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<H3>SCENE III. The field of battle.</h3>
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<i>Alarums. Enter KING JOHN and HUBERT</i>
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<A NAME=speech1><b>KING JOHN</b></a>
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<A NAME=1>How goes the day with us? O, tell me, Hubert.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech2><b>HUBERT</b></a>
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<A NAME=2>Badly, I fear. How fares your majesty?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech3><b>KING JOHN</b></a>
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<A NAME=3>This fever, that hath troubled me so long,</A><br>
<A NAME=4>Lies heavy on me; O, my heart is sick!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech4><b>Messenger</b></a>
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<A NAME=5>My lord, your valiant kinsman, Faulconbridge,</A><br>
<A NAME=6>Desires your majesty to leave the field</A><br>
<A NAME=7>And send him word by me which way you go.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech5><b>KING JOHN</b></a>
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<A NAME=8>Tell him, toward Swinstead, to the abbey there.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech6><b>Messenger</b></a>
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<A NAME=9>Be of good comfort; for the great supply</A><br>
<A NAME=10>That was expected by the Dauphin here,</A><br>
<A NAME=11>Are wreck'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands.</A><br>
<A NAME=12>This news was brought to Richard but even now:</A><br>
<A NAME=13>The French fight coldly, and retire themselves.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech7><b>KING JOHN</b></a>
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<A NAME=14>Ay me! this tyrant fever burns me up,</A><br>
<A NAME=15>And will not let me welcome this good news.</A><br>
<A NAME=16>Set on toward Swinstead: to my litter straight;</A><br>
<A NAME=17>Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
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