emperor's person carefully:
I have been troubled in my sleep this night,
But dawning day new comfort hath inspired.
[A cry of hounds and horns, winded in a peal. Enter]
SATURNINUS, TAMORA, BASSIANUS, LAVINIA, DEMETRIUS,
CHIRON, and Attendants]
Many good morrows to your majesty;
Madam, to you as many and as good:
I promised your grace a hunter's peal.",1201,19575
662586,718,"And you have rung it lustily, my lord;
Somewhat too early for new-married ladies.",969,19575
662587,720,"Lavinia, how say you?",149,19575
662588,721,"I say, no;
I have been broad awake two hours and more.",657,19575
662589,723,"Come on, then; horse and chariots let us have,
And to our sport.
[To TAMORA]
Madam, now shall ye see
Our Roman hunting.",969,19575
662590,728,"I have dogs, my lord,
Will rouse the proudest panther in the chase,
And climb the highest promontory top.",732,19575
662591,731,"And I have horse will follow where the game
Makes way, and run like swallows o'er the plain.",1201,19575
662592,733,"Chiron, we hunt not, we, with horse nor hound,
But hope to pluck a dainty doe to ground.",305,19575
662593,735,[Exeunt],1261,19575
662594,737,"[Enter AARON, with a bag of gold]",1261,19576
662595,738,"He that had wit would think that I had none,
To bury so much gold under a tree,
And never after to inherit it.
Let him that thinks of me so abjectly
Know that this gold must coin a stratagem,
Which, cunningly effected, will beget
A very excellent piece of villany:
And so repose, sweet gold, for their unrest
[Hides the gold]
That have their alms out of the empress' chest.",44,19576
662596,748,[Enter TAMORA],1261,19576
662597,749,"My lovely Aaron, wherefore look'st thou sad,
When every thing doth make a gleeful boast?
The birds chant melody on every bush,
The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,
The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind
And make a chequer'd shadow on the ground:
Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,
And, whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,
Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,
As if a double hunt were heard at once,
Let us sit down and mark their yelping noise;
And, after conflict such as was supposed
The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd,
When with a happy storm they were surprised
And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave,
We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,
Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;
Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds
Be unto us as is a nurse's song
Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.",1155,19576
662598,769,"Madam, though Venus govern your desires,
Saturn is dominator over mine:
What signifies my deadly-standing eye,
My silence and my cloudy melancholy,
My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls
Even as an adder when she doth unroll
To do some fatal execution?
No, madam, these are no venereal signs:
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
Hark Tamora, the empress of my soul,
Which never hopes more heaven than rests in thee,
This is the day of doom for Bassianus:
His Philomel must lose her tongue to-day,
Thy sons make pillage of her chastity
And wash their hands in Bassianus' blood.
Seest thou this letter? take it up, I pray thee,
And give the king this fatal plotted scroll.
Now question me no more; we are espied;
Here comes a parcel of our hopeful booty,
Which dreads not yet their lives' destruction.",44,19576
662599,790,"Ah, my sweet Moor, sweeter to me than life!",1155,19576
662600,791,"No more, great empress; Bassianus comes:
Be cross with him; and I'll go fetch thy sons
To back thy quarrels, whatsoe'er they be.",44,19576
662601,794,[Exit],1261,19576
662602,795,[Enter BASSIANUS and LAVINIA],1261,19576
662603,796,"Who have we here? Rome's royal empress,
Unfurnish'd of her well-beseeming troop?
Or is it Dian, habited like her,
Who hath abandoned her holy groves
To see the general hunting in this forest?",149,19576
662604,801,"Saucy controller of our private steps!
Had I the power that some say Dian had,
Thy temples should be planted presently
With horns, as was Actaeon's; and the hounds
Should drive upon thy new-transformed limbs,
Unmannerly intruder as thou art!",1155,19576
662605,807,"Under your patience, gentle empress,
'Tis thought you have a goodly gift in horning;
And to be doubted that your Moor and you
Are singled forth to try experiments:
Jove shield your husband from his hounds to-day!
'Tis pity they should take him for a stag.",657,19576
662606,813,"Believe me, queen, your swarth Cimmerian
Doth make your honour of his body's hue,
Spotted, detested, and abominable.
Why are you sequester'd from all your train,
Dismounted from your snow-white goodly steed.
And wander'd hither to an obscure plot,
Accompanied but with a barbarous Moor,
If foul desire had not conducted you?",149,19576
662607,821,"And, being intercepted in your sport,
Great reason that my noble lord be rated
For sauciness. I pray you, let us hence,
And let her joy her raven-colour'd love;
This valley fits the purpose passing well.",657,19576
662608,826,The king my brother shall have note of this.,149,19576
662609,827,"Ay, for these slips have made him noted long:
Good king, to be so mightily abused!",657,19576
662610,829,Why have I patience to endure all this?,1155,19576
662611,830,[Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON],1261,19576
662612,831,"How now, dear sovereign, and our gracious mother!
Why doth your highness look so pale and wan?",305,19576
662613,833,"Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?
These two have 'ticed me hither to this place:
A barren detested vale, you see it is;
The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean,
O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe:
Here never shines the sun; here nothing breeds,
Unless the nightly owl or fatal raven:
And when they show'd me this abhorred pit,
They told me, here, at dead time of the night,
A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes,
Ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins,
Would make such fearful and confused cries
As any mortal body hearing it
Should straight fall mad, or else die suddenly.
No sooner had they told this hellish tale,
But straight they told me they would bind me here
Unto the body of a dismal yew,
And leave me to this miserable death:
And then they call'd me foul adulteress,
Lascivious Goth, and all the bitterest terms
That ever ear did hear to such effect:
And, had you not by wondrous fortune come,
This vengeance on me had they executed.
Revenge it, as you love your mother's life,
Or be ye not henceforth call'd my children.",1155,19576
662614,858,This is a witness that I am thy son.,305,19576
662615,859,[Stabs BASSIANUS],1261,19576
662616,860,"And this for me, struck home to show my strength.",243,19576
662617,861,"[Also stabs BASSIANUS, who dies]",1261,19576
662618,862,"Ay, come, Semiramis, nay, barbarous Tamora,
For no name fits thy nature but thy own!",657,19576
662619,864,"Give me thy poniard; you shall know, my boys
Your mother's hand shall right your mother's wrong.",1155,19576
662620,866,"Stay, madam; here is more belongs to her;
First thrash the corn, then after burn the straw:
This minion stood upon her chastity,
Upon her nuptial vow, her loyalty,
And with that painted hope braves your mightiness:
And shall she carry this unto her grave?",305,19576
662621,872,"An if she do, I would I were an eunuch.
Drag hence her husband to some secret hole,
And make his dead trunk pillow to our lust.",243,19576
662622,875,"But when ye have the honey ye desire,
Let not this wasp outlive, us both to sting.",1155,19576
662623,877,"I warrant you, madam, we will make that sure.
Come, mistress, now perforce we will enjoy
That nice-preserved honesty of yours.",243,19576
662624,880,"O Tamora! thou bear'st a woman's face,--",657,19576
662625,881,I will not hear her speak; away with her!,1155,19576
662626,882,"Sweet lords, entreat her hear me but a word.",657,19576
662627,883,"Listen, fair madam: let it be your glory
To see her tears; but be your heart to them
As unrelenting flint to drops of rain.",305,19576
662628,886,"When did the tiger's young ones teach the dam?
O, do not learn her wrath; she taught it thee;
The milk thou suck'dst from her did turn to marble;
Even at thy teat thou hadst thy tyranny.
Yet every mother breeds not sons alike:
[To CHIRON]
Do thou entreat her show a woman pity.",657,19576
662629,893,"What, wouldst thou have me prove myself a bastard?",243,19576
662630,894,"'Tis true; the raven doth not hatch a lark:
Yet have I heard,--O, could I find it now!--
The lion moved with pity did endure
To have his princely paws pared all away:
Some say that ravens foster forlorn children,
The whilst their own birds famish in their nests:
O, be to me, though thy hard heart say no,
Nothing so kind, but something pitiful!",657,19576
662631,902,I know not what it means; away with her!,1155,19576
662632,903,"O, let me teach thee! for my father's sake,
That gave thee life, when well he might have
slain thee,
Be not obdurate, open thy deaf ears.",657,19576
662633,907,"Hadst thou in person ne'er offended me,
Even for his sake am I pitiless.
Remember, boys, I pour'd forth tears in vain,
To save your brother from the sacrifice;
But fierce Andronicus would not relent;
Therefore, away with her, and use her as you will,
The worse to her, the better loved of me.",1155,19576
662634,914,"O Tamora, be call'd a gentle queen,
And with thine own hands kill me in this place!
For 'tis not life that I have begg'd so long;
Poor I was slain when Bassianus died.",657,19576
662635,918,"What begg'st thou, then? fond woman, let me go.",1155,19576
662636,919,"'Tis present death I beg; and one thing more
That womanhood denies my tongue to tell:
O, keep me from their worse than killing lust,
And tumble me into some loathsome pit,
Where never man's eye may behold my body:
Do this, and be a charitable murderer.",657,19576
662637,925,"So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee:
No, let them satisfy their lust on thee.",1155,19576
662638,927,Away! for thou hast stay'd us here too long.,305,19576
662639,928,"No grace? no womanhood? Ah, beastly creature!
The blot and enemy to our general name!
Confusion fall--",657,19576
662640,931,"Nay, then I'll stop your mouth. Bring thou her husband:
This is the hole where Aaron bid us hide him.
[DEMETRIUS throws the body of BASSIANUS into the]
pit; then exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON, dragging
off LAVINIA]",243,19576
662641,936,"Farewell, my sons: see that you make her sure.
Ne'er let my heart know merry cheer indeed,
Till all the Andronici be made away.
Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor,
And let my spleenful sons this trull deflow'r.",1155,19576
662642,941,[Exit],1261,19576
662643,942,"[Re-enter AARON, with QUINTUS and MARTIUS]",1261,19576
662644,943,"Come on, my lords, the better foot before:
Straight will I bring you to the loathsome pit
Where I espied the panther fast asleep.",44,19576
662645,946,"My sight is very dull, whate'er it bodes.",938,19576
662646,947,"And mine, I promise you; were't not for shame,
Well could I leave our sport to sleep awhile.",749,19576
662647,949,[Falls into the pit],1261,19576
662648,950,"What art thou fall'n? What subtle hole is this,
Whose mouth is cover'd with rude-growing briers,
Upon whose leaves are drops of new-shed blood
As fresh as morning dew distill'd on flowers?
A very fatal place it seems to me.
Speak, brother, hast thou hurt thee with the fall?",938,19576
662649,956,"O brother, with the dismall'st object hurt
That ever eye with sight made heart lament!",749,19576
662650,958,"[Aside] Now will I fetch the king to find them here,
That he thereby may give a likely guess
How these were they that made away his brother.",44,19576
662651,961,[Exit],1261,19576
662652,962,"Why dost not comfort me, and help me out
From this unhallowed and blood-stained hole?",749,19576
662653,964,"I am surprised with an uncouth fear;
A chilling sweat o'er-runs my trembling joints:
My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.",938,19576
662654,967,"To prove thou hast a true-divining heart,
Aaron and thou look down into this den,
And see a fearful sight of blood and death.",749,19576
662655,970,"Aaron is gone; and my compassionate heart
Will not permit mine eyes once to behold
The thing whereat it trembles by surmise;
O, tell me how it is; for ne'er till now
Was I a child to fear I know not what.",938,19576
662656,975,"Lord Bassianus lies embrewed here,
All on a heap, like to a slaughter'd lamb,
In this detested, dark, blood-drinking pit.",749,19576
662657,978,"If it be dark, how dost thou know 'tis he?",938,19576
662658,979,"Upon his bloody finger he doth wear
A precious ring, that lightens all the hole,
Which, like a taper in some monument,
Doth shine upon the dead man's earthy cheeks,
And shows the ragged entrails of the pit:
So pale did shine the moon on Pyramus
When he by night lay bathed in maiden blood.
O brother, help me with thy fainting hand--
If fear hath made thee faint, as me it hath--
Out of this fell devouring receptacle,
As hateful as Cocytus' misty mouth.",749,19576
662659,990,"Reach me thy hand, that I may help thee out;
Or, wanting strength to do thee so much good,
I may be pluck'd into the swallowing womb
Of this deep pit, poor Bassianus' grave.
I have no strength to pluck thee to the brink.",938,19576
662660,995,Nor I no strength to climb without thy help.,749,19576
662661,996,"Thy hand once more; I will not loose again,
Till thou art here aloft, or I below:
Thou canst not come to me: I come to thee.",938,19576
662662,999,[Falls in],1261,19576
662663,1000,[Enter SATURNINUS with AARON],1261,19576
662664,1001,"Along with me: I'll see what hole is here,
And what he is that now is leap'd into it.
Say who art thou that lately didst descend
Into this gaping hollow of the earth?",969,19576
662665,1005,"The unhappy son of old Andronicus:
Brought hither in a most unlucky hour,
To find thy brother Bassianus dead.",749,19576
662666,1008,"My brother dead! I know thou dost but jest:
He and his lady both are at the lodge
Upon the north side of this pleasant chase;
'Tis not an hour since I left him there.",969,19576
662667,1012,"We know not where you left him all alive;
But, out, alas! here have we found him dead.
[Re-enter TAMORA, with Attendants; TITUS]
ANDRONICUS, and Lucius]",749,19576
662668,1016,Where is my lord the king?,1155,19576
662669,1017,"Here, Tamora, though grieved with killing grief.",969,19576
662670,1018,Where is thy brother Bassianus?,1155,19576
662671,1019,"Now to the bottom dost thou search my wound:
Poor Bassianus here lies murdered.",969,19576
662672,1021,"Then all too late I bring this fatal writ,
The complot of this timeless tragedy;
And wonder greatly that man's face can fold
In pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny.",1155,19576
662673,1025,[She giveth SATURNINUS a letter],1261,19576
662674,1026,"[Reads] 'An if we miss to meet him handsomely--
Sweet huntsman, Bassianus 'tis we mean--
Do thou so much as dig the grave for him:
Thou know'st our meaning. Look for thy reward
Among the nettles at the elder-tree
Which overshades the mouth of that same pit
Where we decreed to bury Bassianus.
Do this, and purchase us thy lasting friends.'
O Tamora! was ever heard the like?
This is the pit, and this the elder-tree.
Look, sirs, if you can find the huntsman out
That should have murdered Bassianus here.",969,19576
662675,1038,"My gracious lord, here is the bag of gold.",44,19576
662676,1039,"[To TITUS] Two of thy whelps, fell curs of
bloody kind,
Have here bereft my brother of his life.
Sirs, drag them from the pit unto the prison:
There let them bide until we have devised
Some never-heard-of torturing pain for them.",969,19576
662677,1045,"What, are they in this pit? O wondrous thing!
How easily murder is discovered!",1155,19576
662678,1047,"High emperor, upon my feeble knee
I beg this boon, with tears not lightly shed,
That this fell fault of my accursed sons,
Accursed if the fault be proved in them,--",1201,19576
662679,1051,"If it be proved! you see it is apparent.
Who found this letter? Tamora, was it you?",969,19576
662680,1053,Andronicus himself did take it up.,1155,19576
662681,1054,"I did, my lord: yet let me be their bail;
For, by my father's reverend tomb, I vow
They shall be ready at your highness' will
To answer their suspicion with their lives.",1201,19576
662682,1058,"Thou shalt not bail them: see thou follow me.
Some bring the murder'd body, some the murderers:
Let them not speak a word; the guilt is plain;
For, by my soul, were there worse end than death,
That end upon them should be executed.",969,19576
662683,1063,"Andronicus, I will entreat the king;
Fear not thy sons; they shall do well enough.",1155,19576
662684,1065,"Come, Lucius, come; stay not to talk with them.",1201,19576
662685,1066,"[Exeunt]
[Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON with LAVINIA, ravished;]
her hands cut off, and her tongue cut out]",1261,19576
662686,1070,"So, now go tell, an if thy tongue can speak,
Who 'twas that cut thy tongue and ravish'd thee.",305,19577
662687,1072,"Write down thy mind, bewray thy meaning so,
An if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe.",243,19577
662688,1074,"See, how with signs and tokens she can scrowl.",305,19577
662689,1075,"Go home, call for sweet water, wash thy hands.",243,19577
662690,1076,"She hath no tongue to call, nor hands to wash;
And so let's leave her to her silent walks.",305,19577
662691,1078,"An 'twere my case, I should go hang myself.",243,19577
662692,1079,If thou hadst hands to help thee knit the cord.,305,19577
662693,1080,[Exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON],1261,19577
662694,1081,[Enter MARCUS],1261,19577
662695,1082,"Who is this? my niece, that flies away so fast!
Cousin, a word; where is your husband?
If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me!
If I do wake, some planet strike me down,
That I may slumber in eternal sleep!
Speak, gentle niece, what stern ungentle hands
Have lopp'd and hew'd and made thy body bare
Of her two branches, those sweet ornaments,
Whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in,
And might not gain so great a happiness
As have thy love? Why dost not speak to me?
Alas, a crimson river of warm blood,
Like to a bubbling fountain stirr'd with wind,
Doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips,
Coming and going with thy honey breath.
But, sure, some Tereus hath deflowered thee,
And, lest thou shouldst detect him, cut thy tongue.
Ah, now thou turn'st away thy face for shame!
And, notwithstanding all this loss of blood,
As from a conduit with three issuing spouts,
Yet do thy cheeks look red as Titan's face
Blushing to be encountered with a cloud.
Shall I speak for thee? shall I say 'tis so?
O, that I knew thy heart; and knew the beast,
That I might rail at him, to ease my mind!
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.
Fair Philomela, she but lost her tongue,
And in a tedious sampler sew'd her mind:
But, lovely niece, that mean is cut from thee;
A craftier Tereus, cousin, hast thou met,
And he hath cut those pretty fingers off,
That could have better sew'd than Philomel.
O, had the monster seen those lily hands
Tremble, like aspen-leaves, upon a lute,
And make the silken strings delight to kiss them,
He would not then have touch'd them for his life!
Or, had he heard the heavenly harmony
Which that sweet tongue hath made,
He would have dropp'd his knife, and fell asleep
As Cerberus at the Thracian poet's feet.
Come, let us go, and make thy father blind;
For such a sight will blind a father's eye:
One hour's storm will drown the fragrant meads;
What will whole months of tears thy father's eyes?
Do not draw back, for we will mourn with thee
O, could our mourning ease thy misery!",732,19577
662696,1129,"[Exeunt]
[Enter Judges, Senators and Tribunes, with MARTIUS]
and QUINTUS, bound, passing on to the place of
execution; TITUS going before, pleading]",1261,19577
662697,1135,"Hear me, grave fathers! noble tribunes, stay!
For pity of mine age, whose youth was spent
In dangerous wars, whilst you securely slept;
For all my blood in Rome's great quarrel shed;
For all the frosty nights that I have watch'd;
And for these bitter tears, which now you see
Filling the aged wrinkles in my cheeks;
Be pitiful to my condemned sons,
Whose souls are not corrupted as 'tis thought.
For two and twenty sons I never wept,
Because they died in honour's lofty bed.
[Lieth down; the Judges, &c., pass by him, and Exeunt]
For these, these, tribunes, in the dust I write
My heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears:
Let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite;
My sons' sweet blood will make it shame and blush.
O earth, I will befriend thee more with rain,
That shall distil from these two ancient urns,
Than youthful April shall with all his showers:
In summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still;
In winter with warm tears I'll melt the snow
And keep eternal spring-time on thy face,
So thou refuse to drink my dear sons' blood.
[Enter LUCIUS, with his sword drawn]
O reverend tribunes! O gentle, aged men!
Unbind my sons, reverse the doom of death;
And let me say, that never wept before,
My tears are now prevailing orators.",1201,19578
662698,1163,"O noble father, you lament in vain:
The tribunes hear you not; no man is by;
And you recount your sorrows to a stone.",716,19578
662699,1166,"Ah, Lucius, for thy brothers let me plead.
Grave tribunes, once more I entreat of you,--",1201,19578
662700,1168,"My gracious lord, no tribune hears you speak.",716,19578
662701,1169,"Why, tis no matter, man; if they did hear,
They would not mark me, or if they did mark,
They would not pity me, yet plead I must;
And bootless unto them [--]
Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones;
Who, though they cannot answer my distress,
Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes,
For that they will not intercept my tale:
When I do weep, they humbly at my feet
Receive my tears and seem to weep with me;
And, were they but attired in grave weeds,
Rome could afford no tribune like to these.
A stone is soft as wax,--tribunes more hard than stones;
A stone is silent, and offendeth not,
And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death.
[Rises]
But wherefore stand'st thou with thy weapon drawn?",1201,19578
662702,1186,"To rescue my two brothers from their death:
For which attempt the judges have pronounced
My everlasting doom of banishment.",716,19578
662703,1189,"O happy man! they have befriended thee.
Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive
That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers?
Tigers must prey, and Rome affords no prey
But me and mine: how happy art thou, then,
From these devourers to be banished!
But who comes with our brother Marcus here?",1201,19578
662704,1196,[Enter MARCUS and LAVINIA],1261,19578
662705,1197,"Titus, prepare thy aged eyes to weep;
Or, if not so, thy noble heart to break:
I bring consuming sorrow to thine age.",732,19578
662706,1200,"Will it consume me? let me see it, then.",1201,19578
662707,1201,This was thy daughter.,732,19578
662708,1202,"Why, Marcus, so she is.",1201,19578
662709,1203,"Ay me, this object kills me!",716,19578
662710,1204,"Faint-hearted boy, arise, and look upon her.
Speak, Lavinia, what accursed hand
Hath made thee handless in thy father's sight?
What fool hath added water to the sea,
Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy?
My grief was at the height before thou camest,
And now like Nilus, it disdaineth bounds.
Give me a sword, I'll chop off my hands too;
For they have fought for Rome, and all in vain;
And they have nursed this woe, in feeding life;
In bootless prayer have they been held up,
And they have served me to effectless use:
Now all the service I require of them
Is that the one will help to cut the other.
'Tis well, Lavinia, that thou hast no hands;
For hands, to do Rome service, are but vain.",1201,19578
662711,1220,"Speak, gentle sister, who hath martyr'd thee?",716,19578
662712,1221,"O, that delightful engine of her thoughts
That blabb'd them with such pleasing eloquence,
Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage,
Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung
Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear!",732,19578
662713,1226,"O, say thou for her, who hath done this deed?",716,19578
662714,1227,"O, thus I found her, straying in the park,
Seeking to hide herself, as doth the deer
That hath received some unrecuring wound.",732,19578
662715,1230,"It was my deer; and he that wounded her
Hath hurt me more than had he killed me dead:
For now I stand as one upon a rock
Environed with a wilderness of sea,
Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave,
Expecting ever when some envious surge
Will in his brinish bowels swallow him.
This way to death my wretched sons are gone;
Here stands my other son, a banished man,
And here my brother, weeping at my woes.
But that which gives my soul the greatest spurn,
Is dear Lavinia, dearer than my soul.
Had I but seen thy picture in this plight,
It would have madded me: what shall I do
Now I behold thy lively body so?
Thou hast no hands, to wipe away thy tears:
Nor tongue, to tell me who hath martyr'd thee:
Thy husband he is dead: and for his death
Thy brothers are condemn'd, and dead by this.
Look, Marcus! ah, son Lucius, look on her!
When I did name her brothers, then fresh tears
Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew
Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd.",1201,19578
662716,1253,"Perchance she weeps because they kill'd her husband;
Perchance because she knows them innocent.",732,19578
662717,1255,"If they did kill thy husband, then be joyful
Because the law hath ta'en revenge on them.
No, no, they would not do so foul a deed;
Witness the sorrow that their sister makes.
Gentle Lavinia, let me kiss thy lips.
Or make some sign how I may do thee ease:
Shall thy good uncle, and thy brother Lucius,
And thou, and I, sit round about some fountain,
Looking all downwards to behold our cheeks
How they are stain'd, as meadows, yet not dry,
With miry slime left on them by a flood?
And in the fountain shall we gaze so long
Till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness,
And made a brine-pit with our bitter tears?
Or shall we cut away our hands, like thine?
Or shall we bite our tongues, and in dumb shows
Pass the remainder of our hateful days?
What shall we do? let us, that have our tongues,
Plot some deuce of further misery,
To make us wonder'd at in time to come.",1201,19578
662718,1275,"Sweet father, cease your tears; for, at your grief,
See how my wretched sister sobs and weeps.",716,19578
662719,1277,"Patience, dear niece. Good Titus, dry thine eyes.",732,19578
662720,1278,"Ah, Marcus, Marcus! brother, well I wot
Thy napkin cannot drink a tear of mine,
For thou, poor man, hast drown'd it with thine own.",1201,19578
662721,1281,"Ah, my Lavinia, I will wipe thy cheeks.",716,19578
662722,1282,"Mark, Marcus, mark! I understand her signs:
Had she a tongue to speak, now would she say
That to her brother which I said to thee:
His napkin, with his true tears all bewet,
Can do no service on her sorrowful cheeks.
O, what a sympathy of woe is this,
As far from help as Limbo is from bliss!",1201,19578
662723,1289,[Enter AARON],1261,19578
662724,1290,"Titus Andronicus, my lord the emperor
Sends thee this word,--that, if thou love thy sons,
Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus,
Or any one of you, chop off your hand,
And send it to the king: he for the same
Will send thee hither both thy sons alive;
And that shall be the ransom for their fault.",44,19578
662725,1297,"O gracious emperor! O gentle Aaron!
Did ever raven sing so like a lark,
That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?
With all my heart, I'll send the emperor My hand:
Good Aaron, wilt thou help to chop it off?",1201,19578
662726,1302,"Stay, father! for that noble hand of thine,
That hath thrown down so many enemies,
Shall not be sent: my hand will serve the turn:
My youth can better spare my blood than you;
And therefore mine shall save my brothers' lives.",716,19578
662727,1307,"Which of your hands hath not defended Rome,
And rear'd aloft the bloody battle-axe,
Writing destruction on the enemy's castle?
O, none of both but are of high desert:
My hand hath been but idle; let it serve
To ransom my two nephews from their death;
Then have I kept it to a worthy end.",732,19578
662728,1314,"Nay, come, agree whose hand shall go along,
For fear they die before their pardon come.",44,19578
662729,1316,My hand shall go.,732,19578
662730,1317,"By heaven, it shall not go!",716,19578
662731,1318,"Sirs, strive no more: such wither'd herbs as these
Are meet for plucking up, and therefore mine.",1201,19578
662732,1320,"Sweet father, if I shall be thought thy son,
Let me redeem my brothers both from death.",716,19578
662733,1322,"And, for our father's sake and mother's care,
Now let me show a brother's love to thee.",732,19578
662734,1324,Agree between you; I will spare my hand.,1201,19578
662735,1325,Then I'll go fetch an axe.,716,19578
662736,1326,But I will use the axe.,732,19578
662737,1327,[Exeunt LUCIUS and MARCUS],1261,19578
662738,1328,"Come hither, Aaron; I'll deceive them both:
Lend me thy hand, and I will give thee mine.",1201,19578
662739,1330,"[Aside] If that be call'd deceit, I will be honest,
And never, whilst I live, deceive men so:
But I'll deceive you in another sort,
And that you'll say, ere half an hour pass.",44,19578
662740,1334,[Cuts off TITUS's hand],1261,19578
662741,1335,[Re-enter LUCIUS and MARCUS],1261,19578
662742,1336,"Now stay your strife: what shall be is dispatch'd.
Good Aaron, give his majesty my hand:
Tell him it was a hand that warded him
From thousand dangers; bid him bury it
More hath it merited; that let it have.
As for my sons, say I account of them
As jewels purchased at an easy price;
And yet dear too, because I bought mine own.",1201,19578
662743,1344,"I go, Andronicus: and for thy hand
Look by and by to have thy sons with thee.
[Aside]
Their heads, I mean. O, how this villany
Doth fat me with the very thoughts of it!
Let fools do good, and fair men call for grace.
Aaron will have his soul black like his face.",44,19578
662744,1351,[Exit],1261,19578
662745,1352,"O, here I lift this one hand up to heaven,
And bow this feeble ruin to the earth:
If any power pities wretched tears,
To that I call!
[To LAVINIA]
What, wilt thou kneel with me?
Do, then, dear heart; for heaven shall hear our prayers;
Or with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin dim,
And stain the sun with fog, as sometime clouds
When they do hug him in their melting bosoms.",1201,19578
662746,1362,"O brother, speak with possibilities,
And do not break into these deep extremes.",732,19578
662747,1364,"Is not my sorrow deep, having no bottom?
Then be my passions bottomless with them.",1201,19578
662748,1366,"But yet let reason govern thy lament.TITUS ANDRONICUS. If there were reason for these miseries,
Then into limits could I bind my woes:
When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow?
If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad,
Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face?
And wilt thou have a reason for this coil?
I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow!
She is the weeping welkin, I the earth:
Then must my sea be moved with her sighs;
Then must my earth with her continual tears
Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd;
For why my bowels cannot hide her woes,
But like a drunkard must I vomit them.
Then give me leave, for losers will have leave
To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.",732,19578
662749,1381,"[Enter a Messenger, with two heads and a hand]",1261,19578
662750,1382,"Worthy Andronicus, ill art thou repaid
For that good hand thou sent'st the emperor.
Here are the heads of thy two noble sons;
And here's thy hand, in scorn to thee sent back;
Thy griefs their sports, thy resolution mock'd;
That woe is me to think upon thy woes
More than remembrance of my father's death.",789,19578
662751,1389,[Exit],1261,19578
662752,1390,"Now let hot AEtna cool in Sicily,
And be my heart an ever-burning hell!
These miseries are more than may be borne.
To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal;
But sorrow flouted at is double death.",732,19578
662753,1395,"Ah, that this sight should make so deep a wound,
And yet detested life not shrink thereat!
That ever death should let life bear his name,
Where life hath no more interest but to breathe!",716,19578
662754,1399,[LAVINIA kisses TITUS],1261,19578
662755,1400,"Alas, poor heart, that kiss is comfortless
As frozen water to a starved snake.",732,19578
662756,1402,When will this fearful slumber have an end?,1201,19578
662757,1403,"Now, farewell, flattery: die, Andronicus;
Thou dost not slumber: see, thy two sons' heads,
Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here:
Thy other banish'd son, with this dear sight
Struck pale and bloodless; and thy brother, I,
Even like a stony image, cold and numb.
Ah, now no more will I control thy griefs:
Rend off thy silver hair, thy other hand
Gnawing with thy teeth; and be this dismal sight
The closing up of our most wretched eyes;
Now is a time to storm; why art thou still?",732,19578
662758,1414,"Ha, ha, ha!",1201,19578
662759,1415,Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour.,732,19578
662760,1416,"Why, I have not another tear to shed:
Besides, this sorrow is an enemy,
And would usurp upon my watery eyes
And make them blind with tributary tears:
Then which way shall I find Revenge's cave?
For these two heads do seem to speak to me,
And threat me I shall never come to bliss
Till all these mischiefs be return'd again
Even in their throats that have committed them.
Come, let me see what task I have to do.
You heavy people, circle me about,
That I may turn me to each one of you,
And swear unto my soul to right your wrongs.
The vow is made. Come, brother, take a head;
And in this hand the other I will bear.
Lavinia, thou shalt be employ'd: these arms!
Bear thou my hand, sweet wench, between thy teeth.
As for thee, boy, go get thee from my sight;
Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay:
Hie to the Goths, and raise an army there:
And, if you love me, as I think you do,
Let's kiss and part, for we have much to do.",1201,19578
662761,1438,"[Exeunt TITUS, MARCUS, and LAVINIA]",1261,19578
662762,1439,"Farewell Andronicus, my noble father,
The wofull'st man that ever lived in Rome:
Farewell, proud Rome; till Lucius come again,
He leaves his pledges dearer than his life:
Farewell, Lavinia, my noble sister;
O, would thou wert as thou tofore hast been!
But now nor Lucius nor Lavinia lives
But in oblivion and hateful griefs.
If Lucius live, he will requite your wrongs;
And make proud Saturnine and his empress
Beg at the gates, like Tarquin and his queen.
Now will I to the Goths, and raise a power,
To be revenged on Rome and Saturnine.",716,19578
662763,1452,[Exit],1261,19578
662764,1454,"[Enter TITUS, MARCUS, LAVINIA and Young LUCIUS, a boy]",1261,19579
662765,1455,"So, so; now sit: and look you eat no more
Than will preserve just so much strength in us
As will revenge these bitter woes of ours.
Marcus, unknit that sorrow-wreathen knot:
Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands,
And cannot passionate our tenfold grief
With folded arms. This poor right hand of mine
Is left to tyrannize upon my breast;
Who, when my heart, all mad with misery,
Beats in this hollow prison of my flesh,
Then thus I thump it down.
[To LAVINIA]
Thou map of woe, that thus dost talk in signs!
When thy poor heart beats with outrageous beating,
Thou canst not strike it thus to make it still.
Wound it with sighing, girl, kill it with groans;
Or get some little knife between thy teeth,
And just against thy heart make thou a hole;
That all the tears that thy poor eyes let fall
May run into that sink, and soaking in
Drown the lamenting fool in sea-salt tears.",1201,19579
662766,1476,"Fie, brother, fie! teach her not thus to lay
Such violent hands upon her tender life.",732,19579
662767,1478,"How now! has sorrow made thee dote already?
Why, Marcus, no man should be mad but I.
What violent hands can she lay on her life?
Ah, wherefore dost thou urge the name of hands;
To bid AEneas tell the tale twice o'er,
How Troy was burnt and he made miserable?
O, handle not the theme, to talk of hands,
Lest we remember still that we have none.
Fie, fie, how franticly I square my talk,
As if we should forget we had no hands,
If Marcus did not name the word of hands!
Come, let's fall to; and, gentle girl, eat this:
Here is no drink! Hark, Marcus, what she says;
I can interpret all her martyr'd signs;
She says she drinks no other drink but tears,
Brew'd with her sorrow, mesh'd upon her cheeks:
Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought;
In thy dumb action will I be as perfect
As begging hermits in their holy prayers:
Thou shalt not sigh, nor hold thy stumps to heaven,
Nor wink, nor nod, nor kneel, nor make a sign,
But I of these will wrest an alphabet
And by still practise learn to know thy meaning.",1201,19579
662768,1501,"Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments:
Make my aunt merry with some pleasing tale.",1265,19579
662769,1503,"Alas, the tender boy, in passion moved,
Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness.",732,19579
662770,1505,"Peace, tender sapling; thou art made of tears,
And tears will quickly melt thy life away.
[MARCUS strikes the dish with a knife]
What dost thou strike at, Marcus, with thy knife?",1201,19579
662771,1509,"At that that I have kill'd, my lord; a fly.",732,19579
662772,1510,"Out on thee, murderer! thou kill'st my heart;
Mine eyes are cloy'd with view of tyranny:
A deed of death done on the innocent
Becomes not Titus' brother: get thee gone:
I see thou art not for my company.",1201,19579
662773,1515,"Alas, my lord, I have but kill'd a fly.",732,19579
662774,1516,"But how, if that fly had a father and mother?
How would he hang his slender gilded wings,
And buzz lamenting doings in the air!
Poor harmless fly,
That, with his pretty buzzing melody,
Came here to make us merry! and thou hast
kill'd him.",1201,19579
662775,1523,"Pardon me, sir; it was a black ill-favor'd fly,
Like to the empress' Moor; therefore I kill'd him.",732,19579
662776,1525,"O, O, O,
Then pardon me for reprehending thee,
For thou hast done a charitable deed.
Give me thy knife, I will insult on him;
Flattering myself, as if it were the Moor
Come hither purposely to poison me.--
There's for thyself, and that's for Tamora.
Ah, sirrah!
Yet, I think, we are not brought so low,
But that between us we can kill a fly
That comes in likeness of a coal-black Moor.",1201,19579
662777,1536,"Alas, poor man! grief has so wrought on him,
He takes false shadows for true substances.",732,19579
662778,1538,"Come, take away. Lavinia, go with me:
I'll to thy closet; and go read with thee
Sad stories chanced in the times of old.
Come, boy, and go with me: thy sight is young,
And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.",1201,19579
662779,1543,"[Exeunt]
[Enter young LUCIUS, and LAVINIA running after him,]
and the boy flies from her, with books under his
arm. Then enter TITUS and MARCUS]",1261,19579
662780,1549,"Help, grandsire, help! my aunt Lavinia
Follows me every where, I know not why:
Good uncle Marcus, see how swift she comes.
Alas, sweet aunt, I know not what you mean.",1265,19580
662781,1553,"Stand by me, Lucius; do not fear thine aunt.",732,19580
662782,1554,"She loves thee, boy, too well to do thee harm.",1201,19580
662783,1555,"Ay, when my father was in Rome she did.",1265,19580
662784,1556,What means my niece Lavinia by these signs?,732,19580
662785,1557,"Fear her not, Lucius: somewhat doth she mean:
See, Lucius, see how much she makes of thee:
Somewhither would she have thee go with her.
Ah, boy, Cornelia never with more care
Read to her sons than she hath read to thee
Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator.",1201,19580
662786,1563,Canst thou not guess wherefore she plies thee thus?,732,19580
662787,1564,"My lord, I know not, I, nor can I guess,
Unless some fit or frenzy do possess her:
For I have heard my grandsire say full oft,
Extremity of griefs would make men mad;
And I have read that Hecuba of Troy
Ran mad through sorrow: that made me to fear;
Although, my lord, I know my noble aunt
Loves me as dear as e'er my mother did,
And would not, but in fury, fright my youth:
Which made me down to throw my books, and fly--
Causeless, perhaps. But pardon me, sweet aunt:
And, madam, if my uncle Marcus go,
I will most willingly attend your ladyship.",1265,19580
662788,1577,"Lucius, I will.
[LAVINIA turns over with her stumps the books which]
LUCIUS has let fall]",732,19580
662789,1580,"How now, Lavinia! Marcus, what means this?
Some book there is that she desires to see.
Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.
But thou art deeper read, and better skill'd
Come, and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens
Reveal the damn'd contriver of this deed.
Why lifts she up her arms in sequence thus?",1201,19580
662790,1588,"I think she means that there was more than one
Confederate in the fact: ay, more there was;
Or else to heaven she heaves them for revenge.",732,19580
662791,1591,"Lucius, what book is that she tosseth so?",1201,19580
662792,1592,"Grandsire, 'tis Ovid's Metamorphoses;
My mother gave it me.",1265,19580
662793,1594,"For love of her that's gone,
Perhaps she cull'd it from among the rest.",732,19580
662794,1596,"Soft! see how busily she turns the leaves!
[Helping her]
What would she find? Lavinia, shall I read?
This is the tragic tale of Philomel,
And treats of Tereus' treason and his rape:
And rape, I fear, was root of thine annoy.",1201,19580
662795,1602,"See, brother, see; note how she quotes the leaves.",732,19580
662796,1603,"Lavinia, wert thou thus surprised, sweet girl,
Ravish'd and wrong'd, as Philomela was,
Forced in the ruthless, vast, and gloomy woods? See, see!
Ay, such a place there is, where we did hunt--
O, had we never, never hunted there!--
Pattern'd by that the poet here describes,
By nature made for murders and for rapes.",1201,19580
662797,1610,"O, why should nature build so foul a den,
Unless the gods delight in tragedies?",732,19580
662798,1612,"Give signs, sweet girl, for here are none
but friends,
What Roman lord it was durst do the deed:
Or slunk not Saturnine, as Tarquin erst,
That left the camp to sin in Lucrece' bed?",1201,19580
662799,1617,"Sit down, sweet niece: brother, sit down by me.
Apollo, Pallas, Jove, or Mercury,
Inspire me, that I may this treason find!
My lord, look here: look here, Lavinia:
This sandy plot is plain; guide, if thou canst
This after me, when I have writ my name
Without the help of any hand at all.
[He writes his name with his staff, and guides it]
with feet and mouth]
Cursed be that heart that forced us to this shift!
Write thou good niece; and here display, at last,
What God will have discover'd for revenge;
Heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain,
That we may know the traitors and the truth!
[She takes the staff in her mouth, and guides it]
with her stumps, and writes]",732,19580
662800,1633,"O, do ye read, my lord, what she hath writ?
'Stuprum. Chiron. Demetrius.'",1201,19580
662801,1635,"What, what! the lustful sons of Tamora
Performers of this heinous, bloody deed?",732,19580
662802,1637,"Magni Dominator poli,
Tam lentus audis scelera? tam lentus vides?",1201,19580
662803,1639,"O, calm thee, gentle lord; although I know
There is enough written upon this earth
To stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts
And arm the minds of infants to exclaims.
My lord, kneel down with me; Lavinia, kneel;
And kneel, sweet boy, the Roman Hector's hope;
And swear with me, as, with the woful fere
And father of that chaste dishonour'd dame,
Lord Junius Brutus sware for Lucrece' rape,
That we will prosecute by good advice
Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths,
And see their blood, or die with this reproach.",732,19580
662804,1651,"'Tis sure enough, an you knew how.
But if you hunt these bear-whelps, then beware:
The dam will wake; and, if she wind you once,
She's with the lion deeply still in league,
And lulls him whilst she playeth on her back,
And when he sleeps will she do what she list.
You are a young huntsman, Marcus; let it alone;
And, come, I will go get a leaf of brass,
And with a gad of steel will write these words,
And lay it by: the angry northern wind
Will blow these sands, like Sibyl's leaves, abroad,
And where's your lesson, then? Boy, what say you?",1201,19580
662805,1663,"I say, my lord, that if I were a man,
Their mother's bed-chamber should not be safe
For these bad bondmen to the yoke of Rome.",1265,19580
662806,1666,"Ay, that's my boy! thy father hath full oft
For his ungrateful country done the like.",732,19580
662807,1668,"And, uncle, so will I, an if I live.",1265,19580
662808,1669,"Come, go with me into mine armoury;
Lucius, I'll fit thee; and withal, my boy,
Shalt carry from me to the empress' sons
Presents that I intend to send them both:
Come, come; thou'lt do thy message, wilt thou not?",1201,19580
662809,1674,"Ay, with my dagger in their bosoms, grandsire.",1265,19580
662810,1675,"No, boy, not so; I'll teach thee another course.
Lavinia, come. Marcus, look to my house:
Lucius and I'll go brave it at the court:
Ay, marry, will we, sir; and we'll be waited on.",1201,19580
662811,1679,"[Exeunt TITUS, LAVINIA, and Young LUCIUS]",1261,19580
662812,1680,"O heavens, can you hear a good man groan,
And not relent, or not compassion him?
Marcus, attend him in his ecstasy,
That hath more scars of sorrow in his heart
Than foemen's marks upon his batter'd shield;
But yet so just that he will not revenge.
Revenge, ye heavens, for old Andronicus!",732,19580
662813,1687,"[Exit]
[Enter, from one side, AARON, DEMETRIUS, and]
CHIRON; from the other side, Young LUCIUS, and an
Attendant, with a bundle of weapons, and verses
writ upon them]",1261,19580
662814,1693,"Demetrius, here's the son of Lucius;
He hath some message to deliver us.",243,19581
662815,1695,"Ay, some mad message from his mad grandfather.",44,19581
662816,1696,"My lords, with all the humbleness I may,
I greet your honours from Andronicus.
[Aside]
And pray the Roman gods confound you both!",1265,19581
662817,1700,"Gramercy, lovely Lucius: what's the news?",305,19581
662818,1701,"[Aside] That you are both decipher'd, that's the news,
For villains mark'd with rape.--May it please you,
My grandsire, well advised, hath sent by me
The goodliest weapons of his armoury
To gratify your honourable youth,
The hope of Rome; for so he bade me say;
And so I do, and with his gifts present
Your lordships, that, whenever you have need,
You may be armed and appointed well:
And so I leave you both:
[Aside]
like bloody villains.",1265,19581
662819,1713,"[Exeunt Young LUCIUS, and Attendant]",1261,19581
662820,1714,"What's here? A scroll; and written round about?
Let's see;
[Reads]
'Integer vitae, scelerisque purus,
Non eget Mauri jaculis, nec arcu.'",305,19581
662821,1719,"O, 'tis a verse in Horace; I know it well:
I read it in the grammar long ago.",243,19581
662822,1721,"Ay, just; a verse in Horace; right, you have it.
[Aside]
Now, what a thing it is to be an ass!
Here's no sound jest! the old man hath found their guilt;
And sends them weapons wrapped about with lines,
That wound, beyond their feeling, to the quick.
But were our witty empress well afoot,
She would applaud Andronicus' conceit:
But let her rest in her unrest awhile.
And now, young lords, was't not a happy star
Led us to Rome, strangers, and more than so,
Captives, to be advanced to this height?
It did me good, before the palace gate
To brave the tribune in his brother's hearing.",44,19581
662823,1735,"But me more good, to see so great a lord
Basely insinuate and send us gifts.",305,19581
662824,1737,"Had he not reason, Lord Demetrius?
Did you not use his daughter very friendly?",44,19581
662825,1739,"I would we had a thousand Roman dames
At such a bay, by turn to serve our lust.",305,19581
662826,1741,A charitable wish and full of love.,243,19581
662827,1742,Here lacks but your mother for to say amen.,44,19581
662828,1743,And that would she for twenty thousand more.,243,19581
662829,1744,"Come, let us go; and pray to all the gods
For our beloved mother in her pains.",305,19581
662830,1746,[Aside] Pray to the devils; the gods have given us over.,44,19581
662831,1747,[Trumpets sound within],1261,19581
662832,1748,Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?,305,19581
662833,1749,"Belike, for joy the emperor hath a son.",243,19581
662834,1750,Soft! who comes here?,305,19581
662835,1751,"[Enter a Nurse, with a blackamoor Child in her arms]",1261,19581
662836,1752,"Good morrow, lords:
O, tell me, did you see Aaron the Moor?",819,19581
662837,1754,"Well, more or less, or ne'er a whit at all,
Here Aaron is; and what with Aaron now?",44,19581
662838,1756,"O gentle Aaron, we are all undone!
Now help, or woe betide thee evermore!",819,19581
662839,1758,"Why, what a caterwauling dost thou keep!
What dost thou wrap and fumble in thine arms?",44,19581
662840,1760,"O, that which I would hide from heaven's eye,
Our empress' shame, and stately Rome's disgrace!
She is deliver'd, lords; she is deliver'd.",819,19581
662841,1763,To whom?,44,19581
662842,1764,"I mean, she is brought a-bed.",819,19581
662843,1765,"Well, God give her good rest! What hath he sent her?",44,19581
662844,1766,A devil.,819,19581
662845,1767,"Why, then she is the devil's dam; a joyful issue.",44,19581
662846,1768,"A joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue:
Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toad
Amongst the fairest breeders of our clime:
The empress sends it thee, thy stamp, thy seal,
And bids thee christen it with thy dagger's point.",819,19581
662847,1773,"'Zounds, ye whore! is black so base a hue?
Sweet blowse, you are a beauteous blossom, sure.",44,19581
662848,1775,"Villain, what hast thou done?",305,19581
662849,1776,That which thou canst not undo.,44,19581
662850,1777,Thou hast undone our mother.,243,19581
662851,1778,"Villain, I have done thy mother.",44,19581
662852,1779,"And therein, hellish dog, thou hast undone.
Woe to her chance, and damn'd her loathed choice!
Accursed the offspring of so foul a fiend!",305,19581
662853,1782,It shall not live.,243,19581
662854,1783,It shall not die.,44,19581
662855,1784,"Aaron, it must; the mother wills it so.",819,19581
662856,1785,"What, must it, nurse? then let no man but I
Do execution on my flesh and blood.",44,19581
662857,1787,"I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point:
Nurse, give it me; my sword shall soon dispatch it.",305,19581
662858,1789,"Sooner this sword shall plough thy bowels up.
[Takes the Child from the Nurse, and draws]
Stay, murderous villains! will you kill your brother?
Now, by the burning tapers of the sky,
That shone so brightly when this boy was got,
He dies upon my scimitar's sharp point
That touches this my first-born son and heir!
I tell you, younglings, not Enceladus,
With all his threatening band of Typhon's brood,
Nor great Alcides, nor the god of war,
Shall seize this prey out of his father's hands.
What, what, ye sanguine, shallow-hearted boys!
Ye white-limed walls! ye alehouse painted signs!
Coal-black is better than another hue,
In that it scorns to bear another hue;
For all the water in the ocean
Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,
Although she lave them hourly in the flood.
Tell the empress from me, I am of age
To keep mine own, excuse it how she can.",44,19581
662859,1809,Wilt thou betray thy noble mistress thus?,305,19581
662860,1810,"My mistress is my mistress; this myself,
The vigour and the picture of my youth:
This before all the world do I prefer;
This maugre all the world will I keep safe,
Or some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.",44,19581
662861,1815,By this our mother is forever shamed.,305,19581
662862,1816,Rome will despise her for this foul escape.,243,19581
662863,1817,"The emperor, in his rage, will doom her death.",819,19581
662864,1818,I blush to think upon this ignomy.,243,19581
662865,1819,"Why, there's the privilege your beauty bears:
Fie, treacherous hue, that will betray with blushing
The close enacts and counsels of the heart!
Here's a young lad framed of another leer:
Look, how the black slave smiles upon the father,
As who should say 'Old lad, I am thine own.'
He is your brother, lords, sensibly fed
Of that self-blood that first gave life to you,
And from that womb where you imprison'd were
He is enfranchised and come to light:
Nay, he is your brother by the surer side,
Although my seal be stamped in his face.",44,19581
662866,1831,"Aaron, what shall I say unto the empress?",819,19581
662867,1832,"Advise thee, Aaron, what is to be done,
And we will all subscribe to thy advice:
Save thou the child, so we may all be safe.",305,19581
662868,1835,"Then sit we down, and let us all consult.
My son and I will have the wind of you:
Keep there: now talk at pleasure of your safety.",44,19581
662869,1838,[They sit],1261,19581
662870,1839,How many women saw this child of his?,305,19581
662871,1840,"Why, so, brave lords! when we join in league,
I am a lamb: but if you brave the Moor,
The chafed boar, the mountain lioness,
The ocean swells not so as Aaron storms.
But say, again; how many saw the child?",44,19581
662872,1845,"Cornelia the midwife and myself;
And no one else but the deliver'd empress.",819,19581
662873,1847,"The empress, the midwife, and yourself:
Two may keep counsel when the third's away:
Go to the empress, tell her this I said.
[He kills the nurse]
Weke, weke! so cries a pig prepared to the spit.",44,19581
662874,1852,"What mean'st thou, Aaron? wherefore didst thou this?",305,19581
662875,1853,"O Lord, sir, 'tis a deed of policy:
Shall she live to betray this guilt of ours,
A long-tongued babbling gossip? no, lords, no:
And now be it known to you my full intent.
Not far, one Muli lives, my countryman;
His wife but yesternight was brought to bed;
His child is like to her, fair as you are:
Go pack with him, and give the mother gold,
And tell them both the circumstance of all;
And how by this their child shall be advanced,
And be received for the emperor's heir,
And substituted in the place of mine,
To calm this tempest whirling in the court;
And let the emperor dandle him for his own.
Hark ye, lords; ye see I have given her physic,
[Pointing to the nurse]
And you must needs bestow her funeral;
The fields are near, and you are gallant grooms:
This done, see that you take no longer days,
But send the midwife presently to me.
The midwife and the nurse well made away,
Then let the ladies tattle what they please.",44,19581
662876,1875,"Aaron, I see thou wilt not trust the air
With secrets.",243,19581
662877,1877,"For this care of Tamora,
Herself and hers are highly bound to thee.
[Exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON bearing off the]
Nurse's body]",305,19581
662878,1881,"Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies;
There to dispose this treasure in mine arms,
And secretly to greet the empress' friends.
Come on, you thick lipp'd slave, I'll bear you hence;
For it is you that puts us to our shifts:
I'll make you feed on berries and on roots,
And feed on curds and whey, and suck the goat,
And cabin in a cave, and bring you up
To be a warrior, and command a camp.",44,19581
662879,1890,"[Exit]
[Enter TITUS, bearing arrows with letters at the]
ends of them; with him, MARCUS, Young LUCIUS,
PUBLIUS, SEMPRONIUS, CAIUS, and other Gentlemen,
with bows]",1261,19581
662880,1896,"Come, Marcus; come, kinsmen; this is the way.
Sir boy, now let me see your archery;
Look ye draw home enough, and 'tis there straight.
Terras Astraea reliquit:
Be you remember'd, Marcus, she's gone, she's fled.
Sirs, take you to your tools. You, cousins, shall
Go sound the ocean, and cast your nets;
Happily you may catch her in the sea;
Yet there's as little justice as at land:
No; Publius and Sempronius, you must do it;
'Tis you must dig with mattock and with spade,
And pierce the inmost centre of the earth:
Then, when you come to Pluto's region,
I pray you, deliver him this petition;
Tell him, it is for justice and for aid,
And that it comes from old Andronicus,
Shaken with sorrows in ungrateful Rome.
Ah, Rome! Well, well; I made thee miserable
What time I threw the people's suffrages
On him that thus doth tyrannize o'er me.
Go, get you gone; and pray be careful all,
And leave you not a man-of-war unsearch'd:
This wicked emperor may have shipp'd her hence;
And, kinsmen, then we may go pipe for justice.",1201,19582
662881,1920,"O Publius, is not this a heavy case,
To see thy noble uncle thus distract?",732,19582
662882,1922,"Therefore, my lord, it highly us concerns
By day and night to attend him carefully,
And feed his humour kindly as we may,
Till time beget some careful remedy.",927,19582
662883,1926,"Kinsmen, his sorrows are past remedy.
Join with the Goths; and with revengeful war
Take wreak on Rome for this ingratitude,
And vengeance on the traitor Saturnine.",732,19582
662884,1930,"Publius, how now! how now, my masters!
What, have you met with her?",1201,19582
662885,1932,"No, my good lord; but Pluto sends you word,
If you will have Revenge from hell, you shall:
Marry, for Justice, she is so employ'd,
He thinks, with Jove in heaven, or somewhere else,
So that perforce you must needs stay a time.",927,19582
662886,1937,"He doth me wrong to feed me with delays.
I'll dive into the burning lake below,
And pull her out of Acheron by the heels.
Marcus, we are but shrubs, no cedars we
No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size;
But metal, Marcus, steel to the very back,
Yet wrung with wrongs more than our backs can bear:
And, sith there's no justice in earth nor hell,
We will solicit heaven and move the gods
To send down Justice for to wreak our wrongs.
Come, to this gear. You are a good archer, Marcus;
[He gives them the arrows]
'Ad Jovem,' that's for you: here, 'Ad Apollinem:'
'Ad Martem,' that's for myself:
Here, boy, to Pallas: here, to Mercury:
To Saturn, Caius, not to Saturnine;
You were as good to shoot against the wind.
To it, boy! Marcus, loose when I bid.
Of my word, I have written to effect;
There's not a god left unsolicited.",1201,19582
662887,1957,"Kinsmen, shoot all your shafts into the court:
We will afflict the emperor in his pride.",732,19582
662888,1959,"Now, masters, draw.
[They shoot]
O, well said, Lucius!
Good boy, in Virgo's lap; give it Pallas.",1201,19582
662889,1963,"My lord, I aim a mile beyond the moon;
Your letter is with Jupiter by this.",732,19582
662890,1965,"Ha, ha!
Publius, Publius, what hast thou done?
See, see, thou hast shot off one of Taurus' horns.",1201,19582
662891,1968,"This was the sport, my lord: when Publius shot,
The Bull, being gall'd, gave Aries such a knock
That down fell both the Ram's horns in the court;
And who should find them but the empress' villain?
She laugh'd, and told the Moor he should not choose
But give them to his master for a present.",732,19582
662892,1974,"Why, there it goes: God give his lordship joy!
[Enter a Clown, with a basket, and two pigeons in]
it]
News, news from heaven! Marcus, the post is come.
Sirrah, what tidings? have you any letters?
Shall I have justice? what says Jupiter?",1201,19582
662893,1980,"O, the gibbet-maker! he says that he hath taken
them down again, for the man must not be hanged till
the next week.",272,19582
662894,1983,"But what says Jupiter, I ask thee?",1201,19582
662895,1984,"Alas, sir, I know not Jupiter; I never drank with him
in all my life.",272,19582
662896,1986,"Why, villain, art not thou the carrier?",1201,19582
662897,1987,"Ay, of my pigeons, sir; nothing else.",272,19582
662898,1988,"Why, didst thou not come from heaven?",1201,19582
662899,1989,"From heaven! alas, sir, I never came there God
forbid I should be so bold to press to heaven in my
young days. Why, I am going with my pigeons to the
tribunal plebs, to take up a matter of brawl
betwixt my uncle and one of the emperial's men.",272,19582
662900,1994,"Why, sir, that is as fit as can be to serve for
your oration; and let him deliver the pigeons to
the emperor from you.",732,19582
662901,1997,"Tell me, can you deliver an oration to the emperor
with a grace?",1201,19582
662902,1999,"Nay, truly, sir, I could never say grace in all my life.",272,19582
662903,2000,"Sirrah, come hither: make no more ado,
But give your pigeons to the emperor:
By me thou shalt have justice at his hands.
Hold, hold; meanwhile here's money for thy charges.
Give me pen and ink. Sirrah, can you with a grace
deliver a supplication?",1201,19582
662904,2006,"Ay, sir.",272,19582
662905,2007,"Then here is a supplication for you. And when you
come to him, at the first approach you must kneel,
then kiss his foot, then deliver up your pigeons, and
then look for your reward. I'll be at hand, sir; see
you do it bravely.",1201,19582
662906,2012,"I warrant you, sir, let me alone.",272,19582
662907,2013,"Sirrah, hast thou a knife? come, let me see it.
Here, Marcus, fold it in the oration;
For thou hast made it like an humble suppliant.
And when thou hast given it the emperor,
Knock at my door, and tell me what he says.",1201,19582
662908,2018,"God be with you, sir; I will.",272,19582
662909,2019,"Come, Marcus, let us go. Publius, follow me.",1201,19582
662910,2020,"[Exeunt]
[Enter SATURNINUS, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON,]
Lords, and others; SATURNINUS with the arrows in
his hand that TITUS shot]",1261,19582
662911,2025,"Why, lords, what wrongs are these! was ever seen
An emperor in Rome thus overborne,
Troubled, confronted thus; and, for the extent
Of egal justice, used in such contempt?
My lords, you know, as know the mightful gods,
However these disturbers of our peace
Buz in the people's ears, there nought hath pass'd,
But even with law, against the willful sons
Of old Andronicus. And what an if
His sorrows have so overwhelm'd his wits,
Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks,
His fits, his frenzy, and his bitterness?
And now he writes to heaven for his redress:
See, here's to Jove, and this to Mercury;
This to Apollo; this to the god of war;
Sweet scrolls to fly about the streets of Rome!
What's this but libelling against the senate,
And blazoning our injustice every where?
A goodly humour, is it not, my lords?
As who would say, in Rome no justice were.
But if I live, his feigned ecstasies
Shall be no shelter to these outrages:
But he and his shall know that justice lives
In Saturninus' health, whom, if she sleep,
He'll so awake as she in fury shall
Cut off the proud'st conspirator that lives.",969,19583
662912,2051,"My gracious lord, my lovely Saturnine,
Lord of my life, commander of my thoughts,
Calm thee, and bear the faults of Titus' age,
The effects of sorrow for his valiant sons,
Whose loss hath pierced him deep and scarr'd his heart;
And rather comfort his distressed plight
Than prosecute the meanest or the best
For these contempts.
[Aside]
Why, thus it shall become
High-witted Tamora to gloze with all:
But, Titus, I have touched thee to the quick,
Thy life-blood out: if Aaron now be wise,
Then is all safe, the anchor's in the port.
[Enter Clown]
How now, good fellow! wouldst thou speak with us?",1155,19583
662913,2067,"Yea, forsooth, an your mistership be emperial.",272,19583
662914,2068,"Empress I am, but yonder sits the emperor.",1155,19583
662915,2069,"'Tis he. God and Saint Stephen give you good den:
I have brought you a letter and a couple of pigeons here.",272,19583
662916,2071,[SATURNINUS reads the letter],1261,19583
662917,2072,"Go, take him away, and hang him presently.",969,19583
662918,2073,How much money must I have?,272,19583
662919,2074,"Come, sirrah, you must be hanged.",1155,19583
662920,2075,"Hanged! by'r lady, then I have brought up a neck to
a fair end.",272,19583
662921,2077,"[Exit, guarded]",1261,19583
662922,2078,"Despiteful and intolerable wrongs!
Shall I endure this monstrous villany?
I know from whence this same device proceeds:
May this be borne?--as if his traitorous sons,
That died by law for murder of our brother,
Have by my means been butcher'd wrongfully!
Go, drag the villain hither by the hair;
Nor age nor honour shall shape privilege:
For this proud mock I'll be thy slaughterman;
Sly frantic wretch, that holp'st to make me great,
In hope thyself should govern Rome and me.
[Enter AEMILIUS]
What news with thee, AEmilius?",969,19583
662923,2091,"Arm, arm, my lord;--Rome never had more cause.
The Goths have gather'd head; and with a power
high-resolved men, bent to the spoil,
They hither march amain, under conduct
Of Lucius, son to old Andronicus;
Who threats, in course of this revenge, to do
As much as ever Coriolanus did.",56,19583
662924,2098,"Is warlike Lucius general of the Goths?
These tidings nip me, and I hang the head
As flowers with frost or grass beat down with storms:
Ay, now begin our sorrows to approach:
'Tis he the common people love so much;
Myself hath often over-heard them say,
When I have walked like a private man,
That Lucius' banishment was wrongfully,
And they have wish'd that Lucius were their emperor.",969,19583
662925,2107,Why should you fear? is not your city strong?,1155,19583
662926,2108,"Ay, but the citizens favor Lucius,
And will revolt from me to succor him.",969,19583
662927,2110,"King, be thy thoughts imperious, like thy name.
Is the sun dimm'd, that gnats do fly in it?
The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby,
Knowing that with the shadow of his wings
He can at pleasure stint their melody:
Even so mayst thou the giddy men of Rome.
Then cheer thy spirit : for know, thou emperor,
I will enchant the old Andronicus
With words more sweet, and yet more dangerous,
Than baits to fish, or honey-stalks to sheep,
When as the one is wounded with the bait,
The other rotted with delicious feed.",1155,19583
662928,2123,But he will not entreat his son for us.,969,19583
662929,2124,"If Tamora entreat him, then he will:
For I can smooth and fill his aged ear
With golden promises; that, were his heart
Almost impregnable, his old ears deaf,
Yet should both ear and heart obey my tongue.
[To AEmilius]
Go thou before, be our ambassador:
Say that the emperor requests a parley
Of warlike Lucius, and appoint the meeting
Even at his father's house, the old Andronicus.",1155,19583
662930,2134,"AEmilius, do this message honourably:
And if he stand on hostage for his safety,
Bid him demand what pledge will please him best.",969,19583
662931,2137,Your bidding shall I do effectually.,56,19583
662932,2138,[Exit],1261,19583
662933,2139,"Now will I to that old Andronicus;
And temper him with all the art I have,
To pluck proud Lucius from the warlike Goths.
And now, sweet emperor, be blithe again,
And bury all thy fear in my devices.",1155,19583
662934,2144,"Then go successantly, and plead to him.",969,19583
662935,2145,[Exeunt],1261,19583
662936,2148,"[Enter LUCIUS with an army of Goths, with drum and colours]",1261,19584
662937,2149,"Approved warriors, and my faithful friends,
I have received letters from great Rome,
Which signify what hate they bear their emperor
And how desirous of our sight they are.
Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness,
Imperious and impatient of your wrongs,
And wherein Rome hath done you any scath,
Let him make treble satisfaction.",716,19584
662938,2157,"Brave slip, sprung from the great Andronicus,
Whose name was once our terror, now our comfort;
Whose high exploits and honourable deeds
Ingrateful Rome requites with foul contempt,
Be bold in us: we'll follow where thou lead'st,
Like stinging bees in hottest summer's day
Led by their master to the flowered fields,
And be avenged on cursed Tamora.",5,19584
662939,2165,"And as he saith, so say we all with him.",74,19584
662940,2166,"I humbly thank him, and I thank you all.
But who comes here, led by a lusty Goth?",716,19584
662941,2168,"[Enter a Goth, leading AARON with his Child in his arms]",1261,19584
662942,2169,"Renowned Lucius, from our troops I stray'd
To gaze upon a ruinous monastery;
And, as I earnestly did fix mine eye
Upon the wasted building, suddenly
I heard a child cry underneath a wall.
I made unto the noise; when soon I heard
The crying babe controll'd with this discourse:
'Peace, tawny slave, half me and half thy dam!
Did not thy hue bewray whose brat thou art,
Had nature lent thee but thy mother's look,
Villain, thou mightst have been an emperor:
But where the bull and cow are both milk-white,
They never do beget a coal-black calf.
Peace, villain, peace!'--even thus he rates
the babe,--
'For I must bear thee to a trusty Goth;
Who, when he knows thou art the empress' babe,
Will hold thee dearly for thy mother's sake.'
With this, my weapon drawn, I rush'd upon him,
Surprised him suddenly, and brought him hither,
To use as you think needful of the man.",22,19584
662943,2190,"O worthy Goth, this is the incarnate devil
That robb'd Andronicus of his good hand;
This is the pearl that pleased your empress' eye,
And here's the base fruit of his burning lust.
Say, wall-eyed slave, whither wouldst thou convey
This growing image of thy fiend-like face?
Why dost not speak? what, deaf? not a word?
A halter, soldiers! hang him on this tree.
And by his side his fruit of bastardy.",716,19584
662944,2199,Touch not the boy; he is of royal blood.,44,19584
662945,2200,"Too like the sire for ever being good.
First hang the child, that he may see it sprawl;
A sight to vex the father's soul withal.
Get me a ladder.",716,19584
662946,2204,"[A ladder brought, which AARON is made to ascend]",1261,19584
662947,2205,"Lucius, save the child,
And bear it from me to the empress.
If thou do this, I'll show thee wondrous things,
That highly may advantage thee to hear:
If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,
I'll speak no more but 'Vengeance rot you all!'",44,19584
662948,2211,"Say on: an if it please me which thou speak'st
Thy child shall live, and I will see it nourish'd.",716,19584
662949,2213,"An if it please thee! why, assure thee, Lucius,
'Twill vex thy soul to hear what I shall speak;
For I must talk of murders, rapes and massacres,
Acts of black night, abominable deeds,
Complots of mischief, treason, villanies
Ruthful to hear, yet piteously perform'd:
And this shall all be buried by my death,
Unless thou swear to me my child shall live.",44,19584
662950,2221,Tell on thy mind; I say thy child shall live.,716,19584
662951,2222,"Swear that he shall, and then I will begin.",44,19584
662952,2223,"Who should I swear by? thou believest no god:
That granted, how canst thou believe an oath?",716,19584
662953,2225,"What if I do not? as, indeed, I do not;
Yet, for I know thou art religious
And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies,
Which I have seen thee careful to observe,
Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know
An idiot holds his bauble for a god
And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,
To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow
By that same god, what god soe'er it be,
That thou adorest and hast in reverence,
To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up;
Or else I will discover nought to thee.",44,19584
662954,2238,Even by my god I swear to thee I will.,716,19584
662955,2239,"First know thou, I begot him on the empress.",44,19584
662956,2240,O most insatiate and luxurious woman!,716,19584
662957,2241,"Tut, Lucius, this was but a deed of charity
To that which thou shalt hear of me anon.
