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| <tr><td class="play" align="center">The Second part of King Henry the Sixth | |
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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. London. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Flourish of trumpets: then hautboys. Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, SALISBURY, WARWICK, and CARDINAL, on the one side; QUEEN MARGARET, SUFFOLK, YORK, SOMERSET, and BUCKINGHAM, on the other</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>As by your high imperial majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>I had in charge at my depart for France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>As procurator to your excellence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>To marry Princess Margaret for your grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>So, in the famous ancient city, Tours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne and Alencon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>Seven earls, twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>I have perform'd my task and was espoused:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>And humbly now upon my bended knee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>In sight of England and her lordly peers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>Deliver up my title in the queen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>To your most gracious hands, that are the substance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>Of that great shadow I did represent;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>The happiest gift that ever marquess gave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>The fairest queen that ever king received.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>Suffolk, arise. Welcome, Queen Margaret:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>I can express no kinder sign of love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>Than this kind kiss. O Lord, that lends me life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>For thou hast given me in this beauteous face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>A world of earthly blessings to my soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>Great King of England and my gracious lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>The mutual conference that my mind hath had,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>By day, by night, waking and in my dreams,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>In courtly company or at my beads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>With you, mine alder-liefest sovereign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>Makes me the bolder to salute my king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>With ruder terms, such as my wit affords</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>And over-joy of heart doth minister.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>Her sight did ravish; but her grace in speech,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>Her words y-clad with wisdom's majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>Makes me from wondering fall to weeping joys;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>Such is the fulness of my heart's content.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>Lords, with one cheerful voice welcome my love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>[Kneeling] Long live Queen Margaret, England's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>happiness!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>We thank you all.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>My lord protector, so it please your grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>Here are the articles of contracted peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>Between our sovereign and the French king Charles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>For eighteen months concluded by consent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>[Reads] 'Imprimis, it is agreed between the French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>king Charles, and William de la Pole, Marquess of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>Suffolk, ambassador for Henry King of England, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>the said Henry shall espouse the Lady Margaret,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>daughter unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>Jerusalem, and crown her Queen of England ere the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>thirtieth of May next ensuing. Item, that the duchy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>of Anjou and the county of Maine shall be released</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>and delivered to the king her father'--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Lets the paper fall</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>Uncle, how now!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54> Pardon me, gracious lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>And dimm'd mine eyes, that I can read no further.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>Uncle of Winchester, I pray, read on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>[Reads] 'Item, It is further agreed between them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>that the duchies of Anjou and Maine shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>released and delivered over to the king her father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>and she sent over of the King of England's own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>proper cost and charges, without having any dowry.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>They please us well. Lord marquess, kneel down:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>And gird thee with the sword. Cousin of York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>We here discharge your grace from being regent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>I' the parts of France, till term of eighteen months</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>Be full expired. Thanks, uncle Winchester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>Gloucester, York, Buckingham, Somerset,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>Salisbury, and Warwick;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>We thank you all for the great favour done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>In entertainment to my princely queen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>Come, let us in, and with all speed provide</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>To see her coronation be perform'd.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, and SUFFOLK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>Brave peers of England, pillars of the state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>To you Duke Humphrey must unload his grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>Your grief, the common grief of all the land.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>What! did my brother Henry spend his youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>His valour, coin and people, in the wars?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>Did he so often lodge in open field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>To conquer France, his true inheritance?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>And did my brother Bedford toil his wits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>To keep by policy what Henry got?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>Have you yourselves, Somerset, Buckingham,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>Brave York, Salisbury, and victorious Warwick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>Received deep scars in France and Normandy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>Or hath mine uncle Beaufort and myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>With all the learned council of the realm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>Studied so long, sat in the council-house</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>Early and late, debating to and fro</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>And had his highness in his infancy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>Crowned in Paris in despite of foes?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>And shall these labours and these honours die?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>Shall Henry's conquest, Bedford's vigilance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>Your deeds of war and all our counsel die?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>O peers of England, shameful is this league!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>Fatal this marriage, cancelling your fame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>Blotting your names from books of memory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>Razing the characters of your renown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>Defacing monuments of conquer'd France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>Undoing all, as all had never been!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>Nephew, what means this passionate discourse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>This peroration with such circumstance?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>For France, 'tis ours; and we will keep it still.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>Ay, uncle, we will keep it, if we can;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>But now it is impossible we should:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>Hath given the duchy of Anjou and Maine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>Unto the poor King Reignier, whose large style</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>Agrees not with the leanness of his purse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>Now, by the death of Him that died for all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>These counties were the keys of Normandy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>But wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant son?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>For grief that they are past recovery:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>For, were there hope to conquer them again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>My sword should shed hot blood, mine eyes no tears.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>Anjou and Maine! myself did win them both;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>Those provinces these arms of mine did conquer:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>And are the cities, that I got with wounds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>Delivered up again with peaceful words?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>Mort Dieu!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>For Suffolk's duke, may he be suffocate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>That dims the honour of this warlike isle!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>France should have torn and rent my very heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>Before I would have yielded to this league.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>I never read but England's kings have had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>Large sums of gold and dowries with their wives:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>And our King Henry gives away his own,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>To match with her that brings no vantages.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>A proper jest, and never heard before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>For costs and charges in transporting her!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>She should have stayed in France and starved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>in France, Before--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>My Lord of Gloucester, now ye grow too hot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>It was the pleasure of my lord the King.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>My Lord of Winchester, I know your mind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>But 'tis my presence that doth trouble ye.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>Rancour will out: proud prelate, in thy face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>I see thy fury: if I longer stay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>We shall begin our ancient bickerings.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>Lordings, farewell; and say, when I am gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>I prophesied France will be lost ere long.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>So, there goes our protector in a rage.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>'Tis known to you he is mine enemy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>Nay, more, an enemy unto you all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>And no great friend, I fear me, to the king.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>Consider, lords, he is the next of blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>And heir apparent to the English crown:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>Had Henry got an empire by his marriage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>And all the wealthy kingdoms of the west,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>There's reason he should be displeased at it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>Look to it, lords! let not his smoothing words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>Bewitch your hearts; be wise and circumspect.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>What though the common people favour him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>Calling him 'Humphrey, the good Duke of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>Gloucester,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>'Jesu maintain your royal excellence!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.163>With 'God preserve the good Duke Humphrey!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.164>I fear me, lords, for all this flattering gloss,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.165>He will be found a dangerous protector.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.166>Why should he, then, protect our sovereign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.167>He being of age to govern of himself?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.168>Cousin of Somerset, join you with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.169>And all together, with the Duke of Suffolk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.170>We'll quickly hoise Duke Humphrey from his seat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.171>This weighty business will not brook delay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.172>I'll to the Duke of Suffolk presently.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.173>Cousin of Buckingham, though Humphrey's pride</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.174>And greatness of his place be grief to us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.175>Yet let us watch the haughty cardinal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.176>His insolence is more intolerable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.177>Than all the princes in the land beside:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.178>If Gloucester be displaced, he'll be protector.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.179>Or thou or I, Somerset, will be protector,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.180>Despite Duke Humphrey or the cardinal.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt BUCKINGHAM and SOMERSET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.181>Pride went before, ambition follows him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.182>While these do labour for their own preferment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.183>Behoves it us to labour for the realm.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.184>I never saw but Humphrey Duke of Gloucester</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.185>Did bear him like a noble gentleman.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.186>Oft have I seen the haughty cardinal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.187>More like a soldier than a man o' the church,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.188>As stout and proud as he were lord of all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.189>Swear like a ruffian and demean himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.190>Unlike the ruler of a commonweal.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.191>Warwick, my son, the comfort of my age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.192>Thy deeds, thy plainness and thy housekeeping,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.193>Hath won the greatest favour of the commons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.194>Excepting none but good Duke Humphrey:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.195>And, brother York, thy acts in Ireland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.196>In bringing them to civil discipline,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.197>Thy late exploits done in the heart of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.198>When thou wert regent for our sovereign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.199>Have made thee fear'd and honour'd of the people:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.200>Join we together, for the public good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.201>In what we can, to bridle and suppress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.202>The pride of Suffolk and the cardinal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.203>With Somerset's and Buckingham's ambition;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.204>And, as we may, cherish Duke Humphrey's deeds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.205>While they do tend the profit of the land.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.206>So God help Warwick, as he loves the land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.207>And common profit of his country!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.208>[Aside] And so says York, for he hath greatest cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.209>Then let's make haste away, and look unto the main.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.210>Unto the main! O father, Maine is lost;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.211>That Maine which by main force Warwick did win,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.212>And would have kept so long as breath did last!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.213>Main chance, father, you meant; but I meant Maine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.214>Which I will win from France, or else be slain,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt WARWICK and SALISBURY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.215>Anjou and Maine are given to the French;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.216>Paris is lost; the state of Normandy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.217>Stands on a tickle point, now they are gone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.218>Suffolk concluded on the articles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.219>The peers agreed, and Henry was well pleased</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.220>To change two dukedoms for a duke's fair daughter.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.221>I cannot blame them all: what is't to them?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.222>'Tis thine they give away, and not their own.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.223>Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.224>And purchase friends and give to courtezans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.225>Still revelling like lords till all be gone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.226>While as the silly owner of the goods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.227>Weeps over them and wrings his hapless hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.228>And shakes his head and trembling stands aloof,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.229>While all is shared and all is borne away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.230>Ready to starve and dare not touch his own:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.231>So York must sit and fret and bite his tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.232>While his own lands are bargain'd for and sold.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.233>Methinks the realms of England, France and Ireland</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.234>Bear that proportion to my flesh and blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.235>As did the fatal brand Althaea burn'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.236>Unto the prince's heart of Calydon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.237>Anjou and Maine both given unto the French!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.238>Cold news for me, for I had hope of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.239>Even as I have of fertile England's soil.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.240>A day will come when York shall claim his own;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.241>And therefore I will take the Nevils' parts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.242>And make a show of love to proud Duke Humphrey,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.243>And, when I spy advantage, claim the crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.244>For that's the golden mark I seek to hit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.245>Nor shall proud Lancaster usurp my right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.246>Nor hold the sceptre in his childish fist,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.247>Nor wear the diadem upon his head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.248>Whose church-like humours fits not for a crown.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.249>Then, York, be still awhile, till time do serve:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.250>Watch thou and wake when others be asleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.251>To pry into the secrets of the state;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.252>Till Henry, surfeiting in joys of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.253>With his new bride and England's dear-bought queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.254>And Humphrey with the peers be fall'n at jars:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.255>Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.256>With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.257>And in my standard bear the arms of York</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.258>To grapple with the house of Lancaster;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.259>And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.260>Whose bookish rule hath pull'd fair England down.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. GLOUCESTER'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter GLOUCESTER and his DUCHESS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>Why droops my lord, like over-ripen'd corn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>Hanging the head at Ceres' plenteous load?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>Why doth the great Duke Humphrey knit his brows,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>As frowning at the favours of the world?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>Why are thine eyes fixed to the sullen earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>Gazing on that which seems to dim thy sight?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>What seest thou there? King Henry's diadem,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>Enchased with all the honours of the world?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>If so, gaze on, and grovel on thy face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>Until thy head be circled with the same.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>What, is't too short? I'll lengthen it with mine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>And, having both together heaved it up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>We'll both together lift our heads to heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>And never more abase our sight so low</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou dost love thy lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>And may that thought, when I imagine ill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>Against my king and nephew, virtuous Henry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>Be my last breathing in this mortal world!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>My troublous dream this night doth make me sad.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>What dream'd my lord? tell me, and I'll requite it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>With sweet rehearsal of my morning's dream.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25>Methought this staff, mine office-badge in court,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>Was broke in twain; by whom I have forgot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>But, as I think, it was by the cardinal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>And on the pieces of the broken wand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>Were placed the heads of Edmund Duke of Somerset,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>And William de la Pole, first duke of Suffolk.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>This was my dream: what it doth bode, God knows.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>Tut, this was nothing but an argument</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>That he that breaks a stick of Gloucester's grove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>Shall lose his head for his presumption.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>But list to me, my Humphrey, my sweet duke:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>Methought I sat in seat of majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>In the cathedral church of Westminster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>And in that chair where kings and queens are crown'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>Where Henry and dame Margaret kneel'd to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>And on my head did set the diadem.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>Nay, Eleanor, then must I chide outright:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42>Presumptuous dame, ill-nurtured Eleanor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>Art thou not second woman in the realm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>And the protector's wife, beloved of him?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>Hast thou not worldly pleasure at command,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>Above the reach or compass of thy thought?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>And wilt thou still be hammering treachery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.48>To tumble down thy husband and thyself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.49>From top of honour to disgrace's feet?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.50>Away from me, and let me hear no more!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.51>What, what, my lord! are you so choleric</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.52>With Eleanor, for telling but her dream?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.53>Next time I'll keep my dreams unto myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.54>And not be cheque'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.55>Nay, be not angry; I am pleased again.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.56>My lord protector, 'tis his highness' pleasure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.57>You do prepare to ride unto Saint Alban's,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.58>Where as the king and queen do mean to hawk.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.59>I go. Come, Nell, thou wilt ride with us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.60>Yes, my good lord, I'll follow presently.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt GLOUCESTER and Messenger</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.61>Follow I must; I cannot go before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.62>While Gloucester bears this base and humble mind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.63>Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.64>I would remove these tedious stumbling-blocks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.65>And smooth my way upon their headless necks;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.66>And, being a woman, I will not be slack</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.67>To play my part in Fortune's pageant.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.68>Where are you there? Sir John! nay, fear not, man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.69>We are alone; here's none but thee and I.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HUME</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>HUME</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.70>Jesus preserve your royal majesty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.71>What say'st thou? majesty! I am but grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>HUME</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.72>But, by the grace of God, and Hume's advice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.73>Your grace's title shall be multiplied.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.74>What say'st thou, man? hast thou as yet conferr'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.75>With Margery Jourdain, the cunning witch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.76>With Roger Bolingbroke, the conjurer?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.77>And will they undertake to do me good?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HUME</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.78>This they have promised, to show your highness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.79>A spirit raised from depth of under-ground,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.80>That shall make answer to such questions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.81>As by your grace shall be propounded him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.82>It is enough; I'll think upon the questions:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.83>When from St. Alban's we do make return,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.84>We'll see these things effected to the full.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.85>Here, Hume, take this reward; make merry, man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.86>With thy confederates in this weighty cause.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>HUME</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.87>Hume must make merry with the duchess' gold;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.88>Marry, and shall. But how now, Sir John Hume!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.89>Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.90>The business asketh silent secrecy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.91>Dame Eleanor gives gold to bring the witch:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.92>Gold cannot come amiss, were she a devil.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.93>Yet have I gold flies from another coast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.94>I dare not say, from the rich cardinal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.95>And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.96>Yet I do find it so; for to be plain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.97>They, knowing Dame Eleanor's aspiring humour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.98>Have hired me to undermine the duchess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.99>And buz these conjurations in her brain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.100>They say 'A crafty knave does need no broker;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.101>Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.102>Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.103>To call them both a pair of crafty knaves.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.104>Well, so it stands; and thus, I fear, at last</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.105>Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wreck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.106>And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.107>Sort how it will, I shall have gold for all.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter three or four Petitioners, PETER, the Armourer's man, being one</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Petitioner</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.1>My masters, let's stand close: my lord protector</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.2>will come this way by and by, and then we may deliver</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.3>our supplications in the quill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Petitioner</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.4>Marry, the Lord protect him, for he's a good man!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.5>Jesu bless him!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SUFFOLK and QUEEN MARGARET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.6>Here a' comes, methinks, and the queen with him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.7>I'll be the first, sure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Second Petitioner</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.8>Come back, fool; this is the Duke of Suffolk, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.9>not my lord protector.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.10>How now, fellow! would'st anything with me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>First Petitioner</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.11>I pray, my lord, pardon me; I took ye for my lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.12>protector.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.13>[Reading] 'To my Lord Protector!' Are your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.14>supplications to his lordship? Let me see them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.15>what is thine?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>First Petitioner</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.16>Mine is, an't please your grace, against John</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.17>Goodman, my lord cardinal's man, for keeping my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.18>house, and lands, and wife and all, from me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.19>Thy wife, too! that's some wrong, indeed. What's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.20>yours? What's here!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.21>'Against the Duke of Suffolk, for enclosing the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.22>commons of Melford.' How now, sir knave!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Second Petitioner</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.23>Alas, sir, I am but a poor petitioner of our whole township.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.24>[Giving his petition] Against my master, Thomas</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.25>Horner, for saying that the Duke of York was rightful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.26>heir to the crown.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.27>What sayst thou? did the Duke of York say he was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.28>rightful heir to the crown?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.29>That my master was? no, forsooth: my master said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.30>that he was, and that the king was an usurper.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.31>Who is there?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Servant</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.32>Take this fellow in, and send for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.33>his master with a pursuivant presently: we'll hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.34>more of your matter before the King.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Servant with PETER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.35>And as for you, that love to be protected</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.36>Under the wings of our protector's grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.37>Begin your suits anew, and sue to him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Tears the supplication</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.38>Away, base cullions! Suffolk, let them go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.39>Come, let's be gone.