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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. KING JOHN'S palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, PEMBROKE, ESSEX, SALISBURY, and others, with CHATILLON</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CHATILLON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>In my behavior to the majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>The borrow'd majesty, of England here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>A strange beginning: 'borrow'd majesty!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>Silence, good mother; hear the embassy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CHATILLON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>Philip of France, in right and true behalf</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>Of thy deceased brother Geffrey's son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>To this fair island and the territories,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>Desiring thee to lay aside the sword</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>Which sways usurpingly these several titles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>And put these same into young Arthur's hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>Thy nephew and right royal sovereign.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>What follows if we disallow of this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CHATILLON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>The proud control of fierce and bloody war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>Here have we war for war and blood for blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>Controlment for controlment: so answer France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CHATILLON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>Then take my king's defiance from my mouth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>The farthest limit of my embassy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>For ere thou canst report I will be there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>The thunder of my cannon shall be heard:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>So hence! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>And sullen presage of your own decay.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>An honourable conduct let him have:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>Pembroke, look to 't. Farewell, Chatillon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt CHATILLON and PEMBROKE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>What now, my son! have I not ever said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>How that ambitious Constance would not cease</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>Till she had kindled France and all the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>Upon the right and party of her son?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>This might have been prevented and made whole</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>With very easy arguments of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>Which now the manage of two kingdoms must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>With fearful bloody issue arbitrate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>Our strong possession and our right for us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>Your strong possession much more than your right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>Or else it must go wrong with you and me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>So much my conscience whispers in your ear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>Which none but heaven and you and I shall hear.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Sheriff</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ESSEX</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>My liege, here is the strangest controversy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>Come from country to be judged by you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>That e'er I heard: shall I produce the men?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>Let them approach.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>Our abbeys and our priories shall pay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>This expedition's charge.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ROBERT and the BASTARD</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>What men are you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>Your faithful subject I, a gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>Born in Northamptonshire and eldest son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>As I suppose, to Robert Faulconbridge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>A soldier, by the honour-giving hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>Of Coeur-de-lion knighted in the field.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>What art thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>ROBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>The son and heir to that same Faulconbridge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>Is that the elder, and art thou the heir?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>You came not of one mother then, it seems.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>Most certain of one mother, mighty king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>That is well known; and, as I think, one father:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>But for the certain knowledge of that truth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>Of that I doubt, as all men's children may.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>Out on thee, rude man! thou dost shame thy mother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>And wound her honour with this diffidence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>I, madam? no, I have no reason for it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>That is my brother's plea and none of mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>The which if he can prove, a' pops me out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>At least from fair five hundred pound a year:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>Heaven guard my mother's honour and my land!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>A good blunt fellow. Why, being younger born,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>I know not why, except to get the land.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>But once he slander'd me with bastardy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>But whether I be as true begot or no,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>That still I lay upon my mother's head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>But that I am as well begot, my liege,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>Fair fall the bones that took the pains for me!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>Compare our faces and be judge yourself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>If old sir Robert did beget us both</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>And were our father and this son like him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>O old sir Robert, father, on my knee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>I give heaven thanks I was not like to thee!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>Why, what a madcap hath heaven lent us here!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>He hath a trick of Coeur-de-lion's face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>The accent of his tongue affecteth him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>Do you not read some tokens of my son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>In the large composition of this man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>Mine eye hath well examined his parts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>And finds them perfect Richard. Sirrah, speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>What doth move you to claim your brother's land?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>Because he hath a half-face, like my father.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>With half that face would he have all my land:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>A half-faced groat five hundred pound a year!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>ROBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>My gracious liege, when that my father lived,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>Your brother did employ my father much,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>Well, sir, by this you cannot get my land:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>Your tale must be how he employ'd my mother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>ROBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>And once dispatch'd him in an embassy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>To Germany, there with the emperor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>To treat of high affairs touching that time.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>The advantage of his absence took the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>And in the mean time sojourn'd at my father's;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>Where how he did prevail I shame to speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>But truth is truth: large lengths of seas and shores</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>Between my father and my mother lay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>As I have heard my father speak himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>When this same lusty gentleman was got.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>Upon his death-bed he by will bequeath'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>His lands to me, and took it on his death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>That this my mother's son was none of his;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>And if he were, he came into the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>Full fourteen weeks before the course of time.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>Then, good my liege, let me have what is mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>My father's land, as was my father's will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>Sirrah, your brother is legitimate;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>And if she did play false, the fault was hers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>Which fault lies on the hazards of all husbands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>That marry wives. Tell me, how if my brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>Who, as you say, took pains to get this son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>Had of your father claim'd this son for his?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>In sooth, good friend, your father might have kept</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>This calf bred from his cow from all the world;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>In sooth he might; then, if he were my brother's,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>My brother might not claim him; nor your father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>Being none of his, refuse him: this concludes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>My mother's son did get your father's heir;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>Your father's heir must have your father's land.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ROBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>Shall then my father's will be of no force</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>To dispossess that child which is not his?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>Of no more force to dispossess me, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>Than was his will to get me, as I think.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>Whether hadst thou rather be a Faulconbridge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>And like thy brother, to enjoy thy land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>Or the reputed son of Coeur-de-lion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>Lord of thy presence and no land beside?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>Madam, an if my brother had my shape,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>And I had his, sir Robert's his, like him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>And if my legs were two such riding-rods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>My arms such eel-skins stuff'd, my face so thin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>Lest men should say 'Look, where three-farthings goes!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>And, to his shape, were heir to all this land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>Would I might never stir from off this place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>I would give it every foot to have this face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>I would not be sir Nob in any case.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>I like thee well: wilt thou forsake thy fortune,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>Bequeath thy land to him and follow me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>I am a soldier and now bound to France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>Brother, take you my land, I'll take my chance.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>Your face hath got five hundred pound a year,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>Yet sell your face for five pence and 'tis dear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>Madam, I'll follow you unto the death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>Nay, I would have you go before me thither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>Our country manners give our betters way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>What is thy name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>Philip, my liege, so is my name begun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>Philip, good old sir Robert's wife's eldest son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>From henceforth bear his name whose form thou bear'st:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>Kneel thou down Philip, but rise more great,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.163>Arise sir Richard and Plantagenet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.164>Brother by the mother's side, give me your hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.165>My father gave me honour, yours gave land.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.166>Now blessed by the hour, by night or day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.167>When I was got, sir Robert was away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.168>The very spirit of Plantagenet!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.169>I am thy grandam, Richard; call me so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.170>Madam, by chance but not by truth; what though?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.171>Something about, a little from the right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.172>In at the window, or else o'er the hatch:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.173>Who dares not stir by day must walk by night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.174>And have is have, however men do catch:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.175>Near or far off, well won is still well shot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.176>And I am I, howe'er I was begot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.177>Go, Faulconbridge: now hast thou thy desire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.178>A landless knight makes thee a landed squire.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.179>Come, madam, and come, Richard, we must speed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.180>For France, for France, for it is more than need.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.181>Brother, adieu: good fortune come to thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.182>For thou wast got i' the way of honesty.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but BASTARD</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.183>A foot of honour better than I was;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.184>But many a many foot of land the worse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.185>Well, now can I make any Joan a lady.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.186>'Good den, sir Richard!'--'God-a-mercy, fellow!'--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.187>And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.188>For new-made honour doth forget men's names;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.189>'Tis too respective and too sociable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.190>For your conversion. Now your traveller,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.191>He and his toothpick at my worship's mess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.192>And when my knightly stomach is sufficed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.193>Why then I suck my teeth and catechise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.194>My picked man of countries: 'My dear sir,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.195>Thus, leaning on mine elbow, I begin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.196>'I shall beseech you'--that is question now;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.197>And then comes answer like an Absey book:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.198>'O sir,' says answer, 'at your best command;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.199>At your employment; at your service, sir;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.200>'No, sir,' says question, 'I, sweet sir, at yours:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.201>And so, ere answer knows what question would,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.202>Saving in dialogue of compliment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.203>And talking of the Alps and Apennines,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.204>The Pyrenean and the river Po,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.205>It draws toward supper in conclusion so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.206>But this is worshipful society</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.207>And fits the mounting spirit like myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.208>For he is but a bastard to the time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.209>That doth not smack of observation;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.210>And so am I, whether I smack or no;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.211>And not alone in habit and device,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.212>Exterior form, outward accoutrement,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.213>But from the inward motion to deliver</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.214>Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.215>Which, though I will not practise to deceive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.216>Yet, to avoid deceit, I mean to learn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.217>For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.218>But who comes in such haste in riding-robes?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.219>What woman-post is this? hath she no husband</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.220>That will take pains to blow a horn before her?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LADY FAULCONBRIDGE and GURNEY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.221>O me! it is my mother. How now, good lady!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.222>What brings you here to court so hastily?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>LADY FAULCONBRIDGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.223>Where is that slave, thy brother? where is he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.224>That holds in chase mine honour up and down?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.225>My brother Robert? old sir Robert's son?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.226>Colbrand the giant, that same mighty man?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.227>Is it sir Robert's son that you seek so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>LADY FAULCONBRIDGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.228>Sir Robert's son! Ay, thou unreverend boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.229>Sir Robert's son: why scorn'st thou at sir Robert?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.230>He is sir Robert's son, and so art thou.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.231>James Gurney, wilt thou give us leave awhile?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>GURNEY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.232>Good leave, good Philip.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.233>Philip! sparrow: James,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.234>There's toys abroad: anon I'll tell thee more.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit GURNEY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.235>Madam, I was not old sir Robert's son:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.236>Sir Robert might have eat his part in me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.237>Upon Good-Friday and ne'er broke his fast:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.238>Sir Robert could do well: marry, to confess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.239>Could he get me? Sir Robert could not do it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.240>We know his handiwork: therefore, good mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.241>To whom am I beholding for these limbs?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.242>Sir Robert never holp to make this leg.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>LADY FAULCONBRIDGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.243>Hast thou conspired with thy brother too,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.244>That for thine own gain shouldst defend mine honour?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.245>What means this scorn, thou most untoward knave?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.246>Knight, knight, good mother, Basilisco-like.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.247>What! I am dubb'd! I have it on my shoulder.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.248>But, mother, I am not sir Robert's son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.249>I have disclaim'd sir Robert and my land;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.250>Legitimation, name and all is gone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.251>Then, good my mother, let me know my father;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.252>Some proper man, I hope: who was it, mother?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>LADY FAULCONBRIDGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.253>Hast thou denied thyself a Faulconbridge?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.254>As faithfully as I deny the devil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>LADY FAULCONBRIDGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.255>King Richard Coeur-de-lion was thy father:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.256>By long and vehement suit I was seduced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.257>To make room for him in my husband's bed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.258>Heaven lay not my transgression to my charge!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.259>Thou art the issue of my dear offence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.260>Which was so strongly urged past my defence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.261>Now, by this light, were I to get again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.262>Madam, I would not wish a better father.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.263>Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.264>And so doth yours; your fault was not your folly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.265>Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.266>Subjected tribute to commanding love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.267>Against whose fury and unmatched force</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.268>The aweless lion could not wage the fight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.269>Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.270>He that perforce robs lions of their hearts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.271>May easily win a woman's. Ay, my mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.272>With all my heart I thank thee for my father!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.273>Who lives and dares but say thou didst not well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.274>When I was got, I'll send his soul to hell.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.275>Come, lady, I will show thee to my kin;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.276>And they shall say, when Richard me begot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.277>If thou hadst said him nay, it had been sin:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.278>Who says it was, he lies; I say 'twas not.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. France. Before Angiers.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter AUSTRIA and forces, drums, etc. on one side: on the other KING PHILIP and his power; LEWIS, ARTHUR, CONSTANCE and attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Before Angiers well met, brave Austria.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>Arthur, that great forerunner of thy blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>Richard, that robb'd the lion of his heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>And fought the holy wars in Palestine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>By this brave duke came early to his grave:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>And for amends to his posterity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>At our importance hither is he come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>To spread his colours, boy, in thy behalf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>And to rebuke the usurpation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>Of thy unnatural uncle, English John:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>Embrace him, love him, give him welcome hither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>God shall forgive you Coeur-de-lion's death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>The rather that you give his offspring life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>Shadowing their right under your wings of war:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>I give you welcome with a powerless hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>But with a heart full of unstained love:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>Welcome before the gates of Angiers, duke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>A noble boy! Who would not do thee right?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>As seal to this indenture of my love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>That to my home I will no more return,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>Till Angiers and the right thou hast in France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>Together with that pale, that white-faced shore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>And coops from other lands her islanders,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>Even till that England, hedged in with the main,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>That water-walled bulwark, still secure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>And confident from foreign purposes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>Even till that utmost corner of the west</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>Salute thee for her king: till then, fair boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>Will I not think of home, but follow arms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>To make a more requital to your love!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>In such a just and charitable war.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>Well then, to work: our cannon shall be bent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>Against the brows of this resisting town.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>Call for our chiefest men of discipline,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>To cull the plots of best advantages:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>We'll lay before this town our royal bones,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>Wade to the market-place in Frenchmen's blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>But we will make it subject to this boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>Stay for an answer to your embassy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>Lest unadvised you stain your swords with blood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>My Lord Chatillon may from England bring,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>That right in peace which here we urge in war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>And then we shall repent each drop of blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>That hot rash haste so indirectly shed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CHATILLON</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>A wonder, lady! lo, upon thy wish,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>Our messenger Chatillon is arrived!