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| <H3>SCENE II. LEWIS's camp at St. Edmundsbury.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter, in arms, LEWIS, SALISBURY, MELUN, PEMBROKE, BIGOT, and Soldiers</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>My Lord Melun, let this be copied out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>And keep it safe for our remembrance:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Return the precedent to these lords again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>That, having our fair order written down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Both they and we, perusing o'er these notes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>May know wherefore we took the sacrament</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>And keep our faiths firm and inviolable.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=8>Upon our sides it never shall be broken.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>And, noble Dauphin, albeit we swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>A voluntary zeal and an unurged faith</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>To your proceedings; yet believe me, prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>I am not glad that such a sore of time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Should seek a plaster by contemn'd revolt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>And heal the inveterate canker of one wound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>By making many. O, it grieves my soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>That I must draw this metal from my side</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>To be a widow-maker! O, and there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Where honourable rescue and defence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>Cries out upon the name of Salisbury!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>But such is the infection of the time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>That, for the health and physic of our right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>We cannot deal but with the very hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Of stern injustice and confused wrong.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>And is't not pity, O my grieved friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>That we, the sons and children of this isle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Were born to see so sad an hour as this;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Wherein we step after a stranger march</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Upon her gentle bosom, and fill up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Her enemies' ranks,--I must withdraw and weep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Upon the spot of this enforced cause,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>To grace the gentry of a land remote,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>And follow unacquainted colours here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>What, here? O nation, that thou couldst remove!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>That Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>And grapple thee unto a pagan shore;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Where these two Christian armies might combine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>The blood of malice in a vein of league,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>And not to spend it so unneighbourly!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=40>A noble temper dost thou show in this;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>And great affections wrestling in thy bosom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Doth make an earthquake of nobility.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>O, what a noble combat hast thou fought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Between compulsion and a brave respect!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>Let me wipe off this honourable dew,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>My heart hath melted at a lady's tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>Being an ordinary inundation;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>But this effusion of such manly drops,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>This shower, blown up by tempest of the soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amazed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>Lift up thy brow, renowned Salisbury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>And with a great heart heave away the storm:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Commend these waters to those baby eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>That never saw the giant world enraged;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>Nor met with fortune other than at feasts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>Come, come; for thou shalt thrust thy hand as deep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>Into the purse of rich prosperity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>As Lewis himself: so, nobles, shall you all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>That knit your sinews to the strength of mine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>And even there, methinks, an angel spake:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CARDINAL PANDULPH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=65>Look, where the holy legate comes apace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>To give us warrant from the hand of heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>And on our actions set the name of right</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>With holy breath.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=69> Hail, noble prince of France!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>The next is this, King John hath reconciled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>Himself to Rome; his spirit is come in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>That so stood out against the holy church,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>The great metropolis and see of Rome:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>Therefore thy threatening colours now wind up;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>And tame the savage spirit of wild war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>That like a lion foster'd up at hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>It may lie gently at the foot of peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=78>And be no further harmful than in show.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=79>Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=80>I am too high-born to be propertied,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=81>To be a secondary at control,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=82>Or useful serving-man and instrument,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>To any sovereign state throughout the world.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=84>Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>Between this chastised kingdom and myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>And brought in matter that should feed this fire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>With that same weak wind which enkindled it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>You taught me how to know the face of right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>Acquainted me with interest to this land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=91>Yea, thrust this enterprise into my heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=92>And come ye now to tell me John hath made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=93>His peace with Rome? What is that peace to me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>I, by the honour of my marriage-bed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>After young Arthur, claim this land for mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=96>And, now it is half-conquer'd, must I back</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=97>Because that John hath made his peace with Rome?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=98>Am I Rome's slave? What penny hath Rome borne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=99>What men provided, what munition sent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=100>To underprop this action? Is't not I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=101>That undergo this charge? who else but I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>And such as to my claim are liable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>Sweat in this business and maintain this war?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=104>Have I not heard these islanders shout out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>'Vive le roi!' as I have bank'd their towns?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>Have I not here the best cards for the game,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>To win this easy match play'd for a crown?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=108>And shall I now give o'er the yielded set?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=109>No, no, on my soul, it never shall be said.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=110>You look but on the outside of this work.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=111>Outside or inside, I will not return</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=112>Till my attempt so much be glorified</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=113>As to my ample hope was promised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>Before I drew this gallant head of war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=115>And cull'd these fiery spirits from the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=116>To outlook conquest and to win renown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=117>Even in the jaws of danger and of death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Trumpet sounds</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=118>What lusty trumpet thus doth summon us?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the BASTARD, attended</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=119>According to the fair play of the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=120>Let me have audience; I am sent to speak:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=121>My holy lord of Milan, from the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=122>I come, to learn how you have dealt for him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=123>And, as you answer, I do know the scope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=124>And warrant limited unto my tongue.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=125>The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=126>And will not temporize with my entreaties;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=127>He flatly says he'll not lay down his arms.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=128>By all the blood that ever fury breathed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=129>The youth says well. Now hear our English king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=130>For thus his royalty doth speak in me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=131>He is prepared, and reason too he should:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=132>This apish and unmannerly approach,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=133>This harness'd masque and unadvised revel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=134>This unhair'd sauciness and boyish troops,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=135>The king doth smile at; and is well prepared</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=136>To whip this dwarfish war, these pigmy arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=137>From out the circle of his territories.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=138>That hand which had the strength, even at your door,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=139>To cudgel you and make you take the hatch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=140>To dive like buckets in concealed wells,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=141>To crouch in litter of your stable planks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=142>To lie like pawns lock'd up in chests and trunks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=143>To hug with swine, to seek sweet safety out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=144>In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=145>Even at the crying of your nation's crow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=146>Thinking his voice an armed Englishman;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=147>Shall that victorious hand be feebled here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=148>That in your chambers gave you chastisement?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=149>No: know the gallant monarch is in arms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=150>And like an eagle o'er his aery towers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=151>To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=152>And you degenerate, you ingrate revolts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=153>You bloody Neroes, ripping up the womb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=154>Of your dear mother England, blush for shame;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=155>For your own ladies and pale-visaged maids</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=156>Like Amazons come tripping after drums,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=157>Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=158>Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=159>To fierce and bloody inclination.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=160>There end thy brave, and turn thy face in peace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=161>We grant thou canst outscold us: fare thee well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=162>We hold our time too precious to be spent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=163>With such a brabbler.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>CARDINAL PANDULPH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=164>Give me leave to speak.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=165>No, I will speak.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=166> We will attend to neither.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=167>Strike up the drums; and let the tongue of war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=168>Plead for our interest and our being here.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=169>Indeed your drums, being beaten, will cry out;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=170>And so shall you, being beaten: do but start</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=171>An echo with the clamour of thy drum,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=172>And even at hand a drum is ready braced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=173>That shall reverberate all as loud as thine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=174>Sound but another, and another shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=175>As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=176>And mock the deep-mouth'd thunder: for at hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=177>Not trusting to this halting legate here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=178>Whom he hath used rather for sport than need</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=179>Is warlike John; and in his forehead sits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=180>A bare-ribb'd death, whose office is this day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=181>To feast upon whole thousands of the French.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>LEWIS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=182>Strike up our drums, to find this danger out.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>BASTARD</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=183>And thou shalt find it, Dauphin, do not doubt.</A><br> | |
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