'Twas her two sons that murder'd Bassianus;
They cut thy sister's tongue and ravish'd her
And cut her hands and trimm'd her as thou saw'st.",44,19584
662958,2246,O detestable villain! call'st thou that trimming?,716,19584
662959,2247,"Why, she was wash'd and cut and trimm'd, and 'twas
Trim sport for them that had the doing of it.",44,19584
662960,2249,"O barbarous, beastly villains, like thyself!",716,19584
662961,2250,"Indeed, I was their tutor to instruct them:
That codding spirit had they from their mother,
As sure a card as ever won the set;
That bloody mind, I think, they learn'd of me,
As true a dog as ever fought at head.
Well, let my deeds be witness of my worth.
I train'd thy brethren to that guileful hole
Where the dead corpse of Bassianus lay:
I wrote the letter that thy father found
And hid the gold within the letter mention'd,
Confederate with the queen and her two sons:
And what not done, that thou hast cause to rue,
Wherein I had no stroke of mischief in it?
I play'd the cheater for thy father's hand,
And, when I had it, drew myself apart
And almost broke my heart with extreme laughter:
I pry'd me through the crevice of a wall
When, for his hand, he had his two sons' heads;
Beheld his tears, and laugh'd so heartily,
That both mine eyes were rainy like to his :
And when I told the empress of this sport,
She swooned almost at my pleasing tale,
And for my tidings gave me twenty kisses.",44,19584
662962,2273,"What, canst thou say all this, and never blush?",5,19584
662963,2274,"Ay, like a black dog, as the saying is.",44,19584
662964,2275,Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?,716,19584
662965,2276,"Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
Even now I curse the day--and yet, I think,
Few come within the compass of my curse,--
Wherein I did not some notorious ill,
As kill a man, or else devise his death,
Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,
Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,
Set deadly enmity between two friends,
Make poor men's cattle break their necks;
Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,
And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,
And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,
Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.",44,19584
662966,2297,"Bring down the devil; for he must not die
So sweet a death as hanging presently.",716,19584
662967,2299,"If there be devils, would I were a devil,
To live and burn in everlasting fire,
So I might have your company in hell,
But to torment you with my bitter tongue!",44,19584
662968,2303,"Sirs, stop his mouth, and let him speak no more.",716,19584
662969,2304,[Enter a Goth],1261,19584
662970,2305,"My lord, there is a messenger from Rome
Desires to be admitted to your presence.",37,19584
662971,2307,"Let him come near.
[Enter AEMILIUS]
Welcome, AEmilius. what's the news from Rome?",716,19584
662972,2310,"Lord Lucius, and you princes of the Goths,
The Roman emperor greets you all by me;
And, for he understands you are in arms,
He craves a parley at your father's house,
Willing you to demand your hostages,
And they shall be immediately deliver'd.",56,19584
662973,2316,What says our general?,5,19584
662974,2317,"AEmilius, let the emperor give his pledges
Unto my father and my uncle Marcus,
And we will come. March away.",716,19584
662975,2320,[Exeunt],1261,19584
662976,2322,"[Enter TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, and CHIRON, disguised]",1261,19585
662977,2323,"Thus, in this strange and sad habiliment,
I will encounter with Andronicus,
And say I am Revenge, sent from below
To join with him and right his heinous wrongs.
Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps,
To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge;
Tell him Revenge is come to join with him,
And work confusion on his enemies.",1155,19585
662978,2331,[They knock],1261,19585
662979,2332,"[Enter TITUS, above]",1261,19585
662980,2333,"Who doth molest my contemplation?
Is it your trick to make me ope the door,
That so my sad decrees may fly away,
And all my study be to no effect?
You are deceived: for what I mean to do
See here in bloody lines I have set down;
And what is written shall be executed.",1201,19585
662981,2340,"Titus, I am come to talk with thee.",1155,19585
662982,2341,"No, not a word; how can I grace my talk,
Wanting a hand to give it action?
Thou hast the odds of me; therefore no more.",1201,19585
662983,2344,"If thou didst know me, thou wouldest talk with me.",1155,19585
662984,2345,"I am not mad; I know thee well enough:
Witness this wretched stump, witness these crimson lines;
Witness these trenches made by grief and care,
Witness the tiring day and heavy night;
Witness all sorrow, that I know thee well
For our proud empress, mighty Tamora:
Is not thy coming for my other hand?",1201,19585
662985,2352,"Know, thou sad man, I am not Tamora;
She is thy enemy, and I thy friend:
I am Revenge: sent from the infernal kingdom,
To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind,
By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes.
Come down, and welcome me to this world's light;
Confer with me of murder and of death:
There's not a hollow cave or lurking-place,
No vast obscurity or misty vale,
Where bloody murder or detested rape
Can couch for fear, but I will find them out;
And in their ears tell them my dreadful name,
Revenge, which makes the foul offender quake.",1155,19585
662986,2365,"Art thou Revenge? and art thou sent to me,
To be a torment to mine enemies?",1201,19585
662987,2367,"I am; therefore come down, and welcome me.",1155,19585
662988,2368,"Do me some service, ere I come to thee.
Lo, by thy side where Rape and Murder stands;
Now give me some surance that thou art Revenge,
Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot-wheels;
And then I'll come and be thy waggoner,
And whirl along with thee about the globe.
Provide thee two proper palfreys, black as jet,
To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away,
And find out murderers in their guilty caves:
And when thy car is loaden with their heads,
I will dismount, and by the waggon-wheel
Trot, like a servile footman, all day long,
Even from Hyperion's rising in the east
Until his very downfall in the sea:
And day by day I'll do this heavy task,
So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there.",1201,19585
662989,2384,"These are my ministers, and come with me.",1155,19585
662990,2385,Are these thy ministers? what are they call'd?,1201,19585
662991,2386,"Rapine and Murder; therefore called so,
Cause they take vengeance of such kind of men.",1155,19585
662992,2388,"Good Lord, how like the empress' sons they are!
And you, the empress! but we worldly men
Have miserable, mad, mistaking eyes.
O sweet Revenge, now do I come to thee;
And, if one arm's embracement will content thee,
I will embrace thee in it by and by.",1201,19585
662993,2394,[Exit above],1261,19585
662994,2395,"This closing with him fits his lunacy
Whate'er I forge to feed his brain-sick fits,
Do you uphold and maintain in your speeches,
For now he firmly takes me for Revenge;
And, being credulous in this mad thought,
I'll make him send for Lucius his son;
And, whilst I at a banquet hold him sure,
I'll find some cunning practise out of hand,
To scatter and disperse the giddy Goths,
Or, at the least, make them his enemies.
See, here he comes, and I must ply my theme.",1155,19585
662995,2406,[Enter TITUS below],1261,19585
662996,2407,"Long have I been forlorn, and all for thee:
Welcome, dread Fury, to my woful house:
Rapine and Murder, you are welcome too.
How like the empress and her sons you are!
Well are you fitted, had you but a Moor:
Could not all hell afford you such a devil?
For well I wot the empress never wags
But in her company there is a Moor;
And, would you represent our queen aright,
It were convenient you had such a devil:
But welcome, as you are. What shall we do?",1201,19585
662997,2418,"What wouldst thou have us do, Andronicus?",1155,19585
662998,2419,"Show me a murderer, I'll deal with him.",305,19585
662999,2420,"Show me a villain that hath done a rape,
And I am sent to be revenged on him.",243,19585
663000,2422,"Show me a thousand that have done thee wrong,
And I will be revenged on them all.",1155,19585
663001,2424,"Look round about the wicked streets of Rome;
And when thou find'st a man that's like thyself.
Good Murder, stab him; he's a murderer.
Go thou with him; and when it is thy hap
To find another that is like to thee,
Good Rapine, stab him; he's a ravisher.
Go thou with them; and in the emperor's court
There is a queen, attended by a Moor;
Well mayst thou know her by thy own proportion,
for up and down she doth resemble thee:
I pray thee, do on them some violent death;
They have been violent to me and mine.",1201,19585
663002,2436,"Well hast thou lesson'd us; this shall we do.
But would it please thee, good Andronicus,
To send for Lucius, thy thrice-valiant son,
Who leads towards Rome a band of warlike Goths,
And bid him come and banquet at thy house;
When he is here, even at thy solemn feast,
I will bring in the empress and her sons,
The emperor himself and all thy foes;
And at thy mercy shalt they stoop and kneel,
And on them shalt thou ease thy angry heart.
What says Andronicus to this device?",1155,19585
663003,2447,"Marcus, my brother! 'tis sad Titus calls.
[Enter MARCUS]
Go, gentle Marcus, to thy nephew Lucius;
Thou shalt inquire him out among the Goths:
Bid him repair to me, and bring with him
Some of the chiefest princes of the Goths;
Bid him encamp his soldiers where they are:
Tell him the emperor and the empress too
Feast at my house, and he shall feast with them.
This do thou for my love; and so let him,
As he regards his aged father's life.",1201,19585
663004,2458,"This will I do, and soon return again.",732,19585
663005,2459,[Exit],1261,19585
663006,2460,"Now will I hence about thy business,
And take my ministers along with me.",1155,19585
663007,2462,"Nay, nay, let Rape and Murder stay with me;
Or else I'll call my brother back again,
And cleave to no revenge but Lucius.",1201,19585
663008,2465,"[Aside to her sons] What say you, boys? will you
bide with him,
Whiles I go tell my lord the emperor
How I have govern'd our determined jest?
Yield to his humour, smooth and speak him fair,
And tarry with him till I turn again.",1155,19585
663009,2471,"[Aside] I know them all, though they suppose me mad,
And will o'erreach them in their own devices:
A pair of cursed hell-hounds and their dam!",1201,19585
663010,2474,"Madam, depart at pleasure; leave us here.",305,19585
663011,2475,"Farewell, Andronicus: Revenge now goes
To lay a complot to betray thy foes.",1155,19585
663012,2477,"I know thou dost; and, sweet Revenge, farewell.",1201,19585
663013,2478,[Exit TAMORA],1261,19585
663014,2479,"Tell us, old man, how shall we be employ'd?",243,19585
663015,2480,"Tut, I have work enough for you to do.
Publius, come hither, Caius, and Valentine!",1201,19585
663016,2482,[Enter PUBLIUS and others],1261,19585
663017,2483,What is your will?,927,19585
663018,2484,Know you these two?,1201,19585
663019,2485,"The empress' sons, I take them, Chiron and Demetrius.",927,19585
663020,2486,"Fie, Publius, fie! thou art too much deceived;
The one is Murder, Rape is the other's name;
And therefore bind them, gentle Publius.
Caius and Valentine, lay hands on them.
Oft have you heard me wish for such an hour,
And now I find it; therefore bind them sure,
And stop their mouths, if they begin to cry.",1201,19585
663021,2493,[Exit],1261,19585
663022,2494,"[PUBLIUS, &c. lay hold on CHIRON and DEMETRIUS]",1261,19585
663023,2495,"Villains, forbear! we are the empress' sons.",243,19585
663024,2496,"And therefore do we what we are commanded.
Stop close their mouths, let them not speak a word.
Is he sure bound? look that you bind them fast.
[Re-enter TITUS, with LAVINIA; he bearing a knife,]
and she a basin]",927,19585
663025,2501,"Come, come, Lavinia; look, thy foes are bound.
Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me;
But let them hear what fearful words I utter.
O villains, Chiron and Demetrius!
Here stands the spring whom you have stain'd with mud,
This goodly summer with your winter mix'd.
You kill'd her husband, and for that vile fault
Two of her brothers were condemn'd to death,
My hand cut off and made a merry jest;
Both her sweet hands, her tongue, and that more dear
Than hands or tongue, her spotless chastity,
Inhuman traitors, you constrain'd and forced.
What would you say, if I should let you speak?
Villains, for shame you could not beg for grace.
Hark, wretches! how I mean to martyr you.
This one hand yet is left to cut your throats,
Whilst that Lavinia 'tween her stumps doth hold
The basin that receives your guilty blood.
You know your mother means to feast with me,
And calls herself Revenge, and thinks me mad:
Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust
And with your blood and it I'll make a paste,
And of the paste a coffin I will rear
And make two pasties of your shameful heads,
And bid that strumpet, your unhallow'd dam,
Like to the earth swallow her own increase.
This is the feast that I have bid her to,
And this the banquet she shall surfeit on;
For worse than Philomel you used my daughter,
And worse than Progne I will be revenged:
And now prepare your throats. Lavinia, come,
[He cuts their throats]
Receive the blood: and when that they are dead,
Let me go grind their bones to powder small
And with this hateful liquor temper it;
And in that paste let their vile heads be baked.
Come, come, be every one officious
To make this banquet; which I wish may prove
More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast.
So, now bring them in, for I'll play the cook,
And see them ready 'gainst their mother comes.",1201,19585
663026,2542,"[Exeunt, bearing the dead bodies]",1261,19585
663027,2544,"[Enter LUCIUS, MARCUS, and Goths, with AARON prisoner]",1261,19586
663028,2545,"Uncle Marcus, since it is my father's mind
That I repair to Rome, I am content.",716,19586
663029,2547,"And ours with thine, befall what fortune will.",5,19586
663030,2548,"Good uncle, take you in this barbarous Moor,
This ravenous tiger, this accursed devil;
Let him receive no sustenance, fetter him
Till he be brought unto the empress' face,
For testimony of her foul proceedings:
And see the ambush of our friends be strong;
I fear the emperor means no good to us.",716,19586
663031,2555,"Some devil whisper curses in mine ear,
And prompt me, that my tongue may utter forth
The venomous malice of my swelling heart!",44,19586
663032,2558,"Away, inhuman dog! unhallow'd slave!
Sirs, help our uncle to convey him in.
[Exeunt Goths, with AARON. Flourish within]
The trumpets show the emperor is at hand.
[Enter SATURNINUS and TAMORA, with AEMILIUS,]
Tribunes, Senators, and others]",716,19586
663033,2564,"What, hath the firmament more suns than one?",969,19586
663034,2565,What boots it thee to call thyself a sun?,716,19586
663035,2566,"Rome's emperor, and nephew, break the parle;
These quarrels must be quietly debated.
The feast is ready, which the careful Titus
Hath ordain'd to an honourable end,
For peace, for love, for league, and good to Rome:
Please you, therefore, draw nigh, and take your places.",732,19586
663036,2572,"Marcus, we will.
[Hautboys sound. The Company sit down at table]
[Enter TITUS dressed like a Cook, LAVINIA veiled,]
Young LUCIUS, and others. TITUS places the dishes
on the table]",969,19586
663037,2577,"Welcome, my gracious lord; welcome, dread queen;
Welcome, ye warlike Goths; welcome, Lucius;
And welcome, all: although the cheer be poor,
'Twill fill your stomachs; please you eat of it.",1201,19586
663038,2581,"Why art thou thus attired, Andronicus?",969,19586
663039,2582,"Because I would be sure to have all well,
To entertain your highness and your empress.",1201,19586
663040,2584,"We are beholding to you, good Andronicus.",1155,19586
663041,2585,"An if your highness knew my heart, you were.
My lord the emperor, resolve me this:
Was it well done of rash Virginius
To slay his daughter with his own right hand,
Because she was enforced, stain'd, and deflower'd?",1201,19586
663042,2590,"It was, Andronicus.",969,19586
663043,2591,"Your reason, mighty lord?",1201,19586
663044,2592,"Because the girl should not survive her shame,
And by her presence still renew his sorrows.",969,19586
663045,2594,"A reason mighty, strong, and effectual;
A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant,
For me, most wretched, to perform the like.
Die, die, Lavinia, and thy shame with thee;
[Kills LAVINIA]
And, with thy shame, thy father's sorrow die!",1201,19586
663046,2600,"What hast thou done, unnatural and unkind?",969,19586
663047,2601,"Kill'd her, for whom my tears have made me blind.
I am as woful as Virginius was,
And have a thousand times more cause than he
To do this outrage: and it now is done.",1201,19586
663048,2605,"What, was she ravish'd? tell who did the deed.",969,19586
663049,2606,"Will't please you eat? will't please your
highness feed?",1201,19586
663050,2608,Why hast thou slain thine only daughter thus?,1155,19586
663051,2609,"Not I; 'twas Chiron and Demetrius:
They ravish'd her, and cut away her tongue;
And they, 'twas they, that did her all this wrong.",1201,19586
663052,2612,Go fetch them hither to us presently.,969,19586
663053,2613,"Why, there they are both, baked in that pie;
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
'Tis true, 'tis true; witness my knife's sharp point.",1201,19586
663054,2617,[Kills TAMORA],1261,19586
663055,2618,"Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed!",969,19586
663056,2619,[Kills TITUS],1261,19586
663057,2620,"Can the son's eye behold his father bleed?
There's meed for meed, death for a deadly deed!
[Kills SATURNINUS. A great tumult. LUCIUS, MARCUS,]
and others go up into the balcony]",716,19586
663058,2624,"You sad-faced men, people and sons of Rome,
By uproar sever'd, like a flight of fowl
Scatter'd by winds and high tempestuous gusts,
O, let me teach you how to knit again
This scatter'd corn into one mutual sheaf,
These broken limbs again into one body;
Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself,
And she whom mighty kingdoms court'sy to,
Like a forlorn and desperate castaway,
Do shameful execution on herself.
But if my frosty signs and chaps of age,
Grave witnesses of true experience,
Cannot induce you to attend my words,
[To LUCIUS]
Speak, Rome's dear friend, as erst our ancestor,
When with his solemn tongue he did discourse
To love-sick Dido's sad attending ear
The story of that baleful burning night
When subtle Greeks surprised King Priam's Troy,
Tell us what Sinon hath bewitch'd our ears,
Or who hath brought the fatal engine in
That gives our Troy, our Rome, the civil wound.
My heart is not compact of flint nor steel;
Nor can I utter all our bitter grief,
But floods of tears will drown my oratory,
And break my utterance, even in the time
When it should move you to attend me most,
Lending your kind commiseration.
Here is a captain, let him tell the tale;
Your hearts will throb and weep to hear him speak.",732,19586
663059,2654,"Then, noble auditory, be it known to you,
That cursed Chiron and Demetrius
Were they that murdered our emperor's brother;
And they it were that ravished our sister:
For their fell faults our brothers were beheaded;
Our father's tears despised, and basely cozen'd
Of that true hand that fought Rome's quarrel out,
And sent her enemies unto the grave.
Lastly, myself unkindly banished,
The gates shut on me, and turn'd weeping out,
To beg relief among Rome's enemies:
Who drown'd their enmity in my true tears.
And oped their arms to embrace me as a friend.
I am the turned forth, be it known to you,
That have preserved her welfare in my blood;
And from her bosom took the enemy's point,
Sheathing the steel in my adventurous body.
Alas, you know I am no vaunter, I;
My scars can witness, dumb although they are,
That my report is just and full of truth.
But, soft! methinks I do digress too much,
Citing my worthless praise: O, pardon me;
For when no friends are by, men praise themselves.",716,19586
663060,2677,"Now is my turn to speak. Behold this child:
[Pointing to the Child in the arms of an Attendant]
Of this was Tamora delivered;
The issue of an irreligious Moor,
Chief architect and plotter of these woes:
The villain is alive in Titus' house,
And as he is, to witness this is true.
Now judge what cause had Titus to revenge
These wrongs, unspeakable, past patience,
Or more than any living man could bear.
Now you have heard the truth, what say you, Romans?
Have we done aught amiss,--show us wherein,
And, from the place where you behold us now,
The poor remainder of Andronici
Will, hand in hand, all headlong cast us down.
And on the ragged stones beat forth our brains,
And make a mutual closure of our house.
Speak, Romans, speak; and if you say we shall,
Lo, hand in hand, Lucius and I will fall.",732,19586
663061,2696,"Come, come, thou reverend man of Rome,
And bring our emperor gently in thy hand,
Lucius our emperor; for well I know
The common voice do cry it shall be so.",56,19586
663062,2700,"Lucius, all hail, Rome's royal emperor!",95,19586
663063,2701,"Go, go into old Titus' sorrowful house,
[To Attendants]
And hither hale that misbelieving Moor,
To be adjudged some direful slaughtering death,
As punishment for his most wicked life.",732,19586
663064,2706,[Exeunt Attendants],1261,19586
663065,2707,"[LUCIUS, MARCUS, and the others descend]",1261,19586
663066,2708,"Lucius, all hail, Rome's gracious governor!",95,19586
663067,2709,"Thanks, gentle Romans: may I govern so,
To heal Rome's harms, and wipe away her woe!
But, gentle people, give me aim awhile,
For nature puts me to a heavy task:
Stand all aloof: but, uncle, draw you near,
To shed obsequious tears upon this trunk.
O, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips,
[Kissing TITUS]
These sorrowful drops upon thy blood-stain'd face,
The last true duties of thy noble son!",716,19586
663068,2719,"Tear for tear, and loving kiss for kiss,
Thy brother Marcus tenders on thy lips:
O were the sum of these that I should pay
Countless and infinite, yet would I pay them!",732,19586
663069,2723,"Come hither, boy; come, come, and learn of us
To melt in showers: thy grandsire loved thee well:
Many a time he danced thee on his knee,
Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow:
Many a matter hath he told to thee,
Meet and agreeing with thine infancy;
In that respect, then, like a loving child,
Shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring,
Because kind nature doth require it so:
Friends should associate friends in grief and woe:
Bid him farewell; commit him to the grave;
Do him that kindness, and take leave of him.",716,19586
663070,2735,"O grandsire, grandsire! even with all my heart
Would I were dead, so you did live again!
O Lord, I cannot speak to him for weeping;
My tears will choke me, if I ope my mouth.",1265,19586
663071,2739,[Re-enter Attendants with AARON],1261,19586
663072,2740,"You sad Andronici, have done with woes:
Give sentence on this execrable wretch,
That hath been breeder of these dire events.",56,19586
663073,2743,"Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him;
There let him stand, and rave, and cry for food;
If any one relieves or pities him,
For the offence he dies. This is our doom:
Some stay to see him fasten'd in the earth.",716,19586
663074,2748,"O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb?
I am no baby, I, that with base prayers
I should repent the evils I have done:
Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did
Would I perform, if I might have my will;
If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.",44,19586
663075,2755,"Some loving friends convey the emperor hence,
And give him burial in his father's grave:
My father and Lavinia shall forthwith
Be closed in our household's monument.
As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,
No funeral rite, nor man m mourning weeds,
No mournful bell shall ring her burial;
But throw her forth to beasts and birds of prey:
Her life was beast-like, and devoid of pity;
And, being so, shall have like want of pity.
See justice done on Aaron, that damn'd Moor,
By whom our heavy haps had their beginning:
Then, afterwards, to order well the state,
That like events may ne'er it ruinate.",716,19586
663076,2769,[Exeunt],1261,19586
663077,3,"In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece
The princes orgulous, their high blood chafed,
Have to the port of Athens sent their ships,
Fraught with the ministers and instruments
Of cruel war: sixty and nine, that wore
Their crownets regal, from the Athenian bay
Put forth toward Phrygia; and their vow is made
To ransack Troy, within whose strong immures
The ravish'd Helen, Menelaus' queen,
With wanton Paris sleeps; and that's the quarrel.
To Tenedos they come;
And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorge
Their warlike fraughtage: now on Dardan plains
The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch
Their brave pavilions: Priam's six-gated city,
Dardan, and Tymbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien,
And Antenorides, with massy staples
And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts,
Sperr up the sons of Troy.
Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits,
On one and other side, Trojan and Greek,
Sets all on hazard: and hither am I come
A prologue arm'd, but not in confidence
Of author's pen or actor's voice, but suited
In like conditions as our argument,
To tell you, fair beholders, that our play
Leaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils,
Beginning in the middle, starting thence away
To what may be digested in a play.
Like or find fault; do as your pleasures are:
Now good or bad, 'tis but the chance of war.",247,19587
663078,36,"[Enter TROILUS armed, and PANDARUS]",1261,19588
663079,37,"Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again:
Why should I war without the walls of Troy,
That find such cruel battle here within?
Each Trojan that is master of his heart,
Let him to field; Troilus, alas! hath none.",1212,19588
663080,42,Will this gear ne'er be mended?,858,19588
663081,43,"The Greeks are strong and skilful to their strength,
Fierce to their skill and to their fierceness valiant;
But I am weaker than a woman's tear,
Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance,
Less valiant than the virgin in the night
And skilless as unpractised infancy.",1212,19588
663082,49,"Well, I have told you enough of this: for my part,
I'll not meddle nor make no further. He that will
have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding.",858,19588
663083,52,Have I not tarried?,1212,19588
663084,53,"Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry
the bolting.",858,19588
663085,55,Have I not tarried?,1212,19588
663086,56,"Ay, the bolting, but you must tarry the leavening.",858,19588
663087,57,Still have I tarried.,1212,19588
663088,58,"Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word
'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the
heating of the oven and the baking; nay, you must
stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.",858,19588
663089,62,"Patience herself, what goddess e'er she be,
Doth lesser blench at sufferance than I do.
At Priam's royal table do I sit;
And when fair Cressid comes into my thoughts,--
So, traitor! 'When she comes!' When is she thence?",1212,19588
663090,67,"Well, she looked yesternight fairer than ever I saw
her look, or any woman else.",858,19588
663091,69,"I was about to tell thee:--when my heart,
As wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain,
Lest Hector or my father should perceive me,
I have, as when the sun doth light a storm,
Buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile:
But sorrow, that is couch'd in seeming gladness,
Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.",1212,19588
663092,76,"An her hair were not somewhat darker than Helen's--
well, go to--there were no more comparison between
the women: but, for my part, she is my kinswoman; I
would not, as they term it, praise her: but I would
somebody had heard her talk yesterday, as I did. I
will not dispraise your sister Cassandra's wit, but--",858,19588
663093,82,"O Pandarus! I tell thee, Pandarus,--
When I do tell thee, there my hopes lie drown'd,
Reply not in how many fathoms deep
They lie indrench'd. I tell thee I am mad
In Cressid's love: thou answer'st 'she is fair;'
Pour'st in the open ulcer of my heart
Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice,
Handlest in thy discourse, O, that her hand,
In whose comparison all whites are ink,
Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure
The cygnet's down is harsh and spirit of sense
Hard as the palm of ploughman: this thou tell'st me,
As true thou tell'st me, when I say I love her;
But, saying thus, instead of oil and balm,
Thou lay'st in every gash that love hath given me
The knife that made it.",1212,19588
663094,98,I speak no more than truth.,858,19588
663095,99,Thou dost not speak so much.,1212,19588
663096,100,"Faith, I'll not meddle in't. Let her be as she is:
if she be fair, 'tis the better for her; an she be
not, she has the mends in her own hands.",858,19588
663097,103,"Good Pandarus, how now, Pandarus!",1212,19588
663098,104,"I have had my labour for my travail; ill-thought on of
her and ill-thought on of you; gone between and
between, but small thanks for my labour.",858,19588
663099,107,"What, art thou angry, Pandarus? what, with me?",1212,19588
663100,108,"Because she's kin to me, therefore she's not so fair
as Helen: an she were not kin to me, she would be as
fair on Friday as Helen is on Sunday. But what care
I? I care not an she were a black-a-moor; 'tis all one to me.",858,19588
663101,112,Say I she is not fair?,1212,19588
663102,113,"I do not care whether you do or no. She's a fool to
stay behind her father; let her to the Greeks; and so
I'll tell her the next time I see her: for my part,
I'll meddle nor make no more i' the matter.",858,19588
663103,117,"Pandarus,--",1212,19588
663104,118,Not I.,858,19588
663105,119,"Sweet Pandarus,--",1212,19588
663106,120,"Pray you, speak no more to me: I will leave all as I
found it, and there an end.",858,19588
663107,122,[Exit PANDARUS. An alarum],1261,19588
663108,123,"Peace, you ungracious clamours! peace, rude sounds!
Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,
When with your blood you daily paint her thus.
I cannot fight upon this argument;
It is too starved a subject for my sword.
But Pandarus,--O gods, how do you plague me!
I cannot come to Cressid but by Pandar;
And he's as tetchy to be woo'd to woo.
As she is stubborn-chaste against all suit.
Tell me, Apollo, for thy Daphne's love,
What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we?
Her bed is India; there she lies, a pearl:
Between our Ilium and where she resides,
Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood,
Ourself the merchant, and this sailing Pandar
Our doubtful hope, our convoy and our bark.",1212,19588
663109,139,[Alarum. Enter AENEAS],1261,19588
663110,140,"How now, Prince Troilus! wherefore not afield?",57,19588
663111,141,"Because not there: this woman's answer sorts,
For womanish it is to be from thence.
What news, AEneas, from the field to-day?",1212,19588
663112,144,That Paris is returned home and hurt.,57,19588
663113,145,"By whom, AEneas?",1212,19588
663114,146,"Troilus, by Menelaus.",57,19588
663115,147,"Let Paris bleed; 'tis but a scar to scorn;
Paris is gored with Menelaus' horn.",1212,19588
663116,149,[Alarum],1261,19588
663117,150,"Hark, what good sport is out of town to-day!",57,19588
663118,151,"Better at home, if 'would I might' were 'may.'
But to the sport abroad: are you bound thither?",1212,19588
663119,153,In all swift haste.,57,19588
663120,154,"Come, go we then together.",1212,19588
663121,155,[Exeunt],1261,19588
663122,158,[Enter CRESSIDA and ALEXANDER],1261,19589
663123,159,Who were those went by?,292,19589
663124,160,Queen Hecuba and Helen.,64,19589
663125,161,And whither go they?,292,19589
663126,162,"Up to the eastern tower,
Whose height commands as subject all the vale,
To see the battle. Hector, whose patience
Is, as a virtue, fix'd, to-day was moved:
He chid Andromache and struck his armourer,
And, like as there were husbandry in war,
Before the sun rose he was harness'd light,
And to the field goes he; where every flower
Did, as a prophet, weep what it foresaw
In Hector's wrath.",64,19589
663127,172,What was his cause of anger?,292,19589
663128,173,"The noise goes, this: there is among the Greeks
A lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector;
They call him Ajax.",64,19589
663129,176,Good; and what of him?,292,19589
663130,177,"They say he is a very man per se,
And stands alone.",64,19589
663131,179,"So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs.",292,19589
663132,180,"This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their
particular additions; he is as valiant as the lion,
churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant: a man
into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his
valour is crushed into folly, his folly sauced with
discretion: there is no man hath a virtue that he
hath not a glimpse of, nor any man an attaint but he
carries some stain of it: he is melancholy without
cause, and merry against the hair: he hath the
joints of every thing, but everything so out of joint
that he is a gouty Briareus, many hands and no use,
or purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.",64,19589
663133,192,"But how should this man, that makes
me smile, make Hector angry?",292,19589
663134,194,"They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle and
struck him down, the disdain and shame whereof hath
ever since kept Hector fasting and waking.",64,19589
663135,197,Who comes here?,292,19589
663136,198,"Madam, your uncle Pandarus.",64,19589
663137,199,[Enter PANDARUS],1261,19589
663138,200,Hector's a gallant man.,292,19589
663139,201,"As may be in the world, lady.",64,19589
663140,202,What's that? what's that?,858,19589
663141,203,"Good morrow, uncle Pandarus.",292,19589
663142,204,"Good morrow, cousin Cressid: what do you talk of?
Good morrow, Alexander. How do you, cousin? When
were you at Ilium?",858,19589
663143,207,"This morning, uncle.",292,19589
663144,208,"What were you talking of when I came? Was Hector
armed and gone ere ye came to Ilium? Helen was not
up, was she?",858,19589
663145,211,"Hector was gone, but Helen was not up.",292,19589
663146,212,Even so: Hector was stirring early.,858,19589
663147,213,"That were we talking of, and of his anger.",292,19589
663148,214,Was he angry?,858,19589
663149,215,So he says here.,292,19589
663150,216,"True, he was so: I know the cause too: he'll lay
about him to-day, I can tell them that: and there's
Troilus will not come far behind him: let them take
heed of Troilus, I can tell them that too.",858,19589
663151,220,"What, is he angry too?",292,19589
663152,221,"Who, Troilus? Troilus is the better man of the two.",858,19589
663153,222,O Jupiter! there's no comparison.,292,19589
663154,223,"What, not between Troilus and Hector? Do you know a
man if you see him?",858,19589
663155,225,"Ay, if I ever saw him before and knew him.",292,19589
663156,226,"Well, I say Troilus is Troilus.",858,19589
663157,227,"Then you say as I say; for, I am sure, he is not Hector.",292,19589
663158,228,"No, nor Hector is not Troilus in some degrees.",858,19589
663165,238,Excuse me.,292,19589
663166,239,He is elder.,858,19589
663167,240,"Pardon me, pardon me.",292,19589
663168,241,"Th' other's not come to't; you shall tell me another
tale, when th' other's come to't. Hector shall not
have his wit this year.",858,19589
663169,244,"He shall not need it, if he have his own.",292,19589
663170,245,Nor his qualities.,858,19589
663171,246,No matter.,292,19589
663172,247,Nor his beauty.,858,19589
663174,249,"You have no judgment, niece: Helen
herself swore th' other day, that Troilus, for
a brown favour--for so 'tis, I must confess,--
not brown neither,--",858,19589
663175,253,"No, but brown.",292,19589
663176,254,"'Faith, to say truth, brown and not brown.",858,19589
663177,255,"To say the truth, true and not true.",292,19589
663178,256,She praised his complexion above Paris.,858,19589
663179,257,"Why, Paris hath colour enough.",292,19589
663180,258,So he has.,858,19589
663181,259,"Then Troilus should have too much: if she praised
him above, his complexion is higher than his; he
having colour enough, and the other higher, is too
flaming a praise for a good complexion. I had as
lief Helen's golden tongue had commended Troilus for
a copper nose.",292,19589
663182,265,I swear to you. I think Helen loves him better than Paris.,858,19589
663183,266,Then she's a merry Greek indeed.,292,19589
663184,267,"Nay, I am sure she does. She came to him th' other
day into the compassed window,--and, you know, he
has not past three or four hairs on his chin,--",858,19589
663185,270,"Indeed, a tapster's arithmetic may soon bring his
particulars therein to a total.",292,19589
663186,272,"Why, he is very young: and yet will he, within
three pound, lift as much as his brother Hector.",858,19589
663187,274,Is he so young a man and so old a lifter?,292,19589
663188,275,"But to prove to you that Helen loves him: she came
and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin--",858,19589
663189,277,Juno have mercy! how came it cloven?,292,19589
663190,278,"Why, you know 'tis dimpled: I think his smiling
becomes him better than any man in all Phrygia.",858,19589
663191,280,"O, he smiles valiantly.",292,19589
663192,281,Does he not?,858,19589
663193,282,"O yes, an 'twere a cloud in autumn.",292,19589
663194,283,"Why, go to, then: but to prove to you that Helen
loves Troilus,--",858,19589
663195,285,"Troilus will stand to the proof, if you'll
prove it so.",292,19589
663196,287,"Troilus! why, he esteems her no more than I esteem
an addle egg.",858,19589
663197,289,"If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle
head, you would eat chickens i' the shell.",292,19589
663198,291,"I cannot choose but laugh, to think how she tickled
his chin: indeed, she has a marvellous white hand, I
must needs confess,--",858,19589
663199,294,Without the rack.,292,19589
663200,295,And she takes upon her to spy a white hair on his chin.,858,19589
663201,296,"Alas, poor chin! many a wart is richer.",292,19589
663202,297,"But there was such laughing! Queen Hecuba laughed
that her eyes ran o'er.",858,19589
663203,299,With mill-stones.,292,19589
663204,300,And Cassandra laughed.,858,19589
663205,301,"But there was more temperate fire under the pot of
her eyes: did her eyes run o'er too?",292,19589
663206,303,And Hector laughed.,858,19589
663207,304,At what was all this laughing?,292,19589
663208,305,"Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on Troilus' chin.",858,19589
663209,306,"An't had been a green hair, I should have laughed
too.",292,19589
663210,308,They laughed not so much at the hair as at his pretty answer.,858,19589
663211,309,What was his answer?,292,19589
663212,310,"Quoth she, 'Here's but two and fifty hairs on your
chin, and one of them is white.",858,19589
663213,312,This is her question.,292,19589
663214,313,"That's true; make no question of that. 'Two and
fifty hairs' quoth he, 'and one white: that white
hair is my father, and all the rest are his sons.'
'Jupiter!' quoth she, 'which of these hairs is Paris,
my husband? 'The forked one,' quoth he, 'pluck't
out, and give it him.' But there was such laughing!
and Helen so blushed, an Paris so chafed, and all the
rest so laughed, that it passed.",858,19589
663215,321,So let it now; for it has been while going by.,292,19589
663216,322,"Well, cousin. I told you a thing yesterday; think on't.",858,19589
663217,323,So I do.,292,19589
663218,324,"I'll be sworn 'tis true; he will weep you, an 'twere
a man born in April.",858,19589
663219,326,"And I'll spring up in his tears, an 'twere a nettle
against May.",292,19589
663220,328,[A retreat sounded],1261,19589
663221,329,"Hark! they are coming from the field: shall we
stand up here, and see them as they pass toward
Ilium? good niece, do, sweet niece Cressida.",858,19589
663222,332,At your pleasure.,292,19589
663223,333,"Here, here, here's an excellent place; here we may
see most bravely: I'll tell you them all by their
names as they pass by; but mark Troilus above the rest.",858,19589
663224,336,Speak not so loud.,292,19589
663225,337,[AENEAS passes],1261,19589
663226,338,"That's AEneas: is not that a brave man? he's one of
the flowers of Troy, I can tell you: but mark
Troilus; you shall see anon.",858,19589
663227,341,[ANTENOR passes],1261,19589
663228,342,Who's that?,292,19589
663229,343,"That's Antenor: he has a shrewd wit, I can tell you;
and he's a man good enough, he's one o' the soundest
judgments in whosoever, and a proper man of person.
When comes Troilus? I'll show you Troilus anon: if
he see me, you shall see him nod at me.",858,19589
663230,348,Will he give you the nod?,292,19589
663231,349,You shall see.,858,19589
663232,350,"If he do, the rich shall have more.",292,19589
663233,351,[HECTOR passes],1261,19589
663234,352,"That's Hector, that, that, look you, that; there's a
fellow! Go thy way, Hector! There's a brave man,
niece. O brave Hector! Look how he looks! there's
a countenance! is't not a brave man?",858,19589
663235,356,"O, a brave man!",292,19589
663236,357,"Is a' not? it does a man's heart good. Look you
what hacks are on his helmet! look you yonder, do
you see? look you there: there's no jesting;
there's laying on, take't off who will, as they say:
there be hacks!",858,19589
663237,362,Be those with swords?,292,19589
663238,363,"Swords! any thing, he cares not; an the devil come
to him, it's all one: by God's lid, it does one's
heart good. Yonder comes Paris, yonder comes Paris.
[PARIS passes]
Look ye yonder, niece; is't not a gallant man too,
is't not? Why, this is brave now. Who said he came
hurt home to-day? he's not hurt: why, this will do
Helen's heart good now, ha! Would I could see
Troilus now! You shall see Troilus anon.",858,19589
663239,372,[HELENUS passes],1261,19589
663240,373,Who's that?,292,19589
663241,374,"That's Helenus. I marvel where Troilus is. That's
Helenus. I think he went not forth to-day. That's Helenus.",858,19589
663242,376,"Can Helenus fight, uncle?",292,19589
663243,377,"Helenus? no. Yes, he'll fight indifferent well. I
marvel where Troilus is. Hark! do you not hear the
people cry 'Troilus'? Helenus is a priest.",858,19589
663244,380,What sneaking fellow comes yonder?,292,19589
663245,381,[TROILUS passes],1261,19589
663246,382,"Where? yonder? that's Deiphobus. 'Tis Troilus!
there's a man, niece! Hem! Brave Troilus! the
prince of chivalry!",858,19589
663247,385,"Peace, for shame, peace!",292,19589
663248,386,"Mark him; note him. O brave Troilus! Look well upon
him, niece: look you how his sword is bloodied, and
his helm more hacked than Hector's, and how he looks,
and how he goes! O admirable youth! he ne'er saw
three and twenty. Go thy way, Troilus, go thy way!
Had I a sister were a grace, or a daughter a goddess,
he should take his choice. O admirable man! Paris?
Paris is dirt to him; and, I warrant, Helen, to
change, would give an eye to boot.",858,19589
663249,395,Here come more.,292,19589
663250,396,[Forces pass],1261,19589
663251,397,"Asses, fools, dolts! chaff and bran, chaff and bran!
porridge after meat! I could live and die i' the
eyes of Troilus. Ne'er look, ne'er look: the eagles
are gone: crows and daws, crows and daws! I had
rather be such a man as Troilus than Agamemnon and
all Greece.",858,19589
663252,403,"There is among the Greeks Achilles, a better man than Troilus.",292,19589
663253,404,"Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.",858,19589
663254,405,"Well, well.",292,19589
663255,406,"'Well, well!' why, have you any discretion? have
you any eyes? Do you know what a man is? Is not
birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood,
learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality,
and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?",858,19589
663256,411,"Ay, a minced man: and then to be baked with no date
in the pie, for then the man's date's out.",292,19589
663257,413,"You are such a woman! one knows not at what ward you
lie.",858,19589
663258,415,"Upon my back, to defend my belly; upon my wit, to
defend my wiles; upon my secrecy, to defend mine
honesty; my mask, to defend my beauty; and you, to
defend all these: and at all these wards I lie, at a
thousand watches.",292,19589
663259,420,Say one of your watches.,858,19589
663260,421,"Nay, I'll watch you for that; and that's one of the
chiefest of them too: if I cannot ward what I would
not have hit, I can watch you for telling how I took
the blow; unless it swell past hiding, and then it's
past watching.",292,19589
663261,426,You are such another!,858,19589
663262,427,[Enter Troilus's Boy],1261,19589
663263,428,"Sir, my lord would instantly speak with you.",197,19589
663264,429,Where?,858,19589
663265,430,At your own house; there he unarms him.,197,19589
663266,431,"Good boy, tell him I come.
[Exit boy]
I doubt he be hurt. Fare ye well, good niece.",858,19589
663267,434,"Adieu, uncle.",292,19589
663268,435,"I'll be with you, niece, by and by.",858,19589
663269,436,"To bring, uncle?",292,19589
663270,437,"Ay, a token from Troilus.",858,19589
663271,438,"By the same token, you are a bawd.
[Exit PANDARUS]
Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice,
He offers in another's enterprise;
But more in Troilus thousand fold I see
Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be;
Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
That she beloved knows nought that knows not this:
Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is:
That she was never yet that ever knew
Love got so sweet as when desire did sue.
Therefore this maxim out of love I teach:
Achievement is command; ungain'd, beseech:
Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear,
Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.",292,19589
663272,454,"[Exeunt]
[Sennet. Enter AGAMEMNON, NESTOR, ULYSSES,]
MENELAUS, and others]",1261,19589
663273,459,"Princes,
What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks?
The ample proposition that hope makes
In all designs begun on earth below
Fails in the promised largeness: cheques and disasters
Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd,
As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap,
Infect the sound pine and divert his grain
Tortive and errant from his course of growth.
Nor, princes, is it matter new to us
That we come short of our suppose so far
That after seven years' siege yet Troy walls stand;
Sith every action that hath gone before,
Whereof we have record, trial did draw
Bias and thwart, not answering the aim,
And that unbodied figure of the thought
That gave't surmised shape. Why then, you princes,
Do you with cheeks abash'd behold our works,
And call them shames? which are indeed nought else
But the protractive trials of great Jove
To find persistive constancy in men:
The fineness of which metal is not found
In fortune's love; for then the bold and coward,
The wise and fool, the artist and unread,
The hard and soft seem all affined and kin:
But, in the wind and tempest of her frown,
Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan,
Puffing at all, winnows the light away;
And what hath mass or matter, by itself
Lies rich in virtue and unmingled.",58,19590
663274,489,"With due observance of thy godlike seat,
Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply
Thy latest words. In the reproof of chance
Lies the true proof of men: the sea being smooth,
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
Upon her patient breast, making their way
With those of nobler bulk!
But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage
The gentle Thetis, and anon behold
The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut,
Bounding between the two moist elements,
Like Perseus' horse: where's then the saucy boat
Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now
Co-rivall'd greatness? Either to harbour fled,
Or made a toast for Neptune. Even so
Doth valour's show and valour's worth divide
In storms of fortune; for in her ray and brightness
The herd hath more annoyance by the breeze
Than by the tiger; but when the splitting wind
Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks,
And flies fled under shade, why, then the thing of courage
As roused with rage with rage doth sympathize,
And with an accent tuned in selfsame key
Retorts to chiding fortune.",814,19590
663275,513,"Agamemnon,
Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece,
Heart of our numbers, soul and only spirit.
In whom the tempers and the minds of all
Should be shut up, hear what Ulysses speaks.
Besides the applause and approbation To which,
[To AGAMEMNON]
most mighty for thy place and sway,
[To NESTOR]
And thou most reverend for thy stretch'd-out life
I give to both your speeches, which were such
As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece
Should hold up high in brass, and such again
As venerable Nestor, hatch'd in silver,
Should with a bond of air, strong as the axle-tree
On which heaven rides, knit all the Greekish ears
To his experienced tongue, yet let it please both,
Thou great, and wise, to hear Ulysses speak.",1218,19590
663276,531,"Speak, prince of Ithaca; and be't of less expect
That matter needless, of importless burden,
Divide thy lips, than we are confident,
When rank Thersites opes his mastic jaws,
We shall hear music, wit and oracle.",58,19590
663277,536,"Troy, yet upon his basis, had been down,
And the great Hector's sword had lack'd a master,
But for these instances.
The specialty of rule hath been neglected:
And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand
Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions.
When that the general is not like the hive
To whom the foragers shall all repair,
What honey is expected? Degree being vizarded,
The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask.
The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre
Observe degree, priority and place,
Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
Office and custom, in all line of order;
And therefore is the glorious planet Sol
In noble eminence enthroned and sphered
Amidst the other; whose medicinable eye
Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil,
And posts, like the commandment of a king,
Sans cheque to good and bad: but when the planets
In evil mixture to disorder wander,
What plagues and what portents! what mutiny!
What raging of the sea! shaking of earth!
Commotion in the winds! frights, changes, horrors,
Divert and crack, rend and deracinate
The unity and married calm of states
Quite from their fixure! O, when degree is shaked,
Which is the ladder to all high designs,
Then enterprise is sick! How could communities,
Degrees in schools and brotherhoods in cities,
Peaceful commerce from dividable shores,
The primogenitive and due of birth,
Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels,
But by degree, stand in authentic place?
Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores
And make a sop of all this solid globe:
Strength should be lord of imbecility,
And the rude son should strike his father dead:
Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,
Between whose endless jar justice resides,
Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Then every thing includes itself in power,
Power into will, will into appetite;
And appetite, an universal wolf,
So doubly seconded with will and power,
Must make perforce an universal prey,
And last eat up himself. Great Agamemnon,
This chaos, when degree is suffocate,
Follows the choking.
And this neglection of degree it is
That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose
It hath to climb. The general's disdain'd
By him one step below, he by the next,
That next by him beneath; so every step,
Exampled by the first pace that is sick
Of his superior, grows to an envious fever
Of pale and bloodless emulation:
And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot,
Not her own sinews. To end a tale of length,
Troy in our weakness stands, not in her strength.",1218,19590
663278,599,"Most wisely hath Ulysses here discover'd
The fever whereof all our power is sick.",814,19590
663279,601,"The nature of the sickness found, Ulysses,
What is the remedy?",58,19590
663280,603,"The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns
The sinew and the forehand of our host,
Having his ear full of his airy fame,
Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent
Lies mocking our designs: with him Patroclus
Upon a lazy bed the livelong day
Breaks scurril jests;
And with ridiculous and awkward action,
Which, slanderer, he imitation calls,
He pageants us. Sometime, great Agamemnon,
Thy topless deputation he puts on,
And, like a strutting player, whose conceit
Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich
To hear the wooden dialogue and sound
'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage,--
Such to-be-pitied and o'er-wrested seeming
He acts thy greatness in: and when he speaks,
'Tis like a chime a-mending; with terms unsquared,
Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropp'd
Would seem hyperboles. At this fusty stuff
The large Achilles, on his press'd bed lolling,
From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause;
Cries 'Excellent! 'tis Agamemnon just.
Now play me Nestor; hem, and stroke thy beard,
As he being drest to some oration.'
That's done, as near as the extremest ends
Of parallels, as like as Vulcan and his wife:
Yet god Achilles still cries 'Excellent!
'Tis Nestor right. Now play him me, Patroclus,
Arming to answer in a night alarm.'
And then, forsooth, the faint defects of age
Must be the scene of mirth; to cough and spit,
And, with a palsy-fumbling on his gorget,
Shake in and out the rivet: and at this sport
Sir Valour dies; cries 'O, enough, Patroclus;
Or give me ribs of steel! I shall split all
In pleasure of my spleen.' And in this fashion,
All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes,
Severals and generals of grace exact,
Achievements, plots, orders, preventions,
Excitements to the field, or speech for truce,
Success or loss, what is or is not, serves
As stuff for these two to make paradoxes.",1218,19590
663281,646,"And in the imitation of these twain--
Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns
With an imperial voice--many are infect.
Ajax is grown self-will'd, and bears his head
In such a rein, in full as proud a place
As broad Achilles; keeps his tent like him;
Makes factious feasts; rails on our state of war,
Bold as an oracle, and sets Thersites,
A slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint,
To match us in comparisons with dirt,
To weaken and discredit our exposure,
How rank soever rounded in with danger.",814,19590
663282,658,"They tax our policy, and call it cowardice,
Count wisdom as no member of the war,
Forestall prescience, and esteem no act
But that of hand: the still and mental parts,
That do contrive how many hands shall strike,
When fitness calls them on, and know by measure
Of their observant toil the enemies' weight,--
Why, this hath not a finger's dignity:
They call this bed-work, mappery, closet-war;
So that the ram that batters down the wall,
For the great swing and rudeness of his poise,
They place before his hand that made the engine,
Or those that with the fineness of their souls
By reason guide his execution.",1218,19590
663283,672,"Let this be granted, and Achilles' horse
Makes many Thetis' sons.",814,19590
663284,674,[A tucket],1261,19590
663285,675,"What trumpet? look, Menelaus.",58,19590
663286,676,From Troy.,762,19590
663287,677,[Enter AENEAS],1261,19590
663288,678,What would you 'fore our tent?,58,19590
663289,679,"Is this great Agamemnon's tent, I pray you?",57,19590
663290,680,Even this.,58,19590
663291,681,"May one, that is a herald and a prince,
Do a fair message to his kingly ears?",57,19590
663292,683,"With surety stronger than Achilles' arm
'Fore all the Greekish heads, which with one voice
Call Agamemnon head and general.",58,19590
663293,686,"Fair leave and large security. How may
A stranger to those most imperial looks
Know them from eyes of other mortals?",57,19590
663294,689,How!,58,19590
663295,690,"Ay;
I ask, that I might waken reverence,
And bid the cheek be ready with a blush
Modest as morning when she coldly eyes
The youthful Phoebus:
Which is that god in office, guiding men?
Which is the high and mighty Agamemnon?",57,19590
663296,697,"This Trojan scorns us; or the men of Troy
Are ceremonious courtiers.",58,19590
663297,699,"Courtiers as free, as debonair, unarm'd,
As bending angels; that's their fame in peace:
But when they would seem soldiers, they have galls,
Good arms, strong joints, true swords; and,
Jove's accord,
Nothing so full of heart. But peace, AEneas,
Peace, Trojan; lay thy finger on thy lips!
The worthiness of praise distains his worth,
If that the praised himself bring the praise forth:
But what the repining enemy commends,
That breath fame blows; that praise, sole sure,
transcends.",57,19590
663298,711,"Sir, you of Troy, call you yourself AEneas?",58,19590
663299,712,"Ay, Greek, that is my name.",57,19590
663300,713,What's your affair I pray you?,58,19590
663301,714,"Sir, pardon; 'tis for Agamemnon's ears.",57,19590
663302,715,He hears naught privately that comes from Troy.,58,19590
663303,716,"Nor I from Troy come not to whisper him:
I bring a trumpet to awake his ear,
To set his sense on the attentive bent,
And then to speak.",57,19590
663304,720,"Speak frankly as the wind;
It is not Agamemnon's sleeping hour:
That thou shalt know. Trojan, he is awake,
He tells thee so himself.",58,19590
663305,724,"Trumpet, blow loud,
Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents;
And every Greek of mettle, let him know,
What Troy means fairly shall be spoke aloud.
[Trumpet sounds]
We have, great Agamemnon, here in Troy
A prince call'd Hector,--Priam is his father,--
Who in this dull and long-continued truce
Is rusty grown: he bade me take a trumpet,
And to this purpose speak. Kings, princes, lords!
If there be one among the fair'st of Greece
That holds his honour higher than his ease,
That seeks his praise more than he fears his peril,
That knows his valour, and knows not his fear,
That loves his mistress more than in confession,
With truant vows to her own lips he loves,
And dare avow her beauty and her worth
In other arms than hers,--to him this challenge.
Hector, in view of Trojans and of Greeks,
Shall make it good, or do his best to do it,
He hath a lady, wiser, fairer, truer,
Than ever Greek did compass in his arms,
And will to-morrow with his trumpet call
Midway between your tents and walls of Troy,
To rouse a Grecian that is true in love:
If any come, Hector shall honour him;
If none, he'll say in Troy when he retires,
The Grecian dames are sunburnt and not worth
The splinter of a lance. Even so much.",57,19590
663306,753,"This shall be told our lovers, Lord AEneas;
If none of them have soul in such a kind,
We left them all at home: but we are soldiers;
And may that soldier a mere recreant prove,
That means not, hath not, or is not in love!
If then one is, or hath, or means to be,
That one meets Hector; if none else, I am he.",58,19590
663307,760,"Tell him of Nestor, one that was a man
When Hector's grandsire suck'd: he is old now;
But if there be not in our Grecian host
One noble man that hath one spark of fire,
To answer for his love, tell him from me
I'll hide my silver beard in a gold beaver
And in my vantbrace put this wither'd brawn,
And meeting him will tell him that my lady
Was fairer than his grandam and as chaste
As may be in the world: his youth in flood,
I'll prove this truth with my three drops of blood.",814,19590
663308,771,Now heavens forbid such scarcity of youth!,57,19590
663309,772,Amen.,1218,19590
663310,773,"Fair Lord AEneas, let me touch your hand;
To our pavilion shall I lead you, sir.
Achilles shall have word of this intent;
So shall each lord of Greece, from tent to tent:
Yourself shall feast with us before you go
And find the welcome of a noble foe.",58,19590
663311,779,[Exeunt all but ULYSSES and NESTOR],1261,19590
663312,780,Nestor!,1218,19590
663313,781,What says Ulysses?,814,19590
663314,782,"I have a young conception in my brain;
Be you my time to bring it to some shape.",1218,19590
663315,784,What is't?,814,19590
663316,785,"This 'tis:
Blunt wedges rive hard knots: the seeded pride
That hath to this maturity blown up
In rank Achilles must or now be cropp'd,
Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil,
To overbulk us all.",1218,19590
663317,791,"Well, and how?",814,19590
663318,792,"This challenge that the gallant Hector sends,
However it is spread in general name,
Relates in purpose only to Achilles.",1218,19590
663319,795,"The purpose is perspicuous even as substance,
Whose grossness little characters sum up:
And, in the publication, make no strain,
But that Achilles, were his brain as barren
As banks of Libya,--though, Apollo knows,
'Tis dry enough,--will, with great speed of judgment,
Ay, with celerity, find Hector's purpose
Pointing on him.",814,19590
663320,803,"And wake him to the answer, think you?",1218,19590
663321,804,"Yes, 'tis most meet: whom may you else oppose,
That can from Hector bring his honour off,
If not Achilles? Though't be a sportful combat,
Yet in the trial much opinion dwells;
For here the Trojans taste our dear'st repute
With their finest palate: and trust to me, Ulysses,
Our imputation shall be oddly poised
In this wild action; for the success,
Although particular, shall give a scantling
Of good or bad unto the general;
And in such indexes, although small pricks
To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large. It is supposed
He that meets Hector issues from our choice
And choice, being mutual act of all our souls,
Makes merit her election, and doth boil,
As 'twere from us all, a man distill'd
Out of our virtues; who miscarrying,
What heart receives from hence the conquering part,
To steel a strong opinion to themselves?
Which entertain'd, limbs are his instruments,
In no less working than are swords and bows
Directive by the limbs.",814,19590
663322,828,"Give pardon to my speech:
Therefore 'tis meet Achilles meet not Hector.
Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,
And think, perchance, they'll sell; if not,
The lustre of the better yet to show,
Shall show the better. Do not consent
That ever Hector and Achilles meet;
For both our honour and our shame in this
Are dogg'd with two strange followers.",1218,19590
663323,837,I see them not with my old eyes: what are they?,814,19590
663324,838,"What glory our Achilles shares from Hector,
Were he not proud, we all should share with him:
But he already is too insolent;
And we were better parch in Afric sun
Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes,
Should he 'scape Hector fair: if he were foil'd,
Why then, we did our main opinion crush
In taint of our best man. No, make a lottery;
And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw
The sort to fight with Hector: among ourselves
Give him allowance for the better man;
For that will physic the great Myrmidon
Who broils in loud applause, and make him fall
His crest that prouder than blue Iris bends.
If the dull brainless Ajax come safe off,
We'll dress him up in voices: if he fail,
Yet go we under our opinion still
That we have better men. But, hit or miss,
Our project's life this shape of sense assumes:
Ajax employ'd plucks down Achilles' plumes.",1218,19590
663325,858,"Ulysses,
Now I begin to relish thy advice;
And I will give a taste of it forthwith
To Agamemnon: go we to him straight.
Two curs shall tame each other: pride alone
Must tarre the mastiffs on, as 'twere their bone.",814,19590
663326,864,[Exeunt],1261,19590
663327,867,[Enter AJAX and THERSITES],1261,19591
663328,868,Thersites!,61,19591
663329,869,"Agamemnon, how if he had boils? full, all over,
generally?",1160,19591
663330,871,Thersites!,61,19591
663331,872,"And those boils did run? say so: did not the
general run then? were not that a botchy core?",1160,19591
663332,874,Dog!,61,19591
663333,875,Then would come some matter from him; I see none now.,1160,19591
663334,876,"Thou bitch-wolf's son, canst thou not hear?
[Beating him]
Feel, then.",61,19591
663335,879,"The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel
beef-witted lord!",1160,19591
663336,881,"Speak then, thou vinewedst leaven, speak: I will
beat thee into handsomeness.",61,19591
663337,883,"I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness: but,
I think, thy horse will sooner con an oration than
thou learn a prayer without book. Thou canst strike,
canst thou? a red murrain o' thy jade's tricks!",1160,19591
663338,887,"Toadstool, learn me the proclamation.",61,19591
663339,888,"Dost thou think I have no sense, thou strikest me thus?",1160,19591
663340,889,The proclamation!,61,19591
663341,890,"Thou art proclaimed a fool, I think.",1160,19591
663342,891,"Do not, porpentine, do not: my fingers itch.",61,19591
663343,892,"I would thou didst itch from head to foot and I had
the scratching of thee; I would make thee the
loathsomest scab in Greece. When thou art forth in
the incursions, thou strikest as slow as another.",1160,19591
663344,896,"I say, the proclamation!",61,19591
663345,897,"Thou grumblest and railest every hour on Achilles,
and thou art as full of envy at his greatness as
Cerberus is at Proserpine's beauty, ay, that thou
barkest at him.",1160,19591
663346,901,Mistress Thersites!,61,19591
663347,902,Thou shouldest strike him.,1160,19591
663348,903,Cobloaf!,61,19591
663349,904,"He would pun thee into shivers with his fist, as a
sailor breaks a biscuit.",1160,19591
663350,906,[Beating him] You whoreson cur!,61,19591
663351,907,"Do, do.",1160,19591
663352,908,Thou stool for a witch!,61,19591
663353,909,"Ay, do, do; thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no
more brain than I have in mine elbows; an assinego
may tutor thee: thou scurvy-valiant ass! thou art
here but to thrash Trojans; and thou art bought and
sold among those of any wit, like a barbarian slave.
If thou use to beat me, I will begin at thy heel, and
tell what thou art by inches, thou thing of no
bowels, thou!",1160,19591
663354,917,You dog!,61,19591
663355,918,You scurvy lord!,1160,19591
663356,919,[Beating him] You cur!,61,19591
663357,920,"Mars his idiot! do, rudeness; do, camel; do, do.",1160,19591
663358,921,[Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS],1261,19591
663359,922,"Why, how now, Ajax! wherefore do you thus? How now,
Thersites! what's the matter, man?",49,19591
663360,924,"You see him there, do you?",1160,19591
663361,925,Ay; what's the matter?,49,19591
663362,926,"Nay, look upon him.",1160,19591
663363,927,So I do: what's the matter?,49,19591
663364,928,"Nay, but regard him well.",1160,19591
663365,929,"'Well!' why, I do so.",49,19591
663366,930,"But yet you look not well upon him; for whosoever you
take him to be, he is Ajax.",1160,19591
663367,932,"I know that, fool.",49,19591
663368,933,"Ay, but that fool knows not himself.",1160,19591
663369,934,Therefore I beat thee.,61,19591
663370,935,"Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he utters! his
evasions have ears thus long. I have bobbed his
brain more than he has beat my bones: I will buy
nine sparrows for a penny, and his pia mater is not
worth the nineth part of a sparrow. This lord,
Achilles, Ajax, who wears his wit in his belly and
his guts in his head, I'll tell you what I say of
him.",1160,19591
663371,943,What?,49,19591
663372,944,"I say, this Ajax--",1160,19591
663373,945,[Ajax offers to beat him],1261,19591
663374,946,"Nay, good Ajax.",49,19591
663375,947,Has not so much wit--,1160,19591
663376,948,"Nay, I must hold you.",49,19591
663377,949,"As will stop the eye of Helen's needle, for whom he
comes to fight.",1160,19591
663378,951,"Peace, fool!",49,19591
663379,952,"I would have peace and quietness, but the fool will
not: he there: that he: look you there.",1160,19591
663380,954,O thou damned cur! I shall--,61,19591
663381,955,Will you set your wit to a fool's?,49,19591
663382,956,"No, I warrant you; for a fools will shame it.",1160,19591
663383,957,"Good words, Thersites.",865,19591
663384,958,What's the quarrel?,49,19591
663385,959,"I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the
proclamation, and he rails upon me.",61,19591
663386,961,I serve thee not.,1160,19591
663387,962,"Well, go to, go to.",61,19591
663388,963,I serve here voluntarily.,1160,19591
663389,964,"Your last service was sufferance, 'twas not
voluntary: no man is beaten voluntary: Ajax was
here the voluntary, and you as under an impress.",49,19591
663390,967,"E'en so; a great deal of your wit, too, lies in your
sinews, or else there be liars. Hector have a great
catch, if he knock out either of your brains: a'
were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel.",1160,19591
663391,971,"What, with me too, Thersites?",49,19591
663392,972,"There's Ulysses and old Nestor, whose wit was mouldy
ere your grandsires had nails on their toes, yoke you
like draught-oxen and make you plough up the wars.",1160,19591
663393,975,"What, what?",49,19591
663394,976,"Yes, good sooth: to, Achilles! to, Ajax! to!",1160,19591
663395,977,I shall cut out your tongue.,61,19591
663396,978,"'Tis no matter! I shall speak as much as thou
afterwards.",1160,19591
663397,980,"No more words, Thersites; peace!",865,19591
663398,981,"I will hold my peace when Achilles' brach bids me, shall I?",1160,19591
663399,982,"There's for you, Patroclus.",49,19591
663400,983,"I will see you hanged, like clotpoles, ere I come
any more to your tents: I will keep where there is
wit stirring and leave the faction of fools.",1160,19591
663401,986,[Exit],1261,19591
663402,987,A good riddance.,865,19591
663403,988,"Marry, this, sir, is proclaim'd through all our host:
That Hector, by the fifth hour of the sun,
Will with a trumpet 'twixt our tents and Troy
To-morrow morning call some knight to arms
That hath a stomach; and such a one that dare
Maintain--I know not what: 'tis trash. Farewell.",49,19591
663404,994,Farewell. Who shall answer him?,61,19591
663405,995,"I know not: 'tis put to lottery; otherwise
He knew his man.",49,19591
663406,997,"O, meaning you. I will go learn more of it.",61,19591
663407,998,[Exeunt],1261,19591
663408,1001,"[Enter PRIAM, HECTOR, TROILUS, PARIS, and HELENUS]",1261,19592
663409,1002,"After so many hours, lives, speeches spent,
Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks:
'Deliver Helen, and all damage else--
As honour, loss of time, travail, expense,
Wounds, friends, and what else dear that is consumed
In hot digestion of this cormorant war--
Shall be struck off.' Hector, what say you to't?",912,19592
663410,1009,"Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I
As far as toucheth my particular,
Yet, dread Priam,
There is no lady of more softer bowels,
More spongy to suck in the sense of fear,
More ready to cry out 'Who knows what follows?'
Than Hector is: the wound of peace is surety,
Surety secure; but modest doubt is call'd
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To the bottom of the worst. Let Helen go:
Since the first sword was drawn about this question,
Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand dismes,
Hath been as dear as Helen; I mean, of ours:
If we have lost so many tenths of ours,
To guard a thing not ours nor worth to us,
Had it our name, the value of one ten,
What merit's in that reason which denies
The yielding of her up?",565,19592
663411,1027,"Fie, fie, my brother!
Weigh you the worth and honour of a king
So great as our dread father in a scale
Of common ounces? will you with counters sum
The past proportion of his infinite?
And buckle in a waist most fathomless
With spans and inches so diminutive
As fears and reasons? fie, for godly shame!",1212,19592
663412,1035,"No marvel, though you bite so sharp at reasons,
You are so empty of them. Should not our father
Bear the great sway of his affairs with reasons,
Because your speech hath none that tells him so?",570,19592
663413,1039,"You are for dreams and slumbers, brother priest;
You fur your gloves with reason. Here are
your reasons:
You know an enemy intends you harm;
You know a sword employ'd is perilous,
And reason flies the object of all harm:
Who marvels then, when Helenus beholds
A Grecian and his sword, if he do set
The very wings of reason to his heels
And fly like chidden Mercury from Jove,
Or like a star disorb'd? Nay, if we talk of reason,
Let's shut our gates and sleep: manhood and honour
Should have hare-hearts, would they but fat
their thoughts
With this cramm'd reason: reason and respect
Make livers pale and lustihood deject.",1212,19592
663414,1055,"Brother, she is not worth what she doth cost
The holding.",565,19592
663415,1057,"What is aught, but as 'tis valued?",1212,19592
663416,1058,"But value dwells not in particular will;
It holds his estimate and dignity
As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
As in the prizer: 'tis mad idolatry
To make the service greater than the god
And the will dotes that is attributive
To what infectiously itself affects,
Without some image of the affected merit.",565,19592
663417,1066,"I take to-day a wife, and my election
Is led on in the conduct of my will;
My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears,
Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores
Of will and judgment: how may I avoid,
Although my will distaste what it elected,
The wife I chose? there can be no evasion
To blench from this and to stand firm by honour:
We turn not back the silks upon the merchant,
When we have soil'd them, nor the remainder viands
We do not throw in unrespective sieve,
Because we now are full. It was thought meet
Paris should do some vengeance on the Greeks:
Your breath of full consent bellied his sails;
The seas and winds, old wranglers, took a truce
And did him service: he touch'd the ports desired,
And for an old aunt whom the Greeks held captive,
He brought a Grecian queen, whose youth and freshness
Wrinkles Apollo's, and makes stale the morning.
