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THE COMEDIES, HISTORIES,
AND TRAGEDIES OF MR. WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
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XVIII.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING
JOHN
(The Players' Text of The Troublesome Raigne,
4fc., of 1591, with the Heminges and
Condell Text of the King
7ohn of 1623)
With an Introduction touching the Adaptations of the Quarto into
the Folio
BY
APPLETON MORGAN, A. M., LL. B. (COLUMBIA)
President of the New York Shakespeare Society; author of
" Shakespeare in Fact and in Criticism;" " Venus
and Adonis, A Study in Warwickshire Dialect;" " The Shakespearean Myth;"
" Digesta Shakespeareana; "
etc.
NEW YORK
THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK
1892



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I.
OF the thirty Plays,1 which have been at divers
periods and times attributed to Shakespeare, all, or
almost all, have now been traced, by their title-pages
or through their first publishers, or by means of long
since discredited critics, to their sources, and so the
figment of their Shakespearean origin finally and circumstantially disposed of. One might indeed say
of them all -  except perhaps of parts of the Edward
II., The Two Noble Kinsmen, the present play, the
"Contention" and the "True Tragedie" -that they
are not "doubtful," so far as a Shakespearean authorship may be suggested, in the least.
1 I make these thirty to be as follows: -
The Troublesome Raigne of The Double Falsehood.
John, King of England.     The Second Maiden's Tragedy.
The Famous Victories of Henry A Warning for Fair Women.
the Fifth.                 Sir John Oldcastle, Lord CobThe Contention between the Fa-  ham.
mous Houses of York and Lan- Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter.
caster.                    Duke Humphrey.
The True Tragedy of Richard, Locrine.
Duke of York.              Arden of Feversham.
The Arraignment of Paris.    Mucedorus.
The Merry Devil of Edmonton.  King Edward the Third.
The London Prodigal.         A Yorkshire Tragedy.
The Puritan, or the Widow of Eurialus and Lucretia.
Watling Street.            George h Greene.
The History of King Stephen.  Iphis and Ianthe.
The Life and Death of the Lord Henry the First and Henry the
Cromwell.                    Second.
The Two Noble Kinsmen.       Lorrino.
The Birth of Merlin.         Oldrastes.
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No consensus of casual readers assigns them to
Shakespeare. Indeed no " casual " reader has ever
so assigned them; it is only by that microscopic
criticism which climbs over and falls back upon
itself that a suggestion of such an authorship or
connection has ever been breathed: a case where
one may truly say that the "casual reader" comes
in to correct and revise the critical student with the
greatest advantage to the critical student, so apt is
poor human nature to become, like the dyer's hand,
subdued to what it works in, and so terribly prone to
discover that which it hunts for. For in no field of
research is what may be called the " generous specialist" so rare a bird as in the field of Shakespearean study, diagnosis, and hermeneutics. Yet
the fact that a piece of literary work was ever, at
any time and for any reason, assigned to the great
dramatist, appears to me to make that piece interesting, at least as indicating the passing opinion,
states of criticism, or estimation of different ages or
dates, not to suggest dozens of other circumstances
of more or less importance, and so as worthy of
examination from a circumstantial, even if worthless
from a critical, point of view.
But there are four of these Doubtful Plays, which
Shakespeare himself singled out of the list as
worthy to be rewritten by himself, and in their rewritten state to be admitted into his own canon, and
reentitled respectively, The Life and Death of King
7ohn, The Life of Henry the Fifth (and I am inclined to think that the suggestion for all the inimitable Falstaff parts of the I. and II. Henry IV. also
came from the old play), The Second Part of Henry
the Sixth, with the Death of the Good Duke Humphrey, and The Third Part of Henry the Sixth, with
the Death of the Duke of Yorke, etc.
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Famous Victories and The Troublesome Raigne, not
only attracted Shakespeare's attention but concentrated it. Both were printed in the old blackletter
type, then fast being discarded (employing, however,
italic types for proper names and roman types for
the stage directions, as if in this order these two
were most important -more important than the
text itself - for the actor to memorize). From the
first of these he took the idea of making a play out
of the traditional wildness of the youth of the noble
King Henry the Fifth, and I have considered it of
importance enough to print it in fac-simile to accompany our Bankside edition of The Life of Henry
the Fzfth, which Mr. Stokes has preluded by an admirable Introduction in volume xvi. of this work.
To the other, the attention of the student of dramatic
literature is now called, as instancing Shakespeare's
method of handling another important function of
the stagewright - the function of an adapter.