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.40>My Lord of Suffolk, say, is this the guise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.41>Is this the fashion in the court of England?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.42>Is this the government of Britain's isle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.43>And this the royalty of Albion's king?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.44>What shall King Henry be a pupil still</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.45>Under the surly Gloucester's governance?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.46>Am I a queen in title and in style,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.47>And must be made a subject to a duke?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.48>I tell thee, Pole, when in the city Tours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.49>Thou ran'st a tilt in honour of my love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.50>And stolest away the ladies' hearts of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.51>I thought King Henry had resembled thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.52>In courage, courtship and proportion:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.53>But all his mind is bent to holiness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.54>To number Ave-Maries on his beads;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.55>His champions are the prophets and apostles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.56>His weapons holy saws of sacred writ,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.57>His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.58>Are brazen images of canonized saints.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.59>I would the college of the cardinals</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.60>Would choose him pope, and carry him to Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.61>And set the triple crown upon his head:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.62>That were a state fit for his holiness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.63>Madam, be patient: as I was cause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.64>Your highness came to England, so will I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.65>In England work your grace's full content.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.66>Beside the haughty protector, have we Beaufort,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.67>The imperious churchman, Somerset, Buckingham,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.68>And grumbling York: and not the least of these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.69>But can do more in England than the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.70>And he of these that can do most of all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.71>Cannot do more in England than the Nevils:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.72>Salisbury and Warwick are no simple peers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.73>Not all these lords do vex me half so much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.74>As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.75>She sweeps it through the court with troops of ladies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.76>More like an empress than Duke Humphrey's wife:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.77>Strangers in court do take her for the queen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.78>She bears a duke's revenues on her back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.79>And in her heart she scorns our poverty:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.80>Shall I not live to be avenged on her?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.81>Contemptuous base-born callet as she is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.82>She vaunted 'mongst her minions t'other day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.83>The very train of her worst wearing gown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.84>Was better worth than all my father's lands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.85>Till Suffolk gave two dukedoms for his daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.86>Madam, myself have limed a bush for her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.87>And placed a quire of such enticing birds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.88>That she will light to listen to the lays,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.89>And never mount to trouble you again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.90>So, let her rest: and, madam, list to me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.91>For I am bold to counsel you in this.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.92>Although we fancy not the cardinal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.93>Yet must we join with him and with the lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.94>Till we have brought Duke Humphrey in disgrace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.95>As for the Duke of York, this late complaint</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.96>Will make but little for his benefit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.97>So, one by one, we'll weed them all at last,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.98>And you yourself shall steer the happy helm.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sound a sennet. Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, CARDINAL, BUCKINGHAM, YORK, SOMERSET, SALISBURY, WARWICK, and the DUCHESS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.99>For my part, noble lords, I care not which;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.100>Or Somerset or York, all's one to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.101>If York have ill demean'd himself in France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.102>Then let him be denay'd the regentship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.103>If Somerset be unworthy of the place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.104>Let York be regent; I will yield to him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.105>Whether your grace be worthy, yea or no,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.106>Dispute not that: York is the worthier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.107>Ambitious Warwick, let thy betters speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.108>The cardinal's not my better in the field.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.109>All in this presence are thy betters, Warwick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.110>Warwick may live to be the best of all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.111>Peace, son! and show some reason, Buckingham,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.112>Why Somerset should be preferred in this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.113>Because the king, forsooth, will have it so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.114>Madam, the king is old enough himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.115>To give his censure: these are no women's matters.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.116>If he be old enough, what needs your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.117>To be protector of his excellence?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.118>Madam, I am protector of the realm;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.119>And, at his pleasure, will resign my place.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.120>Resign it then and leave thine insolence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.121>Since thou wert king--as who is king but thou?--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.122>The commonwealth hath daily run to wreck;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.123>The Dauphin hath prevail'd beyond the seas;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.124>And all the peers and nobles of the realm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.125>Have been as bondmen to thy sovereignty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.126>The commons hast thou rack'd; the clergy's bags</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.127>Are lank and lean with thy extortions.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.128>Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.129>Have cost a mass of public treasury.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.130>Thy cruelty in execution</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.131>Upon offenders, hath exceeded law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.132>And left thee to the mercy of the law.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.133>They sale of offices and towns in France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.134>If they were known, as the suspect is great,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.135>Would make thee quickly hop without thy head.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit GLOUCESTER. QUEEN MARGARET drops her fan</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.136>Give me my fan: what, minion! can ye not?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>She gives the DUCHESS a box on the ear</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.137>I cry you mercy, madam; was it you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.138>Was't I! yea, I it was, proud Frenchwoman:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.139>Could I come near your beauty with my nails,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.140>I'd set my ten commandments in your face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.141>Sweet aunt, be quiet; 'twas against her will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.142>Against her will! good king, look to't in time;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.143>She'll hamper thee, and dandle thee like a baby:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.144>Though in this place most master wear no breeches,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.145>She shall not strike Dame Eleanor unrevenged.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.146>Lord cardinal, I will follow Eleanor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.147>And listen after Humphrey, how he proceeds:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.148>She's tickled now; her fume needs no spurs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.149>She'll gallop far enough to her destruction.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.150>Now, lords, my choler being over-blown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.151>With walking once about the quadrangle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.152>I come to talk of commonwealth affairs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.153>As for your spiteful false objections,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.154>Prove them, and I lie open to the law:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.155>But God in mercy so deal with my soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.156>As I in duty love my king and country!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.157>But, to the matter that we have in hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.158>I say, my sovereign, York is meetest man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.159>To be your regent in the realm of France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.160>Before we make election, give me leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.161>To show some reason, of no little force,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.162>That York is most unmeet of any man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.163>I'll tell thee, Suffolk, why I am unmeet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.164>First, for I cannot flatter thee in pride;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.165>Next, if I be appointed for the place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.166>My Lord of Somerset will keep me here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.167>Without discharge, money, or furniture,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.168>Till France be won into the Dauphin's hands:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.169>Last time, I danced attendance on his will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.170>Till Paris was besieged, famish'd, and lost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.171>That can I witness; and a fouler fact</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.172>Did never traitor in the land commit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.173>Peace, headstrong Warwick!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.174>Image of pride, why should I hold my peace?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HORNER, the Armourer, and his man PETER, guarded</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.175>Because here is a man accused of treason:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.176>Pray God the Duke of York excuse himself!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.177>Doth any one accuse York for a traitor?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.178>What mean'st thou, Suffolk; tell me, what are these?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.179>Please it your majesty, this is the man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.180>That doth accuse his master of high treason:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.181>His words were these: that Richard, Duke of York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.182>Was rightful heir unto the English crown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.183>And that your majesty was a usurper.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.184>Say, man, were these thy words?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>HORNER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.185>An't shall please your majesty, I never said nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.186>thought any such matter: God is my witness, I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.187>falsely accused by the villain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>PETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.188>By these ten bones, my lords, he did speak them to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.189>me in the garret one night, as we were scouring my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.190>Lord of York's armour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.191>Base dunghill villain and mechanical,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.192>I'll have thy head for this thy traitor's speech.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.193>I do beseech your royal majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.194>Let him have all the rigor of the law.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>HORNER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.195>Alas, my lord, hang me, if ever I spake the words.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.196>My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.197>him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.198>knees he would be even with me: I have good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.199>witness of this: therefore I beseech your majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.200>do not cast away an honest man for a villain's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.201>accusation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.202>Uncle, what shall we say to this in law?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.203>This doom, my lord, if I may judge:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.204>Let Somerset be regent over the French,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.205>Because in York this breeds suspicion:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.206>And let these have a day appointed them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.207>For single combat in convenient place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.208>For he hath witness of his servant's malice:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.209>This is the law, and this Duke Humphrey's doom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.210>I humbly thank your royal majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>HORNER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.211>And I accept the combat willingly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>PETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.212>Alas, my lord, I cannot fight; for God's sake, pity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.213>my case. The spite of man prevaileth against me. O</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.214>Lord, have mercy upon me! I shall never be able to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.215>fight a blow. O Lord, my heart!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.216>Sirrah, or you must fight, or else be hang'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.217>Away with them to prison; and the day of combat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.218>shall be the last of the next month. Come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.219>Somerset, we'll see thee sent away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. GLOUCESTER's garden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MARGARET JOURDAIN, HUME, SOUTHWELL, and BOLINGBROKE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HUME</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.1>Come, my masters; the duchess, I tell you, expects</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.2>performance of your promises.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.3>Master Hume, we are therefore provided: will her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.4>ladyship behold and hear our exorcisms?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HUME</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.5>Ay, what else? fear you not her courage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.6>I have heard her reported to be a woman of an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.7>invincible spirit: but it shall be convenient,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.8>Master Hume, that you be by her aloft, while we be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.9>busy below; and so, I pray you, go, in God's name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.10>and leave us.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit HUME</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.11>Mother Jourdain, be you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.12>prostrate and grovel on the earth; John Southwell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.13>read you; and let us to our work.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the DUCHESS aloft, HUME following</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.14>Well said, my masters; and welcome all. To this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.15>gear the sooner the better.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.16>Patience, good lady; wizards know their times:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.17>Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.18>The time of night when Troy was set on fire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.19>The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.20>And spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.21>That time best fits the work we have in hand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.22>Madam, sit you and fear not: whom we raise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.23>We will make fast within a hallow'd verge.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>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</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Spirit</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.24>Adsum.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARGARET JOURDAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.25>Asmath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.26>By the eternal God, whose name and power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.27>Thou tremblest at, answer that I shall ask;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.28>For, till thou speak, thou shalt not pass from hence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Spirit</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.29>Ask what thou wilt. That I had said and done!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.30>'First of the king: what shall of him become?'</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reading out of a paper</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Spirit</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.31>The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.32>But him outlive, and die a violent death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>As the Spirit speaks, SOUTHWELL writes the answer</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.33>'What fates await the Duke of Suffolk?'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Spirit</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.34>By water shall he die, and take his end.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.35>'What shall befall the Duke of Somerset?'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Spirit</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.36>Let him shun castles;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.37>Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.38>Than where castles mounted stand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.39>Have done, for more I hardly can endure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BOLINGBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.40>Descend to darkness and the burning lake!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.41>False fiend, avoid!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Thunder and lightning. Exit Spirit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter YORK and BUCKINGHAM with their Guard and break in</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.42>Lay hands upon these traitors and their trash.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.43>Beldam, I think we watch'd you at an inch.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.44>What, madam, are you there? the king and commonweal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.45>Are deeply indebted for this piece of pains:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.46>My lord protector will, I doubt it not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.47>See you well guerdon'd for these good deserts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.48>Not half so bad as thine to England's king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.49>Injurious duke, that threatest where's no cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.50>True, madam, none at all: what call you this?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.51>Away with them! let them be clapp'd up close.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.52>And kept asunder. You, madam, shall with us.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.53>Stafford, take her to thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt above DUCHESS and HUME, guarded</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.54>We'll see your trinkets here all forthcoming.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.55>All, away!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt guard with MARGARET JOURDAIN, SOUTHWELL, & c</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.56>Lord Buckingham, methinks, you watch'd her well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.57>A pretty plot, well chosen to build upon!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.58>Now, pray, my lord, let's see the devil's writ.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.59>What have we here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.60>'The duke yet lives, that Henry shall depose;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.61>But him outlive, and die a violent death.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.62>Why, this is just</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.63>'Aio te, AEacida, Romanos vincere posse.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.64>Well, to the rest:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.65>'Tell me what fate awaits the Duke of Suffolk?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.66>By water shall he die, and take his end.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.67>What shall betide the Duke of Somerset?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.68>Let him shun castles;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.69>Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.70>Than where castles mounted stand.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.71>Come, come, my lords;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.72>These oracles are hardly attain'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.73>And hardly understood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.74>The king is now in progress towards Saint Alban's,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.75>With him the husband of this lovely lady:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.76>Thither go these news, as fast as horse can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.77>carry them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.78>A sorry breakfast for my lord protector.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.79>Your grace shall give me leave, my Lord of York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.80>To be the post, in hope of his reward.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.81>At your pleasure, my good lord. Who's within</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.82>there, ho!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Servingman</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.83>Invite my Lords of Salisbury and Warwick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.84>To sup with me to-morrow night. Away!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Saint Alban's.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, GLOUCESTER, CARDINAL, and SUFFOLK, with Falconers halloing</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Believe me, lords, for flying at the brook,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>I saw not better sport these seven years' day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>Yet, by your leave, the wind was very high;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>And, ten to one, old Joan had not gone out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>But what a point, my lord, your falcon made,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>And what a pitch she flew above the rest!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>To see how God in all his creatures works!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>No marvel, an it like your majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>My lord protector's hawks do tower so well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>They know their master loves to be aloft,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>I thought as much; he would be above the clouds.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>Ay, my lord cardinal? how think you by that?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>Were it not good your grace could fly to heaven?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>The treasury of everlasting joy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>Thy heaven is on earth; thine eyes and thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>Beat on a crown, the treasure of thy heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>Pernicious protector, dangerous peer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>That smooth'st it so with king and commonweal!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>What, cardinal, is your priesthood grown peremptory?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>Tantaene animis coelestibus irae?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>Churchmen so hot? good uncle, hide such malice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>With such holiness can you do it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>No malice, sir; no more than well becomes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>So good a quarrel and so bad a peer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>As who, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30> Why, as you, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>An't like your lordly lord-protectorship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>Why, Suffolk, England knows thine insolence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>And thy ambition, Gloucester.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>I prithee, peace, good queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>And whet not on these furious peers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>For blessed are the peacemakers on earth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>Let me be blessed for the peace I make,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>Against this proud protector, with my sword!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>[Aside to CARDINAL] Faith, holy uncle, would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>'twere come to that!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>[Aside to GLOUCESTER] Marry, when thou darest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>[Aside to CARDINAL] Make up no factious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>numbers for the matter;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>In thine own person answer thy abuse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>[Aside to GLOUCESTER] Ay, where thou darest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>not peep: an if thou darest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>This evening, on the east side of the grove.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>How now, my lords!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49> Believe me, cousin Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>Had not your man put up the fowl so suddenly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>We had had more sport.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside to GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>Come with thy two-hand sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>True, uncle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>[Aside to GLOUCESTER] Are ye advised? the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>east side of the grove?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>[Aside to CARDINAL] Cardinal, I am with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>Why, how now, uncle Gloucester!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>Talking of hawking; nothing else, my lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside to CARDINAL</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>Now, by God's mother, priest, I'll shave your crown for this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>Or all my fence shall fail.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>[Aside to GLOUCESTER] Medice, teipsum--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>Protector, see to't well, protect yourself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>The winds grow high; so do your stomachs, lords.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>How irksome is this music to my heart!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Townsman of Saint Alban's, crying 'A miracle!'</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>What means this noise?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>Fellow, what miracle dost thou proclaim?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Townsman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>A miracle! a miracle!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>Come to the king and tell him what miracle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Townsman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>Within this half-hour, hath received his sight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>A man that ne'er saw in his life before.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>Now, God be praised, that to believing souls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Mayor of Saint Alban's and his brethren, bearing SIMPCOX, between two in a chair, SIMPCOX's Wife following</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>Here comes the townsmen on procession,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>To present your highness with the man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>Great is his comfort in this earthly vale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>Although by his sight his sin be multiplied.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>Stand by, my masters: bring him near the king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>His highness' pleasure is to talk with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>Good fellow, tell us here the circumstance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>That we for thee may glorify the Lord.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>What, hast thou been long blind and now restored?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>Born blind, an't please your grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>Wife</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>Ay, indeed, was he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>What woman is this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>Wife</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>His wife, an't like your worship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>Hadst thou been his mother, thou couldst have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>better told.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>Where wert thou born?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>At Berwick in the north, an't like your grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>Poor soul, God's goodness hath been great to thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>But still remember what the Lord hath done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>Tell me, good fellow, camest thou here by chance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>Or of devotion, to this holy shrine?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>God knows, of pure devotion; being call'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>A hundred times and oftener, in my sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>By good Saint Alban; who said, 'Simpcox, come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101>Come, offer at my shrine, and I will help thee.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>Wife</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>Most true, forsooth; and many time and oft</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>Myself have heard a voice to call him so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>What, art thou lame?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>Ay, God Almighty help me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>How camest thou so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>A fall off of a tree.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>Wife</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>A plum-tree, master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>How long hast thou been blind?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110>Born so, master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111> What, and wouldst climb a tree?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>But that in all my life, when I was a youth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>Wife</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>Too true; and bought his climbing very dear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>Mass, thou lovedst plums well, that wouldst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115>venture so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>Alas, good master, my wife desired some damsons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>And made me climb, with danger of my life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>A subtle knave! but yet it shall not serve.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.119>Let me see thine eyes: wink now: now open them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.120>In my opinion yet thou seest not well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.121>Yes, master, clear as day, I thank God and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.122>Saint Alban.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.123>Say'st thou me so? What colour is this cloak of?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.124>Red, master; red as blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.125>Why, that's well said. What colour is my gown of?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.126>Black, forsooth: coal-black as jet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.127>Why, then, thou know'st what colour jet is of?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.128>And yet, I think, jet did he never see.