Why keep we her? the Grecians keep our aunt:
Is she worth keeping? why, she is a pearl,
Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships,
And turn'd crown'd kings to merchants.
If you'll avouch 'twas wisdom Paris went--
As you must needs, for you all cried 'Go, go,'--
If you'll confess he brought home noble prize--
As you must needs, for you all clapp'd your hands
And cried 'Inestimable!'--why do you now
The issue of your proper wisdoms rate,
And do a deed that fortune never did,
Beggar the estimation which you prized
Richer than sea and land? O, theft most base,
That we have stol'n what we do fear to keep!
But, thieves, unworthy of a thing so stol'n,
That in their country did them that disgrace,
We fear to warrant in our native place!",1212,19592
663418,1102,"[Within] Cry, Trojans, cry!",229,19592
663419,1103,What noise? what shriek is this?,912,19592
663420,1104,"'Tis our mad sister, I do know her voice.",1212,19592
663421,1105,"[Within] Cry, Trojans!",229,19592
663422,1106,It is Cassandra.,565,19592
663423,1107,"[Enter CASSANDRA, raving]",1261,19592
663424,1108,"Cry, Trojans, cry! lend me ten thousand eyes,
And I will fill them with prophetic tears.",229,19592
663425,1110,"Peace, sister, peace!",565,19592
663426,1111,"Virgins and boys, mid-age and wrinkled eld,
Soft infancy, that nothing canst but cry,
Add to my clamours! let us pay betimes
A moiety of that mass of moan to come.
Cry, Trojans, cry! practise your eyes with tears!
Troy must not be, nor goodly Ilion stand;
Our firebrand brother, Paris, burns us all.
Cry, Trojans, cry! a Helen and a woe:
Cry, cry! Troy burns, or else let Helen go.",229,19592
663427,1120,[Exit],1261,19592
663428,1121,"Now, youthful Troilus, do not these high strains
Of divination in our sister work
Some touches of remorse? or is your blood
So madly hot that no discourse of reason,
Nor fear of bad success in a bad cause,
Can qualify the same?",565,19592
663429,1127,"Why, brother Hector,
We may not think the justness of each act
Such and no other than event doth form it,
Nor once deject the courage of our minds,
Because Cassandra's mad: her brain-sick raptures
Cannot distaste the goodness of a quarrel
Which hath our several honours all engaged
To make it gracious. For my private part,
I am no more touch'd than all Priam's sons:
And Jove forbid there should be done amongst us
Such things as might offend the weakest spleen
To fight for and maintain!",1212,19592
663430,1139,"Else might the world convince of levity
As well my undertakings as your counsels:
But I attest the gods, your full consent
Gave wings to my propension and cut off
All fears attending on so dire a project.
For what, alas, can these my single arms?
What Propugnation is in one man's valour,
To stand the push and enmity of those
This quarrel would excite? Yet, I protest,
Were I alone to pass the difficulties
And had as ample power as I have will,
Paris should ne'er retract what he hath done,
Nor faint in the pursuit.",861,19592
663431,1152,"Paris, you speak
Like one besotted on your sweet delights:
You have the honey still, but these the gall;
So to be valiant is no praise at all.",912,19592
663432,1156,"Sir, I propose not merely to myself
The pleasures such a beauty brings with it;
But I would have the soil of her fair rape
Wiped off, in honourable keeping her.
What treason were it to the ransack'd queen,
Disgrace to your great worths and shame to me,
Now to deliver her possession up
On terms of base compulsion! Can it be
That so degenerate a strain as this
Should once set footing in your generous bosoms?
There's not the meanest spirit on our party
Without a heart to dare or sword to draw
When Helen is defended, nor none so noble
Whose life were ill bestow'd or death unfamed
Where Helen is the subject; then, I say,
Well may we fight for her whom, we know well,
The world's large spaces cannot parallel.",861,19592
663433,1173,"Paris and Troilus, you have both said well,
And on the cause and question now in hand
Have glozed, but superficially: not much
Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought
Unfit to hear moral philosophy:
The reasons you allege do more conduce
To the hot passion of distemper'd blood
Than to make up a free determination
'Twixt right and wrong, for pleasure and revenge
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
Of any true decision. Nature craves
All dues be render'd to their owners: now,
What nearer debt in all humanity
Than wife is to the husband? If this law
Of nature be corrupted through affection,
And that great minds, of partial indulgence
To their benumbed wills, resist the same,
There is a law in each well-order'd nation
To curb those raging appetites that are
Most disobedient and refractory.
If Helen then be wife to Sparta's king,
As it is known she is, these moral laws
Of nature and of nations speak aloud
To have her back return'd: thus to persist
In doing wrong extenuates not wrong,
But makes it much more heavy. Hector's opinion
Is this in way of truth; yet ne'ertheless,
My spritely brethren, I propend to you
In resolution to keep Helen still,
For 'tis a cause that hath no mean dependance
Upon our joint and several dignities.",565,19592
663434,1204,"Why, there you touch'd the life of our design:
Were it not glory that we more affected
Than the performance of our heaving spleens,
I would not wish a drop of Trojan blood
Spent more in her defence. But, worthy Hector,
She is a theme of honour and renown,
A spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds,
Whose present courage may beat down our foes,
And fame in time to come canonize us;
For, I presume, brave Hector would not lose
So rich advantage of a promised glory
As smiles upon the forehead of this action
For the wide world's revenue.",1212,19592
663435,1217,"I am yours,
You valiant offspring of great Priamus.
I have a roisting challenge sent amongst
The dun and factious nobles of the Greeks
Will strike amazement to their drowsy spirits:
I was advertised their great general slept,
Whilst emulation in the army crept:
This, I presume, will wake him.",565,19592
663436,1225,[Exeunt],1261,19592
663437,1228,"[Enter THERSITES, solus]",1261,19593
663438,1229,"How now, Thersites! what lost in the labyrinth of
thy fury! Shall the elephant Ajax carry it thus? He
beats me, and I rail at him: O, worthy satisfaction!
would it were otherwise; that I could beat him,
whilst he railed at me. 'Sfoot, I'll learn to
conjure and raise devils, but I'll see some issue of
my spiteful execrations. Then there's Achilles, a
rare enginer! If Troy be not taken till these two
undermine it, the walls will stand till they fall of
themselves. O thou great thunder-darter of Olympus,
forget that thou art Jove, the king of gods and,
Mercury, lose all the serpentine craft of thy
caduceus, if ye take not that little, little less
than little wit from them that they have! which
short-armed ignorance itself knows is so abundant
scarce, it will not in circumvention deliver a fly
from a spider, without drawing their massy irons and
cutting the web. After this, the vengeance on the
whole camp! or rather, the bone-ache! for that,
methinks, is the curse dependent on those that war
for a placket. I have said my prayers and devil Envy
say Amen. What ho! my Lord Achilles!",1160,19593
663439,1251,[Enter PATROCLUS],1261,19593
663440,1252,"Who's there? Thersites! Good Thersites, come in and rail.",865,19593
663441,1253,"If I could have remembered a gilt counterfeit, thou
wouldst not have slipped out of my contemplation: but
it is no matter; thyself upon thyself! The common
curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in
great revenue! heaven bless thee from a tutor, and
discipline come not near thee! Let thy blood be thy
direction till thy death! then if she that lays thee
out says thou art a fair corse, I'll be sworn and
sworn upon't she never shrouded any but lazars.
Amen. Where's Achilles?",1160,19593
663442,1263,"What, art thou devout? wast thou in prayer?",865,19593
663443,1264,Ay: the heavens hear me!,1160,19593
663444,1265,[Enter ACHILLES],1261,19593
663445,1266,Who's there?,49,19593
663446,1267,"Thersites, my lord.",865,19593
663447,1268,"Where, where? Art thou come? why, my cheese, my
digestion, why hast thou not served thyself in to
my table so many meals? Come, what's Agamemnon?",49,19593
663448,1271,"Thy commander, Achilles. Then tell me, Patroclus,
what's Achilles?",1160,19593
663449,1273,"Thy lord, Thersites: then tell me, I pray thee,
what's thyself?",865,19593
663450,1275,"Thy knower, Patroclus: then tell me, Patroclus,
what art thou?",1160,19593
663451,1277,Thou mayst tell that knowest.,865,19593
663452,1278,"O, tell, tell.",49,19593
663453,1279,"I'll decline the whole question. Agamemnon commands
Achilles; Achilles is my lord; I am Patroclus'
knower, and Patroclus is a fool.",1160,19593
663454,1282,You rascal!,865,19593
663455,1283,"Peace, fool! I have not done.",1160,19593
663456,1284,"He is a privileged man. Proceed, Thersites.",49,19593
663457,1285,"Agamemnon is a fool; Achilles is a fool; Thersites
is a fool, and, as aforesaid, Patroclus is a fool.",1160,19593
663458,1287,Derive this; come.,49,19593
663459,1288,"Agamemnon is a fool to offer to command Achilles;
Achilles is a fool to be commanded of Agamemnon;
Thersites is a fool to serve such a fool, and
Patroclus is a fool positive.",1160,19593
663460,1292,Why am I a fool?,865,19593
663461,1293,"Make that demand of the prover. It suffices me thou
art. Look you, who comes here?",1160,19593
663462,1295,"Patroclus, I'll speak with nobody.
Come in with me, Thersites.",49,19593
663463,1297,[Exit],1261,19593
663464,1298,"Here is such patchery, such juggling and such
knavery! all the argument is a cuckold and a
whore; a good quarrel to draw emulous factions
and bleed to death upon. Now, the dry serpigo on
the subject! and war and lechery confound all!",1160,19593
663465,1303,[Exit],1261,19593
663466,1304,"[Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, NESTOR, DIOMEDES, and AJAX]",1261,19593
663467,1305,Where is Achilles?,58,19593
663468,1306,"Within his tent; but ill disposed, my lord.",865,19593
663469,1307,"Let it be known to him that we are here.
He shent our messengers; and we lay by
Our appertainments, visiting of him:
Let him be told so; lest perchance he think
We dare not move the question of our place,
Or know not what we are.",58,19593
663470,1313,I shall say so to him.,865,19593
663471,1314,[Exit],1261,19593
663472,1315,"We saw him at the opening of his tent:
He is not sick.",1218,19593
663473,1317,"Yes, lion-sick, sick of proud heart: you may call it
melancholy, if you will favour the man; but, by my
head, 'tis pride: but why, why? let him show us the
cause. A word, my lord.",61,19593
663474,1321,[Takes AGAMEMNON aside],1261,19593
663475,1322,What moves Ajax thus to bay at him?,814,19593
663476,1323,Achilles hath inveigled his fool from him.,1218,19593
663477,1324,"Who, Thersites?",814,19593
663478,1325,He.,1218,19593
663479,1326,"Then will Ajax lack matter, if he have lost his argument.",814,19593
663480,1327,"No, you see, he is his argument that has his
argument, Achilles.",1218,19593
663481,1329,"All the better; their fraction is more our wish than
their faction: but it was a strong composure a fool
could disunite.",814,19593
663482,1332,"The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily
untie. Here comes Patroclus.",1218,19593
663483,1334,[Re-enter PATROCLUS],1261,19593
663484,1335,No Achilles with him.,814,19593
663485,1336,"The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy:
his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.",1218,19593
663486,1338,"Achilles bids me say, he is much sorry,
If any thing more than your sport and pleasure
Did move your greatness and this noble state
To call upon him; he hopes it is no other
But for your health and your digestion sake,
And after-dinner's breath.",865,19593
663487,1344,"Hear you, Patroclus:
We are too well acquainted with these answers:
But his evasion, wing'd thus swift with scorn,
Cannot outfly our apprehensions.
Much attribute he hath, and much the reason
Why we ascribe it to him; yet all his virtues,
Not virtuously on his own part beheld,
Do in our eyes begin to lose their gloss,
Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish,
Are like to rot untasted. Go and tell him,
We come to speak with him; and you shall not sin,
If you do say we think him over-proud
And under-honest, in self-assumption greater
Than in the note of judgment; and worthier
than himself
Here tend the savage strangeness he puts on,
Disguise the holy strength of their command,
And underwrite in an observing kind
His humorous predominance; yea, watch
His pettish lunes, his ebbs, his flows, as if
The passage and whole carriage of this action
Rode on his tide. Go tell him this, and add,
That if he overhold his price so much,
We'll none of him; but let him, like an engine
Not portable, lie under this report:
'Bring action hither, this cannot go to war:
A stirring dwarf we do allowance give
Before a sleeping giant.' Tell him so.",58,19593
663488,1372,I shall; and bring his answer presently.,865,19593
663489,1373,[Exit],1261,19593
663490,1374,"In second voice we'll not be satisfied;
We come to speak with him. Ulysses, enter you.",58,19593
663491,1376,[Exit ULYSSES],1261,19593
663492,1377,What is he more than another?,61,19593
663493,1378,No more than what he thinks he is.,58,19593
663494,1379,"Is he so much? Do you not think he thinks himself a
better man than I am?",61,19593
663495,1381,No question.,58,19593
663496,1382,"Will you subscribe his thought, and say he is?",61,19593
663497,1383,"No, noble Ajax; you are as strong, as valiant, as
wise, no less noble, much more gentle, and altogether
more tractable.",58,19593
663498,1386,"Why should a man be proud? How doth pride grow? I
know not what pride is.",61,19593
663499,1388,"Your mind is the clearer, Ajax, and your virtues the
fairer. He that is proud eats up himself: pride is
his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle;
and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours
the deed in the praise.",58,19593
663500,1393,"I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads.",61,19593
663501,1394,Yet he loves himself: is't not strange?,814,19593
663502,1395,[Aside],1261,19593
663503,1396,[Re-enter ULYSSES],1261,19593
663504,1397,Achilles will not to the field to-morrow.,1218,19593
663505,1398,What's his excuse?,58,19593
663506,1399,"He doth rely on none,
But carries on the stream of his dispose
Without observance or respect of any,
In will peculiar and in self-admission.",1218,19593
663507,1403,"Why will he not upon our fair request
Untent his person and share the air with us?",58,19593
663508,1405,"Things small as nothing, for request's sake only,
He makes important: possess'd he is with greatness,
And speaks not to himself but with a pride
That quarrels at self-breath: imagined worth
Holds in his blood such swoln and hot discourse
That 'twixt his mental and his active parts
Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages
And batters down himself: what should I say?
He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it
Cry 'No recovery.'AGAMEMNON. Let Ajax go to him.
Dear lord, go you and greet him in his tent:
'Tis said he holds you well, and will be led
At your request a little from himself.",1218,19593
663509,1418,"O Agamemnon, let it not be so!
We'll consecrate the steps that Ajax makes
When they go from Achilles: shall the proud lord
That bastes his arrogance with his own seam
And never suffers matter of the world
Enter his thoughts, save such as do revolve
And ruminate himself, shall he be worshipp'd
Of that we hold an idol more than he?
No, this thrice worthy and right valiant lord
Must not so stale his palm, nobly acquired;
Nor, by my will, assubjugate his merit,
As amply titled as Achilles is,
By going to Achilles:
That were to enlard his fat already pride
And add more coals to Cancer when he burns
With entertaining great Hyperion.
This lord go to him! Jupiter forbid,
And say in thunder 'Achilles go to him.'",1218,19593
663510,1436,"[Aside to DIOMEDES] O, this is well; he rubs the
vein of him.",814,19593
663511,1438,"[Aside to NESTOR] And how his silence drinks up
this applause!",316,19593
663512,1440,"If I go to him, with my armed fist I'll pash him o'er the face.",61,19593
663513,1441,"O, no, you shall not go.",58,19593
663514,1442,"An a' be proud with me, I'll pheeze his pride:
Let me go to him.",61,19593
663515,1444,Not for the worth that hangs upon our quarrel.,1218,19593
663516,1445,"A paltry, insolent fellow!",61,19593
663517,1446,How he describes himself!,814,19593
663518,1447,Can he not be sociable?,61,19593
663519,1448,The raven chides blackness.,1218,19593
663520,1449,I'll let his humours blood.,61,19593
663521,1450,He will be the physician that should be the patient.,58,19593
663522,1451,"An all men were o' my mind,--",61,19593
663523,1452,Wit would be out of fashion.,1218,19593
663524,1453,"A' should not bear it so, a' should eat swords first:
shall pride carry it?",61,19593
663525,1455,"An 'twould, you'ld carry half.",814,19593
663526,1456,A' would have ten shares.,1218,19593
663527,1457,I will knead him; I'll make him supple.,61,19593
663528,1458,"He's not yet through warm: force him with praises:
pour in, pour in; his ambition is dry.",814,19593
663529,1460,"[To AGAMEMNON] My lord, you feed too much on this dislike.",1218,19593
663530,1461,"Our noble general, do not do so.",814,19593
663531,1462,You must prepare to fight without Achilles.,316,19593
663532,1463,"Why, 'tis this naming of him does him harm.
Here is a man--but 'tis before his face;
I will be silent.",1218,19593
663533,1466,"Wherefore should you so?
He is not emulous, as Achilles is.",814,19593
663534,1468,"Know the whole world, he is as valiant.",1218,19593
663535,1469,"A whoreson dog, that shall pelter thus with us!
Would he were a Trojan!",61,19593
663536,1471,"What a vice were it in Ajax now,--",814,19593
663537,1472,"If he were proud,--",1218,19593
663538,1473,"Or covetous of praise,--",316,19593
663539,1474,"Ay, or surly borne,--",1218,19593
663540,1475,"Or strange, or self-affected!",316,19593
663541,1476,"Thank the heavens, lord, thou art of sweet composure;
Praise him that got thee, she that gave thee suck:
Famed be thy tutor, and thy parts of nature
Thrice famed, beyond all erudition:
But he that disciplined thy arms to fight,
Let Mars divide eternity in twain,
And give him half: and, for thy vigour,
Bull-bearing Milo his addition yield
To sinewy Ajax. I will not praise thy wisdom,
Which, like a bourn, a pale, a shore, confines
Thy spacious and dilated parts: here's Nestor;
Instructed by the antiquary times,
He must, he is, he cannot but be wise:
Put pardon, father Nestor, were your days
As green as Ajax' and your brain so temper'd,
You should not have the eminence of him,
But be as Ajax.",1218,19593
663542,1493,Shall I call you father?,61,19593
663543,1494,"Ay, my good son.",814,19593
663544,1495,"Be ruled by him, Lord Ajax.",316,19593
663545,1496,"There is no tarrying here; the hart Achilles
Keeps thicket. Please it our great general
To call together all his state of war;
Fresh kings are come to Troy: to-morrow
We must with all our main of power stand fast:
And here's a lord,--come knights from east to west,
And cull their flower, Ajax shall cope the best.",1218,19593
663546,1503,"Go we to council. Let Achilles sleep:
Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.",58,19593
663547,1505,[Exeunt],1261,19593
663548,1508,[Enter a Servant and PANDARUS],1261,19594
663549,1509,"Friend, you! pray you, a word: do not you follow
the young Lord Paris?",858,19594
663550,1511,"Ay, sir, when he goes before me.",1049,19594
663551,1512,"You depend upon him, I mean?",858,19594
663552,1513,"Sir, I do depend upon the lord.",1049,19594
663553,1514,"You depend upon a noble gentleman; I must needs
praise him.",858,19594
663554,1516,The lord be praised!,1049,19594
663555,1517,"You know me, do you not?",858,19594
663556,1518,"Faith, sir, superficially.",1049,19594
663557,1519,"Friend, know me better; I am the Lord Pandarus.",858,19594
663558,1520,I hope I shall know your honour better.,1049,19594
663559,1521,I do desire it.,858,19594
663560,1522,You are in the state of grace.,1049,19594
663561,1523,"Grace! not so, friend: honour and lordship are my titles.
[Music within]
What music is this?",858,19594
663562,1526,"I do but partly know, sir: it is music in parts.",1049,19594
663563,1527,Know you the musicians?,858,19594
663564,1528,"Wholly, sir.",1049,19594
663565,1529,Who play they to?,858,19594
663566,1530,"To the hearers, sir.",1049,19594
663567,1531,"At whose pleasure, friend",858,19594
663568,1532,"At mine, sir, and theirs that love music.",1049,19594
663569,1533,"Command, I mean, friend.",858,19594
663570,1534,"Who shall I command, sir?",1049,19594
663571,1535,"Friend, we understand not one another: I am too
courtly and thou art too cunning. At whose request
do these men play?",858,19594
663572,1538,"That's to 't indeed, sir: marry, sir, at the request
of Paris my lord, who's there in person; with him,
the mortal Venus, the heart-blood of beauty, love's
invisible soul,--",1049,19594
663573,1542,"Who, my cousin Cressida?",858,19594
663574,1543,"No, sir, Helen: could you not find out that by her
attributes?",1049,19594
663575,1545,"It should seem, fellow, that thou hast not seen the
Lady Cressida. I come to speak with Paris from the
Prince Troilus: I will make a complimental assault
upon him, for my business seethes.",858,19594
663576,1549,Sodden business! there's a stewed phrase indeed!,1049,19594
663577,1550,"[Enter PARIS and HELEN, attended]",1261,19594
663578,1551,"Fair be to you, my lord, and to all this fair
company! fair desires, in all fair measure,
fairly guide them! especially to you, fair queen!
fair thoughts be your fair pillow!",858,19594
663579,1555,"Dear lord, you are full of fair words.",566,19594
663580,1556,"You speak your fair pleasure, sweet queen. Fair
prince, here is good broken music.",858,19594
663581,1558,"You have broke it, cousin: and, by my life, you
shall make it whole again; you shall piece it out
with a piece of your performance. Nell, he is full
of harmony.",861,19594
663582,1562,"Truly, lady, no.",858,19594
663583,1563,"O, sir,--",566,19594
663584,1564,"Rude, in sooth; in good sooth, very rude.",858,19594
663585,1565,"Well said, my lord! well, you say so in fits.",861,19594
663586,1566,"I have business to my lord, dear queen. My lord,
will you vouchsafe me a word?",858,19594
663587,1568,"Nay, this shall not hedge us out: we'll hear you
sing, certainly.",566,19594
663588,1570,"Well, sweet queen. you are pleasant with me. But,
marry, thus, my lord: my dear lord and most esteemed
friend, your brother Troilus,--",858,19594
663589,1573,"My Lord Pandarus; honey-sweet lord,--",566,19594
663590,1574,"Go to, sweet queen, to go:--commends himself most
affectionately to you,--",858,19594
663591,1576,"You shall not bob us out of our melody: if you do,
our melancholy upon your head!",566,19594
663592,1578,"Sweet queen, sweet queen! that's a sweet queen, i' faith.",858,19594
663593,1579,And to make a sweet lady sad is a sour offence.,566,19594
663594,1580,"Nay, that shall not serve your turn; that shall not,
in truth, la. Nay, I care not for such words; no,
no. And, my lord, he desires you, that if the king
call for him at supper, you will make his excuse.",858,19594
663595,1584,"My Lord Pandarus,--",566,19594
663596,1585,"What says my sweet queen, my very very sweet queen?",858,19594
663597,1586,What exploit's in hand? where sups he to-night?,861,19594
663598,1587,"Nay, but, my lord,--",566,19594
663599,1588,"What says my sweet queen? My cousin will fall out
with you. You must not know where he sups.",858,19594
663600,1590,"I'll lay my life, with my disposer Cressida.",861,19594
663601,1591,"No, no, no such matter; you are wide: come, your
disposer is sick.",858,19594
663602,1593,"Well, I'll make excuse.",861,19594
663603,1594,"Ay, good my lord. Why should you say Cressida? no,
your poor disposer's sick.",858,19594
663604,1596,I spy.,861,19594
663605,1597,"You spy! what do you spy? Come, give me an
instrument. Now, sweet queen.",858,19594
663606,1599,"Why, this is kindly done.",566,19594
663607,1600,"My niece is horribly in love with a thing you have,
sweet queen.",858,19594
663608,1602,"She shall have it, my lord, if it be not my lord Paris.",566,19594
663609,1603,"He! no, she'll none of him; they two are twain.",858,19594
663610,1604,"Falling in, after falling out, may make them three.",566,19594
663611,1605,"Come, come, I'll hear no more of this; I'll sing
you a song now.",858,19594
663612,1607,"Ay, ay, prithee now. By my troth, sweet lord, thou
hast a fine forehead.",566,19594
663613,1609,"Ay, you may, you may.",858,19594
663614,1610,"Let thy song be love: this love will undo us all.
O Cupid, Cupid, Cupid!",566,19594
663615,1612,"Love! ay, that it shall, i' faith.",858,19594
663616,1613,"Ay, good now, love, love, nothing but love.",861,19594
663617,1614,"In good troth, it begins so.
[Sings]
Love, love, nothing but love, still more!
For, O, love's bow
Shoots buck and doe:
The shaft confounds,
Not that it wounds,
But tickles still the sore.
These lovers cry Oh! oh! they die!
Yet that which seems the wound to kill,
Doth turn oh! oh! to ha! ha! he!
So dying love lives still:
Oh! oh! a while, but ha! ha! ha!
Oh! oh! groans out for ha! ha! ha!
Heigh-ho!",858,19594
663618,1629,"In love, i' faith, to the very tip of the nose.",566,19594
663619,1630,"He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot
blood, and hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot
thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.",861,19594
663620,1633,"Is this the generation of love? hot blood, hot
thoughts, and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers:
is love a generation of vipers? Sweet lord, who's
a-field to-day?",858,19594
663621,1637,"Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and all the
gallantry of Troy: I would fain have armed to-day,
but my Nell would not have it so. How chance my
brother Troilus went not?",861,19594
663622,1641,"He hangs the lip at something: you know all, Lord Pandarus.",566,19594
663623,1642,"Not I, honey-sweet queen. I long to hear how they
sped to-day. You'll remember your brother's excuse?",858,19594
663624,1644,To a hair.,861,19594
663625,1645,"Farewell, sweet queen.",858,19594
663626,1646,Commend me to your niece.,566,19594
663627,1647,"I will, sweet queen.",858,19594
663628,1648,[Exit],1261,19594
663629,1649,[A retreat sounded],1261,19594
663630,1650,"They're come from field: let us to Priam's hall,
To greet the warriors. Sweet Helen, I must woo you
To help unarm our Hector: his stubborn buckles,
With these your white enchanting fingers touch'd,
Shall more obey than to the edge of steel
Or force of Greekish sinews; you shall do more
Than all the island kings,--disarm great Hector.",861,19594
663631,1657,"'Twill make us proud to be his servant, Paris;
Yea, what he shall receive of us in duty
Gives us more palm in beauty than we have,
Yea, overshines ourself.",566,19594
663632,1661,"Sweet, above thought I love thee.",861,19594
663633,1662,[Exeunt],1261,19594
663634,1665,"[Enter PANDARUS and Troilus's Boy, meeting]",1261,19595
663635,1666,"How now! where's thy master? at my cousin
Cressida's?",858,19595
663636,1668,"No, sir; he stays for you to conduct him thither.",197,19595
663637,1669,"O, here he comes.
[Enter TROILUS]
How now, how now!",858,19595
663638,1672,"Sirrah, walk off.",1212,19595
663639,1673,[Exit Boy],1261,19595
663640,1674,Have you seen my cousin?,858,19595
663641,1675,"No, Pandarus: I stalk about her door,
Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks
Staying for waftage. O, be thou my Charon,
And give me swift transportance to those fields
Where I may wallow in the lily-beds
Proposed for the deserver! O gentle Pandarus,
From Cupid's shoulder pluck his painted wings
And fly with me to Cressid!",1212,19595
663642,1683,"Walk here i' the orchard, I'll bring her straight.",858,19595
663643,1684,[Exit],1261,19595
663644,1685,"I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense: what will it be,
When that the watery palate tastes indeed
Love's thrice repured nectar? death, I fear me,
Swooning destruction, or some joy too fine,
Too subtle-potent, tuned too sharp in sweetness,
For the capacity of my ruder powers:
I fear it much; and I do fear besides,
That I shall lose distinction in my joys;
As doth a battle, when they charge on heaps
The enemy flying.",1212,19595
663645,1697,[Re-enter PANDARUS],1261,19595
663646,1698,"She's making her ready, she'll come straight: you
must be witty now. She does so blush, and fetches
her wind so short, as if she were frayed with a
sprite: I'll fetch her. It is the prettiest
villain: she fetches her breath as short as a
new-ta'en sparrow.",858,19595
663647,1704,[Exit],1261,19595
663648,1705,"Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom:
My heart beats thicker than a feverous pulse;
And all my powers do their bestowing lose,
Like vassalage at unawares encountering
The eye of majesty.",1212,19595
663649,1710,[Re-enter PANDARUS with CRESSIDA],1261,19595
663650,1711,"Come, come, what need you blush? shame's a baby.
Here she is now: swear the oaths now to her that
you have sworn to me. What, are you gone again?
you must be watched ere you be made tame, must you?
Come your ways, come your ways; an you draw backward,
we'll put you i' the fills. Why do you not speak to
her? Come, draw this curtain, and let's see your
picture. Alas the day, how loath you are to offend
daylight! an 'twere dark, you'ld close sooner.
So, so; rub on, and kiss the mistress. How now!
a kiss in fee-farm! build there, carpenter; the air
is sweet. Nay, you shall fight your hearts out ere
I part you. The falcon as the tercel, for all the
ducks i' the river: go to, go to.",858,19595
663651,1725,"You have bereft me of all words, lady.",1212,19595
663652,1726,"Words pay no debts, give her deeds: but she'll
bereave you o' the deeds too, if she call your
activity in question. What, billing again? Here's
'In witness whereof the parties interchangeably'--
Come in, come in: I'll go get a fire.",858,19595
663653,1731,[Exit],1261,19595
663654,1732,"Will you walk in, my lord?",292,19595
663655,1733,"O Cressida, how often have I wished me thus!",1212,19595
663656,1734,"Wished, my lord! The gods grant,--O my lord!",292,19595
663657,1735,"What should they grant? what makes this pretty
abruption? What too curious dreg espies my sweet
lady in the fountain of our love?",1212,19595
663658,1738,"More dregs than water, if my fears have eyes.",292,19595
663659,1739,Fears make devils of cherubims; they never see truly.,1212,19595
663660,1740,"Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer
footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to
fear the worst oft cures the worse.",292,19595
663661,1743,"O, let my lady apprehend no fear: in all Cupid's
pageant there is presented no monster.",1212,19595
663662,1745,Nor nothing monstrous neither?,292,19595
663663,1746,"Nothing, but our undertakings; when we vow to weep
seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers; thinking
it harder for our mistress to devise imposition
enough than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed.
This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will
is infinite and the execution confined, that the
desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.",1212,19595
663664,1753,"They say all lovers swear more performance than they
are able and yet reserve an ability that they never
perform, vowing more than the perfection of ten and
discharging less than the tenth part of one. They
that have the voice of lions and the act of hares,
are they not monsters?",292,19595
663665,1759,"Are there such? such are not we: praise us as we
are tasted, allow us as we prove; our head shall go
bare till merit crown it: no perfection in reversion
shall have a praise in present: we will not name
desert before his birth, and, being born, his addition
shall be humble. Few words to fair faith: Troilus
shall be such to Cressid as what envy can say worst
shall be a mock for his truth, and what truth can
speak truest not truer than Troilus.",1212,19595
663666,1768,"Will you walk in, my lord?",292,19595
663667,1769,[Re-enter PANDARUS],1261,19595
663668,1770,"What, blushing still? have you not done talking yet?",858,19595
663669,1771,"Well, uncle, what folly I commit, I dedicate to you.",292,19595
663670,1772,"I thank you for that: if my lord get a boy of you,
you'll give him me. Be true to my lord: if he
flinch, chide me for it.",858,19595
663671,1775,"You know now your hostages; your uncle's word and my
firm faith.",1212,19595
663672,1777,"Nay, I'll give my word for her too: our kindred,
though they be long ere they are wooed, they are
constant being won: they are burs, I can tell you;
they'll stick where they are thrown.",858,19595
663673,1781,"Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart.
Prince Troilus, I have loved you night and day
For many weary months.",292,19595
663674,1784,Why was my Cressid then so hard to win?,1212,19595
663675,1785,"Hard to seem won: but I was won, my lord,
With the first glance that ever--pardon me--
If I confess much, you will play the tyrant.
I love you now; but not, till now, so much
But I might master it: in faith, I lie;
My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown
Too headstrong for their mother. See, we fools!
Why have I blabb'd? who shall be true to us,
When we are so unsecret to ourselves?
But, though I loved you well, I woo'd you not;
And yet, good faith, I wish'd myself a man,
Or that we women had men's privilege
Of speaking first. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,
For in this rapture I shall surely speak
The thing I shall repent. See, see, your silence,
Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws
My very soul of counsel! stop my mouth.",292,19595
663676,1802,"And shall, albeit sweet music issues thence.",1212,19595
663677,1803,"Pretty, i' faith.",858,19595
663678,1804,"My lord, I do beseech you, pardon me;
'Twas not my purpose, thus to beg a kiss:
I am ashamed. O heavens! what have I done?
For this time will I take my leave, my lord.",292,19595
663679,1808,"Your leave, sweet Cressid!",1212,19595
663680,1809,"Leave! an you take leave till to-morrow morning,--",858,19595
663681,1810,"Pray you, content you.",292,19595
663682,1811,"What offends you, lady?",1212,19595
663683,1812,"Sir, mine own company.",292,19595
663684,1813,You cannot shun Yourself.,1212,19595
663685,1814,"Let me go and try:
I have a kind of self resides with you;
But an unkind self, that itself will leave,
To be another's fool. I would be gone:
Where is my wit? I know not what I speak.",292,19595
663686,1819,Well know they what they speak that speak so wisely.,1212,19595
663687,1820,"Perchance, my lord, I show more craft than love;
And fell so roundly to a large confession,
To angle for your thoughts: but you are wise,
Or else you love not, for to be wise and love
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.",292,19595
663688,1825,"O that I thought it could be in a woman--
As, if it can, I will presume in you--
To feed for aye her ramp and flames of love;
To keep her constancy in plight and youth,
Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind
That doth renew swifter than blood decays!
Or that persuasion could but thus convince me,
That my integrity and truth to you
Might be affronted with the match and weight
Of such a winnow'd purity in love;
How were I then uplifted! but, alas!
I am as true as truth's simplicity
And simpler than the infancy of truth.",1212,19595
663689,1838,In that I'll war with you.,292,19595
663690,1839,"O virtuous fight,
When right with right wars who shall be most right!
True swains in love shall in the world to come
Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rhymes,
Full of protest, of oath and big compare,
Want similes, truth tired with iteration,
As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,
As sun to day, as turtle to her mate,
As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre,
Yet, after all comparisons of truth,
As truth's authentic author to be cited,
'As true as Troilus' shall crown up the verse,
And sanctify the numbers.",1212,19595
663691,1852,"Prophet may you be!
If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,
When time is old and hath forgot itself,
When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,
And blind oblivion swallow'd cities up,
And mighty states characterless are grated
To dusty nothing, yet let memory,
From false to false, among false maids in love,
Upbraid my falsehood! when they've said 'as false
As air, as water, wind, or sandy earth,
As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf,
Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son,'
'Yea,' let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood,
'As false as Cressid.'",292,19595
663692,1866,"Go to, a bargain made: seal it, seal it; I'll be the
witness. Here I hold your hand, here my cousin's.
If ever you prove false one to another, since I have
taken such pains to bring you together, let all
pitiful goers-between be called to the world's end
after my name; call them all Pandars; let all
constant men be Troiluses, all false women Cressids,
and all brokers-between Pandars! say, amen.",858,19595
663693,1874,Amen.,1212,19595
663694,1875,Amen.,292,19595
663695,1876,"Amen. Whereupon I will show you a chamber with a
bed; which bed, because it shall not speak of your
pretty encounters, press it to death: away!
And Cupid grant all tongue-tied maidens here
Bed, chamber, Pandar to provide this gear!",858,19595
663696,1881,"[Exeunt]
[Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, NESTOR, AJAX,]
MENELAUS, and CALCHAS]",1261,19595
663697,1886,"Now, princes, for the service I have done you,
The advantage of the time prompts me aloud
To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind
That, through the sight I bear in things to love,
I have abandon'd Troy, left my possession,
Incurr'd a traitor's name; exposed myself,
From certain and possess'd conveniences,
To doubtful fortunes; sequestering from me all
That time, acquaintance, custom and condition
Made tame and most familiar to my nature,
And here, to do you service, am become
As new into the world, strange, unacquainted:
I do beseech you, as in way of taste,
To give me now a little benefit,
Out of those many register'd in promise,
Which, you say, live to come in my behalf.",207,19596
663698,1902,"What wouldst thou of us, Trojan? make demand.",58,19596
663699,1903,"You have a Trojan prisoner, call'd Antenor,
Yesterday took: Troy holds him very dear.
Oft have you--often have you thanks therefore--
Desired my Cressid in right great exchange,
Whom Troy hath still denied: but this Antenor,
I know, is such a wrest in their affairs
That their negotiations all must slack,
Wanting his manage; and they will almost
Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam,
In change of him: let him be sent, great princes,
And he shall buy my daughter; and her presence
Shall quite strike off all service I have done,
In most accepted pain.",207,19596
663700,1916,"Let Diomedes bear him,
And bring us Cressid hither: Calchas shall have
What he requests of us. Good Diomed,
Furnish you fairly for this interchange:
Withal bring word if Hector will to-morrow
Be answer'd in his challenge: Ajax is ready.",58,19596
663701,1922,"This shall I undertake; and 'tis a burden
Which I am proud to bear.",316,19596
663702,1924,[Exeunt DIOMEDES and CALCHAS],1261,19596
663703,1925,"[Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS, before their tent]",1261,19596
663704,1926,"Achilles stands i' the entrance of his tent:
Please it our general to pass strangely by him,
As if he were forgot; and, princes all,
Lay negligent and loose regard upon him:
I will come last. 'Tis like he'll question me
Why such unplausive eyes are bent on him:
If so, I have derision medicinable,
To use between your strangeness and his pride,
Which his own will shall have desire to drink:
It may be good: pride hath no other glass
To show itself but pride, for supple knees
Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.",1218,19596
663705,1938,"We'll execute your purpose, and put on
A form of strangeness as we pass along:
So do each lord, and either greet him not,
Or else disdainfully, which shall shake him more
Than if not look'd on. I will lead the way.",58,19596
663706,1943,"What, comes the general to speak with me?
You know my mind, I'll fight no more 'gainst Troy.",49,19596
663707,1945,What says Achilles? would he aught with us?,58,19596
663708,1946,"Would you, my lord, aught with the general?",814,19596
663709,1947,No.,49,19596
663710,1948,"Nothing, my lord.",814,19596
663711,1949,The better.,58,19596
663712,1950,[Exeunt AGAMEMNON and NESTOR],1261,19596
663713,1951,"Good day, good day.",49,19596
663714,1952,How do you? how do you?,762,19596
663715,1953,[Exit],1261,19596
663716,1954,"What, does the cuckold scorn me?",49,19596
663717,1955,"How now, Patroclus!",61,19596
663718,1956,"Good morrow, Ajax.",49,19596
663719,1957,Ha?,61,19596
663720,1958,Good morrow.,49,19596
663721,1959,"Ay, and good next day too.",61,19596
663722,1960,[Exit],1261,19596
663723,1961,What mean these fellows? Know they not Achilles?,49,19596
663724,1962,"They pass by strangely: they were used to bend
To send their smiles before them to Achilles;
To come as humbly as they used to creep
To holy altars.",865,19596
663725,1966,"What, am I poor of late?
'Tis certain, greatness, once fall'n out with fortune,
Must fall out with men too: what the declined is
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others
As feel in his own fall; for men, like butterflies,
Show not their mealy wings but to the summer,
And not a man, for being simply man,
Hath any honour, but honour for those honours
That are without him, as place, riches, favour,
Prizes of accident as oft as merit:
Which when they fall, as being slippery standers,
The love that lean'd on them as slippery too,
Do one pluck down another and together
Die in the fall. But 'tis not so with me:
Fortune and I are friends: I do enjoy
At ample point all that I did possess,
Save these men's looks; who do, methinks, find out
Something not worth in me such rich beholding
As they have often given. Here is Ulysses;
I'll interrupt his reading.
How now Ulysses!",49,19596
663726,1987,"Now, great Thetis' son!",1218,19596
663727,1988,What are you reading?,49,19596
663728,1989,"A strange fellow here
Writes me: 'That man, how dearly ever parted,
How much in having, or without or in,
Cannot make boast to have that which he hath,
Nor feels not what he owes, but by reflection;
As when his virtues shining upon others
Heat them and they retort that heat again
To the first giver.'",1218,19596
663729,1997,"This is not strange, Ulysses.
The beauty that is borne here in the face
The bearer knows not, but commends itself
To others' eyes; nor doth the eye itself,
That most pure spirit of sense, behold itself,
Not going from itself; but eye to eye opposed
Salutes each other with each other's form;
For speculation turns not to itself,
Till it hath travell'd and is mirror'd there
Where it may see itself. This is not strange at all.",49,19596
663730,2007,"I do not strain at the position,--
It is familiar,--but at the author's drift;
Who, in his circumstance, expressly proves
That no man is the lord of any thing,
Though in and of him there be much consisting,
Till he communicate his parts to others:
Nor doth he of himself know them for aught
Till he behold them form'd in the applause
Where they're extended; who, like an arch,
reverberates
The voice again, or, like a gate of steel
Fronting the sun, receives and renders back
His figure and his heat. I was much wrapt in this;
And apprehended here immediately
The unknown Ajax.
Heavens, what a man is there! a very horse,
That has he knows not what. Nature, what things there are
Most abject in regard and dear in use!
What things again most dear in the esteem
And poor in worth! Now shall we see to-morrow--
An act that very chance doth throw upon him--
Ajax renown'd. O heavens, what some men do,
While some men leave to do!
How some men creep in skittish fortune's hall,
Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes!
How one man eats into another's pride,
While pride is fasting in his wantonness!
To see these Grecian lords!--why, even already
They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder,
As if his foot were on brave Hector's breast
And great Troy shrieking.",1218,19596
663731,2038,"I do believe it; for they pass'd by me
As misers do by beggars, neither gave to me
Good word nor look: what, are my deeds forgot?",49,19596
663732,2041,"Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd
As fast as they are made, forgot as soon
As done: perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery. Take the instant way;
For honour travels in a strait so narrow,
Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path;
For emulation hath a thousand sons
That one by one pursue: if you give way,
Or hedge aside from the direct forthright,
Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by
And leave you hindmost;
Or like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank,
Lie there for pavement to the abject rear,
O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present,
Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours;
For time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly,
Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles,
And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not
virtue seek
Remuneration for the thing it was;
For beauty, wit,
High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,
That all with one consent praise new-born gawds,
Though they are made and moulded of things past,
And give to dust that is a little gilt
More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.
The present eye praises the present object.
Then marvel not, thou great and complete man,
That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax;
Since things in motion sooner catch the eye
Than what not stirs. The cry went once on thee,
And still it might, and yet it may again,
If thou wouldst not entomb thyself alive
And case thy reputation in thy tent;
Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late,
Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves
And drave great Mars to faction.",1218,19596
663733,2088,"Of this my privacy
I have strong reasons.",49,19596
663734,2090,"But 'gainst your privacy
The reasons are more potent and heroical:
'Tis known, Achilles, that you are in love
With one of Priam's daughters.",1218,19596
663735,2094,Ha! known!,49,19596
663736,2095,"Is that a wonder?
The providence that's in a watchful state
Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold,
Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps,
Keeps place with thought and almost, like the gods,
Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles.
There is a mystery--with whom relation
Durst never meddle--in the soul of state;
Which hath an operation more divine
Than breath or pen can give expressure to:
All the commerce that you have had with Troy
As perfectly is ours as yours, my lord;
And better would it fit Achilles much
To throw down Hector than Polyxena:
But it must grieve young Pyrrhus now at home,
When fame shall in our islands sound her trump,
And all the Greekish girls shall tripping sing,
'Great Hector's sister did Achilles win,
But our great Ajax bravely beat down him.'
Farewell, my lord: I as your lover speak;
The fool slides o'er the ice that you should break.",1218,19596
663737,2116,[Exit],1261,19596
663738,2117,"To this effect, Achilles, have I moved you:
A woman impudent and mannish grown
Is not more loathed than an effeminate man
In time of action. I stand condemn'd for this;
They think my little stomach to the war
And your great love to me restrains you thus:
Sweet, rouse yourself; and the weak wanton Cupid
Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold,
And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane,
Be shook to air.",865,19596
663739,2127,Shall Ajax fight with Hector?,49,19596
663740,2128,"Ay, and perhaps receive much honour by him.",865,19596
663741,2129,"I see my reputation is at stake
My fame is shrewdly gored.",49,19596
663742,2131,"O, then, beware;
Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves:
Omission to do what is necessary
Seals a commission to a blank of danger;
And danger, like an ague, subtly taints
Even then when we sit idly in the sun.",865,19596
663743,2137,"Go call Thersites hither, sweet Patroclus:
I'll send the fool to Ajax and desire him
To invite the Trojan lords after the combat
To see us here unarm'd: I have a woman's longing,
An appetite that I am sick withal,
To see great Hector in his weeds of peace,
To talk with him and to behold his visage,
Even to my full of view.
[Enter THERSITES]
A labour saved!",49,19596
663744,2147,A wonder!,1160,19596
663745,2148,What?,49,19596
663746,2149,"Ajax goes up and down the field, asking for himself.",1160,19596
663747,2150,How so?,49,19596
663748,2151,"He must fight singly to-morrow with Hector, and is so
prophetically proud of an heroical cudgelling that he
raves in saying nothing.",1160,19596
663749,2154,How can that be?,49,19596
663750,2155,"Why, he stalks up and down like a peacock,--a stride
and a stand: ruminates like an hostess that hath no
arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning:
bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should
say 'There were wit in this head, an 'twould out;'
and so there is, but it lies as coldly in him as fire
in a flint, which will not show without knocking.
The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not his
neck i' the combat, he'll break 't himself in
vain-glory. He knows not me: I said 'Good morrow,
Ajax;' and he replies 'Thanks, Agamemnon.' What think
you of this man that takes me for the general? He's
grown a very land-fish, language-less, a monster.
A plague of opinion! a man may wear it on both
sides, like a leather jerkin.",1160,19596
663751,2170,"Thou must be my ambassador to him, Thersites.",49,19596
663752,2171,"Who, I? why, he'll answer nobody; he professes not
answering: speaking is for beggars; he wears his
tongue in's arms. I will put on his presence: let
Patroclus make demands to me, you shall see the
pageant of Ajax.",1160,19596
663753,2176,"To him, Patroclus; tell him I humbly desire the
valiant Ajax to invite the most valorous Hector
to come unarmed to my tent, and to procure
safe-conduct for his person of the magnanimous
and most illustrious six-or-seven-times-honoured
captain-general of the Grecian army, Agamemnon,
et cetera. Do this.",49,19596
663754,2183,Jove bless great Ajax!,865,19596
663755,2184,Hum!,1160,19596
663756,2185,"I come from the worthy Achilles,--",865,19596
663757,2186,Ha!,1160,19596
663758,2187,"Who most humbly desires you to invite Hector to his tent,--",865,19596
663759,2188,Hum!,1160,19596
663760,2189,And to procure safe-conduct from Agamemnon.,865,19596
663761,2190,Agamemnon!,1160,19596
663762,2191,"Ay, my lord.",865,19596
663763,2192,Ha!,1160,19596
663764,2193,What say you to't?,865,19596
663765,2194,"God b' wi' you, with all my heart.",1160,19596
663766,2195,"Your answer, sir.",865,19596
663767,2196,"If to-morrow be a fair day, by eleven o'clock it will
go one way or other: howsoever, he shall pay for me
ere he has me.",1160,19596
663768,2199,"Your answer, sir.",865,19596
663769,2200,"Fare you well, with all my heart.",1160,19596
663770,2201,"Why, but he is not in this tune, is he?",49,19596
663771,2202,"No, but he's out o' tune thus. What music will be in
him when Hector has knocked out his brains, I know
not; but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo
get his sinews to make catlings on.",1160,19596
663772,2206,"Come, thou shalt bear a letter to him straight.",49,19596
663773,2207,"Let me bear another to his horse; for that's the more
capable creature.",1160,19596
663774,2209,"My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd;
And I myself see not the bottom of it.",49,19596
663775,2211,[Exeunt ACHILLES and PATROCLUS],1261,19596
663776,2212,"Would the fountain of your mind were clear again,
that I might water an ass at it! I had rather be a
tick in a sheep than such a valiant ignorance.",1160,19596
663777,2215,"[Exit]
[Enter, from one side, AENEAS, and Servant with a]
torch; from the other, PARIS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR,
DIOMEDES, and others, with torches]",1261,19596
663778,2221,"See, ho! who is that there?",861,19597
663779,2222,It is the Lord AEneas.,304,19597
663780,2223,"Is the prince there in person?
Had I so good occasion to lie long
As you, prince Paris, nothing but heavenly business
Should rob my bed-mate of my company.",57,19597
663781,2227,"That's my mind too. Good morrow, Lord AEneas.",316,19597
663782,2228,"A valiant Greek, AEneas,--take his hand,--
Witness the process of your speech, wherein
You told how Diomed, a whole week by days,
Did haunt you in the field.",861,19597
663783,2232,"Health to you, valiant sir,
During all question of the gentle truce;
But when I meet you arm'd, as black defiance
As heart can think or courage execute.",57,19597
663784,2236,"The one and other Diomed embraces.
Our bloods are now in calm; and, so long, health!
But when contention and occasion meet,
By Jove, I'll play the hunter for thy life
With all my force, pursuit and policy.",316,19597
663785,2241,"And thou shalt hunt a lion, that will fly
With his face backward. In humane gentleness,
Welcome to Troy! now, by Anchises' life,
Welcome, indeed! By Venus' hand I swear,
No man alive can love in such a sort
The thing he means to kill more excellently.",57,19597
663786,2247,"We sympathize: Jove, let AEneas live,
If to my sword his fate be not the glory,
A thousand complete courses of the sun!
But, in mine emulous honour, let him die,
With every joint a wound, and that to-morrow!",316,19597
663787,2252,We know each other well.,57,19597
663788,2253,We do; and long to know each other worse.,316,19597
663789,2254,"This is the most despiteful gentle greeting,
The noblest hateful love, that e'er I heard of.
What business, lord, so early?",861,19597
663790,2257,"I was sent for to the king; but why, I know not.",57,19597
663791,2258,"His purpose meets you: 'twas to bring this Greek
To Calchas' house, and there to render him,
For the enfreed Antenor, the fair Cressid:
Let's have your company, or, if you please,
Haste there before us: I constantly do think--
Or rather, call my thought a certain knowledge--
My brother Troilus lodges there to-night:
Rouse him and give him note of our approach.
With the whole quality wherefore: I fear
We shall be much unwelcome.",861,19597
663792,2268,"That I assure you:
Troilus had rather Troy were borne to Greece
Than Cressid borne from Troy.",57,19597
663793,2271,"There is no help;
The bitter disposition of the time
Will have it so. On, lord; we'll follow you.",861,19597
663794,2274,"Good morrow, all.",57,19597
663795,2275,[Exit with Servant],1261,19597
663796,2276,"And tell me, noble Diomed, faith, tell me true,
Even in the soul of sound good-fellowship,
Who, in your thoughts, merits fair Helen best,
Myself or Menelaus?",861,19597
663797,2280,"Both alike:
He merits well to have her, that doth seek her,
Not making any scruple of her soilure,
With such a hell of pain and world of charge,
And you as well to keep her, that defend her,
Not palating the taste of her dishonour,
With such a costly loss of wealth and friends:
He, like a puling cuckold, would drink up
The lees and dregs of a flat tamed piece;
You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins
Are pleased to breed out your inheritors:
Both merits poised, each weighs nor less nor more;
But he as he, the heavier for a whore.",316,19597
663798,2293,You are too bitter to your countrywoman.,861,19597
663799,2294,"She's bitter to her country: hear me, Paris:
For every false drop in her bawdy veins
A Grecian's life hath sunk; for every scruple
Of her contaminated carrion weight,
A Trojan hath been slain: since she could speak,
She hath not given so many good words breath
As for her Greeks and Trojans suffer'd death.",316,19597
663800,2301,"Fair Diomed, you do as chapmen do,
Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy:
But we in silence hold this virtue well,
We'll but commend what we intend to sell.
Here lies our way.",861,19597
663801,2306,[Exeunt],1261,19597
663802,2309,[Enter TROILUS and CRESSIDA],1261,19598
663803,2310,"Dear, trouble not yourself: the morn is cold.",1212,19598
663804,2311,"Then, sweet my lord, I'll call mine uncle down;
He shall unbolt the gates.",292,19598
663805,2313,"Trouble him not;
To bed, to bed: sleep kill those pretty eyes,
And give as soft attachment to thy senses
As infants' empty of all thought!",1212,19598
663806,2317,"Good morrow, then.",292,19598
663807,2318,"I prithee now, to bed.",1212,19598
663808,2319,Are you a-weary of me?,292,19598
663809,2320,"O Cressida! but that the busy day,
Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows,
And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer,
I would not from thee.",1212,19598
663810,2324,Night hath been too brief.,292,19598
663811,2325,"Beshrew the witch! with venomous wights she stays
As tediously as hell, but flies the grasps of love
With wings more momentary-swift than thought.
You will catch cold, and curse me.",1212,19598
663812,2329,"Prithee, tarry:
You men will never tarry.
O foolish Cressid! I might have still held off,
And then you would have tarried. Hark!
there's one up.",292,19598
663813,2334,"[Within] What, 's all the doors open here?",858,19598
663814,2335,It is your uncle.,1212,19598
663815,2336,"A pestilence on him! now will he be mocking:
I shall have such a life!",292,19598
663816,2338,[Enter PANDARUS],1261,19598
663817,2339,"How now, how now! how go maidenheads? Here, you
maid! where's my cousin Cressid?",858,19598
663818,2341,"Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!
You bring me to do, and then you flout me too.",292,19598
663819,2343,"To do what? to do what? let her say
what: what have I brought you to do?",858,19598
663820,2345,"Come, come, beshrew your heart! you'll ne'er be good,
Nor suffer others.",292,19598
663821,2347,"Ha! ha! Alas, poor wretch! ah, poor capocchia!
hast not slept to-night? would he not, a naughty
man, let it sleep? a bugbear take him!",858,19598
663822,2350,"Did not I tell you? Would he were knock'd i' the head!
[Knocking within]
Who's that at door? good uncle, go and see.
My lord, come you again into my chamber:
You smile and mock me, as if I meant naughtily.",292,19598
663823,2355,"Ha, ha!",1212,19598
663824,2356,"Come, you are deceived, I think of no such thing.
[Knocking within]
How earnestly they knock! Pray you, come in:
I would not for half Troy have you seen here.",292,19598
663825,2360,[Exeunt TROILUS and CRESSIDA],1261,19598
663826,2361,"Who's there? what's the matter? will you beat
down the door? How now! what's the matter?",858,19598
663827,2363,[Enter AENEAS],1261,19598
663828,2364,"Good morrow, lord, good morrow.",57,19598
663829,2365,"Who's there? my Lord AEneas! By my troth,
I knew you not: what news with you so early?",858,19598
663830,2367,Is not Prince Troilus here?,57,19598
663831,2368,Here! what should he do here?,858,19598
663832,2369,"Come, he is here, my lord; do not deny him:
It doth import him much to speak with me.",57,19598
663833,2371,"Is he here, say you? 'tis more than I know, I'll
be sworn: for my own part, I came in late. What
should he do here?",858,19598
663834,2374,"Who!--nay, then: come, come, you'll do him wrong
ere you're ware: you'll be so true to him, to be
false to him: do not you know of him, but yet go
fetch him hither; go.",57,19598
663835,2378,[Re-enter TROILUS],1261,19598
663836,2379,How now! what's the matter?,1212,19598
663837,2380,"My lord, I scarce have leisure to salute you,
My matter is so rash: there is at hand
Paris your brother, and Deiphobus,
The Grecian Diomed, and our Antenor
Deliver'd to us; and for him forthwith,
Ere the first sacrifice, within this hour,
We must give up to Diomedes' hand
The Lady Cressida.",57,19598
663838,2388,Is it so concluded?,1212,19598
663839,2389,"By Priam and the general state of Troy:
They are at hand and ready to effect it.",57,19598
663840,2391,"How my achievements mock me!
I will go meet them: and, my Lord AEneas,
We met by chance; you did not find me here.",1212,19598
663841,2394,"Good, good, my lord; the secrets of nature
Have not more gift in taciturnity.",57,19598
663842,2396,[Exeunt TROILUS and AENEAS],1261,19598
663843,2397,"Is't possible? no sooner got but lost? The devil
take Antenor! the young prince will go mad: a
plague upon Antenor! I would they had broke 's neck!",858,19598
663844,2400,[Re-enter CRESSIDA],1261,19598
663845,2401,How now! what's the matter? who was here?,292,19598
663846,2402,"Ah, ah!",858,19598
663847,2403,"Why sigh you so profoundly? where's my lord? gone!
Tell me, sweet uncle, what's the matter?",292,19598
663848,2405,Would I were as deep under the earth as I am above!,858,19598
663849,2406,O the gods! what's the matter?,292,19598
663850,2407,"Prithee, get thee in: would thou hadst ne'er been
born! I knew thou wouldst be his death. O, poor
gentleman! A plague upon Antenor!",858,19598
663851,2410,"Good uncle, I beseech you, on my knees! beseech you,
what's the matter?",292,19598
663852,2412,"Thou must be gone, wench, thou must be gone; thou
art changed for Antenor: thou must to thy father,
and be gone from Troilus: 'twill be his death;
'twill be his bane; he cannot bear it.",858,19598
663853,2416,O you immortal gods! I will not go.,292,19598
663854,2417,Thou must.,858,19598
663855,2418,"I will not, uncle: I have forgot my father;
I know no touch of consanguinity;
No kin no love, no blood, no soul so near me
As the sweet Troilus. O you gods divine!
Make Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood,
If ever she leave Troilus! Time, force, and death,
Do to this body what extremes you can;
But the strong base and building of my love
Is as the very centre of the earth,
Drawing all things to it. I'll go in and weep,--",292,19598
663856,2428,"Do, do.",858,19598
663857,2429,"Tear my bright hair and scratch my praised cheeks,
Crack my clear voice with sobs and break my heart
With sounding Troilus. I will not go from Troy.",292,19598
663858,2432,"[Exeunt]
[Enter PARIS, TROILUS, AENEAS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR,]
and DIOMEDES]",1261,19598
663859,2437,"It is great morning, and the hour prefix'd
Of her delivery to this valiant Greek
Comes fast upon. Good my brother Troilus,
Tell you the lady what she is to do,
And haste her to the purpose.",861,19599
663860,2442,"Walk into her house;
I'll bring her to the Grecian presently:
And to his hand when I deliver her,
Think it an altar, and thy brother Troilus
A priest there offering to it his own heart.",1212,19599
663861,2447,[Exit],1261,19599
663862,2448,"I know what 'tis to love;
And would, as I shall pity, I could help!
Please you walk in, my lords.",861,19599
663863,2451,[Exeunt],1261,19599
663864,2454,[Enter PANDARUS and CRESSIDA],1261,19600
663865,2455,"Be moderate, be moderate.",858,19600
663866,2456,"Why tell you me of moderation?
The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,
And violenteth in a sense as strong
As that which causeth it: how can I moderate it?
If I could temporize with my affection,
Or brew it to a weak and colder palate,
The like allayment could I give my grief.
My love admits no qualifying dross;
No more my grief, in such a precious loss.",292,19600
663867,2465,"Here, here, here he comes.
[Enter TROILUS]
Ah, sweet ducks!",858,19600
663868,2468,O Troilus! Troilus!,292,19600
663869,2469,[Embracing him],1261,19600
663870,2470,"What a pair of spectacles is here!
Let me embrace too. 'O heart,' as the goodly saying is,
'--O heart, heavy heart,
Why sigh'st thou without breaking?
where he answers again,
'Because thou canst not ease thy smart
By friendship nor by speaking.'
There was never a truer rhyme. Let us cast away
nothing, for we may live to have need of such a
verse: we see it, we see it. How now, lambs?",858,19600
663871,2480,"Cressid, I love thee in so strain'd a purity,
That the bless'd gods, as angry with my fancy,
More bright in zeal than the devotion which
Cold lips blow to their deities, take thee from me.",1212,19600
663872,2484,Have the gods envy?,292,19600
663873,2485,"Ay, ay, ay, ay; 'tis too plain a case.",858,19600
663874,2486,And is it true that I must go from Troy?,292,19600
663875,2487,A hateful truth.,1212,19600
663876,2488,"What, and from Troilus too?",292,19600
663877,2489,From Troy and Troilus.,1212,19600
663878,2490,Is it possible?,292,19600
663879,2491,"And suddenly; where injury of chance
Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by
All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips
Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents
Our lock'd embrasures, strangles our dear vows
Even in the birth of our own labouring breath:
We two, that with so many thousand sighs
Did buy each other, must poorly sell ourselves
With the rude brevity and discharge of one.
Injurious time now with a robber's haste
Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how:
As many farewells as be stars in heaven,
With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them,
He fumbles up into a lose adieu,
And scants us with a single famish'd kiss,
Distasted with the salt of broken tears.",1212,19600
663880,2507,"[Within] My lord, is the lady ready?",57,19600
663881,2508,"Hark! you are call'd: some say the Genius so
Cries 'come' to him that instantly must die.
Bid them have patience; she shall come anon.",1212,19600
663882,2511,"Where are my tears? rain, to lay this wind, or
my heart will be blown up by the root.",858,19600
663883,2513,[Exit],1261,19600
663884,2514,I must then to the Grecians?,292,19600
663885,2515,No remedy.,1212,19600
663886,2516,"A woful Cressid 'mongst the merry Greeks!
When shall we see again?",292,19600
663887,2518,"Hear me, my love: be thou but true of heart,--",1212,19600
663888,2519,I true! how now! what wicked deem is this?,292,19600
663889,2520,"Nay, we must use expostulation kindly,
For it is parting from us:
I speak not 'be thou true,' as fearing thee,
For I will throw my glove to Death himself,
That there's no maculation in thy heart:
But 'be thou true,' say I, to fashion in
My sequent protestation; be thou true,
And I will see thee.",1212,19600
663890,2528,"O, you shall be exposed, my lord, to dangers
As infinite as imminent! but I'll be true.",292,19600
663891,2530,And I'll grow friend with danger. Wear this sleeve.,1212,19600
663892,2531,And you this glove. When shall I see you?,292,19600
663893,2532,"I will corrupt the Grecian sentinels,
To give thee nightly visitation.
But yet be true.",1212,19600
663894,2535,O heavens! 'be true' again!,292,19600
663895,2536,"Hear while I speak it, love:
The Grecian youths are full of quality;
They're loving, well composed with gifts of nature,
Flowing and swelling o'er with arts and exercise:
How novelty may move, and parts with person,
Alas, a kind of godly jealousy--
Which, I beseech you, call a virtuous sin--
Makes me afeard.",1212,19600
663896,2544,O heavens! you love me not.,292,19600
663897,2545,"Die I a villain, then!
In this I do not call your faith in question
So mainly as my merit: I cannot sing,
Nor heel the high lavolt, nor sweeten talk,
Nor play at subtle games; fair virtues all,
To which the Grecians are most prompt and pregnant:
But I can tell that in each grace of these
There lurks a still and dumb-discoursive devil
That tempts most cunningly: but be not tempted.",1212,19600
663898,2554,Do you think I will?,292,19600
663899,2555,"No.
But something may be done that we will not:
And sometimes we are devils to ourselves,
When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,
Presuming on their changeful potency.",1212,19600
663900,2560,"[Within] Nay, good my lord,--",57,19600
663901,2561,"Come, kiss; and let us part.",1212,19600
663902,2562,[Within] Brother Troilus!,861,19600
663903,2563,"Good brother, come you hither;
And bring AEneas and the Grecian with you.",1212,19600
663904,2565,"My lord, will you be true?",292,19600
663905,2566,"Who, I? alas, it is my vice, my fault:
Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion,
I with great truth catch mere simplicity;
Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,
With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.
Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit
Is 'plain and true;' there's all the reach of it.
[Enter AENEAS, PARIS, ANTENOR, DEIPHOBUS,]
and DIOMEDES]
Welcome, Sir Diomed! here is the lady
Which for Antenor we deliver you:
At the port, lord, I'll give her to thy hand,
And by the way possess thee what she is.
Entreat her fair; and, by my soul, fair Greek,
If e'er thou stand at mercy of my sword,
Name Cressida and thy life shall be as safe
As Priam is in Ilion.",1212,19600
663906,2583,"Fair Lady Cressid,
So please you, save the thanks this prince expects:
The lustre in your eye, heaven in your cheek,
Pleads your fair usage; and to Diomed
You shall be mistress, and command him wholly.",316,19600
663907,2588,"Grecian, thou dost not use me courteously,
To shame the zeal of my petition to thee
In praising her: I tell thee, lord of Greece,
She is as far high-soaring o'er thy praises
As thou unworthy to be call'd her servant.
I charge thee use her well, even for my charge;
For, by the dreadful Pluto, if thou dost not,
Though the great bulk Achilles be thy guard,
I'll cut thy throat.",1212,19600
663908,2597,"O, be not moved, Prince Troilus:
Let me be privileged by my place and message,
To be a speaker free; when I am hence
I'll answer to my lust: and know you, lord,
I'll nothing do on charge: to her own worth
She shall be prized; but that you say 'be't so,'
I'll speak it in my spirit and honour, 'no.'",316,19600
663909,2604,"Come, to the port. I'll tell thee, Diomed,
This brave shall oft make thee to hide thy head.
Lady, give me your hand, and, as we walk,
To our own selves bend we our needful talk.",1212,19600
663910,2608,"[Exeunt TROILUS, CRESSIDA, and DIOMEDES]",1261,19600
663911,2609,[Trumpet within],1261,19600
663912,2610,Hark! Hector's trumpet.,861,19600
663913,2611,"How have we spent this morning!
The prince must think me tardy and remiss,
That sore to ride before him to the field.",57,19600
663914,2614,"'Tis Troilus' fault: come, come, to field with him.",861,19600
663915,2615,Let us make ready straight.,304,19600
663916,2616,"Yea, with a bridegroom's fresh alacrity,
Let us address to tend on Hector's heels:
The glory of our Troy doth this day lie
On his fair worth and single chivalry.",57,19600
663917,2620,"[Exeunt]
[Enter AJAX, armed; AGAMEMNON, ACHILLES, PATROCLUS,]
MENELAUS, ULYSSES, NESTOR, and others]",1261,19600
663918,2625,"Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair,
Anticipating time with starting courage.
Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy,
Thou dreadful Ajax; that the appalled air
May pierce the head of the great combatant
And hale him hither.",58,19601
663919,2631,"Thou, trumpet, there's my purse.
Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe:
Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek
Outswell the colic of puff'd Aquilon:
Come, stretch thy chest and let thy eyes spout blood;
Thou blow'st for Hector.",61,19601
663920,2637,[Trumpet sounds],1261,19601
663921,2638,No trumpet answers.,1218,19601
663924,2641,"'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait;
He rises on the toe: that spirit of his
In aspiration lifts him from the earth.",1218,19601
663925,2644,"[Enter DIOMEDES, with CRESSIDA]",1261,19601
663926,2645,Is this the Lady Cressid?,58,19601
663927,2646,Even she.,316,19601
663928,2647,"Most dearly welcome to the Greeks, sweet lady.",58,19601
663929,2648,Our general doth salute you with a kiss.,814,19601
663930,2649,"Yet is the kindness but particular;
'Twere better she were kiss'd in general.",1218,19601
663931,2651,"And very courtly counsel: I'll begin.
So much for Nestor.",814,19601
663932,2653,"I'll take what winter from your lips, fair lady:
Achilles bids you welcome.",49,19601
663933,2655,I had good argument for kissing once.,762,19601
663934,2656,"But that's no argument for kissing now;
For this popp'd Paris in his hardiment,
And parted thus you and your argument.",865,19601
663935,2659,"O deadly gall, and theme of all our scorns!
For which we lose our heads to gild his horns.",1218,19601
663936,2661,"The first was Menelaus' kiss; this, mine:
Patroclus kisses you.",865,19601
663937,2663,"O, this is trim!",762,19601
663938,2664,Paris and I kiss evermore for him.,865,19601
663939,2665,"I'll have my kiss, sir. Lady, by your leave.",762,19601
663940,2666,"In kissing, do you render or receive?",292,19601
663941,2667,Both take and give.,865,19601
663942,2668,"I'll make my match to live,
The kiss you take is better than you give;
Therefore no kiss.",292,19601
663943,2671,"I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.",762,19601
663944,2672,You're an odd man; give even or give none.,292,19601
663945,2673,"An odd man, lady! every man is odd.",762,19601
663946,2674,"No, Paris is not; for you know 'tis true,
That you are odd, and he is even with you.",292,19601
663947,2676,You fillip me o' the head.,762,19601
663948,2677,"No, I'll be sworn.",292,19601
663949,2678,"It were no match, your nail against his horn.
May I, sweet lady, beg a kiss of you?",1218,19601
663950,2680,You may.,292,19601
663951,2681,I do desire it.,1218,19601
663952,2682,"Why, beg, then.",292,19601
663953,2683,"Why then for Venus' sake, give me a kiss,
When Helen is a maid again, and his.",1218,19601
663954,2685,"I am your debtor, claim it when 'tis due.",292,19601
663955,2686,"Never's my day, and then a kiss of you.",1218,19601
663956,2687,"Lady, a word: I'll bring you to your father.",316,19601
663957,2688,[Exit with CRESSIDA],1261,19601
663958,2689,A woman of quick sense.,814,19601
663959,2690,"Fie, fie upon her!
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body.
O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue,
That give accosting welcome ere it comes,
And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts
To every ticklish reader! set them down
For sluttish spoils of opportunity
And daughters of the game.",1218,19601
663960,2700,[Trumpet within],1261,19601
663961,2701,The Trojans' trumpet.,96,19601
663962,2702,"Yonder comes the troop.
[Enter HECTOR, armed; AENEAS, TROILUS, and other]
Trojans, with Attendants]",58,19601
663963,2705,"Hail, all you state of Greece! what shall be done
To him that victory commands? or do you purpose
A victor shall be known? will you the knights
Shall to the edge of all extremity
Pursue each other, or shall be divided
By any voice or order of the field?
Hector bade ask.",57,19601
663964,2712,Which way would Hector have it?,58,19601
663965,2713,He cares not; he'll obey conditions.,57,19601
663966,2714,"'Tis done like Hector; but securely done,
A little proudly, and great deal misprizing
The knight opposed.",49,19601
663967,2717,"If not Achilles, sir,
What is your name?",57,19601
663968,2719,"If not Achilles, nothing.",49,19601
663969,2720,"Therefore Achilles: but, whate'er, know this:
In the extremity of great and little,
Valour and pride excel themselves in Hector;
The one almost as infinite as all,
The other blank as nothing. Weigh him well,
And that which looks like pride is courtesy.
This Ajax is half made of Hector's blood:
In love whereof, half Hector stays at home;
Half heart, half hand, half Hector comes to seek
This blended knight, half Trojan and half Greek.",57,19601
663970,2730,"A maiden battle, then? O, I perceive you.",49,19601
663971,2731,[Re-enter DIOMEDES],1261,19601
663972,2732,"Here is Sir Diomed. Go, gentle knight,
Stand by our Ajax: as you and Lord AEneas
Consent upon the order of their fight,
So be it; either to the uttermost,
Or else a breath: the combatants being kin
Half stints their strife before their strokes begin.",58,19601
663973,2738,[AJAX and HECTOR enter the lists],1261,19601
663974,2739,They are opposed already.,1218,19601
663975,2740,What Trojan is that same that looks so heavy?,58,19601
663976,2741,"The youngest son of Priam, a true knight,
Not yet mature, yet matchless, firm of word,
Speaking in deeds and deedless in his tongue;
Not soon provoked nor being provoked soon calm'd:
His heart and hand both open and both free;
For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows;
Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty,
Nor dignifies an impure thought with breath;
Manly as Hector, but more dangerous;
For Hector in his blaze of wrath subscribes
To tender objects, but he in heat of action
Is more vindicative than jealous love:
They call him Troilus, and on him erect
A second hope, as fairly built as Hector.
Thus says AEneas; one that knows the youth
Even to his inches, and with private soul
Did in great Ilion thus translate him to me.",1218,19601
663977,2758,[Alarum. Hector and Ajax fight],1261,19601
663978,2759,They are in action.,58,19601
663979,2760,"Now, Ajax, hold thine own!",814,19601
663980,2761,"Hector, thou sleep'st;
Awake thee!",1212,19601
663981,2763,"His blows are well disposed: there, Ajax!",58,19601
663982,2764,You must no more.,316,19601
663983,2765,[Trumpets cease],1261,19601
663984,2766,"Princes, enough, so please you.",57,19601
663985,2767,I am not warm yet; let us fight again.,61,19601
663986,2768,As Hector pleases.,316,19601
663987,2769,"Why, then will I no more:
Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son,
A cousin-german to great Priam's seed;
The obligation of our blood forbids
A gory emulation 'twixt us twain:
Were thy commixtion Greek and Trojan so
That thou couldst say 'This hand is Grecian all,
And this is Trojan; the sinews of this leg
All Greek, and this all Troy; my mother's blood
Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister
Bounds in my father's;' by Jove multipotent,
Thou shouldst not bear from me a Greekish member
Wherein my sword had not impressure made
Of our rank feud: but the just gods gainsay
That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword
Be drain'd! Let me embrace thee, Ajax:
By him that thunders, thou hast lusty arms;
Hector would have them fall upon him thus:
Cousin, all honour to thee!",565,19601
663988,2789,"I thank thee, Hector
Thou art too gentle and too free a man:
I came to kill thee, cousin, and bear hence
A great addition earned in thy death.",61,19601
663989,2793,"Not Neoptolemus so mirable,
On whose bright crest Fame with her loud'st Oyes
Cries 'This is he,' could promise to himself
A thought of added honour torn from Hector.",565,19601
663990,2797,"There is expectance here from both the sides,
What further you will do.",57,19601
663991,2799,"We'll answer it;
The issue is embracement: Ajax, farewell.",565,19601
663992,2801,"If I might in entreaties find success--
As seld I have the chance--I would desire
My famous cousin to our Grecian tents.",61,19601
663993,2804,"'Tis Agamemnon's wish, and great Achilles
Doth long to see unarm'd the valiant Hector.",316,19601
663994,2806,"AEneas, call my brother Troilus to me,
And signify this loving interview
To the expecters of our Trojan part;
Desire them home. Give me thy hand, my cousin;
I will go eat with thee and see your knights.",565,19601
663995,2811,Great Agamemnon comes to meet us here.,61,19601
663996,2812,"The worthiest of them tell me name by name;
But for Achilles, mine own searching eyes
Shall find him by his large and portly size.",565,19601
663997,2815,"Worthy of arms! as welcome as to one
That would be rid of such an enemy;
But that's no welcome: understand more clear,
What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks
And formless ruin of oblivion;
But in this extant moment, faith and troth,
Strain'd purely from all hollow bias-drawing,
Bids thee, with most divine integrity,
From heart of very heart, great Hector, welcome.",58,19601
663998,2824,"I thank thee, most imperious Agamemnon.",565,19601
663999,2825,"[To TROILUS] My well-famed lord of Troy, no
less to you.",58,19601
664000,2827,"Let me confirm my princely brother's greeting:
You brace of warlike brothers, welcome hither.",762,19601
664001,2829,Who must we answer?,565,19601
664002,2830,The noble Menelaus.,57,19601
664003,2831,"O, you, my lord? by Mars his gauntlet, thanks!
Mock not, that I affect the untraded oath;
Your quondam wife swears still by Venus' glove:
She's well, but bade me not commend her to you.",565,19601
664004,2835,"Name her not now, sir; she's a deadly theme.",762,19601
664005,2836,"O, pardon; I offend.",565,19601
664006,2837,"I have, thou gallant Trojan, seen thee oft
Labouring for destiny make cruel way
Through ranks of Greekish youth, and I have seen thee,
As hot as Perseus, spur thy Phrygian steed,
Despising many forfeits and subduements,
When thou hast hung thy advanced sword i' the air,
Not letting it decline on the declined,
That I have said to some my standers by
'Lo, Jupiter is yonder, dealing life!'
And I have seen thee pause and take thy breath,
When that a ring of Greeks have hemm'd thee in,
Like an Olympian wrestling: this have I seen;
But this thy countenance, still lock'd in steel,
I never saw till now. I knew thy grandsire,
And once fought with him: he was a soldier good;
But, by great Mars, the captain of us all,
Never saw like thee. Let an old man embrace thee;
And, worthy warrior, welcome to our tents.",814,19601
664009,2859,"I would my arms could match thee in contention,
As they contend with thee in courtesy.",814,19601
664010,2861,I would they could.,565,19601
664011,2862,"Ha!
By this white beard, I'ld fight with thee to-morrow.
Well, welcome, welcome! I have seen the time.",814,19601
664012,2865,"I wonder now how yonder city stands
When we have here her base and pillar by us.",1218,19601
664013,2867,"I know your favour, Lord Ulysses, well.
Ah, sir, there's many a Greek and Trojan dead,
Since first I saw yourself and Diomed
In Ilion, on your Greekish embassy.",565,19601
664014,2871,"Sir, I foretold you then what would ensue:
My prophecy is but half his journey yet;
For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,
Yond towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,
Must kiss their own feet.",1218,19601
664015,2876,"I must not believe you:
There they stand yet, and modestly I think,
The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost
A drop of Grecian blood: the end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.",565,19601
664016,2882,"So to him we leave it.
Most gentle and most valiant Hector, welcome:
After the general, I beseech you next
To feast with me and see me at my tent.",1218,19601
664017,2886,"I shall forestall thee, Lord Ulysses, thou!
Now, Hector, I have fed mine eyes on thee;
I have with exact view perused thee, Hector,
And quoted joint by joint.",49,19601
664018,2890,Is this Achilles?,565,19601
664019,2891,I am Achilles.,49,19601
664020,2892,"Stand fair, I pray thee: let me look on thee.",565,19601
664021,2893,Behold thy fill.,49,19601
664022,2894,"Nay, I have done already.",565,19601
664023,2895,"Thou art too brief: I will the second time,
As I would buy thee, view thee limb by limb.",49,19601
664024,2897,"O, like a book of sport thou'lt read me o'er;
But there's more in me than thou understand'st.
Why dost thou so oppress me with thine eye?",565,19601
664025,2900,"Tell me, you heavens, in which part of his body
Shall I destroy him? whether there, or there, or there?
That I may give the local wound a name
And make distinct the very breach whereout
Hector's great spirit flew: answer me, heavens!",49,19601
664026,2905,"It would discredit the blest gods, proud man,
To answer such a question: stand again:
Think'st thou to catch my life so pleasantly
As to prenominate in nice conjecture
Where thou wilt hit me dead?",565,19601
664027,2910,"I tell thee, yea.",49,19601
664028,2911,"Wert thou an oracle to tell me so,
I'd not believe thee. Henceforth guard thee well;
For I'll not kill thee there, nor there, nor there;
But, by the forge that stithied Mars his helm,
I'll kill thee every where, yea, o'er and o'er.
You wisest Grecians, pardon me this brag;
His insolence draws folly from my lips;
But I'll endeavour deeds to match these words,
Or may I never--",565,19601
664029,2920,"Do not chafe thee, cousin:
And you, Achilles, let these threats alone,
Till accident or purpose bring you to't:
You may have every day enough of Hector
If you have stomach; the general state, I fear,
Can scarce entreat you to be odd with him.",61,19601
664030,2926,"I pray you, let us see you in the field:
We have had pelting wars, since you refused
The Grecians' cause.",565,19601
664031,2929,"Dost thou entreat me, Hector?
To-morrow do I meet thee, fell as death;
To-night all friends.",49,19601
664032,2932,Thy hand upon that match.,565,19601
664033,2933,"First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent;
There in the full convive we: afterwards,
As Hector's leisure and your bounties shall
Concur together, severally entreat him.
Beat loud the tabourines, let the trumpets blow,
That this great soldier may his welcome know.",58,19601
664034,2939,[Exeunt all except TROILUS and ULYSSES],1261,19601
664035,2940,"My Lord Ulysses, tell me, I beseech you,
In what place of the field doth Calchas keep?",1212,19601
664036,2942,"At Menelaus' tent, most princely Troilus:
There Diomed doth feast with him to-night;
Who neither looks upon the heaven nor earth,
But gives all gaze and bent of amorous view
On the fair Cressid.",1218,19601
664037,2947,"Shall sweet lord, be bound to you so much,
After we part from Agamemnon's tent,
To bring me thither?",1212,19601
664038,2950,"You shall command me, sir.
As gentle tell me, of what honour was
This Cressida in Troy? Had she no lover there
That wails her absence?",1218,19601
664039,2954,"O, sir, to such as boasting show their scars
A mock is due. Will you walk on, my lord?
She was beloved, she loved; she is, and doth:
But still sweet love is food for fortune's tooth.",1212,19601
664040,2958,[Exeunt],1261,19601
664041,2961,[Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS],1261,19602
664042,2962,"I'll heat his blood with Greekish wine to-night,
Which with my scimitar I'll cool to-morrow.
Patroclus, let us feast him to the height.",49,19602
664043,2965,Here comes Thersites.,865,19602
664044,2966,[Enter THERSITES],1261,19602
664045,2967,"How now, thou core of envy!
Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news?",49,19602
664046,2969,"Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol
of idiot worshippers, here's a letter for thee.",1160,19602
664047,2971,"From whence, fragment?",49,19602
664048,2972,"Why, thou full dish of fool, from Troy.",1160,19602
664049,2973,Who keeps the tent now?,865,19602
664050,2974,"The surgeon's box, or the patient's wound.",1160,19602
664051,2975,"Well said, adversity! and what need these tricks?",865,19602
664052,2976,"Prithee, be silent, boy; I profit not by thy talk:
thou art thought to be Achilles' male varlet.",1160,19602
664053,2978,"Male varlet, you rogue! what's that?",865,19602
664054,2979,"Why, his masculine whore. Now, the rotten diseases
of the south, the guts-griping, ruptures, catarrhs,
loads o' gravel i' the back, lethargies, cold
palsies, raw eyes, dirt-rotten livers, wheezing
lungs, bladders full of imposthume, sciaticas,
limekilns i' the palm, incurable bone-ache, and the
rivelled fee-simple of the tetter, take and take
again such preposterous discoveries!",1160,19602
664055,2987,"Why thou damnable box of envy, thou, what meanest
thou to curse thus?",865,19602
664056,2989,Do I curse thee?,1160,19602
664057,2990,"Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson
indistinguishable cur, no.",865,19602
664058,2992,"No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle
immaterial skein of sleave-silk, thou green sarcenet
flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's
purse, thou? Ah, how the poor world is pestered
with such waterflies, diminutives of nature!",1160,19602
664059,2997,"Out, gall!",865,19602
664060,2998,Finch-egg!,1160,19602
664061,2999,"My sweet Patroclus, I am thwarted quite
From my great purpose in to-morrow's battle.
Here is a letter from Queen Hecuba,
A token from her daughter, my fair love,
Both taxing me and gaging me to keep
An oath that I have sworn. I will not break it:
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay;
My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
Come, come, Thersites, help to trim my tent:
This night in banqueting must all be spent.
Away, Patroclus!",49,19602
664062,3010,[Exeunt ACHILLES and PATROCLUS],1261,19602
664063,3011,"With too much blood and too little brain, these two
may run mad; but, if with too much brain and too
little blood they do, I'll be a curer of madmen.
Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough and one
that loves quails; but he has not so much brain as
earwax: and the goodly transformation of Jupiter
there, his brother, the bull,--the primitive statue,
and oblique memorial of cuckolds; a thrifty
shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's
leg,--to what form but that he is, should wit larded
with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to?
To an ass, were nothing; he is both ass and ox: to
an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass. To be a
dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an
owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I would
not care; but to be Menelaus, I would conspire
against destiny. Ask me not, what I would be, if I
were not Thersites; for I care not to be the louse
of a lazar, so I were not Menelaus! Hey-day!
spirits and fires!
[Enter HECTOR, TROILUS, AJAX, AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES,]
NESTOR, MENELAUS, and DIOMEDES, with lights]",1160,19602
664064,3033,"We go wrong, we go wrong.",58,19602
664065,3034,"No, yonder 'tis;
There, where we see the lights.",61,19602
664066,3036,I trouble you.,565,19602
664067,3037,"No, not a whit.",61,19602
664068,3038,Here comes himself to guide you.,1218,19602
664069,3039,[Re-enter ACHILLES],1261,19602
664070,3040,"Welcome, brave Hector; welcome, princes all.",49,19602
664071,3041,"So now, fair prince of Troy, I bid good night.
Ajax commands the guard to tend on you.",58,19602
664072,3043,Thanks and good night to the Greeks' general.,565,19602
664073,3044,"Good night, my lord.",762,19602
664074,3045,"Good night, sweet lord Menelaus.",565,19602
664075,3046,"Sweet draught: 'sweet' quoth 'a! sweet sink,
sweet sewer.",1160,19602
664076,3048,"Good night and welcome, both at once, to those
That go or tarry.",49,19602
664077,3050,Good night.,58,19602
664078,3051,[Exeunt AGAMEMNON and MENELAUS],1261,19602
664079,3052,"Old Nestor tarries; and you too, Diomed,
Keep Hector company an hour or two.",49,19602
664080,3054,"I cannot, lord; I have important business,
The tide whereof is now. Good night, great Hector.",316,19602
664081,3056,Give me your hand.,565,19602
664082,3057,"[Aside to TROILUS] Follow his torch; he goes to
Calchas' tent:
I'll keep you company.",1218,19602
664083,3060,"Sweet sir, you honour me.",1212,19602
664084,3061,"And so, good night.",565,19602
664085,3062,[Exit DIOMEDES; ULYSSES and TROILUS following],1261,19602
664086,3063,"Come, come, enter my tent.",49,19602
664087,3064,"[Exeunt ACHILLES, HECTOR, AJAX, and NESTOR]",1261,19602
664088,3065,"That same Diomed's a false-hearted rogue, a most
unjust knave; I will no more trust him when he leers
than I will a serpent when he hisses: he will spend
his mouth, and promise, like Brabbler the hound:
but when he performs, astronomers foretell it; it
is prodigious, there will come some change; the sun
borrows of the moon, when Diomed keeps his
word. I will rather leave to see Hector, than
not to dog him: they say he keeps a Trojan
drab, and uses the traitor Calchas' tent: I'll
after. Nothing but lechery! all incontinent varlets!",1160,19602
664089,3076,[Exit],1261,19602
664090,3079,[Enter DIOMEDES],1261,19603
664091,3080,"What, are you up here, ho? speak.",316,19603
664092,3081,[Within] Who calls?,207,19603
664093,3082,"Calchas, I think. Where's your daughter?",316,19603
664094,3083,"[Within] She comes to you.
[Enter TROILUS and ULYSSES, at a distance;]
after them, THERSITES]",207,19603
664095,3086,Stand where the torch may not discover us.,1218,19603
664096,3087,[Enter CRESSIDA],1261,19603
664097,3088,Cressid comes forth to him.,1212,19603
664098,3089,"How now, my charge!",316,19603
664099,3090,"Now, my sweet guardian! Hark, a word with you.",292,19603
664100,3091,[Whispers],1261,19603
664101,3092,"Yea, so familiar!",1212,19603
664102,3093,She will sing any man at first sight.,1218,19603
664103,3094,"And any man may sing her, if he can take her cliff;
she's noted.",1160,19603
664104,3096,Will you remember?,316,19603
664105,3097,Remember! yes.,292,19603
664106,3098,"Nay, but do, then;
And let your mind be coupled with your words.",316,19603
664107,3100,What should she remember?,1212,19603
664108,3101,List.,1218,19603
664109,3102,"Sweet honey Greek, tempt me no more to folly.",292,19603
664110,3103,Roguery!,1160,19603
664111,3104,"Nay, then,--",316,19603
664112,3105,"I'll tell you what,--",292,19603
664113,3106,"Foh, foh! come, tell a pin: you are forsworn.",316,19603
664114,3107,"In faith, I cannot: what would you have me do?",292,19603
664115,3108,"A juggling trick,--to be secretly open.",1160,19603
664116,3109,What did you swear you would bestow on me?,316,19603
664117,3110,"I prithee, do not hold me to mine oath;
Bid me do any thing but that, sweet Greek.",292,19603
664118,3112,Good night.,316,19603
664119,3113,"Hold, patience!",1212,19603
664120,3114,"How now, Trojan!",1218,19603
664121,3115,"Diomed,--",292,19603
664122,3116,"No, no, good night: I'll be your fool no more.",316,19603
664123,3117,Thy better must.,1212,19603
664124,3118,"Hark, one word in your ear.",292,19603
664125,3119,O plague and madness!,1212,19603
664126,3120,"You are moved, prince; let us depart, I pray you,
Lest your displeasure should enlarge itself
To wrathful terms: this place is dangerous;
The time right deadly; I beseech you, go.",1218,19603
664127,3124,"Behold, I pray you!",1212,19603
664128,3125,"Nay, good my lord, go off:
You flow to great distraction; come, my lord.",1218,19603
664129,3127,"I pray thee, stay.",1212,19603
664130,3128,You have not patience; come.,1218,19603
664131,3129,"I pray you, stay; by hell and all hell's torments
I will not speak a word!",1212,19603
664132,3131,"And so, good night.",316,19603
664133,3132,"Nay, but you part in anger.",292,19603
664134,3133,"Doth that grieve thee?
O wither'd truth!",1212,19603
664135,3135,"Why, how now, lord!",1218,19603
664136,3136,"By Jove,
I will be patient.",1212,19603
664137,3138,"Guardian!--why, Greek!",292,19603
664138,3139,"Foh, foh! adieu; you palter.",316,19603
664139,3140,"In faith, I do not: come hither once again.",292,19603
664140,3141,"You shake, my lord, at something: will you go?
You will break out.",1218,19603
664141,3143,She strokes his cheek!,1212,19603
664142,3144,"Come, come.",1218,19603
664143,3145,"Nay, stay; by Jove, I will not speak a word:
There is between my will and all offences
A guard of patience: stay a little while.",1212,19603
664144,3148,"How the devil Luxury, with his fat rump and
potato-finger, tickles these together! Fry, lechery, fry!",1160,19603
664145,3150,"But will you, then?",316,19603
664146,3151,"In faith, I will, la; never trust me else.",292,19603
664147,3152,Give me some token for the surety of it.,316,19603
664148,3153,I'll fetch you one.,292,19603
664149,3154,[Exit],1261,19603
664150,3155,You have sworn patience.,1218,19603
664151,3156,"Fear me not, sweet lord;
I will not be myself, nor have cognition
Of what I feel: I am all patience.",1212,19603
664152,3159,[Re-enter CRESSIDA],1261,19603
664153,3160,"Now the pledge; now, now, now!",1160,19603
664154,3161,"Here, Diomed, keep this sleeve.",292,19603
664155,3162,O beauty! where is thy faith?,1212,19603
664156,3163,"My lord,--",1218,19603
664157,3164,I will be patient; outwardly I will.,1212,19603
664158,3165,"You look upon that sleeve; behold it well.
He loved me--O false wench!--Give't me again.",292,19603
664159,3167,Whose was't?,316,19603
664160,3168,"It is no matter, now I have't again.
I will not meet with you to-morrow night:
I prithee, Diomed, visit me no more.",292,19603
664161,3171,"Now she sharpens: well said, whetstone!",1160,19603
664162,3172,I shall have it.,316,19603
664163,3173,"What, this?",292,19603
664164,3174,"Ay, that.",316,19603
664165,3175,"O, all you gods! O pretty, pretty pledge!
Thy master now lies thinking in his bed
Of thee and me, and sighs, and takes my glove,
And gives memorial dainty kisses to it,
As I kiss thee. Nay, do not snatch it from me;
He that takes that doth take my heart withal.",292,19603
664166,3181,"I had your heart before, this follows it.",316,19603
664167,3182,I did swear patience.,1212,19603
664168,3183,"You shall not have it, Diomed; faith, you shall not;
I'll give you something else.",292,19603
664169,3185,I will have this: whose was it?,316,19603
664170,3186,It is no matter.,292,19603
664171,3187,"Come, tell me whose it was.",316,19603
664172,3188,"'Twas one's that loved me better than you will.
But, now you have it, take it.",292,19603
664173,3190,Whose was it?,316,19603
664174,3191,"By all Diana's waiting-women yond,
And by herself, I will not tell you whose.",292,19603
664175,3193,"To-morrow will I wear it on my helm,
And grieve his spirit that dares not challenge it.",316,19603
664176,3195,"Wert thou the devil, and worest it on thy horn,
It should be challenged.",1212,19603
664177,3197,"Well, well, 'tis done, 'tis past: and yet it is not;
I will not keep my word.",292,19603
664178,3199,"Why, then, farewell;
Thou never shalt mock Diomed again.",316,19603
664179,3201,"You shall not go: one cannot speak a word,
But it straight starts you.",292,19603
664180,3203,I do not like this fooling.,316,19603
664181,3204,"Nor I, by Pluto: but that that likes not you pleases me best.",1160,19603
664182,3205,"What, shall I come? the hour?",316,19603
664183,3206,"Ay, come:--O Jove!--do come:--I shall be plagued.",292,19603
664184,3207,Farewell till then.,316,19603
664185,3208,"Good night: I prithee, come.
[Exit DIOMEDES]
Troilus, farewell! one eye yet looks on thee
But with my heart the other eye doth see.
Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,
The error of our eye directs our mind:
What error leads must err; O, then conclude
Minds sway'd by eyes are full of turpitude.",292,19603
664186,3216,[Exit],1261,19603
664187,3217,"A proof of strength she could not publish more,
Unless she said ' My mind is now turn'd whore.'",1160,19603
664188,3219,"All's done, my lord.",1218,19603
664189,3220,It is.,1212,19603
664190,3221,"Why stay we, then?",1218,19603
664191,3222,"To make a recordation to my soul
Of every syllable that here was spoke.
But if I tell how these two did co-act,
Shall I not lie in publishing a truth?
Sith yet there is a credence in my heart,
An esperance so obstinately strong,
That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears,
As if those organs had deceptious functions,
Created only to calumniate.
Was Cressid here?",1212,19603
664192,3232,"I cannot conjure, Trojan.",1218,19603
664193,3233,"She was not, sure.",1212,19603
664194,3234,Most sure she was.,1218,19603
664195,3235,"Why, my negation hath no taste of madness.",1212,19603
664196,3236,"Nor mine, my lord: Cressid was here but now.",1218,19603
664197,3237,"Let it not be believed for womanhood!
Think, we had mothers; do not give advantage
To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme,
For depravation, to square the general sex
By Cressid's rule: rather think this not Cressid.",1212,19603
664198,3242,"What hath she done, prince, that can soil our mothers?",1218,19603
664199,3243,"Nothing at all, unless that this were she.",1212,19603
664200,3244,Will he swagger himself out on's own eyes?,1160,19603
664201,3245,"This she? no, this is Diomed's Cressida:
If beauty have a soul, this is not she;
If souls guide vows, if vows be sanctimonies,
If sanctimony be the gods' delight,
If there be rule in unity itself,
This is not she. O madness of discourse,
That cause sets up with and against itself!
Bi-fold authority! where reason can revolt
Without perdition, and loss assume all reason
Without revolt: this is, and is not, Cressid.
Within my soul there doth conduce a fight
Of this strange nature that a thing inseparate
Divides more wider than the sky and earth,
And yet the spacious breadth of this division
Admits no orifex for a point as subtle
As Ariachne's broken woof to enter.
Instance, O instance! strong as Pluto's gates;
Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of heaven:
Instance, O instance! strong as heaven itself;
The bonds of heaven are slipp'd, dissolved, and loosed;
And with another knot, five-finger-tied,
The fractions of her faith, orts of her love,
The fragments, scraps, the bits and greasy relics
Of her o'er-eaten faith, are bound to Diomed.",1212,19603
664202,3269,"May worthy Troilus be half attach'd
With that which here his passion doth express?",1218,19603
664203,3271,"Ay, Greek; and that shall be divulged well
In characters as red as Mars his heart
Inflamed with Venus: never did young man fancy
With so eternal and so fix'd a soul.
Hark, Greek: as much as I do Cressid love,
So much by weight hate I her Diomed:
That sleeve is mine that he'll bear on his helm;
Were it a casque composed by Vulcan's skill,
My sword should bite it: not the dreadful spout
Which shipmen do the hurricano call,
Constringed in mass by the almighty sun,
Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune's ear
In his descent than shall my prompted sword
Falling on Diomed.",1212,19603
664204,3285,He'll tickle it for his concupy.,1160,19603
664205,3286,"O Cressid! O false Cressid! false, false, false!
Let all untruths stand by thy stained name,
And they'll seem glorious.",1212,19603
664206,3289,"O, contain yourself
Your passion draws ears hither.",1218,19603
664207,3291,[Enter AENEAS],1261,19603
664208,3292,"I have been seeking you this hour, my lord:
Hector, by this, is arming him in Troy;
Ajax, your guard, stays to conduct you home.",57,19603
664209,3295,"Have with you, prince. My courteous lord, adieu.
Farewell, revolted fair! and, Diomed,
Stand fast, and wear a castle on thy head!",1212,19603
664210,3298,I'll bring you to the gates.,1218,19603
664211,3299,Accept distracted thanks.,1212,19603
664212,3300,"[Exeunt TROILUS, AENEAS, and ULYSSES]",1261,19603
664213,3301,"Would I could meet that rogue Diomed! I would
croak like a raven; I would bode, I would bode.
Patroclus will give me any thing for the
intelligence of this whore: the parrot will not
do more for an almond than he for a commodious drab.
Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery; nothing
else holds fashion: a burning devil take them!",1160,19603
664214,3308,[Exit],1261,19603
664215,3311,[Enter HECTOR and ANDROMACHE],1261,19604
664216,3312,"When was my lord so much ungently temper'd,
To stop his ears against admonishment?
Unarm, unarm, and do not fight to-day.",102,19604
664217,3315,"You train me to offend you; get you in:
By all the everlasting gods, I'll go!",565,19604
664218,3317,"My dreams will, sure, prove ominous to the day.",102,19604
664219,3318,"No more, I say.",565,19604
664220,3319,[Enter CASSANDRA],1261,19604
664221,3320,Where is my brother Hector?,229,19604
664222,3321,"Here, sister; arm'd, and bloody in intent.
Consort with me in loud and dear petition,
Pursue we him on knees; for I have dream'd
Of bloody turbulence, and this whole night
Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter.",102,19604
664223,3326,"O, 'tis true.",229,19604
664224,3327,Ho! bid my trumpet sound!,565,19604
664225,3328,"No notes of sally, for the heavens, sweet brother.",229,19604
664226,3329,"Be gone, I say: the gods have heard me swear.",565,19604
664227,3330,"The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows:
They are polluted offerings, more abhorr'd
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.",229,19604
664228,3333,"O, be persuaded! do not count it holy
To hurt by being just: it is as lawful,
For we would give much, to use violent thefts,
And rob in the behalf of charity.",102,19604
664229,3337,"It is the purpose that makes strong the vow;
But vows to every purpose must not hold:
Unarm, sweet Hector.",229,19604
664230,3340,"Hold you still, I say;
Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate:
Lie every man holds dear; but the brave man
Holds honour far more precious-dear than life.
[Enter TROILUS]
How now, young man! mean'st thou to fight to-day?",565,19604
664231,3346,"Cassandra, call my father to persuade.",102,19604
664232,3347,[Exit CASSANDRA],1261,19604
664233,3348,"No, faith, young Troilus; doff thy harness, youth;
I am to-day i' the vein of chivalry:
Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong,
And tempt not yet the brushes of the war.
Unarm thee, go, and doubt thou not, brave boy,
I'll stand to-day for thee and me and Troy.",565,19604
664234,3354,"Brother, you have a vice of mercy in you,
Which better fits a lion than a man.",1212,19604
664235,3356,"What vice is that, good Troilus? chide me for it.",565,19604
664236,3357,"When many times the captive Grecian falls,
Even in the fan and wind of your fair sword,
You bid them rise, and live.",1212,19604
664237,3360,"O,'tis fair play.",565,19604
664238,3361,"Fool's play, by heaven, Hector.",1212,19604
664239,3362,How now! how now!,565,19604
664240,3363,"For the love of all the gods,
Let's leave the hermit pity with our mothers,
And when we have our armours buckled on,
The venom'd vengeance ride upon our swords,
Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth.",1212,19604
664241,3368,"Fie, savage, fie!",565,19604
664242,3369,"Hector, then 'tis wars.",1212,19604
664243,3370,"Troilus, I would not have you fight to-day.",565,19604
664244,3371,"Who should withhold me?
Not fate, obedience, nor the hand of Mars
Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire;
Not Priamus and Hecuba on knees,
Their eyes o'ergalled with recourse of tears;
Not you, my brother, with your true sword drawn,
Opposed to hinder me, should stop my way,
But by my ruin.",1212,19604
664245,3379,"[Re-enter CASSANDRA, with PRIAM]",1261,19604
664246,3380,"Lay hold upon him, Priam, hold him fast:
He is thy crutch; now if thou lose thy stay,
Thou on him leaning, and all Troy on thee,
Fall all together.",229,19604
664247,3384,"Come, Hector, come, go back:
Thy wife hath dream'd; thy mother hath had visions;
Cassandra doth foresee; and I myself
Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt
To tell thee that this day is ominous:
Therefore, come back.",912,19604
664248,3390,"AEneas is a-field;
And I do stand engaged to many Greeks,
Even in the faith of valour, to appear
This morning to them.",565,19604
664249,3394,"Ay, but thou shalt not go.",912,19604
664250,3395,"I must not break my faith.
You know me dutiful; therefore, dear sir,
Let me not shame respect; but give me leave
To take that course by your consent and voice,
Which you do here forbid me, royal Priam.",565,19604
664251,3400,"O Priam, yield not to him!",229,19604
664252,3401,"Do not, dear father.",102,19604
664253,3402,"Andromache, I am offended with you:
Upon the love you bear me, get you in.",565,19604
664254,3404,[Exit ANDROMACHE],1261,19604
664255,3405,"This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
Makes all these bodements.",1212,19604
664256,3407,"O, farewell, dear Hector!
Look, how thou diest! look, how thy eye turns pale!
Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents!
Hark, how Troy roars! how Hecuba cries out!
How poor Andromache shrills her dolours forth!
Behold, distraction, frenzy and amazement,
Like witless antics, one another meet,
And all cry, Hector! Hector's dead! O Hector!",229,19604
664257,3415,Away! away!,1212,19604
664258,3416,"Farewell: yet, soft! Hector! take my leave:
Thou dost thyself and all our Troy deceive.",229,19604
664259,3418,[Exit],1261,19604
664260,3419,"You are amazed, my liege, at her exclaim:
Go in and cheer the town: we'll forth and fight,
Do deeds worth praise and tell you them at night.",565,19604
664261,3422,Farewell: the gods with safety stand about thee!,912,19604
664262,3423,[Exeunt severally PRIAM and HECTOR. Alarums],1261,19604
664263,3424,"They are at it, hark! Proud Diomed, believe,
I come to lose my arm, or win my sleeve.",1212,19604
664264,3426,[Enter PANDARUS],1261,19604
664265,3427,"Do you hear, my lord? do you hear?",858,19604
664266,3428,What now?,1212,19604
664267,3429,Here's a letter come from yond poor girl.,858,19604
664268,3430,Let me read.,1212,19604
664269,3431,"A whoreson tisick, a whoreson rascally tisick so
troubles me, and the foolish fortune of this girl;
and what one thing, what another, that I shall
leave you one o' these days: and I have a rheum
in mine eyes too, and such an ache in my bones
that, unless a man were cursed, I cannot tell what
to think on't. What says she there?",858,19604
664270,3438,"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart:
The effect doth operate another way.
[Tearing the letter]
Go, wind, to wind, there turn and change together.
My love with words and errors still she feeds;
But edifies another with her deeds.",1212,19604
664271,3444,[Exeunt severally],1261,19604
664272,3447,[Alarums: excursions. Enter THERSITES],1261,19605
664273,3448,"Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I'll go
look on. That dissembling abominable varlets Diomed,
has got that same scurvy doting foolish young knave's
sleeve of Troy there in his helm: I would fain see
them meet; that that same young Trojan ass, that
loves the whore there, might send that Greekish
whore-masterly villain, with the sleeve, back to the
dissembling luxurious drab, of a sleeveless errand.
O' the t'other side, the policy of those crafty
swearing rascals, that stale old mouse-eaten dry
cheese, Nestor, and that same dog-fox, Ulysses, is
not proved worthy a blackberry: they set me up, in
policy, that mongrel cur, Ajax, against that dog of
as bad a kind, Achilles: and now is the cur Ajax
prouder than the cur Achilles, and will not arm
to-day; whereupon the Grecians begin to proclaim
barbarism, and policy grows into an ill opinion.
Soft! here comes sleeve, and t'other.",1160,19605
664274,3466,"[Enter DIOMEDES, TROILUS following]",1261,19605
664275,3467,"Fly not; for shouldst thou take the river Styx,
I would swim after.",1212,19605
664276,3469,"Thou dost miscall retire:
I do not fly, but advantageous care
Withdrew me from the odds of multitude:
Have at thee!",316,19605
664277,3473,"Hold thy whore, Grecian!--now for thy whore,
Trojan!--now the sleeve, now the sleeve!",1160,19605
664278,3475,"[Exeunt TROILUS and DIOMEDES, fighting]",1261,19605
664279,3476,[Enter HECTOR],1261,19605
664280,3477,"What art thou, Greek? art thou for Hector's match?
Art thou of blood and honour?",565,19605
664281,3479,"No, no, I am a rascal; a scurvy railing knave:
a very filthy rogue.",1160,19605
664282,3481,I do believe thee: live.,565,19605
664283,3482,[Exit],1261,19605
664284,3483,"God-a-mercy, that thou wilt believe me; but a
plague break thy neck for frightening me! What's
become of the wenching rogues? I think they have
swallowed one another: I would laugh at that
miracle: yet, in a sort, lechery eats itself.
I'll seek them.",1160,19605
664285,3489,[Exit],1261,19605
664286,3492,[Enter DIOMEDES and a Servant],1261,19606
664287,3493,"Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' horse;
Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid:
Fellow, commend my service to her beauty;
Tell her I have chastised the amorous Trojan,
And am her knight by proof.",316,19606
664288,3498,"I go, my lord.",1049,19606
664289,3499,[Exit],1261,19606
664290,3500,[Enter AGAMEMNON],1261,19606
664291,3501,"Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas
Hath beat down Menon: bastard Margarelon
Hath Doreus prisoner,
And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam,
Upon the pashed corses of the kings
Epistrophus and Cedius: Polyxenes is slain,
Amphimachus and Thoas deadly hurt,
Patroclus ta'en or slain, and Palamedes
Sore hurt and bruised: the dreadful Sagittary
Appals our numbers: haste we, Diomed,
To reinforcement, or we perish all.",58,19606
664292,3512,[Enter NESTOR],1261,19606
664293,3513,"Go, bear Patroclus' body to Achilles;
And bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame.
There is a thousand Hectors in the field:
Now here he fights on Galathe his horse,
And there lacks work; anon he's there afoot,
And there they fly or die, like scaled sculls
Before the belching whale; then is he yonder,
And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge,
Fall down before him, like the mower's swath:
Here, there, and every where, he leaves and takes,
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he does, and does so much
That proof is call'd impossibility.",814,19606
664294,3526,[Enter ULYSSES],1261,19606
664295,3527,"O, courage, courage, princes! great Achilles
Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance:
Patroclus' wounds have roused his drowsy blood,
Together with his mangled Myrmidons,
That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him,
Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend
And foams at mouth, and he is arm'd and at it,
Roaring for Troilus, who hath done to-day
Mad and fantastic execution,
Engaging and redeeming of himself
With such a careless force and forceless care
As if that luck, in very spite of cunning,
Bade him win all.",1218,19606
664296,3540,[Enter AJAX],1261,19606
664297,3541,Troilus! thou coward Troilus!,61,19606
664298,3542,[Exit],1261,19606
664299,3543,"Ay, there, there.",316,19606
664300,3544,"So, so, we draw together.",814,19606
664301,3545,[Enter ACHILLES],1261,19606
664302,3546,"Where is this Hector?
Come, come, thou boy-queller, show thy face;
Know what it is to meet Achilles angry:
Hector? where's Hector? I will none but Hector.",49,19606
664303,3550,[Exeunt],1261,19606
664304,3553,[Enter AJAX],1261,19607
664305,3554,"Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head!",61,19607
664306,3555,[Enter DIOMEDES],1261,19607
664307,3556,"Troilus, I say! where's Troilus?",316,19607
664308,3557,What wouldst thou?,61,19607
664309,3558,I would correct him.,316,19607
664310,3559,"Were I the general, thou shouldst have my office
Ere that correction. Troilus, I say! what, Troilus!",61,19607
664311,3561,[Enter TROILUS],1261,19607
664312,3562,"O traitor Diomed! turn thy false face, thou traitor,
And pay thy life thou owest me for my horse!",1212,19607
664313,3564,"Ha, art thou there?",316,19607
664314,3565,"I'll fight with him alone: stand, Diomed.",61,19607
664315,3566,He is my prize; I will not look upon.,316,19607
664316,3567,"Come, both you cogging Greeks; have at you both!",1212,19607
664317,3568,"[Exeunt, fighting]",1261,19607
664318,3569,[Enter HECTOR],1261,19607
664319,3570,"Yea, Troilus? O, well fought, my youngest brother!",565,19607
664320,3571,[Enter ACHILLES],1261,19607
664321,3572,"Now do I see thee, ha! have at thee, Hector!",49,19607
664322,3573,"Pause, if thou wilt.",565,19607
664323,3574,"I do disdain thy courtesy, proud Trojan:
Be happy that my arms are out of use:
My rest and negligence befriends thee now,
But thou anon shalt hear of me again;
Till when, go seek thy fortune.",49,19607
664324,3579,[Exit],1261,19607
664325,3580,"Fare thee well:
I would have been much more a fresher man,
Had I expected thee. How now, my brother!",565,19607
664326,3583,[Re-enter TROILUS],1261,19607
664327,3584,"Ajax hath ta'en AEneas: shall it be?
No, by the flame of yonder glorious heaven,
He shall not carry him: I'll be ta'en too,
Or bring him off: fate, hear me what I say!
I reck not though I end my life to-day.",1212,19607
664328,3589,[Exit],1261,19607
664329,3590,[Enter one in sumptuous armour],1261,19607
664330,3591,"Stand, stand, thou Greek; thou art a goodly mark:
No? wilt thou not? I like thy armour well;
I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all,
But I'll be master of it: wilt thou not,
beast, abide?
Why, then fly on, I'll hunt thee for thy hide.",565,19607
664331,3597,[Exeunt],1261,19607
664332,3600,"[Enter ACHILLES, with Myrmidons]",1261,19608
664333,3601,"Come here about me, you my Myrmidons;
Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel:
Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath:
And when I have the bloody Hector found,
Empale him with your weapons round about;
In fellest manner execute your aims.
Follow me, sirs, and my proceedings eye:
It is decreed Hector the great must die.
[Exeunt]
[Enter MENELAUS and PARIS, fighting:]
then THERSITES]",49,19608
664334,3612,"The cuckold and the cuckold-maker are at it. Now,
bull! now, dog! 'Loo, Paris, 'loo! now my double-
henned sparrow! 'loo, Paris, 'loo! The bull has the
game: ware horns, ho!",1160,19608
664335,3616,[Exeunt PARIS and MENELAUS],1261,19608
664336,3617,[Enter MARGARELON],1261,19608
664337,3618,"Turn, slave, and fight.",734,19608
664338,3619,What art thou?,1160,19608
664339,3620,A bastard son of Priam's.,734,19608
664340,3621,"I am a bastard too; I love bastards: I am a bastard
begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard
in valour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear will
not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard?
Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if the
son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgment:
farewell, bastard.",1160,19608
664341,3628,[Exit],1261,19608
664342,3629,"The devil take thee, coward!",734,19608
664343,3630,[Exit],1261,19608
664344,3633,[Enter HECTOR],1261,19609
664345,3634,"Most putrefied core, so fair without,
Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life.
Now is my day's work done; I'll take good breath:
Rest, sword; thou hast thy fill of blood and death.
[Puts off his helmet and hangs his shield]
behind him]",565,19609
664346,3640,[Enter ACHILLES and Myrmidons],1261,19609
664347,3641,"Look, Hector, how the sun begins to set;
How ugly night comes breathing at his heels:
Even with the vail and darking of the sun,
To close the day up, Hector's life is done.",49,19609
664348,3645,"I am unarm'd; forego this vantage, Greek.",565,19609
664349,3646,"Strike, fellows, strike; this is the man I seek.
[HECTOR falls]
So, Ilion, fall thou next! now, Troy, sink down!
Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone.
On, Myrmidons, and cry you all amain,
'Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain.'
[A retreat sounded]
Hark! a retire upon our Grecian part.",49,19609
664350,3654,"The Trojan trumpets sound the like, my lord.",811,19609
664351,3655,"The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth,
And, stickler-like, the armies separates.
My half-supp'd sword, that frankly would have fed,
Pleased with this dainty bait, thus goes to bed.
[Sheathes his sword]
Come, tie his body to my horse's tail;
Along the field I will the Trojan trail.",49,19609
664352,3662,"[Exeunt]
[Enter AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR, DIOMEDES,]
and others, marching. Shouts within]",1261,19609
664353,3667,Hark! hark! what shout is that?,58,19610
664354,3668,"Peace, drums!
[Within]
Achilles! Achilles! Hector's slain! Achilles.",814,19610
664355,3671,"The bruit is, Hector's slain, and by Achilles.",316,19610
664356,3672,"If it be so, yet bragless let it be;
Great Hector was a man as good as he.",61,19610
664357,3674,"March patiently along: let one be sent
To pray Achilles see us at our tent.
If in his death the gods have us befriended,
Great Troy is ours, and our sharp wars are ended.",58,19610
664358,3678,"[Exeunt, marching]",1261,19610
664359,3681,[Enter AENEAS and Trojans],1261,19611
664360,3682,"Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field:
Never go home; here starve we out the night.",57,19611
664361,3684,[Enter TROILUS],1261,19611
664362,3685,Hector is slain.,1212,19611
664363,3686,Hector! the gods forbid!,96,19611
664364,3687,"He's dead; and at the murderer's horse's tail,
In beastly sort, dragg'd through the shameful field.
Frown on, you heavens, effect your rage with speed!
Sit, gods, upon your thrones, and smile at Troy!
I say, at once let your brief plagues be mercy,
And linger not our sure destructions on!",1212,19611
664365,3693,"My lord, you do discomfort all the host!",57,19611
664366,3694,"You understand me not that tell me so:
I do not speak of flight, of fear, of death,
But dare all imminence that gods and men
Address their dangers in. Hector is gone:
Who shall tell Priam so, or Hecuba?
Let him that will a screech-owl aye be call'd,
Go in to Troy, and say there, Hector's dead:
There is a word will Priam turn to stone;
Make wells and Niobes of the maids and wives,
Cold statues of the youth, and, in a word,
Scare Troy out of itself. But, march away:
Hector is dead; there is no more to say.
Stay yet. You vile abominable tents,
Thus proudly pight upon our Phrygian plains,
Let Titan rise as early as he dare,
I'll through and through you! and, thou great-sized coward,
No space of earth shall sunder our two hates:
I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still,
That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy's thoughts.
Strike a free march to Troy! with comfort go:
Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe.
[Exeunt AENEAS and Trojans]
[As TROILUS is going out, enter, from the other]
side, PANDARUS]",1212,19611
664367,3718,"But hear you, hear you!",858,19611
664368,3719,"Hence, broker-lackey! ignomy and shame
Pursue thy life, and live aye with thy name!",1212,19611
664369,3721,[Exit],1261,19611
664370,3722,"A goodly medicine for my aching bones! O world!
world! world! thus is the poor agent despised!
O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set
a-work, and how ill requited! why should our
endeavour be so loved and the performance so loathed?
what verse for it? what instance for it? Let me see:
Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing,
Till he hath lost his honey and his sting;
And being once subdued in armed tail,
Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail.
Good traders in the flesh, set this in your
painted cloths.
As many as be here of pander's hall,
Your eyes, half out, weep out at Pandar's fall;
Or if you cannot weep, yet give some groans,
Though not for me, yet for your aching bones.
Brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade,
Some two months hence my will shall here be made:
It should be now, but that my fear is this,
Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss:
Till then I'll sweat and seek about for eases,
And at that time bequeathe you my diseases.",858,19611
664371,3744,[Exit],1261,19611
664372,3,[Enter VALENTINE and PROTEUS],1261,19612
664373,4,"Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus:
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
But since thou lovest, love still and thrive therein,
Even as I would when I to love begin.",1222,19612
664374,14,"Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu!
Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest
Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel:
Wish me partaker in thy happiness
When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger,
If ever danger do environ thee,
Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,
For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine.",925,19612
664375,22,And on a love-book pray for my success?,1222,19612
664376,23,Upon some book I love I'll pray for thee.,925,19612
664377,24,"That's on some shallow story of deep love:
How young Leander cross'd the Hellespont.",1222,19612
664378,26,"That's a deep story of a deeper love:
For he was more than over shoes in love.",925,19612
664379,28,"'Tis true; for you are over boots in love,
And yet you never swum the Hellespont.",1222,19612
664380,30,"Over the boots? nay, give me not the boots.",925,19612
664381,31,"No, I will not, for it boots thee not.",1222,19612
664382,32,What?,925,19612
664383,33,"To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans;
Coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth
With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights:
If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;
If lost, why then a grievous labour won;
However, but a folly bought with wit,
Or else a wit by folly vanquished.",1222,19612
664384,40,"So, by your circumstance, you call me fool.",925,19612
664385,41,"So, by your circumstance, I fear you'll prove.",1222,19612
664390,59,"And thither will I bring thee, Valentine.",925,19612
664391,60,"Sweet Proteus, no; now let us take our leave.
To Milan let me hear from thee by letters
Of thy success in love, and what news else
Betideth here in absence of thy friend;
And likewise will visit thee with mine.",1222,19612
664392,65,All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!,925,19612
664393,66,"As much to you at home! and so, farewell.",1222,19612
664394,67,[Exit],1261,19612
664395,68,"He after honour hunts, I after love:
He leaves his friends to dignify them more,
I leave myself, my friends and all, for love.
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me,
Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.",925,19612
664396,75,[Enter SPEED],1261,19612
664397,76,"Sir Proteus, save you! Saw you my master?",1144,19612
664398,77,"But now he parted hence, to embark for Milan.",925,19612
664399,78,"Twenty to one then he is shipp'd already,
And I have play'd the sheep in losing him.",1144,19612
664400,80,"Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray,
An if the shepherd be a while away.",925,19612
664401,82,"You conclude that my master is a shepherd, then,
and I a sheep?",1144,19612
664402,84,I do.,925,19612
664403,85,"Why then, my horns are his horns, whether I wake or sleep.",1144,19612
664404,86,A silly answer and fitting well a sheep.,925,19612
664405,87,This proves me still a sheep.,1144,19612
664406,88,True; and thy master a shepherd.,925,19612
664407,89,"Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance.",1144,19612
664408,90,It shall go hard but I'll prove it by another.,925,19612
664409,91,"The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the
shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks
not me: therefore I am no sheep.",1144,19612
664410,94,"The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd; the
shepherd for food follows not the sheep: thou for
wages followest thy master; thy master for wages
follows not thee: therefore thou art a sheep.",925,19612
664411,98,Such another proof will make me cry 'baa.',1144,19612
664412,99,"But, dost thou hear? gavest thou my letter to Julia?",925,19612
664413,100,"Ay sir: I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her,
a laced mutton, and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a
lost mutton, nothing for my labour.",1144,19612
664414,103,Here's too small a pasture for such store of muttons.,925,19612
664415,104,"If the ground be overcharged, you were best stick her.",1144,19612
664416,105,"Nay: in that you are astray, 'twere best pound you.",925,19612
664417,106,"Nay, sir, less than a pound shall serve me for
carrying your letter.",1144,19612
664418,108,"You mistake; I mean the pound,--a pinfold.",925,19612
664419,109,"From a pound to a pin? fold it over and over,
'Tis threefold too little for carrying a letter to
your lover.",1144,19612
664420,112,But what said she?,925,19612
664421,113,[First nodding] Ay.,1144,19612
664422,114,"Nod--Ay--why, that's noddy.",925,19612
664423,115,"You mistook, sir; I say, she did nod: and you ask
me if she did nod; and I say, 'Ay.'",1144,19612
664424,117,And that set together is noddy.,925,19612
664425,118,"Now you have taken the pains to set it together,
take it for your pains.",1144,19612
664426,120,"No, no; you shall have it for bearing the letter.",925,19612
664427,121,"Well, I perceive I must be fain to bear with you.",1144,19612
664428,122,"Why sir, how do you bear with me?",925,19612
664429,123,"Marry, sir, the letter, very orderly; having nothing
but the word 'noddy' for my pains.",1144,19612
664430,125,"Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.",925,19612
664431,126,And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.,1144,19612
664432,127,"Come come, open the matter in brief: what said she?",925,19612
664433,128,"Open your purse, that the money and the matter may
be both at once delivered.",1144,19612
664434,130,"Well, sir, here is for your pains. What said she?",925,19612
664435,131,"Truly, sir, I think you'll hardly win her.",1144,19612
664436,132,"Why, couldst thou perceive so much from her?",925,19612
664437,133,"Sir, I could perceive nothing at all from her; no,
not so much as a ducat for delivering your letter:
and being so hard to me that brought your mind, I
fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling your
mind. Give her no token but stones; for she's as
hard as steel.",1144,19612
664438,139,What said she? nothing?,925,19612
664439,140,"No, not so much as 'Take this for thy pains.' To
testify your bounty, I thank you, you have testerned
me; in requital whereof, henceforth carry your
letters yourself: and so, sir, I'll commend you to my master.",1144,19612
664440,144,"Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck,
Which cannot perish having thee aboard,
Being destined to a drier death on shore.
[Exit SPEED]
I must go send some better messenger:
I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
Receiving them from such a worthless post.",925,19612
664441,151,[Exit],1261,19612
664442,154,[Enter JULlA and LUCETTA],1261,19613
664443,155,"But say, Lucetta, now we are alone,
Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love?",621,19613
664444,157,"Ay, madam, so you stumble not unheedfully.",709,19613
664445,158,"Of all the fair resort of gentlemen
That every day with parle encounter me,
In thy opinion which is worthiest love?",621,19613
664446,161,"Please you repeat their names, I'll show my mind
According to my shallow simple skill.",709,19613
664447,163,What think'st thou of the fair Sir Eglamour?,621,19613
664448,164,"As of a knight well-spoken, neat and fine;
But, were I you, he never should be mine.",709,19613
664449,166,What think'st thou of the rich Mercatio?,621,19613
664450,167,"Well of his wealth; but of himself, so so.",709,19613
664451,168,What think'st thou of the gentle Proteus?,621,19613
664452,169,"Lord, Lord! to see what folly reigns in us!",709,19613
664453,170,How now! what means this passion at his name?,621,19613
664454,171,"Pardon, dear madam: 'tis a passing shame
That I, unworthy body as I am,
Should censure thus on lovely gentlemen.",709,19613
664455,174,"Why not on Proteus, as of all the rest?",621,19613
664456,175,Then thus: of many good I think him best.,709,19613
664457,176,Your reason?,621,19613
664458,177,"I have no other, but a woman's reason;
I think him so because I think him so.",709,19613
664459,179,And wouldst thou have me cast my love on him?,621,19613
664460,180,"Ay, if you thought your love not cast away.",709,19613
664461,181,"Why he, of all the rest, hath never moved me.",621,19613
664462,182,"Yet he, of all the rest, I think, best loves ye.",709,19613
664463,183,His little speaking shows his love but small.,621,19613
664464,184,Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.,709,19613
664465,185,They do not love that do not show their love.,621,19613
664466,186,"O, they love least that let men know their love.",709,19613
664467,187,I would I knew his mind.,621,19613
664468,188,"Peruse this paper, madam.",709,19613
664469,189,"'To Julia.' Say, from whom?",621,19613
664470,190,That the contents will show.,709,19613
664471,191,"Say, say, who gave it thee?",621,19613
664472,192,"Valentine's page; and sent, I think, from Proteus.
He would have given it you; but I, being in the way,
Did in your name receive it: pardon the
fault I pray.",709,19613
664473,196,"Now, by my modesty, a goodly broker!
Dare you presume to harbour wanton lines?
To whisper and conspire against my youth?
Now, trust me, 'tis an office of great worth
And you an officer fit for the place.
Or else return no more into my sight.",621,19613
664474,202,To plead for love deserves more fee than hate.,709,19613
664475,203,Will ye be gone?,621,19613
664476,204,That you may ruminate.,709,19613
664477,205,[Exit],1261,19613
664478,206,"And yet I would I had o'erlooked the letter:
It were a shame to call her back again
And pray her to a fault for which I chid her.
What a fool is she, that knows I am a maid,
And would not force the letter to my view!
Since maids, in modesty, say 'no' to that
Which they would have the profferer construe 'ay.'
Fie, fie, how wayward is this foolish love
That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse
And presently all humbled kiss the rod!
How churlishly I chid Lucetta hence,
When willingly I would have had her here!
How angerly I taught my brow to frown,
When inward joy enforced my heart to smile!
My penance is to call Lucetta back
And ask remission for my folly past.
What ho! Lucetta!",621,19613
664479,223,[Re-enter LUCETTA],1261,19613
664480,224,What would your ladyship?,709,19613
664481,225,Is't near dinner-time?,621,19613
664482,226,"I would it were,
That you might kill your stomach on your meat
And not upon your maid.",709,19613
664483,229,What is't that you took up so gingerly?,621,19613
664484,230,Nothing.,709,19613
664485,231,"Why didst thou stoop, then?",621,19613
664486,232,To take a paper up that I let fall.,709,19613
664487,233,And is that paper nothing?,621,19613
664488,234,Nothing concerning me.,709,19613
664489,235,Then let it lie for those that it concerns.,621,19613
664490,236,"Madam, it will not lie where it concerns
Unless it have a false interpeter.",709,19613
664491,238,Some love of yours hath writ to you in rhyme.,621,19613
664492,239,"That I might sing it, madam, to a tune.
Give me a note: your ladyship can set.",709,19613
664493,241,"As little by such toys as may be possible.
Best sing it to the tune of 'Light o' love.'",621,19613
664494,243,It is too heavy for so light a tune.,709,19613
664495,244,Heavy! belike it hath some burden then?,621,19613
664496,245,"Ay, and melodious were it, would you sing it.",709,19613
664497,246,And why not you?,621,19613
664498,247,I cannot reach so high.,709,19613
664499,248,"Let's see your song. How now, minion!",621,19613
664500,249,"Keep tune there still, so you will sing it out:
And yet methinks I do not like this tune.",709,19613
664501,251,You do not?,621,19613
664502,252,"No, madam; it is too sharp.",709,19613
664503,253,"You, minion, are too saucy.",621,19613
664504,254,"Nay, now you are too flat
And mar the concord with too harsh a descant:
There wanteth but a mean to fill your song.",709,19613
664505,257,The mean is drown'd with your unruly bass.,621,19613
664506,258,"Indeed, I bid the base for Proteus.",709,19613
664507,259,"This babble shall not henceforth trouble me.
Here is a coil with protestation!
[Tears the letter]
Go get you gone, and let the papers lie:
You would be fingering them, to anger me.",621,19613
664508,264,"She makes it strange; but she would be best pleased
To be so anger'd with another letter.",709,19613
664509,266,[Exit],1261,19613
664510,267,"Nay, would I were so anger'd with the same!
O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!
Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey
And kill the bees that yield it with your stings!
I'll kiss each several paper for amends.
Look, here is writ 'kind Julia.' Unkind Julia!
As in revenge of thy ingratitude,
I throw thy name against the bruising stones,
Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain.
And here is writ 'love-wounded Proteus.'
Poor wounded name! my bosom as a bed
Shall lodge thee till thy wound be thoroughly heal'd;
And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss.
But twice or thrice was 'Proteus' written down.
Be calm, good wind, blow not a word away
Till I have found each letter in the letter,
Except mine own name: that some whirlwind bear
Unto a ragged fearful-hanging rock
And throw it thence into the raging sea!
Lo, here in one line is his name twice writ,
'Poor forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
To the sweet Julia:' that I'll tear away.
And yet I will not, sith so prettily
He couples it to his complaining names.
Thus will I fold them one on another:
Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will.",621,19613
664511,293,[Re-enter LUCETTA],1261,19613
664512,294,"Madam,
Dinner is ready, and your father stays.",709,19613
664513,296,"Well, let us go.",621,19613
664514,297,"What, shall these papers lie like tell-tales here?",709,19613
664515,298,"If you respect them, best to take them up.",621,19613
664516,299,"Nay, I was taken up for laying them down:
Yet here they shall not lie, for catching cold.",709,19613
664517,301,I see you have a month's mind to them.,621,19613
664518,302,"Ay, madam, you may say what sights you see;
I see things too, although you judge I wink.",709,19613
664519,304,"Come, come; will't please you go?",621,19613
664520,305,[Exeunt],1261,19613
664521,308,[Enter ANTONIO and PANTHINO],1261,19614
664522,309,"Tell me, Panthino, what sad talk was that
Wherewith my brother held you in the cloister?",119,19614
664523,311,"'Twas of his nephew Proteus, your son.",859,19614
664524,312,"Why, what of him?",119,19614
664525,313,"He wonder'd that your lordship
Would suffer him to spend his youth at home,
While other men, of slender reputation,
Put forth their sons to seek preferment out:
Some to the wars, to try their fortune there;
Some to discover islands far away;
Some to the studious universities.
For any or for all these exercises,
He said that Proteus your son was meet,
And did request me to importune you
To let him spend his time no more at home,
Which would be great impeachment to his age,
In having known no travel in his youth.",859,19614
664526,326,"Nor need'st thou much importune me to that
Whereon this month I have been hammering.
I have consider'd well his loss of time
And how he cannot be a perfect man,
Not being tried and tutor'd in the world:
Experience is by industry achieved
And perfected by the swift course of time.
Then tell me, whither were I best to send him?",119,19614
664527,334,"I think your lordship is not ignorant
How his companion, youthful Valentine,
Attends the emperor in his royal court.",859,19614
664528,337,I know it well.,119,19614
664529,338,"'Twere good, I think, your lordship sent him thither:
There shall he practise tilts and tournaments,
Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen.
And be in eye of every exercise
Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth.",859,19614
664530,343,"I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised:
And that thou mayst perceive how well I like it,
The execution of it shall make known.
Even with the speediest expedition
I will dispatch him to the emperor's court.",119,19614
664531,348,"To-morrow, may it please you, Don Alphonso,
With other gentlemen of good esteem,
Are journeying to salute the emperor
And to commend their service to his will.",859,19614
664532,352,"Good company; with them shall Proteus go:
And, in good time! now will we break with him.",119,19614
664533,354,[Enter PROTEUS],1261,19614
664534,355,"Sweet love! sweet lines! sweet life!
Here is her hand, the agent of her heart;
Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn.
O, that our fathers would applaud our loves,
To seal our happiness with their consents!
O heavenly Julia!",925,19614
664535,361,How now! what letter are you reading there?,119,19614
664536,362,"May't please your lordship, 'tis a word or two
Of commendations sent from Valentine,
Deliver'd by a friend that came from him.",925,19614
664537,365,Lend me the letter; let me see what news.,119,19614
664538,366,"There is no news, my lord, but that he writes
How happily he lives, how well beloved
And daily graced by the emperor;
Wishing me with him, partner of his fortune.",925,19614
664539,370,And how stand you affected to his wish?,119,19614
664540,371,"As one relying on your lordship's will
And not depending on his friendly wish.",925,19614
664541,373,"My will is something sorted with his wish.
Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed;
For what I will, I will, and there an end.
I am resolved that thou shalt spend some time
With Valentinus in the emperor's court:
What maintenance he from his friends receives,
Like exhibition thou shalt have from me.
To-morrow be in readiness to go:
Excuse it not, for I am peremptory.",119,19614
664542,382,"My lord, I cannot be so soon provided:
Please you, deliberate a day or two.",925,19614
664543,384,"Look, what thou want'st shall be sent after thee:
No more of stay! to-morrow thou must go.
Come on, Panthino: you shall be employ'd
To hasten on his expedition.",119,19614
664544,388,[Exeunt ANTONIO and PANTHINO],1261,19614
664545,389,"Thus have I shunn'd the fire for fear of burning,
And drench'd me in the sea, where I am drown'd.
I fear'd to show my father Julia's letter,
Lest he should take exceptions to my love;
And with the vantage of mine own excuse
Hath he excepted most against my love.
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!",925,19614
664546,399,[Re-enter PANTHINO],1261,19614
664547,400,"Sir Proteus, your father calls for you:
He is in haste; therefore, I pray you to go.",859,19614
664548,402,"Why, this it is: my heart accords thereto,
And yet a thousand times it answers 'no.'",925,19614
664549,404,[Exeunt],1261,19614
664550,407,[Enter VALENTINE and SPEED],1261,19615
664551,408,"Sir, your glove.",1144,19615
664552,409,Not mine; my gloves are on.,1222,19615
664553,410,"Why, then, this may be yours, for this is but one.",1144,19615
664554,411,"Ha! let me see: ay, give it me, it's mine:
Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine!