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>What England says, say briefly, gentle lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>We coldly pause for thee; Chatillon, speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>CHATILLON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>Then turn your forces from this paltry siege</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>And stir them up against a mightier task.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>England, impatient of your just demands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>Hath put himself in arms: the adverse winds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>Whose leisure I have stay'd, have given him time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>To land his legions all as soon as I;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>His marches are expedient to this town,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>His forces strong, his soldiers confident.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>With him along is come the mother-queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>With her her niece, the Lady Blanch of Spain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>With them a bastard of the king's deceased,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>And all the unsettled humours of the land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>To make hazard of new fortunes here:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>Did nearer float upon the swelling tide,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>To do offence and scath in Christendom.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drum beats</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>The interruption of their churlish drums</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>Cuts off more circumstance: they are at hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>To parley or to fight; therefore prepare.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>How much unlook'd for is this expedition!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>By how much unexpected, by so much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>We must awake endavour for defence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>For courage mounteth with occasion:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>Let them be welcome then: we are prepared.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, BLANCH, the BASTARD, Lords, and forces</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>Peace be to France, if France in peace permit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>Our just and lineal entrance to our own;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>If not, bleed France, and peace ascend to heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>Whiles we, God's wrathful agent, do correct</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>Their proud contempt that beats His peace to heaven.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>Peace be to England, if that war return</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>From France to England, there to live in peace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>England we love; and for that England's sake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>With burden of our armour here we sweat.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>This toil of ours should be a work of thine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>But thou from loving England art so far,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>That thou hast under-wrought his lawful king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>Cut off the sequence of posterity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>Out-faced infant state and done a rape</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>Upon the maiden virtue of the crown.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>Look here upon thy brother Geffrey's face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>These eyes, these brows, were moulded out of his:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101>This little abstract doth contain that large</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>Which died in Geffrey, and the hand of time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>Shall draw this brief into as huge a volume.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>That Geffrey was thy elder brother born,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>And this his son; England was Geffrey's right</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>And this is Geffrey's: in the name of God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>How comes it then that thou art call'd a king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>When living blood doth in these temples beat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>Which owe the crown that thou o'ermasterest?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110>From whom hast thou this great commission, France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111>To draw my answer from thy articles?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>From that supernal judge, that stirs good thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>In any breast of strong authority,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>To look into the blots and stains of right:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115>That judge hath made me guardian to this boy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>Under whose warrant I impeach thy wrong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>And by whose help I mean to chastise it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>Alack, thou dost usurp authority.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.119>Excuse; it is to beat usurping down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.120>Who is it thou dost call usurper, France?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.121>Let me make answer; thy usurping son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.122>Out, insolent! thy bastard shall be king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.123>That thou mayst be a queen, and cheque the world!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.124>My bed was ever to thy son as true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.125>As thine was to thy husband; and this boy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.126>Liker in feature to his father Geffrey</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.127>Than thou and John in manners; being as like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.128>As rain to water, or devil to his dam.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.129>My boy a bastard! By my soul, I think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.130>His father never was so true begot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.131>It cannot be, an if thou wert his mother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.132>There's a good mother, boy, that blots thy father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.133>There's a good grandam, boy, that would blot thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.134>Peace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.135> Hear the crier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.136>What the devil art thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.137>One that will play the devil, sir, with you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.138>An a' may catch your hide and you alone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.139>You are the hare of whom the proverb goes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.140>Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.141>I'll smoke your skin-coat, an I catch you right;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.142>Sirrah, look to't; i' faith, I will, i' faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>BLANCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.143>O, well did he become that lion's robe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.144>That did disrobe the lion of that robe!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.145>It lies as sightly on the back of him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.146>As great Alcides' shows upon an ass:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.147>But, ass, I'll take that burthen from your back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.148>Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.149>What craker is this same that deafs our ears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.150>With this abundance of superfluous breath?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.151>Lewis, determine what we shall do straight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.152>Women and fools, break off your conference.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.153>King John, this is the very sum of all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.154>England and Ireland, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.155>In right of Arthur do I claim of thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.156>Wilt thou resign them and lay down thy arms?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.157>My life as soon: I do defy thee, France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.158>Arthur of Bretagne, yield thee to my hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.159>And out of my dear love I'll give thee more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.160>Than e'er the coward hand of France can win:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.161>Submit thee, boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.162> Come to thy grandam, child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.163>Do, child, go to it grandam, child:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.164>Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.165>Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.166>There's a good grandam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.167>Good my mother, peace!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.168>I would that I were low laid in my grave:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.169>I am not worth this coil that's made for me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.170>His mother shames him so, poor boy, he weeps.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.171>Now shame upon you, whether she does or no!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.172>His grandam's wrongs, and not his mother's shames,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.173>Draws those heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.174>Which heaven shall take in nature of a fee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.175>Ay, with these crystal beads heaven shall be bribed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.176>To do him justice and revenge on you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.177>Thou monstrous slanderer of heaven and earth!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.178>Thou monstrous injurer of heaven and earth!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.179>Call not me slanderer; thou and thine usurp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.180>The dominations, royalties and rights</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.181>Of this oppressed boy: this is thy eld'st son's son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.182>Infortunate in nothing but in thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.183>Thy sins are visited in this poor child;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.184>The canon of the law is laid on him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.185>Being but the second generation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.186>Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.187>Bedlam, have done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.188> I have but this to say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.189>That he is not only plagued for her sin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.190>But God hath made her sin and her the plague</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.191>On this removed issue, plague for her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.192>And with her plague; her sin his injury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.193>Her injury the beadle to her sin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.194>All punish'd in the person of this child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.195>And all for her; a plague upon her!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.196>Thou unadvised scold, I can produce</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.197>A will that bars the title of thy son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.198>Ay, who doubts that? a will! a wicked will:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.199>A woman's will; a canker'd grandam's will!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.200>Peace, lady! pause, or be more temperate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.201>It ill beseems this presence to cry aim</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.202>To these ill-tuned repetitions.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.203>Some trumpet summon hither to the walls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.204>These men of Angiers: let us hear them speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.205>Whose title they admit, Arthur's or John's.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Trumpet sounds. Enter certain Citizens upon the walls</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.206>Who is it that hath warn'd us to the walls?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.207>'Tis France, for England.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.208>England, for itself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.209>You men of Angiers, and my loving subjects--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.210>You loving men of Angiers, Arthur's subjects,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.211>Our trumpet call'd you to this gentle parle--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.212>For our advantage; therefore hear us first.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.213>These flags of France, that are advanced here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.214>Before the eye and prospect of your town,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.215>Have hither march'd to your endamagement:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.216>The cannons have their bowels full of wrath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.217>And ready mounted are they to spit forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.218>Their iron indignation 'gainst your walls:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.219>All preparation for a bloody siege</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.220>All merciless proceeding by these French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.221>Confronts your city's eyes, your winking gates;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.222>And but for our approach those sleeping stones,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.223>That as a waist doth girdle you about,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.224>By the compulsion of their ordinance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.225>By this time from their fixed beds of lime</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.226>Had been dishabited, and wide havoc made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.227>For bloody power to rush upon your peace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.228>But on the sight of us your lawful king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.229>Who painfully with much expedient march</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.230>Have brought a countercheque before your gates,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.231>To save unscratch'd your city's threatened cheeks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.232>Behold, the French amazed vouchsafe a parle;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.233>And now, instead of bullets wrapp'd in fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.234>To make a shaking fever in your walls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.235>They shoot but calm words folded up in smoke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.236>To make a faithless error in your ears:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.237>Which trust accordingly, kind citizens,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.238>And let us in, your king, whose labour'd spirits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.239>Forwearied in this action of swift speed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.240>Crave harbourage within your city walls.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.241>When I have said, make answer to us both.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.242>Lo, in this right hand, whose protection</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.243>Is most divinely vow'd upon the right</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.244>Of him it holds, stands young Plantagenet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.245>Son to the elder brother of this man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.246>And king o'er him and all that he enjoys:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.247>For this down-trodden equity, we tread</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.248>In warlike march these greens before your town,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.249>Being no further enemy to you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.250>Than the constraint of hospitable zeal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.251>In the relief of this oppressed child</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.252>Religiously provokes. Be pleased then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.253>To pay that duty which you truly owe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.254>To that owes it, namely this young prince:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.255>And then our arms, like to a muzzled bear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.256>Save in aspect, hath all offence seal'd up;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.257>Our cannons' malice vainly shall be spent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.258>Against the invulnerable clouds of heaven;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.259>And with a blessed and unvex'd retire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.260>With unhack'd swords and helmets all unbruised,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.261>We will bear home that lusty blood again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.262>Which here we came to spout against your town,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.263>And leave your children, wives and you in peace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.264>But if you fondly pass our proffer'd offer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.265>'Tis not the roundure of your old-faced walls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.266>Can hide you from our messengers of war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.267>Though all these English and their discipline</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.268>Were harbour'd in their rude circumference.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.269>Then tell us, shall your city call us lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.270>In that behalf which we have challenged it?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.271>Or shall we give the signal to our rage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.272>And stalk in blood to our possession?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.273>In brief, we are the king of England's subjects:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.274>For him, and in his right, we hold this town.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.275>Acknowledge then the king, and let me in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.276>That can we not; but he that proves the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.277>To him will we prove loyal: till that time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.278>Have we ramm'd up our gates against the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.279>Doth not the crown of England prove the king?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.280>And if not that, I bring you witnesses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.281>Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.282>Bastards, and else.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.283>To verify our title with their lives.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.284>As many and as well-born bloods as those,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.285>Some bastards too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.286>Stand in his face to contradict his claim.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.287>Till you compound whose right is worthiest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.288>We for the worthiest hold the right from both.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.289>Then God forgive the sin of all those souls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.290>That to their everlasting residence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.291>Before the dew of evening fall, shall fleet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.292>In dreadful trial of our kingdom's king!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.293>Amen, amen! Mount, chevaliers! to arms!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.294>Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.295>Sits on his horseback at mine hostess' door,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.296>Teach us some fence!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To AUSTRIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.297>Sirrah, were I at home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.298>At your den, sirrah, with your lioness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.299>I would set an ox-head to your lion's hide,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.300>And make a monster of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.301>Peace! no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.302>O tremble, for you hear the lion roar.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.303>Up higher to the plain; where we'll set forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.304>In best appointment all our regiments.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.305>Speed then, to take advantage of the field.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.306>It shall be so; and at the other hill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.307>Command the rest to stand. God and our right!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Here after excursions, enter the Herald of France, with trumpets, to the gates</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>French Herald</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.308>You men of Angiers, open wide your gates,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.309>And let young Arthur, Duke of Bretagne, in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.310>Who by the hand of France this day hath made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.311>Much work for tears in many an English mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.312>Whose sons lie scattered on the bleeding ground;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.313>Many a widow's husband grovelling lies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.314>Coldly embracing the discolour'd earth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.315>And victory, with little loss, doth play</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.316>Upon the dancing banners of the French,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.317>Who are at hand, triumphantly display'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.318>To enter conquerors and to proclaim</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.319>Arthur of Bretagne England's king and yours.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter English Herald, with trumpet</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>English Herald</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.320>Rejoice, you men of Angiers, ring your bells:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.321>King John, your king and England's doth approach,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.322>Commander of this hot malicious day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.323>Their armours, that march'd hence so silver-bright,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.324>Hither return all gilt with Frenchmen's blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.325>There stuck no plume in any English crest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.326>That is removed by a staff of France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.327>Our colours do return in those same hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.328>That did display them when we first march'd forth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.329>And, like a troop of jolly huntsmen, come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.330>Our lusty English, all with purpled hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.331>Dyed in the dying slaughter of their foes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.332>Open your gates and gives the victors way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.333>Heralds, from off our towers we might behold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.334>From first to last, the onset and retire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.335>Of both your armies; whose equality</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.336>By our best eyes cannot be censured:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.337>Blood hath bought blood and blows have answered blows;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.338>Strength match'd with strength, and power confronted power:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.339>Both are alike; and both alike we like.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.340>One must prove greatest: while they weigh so even,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.341>We hold our town for neither, yet for both.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter KING JOHN and KING PHILIP, with their powers, severally</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.342>France, hast thou yet more blood to cast away?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.343>Say, shall the current of our right run on?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.344>Whose passage, vex'd with thy impediment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.345>Shall leave his native channel and o'erswell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.346>With course disturb'd even thy confining shores,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.347>Unless thou let his silver water keep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.348>A peaceful progress to the ocean.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.349>England, thou hast not saved one drop of blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.350>In this hot trial, more than we of France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.351>Rather, lost more. And by this hand I swear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.352>That sways the earth this climate overlooks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.353>Before we will lay down our just-borne arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.354>We'll put thee down, 'gainst whom these arms we bear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.355>Or add a royal number to the dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.356>Gracing the scroll that tells of this war's loss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.357>With slaughter coupled to the name of kings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.358>Ha, majesty! how high thy glory towers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.359>When the rich blood of kings is set on fire!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.360>O, now doth Death line his dead chaps with steel;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.361>The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his fangs;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.362>And now he feasts, mousing the flesh of men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.363>In undetermined differences of kings.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.364>Why stand these royal fronts amazed thus?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.365>Cry, 'havoc!' kings; back to the stained field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.366>You equal potents, fiery kindled spirits!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.367>Then let confusion of one part confirm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.368>The other's peace: till then, blows, blood and death!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.369>Whose party do the townsmen yet admit?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.370>Speak, citizens, for England; who's your king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.371>The king of England; when we know the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.372>Know him in us, that here hold up his right.