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.129>But cloaks and gowns, before this day, a many.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>Wife</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.130>Never, before this day, in all his life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.131>Tell me, sirrah, what's my name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.132>Alas, master, I know not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.133>What's his name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.134>I know not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.135>Nor his?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.136>No, indeed, master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.137>What's thine own name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.138>Saunder Simpcox, an if it please you, master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.139>Then, Saunder, sit there, the lyingest knave in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.140>Christendom. If thou hadst been born blind, thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.141>mightest as well have known all our names as thus to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.142>name the several colours we do wear. Sight may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.143>distinguish of colours, but suddenly to nominate them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.144>all, it is impossible. My lords, Saint Alban here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.145>hath done a miracle; and would ye not think his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.146>cunning to be great, that could restore this cripple</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.147>to his legs again?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.148>O master, that you could!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.149>My masters of Saint Alban's, have you not beadles in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.150>your town, and things called whips?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.151>Yes, my lord, if it please your grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.152>Then send for one presently.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.153>Sirrah, go fetch the beadle hither straight.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit an Attendant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.154>Now fetch me a stool hither by and by. Now, sirrah,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.155>if you mean to save yourself from whipping, leap me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.156>over this stool and run away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.157>Alas, master, I am not able to stand alone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.158>You go about to torture me in vain.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Beadle with whips</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.159>Well, sir, we must have you find your legs. Sirrah</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.160>beadle, whip him till he leap over that same stool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>Beadle</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.161>I will, my lord. Come on, sirrah; off with your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.162>doublet quickly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>SIMPCOX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.163>Alas, master, what shall I do? I am not able to stand.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>After the Beadle hath hit him once, he leaps over the stool and runs away; and they follow and cry, 'A miracle!'</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.164>O God, seest Thou this, and bearest so long?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.165>It made me laugh to see the villain run.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.166>Follow the knave; and take this drab away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>Wife</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.167>Alas, sir, we did it for pure need.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.168>Let them be whipped through every market-town, till</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.169>they come to Berwick, from whence they came.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Wife, Beadle, Mayor, & c</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.170>Duke Humphrey has done a miracle to-day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.171>True; made the lame to leap and fly away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.172>But you have done more miracles than I;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.173>You made in a day, my lord, whole towns to fly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BUCKINGHAM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.174>What tidings with our cousin Buckingham?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.175>Such as my heart doth tremble to unfold.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.176>A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.177>Under the countenance and confederacy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.178>Of Lady Eleanor, the protector's wife,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.179>The ringleader and head of all this rout,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.180>Have practised dangerously against your state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.181>Dealing with witches and with conjurers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.182>Whom we have apprehended in the fact;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.183>Raising up wicked spirits from under ground,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.184>Demanding of King Henry's life and death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.185>And other of your highness' privy-council;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.186>As more at large your grace shall understand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.187>[Aside to GLOUCESTER] And so, my lord protector,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.188>by this means</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.189>Your lady is forthcoming yet at London.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.190>This news, I think, hath turn'd your weapon's edge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.191>'Tis like, my lord, you will not keep your hour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.192>Ambitious churchman, leave to afflict my heart:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.193>Sorrow and grief have vanquish'd all my powers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.194>And, vanquish'd as I am, I yield to thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.195>Or to the meanest groom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.196>O God, what mischiefs work the wicked ones,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.197>Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.198>Gloucester, see here the tainture of thy nest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.199>And look thyself be faultless, thou wert best.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.200>Madam, for myself, to heaven I do appeal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.201>How I have loved my king and commonweal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.202>And, for my wife, I know not how it stands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.203>Sorry I am to hear what I have heard:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.204>Noble she is, but if she have forgot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.205>Honour and virtue and conversed with such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.206>As, like to pitch, defile nobility,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.207>I banish her my bed and company</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.208>And give her as a prey to law and shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.209>That hath dishonour'd Gloucester's honest name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.210>Well, for this night we will repose us here:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.211>To-morrow toward London back again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.212>To look into this business thoroughly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.213>And call these foul offenders to their answers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.214>And poise the cause in justice' equal scales,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.215>Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. London. YORK'S garden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter YORK, SALISBURY, and WARWICK</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>Now, my good Lords of Salisbury and Warwick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>Our simple supper ended, give me leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>In this close walk to satisfy myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>In craving your opinion of my title,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>Which is infallible, to England's crown.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>My lord, I long to hear it at full.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>Sweet York, begin: and if thy claim be good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>The Nevils are thy subjects to command.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>Then thus:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>Edward the Third, my lords, had seven sons:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>The first, Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>The second, William of Hatfield, and the third,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>Lionel Duke of Clarence: next to whom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>Was John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>The fifth was Edmund Langley, Duke of York;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>The sixth was Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>William of Windsor was the seventh and last.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>Edward the Black Prince died before his father</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>And left behind him Richard, his only son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>Who after Edward the Third's death reign'd as king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>Till Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>The eldest son and heir of John of Gaunt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>Crown'd by the name of Henry the Fourth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>Seized on the realm, deposed the rightful king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>Sent his poor queen to France, from whence she came,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>And him to Pomfret; where, as all you know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>Harmless Richard was murder'd traitorously.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>Father, the duke hath told the truth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>Thus got the house of Lancaster the crown.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>Which now they hold by force and not by right;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>For Richard, the first son's heir, being dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>The issue of the next son should have reign'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>But William of Hatfield died without an heir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>The third son, Duke of Clarence, from whose line</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.35>I claimed the crown, had issue, Philippe, a daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36>Who married Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>Edmund had issue, Roger Earl of March;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>Roger had issue, Edmund, Anne and Eleanor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>This Edmund, in the reign of Bolingbroke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>As I have read, laid claim unto the crown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.41>And, but for Owen Glendower, had been king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.42>Who kept him in captivity till he died.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.43>But to the rest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.44> His eldest sister, Anne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.45>My mother, being heir unto the crown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.46>Married Richard Earl of Cambridge; who was son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.47>To Edmund Langley, Edward the Third's fifth son.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.48>By her I claim the kingdom: she was heir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.49>To Roger Earl of March, who was the son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.50>Of Edmund Mortimer, who married Philippe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.51>Sole daughter unto Lionel Duke of Clarence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.52>So, if the issue of the elder son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.53>Succeed before the younger, I am king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.54>What plain proceeding is more plain than this?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.55>Henry doth claim the crown from John of Gaunt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.56>The fourth son; York claims it from the third.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.57>Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.58>It fails not yet, but flourishes in thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.59>And in thy sons, fair slips of such a stock.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.60>Then, father Salisbury, kneel we together;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.61>And in this private plot be we the first</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.62>That shall salute our rightful sovereign</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.63>With honour of his birthright to the crown.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.64>Long live our sovereign Richard, England's king!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.65>We thank you, lords. But I am not your king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.66>Till I be crown'd and that my sword be stain'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.67>With heart-blood of the house of Lancaster;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.68>And that's not suddenly to be perform'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.69>But with advice and silent secrecy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.70>Do you as I do in these dangerous days:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.71>Wink at the Duke of Suffolk's insolence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.72>At Beaufort's pride, at Somerset's ambition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.73>At Buckingham and all the crew of them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.74>Till they have snared the shepherd of the flock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.75>That virtuous prince, the good Duke Humphrey:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.76>'Tis that they seek, and they in seeking that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.77>Shall find their deaths, if York can prophesy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.78>My lord, break we off; we know your mind at full.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.79>My heart assures me that the Earl of Warwick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.80>Shall one day make the Duke of York a king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.81>And, Nevil, this I do assure myself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.82>Richard shall live to make the Earl of Warwick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.83>The greatest man in England but the king.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A hall of justice.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Sound trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, GLOUCESTER, YORK, SUFFOLK, and SALISBURY; the DUCHESS, MARGARET JOURDAIN, SOUTHWELL, HUME, and BOLINGBROKE, under guard</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>Stand forth, Dame Eleanor Cobham, Gloucester's wife:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>In sight of God and us, your guilt is great:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>Receive the sentence of the law for sins</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>Such as by God's book are adjudged to death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>You four, from hence to prison back again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>From thence unto the place of execution:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>The witch in Smithfield shall be burn'd to ashes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>And you three shall be strangled on the gallows.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>You, madam, for you are more nobly born,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>Despoiled of your honour in your life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>Shall, after three days' open penance done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>Live in your country here in banishment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>With Sir John Stanley, in the Isle of Man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>Welcome is banishment; welcome were my death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>Eleanor, the law, thou see'st, hath judged thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>I cannot justify whom the law condemns.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt DUCHESS and other prisoners, guarded</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>Ah, Humphrey, this dishonour in thine age</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>Will bring thy head with sorrow to the ground!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>I beseech your majesty, give me leave to go;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>Sorrow would solace and mine age would ease.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>Stay, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester: ere thou go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>Give up thy staff: Henry will to himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>Protector be; and God shall be my hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>And go in peace, Humphrey, no less beloved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>Than when thou wert protector to thy King.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>I see no reason why a king of years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>Should be to be protected like a child.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>God and King Henry govern England's realm.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>Give up your staff, sir, and the king his realm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>My staff? here, noble Henry, is my staff:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>As willingly do I the same resign</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>As e'er thy father Henry made it mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>And even as willingly at thy feet I leave it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>As others would ambitiously receive it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>Farewell, good king: when I am dead and gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>May honourable peace attend thy throne!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>Why, now is Henry king, and Margaret queen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>And Humphrey Duke of Gloucester scarce himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>That bears so shrewd a maim; two pulls at once;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>His lady banish'd, and a limb lopp'd off.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>This staff of honour raught, there let it stand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>Where it best fits to be, in Henry's hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>Thus droops this lofty pine and hangs his sprays;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>Thus Eleanor's pride dies in her youngest days.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>Lords, let him go. Please it your majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>This is the day appointed for the combat;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>And ready are the appellant and defendant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>The armourer and his man, to enter the lists,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>So please your highness to behold the fight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>Ay, good my lord; for purposely therefore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53>Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>O God's name, see the lists and all things fit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55>Here let them end it; and God defend the right!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>I never saw a fellow worse bested,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57>Or more afraid to fight, than is the appellant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>The servant of this armourer, my lords.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>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</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>First Neighbour</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>Here, neighbour Horner, I drink to you in a cup of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>sack: and fear not, neighbour, you shall do well enough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Second Neighbour</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.61>And here, neighbour, here's a cup of charneco.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Third Neighbour</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.62>And here's a pot of good double beer, neighbour:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.63>drink, and fear not your man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HORNER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.64>Let it come, i' faith, and I'll pledge you all; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.65>a fig for Peter!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.66>First 'Prentice Here, Peter, I drink to thee: and be not afraid.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.67>Second 'Prentice Be merry, Peter, and fear not thy master: fight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.68>for credit of the 'prentices.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.69>I thank you all: drink, and pray for me, I pray</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.70>you; for I think I have taken my last draught in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.71>this world. Here, Robin, an if I die, I give thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.72>my apron: and, Will, thou shalt have my hammer:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.73>and here, Tom, take all the money that I have. O</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.74>Lord bless me! I pray God! for I am never able to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.75>deal with my master, he hath learnt me so much fence already.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.76>Come, leave your drinking, and fall to blows.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.77>Sirrah, what's thy name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.78>Peter, forsooth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.79>Peter! what more?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.80>Thump.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.81>Thump! then see thou thump thy master well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HORNER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.82>Masters, I am come hither, as it were, upon my man's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.83>instigation, to prove him a knave and myself an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.84>honest man: and touching the Duke of York, I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.85>take my death, I never meant him any ill, nor the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.86>king, nor the queen: and therefore, Peter, have at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.87>thee with a downright blow!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.88>Dispatch: this knave's tongue begins to double.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.89>Sound, trumpets, alarum to the combatants!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum. They fight, and PETER strikes him down</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>HORNER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.90>Hold, Peter, hold! I confess, I confess treason.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.91>Take away his weapon. Fellow, thank God, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.92>good wine in thy master's way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.93>O God, have I overcome mine enemy in this presence?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.94>O Peter, thou hast prevailed in right!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.95>Go, take hence that traitor from our sight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.96>For his death we do perceive his guilt:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.97>And God in justice hath revealed to us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.98>The truth and innocence of this poor fellow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.99>Which he had thought to have murder'd wrongfully.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.100>Come, fellow, follow us for thy reward.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sound a flourish. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter GLOUCESTER and his Servingmen, in mourning cloaks</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.1>Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.2>And after summer evermore succeeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.3>Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.4>So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.5>Sirs, what's o'clock?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Servants</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.6>Ten, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.7>Ten is the hour that was appointed me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.8>To watch the coming of my punish'd duchess:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.9>Uneath may she endure the flinty streets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.10>To tread them with her tender-feeling feet.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.11>Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.12>The abject people gazing on thy face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.13>With envious looks, laughing at thy shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.14>That erst did follow thy proud chariot-wheels</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.15>When thou didst ride in triumph through the streets.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.16>But, soft! I think she comes; and I'll prepare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.17>My tear-stain'd eyes to see her miseries.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the DUCHESS in a white sheet, and a taper burning in her hand; with STANLEY, the Sheriff, and Officers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.18>So please your grace, we'll take her from the sheriff.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.19>No, stir not, for your lives; let her pass by.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.20>Come you, my lord, to see my open shame?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.21>Now thou dost penance too. Look how they gaze!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.22>See how the giddy multitude do point,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.23>And nod their heads, and throw their eyes on thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.24>Ah, Gloucester, hide thee from their hateful looks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.25>And, in thy closet pent up, rue my shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.26>And ban thine enemies, both mine and thine!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.27>Be patient, gentle Nell; forget this grief.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.28>Ah, Gloucester, teach me to forget myself!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.29>For whilst I think I am thy married wife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.30>And thou a prince, protector of this land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.31>Methinks I should not thus be led along,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.32>Mail'd up in shame, with papers on my back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.33>And followed with a rabble that rejoice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.34>To see my tears and hear my deep-fet groans.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.35>The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.36>And when I start, the envious people laugh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.37>And bid me be advised how I tread.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.38>Ah, Humphrey, can I bear this shameful yoke?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.39>Trow'st thou that e'er I'll look upon the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.40>Or count them happy that enjoy the sun?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.41>No; dark shall be my light and night my day;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.42>To think upon my pomp shall be my hell.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.43>Sometime I'll say, I am Duke Humphrey's wife,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.44>And he a prince and ruler of the land:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.45>Yet so he ruled and such a prince he was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.46>As he stood by whilst I, his forlorn duchess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.47>Was made a wonder and a pointing-stock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.48>To every idle rascal follower.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.49>But be thou mild and blush not at my shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.50>Nor stir at nothing till the axe of death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.51>Hang over thee, as, sure, it shortly will;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.52>For Suffolk, he that can do all in all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.53>With her that hateth thee and hates us all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.54>And York and impious Beaufort, that false priest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.55>Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.56>And, fly thou how thou canst, they'll tangle thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.57>But fear not thou, until thy foot be snared,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.58>Nor never seek prevention of thy foes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.59>Ah, Nell, forbear! thou aimest all awry;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.60>I must offend before I be attainted;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.61>And had I twenty times so many foes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.62>And each of them had twenty times their power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.63>All these could not procure me any scathe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.64>So long as I am loyal, true and crimeless.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.65>Wouldst have me rescue thee from this reproach?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.66>Why, yet thy scandal were not wiped away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.67>But I in danger for the breach of law.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.68>Thy greatest help is quiet, gentle Nell:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.69>I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.70>These few days' wonder will be quickly worn.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Herald</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Herald</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.71>I summon your grace to his majesty's parliament,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.72>Holden at Bury the first of this next month.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.73>And my consent ne'er ask'd herein before!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.74>This is close dealing. Well, I will be there.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Herald</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.75>My Nell, I take my leave: and, master sheriff,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.76>Let not her penance exceed the king's commission.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Sheriff</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.77>An't please your grace, here my commission stays,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.78>And Sir John Stanley is appointed now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.79>To take her with him to the Isle of Man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.80>Must you, Sir John, protect my lady here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.81>So am I given in charge, may't please your grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.82>Entreat her not the worse in that I pray</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.83>You use her well: the world may laugh again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.84>And I may live to do you kindness if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.85>You do it her: and so, Sir John, farewell!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.86>What, gone, my lord, and bid me not farewell!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.87>Witness my tears, I cannot stay to speak.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt GLOUCESTER and Servingmen</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.88>Art thou gone too? all comfort go with thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.89>For none abides with me: my joy is death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.90>Death, at whose name I oft have been afear'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.91>Because I wish'd this world's eternity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.92>Stanley, I prithee, go, and take me hence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.93>I care not whither, for I beg no favour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.94>Only convey me where thou art commanded.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.95>Why, madam, that is to the Isle of Man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.96>There to be used according to your state.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.97>That's bad enough, for I am but reproach:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.98>And shall I then be used reproachfully?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.99>Like to a duchess, and Duke Humphrey's lady;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.100>According to that state you shall be used.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.101>Sheriff, farewell, and better than I fare,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.102>Although thou hast been conduct of my shame.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Sheriff</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.103>It is my office; and, madam, pardon me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.104>Ay, ay, farewell; thy office is discharged.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.105>Come, Stanley, shall we go?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>STANLEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.106>Madam, your penance done, throw off this sheet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.107>And go we to attire you for our journey.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DUCHESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.108>My shame will not be shifted with my sheet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.109>No, it will hang upon my richest robes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.110>And show itself, attire me how I can.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.111>Go, lead the way; I long to see my prison.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The Abbey at Bury St. Edmund's.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Sound a sennet. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, CARDINAL, SUFFOLK, YORK, BUCKINGHAM, SALISBURY and WARWICK to the Parliament</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>I muse my Lord of Gloucester is not come:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>'Tis not his wont to be the hindmost man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>Whate'er occasion keeps him from us now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>Can you not see? or will ye not observe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>The strangeness of his alter'd countenance?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>With what a majesty he bears himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>How insolent of late he is become,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>How proud, how peremptory, and unlike himself?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>We know the time since he was mild and affable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>And if we did but glance a far-off look,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>Immediately he was upon his knee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>That all the court admired him for submission:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>But meet him now, and, be it in the morn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>When every one will give the time of day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>He knits his brow and shows an angry eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>And passeth by with stiff unbowed knee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>Disdaining duty that to us belongs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>Small curs are not regarded when they grin;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>But great men tremble when the lion roars;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>And Humphrey is no little man in England.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>First note that he is near you in descent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>And should you fall, he as the next will mount.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>Me seemeth then it is no policy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>Respecting what a rancorous mind he bears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>And his advantage following your decease,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>That he should come about your royal person</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>Or be admitted to your highness' council.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>By flattery hath he won the commons' hearts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>And when he please to make commotion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>'Tis to be fear'd they all will follow him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>The reverent care I bear unto my lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>Made me collect these dangers in the duke.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36>If it be fond, call it a woman's fear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37>Which fear if better reasons can supplant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>I will subscribe and say I wrong'd the duke.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>My Lord of Suffolk, Buckingham, and York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>Reprove my allegation, if you can;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>Or else conclude my words effectual.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>Well hath your highness seen into this duke;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>And, had I first been put to speak my mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>I think I should have told your grace's tale.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.45>The duchess, by his subornation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.46>Upon my life, began her devilish practises:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.47>Or, if he were not privy to those faults,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.48>Yet, by reputing of his high descent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.49>As next the king he was successive heir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.50>And such high vaunts of his nobility,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.51>Did instigate the bedlam brain-sick duchess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.52>By wicked means to frame our sovereign's fall.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.53>Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.54>And in his simple show he harbours treason.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.55>The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.56>No, no, my sovereign; Gloucester is a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.57>Unsounded yet and full of deep deceit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.58>Did he not, contrary to form of law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.59>Devise strange deaths for small offences done?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.60>And did he not, in his protectorship,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.61>Levy great sums of money through the realm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.62>For soldiers' pay in France, and never sent it?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.63>By means whereof the towns each day revolted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.64>Tut, these are petty faults to faults unknown.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.65>Which time will bring to light in smooth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.66>Duke Humphrey.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.67>My lords, at once: the care you have of us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.68>To mow down thorns that would annoy our foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.69>Is worthy praise: but, shall I speak my conscience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.70>Our kinsman Gloucester is as innocent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.71>From meaning treason to our royal person</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.72>As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.73>The duke is virtuous, mild and too well given</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.74>To dream on evil or to work my downfall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.75>Ah, what's more dangerous than this fond affiance!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.76>Seems he a dove? his feathers are but borrowed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.77>For he's disposed as the hateful raven:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.78>Is he a lamb? his skin is surely lent him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.79>For he's inclined as is the ravenous wolf.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.80>Who cannot steal a shape that means deceit?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.81>Take heed, my lord; the welfare of us all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.82>Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SOMERSET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.83>All health unto my gracious sovereign!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.84>Welcome, Lord Somerset. What news from France?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.85>That all your interest in those territories</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.86>Is utterly bereft you; all is lost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.87>Cold news, Lord Somerset: but God's will be done!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.88>[Aside] Cold news for me; for I had hope of France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.89>As firmly as I hope for fertile England.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.90>Thus are my blossoms blasted in the bud</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.91>And caterpillars eat my leaves away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.92>But I will remedy this gear ere long,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.93>Or sell my title for a glorious grave.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.94>All happiness unto my lord the king!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.95>Pardon, my liege, that I have stay'd so long.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.96>Nay, Gloucester, know that thou art come too soon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.97>Unless thou wert more loyal than thou art:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.98>I do arrest thee of high treason here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.99>Well, Suffolk, thou shalt not see me blush</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.100>Nor change my countenance for this arrest:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.101>A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.102>The purest spring is not so free from mud</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.103>As I am clear from treason to my sovereign:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.104>Who can accuse me? wherein am I guilty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.105>'Tis thought, my lord, that you took bribes of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.106>And, being protector, stayed the soldiers' pay;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.107>By means whereof his highness hath lost France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.108>Is it but thought so? what are they that think it?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.109>I never robb'd the soldiers of their pay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.110>Nor ever had one penny bribe from France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.111>So help me God, as I have watch'd the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.112>Ay, night by night, in studying good for England,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.113>That doit that e'er I wrested from the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.114>Or any groat I hoarded to my use,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.115>Be brought against me at my trial-day!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.116>No; many a pound of mine own proper store,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.117>Because I would not tax the needy commons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.118>Have I disbursed to the garrisons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.119>And never ask'd for restitution.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.120>It serves you well, my lord, to say so much.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.121>I say no more than truth, so help me God!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.122>In your protectorship you did devise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.123>Strange tortures for offenders never heard of,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.124>That England was defamed by tyranny.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.125>Why, 'tis well known that, whiles I was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.126>protector,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.127>Pity was all the fault that was in me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.128>For I should melt at an offender's tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.129>And lowly words were ransom for their fault.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.130>Unless it were a bloody murderer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.131>Or foul felonious thief that fleeced poor passengers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.132>I never gave them condign punishment:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.133>Murder indeed, that bloody sin, I tortured</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.134>Above the felon or what trespass else.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.135>My lord, these faults are easy, quickly answered:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.136>But mightier crimes are laid unto your charge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.137>Whereof you cannot easily purge yourself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.138>I do arrest you in his highness' name;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.139>And here commit you to my lord cardinal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.140>To keep, until your further time of trial.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.141>My lord of Gloucester, 'tis my special hope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.142>That you will clear yourself from all suspect:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.143>My conscience tells me you are innocent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.144>Ah, gracious lord, these days are dangerous:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.145>Virtue is choked with foul ambition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.146>And charity chased hence by rancour's hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.147>Foul subornation is predominant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.148>And equity exiled your highness' land.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.149>I know their complot is to have my life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.150>And if my death might make this island happy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.151>And prove the period of their tyranny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.152>I would expend it with all willingness:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.153>But mine is made the prologue to their play;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.154>For thousands more, that yet suspect no peril,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.155>Will not conclude their plotted tragedy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.156>Beaufort's red sparkling eyes blab his heart's malice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.157>And Suffolk's cloudy brow his stormy hate;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.158>Sharp Buckingham unburthens with his tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.159>The envious load that lies upon his heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.160>And dogged York, that reaches at the moon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.161>Whose overweening arm I have pluck'd back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.162>By false accuse doth level at my life:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.163>And you, my sovereign lady, with the rest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.164>Causeless have laid disgraces on my head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.165>And with your best endeavour have stirr'd up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.166>My liefest liege to be mine enemy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.167>Ay, all you have laid your heads together--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.168>Myself had notice of your conventicles--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.169>And all to make away my guiltless life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.170>I shall not want false witness to condemn me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.171>Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.172>The ancient proverb will be well effected:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.173>'A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.174>My liege, his railing is intolerable:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.175>If those that care to keep your royal person</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.176>From treason's secret knife and traitors' rage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.177>Be thus upbraided, chid and rated at,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.178>And the offender granted scope of speech,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.179>'Twill make them cool in zeal unto your grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.180>Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.181>With ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.182>As if she had suborned some to swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.183>False allegations to o'erthrow his state?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.184>But I can give the loser leave to chide.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.185>Far truer spoke than meant: I lose, indeed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.186>Beshrew the winners, for they play'd me false!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.187>And well such losers may have leave to speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.188>He'll wrest the sense and hold us here all day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.189>Lord cardinal, he is your prisoner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.190>Sirs, take away the duke, and guard him sure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.191>Ah! thus King Henry throws away his crutch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.192>Before his legs be firm to bear his body.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.193>Thus is the shepherd beaten from thy side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.194>And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.195>Ah, that my fear were false! ah, that it were!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.196>For, good King Henry, thy decay I fear.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit, guarded</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.197>My lords, what to your wisdoms seemeth best,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.198>Do or undo, as if ourself were here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.199>What, will your highness leave the parliament?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.200>Ay, Margaret; my heart is drown'd with grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.201>Whose flood begins to flow within mine eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.202>My body round engirt with misery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.203>For what's more miserable than discontent?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.204>Ah, uncle Humphrey! in thy face I see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.205>The map of honour, truth and loyalty:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.206>And yet, good Humphrey, is the hour to come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.207>That e'er I proved thee false or fear'd thy faith.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.208>What louring star now envies thy estate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.209>That these great lords and Margaret our queen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.210>Do seek subversion of thy harmless life?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.211>Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man wrong;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.212>And as the butcher takes away the calf</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.213>And binds the wretch, and beats it when it strays,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.214>Bearing it to the bloody slaughter-house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.215>Even so remorseless have they borne him hence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.216>And as the dam runs lowing up and down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.217>Looking the way her harmless young one went,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.218>And can do nought but wail her darling's loss,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.219>Even so myself bewails good Gloucester's case</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.220>With sad unhelpful tears, and with dimm'd eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.221>Look after him and cannot do him good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.222>So mighty are his vowed enemies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.223>His fortunes I will weep; and, 'twixt each groan</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.224>Say 'Who's a traitor? Gloucester he is none.'</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but QUEEN MARGARET, CARDINAL, SUFFOLK, and YORK; SOMERSET remains apart</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.225>Free lords, cold snow melts with the sun's hot beams.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.226>Henry my lord is cold in great affairs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.227>Too full of foolish pity, and Gloucester's show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.228>Beguiles him as the mournful crocodile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.229>With sorrow snares relenting passengers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.230>Or as the snake roll'd in a flowering bank,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.231>With shining chequer'd slough, doth sting a child</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.232>That for the beauty thinks it excellent.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.233>Believe me, lords, were none more wise than I--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.234>And yet herein I judge mine own wit good--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.235>This Gloucester should be quickly rid the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.236>To rid us of the fear we have of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.237>That he should die is worthy policy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.238>But yet we want a colour for his death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.239>'Tis meet he be condemn'd by course of law.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.240>But, in my mind, that were no policy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.241>The king will labour still to save his life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.242>The commons haply rise, to save his life;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.243>And yet we have but trivial argument,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.244>More than mistrust, that shows him worthy death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.245>So that, by this, you would not have him die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.246>Ah, York, no man alive so fain as I!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.247>'Tis York that hath more reason for his death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.248>But, my lord cardinal, and you, my Lord of Suffolk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.249>Say as you think, and speak it from your souls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.250>Were't not all one, an empty eagle were set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.251>To guard the chicken from a hungry kite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.252>As place Duke Humphrey for the king's protector?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.253>So the poor chicken should be sure of death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.254>Madam, 'tis true; and were't not madness, then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.255>To make the fox surveyor of the fold?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.256>Who being accused a crafty murderer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.257>His guilt should be but idly posted over,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.258>Because his purpose is not executed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.259>No; let him die, in that he is a fox,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.260>By nature proved an enemy to the flock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.261>Before his chaps be stain'd with crimson blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.262>As Humphrey, proved by reasons, to my liege.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.263>And do not stand on quillets how to slay him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.264>Be it by gins, by snares, by subtlety,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.265>Sleeping or waking, 'tis no matter how,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.266>So he be dead; for that is good deceit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.267>Which mates him first that first intends deceit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.268>Thrice-noble Suffolk, 'tis resolutely spoke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.269>Not resolute, except so much were done;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.270>For things are often spoke and seldom meant:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.271>But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.272>Seeing the deed is meritorious,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.273>And to preserve my sovereign from his foe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.274>Say but the word, and I will be his priest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.275>But I would have him dead, my Lord of Suffolk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.276>Ere you can take due orders for a priest:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.277>Say you consent and censure well the deed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.278>And I'll provide his executioner,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.279>I tender so the safety of my liege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.280>Here is my hand, the deed is worthy doing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.281>And so say I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.282>And I and now we three have spoke it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.283>It skills not greatly who impugns our doom.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Post</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>Post</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.284>Great lords, from Ireland am I come amain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.285>To signify that rebels there are up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.286>And put the Englishmen unto the sword:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.287>Send succors, lords, and stop the rage betime,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.288>Before the wound do grow uncurable;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.289>For, being green, there is great hope of help.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.290>A breach that craves a quick expedient stop!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.291>What counsel give you in this weighty cause?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.292>That Somerset be sent as regent thither:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.293>'Tis meet that lucky ruler be employ'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.294>Witness the fortune he hath had in France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.295>If York, with all his far-fet policy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.296>Had been the regent there instead of me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.297>He never would have stay'd in France so long.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.298>No, not to lose it all, as thou hast done:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.299>I rather would have lost my life betimes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.300>Than bring a burthen of dishonour home</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.301>By staying there so long till all were lost.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.302>Show me one scar character'd on thy skin:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.303>Men's flesh preserved so whole do seldom win.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.304>Nay, then, this spark will prove a raging fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.305>If wind and fuel be brought to feed it with:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.306>No more, good York; sweet Somerset, be still:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.307>Thy fortune, York, hadst thou been regent there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.308>Might happily have proved far worse than his.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.309>What, worse than nought? nay, then, a shame take all!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.310>And, in the number, thee that wishest shame!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.311>My Lord of York, try what your fortune is.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.312>The uncivil kerns of Ireland are in arms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.313>And temper clay with blood of Englishmen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.314>To Ireland will you lead a band of men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.315>Collected choicely, from each county some,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.316>And try your hap against the Irishmen?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.317>I will, my lord, so please his majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.318>Why, our authority is his consent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.319>And what we do establish he confirms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.320>Then, noble York, take thou this task in hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.321>I am content: provide me soldiers, lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.322>Whiles I take order for mine own affairs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.323>A charge, Lord York, that I will see perform'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.324>But now return we to the false Duke Humphrey.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.325>No more of him; for I will deal with him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.326>That henceforth he shall trouble us no more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.327>And so break off; the day is almost spent:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.328>Lord Suffolk, you and I must talk of that event.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.329>My Lord of Suffolk, within fourteen days</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.330>At Bristol I expect my soldiers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.331>For there I'll ship them all for Ireland.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.332>I'll see it truly done, my Lord of York.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but YORK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.333>Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.334>And change misdoubt to resolution:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.335>Be that thou hopest to be, or what thou art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.336>Resign to death; it is not worth the enjoying:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.337>Let pale-faced fear keep with the mean-born man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.338>And find no harbour in a royal heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.339>Faster than spring-time showers comes thought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.340>on thought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.341>And not a thought but thinks on dignity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.342>My brain more busy than the labouring spider</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.343>Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.344>Well, nobles, well, 'tis politicly done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.345>To send me packing with an host of men:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.346>I fear me you but warm the starved snake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.347>Who, cherish'd in your breasts, will sting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.348>your hearts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.349>'Twas men I lack'd and you will give them me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.350>I take it kindly; and yet be well assured</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.351>You put sharp weapons in a madman's hands.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.352>Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.353>I will stir up in England some black storm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.354>Shall blow ten thousand souls to heaven or hell;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.355>And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.356>Until the golden circuit on my head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.357>Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.358>Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.359>And, for a minister of my intent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.360>I have seduced a headstrong Kentishman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.361>John Cade of Ashford,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.362>To make commotion, as full well he can,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.363>Under the title of John Mortimer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.364>In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.365>Oppose himself against a troop of kerns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.366>And fought so long, till that his thighs with darts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.367>Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.368>And, in the end being rescued, I have seen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.369>Him caper upright like a wild Morisco,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.370>Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.371>Full often, like a shag-hair'd crafty kern,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.372>Hath he conversed with the enemy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.373>And undiscover'd come to me again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.374>And given me notice of their villanies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.375>This devil here shall be my substitute;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.376>For that John Mortimer, which now is dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.377>In face, in gait, in speech, he doth resemble:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.378>By this I shall perceive the commons' mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.379>How they affect the house and claim of York.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.380>Say he be taken, rack'd and tortured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.381>I know no pain they can inflict upon him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.382>Will make him say I moved him to those arms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.383>Say that he thrive, as 'tis great like he will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.384>Why, then from Ireland come I with my strength</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.385>And reap the harvest which that rascal sow'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.386>For Humphrey being dead, as he shall be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.387>And Henry put apart, the next for me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Bury St. Edmund's. A room of state.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter certain Murderers, hastily</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>Run to my Lord of Suffolk; let him know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>We have dispatch'd the duke, as he commanded.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>O that it were to do! What have we done?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>Didst ever hear a man so penitent?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SUFFOLK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>First Murder</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>Here comes my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>Now, sirs, have you dispatch'd this thing?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>Ay, my good lord, he's dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>Why, that's well said. Go, get you to my house;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>I will reward you for this venturous deed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>The king and all the peers are here at hand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>Have you laid fair the bed? Is all things well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>According as I gave directions?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>First Murderer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>'Tis, my good lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>Away! be gone.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Murderers</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Sound trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, CARDINAL, SOMERSET, with Attendants</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>Go, call our uncle to our presence straight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>Say we intend to try his grace to-day.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>If he be guilty, as 'tis published.