Ah, Silvia, Silvia!",1222,19615
664555,414,Madam Silvia! Madam Silvia!,1144,19615
664556,415,"How now, sirrah?",1222,19615
664557,416,"She is not within hearing, sir.",1144,19615
664558,417,"Why, sir, who bade you call her?",1222,19615
664559,418,"Your worship, sir; or else I mistook.",1144,19615
664560,419,"Well, you'll still be too forward.",1222,19615
664561,420,And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.,1144,19615
664562,421,"Go to, sir: tell me, do you know Madam Silvia?",1222,19615
664563,422,She that your worship loves?,1144,19615
664564,423,"Why, how know you that I am in love?",1222,19615
664565,424,"Marry, by these special marks: first, you have
learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms,
like a malecontent; to relish a love-song, like a
robin-redbreast; to walk alone, like one that had
the pestilence; to sigh, like a school-boy that had
lost his A B C; to weep, like a young wench that had
buried her grandam; to fast, like one that takes
diet; to watch like one that fears robbing; to
speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were
wont, when you laughed, to crow like a cock; when you
walked, to walk like one of the lions; when you
fasted, it was presently after dinner; when you
looked sadly, it was for want of money: and now you
are metamorphosed with a mistress, that, when I look
on you, I can hardly think you my master.",1144,19615
664566,439,Are all these things perceived in me?,1222,19615
664567,440,They are all perceived without ye.,1144,19615
664568,441,Without me? they cannot.,1222,19615
664569,442,"Without you? nay, that's certain, for, without you
were so simple, none else would: but you are so
without these follies, that these follies are within
you and shine through you like the water in an
urinal, that not an eye that sees you but is a
physician to comment on your malady.",1144,19615
664570,448,"But tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia?",1222,19615
664571,449,She that you gaze on so as she sits at supper?,1144,19615
664572,450,"Hast thou observed that? even she, I mean.",1222,19615
664573,451,"Why, sir, I know her not.",1144,19615
664574,452,"Dost thou know her by my gazing on her, and yet
knowest her not?",1222,19615
664575,454,"Is she not hard-favoured, sir?",1144,19615
664576,455,"Not so fair, boy, as well-favoured.",1222,19615
664577,456,"Sir, I know that well enough.",1144,19615
664578,457,What dost thou know?,1222,19615
664579,458,"That she is not so fair as, of you, well-favoured.",1144,19615
664580,459,"I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite.",1222,19615
664581,460,"That's because the one is painted and the other out
of all count.",1144,19615
664582,462,How painted? and how out of count?,1222,19615
664583,463,"Marry, sir, so painted, to make her fair, that no
man counts of her beauty.",1144,19615
664584,465,How esteemest thou me? I account of her beauty.,1222,19615
664585,466,You never saw her since she was deformed.,1144,19615
664586,467,How long hath she been deformed?,1222,19615
664587,468,Ever since you loved her.,1144,19615
664588,469,"I have loved her ever since I saw her; and still I
see her beautiful.",1222,19615
664589,471,"If you love her, you cannot see her.",1144,19615
664590,472,Why?,1222,19615
664591,473,"Because Love is blind. O, that you had mine eyes;
or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to
have when you chid at Sir Proteus for going
ungartered!",1144,19615
664592,477,What should I see then?,1222,19615
664593,478,"Your own present folly and her passing deformity:
for he, being in love, could not see to garter his
hose, and you, being in love, cannot see to put on your hose.",1144,19615
664594,481,"Belike, boy, then, you are in love; for last
morning you could not see to wipe my shoes.",1222,19615
664595,483,"True, sir; I was in love with my bed: I thank you,
you swinged me for my love, which makes me the
bolder to chide you for yours.",1144,19615
664596,486,"In conclusion, I stand affected to her.",1222,19615
664597,487,"I would you were set, so your affection would cease.",1144,19615
664598,488,"Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to
one she loves.",1222,19615
664599,490,And have you?,1144,19615
664600,491,I have.,1222,19615
664601,492,Are they not lamely writ?,1144,19615
664602,493,"No, boy, but as well as I can do them. Peace!
here she comes.",1222,19615
664603,495,"[Aside] O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet!
Now will he interpret to her.",1144,19615
664604,497,[Enter SILVIA],1261,19615
664605,498,"Madam and mistress, a thousand good-morrows.",1222,19615
664606,499,"[Aside] O, give ye good even! here's a million of manners.",1144,19615
664607,500,"Sir Valentine and servant, to you two thousand.",1094,19615
664608,501,[Aside] He should give her interest and she gives it him.,1144,19615
664609,502,"As you enjoin'd me, I have writ your letter
Unto the secret nameless friend of yours;
Which I was much unwilling to proceed in
But for my duty to your ladyship.",1222,19615
664610,506,I thank you gentle servant: 'tis very clerkly done.,1094,19615
664611,507,"Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off;
For being ignorant to whom it goes
I writ at random, very doubtfully.",1222,19615
664612,510,Perchance you think too much of so much pains?,1094,19615
664613,511,"No, madam; so it stead you, I will write
Please you command, a thousand times as much; And yet--",1222,19615
664614,513,"A pretty period! Well, I guess the sequel;
And yet I will not name it; and yet I care not;
And yet take this again; and yet I thank you,
Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more.",1094,19615
664615,517,[Aside] And yet you will; and yet another 'yet.',1144,19615
664616,518,What means your ladyship? do you not like it?,1222,19615
664617,519,"Yes, yes; the lines are very quaintly writ;
But since unwillingly, take them again.
Nay, take them.",1094,19615
664618,522,"Madam, they are for you.",1222,19615
664619,523,"Ay, ay: you writ them, sir, at my request;
But I will none of them; they are for you;
I would have had them writ more movingly.",1094,19615
664620,526,"Please you, I'll write your ladyship another.",1222,19615
664621,527,"And when it's writ, for my sake read it over,
And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.",1094,19615
664622,529,"If it please me, madam, what then?",1222,19615
664623,530,"Why, if it please you, take it for your labour:
And so, good morrow, servant.",1094,19615
664624,532,[Exit],1261,19615
664625,533,"O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple!
My master sues to her, and she hath
taught her suitor,
He being her pupil, to become her tutor.
O excellent device! was there ever heard a better,
That my master, being scribe, to himself should write
the letter?",1144,19615
664626,541,"How now, sir? what are you reasoning with yourself?",1222,19615
664627,542,"Nay, I was rhyming: 'tis you that have the reason.",1144,19615
664628,543,To do what?,1222,19615
664629,544,To be a spokesman for Madam Silvia.,1144,19615
664630,545,To whom?,1222,19615
664631,546,"To yourself: why, she wooes you by a figure.",1144,19615
664632,547,What figure?,1222,19615
664633,548,"By a letter, I should say.",1144,19615
664634,549,"Why, she hath not writ to me?",1222,19615
664635,550,"What need she, when she hath made you write to
yourself? Why, do you not perceive the jest?",1144,19615
664636,552,"No, believe me.",1222,19615
664637,553,"No believing you, indeed, sir. But did you perceive
her earnest?",1144,19615
664638,555,"She gave me none, except an angry word.",1222,19615
664639,556,"Why, she hath given you a letter.",1144,19615
664640,557,That's the letter I writ to her friend.,1222,19615
664641,558,"And that letter hath she delivered, and there an end.",1144,19615
664642,559,I would it were no worse.,1222,19615
664643,560,"I'll warrant you, 'tis as well:
For often have you writ to her, and she, in modesty,
Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply;
Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover,
Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover.
All this I speak in print, for in print I found it.
Why muse you, sir? 'tis dinner-time.",1144,19615
664644,567,I have dined.,1222,19615
664645,568,"Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can
feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my
victuals, and would fain have meat. O, be not like
your mistress; be moved, be moved.",1144,19615
664646,572,[Exeunt],1261,19615
664647,575,[Enter PROTEUS and JULIA],1261,19616
664648,576,"Have patience, gentle Julia.",925,19616
664649,577,"I must, where is no remedy.",621,19616
664650,578,"When possibly I can, I will return.",925,19616
664651,579,"If you turn not, you will return the sooner.
Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.",621,19616
664652,581,[Giving a ring],1261,19616
664653,582,"Why then, we'll make exchange; here, take you this.",925,19616
664654,583,And seal the bargain with a holy kiss.,621,19616
664655,584,"Here is my hand for my true constancy;
And when that hour o'erslips me in the day
Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake,
The next ensuing hour some foul mischance
Torment me for my love's forgetfulness!
My father stays my coming; answer not;
The tide is now: nay, not thy tide of tears;
That tide will stay me longer than I should.
Julia, farewell!
[Exit JULIA]
What, gone without a word?
Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.",925,19616
664656,597,[Enter PANTHINO],1261,19616
664657,598,"Sir Proteus, you are stay'd for.",859,19616
664658,599,"Go; I come, I come.
Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.",925,19616
664659,601,[Exeunt],1261,19616
664660,604,"[Enter LAUNCE, leading a dog]",1261,19617
664661,605,"Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping;
all the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I
have received my proportion, like the prodigious
son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's
court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured
dog that lives: my mother weeping, my father
wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat
wringing her hands, and all our house in a great
perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed
one tear: he is a stone, a very pebble stone, and
has no more pity in him than a dog: a Jew would have
wept to have seen our parting; why, my grandam,
having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind at my
parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of it. This
shoe is my father: no, this left shoe is my father:
no, no, this left shoe is my mother: nay, that
cannot be so neither: yes, it is so, it is so, it
hath the worser sole. This shoe, with the hole in
it, is my mother, and this my father; a vengeance
on't! there 'tis: now, sit, this staff is my
sister, for, look you, she is as white as a lily and
as small as a wand: this hat is Nan, our maid: I
am the dog: no, the dog is himself, and I am the
dog--Oh! the dog is me, and I am myself; ay, so,
so. Now come I to my father; Father, your blessing:
now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping:
now should I kiss my father; well, he weeps on. Now
come I to my mother: O, that she could speak now
like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her; why, there
'tis; here's my mother's breath up and down. Now
come I to my sister; mark the moan she makes. Now
the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a
word; but see how I lay the dust with my tears.",655,19617
664662,638,[Enter PANTHINO],1261,19617
664663,639,"Launce, away, away, aboard! thy master is shipped
and thou art to post after with oars. What's the
matter? why weepest thou, man? Away, ass! You'll
lose the tide, if you tarry any longer.",859,19617
664664,643,"It is no matter if the tied were lost; for it is the
unkindest tied that ever any man tied.",655,19617
664665,645,What's the unkindest tide?,859,19617
664666,646,"Why, he that's tied here, Crab, my dog.",655,19617
664667,647,"Tut, man, I mean thou'lt lose the flood, and, in
losing the flood, lose thy voyage, and, in losing
thy voyage, lose thy master, and, in losing thy
master, lose thy service, and, in losing thy
service,--Why dost thou stop my mouth?",859,19617
664668,652,For fear thou shouldst lose thy tongue.,655,19617
664669,653,Where should I lose my tongue?,859,19617
664670,654,In thy tale.,655,19617
664671,655,In thy tail!,859,19617
664672,656,"Lose the tide, and the voyage, and the master, and
the service, and the tied! Why, man, if the river
were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears; if the
wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs.",655,19617
664673,660,"Come, come away, man; I was sent to call thee.",859,19617
664674,661,"Sir, call me what thou darest.",655,19617
664675,662,Wilt thou go?,859,19617
664676,663,"Well, I will go.",655,19617
664677,664,[Exeunt],1261,19617
664678,667,"[Enter SILVIA, VALENTINE, THURIO, and SPEED]",1261,19618
664679,668,Servant!,1094,19618
664680,669,Mistress?,1222,19618
664681,670,"Master, Sir Thurio frowns on you.",1144,19618
664682,671,"Ay, boy, it's for love.",1222,19618
664683,672,Not of you.,1144,19618
664684,673,"Of my mistress, then.",1222,19618
664701,690,How?,1194,19618
664702,691,"What, angry, Sir Thurio! do you change colour?",1094,19618
664703,692,"Give him leave, madam; he is a kind of chameleon.",1222,19618
664704,693,"That hath more mind to feed on your blood than live
in your air.",1194,19618
664705,695,"You have said, sir.",1222,19618
664706,696,"Ay, sir, and done too, for this time.",1194,19618
664707,697,"I know it well, sir; you always end ere you begin.",1222,19618
664708,698,"A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off.",1094,19618
664709,699,"'Tis indeed, madam; we thank the giver.",1222,19618
664710,700,"Who is that, servant?",1094,19618
664711,701,"Yourself, sweet lady; for you gave the fire. Sir
Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks,
and spends what he borrows kindly in your company.",1222,19618
664712,704,"Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall
make your wit bankrupt.",1194,19618
664713,706,"I know it well, sir; you have an exchequer of words,
and, I think, no other treasure to give your
followers, for it appears by their bare liveries,
that they live by your bare words.",1222,19618
664714,710,"No more, gentlemen, no more:--here comes my father.",1094,19618
664715,711,[Enter DUKE],1261,19618
664716,712,"Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset.
Sir Valentine, your father's in good health:
What say you to a letter from your friends
Of much good news?",348,19618
664717,716,"My lord, I will be thankful.
To any happy messenger from thence.",1222,19618
664718,718,"Know ye Don Antonio, your countryman?",348,19618
664719,719,"Ay, my good lord, I know the gentleman
To be of worth and worthy estimation
And not without desert so well reputed.",1222,19618
664720,722,Hath he not a son?,348,19618
664721,723,"Ay, my good lord; a son that well deserves
The honour and regard of such a father.",1222,19618
664722,725,You know him well?,348,19618
664723,726,"I know him as myself; for from our infancy
We have conversed and spent our hours together:
And though myself have been an idle truant,
Omitting the sweet benefit of time
To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection,
Yet hath Sir Proteus, for that's his name,
Made use and fair advantage of his days;
His years but young, but his experience old;
His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe;
And, in a word, for far behind his worth
Comes all the praises that I now bestow,
He is complete in feature and in mind
With all good grace to grace a gentleman.",1222,19618
664724,739,"Beshrew me, sir, but if he make this good,
He is as worthy for an empress' love
As meet to be an emperor's counsellor.
Well, sir, this gentleman is come to me,
With commendation from great potentates;
And here he means to spend his time awhile:
I think 'tis no unwelcome news to you.",348,19618
664725,746,"Should I have wish'd a thing, it had been he.",1222,19618
664726,747,"Welcome him then according to his worth.
Silvia, I speak to you, and you, Sir Thurio;
For Valentine, I need not cite him to it:
I will send him hither to you presently.",348,19618
664727,751,[Exit],1261,19618
664728,752,"This is the gentleman I told your ladyship
Had come along with me, but that his mistress
Did hold his eyes lock'd in her crystal looks.",1222,19618
664729,755,"Belike that now she hath enfranchised them
Upon some other pawn for fealty.",1094,19618
664730,757,"Nay, sure, I think she holds them prisoners still.",1222,19618
664731,758,"Nay, then he should be blind; and, being blind
How could he see his way to seek out you?",1094,19618
664732,760,"Why, lady, Love hath twenty pair of eyes.",1222,19618
664733,761,They say that Love hath not an eye at all.,1194,19618
664734,762,"To see such lovers, Thurio, as yourself:
Upon a homely object Love can wink.",1222,19618
664735,764,"Have done, have done; here comes the gentleman.",1094,19618
664736,765,[Exit THURIO],1261,19618
664737,766,[Enter PROTEUS],1261,19618
664738,767,"Welcome, dear Proteus! Mistress, I beseech you,
Confirm his welcome with some special favour.",1222,19618
664739,769,"His worth is warrant for his welcome hither,
If this be he you oft have wish'd to hear from.",1094,19618
664740,771,"Mistress, it is: sweet lady, entertain him
To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship.",1222,19618
664741,773,Too low a mistress for so high a servant.,1094,19618
664742,774,"Not so, sweet lady: but too mean a servant
To have a look of such a worthy mistress.",925,19618
664743,776,"Leave off discourse of disability:
Sweet lady, entertain him for your servant.",1222,19618
664744,778,My duty will I boast of; nothing else.,925,19618
664745,779,"And duty never yet did want his meed:
Servant, you are welcome to a worthless mistress.",1094,19618
664746,781,I'll die on him that says so but yourself.,925,19618
664747,782,That you are welcome?,1094,19618
664748,783,That you are worthless.,925,19618
664749,784,[Re-enter THURIO],1261,19618
664750,785,"Madam, my lord your father would speak with you.",1194,19618
664751,786,"I wait upon his pleasure. Come, Sir Thurio,
Go with me. Once more, new servant, welcome:
I'll leave you to confer of home affairs;
When you have done, we look to hear from you.",1094,19618
664752,790,We'll both attend upon your ladyship.,925,19618
664753,791,[Exeunt SILVIA and THURIO],1261,19618
664754,792,"Now, tell me, how do all from whence you came?",1222,19618
664755,793,Your friends are well and have them much commended.,925,19618
664756,794,And how do yours?,1222,19618
664757,795,I left them all in health.,925,19618
664758,796,How does your lady? and how thrives your love?,1222,19618
664759,797,"My tales of love were wont to weary you;
I know you joy not in a love discourse.",925,19618
664760,799,"Ay, Proteus, but that life is alter'd now:
I have done penance for contemning Love,
Whose high imperious thoughts have punish'd me
With bitter fasts, with penitential groans,
With nightly tears and daily heart-sore sighs;
For in revenge of my contempt of love,
Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes
And made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow.
O gentle Proteus, Love's a mighty lord,
And hath so humbled me, as, I confess,
There is no woe to his correction,
Nor to his service no such joy on earth.
Now no discourse, except it be of love;
Now can I break my fast, dine, sup and sleep,
Upon the very naked name of love.",1222,19618
664761,814,"Enough; I read your fortune in your eye.
Was this the idol that you worship so?",925,19618
664762,816,Even she; and is she not a heavenly saint?,1222,19618
664763,817,No; but she is an earthly paragon.,925,19618
664764,818,Call her divine.,1222,19618
664765,819,I will not flatter her.,925,19618
664766,820,"O, flatter me; for love delights in praises.",1222,19618
664767,821,"When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
And I must minister the like to you.",925,19618
664768,823,"Then speak the truth by her; if not divine,
Yet let her be a principality,
Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.",1222,19618
664769,826,Except my mistress.,925,19618
664770,827,"Sweet, except not any;
Except thou wilt except against my love.",1222,19618
664771,829,Have I not reason to prefer mine own?,925,19618
664772,830,"And I will help thee to prefer her too:
She shall be dignified with this high honour--
To bear my lady's train, lest the base earth
Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss
And, of so great a favour growing proud,
Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower
And make rough winter everlastingly.",1222,19618
664773,837,"Why, Valentine, what braggardism is this?",925,19618
664774,838,"Pardon me, Proteus: all I can is nothing
To her whose worth makes other worthies nothing;
She is alone.",1222,19618
664775,841,Then let her alone.,925,19618
664776,842,"Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own,
And I as rich in having such a jewel
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
The water nectar and the rocks pure gold.
Forgive me that I do not dream on thee,
Because thou see'st me dote upon my love.
My foolish rival, that her father likes
Only for his possessions are so huge,
Is gone with her along, and I must after,
For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy.",1222,19618
664777,852,But she loves you?,925,19618
664778,853,"Ay, and we are betroth'd: nay, more, our,
marriage-hour,
With all the cunning manner of our flight,
Determined of; how I must climb her window,
The ladder made of cords, and all the means
Plotted and 'greed on for my happiness.
Good Proteus, go with me to my chamber,
In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel.",1222,19618
664779,861,"Go on before; I shall inquire you forth:
I must unto the road, to disembark
Some necessaries that I needs must use,
And then I'll presently attend you.",925,19618
664780,865,Will you make haste?,1222,19618
664781,866,"I will.
[Exit VALENTINE]
Even as one heat another heat expels,
Or as one nail by strength drives out another,
So the remembrance of my former love
Is by a newer object quite forgotten.
Is it mine, or Valentine's praise,
Her true perfection, or my false transgression,
That makes me reasonless to reason thus?
She is fair; and so is Julia that I love--
That I did love, for now my love is thaw'd;
Which, like a waxen image, 'gainst a fire,
Bears no impression of the thing it was.
Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold,
And that I love him not as I was wont.
O, but I love his lady too too much,
And that's the reason I love him so little.
How shall I dote on her with more advice,
That thus without advice begin to love her!
'Tis but her picture I have yet beheld,
And that hath dazzled my reason's light;
But when I look on her perfections,
There is no reason but I shall be blind.
If I can cheque my erring love, I will;
If not, to compass her I'll use my skill.",925,19618
664782,891,[Exit],1261,19618
664783,894,[Enter SPEED and LAUNCE severally],1261,19619
664784,895,"Launce! by mine honesty, welcome to Milan!",1144,19619
664785,896,"Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not
welcome. I reckon this always, that a man is never
undone till he be hanged, nor never welcome to a
place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess
say 'Welcome!'",655,19619
664786,901,"Come on, you madcap, I'll to the alehouse with you
presently; where, for one shot of five pence, thou
shalt have five thousand welcomes. But, sirrah, how
did thy master part with Madam Julia?",1144,19619
664787,905,"Marry, after they closed in earnest, they parted very
fairly in jest.",655,19619
664788,907,But shall she marry him?,1144,19619
664789,908,No.,655,19619
664790,909,How then? shall he marry her?,1144,19619
664791,910,"No, neither.",655,19619
664792,911,"What, are they broken?",1144,19619
664793,912,"No, they are both as whole as a fish.",655,19619
664794,913,"Why, then, how stands the matter with them?",1144,19619
664795,914,"Marry, thus: when it stands well with him, it
stands well with her.",655,19619
664796,916,What an ass art thou! I understand thee not.,1144,19619
664797,917,"What a block art thou, that thou canst not! My
staff understands me.",655,19619
664798,919,What thou sayest?,1144,19619
664799,920,"Ay, and what I do too: look thee, I'll but lean,
and my staff understands me.",655,19619
664800,922,"It stands under thee, indeed.",1144,19619
664801,923,"Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.",655,19619
664802,924,"But tell me true, will't be a match?",1144,19619
664803,925,"Ask my dog: if he say ay, it will! if he say no,
it will; if he shake his tail and say nothing, it will.",655,19619
664804,927,The conclusion is then that it will.,1144,19619
664805,928,Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable.,655,19619
664806,929,"'Tis well that I get it so. But, Launce, how sayest
thou, that my master is become a notable lover?",1144,19619
664807,931,I never knew him otherwise.,655,19619
664808,932,Than how?,1144,19619
664809,933,"A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be.",655,19619
664810,934,"Why, thou whoreson ass, thou mistakest me.",1144,19619
664811,935,"Why, fool, I meant not thee; I meant thy master.",655,19619
664812,936,"I tell thee, my master is become a hot lover.",1144,19619
664813,937,"Why, I tell thee, I care not though he burn himself
in love. If thou wilt, go with me to the alehouse;
if not, thou art an Hebrew, a Jew, and not worth the
name of a Christian.",655,19619
664814,941,Why?,1144,19619
664815,942,"Because thou hast not so much charity in thee as to
go to the ale with a Christian. Wilt thou go?",655,19619
664816,944,At thy service.,1144,19619
664817,945,[Exeunt],1261,19619
664818,948,[Enter PROTEUS],1261,19620
664819,949,"To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn;
To love fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn;
To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn;
And even that power which gave me first my oath
Provokes me to this threefold perjury;
Love bade me swear and Love bids me forswear.
O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned,
Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it!
At first I did adore a twinkling star,
But now I worship a celestial sun.
Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken,
And he wants wit that wants resolved will
To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better.
Fie, fie, unreverend tongue! to call her bad,
Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferr'd
With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths.
I cannot leave to love, and yet I do;
But there I leave to love where I should love.
Julia I lose and Valentine I lose:
If I keep them, I needs must lose myself;
If I lose them, thus find I by their loss
For Valentine myself, for Julia Silvia.
I to myself am dearer than a friend,
For love is still most precious in itself;
And Silvia--witness Heaven, that made her fair!--
Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiope.
I will forget that Julia is alive,
Remembering that my love to her is dead;
And Valentine I'll hold an enemy,
Aiming at Silvia as a sweeter friend.
I cannot now prove constant to myself,
Without some treachery used to Valentine.
This night he meaneth with a corded ladder
To climb celestial Silvia's chamber-window,
Myself in counsel, his competitor.
Now presently I'll give her father notice
Of their disguising and pretended flight;
Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine;
For Thurio, he intends, shall wed his daughter;
But, Valentine being gone, I'll quickly cross
By some sly trick blunt Thurio's dull proceeding.
Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,
As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift!",925,19620
664820,992,[Exit],1261,19620
664821,995,[Enter JULIA and LUCETTA],1261,19621
664822,996,"Counsel, Lucetta; gentle girl, assist me;
And even in kind love I do conjure thee,
Who art the table wherein all my thoughts
Are visibly character'd and engraved,
To lesson me and tell me some good mean
How, with my honour, I may undertake
A journey to my loving Proteus.",621,19621
664823,1003,"Alas, the way is wearisome and long!",709,19621
664824,1004,"A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary
To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps;
Much less shall she that hath Love's wings to fly,
And when the flight is made to one so dear,
Of such divine perfection, as Sir Proteus.",621,19621
664825,1009,Better forbear till Proteus make return.,709,19621
664826,1010,"O, know'st thou not his looks are my soul's food?
Pity the dearth that I have pined in,
By longing for that food so long a time.
Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
As seek to quench the fire of love with words.",621,19621
664827,1016,"I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,
But qualify the fire's extreme rage,
Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.",709,19621
664828,1019,"The more thou damm'st it up, the more it burns.
The current that with gentle murmur glides,
Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage;
But when his fair course is not hindered,
He makes sweet music with the enamell'ed stones,
Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge
He overtaketh in his pilgrimage,
And so by many winding nooks he strays
With willing sport to the wild ocean.
Then let me go and hinder not my course
I'll be as patient as a gentle stream
And make a pastime of each weary step,
Till the last step have brought me to my love;
And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil
A blessed soul doth in Elysium.",621,19621
664829,1034,But in what habit will you go along?,709,19621
664830,1035,"Not like a woman; for I would prevent
The loose encounters of lascivious men:
Gentle Lucetta, fit me with such weeds
As may beseem some well-reputed page.",621,19621
664831,1039,"Why, then, your ladyship must cut your hair.",709,19621
664832,1040,"No, girl, I'll knit it up in silken strings
With twenty odd-conceited true-love knots.
To be fantastic may become a youth
Of greater time than I shall show to be.",621,19621
664833,1044,"What fashion, madam shall I make your breeches?",709,19621
664834,1045,"That fits as well as 'Tell me, good my lord,
What compass will you wear your farthingale?'
Why even what fashion thou best likest, Lucetta.",621,19621
664835,1048,"You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam.",709,19621
664836,1049,"Out, out, Lucetta! that would be ill-favour'd.",621,19621
664837,1050,"A round hose, madam, now's not worth a pin,
Unless you have a codpiece to stick pins on.",709,19621
664838,1052,"Lucetta, as thou lovest me, let me have
What thou thinkest meet and is most mannerly.
But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me
For undertaking so unstaid a journey?
I fear me, it will make me scandalized.",621,19621
664839,1057,"If you think so, then stay at home and go not.",709,19621
664840,1058,"Nay, that I will not.",621,19621
664841,1059,"Then never dream on infamy, but go.
If Proteus like your journey when you come,
No matter who's displeased when you are gone:
I fear me, he will scarce be pleased withal.",709,19621
664842,1063,"That is the least, Lucetta, of my fear:
A thousand oaths, an ocean of his tears
And instances of infinite of love
Warrant me welcome to my Proteus.",621,19621
664843,1067,All these are servants to deceitful men.,709,19621
664844,1068,"Base men, that use them to so base effect!
But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.",621,19621
664845,1074,"Pray heaven he prove so, when you come to him!",709,19621
664846,1075,"Now, as thou lovest me, do him not that wrong
To bear a hard opinion of his truth:
Only deserve my love by loving him;
And presently go with me to my chamber,
To take a note of what I stand in need of,
To furnish me upon my longing journey.
All that is mine I leave at thy dispose,
My goods, my lands, my reputation;
Only, in lieu thereof, dispatch me hence.
Come, answer not, but to it presently!
I am impatient of my tarriance.",621,19621
664847,1086,[Exeunt],1261,19621
664848,1089,"[Enter DUKE, THURIO, and PROTEUS]",1261,19622
664849,1090,"Sir Thurio, give us leave, I pray, awhile;
We have some secrets to confer about.
[Exit THURIO]
Now, tell me, Proteus, what's your will with me?",348,19622
664850,1094,"My gracious lord, that which I would discover
The law of friendship bids me to conceal;
But when I call to mind your gracious favours
Done to me, undeserving as I am,
My duty pricks me on to utter that
Which else no worldly good should draw from me.
Know, worthy prince, Sir Valentine, my friend,
This night intends to steal away your daughter:
Myself am one made privy to the plot.
I know you have determined to bestow her
On Thurio, whom your gentle daughter hates;
And should she thus be stol'n away from you,
It would be much vexation to your age.
Thus, for my duty's sake, I rather chose
To cross my friend in his intended drift
Than, by concealing it, heap on your head
A pack of sorrows which would press you down,
Being unprevented, to your timeless grave.",925,19622
664851,1112,"Proteus, I thank thee for thine honest care;
Which to requite, command me while I live.
This love of theirs myself have often seen,
Haply when they have judged me fast asleep,
And oftentimes have purposed to forbid
Sir Valentine her company and my court:
But fearing lest my jealous aim might err
And so unworthily disgrace the man,
A rashness that I ever yet have shunn'd,
I gave him gentle looks, thereby to find
That which thyself hast now disclosed to me.
And, that thou mayst perceive my fear of this,
Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested,
I nightly lodge her in an upper tower,
The key whereof myself have ever kept;
And thence she cannot be convey'd away.",348,19622
664852,1128,"Know, noble lord, they have devised a mean
How he her chamber-window will ascend
And with a corded ladder fetch her down;
For which the youthful lover now is gone
And this way comes he with it presently;
Where, if it please you, you may intercept him.
But, good my Lord, do it so cunningly
That my discovery be not aimed at;
For love of you, not hate unto my friend,
Hath made me publisher of this pretence.",925,19622
664853,1138,"Upon mine honour, he shall never know
That I had any light from thee of this.",348,19622
664854,1140,"Adieu, my Lord; Sir Valentine is coming.",925,19622
664855,1141,[Exit],1261,19622
664856,1142,[Enter VALENTINE],1261,19622
664857,1143,"Sir Valentine, whither away so fast?",348,19622
664858,1144,"Please it your grace, there is a messenger
That stays to bear my letters to my friends,
And I am going to deliver them.",1222,19622
664859,1147,Be they of much import?,348,19622
664860,1148,"The tenor of them doth but signify
My health and happy being at your court.",1222,19622
664861,1150,"Nay then, no matter; stay with me awhile;
I am to break with thee of some affairs
That touch me near, wherein thou must be secret.
'Tis not unknown to thee that I have sought
To match my friend Sir Thurio to my daughter.",348,19622
664862,1155,"I know it well, my Lord; and, sure, the match
Were rich and honourable; besides, the gentleman
Is full of virtue, bounty, worth and qualities
Beseeming such a wife as your fair daughter:
Cannot your Grace win her to fancy him?",1222,19622
664863,1160,"No, trust me; she is peevish, sullen, froward,
Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty,
Neither regarding that she is my child
Nor fearing me as if I were her father;
And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers,
Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her;
And, where I thought the remnant of mine age
Should have been cherish'd by her child-like duty,
I now am full resolved to take a wife
And turn her out to who will take her in:
Then let her beauty be her wedding-dower;
For me and my possessions she esteems not.",348,19622
664864,1172,What would your Grace have me to do in this?,1222,19622
664865,1173,"There is a lady in Verona here
Whom I affect; but she is nice and coy
And nought esteems my aged eloquence:
Now therefore would I have thee to my tutor--
For long agone I have forgot to court;
Besides, the fashion of the time is changed--
How and which way I may bestow myself
To be regarded in her sun-bright eye.",348,19622
664866,1181,"Win her with gifts, if she respect not words:
Dumb jewels often in their silent kind
More than quick words do move a woman's mind.",1222,19622
664867,1184,But she did scorn a present that I sent her.,348,19622
664868,1185,"A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her.
Send her another; never give her o'er;
For scorn at first makes after-love the more.
If she do frown, 'tis not in hate of you,
But rather to beget more love in you:
If she do chide, 'tis not to have you gone;
For why, the fools are mad, if left alone.
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away!'
Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;
Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.",1222,19622
664869,1198,"But she I mean is promised by her friends
Unto a youthful gentleman of worth,
And kept severely from resort of men,
That no man hath access by day to her.",348,19622
664870,1202,"Why, then, I would resort to her by night.",1222,19622
664871,1203,"Ay, but the doors be lock'd and keys kept safe,
That no man hath recourse to her by night.",348,19622
664872,1205,What lets but one may enter at her window?,1222,19622
664873,1206,"Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground,
And built so shelving that one cannot climb it
Without apparent hazard of his life.",348,19622
664874,1209,"Why then, a ladder quaintly made of cords,
To cast up, with a pair of anchoring hooks,
Would serve to scale another Hero's tower,
So bold Leander would adventure it.",1222,19622
664875,1213,"Now, as thou art a gentleman of blood,
Advise me where I may have such a ladder.",348,19622
664876,1215,"When would you use it? pray, sir, tell me that.",1222,19622
664877,1216,"This very night; for Love is like a child,
That longs for every thing that he can come by.",348,19622
664878,1218,By seven o'clock I'll get you such a ladder.,1222,19622
664879,1219,"But, hark thee; I will go to her alone:
How shall I best convey the ladder thither?",348,19622
664880,1221,"It will be light, my lord, that you may bear it
Under a cloak that is of any length.",1222,19622
664881,1223,A cloak as long as thine will serve the turn?,348,19622
664882,1224,"Ay, my good lord.",1222,19622
664883,1225,"Then let me see thy cloak:
I'll get me one of such another length.",348,19622
664884,1227,"Why, any cloak will serve the turn, my lord.",1222,19622
664885,1228,"How shall I fashion me to wear a cloak?
I pray thee, let me feel thy cloak upon me.
What letter is this same? What's here? 'To Silvia'!
And here an engine fit for my proceeding.
I'll be so bold to break the seal for once.
[Reads]
'My thoughts do harbour with my Silvia nightly,
And slaves they are to me that send them flying:
O, could their master come and go as lightly,
Himself would lodge where senseless they are lying!
My herald thoughts in thy pure bosom rest them:
While I, their king, that hither them importune,
Do curse the grace that with such grace hath bless'd them,
Because myself do want my servants' fortune:
I curse myself, for they are sent by me,
That they should harbour where their lord would be.'
What's here?
'Silvia, this night I will enfranchise thee.'
'Tis so; and here's the ladder for the purpose.
Why, Phaeton,--for thou art Merops' son,--
Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car
And with thy daring folly burn the world?
Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee?
Go, base intruder! overweening slave!
Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates,
And think my patience, more than thy desert,
Is privilege for thy departure hence:
Thank me for this more than for all the favours
Which all too much I have bestow'd on thee.
But if thou linger in my territories
Longer than swiftest expedition
Will give thee time to leave our royal court,
By heaven! my wrath shall far exceed the love
I ever bore my daughter or thyself.
Be gone! I will not hear thy vain excuse;
But, as thou lovest thy life, make speed from hence.",348,19622
664886,1264,[Exit],1261,19622
664887,1265,"And why not death rather than living torment?
To die is to be banish'd from myself;
And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her
Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?
What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?
Unless it be to think that she is by
And feed upon the shadow of perfection
Except I be by Silvia in the night,
There is no music in the nightingale;
Unless I look on Silvia in the day,
There is no day for me to look upon;
She is my essence, and I leave to be,
If I be not by her fair influence
Foster'd, illumined, cherish'd, kept alive.
I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom:
Tarry I here, I but attend on death:
But, fly I hence, I fly away from life.",1222,19622
664888,1283,[Enter PROTEUS and LAUNCE],1261,19622
664889,1284,"Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out.",925,19622
664890,1285,"Soho, soho!",655,19622
664891,1286,What seest thou?,925,19622
664892,1287,"Him we go to find: there's not a hair on's head
but 'tis a Valentine.",655,19622
664893,1289,Valentine?,925,19622
664894,1290,No.,1222,19622
664895,1291,Who then? his spirit?,925,19622
664896,1292,Neither.,1222,19622
664897,1293,What then?,925,19622
664898,1294,Nothing.,1222,19622
664899,1295,"Can nothing speak? Master, shall I strike?",655,19622
664900,1296,Who wouldst thou strike?,925,19622
664901,1297,Nothing.,655,19622
664902,1298,"Villain, forbear.",925,19622
664903,1299,"Why, sir, I'll strike nothing: I pray you,--",655,19622
664904,1300,"Sirrah, I say, forbear. Friend Valentine, a word.",925,19622
664905,1301,"My ears are stopt and cannot hear good news,
So much of bad already hath possess'd them.",1222,19622
664906,1303,"Then in dumb silence will I bury mine,
For they are harsh, untuneable and bad.",925,19622
664907,1305,Is Silvia dead?,1222,19622
664908,1306,"No, Valentine.",925,19622
664909,1307,"No Valentine, indeed, for sacred Silvia.
Hath she forsworn me?",1222,19622
664910,1309,"No, Valentine.",925,19622
664911,1310,"No Valentine, if Silvia have forsworn me.
What is your news?",1222,19622
664912,1312,"Sir, there is a proclamation that you are vanished.",655,19622
664913,1313,"That thou art banished--O, that's the news!--
From hence, from Silvia and from me thy friend.",925,19622
664914,1315,"O, I have fed upon this woe already,
And now excess of it will make me surfeit.
Doth Silvia know that I am banished?",1222,19622
664915,1318,"Ay, ay; and she hath offer'd to the doom--
Which, unreversed, stands in effectual force--
A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears:
Those at her father's churlish feet she tender'd;
With them, upon her knees, her humble self;
Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them
As if but now they waxed pale for woe:
But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,
Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,
Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire;
But Valentine, if he be ta'en, must die.
Besides, her intercession chafed him so,
When she for thy repeal was suppliant,
That to close prison he commanded her,
With many bitter threats of biding there.",925,19622
664916,1333,"No more; unless the next word that thou speak'st
Have some malignant power upon my life:
If so, I pray thee, breathe it in mine ear,
As ending anthem of my endless dolour.",1222,19622
664917,1337,"Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
And study help for that which thou lament'st.
Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.
Here if thou stay, thou canst not see thy love;
Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life.
Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that
And manage it against despairing thoughts.
Thy letters may be here, though thou art hence;
Which, being writ to me, shall be deliver'd
Even in the milk-white bosom of thy love.
The time now serves not to expostulate:
Come, I'll convey thee through the city-gate;
And, ere I part with thee, confer at large
Of all that may concern thy love-affairs.
As thou lovest Silvia, though not for thyself,
Regard thy danger, and along with me!",925,19622
664918,1353,"I pray thee, Launce, an if thou seest my boy,
Bid him make haste and meet me at the North-gate.",1222,19622
664919,1355,"Go, sirrah, find him out. Come, Valentine.",925,19622
664920,1356,O my dear Silvia! Hapless Valentine!,1222,19622
664921,1357,[Exeunt VALENTINE and PROTEUS],1261,19622
664922,1358,"I am but a fool, look you; and yet I have the wit to
think my master is a kind of a knave: but that's
all one, if he be but one knave. He lives not now
that knows me to be in love; yet I am in love; but a
team of horse shall not pluck that from me; nor who
'tis I love; and yet 'tis a woman; but what woman, I
will not tell myself; and yet 'tis a milkmaid; yet
'tis not a maid, for she hath had gossips; yet 'tis
a maid, for she is her master's maid, and serves for
wages. She hath more qualities than a water-spaniel;
which is much in a bare Christian.
[Pulling out a paper]
Here is the cate-log of her condition.
'Imprimis: She can fetch and carry.' Why, a horse
can do no more: nay, a horse cannot fetch, but only
carry; therefore is she better than a jade. 'Item:
She can milk;' look you, a sweet virtue in a maid
with clean hands.",655,19622
664923,1376,[Enter SPEED],1261,19622
664924,1377,"How now, Signior Launce! what news with your
mastership?",1144,19622
664925,1379,"With my master's ship? why, it is at sea.",655,19622
664926,1380,"Well, your old vice still; mistake the word. What
news, then, in your paper?",1144,19622
664927,1382,The blackest news that ever thou heardest.,655,19622
664928,1383,"Why, man, how black?",1144,19622
664929,1384,"Why, as black as ink.",655,19622
664930,1385,Let me read them.,1144,19622
664931,1386,"Fie on thee, jolt-head! thou canst not read.",655,19622
664932,1387,Thou liest; I can.,1144,19622
664933,1388,I will try thee. Tell me this: who begot thee?,655,19622
664934,1389,"Marry, the son of my grandfather.",1144,19622
664935,1390,"O illiterate loiterer! it was the son of thy
grandmother: this proves that thou canst not read.",655,19622
664936,1392,"Come, fool, come; try me in thy paper.",1144,19622
664937,1393,There; and St. Nicholas be thy speed!,655,19622
664938,1394,[Reads] 'Imprimis: She can milk.',1144,19622
664939,1395,"Ay, that she can.",655,19622
664940,1396,Item: She brews good ale.,1144,19622
664941,1397,"And thereof comes the proverb: 'Blessing of your
heart, you brew good ale.'",655,19622
664942,1399,Item: She can sew.,1144,19622
664943,1400,"That's as much as to say, Can she so?",655,19622
664944,1401,Item: She can knit.,1144,19622
664945,1402,"What need a man care for a stock with a wench, when
she can knit him a stock?",655,19622
664946,1404,Item: She can wash and scour.,1144,19622
664947,1405,"A special virtue: for then she need not be washed
and scoured.",655,19622
664948,1407,Item: She can spin.,1144,19622
664949,1408,"Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can
spin for her living.",655,19622
664950,1410,Item: She hath many nameless virtues.,1144,19622
664951,1411,"That's as much as to say, bastard virtues; that,
indeed, know not their fathers and therefore have no names.",655,19622
664952,1413,Here follow her vices.,1144,19622
664953,1414,Close at the heels of her virtues.,655,19622
664954,1415,"'Item: She is not to be kissed fasting in respect
of her breath.'",1144,19622
664955,1417,"Well, that fault may be mended with a breakfast. Read on.",655,19622
664956,1418,Item: She hath a sweet mouth.,1144,19622
664957,1419,That makes amends for her sour breath.,655,19622
664958,1420,Item: She doth talk in her sleep.,1144,19622
664959,1421,"It's no matter for that, so she sleep not in her talk.",655,19622
664960,1422,Item: She is slow in words.,1144,19622
664961,1423,"O villain, that set this down among her vices! To
be slow in words is a woman's only virtue: I pray
thee, out with't, and place it for her chief virtue.",655,19622
664962,1426,Item: She is proud.,1144,19622
664963,1427,"Out with that too; it was Eve's legacy, and cannot
be ta'en from her.",655,19622
664964,1429,Item: She hath no teeth.,1144,19622
664965,1430,"I care not for that neither, because I love crusts.",655,19622
664966,1431,Item: She is curst.,1144,19622
664967,1432,"Well, the best is, she hath no teeth to bite.",655,19622
664968,1433,Item: She will often praise her liquor.,1144,19622
664969,1434,"If her liquor be good, she shall: if she will not, I
will; for good things should be praised.",655,19622
664970,1436,Item: She is too liberal.,1144,19622
664971,1437,"Of her tongue she cannot, for that's writ down she
is slow of; of her purse she shall not, for that
I'll keep shut: now, of another thing she may, and
that cannot I help. Well, proceed.",655,19622
664972,1441,"'Item: She hath more hair than wit, and more faults
than hairs, and more wealth than faults.'",1144,19622
664973,1443,"Stop there; I'll have her: she was mine, and not
mine, twice or thrice in that last article.
Rehearse that once more.",655,19622
664974,1446,"'Item: She hath more hair than wit,'--",1144,19622
664975,1447,"More hair than wit? It may be; I'll prove it. The
cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it
is more than the salt; the hair that covers the wit
is more than the wit, for the greater hides the
less. What's next?",655,19622
664976,1452,"'And more faults than hairs,'--",1144,19622
664977,1453,"That's monstrous: O, that that were out!",655,19622
664978,1454,And more wealth than faults.,1144,19622
664979,1455,"Why, that word makes the faults gracious. Well,
I'll have her; and if it be a match, as nothing is
impossible,--",655,19622
664980,1458,What then?,1144,19622
664981,1459,"Why, then will I tell thee--that thy master stays
for thee at the North-gate.",655,19622
664982,1461,For me?,1144,19622
664983,1462,"For thee! ay, who art thou? he hath stayed for a
better man than thee.",655,19622
664984,1464,And must I go to him?,1144,19622
664985,1465,"Thou must run to him, for thou hast stayed so long
that going will scarce serve the turn.",655,19622
664986,1467,Why didst not tell me sooner? pox of your love letters!,1144,19622
664987,1468,[Exit],1261,19622
664988,1469,"Now will he be swinged for reading my letter; an
unmannerly slave, that will thrust himself into
secrets! I'll after, to rejoice in the boy's correction.",655,19622
664989,1472,[Exit],1261,19622
664990,1475,[Enter DUKE and THURIO],1261,19623
664991,1476,"Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you,
Now Valentine is banish'd from her sight.",348,19623
664992,1478,"Since his exile she hath despised me most,
Forsworn my company and rail'd at me,
That I am desperate of obtaining her.",1194,19623
664993,1481,"This weak impress of love is as a figure
Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat
Dissolves to water and doth lose his form.
A little time will melt her frozen thoughts
And worthless Valentine shall be forgot.
[Enter PROTEUS]
How now, Sir Proteus! Is your countryman
According to our proclamation gone?",348,19623
664994,1489,"Gone, my good lord.",925,19623
664995,1490,My daughter takes his going grievously.,348,19623
664996,1491,"A little time, my lord, will kill that grief.",925,19623
664997,1492,"So I believe; but Thurio thinks not so.
Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee--
For thou hast shown some sign of good desert--
Makes me the better to confer with thee.",348,19623
664998,1496,"Longer than I prove loyal to your grace
Let me not live to look upon your grace.",925,19623
664999,1498,"Thou know'st how willingly I would effect
The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter.",348,19623
665000,1500,"I do, my lord.",925,19623
665001,1501,"And also, I think, thou art not ignorant
How she opposes her against my will",348,19623
665002,1503,"She did, my lord, when Valentine was here.",925,19623
665003,1504,"Ay, and perversely she persevers so.
What might we do to make the girl forget
The love of Valentine and love Sir Thurio?",348,19623
665004,1507,"The best way is to slander Valentine
With falsehood, cowardice and poor descent,
Three things that women highly hold in hate.",925,19623
665005,1510,"Ay, but she'll think that it is spoke in hate.",348,19623
665006,1511,"Ay, if his enemy deliver it:
Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken
By one whom she esteemeth as his friend.",925,19623
665007,1514,Then you must undertake to slander him.,348,19623
665008,1515,"And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do:
'Tis an ill office for a gentleman,
Especially against his very friend.",925,19623
665009,1518,"Where your good word cannot advantage him,
Your slander never can endamage him;
Therefore the office is indifferent,
Being entreated to it by your friend.",348,19623
665010,1522,"You have prevail'd, my lord; if I can do it
By ought that I can speak in his dispraise,
She shall not long continue love to him.
But say this weed her love from Valentine,
It follows not that she will love Sir Thurio.",925,19623
665011,1527,"Therefore, as you unwind her love from him,
Lest it should ravel and be good to none,
You must provide to bottom it on me;
Which must be done by praising me as much
As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine.",1194,19623
665012,1532,"And, Proteus, we dare trust you in this kind,
Because we know, on Valentine's report,
You are already Love's firm votary
And cannot soon revolt and change your mind.
Upon this warrant shall you have access
Where you with Silvia may confer at large;
For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy,
And, for your friend's sake, will be glad of you;
Where you may temper her by your persuasion
To hate young Valentine and love my friend.",348,19623
665013,1542,"As much as I can do, I will effect:
But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough;
You must lay lime to tangle her desires
By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes
Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows.",925,19623
665014,1547,"Ay,
Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.",348,19623
665015,1549,"Say that upon the altar of her beauty
You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart:
Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears
Moist it again, and frame some feeling line
That may discover such integrity:
For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews,
Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
Make tigers tame and huge leviathans
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.
After your dire-lamenting elegies,
Visit by night your lady's chamber-window
With some sweet concert; to their instruments
Tune a deploring dump: the night's dead silence
Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance.
This, or else nothing, will inherit her.",925,19623
665016,1564,This discipline shows thou hast been in love.,348,19623
665017,1565,"And thy advice this night I'll put in practise.
Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver,
Let us into the city presently
To sort some gentlemen well skill'd in music.
I have a sonnet that will serve the turn
To give the onset to thy good advice.",1194,19623
665018,1571,"About it, gentlemen!",348,19623
665019,1572,"We'll wait upon your grace till after supper,
And afterward determine our proceedings.",925,19623
665020,1574,Even now about it! I will pardon you.,348,19623
665021,1575,[Exeunt],1261,19623
665022,1578,[Enter certain Outlaws],1261,19624
665023,1579,"Fellows, stand fast; I see a passenger.",449,19624
665024,1580,"If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em.",1018,19624
665025,1581,[Enter VALENTINE and SPEED],1261,19624
665026,1582,"Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye:
If not: we'll make you sit and rifle you.",1179,19624
665027,1584,"Sir, we are undone; these are the villains
That all the travellers do fear so much.",1144,19624
665028,1586,"My friends,--",1222,19624
665029,1587,"That's not so, sir: we are your enemies.",449,19624
665030,1588,Peace! we'll hear him.,1018,19624
665031,1589,"Ay, by my beard, will we, for he's a proper man.",1179,19624
665032,1590,"Then know that I have little wealth to lose:
A man I am cross'd with adversity;
My riches are these poor habiliments,
Of which if you should here disfurnish me,
You take the sum and substance that I have.",1222,19624
665033,1595,Whither travel you?,1018,19624
665034,1596,To Verona.,1222,19624
665035,1597,Whence came you?,449,19624
665036,1598,From Milan.,1222,19624
665037,1599,Have you long sojourned there?,1179,19624
665038,1600,"Some sixteen months, and longer might have stay'd,
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.",1222,19624
665039,1602,"What, were you banish'd thence?",449,19624
665040,1603,I was.,1222,19624
665041,1604,For what offence?,1018,19624
665042,1605,"For that which now torments me to rehearse:
I kill'd a man, whose death I much repent;
But yet I slew him manfully in fight,
Without false vantage or base treachery.",1222,19624
665043,1609,"Why, ne'er repent it, if it were done so.
But were you banish'd for so small a fault?",449,19624
665044,1611,"I was, and held me glad of such a doom.",1222,19624
665045,1612,Have you the tongues?,1018,19624
665046,1613,"My youthful travel therein made me happy,
Or else I often had been miserable.",1222,19624
665047,1615,"By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar,
This fellow were a king for our wild faction!",1179,19624
665048,1617,"We'll have him. Sirs, a word.",449,19624
665049,1618,"Master, be one of them; it's an honourable kind of thievery.",1144,19624
665050,1619,"Peace, villain!",1222,19624
665051,1620,Tell us this: have you any thing to take to?,1018,19624
665052,1621,Nothing but my fortune.,1222,19624
665053,1622,"Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen,
Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth
Thrust from the company of awful men:
Myself was from Verona banished
For practising to steal away a lady,
An heir, and near allied unto the duke.",1179,19624
665054,1628,"And I from Mantua, for a gentleman,
Who, in my mood, I stabb'd unto the heart.",1018,19624
665055,1630,"And I for such like petty crimes as these,
But to the purpose--for we cite our faults,
That they may hold excus'd our lawless lives;
And partly, seeing you are beautified
With goodly shape and by your own report
A linguist and a man of such perfection
As we do in our quality much want--",449,19624
665056,1637,"Indeed, because you are a banish'd man,
Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you:
Are you content to be our general?
To make a virtue of necessity
And live, as we do, in this wilderness?",1018,19624
665057,1642,"What say'st thou? wilt thou be of our consort?
Say ay, and be the captain of us all:
We'll do thee homage and be ruled by thee,
Love thee as our commander and our king.",1179,19624
665058,1646,"But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest.",449,19624
665059,1647,Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offer'd.,1018,19624
665060,1648,"I take your offer and will live with you,
Provided that you do no outrages
On silly women or poor passengers.",1222,19624
665061,1651,"No, we detest such vile base practises.
Come, go with us, we'll bring thee to our crews,
And show thee all the treasure we have got,
Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose.",1179,19624
665062,1655,[Exeunt],1261,19624
665063,1658,[Enter PROTEUS],1261,19625
665064,1659,"Already have I been false to Valentine
And now I must be as unjust to Thurio.
Under the colour of commending him,
I have access my own love to prefer:
But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy,
To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.
When I protest true loyalty to her,
She twits me with my falsehood to my friend;
When to her beauty I commend my vows,
She bids me think how I have been forsworn
In breaking faith with Julia whom I loved:
And notwithstanding all her sudden quips,
The least whereof would quell a lover's hope,
Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
The more it grows and fawneth on her still.
But here comes Thurio: now must we to her window,
And give some evening music to her ear.",925,19625
665065,1676,[Enter THURIO and Musicians],1261,19625
665066,1677,"How now, Sir Proteus, are you crept before us?",1194,19625
665067,1678,"Ay, gentle Thurio: for you know that love
Will creep in service where it cannot go.",925,19625
665068,1680,"Ay, but I hope, sir, that you love not here.",1194,19625
665069,1681,"Sir, but I do; or else I would be hence.",925,19625
665070,1682,Who? Silvia?,1194,19625
665071,1683,"Ay, Silvia; for your sake.",925,19625
665072,1684,"I thank you for your own. Now, gentlemen,
Let's tune, and to it lustily awhile.",1194,19625
665073,1686,"[Enter, at a distance, Host, and JULIA in boy's clothes]",1261,19625
665074,1687,"Now, my young guest, methinks you're allycholly: I
pray you, why is it?",591,19625
665075,1689,"Marry, mine host, because I cannot be merry.",621,19625
665076,1690,"Come, we'll have you merry: I'll bring you where
you shall hear music and see the gentleman that you asked for.",591,19625
665077,1692,But shall I hear him speak?,621,19625
665078,1693,"Ay, that you shall.",591,19625
665079,1694,That will be music.,621,19625
665080,1695,[Music plays],1261,19625
665081,1696,"Hark, hark!",591,19625
665082,1697,Is he among these?,621,19625
665083,1698,"Ay: but, peace! let's hear 'em.
SONG.
Who is Silvia? what is she,
That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair and wise is she;
The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admired be.
Is she kind as she is fair?
For beauty lives with kindness.
Love doth to her eyes repair,
To help him of his blindness,
And, being help'd, inhabits there.
Then to Silvia let us sing,
That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing
Upon the dull earth dwelling:
To her let us garlands bring.",591,19625
665084,1715,"How now! are you sadder than you were before? How
do you, man? the music likes you not.",591,19625
665085,1717,You mistake; the musician likes me not.,621,19625
665086,1718,"Why, my pretty youth?",591,19625
665087,1719,"He plays false, father.",621,19625
665088,1720,How? out of tune on the strings?,591,19625
665089,1721,"Not so; but yet so false that he grieves my very
heart-strings.",621,19625
665090,1723,You have a quick ear.,591,19625
665091,1724,"Ay, I would I were deaf; it makes me have a slow heart.",621,19625
665092,1725,I perceive you delight not in music.,591,19625
665093,1726,"Not a whit, when it jars so.",621,19625
665094,1727,"Hark, what fine change is in the music!",591,19625
665095,1728,"Ay, that change is the spite.",621,19625
665096,1729,You would have them always play but one thing?,591,19625
665097,1730,"I would always have one play but one thing.
But, host, doth this Sir Proteus that we talk on
Often resort unto this gentlewoman?",621,19625
665098,1733,"I tell you what Launce, his man, told me: he loved
her out of all nick.",591,19625
665099,1735,Where is Launce?,621,19625
665100,1736,"Gone to seek his dog; which tomorrow, by his
master's command, he must carry for a present to his lady.",591,19625
665101,1738,Peace! stand aside: the company parts.,621,19625
665102,1739,"Sir Thurio, fear not you: I will so plead
That you shall say my cunning drift excels.",925,19625
665103,1741,Where meet we?,1194,19625
665104,1742,At Saint Gregory's well.,925,19625
665105,1743,Farewell.,1194,19625
665106,1744,[Exeunt THURIO and Musicians],1261,19625
665107,1745,[Enter SILVIA above],1261,19625
665108,1746,"Madam, good even to your ladyship.",925,19625
665109,1747,"I thank you for your music, gentlemen.
Who is that that spake?",1094,19625
665110,1749,"One, lady, if you knew his pure heart's truth,
You would quickly learn to know him by his voice.",925,19625
665111,1751,"Sir Proteus, as I take it.",1094,19625
665112,1752,"Sir Proteus, gentle lady, and your servant.",925,19625
665113,1753,What's your will?,1094,19625
665114,1754,That I may compass yours.,925,19625
665115,1755,"You have your wish; my will is even this:
That presently you hie you home to bed.
Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man!
Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless,
To be seduced by thy flattery,
That hast deceived so many with thy vows?
Return, return, and make thy love amends.
For me, by this pale queen of night I swear,
I am so far from granting thy request
That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit,
And by and by intend to chide myself
Even for this time I spend in talking to thee.",1094,19625
665116,1767,"I grant, sweet love, that I did love a lady;
But she is dead.",925,19625
665117,1769,"[Aside] 'Twere false, if I should speak it;
For I am sure she is not buried.",621,19625
665118,1771,"Say that she be; yet Valentine thy friend
Survives; to whom, thyself art witness,
I am betroth'd: and art thou not ashamed
To wrong him with thy importunacy?",1094,19625
665119,1775,I likewise hear that Valentine is dead.,925,19625
665120,1776,"And so suppose am I; for in his grave
Assure thyself my love is buried.",1094,19625
665121,1778,"Sweet lady, let me rake it from the earth.",925,19625
665122,1779,"Go to thy lady's grave and call hers thence,
Or, at the least, in hers sepulchre thine.",1094,19625
665123,1781,[Aside] He heard not that.,621,19625
665124,1782,"Madam, if your heart be so obdurate,
Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love,
The picture that is hanging in your chamber;
To that I'll speak, to that I'll sigh and weep:
For since the substance of your perfect self
Is else devoted, I am but a shadow;
And to your shadow will I make true love.",925,19625
665125,1789,"[Aside] If 'twere a substance, you would, sure,
deceive it,
And make it but a shadow, as I am.",621,19625
665126,1792,"I am very loath to be your idol, sir;
But since your falsehood shall become you well
To worship shadows and adore false shapes,
Send to me in the morning and I'll send it:
And so, good rest.",1094,19625
665127,1797,"As wretches have o'ernight
That wait for execution in the morn.",925,19625
665128,1799,[Exeunt PROTEUS and SILVIA severally],1261,19625
665129,1800,"Host, will you go?",621,19625
665130,1801,"By my halidom, I was fast asleep.",591,19625
665131,1802,"Pray you, where lies Sir Proteus?",621,19625
665132,1803,"Marry, at my house. Trust me, I think 'tis almost
day.",591,19625
665133,1805,"Not so; but it hath been the longest night
That e'er I watch'd and the most heaviest.",621,19625
665134,1807,[Exeunt],1261,19625
665135,1810,[Enter EGLAMOUR],1261,19626
665136,1811,"This is the hour that Madam Silvia
Entreated me to call and know her mind:
There's some great matter she'ld employ me in.
Madam, madam!",374,19626
665137,1815,[Enter SILVIA above],1261,19626
665138,1816,Who calls?,1094,19626
665139,1817,"Your servant and your friend;
One that attends your ladyship's command.",374,19626
665140,1819,"Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good morrow.",1094,19626
665141,1820,"As many, worthy lady, to yourself:
According to your ladyship's impose,
I am thus early come to know what service
It is your pleasure to command me in.",374,19626
665142,1824,"O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman--
Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not--
Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd:
Thou art not ignorant what dear good will
I bear unto the banish'd Valentine,
Nor how my father would enforce me marry
Vain Thurio, whom my very soul abhors.
Thyself hast loved; and I have heard thee say
No grief did ever come so near thy heart
As when thy lady and thy true love died,
Upon whose grave thou vow'dst pure chastity.
Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine,
To Mantua, where I hear he makes abode;
And, for the ways are dangerous to pass,
I do desire thy worthy company,
Upon whose faith and honour I repose.
Urge not my father's anger, Eglamour,
But think upon my grief, a lady's grief,
And on the justice of my flying hence,
To keep me from a most unholy match,
Which heaven and fortune still rewards with plagues.
I do desire thee, even from a heart
As full of sorrows as the sea of sands,
To bear me company and go with me:
If not, to hide what I have said to thee,
That I may venture to depart alone.",1094,19626
665143,1850,"Madam, I pity much your grievances;
Which since I know they virtuously are placed,
I give consent to go along with you,
Recking as little what betideth me
As much I wish all good befortune you.
When will you go?",374,19626
665144,1856,This evening coming.,1094,19626
665145,1857,Where shall I meet you?,374,19626
665146,1858,"At Friar Patrick's cell,
Where I intend holy confession.",1094,19626
665147,1860,"I will not fail your ladyship. Good morrow, gentle lady.",374,19626
665148,1861,"Good morrow, kind Sir Eglamour.",1094,19626
665149,1862,[Exeunt severally],1261,19626
665150,1865,"[Enter LAUNCE, with his his Dog]",1261,19627
665151,1866,"When a man's servant shall play the cur with him,
look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up of a
puppy; one that I saved from drowning, when three or
four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it.
I have taught him, even as one would say precisely,
'thus I would teach a dog.' I was sent to deliver
him as a present to Mistress Silvia from my master;
and I came no sooner into the dining-chamber but he
steps me to her trencher and steals her capon's leg:
O, 'tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself
in all companies! I would have, as one should say,
one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be,
as it were, a dog at all things. If I had not had
more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did,
I think verily he had been hanged for't; sure as I
live, he had suffered for't; you shall judge. He
thrusts me himself into the company of three or four
gentlemanlike dogs under the duke's table: he had
not been there--bless the mark!--a pissing while, but
all the chamber smelt him. 'Out with the dog!' says
one: 'What cur is that?' says another: 'Whip him
out' says the third: 'Hang him up' says the duke.
I, having been acquainted with the smell before,
knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that
whips the dogs: 'Friend,' quoth I, 'you mean to whip
the dog?' 'Ay, marry, do I,' quoth he. 'You do him
the more wrong,' quoth I; ''twas I did the thing you
wot of.' He makes me no more ado, but whips me out
of the chamber. How many masters would do this for
his servant? Nay, I'll be sworn, I have sat in the
stocks for puddings he hath stolen, otherwise he had
been executed; I have stood on the pillory for geese
he hath killed, otherwise he had suffered for't.
Thou thinkest not of this now. Nay, I remember the
trick you served me when I took my leave of Madam
Silvia: did not I bid thee still mark me and do as I
do? when didst thou see me heave up my leg and make
water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? didst
thou ever see me do such a trick?",655,19627
665152,1905,[Enter PROTEUS and JULIA],1261,19627
665153,1906,"Sebastian is thy name? I like thee well
And will employ thee in some service presently.",925,19627
665154,1908,In what you please: I'll do what I can.,621,19627
665155,1909,"I hope thou wilt.
[To LAUNCE]
How now, you whoreson peasant!
Where have you been these two days loitering?",925,19627
665156,1913,"Marry, sir, I carried Mistress Silvia the dog you bade me.",655,19627
665157,1914,And what says she to my little jewel?,925,19627
665158,1915,"Marry, she says your dog was a cur, and tells you
currish thanks is good enough for such a present.",655,19627
665159,1917,But she received my dog?,925,19627
665160,1918,"No, indeed, did she not: here have I brought him
back again.",655,19627
665161,1920,"What, didst thou offer her this from me?",925,19627
665162,1921,"Ay, sir: the other squirrel was stolen from me by
the hangman boys in the market-place: and then I
offered her mine own, who is a dog as big as ten of
yours, and therefore the gift the greater.",655,19627
665163,1925,"Go get thee hence, and find my dog again,
Or ne'er return again into my sight.
Away, I say! stay'st thou to vex me here?
[Exit LAUNCE]
A slave, that still an end turns me to shame!
Sebastian, I have entertained thee,
Partly that I have need of such a youth
That can with some discretion do my business,
For 'tis no trusting to yond foolish lout,
But chiefly for thy face and thy behavior,
Which, if my augury deceive me not,
Witness good bringing up, fortune and truth:
Therefore know thou, for this I entertain thee.
Go presently and take this ring with thee,
Deliver it to Madam Silvia:
She loved me well deliver'd it to me.",925,19627
665164,1941,"It seems you loved not her, to leave her token.
She is dead, belike?",621,19627
665165,1943,Not so; I think she lives.,925,19627
665166,1944,Alas!,621,19627
665167,1945,Why dost thou cry 'alas'?,925,19627
665168,1946,"I cannot choose
But pity her.",621,19627
665169,1948,Wherefore shouldst thou pity her?,925,19627
665170,1949,"Because methinks that she loved you as well
As you do love your lady Silvia:
She dreams of him that has forgot her love;
You dote on her that cares not for your love.
'Tis pity love should be so contrary;
And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!'",621,19627
665171,1955,"Well, give her that ring and therewithal
This letter. That's her chamber. Tell my lady
I claim the promise for her heavenly picture.
Your message done, hie home unto my chamber,
Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary.",925,19627
665172,1960,[Exit],1261,19627
665173,1961,"How many women would do such a message?
Alas, poor Proteus! thou hast entertain'd
A fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs.
Alas, poor fool! why do I pity him
That with his very heart despiseth me?
Because he loves her, he despiseth me;
Because I love him I must pity him.
This ring I gave him when he parted from me,
To bind him to remember my good will;
And now am I, unhappy messenger,
To plead for that which I would not obtain,
To carry that which I would have refused,
To praise his faith which I would have dispraised.
I am my master's true-confirmed love;
But cannot be true servant to my master,
Unless I prove false traitor to myself.
Yet will I woo for him, but yet so coldly
As, heaven it knows, I would not have him speed.
[Enter SILVIA, attended]
Gentlewoman, good day! I pray you, be my mean
To bring me where to speak with Madam Silvia.",621,19627
665174,1982,"What would you with her, if that I be she?",1094,19627
665175,1983,"If you be she, I do entreat your patience
To hear me speak the message I am sent on.",621,19627
665176,1985,From whom?,1094,19627
665177,1986,"From my master, Sir Proteus, madam.",621,19627
665178,1987,"O, he sends you for a picture.",1094,19627
665179,1988,"Ay, madam.",621,19627
665180,1989,"Ursula, bring my picture here.
Go give your master this: tell him from me,
One Julia, that his changing thoughts forget,
Would better fit his chamber than this shadow.",1094,19627
665181,1993,"Madam, please you peruse this letter.--
Pardon me, madam; I have unadvised
Deliver'd you a paper that I should not:
This is the letter to your ladyship.",621,19627
665182,1997,"I pray thee, let me look on that again.",1094,19627
665183,1998,"It may not be; good madam, pardon me.",621,19627
665184,1999,"There, hold!