II.
In the Introduction to volume i. of this edition, I
stated my reasons for believing that the Play under
consideration, The Merry Wives of Windsor, was
one which Shakespeare had allowed to grow by its
own popularity and stage life, or, as we would say
to-day, by localisms, "gags," and other accretions
supplied by the actors themselves. In volume iv.
I found, as it seemed to me, in the Troilus and
Cressida, a play withdrawn as unpopular, because unplayable, with little or no action and packed with
long speeches which, eloquent and pregnant as they
were, the stage refused to carry: since even a
Shakespeare must learn, and learn by experience,
that between the dramatic and the literary, per se,
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thing very different from a story or a history cut up
into speeches. Titus Andronicus, again, I believed
a notable example of young Shakespeare (for I believe this was his first piece) subordinating much of
himself to timidly follow models then popular, and
masters whose works just then were holding the
stage and the public appetite.
In this Introduction to the Titus Andronicus, I
traced the development of the Interlude, from the
improvised antics of the disbanded miracle-play actors, up to a considerable settlement of form and
dialogue to be written out and memorized by the
performers. I imagine that the Interlude of Priam
and Hecuba, of which specimens are given by the
Player King in Hamlet, or the one called The Murder of Gonzago, to which Hamlet himself added a
dozen or fifteen lines, represents a stage in this development. And I think that Shakespeare himself,
in studying this development, saw that it was at this
or at about this stage that such Interludes furnished
a capital opportunity for burlesque, and so gave us
those two burlesques: the one so unapproachable for
its delineation of pure stupidity, and the other of
stupidity and assurance - the Interlude of the Nine
Worthies in Love's Labor Lost, and the Interlude
of Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night's
Dream. Both of the above-quoted plays - The Famous Victories and The Troublesome Raigne - are,
I think, perhaps examples of the mid-development
of the Interlude from its first stage of mere horseplay to its later stages of written dialogue with a
dramatic purpose.  The comparatively ambitious
Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth is merely a succession of short scenes, in which certain persons
figure without much regard to what the same or
other persons have done or will do in the prior or
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But The Troublesome Raigne of       ohzn, King of
England, is, I think, the next and last stage of the
Interlude, just where it ceases to be an Interlude
and becomes a stage play. It would be a very interesting pursuit, I think, if one should study our early
and middle English dramatic literature, to try and
find when and in what piece it first dawned upon the
writer that to be dramatic one must delineate character as well as action; and that each speaker in the
dialogue must develop his own character by his
speech; and not by his own or another's statement in
the course of the play. (Observe Shakespeare himself learning this lesson. Observe how Aaron the
Moor, in Titus Andronicus, tells us what his own
character is, how he loves bloodshed and is not
happy without at least his one crime a day: and
then see how, later on, Iago (whom I suspect to have
been the perfected work for which Aaron was the
thumb-nail sketch) cannot open his lips without assuring us of the villain that he is.) And accordingly,
I think I perceive in this elder play of King John
that the old writer, in following the chronicle of
Holinshed and Hall so exactly, made up his mind
that King John's speeches ought to bear out the
character which the old chronicles gave him. For
example, he would read in the old chronicles: -
" He was comelie of stature, but of looke and countenance
displeasant and angrie, somewhat cruell of nature, as by the
writers of his time he is noted, and not so hardie as doubtfull
in time of perill and danger. But this seemeth to be an enuious
report vttered by those that were giuen to speake no good of
him whome they inwardlie hated."
" Moreouer, the pride and pretended authoritie of the cleargie
he could not well abide, when they went about to wrest out of
his hands the prerogatiue of his princelie rule and gouernment. True it is that to mainteine his warres which he was
forced to take in hand, as well in France as elsewhere, he was
constreined to make all the shift he could deuise to recouer
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no small hatred against him, which when he perceiued, and
wanted peraduenture discretion to passe it ouer, he discouered
now and then in his rage his immoderate displeasure, as one
not able to bridle his affections, a thing verie hard in a stout
stomach, and thereby missed now and then to compasse that
which otherwise he might verie well haue brought to passe." '
And so, even in the old play, the reader will notice -what the English drama was a long while
coming to, and what it had taken a long stride
when it had achieved - the identification with a
certain character of a certain method and trick or
fashion of speech, in the writer's treatment of the
King's story.