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.373>In us, that are our own great deputy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.374>And bear possession of our person here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.375>Lord of our presence, Angiers, and of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.376>A greater power then we denies all this;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.377>And till it be undoubted, we do lock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.378>Our former scruple in our strong-barr'd gates;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.379>King'd of our fears, until our fears, resolved,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.380>Be by some certain king purged and deposed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.381>By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.382>And stand securely on their battlements,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.383>As in a theatre, whence they gape and point</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.384>At your industrious scenes and acts of death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.385>Your royal presences be ruled by me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.386>Do like the mutines of Jerusalem,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.387>Be friends awhile and both conjointly bend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.388>Your sharpest deeds of malice on this town:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.389>By east and west let France and England mount</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.390>Their battering cannon charged to the mouths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.391>Till their soul-fearing clamours have brawl'd down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.392>The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.393>I'ld play incessantly upon these jades,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.394>Even till unfenced desolation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.395>Leave them as naked as the vulgar air.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.396>That done, dissever your united strengths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.397>And part your mingled colours once again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.398>Turn face to face and bloody point to point;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.399>Then, in a moment, Fortune shall cull forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.400>Out of one side her happy minion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.401>To whom in favour she shall give the day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.402>And kiss him with a glorious victory.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.403>How like you this wild counsel, mighty states?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.404>Smacks it not something of the policy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.405>Now, by the sky that hangs above our heads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.406>I like it well. France, shall we knit our powers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.407>And lay this Angiers even to the ground;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.408>Then after fight who shall be king of it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.409>An if thou hast the mettle of a king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.410>Being wronged as we are by this peevish town,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.411>Turn thou the mouth of thy artillery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.412>As we will ours, against these saucy walls;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.413>And when that we have dash'd them to the ground,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.414>Why then defy each other and pell-mell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.415>Make work upon ourselves, for heaven or hell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.416>Let it be so. Say, where will you assault?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.417>We from the west will send destruction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.418>Into this city's bosom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.419>I from the north.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.420> Our thunder from the south</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.421>Shall rain their drift of bullets on this town.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.422>O prudent discipline! From north to south:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.423>Austria and France shoot in each other's mouth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.424>I'll stir them to it. Come, away, away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.425>Hear us, great kings: vouchsafe awhile to stay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.426>And I shall show you peace and fair-faced league;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.427>Win you this city without stroke or wound;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.428>Rescue those breathing lives to die in beds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.429>That here come sacrifices for the field:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.430>Persever not, but hear me, mighty kings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.431>Speak on with favour; we are bent to hear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.432>That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.433>Is niece to England: look upon the years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.434>Of Lewis the Dauphin and that lovely maid:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.435>If lusty love should go in quest of beauty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.436>Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.437>If zealous love should go in search of virtue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.438>Where should he find it purer than in Blanch?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.439>If love ambitious sought a match of birth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.440>Whose veins bound richer blood than Lady Blanch?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.441>Such as she is, in beauty, virtue, birth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.442>Is the young Dauphin every way complete:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.443>If not complete of, say he is not she;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.444>And she again wants nothing, to name want,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.445>If want it be not that she is not he:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.446>He is the half part of a blessed man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.447>Left to be finished by such as she;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.448>And she a fair divided excellence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.449>Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.450>O, two such silver currents, when they join,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.451>Do glorify the banks that bound them in;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.452>And two such shores to two such streams made one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.453>Two such controlling bounds shall you be, kings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.454>To these two princes, if you marry them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.455>This union shall do more than battery can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.456>To our fast-closed gates; for at this match,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.457>With swifter spleen than powder can enforce,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.458>The mouth of passage shall we fling wide ope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.459>And give you entrance: but without this match,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.460>The sea enraged is not half so deaf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.461>Lions more confident, mountains and rocks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.462>More free from motion, no, not Death himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.463>In moral fury half so peremptory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.464>As we to keep this city.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.465>Here's a stay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.466>That shakes the rotten carcass of old Death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.467>Out of his rags! Here's a large mouth, indeed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.468>That spits forth death and mountains, rocks and seas,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.469>Talks as familiarly of roaring lions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.470>As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.471>What cannoneer begot this lusty blood?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.472>He speaks plain cannon fire, and smoke and bounce;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.473>He gives the bastinado with his tongue:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.474>Our ears are cudgell'd; not a word of his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.475>But buffets better than a fist of France:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.476>Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.477>Since I first call'd my brother's father dad.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.478>Son, list to this conjunction, make this match;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.479>Give with our niece a dowry large enough:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.480>For by this knot thou shalt so surely tie</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.481>Thy now unsured assurance to the crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.482>That yon green boy shall have no sun to ripe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.483>The bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.484>I see a yielding in the looks of France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.485>Mark, how they whisper: urge them while their souls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.486>Are capable of this ambition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.487>Lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.488>Of soft petitions, pity and remorse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.489>Cool and congeal again to what it was.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.490>Why answer not the double majesties</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.491>This friendly treaty of our threaten'd town?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.492>Speak England first, that hath been forward first</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.493>To speak unto this city: what say you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.494>If that the Dauphin there, thy princely son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.495>Can in this book of beauty read 'I love,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.496>Her dowry shall weigh equal with a queen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.497>For Anjou and fair Touraine, Maine, Poictiers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.498>And all that we upon this side the sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.499>Except this city now by us besieged,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.500>Find liable to our crown and dignity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.501>Shall gild her bridal bed and make her rich</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.502>In titles, honours and promotions,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.503>As she in beauty, education, blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.504>Holds hand with any princess of the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.505>What say'st thou, boy? look in the lady's face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.506>I do, my lord; and in her eye I find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.507>A wonder, or a wondrous miracle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.508>The shadow of myself form'd in her eye:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.509>Which being but the shadow of your son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.510>Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.511>I do protest I never loved myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.512>Till now infixed I beheld myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.513>Drawn in the flattering table of her eye.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Whispers with BLANCH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.514>Drawn in the flattering table of her eye!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.515>Hang'd in the frowning wrinkle of her brow!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.516>And quarter'd in her heart! he doth espy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.517>Himself love's traitor: this is pity now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.518>That hang'd and drawn and quartered, there should be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.519>In such a love so vile a lout as he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>BLANCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.520>My uncle's will in this respect is mine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.521>If he see aught in you that makes him like,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.522>That any thing he sees, which moves his liking,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.523>I can with ease translate it to my will;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.524>Or if you will, to speak more properly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.525>I will enforce it easily to my love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.526>Further I will not flatter you, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.527>That all I see in you is worthy love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.528>Than this; that nothing do I see in you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.529>Though churlish thoughts themselves should be your judge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.530>That I can find should merit any hate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.531>What say these young ones? What say you my niece?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>BLANCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.532>That she is bound in honour still to do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.533>What you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.534>Speak then, prince Dauphin; can you love this lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.535>Nay, ask me if I can refrain from love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.536>For I do love her most unfeignedly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.537>Then do I give Volquessen, Touraine, Maine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.538>Poictiers and Anjou, these five provinces,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.539>With her to thee; and this addition more,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.540>Full thirty thousand marks of English coin.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.541>Philip of France, if thou be pleased withal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.542>Command thy son and daughter to join hands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.543>It likes us well; young princes, close your hands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.544>And your lips too; for I am well assured</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.545>That I did so when I was first assured.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.546>Now, citizens of Angiers, ope your gates,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.547>Let in that amity which you have made;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.548>For at Saint Mary's chapel presently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.549>The rites of marriage shall be solemnized.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.550>Is not the Lady Constance in this troop?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.551>I know she is not, for this match made up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.552>Her presence would have interrupted much:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.553>Where is she and her son? tell me, who knows.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.554>She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.555>And, by my faith, this league that we have made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.556>Will give her sadness very little cure.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.557>Brother of England, how may we content</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.558>This widow lady? In her right we came;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.559>Which we, God knows, have turn'd another way,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.560>To our own vantage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.561>We will heal up all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.562>For we'll create young Arthur Duke of Bretagne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.563>And Earl of Richmond; and this rich fair town</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.564>We make him lord of. Call the Lady Constance;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.565>Some speedy messenger bid her repair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.566>To our solemnity: I trust we shall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.567>If not fill up the measure of her will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.568>Yet in some measure satisfy her so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.569>That we shall stop her exclamation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.570>Go we, as well as haste will suffer us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.571>To this unlook'd for, unprepared pomp.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but the BASTARD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.572>Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.573>John, to stop Arthur's title in the whole,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.574>Hath willingly departed with a part,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.575>And France, whose armour conscience buckled on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.576>Whom zeal and charity brought to the field</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.577>As God's own soldier, rounded in the ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.578>With that same purpose-changer, that sly devil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.579>That broker, that still breaks the pate of faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.580>That daily break-vow, he that wins of all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.581>Of kings, of beggars, old men, young men, maids,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.582>Who, having no external thing to lose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.583>But the word 'maid,' cheats the poor maid of that,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.584>That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling Commodity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.585>Commodity, the bias of the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.586>The world, who of itself is peised well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.587>Made to run even upon even ground,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.588>Till this advantage, this vile-drawing bias,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.589>This sway of motion, this Commodity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.590>Makes it take head from all indifferency,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.591>From all direction, purpose, course, intent:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.592>And this same bias, this Commodity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.593>This bawd, this broker, this all-changing word,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.594>Clapp'd on the outward eye of fickle France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.595>Hath drawn him from his own determined aid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.596>From a resolved and honourable war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.597>To a most base and vile-concluded peace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.598>And why rail I on this Commodity?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.599>But for because he hath not woo'd me yet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.600>Not that I have the power to clutch my hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.601>When his fair angels would salute my palm;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.602>But for my hand, as unattempted yet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.603>Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.604>Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.605>And say there is no sin but to be rich;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.606>And being rich, my virtue then shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.607>To say there is no vice but beggary.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.608>Since kings break faith upon commodity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.609>Gain, be my lord, for I will worship thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The French King's pavilion.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CONSTANCE, ARTHUR, and SALISBURY</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>Gone to be married! gone to swear a peace!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>False blood to false blood join'd! gone to be friends!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>Shall Lewis have Blanch, and Blanch those provinces?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>It is not so; thou hast misspoke, misheard:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>Be well advised, tell o'er thy tale again:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>It cannot be; thou dost but say 'tis so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>I trust I may not trust thee; for thy word</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>Is but the vain breath of a common man:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>Believe me, I do not believe thee, man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>I have a king's oath to the contrary.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>Thou shalt be punish'd for thus frighting me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>For I am sick and capable of fears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>Oppress'd with wrongs and therefore full of fears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>A widow, husbandless, subject to fears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>A woman, naturally born to fears;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>And though thou now confess thou didst but jest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>With my vex'd spirits I cannot take a truce,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>But they will quake and tremble all this day.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>What dost thou mean by shaking of thy head?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>Why dost thou look so sadly on my son?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>What means that hand upon that breast of thine?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>Like a proud river peering o'er his bounds?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>Be these sad signs confirmers of thy words?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>Then speak again; not all thy former tale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>But this one word, whether thy tale be true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>As true as I believe you think them false</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>That give you cause to prove my saying true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>O, if thou teach me to believe this sorrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>Teach thou this sorrow how to make me die,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>And let belief and life encounter so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>As doth the fury of two desperate men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>Which in the very meeting fall and die.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>Lewis marry Blanch! O boy, then where art thou?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>France friend with England, what becomes of me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36>Fellow, be gone: I cannot brook thy sight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37>This news hath made thee a most ugly man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>What other harm have I, good lady, done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>But spoke the harm that is by others done?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>Which harm within itself so heinous is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>As it makes harmful all that speak of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>I do beseech you, madam, be content.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>If thou, that bid'st me be content, wert grim,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>Ugly and slanderous to thy mother's womb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.45>Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.46>Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.47>Patch'd with foul moles and eye-offending marks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.48>I would not care, I then would be content,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.49>For then I should not love thee, no, nor thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.50>Become thy great birth nor deserve a crown.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.51>But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.52>Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.53>Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.54>And with the half-blown rose. But Fortune, O,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.55>She is corrupted, changed and won from thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.56>She adulterates hourly with thine uncle John,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.57>And with her golden hand hath pluck'd on France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.58>To tread down fair respect of sovereignty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.59>And made his majesty the bawd to theirs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.60>France is a bawd to Fortune and King John,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.61>That strumpet Fortune, that usurping John!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.62>Tell me, thou fellow, is not France forsworn?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.63>Envenom him with words, or get thee gone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.64>And leave those woes alone which I alone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.65>Am bound to under-bear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.66>Pardon me, madam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.67>I may not go without you to the kings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.68>Thou mayst, thou shalt; I will not go with thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.69>I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.70>For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.71>To me and to the state of my great grief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.72>Let kings assemble; for my grief's so great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.73>That no supporter but the huge firm earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.74>Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.75>Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Seats herself on the ground</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING JOHN, KING PHILLIP, LEWIS, BLANCH, QUEEN ELINOR, the BASTARD, AUSTRIA, and Attendants</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.76>'Tis true, fair daughter; and this blessed day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.77>Ever in France shall be kept festival:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.78>To solemnize this day the glorious sun</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.79>Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.80>Turning with splendor of his precious eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.81>The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.82>The yearly course that brings this day about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.83>Shall never see it but a holiday.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.84>A wicked day, and not a holy day!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Rising</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.85>What hath this day deserved? what hath it done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.86>That it in golden letters should be set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.87>Among the high tides in the calendar?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.88>Nay, rather turn this day out of the week,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.89>This day of shame, oppression, perjury.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.90>Or, if it must stand still, let wives with child</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.91>Pray that their burthens may not fall this day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.92>Lest that their hopes prodigiously be cross'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.93>But on this day let seamen fear no wreck;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.94>No bargains break that are not this day made:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.95>This day, all things begun come to ill end,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.96>Yea, faith itself to hollow falsehood change!