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>I'll call him presently, my noble lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>Lords, take your places; and, I pray you all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Gloucester</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>Than from true evidence of good esteem</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>He be approved in practise culpable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>God forbid any malice should prevail,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>That faultless may condemn a nobleman!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>Pray God he may acquit him of suspicion!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>I thank thee, Meg; these words content me much.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter SUFFOLK</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>How now! why look'st thou pale? why tremblest thou?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>Where is our uncle? what's the matter, Suffolk?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>Dead in his bed, my lord; Gloucester is dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>Marry, God forfend!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>God's secret judgment: I did dream to-night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>The duke was dumb and could not speak a word.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>KING HENRY VI swoons</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>How fares my lord? Help, lords! the king is dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>Rear up his body; wring him by the nose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>Run, go, help, help! O Henry, ope thine eyes!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>He doth revive again: madam, be patient.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>O heavenly God!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>How fares my gracious lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>Comfort, my sovereign! gracious Henry, comfort!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>What, doth my Lord of Suffolk comfort me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>Came he right now to sing a raven's note,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>And thinks he that the chirping of a wren,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>By crying comfort from a hollow breast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>Can chase away the first-conceived sound?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>Lay not thy hands on me; forbear, I say;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>Thou baleful messenger, out of my sight!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>Upon thy eye-balls murderous tyranny</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>Sits in grim majesty, to fright the world.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>Look not upon me, for thine eyes are wounding:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>Yet do not go away: come, basilisk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>For in the shade of death I shall find joy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>In life but double death, now Gloucester's dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>Why do you rate my Lord of Suffolk thus?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>Although the duke was enemy to him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>Yet he most Christian-like laments his death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>And for myself, foe as he was to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>Might liquid tears or heart-offending groans</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>Or blood-consuming sighs recall his life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>I would be blind with weeping, sick with groans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>Look pale as primrose with blood-drinking sighs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>And all to have the noble duke alive.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>What know I how the world may deem of me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>For it is known we were but hollow friends:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>It may be judged I made the duke away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>So shall my name with slander's tongue be wounded,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>And princes' courts be fill'd with my reproach.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>This get I by his death: ay me, unhappy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>To be a queen, and crown'd with infamy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>Ah, woe is me for Gloucester, wretched man!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>Be woe for me, more wretched than he is.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>What, dost thou turn away and hide thy face?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>I am no loathsome leper; look on me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>What! art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>Be poisonous too and kill thy forlorn queen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>Is all thy comfort shut in Gloucester's tomb?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>Why, then, dame Margaret was ne'er thy joy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>Erect his statue and worship it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>And make my image but an alehouse sign.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83>Was I for this nigh wreck'd upon the sea</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>And twice by awkward wind from England's bank</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.85>Drove back again unto my native clime?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>What boded this, but well forewarning wind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.87>Did seem to say 'Seek not a scorpion's nest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.88>Nor set no footing on this unkind shore'?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.89>What did I then, but cursed the gentle gusts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.90>And he that loosed them forth their brazen caves:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.91>And bid them blow towards England's blessed shore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.92>Or turn our stern upon a dreadful rock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.93>Yet AEolus would not be a murderer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.94>But left that hateful office unto thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.95>The pretty-vaulting sea refused to drown me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.96>Knowing that thou wouldst have me drown'd on shore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.97>With tears as salt as sea, through thy unkindness:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.98>The splitting rocks cower'd in the sinking sands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.99>And would not dash me with their ragged sides,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.100>Because thy flinty heart, more hard than they,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.101>Might in thy palace perish Margaret.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.102>As far as I could ken thy chalky cliffs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.103>When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.104>I stood upon the hatches in the storm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.105>And when the dusky sky began to rob</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.106>My earnest-gaping sight of thy land's view,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.107>I took a costly jewel from my neck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.108>A heart it was, bound in with diamonds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.109>And threw it towards thy land: the sea received it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.110>And so I wish'd thy body might my heart:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.111>And even with this I lost fair England's view</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.112>And bid mine eyes be packing with my heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.113>And call'd them blind and dusky spectacles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.114>For losing ken of Albion's wished coast.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.115>How often have I tempted Suffolk's tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.116>The agent of thy foul inconstancy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.117>To sit and witch me, as Ascanius did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.118>When he to madding Dido would unfold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.119>His father's acts commenced in burning Troy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.120>Am I not witch'd like her? or thou not false like him?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.121>Ay me, I can no more! die, Margaret!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.122>For Henry weeps that thou dost live so long.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Noise within. Enter WARWICK, SALISBURY, and many Commons</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.123>It is reported, mighty sovereign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.124>That good Duke Humphrey traitorously is murder'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.125>By Suffolk and the Cardinal Beaufort's means.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.126>The commons, like an angry hive of bees</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.127>That want their leader, scatter up and down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.128>And care not who they sting in his revenge.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.129>Myself have calm'd their spleenful mutiny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.130>Until they hear the order of his death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.131>That he is dead, good Warwick, 'tis too true;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.132>But how he died God knows, not Henry:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.133>Enter his chamber, view his breathless corpse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.134>And comment then upon his sudden death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.135>That shall I do, my liege. Stay, Salisbury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.136>With the rude multitude till I return.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.137>O Thou that judgest all things, stay my thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.138>My thoughts, that labour to persuade my soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.139>Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.140>If my suspect be false, forgive me, God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.141>For judgment only doth belong to thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.142>Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.143>With twenty thousand kisses, and to drain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.144>Upon his face an ocean of salt tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.145>To tell my love unto his dumb deaf trunk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.146>And with my fingers feel his hand unfeeling:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.147>But all in vain are these mean obsequies;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.148>And to survey his dead and earthly image,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.149>What were it but to make my sorrow greater?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter WARWICK and others, bearing GLOUCESTER'S body on a bed</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.150>Come hither, gracious sovereign, view this body.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.151>That is to see how deep my grave is made;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.152>For with his soul fled all my worldly solace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.153>For seeing him I see my life in death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.154>As surely as my soul intends to live</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.155>With that dread King that took our state upon him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.156>To free us from his father's wrathful curse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.157>I do believe that violent hands were laid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.158>Upon the life of this thrice-famed duke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.159>A dreadful oath, sworn with a solemn tongue!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.160>What instance gives Lord Warwick for his vow?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.161>See how the blood is settled in his face.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.162>Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.163>Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale and bloodless,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.164>Being all descended to the labouring heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.165>Who, in the conflict that it holds with death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.166>Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.167>Which with the heart there cools and ne'er returneth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.168>To blush and beautify the cheek again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.169>But see, his face is black and full of blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.170>His eye-balls further out than when he lived,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.171>Staring full ghastly like a strangled man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.172>His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretched with struggling;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.173>His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.174>And tugg'd for life and was by strength subdued:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.175>Look, on the sheets his hair you see, is sticking;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.176>His well-proportion'd beard made rough and rugged,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.177>Like to the summer's corn by tempest lodged.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.178>It cannot be but he was murder'd here;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.179>The least of all these signs were probable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.180>Why, Warwick, who should do the duke to death?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.181>Myself and Beaufort had him in protection;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.182>And we, I hope, sir, are no murderers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.183>But both of you were vow'd Duke Humphrey's foes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.184>And you, forsooth, had the good duke to keep:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.185>'Tis like you would not feast him like a friend;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.186>And 'tis well seen he found an enemy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.187>Then you, belike, suspect these noblemen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.188>As guilty of Duke Humphrey's timeless death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.189>Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.190>And sees fast by a butcher with an axe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.191>But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.192>Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.193>But may imagine how the bird was dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.194>Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.195>Even so suspicious is this tragedy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.196>Are you the butcher, Suffolk? Where's your knife?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.197>Is Beaufort term'd a kite? Where are his talons?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.198>I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.199>But here's a vengeful sword, rusted with ease,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.200>That shall be scoured in his rancorous heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.201>That slanders me with murder's crimson badge.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.202>Say, if thou darest, proud Lord of Warwick-shire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.203>That I am faulty in Duke Humphrey's death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt CARDINAL, SOMERSET, and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.204>What dares not Warwick, if false Suffolk dare him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.205>He dares not calm his contumelious spirit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.206>Nor cease to be an arrogant controller,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.207>Though Suffolk dare him twenty thousand times.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.208>Madam, be still; with reverence may I say;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.209>For every word you speak in his behalf</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.210>Is slander to your royal dignity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.211>Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanor!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.212>If ever lady wrong'd her lord so much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.213>Thy mother took into her blameful bed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.214>Some stern untutor'd churl, and noble stock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.215>Was graft with crab-tree slip; whose fruit thou art,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.216>And never of the Nevils' noble race.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.217>But that the guilt of murder bucklers thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.218>And I should rob the deathsman of his fee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.219>Quitting thee thereby of ten thousand shames,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.220>And that my sovereign's presence makes me mild,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.221>I would, false murderous coward, on thy knee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.222>Make thee beg pardon for thy passed speech,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.223>And say it was thy mother that thou meant'st</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.224>That thou thyself was born in bastardy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.225>And after all this fearful homage done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.226>Give thee thy hire and send thy soul to hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.227>Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.228>Thou shall be waking well I shed thy blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.229>If from this presence thou darest go with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.230>Away even now, or I will drag thee hence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.231>Unworthy though thou art, I'll cope with thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.232>And do some service to Duke Humphrey's ghost.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt SUFFOLK and WARWICK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.233>What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.234>Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.235>And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.236>Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A noise within</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.237>What noise is this?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter SUFFOLK and WARWICK, with their weapons drawn</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.238>Why, how now, lords! your wrathful weapons drawn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.239>Here in our presence! dare you be so bold?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.240>Why, what tumultuous clamour have we here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.241>The traitorous Warwick with the men of Bury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.242>Set all upon me, mighty sovereign.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.243>[To the Commons, entering] Sirs, stand apart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.244>the king shall know your mind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.245>Dread lord, the commons send you word by me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.246>Unless Lord Suffolk straight be done to death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.247>Or banished fair England's territories,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.248>They will by violence tear him from your palace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.249>And torture him with grievous lingering death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.250>They say, by him the good Duke Humphrey died;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.251>They say, in him they fear your highness' death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.252>And mere instinct of love and loyalty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.253>Free from a stubborn opposite intent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.254>As being thought to contradict your liking,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.255>Makes them thus forward in his banishment.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.256>They say, in care of your most royal person,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.257>That if your highness should intend to sleep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.258>And charge that no man should disturb your rest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.259>In pain of your dislike or pain of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.260>Yet, notwithstanding such a strait edict,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.261>Were there a serpent seen, with forked tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.262>That slily glided towards your majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.263>It were but necessary you were waked,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.264>Lest, being suffer'd in that harmful slumber,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.265>The mortal worm might make the sleep eternal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.266>And therefore do they cry, though you forbid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.267>That they will guard you, whether you will or no,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.268>From such fell serpents as false Suffolk is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.269>With whose envenomed and fatal sting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.270>Your loving uncle, twenty times his worth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.271>They say, is shamefully bereft of life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>Commons</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.272>[Within] An answer from the king, my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.273>Lord of Salisbury!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.274>'Tis like the commons, rude unpolish'd hinds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.275>Could send such message to their sovereign:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.276>But you, my lord, were glad to be employ'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.277>To show how quaint an orator you are:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.278>But all the honour Salisbury hath won</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.279>Is, that he was the lord ambassador</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.280>Sent from a sort of tinkers to the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>Commons</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.281>[Within] An answer from the king, or we will all break in!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.282>Go, Salisbury, and tell them all from me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.283>I thank them for their tender loving care;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.284>And had I not been cited so by them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.285>Yet did I purpose as they do entreat;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.286>For, sure, my thoughts do hourly prophesy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.287>Mischance unto my state by Suffolk's means:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.288>And therefore, by His majesty I swear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.289>Whose far unworthy deputy I am,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.290>He shall not breathe infection in this air</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.291>But three days longer, on the pain of death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit SALISBURY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.292>O Henry, let me plead for gentle Suffolk!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.293>Ungentle queen, to call him gentle Suffolk!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.294>No more, I say: if thou dost plead for him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.295>Thou wilt but add increase unto my wrath.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.296>Had I but said, I would have kept my word,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.297>But when I swear, it is irrevocable.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.298>If, after three days' space, thou here be'st found</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.299>On any ground that I am ruler of,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.300>The world shall not be ransom for thy life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.301>Come, Warwick, come, good Warwick, go with me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.302>I have great matters to impart to thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but QUEEN MARGARET and SUFFOLK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.303>Mischance and sorrow go along with you!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.304>Heart's discontent and sour affliction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.305>Be playfellows to keep you company!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.306>There's two of you; the devil make a third!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.307>And threefold vengeance tend upon your steps!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.308>Cease, gentle queen, these execrations,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.309>And let thy Suffolk take his heavy leave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.310>Fie, coward woman and soft-hearted wretch!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.311>Hast thou not spirit to curse thine enemy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.312>A plague upon them! wherefore should I curse them?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.313>Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's groan,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.314>I would invent as bitter-searching terms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.315>As curst, as harsh and horrible to hear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.316>Deliver'd strongly through my fixed teeth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.317>With full as many signs of deadly hate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.318>As lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.319>My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.320>Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.321>Mine hair be fixed on end, as one distract;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.322>Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.323>And even now my burthen'd heart would break,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.324>Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.325>Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.326>Their sweetest shade a grove of cypress trees!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.327>Their chiefest prospect murdering basilisks!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.328>Their softest touch as smart as lizards' sting!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.329>Their music frightful as the serpent's hiss,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.330>And boding screech-owls make the concert full!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.331>All the foul terrors in dark-seated hell--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.332>Enough, sweet Suffolk; thou torment'st thyself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.333>And these dread curses, like the sun 'gainst glass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.334>Or like an overcharged gun, recoil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.335>And turn the force of them upon thyself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.336>You bade me ban, and will you bid me leave?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.337>Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.338>Well could I curse away a winter's night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.339>Though standing naked on a mountain top,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.340>Where biting cold would never let grass grow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.341>And think it but a minute spent in sport.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.342>O, let me entreat thee cease. Give me thy hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.343>That I may dew it with my mournful tears;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.344>Nor let the rain of heaven wet this place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.345>To wash away my woful monuments.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.346>O, could this kiss be printed in thy hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.347>That thou mightst think upon these by the seal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.348>Through whom a thousand sighs are breathed for thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.349>So, get thee gone, that I may know my grief;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.350>'Tis but surmised whiles thou art standing by,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.351>As one that surfeits thinking on a want.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.352>I will repeal thee, or, be well assured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.353>Adventure to be banished myself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.354>And banished I am, if but from thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.355>Go; speak not to me; even now be gone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.356>O, go not yet! Even thus two friends condemn'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.357>Embrace and kiss and take ten thousand leaves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.358>Loather a hundred times to part than die.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.359>Yet now farewell; and farewell life with thee!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.360>Thus is poor Suffolk ten times banished;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.361>Once by the king, and three times thrice by thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.362>'Tis not the land I care for, wert thou thence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.363>A wilderness is populous enough,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.364>So Suffolk had thy heavenly company:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.365>For where thou art, there is the world itself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.366>With every several pleasure in the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.367>And where thou art not, desolation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.368>I can no more: live thou to joy thy life;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.369>Myself no joy in nought but that thou livest.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter VAUX</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.370>Wither goes Vaux so fast? what news, I prithee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>VAUX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.371>To signify unto his majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.372>That Cardinal Beaufort is at point of death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.373>For suddenly a grievous sickness took him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.374>That makes him gasp and stare and catch the air,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.375>Blaspheming God and cursing men on earth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.376>Sometimes he talks as if Duke Humphrey's ghost</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.377>Were by his side; sometime he calls the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.378>And whispers to his pillow, as to him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.379>The secrets of his overcharged soul;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.380>And I am sent to tell his majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.381>That even now he cries aloud for him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.382>Go tell this heavy message to the king.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit VAUX</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.383>Ay me! what is this world! what news are these!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.384>But wherefore grieve I at an hour's poor loss,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.385>Omitting Suffolk's exile, my soul's treasure?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.386>Why only, Suffolk, mourn I not for thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.387>And with the southern clouds contend in tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.388>Theirs for the earth's increase, mine for my sorrows?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.389>Now get thee hence: the king, thou know'st, is coming;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.390>If thou be found by me, thou art but dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.391>If I depart from thee, I cannot live;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.392>And in thy sight to die, what were it else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.393>But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.394>Here could I breathe my soul into the air,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.395>As mild and gentle as the cradle-babe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.396>Dying with mother's dug between its lips:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.397>Where, from thy sight, I should be raging mad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.398>And cry out for thee to close up mine eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.399>To have thee with thy lips to stop my mouth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.400>So shouldst thou either turn my flying soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.401>Or I should breathe it so into thy body,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.402>And then it lived in sweet Elysium.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.403>To die by thee were but to die in jest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.404>From thee to die were torture more than death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.405>O, let me stay, befall what may befall!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.406>Away! though parting be a fretful corrosive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.407>It is applied to a deathful wound.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.408>To France, sweet Suffolk: let me hear from thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.409>For wheresoe'er thou art in this world's globe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.410>I'll have an Iris that shall find thee out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.411>I go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.412>And take my heart with thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.413>A jewel, lock'd into the wofull'st cask</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.414>That ever did contain a thing of worth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.415>Even as a splitted bark, so sunder we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.416>This way fall I to death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.417>This way for me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt severally</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A bedchamber.