It is very curious to observe that, in adapting this
piece, Shakespeare did not, as in the case of The
Famous Victories, recast the entire story and supply
a new action. On the other hand, he seems to have
been perfectly satisfied with the action as it stood,
and the parallelization shows an almost perfect following of the order of incidents of the old play in
the new one (though, as we shall see, he sometimes
put a speech for a scene or a scene for a speech
in the rewriting).
But while retaining the action, Shakespeare absolutely rewrote the dialogue from beginning to end.
So complete, indeed, is this rewriting of the entire
play, that our parallelization detects but three absolute identities, and one, perhaps, only a typographical
variation:Q. 51. Ireland, Poiters, Aniow, Torain, Main.
F. 16. Ireland, Poyctiers, Aniowe, Torayne, Maine.
Q. 861. Volqueffon, Torain, Main, Poiters and Aniou, thefe
flue Prouinces.
F. 847. Volqueffen, Toraine, Maine, Poyctiers, and Aniow,
these flue Prouinces.
Q. 2616. For that my Grandfire was an Englifhman.
F. 2492. (For that my Grandfire was an Englifhman)
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- this being, perhaps, a fourth -
Q. 512. Next them a Baftard of the Kings deceaft.
F. 358. With them a Baftard of the Kings deceaft.
With the formal demand, however, which Cardinal
Pandulph, acting as papal Legate, makes upon King
John, to show cause why he has overruled the selection of Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury, Shakespeare is careful--while putting it
into the blank verse which the revision required -
to tamper very little. Freed from the archaic typography, the two stand thus (Q. 1007-1024, F.
Io63-1o85):Know, John, that I, Pandulph, Cardinal of Milan, and Legate from the See of Rome, demand of thee, in the name of our
holy father, the Pope Innocent, why thou dost -contrary to
the laws of our holy Mother, the Church, and our holy Father,
the Pope - disturb the quiet of the Church and disannul the
election of Stephen Langton, whom His Holiness hath elected
Archbishop of Canterbury. This, in his Holiness's name, I
demand of thee!
I, Pandulph, of fair Milan Cathedral,
And from Pope Innocent the Legate here,
Do, in his name, religiously demand
Why thou, against the Church, our holy Mother,
So wilfully doth spurn, and force perforce
Keep Stephen Langton, chosen Archbishop
Of Canterbury, from that holy See.
This, in our foresaid holy Father's name,
Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee!
In this versed form, Shakespeare strictly preserves the words of import -those which, that is,
lay the stress precisely upon the claim of jurisdiction for the Pope--for the Legate upon the credentials of Langton, upon the "disanulling" (that
is, the preventing, by force, Langton's possession of
the See), and upon the notice to show cause why,
etc. And it will be interesting to those who please
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observe the King, in the first line of his Folio answer,
recognizing the legal intendment and solemnity of
the notice delivered by the Legate: -
What earthly name to Interrogatories
Can taste the free breath of a sacred King?
- "Interrogatories" being the technical name, to
this day, for questions which are constructively
asked by a court of competent jurisdiction, and
which cannot be ignored or left unanswered. And
the answer he as king proceeds to give, in both the
Quarto and the Folio versions, is clearly and emphatically that, as king, he will have no Italian Priest to
lay taxes (" have tythe, toll, or poling penie out of
England," as the Quarto says; " Shall tythe or toll
in our dominions," as the Folio).   The spiritual
power of the Pope the King distinctly considers,
excepting it from his answer, in the Folio, instead
of including it in his denial, as in the Quarto.
Had any lingering doubt, therefore, been possible
as to the Shakespearean authorship of The Troublesome Raigne, this fact would have alone sufficed to
dispel it. That a dramatist would rewrite his own
play from beginning to end, without retaining a single word or figure of speech, is all but inconceivable. With the above trifling exceptions, it will
be perceived that our parallelization is neccessarily
tentative and approximate only, not to say largely
conjectural; relying rather upon similar points in
the progress of the action, or the narrative, than
upon similarities in the texts. The reader, therefore,
will accept the outer line notation on the Quarto
page as a guide only, or possibly do better himself.
For example, in the Quarto lines (936-938) spoken
by Constance,Goe in with me, reply not louely boy,
We muf? ob/cure this mone with melodie,
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- the concordance - expressed by the notation -
I think is with the eight lines, Folio 988-995:Con. Thou maift, thou fhalt, I will not go with thee,
I will inftru~ my forrowes to bee proud,
For greefe is proud, and makes his owner ftoope,
To me and to the ftate of my great greefe,
Let kings affemble: for my greefe's fo great,
That no fupporter but the huge firme earth
Can hold it vp: here I and forrowes fit,
Heere is my Throne, bid kings come bow to it.