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.97>By heaven, lady, you shall have no cause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.98>To curse the fair proceedings of this day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.99>Have I not pawn'd to you my majesty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.100>You have beguiled me with a counterfeit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.101>Resembling majesty, which, being touch'd and tried,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.102>Proves valueless: you are forsworn, forsworn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.103>You came in arms to spill mine enemies' blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.104>But now in arms you strengthen it with yours:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.105>The grappling vigour and rough frown of war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.106>Is cold in amity and painted peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.107>And our oppression hath made up this league.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.108>Arm, arm, you heavens, against these perjured kings!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.109>A widow cries; be husband to me, heavens!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.110>Let not the hours of this ungodly day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.111>Wear out the day in peace; but, ere sunset,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.112>Set armed discord 'twixt these perjured kings!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.113>Hear me, O, hear me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.114>Lady Constance, peace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.115>War! war! no peace! peace is to me a war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.116>O Lymoges! O Austria! thou dost shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.117>That bloody spoil: thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.118>Thou little valiant, great in villany!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.119>Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.120>Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.121>But when her humorous ladyship is by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.122>To teach thee safety! thou art perjured too,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.123>And soothest up greatness. What a fool art thou,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.124>A ramping fool, to brag and stamp and swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.125>Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.126>Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.127>Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.128>Upon thy stars, thy fortune and thy strength,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.129>And dost thou now fall over to my fores?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.130>Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.131>And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.132>O, that a man should speak those words to me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.133>And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.134>Thou darest not say so, villain, for thy life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.135>And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.136>We like not this; thou dost forget thyself.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CARDINAL PANDULPH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.137>Here comes the holy legate of the pope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.138>Hail, you anointed deputies of heaven!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.139>To thee, King John, my holy errand is.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.140>I Pandulph, of fair Milan cardinal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.141>And from Pope Innocent the legate here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.142>Do in his name religiously demand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.143>Why thou against the church, our holy mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.144>So wilfully dost spurn; and force perforce</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.145>Keep Stephen Langton, chosen archbishop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.146>Of Canterbury, from that holy see?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.147>This, in our foresaid holy father's name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.148>Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.149>What earthy name to interrogatories</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.150>Can task the free breath of a sacred king?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.151>Thou canst not, cardinal, devise a name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.152>So slight, unworthy and ridiculous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.153>To charge me to an answer, as the pope.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.154>Tell him this tale; and from the mouth of England</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.155>Add thus much more, that no Italian priest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.156>Shall tithe or toll in our dominions;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.157>But as we, under heaven, are supreme head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.158>So under Him that great supremacy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.159>Where we do reign, we will alone uphold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.160>Without the assistance of a mortal hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.161>So tell the pope, all reverence set apart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.162>To him and his usurp'd authority.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.163>Brother of England, you blaspheme in this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.164>Though you and all the kings of Christendom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.165>Are led so grossly by this meddling priest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.166>Dreading the curse that money may buy out;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.167>And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.168>Purchase corrupted pardon of a man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.169>Who in that sale sells pardon from himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.170>Though you and all the rest so grossly led</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.171>This juggling witchcraft with revenue cherish,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.172>Yet I alone, alone do me oppose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.173>Against the pope and count his friends my foes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.174>Then, by the lawful power that I have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.175>Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.176>And blessed shall he be that doth revolt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.177>From his allegiance to an heretic;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.178>And meritorious shall that hand be call'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.179>Canonized and worshipped as a saint,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.180>That takes away by any secret course</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.181>Thy hateful life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.182> O, lawful let it be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.183>That I have room with Rome to curse awhile!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.184>Good father cardinal, cry thou amen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.185>To my keen curses; for without my wrong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.186>There is no tongue hath power to curse him right.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.187>There's law and warrant, lady, for my curse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.188>And for mine too: when law can do no right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.189>Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.190>Law cannot give my child his kingdom here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.191>For he that holds his kingdom holds the law;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.192>Therefore, since law itself is perfect wrong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.193>How can the law forbid my tongue to curse?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.194>Philip of France, on peril of a curse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.195>Let go the hand of that arch-heretic;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.196>And raise the power of France upon his head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.197>Unless he do submit himself to Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.198>Look'st thou pale, France? do not let go thy hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.199>Look to that, devil; lest that France repent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.200>And by disjoining hands, hell lose a soul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.201>King Philip, listen to the cardinal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.202>And hang a calf's-skin on his recreant limbs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.203>Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs, Because--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.204> Your breeches best may carry them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.205>Philip, what say'st thou to the cardinal?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.206>What should he say, but as the cardinal?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.207>Bethink you, father; for the difference</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.208>Is purchase of a heavy curse from Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.209>Or the light loss of England for a friend:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.210>Forego the easier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>BLANCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.211> That's the curse of Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.212>O Lewis, stand fast! the devil tempts thee here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.213>In likeness of a new untrimmed bride.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>BLANCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.214>The Lady Constance speaks not from her faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.215>But from her need.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.216> O, if thou grant my need,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.217>Which only lives but by the death of faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.218>That need must needs infer this principle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.219>That faith would live again by death of need.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.220>O then, tread down my need, and faith mounts up;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.221>Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.222>The king is moved, and answers not to this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.223>O, be removed from him, and answer well!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.224>Do so, King Philip; hang no more in doubt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.225>Hang nothing but a calf's-skin, most sweet lout.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.226>I am perplex'd, and know not what to say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.227>What canst thou say but will perplex thee more,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.228>If thou stand excommunicate and cursed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.229>Good reverend father, make my person yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.230>And tell me how you would bestow yourself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.231>This royal hand and mine are newly knit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.232>And the conjunction of our inward souls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.233>Married in league, coupled and linked together</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.234>With all religious strength of sacred vows;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.235>The latest breath that gave the sound of words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.236>Was deep-sworn faith, peace, amity, true love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.237>Between our kingdoms and our royal selves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.238>And even before this truce, but new before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.239>No longer than we well could wash our hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.240>To clap this royal bargain up of peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.241>Heaven knows, they were besmear'd and over-stain'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.242>With slaughter's pencil, where revenge did paint</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.243>The fearful difference of incensed kings:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.244>And shall these hands, so lately purged of blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.245>So newly join'd in love, so strong in both,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.246>Unyoke this seizure and this kind regreet?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.247>Play fast and loose with faith? so jest with heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.248>Make such unconstant children of ourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.249>As now again to snatch our palm from palm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.250>Unswear faith sworn, and on the marriage-bed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.251>Of smiling peace to march a bloody host,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.252>And make a riot on the gentle brow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.253>Of true sincerity? O, holy sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.254>My reverend father, let it not be so!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.255>Out of your grace, devise, ordain, impose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.256>Some gentle order; and then we shall be blest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.257>To do your pleasure and continue friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.258>All form is formless, order orderless,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.259>Save what is opposite to England's love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.260>Therefore to arms! be champion of our church,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.261>Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.262>A mother's curse, on her revolting son.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.263>France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.264>A chafed lion by the mortal paw,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.265>A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.266>Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.267>I may disjoin my hand, but not my faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.268>So makest thou faith an enemy to faith;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.269>And like a civil war set'st oath to oath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.270>Thy tongue against thy tongue. O, let thy vow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.271>First made to heaven, first be to heaven perform'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.272>That is, to be the champion of our church!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.273>What since thou sworest is sworn against thyself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.274>And may not be performed by thyself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.275>For that which thou hast sworn to do amiss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.276>Is not amiss when it is truly done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.277>And being not done, where doing tends to ill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.278>The truth is then most done not doing it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.279>The better act of purposes mistook</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.280>Is to mistake again; though indirect,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.281>Yet indirection thereby grows direct,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.282>And falsehood falsehood cures, as fire cools fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.283>Within the scorched veins of one new-burn'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.284>It is religion that doth make vows kept;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.285>But thou hast sworn against religion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.286>By what thou swear'st against the thing thou swear'st,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.287>And makest an oath the surety for thy truth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.288>Against an oath: the truth thou art unsure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.289>To swear, swears only not to be forsworn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.290>Else what a mockery should it be to swear!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.291>But thou dost swear only to be forsworn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.292>And most forsworn, to keep what thou dost swear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.293>Therefore thy later vows against thy first</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.294>Is in thyself rebellion to thyself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.295>And better conquest never canst thou make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.296>Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.297>Against these giddy loose suggestions:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.298>Upon which better part our prayers come in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.299>If thou vouchsafe them. But if not, then know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.300>The peril of our curses light on thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.301>So heavy as thou shalt not shake them off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.302>But in despair die under their black weight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>AUSTRIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.303>Rebellion, flat rebellion!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.304>Will't not be?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.305>Will not a calfs-skin stop that mouth of thine?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.306>Father, to arms!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BLANCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.307> Upon thy wedding-day?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.308>Against the blood that thou hast married?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.309>What, shall our feast be kept with slaughter'd men?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.310>Shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.311>Clamours of hell, be measures to our pomp?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.312>O husband, hear me! ay, alack, how new</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.313>Is husband in my mouth! even for that name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.314>Which till this time my tongue did ne'er pronounce,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.315>Upon my knee I beg, go not to arms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.316>Against mine uncle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.317>O, upon my knee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.318>Made hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.319>Thou virtuous Dauphin, alter not the doom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.320>Forethought by heaven!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>BLANCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.321>Now shall I see thy love: what motive may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.322>Be stronger with thee than the name of wife?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.323>That which upholdeth him that thee upholds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.324>His honour: O, thine honour, Lewis, thine honour!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.325>I muse your majesty doth seem so cold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.326>When such profound respects do pull you on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.327>I will denounce a curse upon his head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.328>Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall from thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.329>O fair return of banish'd majesty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.330>O foul revolt of French inconstancy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.331>France, thou shalt rue this hour within this hour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.332>Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.333>Is it as he will? well then, France shall rue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>BLANCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.334>The sun's o'ercast with blood: fair day, adieu!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.335>Which is the side that I must go withal?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.336>I am with both: each army hath a hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.337>And in their rage, I having hold of both,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.338>They swirl asunder and dismember me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.339>Husband, I cannot pray that thou mayst win;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.340>Uncle, I needs must pray that thou mayst lose;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.341>Father, I may not wish the fortune thine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.342>Grandam, I will not wish thy fortunes thrive:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.343>Whoever wins, on that side shall I lose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.344>Assured loss before the match be play'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.345>Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>BLANCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.346>There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.347>Cousin, go draw our puissance together.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BASTARD</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.348>France, I am burn'd up with inflaming wrath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.349>A rage whose heat hath this condition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.350>That nothing can allay, nothing but blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.351>The blood, and dearest-valued blood, of France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.352>Thy rage sham burn thee up, and thou shalt turn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.353>To ashes, ere our blood shall quench that fire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.354>Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.355>No more than he that threats. To arms let's hie!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The same. Plains near Angiers.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarums, excursions. Enter the BASTARD, with AUSTRIA'S head</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>Now, by my life, this day grows wondrous hot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>Some airy devil hovers in the sky</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>And pours down mischief. Austria's head lie there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>While Philip breathes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING JOHN, ARTHUR, and HUBERT</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>Hubert, keep this boy. Philip, make up:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>My mother is assailed in our tent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>And ta'en, I fear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8> My lord, I rescued her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>Her highness is in safety, fear you not:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>But on, my liege; for very little pains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>Will bring this labour to an happy end.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarums, excursions, retreat. Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, ARTHUR, the BASTARD, HUBERT, and Lords</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.1>[To QUEEN ELINOR] So shall it be; your grace shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.2>stay behind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.3>So strongly guarded.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To ARTHUR</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.4>Cousin, look not sad:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.5>Thy grandam loves thee; and thy uncle will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.6>As dear be to thee as thy father was.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.7>O, this will make my mother die with grief!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.8>[To the BASTARD] Cousin, away for England!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.9>haste before:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.10>And, ere our coming, see thou shake the bags</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.11>Of hoarding abbots; imprisoned angels</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.12>Set at liberty: the fat ribs of peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.13>Must by the hungry now be fed upon:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.14>Use our commission in his utmost force.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.15>Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.16>When gold and silver becks me to come on.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.17>I leave your highness. Grandam, I will pray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.18>If ever I remember to be holy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.19>For your fair safety; so, I kiss your hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.20>Farewell, gentle cousin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.21>Coz, farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit the BASTARD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>QUEEN ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.22>Come hither, little kinsman; hark, a word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.23>Come hither, Hubert. O my gentle Hubert,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.24>We owe thee much! within this wall of flesh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.25>There is a soul counts thee her creditor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.26>And with advantage means to pay thy love:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.27>And my good friend, thy voluntary oath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.28>Lives in this bosom, dearly cherished.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.29>Give me thy hand. I had a thing to say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.30>But I will fit it with some better time.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.31>By heaven, Hubert, I am almost ashamed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.32>To say what good respect I have of thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.33>I am much bounden to your majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.34>Good friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.35>But thou shalt have; and creep time ne'er so slow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.36>Yet it shall come from me to do thee good.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.37>I had a thing to say, but let it go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.38>The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.39>Attended with the pleasures of the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.40>Is all too wanton and too full of gawds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.41>To give me audience: if the midnight bell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.42>Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.43>Sound on into the drowsy race of night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.44>If this same were a churchyard where we stand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.45>And thou possessed with a thousand wrongs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.46>Or if that surly spirit, melancholy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.47>Had baked thy blood and made it heavy-thick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.48>Which else runs tickling up and down the veins,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.49>Making that idiot, laughter, keep men's eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.50>And strain their cheeks to idle merriment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.51>A passion hateful to my purposes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.52>Or if that thou couldst see me without eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.53>Hear me without thine ears, and make reply</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.54>Without a tongue, using conceit alone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.55>Without eyes, ears and harmful sound of words;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.56>Then, in despite of brooded watchful day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.57>I would into thy bosom pour my thoughts:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.58>But, ah, I will not! yet I love thee well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.59>And, by my troth, I think thou lovest me well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.60>So well, that what you bid me undertake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.61>Though that my death were adjunct to my act,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.62>By heaven, I would do it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.63>Do not I know thou wouldst?