I will not look upon your master's lines:
I know they are stuff'd with protestations
And full of new-found oaths; which he will break
As easily as I do tear his paper.",1094,19627
665185,2004,"Madam, he sends your ladyship this ring.",621,19627
665186,2005,"The more shame for him that he sends it me;
For I have heard him say a thousand times
His Julia gave it him at his departure.
Though his false finger have profaned the ring,
Mine shall not do his Julia so much wrong.",1094,19627
665187,2010,She thanks you.,621,19627
665188,2011,What say'st thou?,1094,19627
665189,2012,"I thank you, madam, that you tender her.
Poor gentlewoman! my master wrongs her much.",621,19627
665190,2014,Dost thou know her?,1094,19627
665191,2015,"Almost as well as I do know myself:
To think upon her woes I do protest
That I have wept a hundred several times.",621,19627
665192,2018,Belike she thinks that Proteus hath forsook her.,1094,19627
665193,2019,I think she doth; and that's her cause of sorrow.,621,19627
665194,2020,Is she not passing fair?,1094,19627
665195,2021,"She hath been fairer, madam, than she is:
When she did think my master loved her well,
She, in my judgment, was as fair as you:
But since she did neglect her looking-glass
And threw her sun-expelling mask away,
The air hath starved the roses in her cheeks
And pinch'd the lily-tincture of her face,
That now she is become as black as I.",621,19627
665196,2029,How tall was she?,1094,19627
665197,2030,"About my stature; for at Pentecost,
When all our pageants of delight were play'd,
Our youth got me to play the woman's part,
And I was trimm'd in Madam Julia's gown,
Which served me as fit, by all men's judgments,
As if the garment had been made for me:
Therefore I know she is about my height.
And at that time I made her weep agood,
For I did play a lamentable part:
Madam, 'twas Ariadne passioning
For Theseus' perjury and unjust flight;
Which I so lively acted with my tears
That my poor mistress, moved therewithal,
Wept bitterly; and would I might be dead
If I in thought felt not her very sorrow!",621,19627
665198,2045,"She is beholding to thee, gentle youth.
Alas, poor lady, desolate and left!
I weep myself to think upon thy words.
Here, youth, there is my purse; I give thee this
For thy sweet mistress' sake, because thou lovest her.
Farewell.",1094,19627
665199,2051,"[Exit SILVIA, with attendants]",1261,19627
665200,2052,"And she shall thank you for't, if e'er you know her.
A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful
I hope my master's suit will be but cold,
Since she respects my mistress' love so much.
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
Here is her picture: let me see; I think,
If I had such a tire, this face of mine
Were full as lovely as is this of hers:
And yet the painter flatter'd her a little,
Unless I flatter with myself too much.
Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow:
If that be all the difference in his love,
I'll get me such a colour'd periwig.
Her eyes are grey as glass, and so are mine:
Ay, but her forehead's low, and mine's as high.
What should it be that he respects in her
But I can make respective in myself,
If this fond Love were not a blinded god?
Come, shadow, come and take this shadow up,
For 'tis thy rival. O thou senseless form,
Thou shalt be worshipp'd, kiss'd, loved and adored!
And, were there sense in his idolatry,
My substance should be statue in thy stead.
I'll use thee kindly for thy mistress' sake,
That used me so; or else, by Jove I vow,
I should have scratch'd out your unseeing eyes
To make my master out of love with thee!",621,19627
665201,2079,[Exit],1261,19627
665202,2082,[Enter EGLAMOUR],1261,19628
665203,2083,"The sun begins to gild the western sky;
And now it is about the very hour
That Silvia, at Friar Patrick's cell, should meet me.
She will not fail, for lovers break not hours,
Unless it be to come before their time;
So much they spur their expedition.
See where she comes.
[Enter SILVIA]
Lady, a happy evening!",374,19628
665204,2092,"Amen, amen! Go on, good Eglamour,
Out at the postern by the abbey-wall:
I fear I am attended by some spies.",1094,19628
665205,2095,"Fear not: the forest is not three leagues off;
If we recover that, we are sure enough.",374,19628
665206,2097,[Exeunt],1261,19628
665207,2100,"[Enter THURIO, PROTEUS, and JULIA]",1261,19629
665208,2101,"Sir Proteus, what says Silvia to my suit?",1194,19629
665209,2102,"O, sir, I find her milder than she was;
And yet she takes exceptions at your person.",925,19629
665210,2104,"What, that my leg is too long?",1194,19629
665211,2105,No; that it is too little.,925,19629
665212,2106,"I'll wear a boot, to make it somewhat rounder.",1194,19629
665213,2107,"[Aside] But love will not be spurr'd to what
it loathes.",621,19629
665214,2109,What says she to my face?,1194,19629
665215,2110,She says it is a fair one.,925,19629
665216,2111,"Nay then, the wanton lies; my face is black.",1194,19629
665217,2112,"But pearls are fair; and the old saying is,
Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.",925,19629
665218,2114,"[Aside] 'Tis true; such pearls as put out
ladies' eyes;
For I had rather wink than look on them.",621,19629
665219,2117,How likes she my discourse?,1194,19629
665220,2118,"Ill, when you talk of war.",925,19629
665221,2119,"But well, when I discourse of love and peace?",1194,19629
665222,2120,"[Aside] But better, indeed, when you hold your peace.",621,19629
665223,2121,What says she to my valour?,1194,19629
665224,2122,"O, sir, she makes no doubt of that.",925,19629
665225,2123,"[Aside] She needs not, when she knows it cowardice.",621,19629
665226,2124,What says she to my birth?,1194,19629
665227,2125,That you are well derived.,925,19629
665228,2126,[Aside] True; from a gentleman to a fool.,621,19629
665229,2127,Considers she my possessions?,1194,19629
665230,2128,"O, ay; and pities them.",925,19629
665231,2129,Wherefore?,1194,19629
665232,2130,[Aside] That such an ass should owe them.,621,19629
665233,2131,That they are out by lease.,925,19629
665234,2132,Here comes the duke.,621,19629
665235,2133,[Enter DUKE],1261,19629
665236,2134,"How now, Sir Proteus! how now, Thurio!
Which of you saw Sir Eglamour of late?",348,19629
665237,2136,Not I.,1194,19629
665238,2137,Nor I.,925,19629
665239,2138,Saw you my daughter?,348,19629
665240,2139,Neither.,925,19629
665241,2140,"Why then,
She's fled unto that peasant Valentine;
And Eglamour is in her company.
'Tis true; for Friar Laurence met them both,
As he in penance wander'd through the forest;
Him he knew well, and guess'd that it was she,
But, being mask'd, he was not sure of it;
Besides, she did intend confession
At Patrick's cell this even; and there she was not;
These likelihoods confirm her flight from hence.
Therefore, I pray you, stand not to discourse,
But mount you presently and meet with me
Upon the rising of the mountain-foot
That leads towards Mantua, whither they are fled:
Dispatch, sweet gentlemen, and follow me.",348,19629
665242,2155,[Exit],1261,19629
665243,2156,"Why, this it is to be a peevish girl,
That flies her fortune when it follows her.
I'll after, more to be revenged on Eglamour
Than for the love of reckless Silvia.",1194,19629
665244,2160,[Exit],1261,19629
665245,2161,"And I will follow, more for Silvia's love
Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her.",925,19629
665246,2163,[Exit],1261,19629
665247,2164,"And I will follow, more to cross that love
Than hate for Silvia that is gone for love.",621,19629
665248,2166,[Exit],1261,19629
665249,2169,[Enter Outlaws with SILVIA],1261,19630
665250,2170,"Come, come,
Be patient; we must bring you to our captain.",449,19630
665251,2172,"A thousand more mischances than this one
Have learn'd me how to brook this patiently.",1094,19630
665252,2174,"Come, bring her away.",1018,19630
665253,2175,Where is the gentleman that was with her?,449,19630
665254,2176,"Being nimble-footed, he hath outrun us,
But Moyses and Valerius follow him.
Go thou with her to the west end of the wood;
There is our captain: we'll follow him that's fled;
The thicket is beset; he cannot 'scape.",1179,19630
665255,2181,"Come, I must bring you to our captain's cave:
Fear not; he bears an honourable mind,
And will not use a woman lawlessly.",449,19630
665256,2184,"O Valentine, this I endure for thee!",1094,19630
665257,2185,[Exeunt],1261,19630
665258,2188,[Enter VALENTINE],1261,19631
665259,2189,"How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns:
Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,
And to the nightingale's complaining notes
Tune my distresses and record my woes.
O thou that dost inhabit in my breast,
Leave not the mansion so long tenantless,
Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall
And leave no memory of what it was!
Repair me with thy presence, Silvia;
Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain!
What halloing and what stir is this to-day?
These are my mates, that make their wills their law,
Have some unhappy passenger in chase.
They love me well; yet I have much to do
To keep them from uncivil outrages.
Withdraw thee, Valentine: who's this comes here?",1222,19631
665260,2207,"[Enter PROTEUS, SILVIA, and JULIA]",1261,19631
665261,2208,"Madam, this service I have done for you,
Though you respect not aught your servant doth,
To hazard life and rescue you from him
That would have forced your honour and your love;
Vouchsafe me, for my meed, but one fair look;
A smaller boon than this I cannot beg
And less than this, I am sure, you cannot give.",925,19631
665262,2215,"[Aside] How like a dream is this I see and hear!
Love, lend me patience to forbear awhile.",1222,19631
665263,2217,"O miserable, unhappy that I am!",1094,19631
665264,2218,"Unhappy were you, madam, ere I came;
But by my coming I have made you happy.",925,19631
665265,2220,By thy approach thou makest me most unhappy.,1094,19631
665266,2221,"[Aside] And me, when he approacheth to your presence.",621,19631
665267,2222,"Had I been seized by a hungry lion,
I would have been a breakfast to the beast,
Rather than have false Proteus rescue me.
O, Heaven be judge how I love Valentine,
Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!
And full as much, for more there cannot be,
I do detest false perjured Proteus.
Therefore be gone; solicit me no more.",1094,19631
665268,2230,"What dangerous action, stood it next to death,
Would I not undergo for one calm look!
O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approved,
When women cannot love where they're beloved!",925,19631
665269,2234,"When Proteus cannot love where he's beloved.
Read over Julia's heart, thy first best love,
For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy faith
Into a thousand oaths; and all those oaths
Descended into perjury, to love me.
Thou hast no faith left now, unless thou'dst two;
And that's far worse than none; better have none
Than plural faith which is too much by one:
Thou counterfeit to thy true friend!",1094,19631
665270,2243,"In love
Who respects friend?",925,19631
665271,2245,All men but Proteus.,1094,19631
665272,2246,"Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words
Can no way change you to a milder form,
I'll woo you like a soldier, at arms' end,
And love you 'gainst the nature of love,--force ye.",925,19631
665273,2250,O heaven!,1094,19631
665274,2251,I'll force thee yield to my desire.,925,19631
665275,2252,"Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil touch,
Thou friend of an ill fashion!",1222,19631
665276,2254,Valentine!,925,19631
665277,2255,"Thou common friend, that's without faith or love,
For such is a friend now; treacherous man!
Thou hast beguiled my hopes; nought but mine eye
Could have persuaded me: now I dare not say
I have one friend alive; thou wouldst disprove me.
Who should be trusted, when one's own right hand
Is perjured to the bosom? Proteus,
I am sorry I must never trust thee more,
But count the world a stranger for thy sake.
The private wound is deepest: O time most accurst,
'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!",1222,19631
665278,2266,"My shame and guilt confounds me.
Forgive me, Valentine: if hearty sorrow
Be a sufficient ransom for offence,
I tender 't here; I do as truly suffer
As e'er I did commit.",925,19631
665279,2271,"Then I am paid;
And once again I do receive thee honest.
Who by repentance is not satisfied
Is nor of heaven nor earth, for these are pleased.
By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeased:
And, that my love may appear plain and free,
All that was mine in Silvia I give thee.",1222,19631
665280,2278,O me unhappy!,621,19631
665281,2279,[Swoons],1261,19631
665282,2280,Look to the boy.,925,19631
665283,2281,"Why, boy! why, wag! how now! what's the matter?
Look up; speak.",1222,19631
665284,2283,"O good sir, my master charged me to deliver a ring
to Madam Silvia, which, out of my neglect, was never done.",621,19631
665285,2285,"Where is that ring, boy?",925,19631
665286,2286,Here 'tis; this is it.,621,19631
665287,2287,"How! let me see:
Why, this is the ring I gave to Julia.",925,19631
665288,2289,"O, cry you mercy, sir, I have mistook:
This is the ring you sent to Silvia.",621,19631
665289,2291,"But how camest thou by this ring? At my depart
I gave this unto Julia.",925,19631
665290,2293,"And Julia herself did give it me;
And Julia herself hath brought it hither.",621,19631
665291,2295,How! Julia!,925,19631
665292,2296,"Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths,
And entertain'd 'em deeply in her heart.
How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root!
O Proteus, let this habit make thee blush!
Be thou ashamed that I have took upon me
Such an immodest raiment, if shame live
In a disguise of love:
It is the lesser blot, modesty finds,
Women to change their shapes than men their minds.",621,19631
665293,2305,"Than men their minds! 'tis true.
O heaven! were man
But constant, he were perfect. That one error
Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins:
Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.
What is in Silvia's face, but I may spy
More fresh in Julia's with a constant eye?",925,19631
665294,2312,"Come, come, a hand from either:
Let me be blest to make this happy close;
'Twere pity two such friends should be long foes.",1222,19631
665295,2315,"Bear witness, Heaven, I have my wish for ever.",925,19631
665296,2316,And I mine.,621,19631
665297,2317,"[Enter Outlaws, with DUKE and THURIO]",1261,19631
665298,2318,"A prize, a prize, a prize!",845,19631
665299,2319,"Forbear, forbear, I say! it is my lord the duke.
Your grace is welcome to a man disgraced,
Banished Valentine.",1222,19631
665300,2322,Sir Valentine!,348,19631
665301,2323,Yonder is Silvia; and Silvia's mine.,1194,19631
665302,2324,"Thurio, give back, or else embrace thy death;
Come not within the measure of my wrath;
Do not name Silvia thine; if once again,
Verona shall not hold thee. Here she stands;
Take but possession of her with a touch:
I dare thee but to breathe upon my love.",1222,19631
665303,2330,"Sir Valentine, I care not for her, I;
I hold him but a fool that will endanger
His body for a girl that loves him not:
I claim her not, and therefore she is thine.",1194,19631
665304,2334,"The more degenerate and base art thou,
To make such means for her as thou hast done
And leave her on such slight conditions.
Now, by the honour of my ancestry,
I do applaud thy spirit, Valentine,
And think thee worthy of an empress' love:
Know then, I here forget all former griefs,
Cancel all grudge, repeal thee home again,
Plead a new state in thy unrivall'd merit,
To which I thus subscribe: Sir Valentine,
Thou art a gentleman and well derived;
Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserved her.",348,19631
665305,2346,"I thank your grace; the gift hath made me happy.
I now beseech you, for your daughter's sake,
To grant one boom that I shall ask of you.",1222,19631
665306,2349,"I grant it, for thine own, whate'er it be.",348,19631
665307,2350,"These banish'd men that I have kept withal
Are men endued with worthy qualities:
Forgive them what they have committed here
And let them be recall'd from their exile:
They are reformed, civil, full of good
And fit for great employment, worthy lord.",1222,19631
665308,2356,"Thou hast prevail'd; I pardon them and thee:
Dispose of them as thou know'st their deserts.
Come, let us go: we will include all jars
With triumphs, mirth and rare solemnity.",348,19631
665309,2360,"And, as we walk along, I dare be bold
With our discourse to make your grace to smile.
What think you of this page, my lord?",1222,19631
665310,2363,I think the boy hath grace in him; he blushes.,348,19631
665311,2364,"I warrant you, my lord, more grace than boy.",1222,19631
665312,2365,What mean you by that saying?,348,19631
665313,2366,"Please you, I'll tell you as we pass along,
That you will wonder what hath fortuned.
Come, Proteus; 'tis your penance but to hear
The story of your loves discovered:
That done, our day of marriage shall be yours;
One feast, one house, one mutual happiness.",1222,19631
665314,2372,[Exeunt],1261,19631
665315,3,"'Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo
Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.'",894,19632
665316,5,"TO THE
RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,
EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TICHFIELD.",894,19632
665317,8,"RIGHT HONORABLE,
I KNOW not how I shall offend in dedicating my
unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will
censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a
burden only, if your honour seem but pleased, I account
myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle
hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour. But if
the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be
sorry it had so noble a god-father, and never after ear so
barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest.
I leave it to your honourable survey, and your honour to your
heart's content; which I wish may always answer your own wish
and the world's hopeful expectation.",894,19632
665318,21,"Your honour's in all duty,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Poet. Even as the sun with purple-colour'd face
Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn,
Rose-cheek'd Adonis hied him to the chase;
Hunting he loved, but love he laugh'd to scorn;
Sick-thoughted Venus makes amain unto him,
And like a bold-faced suitor 'gins to woo him.",894,19632
665319,30,"'Thrice-fairer than myself,' thus she began,
'The field's chief flower, sweet above compare,
Stain to all nymphs, more lovely than a man,
More white and red than doves or roses are;
Nature that made thee, with herself at strife,
Saith that the world hath ending with thy life.",894,19633
665320,36,"'Vouchsafe, thou wonder, to alight thy steed,
And rein his proud head to the saddle-bow;
If thou wilt deign this favour, for thy meed
A thousand honey secrets shalt thou know:
Here come and sit, where never serpent hisses,
And being set, I'll smother thee with kisses;",894,19633
665321,42,"'And yet not cloy thy lips with loathed satiety,
But rather famish them amid their plenty,
Making them red and pale with fresh variety,
Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty:
A summer's day will seem an hour but short,
Being wasted in such time-beguiling sport.'",894,19633
665322,48,"With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,
The precedent of pith and livelihood,
And trembling in her passion, calls it balm,
Earth's sovereign salve to do a goddess good:
Being so enraged, desire doth lend her force
Courageously to pluck him from his horse.",894,19633
665323,54,"Over one arm the lusty courser's rein,
Under her other was the tender boy,
Who blush'd and pouted in a dull disdain,
With leaden appetite, unapt to toy;
She red and hot as coals of glowing fire,
He red for shame, but frosty in desire.",894,19633
665324,60,"The studded bridle on a ragged bough
Nimbly she fastens:--O, how quick is love!--
The steed is stalled up, and even now
To tie the rider she begins to prove:
Backward she push'd him, as she would be thrust,
And govern'd him in strength, though not in lust.",894,19633
665325,66,"So soon was she along as he was down,
Each leaning on their elbows and their hips:
Now doth she stroke his cheek, now doth he frown,
And 'gins to chide, but soon she stops his lips;
And kissing speaks, with lustful language broken,
'If thou wilt chide, thy lips shall never open.'",894,19633
665326,72,"He burns with bashful shame: she with her tears
Doth quench the maiden burning of his cheeks;
Then with her windy sighs and golden hairs
To fan and blow them dry again she seeks:
He saith she is immodest, blames her 'miss;
What follows more she murders with a kiss.",894,19633
665327,78,"Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast,
Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh and bone,
Shaking her wings, devouring all in haste,
Till either gorge be stuff'd or prey be gone;
Even so she kissed his brow, his cheek, his chin,
And where she ends she doth anew begin.",894,19633
665328,84,"Forced to content, but never to obey,
Panting he lies and breatheth in her face;
She feedeth on the steam as on a prey,
And calls it heavenly moisture, air of grace;
Wishing her cheeks were gardens full of flowers,
So they were dew'd with such distilling showers.",894,19633
665329,90,"Look, how a bird lies tangled in a net,
So fasten'd in her arms Adonis lies;
Pure shame and awed resistance made him fret,
Which bred more beauty in his angry eyes:
Rain added to a river that is rank
Perforce will force it overflow the bank.",894,19633
665330,96,"Still she entreats, and prettily entreats,
For to a pretty ear she tunes her tale;
Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets,
'Twixt crimson shame and anger ashy-pale:
Being red, she loves him best; and being white,
Her best is better'd with a more delight.",894,19633
665331,102,"Look how he can, she cannot choose but love;
And by her fair immortal hand she swears,
From his soft bosom never to remove,
Till he take truce with her contending tears,
Which long have rain'd, making her cheeks all wet;
And one sweet kiss shall pay this countless debt.",894,19633
665332,108,"Upon this promise did he raise his chin,
Like a dive-dapper peering through a wave,
Who, being look'd on, ducks as quickly in;
So offers he to give what she did crave;
But when her lips were ready for his pay,
He winks, and turns his lips another way.",894,19633
665333,114,"Never did passenger in summer's heat
More thirst for drink than she for this good turn.
Her help she sees, but help she cannot get;
She bathes in water, yet her fire must burn:
'O, pity,' 'gan she cry, 'flint-hearted boy!
'Tis but a kiss I beg; why art thou coy?",894,19633
665334,120,"'I have been woo'd, as I entreat thee now,
Even by the stern and direful god of war,
Whose sinewy neck in battle ne'er did bow,
Who conquers where he comes in every jar;
Yet hath he been my captive and my slave,
And begg'd for that which thou unask'd shalt have.",894,19633
665335,126,"'Over my altars hath he hung his lance,
His batter'd shield, his uncontrolled crest,
And for my sake hath learn'd to sport and dance,
To toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest,
Scorning his churlish drum and ensign red,
Making my arms his field, his tent my bed.",894,19633
665336,132,"'Thus he that overruled I oversway'd,
Leading him prisoner in a red-rose chain:
Strong-tempered steel his stronger strength obey'd,
Yet was he servile to my coy disdain.
O, be not proud, nor brag not of thy might,
For mastering her that foil'd the god of fight!",894,19633
665337,138,"'Touch but my lips with those fair lips of thine,--
Though mine be not so fair, yet are they red--
The kiss shall be thine own as well as mine.
What seest thou in the ground? hold up thy head:
Look in mine eye-balls, there thy beauty lies;
Then why not lips on lips, since eyes in eyes?
'Art thou ashamed to kiss? then wink again,
And I will wink; so shall the day seem night;
Love keeps his revels where they are but twain;
Be bold to play, our sport is not in sight:
These blue-vein'd violets whereon we lean
Never can blab, nor know not what we mean.",894,19633
665338,150,"'The tender spring upon thy tempting lip
Shows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted:
Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
Beauty within itself should not be wasted:
Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
Rot and consume themselves in little time.",894,19633
665339,156,"'Were I hard-favour'd, foul, or wrinkled-old,
Ill-nurtured, crooked, churlish, harsh in voice,
O'erworn, despised, rheumatic and cold,
Thick-sighted, barren, lean and lacking juice,
Then mightst thou pause, for then I were not for thee
But having no defects, why dost abhor me?",894,19633
665340,162,"'Thou canst not see one wrinkle in my brow;
Mine eyes are gray and bright and quick in turning:
My beauty as the spring doth yearly grow,
My flesh is soft and plump, my marrow burning;
My smooth moist hand, were it with thy hand felt,
Would in thy palm dissolve, or seem to melt.",894,19633
665341,168,"'Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear,
Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green,
Or, like a nymph, with long dishevell'd hair,
Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen:
Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.",894,19633
665342,174,"'Witness this primrose bank whereon I lie;
These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me;
Two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky,
From morn till night, even where I list to sport me:
Is love so light, sweet boy, and may it be
That thou shouldst think it heavy unto thee?",894,19633
665343,180,"'Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?
Can thy right hand seize love upon thy left?
Then woo thyself, be of thyself rejected,
Steal thine own freedom and complain on theft.
Narcissus so himself himself forsook,
And died to kiss his shadow in the brook.",894,19633
665344,186,"'Torches are made to light, jewels to wear,
Dainties to taste, fresh beauty for the use,
Herbs for their smell, and sappy plants to bear:
Things growing to themselves are growth's abuse:
Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty;
Thou wast begot; to get it is thy duty.",894,19633
665345,192,"'Upon the earth's increase why shouldst thou feed,
Unless the earth with thy increase be fed?
By law of nature thou art bound to breed,
That thine may live when thou thyself art dead;
And so, in spite of death, thou dost survive,
In that thy likeness still is left alive.'",894,19633
665346,198,"By this the love-sick queen began to sweat,
For where they lay the shadow had forsook them,
And Titan, tired in the mid-day heat,
With burning eye did hotly overlook them;
Wishing Adonis had his team to guide,
So he were like him and by Venus' side.",894,19633
665347,204,"And now Adonis, with a lazy spright,
And with a heavy, dark, disliking eye,
His louring brows o'erwhelming his fair sight,
Like misty vapours when they blot the sky,
Souring his cheeks cries 'Fie, no more of love!
The sun doth burn my face: I must remove.'",894,19633
665348,210,"'Ay me,' quoth Venus, 'young, and so unkind?
What bare excuses makest thou to be gone!
I'll sigh celestial breath, whose gentle wind
Shall cool the heat of this descending sun:
I'll make a shadow for thee of my hairs;
If they burn too, I'll quench them with my tears.",894,19633
665349,216,"'The sun that shines from heaven shines but warm,
And, lo, I lie between that sun and thee:
The heat I have from thence doth little harm,
Thine eye darts forth the fire that burneth me;
And were I not immortal, life were done
Between this heavenly and earthly sun.",894,19633
665350,222,"'Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel,
Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
Art thou a woman's son, and canst not feel
What 'tis to love? how want of love tormenteth?
O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind,
She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind.",894,19633
665351,228,"'What am I, that thou shouldst contemn me this?
Or what great danger dwells upon my suit?
What were thy lips the worse for one poor kiss?
Speak, fair; but speak fair words, or else be mute:
Give me one kiss, I'll give it thee again,
And one for interest, if thou wilt have twain.",894,19633
665352,234,"'Fie, lifeless picture, cold and senseless stone,
Well-painted idol, image dun and dead,
Statue contenting but the eye alone,
Thing like a man, but of no woman bred!
Thou art no man, though of a man's complexion,
For men will kiss even by their own direction.'",894,19633
665353,240,"This said, impatience chokes her pleading tongue,
And swelling passion doth provoke a pause;
Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth he wrong;
Being judge in love, she cannot right her cause:
And now she weeps, and now she fain would speak,
And now her sobs do her intendments break.",894,19633
665354,246,"Sometimes she shakes her head and then his hand,
Now gazeth she on him, now on the ground;
Sometimes her arms infold him like a band:
She would, he will not in her arms be bound;
And when from thence he struggles to be gone,
She locks her lily fingers one in one.",894,19633
665355,252,"'Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here
Within the circuit of this ivory pale,
I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer;
Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale:
Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry,
Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.",894,19633
665356,258,"Within this limit is relief enough,
Sweet bottom-grass and high delightful plain,
Round rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough,
To shelter thee from tempest and from rain
Then be my deer, since I am such a park;
No dog shall rouse thee, though a thousand bark.'",894,19633
665357,264,"At this Adonis smiles as in disdain,
That in each cheek appears a pretty dimple:
Love made those hollows, if himself were slain,
He might be buried in a tomb so simple;
Foreknowing well, if there he came to lie,
Why, there Love lived and there he could not die.",894,19633
665358,270,"These lovely caves, these round enchanting pits,
Open'd their mouths to swallow Venus' liking.
Being mad before, how doth she now for wits?
Struck dead at first, what needs a second striking?
Poor queen of love, in thine own law forlorn,
To love a cheek that smiles at thee in scorn!",894,19633
665359,276,"Now which way shall she turn? what shall she say?
Her words are done, her woes are more increasing;
The time is spent, her object will away,
And from her twining arms doth urge releasing.
'Pity,' she cries, 'some favour, some remorse!'
Away he springs and hasteth to his horse.",894,19633
665360,282,"But, lo, from forth a copse that neighbors by,
A breeding jennet, lusty, young and proud,
Adonis' trampling courser doth espy,
And forth she rushes, snorts and neighs aloud:
The strong-neck'd steed, being tied unto a tree,
Breaketh his rein, and to her straight goes he.",894,19633
665361,288,"Imperiously he leaps, he neighs, he bounds,
And now his woven girths he breaks asunder;
The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds,
Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven's thunder;
The iron bit he crusheth 'tween his teeth,
Controlling what he was controlled with.",894,19633
665362,294,"His ears up-prick'd; his braided hanging mane
Upon his compass'd crest now stand on end;
His nostrils drink the air, and forth again,
As from a furnace, vapours doth he send:
His eye, which scornfully glisters like fire,
Shows his hot courage and his high desire.",894,19633
665363,300,"Sometime he trots, as if he told the steps,
With gentle majesty and modest pride;
Anon he rears upright, curvets and leaps,
As who should say 'Lo, thus my strength is tried,
And this I do to captivate the eye
Of the fair breeder that is standing by.'",894,19633
665364,306,"What recketh he his rider's angry stir,
His flattering 'Holla,' or his 'Stand, I say'?
What cares he now for curb or pricking spur?
For rich caparisons or trapping gay?
He sees his love, and nothing else he sees,
For nothing else with his proud sight agrees.",894,19633
665365,312,"Look, when a painter would surpass the life,
In limning out a well-proportion'd steed,
His art with nature's workmanship at strife,
As if the dead the living should exceed;
So did this horse excel a common one
In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone.",894,19633
665366,318,"Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long,
Broad breast, full eye, small head and nostril wide,
High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong,
Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide:
Look, what a horse should have he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back.",894,19633
665367,324,"Sometime he scuds far off and there he stares;
Anon he starts at stirring of a feather;
To bid the wind a base he now prepares,
And whether he run or fly they know not whether;
For through his mane and tail the high wind sings,
Fanning the hairs, who wave like feather'd wings.",894,19633
665368,330,"He looks upon his love and neighs unto her;
She answers him as if she knew his mind:
Being proud, as females are, to see him woo her,
She puts on outward strangeness, seems unkind,
Spurns at his love and scorns the heat he feels,
Beating his kind embracements with her heels.",894,19633
665369,336,"Then, like a melancholy malcontent,
He veils his tail that, like a falling plume,
Cool shadow to his melting buttock lent:
He stamps and bites the poor flies in his fume.
His love, perceiving how he is enraged,
Grew kinder, and his fury was assuaged.",894,19633
665370,342,"His testy master goeth about to take him;
When, lo, the unback'd breeder, full of fear,
Jealous of catching, swiftly doth forsake him,
With her the horse, and left Adonis there:
As they were mad, unto the wood they hie them,
Out-stripping crows that strive to over-fly them.",894,19633
665371,348,"All swoln with chafing, down Adonis sits,
Banning his boisterous and unruly beast:
And now the happy season once more fits,
That love-sick Love by pleading may be blest;
For lovers say, the heart hath treble wrong
When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.",894,19633
665372,354,"An oven that is stopp'd, or river stay'd,
Burneth more hotly, swelleth with more rage:
So of concealed sorrow may be said;
Free vent of words love's fire doth assuage;
But when the heart's attorney once is mute,
The client breaks, as desperate in his suit.",894,19633
665373,360,"He sees her coming, and begins to glow,
Even as a dying coal revives with wind,
And with his bonnet hides his angry brow;
Looks on the dull earth with disturbed mind,
Taking no notice that she is so nigh,
For all askance he holds her in his eye.",894,19633
665374,366,"O, what a sight it was, wistly to view
How she came stealing to the wayward boy!
To note the fighting conflict of her hue,
How white and red each other did destroy!
But now her cheek was pale, and by and by
It flash'd forth fire, as lightning from the sky.",894,19633
665375,372,"Now was she just before him as he sat,
And like a lowly lover down she kneels;
With one fair hand she heaveth up his hat,
Her other tender hand his fair cheek feels:
His tenderer cheek receives her soft hand's print,
As apt as new-fall'n snow takes any dint.",894,19633
665376,378,"O, what a war of looks was then between them!
Her eyes petitioners to his eyes suing;
His eyes saw her eyes as they had not seen them;
Her eyes woo'd still, his eyes disdain'd the wooing:
And all this dumb play had his acts made plain
With tears, which, chorus-like, her eyes did rain.",894,19633
665377,384,"Full gently now she takes him by the hand,
A lily prison'd in a gaol of snow,
Or ivory in an alabaster band;
So white a friend engirts so white a foe:
This beauteous combat, wilful and unwilling,
Show'd like two silver doves that sit a-billing.",894,19633
665378,390,"Once more the engine of her thoughts began:
'O fairest mover on this mortal round,
Would thou wert as I am, and I a man,
My heart all whole as thine, thy heart my wound;
For one sweet look thy help I would assure thee,
Though nothing but my body's bane would cure thee!",894,19633
665379,396,"'Give me my hand,' saith he, 'why dost thou feel it?'
'Give me my heart,' saith she, 'and thou shalt have it:
O, give it me, lest thy hard heart do steel it,
And being steel'd, soft sighs can never grave it:
Then love's deep groans I never shall regard,
Because Adonis' heart hath made mine hard.'",894,19633
665380,402,"'For shame,' he cries, 'let go, and let me go;
My day's delight is past, my horse is gone,
And 'tis your fault I am bereft him so:
I pray you hence, and leave me here alone;
For all my mind, my thought, my busy care,
Is how to get my palfrey from the mare.'",894,19633
665381,408,"Thus she replies: 'Thy palfrey, as he should,
Welcomes the warm approach of sweet desire:
Affection is a coal that must be cool'd;
Else, suffer'd, it will set the heart on fire:
The sea hath bounds, but deep desire hath none;
Therefore no marvel though thy horse be gone.",894,19633
665382,414,"'How like a jade he stood, tied to the tree,
Servilely master'd with a leathern rein!
But when he saw his love, his youth's fair fee,
He held such petty bondage in disdain;
Throwing the base thong from his bending crest,
Enfranchising his mouth, his back, his breast.",894,19633
665383,420,"'Who sees his true-love in her naked bed,
Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white,
But, when his glutton eye so full hath fed,
His other agents aim at like delight?
Who is so faint, that dare not be so bold
To touch the fire, the weather being cold?",894,19633
665384,426,"'Let me excuse thy courser, gentle boy;
And learn of him, I heartily beseech thee,
To take advantage on presented joy;
Though I were dumb, yet his proceedings teach thee;
O, learn to love; the lesson is but plain,
And once made perfect, never lost again.'",894,19633
665385,432,"I know not love,' quoth he, 'nor will not know it,
Unless it be a boar, and then I chase it;
'Tis much to borrow, and I will not owe it;
My love to love is love but to disgrace it;
For I have heard it is a life in death,
That laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath.",894,19633
665386,438,"'Who wears a garment shapeless and unfinish'd?
Who plucks the bud before one leaf put forth?
If springing things be any jot diminish'd,
They wither in their prime, prove nothing worth:
The colt that's back'd and burden'd being young
Loseth his pride and never waxeth strong.",894,19633
665387,444,"'You hurt my hand with wringing; let us part,
And leave this idle theme, this bootless chat:
Remove your siege from my unyielding heart;
To love's alarms it will not ope the gate:
Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery;
For where a heart is hard they make no battery.'",894,19633
665388,450,"'What! canst thou talk?' quoth she, 'hast thou a tongue?
O, would thou hadst not, or I had no hearing!
Thy mermaid's voice hath done me double wrong;
I had my load before, now press'd with bearing:
Melodious discord, heavenly tune harshsounding,
Ear's deep-sweet music, and heart's deep-sore wounding.",894,19633
665389,456,"'Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love
That inward beauty and invisible;
Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move
Each part in me that were but sensible:
Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see,
Yet should I be in love by touching thee.",894,19633
665390,462,"'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me,
And that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch,
And nothing but the very smell were left me,
Yet would my love to thee be still as much;
For from the stillitory of thy face excelling
Comes breath perfumed that breedeth love by
smelling.",894,19633
665391,469,"'But, O, what banquet wert thou to the taste,
Being nurse and feeder of the other four!
Would they not wish the feast might ever last,
And bid Suspicion double-lock the door,
Lest Jealousy, that sour unwelcome guest,
Should, by his stealing in, disturb the feast?'",894,19633
665392,475,"Once more the ruby-colour'd portal open'd,
Which to his speech did honey passage yield;
Like a red morn, that ever yet betoken'd
Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
Sorrow to shepherds, woe unto the birds,
Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.",894,19633
665393,481,"This ill presage advisedly she marketh:
Even as the wind is hush'd before it raineth,
Or as the wolf doth grin before he barketh,
Or as the berry breaks before it staineth,
Or like the deadly bullet of a gun,
His meaning struck her ere his words begun.",894,19633
665394,487,"And at his look she flatly falleth down,
For looks kill love and love by looks reviveth;
A smile recures the wounding of a frown;
But blessed bankrupt, that by love so thriveth!
The silly boy, believing she is dead,
Claps her pale cheek, till clapping makes it red;",894,19633
665395,493,"And all amazed brake off his late intent,
For sharply he did think to reprehend her,
Which cunning love did wittily prevent:
Fair fall the wit that can so well defend her!
For on the grass she lies as she were slain,
Till his breath breatheth life in her again.",894,19633
665396,499,"He wrings her nose, he strikes her on the cheeks,
He bends her fingers, holds her pulses hard,
He chafes her lips; a thousand ways he seeks
To mend the hurt that his unkindness marr'd:
He kisses her; and she, by her good will,
Will never rise, so he will kiss her still.",894,19633
665397,505,"The night of sorrow now is turn'd to day:
Her two blue windows faintly she up-heaveth,
Like the fair sun, when in his fresh array
He cheers the morn and all the earth relieveth;
And as the bright sun glorifies the sky,
So is her face illumined with her eye;",894,19633
665398,511,"Whose beams upon his hairless face are fix'd,
As if from thence they borrow'd all their shine.
Were never four such lamps together mix'd,
Had not his clouded with his brow's repine;
But hers, which through the crystal tears gave light,
Shone like the moon in water seen by night.",894,19633
665399,517,"'O, where am I?' quoth she, 'in earth or heaven,
Or in the ocean drench'd, or in the fire?
What hour is this? or morn or weary even?
Do I delight to die, or life desire?
But now I lived, and life was death's annoy;
But now I died, and death was lively joy.",894,19633
665400,523,"'O, thou didst kill me: kill me once again:
Thy eyes' shrewd tutor, that hard heart of thine,
Hath taught them scornful tricks and such disdain
That they have murder'd this poor heart of mine;
And these mine eyes, true leaders to their queen,
But for thy piteous lips no more had seen.",894,19633
665401,529,"'Long may they kiss each other, for this cure!
O, never let their crimson liveries wear!
And as they last, their verdure still endure,
To drive infection from the dangerous year!
That the star-gazers, having writ on death,
May say, the plague is banish'd by thy breath.",894,19633
665402,535,"'Pure lips, sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted,
What bargains may I make, still to be sealing?
To sell myself I can be well contented,
So thou wilt buy and pay and use good dealing;
Which purchase if thou make, for fear of slips
Set thy seal-manual on my wax-red lips.",894,19633
665403,541,"'A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;
And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.
What is ten hundred touches unto thee?
Are they not quickly told and quickly gone?
Say, for non-payment that the debt should double,
Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?",894,19633
665404,547,"'Fair queen,' quoth he, 'if any love you owe me,
Measure my strangeness with my unripe years:
Before I know myself, seek not to know me;
No fisher but the ungrown fry forbears:
The mellow plum doth fall, the green sticks fast,
Or being early pluck'd is sour to taste.",894,19633
665405,553,"'Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait,
His day's hot task hath ended in the west;
The owl, night's herald, shrieks, ''Tis very late;'
The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest,
And coal-black clouds that shadow heaven's light
Do summon us to part and bid good night.",894,19633
665406,559,"'Now let me say 'Good night,' and so say you;
If you will say so, you shall have a kiss.'
'Good night,' quoth she, and, ere he says 'Adieu,'
The honey fee of parting tender'd is:
Her arms do lend his neck a sweet embrace;
Incorporate then they seem; face grows to face.",894,19633
665407,565,"Till, breathless, he disjoin'd, and backward drew
The heavenly moisture, that sweet coral mouth,
Whose precious taste her thirsty lips well knew,
Whereon they surfeit, yet complain on drouth:
He with her plenty press'd, she faint with dearth
Their lips together glued, fall to the earth.",894,19633
665408,571,"Now quick desire hath caught the yielding prey,
And glutton-like she feeds, yet never filleth;
Her lips are conquerors, his lips obey,
Paying what ransom the insulter willeth;
Whose vulture thought doth pitch the price so high,
That she will draw his lips' rich treasure dry:",894,19633
665409,577,"And having felt the sweetness of the spoil,
With blindfold fury she begins to forage;
Her face doth reek and smoke, her blood doth boil,
And careless lust stirs up a desperate courage,
Planting oblivion, beating reason back,
Forgetting shame's pure blush and honour's wrack.",894,19633
665410,583,"Hot, faint, and weary, with her hard embracing,
Like a wild bird being tamed with too much handling,
Or as the fleet-foot roe that's tired with chasing,
Or like the froward infant still'd with dandling,
He now obeys, and now no more resisteth,
While she takes all she can, not all she listeth.",894,19633
665411,589,"What wax so frozen but dissolves with tempering,
And yields at last to every light impression?
Things out of hope are compass'd oft with venturing,
Chiefly in love, whose leave exceeds commission:
Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,
But then woos best when most his choice is froward.",894,19633
665412,595,"When he did frown, O, had she then gave over,
Such nectar from his lips she had not suck'd.
Foul words and frowns must not repel a lover;
What though the rose have prickles, yet 'tis pluck'd:
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.",894,19633
665413,601,"For pity now she can no more detain him;
The poor fool prays her that he may depart:
She is resolved no longer to restrain him;
Bids him farewell, and look well to her heart,
The which, by Cupid's bow she doth protest,
He carries thence incaged in his breast.",894,19633
665414,607,"'Sweet boy,' she says, 'this night I'll waste in sorrow,
For my sick heart commands mine eyes to watch.
Tell me, Love's master, shall we meet to-morrow?
Say, shall we? shall we? wilt thou make the match?'
He tells her, no; to-morrow he intends
To hunt the boar with certain of his friends.",894,19633
665415,613,"'The boar!' quoth she; whereat a sudden pale,
Like lawn being spread upon the blushing rose,
Usurps her cheek; she trembles at his tale,
And on his neck her yoking arms she throws:
She sinketh down, still hanging by his neck,
He on her belly falls, she on her back.",894,19633
665416,619,"Now is she in the very lists of love,
Her champion mounted for the hot encounter:
All is imaginary she doth prove,
He will not manage her, although he mount her;
That worse than Tantalus' is her annoy,
To clip Elysium and to lack her joy.",894,19633
665417,625,"Even as poor birds, deceived with painted grapes,
Do surfeit by the eye and pine the maw,
Even so she languisheth in her mishaps,
As those poor birds that helpless berries saw.
The warm effects which she in him finds missing
She seeks to kindle with continual kissing.",894,19633
665418,631,"But all in vain; good queen, it will not be:
She hath assay'd as much as may be proved;
Her pleading hath deserved a greater fee;
She's Love, she loves, and yet she is not loved.
'Fie, fie,' he says, 'you crush me; let me go;
You have no reason to withhold me so.'",894,19633
665419,637,"'Thou hadst been gone,' quoth she, 'sweet boy, ere this,
But that thou told'st me thou wouldst hunt the boar.
O, be advised! thou know'st not what it is
With javelin's point a churlish swine to gore,
Whose tushes never sheathed he whetteth still,
Like to a mortal butcher bent to kill.",894,19633
665420,643,"'On his bow-back he hath a battle set
Of bristly pikes, that ever threat his foes;
His eyes, like glow-worms, shine when he doth fret;
His snout digs sepulchres where'er he goes;
Being moved, he strikes whate'er is in his way,
And whom he strikes his cruel tushes slay.",894,19633
665421,649,"'His brawny sides, with hairy bristles arm'd,
Are better proof than thy spear's point can enter;
His short thick neck cannot be easily harm'd;
Being ireful, on the lion he will venture:
The thorny brambles and embracing bushes,
As fearful of him, part, through whom he rushes.",894,19633
665422,655,"'Alas, he nought esteems that face of thine,
To which Love's eyes pay tributary gazes;
Nor thy soft hands, sweet lips and crystal eyne,
Whose full perfection all the world amazes;
But having thee at vantage,--wondrous dread!--
Would root these beauties as he roots the mead.",894,19633
665423,661,"'O, let him keep his loathsome cabin still;
Beauty hath nought to do with such foul fiends:
Come not within his danger by thy will;
They that thrive well take counsel of their friends.
When thou didst name the boar, not to dissemble,
I fear'd thy fortune, and my joints did tremble.",894,19633
665424,667,"'Didst thou not mark my face? was it not white?
Saw'st thou not signs of fear lurk in mine eye?
Grew I not faint? and fell I not downright?
Within my bosom, whereon thou dost lie,
My boding heart pants, beats, and takes no rest,
But, like an earthquake, shakes thee on my breast.",894,19633
665425,673,"'For where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy
Doth call himself Affection's sentinel;
Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny,
And in a peaceful hour doth cry 'Kill, kill!'
Distempering gentle Love in his desire,
As air and water do abate the fire.",894,19633
665426,679,"'This sour informer, this bate-breeding spy,
This canker that eats up Love's tender spring,
This carry-tale, dissentious Jealousy,
That sometime true news, sometime false doth bring,
Knocks at my heat and whispers in mine ear
That if I love thee, I thy death should fear:",894,19633
665427,685,"'And more than so, presenteth to mine eye
The picture of an angry-chafing boar,
Under whose sharp fangs on his back doth lie
An image like thyself, all stain'd with gore;
Whose blood upon the fresh flowers being shed
Doth make them droop with grief and hang the head.",894,19633
665428,691,"'What should I do, seeing thee so indeed,
That tremble at the imagination?
The thought of it doth make my faint heart bleed,
And fear doth teach it divination:
I prophesy thy death, my living sorrow,
If thou encounter with the boar to-morrow.",894,19633
665429,697,"'But if thou needs wilt hunt, be ruled by me;
Uncouple at the timorous flying hare,
Or at the fox which lives by subtlety,
Or at the roe which no encounter dare:
Pursue these fearful creatures o'er the downs,
And on thy well-breath'd horse keep with thy
hounds.",894,19633
665430,704,"'And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare,
Mark the poor wretch, to overshoot his troubles
How he outruns the wind and with what care
He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles:
The many musets through the which he goes
Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.",894,19633
665431,710,"'Sometime he runs among a flock of sheep,
To make the cunning hounds mistake their smell,
And sometime where earth-delving conies keep,
To stop the loud pursuers in their yell,
And sometime sorteth with a herd of deer:
Danger deviseth shifts; wit waits on fear:",894,19633
665432,716,"'For there his smell with others being mingled,
The hot scent-snuffing hounds are driven to doubt,
Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled
With much ado the cold fault cleanly out;
Then do they spend their mouths: Echo replies,
As if another chase were in the skies.",894,19633
665433,722,"'By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill,
Stands on his hinder legs with listening ear,
To harken if his foes pursue him still:
Anon their loud alarums he doth hear;
And now his grief may be compared well
To one sore sick that hears the passing-bell.",894,19633
665434,728,"'Then shalt thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch
Turn, and return, indenting with the way;
Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch,
Each shadow makes him stop, each murmur stay:
For misery is trodden on by many,
And being low never relieved by any.",894,19633
665435,734,"'Lie quietly, and hear a little more;
Nay, do not struggle, for thou shalt not rise:
To make thee hate the hunting of the boar,
Unlike myself thou hear'st me moralize,
Applying this to that, and so to so;
For love can comment upon every woe.",894,19633
665436,740,"'Where did I leave?' 'No matter where,' quoth he,
'Leave me, and then the story aptly ends:
The night is spent.' 'Why, what of that?' quoth she.
'I am,' quoth he, 'expected of my friends;
And now 'tis dark, and going I shall fall.'
'In night,' quoth she, 'desire sees best of all",894,19633
665437,746,"'But if thou fall, O, then imagine this,
The earth, in love with thee, thy footing trips,
And all is but to rob thee of a kiss.
Rich preys make true men thieves; so do thy lips
Make modest Dian cloudy and forlorn,
Lest she should steal a kiss and die forsworn.",894,19633
665438,752,"'Now of this dark night I perceive the reason:
Cynthia for shame obscures her silver shine,
Till forging Nature be condemn'd of treason,
For stealing moulds from heaven that were divine;
Wherein she framed thee in high heaven's despite,
To shame the sun by day and her by night.",894,19633
665439,758,"'And therefore hath she bribed the Destinies
To cross the curious workmanship of nature,
To mingle beauty with infirmities,
And pure perfection with impure defeature,
Making it subject to the tyranny
Of mad mischances and much misery;",894,19633
665440,764,"'As burning fevers, agues pale and faint,
Life-poisoning pestilence and frenzies wood,
The marrow-eating sickness, whose attaint
Disorder breeds by heating of the blood:
Surfeits, imposthumes, grief, and damn'd despair,
Swear nature's death for framing thee so fair.",894,19633
665441,770,"'And not the least of all these maladies
But in one minute's fight brings beauty under:
Both favour, savour, hue and qualities,
Whereat the impartial gazer late did wonder,
Are on the sudden wasted, thaw'd and done,
As mountain-snow melts with the midday sun.",894,19633
665442,776,"'Therefore, despite of fruitless chastity,
Love-lacking vestals and self-loving nuns,
That on the earth would breed a scarcity
And barren dearth of daughters and of sons,
Be prodigal: the lamp that burns by night
Dries up his oil to lend the world his light.",894,19633
665443,782,"'What is thy body but a swallowing grave,
Seeming to bury that posterity
Which by the rights of time thou needs must have,
If thou destroy them not in dark obscurity?
If so, the world will hold thee in disdain,
Sith in thy pride so fair a hope is slain.",894,19633
665444,788,"'So in thyself thyself art made away;
A mischief worse than civil home-bred strife,
Or theirs whose desperate hands themselves do slay,
Or butcher-sire that reaves his son of life.
Foul-cankering rust the hidden treasure frets,
But gold that's put to use more gold begets.'",894,19633
665445,794,"'Nay, then,' quoth Adon, 'you will fall again
Into your idle over-handled theme:
The kiss I gave you is bestow'd in vain,
And all in vain you strive against the stream;
For, by this black-faced night, desire's foul nurse,
Your treatise makes me like you worse and worse.",894,19633
665446,800,"'If love have lent you twenty thousand tongues,
And every tongue more moving than your own,
Bewitching like the wanton mermaid's songs,
Yet from mine ear the tempting tune is blown
For know, my heart stands armed in mine ear,
And will not let a false sound enter there;",894,19633
665447,806,"'Lest the deceiving harmony should run
Into the quiet closure of my breast;
And then my little heart were quite undone,
In his bedchamber to be barr'd of rest.
No, lady, no; my heart longs not to groan,
But soundly sleeps, while now it sleeps alone.",894,19633
665448,812,"'What have you urged that I cannot reprove?
The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger:
I hate not love, but your device in love,
That lends embracements unto every stranger.
You do it for increase: O strange excuse,
When reason is the bawd to lust's abuse!",894,19633
665449,818,"'Call it not love, for Love to heaven is fled,
Since sweating Lust on earth usurp'd his name;
Under whose simple semblance he hath fed
Upon fresh beauty, blotting it with blame;
Which the hot tyrant stains and soon bereaves,
As caterpillars do the tender leaves.",894,19633
665450,824,"'Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done;
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.",894,19633
665451,830,"'More I could tell, but more I dare not say;
The text is old, the orator too green.
Therefore, in sadness, now I will away;
My face is full of shame, my heart of teen:
Mine ears, that to your wanton talk attended,
Do burn themselves for having so offended.'",894,19633
665452,836,"With this, he breaketh from the sweet embrace,
Of those fair arms which bound him to her breast,
And homeward through the dark laund runs apace;
Leaves Love upon her back deeply distress'd.
Look, how a bright star shooteth from the sky,
So glides he in the night from Venus' eye.",894,19633
665453,842,"Which after him she darts, as one on shore
Gazing upon a late-embarked friend,
Till the wild waves will have him seen no more,
Whose ridges with the meeting clouds contend:
So did the merciless and pitchy night
Fold in the object that did feed her sight.",894,19633
665454,848,"Whereat amazed, as one that unaware
Hath dropp'd a precious jewel in the flood,
Or stonish'd as night-wanderers often are,
Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood,
Even so confounded in the dark she lay,
Having lost the fair discovery of her way.",894,19633
665455,854,"And now she beats her heart, whereat it groans,
That all the neighbour caves, as seeming troubled,
Make verbal repetition of her moans;
Passion on passion deeply is redoubled:
'Ay me!' she cries, and twenty times 'Woe, woe!'
And twenty echoes twenty times cry so.",894,19633
665456,860,"She marking them begins a wailing note
And sings extemporally a woeful ditty;
How love makes young men thrall and old men dote;
How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty:
Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe,
And still the choir of echoes answer so.",894,19633
665457,866,"Her song was tedious and outwore the night,
For lovers' hours are long, though seeming short:
If pleased themselves, others, they think, delight
In such-like circumstance, with suchlike sport:
Their copious stories oftentimes begun
End without audience and are never done.",894,19633
665458,872,"For who hath she to spend the night withal
But idle sounds resembling parasites,
Like shrill-tongued tapsters answering every call,
Soothing the humour of fantastic wits?
She says ''Tis so:' they answer all ''Tis so;'
And would say after her, if she said 'No.'",894,19633
665459,878,"Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest,
From his moist cabinet mounts up on high,
And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast
The sun ariseth in his majesty;
Who doth the world so gloriously behold
That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.",894,19633
665460,884,"Venus salutes him with this fair good-morrow:
'O thou clear god, and patron of all light,
From whom each lamp and shining star doth borrow
The beauteous influence that makes him bright,
There lives a son that suck'd an earthly mother,
May lend thee light, as thou dost lend to other.'",894,19633
665461,890,"This said, she hasteth to a myrtle grove,
Musing the morning is so much o'erworn,
And yet she hears no tidings of her love:
She hearkens for his hounds and for his horn:
Anon she hears them chant it lustily,
And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.",894,19633
665462,896,"And as she runs, the bushes in the way
Some catch her by the neck, some kiss her face,
Some twine about her thigh to make her stay:
She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace,
Like a milch doe, whose swelling dugs do ache,
Hasting to feed her fawn hid in some brake.",894,19633
665463,902,"By this, she hears the hounds are at a bay;
Whereat she starts, like one that spies an adder
Wreathed up in fatal folds just in his way,
The fear whereof doth make him shake and shudder;
Even so the timorous yelping of the hounds
Appals her senses and her spirit confounds.",894,19633
665464,908,"For now she knows it is no gentle chase,
But the blunt boar, rough bear, or lion proud,
Because the cry remaineth in one place,
Where fearfully the dogs exclaim aloud:
Finding their enemy to be so curst,
They all strain courtesy who shall cope him first.",894,19633
665465,914,"This dismal cry rings sadly in her ear,
Through which it enters to surprise her heart;
Who, overcome by doubt and bloodless fear,
With cold-pale weakness numbs each feeling part:
Like soldiers, when their captain once doth yield,
They basely fly and dare not stay the field.",894,19633
665466,920,"Thus stands she in a trembling ecstasy;
Till, cheering up her senses all dismay'd,
She tells them 'tis a causeless fantasy,
And childish error, that they are afraid;
Bids them leave quaking, bids them fear no more:--
And with that word she spied the hunted boar,",894,19633
665467,926,"Whose frothy mouth, bepainted all with red,
Like milk and blood being mingled both together,
A second fear through all her sinews spread,
Which madly hurries her she knows not whither:
This way runs, and now she will no further,
But back retires to rate the boar for murther.",894,19633
665468,932,"A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways;
She treads the path that she untreads again;
Her more than haste is mated with delays,
Like the proceedings of a drunken brain,
Full of respects, yet nought at all respecting;
In hand with all things, nought at all effecting.",894,19633
665469,938,"Here kennell'd in a brake she finds a hound,
And asks the weary caitiff for his master,
And there another licking of his wound,
'Gainst venom'd sores the only sovereign plaster;
And here she meets another sadly scowling,
To whom she speaks, and he replies with howling.",894,19633
665470,944,"When he hath ceased his ill-resounding noise,
Another flap-mouth'd mourner, black and grim,
Against the welkin volleys out his voice;
Another and another answer him,
Clapping their proud tails to the ground below,
Shaking their scratch'd ears, bleeding as they go.",894,19633
665471,950,"Look, how the world's poor people are amazed
At apparitions, signs and prodigies,
Whereon with fearful eyes they long have gazed,
Infusing them with dreadful prophecies;
So she at these sad signs draws up her breath
And sighing it again, exclaims on Death.",894,19633
665472,956,"'Hard-favour'd tyrant, ugly, meagre, lean,
Hateful divorce of love,'--thus chides she Death,--
'Grim-grinning ghost, earth's worm, what dost thou mean
To stifle beauty and to steal his breath,
Who when he lived, his breath and beauty set
Gloss on the rose, smell to the violet?",894,19633
665473,962,"'If he be dead,--O no, it cannot be,
Seeing his beauty, thou shouldst strike at it:--
O yes, it may; thou hast no eyes to see,
But hatefully at random dost thou hit.
Thy mark is feeble age, but thy false dart
Mistakes that aim and cleaves an infant's heart.",894,19633
665474,968,"'Hadst thou but bid beware, then he had spoke,
And, hearing him, thy power had lost his power.
The Destinies will curse thee for this stroke;
They bid thee crop a weed, thou pluck'st a flower:
Love's golden arrow at him should have fled,
And not Death's ebon dart, to strike dead.",894,19633
665475,974,"'Dost thou drink tears, that thou provokest such weeping?
What may a heavy groan advantage thee?
Why hast thou cast into eternal sleeping
Those eyes that taught all other eyes to see?
Now Nature cares not for thy mortal vigour,
Since her best work is ruin'd with thy rigour.'",894,19633
665476,980,"Here overcome, as one full of despair,
She vail'd her eyelids, who, like sluices, stopt
The crystal tide that from her two cheeks fair
In the sweet channel of her bosom dropt;
But through the flood-gates breaks the silver rain,
And with his strong course opens them again.",894,19633
665477,986,"O, how her eyes and tears did lend and borrow!
Her eyes seen in the tears, tears in her eye;
Both crystals, where they view'd each other's sorrow,
Sorrow that friendly sighs sought still to dry;
But like a stormy day, now wind, now rain,
Sighs dry her cheeks, tears make them wet again.",894,19633
665478,992,"Variable passions throng her constant woe,
As striving who should best become her grief;
All entertain'd, each passion labours so,
That every present sorrow seemeth chief,
But none is best: then join they all together,
Like many clouds consulting for foul weather.",894,19633
665479,998,"By this, far off she hears some huntsman hollo;
A nurse's song ne'er pleased her babe so well:
The dire imagination she did follow
This sound of hope doth labour to expel;
For now reviving joy bids her rejoice,
And flatters her it is Adonis' voice.",894,19633
665480,1004,"Whereat her tears began to turn their tide,
Being prison'd in her eye like pearls in glass;
Yet sometimes falls an orient drop beside,
Which her cheek melts, as scorning it should pass,
To wash the foul face of the sluttish ground,
Who is but drunken when she seemeth drown'd.",894,19633
665481,1010,"O hard-believing love, how strange it seems
Not to believe, and yet too credulous!
Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes;
Despair and hope makes thee ridiculous:
The one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely,
In likely thoughts the other kills thee quickly.",894,19633
665482,1016,"Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought;
Adonis lives, and Death is not to blame;
It was not she that call'd him, all-to naught:
Now she adds honours to his hateful name;
She clepes him king of graves and grave for kings,
Imperious supreme of all mortal things.",894,19633
665483,1022,"'No, no,' quoth she, 'sweet Death, I did but jest;
Yet pardon me I felt a kind of fear
When as I met the boar, that bloody beast,
Which knows no pity, but is still severe;
Then, gentle shadow,--truth I must confess,--
I rail'd on thee, fearing my love's decease.",894,19633
665484,1028,"''Tis not my fault: the boar provoked my tongue;
Be wreak'd on him, invisible commander;
'Tis he, foul creature, that hath done thee wrong;
I did but act, he's author of thy slander:
Grief hath two tongues, and never woman yet
Could rule them both without ten women's wit.'",894,19633
665485,1034,"Thus hoping that Adonis is alive,
Her rash suspect she doth extenuate;
And that his beauty may the better thrive,
With Death she humbly doth insinuate;
Tells him of trophies, statues, tombs, and stories
His victories, his triumphs and his glories.",894,19633
665486,1040,"'O Jove,' quoth she, 'how much a fool was I
To be of such a weak and silly mind
To wail his death who lives and must not die
Till mutual overthrow of mortal kind!
For he being dead, with him is beauty slain,
And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.",894,19633
665487,1046,"'Fie, fie, fond love, thou art so full of fear
As one with treasure laden, hemm'd thieves;
Trifles, unwitnessed with eye or ear,
Thy coward heart with false bethinking grieves.'
Even at this word she hears a merry horn,
Whereat she leaps that was but late forlorn.",894,19633
665488,1052,"As falcon to the lure, away she flies;
The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light;
And in her haste unfortunately spies
The foul boar's conquest on her fair delight;
Which seen, her eyes, as murder'd with the view,
Like stars ashamed of day, themselves withdrew;",894,19633
665489,1058,"Or, as the snail, whose tender horns being hit,
Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain,
And there, all smother'd up, in shade doth sit,
Long after fearing to creep forth again;
So, at his bloody view, her eyes are fled
Into the deep dark cabins of her head:",894,19633
665490,1064,"Where they resign their office and their light
To the disposing of her troubled brain;
Who bids them still consort with ugly night,
And never wound the heart with looks again;
Who like a king perplexed in his throne,
By their suggestion gives a deadly groan,",894,19633
665491,1070,"Whereat each tributary subject quakes;
As when the wind, imprison'd in the ground,
Struggling for passage, earth's foundation shakes,
Which with cold terror doth men's minds confound.
This mutiny each part doth so surprise
That from their dark beds once more leap her eyes;",894,19633
665492,1076,"And, being open'd, threw unwilling light
Upon the wide wound that the boar had trench'd
In his soft flank; whose wonted lily white
With purple tears, that his wound wept, was drench'd:
No flower was nigh, no grass, herb, leaf, or weed,
But stole his blood and seem'd with him to bleed.",894,19633
665493,1082,"This solemn sympathy poor Venus noteth;
Over one shoulder doth she hang her head;
Dumbly she passions, franticly she doteth;
She thinks he could not die, he is not dead:
Her voice is stopt, her joints forget to bow;
Her eyes are mad that they have wept til now.",894,19633
665494,1088,"Upon his hurt she looks so steadfastly,
That her sight dazzling makes the wound seem three;
And then she reprehends her mangling eye,
That makes more gashes where no breach should be:
His face seems twain, each several limb is doubled;
For oft the eye mistakes, the brain being troubled.",894,19633
665495,1094,"'My tongue cannot express my grief for one,
And yet,' quoth she, 'behold two Adons dead!
My sighs are blown away, my salt tears gone,
Mine eyes are turn'd to fire, my heart to lead:
Heavy heart's lead, melt at mine eyes' red fire!
So shall I die by drops of hot desire.",894,19633
665496,1100,"'Alas, poor world, what treasure hast thou lost!
What face remains alive that's worth the viewing?
Whose tongue is music now? what canst thou boast
Of things long since, or any thing ensuing?
The flowers are sweet, their colours fresh and trim;
But true-sweet beauty lived and died with him.",894,19633
665497,1106,"'Bonnet nor veil henceforth no creature wear!
Nor sun nor wind will ever strive to kiss you:
Having no fair to lose, you need not fear;
The sun doth scorn you and the wind doth hiss you:
But when Adonis lived, sun and sharp air
Lurk'd like two thieves, to rob him of his fair:",894,19633
665498,1112,"'And therefore would he put his bonnet on,
Under whose brim the gaudy sun would peep;
The wind would blow it off and, being gone,
Play with his locks: then would Adonis weep;
And straight, in pity of his tender years,
They both would strive who first should dry his tears.",894,19633
665499,1118,"'To see his face the lion walk'd along
Behind some hedge, because he would not fear him;
To recreate himself when he hath sung,
The tiger would be tame and gently hear him;
If he had spoke, the wolf would leave his prey
And never fright the silly lamb that day.",894,19633
665500,1124,"'When he beheld his shadow in the brook,
The fishes spread on it their golden gills;
When he was by, the birds such pleasure took,
That some would sing, some other in their bills
Would bring him mulberries and ripe-red cherries;
He fed them with his sight, they him with berries.",894,19633
665501,1130,"'But this foul, grim, and urchin-snouted boar,
Whose downward eye still looketh for a grave,
Ne'er saw the beauteous livery that he wore;
Witness the entertainment that he gave:
If he did see his face, why then I know
He thought to kiss him, and hath kill'd him so.",894,19633
665502,1136,"''Tis true, 'tis true; thus was Adonis slain:
He ran upon the boar with his sharp spear,
Who did not whet his teeth at him again,
But by a kiss thought to persuade him there;
And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine
Sheathed unaware the tusk in his soft groin.",894,19633
665503,1142,"'Had I been tooth'd like him, I must confess,
With kissing him I should have kill'd him first;
But he is dead, and never did he bless
My youth with his; the more am I accurst.'
With this, she falleth in the place she stood,
And stains her face with his congealed blood.",894,19633
665504,1148,"She looks upon his lips, and they are pale;
She takes him by the hand, and that is cold;
She whispers in his ears a heavy tale,
As if they heard the woeful words she told;
She lifts the coffer-lids that close his eyes,
Where, lo, two lamps, burnt out, in darkness lies;",894,19633
665505,1154,"Two glasses, where herself herself beheld
A thousand times, and now no more reflect;
Their virtue lost, wherein they late excell'd,
And every beauty robb'd of his effect:
'Wonder of time,' quoth she, 'this is my spite,
That, thou being dead, the day should yet be light.",894,19633
665506,1160,"'Since thou art dead, lo, here I prophesy:
Sorrow on love hereafter shall attend:
It shall be waited on with jealousy,
Find sweet beginning, but unsavoury end,
Ne'er settled equally, but high or low,
That all love's pleasure shall not match his woe.",894,19633
665507,1166,"'It shall be fickle, false and full of fraud,
Bud and be blasted in a breathing-while;
The bottom poison, and the top o'erstraw'd
With sweets that shall the truest sight beguile:
The strongest body shall it make most weak,
Strike the wise dumb and teach the fool to speak.",894,19633
665508,1172,"'It shall be sparing and too full of riot,
Teaching decrepit age to tread the measures;
The staring ruffian shall it keep in quiet,
Pluck down the rich, enrich the poor with treasures;
It shall be raging-mad and silly-mild,
Make the young old, the old become a child.",894,19633
665509,1178,"'It shall suspect where is no cause of fear;
It shall not fear where it should most mistrust;
It shall be merciful and too severe,
And most deceiving when it seems most just;
Perverse it shall be where it shows most toward,
Put fear to valour, courage to the coward.",894,19633
665510,1184,"'It shall be cause of war and dire events,
And set dissension 'twixt the son and sire;
Subject and servile to all discontents,
As dry combustious matter is to fire:
Sith in his prime Death doth my love destroy,
They that love best their loves shall not enjoy.'",894,19633
665511,1190,"By this, the boy that by her side lay kill'd
Was melted like a vapour from her sight,
And in his blood that on the ground lay spill'd,
A purple flower sprung up, chequer'd with white,
Resembling well his pale cheeks and the blood
Which in round drops upon their whiteness stood.",894,19633
665512,1196,"She bows her head, the new-sprung flower to smell,
Comparing it to her Adonis' breath,
And says, within her bosom it shall dwell,
Since he himself is reft from her by death:
She crops the stalk, and in the breach appears
Green dropping sap, which she compares to tears.",894,19633
665513,1202,"'Poor flower,' quoth she, 'this was thy fathers guise--
Sweet issue of a more sweet-smelling sire--
For every little grief to wet his eyes:
To grow unto himself was his desire,
And so 'tis thine; but know, it is as good
To wither in my breast as in his blood.",894,19633
665514,1208,"'Here was thy father's bed, here in my breast;
Thou art the next of blood, and 'tis thy right:
Lo, in this hollow cradle take thy rest,
My throbbing heart shall rock thee day and night:
There shall not be one minute in an hour
Wherein I will not kiss my sweet love's flower.'",894,19633
665515,1214,"Thus weary of the world, away she hies,
And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid
Their mistress mounted through the empty skies
In her light chariot quickly is convey'd;
Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen
Means to immure herself and not be seen.",894,19633
665516,3,[Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS],1261,19634
665517,4,"If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on
the like occasion whereon my services are now on
foot, you shall see, as I have said, great
difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.",123,19634
665518,8,"I think, this coming summer, the King of Sicilia
means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him.",211,19634
665519,10,"Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be
justified in our loves; for indeed--",123,19634
665520,12,"Beseech you,--",211,19634
665521,13,"Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge:
we cannot with such magnificence--in so rare--I know
not what to say. We will give you sleepy drinks,
that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience,
may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse
us.",123,19634
665522,19,You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.,211,19634
665523,20,"Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me
and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.",123,19634
665524,22,"Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia.
