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<H3>SCENE IV. Another part of the field.</h3>

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<i>Enter SALISBURY, PEMBROKE, and BIGOT</i>
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<A NAME=speech1><b>SALISBURY</b></a>
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<A NAME=1>I did not think the king so stored with friends.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech2><b>PEMBROKE</b></a>
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<A NAME=2>Up once again; put spirit in the French:</A><br>
<A NAME=3>If they miscarry, we miscarry too.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech3><b>SALISBURY</b></a>
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<A NAME=4>That misbegotten devil, Faulconbridge,</A><br>
<A NAME=5>In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech4><b>PEMBROKE</b></a>
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<A NAME=6>They say King John sore sick hath left the field.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter MELUN, wounded</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech5><b>MELUN</b></a>
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<A NAME=7>Lead me to the revolts of England here.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech6><b>SALISBURY</b></a>
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<A NAME=8>When we were happy we had other names.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech7><b>PEMBROKE</b></a>
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<A NAME=9>It is the Count Melun.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech8><b>SALISBURY</b></a>
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<A NAME=10>Wounded to death.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech9><b>MELUN</b></a>
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<A NAME=11>Fly, noble English, you are bought and sold;</A><br>
<A NAME=12>Unthread the rude eye of rebellion</A><br>
<A NAME=13>And welcome home again discarded faith.</A><br>
<A NAME=14>Seek out King John and fall before his feet;</A><br>
<A NAME=15>For if the French be lords of this loud day,</A><br>
<A NAME=16>He means to recompense the pains you take</A><br>
<A NAME=17>By cutting off your heads: thus hath he sworn</A><br>
<A NAME=18>And I with him, and many moe with me,</A><br>
<A NAME=19>Upon the altar at Saint Edmundsbury;</A><br>
<A NAME=20>Even on that altar where we swore to you</A><br>
<A NAME=21>Dear amity and everlasting love.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech10><b>SALISBURY</b></a>
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<A NAME=22>May this be possible? may this be true?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech11><b>MELUN</b></a>
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<A NAME=23>Have I not hideous death within my view,</A><br>
<A NAME=24>Retaining but a quantity of life,</A><br>
<A NAME=25>Which bleeds away, even as a form of wax</A><br>
<A NAME=26>Resolveth from his figure 'gainst the fire?</A><br>
<A NAME=27>What in the world should make me now deceive,</A><br>
<A NAME=28>Since I must lose the use of all deceit?</A><br>
<A NAME=29>Why should I then be false, since it is true</A><br>
<A NAME=30>That I must die here and live hence by truth?</A><br>
<A NAME=31>I say again, if Lewis do win the day,</A><br>
<A NAME=32>He is forsworn, if e'er those eyes of yours</A><br>
<A NAME=33>Behold another day break in the east:</A><br>
<A NAME=34>But even this night, whose black contagious breath</A><br>
<A NAME=35>Already smokes about the burning crest</A><br>
<A NAME=36>Of the old, feeble and day-wearied sun,</A><br>
<A NAME=37>Even this ill night, your breathing shall expire,</A><br>
<A NAME=38>Paying the fine of rated treachery</A><br>
<A NAME=39>Even with a treacherous fine of all your lives,</A><br>
<A NAME=40>If Lewis by your assistance win the day.</A><br>
<A NAME=41>Commend me to one Hubert with your king:</A><br>
<A NAME=42>The love of him, and this respect besides,</A><br>
<A NAME=43>For that my grandsire was an Englishman,</A><br>
<A NAME=44>Awakes my conscience to confess all this.</A><br>
<A NAME=45>In lieu whereof, I pray you, bear me hence</A><br>
<A NAME=46>From forth the noise and rumour of the field,</A><br>
<A NAME=47>Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts</A><br>
<A NAME=48>In peace, and part this body and my soul</A><br>
<A NAME=49>With contemplation and devout desires.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech12><b>SALISBURY</b></a>
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<A NAME=50>We do believe thee: and beshrew my soul</A><br>
<A NAME=51>But I do love the favour and the form</A><br>
<A NAME=52>Of this most fair occasion, by the which</A><br>
<A NAME=53>We will untread the steps of damned flight,</A><br>
<A NAME=54>And like a bated and retired flood,</A><br>
<A NAME=55>Leaving our rankness and irregular course,</A><br>
<A NAME=56>Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlook'd</A><br>
<A NAME=57>And cabby run on in obedience</A><br>
<A NAME=58>Even to our ocean, to our great King John.</A><br>
<A NAME=59>My arm shall give thee help to bear thee hence;</A><br>
<A NAME=60>For I do see the cruel pangs of death</A><br>
<A NAME=61>Right in thine eye. Away, my friends! New flight;</A><br>
<A NAME=62>And happy newness, that intends old right.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt, leading off MELUN</i></p>
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