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.64>Good Hubert, Hubert, Hubert, throw thine eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.65>On yon young boy: I'll tell thee what, my friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.66>He is a very serpent in my way;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.67>And whereso'er this foot of mine doth tread,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.68>He lies before me: dost thou understand me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.69>Thou art his keeper.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.70>And I'll keep him so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.71>That he shall not offend your majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.72>Death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.73>My lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.74> A grave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.75> He shall not live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.76>Enough.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.77>I could be merry now. Hubert, I love thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.78>Well, I'll not say what I intend for thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.79>Remember. Madam, fare you well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.80>I'll send those powers o'er to your majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>ELINOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.81>My blessing go with thee!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.82>For England, cousin, go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.83>Hubert shall be your man, attend on you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.84>With all true duty. On toward Calais, ho!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. The same. KING PHILIP'S tent.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING PHILIP, LEWIS, CARDINAL PANDULPH, and Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.1>So, by a roaring tempest on the flood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.2>A whole armado of convicted sail</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.3>Is scatter'd and disjoin'd from fellowship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.4>Courage and comfort! all shall yet go well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.5>What can go well, when we have run so ill?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.6>Are we not beaten? Is not Angiers lost?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.7>Arthur ta'en prisoner? divers dear friends slain?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.8>And bloody England into England gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.9>O'erbearing interruption, spite of France?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.10>What he hath won, that hath he fortified:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.11>So hot a speed with such advice disposed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.12>Such temperate order in so fierce a cause,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.13>Doth want example: who hath read or heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.14>Of any kindred action like to this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.15>Well could I bear that England had this praise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.16>So we could find some pattern of our shame.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CONSTANCE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.17>Look, who comes here! a grave unto a soul;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.18>Holding the eternal spirit against her will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.19>In the vile prison of afflicted breath.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.20>I prithee, lady, go away with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.21>Lo, now I now see the issue of your peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.22>Patience, good lady! comfort, gentle Constance!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.23>No, I defy all counsel, all redress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.24>But that which ends all counsel, true redress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.25>Death, death; O amiable lovely death!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.26>Thou odouriferous stench! sound rottenness!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.27>Arise forth from the couch of lasting night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.28>Thou hate and terror to prosperity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.29>And I will kiss thy detestable bones</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.30>And put my eyeballs in thy vaulty brows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.31>And ring these fingers with thy household worms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.32>And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.33>And be a carrion monster like thyself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.34>Come, grin on me, and I will think thou smilest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.35>And buss thee as thy wife. Misery's love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.36>O, come to me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.37> O fair affliction, peace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.38>No, no, I will not, having breath to cry:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.39>O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.40>Then with a passion would I shake the world;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.41>And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.42>Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.43>Which scorns a modern invocation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.44>Lady, you utter madness, and not sorrow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.45>Thou art not holy to belie me so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.46>I am not mad: this hair I tear is mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.47>My name is Constance; I was Geffrey's wife;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.48>Young Arthur is my son, and he is lost:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.49>I am not mad: I would to heaven I were!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.50>For then, 'tis like I should forget myself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.51>O, if I could, what grief should I forget!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.52>Preach some philosophy to make me mad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.53>And thou shalt be canonized, cardinal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.54>For being not mad but sensible of grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.55>My reasonable part produces reason</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.56>How I may be deliver'd of these woes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.57>And teaches me to kill or hang myself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.58>If I were mad, I should forget my son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.59>Or madly think a babe of clouts were he:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.60>I am not mad; too well, too well I feel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.61>The different plague of each calamity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.62>Bind up those tresses. O, what love I note</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.63>In the fair multitude of those her hairs!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.64>Where but by chance a silver drop hath fallen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.65>Even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.66>Do glue themselves in sociable grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.67>Like true, inseparable, faithful loves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.68>Sticking together in calamity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.69>To England, if you will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.70>Bind up your hairs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.71>Yes, that I will; and wherefore will I do it?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.72>I tore them from their bonds and cried aloud</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.73>'O that these hands could so redeem my son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.74>As they have given these hairs their liberty!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.75>But now I envy at their liberty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.76>And will again commit them to their bonds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.77>Because my poor child is a prisoner.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.78>And, father cardinal, I have heard you say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.79>That we shall see and know our friends in heaven:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.80>If that be true, I shall see my boy again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.81>For since the birth of Cain, the first male child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.82>To him that did but yesterday suspire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.83>There was not such a gracious creature born.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.84>But now will canker-sorrow eat my bud</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.85>And chase the native beauty from his cheek</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.86>And he will look as hollow as a ghost,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.87>As dim and meagre as an ague's fit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.88>And so he'll die; and, rising so again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.89>When I shall meet him in the court of heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.90>I shall not know him: therefore never, never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.91>Must I behold my pretty Arthur more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.92>You hold too heinous a respect of grief.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.93>He talks to me that never had a son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.94>You are as fond of grief as of your child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>CONSTANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.95>Grief fills the room up of my absent child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.96>Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.97>Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.98>Remembers me of all his gracious parts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.99>Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.100>Then, have I reason to be fond of grief?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.101>Fare you well: had you such a loss as I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.102>I could give better comfort than you do.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.103>I will not keep this form upon my head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.104>When there is such disorder in my wit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.105>O Lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.106>My life, my joy, my food, my all the world!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.107>My widow-comfort, and my sorrows' cure!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>KING PHILIP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.108>I fear some outrage, and I'll follow her.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.109>There's nothing in this world can make me joy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.110>Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.111>Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.112>And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.113>That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.114>Before the curing of a strong disease,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.115>Even in the instant of repair and health,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.116>The fit is strongest; evils that take leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.117>On their departure most of all show evil:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.118>What have you lost by losing of this day?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.119>All days of glory, joy and happiness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.120>If you had won it, certainly you had.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.121>No, no; when Fortune means to men most good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.122>She looks upon them with a threatening eye.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.123>'Tis strange to think how much King John hath lost</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.124>In this which he accounts so clearly won:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.125>Are not you grieved that Arthur is his prisoner?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.126>As heartily as he is glad he hath him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.127>Your mind is all as youthful as your blood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.128>Now hear me speak with a prophetic spirit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.129>For even the breath of what I mean to speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.130>Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.131>Out of the path which shall directly lead</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.132>Thy foot to England's throne; and therefore mark.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.133>John hath seized Arthur; and it cannot be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.134>That, whiles warm life plays in that infant's veins,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.135>The misplaced John should entertain an hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.136>One minute, nay, one quiet breath of rest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.137>A sceptre snatch'd with an unruly hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.138>Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.139>And he that stands upon a slippery place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.140>Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.141>That John may stand, then Arthur needs must fall;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.142>So be it, for it cannot be but so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.143>But what shall I gain by young Arthur's fall?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.144>You, in the right of Lady Blanch your wife,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.145>May then make all the claim that Arthur did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.146>And lose it, life and all, as Arthur did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.147>How green you are and fresh in this old world!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.148>John lays you plots; the times conspire with you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.149>For he that steeps his safety in true blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.150>Shall find but bloody safety and untrue.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.151>This act so evilly born shall cool the hearts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.152>Of all his people and freeze up their zeal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.153>That none so small advantage shall step forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.154>To cheque his reign, but they will cherish it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.155>No natural exhalation in the sky,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.156>No scope of nature, no distemper'd day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.157>No common wind, no customed event,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.158>But they will pluck away his natural cause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.159>And call them meteors, prodigies and signs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.160>Abortives, presages and tongues of heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.161>Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.162>May be he will not touch young Arthur's life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.163>But hold himself safe in his prisonment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.164>O, sir, when he shall hear of your approach,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.165>If that young Arthur be not gone already,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.166>Even at that news he dies; and then the hearts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.167>Of all his people shall revolt from him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.168>And kiss the lips of unacquainted change</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.169>And pick strong matter of revolt and wrath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.170>Out of the bloody fingers' ends of John.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.171>Methinks I see this hurly all on foot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.172>And, O, what better matter breeds for you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.173>Than I have named! The bastard Faulconbridge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.174>Is now in England, ransacking the church,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.175>Offending charity: if but a dozen French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.176>Were there in arms, they would be as a call</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.177>To train ten thousand English to their side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.178>Or as a little snow, tumbled about,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.179>Anon becomes a mountain. O noble Dauphin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.180>Go with me to the king: 'tis wonderful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.181>What may be wrought out of their discontent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.182>Now that their souls are topful of offence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.183>For England go: I will whet on the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.184>Strong reasons make strong actions: let us go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.185>If you say ay, the king will not say no.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. A room in a castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HUBERT and Executioners</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>Heat me these irons hot; and look thou stand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>Within the arras: when I strike my foot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>Upon the bosom of the ground, rush forth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>And bind the boy which you shall find with me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>Fast to the chair: be heedful: hence, and watch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Executioner</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>I hope your warrant will bear out the deed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>Uncleanly scruples! fear not you: look to't.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Executioners</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>Young lad, come forth; I have to say with you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ARTHUR</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>Good morrow, Hubert.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>Good morrow, little prince.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>As little prince, having so great a title</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>To be more prince, as may be. You are sad.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>Indeed, I have been merrier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>Mercy on me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>Methinks no body should be sad but I:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>Yet, I remember, when I was in France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>Young gentlemen would be as sad as night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>Only for wantonness. By my christendom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>So I were out of prison and kept sheep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>I should be as merry as the day is long;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>And so I would be here, but that I doubt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>My uncle practises more harm to me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>He is afraid of me and I of him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>Is it my fault that I was Geffrey's son?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>No, indeed, is't not; and I would to heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>I were your son, so you would love me, Hubert.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>[Aside] If I talk to him, with his innocent prate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>He will awake my mercy which lies dead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>Therefore I will be sudden and dispatch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>Are you sick, Hubert? you look pale to-day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>In sooth, I would you were a little sick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>That I might sit all night and watch with you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>I warrant I love you more than you do me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>[Aside] His words do take possession of my bosom.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>Read here, young Arthur.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Showing a paper</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>How now, foolish rheum!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>Turning dispiteous torture out of door!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>I must be brief, lest resolution drop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>Out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>Can you not read it? Is it not fair writ?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>Too fairly, Hubert, for so foul effect:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>Must you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>Young boy, I must.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44> And will you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>And I will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>I knit my handercher about your brows,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>The best I had, a princess wrought it me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>And I did never ask it you again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>And with my hand at midnight held your head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>And like the watchful minutes to the hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>Or 'What good love may I perform for you?'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>Many a poor man's son would have lien still</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>And ne'er have spoke a loving word to you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>But you at your sick service had a prince.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>Nay, you may think my love was crafty love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>And call it cunning: do, an if you will:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>If heaven be pleased that you must use me ill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>Why then you must. Will you put out mine eyes?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>These eyes that never did nor never shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>So much as frown on you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>I have sworn to do it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>And with hot irons must I burn them out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>Ah, none but in this iron age would do it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>The iron of itself, though heat red-hot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>Approaching near these eyes, would drink my tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>And quench his fiery indignation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>Even in the matter of mine innocence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>Nay, after that, consume away in rust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>But for containing fire to harm mine eye.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73>Are you more stubborn-hard than hammer'd iron?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74>An if an angel should have come to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>And told me Hubert should put out mine eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>I would not have believed him,--no tongue but Hubert's.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>Come forth.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Stamps</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Executioners, with a cord, irons, & c</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>Do as I bid you do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>O, save me, Hubert, save me! my eyes are out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>Give me the iron, I say, and bind him here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>Alas, what need you be so boisterous-rough?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>I will not struggle, I will stand stone-still.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>For heaven sake, Hubert, let me not be bound!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>Nay, hear me, Hubert, drive these men away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>And I will sit as quiet as a lamb;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>Nor look upon the iron angerly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>Whatever torment you do put me to.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>Go, stand within; let me alone with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>First Executioner</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>I am best pleased to be from such a deed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Executioners</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93>Alas, I then have chid away my friend!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.95>Let him come back, that his compassion may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.96>Give life to yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.97>Come, boy, prepare yourself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.98>Is there no remedy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.99>None, but to lose your eyes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.100>O heaven, that there were but a mote in yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.101>A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.102>Any annoyance in that precious sense!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.103>Then feeling what small things are boisterous there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.104>Your vile intent must needs seem horrible.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.105>Is this your promise? go to, hold your tongue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.106>Hubert, the utterance of a brace of tongues</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.107>Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.108>Let me not hold my tongue, let me not, Hubert;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.109>Or, Hubert, if you will, cut out my tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.110>So I may keep mine eyes: O, spare mine eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.111>Though to no use but still to look on you!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.112>Lo, by my truth, the instrument is cold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.113>And would not harm me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.114>I can heat it, boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.115>No, in good sooth: the fire is dead with grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.116>Being create for comfort, to be used</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.117>In undeserved extremes: see else yourself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.118>There is no malice in this burning coal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.119>The breath of heaven has blown his spirit out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.120>And strew'd repentent ashes on his head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.121>But with my breath I can revive it, boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.122>An if you do, you will but make it blush</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.123>And glow with shame of your proceedings, Hubert:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.124>Nay, it perchance will sparkle in your eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.125>And like a dog that is compell'd to fight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.126>Snatch at his master that doth tarre him on.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.127>All things that you should use to do me wrong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.128>Deny their office: only you do lack</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.129>That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.130>Creatures of note for mercy-lacking uses.