They were trained together in their childhoods; and
there rooted betwixt them then such an affection,
which cannot choose but branch now. Since their
more mature dignities and royal necessities made
separation of their society, their encounters,
though not personal, have been royally attorneyed
with interchange of gifts, letters, loving
embassies; that they have seemed to be together,
though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and
embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed
winds. The heavens continue their loves!",211,19634
665525,34,"I think there is not in the world either malice or
matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable
comfort of your young prince Mamillius: it is a
gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came
into my note.",123,19634
665526,39,"I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it
is a gallant child; one that indeed physics the
subject, makes old hearts fresh: they that went on
crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to
see him a man.",211,19634
665527,44,Would they else be content to die?,123,19634
665528,45,"Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should
desire to live.",211,19634
665529,47,"If the king had no son, they would desire to live
on crutches till he had one.",123,19634
665530,49,"[Exeunt]
[Enter LEONTES, HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS,]
POLIXENES, CAMILLO, and Attendants]",1261,19634
665531,54,"Nine changes of the watery star hath been
The shepherd's note since we have left our throne
Without a burthen: time as long again
Would be find up, my brother, with our thanks;
And yet we should, for perpetuity,
Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher,
Yet standing in rich place, I multiply
With one 'We thank you' many thousands moe
That go before it.",898,19635
665532,63,"Stay your thanks a while;
And pay them when you part.",667,19635
665533,65,"Sir, that's to-morrow.
I am question'd by my fears, of what may chance
Or breed upon our absence; that may blow
No sneaping winds at home, to make us say
'This is put forth too truly:' besides, I have stay'd
To tire your royalty.",898,19635
665534,71,"We are tougher, brother,
Than you can put us to't.",667,19635
665535,73,No longer stay.,898,19635
665536,74,One seven-night longer.,667,19635
665537,75,"Very sooth, to-morrow.",898,19635
665538,76,"We'll part the time between's then; and in that
I'll no gainsaying.",667,19635
665539,78,"Press me not, beseech you, so.
There is no tongue that moves, none, none i' the world,
So soon as yours could win me: so it should now,
Were there necessity in your request, although
'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs
Do even drag me homeward: which to hinder
Were in your love a whip to me; my stay
To you a charge and trouble: to save both,
Farewell, our brother.",898,19635
665540,87,"Tongue-tied, our queen?
speak you.",667,19635
665541,89,"I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until
You have drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir,
Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are sure
All in Bohemia's well; this satisfaction
The by-gone day proclaim'd: say this to him,
He's beat from his best ward.",584,19635
665542,95,"Well said, Hermione.",667,19635
665543,96,"To tell, he longs to see his son, were strong:
But let him say so then, and let him go;
But let him swear so, and he shall not stay,
We'll thwack him hence with distaffs.
Yet of your royal presence I'll adventure
The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia
You take my lord, I'll give him my commission
To let him there a month behind the gest
Prefix'd for's parting: yet, good deed, Leontes,
I love thee not a jar o' the clock behind
What lady-she her lord. You'll stay?",584,19635
665544,107,"No, madam.",898,19635
665545,108,"Nay, but you will?",584,19635
665546,109,"I may not, verily.",898,19635
665547,110,"Verily!
You put me off with limber vows; but I,
Though you would seek to unsphere the
stars with oaths,
Should yet say 'Sir, no going.' Verily,
You shall not go: a lady's 'Verily' 's
As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet?
Force me to keep you as a prisoner,
Not like a guest; so you shall pay your fees
When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you?
My prisoner? or my guest? by your dread 'Verily,'
One of them you shall be.",584,19635
665548,122,"Your guest, then, madam:
To be your prisoner should import offending;
Which is for me less easy to commit
Than you to punish.",898,19635
665549,126,"Not your gaoler, then,
But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question you
Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys:
You were pretty lordings then?",584,19635
665550,130,"We were, fair queen,
Two lads that thought there was no more behind
But such a day to-morrow as to-day,
And to be boy eternal.",898,19635
665551,134,"Was not my lord
The verier wag o' the two?",584,19635
665552,136,"We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun,
And bleat the one at the other: what we changed
Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd
That any did. Had we pursued that life,
And our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd
With stronger blood, we should have answer'd heaven
Boldly 'not guilty;' the imposition clear'd
Hereditary ours.",898,19635
665553,145,"By this we gather
You have tripp'd since.",584,19635
665554,147,"O my most sacred lady!
Temptations have since then been born to's; for
In those unfledged days was my wife a girl;
Your precious self had then not cross'd the eyes
Of my young play-fellow.",898,19635
665555,152,"Grace to boot!
Of this make no conclusion, lest you say
Your queen and I are devils: yet go on;
The offences we have made you do we'll answer,
If you first sinn'd with us and that with us
You did continue fault and that you slipp'd not
With any but with us.",584,19635
665556,159,Is he won yet?,667,19635
665557,160,He'll stay my lord.,584,19635
665558,161,"At my request he would not.
Hermione, my dearest, thou never spokest
To better purpose.",667,19635
665559,164,Never?,584,19635
665560,165,"Never, but once.",667,19635
665561,166,"What! have I twice said well? when was't before?
I prithee tell me; cram's with praise, and make's
As fat as tame things: one good deed dying tongueless
Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.
Our praises are our wages: you may ride's
With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere
With spur we beat an acre. But to the goal:
My last good deed was to entreat his stay:
What was my first? it has an elder sister,
Or I mistake you: O, would her name were Grace!
But once before I spoke to the purpose: when?
Nay, let me have't; I long.",584,19635
665562,178,"Why, that was when
Three crabbed months had sour'd themselves to death,
Ere I could make thee open thy white hand
And clap thyself my love: then didst thou utter
'I am yours for ever.'",667,19635
665563,183,"'Tis grace indeed.
Why, lo you now, I have spoke to the purpose twice:
The one for ever earn'd a royal husband;
The other for some while a friend.",584,19635
665564,187,"[Aside]. Too hot, too hot!
To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.
I have tremor cordis on me: my heart dances;
But not for joy; not joy. This entertainment
May a free face put on, derive a liberty
From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom,
And well become the agent; 't may, I grant;
But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers,
As now they are, and making practised smiles,
As in a looking-glass, and then to sigh, as 'twere
The mort o' the deer; O, that is entertainment
My bosom likes not, nor my brows! Mamillius,
Art thou my boy?",667,19635
665565,200,"Ay, my good lord.",729,19635
665566,201,"I' fecks!
Why, that's my bawcock. What, hast
smutch'd thy nose?
They say it is a copy out of mine. Come, captain,
We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly, captain:
And yet the steer, the heifer and the calf
Are all call'd neat.--Still virginalling
Upon his palm!--How now, you wanton calf!
Art thou my calf?",667,19635
665567,210,"Yes, if you will, my lord.",729,19635
665568,211,"Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have,
To be full like me: yet they say we are
Almost as like as eggs; women say so,
That will say anything but were they false
As o'er-dyed blacks, as wind, as waters, false
As dice are to be wish'd by one that fixes
No bourn 'twixt his and mine, yet were it true
To say this boy were like me. Come, sir page,
Look on me with your welkin eye: sweet villain!
Most dear'st! my collop! Can thy dam?--may't be?--
Affection! thy intention stabs the centre:
Thou dost make possible things not so held,
Communicatest with dreams;--how can this be?--
With what's unreal thou coactive art,
And fellow'st nothing: then 'tis very credent
Thou mayst co-join with something; and thou dost,
And that beyond commission, and I find it,
And that to the infection of my brains
And hardening of my brows.",667,19635
665569,230,What means Sicilia?,898,19635
665570,231,He something seems unsettled.,584,19635
665571,232,"How, my lord!
What cheer? how is't with you, best brother?",898,19635
665572,234,"You look as if you held a brow of much distraction
Are you moved, my lord?",584,19635
665573,236,"No, in good earnest.
How sometimes nature will betray its folly,
Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime
To harder bosoms! Looking on the lines
Of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil
Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreech'd,
In my green velvet coat, my dagger muzzled,
Lest it should bite its master, and so prove,
As ornaments oft do, too dangerous:
How like, methought, I then was to this kernel,
This squash, this gentleman. Mine honest friend,
Will you take eggs for money?",667,19635
665574,248,"No, my lord, I'll fight.",729,19635
665575,249,"You will! why, happy man be's dole! My brother,
Are you so fond of your young prince as we
Do seem to be of ours?",667,19635
665576,252,"If at home, sir,
He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter,
Now my sworn friend and then mine enemy,
My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all:
He makes a July's day short as December,
And with his varying childness cures in me
Thoughts that would thick my blood.",898,19635
665577,259,"So stands this squire
Officed with me: we two will walk, my lord,
And leave you to your graver steps. Hermione,
How thou lovest us, show in our brother's welcome;
Let what is dear in Sicily be cheap:
Next to thyself and my young rover, he's
Apparent to my heart.",667,19635
665578,266,"If you would seek us,
We are yours i' the garden: shall's attend you there?",584,19635
665579,268,"To your own bents dispose you: you'll be found,
Be you beneath the sky.
[Aside]
I am angling now,
Though you perceive me not how I give line.
Go to, go to!
How she holds up the neb, the bill to him!
And arms her with the boldness of a wife
To her allowing husband!
[Exeunt POLIXENES, HERMIONE, and Attendants]
Gone already!
Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and
ears a fork'd one!
Go, play, boy, play: thy mother plays, and I
Play too, but so disgraced a part, whose issue
Will hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamour
Will be my knell. Go, play, boy, play.
There have been,
Or I am much deceived, cuckolds ere now;
And many a man there is, even at this present,
Now while I speak this, holds his wife by the arm,
That little thinks she has been sluiced in's absence
And his pond fish'd by his next neighbour, by
Sir Smile, his neighbour: nay, there's comfort in't
Whiles other men have gates and those gates open'd,
As mine, against their will. Should all despair
That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind
Would hang themselves. Physic for't there is none;
It is a bawdy planet, that will strike
Where 'tis predominant; and 'tis powerful, think it,
From east, west, north and south: be it concluded,
No barricado for a belly; know't;
It will let in and out the enemy
With bag and baggage: many thousand on's
Have the disease, and feel't not. How now, boy!",667,19635
665580,303,"I am like you, they say.",729,19635
665581,304,"Why that's some comfort. What, Camillo there?",667,19635
665582,305,"Ay, my good lord.",211,19635
665583,306,"Go play, Mamillius; thou'rt an honest man.
[Exit MAMILLIUS]
Camillo, this great sir will yet stay longer.",667,19635
665584,309,"You had much ado to make his anchor hold:
When you cast out, it still came home.",211,19635
665585,311,Didst note it?,667,19635
665586,312,"He would not stay at your petitions: made
His business more material.",211,19635
665587,314,"Didst perceive it?
[Aside]
They're here with me already, whispering, rounding
'Sicilia is a so-forth:' 'tis far gone,
When I shall gust it last. How came't, Camillo,
That he did stay?",667,19635
665588,320,At the good queen's entreaty.,211,19635
665589,321,"At the queen's be't: 'good' should be pertinent
But, so it is, it is not. Was this taken
By any understanding pate but thine?
For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in
More than the common blocks: not noted, is't,
But of the finer natures? by some severals
Of head-piece extraordinary? lower messes
Perchance are to this business purblind? say.",667,19635
665590,329,"Business, my lord! I think most understand
Bohemia stays here longer.",211,19635
665591,331,Ha!,667,19635
665592,332,Stays here longer.,211,19635
665593,333,"Ay, but why?",667,19635
665594,334,"To satisfy your highness and the entreaties
Of our most gracious mistress.",211,19635
665595,336,"Satisfy!
The entreaties of your mistress! satisfy!
Let that suffice. I have trusted thee, Camillo,
With all the nearest things to my heart, as well
My chamber-councils, wherein, priest-like, thou
Hast cleansed my bosom, I from thee departed
Thy penitent reform'd: but we have been
Deceived in thy integrity, deceived
In that which seems so.",667,19635
665596,345,"Be it forbid, my lord!",211,19635
665597,346,"To bide upon't, thou art not honest, or,
If thou inclinest that way, thou art a coward,
Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining
From course required; or else thou must be counted
A servant grafted in my serious trust
And therein negligent; or else a fool
That seest a game play'd home, the rich stake drawn,
And takest it all for jest.",667,19635
665598,354,"My gracious lord,
I may be negligent, foolish and fearful;
In every one of these no man is free,
But that his negligence, his folly, fear,
Among the infinite doings of the world,
Sometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord,
If ever I were wilful-negligent,
It was my folly; if industriously
I play'd the fool, it was my negligence,
Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful
To do a thing, where I the issue doubted,
Where of the execution did cry out
Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear
Which oft infects the wisest: these, my lord,
Are such allow'd infirmities that honesty
Is never free of. But, beseech your grace,
Be plainer with me; let me know my trespass
By its own visage: if I then deny it,
'Tis none of mine.",211,19635
665599,373,"Ha' not you seen, Camillo,--
But that's past doubt, you have, or your eye-glass
Is thicker than a cuckold's horn,--or heard,--
For to a vision so apparent rumour
Cannot be mute,--or thought,--for cogitation
Resides not in that man that does not think,--
My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess,
Or else be impudently negative,
To have nor eyes nor ears nor thought, then say
My wife's a hobby-horse, deserves a name
As rank as any flax-wench that puts to
Before her troth-plight: say't and justify't.",667,19635
665600,385,"I would not be a stander-by to hear
My sovereign mistress clouded so, without
My present vengeance taken: 'shrew my heart,
You never spoke what did become you less
Than this; which to reiterate were sin
As deep as that, though true.",211,19635
665601,391,"Is whispering nothing?
Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses?
Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career
Of laughing with a sigh?--a note infallible
Of breaking honesty--horsing foot on foot?
Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift?
Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all eyes
Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only,
That would unseen be wicked? is this nothing?
Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing;
The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing;
My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings,
If this be nothing.",667,19635
665602,404,"Good my lord, be cured
Of this diseased opinion, and betimes;
For 'tis most dangerous.",211,19635
665603,407,"Say it be, 'tis true.",667,19635
665604,408,"No, no, my lord.",211,19635
665605,409,"It is; you lie, you lie:
I say thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee,
Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave,
Or else a hovering temporizer, that
Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
Inclining to them both: were my wife's liver
Infected as her life, she would not live
The running of one glass.",667,19635
665606,417,Who does infect her?,211,19635
665607,418,"Why, he that wears her like a medal, hanging
About his neck, Bohemia: who, if I
Had servants true about me, that bare eyes
To see alike mine honour as their profits,
Their own particular thrifts, they would do that
Which should undo more doing: ay, and thou,
His cupbearer,--whom I from meaner form
Have benched and reared to worship, who mayst see
Plainly as heaven sees earth and earth sees heaven,
How I am galled,--mightst bespice a cup,
To give mine enemy a lasting wink;
Which draught to me were cordial.",667,19635
665608,430,"Sir, my lord,
I could do this, and that with no rash potion,
But with a lingering dram that should not work
Maliciously like poison: but I cannot
Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress,
So sovereignly being honourable.
I have loved thee,--",211,19635
665609,437,"Make that thy question, and go rot!
Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled,
To appoint myself in this vexation, sully
The purity and whiteness of my sheets,
Which to preserve is sleep, which being spotted
Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps,
Give scandal to the blood o' the prince my son,
Who I do think is mine and love as mine,
Without ripe moving to't? Would I do this?
Could man so blench?",667,19635
665610,447,"I must believe you, sir:
I do; and will fetch off Bohemia for't;
Provided that, when he's removed, your highness
Will take again your queen as yours at first,
Even for your son's sake; and thereby for sealing
The injury of tongues in courts and kingdoms
Known and allied to yours.",211,19635
665611,454,"Thou dost advise me
Even so as I mine own course have set down:
I'll give no blemish to her honour, none.",667,19635
665612,457,"My lord,
Go then; and with a countenance as clear
As friendship wears at feasts, keep with Bohemia
And with your queen. I am his cupbearer:
If from me he have wholesome beverage,
Account me not your servant.",211,19635
665613,463,"This is all:
Do't and thou hast the one half of my heart;
Do't not, thou split'st thine own.",667,19635
665614,466,"I'll do't, my lord.",211,19635
665615,467,"I will seem friendly, as thou hast advised me.",667,19635
665616,468,[Exit],1261,19635
665617,469,"O miserable lady! But, for me,
What case stand I in? I must be the poisoner
Of good Polixenes; and my ground to do't
Is the obedience to a master, one
Who in rebellion with himself will have
All that are his so too. To do this deed,
Promotion follows. If I could find example
Of thousands that had struck anointed kings
And flourish'd after, I'ld not do't; but since
Nor brass nor stone nor parchment bears not one,
Let villany itself forswear't. I must
Forsake the court: to do't, or no, is certain
To me a break-neck. Happy star, reign now!
Here comes Bohemia.",211,19635
665618,483,[Re-enter POLIXENES],1261,19635
665619,484,"This is strange: methinks
My favour here begins to warp. Not speak?
Good day, Camillo.",898,19635
665620,487,"Hail, most royal sir!",211,19635
665621,488,What is the news i' the court?,898,19635
665622,489,"None rare, my lord.",211,19635
665623,490,"The king hath on him such a countenance
As he had lost some province and a region
Loved as he loves himself: even now I met him
With customary compliment; when he,
Wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling
A lip of much contempt, speeds from me and
So leaves me to consider what is breeding
That changeth thus his manners.",898,19635
665624,498,"I dare not know, my lord.",211,19635
665625,499,"How! dare not! do not. Do you know, and dare not?
Be intelligent to me: 'tis thereabouts;
For, to yourself, what you do know, you must.
And cannot say, you dare not. Good Camillo,
Your changed complexions are to me a mirror
Which shows me mine changed too; for I must be
A party in this alteration, finding
Myself thus alter'd with 't.",898,19635
665626,507,"There is a sickness
Which puts some of us in distemper, but
I cannot name the disease; and it is caught
Of you that yet are well.",211,19635
665627,511,"How! caught of me!
Make me not sighted like the basilisk:
I have look'd on thousands, who have sped the better
By my regard, but kill'd none so. Camillo,--
As you are certainly a gentleman, thereto
Clerk-like experienced, which no less adorns
Our gentry than our parents' noble names,
In whose success we are gentle,--I beseech you,
If you know aught which does behove my knowledge
Thereof to be inform'd, imprison't not
In ignorant concealment.",898,19635
665628,522,I may not answer.,211,19635
665629,523,"A sickness caught of me, and yet I well!
I must be answer'd. Dost thou hear, Camillo,
I conjure thee, by all the parts of man
Which honour does acknowledge, whereof the least
Is not this suit of mine, that thou declare
What incidency thou dost guess of harm
Is creeping toward me; how far off, how near;
Which way to be prevented, if to be;
If not, how best to bear it.",898,19635
665630,532,"Sir, I will tell you;
Since I am charged in honour and by him
That I think honourable: therefore mark my counsel,
Which must be even as swiftly follow'd as
I mean to utter it, or both yourself and me
Cry lost, and so good night!",211,19635
665631,538,"On, good Camillo.",898,19635
665632,539,I am appointed him to murder you.,211,19635
665633,540,"By whom, Camillo?",898,19635
665634,541,By the king.,211,19635
665635,542,For what?,898,19635
665636,543,"He thinks, nay, with all confidence he swears,
As he had seen't or been an instrument
To vice you to't, that you have touch'd his queen
Forbiddenly.",211,19635
665637,547,"O, then my best blood turn
To an infected jelly and my name
Be yoked with his that did betray the Best!
Turn then my freshest reputation to
A savour that may strike the dullest nostril
Where I arrive, and my approach be shunn'd,
Nay, hated too, worse than the great'st infection
That e'er was heard or read!",898,19635
665638,555,"Swear his thought over
By each particular star in heaven and
By all their influences, you may as well
Forbid the sea for to obey the moon
As or by oath remove or counsel shake
The fabric of his folly, whose foundation
Is piled upon his faith and will continue
The standing of his body.",211,19635
665639,563,How should this grow?,898,19635
665640,564,"I know not: but I am sure 'tis safer to
Avoid what's grown than question how 'tis born.
If therefore you dare trust my honesty,
That lies enclosed in this trunk which you
Shall bear along impawn'd, away to-night!
Your followers I will whisper to the business,
And will by twos and threes at several posterns
Clear them o' the city. For myself, I'll put
My fortunes to your service, which are here
By this discovery lost. Be not uncertain;
For, by the honour of my parents, I
Have utter'd truth: which if you seek to prove,
I dare not stand by; nor shall you be safer
Than one condemn'd by the king's own mouth, thereon
His execution sworn.",211,19635
665641,579,"I do believe thee:
I saw his heart in 's face. Give me thy hand:
Be pilot to me and thy places shall
Still neighbour mine. My ships are ready and
My people did expect my hence departure
Two days ago. This jealousy
Is for a precious creature: as she's rare,
Must it be great, and as his person's mighty,
Must it be violent, and as he does conceive
He is dishonour'd by a man which ever
Profess'd to him, why, his revenges must
In that be made more bitter. Fear o'ershades me:
Good expedition be my friend, and comfort
The gracious queen, part of his theme, but nothing
Of his ill-ta'en suspicion! Come, Camillo;
I will respect thee as a father if
Thou bear'st my life off hence: let us avoid.",898,19635
665642,596,"It is in mine authority to command
The keys of all the posterns: please your highness
To take the urgent hour. Come, sir, away.",211,19635
665643,599,[Exeunt],1261,19635
665644,602,"[Enter HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, and Ladies]",1261,19636
665645,603,"Take the boy to you: he so troubles me,
'Tis past enduring.",584,19636
665646,605,"Come, my gracious lord,
Shall I be your playfellow?",432,19636
665647,607,"No, I'll none of you.",729,19636
665648,608,"Why, my sweet lord?",432,19636
665649,609,"You'll kiss me hard and speak to me as if
I were a baby still. I love you better.",729,19636
665650,611,"And why so, my lord?",1000,19636
665651,612,"Not for because
Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say,
Become some women best, so that there be not
Too much hair there, but in a semicircle
Or a half-moon made with a pen.",729,19636
665652,617,Who taught you this?,1000,19636
665653,618,"I learnt it out of women's faces. Pray now
What colour are your eyebrows?",729,19636
665654,620,"Blue, my lord.",432,19636
665655,621,"Nay, that's a mock: I have seen a lady's nose
That has been blue, but not her eyebrows.",729,19636
665656,623,"Hark ye;
The queen your mother rounds apace: we shall
Present our services to a fine new prince
One of these days; and then you'ld wanton with us,
If we would have you.",432,19636
665657,628,"She is spread of late
Into a goodly bulk: good time encounter her!",1000,19636
665658,630,"What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, sir, now
I am for you again: pray you, sit by us,
And tell 's a tale.",584,19636
665659,633,Merry or sad shall't be?,729,19636
665660,634,As merry as you will.,584,19636
665661,635,"A sad tale's best for winter: I have one
Of sprites and goblins.",729,19636
665662,637,"Let's have that, good sir.
Come on, sit down: come on, and do your best
To fright me with your sprites; you're powerful at it.",584,19636
665663,640,There was a man--,729,19636
665664,641,"Nay, come, sit down; then on.",584,19636
665665,642,"Dwelt by a churchyard: I will tell it softly;
Yond crickets shall not hear it.",729,19636
665666,644,"Come on, then,
And give't me in mine ear.",584,19636
665667,646,"[Enter LEONTES, with ANTIGONUS, Lords and others]",1261,19636
665668,647,Was he met there? his train? Camillo with him?,667,19636
665669,648,"Behind the tuft of pines I met them; never
Saw I men scour so on their way: I eyed them
Even to their ships.",440,19636
665670,651,"How blest am I
In my just censure, in my true opinion!
Alack, for lesser knowledge! how accursed
In being so blest! There may be in the cup
A spider steep'd, and one may drink, depart,
And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
Is not infected: but if one present
The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known
How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,
With violent hefts. I have drunk,
and seen the spider.
Camillo was his help in this, his pander:
There is a plot against my life, my crown;
All's true that is mistrusted: that false villain
Whom I employ'd was pre-employ'd by him:
He has discover'd my design, and I
Remain a pinch'd thing; yea, a very trick
For them to play at will. How came the posterns
So easily open?",667,19636
665671,670,"By his great authority;
Which often hath no less prevail'd than so
On your command.",440,19636
665672,673,"I know't too well.
Give me the boy: I am glad you did not nurse him:
Though he does bear some signs of me, yet you
Have too much blood in him.",667,19636
665673,677,What is this? sport?,584,19636
665674,678,"Bear the boy hence; he shall not come about her;
Away with him! and let her sport herself
With that she's big with; for 'tis Polixenes
Has made thee swell thus.",667,19636
665675,682,"But I'ld say he had not,
And I'll be sworn you would believe my saying,
Howe'er you lean to the nayward.",584,19636
665676,685,"You, my lords,
Look on her, mark her well; be but about
To say 'she is a goodly lady,' and
The justice of your bearts will thereto add
'Tis pity she's not honest, honourable:'
Praise her but for this her without-door form,
Which on my faith deserves high speech, and straight
The shrug, the hum or ha, these petty brands
That calumny doth use--O, I am out--
That mercy does, for calumny will sear
Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums and ha's,
When you have said 'she's goodly,' come between
Ere you can say 'she's honest:' but be 't known,
From him that has most cause to grieve it should be,
She's an adulteress.",667,19636
665677,700,"Should a villain say so,
The most replenish'd villain in the world,
He were as much more villain: you, my lord,
Do but mistake.",584,19636
665678,704,"You have mistook, my lady,
Polixenes for Leontes: O thou thing!
Which I'll not call a creature of thy place,
Lest barbarism, making me the precedent,
Should a like language use to all degrees
And mannerly distinguishment leave out
Betwixt the prince and beggar: I have said
She's an adulteress; I have said with whom:
More, she's a traitor and Camillo is
A federary with her, and one that knows
What she should shame to know herself
But with her most vile principal, that she's
A bed-swerver, even as bad as those
That vulgars give bold'st titles, ay, and privy
To this their late escape.",667,19636
665679,719,"No, by my life.
Privy to none of this. How will this grieve you,
When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that
You thus have publish'd me! Gentle my lord,
You scarce can right me throughly then to say
You did mistake.",584,19636
665680,725,"No; if I mistake
In those foundations which I build upon,
The centre is not big enough to bear
A school-boy's top. Away with her! to prison!
He who shall speak for her is afar off guilty
But that he speaks.",667,19636
665681,731,"There's some ill planet reigns:
I must be patient till the heavens look
With an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,
I am not prone to weeping, as our sex
Commonly are; the want of which vain dew
Perchance shall dry your pities: but I have
That honourable grief lodged here which burns
Worse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,
With thoughts so qualified as your charities
Shall best instruct you, measure me; and so
The king's will be perform'd!",584,19636
665682,742,Shall I be heard?,667,19636
665683,743,"Who is't that goes with me? Beseech your highness,
My women may be with me; for you see
My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools;
There is no cause: when you shall know your mistress
Has deserved prison, then abound in tears
As I come out: this action I now go on
Is for my better grace. Adieu, my lord:
I never wish'd to see you sorry; now
I trust I shall. My women, come; you have leave.",584,19636
665684,752,"Go, do our bidding; hence!",667,19636
665685,753,"[Exit HERMIONE, guarded; with Ladies]",1261,19636
665686,754,"Beseech your highness, call the queen again.",440,19636
665687,755,"Be certain what you do, sir, lest your justice
Prove violence; in the which three great ones suffer,
Yourself, your queen, your son.",110,19636
665688,758,"For her, my lord,
I dare my life lay down and will do't, sir,
Please you to accept it, that the queen is spotless
I' the eyes of heaven and to you; I mean,
In this which you accuse her.",440,19636
665689,763,"If it prove
She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where
I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her;
Than when I feel and see her no farther trust her;
For every inch of woman in the world,
Ay, every dram of woman's flesh is false, If she be.",110,19636
665690,769,Hold your peaces.,667,19636
665691,770,"Good my lord,--",440,19636
665692,771,"It is for you we speak, not for ourselves:
You are abused and by some putter-on
That will be damn'd for't; would I knew the villain,
I would land-damn him. Be she honour-flaw'd,
I have three daughters; the eldest is eleven
The second and the third, nine, and some five;
If this prove true, they'll pay for't:
by mine honour,
I'll geld 'em all; fourteen they shall not see,
To bring false generations: they are co-heirs;
And I had rather glib myself than they
Should not produce fair issue.",110,19636
665693,783,"Cease; no more.
You smell this business with a sense as cold
As is a dead man's nose: but I do see't and feel't
As you feel doing thus; and see withal
The instruments that feel.",667,19636
665694,788,"If it be so,
We need no grave to bury honesty:
There's not a grain of it the face to sweeten
Of the whole dungy earth.",110,19636
665695,792,What! lack I credit?,667,19636
665696,793,"I had rather you did lack than I, my lord,
Upon this ground; and more it would content me
To have her honour true than your suspicion,
Be blamed for't how you might.",440,19636
665697,797,"Why, what need we
Commune with you of this, but rather follow
Our forceful instigation? Our prerogative
Calls not your counsels, but our natural goodness
Imparts this; which if you, or stupefied
Or seeming so in skill, cannot or will not
Relish a truth like us, inform yourselves
We need no more of your advice: the matter,
The loss, the gain, the ordering on't, is all
Properly ours.",667,19636
665698,807,"And I wish, my liege,
You had only in your silent judgment tried it,
Without more overture.",110,19636
665699,810,"How could that be?
Either thou art most ignorant by age,
Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight,
Added to their familiarity,
Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture,
That lack'd sight only, nought for approbation
But only seeing, all other circumstances
Made up to the deed, doth push on this proceeding:
Yet, for a greater confirmation,
For in an act of this importance 'twere
Most piteous to be wild, I have dispatch'd in post
To sacred Delphos, to Apollo's temple,
Cleomenes and Dion, whom you know
Of stuff'd sufficiency: now from the oracle
They will bring all; whose spiritual counsel had,
Shall stop or spur me. Have I done well?",667,19636
665700,826,"Well done, my lord.",440,19636
665701,827,"Though I am satisfied and need no more
Than what I know, yet shall the oracle
Give rest to the minds of others, such as he
Whose ignorant credulity will not
Come up to the truth. So have we thought it good
From our free person she should be confined,
Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence
Be left her to perform. Come, follow us;
We are to speak in public; for this business
Will raise us all.",667,19636
665702,837,"[Aside]
To laughter, as I take it,
If the good truth were known.",110,19636
665703,840,[Exeunt],1261,19636
665704,843,"[Enter PAULINA, a Gentleman, and Attendants]",1261,19637
665705,844,"The keeper of the prison, call to him;
let him have knowledge who I am.
[Exit Gentleman]
Good lady,
No court in Europe is too good for thee;
What dost thou then in prison?
[Re-enter Gentleman, with the Gaoler]
Now, good sir,
You know me, do you not?",866,19637
665706,853,"For a worthy lady
And one whom much I honour.",511,19637
665707,855,"Pray you then,
Conduct me to the queen.",866,19637
665708,857,"I may not, madam:
To the contrary I have express commandment.",511,19637
665709,859,"Here's ado,
To lock up honesty and honour from
The access of gentle visitors!
Is't lawful, pray you,
To see her women? any of them? Emilia?",866,19637
665710,864,"So please you, madam,
To put apart these your attendants, I
Shall bring Emilia forth.",511,19637
665711,867,"I pray now, call her.
Withdraw yourselves.",866,19637
665712,869,[Exeunt Gentleman and Attendants],1261,19637
665713,870,"And, madam,
I must be present at your conference.",511,19637
665714,872,"Well, be't so, prithee.
[Exit Gaoler]
Here's such ado to make no stain a stain
As passes colouring.
[Re-enter Gaoler, with EMILIA]
Dear gentlewoman,
How fares our gracious lady?",866,19637
665715,879,"As well as one so great and so forlorn
May hold together: on her frights and griefs,
Which never tender lady hath born greater,
She is something before her time deliver'd.",380,19637
665716,883,A boy?,866,19637
665717,884,"A daughter, and a goodly babe,
Lusty and like to live: the queen receives
Much comfort in't; says 'My poor prisoner,
I am innocent as you.'",380,19637
665718,888,"I dare be sworn
These dangerous unsafe lunes i' the king,
beshrew them!
He must be told on't, and he shall: the office
Becomes a woman best; I'll take't upon me:
If I prove honey-mouth'd let my tongue blister
And never to my red-look'd anger be
The trumpet any more. Pray you, Emilia,
Commend my best obedience to the queen:
If she dares trust me with her little babe,
I'll show't the king and undertake to be
Her advocate to the loud'st. We do not know
How he may soften at the sight o' the child:
The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades when speaking fails.",866,19637
665719,903,"Most worthy madam,
Your honour and your goodness is so evident
That your free undertaking cannot miss
A thriving issue: there is no lady living
So meet for this great errand. Please your ladyship
To visit the next room, I'll presently
Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer;
Who but to-day hammer'd of this design,
But durst not tempt a minister of honour,
Lest she should be denied.",380,19637
665720,913,"Tell her, Emilia.
I'll use that tongue I have: if wit flow from't
As boldness from my bosom, let 't not be doubted
I shall do good.",866,19637
665721,917,"Now be you blest for it!
I'll to the queen: please you,
come something nearer.",380,19637
665722,920,"Madam, if't please the queen to send the babe,
I know not what I shall incur to pass it,
Having no warrant.",511,19637
665723,923,"You need not fear it, sir:
This child was prisoner to the womb and is
By law and process of great nature thence
Freed and enfranchised, not a party to
The anger of the king nor guilty of,
If any be, the trespass of the queen.",866,19637
665724,929,I do believe it.,511,19637
665725,930,"Do not you fear: upon mine honour,
I will stand betwixt you and danger.",866,19637
665726,932,[Exeunt],1261,19637
665727,935,"[Enter LEONTES, ANTIGONUS, Lords, and Servants]",1261,19638
665728,936,"Nor night nor day no rest: it is but weakness
To bear the matter thus; mere weakness. If
The cause were not in being,--part o' the cause,
She the adulteress; for the harlot king
Is quite beyond mine arm, out of the blank
And level of my brain, plot-proof; but she
I can hook to me: say that she were gone,
Given to the fire, a moiety of my rest
Might come to me again. Who's there?",667,19638
665729,945,My lord?,463,19638
665730,946,How does the boy?,667,19638
665731,947,"He took good rest to-night;
'Tis hoped his sickness is discharged.",463,19638
665732,949,"To see his nobleness!
Conceiving the dishonour of his mother,
He straight declined, droop'd, took it deeply,
Fasten'd and fix'd the shame on't in himself,
Threw off his spirit, his appetite, his sleep,
And downright languish'd. Leave me solely: go,
See how he fares.
[Exit Servant]
Fie, fie! no thought of him:
The thought of my revenges that way
Recoil upon me: in himself too mighty,
And in his parties, his alliance; let him be
Until a time may serve: for present vengeance,
Take it on her. Camillo and Polixenes
Laugh at me, make their pastime at my sorrow:
They should not laugh if I could reach them, nor
Shall she within my power.",667,19638
665733,966,"[Enter PAULINA, with a child]",1261,19638
665734,967,You must not enter.,440,19638
665735,968,"Nay, rather, good my lords, be second to me:
Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas,
Than the queen's life? a gracious innocent soul,
More free than he is jealous.",866,19638
665736,972,That's enough.,110,19638
665737,973,"Madam, he hath not slept tonight; commanded
None should come at him.",1031,19638
665738,975,"Not so hot, good sir:
I come to bring him sleep. 'Tis such as you,
That creep like shadows by him and do sigh
At each his needless heavings, such as you
Nourish the cause of his awaking: I
Do come with words as medicinal as true,
Honest as either, to purge him of that humour
That presses him from sleep.",866,19638
665739,983,"What noise there, ho?",667,19638
665740,984,"No noise, my lord; but needful conference
About some gossips for your highness.",866,19638
665741,986,"How!
Away with that audacious lady! Antigonus,
I charged thee that she should not come about me:
I knew she would.",667,19638
665742,990,"I told her so, my lord,
On your displeasure's peril and on mine,
She should not visit you.",110,19638
665743,993,"What, canst not rule her?",667,19638
665744,994,"From all dishonesty he can: in this,
Unless he take the course that you have done,
Commit me for committing honour, trust it,
He shall not rule me.",866,19638
665745,998,"La you now, you hear:
When she will take the rein I let her run;
But she'll not stumble.",110,19638
665746,1001,"Good my liege, I come;
And, I beseech you, hear me, who profess
Myself your loyal servant, your physician,
Your most obedient counsellor, yet that dare
Less appear so in comforting your evils,
Than such as most seem yours: I say, I come
From your good queen.",866,19638
665747,1008,Good queen!,667,19638
665748,1009,"Good queen, my lord,
Good queen; I say good queen;
And would by combat make her good, so were I
A man, the worst about you.",866,19638
665749,1013,Force her hence.,667,19638
665750,1014,"Let him that makes but trifles of his eyes
First hand me: on mine own accord I'll off;
But first I'll do my errand. The good queen,
For she is good, hath brought you forth a daughter;
Here 'tis; commends it to your blessing.",866,19638
665751,1019,[Laying down the child],1261,19638
665752,1020,"Out!
A mankind witch! Hence with her, out o' door:
A most intelligencing bawd!",667,19638
665753,1023,"Not so:
I am as ignorant in that as you
In so entitling me, and no less honest
Than you are mad; which is enough, I'll warrant,
As this world goes, to pass for honest.",866,19638
665754,1028,"Traitors!
Will you not push her out? Give her the bastard.
Thou dotard! thou art woman-tired, unroosted
By thy dame Partlet here. Take up the bastard;
Take't up, I say; give't to thy crone.",667,19638
665755,1033,"For ever
Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou
Takest up the princess by that forced baseness
Which he has put upon't!",866,19638
665756,1037,He dreads his wife.,667,19638
665757,1038,"So I would you did; then 'twere past all doubt
You'ld call your children yours.",866,19638
665758,1040,A nest of traitors!,667,19638
665759,1041,"I am none, by this good light.",110,19638
665760,1042,"Nor I, nor any
But one that's here, and that's himself, for he
The sacred honour of himself, his queen's,
His hopeful son's, his babe's, betrays to slander,
Whose sting is sharper than the sword's;
and will not--
For, as the case now stands, it is a curse
He cannot be compell'd to't--once remove
The root of his opinion, which is rotten
As ever oak or stone was sound.",866,19638
665761,1052,"A callat
Of boundless tongue, who late hath beat her husband
And now baits me! This brat is none of mine;
It is the issue of Polixenes:
Hence with it, and together with the dam
Commit them to the fire!",667,19638
665762,1058,"It is yours;
And, might we lay the old proverb to your charge,
So like you, 'tis the worse. Behold, my lords,
Although the print be little, the whole matter
And copy of the father, eye, nose, lip,
The trick of's frown, his forehead, nay, the valley,
The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek,
His smiles,
The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger:
And thou, good goddess Nature, which hast made it
So like to him that got it, if thou hast
The ordering of the mind too, 'mongst all colours
No yellow in't, lest she suspect, as he does,
Her children not her husband's!",866,19638
665763,1072,"A gross hag
And, lozel, thou art worthy to be hang'd,
That wilt not stay her tongue.",667,19638
665764,1075,"Hang all the husbands
That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself
Hardly one subject.",110,19638
665765,1078,"Once more, take her hence.",667,19638
665766,1079,"A most unworthy and unnatural lord
Can do no more.",866,19638
665767,1081,I'll ha' thee burnt.,667,19638
665768,1082,"I care not:
It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in't. I'll not call you tyrant;
But this most cruel usage of your queen,
Not able to produce more accusation
Than your own weak-hinged fancy, something savours
Of tyranny and will ignoble make you,
Yea, scandalous to the world.",866,19638
665769,1090,"On your allegiance,
Out of the chamber with her! Were I a tyrant,
Where were her life? she durst not call me so,
If she did know me one. Away with her!",667,19638
665770,1094,"I pray you, do not push me; I'll be gone.
Look to your babe, my lord; 'tis yours:
Jove send her
A better guiding spirit! What needs these hands?
You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies,
Will never do him good, not one of you.
So, so: farewell; we are gone.",866,19638
665771,1101,[Exit],1261,19638
665772,1102,"Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this.
My child? away with't! Even thou, that hast
A heart so tender o'er it, take it hence
And see it instantly consumed with fire;
Even thou and none but thou. Take it up straight:
Within this hour bring me word 'tis done,
And by good testimony, or I'll seize thy life,
With what thou else call'st thine. If thou refuse
And wilt encounter with my wrath, say so;
The bastard brains with these my proper hands
Shall I dash out. Go, take it to the fire;
For thou set'st on thy wife.",667,19638
665773,1114,"I did not, sir:
These lords, my noble fellows, if they please,
Can clear me in't.",110,19638
665774,1117,"We can: my royal liege,
He is not guilty of her coming hither.",701,19638
665775,1119,You're liars all.,667,19638
665776,1120,"Beseech your highness, give us better credit:
We have always truly served you, and beseech you
So to esteem of us, and on our knees we beg,
As recompense of our dear services
Past and to come, that you do change this purpose,
Which being so horrible, so bloody, must
Lead on to some foul issue: we all kneel.",440,19638
665777,1127,"I am a feather for each wind that blows:
Shall I live on to see this bastard kneel
And call me father? better burn it now
Than curse it then. But be it; let it live.
It shall not neither. You, sir, come you hither;
You that have been so tenderly officious
With Lady Margery, your midwife there,
To save this bastard's life,--for 'tis a bastard,
So sure as this beard's grey,
--what will you adventure
To save this brat's life?",667,19638
665778,1138,"Any thing, my lord,
That my ability may undergo
And nobleness impose: at least thus much:
I'll pawn the little blood which I have left
To save the innocent: any thing possible.",110,19638
665779,1143,"It shall be possible. Swear by this sword
Thou wilt perform my bidding.",667,19638
665780,1145,"I will, my lord.",110,19638
665781,1146,"Mark and perform it, see'st thou! for the fail
Of any point in't shall not only be
Death to thyself but to thy lewd-tongued wife,
Whom for this time we pardon. We enjoin thee,
As thou art liege-man to us, that thou carry
This female bastard hence and that thou bear it
To some remote and desert place quite out
Of our dominions, and that there thou leave it,
Without more mercy, to its own protection
And favour of the climate. As by strange fortune
It came to us, I do in justice charge thee,
On thy soul's peril and thy body's torture,
That thou commend it strangely to some place
Where chance may nurse or end it. Take it up.",667,19638
665782,1160,"I swear to do this, though a present death
Had been more merciful. Come on, poor babe:
Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens
To be thy nurses! Wolves and bears, they say
Casting their savageness aside have done
Like offices of pity. Sir, be prosperous
In more than this deed does require! And blessing
Against this cruelty fight on thy side,
Poor thing, condemn'd to loss!",110,19638
665783,1169,[Exit with the child],1261,19638
665784,1170,"No, I'll not rear
Another's issue.",667,19638
665785,1172,[Enter a Servant],1261,19638
665786,1173,"Please your highness, posts
From those you sent to the oracle are come
An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion,
Being well arrived from Delphos, are both landed,
Hasting to the court.",1077,19638
665787,1178,"So please you, sir, their speed
Hath been beyond account.",440,19638
665788,1180,"Twenty-three days
They have been absent: 'tis good speed; foretells
The great Apollo suddenly will have
The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords;
Summon a session, that we may arraign
Our most disloyal lady, for, as she hath
Been publicly accused, so shall she have
A just and open trial. While she lives
My heart will be a burthen to me. Leave me,
And think upon my bidding.",667,19638
665789,1190,[Exeunt],1261,19638
665790,1193,[Enter CLEOMENES and DION],1261,19639
665791,1194,"The climate's delicate, the air most sweet,
Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing
The common praise it bears.",260,19639
665792,1197,"I shall report,
For most it caught me, the celestial habits,
Methinks I so should term them, and the reverence
Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice!
How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly
It was i' the offering!",317,19639
665793,1203,"But of all, the burst
And the ear-deafening voice o' the oracle,
Kin to Jove's thunder, so surprised my sense.
That I was nothing.",260,19639
665794,1207,"If the event o' the journey
Prove as successful to the queen,--O be't so!--
As it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy,
The time is worth the use on't.",317,19639
665795,1211,"Great Apollo
Turn all to the best! These proclamations,
So forcing faults upon Hermione,
I little like.",260,19639
665796,1215,"The violent carriage of it
Will clear or end the business: when the oracle,
Thus by Apollo's great divine seal'd up,
Shall the contents discover, something rare
Even then will rush to knowledge. Go: fresh horses!
And gracious be the issue!",317,19639
665797,1221,[Exeunt],1261,19639
665798,1224,"[Enter LEONTES, Lords, and Officers]",1261,19640
665799,1225,"This sessions, to our great grief we pronounce,
Even pushes 'gainst our heart: the party tried
The daughter of a king, our wife, and one
Of us too much beloved. Let us be clear'd
Of being tyrannous, since we so openly
Proceed in justice, which shall have due course,
Even to the guilt or the purgation.
Produce the prisoner.",667,19640
665800,1233,"It is his highness' pleasure that the queen
Appear in person here in court. Silence!
[Enter HERMIONE guarded;]
PAULINA and Ladies attending]",828,19640
665801,1237,Read the indictment.,667,19640
665802,1238,"[Reads] Hermione, queen to the worthy
Leontes, king of Sicilia, thou art here accused and
arraigned of high treason, in committing adultery
with Polixenes, king of Bohemia, and conspiring
with Camillo to take away the life of our sovereign
lord the king, thy royal husband: the pretence
whereof being by circumstances partly laid open,
thou, Hermione, contrary to the faith and allegiance
of a true subject, didst counsel and aid them, for
their better safety, to fly away by night.",828,19640
665803,1248,"Since what I am to say must be but that
Which contradicts my accusation and
The testimony on my part no other
But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me
To say 'not guilty:' mine integrity
Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it,
Be so received. But thus: if powers divine
Behold our human actions, as they do,
I doubt not then but innocence shall make
False accusation blush and tyranny
Tremble at patience. You, my lord, best know,
Who least will seem to do so, my past life
Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,
As I am now unhappy; which is more
Than history can pattern, though devised
And play'd to take spectators. For behold me
A fellow of the royal bed, which owe
A moiety of the throne a great king's daughter,
The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing
To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore
Who please to come and hear. For life, I prize it
As I weigh grief, which I would spare: for honour,
'Tis a derivative from me to mine,
And only that I stand for. I appeal
To your own conscience, sir, before Polixenes
Came to your court, how I was in your grace,
How merited to be so; since he came,
With what encounter so uncurrent I
Have strain'd to appear thus: if one jot beyond
The bound of honour, or in act or will
That way inclining, harden'd be the hearts
Of all that hear me, and my near'st of kin
Cry fie upon my grave!",584,19640
665804,1281,"I ne'er heard yet
That any of these bolder vices wanted
Less impudence to gainsay what they did
Than to perform it first.",667,19640
665805,1285,"That's true enough;
Through 'tis a saying, sir, not due to me.",584,19640
665806,1287,You will not own it.,667,19640
665807,1288,"More than mistress of
Which comes to me in name of fault, I must not
At all acknowledge. For Polixenes,
With whom I am accused, I do confess
I loved him as in honour he required,
With such a kind of love as might become
A lady like me, with a love even such,
So and no other, as yourself commanded:
Which not to have done I think had been in me
Both disobedience and ingratitude
To you and toward your friend, whose love had spoke,
Even since it could speak, from an infant, freely
That it was yours. Now, for conspiracy,
I know not how it tastes; though it be dish'd
For me to try how: all I know of it
Is that Camillo was an honest man;
And why he left your court, the gods themselves,
Wotting no more than I, are ignorant.",584,19640
665808,1306,"You knew of his departure, as you know
What you have underta'en to do in's absence.",667,19640
665809,1308,"Sir,
You speak a language that I understand not:
My life stands in the level of your dreams,
Which I'll lay down.",584,19640
665810,1312,"Your actions are my dreams;
You had a bastard by Polixenes,
And I but dream'd it. As you were past all shame,--
Those of your fact are so--so past all truth:
Which to deny concerns more than avails; for as
Thy brat hath been cast out, like to itself,
No father owning it,--which is, indeed,
More criminal in thee than it,--so thou
Shalt feel our justice, in whose easiest passage
Look for no less than death.",667,19640
665811,1322,"Sir, spare your threats:
The bug which you would fright me with I seek.
To me can life be no commodity:
The crown and comfort of my life, your favour,
I do give lost; for I do feel it gone,
But know not how it went. My second joy
And first-fruits of my body, from his presence
I am barr'd, like one infectious. My third comfort
Starr'd most unluckily, is from my breast,
The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth,
Haled out to murder: myself on every post
Proclaimed a strumpet: with immodest hatred
The child-bed privilege denied, which 'longs
To women of all fashion; lastly, hurried
Here to this place, i' the open air, before
I have got strength of limit. Now, my liege,
Tell me what blessings I have here alive,
That I should fear to die? Therefore proceed.
But yet hear this: mistake me not; no life,
I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour,
Which I would free, if I shall be condemn'd
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake, I tell you
'Tis rigor and not law. Your honours all,
I do refer me to the oracle:
Apollo be my judge!",584,19640
665812,1348,"This your request
Is altogether just: therefore bring forth,
And in Apollos name, his oracle.",440,19640
665813,1351,[Exeunt certain Officers],1261,19640
665814,1352,"The Emperor of Russia was my father:
O that he were alive, and here beholding
His daughter's trial! that he did but see
The flatness of my misery, yet with eyes
Of pity, not revenge!",584,19640
665815,1357,"[Re-enter Officers, with CLEOMENES and DION]",1261,19640
665816,1358,"You here shall swear upon this sword of justice,
That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have
Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought
The seal'd-up oracle, by the hand deliver'd
Of great Apollo's priest; and that, since then,
You have not dared to break the holy seal
Nor read the secrets in't.",828,19640
665817,1365,[with Dion] All this we swear.,260,19640
665818,1366,Break up the seals and read.,667,19640
665819,1367,"[Reads]. Hermione is chaste;
Polixenes blameless; Camillo a true subject; Leontes
a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe truly begotten;
and the king shall live without an heir, if that
which is lost be not found.",828,19640
665820,1372,Now blessed be the great Apollo!,701,19640
665821,1373,Praised!,584,19640
665822,1374,Hast thou read truth?,667,19640
665823,1375,"Ay, my lord; even so
As it is here set down.",828,19640
665824,1377,"There is no truth at all i' the oracle:
The sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood.",667,19640
665825,1379,[Enter Servant],1261,19640
665826,1380,"My lord the king, the king!",1077,19640
665827,1381,What is the business?,667,19640
665828,1382,"O sir, I shall be hated to report it!
The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear
Of the queen's speed, is gone.",1077,19640
665829,1385,How! gone!,667,19640
665830,1386,Is dead.,1077,19640
665831,1387,"Apollo's angry; and the heavens themselves
Do strike at my injustice.
[HERMIONE swoons]
How now there!",667,19640
665832,1391,"This news is mortal to the queen: look down
And see what death is doing.",866,19640
665833,1393,"Take her hence:
Her heart is but o'ercharged; she will recover:
I have too much believed mine own suspicion:
Beseech you, tenderly apply to her
Some remedies for life.
[Exeunt PAULINA and Ladies, with HERMIONE]
Apollo, pardon
My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle!
I'll reconcile me to Polixenes,
New woo my queen, recall the good Camillo,
Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy;
For, being transported by my jealousies
To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose
Camillo for the minister to poison
My friend Polixenes: which had been done,
But that the good mind of Camillo tardied
My swift command, though I with death and with
Reward did threaten and encourage him,
Not doing 't and being done: he, most humane
And fill'd with honour, to my kingly guest
Unclasp'd my practise, quit his fortunes here,
Which you knew great, and to the hazard
Of all encertainties himself commended,
No richer than his honour: how he glisters
Thorough my rust! and how his pity
Does my deeds make the blacker!",667,19640
665834,1419,[Re-enter PAULINA],1261,19640
665835,1420,"Woe the while!
O, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it,
Break too.",866,19640
665836,1423,"What fit is this, good lady?",440,19640
665837,1424,"What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?
What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling?
In leads or oils? what old or newer torture
Must I receive, whose every word deserves
To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny
Together working with thy jealousies,
Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle
For girls of nine, O, think what they have done
And then run mad indeed, stark mad! for all
Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it.
That thou betray'dst Polixenes,'twas nothing;
That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant
And damnable ingrateful: nor was't much,
Thou wouldst have poison'd good Camillo's honour,
To have him kill a king: poor trespasses,
More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckon
The casting forth to crows thy baby-daughter
To be or none or little; though a devil
Would have shed water out of fire ere done't:
Nor is't directly laid to thee, the death
Of the young prince, whose honourable thoughts,
Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart
That could conceive a gross and foolish sire
Blemish'd his gracious dam: this is not, no,
Laid to thy answer: but the last,--O lords,
When I have said, cry 'woe!' the queen, the queen,
The sweet'st, dear'st creature's dead,
and vengeance for't
Not dropp'd down yet.",866,19640
665838,1453,The higher powers forbid!,440,19640
665839,1454,"I say she's dead; I'll swear't. If word nor oath
Prevail not, go and see: if you can bring
Tincture or lustre in her lip, her eye,
Heat outwardly or breath within, I'll serve you
As I would do the gods. But, O thou tyrant!
Do not repent these things, for they are heavier
Than all thy woes can stir; therefore betake thee
To nothing but despair. A thousand knees
Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting,
Upon a barren mountain and still winter
In storm perpetual, could not move the gods
To look that way thou wert.",866,19640
665840,1466,"Go on, go on
Thou canst not speak too much; I have deserved
All tongues to talk their bitterest.",667,19640
665841,1469,"Say no more:
Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault
I' the boldness of your speech.",440,19640
665842,1472,"I am sorry for't:
All faults I make, when I shall come to know them,
I do repent. Alas! I have show'd too much
The rashness of a woman: he is touch'd
To the noble heart. What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief: do not receive affliction
At my petition; I beseech you, rather
Let me be punish'd, that have minded you
Of what you should forget. Now, good my liege
Sir, royal sir, forgive a foolish woman:
The love I bore your queen--lo, fool again!--
I'll speak of her no more, nor of your children;
I'll not remember you of my own lord,
Who is lost too: take your patience to you,
And I'll say nothing.",866,19640
665843,1487,"Thou didst speak but well
When most the truth; which I receive much better
Than to be pitied of thee. Prithee, bring me
To the dead bodies of my queen and son:
One grave shall be for both: upon them shall
The causes of their death appear, unto
Our shame perpetual. Once a day I'll visit
The chapel where they lie, and tears shed there
Shall be my recreation: so long as nature
Will bear up with this exercise, so long
I daily vow to use it. Come and lead me
Unto these sorrows.",667,19640
665844,1499,[Exeunt],1261,19640
665845,1502,"[Enter ANTIGONUS with a Child, and a Mariner]",1261,19641
665846,1503,"Thou art perfect then, our ship hath touch'd upon
The deserts of Bohemia?",110,19641
665847,1505,"Ay, my lord: and fear
We have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly
And threaten present blusters. In my conscience,
The heavens with that we have in hand are angry
And frown upon 's.",744,19641
665848,1510,"Their sacred wills be done! Go, get aboard;
Look to thy bark: I'll not be long before
I call upon thee.",110,19641
665849,1513,"Make your best haste, and go not
Too far i' the land: 'tis like to be loud weather;
Besides, this place is famous for the creatures
Of prey that keep upon't.",744,19641
665850,1517,"Go thou away:
I'll follow instantly.",110,19641
665851,1519,"I am glad at heart
To be so rid o' the business.",744,19641
665852,1521,[Exit],1261,19641
665853,1522,"Come, poor babe:
I have heard, but not believed,
the spirits o' the dead
May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother
Appear'd to me last night, for ne'er was dream
So like a waking. To me comes a creature,
Sometimes her head on one side, some another;
I never saw a vessel of like sorrow,
So fill'd and so becoming: in pure white robes,
Like very sanctity, she did approach
My cabin where I lay; thrice bow'd before me,
And gasping to begin some speech, her eyes
Became two spouts: the fury spent, anon
Did this break-from her: 'Good Antigonus,
Since fate, against thy better disposition,
Hath made thy person for the thrower-out
Of my poor babe, according to thine oath,
Places remote enough are in Bohemia,
There weep and leave it crying; and, for the babe
Is counted lost for ever, Perdita,
I prithee, call't. For this ungentle business
Put on thee by my lord, thou ne'er shalt see
Thy wife Paulina more.' And so, with shrieks
She melted into air. Affrighted much,
I did in time collect myself and thought
This was so and no slumber. Dreams are toys:
Yet for this once, yea, superstitiously,
I will be squared by this. I do believe
Hermione hath suffer'd death, and that
Apollo would, this being indeed the issue
Of King Polixenes, it should here be laid,
Either for life or death, upon the earth
Of its right father. Blossom, speed thee well!
There lie, and there thy character: there these;
Which may, if fortune please, both breed thee, pretty,
And still rest thine. The storm begins; poor wretch,
That for thy mother's fault art thus exposed
To loss and what may follow! Weep I cannot,
But my heart bleeds; and most accursed am I
To be by oath enjoin'd to this. Farewell!
The day frowns more and more: thou'rt like to have
A lullaby too rough: I never saw
The heavens so dim by day. A savage clamour!
Well may I get aboard! This is the chase:
I am gone for ever.",110,19641
665854,1567,"[Exit, pursued by a bear]",1261,19641
665855,1568,[Enter a Shepherd],1261,19641
665856,1569,"I would there were no age between sixteen and
three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the
rest; for there is nothing in the between but
getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry,
stealing, fighting--Hark you now! Would any but
these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty
hunt this weather? They have scared away two of my
best sheep, which I fear the wolf will sooner find
than the master: if any where I have them, 'tis by
the seaside, browsing of ivy. Good luck, an't be thy
will what have we here! Mercy on 's, a barne a very
pretty barne! A boy or a child, I wonder? A
pretty one; a very pretty one: sure, some 'scape:
though I am not bookish, yet I can read
waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape. This has been
some stair-work, some trunk-work, some
behind-door-work: they were warmer that got this
than the poor thing is here. I'll take it up for
pity: yet I'll tarry till my son come; he hallooed
but even now. Whoa, ho, hoa!",834,19641
665857,1589,[Enter Clown],1261,19641
665858,1590,"Hilloa, loa!",273,19641
665859,1591,"What, art so near? If thou'lt see a thing to talk
on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. What
ailest thou, man?",834,19641
665860,1594,"I have seen two such sights, by sea and by land!
but I am not to say it is a sea, for it is now the
sky: betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust
a bodkin's point.",273,19641
665861,1598,"Why, boy, how is it?",834,19641
665862,1599,"I would you did but see how it chafes, how it rages,
how it takes up the shore! but that's not the
point. O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls!
sometimes to see 'em, and not to see 'em; now the
ship boring the moon with her main-mast, and anon
swallowed with yest and froth, as you'ld thrust a
cork into a hogshead. And then for the
land-service, to see how the bear tore out his
shoulder-bone; how he cried to me for help and said
his name was Antigonus, a nobleman. But to make an
end of the ship, to see how the sea flap-dragoned
it: but, first, how the poor souls roared, and the
sea mocked them; and how the poor gentleman roared
and the bear mocked him, both roaring louder than
the sea or weather.",273,19641
665863,1614,"Name of mercy, when was this, boy?",834,19641
665864,1615,"Now, now: I have not winked since I saw these
sights: the men are not yet cold under water, nor
the bear half dined on the gentleman: he's at it
now.",273,19641
665865,1619,"Would I had been by, to have helped the old man!",834,19641
665866,1620,"I would you had been by the ship side, to have
helped her: there your charity would have lacked footing.",273,19641
665867,1622,"Heavy matters! heavy matters! but look thee here,
boy. Now bless thyself: thou mettest with things
dying, I with things newborn. Here's a sight for
thee; look thee, a bearing-cloth for a squire's
child! look thee here; take up, take up, boy;
open't. So, let's see: it was told me I should be
rich by the fairies. This is some changeling:
open't. What's within, boy?",834,19641
665868,1630,"You're a made old man: if the sins of your youth
are forgiven you, you're well to live. Gold! all gold!",273,19641
665869,1632,"This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so: up
with't, keep it close: home, home, the next way.
We are lucky, boy; and to be so still requires
nothing but secrecy. Let my sheep go: come, good
boy, the next way home.",834,19641
665870,1637,"Go you the next way with your findings. I'll go see
if the bear be gone from the gentleman and how much
he hath eaten: they are never curst but when they
are hungry: if there be any of him left, I'll bury
it.",273,19641
665871,1642,"That's a good deed. If thou mayest discern by that
which is left of him what he is, fetch me to the
sight of him.",834,19641
665872,1645,"Marry, will I; and you shall help to put him i' the ground.",273,19641
665873,1646,"'Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds on't.",834,19641
665874,1647,[Exeunt],1261,19641
665875,1650,"[Enter Time, the Chorus]",1261,19642
665876,1651,"I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror
Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,
Now take upon me, in the name of Time,
To use my wings. Impute it not a crime
To me or my swift passage, that I slide
O'er sixteen years and leave the growth untried
Of that wide gap, since it is in my power
To o'erthrow law and in one self-born hour
To plant and o'erwhelm custom. Let me pass
The same I am, ere ancient'st order was
Or what is now received: I witness to
The times that brought them in; so shall I do
To the freshest things now reigning and make stale
The glistering of this present, as my tale
Now seems to it. Your patience this allowing,
I turn my glass and give my scene such growing
As you had slept between: Leontes leaving,
The effects of his fond jealousies so grieving
That he shuts up himself, imagine me,
Gentle spectators, that I now may be
In fair Bohemia, and remember well,
I mentioned a son o' the king's, which Florizel
I now name to you; and with speed so pace
To speak of Perdita, now grown in grace
Equal with wondering: what of her ensues
I list not prophecy; but let Time's news
Be known when 'tis brought forth.
A shepherd's daughter,
And what to her adheres, which follows after,
Is the argument of Time. Of this allow,
If ever you have spent time worse ere now;
If never, yet that Time himself doth say
He wishes earnestly you never may.",1197,19642
665877,1684,[Exit],1261,19642
665878,1687,[Enter POLIXENES and CAMILLO],1261,19643
665879,1688,"I pray thee, good Camillo, be no more importunate:
'tis a sickness denying thee any thing; a death to
grant this.",898,19643
665880,1691,"It is fifteen years since I saw my country: though
I have for the most part been aired abroad, I
desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the penitent
king, my master, hath sent for me; to whose feeling
sorrows I might be some allay, or I o'erween to
think so, which is another spur to my departure.",211,19643
665881,1697,"As thou lovest me, Camillo, wipe not out the rest of
thy services by leaving me now: the need I have of
thee thine own goodness hath made; better not to
have had thee than thus to want thee: thou, having
made me businesses which none without thee can
sufficiently manage, must either stay to execute
them thyself or take away with thee the very
services thou hast done; which if I have not enough
considered, as too much I cannot, to be more
thankful to thee shall be my study, and my profit
therein the heaping friendships. Of that fatal
country, Sicilia, prithee speak no more; whose very
naming punishes me with the remembrance of that
penitent, as thou callest him, and reconciled king,
my brother; whose loss of his most precious queen
and children are even now to be afresh lamented.
Say to me, when sawest thou the Prince Florizel, my
son? Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not
being gracious, than they are in losing them when
they have approved their virtues.",898,19643
665882,1717,"Sir, it is three days since I saw the prince. What
his happier affairs may be, are to me unknown: but I
have missingly noted, he is of late much retired
from court and is less frequent to his princely
exercises than formerly he hath appeared.",211,19643
665883,1722,"I have considered so much, Camillo, and with some
care; so far that I have eyes under my service which
look upon his removedness; from whom I have this
intelligence, that he is seldom from the house of a
most homely shepherd; a man, they say, that from
very nothing, and beyond the imagination of his
neighbours, is grown into an unspeakable estate.",898,19643
665884,1729,"I have heard, sir, of such a man, who hath a
daughter of most rare note: the report of her is
extended more than can be thought to begin from such a cottage.",211,19643
665885,1732,"That's likewise part of my intelligence; but, I
fear, the angle that plucks our son thither. Thou
shalt accompany us to the place; where we will, not
appearing what we are, have some question with the
shepherd; from whose simplicity I think it not
uneasy to get the cause of my son's resort thither.
Prithee, be my present partner in this business, and
lay aside the thoughts of Sicilia.",898,19643
665886,1740,I willingly obey your command.,211,19643
665887,1741,My best Camillo! We must disguise ourselves.,898,19643
665888,1742,[Exeunt],1261,19643
665889,1745,"[Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing]",1261,19644
665890,1746,"When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! the doxy over the dale,
Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year;
For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.
The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;
For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
The lark, that tirra-lyra chants,
With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay,
Are summer songs for me and my aunts,
While we lie tumbling in the hay.
I have served Prince Florizel and in my time
wore three-pile; but now I am out of service:
But shall I go mourn for that, my dear?
The pale moon shines by night:
And when I wander here and there,
I then do most go right.
If tinkers may have leave to live,
And bear the sow-skin budget,
Then my account I well may, give,
And in the stocks avouch it.