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the KING, SALISBURY, WARWICK, to the CARDINAL in bed</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.1>How fares my lord? speak, Beaufort, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.2>thy sovereign.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.3>If thou be'st death, I'll give thee England's treasure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.4>Enough to purchase such another island,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.5>So thou wilt let me live, and feel no pain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.6>Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.7>Where death's approach is seen so terrible!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.8>Beaufort, it is thy sovereign speaks to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CARDINAL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.9>Bring me unto my trial when you will.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.10>Died he not in his bed? where should he die?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.11>Can I make men live, whether they will or no?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.12>O, torture me no more! I will confess.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.13>Alive again? then show me where he is:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.14>I'll give a thousand pound to look upon him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.15>He hath no eyes, the dust hath blinded them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.16>Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.17>Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged soul.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.18>Give me some drink; and bid the apothecary</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.19>Bring the strong poison that I bought of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.20>O thou eternal Mover of the heavens.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.21>Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.22>O, beat away the busy meddling fiend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.23>That lays strong siege unto this wretch's soul.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.24>And from his bosom purge this black despair!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.25>See, how the pangs of death do make him grin!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.26>Disturb him not; let him pass peaceably.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.27>Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.28>Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.29>Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.30>He dies, and makes no sign. O God, forgive him!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.31>So bad a death argues a monstrous life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.32>Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.33>Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.34>And let us all to meditation.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The coast of Kent.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>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</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>Is crept into the bosom of the sea;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>And now loud-howling wolves arouse the jades</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>That drag the tragic melancholy night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>Who, with their drowsy, slow and flagging wings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>Clip dead men's graves and from their misty jaws</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>Therefore bring forth the soldiers of our prize;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>For, whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>Here shall they make their ransom on the sand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>Or with their blood stain this discolour'd shore.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>Master, this prisoner freely give I thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>And thou that art his mate, make boot of this;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>The other, Walter Whitmore, is thy share.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>What is my ransom, master? let me know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Master</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>A thousand crowns, or else lay down your head.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>Master's-Mate And so much shall you give, or off goes yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>What, think you much to pay two thousand crowns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>And bear the name and port of gentlemen?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>Cut both the villains' throats; for die you shall:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>The lives of those which we have lost in fight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>Be counterpoised with such a petty sum!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>I'll give it, sir; and therefore spare my life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>And so will I and write home for it straight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>WHITMORE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>I lost mine eye in laying the prize aboard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>And therefore to revenge it, shalt thou die;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To SUFFOLK</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>And so should these, if I might have my will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>Be not so rash; take ransom, let him live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>Look on my George; I am a gentleman:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be paid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>WHITMORE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>How now! why start'st thou? what, doth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>death affright?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>A cunning man did calculate my birth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>And told me that by water I should die:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>Thy name is Gaultier, being rightly sounded.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>WHITMORE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>Gaultier or Walter, which it is, I care not:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>Never yet did base dishonour blur our name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>But with our sword we wiped away the blot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>Therefore, when merchant-like I sell revenge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>Broke be my sword, my arms torn and defaced,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>And I proclaim'd a coward through the world!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>Stay, Whitmore; for thy prisoner is a prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>The Duke of Suffolk, William de la Pole.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>WHITMORE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>The Duke of Suffolk muffled up in rags!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>Ay, but these rags are no part of the duke:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>Jove sometimes went disguised, and why not I?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>But Jove was never slain, as thou shalt be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>Obscure and lowly swain, King Henry's blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>The honourable blood of Lancaster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>Must not be shed by such a jaded groom.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>Hast thou not kiss'd thy hand and held my stirrup?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>Bare-headed plodded by my foot-cloth mule</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>And thought thee happy when I shook my head?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>How often hast thou waited at my cup,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>Fed from my trencher, kneel'd down at the board.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>When I have feasted with Queen Margaret?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>Remember it and let it make thee crest-fall'n,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>And duly waited for my coming forth?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>This hand of mine hath writ in thy behalf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>And therefore shall it charm thy riotous tongue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>WHITMORE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>Speak, captain, shall I stab the forlorn swain?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>First let my words stab him, as he hath me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>Base slave, thy words are blunt and so art thou.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>Convey him hence and on our longboat's side</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>Strike off his head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>Thou darest not, for thy own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>Yes, Pole.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73> Pole!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74> Pool! Sir Pool! lord!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>Ay, kennel, puddle, sink; whose filth and dirt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>Troubles the silver spring where England drinks.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>Now will I dam up this thy yawning mouth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>For swallowing the treasure of the realm:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>Thy lips that kiss'd the queen shall sweep the ground;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>And thou that smiledst at good Duke Humphrey's death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>Against the senseless winds shalt grin in vain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>Who in contempt shall hiss at thee again:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>And wedded be thou to the hags of hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>For daring to affy a mighty lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>Unto the daughter of a worthless king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>Having neither subject, wealth, nor diadem.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>By devilish policy art thou grown great,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>And, like ambitious Sylla, overgorged</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>By thee Anjou and Maine were sold to France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>The false revolting Normans thorough thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>Disdain to call us lord, and Picardy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93>Hath slain their governors, surprised our forts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>And sent the ragged soldiers wounded home.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.95>The princely Warwick, and the Nevils all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.96>Whose dreadful swords were never drawn in vain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.97>As hating thee, are rising up in arms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.98>And now the house of York, thrust from the crown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.99>By shameful murder of a guiltless king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.100>And lofty proud encroaching tyranny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.101>Burns with revenging fire; whose hopeful colours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.102>Advance our half-faced sun, striving to shine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.103>Under the which is writ 'Invitis nubibus.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.104>The commons here in Kent are up in arms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.105>And, to conclude, reproach and beggary</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.106>Is crept into the palace of our king.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.107>And all by thee. Away! convey him hence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.108>O that I were a god, to shoot forth thunder</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.109>Upon these paltry, servile, abject drudges!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.110>Small things make base men proud: this villain here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.111>Being captain of a pinnace, threatens more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.112>Than Bargulus the strong Illyrian pirate.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.113>Drones suck not eagles' blood but rob beehives:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.114>It is impossible that I should die</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.115>By such a lowly vassal as thyself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.116>Thy words move rage and not remorse in me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.117>I go of message from the queen to France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.118>I charge thee waft me safely cross the Channel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.119>Walter,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>WHITMORE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.120>Come, Suffolk, I must waft thee to thy death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.121>Gelidus timor occupat artus it is thee I fear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>WHITMORE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.122>Thou shalt have cause to fear before I leave thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.123>What, are ye daunted now? now will ye stoop?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.124>My gracious lord, entreat him, speak him fair.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.125>Suffolk's imperial tongue is stern and rough,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.126>Used to command, untaught to plead for favour.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.127>Far be it we should honour such as these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.128>With humble suit: no, rather let my head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.129>Stoop to the block than these knees bow to any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.130>Save to the God of heaven and to my king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.131>And sooner dance upon a bloody pole</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.132>Than stand uncover'd to the vulgar groom.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.133>True nobility is exempt from fear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.134>More can I bear than you dare execute.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.135>Hale him away, and let him talk no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.136>Come, soldiers, show what cruelty ye can,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.137>That this my death may never be forgot!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.138>Great men oft die by vile bezonians:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.139>A Roman sworder and banditto slave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.140>Murder'd sweet Tully; Brutus' bastard hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.141>Stabb'd Julius Caesar; savage islanders</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.142>Pompey the Great; and Suffolk dies by pirates.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Whitmore and others with Suffolk</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.143>And as for these whose ransom we have set,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.144>It is our pleasure one of them depart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.145>Therefore come you with us and let him go.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but the First Gentleman</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter WHITMORE with SUFFOLK's body</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>WHITMORE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.146>There let his head and lifeless body lie,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.147>Until the queen his mistress bury it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.148>O barbarous and bloody spectacle!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.149>His body will I bear unto the king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.150>If he revenge it not, yet will his friends;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.151>So will the queen, that living held him dear.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit with the body</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Blackheath.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter GEORGE BEVIS and JOHN HOLLAND</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BEVIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>Come, and get thee a sword, though made of a lath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>they have been up these two days.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>HOLLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>They have the more need to sleep now, then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BEVIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>HOLLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>So he had need, for 'tis threadbare. Well, I say it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>was never merry world in England since gentlemen came up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BEVIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>O miserable age! virtue is not regarded in handicrafts-men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>HOLLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>The nobility think scorn to go in leather aprons.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BEVIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>Nay, more, the king's council are no good workmen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>HOLLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>True; and yet it is said, labour in thy vocation;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>which is as much to say as, let the magistrates be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>labouring men; and therefore should we be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>magistrates.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>BEVIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>Thou hast hit it; for there's no better sign of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>brave mind than a hard hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>HOLLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>I see them! I see them! there's Best's son, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>tanner of Wingham,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BEVIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>He shall have the skin of our enemies, to make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>dog's-leather of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>HOLLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>And Dick the Butcher,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BEVIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>Then is sin struck down like an ox, and iniquity's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>throat cut like a calf.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>HOLLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>And Smith the weaver,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BEVIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>Argo, their thread of life is spun.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HOLLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>Come, come, let's fall in with them.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drum. Enter CADE, DICK the Butcher, SMITH the Weaver, and a Sawyer, with infinite numbers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>We John Cade, so termed of our supposed father,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>[Aside] Or rather, of stealing a cade of herrings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>For our enemies shall fall before us, inspired with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>the spirit of putting down kings and princes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>--Command silence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>Silence!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>My father was a Mortimer,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>[Aside] He was an honest man, and a good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>bricklayer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>My mother a Plantagenet,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>[Aside] I knew her well; she was a midwife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>My wife descended of the Lacies,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>[Aside] She was, indeed, a pedler's daughter, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>sold many laces.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SMITH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>[Aside] But now of late, notable to travel with her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>furred pack, she washes bucks here at home.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>Therefore am I of an honourable house.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>[Aside] Ay, by my faith, the field is honourable;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>and there was he borne, under a hedge, for his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>father had never a house but the cage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>Valiant I am.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>SMITH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>[Aside] A' must needs; for beggary is valiant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>I am able to endure much.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>[Aside] No question of that; for I have seen him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>whipped three market-days together.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>I fear neither sword nor fire.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>SMITH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>[Aside] He need not fear the sword; for his coat is of proof.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>[Aside] But methinks he should stand in fear of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55>fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56>Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.57>reformation. There shall be in England seven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.58>halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.59>pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.60>to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.61>common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.62>grass: and when I am king, as king I will be,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.63>God save your majesty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.64>I thank you, good people: there shall be no money;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.65>all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.66>apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.67>like brothers and worship me their lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.68>The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.69>Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.70>thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.71>be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.72>o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.73>but I say, 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.74>once to a thing, and I was never mine own man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.75>since. How now! who's there?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter some, bringing forward the Clerk of Chatham</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>SMITH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.76>The clerk of Chatham: he can write and read and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.77>cast accompt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.78>O monstrous!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>SMITH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.79>We took him setting of boys' copies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.80>Here's a villain!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>SMITH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.81>Has a book in his pocket with red letters in't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.82>Nay, then, he is a conjurer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.83>Nay, he can make obligations, and write court-hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.84>I am sorry for't: the man is a proper man, of mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.85>honour; unless I find him guilty, he shall not die.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.86>Come hither, sirrah, I must examine thee: what is thy name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>Clerk</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.87>Emmanuel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.88>They use to write it on the top of letters: 'twill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.89>go hard with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.90>Let me alone. Dost thou use to write thy name? or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.91>hast thou a mark to thyself, like an honest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.92>plain-dealing man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>CLERK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.93>Sir, I thank God, I have been so well brought up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.94>that I can write my name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.95>He hath confessed: away with him! he's a villain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.96>and a traitor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.97>Away with him, I say! hang him with his pen and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.98>ink-horn about his neck.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit one with the Clerk</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter MICHAEL</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>MICHAEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.99>Where's our general?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.100>Here I am, thou particular fellow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>MICHAEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.101>Fly, fly, fly! Sir Humphrey Stafford and his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.102>brother are hard by, with the king's forces.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.103>Stand, villain, stand, or I'll fell thee down. He</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.104>shall be encountered with a man as good as himself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.105>he is but a knight, is a'?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>MICHAEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.106>No.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.107>To equal him, I will make myself a knight presently.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kneels</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.108>Rise up Sir John Mortimer.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Rises</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.109>Now have at him!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR HUMPHREY and WILLIAM STAFFORD, with drum and soldiers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>SIR HUMPHREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.110>Rebellious hinds, the filth and scum of Kent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.111>Mark'd for the gallows, lay your weapons down;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.112>Home to your cottages, forsake this groom:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.113>The king is merciful, if you revolt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>WILLIAM STAFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.114>But angry, wrathful, and inclined to blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.115>If you go forward; therefore yield, or die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.116>As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.117>It is to you, good people, that I speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.118>Over whom, in time to come, I hope to reign;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.119>For I am rightful heir unto the crown.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>SIR HUMPHREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.120>Villain, thy father was a plasterer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.121>And thou thyself a shearman, art thou not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.122>And Adam was a gardener.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>WILLIAM STAFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.123>And what of that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.124>Marry, this: Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.125>Married the Duke of Clarence' daughter, did he not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>SIR HUMPHREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.126>Ay, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.127>By her he had two children at one birth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>WILLIAM STAFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.128>That's false.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.129>Ay, there's the question; but I say, 'tis true:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.130>The elder of them, being put to nurse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.131>Was by a beggar-woman stolen away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.132>And, ignorant of his birth and parentage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.133>Became a bricklayer when he came to age:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.134>His son am I; deny it, if you can.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.135>Nay, 'tis too true; therefore he shall be king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>SMITH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.136>Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.137>the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.138>therefore deny it not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>SIR HUMPHREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.139>And will you credit this base drudge's words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.140>That speaks he knows not what?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.141>Ay, marry, will we; therefore get ye gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>WILLIAM STAFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.142>Jack Cade, the Duke of York hath taught you this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.143>[Aside] He lies, for I invented it myself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.144>Go to, sirrah, tell the king from me, that, for his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.145>father's sake, Henry the Fifth, in whose time boys</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.146>went to span-counter for French crowns, I am content</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.147>he shall reign; but I'll be protector over him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.148>And furthermore, well have the Lord Say's head for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.149>selling the dukedom of Maine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.150>And good reason; for thereby is England mained, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.151>fain to go with a staff, but that my puissance holds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.152>it up. Fellow kings, I tell you that that Lord Say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.153>hath gelded the commonwealth, and made it an eunuch:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.154>and more than that, he can speak French; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.155>therefore he is a traitor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>SIR HUMPHREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.156>O gross and miserable ignorance!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.157>Nay, answer, if you can: the Frenchmen are our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.158>enemies; go to, then, I ask but this: can he that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.159>speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.160>counsellor, or no?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.161>No, no; and therefore we'll have his head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>WILLIAM STAFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.162>Well, seeing gentle words will not prevail,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.163>Assail them with the army of the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>SIR HUMPHREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.164>Herald, away; and throughout every town</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.165>Proclaim them traitors that are up with Cade;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.166>That those which fly before the battle ends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.167>May, even in their wives' and children's sight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.168>Be hang'd up for example at their doors:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.169>And you that be the king's friends, follow me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt WILLIAM STAFFORD and SIR HUMPHREY, and soldiers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.170>And you that love the commons, follow me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.171>Now show yourselves men; 'tis for liberty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.172>We will not leave one lord, one gentleman:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.173>Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.174>For they are thrifty honest men, and such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.175>As would, but that they dare not, take our parts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.176>They are all in order and march toward us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.177>But then are we in order when we are most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.178>out of order. Come, march forward.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Another part of Blackheath.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarums to the fight, wherein SIR HUMPHREY and WILLIAM STAFFORD are slain. Enter CADE and the rest</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>Where's Dick, the butcher of Ashford?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>Here, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>They fell before thee like sheep and oxen, and thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>behavedst thyself as if thou hadst been in thine own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>slaughter-house: therefore thus will I reward thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>the Lent shall be as long again as it is; and thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>shalt have a licence to kill for a hundred lacking</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>I desire no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>And, to speak truth, thou deservest no less. This</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>monument of the victory will I bear;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Putting on SIR HUMPHREY'S brigandine</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>and the bodies shall be dragged at my horse' heels</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>till I do come to London, where we will have the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>mayor's sword borne before us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>If we mean to thrive and do good, break open the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>gaols and let out the prisoners.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17>Fear not that, I warrant thee. Come, let's march</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>towards London.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. London. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING HENRY VI with a supplication, and the QUEEN with SUFFOLK'S head, BUCKINGHAM and Lord SAY</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.1>Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.2>And makes it fearful and degenerate;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.3>Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.4>But who can cease to weep and look on this?