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.131>Well, see to live; I will not touch thine eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.132>For all the treasure that thine uncle owes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.133>Yet am I sworn and I did purpose, boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.134>With this same very iron to burn them out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.135>O, now you look like Hubert! all this while</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.136>You were disguised.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.137>Peace; no more. Adieu.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.138>Your uncle must not know but you are dead;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.139>I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.140>And, pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.141>That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.142>Will not offend thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.143>O heaven! I thank you, Hubert.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.144>Silence; no more: go closely in with me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.145>Much danger do I undergo for thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. KING JOHN'S palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING JOHN, PEMBROKE, SALISBURY, and other Lords</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>Here once again we sit, once again crown'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>And looked upon, I hope, with cheerful eyes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>This 'once again,' but that your highness pleased,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>Was once superfluous: you were crown'd before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>And that high royalty was ne'er pluck'd off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>Fresh expectation troubled not the land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>With any long'd-for change or better state.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>To guard a title that was rich before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>To throw a perfume on the violet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>To smooth the ice, or add another hue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>But that your royal pleasure must be done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>This act is as an ancient tale new told,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>And in the last repeating troublesome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>Being urged at a time unseasonable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>In this the antique and well noted face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>Of plain old form is much disfigured;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>And, like a shifted wind unto a sail,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>Startles and frights consideration,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>Makes sound opinion sick and truth suspected,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>For putting on so new a fashion'd robe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>When workmen strive to do better than well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>They do confound their skill in covetousness;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>And oftentimes excusing of a fault</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>As patches set upon a little breach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>Discredit more in hiding of the fault</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>To this effect, before you were new crown'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>We breathed our counsel: but it pleased your highness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>To overbear it, and we are all well pleased,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>Since all and every part of what we would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>Doth make a stand at what your highness will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>Some reasons of this double coronation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>I have possess'd you with and think them strong;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>And more, more strong, then lesser is my fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>I shall indue you with: meantime but ask</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>What you would have reform'd that is not well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>And well shall you perceive how willingly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>I will both hear and grant you your requests.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>Then I, as one that am the tongue of these,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>To sound the purpose of all their hearts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>Both for myself and them, but, chief of all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>Your safety, for the which myself and them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>Bend their best studies, heartily request</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>The enfranchisement of Arthur; whose restraint</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>Doth move the murmuring lips of discontent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>To break into this dangerous argument,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55>If what in rest you have in right you hold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56>Why then your fears, which, as they say, attend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.57>The steps of wrong, should move you to mew up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.58>Your tender kinsman and to choke his days</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.59>With barbarous ignorance and deny his youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.60>The rich advantage of good exercise?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.61>That the time's enemies may not have this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.62>To grace occasions, let it be our suit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.63>That you have bid us ask his liberty;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.64>Which for our goods we do no further ask</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.65>Than whereupon our weal, on you depending,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.66>Counts it your weal he have his liberty.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HUBERT</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.67>Let it be so: I do commit his youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.68>To your direction. Hubert, what news with you?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Taking him apart</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.69>This is the man should do the bloody deed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.70>He show'd his warrant to a friend of mine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.71>The image of a wicked heinous fault</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.72>Lives in his eye; that close aspect of his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.73>Does show the mood of a much troubled breast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.74>And I do fearfully believe 'tis done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.75>What we so fear'd he had a charge to do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.76>The colour of the king doth come and go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.77>Between his purpose and his conscience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.78>Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.79>His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.80>And when it breaks, I fear will issue thence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.81>The foul corruption of a sweet child's death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.82>We cannot hold mortality's strong hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.83>Good lords, although my will to give is living,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.84>The suit which you demand is gone and dead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.85>He tells us Arthur is deceased to-night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.86>Indeed we fear'd his sickness was past cure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.87>Indeed we heard how near his death he was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.88>Before the child himself felt he was sick:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.89>This must be answer'd either here or hence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.90>Why do you bend such solemn brows on me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.91>Think you I bear the shears of destiny?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.92>Have I commandment on the pulse of life?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.93>It is apparent foul play; and 'tis shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.94>That greatness should so grossly offer it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.95>So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.96>Stay yet, Lord Salisbury; I'll go with thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.97>And find the inheritance of this poor child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.98>His little kingdom of a forced grave.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.99>That blood which owed the breadth of all this isle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.100>Three foot of it doth hold: bad world the while!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.101>This must not be thus borne: this will break out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.102>To all our sorrows, and ere long I doubt.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Lords</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.103>They burn in indignation. I repent:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.104>There is no sure foundation set on blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.105>No certain life achieved by others' death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.106>A fearful eye thou hast: where is that blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.107>That I have seen inhabit in those cheeks?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.108>So foul a sky clears not without a storm:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.109>Pour down thy weather: how goes all in France?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.110>From France to England. Never such a power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.111>For any foreign preparation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.112>Was levied in the body of a land.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.113>The copy of your speed is learn'd by them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.114>For when you should be told they do prepare,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.115>The tidings come that they are all arrived.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.116>O, where hath our intelligence been drunk?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.117>Where hath it slept? Where is my mother's care,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.118>That such an army could be drawn in France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.119>And she not hear of it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.120>My liege, her ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.121>Is stopp'd with dust; the first of April died</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.122>Your noble mother: and, as I hear, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.123>The Lady Constance in a frenzy died</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.124>Three days before: but this from rumour's tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.125>I idly heard; if true or false I know not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.126>Withhold thy speed, dreadful occasion!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.127>O, make a league with me, till I have pleased</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.128>My discontented peers! What! mother dead!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.129>How wildly then walks my estate in France!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.130>Under whose conduct came those powers of France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.131>That thou for truth givest out are landed here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.132>Under the Dauphin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.133> Thou hast made me giddy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.134>With these ill tidings.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the BASTARD and PETER of Pomfret</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.135>Now, what says the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.136>To your proceedings? do not seek to stuff</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.137>My head with more ill news, for it is full.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.138>But if you be afeard to hear the worst,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.139>Then let the worst unheard fall on your bead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.140>Bear with me cousin, for I was amazed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.141>Under the tide: but now I breathe again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.142>Aloft the flood, and can give audience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.143>To any tongue, speak it of what it will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.144>How I have sped among the clergymen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.145>The sums I have collected shall express.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.146>But as I travell'd hither through the land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.147>I find the people strangely fantasied;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.148>Possess'd with rumours, full of idle dreams,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.149>Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.150>And here a prophet, that I brought with me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.151>From forth the streets of Pomfret, whom I found</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.152>With many hundreds treading on his heels;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.153>To whom he sung, in rude harsh-sounding rhymes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.154>That, ere the next Ascension-day at noon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.155>Your highness should deliver up your crown.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.156>Thou idle dreamer, wherefore didst thou so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>PETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.157>Foreknowing that the truth will fall out so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.158>Hubert, away with him; imprison him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.159>And on that day at noon whereon he says</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.160>I shall yield up my crown, let him be hang'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.161>Deliver him to safety; and return,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.162>For I must use thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt HUBERT with PETER</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.163>O my gentle cousin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.164>Hear'st thou the news abroad, who are arrived?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.165>The French, my lord; men's mouths are full of it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.166>Besides, I met Lord Bigot and Lord Salisbury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.167>With eyes as red as new-enkindled fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.168>And others more, going to seek the grave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.169>Of Arthur, who they say is kill'd to-night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.170>On your suggestion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.171>Gentle kinsman, go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.172>And thrust thyself into their companies:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.173>I have a way to win their loves again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.174>Bring them before me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.175>I will seek them out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.176>Nay, but make haste; the better foot before.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.177>O, let me have no subject enemies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.178>When adverse foreigners affright my towns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.179>With dreadful pomp of stout invasion!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.180>Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.181>And fly like thought from them to me again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.182>The spirit of the time shall teach me speed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.183>Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.184>Go after him; for he perhaps shall need</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.185>Some messenger betwixt me and the peers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.186>And be thou he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.187> With all my heart, my liege.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.188>My mother dead!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter HUBERT</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.189>My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.190>Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.191>The other four in wondrous motion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.192>Five moons!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.193>Old men and beldams in the streets</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.194>Do prophesy upon it dangerously:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.195>Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.196>And when they talk of him, they shake their heads</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.197>And whisper one another in the ear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.198>And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.199>Whilst he that hears makes fearful action,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.200>With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.201>I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.202>The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.203>With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.204>Who, with his shears and measure in his hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.205>Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.206>Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.207>Told of a many thousand warlike French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.208>That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.209>Another lean unwash'd artificer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.210>Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.211>Why seek'st thou to possess me with these fears?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.212>Why urgest thou so oft young Arthur's death?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.213>Thy hand hath murder'd him: I had a mighty cause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.214>To wish him dead, but thou hadst none to kill him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.215>No had, my lord! why, did you not provoke me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.216>It is the curse of kings to be attended</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.217>By slaves that take their humours for a warrant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.218>To break within the bloody house of life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.219>And on the winking of authority</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.220>To understand a law, to know the meaning</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.221>Of dangerous majesty, when perchance it frowns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.222>More upon humour than advised respect.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.223>Here is your hand and seal for what I did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.224>O, when the last account 'twixt heaven and earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.225>Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.226>Witness against us to damnation!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.227>How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.228>Make deeds ill done! Hadst not thou been by,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.229>A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.230>Quoted and sign'd to do a deed of shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.231>This murder had not come into my mind:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.232>But taking note of thy abhorr'd aspect,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.233>Finding thee fit for bloody villany,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.234>Apt, liable to be employ'd in danger,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.235>I faintly broke with thee of Arthur's death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.236>And thou, to be endeared to a king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.237>Made it no conscience to destroy a prince.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.238>My lord--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.239>Hadst thou but shook thy head or made a pause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.240>When I spake darkly what I purposed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.241>Or turn'd an eye of doubt upon my face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.242>As bid me tell my tale in express words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.243>Deep shame had struck me dumb, made me break off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.244>And those thy fears might have wrought fears in me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.245>But thou didst understand me by my signs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.246>And didst in signs again parley with sin;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.247>Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart consent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.248>And consequently thy rude hand to act</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.249>The deed, which both our tongues held vile to name.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.250>Out of my sight, and never see me more!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.251>My nobles leave me; and my state is braved,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.252>Even at my gates, with ranks of foreign powers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.253>Nay, in the body of this fleshly land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.254>This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.255>Hostility and civil tumult reigns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.256>Between my conscience and my cousin's death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.257>Arm you against your other enemies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.258>I'll make a peace between your soul and you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.259>Young Arthur is alive: this hand of mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.260>Is yet a maiden and an innocent hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.261>Not painted with the crimson spots of blood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.262>Within this bosom never enter'd yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.263>The dreadful motion of a murderous thought;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.264>And you have slander'd nature in my form,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.265>Which, howsoever rude exteriorly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.266>Is yet the cover of a fairer mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.267>Than to be butcher of an innocent child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.268>Doth Arthur live? O, haste thee to the peers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.269>Throw this report on their incensed rage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.270>And make them tame to their obedience!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.271>Forgive the comment that my passion made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.272>Upon thy feature; for my rage was blind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.273>And foul imaginary eyes of blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.274>Presented thee more hideous than thou art.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.275>O, answer not, but to my closet bring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.276>The angry lords with all expedient haste.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.277>I conjure thee but slowly; run more fast.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Before the castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter ARTHUR, on the walls</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>The wall is high, and yet will I leap down:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>Good ground, be pitiful and hurt me not!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>There's few or none do know me: if they did,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>This ship-boy's semblance hath disguised me quite.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>If I get down, and do not break my limbs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>As good to die and go, as die and stay.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Leaps down</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>O me! my uncle's spirit is in these stones:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dies</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter PEMBROKE, SALISBURY, and BIGOT</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>Lords, I will meet him at Saint Edmundsbury:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>It is our safety, and we must embrace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>This gentle offer of the perilous time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>Who brought that letter from the cardinal?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>The Count Melun, a noble lord of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>Whose private with me of the Dauphin's love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17>Is much more general than these lines import.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BIGOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>To-morrow morning let us meet him then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.19>Or rather then set forward; for 'twill be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.20>Two long days' journey, lords, or ere we meet.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the BASTARD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.21>Once more to-day well met, distemper'd lords!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.22>The king by me requests your presence straight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.23>The king hath dispossess'd himself of us:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.24>We will not line his thin bestained cloak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.25>With our pure honours, nor attend the foot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.26>That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.27>Return and tell him so: we know the worst.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.28>Whate'er you think, good words, I think, were best.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.29>Our griefs, and not our manners, reason now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.30>But there is little reason in your grief;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.31>Therefore 'twere reason you had manners now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.32>Sir, sir, impatience hath his privilege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.33>'Tis true, to hurt his master, no man else.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.34>This is the prison. What is he lies here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Seeing ARTHUR</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.35>O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.36>The earth had not a hole to hide this deed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.37>Murder, as hating what himself hath done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.38>Doth lay it open to urge on revenge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BIGOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.39>Or, when he doom'd this beauty to a grave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.40>Found it too precious-princely for a grave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.41>Sir Richard, what think you? have you beheld,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.42>Or have you read or heard? or could you think?