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<H3>SCENE VI. An open place in the neighbourhood of Swinstead Abbey.</h3>

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<i>Enter the BASTARD and HUBERT, severally</i>
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<A NAME=speech1><b>HUBERT</b></a>
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<A NAME=1>Who's there? speak, ho! speak quickly, or I shoot.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech2><b>BASTARD</b></a>
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<A NAME=2>A friend. What art thou?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech3><b>HUBERT</b></a>
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<A NAME=3>Of the part of England.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech4><b>BASTARD</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4>Whither dost thou go?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech5><b>HUBERT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5>What's that to thee? why may not I demand</A><br>
<A NAME=6>Of thine affairs, as well as thou of mine?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech6><b>BASTARD</b></a>
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<A NAME=7>Hubert, I think?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech7><b>HUBERT</b></a>
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<A NAME=8>                  Thou hast a perfect thought:</A><br>
<A NAME=9>I will upon all hazards well believe</A><br>
<A NAME=10>Thou art my friend, that know'st my tongue so well.</A><br>
<A NAME=11>Who art thou?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech8><b>BASTARD</b></a>
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<A NAME=12>                  Who thou wilt: and if thou please,</A><br>
<A NAME=13>Thou mayst befriend me so much as to think</A><br>
<A NAME=14>I come one way of the Plantagenets.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech9><b>HUBERT</b></a>
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<A NAME=15>Unkind remembrance! thou and eyeless night</A><br>
<A NAME=16>Have done me shame: brave soldier, pardon me,</A><br>
<A NAME=17>That any accent breaking from thy tongue</A><br>
<A NAME=18>Should 'scape the true acquaintance of mine ear.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech10><b>BASTARD</b></a>
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<A NAME=19>Come, come; sans compliment, what news abroad?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech11><b>HUBERT</b></a>
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<A NAME=20>Why, here walk I in the black brow of night,</A><br>
<A NAME=21>To find you out.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech12><b>BASTARD</b></a>
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<A NAME=22>                  Brief, then; and what's the news?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech13><b>HUBERT</b></a>
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<A NAME=23>O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,</A><br>
<A NAME=24>Black, fearful, comfortless and horrible.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech14><b>BASTARD</b></a>
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<A NAME=25>Show me the very wound of this ill news:</A><br>
<A NAME=26>I am no woman, I'll not swoon at it.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech15><b>HUBERT</b></a>
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<A NAME=27>The king, I fear, is poison'd by a monk:</A><br>
<A NAME=28>I left him almost speechless; and broke out</A><br>
<A NAME=29>To acquaint you with this evil, that you might</A><br>
<A NAME=30>The better arm you to the sudden time,</A><br>
<A NAME=31>Than if you had at leisure known of this.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech16><b>BASTARD</b></a>
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<A NAME=32>How did he take it? who did taste to him?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech17><b>HUBERT</b></a>
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<A NAME=33>A monk, I tell you; a resolved villain,</A><br>
<A NAME=34>Whose bowels suddenly burst out: the king</A><br>
<A NAME=35>Yet speaks and peradventure may recover.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech18><b>BASTARD</b></a>
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<A NAME=36>Who didst thou leave to tend his majesty?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech19><b>HUBERT</b></a>
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<A NAME=37>Why, know you not? the lords are all come back,</A><br>
<A NAME=38>And brought Prince Henry in their company;</A><br>
<A NAME=39>At whose request the king hath pardon'd them,</A><br>
<A NAME=40>And they are all about his majesty.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech20><b>BASTARD</b></a>
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<A NAME=41>Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven,</A><br>
<A NAME=42>And tempt us not to bear above our power!</A><br>
<A NAME=43>I'll tell tree, Hubert, half my power this night,</A><br>
<A NAME=44>Passing these flats, are taken by the tide;</A><br>
<A NAME=45>These Lincoln Washes have devoured them;</A><br>
<A NAME=46>Myself, well mounted, hardly have escaped.</A><br>
<A NAME=47>Away before: conduct me to the king;</A><br>
<A NAME=48>I doubt he will be dead or ere I come.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
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