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.5>Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.6>But where's the body that I should embrace?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.7>What answer makes your grace to the rebels'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.8>supplication?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.9>I'll send some holy bishop to entreat;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.10>For God forbid so many simple souls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.11>Should perish by the sword! And I myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.12>Rather than bloody war shall cut them short,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.13>Will parley with Jack Cade their general:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.14>But stay, I'll read it over once again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.15>Ah, barbarous villains! hath this lovely face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.16>Ruled, like a wandering planet, over me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.17>And could it not enforce them to relent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.18>That were unworthy to behold the same?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.19>Lord Say, Jack Cade hath sworn to have thy head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.20>Ay, but I hope your highness shall have his.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.21>How now, madam!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.22>Still lamenting and mourning for Suffolk's death?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.23>I fear me, love, if that I had been dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.24>Thou wouldst not have mourn'd so much for me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.25>No, my love, I should not mourn, but die for thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.26>How now! what news? why comest thou in such haste?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.27>The rebels are in Southwark; fly, my lord!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.28>Jack Cade proclaims himself Lord Mortimer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.29>Descended from the Duke of Clarence' house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.30>And calls your grace usurper openly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.31>And vows to crown himself in Westminster.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.32>His army is a ragged multitude</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.33>Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.34>Sir Humphrey Stafford and h is brother's death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.35>Hath given them heart and courage to proceed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.36>All scholars, lawyers, courtiers, gentlemen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.37>They call false caterpillars, and intend their death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.38>O graceless men! they know not what they do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.39>My gracious lord, return to Killingworth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.40>Until a power be raised to put them down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.41>Ah, were the Duke of Suffolk now alive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.42>These Kentish rebels would be soon appeased!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.43>Lord Say, the traitors hate thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.44>Therefore away with us to Killingworth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.45>So might your grace's person be in danger.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.46>The sight of me is odious in their eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.47>And therefore in this city will I stay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.48>And live alone as secret as I may.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter another Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.49>Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.50>The citizens fly and forsake their houses:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.51>The rascal people, thirsting after prey,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.52>Join with the traitor, and they jointly swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.53>To spoil the city and your royal court.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.54>Then linger not, my lord, away, take horse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.55>Come, Margaret; God, our hope, will succor us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.56>My hope is gone, now Suffolk is deceased.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.57>Farewell, my lord: trust not the Kentish rebels.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.58>Trust nobody, for fear you be betray'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.59>The trust I have is in mine innocence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.60>And therefore am I bold and resolute.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. London. The Tower.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SCALES upon the Tower, walking. Then enter two or three Citizens below</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SCALES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.1>How now! is Jack Cade slain?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.2>No, my lord, nor likely to be slain; for they have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.3>won the bridge, killing all those that withstand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.4>them: the lord mayor craves aid of your honour from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.5>the Tower, to defend the city from the rebels.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SCALES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.6>Such aid as I can spare you shall command;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.7>But I am troubled here with them myself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.8>The rebels have assay'd to win the Tower.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.9>But get you to Smithfield, and gather head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.10>And thither I will send you Matthew Goffe;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.11>Fight for your king, your country and your lives;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.12>And so, farewell, for I must hence again.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. London. Cannon Street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CADE and the rest, and strikes his staff on London-stone</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.1>Now is Mortimer lord of this city. And here, sitting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.2>upon London-stone, I charge and command that, of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.3>city's cost, the pissing-conduit run nothing but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.4>claret wine this first year of our reign. And now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.5>henceforward it shall be treason for any that calls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.6>me other than Lord Mortimer.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Soldier, running</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.7>Jack Cade! Jack Cade!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.8>Knock him down there.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They kill him</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SMITH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.9>If this fellow be wise, he'll never call ye Jack</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.10>Cade more: I think he hath a very fair warning.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.11>My lord, there's an army gathered together in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.12>Smithfield.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.13>Come, then, let's go fight with them; but first, go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.14>and set London bridge on fire; and, if you can, burn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.15>down the Tower too. Come, let's away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VII. London. Smithfield.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarums. MATTHEW GOFFE is slain, and all the rest. Then enter CADE, with his company.</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.1>So, sirs: now go some and pull down the Savoy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.2>others to the inns of court; down with them all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.3>I have a suit unto your lordship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.4>Be it a lordship, thou shalt have it for that word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.5>Only that the laws of England may come out of your mouth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HOLLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.6>[Aside] Mass, 'twill be sore law, then; for he was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.7>thrust in the mouth with a spear, and 'tis not whole</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.8>yet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SMITH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.9>[Aside] Nay, John, it will be stinking law for his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.10>breath stinks with eating toasted cheese.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.11>I have thought upon it, it shall be so. Away, burn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.12>all the records of the realm: my mouth shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.13>the parliament of England.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>HOLLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.14>[Aside] Then we are like to have biting statutes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.15>unless his teeth be pulled out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.16>And henceforward all things shall be in common.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.17>My lord, a prize, a prize! here's the Lord Say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.18>which sold the towns in France; he that made us pay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.19>one and twenty fifteens, and one shilling to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.20>pound, the last subsidy.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BEVIS, with Lord SAY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.21>Well, he shall be beheaded for it ten times. Ah,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.22>thou say, thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord! now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.23>art thou within point-blank of our jurisdiction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.24>regal. What canst thou answer to my majesty for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.25>giving up of Normandy unto Mounsieur Basimecu, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.26>dauphin of France? Be it known unto thee by these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.27>presence, even the presence of Lord Mortimer, that I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.28>am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.29>filth as thou art. Thou hast most traitorously</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.30>corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.31>grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.32>had no other books but the score and the tally, thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.33>hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.34>the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.35>paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.36>hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.37>a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.38>ear can endure to hear. Thou hast appointed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.39>justices of peace, to call poor men before them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.40>about matters they were not able to answer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.41>Moreover, thou hast put them in prison; and because</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.42>they could not read, thou hast hanged them; when,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.43>indeed, only for that cause they have been most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.44>worthy to live. Thou dost ride in a foot-cloth, dost thou not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.45>What of that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.46>Marry, thou oughtest not to let thy horse wear a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.47>cloak, when honester men than thou go in their hose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.48>and doublets.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.49>And work in their shirt too; as myself, for example,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.50>that am a butcher.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.51>You men of Kent,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.52>What say you of Kent?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.53>Nothing but this; 'tis 'bona terra, mala gens.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.54>Away with him, away with him! he speaks Latin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.55>Hear me but speak, and bear me where you will.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.56>Kent, in the Commentaries Caesar writ,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.57>Is term'd the civil'st place of this isle:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.58>Sweet is the country, because full of riches;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.59>The people liberal, valiant, active, wealthy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.60>Which makes me hope you are not void of pity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.61>I sold not Maine, I lost not Normandy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.62>Yet, to recover them, would lose my life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.63>Justice with favour have I always done;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.64>Prayers and tears have moved me, gifts could never.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.65>When have I aught exacted at your hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.66>But to maintain the king, the realm and you?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.67>Large gifts have I bestow'd on learned clerks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.68>Because my book preferr'd me to the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.69>And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.70>Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.71>Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.72>You cannot but forbear to murder me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.73>This tongue hath parley'd unto foreign kings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.74>For your behoof,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.75>Tut, when struck'st thou one blow in the field?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.76>Great men have reaching hands: oft have I struck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.77>Those that I never saw and struck them dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BEVIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.78>O monstrous coward! what, to come behind folks?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>SAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.79>These cheeks are pale for watching for your good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.80>Give him a box o' the ear and that will make 'em red again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.81>Long sitting to determine poor men's causes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.82>Hath made me full of sickness and diseases.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.83>Ye shall have a hempen caudle, then, and the help of hatchet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.84>Why dost thou quiver, man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>SAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.85>The palsy, and not fear, provokes me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.86>Nay, he nods at us, as who should say, I'll be even</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.87>with you: I'll see if his head will stand steadier</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.88>on a pole, or no. Take him away, and behead him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>SAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.89>Tell me wherein have I offended most?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.90>Have I affected wealth or honour? speak.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.91>Are my chests fill'd up with extorted gold?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.92>Is my apparel sumptuous to behold?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.93>Whom have I injured, that ye seek my death?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.94>These hands are free from guiltless bloodshedding,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.95>This breast from harbouring foul deceitful thoughts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.96>O, let me live!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.97>[Aside] I feel remorse in myself with his words;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.98>but I'll bridle it: he shall die, an it be but for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.99>pleading so well for his life. Away with him! he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.100>has a familiar under his tongue; he speaks not o'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.101>God's name. Go, take him away, I say, and strike</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.102>off his head presently; and then break into his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.103>son-in-law's house, Sir James Cromer, and strike off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.104>his head, and bring them both upon two poles hither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.105>It shall be done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>SAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.106>Ah, countrymen! if when you make your prayers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.107>God should be so obdurate as yourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.108>How would it fare with your departed souls?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.109>And therefore yet relent, and save my life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.110>Away with him! and do as I command ye.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt some with Lord SAY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.111>The proudest peer in the realm shall not wear a head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.112>on his shoulders, unless he pay me tribute; there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.113>shall not a maid be married, but she shall pay to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.114>her maidenhead ere they have it: men shall hold of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.115>me in capite; and we charge and command that their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.116>wives be as free as heart can wish or tongue can tell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>DICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.117>My lord, when shall we go to Cheapside and take up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.118>commodities upon our bills?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.119>Marry, presently.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.120>O, brave!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter one with the heads</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.121>But is not this braver? Let them kiss one another,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.122>for they loved well when they were alive. Now part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.123>them again, lest they consult about the giving up of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.124>some more towns in France. Soldiers, defer the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.125>spoil of the city until night: for with these borne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.126>before us, instead of maces, will we ride through</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.127>the streets, and at every corner have them kiss. Away!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VIII. Southwark.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarum and retreat. Enter CADE and all his rabblement</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.1>Up Fish Street! down Saint Magnus' Corner! Kill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.2>and knock down! throw them into Thames!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sound a parley</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.3>What noise is this I hear? Dare any be so bold to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.4>sound retreat or parley, when I command them kill?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BUCKINGHAM and CLIFFORD, attended</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.5>Ay, here they be that dare and will disturb thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.6>Know, Cade, we come ambassadors from the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.7>Unto the commons whom thou hast misled;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.8>And here pronounce free pardon to them all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.9>That will forsake thee and go home in peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.10>What say ye, countrymen? will ye relent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.11>And yield to mercy whilst 'tis offer'd you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.12>Or let a rebel lead you to your deaths?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.13>Who loves the king and will embrace his pardon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.14>Fling up his cap, and say 'God save his majesty!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.15>Who hateth him and honours not his father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.16>Henry the Fifth, that made all France to quake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.17>Shake he his weapon at us and pass by.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.18>God save the king! God save the king!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.19>What, Buckingham and Clifford, are ye so brave? And</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.20>you, base peasants, do ye believe him? will you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.21>needs be hanged with your pardons about your necks?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.22>Hath my sword therefore broke through London gates,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.23>that you should leave me at the White Hart in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.24>Southwark? I thought ye would never have given out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.25>these arms till you had recovered your ancient</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.26>freedom: but you are all recreants and dastards,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.27>and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.28>them break your backs with burthens, take your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.29>houses over your heads, ravish your wives and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.30>daughters before your faces: for me, I will make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.31>shift for one; and so, God's curse light upon you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.32>all!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.33>We'll follow Cade, we'll follow Cade!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.34>Is Cade the son of Henry the Fifth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.35>That thus you do exclaim you'll go with him?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.36>Will he conduct you through the heart of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.37>And make the meanest of you earls and dukes?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.38>Alas, he hath no home, no place to fly to;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.39>Nor knows he how to live but by the spoil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.40>Unless by robbing of your friends and us.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.41>Were't not a shame, that whilst you live at jar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.42>The fearful French, whom you late vanquished,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.43>Should make a start o'er seas and vanquish you?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.44>Methinks already in this civil broil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.45>I see them lording it in London streets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.46>Crying 'Villiago!' unto all they meet.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.47>Better ten thousand base-born Cades miscarry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.48>Than you should stoop unto a Frenchman's mercy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.49>To France, to France, and get what you have lost;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.50>Spare England, for it is your native coast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.51>Henry hath money, you are strong and manly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.52>God on our side, doubt not of victory.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.53>A Clifford! a Clifford! we'll follow the king and Clifford.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.54>Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.55>multitude? The name of Henry the Fifth hales them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.56>to an hundred mischiefs, and makes them leave me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.57>desolate. I see them lay their heads together to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.58>surprise me. My sword make way for me, for here is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.59>no staying. In despite of the devils and hell, have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.60>through the very middest of you? and heavens and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.61>honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.62>but only my followers' base and ignominious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.63>treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.64>What, is he fled? Go some, and follow him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.65>And he that brings his head unto the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.66>Shall have a thousand crowns for his reward.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt some of them</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.67>Follow me, soldiers: we'll devise a mean</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.68>To reconcile you all unto the king.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IX. Kenilworth Castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Sound Trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, and SOMERSET, on the terrace</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.1>Was ever king that joy'd an earthly throne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.2>And could command no more content than I?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.3>No sooner was I crept out of my cradle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.4>But I was made a king, at nine months old.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.5>Was never subject long'd to be a king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.6>As I do long and wish to be a subject.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BUCKINGHAM and CLIFFORD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.7>Health and glad tidings to your majesty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.8>Why, Buckingham, is the traitor Cade surprised?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.9>Or is he but retired to make him strong?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter below, multitudes, with halters about their necks</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.10>He is fled, my lord, and all his powers do yield;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.11>And humbly thus, with halters on their necks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.12>Expect your highness' doom of life or death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.13>Then, heaven, set ope thy everlasting gates,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.14>To entertain my vows of thanks and praise!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.15>Soldiers, this day have you redeemed your lives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.16>And show'd how well you love your prince and country:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.17>Continue still in this so good a mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.18>And Henry, though he be infortunate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.19>Assure yourselves, will never be unkind:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.20>And so, with thanks and pardon to you all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.21>I do dismiss you to your several countries.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.22>God save the king! God save the king!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.23>Please it your grace to be advertised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.24>The Duke of York is newly come from Ireland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.25>And with a puissant and a mighty power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.26>Of gallowglasses and stout kerns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.27>Is marching hitherward in proud array,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.28>And still proclaimeth, as he comes along,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.29>His arms are only to remove from thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.30>The Duke of Somerset, whom he terms traitor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.31>Thus stands my state, 'twixt Cade and York distress'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.32>Like to a ship that, having 'scaped a tempest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.33>Is straightway calm'd and boarded with a pirate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.34>But now is Cade driven back, his men dispersed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.35>And now is York in arms to second him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.36>I pray thee, Buckingham, go and meet him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.37>And ask him what's the reason of these arms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.38>Tell him I'll send Duke Edmund to the Tower;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.39>And, Somerset, we'll commit thee thither,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.40>Until his army be dismiss'd from him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.41>My lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.42>I'll yield myself to prison willingly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.43>Or unto death, to do my country good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.44>In any case, be not too rough in terms;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.45>For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.46>I will, my lord; and doubt not so to deal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.47>As all things shall redound unto your good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.48>Come, wife, let's in, and learn to govern better;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.9.49>For yet may England curse my wretched reign.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE X. Kent. IDEN's garden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CADE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.1>Fie on ambition! fie on myself, that have a sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.2>and yet am ready to famish! These five days have I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.3>hid me in these woods and durst not peep out, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.4>all the country is laid for me; but now am I so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.5>hungry that if I might have a lease of my life for a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.6>thousand years I could stay no longer. Wherefore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.7>on a brick wall have I climbed into this garden, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.8>see if I can eat grass, or pick a sallet another</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.9>while, which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.10>this hot weather. And I think this word 'sallet'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.11>was born to do me good: for many a time, but for a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.12>sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.13>bill; and many a time, when I have been dry and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.14>bravely marching, it hath served me instead of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.15>quart pot to drink in; and now the word 'sallet'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.16>must serve me to feed on.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter IDEN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>IDEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.17>Lord, who would live turmoiled in the court,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.18>And may enjoy such quiet walks as these?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.19>This small inheritance my father left me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.20>Contenteth me, and worth a monarchy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.21>I seek not to wax great by others' waning,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.22>Or gather wealth, I care not, with what envy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.23>Sufficeth that I have maintains my state</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.24>And sends the poor well pleased from my gate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.25>Here's the lord of the soil come to seize me for a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.26>stray, for entering his fee-simple without leave.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.27>Ah, villain, thou wilt betray me, and get a thousand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.28>crowns of the king carrying my head to him: but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.29>I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.30>my sword like a great pin, ere thou and I part.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>IDEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.31>Why, rude companion, whatsoe'er thou be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.32>I know thee not; why, then, should I betray thee?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.33>Is't not enough to break into my garden,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.34>And, like a thief, to come to rob my grounds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.35>Climbing my walls in spite of me the owner,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.36>But thou wilt brave me with these saucy terms?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.37>Brave thee! ay, by the best blood that ever was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.38>broached, and beard thee too. Look on me well: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.39>have eat no meat these five days; yet, come thou and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.40>thy five men, and if I do not leave you all as dead</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.41>as a doornail, I pray God I may never eat grass more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>IDEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.42>Nay, it shall ne'er be said, while England stands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.43>That Alexander Iden, an esquire of Kent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.44>Took odds to combat a poor famish'd man.