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.43>Or do you almost think, although you see,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.44>That you do see? could thought, without this object,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.45>Form such another? This is the very top,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.46>The height, the crest, or crest unto the crest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.47>Of murder's arms: this is the bloodiest shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.48>The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.49>That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.50>Presented to the tears of soft remorse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.51>All murders past do stand excused in this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.52>And this, so sole and so unmatchable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.53>Shall give a holiness, a purity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.54>To the yet unbegotten sin of times;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.55>And prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.56>Exampled by this heinous spectacle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.57>It is a damned and a bloody work;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.58>The graceless action of a heavy hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.59>If that it be the work of any hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.60>If that it be the work of any hand!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.61>We had a kind of light what would ensue:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.62>It is the shameful work of Hubert's hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.63>The practise and the purpose of the king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.64>From whose obedience I forbid my soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.65>Kneeling before this ruin of sweet life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.66>And breathing to his breathless excellence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.67>The incense of a vow, a holy vow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.68>Never to taste the pleasures of the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.69>Never to be infected with delight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.70>Nor conversant with ease and idleness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.71>Till I have set a glory to this hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.72>By giving it the worship of revenge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BIGOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.73>Our souls religiously confirm thy words.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HUBERT</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.74>Lords, I am hot with haste in seeking you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.75>Arthur doth live; the king hath sent for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.76>O, he is old and blushes not at death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.77>Avaunt, thou hateful villain, get thee gone!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.78>I am no villain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.79> Must I rob the law?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drawing his sword</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.80>Your sword is bright, sir; put it up again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.81>Not till I sheathe it in a murderer's skin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.82>Stand back, Lord Salisbury, stand back, I say;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.83>By heaven, I think my sword's as sharp as yours:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.84>I would not have you, lord, forget yourself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.85>Nor tempt the danger of my true defence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.86>Lest I, by marking of your rage, forget</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.87>Your worth, your greatness and nobility.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>BIGOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.88>Out, dunghill! darest thou brave a nobleman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.89>Not for my life: but yet I dare defend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.90>My innocent life against an emperor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.91>Thou art a murderer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.92>Do not prove me so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.93>Yet I am none: whose tongue soe'er speaks false,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.94>Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.95>Cut him to pieces.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.96> Keep the peace, I say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.97>Stand by, or I shall gall you, Faulconbridge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.98>Thou wert better gall the devil, Salisbury:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.99>If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.100>Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.101>I'll strike thee dead. Put up thy sword betime;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.102>Or I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.103>That you shall think the devil is come from hell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BIGOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.104>What wilt thou do, renowned Faulconbridge?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.105>Second a villain and a murderer?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.106>Lord Bigot, I am none.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>BIGOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.107>Who kill'd this prince?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.108>'Tis not an hour since I left him well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.109>I honour'd him, I loved him, and will weep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.110>My date of life out for his sweet life's loss.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.111>Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.112>For villany is not without such rheum;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.113>And he, long traded in it, makes it seem</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.114>Like rivers of remorse and innocency.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.115>Away with me, all you whose souls abhor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.116>The uncleanly savours of a slaughter-house;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.117>For I am stifled with this smell of sin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>BIGOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.118>Away toward Bury, to the Dauphin there!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.119>There tell the king he may inquire us out.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Lords</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.120>Here's a good world! Knew you of this fair work?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.121>Beyond the infinite and boundless reach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.122>Of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.123>Art thou damn'd, Hubert.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.124>Do but hear me, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.125>Ha! I'll tell thee what;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.126>Thou'rt damn'd as black--nay, nothing is so black;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.127>Thou art more deep damn'd than Prince Lucifer:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.128>There is not yet so ugly a fiend of hell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.129>As thou shalt be, if thou didst kill this child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.130>Upon my soul--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.131> If thou didst but consent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.132>To this most cruel act, do but despair;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.133>And if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.134>That ever spider twisted from her womb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.135>Will serve to strangle thee, a rush will be a beam</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.136>To hang thee on; or wouldst thou drown thyself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.137>Put but a little water in a spoon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.138>And it shall be as all the ocean,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.139>Enough to stifle such a villain up.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.140>I do suspect thee very grievously.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.141>If I in act, consent, or sin of thought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.142>Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.143>Which was embounded in this beauteous clay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.144>Let hell want pains enough to torture me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.145>I left him well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.146> Go, bear him in thine arms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.147>I am amazed, methinks, and lose my way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.148>Among the thorns and dangers of this world.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.149>How easy dost thou take all England up!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.150>From forth this morsel of dead royalty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.151>The life, the right and truth of all this realm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.152>Is fled to heaven; and England now is left</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.153>To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.154>The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.155>Now for the bare-pick'd bone of majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.156>Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.157>And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.158>Now powers from home and discontents at home</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.159>Meet in one line; and vast confusion waits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.160>As doth a raven on a sick-fall'n beast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.161>The imminent decay of wrested pomp.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.162>Now happy he whose cloak and cincture can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.163>Hold out this tempest. Bear away that child</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.164>And follow me with speed: I'll to the king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.165>A thousand businesses are brief in hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.166>And heaven itself doth frown upon the land.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. KING JOHN'S palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING JOHN, CARDINAL PANDULPH, and Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>Thus have I yielded up into your hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>The circle of my glory.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Giving the crown</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>Take again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>From this my hand, as holding of the pope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>Your sovereign greatness and authority.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>Now keep your holy word: go meet the French,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>And from his holiness use all your power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>To stop their marches 'fore we are inflamed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>Our discontented counties do revolt;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>Our people quarrel with obedience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>Swearing allegiance and the love of soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>To stranger blood, to foreign royalty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>This inundation of mistemper'd humour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>Rests by you only to be qualified:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>Then pause not; for the present time's so sick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>That present medicine must be minister'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>Or overthrow incurable ensues.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>It was my breath that blew this tempest up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>Upon your stubborn usage of the pope;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>But since you are a gentle convertite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>My tongue shall hush again this storm of war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>And make fair weather in your blustering land.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>On this Ascension-day, remember well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>Upon your oath of service to the pope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>Go I to make the French lay down their arms.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>Is this Ascension-day? Did not the prophet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>Say that before Ascension-day at noon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>My crown I should give off? Even so I have:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>I did suppose it should be on constraint:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>But, heaven be thank'd, it is but voluntary.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the BASTARD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>All Kent hath yielded; nothing there holds out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>But Dover castle: London hath received,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>Like a kind host, the Dauphin and his powers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>Your nobles will not hear you, but are gone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>To offer service to your enemy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>And wild amazement hurries up and down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>The little number of your doubtful friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>Would not my lords return to me again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>After they heard young Arthur was alive?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>They found him dead and cast into the streets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>An empty casket, where the jewel of life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>By some damn'd hand was robb'd and ta'en away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>That villain Hubert told me he did live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>So, on my soul, he did, for aught he knew.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>Be great in act, as you have been in thought;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>Let not the world see fear and sad distrust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>Govern the motion of a kingly eye:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>Threaten the threatener and outface the brow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>That borrow their behaviors from the great,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>Grow great by your example and put on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>The dauntless spirit of resolution.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>Away, and glister like the god of war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>When he intendeth to become the field:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>Show boldness and aspiring confidence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>What, shall they seek the lion in his den,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>And fright him there? and make him tremble there?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60>O, let it not be said: forage, and run</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>To meet displeasure farther from the doors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>And grapple with him ere he comes so nigh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>The legate of the pope hath been with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.64>And I have made a happy peace with him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.65>And he hath promised to dismiss the powers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.66>Led by the Dauphin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.67>O inglorious league!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.68>Shall we, upon the footing of our land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.69>Send fair-play orders and make compromise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.70>Insinuation, parley and base truce</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.71>To arms invasive? shall a beardless boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.72>A cocker'd silken wanton, brave our fields,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.73>And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.74>Mocking the air with colours idly spread,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.75>And find no cheque? Let us, my liege, to arms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.76>Perchance the cardinal cannot make your peace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.77>Or if he do, let it at least be said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.78>They saw we had a purpose of defence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.79>Have thou the ordering of this present time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.80>Away, then, with good courage! yet, I know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.81>Our party may well meet a prouder foe.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. LEWIS's camp at St. Edmundsbury.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter, in arms, LEWIS, SALISBURY, MELUN, PEMBROKE, BIGOT, and Soldiers</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>My Lord Melun, let this be copied out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>And keep it safe for our remembrance:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>Return the precedent to these lords again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>That, having our fair order written down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>Both they and we, perusing o'er these notes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>May know wherefore we took the sacrament</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>And keep our faiths firm and inviolable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>Upon our sides it never shall be broken.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>And, noble Dauphin, albeit we swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>A voluntary zeal and an unurged faith</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>To your proceedings; yet believe me, prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>I am not glad that such a sore of time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>Should seek a plaster by contemn'd revolt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>And heal the inveterate canker of one wound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>By making many. O, it grieves my soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>That I must draw this metal from my side</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>To be a widow-maker! O, and there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>Where honourable rescue and defence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>Cries out upon the name of Salisbury!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>But such is the infection of the time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>That, for the health and physic of our right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>We cannot deal but with the very hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>Of stern injustice and confused wrong.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>And is't not pity, O my grieved friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.25>That we, the sons and children of this isle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.26>Were born to see so sad an hour as this;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.27>Wherein we step after a stranger march</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.28>Upon her gentle bosom, and fill up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.29>Her enemies' ranks,--I must withdraw and weep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.30>Upon the spot of this enforced cause,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.31>To grace the gentry of a land remote,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.32>And follow unacquainted colours here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.33>What, here? O nation, that thou couldst remove!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.34>That Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.35>Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.36>And grapple thee unto a pagan shore;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.37>Where these two Christian armies might combine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.38>The blood of malice in a vein of league,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.39>And not to spend it so unneighbourly!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.40>A noble temper dost thou show in this;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.41>And great affections wrestling in thy bosom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.42>Doth make an earthquake of nobility.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.43>O, what a noble combat hast thou fought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.44>Between compulsion and a brave respect!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.45>Let me wipe off this honourable dew,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.46>That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.47>My heart hath melted at a lady's tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.48>Being an ordinary inundation;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.49>But this effusion of such manly drops,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.50>This shower, blown up by tempest of the soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.51>Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amazed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.52>Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.53>Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.54>Lift up thy brow, renowned Salisbury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.55>And with a great heart heave away the storm:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.56>Commend these waters to those baby eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.57>That never saw the giant world enraged;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.58>Nor met with fortune other than at feasts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.59>Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.60>Come, come; for thou shalt thrust thy hand as deep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.61>Into the purse of rich prosperity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.62>As Lewis himself: so, nobles, shall you all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.63>That knit your sinews to the strength of mine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.64>And even there, methinks, an angel spake:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CARDINAL PANDULPH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.65>Look, where the holy legate comes apace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.66>To give us warrant from the hand of heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.67>And on our actions set the name of right</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.68>With holy breath.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.69> Hail, noble prince of France!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.70>The next is this, King John hath reconciled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.71>Himself to Rome; his spirit is come in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.72>That so stood out against the holy church,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.73>The great metropolis and see of Rome:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.74>Therefore thy threatening colours now wind up;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.75>And tame the savage spirit of wild war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.76>That like a lion foster'd up at hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.77>It may lie gently at the foot of peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.78>And be no further harmful than in show.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.79>Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.80>I am too high-born to be propertied,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.81>To be a secondary at control,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.82>Or useful serving-man and instrument,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.83>To any sovereign state throughout the world.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.84>Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.85>Between this chastised kingdom and myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.86>And brought in matter that should feed this fire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.87>And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.88>With that same weak wind which enkindled it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.89>You taught me how to know the face of right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.90>Acquainted me with interest to this land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.91>Yea, thrust this enterprise into my heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.92>And come ye now to tell me John hath made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.93>His peace with Rome? What is that peace to me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.94>I, by the honour of my marriage-bed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.95>After young Arthur, claim this land for mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.96>And, now it is half-conquer'd, must I back</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.97>Because that John hath made his peace with Rome?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.98>Am I Rome's slave? What penny hath Rome borne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.99>What men provided, what munition sent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.100>To underprop this action? Is't not I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.101>That undergo this charge? who else but I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.102>And such as to my claim are liable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.103>Sweat in this business and maintain this war?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.104>Have I not heard these islanders shout out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.105>'Vive le roi!' as I have bank'd their towns?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.106>Have I not here the best cards for the game,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.107>To win this easy match play'd for a crown?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.108>And shall I now give o'er the yielded set?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.109>No, no, on my soul, it never shall be said.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.110>You look but on the outside of this work.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.111>Outside or inside, I will not return</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.112>Till my attempt so much be glorified</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.113>As to my ample hope was promised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.114>Before I drew this gallant head of war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.115>And cull'd these fiery spirits from the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.116>To outlook conquest and to win renown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.117>Even in the jaws of danger and of death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Trumpet sounds</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.118>What lusty trumpet thus doth summon us?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the BASTARD, attended</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.119>According to the fair play of the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.120>Let me have audience; I am sent to speak:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.121>My holy lord of Milan, from the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.122>I come, to learn how you have dealt for him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.123>And, as you answer, I do know the scope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.124>And warrant limited unto my tongue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.125>The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.126>And will not temporize with my entreaties;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.127>He flatly says he'll not lay down his arms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.128>By all the blood that ever fury breathed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.129>The youth says well. Now hear our English king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.130>For thus his royalty doth speak in me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.131>He is prepared, and reason too he should:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.132>This apish and unmannerly approach,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.133>This harness'd masque and unadvised revel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.134>This unhair'd sauciness and boyish troops,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.135>The king doth smile at; and is well prepared</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.136>To whip this dwarfish war, these pigmy arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.137>From out the circle of his territories.