My traffic is sheets; when the kite builds, look to
lesser linen. My father named me Autolycus; who
being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise
a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. With die and
drab I purchased this caparison, and my revenue is
the silly cheat. Gallows and knock are too powerful
on the highway: beating and hanging are terrors to
me: for the life to come, I sleep out the thought
of it. A prize! a prize!",134,19644
665891,1777,[Enter Clown],1261,19644
665892,1778,"Let me see: every 'leven wether tods; every tod
yields pound and odd shilling; fifteen hundred
shorn. what comes the wool to?",273,19644
665893,1781,"[Aside]
If the springe hold, the cock's mine.",134,19644
665894,1783,"I cannot do't without counters. Let me see; what am
I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three pound
of sugar, five pound of currants, rice,--what will
this sister of mine do with rice? But my father
hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it
on. She hath made me four and twenty nose-gays for
the shearers, three-man-song-men all, and very good
ones; but they are most of them means and bases; but
one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to
horn-pipes. I must have saffron to colour the warden
pies; mace; dates?--none, that's out of my note;
nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I
may beg; four pound of prunes, and as many of
raisins o' the sun.",273,19644
665895,1797,O that ever I was born!,134,19644
665896,1798,[Grovelling on the ground],1261,19644
665897,1799,I' the name of me--,273,19644
665898,1800,"O, help me, help me! pluck but off these rags; and
then, death, death!",134,19644
665899,1802,"Alack, poor soul! thou hast need of more rags to lay
on thee, rather than have these off.",273,19644
665900,1804,"O sir, the loathsomeness of them offends me more
than the stripes I have received, which are mighty
ones and millions.",134,19644
665901,1807,"Alas, poor man! a million of beating may come to a
great matter.",273,19644
665902,1809,"I am robbed, sir, and beaten; my money and apparel
ta'en from me, and these detestable things put upon
me.",134,19644
665903,1812,"What, by a horseman, or a footman?",273,19644
665904,1813,"A footman, sweet sir, a footman.",134,19644
665905,1814,"Indeed, he should be a footman by the garments he
has left with thee: if this be a horseman's coat,
it hath seen very hot service. Lend me thy hand,
I'll help thee: come, lend me thy hand.",273,19644
665906,1818,"O, good sir, tenderly, O!",134,19644
665907,1819,"Alas, poor soul!",273,19644
665908,1820,"O, good sir, softly, good sir! I fear, sir, my
shoulder-blade is out.",134,19644
665909,1822,How now! canst stand?,273,19644
665910,1823,"[Picking his pocket]
Softly, dear sir; good sir, softly. You ha' done me
a charitable office.",134,19644
665911,1826,Dost lack any money? I have a little money for thee.,273,19644
665912,1827,"No, good sweet sir; no, I beseech you, sir: I have
a kinsman not past three quarters of a mile hence,
unto whom I was going; I shall there have money, or
any thing I want: offer me no money, I pray you;
that kills my heart.",134,19644
665913,1832,What manner of fellow was he that robbed you?,273,19644
665914,1833,"A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with
troll-my-dames; I knew him once a servant of the
prince: I cannot tell, good sir, for which of his
virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court.",134,19644
665915,1837,"His vices, you would say; there's no virtue whipped
out of the court: they cherish it to make it stay
there; and yet it will no more but abide.",273,19644
665916,1840,"Vices, I would say, sir. I know this man well: he
hath been since an ape-bearer; then a
process-server, a bailiff; then he compassed a
motion of the Prodigal Son, and married a tinker's
wife within a mile where my land and living lies;
and, having flown over many knavish professions, he
settled only in rogue: some call him Autolycus.",134,19644
665917,1847,"Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts
wakes, fairs and bear-baitings.",273,19644
665918,1849,"Very true, sir; he, sir, he; that's the rogue that
put me into this apparel.",134,19644
665919,1851,"Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia: if you had
but looked big and spit at him, he'ld have run.",273,19644
665920,1853,"I must confess to you, sir, I am no fighter: I am
false of heart that way; and that he knew, I warrant
him.",134,19644
665921,1856,How do you now?,273,19644
665922,1857,"Sweet sir, much better than I was; I can stand and
walk: I will even take my leave of you, and pace
softly towards my kinsman's.",134,19644
665923,1860,Shall I bring thee on the way?,273,19644
665924,1861,"No, good-faced sir; no, sweet sir.",134,19644
665925,1862,"Then fare thee well: I must go buy spices for our
sheep-shearing.",273,19644
665926,1864,"Prosper you, sweet sir!
[Exit Clown]
Your purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice.
I'll be with you at your sheep-shearing too: if I
make not this cheat bring out another and the
shearers prove sheep, let me be unrolled and my name
put in the book of virtue!
[Sings]
Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,
And merrily hent the stile-a:
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.",134,19644
665927,1876,[Exit],1261,19644
665928,1879,[Enter FLORIZEL and PERDITA],1261,19645
665929,1880,"These your unusual weeds to each part of you
Do give a life: no shepherdess, but Flora
Peering in April's front. This your sheep-shearing
Is as a meeting of the petty gods,
And you the queen on't.",479,19645
665930,1885,"Sir, my gracious lord,
To chide at your extremes it not becomes me:
O, pardon, that I name them! Your high self,
The gracious mark o' the land, you have obscured
With a swain's wearing, and me, poor lowly maid,
Most goddess-like prank'd up: but that our feasts
In every mess have folly and the feeders
Digest it with a custom, I should blush
To see you so attired, sworn, I think,
To show myself a glass.",871,19645
665931,1895,"I bless the time
When my good falcon made her flight across
Thy father's ground.",479,19645
665932,1898,"Now Jove afford you cause!
To me the difference forges dread; your greatness
Hath not been used to fear. Even now I tremble
To think your father, by some accident,
Should pass this way as you did: O, the Fates!
How would he look, to see his work so noble
Vilely bound up? What would he say? Or how
Should I, in these my borrow'd flaunts, behold
The sternness of his presence?",871,19645
665933,1907,"Apprehend
Nothing but jollity. The gods themselves,
Humbling their deities to love, have taken
The shapes of beasts upon them: Jupiter
Became a bull, and bellow'd; the green Neptune
A ram, and bleated; and the fire-robed god,
Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain,
As I seem now. Their transformations
Were never for a piece of beauty rarer,
Nor in a way so chaste, since my desires
Run not before mine honour, nor my lusts
Burn hotter than my faith.",479,19645
665934,1919,"O, but, sir,
Your resolution cannot hold, when 'tis
Opposed, as it must be, by the power of the king:
One of these two must be necessities,
Which then will speak, that you must
change this purpose,
Or I my life.",871,19645
665935,1926,"Thou dearest Perdita,
With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not
The mirth o' the feast. Or I'll be thine, my fair,
Or not my father's. For I cannot be
Mine own, nor any thing to any, if
I be not thine. To this I am most constant,
Though destiny say no. Be merry, gentle;
Strangle such thoughts as these with any thing
That you behold the while. Your guests are coming:
Lift up your countenance, as it were the day
Of celebration of that nuptial which
We two have sworn shall come.",479,19645
665936,1938,"O lady Fortune,
Stand you auspicious!",871,19645
665937,1940,"See, your guests approach:
Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
And let's be red with mirth.
[Enter Shepherd, Clown, MOPSA, DORCAS, and]
others, with POLIXENES and CAMILLO disguised]",479,19645
665938,1945,"Fie, daughter! when my old wife lived, upon
This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,
Both dame and servant; welcomed all, served all;
Would sing her song and dance her turn; now here,
At upper end o' the table, now i' the middle;
On his shoulder, and his; her face o' fire
With labour and the thing she took to quench it,
She would to each one sip. You are retired,
As if you were a feasted one and not
The hostess of the meeting: pray you, bid
These unknown friends to's welcome; for it is
A way to make us better friends, more known.
Come, quench your blushes and present yourself
That which you are, mistress o' the feast: come on,
And bid us welcome to your sheep-shearing,
As your good flock shall prosper.",834,19645
665939,1961,"[To POLIXENES] Sir, welcome:
It is my father's will I should take on me
The hostess-ship o' the day.
[To CAMILLO]
You're welcome, sir.
Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. Reverend sirs,
For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep
Seeming and savour all the winter long:
Grace and remembrance be to you both,
And welcome to our shearing!",871,19645
665940,1971,"Shepherdess,
A fair one are you--well you fit our ages
With flowers of winter.",898,19645
665941,1974,"Sir, the year growing ancient,
Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth
Of trembling winter, the fairest
flowers o' the season
Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors,
Which some call nature's bastards: of that kind
Our rustic garden's barren; and I care not
To get slips of them.",871,19645
665942,1982,"Wherefore, gentle maiden,
Do you neglect them?",898,19645
665943,1984,"For I have heard it said
There is an art which in their piedness shares
With great creating nature.",871,19645
665944,1987,"Say there be;
Yet nature is made better by no mean
But nature makes that mean: so, over that art
Which you say adds to nature, is an art
That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry
A gentler scion to the wildest stock,
And make conceive a bark of baser kind
By bud of nobler race: this is an art
Which does mend nature, change it rather, but
The art itself is nature.",898,19645
665945,1997,So it is.,871,19645
665946,1998,"Then make your garden rich in gillyvors,
And do not call them bastards.",898,19645
665947,2000,"I'll not put
The dibble in earth to set one slip of them;
No more than were I painted I would wish
This youth should say 'twere well and only therefore
Desire to breed by me. Here's flowers for you;
Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram;
The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun
And with him rises weeping: these are flowers
Of middle summer, and I think they are given
To men of middle age. You're very welcome.",871,19645
665948,2010,"I should leave grazing, were I of your flock,
And only live by gazing.",211,19645
665949,2012,"Out, alas!
You'd be so lean, that blasts of January
Would blow you through and through.
Now, my fair'st friend,
I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might
Become your time of day; and yours, and yours,
That wear upon your virgin branches yet
Your maidenheads growing: O Proserpina,
For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall
From Dis's waggon! daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes
Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses
That die unmarried, ere they can behold
Bight Phoebus in his strength--a malady
Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,
The flower-de-luce being one! O, these I lack,
To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend,
To strew him o'er and o'er!",871,19645
665950,2033,"What, like a corse?",479,19645
665951,2034,"No, like a bank for love to lie and play on;
Not like a corse; or if, not to be buried,
But quick and in mine arms. Come, take your flowers:
Methinks I play as I have seen them do
In Whitsun pastorals: sure this robe of mine
Does change my disposition.",871,19645
665952,2040,"What you do
Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet.
I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing,
I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,
Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,
To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that; move still, still so,
And own no other function: each your doing,
So singular in each particular,
Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,
That all your acts are queens.",479,19645
665953,2052,"O Doricles,
Your praises are too large: but that your youth,
And the true blood which peepeth fairly through't,
Do plainly give you out an unstain'd shepherd,
With wisdom I might fear, my Doricles,
You woo'd me the false way.",871,19645
665954,2058,"I think you have
As little skill to fear as I have purpose
To put you to't. But come; our dance, I pray:
Your hand, my Perdita: so turtles pair,
That never mean to part.",479,19645
665955,2063,I'll swear for 'em.,871,19645
665956,2064,"This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever
Ran on the green-sward: nothing she does or seems
But smacks of something greater than herself,
Too noble for this place.",898,19645
665957,2068,"He tells her something
That makes her blood look out: good sooth, she is
The queen of curds and cream.",211,19645
665958,2071,"Come on, strike up!",273,19645
665959,2072,"Mopsa must be your mistress: marry, garlic,
To mend her kissing with!",330,19645
665960,2074,"Now, in good time!",801,19645
665961,2075,"Not a word, a word; we stand upon our manners.
Come, strike up!
[Music. Here a dance of Shepherds and]
Shepherdesses]",273,19645
665962,2079,"Pray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this
Which dances with your daughter?",898,19645
665963,2081,"They call him Doricles; and boasts himself
To have a worthy feeding: but I have it
Upon his own report and I believe it;
He looks like sooth. He says he loves my daughter:
I think so too; for never gazed the moon
Upon the water as he'll stand and read
As 'twere my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain.
I think there is not half a kiss to choose
Who loves another best.",834,19645
665964,2090,She dances featly.,898,19645
665965,2091,"So she does any thing; though I report it,
That should be silent: if young Doricles
Do light upon her, she shall bring him that
Which he not dreams of.",834,19645
665966,2095,[Enter Servant],1261,19645
665967,2096,"O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the
door, you would never dance again after a tabour and
pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you: he sings
several tunes faster than you'll tell money; he
utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's
ears grew to his tunes.",1077,19645
665968,2102,"He could never come better; he shall come in. I
love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful
matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing
indeed and sung lamentably.",273,19645
665969,2106,"He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes; no
milliner can so fit his customers with gloves: he
has the prettiest love-songs for maids; so without
bawdry, which is strange; with such delicate
burthens of dildos and fadings, 'jump her and thump
her;' and where some stretch-mouthed rascal would,
as it were, mean mischief and break a foul gap into
the matter, he makes the maid to answer 'Whoop, do me
no harm, good man;' puts him off, slights him, with
'Whoop, do me no harm, good man.'",1077,19645
665970,2116,This is a brave fellow.,898,19645
665971,2117,"Believe me, thou talkest of an admirable conceited
fellow. Has he any unbraided wares?",273,19645
665972,2119,"He hath ribbons of an the colours i' the rainbow;
points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can
learnedly handle, though they come to him by the
gross: inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns: why, he
sings 'em over as they were gods or goddesses; you
would think a smock were a she-angel, he so chants
to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square on't.",1077,19645
665973,2126,Prithee bring him in; and let him approach singing.,273,19645
665974,2127,Forewarn him that he use no scurrilous words in 's tunes.,871,19645
665975,2128,[Exit Servant],1261,19645
665976,2129,"You have of these pedlars, that have more in them
than you'ld think, sister.",273,19645
665977,2131,"Ay, good brother, or go about to think.",871,19645
665978,2132,"[Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing]",1261,19645
665979,2133,"Lawn as white as driven snow;
Cyprus black as e'er was crow;
Gloves as sweet as damask roses;
Masks for faces and for noses;
Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,
Perfume for a lady's chamber;
Golden quoifs and stomachers,
For my lads to give their dears:
Pins and poking-sticks of steel,
What maids lack from head to heel:
Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy;
Buy lads, or else your lasses cry: Come buy.",134,19645
665980,2145,"If I were not in love with Mopsa, thou shouldst take
no money of me; but being enthralled as I am, it
will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves.",273,19645
665981,2148,"I was promised them against the feast; but they come
not too late now.",801,19645
665982,2150,"He hath promised you more than that, or there be liars.",330,19645
665983,2151,"He hath paid you all he promised you; may be, he has
paid you more, which will shame you to give him again.",801,19645
665984,2153,"Is there no manners left among maids? will they
wear their plackets where they should bear their
faces? Is there not milking-time, when you are
going to bed, or kiln-hole, to whistle off these
secrets, but you must be tittle-tattling before all
our guests? 'tis well they are whispering: clamour
your tongues, and not a word more.",273,19645
665985,2160,"I have done. Come, you promised me a tawdry-lace
and a pair of sweet gloves.",801,19645
665986,2162,"Have I not told thee how I was cozened by the way
and lost all my money?",273,19645
665987,2164,"And indeed, sir, there are cozeners abroad;
therefore it behoves men to be wary.",134,19645
665988,2166,"Fear not thou, man, thou shalt lose nothing here.",273,19645
665989,2167,"I hope so, sir; for I have about me many parcels of charge.",134,19645
665990,2168,What hast here? ballads?,273,19645
665991,2169,"Pray now, buy some: I love a ballad in print o'
life, for then we are sure they are true.",801,19645
665992,2171,"Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's
wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a
burthen and how she longed to eat adders' heads and
toads carbonadoed.",134,19645
665993,2175,"Is it true, think you?",801,19645
665994,2176,"Very true, and but a month old.",134,19645
665995,2177,Bless me from marrying a usurer!,330,19645
665996,2178,"Here's the midwife's name to't, one Mistress
Tale-porter, and five or six honest wives that were
present. Why should I carry lies abroad?",134,19645
665997,2181,"Pray you now, buy it.",801,19645
665998,2182,"Come on, lay it by: and let's first see moe
ballads; we'll buy the other things anon.",273,19645
665999,2184,"Here's another ballad of a fish, that appeared upon
the coast on Wednesday the four-score of April,
forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this
ballad against the hard hearts of maids: it was
thought she was a woman and was turned into a cold
fish for she would not exchange flesh with one that
loved her: the ballad is very pitiful and as true.",134,19645
666000,2191,"Is it true too, think you?",330,19645
666001,2192,"Five justices' hands at it, and witnesses more than
my pack will hold.",134,19645
666002,2194,Lay it by too: another.,273,19645
666003,2195,"This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one.",134,19645
666004,2196,Let's have some merry ones.,801,19645
666005,2197,"Why, this is a passing merry one and goes to
the tune of 'Two maids wooing a man:' there's
scarce a maid westward but she sings it; 'tis in
request, I can tell you.",134,19645
666006,2201,"We can both sing it: if thou'lt bear a part, thou
shalt hear; 'tis in three parts.",801,19645
666007,2203,We had the tune on't a month ago.,330,19645
666008,2204,"I can bear my part; you must know 'tis my
occupation; have at it with you.",134,19645
666009,2206,[SONG],1261,19645
666010,2207,"Get you hence, for I must go
Where it fits not you to know.",134,19645
666011,2209,Whither?,330,19645
666012,2210,"O, whither?",801,19645
666013,2211,Whither?,330,19645
666014,2212,"It becomes thy oath full well,
Thou to me thy secrets tell.",801,19645
666015,2214,"Me too, let me go thither.",330,19645
666016,2215,Or thou goest to the orange or mill.,801,19645
666017,2216,"If to either, thou dost ill.",330,19645
666018,2217,Neither.,134,19645
666019,2218,"What, neither?",330,19645
666020,2219,Neither.,134,19645
666021,2220,Thou hast sworn my love to be.,330,19645
666022,2221,"Thou hast sworn it more to me:
Then whither goest? say, whither?",801,19645
666023,2223,"We'll have this song out anon by ourselves: my
father and the gentlemen are in sad talk, and we'll
not trouble them. Come, bring away thy pack after
me. Wenches, I'll buy for you both. Pedlar, let's
have the first choice. Follow me, girls.",273,19645
666024,2228,[Exit with DORCAS and MOPSA],1261,19645
666025,2229,"And you shall pay well for 'em.
[Follows singing]
Will you buy any tape,
Or lace for your cape,
My dainty duck, my dear-a?
Any silk, any thread,
Any toys for your head,
Of the new'st and finest, finest wear-a?
Come to the pedlar;
Money's a medler.
That doth utter all men's ware-a.",134,19645
666026,2240,[Exit],1261,19645
666027,2241,[Re-enter Servant],1261,19645
666028,2242,"Master, there is three carters, three shepherds,
three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that have made
themselves all men of hair, they call themselves
Saltiers, and they have a dance which the wenches
say is a gallimaufry of gambols, because they are
not in't; but they themselves are o' the mind, if it
be not too rough for some that know little but
bowling, it will please plentifully.",1077,19645
666029,2250,"Away! we'll none on 't: here has been too much
homely foolery already. I know, sir, we weary you.",834,19645
666030,2252,"You weary those that refresh us: pray, let's see
these four threes of herdsmen.",898,19645
666031,2254,"One three of them, by their own report, sir, hath
danced before the king; and not the worst of the
three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier.",1077,19645
666032,2257,"Leave your prating: since these good men are
pleased, let them come in; but quickly now.",834,19645
666033,2259,"Why, they stay at door, sir.",1077,19645
666034,2260,[Exit],1261,19645
666035,2261,[Here a dance of twelve Satyrs],1261,19645
666036,2262,"O, father, you'll know more of that hereafter.
[To CAMILLO]
Is it not too far gone? 'Tis time to part them.
He's simple and tells much.
[To FLORIZEL]
How now, fair shepherd!
Your heart is full of something that does take
Your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young
And handed love as you do, I was wont
To load my she with knacks: I would have ransack'd
The pedlar's silken treasury and have pour'd it
To her acceptance; you have let him go
And nothing marted with him. If your lass
Interpretation should abuse and call this
Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited
For a reply, at least if you make a care
Of happy holding her.",898,19645
666037,2279,"Old sir, I know
She prizes not such trifles as these are:
The gifts she looks from me are pack'd and lock'd
Up in my heart; which I have given already,
But not deliver'd. O, hear me breathe my life
Before this ancient sir, who, it should seem,
Hath sometime loved! I take thy hand, this hand,
As soft as dove's down and as white as it,
Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fann'd
snow that's bolted
By the northern blasts twice o'er.",479,19645
666038,2290,"What follows this?
How prettily the young swain seems to wash
The hand was fair before! I have put you out:
But to your protestation; let me hear
What you profess.",898,19645
666039,2295,"Do, and be witness to 't.",479,19645
666040,2296,And this my neighbour too?,898,19645
666041,2297,"And he, and more
Than he, and men, the earth, the heavens, and all:
That, were I crown'd the most imperial monarch,
Thereof most worthy, were I the fairest youth
That ever made eye swerve, had force and knowledge
More than was ever man's, I would not prize them
Without her love; for her employ them all;
Commend them and condemn them to her service
Or to their own perdition.",479,19645
666042,2306,Fairly offer'd.,898,19645
666043,2307,This shows a sound affection.,211,19645
666044,2308,"But, my daughter,
Say you the like to him?",834,19645
666045,2310,"I cannot speak
So well, nothing so well; no, nor mean better:
By the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out
The purity of his.",871,19645
666046,2314,"Take hands, a bargain!
And, friends unknown, you shall bear witness to 't:
I give my daughter to him, and will make
Her portion equal his.",834,19645
666047,2318,"O, that must be
I' the virtue of your daughter: one being dead,
I shall have more than you can dream of yet;
Enough then for your wonder. But, come on,
Contract us 'fore these witnesses.",479,19645
666048,2323,"Come, your hand;
And, daughter, yours.",834,19645
666049,2325,"Soft, swain, awhile, beseech you;
Have you a father?",898,19645
666050,2327,I have: but what of him?,479,19645
666051,2328,Knows he of this?,898,19645
666052,2329,He neither does nor shall.,479,19645
666053,2330,"Methinks a father
Is at the nuptial of his son a guest
That best becomes the table. Pray you once more,
Is not your father grown incapable
Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid
With age and altering rheums? can he speak? hear?
Know man from man? dispute his own estate?
Lies he not bed-rid? and again does nothing
But what he did being childish?",898,19645
666054,2339,"No, good sir;
He has his health and ampler strength indeed
Than most have of his age.",479,19645
666055,2342,"By my white beard,
You offer him, if this be so, a wrong
Something unfilial: reason my son
Should choose himself a wife, but as good reason
The father, all whose joy is nothing else
But fair posterity, should hold some counsel
In such a business.",898,19645
666056,2349,"I yield all this;
But for some other reasons, my grave sir,
Which 'tis not fit you know, I not acquaint
My father of this business.",479,19645
666057,2353,Let him know't.,898,19645
666058,2354,He shall not.,479,19645
666059,2355,"Prithee, let him.",898,19645
666060,2356,"No, he must not.",479,19645
666061,2357,"Let him, my son: he shall not need to grieve
At knowing of thy choice.",834,19645
666062,2359,"Come, come, he must not.
Mark our contract.",479,19645
666063,2361,"Mark your divorce, young sir,
[Discovering himself]
Whom son I dare not call; thou art too base
To be acknowledged: thou a sceptre's heir,
That thus affect'st a sheep-hook! Thou old traitor,
I am sorry that by hanging thee I can
But shorten thy life one week. And thou, fresh piece
Of excellent witchcraft, who of force must know
The royal fool thou copest with,--",898,19645
666064,2370,"O, my heart!",834,19645
666065,2371,"I'll have thy beauty scratch'd with briers, and made
More homely than thy state. For thee, fond boy,
If I may ever know thou dost but sigh
That thou no more shalt see this knack, as never
I mean thou shalt, we'll bar thee from succession;
Not hold thee of our blood, no, not our kin,
Far than Deucalion off: mark thou my words:
Follow us to the court. Thou churl, for this time,
Though full of our displeasure, yet we free thee
From the dead blow of it. And you, enchantment.--
Worthy enough a herdsman: yea, him too,
That makes himself, but for our honour therein,
Unworthy thee,--if ever henceforth thou
These rural latches to his entrance open,
Or hoop his body more with thy embraces,
I will devise a death as cruel for thee
As thou art tender to't.",898,19645
666066,2388,[Exit],1261,19645
666067,2389,"Even here undone!
I was not much afeard; for once or twice
I was about to speak and tell him plainly,
The selfsame sun that shines upon his court
Hides not his visage from our cottage but
Looks on alike. Will't please you, sir, be gone?
I told you what would come of this: beseech you,
Of your own state take care: this dream of mine,--
Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther,
But milk my ewes and weep.",871,19645
666068,2399,"Why, how now, father!
Speak ere thou diest.",211,19645
666069,2401,"I cannot speak, nor think
Nor dare to know that which I know. O sir!
You have undone a man of fourscore three,
That thought to fill his grave in quiet, yea,
To die upon the bed my father died,
To lie close by his honest bones: but now
Some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me
Where no priest shovels in dust. O cursed wretch,
That knew'st this was the prince,
and wouldst adventure
To mingle faith with him! Undone! undone!
If I might die within this hour, I have lived
To die when I desire.",834,19645
666070,2414,[Exit],1261,19645
666071,2415,"Why look you so upon me?
I am but sorry, not afeard; delay'd,
But nothing alter'd: what I was, I am;
More straining on for plucking back, not following
My leash unwillingly.",479,19645
666072,2420,"Gracious my lord,
You know your father's temper: at this time
He will allow no speech, which I do guess
You do not purpose to him; and as hardly
Will he endure your sight as yet, I fear:
Then, till the fury of his highness settle,
Come not before him.",211,19645
666073,2427,"I not purpose it.
I think, Camillo?",479,19645
666074,2429,"Even he, my lord.",211,19645
666075,2430,"How often have I told you 'twould be thus!
How often said, my dignity would last
But till 'twere known!",871,19645
666076,2433,"It cannot fail but by
The violation of my faith; and then
Let nature crush the sides o' the earth together
And mar the seeds within! Lift up thy looks:
From my succession wipe me, father; I
Am heir to my affection.",479,19645
666077,2439,Be advised.,211,19645
666078,2440,"I am, and by my fancy: if my reason
Will thereto be obedient, I have reason;
If not, my senses, better pleased with madness,
Do bid it welcome.",479,19645
666079,2444,"This is desperate, sir.",211,19645
666080,2445,"So call it: but it does fulfil my vow;
I needs must think it honesty. Camillo,
Not for Bohemia, nor the pomp that may
Be thereat glean'd, for all the sun sees or
The close earth wombs or the profound sea hides
In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath
To this my fair beloved: therefore, I pray you,
As you have ever been my father's honour'd friend,
When he shall miss me,--as, in faith, I mean not
To see him any more,--cast your good counsels
Upon his passion; let myself and fortune
Tug for the time to come. This you may know
And so deliver, I am put to sea
With her whom here I cannot hold on shore;
And most opportune to our need I have
A vessel rides fast by, but not prepared
For this design. What course I mean to hold
Shall nothing benefit your knowledge, nor
Concern me the reporting.",479,19645
666081,2464,"O my lord!
I would your spirit were easier for advice,
Or stronger for your need.",211,19645
666082,2467,"Hark, Perdita
[Drawing her aside]
I'll hear you by and by.",479,19645
666083,2470,"He's irremoveable,
Resolved for flight. Now were I happy, if
His going I could frame to serve my turn,
Save him from danger, do him love and honour,
Purchase the sight again of dear Sicilia
And that unhappy king, my master, whom
I so much thirst to see.",211,19645
666084,2477,"Now, good Camillo;
I am so fraught with curious business that
I leave out ceremony.",479,19645
666085,2480,"Sir, I think
You have heard of my poor services, i' the love
That I have borne your father?",211,19645
666086,2483,"Very nobly
Have you deserved: it is my father's music
To speak your deeds, not little of his care
To have them recompensed as thought on.",479,19645
666087,2487,"Well, my lord,
If you may please to think I love the king
And through him what is nearest to him, which is
Your gracious self, embrace but my direction:
If your more ponderous and settled project
May suffer alteration, on mine honour,
I'll point you where you shall have such receiving
As shall become your highness; where you may
Enjoy your mistress, from the whom, I see,
There's no disjunction to be made, but by--
As heavens forefend!--your ruin; marry her,
And, with my best endeavours in your absence,
Your discontenting father strive to qualify
And bring him up to liking.",211,19645
666088,2501,"How, Camillo,
May this, almost a miracle, be done?
That I may call thee something more than man
And after that trust to thee.",479,19645
666089,2505,"Have you thought on
A place whereto you'll go?",211,19645
666090,2507,"Not any yet:
But as the unthought-on accident is guilty
To what we wildly do, so we profess
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance and flies
Of every wind that blows.",479,19645
666091,2512,"Then list to me:
This follows, if you will not change your purpose
But undergo this flight, make for Sicilia,
And there present yourself and your fair princess,
For so I see she must be, 'fore Leontes:
She shall be habited as it becomes
The partner of your bed. Methinks I see
Leontes opening his free arms and weeping
His welcomes forth; asks thee the son forgiveness,
As 'twere i' the father's person; kisses the hands
Of your fresh princess; o'er and o'er divides him
'Twixt his unkindness and his kindness; the one
He chides to hell and bids the other grow
Faster than thought or time.",211,19645
666092,2526,"Worthy Camillo,
What colour for my visitation shall I
Hold up before him?",479,19645
666093,2529,"Sent by the king your father
To greet him and to give him comforts. Sir,
The manner of your bearing towards him, with
What you as from your father shall deliver,
Things known betwixt us three, I'll write you down:
The which shall point you forth at every sitting
What you must say; that he shall not perceive
But that you have your father's bosom there
And speak his very heart.",211,19645
666094,2538,"I am bound to you:
There is some sap in this.",479,19645
666095,2540,"A cause more promising
Than a wild dedication of yourselves
To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores, most certain
To miseries enough; no hope to help you,
But as you shake off one to take another;
Nothing so certain as your anchors, who
Do their best office, if they can but stay you
Where you'll be loath to be: besides you know
Prosperity's the very bond of love,
Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together
Affliction alters.",211,19645
666096,2551,"One of these is true:
I think affliction may subdue the cheek,
But not take in the mind.",871,19645
666097,2554,"Yea, say you so?
There shall not at your father's house these
seven years
Be born another such.",211,19645
666098,2558,"My good Camillo,
She is as forward of her breeding as
She is i' the rear our birth.",479,19645
666099,2561,"I cannot say 'tis pity
She lacks instructions, for she seems a mistress
To most that teach.",211,19645
666100,2564,"Your pardon, sir; for this
I'll blush you thanks.",871,19645
666101,2566,"My prettiest Perdita!
But O, the thorns we stand upon! Camillo,
Preserver of my father, now of me,
The medicine of our house, how shall we do?
We are not furnish'd like Bohemia's son,
Nor shall appear in Sicilia.",479,19645
666102,2572,"My lord,
Fear none of this: I think you know my fortunes
Do all lie there: it shall be so my care
To have you royally appointed as if
The scene you play were mine. For instance, sir,
That you may know you shall not want, one word.",211,19645
666103,2578,[They talk aside],1261,19645
666104,2579,[Re-enter AUTOLYCUS],1261,19645
666105,2580,"Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his
sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have sold
all my trumpery; not a counterfeit stone, not a
ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad,
knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring,
to keep my pack from fasting: they throng who
should buy first, as if my trinkets had been
hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer:
by which means I saw whose purse was best in
picture; and what I saw, to my good use I
remembered. My clown, who wants but something to
be a reasonable man, grew so in love with the
wenches' song, that he would not stir his pettitoes
till he had both tune and words; which so drew the
rest of the herd to me that all their other senses
stuck in ears: you might have pinched a placket, it
was senseless; 'twas nothing to geld a codpiece of a
purse; I could have filed keys off that hung in
chains: no hearing, no feeling, but my sir's song,
and admiring the nothing of it. So that in this
time of lethargy I picked and cut most of their
festival purses; and had not the old man come in
with a whoo-bub against his daughter and the king's
son and scared my choughs from the chaff, I had not
left a purse alive in the whole army.",134,19645
666106,2605,"[CAMILLO, FLORIZEL, and PERDITA come forward]",1261,19645
666107,2606,"Nay, but my letters, by this means being there
So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt.",211,19645
666108,2608,And those that you'll procure from King Leontes--,479,19645
666109,2609,Shall satisfy your father.,211,19645
666110,2610,"Happy be you!
All that you speak shows fair.",871,19645
666111,2612,"Who have we here?
[Seeing AUTOLYCUS]
We'll make an instrument of this, omit
Nothing may give us aid.",211,19645
666112,2616,"If they have overheard me now, why, hanging.",134,19645
666113,2617,"How now, good fellow! why shakest thou so? Fear
not, man; here's no harm intended to thee.",211,19645
666114,2619,"I am a poor fellow, sir.",134,19645
666115,2620,"Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal that from
thee: yet for the outside of thy poverty we must
make an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly,
--thou must think there's a necessity in't,--and
change garments with this gentleman: though the
pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee,
there's some boot.",211,19645
666116,2627,"I am a poor fellow, sir.
[Aside]
I know ye well enough.",134,19645
666117,2630,"Nay, prithee, dispatch: the gentleman is half
flayed already.",211,19645
666118,2632,"Are you in earnest, sir?
[Aside]
I smell the trick on't.",134,19645
666119,2635,"Dispatch, I prithee.",479,19645
666120,2636,"Indeed, I have had earnest: but I cannot with
conscience take it.",134,19645
666121,2638,"Unbuckle, unbuckle.
[FLORIZEL and AUTOLYCUS exchange garments]
Fortunate mistress,--let my prophecy
Come home to ye!--you must retire yourself
Into some covert: take your sweetheart's hat
And pluck it o'er your brows, muffle your face,
Dismantle you, and, as you can, disliken
The truth of your own seeming; that you may--
For I do fear eyes over--to shipboard
Get undescried.",211,19645
666122,2648,"I see the play so lies
That I must bear a part.",871,19645
666123,2650,"No remedy.
Have you done there?",211,19645
666124,2652,"Should I now meet my father,
He would not call me son.",479,19645
666125,2654,"Nay, you shall have no hat.
[Giving it to PERDITA]
Come, lady, come. Farewell, my friend.",211,19645
666126,2657,"Adieu, sir.",134,19645
666127,2658,"O Perdita, what have we twain forgot!
Pray you, a word.",479,19645
666128,2660,"[Aside] What I do next, shall be to tell the king
Of this escape and whither they are bound;
Wherein my hope is I shall so prevail
To force him after: in whose company
I shall review Sicilia, for whose sight
I have a woman's longing.",211,19645
666129,2666,"Fortune speed us!
Thus we set on, Camillo, to the sea-side.",479,19645
666130,2668,The swifter speed the better.,211,19645
666131,2669,"[Exeunt FLORIZEL, PERDITA, and CAMILLO]",1261,19645
666132,2670,"I understand the business, I hear it: to have an
open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is
necessary for a cut-purse; a good nose is requisite
also, to smell out work for the other senses. I see
this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive.
What an exchange had this been without boot! What
a boot is here with this exchange! Sure the gods do
this year connive at us, and we may do any thing
extempore. The prince himself is about a piece of
iniquity, stealing away from his father with his
clog at his heels: if I thought it were a piece of
honesty to acquaint the king withal, I would not
do't: I hold it the more knavery to conceal it;
and therein am I constant to my profession.
[Re-enter Clown and Shepherd]
Aside, aside; here is more matter for a hot brain:
every lane's end, every shop, church, session,
hanging, yields a careful man work.",134,19645
666133,2688,"See, see; what a man you are now!
There is no other way but to tell the king
she's a changeling and none of your flesh and blood.",273,19645
666134,2691,"Nay, but hear me.",834,19645
666135,2692,"Nay, but hear me.",273,19645
666136,2693,"Go to, then.",834,19645
666137,2694,"She being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh
and blood has not offended the king; and so your
flesh and blood is not to be punished by him. Show
those things you found about her, those secret
things, all but what she has with her: this being
done, let the law go whistle: I warrant you.",273,19645
666138,2700,"I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and his
son's pranks too; who, I may say, is no honest man,
neither to his father nor to me, to go about to make
me the king's brother-in-law.",834,19645
666139,2704,"Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off you
could have been to him and then your blood had been
the dearer by I know how much an ounce.",273,19645
666140,2707,"[Aside] Very wisely, puppies!",134,19645
666141,2708,"Well, let us to the king: there is that in this
fardel will make him scratch his beard.",834,19645
666142,2710,"[Aside] I know not what impediment this complaint
may be to the flight of my master.",134,19645
666143,2712,Pray heartily he be at palace.,273,19645
666144,2713,"[Aside] Though I am not naturally honest, I am so
sometimes by chance: let me pocket up my pedlar's excrement.
[Takes off his false beard]
How now, rustics! whither are you bound?",134,19645
666145,2717,"To the palace, an it like your worship.",834,19645
666146,2718,"Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition
of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, your
names, your ages, of what having, breeding, and any
thing that is fitting to be known, discover.",134,19645
666147,2722,"We are but plain fellows, sir.",273,19645
666148,2723,"A lie; you are rough and hairy. Let me have no
lying: it becomes none but tradesmen, and they
often give us soldiers the lie: but we pay them for
it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore
they do not give us the lie.",134,19645
666149,2728,"Your worship had like to have given us one, if you
had not taken yourself with the manner.",273,19645
666150,2730,"Are you a courtier, an't like you, sir?",834,19645
666151,2731,"Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest
thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings?
hath not my gait in it the measure of the court?
receives not thy nose court-odor from me? reflect I
not on thy baseness court-contempt? Thinkest thou,
for that I insinuate, or toaze from thee thy
business, I am therefore no courtier? I am courtier
cap-a-pe; and one that will either push on or pluck
back thy business there: whereupon I command thee to
open thy affair.",134,19645
666152,2741,"My business, sir, is to the king.",834,19645
666153,2742,What advocate hast thou to him?,134,19645
666154,2743,"I know not, an't like you.",834,19645
666155,2744,"Advocate's the court-word for a pheasant: say you
have none.",273,19645
666156,2746,"None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock nor hen.",834,19645
666157,2747,"How blessed are we that are not simple men!
Yet nature might have made me as these are,
Therefore I will not disdain.",134,19645
666158,2750,This cannot be but a great courtier.,273,19645
666159,2751,"His garments are rich, but he wears
them not handsomely.",834,19645
666160,2753,"He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical:
a great man, I'll warrant; I know by the picking
on's teeth.",273,19645
666161,2756,"The fardel there? what's i' the fardel?
Wherefore that box?",134,19645
666162,2758,"Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box,
which none must know but the king; and which he
shall know within this hour, if I may come to the
speech of him.",834,19645
666163,2762,"Age, thou hast lost thy labour.",134,19645
666164,2763,"Why, sir?",834,19645
666165,2764,"The king is not at the palace; he is gone aboard a
new ship to purge melancholy and air himself: for,
if thou beest capable of things serious, thou must
know the king is full of grief.",134,19645
666166,2768,"So 'tis said, sir; about his son, that should have
married a shepherd's daughter.",834,19645
666167,2770,"If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him fly:
the curses he shall have, the tortures he shall
feel, will break the back of man, the heart of monster.",134,19645
666168,2773,"Think you so, sir?",273,19645
666169,2774,"Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy
and vengeance bitter; but those that are germane to
him, though removed fifty times, shall all come
under the hangman: which though it be great pity,
yet it is necessary. An old sheep-whistling rogue a
ram-tender, to offer to have his daughter come into
grace! Some say he shall be stoned; but that death
is too soft for him, say I. draw our throne into a
sheep-cote! all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy.",134,19645
666170,2783,"Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear. an't
like you, sir?",273,19645
666171,2785,"He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then
'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a
wasp's nest; then stand till he be three quarters
and a dram dead; then recovered again with
aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as
he is, and in the hottest day prognostication
proclaims, shall be be set against a brick-wall, the
sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he
is to behold him with flies blown to death. But what
talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries
are to be smiled at, their offences being so
capital? Tell me, for you seem to be honest plain
men, what you have to the king: being something
gently considered, I'll bring you where he is
aboard, tender your persons to his presence,
whisper him in your behalfs; and if it be in man
besides the king to effect your suits, here is man
shall do it.",134,19645
666172,2803,"He seems to be of great authority: close with him,
give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn
bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold: show
the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand,
and no more ado. Remember 'stoned,' and 'flayed alive.'",273,19645
666173,2808,"An't please you, sir, to undertake the business for
us, here is that gold I have: I'll make it as much
more and leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you.",834,19645
666174,2811,After I have done what I promised?,134,19645
666175,2812,"Ay, sir.",834,19645
666176,2813,"Well, give me the moiety. Are you a party in this business?",134,19645
666177,2814,"In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful
one, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it.",273,19645
666178,2816,"O, that's the case of the shepherd's son: hang him,
he'll be made an example.",134,19645
666179,2818,"Comfort, good comfort! We must to the king and show
our strange sights: he must know 'tis none of your
daughter nor my sister; we are gone else. Sir, I
will give you as much as this old man does when the
business is performed, and remain, as he says, your
pawn till it be brought you.",273,19645
666180,2824,"I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side;
go on the right hand: I will but look upon the
hedge and follow you.",134,19645
666181,2827,"We are blest in this man, as I may say, even blest.",273,19645
666182,2828,Let's before as he bids us: he was provided to do us good.,834,19645
666183,2829,[Exeunt Shepherd and Clown],1261,19645
666184,2830,"If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would
not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I am
courted now with a double occasion, gold and a means
to do the prince my master good; which who knows how
that may turn back to my advancement? I will bring
these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he
think it fit to shore them again and that the
complaint they have to the king concerns him
nothing, let him call me rogue for being so far
officious; for I am proof against that title and
what shame else belongs to't. To him will I present
them: there may be matter in it.",134,19645
666185,2842,[Exit],1261,19645
666186,2845,"[Enter LEONTES, CLEOMENES, DION, PAULINA, and Servants]",1261,19646
666187,2846,"Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd
A saint-like sorrow: no fault could you make,
Which you have not redeem'd; indeed, paid down
More penitence than done trespass: at the last,
Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;
With them forgive yourself.",260,19646
666188,2852,"Whilst I remember
Her and her virtues, I cannot forget
My blemishes in them, and so still think of
The wrong I did myself; which was so much,
That heirless it hath made my kingdom and
Destroy'd the sweet'st companion that e'er man
Bred his hopes out of.",667,19646
666189,2859,"True, too true, my lord:
If, one by one, you wedded all the world,
Or from the all that are took something good,
To make a perfect woman, she you kill'd
Would be unparallel'd.",866,19646
666190,2864,"I think so. Kill'd!
She I kill'd! I did so: but thou strikest me
Sorely, to say I did; it is as bitter
Upon thy tongue as in my thought: now, good now,
Say so but seldom.",667,19646
666191,2869,"Not at all, good lady:
You might have spoken a thousand things that would
Have done the time more benefit and graced
Your kindness better.",260,19646
666192,2873,"You are one of those
Would have him wed again.",866,19646
666193,2875,"If you would not so,
You pity not the state, nor the remembrance
Of his most sovereign name; consider little
What dangers, by his highness' fail of issue,
May drop upon his kingdom and devour
Incertain lookers on. What were more holy
Than to rejoice the former queen is well?
What holier than, for royalty's repair,
For present comfort and for future good,
To bless the bed of majesty again
With a sweet fellow to't?",317,19646
666194,2886,"There is none worthy,
Respecting her that's gone. Besides, the gods
Will have fulfill'd their secret purposes;
For has not the divine Apollo said,
Is't not the tenor of his oracle,
That King Leontes shall not have an heir
Till his lost child be found? which that it shall,
Is all as monstrous to our human reason
As my Antigonus to break his grave
And come again to me; who, on my life,
Did perish with the infant. 'Tis your counsel
My lord should to the heavens be contrary,
Oppose against their wills.
[To LEONTES]
Care not for issue;
The crown will find an heir: great Alexander
Left his to the worthiest; so his successor
Was like to be the best.",866,19646
666195,2904,"Good Paulina,
Who hast the memory of Hermione,
I know, in honour, O, that ever I
Had squared me to thy counsel! then, even now,
I might have look'd upon my queen's full eyes,
Have taken treasure from her lips--",667,19646
666196,2910,"And left them
More rich for what they yielded.",866,19646
666197,2912,"Thou speak'st truth.
No more such wives; therefore, no wife: one worse,
And better used, would make her sainted spirit
Again possess her corpse, and on this stage,
Where we're offenders now, appear soul-vex'd,
And begin, 'Why to me?'",667,19646
666198,2918,"Had she such power,
She had just cause.",866,19646
666199,2920,"She had; and would incense me
To murder her I married.",667,19646
666200,2922,"I should so.
Were I the ghost that walk'd, I'ld bid you mark
Her eye, and tell me for what dull part in't
You chose her; then I'ld shriek, that even your ears
Should rift to hear me; and the words that follow'd
Should be 'Remember mine.'",866,19646
666201,2928,"Stars, stars,
And all eyes else dead coals! Fear thou no wife;
I'll have no wife, Paulina.",667,19646
666202,2931,"Will you swear
Never to marry but by my free leave?",866,19646
666203,2933,"Never, Paulina; so be blest my spirit!",667,19646
666204,2934,"Then, good my lords, bear witness to his oath.",866,19646
666205,2935,You tempt him over-much.,260,19646
666206,2936,"Unless another,
As like Hermione as is her picture,
Affront his eye.CLEOMENES. Good madam,--",866,19646
666207,2939,"I have done.
Yet, if my lord will marry,--if you will, sir,
No remedy, but you will,--give me the office
To choose you a queen: she shall not be so young
As was your former; but she shall be such
As, walk'd your first queen's ghost,
it should take joy
To see her in your arms.",866,19646
666208,2947,"My true Paulina,
We shall not marry till thou bid'st us.",667,19646
666209,2949,"That
Shall be when your first queen's again in breath;
Never till then.",866,19646
666210,2952,[Enter a Gentleman],1261,19646
666211,2953,"One that gives out himself Prince Florizel,
Son of Polixenes, with his princess, she
The fairest I have yet beheld, desires access
To your high presence.",522,19646
666212,2957,"What with him? he comes not
Like to his father's greatness: his approach,
So out of circumstance and sudden, tells us
'Tis not a visitation framed, but forced
By need and accident. What train?",667,19646
666213,2962,"But few,
And those but mean.",522,19646
666214,2964,"His princess, say you, with him?",667,19646
666215,2965,"Ay, the most peerless piece of earth, I think,
That e'er the sun shone bright on.",522,19646
666216,2967,"O Hermione,
As every present time doth boast itself
Above a better gone, so must thy grave
Give way to what's seen now! Sir, you yourself
Have said and writ so, but your writing now
Is colder than that theme, 'She had not been,
Nor was not to be equall'd;'--thus your verse
Flow'd with her beauty once: 'tis shrewdly ebb'd,
To say you have seen a better.",866,19646
666217,2976,"Pardon, madam:
The one I have almost forgot,--your pardon,--
The other, when she has obtain'd your eye,
Will have your tongue too. This is a creature,
Would she begin a sect, might quench the zeal
Of all professors else, make proselytes
Of who she but bid follow.",522,19646
666218,2983,How! not women?,866,19646
666219,2984,"Women will love her, that she is a woman
More worth than any man; men, that she is
The rarest of all women.",522,19646
666220,2987,"Go, Cleomenes;
Yourself, assisted with your honour'd friends,
Bring them to our embracement. Still, 'tis strange
[Exeunt CLEOMENES and others]
He thus should steal upon us.",667,19646
666221,2992,"Had our prince,
Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had pair'd
Well with this lord: there was not full a month
Between their births.",866,19646
666222,2996,"Prithee, no more; cease; thou know'st
He dies to me again when talk'd of: sure,
When I shall see this gentleman, thy speeches
Will bring me to consider that which may
Unfurnish me of reason. They are come.
[Re-enter CLEOMENES and others, with FLORIZEL and PERDITA]
Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince;
For she did print your royal father off,
Conceiving you: were I but twenty-one,
Your father's image is so hit in you,
His very air, that I should call you brother,
As I did him, and speak of something wildly
By us perform'd before. Most dearly welcome!
And your fair princess,--goddess!--O, alas!
I lost a couple, that 'twixt heaven and earth
Might thus have stood begetting wonder as
You, gracious couple, do: and then I lost--
All mine own folly--the society,
Amity too, of your brave father, whom,
Though bearing misery, I desire my life
Once more to look on him.",667,19646
666223,3017,"By his command
Have I here touch'd Sicilia and from him
Give you all greetings that a king, at friend,
Can send his brother: and, but infirmity
Which waits upon worn times hath something seized
His wish'd ability, he had himself
The lands and waters 'twixt your throne and his
Measured to look upon you; whom he loves--
He bade me say so--more than all the sceptres
And those that bear them living.",479,19646
666224,3027,"O my brother,
Good gentleman! the wrongs I have done thee stir
Afresh within me, and these thy offices,
So rarely kind, are as interpreters
Of my behind-hand slackness. Welcome hither,
As is the spring to the earth. And hath he too
Exposed this paragon to the fearful usage,
At least ungentle, of the dreadful Neptune,
To greet a man not worth her pains, much less
The adventure of her person?",667,19646
666225,3037,"Good my lord,
She came from Libya.",479,19646
666226,3039,"Where the warlike Smalus,
That noble honour'd lord, is fear'd and loved?",667,19646
666227,3041,"Most royal sir, from thence; from him, whose daughter
His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence,
A prosperous south-wind friendly, we have cross'd,
To execute the charge my father gave me
For visiting your highness: my best train
I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss'd;
Who for Bohemia bend, to signify
Not only my success in Libya, sir,
But my arrival and my wife's in safety
Here where we are.",479,19646
666228,3051,"The blessed gods
Purge all infection from our air whilst you
Do climate here! You have a holy father,
A graceful gentleman; against whose person,
So sacred as it is, I have done sin:
For which the heavens, taking angry note,
Have left me issueless; and your father's blest,
As he from heaven merits it, with you
Worthy his goodness. What might I have been,
Might I a son and daughter now have look'd on,
Such goodly things as you!",667,19646
666229,3062,[Enter a Lord],1261,19646
666230,3063,"Most noble sir,
That which I shall report will bear no credit,
Were not the proof so nigh. Please you, great sir,
Bohemia greets you from himself by me;
Desires you to attach his son, who has--
His dignity and duty both cast off--
Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with
A shepherd's daughter.",704,19646
666231,3071,Where's Bohemia? speak.,667,19646
666232,3072,"Here in your city; I now came from him:
I speak amazedly; and it becomes
My marvel and my message. To your court
Whiles he was hastening, in the chase, it seems,
Of this fair couple, meets he on the way
The father of this seeming lady and
Her brother, having both their country quitted
With this young prince.",704,19646
666233,3080,"Camillo has betray'd me;
Whose honour and whose honesty till now
Endured all weathers.",479,19646
666234,3083,"Lay't so to his charge:
He's with the king your father.",704,19646
666235,3085,Who? Camillo?,667,19646
666236,3086,"Camillo, sir; I spake with him; who now
Has these poor men in question. Never saw I
Wretches so quake: they kneel, they kiss the earth;
Forswear themselves as often as they speak:
Bohemia stops his ears, and threatens them
With divers deaths in death.",704,19646
666237,3092,"O my poor father!
The heaven sets spies upon us, will not have
Our contract celebrated.",871,19646
666238,3095,You are married?,667,19646
666239,3096,"We are not, sir, nor are we like to be;
The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first:
The odds for high and low's alike.",479,19646
666240,3099,"My lord,
Is this the daughter of a king?",667,19646
666241,3101,"She is,
When once she is my wife.",479,19646
666242,3103,"That 'once' I see by your good father's speed
Will come on very slowly. I am sorry,
Most sorry, you have broken from his liking
Where you were tied in duty, and as sorry
Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty,
That you might well enjoy her.",667,19646
666243,3109,"Dear, look up:
Though Fortune, visible an enemy,
Should chase us with my father, power no jot
Hath she to change our loves. Beseech you, sir,
Remember since you owed no more to time
Than I do now: with thought of such affections,
Step forth mine advocate; at your request
My father will grant precious things as trifles.",479,19646
666244,3117,"Would he do so, I'ld beg your precious mistress,
Which he counts but a trifle.",667,19646
666245,3119,"Sir, my liege,
Your eye hath too much youth in't: not a month
'Fore your queen died, she was more worth such gazes
Than what you look on now.",866,19646
666246,3123,"I thought of her,
Even in these looks I made.
[To FLORIZEL]
But your petition
Is yet unanswer'd. I will to your father:
Your honour not o'erthrown by your desires,
I am friend to them and you: upon which errand
I now go toward him; therefore follow me
And mark what way I make: come, good my lord.",667,19646
666247,3132,[Exeunt],1261,19646
666248,3135,[Enter AUTOLYCUS and a Gentleman],1261,19647
666249,3136,"Beseech you, sir, were you present at this relation?",134,19647
666250,3137,"I was by at the opening of the fardel, heard the old
shepherd deliver the manner how he found it:
whereupon, after a little amazedness, we were all
commanded out of the chamber; only this methought I
heard the shepherd say, he found the child.",424,19647
666251,3142,I would most gladly know the issue of it.,134,19647
666252,3143,"I make a broken delivery of the business; but the
changes I perceived in the king and Camillo were
very notes of admiration: they seemed almost, with
staring on one another, to tear the cases of their
eyes; there was speech in their dumbness, language
in their very gesture; they looked as they had heard
of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: a notable
passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest
beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not
say if the importance were joy or sorrow; but in the
extremity of the one, it must needs be.
[Enter another Gentleman]
Here comes a gentleman that haply knows more.
The news, Rogero?",424,19647
666253,3157,"Nothing but bonfires: the oracle is fulfilled; the
king's daughter is found: such a deal of wonder is
broken out within this hour that ballad-makers
cannot be able to express it.
[Enter a third Gentleman]
Here comes the Lady Paulina's steward: he can
deliver you more. How goes it now, sir? this news
which is called true is so like an old tale, that
the verity of it is in strong suspicion: has the king
found his heir?",994,19647
666254,3167,"Most true, if ever truth were pregnant by
circumstance: that which you hear you'll swear you
see, there is such unity in the proofs. The mantle
of Queen Hermione's, her jewel about the neck of it,
the letters of Antigonus found with it which they
know to be his character, the majesty of the
creature in resemblance of the mother, the affection
of nobleness which nature shows above her breeding,
and many other evidences proclaim her with all
certainty to be the king's daughter. Did you see
the meeting of the two kings?",1169,19647
666255,3178,No.,994,19647
666256,3179,"Then have you lost a sight, which was to be seen,
cannot be spoken of. There might you have beheld one
joy crown another, so and in such manner that it
seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them, for their
joy waded in tears. There was casting up of eyes,
holding up of hands, with countenances of such
distraction that they were to be known by garment,
not by favour. Our king, being ready to leap out of
himself for joy of his found daughter, as if that
joy were now become a loss, cries 'O, thy mother,
thy mother!' then asks Bohemia forgiveness; then
embraces his son-in-law; then again worries he his
daughter with clipping her; now he thanks the old
shepherd, which stands by like a weather-bitten
conduit of many kings' reigns. I never heard of such
another encounter, which lames report to follow it
and undoes description to do it.",1169,19647
666257,3196,"What, pray you, became of Antigonus, that carried
hence the child?",994,19647
666258,3198,"Like an old tale still, which will have matter to
rehearse, though credit be asleep and not an ear
open. He was torn to pieces with a bear: this
avouches the shepherd's son; who has not only his
innocence, which seems much, to justify him, but a
handkerchief and rings of his that Paulina knows.",1169,19647
666259,3204,What became of his bark and his followers?,424,19647
666260,3205,"Wrecked the same instant of their master's death and
in the view of the shepherd: so that all the
instruments which aided to expose the child were
even then lost when it was found. But O, the noble
combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in
Paulina! She had one eye declined for the loss of
her husband, another elevated that the oracle was
fulfilled: she lifted the princess from the earth,
and so locks her in embracing, as if she would pin
her to her heart that she might no more be in danger
of losing.",1169,19647
666261,3216,"The dignity of this act was worth the audience of
kings and princes; for by such was it acted.",424,19647
666262,3218,"One of the prettiest touches of all and that which
angled for mine eyes, caught the water though not
the fish, was when, at the relation of the queen's
death, with the manner how she came to't bravely
confessed and lamented by the king, how
attentiveness wounded his daughter; till, from one
sign of dolour to another, she did, with an 'Alas,'
I would fain say, bleed tears, for I am sure my
heart wept blood. Who was most marble there changed
colour; some swooned, all sorrowed: if all the world
could have seen 't, the woe had been universal.",1169,19647
666263,3229,Are they returned to the court?,424,19647
666264,3230,"No: the princess hearing of her mother's statue,
which is in the keeping of Paulina,--a piece many
years in doing and now newly performed by that rare
Italian master, Julio Romano, who, had he himself
eternity and could put breath into his work, would
beguile Nature of her custom, so perfectly he is her
ape: he so near to Hermione hath done Hermione that
they say one would speak to her and stand in hope of
answer: thither with all greediness of affection
are they gone, and there they intend to sup.",1169,19647
666265,3240,"I thought she had some great matter there in hand;
for she hath privately twice or thrice a day, ever
since the death of Hermione, visited that removed
house. Shall we thither and with our company piece
the rejoicing?",994,19647
666266,3245,"Who would be thence that has the benefit of access?
every wink of an eye some new grace will be born:
our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge.
Let's along.",424,19647
666267,3249,[Exeunt Gentlemen],1261,19647
666268,3250,"Now, had I not the dash of my former life in me,
would preferment drop on my head. I brought the old
man and his son aboard the prince: told him I heard
them talk of a fardel and I know not what: but he
at that time, overfond of the shepherd's daughter,
so he then took her to be, who began to be much
sea-sick, and himself little better, extremity of
weather continuing, this mystery remained
undiscovered. But 'tis all one to me; for had I
been the finder out of this secret, it would not
have relished among my other discredits.
[Enter Shepherd and Clown]
Here come those I have done good to against my will,
and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune.",134,19647
666269,3264,"Come, boy; I am past moe children, but thy sons and
daughters will be all gentlemen born.",834,19647
666270,3266,"You are well met, sir. You denied to fight with me
this other day, because I was no gentleman born.
See you these clothes? say you see them not and
think me still no gentleman born: you were best say
these robes are not gentlemen born: give me the
lie, do, and try whether I am not now a gentleman born.",273,19647
666271,3272,"I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born.",134,19647
666272,3273,"Ay, and have been so any time these four hours.",273,19647
666273,3274,"And so have I, boy.",834,19647
666274,3275,"So you have: but I was a gentleman born before my
father; for the king's son took me by the hand, and
called me brother; and then the two kings called my
father brother; and then the prince my brother and
the princess my sister called my father father; and
so we wept, and there was the first gentleman-like
tears that ever we shed.",273,19647
666275,3282,"We may live, son, to shed many more.",834,19647
666276,3283,"Ay; or else 'twere hard luck, being in so
preposterous estate as we are.",273,19647
666277,3285,"I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the
faults I have committed to your worship and to give
me your good report to the prince my master.",134,19647
666278,3288,"Prithee, son, do; for we must be gentle, now we are
gentlemen.",834,19647
666279,3290,Thou wilt amend thy life?,273,19647
666280,3291,"Ay, an it like your good worship.",134,19647
666281,3292,"Give me thy hand: I will swear to the prince thou
art as honest a true fellow as any is in Bohemia.",273,19647
666282,3294,"You may say it, but not swear it.",834,19647
666283,3295,"Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and
franklins say it, I'll swear it.",273,19647
666284,3297,"How if it be false, son?",834,19647
666285,3298,"If it be ne'er so false, a true gentleman may swear
it in the behalf of his friend: and I'll swear to
the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands and
that thou wilt not be drunk; but I know thou art no
tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt be
drunk: but I'll swear it, and I would thou wouldst
be a tall fellow of thy hands.",273,19647
666286,3305,"I will prove so, sir, to my power.",134,19647
666287,3306,"Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow: if I do not
wonder how thou darest venture to be drunk, not
being a tall fellow, trust me not. Hark! the kings
and the princes, our kindred, are going to see the
queen's picture. Come, follow us: we'll be thy
good masters.",273,19647
666288,3312,"[Exeunt]
[Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, FLORIZEL, PERDITA,]
CAMILLO, PAULINA, Lords, and Attendants]",1261,19647
666289,3317,"O grave and good Paulina, the great comfort
That I have had of thee!",667,19648
666290,3319,"What, sovereign sir,
I did not well I meant well. All my services
You have paid home: but that you have vouchsafed,
With your crown'd brother and these your contracted
Heirs of your kingdoms, my poor house to visit,
It is a surplus of your grace, which never
My life may last to answer.",866,19648
666291,3326,"O Paulina,
We honour you with trouble: but we came
To see the statue of our queen: your gallery
Have we pass'd through, not without much content
In many singularities; but we saw not
That which my daughter came to look upon,
The statue of her mother.",667,19648
666292,3333,"As she lived peerless,
So her dead likeness, I do well believe,
Excels whatever yet you look'd upon
Or hand of man hath done; therefore I keep it
Lonely, apart. But here it is: prepare
To see the life as lively mock'd as ever
Still sleep mock'd death: behold, and say 'tis well.
[PAULINA draws a curtain, and discovers HERMIONE]
standing like a statue]
I like your silence, it the more shows off
Your wonder: but yet speak; first, you, my liege,
Comes it not something near?",866,19648
666293,3345,"Her natural posture!
Chide me, dear stone, that I may say indeed
Thou art Hermione; or rather, thou art she
In thy not chiding, for she was as tender
As infancy and grace. But yet, Paulina,
Hermione was not so much wrinkled, nothing
So aged as this seems.",667,19648
666294,3352,"O, not by much.",898,19648
666295,3353,"So much the more our carver's excellence;
Which lets go by some sixteen years and makes her
As she lived now.",866,19648
666296,3356,"As now she might have done,
So much to my good comfort, as it is
Now piercing to my soul. O, thus she stood,
Even with such life of majesty, warm life,
As now it coldly stands, when first I woo'd her!
I am ashamed: does not the stone rebuke me
For being more stone than it? O royal piece,
There's magic in thy majesty, which has
My evils conjured to remembrance and
From thy admiring daughter took the spirits,
Standing like stone with thee.",667,19648
666297,3367,"And give me leave,
And do not say 'tis superstition, that
I kneel and then implore her blessing. Lady,
Dear queen, that ended when I but began,
Give me that hand of yours to kiss.",871,19648
666298,3372,"O, patience!
The statue is but newly fix'd, the colour's Not dry.",866,19648
666299,3374,"My lord, your sorrow was too sore laid on,
Which sixteen winters cannot blow away,
So many summers dry; scarce any joy
Did ever so long live; no sorrow
But kill'd itself much sooner.",211,19648
666300,3379,"Dear my brother,
Let him that was the cause of this have power
To take off so much grief from you as he
Will piece up in himself.",898,19648
666301,3383,"Indeed, my lord,
If I had thought the sight of my poor image
Would thus have wrought you,--for the stone is mine--
I'ld not have show'd it.",866,19648
666302,3387,Do not draw the curtain.,667,19648
666303,3388,"No longer shall you gaze on't, lest your fancy
May think anon it moves.",866,19648
666304,3390,"Let be, let be.
Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already--
What was he that did make it? See, my lord,
Would you not deem it breathed? and that those veins
Did verily bear blood?",667,19648
666305,3395,"Masterly done:
The very life seems warm upon her lip.",898,19648
666306,3397,"The fixture of her eye has motion in't,
As we are mock'd with art.",667,19648
666307,3399,"I'll draw the curtain:
My lord's almost so far transported that
He'll think anon it lives.",866,19648
666308,3402,"O sweet Paulina,
Make me to think so twenty years together!
No settled senses of the world can match
The pleasure of that madness. Let 't alone.",667,19648
666309,3406,"I am sorry, sir, I have thus far stirr'd you: but
I could afflict you farther.",866,19648
666310,3408,"Do, Paulina;
For this affliction has a taste as sweet
As any cordial comfort. Still, methinks,
There is an air comes from her: what fine chisel
Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me,
For I will kiss her.",667,19648
666311,3414,"Good my lord, forbear:
The ruddiness upon her lip is wet;
You'll mar it if you kiss it, stain your own
With oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain?",866,19648
666312,3418,"No, not these twenty years.",667,19648
666313,3419,"So long could I
Stand by, a looker on.",871,19648
666314,3421,"Either forbear,
Quit presently the chapel, or resolve you
For more amazement. If you can behold it,
I'll make the statue move indeed, descend
And take you by the hand; but then you'll think--
Which I protest against--I am assisted
By wicked powers.",866,19648
666315,3428,"What you can make her do,
I am content to look on: what to speak,
I am content to hear; for 'tis as easy
To make her speak as move.",667,19648
666316,3432,"It is required
You do awake your faith. Then all stand still;
On: those that think it is unlawful business
I am about, let them depart.",866,19648
666317,3436,"Proceed:
No foot shall stir.",667,19648
666318,3438,"Music, awake her; strike!
[Music]
'Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach;
Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come,
I'll fill your grave up: stir, nay, come away,
Bequeath to death your numbness, for from him
Dear life redeems you. You perceive she stirs:
[HERMIONE comes down]
Start not; her actions shall be holy as
You hear my spell is lawful: do not shun her
Until you see her die again; for then
You kill her double. Nay, present your hand:
When she was young you woo'd her; now in age
Is she become the suitor?",866,19648
666319,3452,"O, she's warm!
If this be magic, let it be an art
Lawful as eating.",667,19648
666320,3455,She embraces him.,898,19648
666321,3456,"She hangs about his neck:
If she pertain to life let her speak too.",211,19648
666322,3458,"Ay, and make't manifest where she has lived,
Or how stolen from the dead.",898,19648
666323,3460,"That she is living,
Were it but told you, should be hooted at
Like an old tale: but it appears she lives,
Though yet she speak not. Mark a little while.
Please you to interpose, fair madam: kneel
And pray your mother's blessing. Turn, good lady;
Our Perdita is found.",866,19648
666324,3467,"You gods, look down
And from your sacred vials pour your graces
Upon my daughter's head! Tell me, mine own.
Where hast thou been preserved? where lived? how found
Thy father's court? for thou shalt hear that I,
Knowing by Paulina that the oracle
Gave hope thou wast in being, have preserved
Myself to see the issue.",584,19648
666325,3475,"There's time enough for that;
Lest they desire upon this push to trouble
Your joys with like relation. Go together,
You precious winners all; your exultation
Partake to every one. I, an old turtle,
Will wing me to some wither'd bough and there
My mate, that's never to be found again,
Lament till I am lost.",866,19648
666326,3483,"O, peace, Paulina!
Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent,
As I by thine a wife: this is a match,
And made between's by vows. Thou hast found mine;
But how, is to be question'd; for I saw her,
As I thought, dead, and have in vain said many
A prayer upon her grave. I'll not seek far--
For him, I partly know his mind--to find thee
An honourable husband. Come, Camillo,
And take her by the hand, whose worth and honesty
Is richly noted and here justified
By us, a pair of kings. Let's from this place.
What! look upon my brother: both your pardons,
That e'er I put between your holy looks
My ill suspicion. This is your son-in-law,
And son unto the king, who, heavens directing,
Is troth-plight to your daughter. Good Paulina,
Lead us from hence, where we may leisurely
Each one demand an answer to his part
Perform'd in this wide gap of time since first
We were dissever'd: hastily lead away.",667,19648
666327,3504,[Exeunt],1261,19648