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.45>Oppose thy steadfast-gazing eyes to mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.46>See if thou canst outface me with thy looks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.47>Set limb to limb, and thou art far the lesser;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.48>Thy hand is but a finger to my fist,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.49>Thy leg a stick compared with this truncheon;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.50>My foot shall fight with all the strength thou hast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.51>And if mine arm be heaved in the air,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.52>Thy grave is digg'd already in the earth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.53>As for words, whose greatness answers words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.54>Let this my sword report what speech forbears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.55>By my valour, the most complete champion that ever I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.56>heard! Steel, if thou turn the edge, or cut not out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.57>the burly-boned clown in chines of beef ere thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.58>sleep in thy sheath, I beseech God on my knees thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.59>mayst be turned to hobnails.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here they fight. CADE falls</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.60>O, I am slain! famine and no other hath slain me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.61>let ten thousand devils come against me, and give me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.62>but the ten meals I have lost, and I'll defy them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.63>all. Wither, garden; and be henceforth a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.64>burying-place to all that do dwell in this house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.65>because the unconquered soul of Cade is fled.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>IDEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.66>Is't Cade that I have slain, that monstrous traitor?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.67>Sword, I will hollow thee for this thy deed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.68>And hang thee o'er my tomb when I am dead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.69>Ne'er shall this blood be wiped from thy point;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.70>But thou shalt wear it as a herald's coat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.71>To emblaze the honour that thy master got.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.72>Iden, farewell, and be proud of thy victory. Tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.73>Kent from me, she hath lost her best man, and exhort</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.74>all the world to be cowards; for I, that never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.75>feared any, am vanquished by famine, not by valour.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>IDEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.76>How much thou wrong'st me, heaven be my judge.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.77>Die, damned wretch, the curse of her that bare thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.78>And as I thrust thy body in with my sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.79>So wish I, I might thrust thy soul to hell.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.80>Hence will I drag thee headlong by the heels</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.81>Unto a dunghill which shall be thy grave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.82>And there cut off thy most ungracious head;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.83>Which I will bear in triumph to the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.10.84>Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Fields between Dartford and Blackheath.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter YORK, and his army of Irish, with drum and colours</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>From Ireland thus comes York to claim his right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>And pluck the crown from feeble Henry's head:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>Ring, bells, aloud; burn, bonfires, clear and bright,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>To entertain great England's lawful king.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>Ah! sancta majestas, who would not buy thee dear?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>Let them obey that know not how to rule;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>This hand was made to handle naught but gold.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>I cannot give due action to my words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>Except a sword or sceptre balance it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>A sceptre shall it have, have I a soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>On which I'll toss the flower-de-luce of France.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BUCKINGHAM</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>Whom have we here? Buckingham, to disturb me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>The king hath sent him, sure: I must dissemble.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>York, if thou meanest well, I greet thee well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>Humphrey of Buckingham, I accept thy greeting.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>Art thou a messenger, or come of pleasure?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>A messenger from Henry, our dread liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>To know the reason of these arms in peace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>Or why thou, being a subject as I am,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>Against thy oath and true allegiance sworn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>Should raise so great a power without his leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>Or dare to bring thy force so near the court.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>[Aside] Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>O, I could hew up rocks and fight with flint,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>I am so angry at these abject terms;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>And now, like Ajax Telamonius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>I am far better born than is the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>More like a king, more kingly in my thoughts:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>But I must make fair weather yet a while,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>Till Henry be more weak and I more strong,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>Buckingham, I prithee, pardon me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>That I have given no answer all this while;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>My mind was troubled with deep melancholy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>The cause why I have brought this army hither</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>Is to remove proud Somerset from the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>Seditious to his grace and to the state.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>That is too much presumption on thy part:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>But if thy arms be to no other end,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>The king hath yielded unto thy demand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>The Duke of Somerset is in the Tower.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>Upon thine honour, is he prisoner?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>Upon mine honour, he is prisoner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>Then, Buckingham, I do dismiss my powers.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>Soldiers, I thank you all; disperse yourselves;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>Meet me to-morrow in St. George's field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>You shall have pay and every thing you wish.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>And let my sovereign, virtuous Henry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>Command my eldest son, nay, all my sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>As pledges of my fealty and love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>I'll send them all as willing as I live:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>Lands, goods, horse, armour, any thing I have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>Is his to use, so Somerset may die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>York, I commend this kind submission:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>We twain will go into his highness' tent.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING HENRY VI and Attendants</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>Buckingham, doth York intend no harm to us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>That thus he marcheth with thee arm in arm?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>In all submission and humility</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>York doth present himself unto your highness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60>Then what intends these forces thou dost bring?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>To heave the traitor Somerset from hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>And fight against that monstrous rebel Cade,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>Who since I heard to be discomfited.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter IDEN, with CADE'S head</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>IDEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.64>If one so rude and of so mean condition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.65>May pass into the presence of a king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.66>Lo, I present your grace a traitor's head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.67>The head of Cade, whom I in combat slew.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.68>The head of Cade! Great God, how just art Thou!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.69>O, let me view his visage, being dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.70>That living wrought me such exceeding trouble.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.71>Tell me, my friend, art thou the man that slew him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>IDEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.72>I was, an't like your majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.73>How art thou call'd? and what is thy degree?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>IDEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.74>Alexander Iden, that's my name;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.75>A poor esquire of Kent, that loves his king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BUCKINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.76>So please it you, my lord, 'twere not amiss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.77>He were created knight for his good service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.78>Iden, kneel down.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He kneels</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.79>Rise up a knight.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.80>We give thee for reward a thousand marks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.81>And will that thou henceforth attend on us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>IDEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.82>May Iden live to merit such a bounty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.83>And never live but true unto his liege!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Rises</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter QUEEN MARGARET and SOMERSET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.84>See, Buckingham, Somerset comes with the queen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.85>Go, bid her hide him quickly from the duke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.86>For thousand Yorks he shall not hide his head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.87>But boldly stand and front him to his face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.88>How now! is Somerset at liberty?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.89>Then, York, unloose thy long-imprison'd thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.90>And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.91>Shall I endure the sight of Somerset?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.92>False king! why hast thou broken faith with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.93>Knowing how hardly I can brook abuse?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.94>King did I call thee? no, thou art not king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.95>Not fit to govern and rule multitudes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.96>Which darest not, no, nor canst not rule a traitor.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.97>That head of thine doth not become a crown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.98>Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.99>And not to grace an awful princely sceptre.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.100>That gold must round engirt these brows of mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.101>Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.102>Is able with the change to kill and cure.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.103>Here is a hand to hold a sceptre up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.104>And with the same to act controlling laws.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.105>Give place: by heaven, thou shalt rule no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.106>O'er him whom heaven created for thy ruler.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.107>O monstrous traitor! I arrest thee, York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.108>Of capital treason 'gainst the king and crown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.109>Obey, audacious traitor; kneel for grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.110>Wouldst have me kneel? first let me ask of these,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.111>If they can brook I bow a knee to man.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.112>Sirrah, call in my sons to be my bail;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Attendant</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.113>I know, ere they will have me go to ward,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.114>They'll pawn their swords for my enfranchisement.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.115>Call hither Clifford! bid him come amain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.116>To say if that the bastard boys of York</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.117>Shall be the surety for their traitor father.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BUCKINGHAM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.118>O blood-besotted Neapolitan,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.119>Outcast of Naples, England's bloody scourge!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.120>The sons of York, thy betters in their birth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.121>Shall be their father's bail; and bane to those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.122>That for my surety will refuse the boys!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter EDWARD and RICHARD</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.123>See where they come: I'll warrant they'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.124>make it good.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CLIFFORD and YOUNG CLIFFORD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.125>And here comes Clifford to deny their bail.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.126>Health and all happiness to my lord the king!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kneels</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.127>I thank thee, Clifford: say, what news with thee?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.128>Nay, do not fright us with an angry look;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.129>We are thy sovereign, Clifford, kneel again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.130>For thy mistaking so, we pardon thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.131>This is my king, York, I do not mistake;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.132>But thou mistakest me much to think I do:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.133>To Bedlam with him! is the man grown mad?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.134>Ay, Clifford; a bedlam and ambitious humour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.135>Makes him oppose himself against his king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.136>He is a traitor; let him to the Tower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.137>And chop away that factious pate of his.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.138>He is arrested, but will not obey;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.139>His sons, he says, shall give their words for him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.140>Will you not, sons?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>EDWARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.141>Ay, noble father, if our words will serve.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>RICHARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.142>And if words will not, then our weapons shall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.143>Why, what a brood of traitors have we here!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.144>Look in a glass, and call thy image so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.145>I am thy king, and thou a false-heart traitor.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.146>Call hither to the stake my two brave bears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.147>That with the very shaking of their chains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.148>They may astonish these fell-lurking curs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.149>Bid Salisbury and Warwick come to me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the WARWICK and SALISBURY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.150>Are these thy bears? we'll bait thy bears to death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.151>And manacle the bear-ward in their chains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.152>If thou darest bring them to the baiting place.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>RICHARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.153>Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening cur</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.154>Run back and bite, because he was withheld;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.155>Who, being suffer'd with the bear's fell paw,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.156>Hath clapp'd his tail between his legs and cried:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.157>And such a piece of service will you do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.158>If you oppose yourselves to match Lord Warwick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.159>Hence, heap of wrath, foul indigested lump,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.160>As crooked in thy manners as thy shape!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.161>Nay, we shall heat you thoroughly anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.162>Take heed, lest by your heat you burn yourselves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.163>Why, Warwick, hath thy knee forgot to bow?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.164>Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.165>Thou mad misleader of thy brain-sick son!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.166>What, wilt thou on thy death-bed play the ruffian,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.167>And seek for sorrow with thy spectacles?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.168>O, where is faith? O, where is loyalty?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.169>If it be banish'd from the frosty head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.170>Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.171>Wilt thou go dig a grave to find out war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.172>And shame thine honourable age with blood?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.173>Why art thou old, and want'st experience?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.174>Or wherefore dost abuse it, if thou hast it?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.175>For shame! in duty bend thy knee to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.176>That bows unto the grave with mickle age.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.177>My lord, I have consider'd with myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.178>The title of this most renowned duke;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.179>And in my conscience do repute his grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.180>The rightful heir to England's royal seat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.181>Hast thou not sworn allegiance unto me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.182>I have.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.183>Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.184>It is great sin to swear unto a sin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.185>But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.186>Who can be bound by any solemn vow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.187>To do a murderous deed, to rob a man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.188>To force a spotless virgin's chastity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.189>To reave the orphan of his patrimony,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.190>To wring the widow from her custom'd right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.191>And have no other reason for this wrong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.192>But that he was bound by a solemn oath?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.193>A subtle traitor needs no sophister.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.194>Call Buckingham, and bid him arm himself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.195>Call Buckingham, and all the friends thou hast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.196>I am resolved for death or dignity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.197>The first I warrant thee, if dreams prove true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.198>You were best to go to bed and dream again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.199>To keep thee from the tempest of the field.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.200>I am resolved to bear a greater storm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.201>Than any thou canst conjure up to-day;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.202>And that I'll write upon thy burgonet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.203>Might I but know thee by thy household badge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.204>Now, by my father's badge, old Nevil's crest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.205>The rampant bear chain'd to the ragged staff,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.206>This day I'll wear aloft my burgonet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.207>As on a mountain top the cedar shows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.208>That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.209>Even to affright thee with the view thereof.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.210>And from thy burgonet I'll rend thy bear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.211>And tread it under foot with all contempt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.212>Despite the bear-ward that protects the bear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>YOUNG CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.213>And so to arms, victorious father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.214>To quell the rebels and their complices.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>RICHARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.215>Fie! charity, for shame! speak not in spite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.216>For you shall sup with Jesu Christ to-night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>YOUNG CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.217>Foul stigmatic, that's more than thou canst tell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>RICHARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.218>If not in heaven, you'll surely sup in hell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt severally</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Saint Alban's.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarums to the battle. Enter WARWICK</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>Clifford of Cumberland, 'tis Warwick calls:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>And if thou dost not hide thee from the bear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>Now, when the angry trumpet sounds alarum</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>And dead men's cries do fill the empty air,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>Clifford, I say, come forth and fight with me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>Proud northern lord, Clifford of Cumberland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>Warwick is hoarse with calling thee to arms.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter YORK</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>How now, my noble lord? what, all afoot?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>The deadly-handed Clifford slew my steed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>But match to match I have encounter'd him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>And made a prey for carrion kites and crows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>Even of the bonny beast he loved so well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CLIFFORD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>Of one or both of us the time is come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>For I myself must hunt this deer to death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>Then, nobly, York; 'tis for a crown thou fight'st.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>As I intend, Clifford, to thrive to-day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>It grieves my soul to leave thee unassail'd.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>What seest thou in me, York? why dost thou pause?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>With thy brave bearing should I be in love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>But that thou art so fast mine enemy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>But that 'tis shown ignobly and in treason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>So let it help me now against thy sword</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.25>As I in justice and true right express it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.26>My soul and body on the action both!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.27>A dreadful lay! Address thee instantly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They fight, and CLIFFORD falls</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.28>La fin couronne les oeuvres.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.29>Thus war hath given thee peace, for thou art still.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.30>Peace with his soul, heaven, if it be thy will!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter YOUNG CLIFFORD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>YOUNG CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.31>Shame and confusion! all is on the rout;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.32>Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.33>Where it should guard. O war, thou son of hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.34>Whom angry heavens do make their minister</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.35>Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.36>Hot coals of vengeance! Let no soldier fly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.37>He that is truly dedicate to war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.38>Hath no self-love, nor he that loves himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.39>Hath not essentially but by circumstance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.40>The name of valour.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Seeing his dead father</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.41>O, let the vile world end,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.42>And the premised flames of the last day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.43>Knit earth and heaven together!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.44>Now let the general trumpet blow his blast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.45>Particularities and petty sounds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.46>To cease! Wast thou ordain'd, dear father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.47>To lose thy youth in peace, and to achieve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.48>The silver livery of advised age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.49>And, in thy reverence and thy chair-days, thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.50>To die in ruffian battle? Even at this sight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.51>My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.52>It shall be stony. York not our old men spares;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.53>No more will I their babes: tears virginal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.54>Shall be to me even as the dew to fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.55>And beauty that the tyrant oft reclaims</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.56>Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.57>Henceforth I will not have to do with pity:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.58>Meet I an infant of the house of York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.59>Into as many gobbets will I cut it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.60>As wild Medea young Absyrtus did:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.61>In cruelty will I seek out my fame.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.62>Come, thou new ruin of old Clifford's house:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.63>As did AEneas old Anchises bear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.64>So bear I thee upon my manly shoulders;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.65>But then AEneas bare a living load,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.66>Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit, bearing off his father</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter RICHARD and SOMERSET to fight. SOMERSET is killed</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>RICHARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.67>So, lie thou there;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.68>For underneath an alehouse' paltry sign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.69>The Castle in Saint Alban's, Somerset</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.70>Hath made the wizard famous in his death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.71>Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful still:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.72>Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Fight: excursions. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.73>Away, my lord! you are slow; for shame, away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.74>Can we outrun the heavens? good Margaret, stay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>QUEEN MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.75>What are you made of? you'll nor fight nor fly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.76>Now is it manhood, wisdom and defence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.77>To give the enemy way, and to secure us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.78>By what we can, which can no more but fly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum afar off</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.79>If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.80>Of all our fortunes: but if we haply scape,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.81>As well we may, if not through your neglect,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.82>We shall to London get, where you are loved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.83>And where this breach now in our fortunes made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.84>May readily be stopp'd.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter YOUNG CLIFFORD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>YOUNG CLIFFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.85>But that my heart's on future mischief set,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.86>I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.87>But fly you must; uncurable discomfit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.88>Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.89>Away, for your relief! and we will live</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.90>To see their day and them our fortune give:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.91>Away, my lord, away!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Fields near St. Alban's.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarum. Retreat. Enter YORK, RICHARD, WARWICK, and Soldiers, with drum and colours</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>Of Salisbury, who can report of him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>That winter lion, who in rage forgets</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>Aged contusions and all brush of time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4>And, like a gallant in the brow of youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>Repairs him with occasion? This happy day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>Is not itself, nor have we won one foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>If Salisbury be lost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>RICHARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>My noble father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>Three times to-day I holp him to his horse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>Three times bestrid him; thrice I led him off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>Persuaded him from any further act:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>But still, where danger was, still there I met him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>And like rich hangings in a homely house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>So was his will in his old feeble body.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>But, noble as he is, look where he comes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SALISBURY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>Now, by my sword, well hast thou fought to-day;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>By the mass, so did we all. I thank you, Richard:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.18>God knows how long it is I have to live;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.19>And it hath pleased him that three times to-day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.20>You have defended me from imminent death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.21>Well, lords, we have not got that which we have:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.22>'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.23>Being opposites of such repairing nature.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.24>I know our safety is to follow them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.25>For, as I hear, the king is fled to London,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.26>To call a present court of parliament.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.27>Let us pursue him ere the writs go forth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.28>What says Lord Warwick? shall we after them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.29>After them! nay, before them, if we can.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.30>Now, by my faith, lords, 'twas a glorious day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.31>Saint Alban's battle won by famous York</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.32>Shall be eternized in all age to come.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.33>Sound drums and trumpets, and to London all:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.34>And more such days as these to us befall!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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