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.138>That hand which had the strength, even at your door,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.139>To cudgel you and make you take the hatch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.140>To dive like buckets in concealed wells,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.141>To crouch in litter of your stable planks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.142>To lie like pawns lock'd up in chests and trunks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.143>To hug with swine, to seek sweet safety out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.144>In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.145>Even at the crying of your nation's crow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.146>Thinking his voice an armed Englishman;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.147>Shall that victorious hand be feebled here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.148>That in your chambers gave you chastisement?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.149>No: know the gallant monarch is in arms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.150>And like an eagle o'er his aery towers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.151>To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.152>And you degenerate, you ingrate revolts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.153>You bloody Neroes, ripping up the womb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.154>Of your dear mother England, blush for shame;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.155>For your own ladies and pale-visaged maids</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.156>Like Amazons come tripping after drums,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.157>Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.158>Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.159>To fierce and bloody inclination.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.160>There end thy brave, and turn thy face in peace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.161>We grant thou canst outscold us: fare thee well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.162>We hold our time too precious to be spent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.163>With such a brabbler.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.164>Give me leave to speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.165>No, I will speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.166> We will attend to neither.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.167>Strike up the drums; and let the tongue of war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.168>Plead for our interest and our being here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.169>Indeed your drums, being beaten, will cry out;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.170>And so shall you, being beaten: do but start</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.171>An echo with the clamour of thy drum,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.172>And even at hand a drum is ready braced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.173>That shall reverberate all as loud as thine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.174>Sound but another, and another shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.175>As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.176>And mock the deep-mouth'd thunder: for at hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.177>Not trusting to this halting legate here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.178>Whom he hath used rather for sport than need</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.179>Is warlike John; and in his forehead sits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.180>A bare-ribb'd death, whose office is this day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.181>To feast upon whole thousands of the French.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.182>Strike up our drums, to find this danger out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.183>And thou shalt find it, Dauphin, do not doubt.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The field of battle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarums. Enter KING JOHN and HUBERT</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>How goes the day with us? O, tell me, Hubert.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>Badly, I fear. How fares your majesty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>This fever, that hath troubled me so long,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4>Lies heavy on me; O, my heart is sick!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>My lord, your valiant kinsman, Faulconbridge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>Desires your majesty to leave the field</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>And send him word by me which way you go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>Tell him, toward Swinstead, to the abbey there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>Be of good comfort; for the great supply</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>That was expected by the Dauphin here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>Are wreck'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>This news was brought to Richard but even now:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>The French fight coldly, and retire themselves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>Ay me! this tyrant fever burns me up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>And will not let me welcome this good news.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>Set on toward Swinstead: to my litter straight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Another part of the field.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SALISBURY, PEMBROKE, and BIGOT</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.1>I did not think the king so stored with friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.2>Up once again; put spirit in the French:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.3>If they miscarry, we miscarry too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.4>That misbegotten devil, Faulconbridge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.5>In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.6>They say King John sore sick hath left the field.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MELUN, wounded</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MELUN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.7>Lead me to the revolts of England here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.8>When we were happy we had other names.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.9>It is the Count Melun.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.10>Wounded to death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MELUN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.11>Fly, noble English, you are bought and sold;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.12>Unthread the rude eye of rebellion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.13>And welcome home again discarded faith.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.14>Seek out King John and fall before his feet;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.15>For if the French be lords of this loud day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.16>He means to recompense the pains you take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.17>By cutting off your heads: thus hath he sworn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.18>And I with him, and many moe with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.19>Upon the altar at Saint Edmundsbury;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.20>Even on that altar where we swore to you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.21>Dear amity and everlasting love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.22>May this be possible? may this be true?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MELUN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.23>Have I not hideous death within my view,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.24>Retaining but a quantity of life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.25>Which bleeds away, even as a form of wax</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.26>Resolveth from his figure 'gainst the fire?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.27>What in the world should make me now deceive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.28>Since I must lose the use of all deceit?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.29>Why should I then be false, since it is true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.30>That I must die here and live hence by truth?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.31>I say again, if Lewis do win the day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.32>He is forsworn, if e'er those eyes of yours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.33>Behold another day break in the east:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.34>But even this night, whose black contagious breath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.35>Already smokes about the burning crest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.36>Of the old, feeble and day-wearied sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.37>Even this ill night, your breathing shall expire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.38>Paying the fine of rated treachery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.39>Even with a treacherous fine of all your lives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.40>If Lewis by your assistance win the day.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.41>Commend me to one Hubert with your king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.42>The love of him, and this respect besides,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.43>For that my grandsire was an Englishman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.44>Awakes my conscience to confess all this.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.45>In lieu whereof, I pray you, bear me hence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.46>From forth the noise and rumour of the field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.47>Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.48>In peace, and part this body and my soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.49>With contemplation and devout desires.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.50>We do believe thee: and beshrew my soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.51>But I do love the favour and the form</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.52>Of this most fair occasion, by the which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.53>We will untread the steps of damned flight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.54>And like a bated and retired flood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.55>Leaving our rankness and irregular course,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.56>Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlook'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.57>And cabby run on in obedience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.58>Even to our ocean, to our great King John.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.59>My arm shall give thee help to bear thee hence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.60>For I do see the cruel pangs of death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.61>Right in thine eye. Away, my friends! New flight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.62>And happy newness, that intends old right.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt, leading off MELUN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. The French camp.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LEWIS and his train</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.1>The sun of heaven methought was loath to set,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.2>But stay'd and made the western welkin blush,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.3>When English measure backward their own ground</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.4>In faint retire. O, bravely came we off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.5>When with a volley of our needless shot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.6>After such bloody toil, we bid good night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.7>And wound our tattering colours clearly up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.8>Last in the field, and almost lords of it!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.9>Where is my prince, the Dauphin?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.10>Here: what news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.11>The Count Melun is slain; the English lords</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.12>By his persuasion are again fall'n off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.13>And your supply, which you have wish'd so long,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.14>Are cast away and sunk on Goodwin Sands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.15>Ah, foul shrewd news! beshrew thy very heart!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.16>I did not think to be so sad to-night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.17>As this hath made me. Who was he that said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.18>King John did fly an hour or two before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.19>The stumbling night did part our weary powers?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.20>Whoever spoke it, it is true, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.21>Well; keep good quarter and good care to-night:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.22>The day shall not be up so soon as I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.23>To try the fair adventure of to-morrow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. An open place in the neighbourhood of Swinstead Abbey.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the BASTARD and HUBERT, severally</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.1>Who's there? speak, ho! speak quickly, or I shoot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.2>A friend. What art thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.3>Of the part of England.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.4>Whither dost thou go?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.5>What's that to thee? why may not I demand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.6>Of thine affairs, as well as thou of mine?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.7>Hubert, I think?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.8> Thou hast a perfect thought:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.9>I will upon all hazards well believe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.10>Thou art my friend, that know'st my tongue so well.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.11>Who art thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.12> Who thou wilt: and if thou please,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.13>Thou mayst befriend me so much as to think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.14>I come one way of the Plantagenets.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.15>Unkind remembrance! thou and eyeless night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.16>Have done me shame: brave soldier, pardon me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.17>That any accent breaking from thy tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.18>Should 'scape the true acquaintance of mine ear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.19>Come, come; sans compliment, what news abroad?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.20>Why, here walk I in the black brow of night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.21>To find you out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.22> Brief, then; and what's the news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.23>O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.24>Black, fearful, comfortless and horrible.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.25>Show me the very wound of this ill news:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.26>I am no woman, I'll not swoon at it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.27>The king, I fear, is poison'd by a monk:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.28>I left him almost speechless; and broke out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.29>To acquaint you with this evil, that you might</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.30>The better arm you to the sudden time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.31>Than if you had at leisure known of this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.32>How did he take it? who did taste to him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.33>A monk, I tell you; a resolved villain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.34>Whose bowels suddenly burst out: the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.35>Yet speaks and peradventure may recover.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.36>Who didst thou leave to tend his majesty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.37>Why, know you not? the lords are all come back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.38>And brought Prince Henry in their company;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.39>At whose request the king hath pardon'd them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.40>And they are all about his majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.41>Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.42>And tempt us not to bear above our power!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.43>I'll tell tree, Hubert, half my power this night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.44>Passing these flats, are taken by the tide;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.45>These Lincoln Washes have devoured them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.46>Myself, well mounted, hardly have escaped.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.47>Away before: conduct me to the king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.48>I doubt he will be dead or ere I come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VII. The orchard in Swinstead Abbey.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter PRINCE HENRY, SALISBURY, and BIGOT</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.1>It is too late: the life of all his blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.2>Is touch'd corruptibly, and his pure brain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.3>Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.4>Doth by the idle comments that it makes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.5>Foretell the ending of mortality.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PEMBROKE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.6>His highness yet doth speak, and holds belief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.7>That, being brought into the open air,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.8>It would allay the burning quality</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.9>Of that fell poison which assaileth him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.10>Let him be brought into the orchard here.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.11>Doth he still rage?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BIGOT</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PEMBROKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.12>He is more patient</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.13>Than when you left him; even now he sung.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.14>O vanity of sickness! fierce extremes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.15>In their continuance will not feel themselves.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.16>Death, having prey'd upon the outward parts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.17>Leaves them invisible, and his siege is now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.18>Against the mind, the which he pricks and wounds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.19>With many legions of strange fantasies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.20>Whi ch, in their throng and press to that last hold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.21>Confound themselves. 'Tis strange that death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.22>should sing.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.23>I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.24>Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.25>And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.26>His soul and body to their lasting rest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.27>Be of good comfort, prince; for you are born</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.28>To set a form upon that indigest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.29>Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Attendants, and BIGOT, carrying KING JOHN in a chair</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.30>Ay, marry, now my soul hath elbow-room;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.31>It would not out at windows nor at doors.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.32>There is so hot a summer in my bosom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.33>That all my bowels crumble up to dust:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.34>I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.35>Upon a parchment, and against this fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.36>Do I shrink up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.37> How fares your majesty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.38>Poison'd,--ill fare--dead, forsook, cast off:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.39>And none of you will bid the winter come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.40>To thrust his icy fingers in my maw,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.41>Nor let my kingdom's rivers take their course</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.42>Through my burn'd bosom, nor entreat the north</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.43>To make his bleak winds kiss my parched lips</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.44>And comfort me with cold. I do not ask you much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.45>I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.46>And so ingrateful, you deny me that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.47>O that there were some virtue in my tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.48>That might relieve you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.49>The salt in them is hot.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.50>Within me is a hell; and there the poison</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.51>Is as a fiend confined to tyrannize</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.52>On unreprievable condemned blood.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the BASTARD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.53>O, I am scalded with my violent motion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.54>And spleen of speed to see your majesty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.55>O cousin, thou art come to set mine eye:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.56>The tackle of my heart is crack'd and burn'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.57>And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.58>Are turned to one thread, one little hair:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.59>My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.60>Which holds but till thy news be uttered;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.61>And then all this thou seest is but a clod</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.62>And module of confounded royalty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.63>The Dauphin is preparing hitherward,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.64>Where heaven He knows how we shall answer him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.65>For in a night the best part of my power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.66>As I upon advantage did remove,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.67>Were in the Washes all unwarily</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.68>Devoured by the unexpected flood.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>KING JOHN dies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.69>You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.70>My liege! my lord! but now a king, now thus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.71>Even so must I run on, and even so stop.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.72>What surety of the world, what hope, what stay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.73>When this was now a king, and now is clay?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.74>Art thou gone so? I do but stay behind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.75>To do the office for thee of revenge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.76>And then my soul shall wait on thee to heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.77>As it on earth hath been thy servant still.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.78>Now, now, you stars that move in your right spheres,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.79>Where be your powers? show now your mended faiths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.80>And instantly return with me again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.81>To push destruction and perpetual shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.82>Out of the weak door of our fainting land.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.83>Straight let us seek, or straight we shall be sought;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.84>The Dauphin rages at our very heels.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.85>It seems you know not, then, so much as we:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.86>The Cardinal Pandulph is within at rest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.87>Who half an hour since came from the Dauphin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.88>And brings from him such offers of our peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.89>As we with honour and respect may take,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.90>With purpose presently to leave this war.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.91>He will the rather do it when he sees</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.92>Ourselves well sinewed to our defence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.93>Nay, it is in a manner done already;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.94>For many carriages he hath dispatch'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.95>To the sea-side, and put his cause and quarrel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.96>To the disposing of the cardinal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.97>With whom yourself, myself and other lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.98>If you think meet, this afternoon will post</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.99>To consummate this business happily.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.100>Let it be so: and you, my noble prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.101>With other princes that may best be spared,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.102>Shall wait upon your father's funeral.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.103>At Worcester must his body be interr'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.104>For so he will'd it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.105>Thither shall it then:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.106>And happily may your sweet self put on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.107>The lineal state and glory of the land!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.108>To whom with all submission, on my knee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.109>I do bequeath my faithful services</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.110>And true subjection everlastingly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.111>And the like tender of our love we make,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.112>To rest without a spot for evermore.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.113>I have a kind soul that would give you thanks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.114>And knows not how to do it but with tears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.115>O, let us pay the time but needful woe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.116>Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.117>This England never did, nor never shall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.118>Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.119>But when it first did help to wound itself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.120>Now these her princes are come home again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.121>Come the three corners of the world in arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.122>And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.7.123>If England to itself do rest but true.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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