The reasons leading me to this concordance are,
first, that the story seems to have reached this point;
and, second, Constance's exit. An objection to this
concordance is of course that whereas in the Quarto
Constance asks Arthur, and not Salisbury, to accompany her (Q. 936), in the Folio (988) it is Salisbury
who invites her to accompany him, and she declines.
But this is overcome, I think, by the two preceding
considerations, and somewhat by the conjecture that
Constance's proposition to dissemble--to obscure
moans with melody - might be made more queenly
and magnificent if, instead, she should obscure them
with her pride, that is "instruct her sorrows to be
proud." But, as I said above, this reasoning might
not be satisfactory to anybody else in such a carte
blanche matter as the paralleling of two antique
dialogues.
III.
In fact, nobody knows, or can conjecture, who wrote
this old play. There is an interesting specimen of
the Historie - which is also in so far a specimen of
a Morality, that it may be almost said to supply an
otherwise "missing link" or point of departure in
the evolution of the English drama, as showing
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tified again - upon the same general subject as The
Troublesome Raigne. It is by John Bale, an English
Bishop; it was written prior to 1563, and is called
King 7ohan.
This interesting relic exists in manuscript in
Bishop Bale's own handwriting, apparently never having been printed by its author, or at all, until Mr.
Collier's interesting edition in or about 1838. The
historical characters in this production are King
John, Pope Innocent, Cardinal Pandulph, Archbishop
Langton, the monk Simon of Swineshead, and another called Raymondus. Besides these there were
the impersonifications of the Morality: Imperial
Majesty, who takes charge of the government after
King John's death; the three estates, Nobility,
Clergy, and Civil Order; Treason, Verity, and Sedition, -the last of whom was the Vice or Jester.
England, the nation, is also a character, represented
as a widow. Bishop Bale's play is in two parts, for
convenience of stage representation, and it breathes
the same hatred of the Roman Catholic clergy as
The Troublesome Raigne; but with these the similarity ceases. For Bishop Bale's King John is noble,
patriotic, and generous, while his aspirations to benefit his country are foiled or neutralized by the
malice of the Romish clergy; a character quite the
reverse of Shakespeare's monarch, crafty and overreaching and finally surrendering to his own combined guilt and weakness.
Of The Troublesome Raigze we have no appearance prior to the text here reprinted in the exactly
imitated blackletter of its original. Where it came
from, where Sampson Clarke got it before he printed
it and exposed it for sale at his shop on the "backeside of the Royall Exchange," nobody knows. No
Stationers' entry announced it, and no member of
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print it. Neither is there any internal evidence to
fix its authorship. There are in it many noble lines
which Shakespeare himself might not have been
ashamed of. But some of the lines, such as, -
Oh, I am undone! Fair Alice the nun
Hath took up her rest in the Abbot's chest.
Sancte benedicitie, pardon my simplicitie.
Fie Alice! confession will not salve this transgression,
- baffle all conjecture. They are not in the vein of
any known Elizabethan dramatist, and suggest the
doggerel of the old miracle-plays and mysteries,
whose authorship was probably always composite.
Very likely Shakespeare may have expressed the
approval with which he regarded it, or his intention
to rewrite it, for in 1611 this old play was reprinted,
and this time with a bold claim that the old play
itself was by William Shakespeare: at least the initials "W. Sh." were of commercial value to Simmes
and Helme as leading to an impression that Shakespeare was really its author. Dr. Halliwell-Phillipps
points out that the removal of the words, " as it was
(fundry times) publikely acted by the Queenes Maie/lies Players, in the honorable Cittie of London,"
was in accordance with the fact that the Company
to which Shakespeare belonged had no public theatre in the "City"- their only City theatre being
the Blackfriars, a private play-house. "The retention of the word Queenes," he adds, "may perhaps
show that this edition of 1611 was a mere reprint in
every particular of an unknown impression which
may have appeared between between the year 1591
and the death of Queen Elizabeth.
This second quarto title-page ran: -
The first and Second Part I of the Troublesome Raigne
of | John King of England. j with the Discouerie of King
Richard Cordelions base Sonne I Vulgarly named, the Bastard
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stead Abbey. I As they were (sundry times) lately acted I by the
Queenes Maiesties Players. I Written by W. Sh. I Imprinted
at London by Valentine Simmes, for 7okn I Helme, and are
to be sold at his Shop in Saint j Dunstans Church-yard in
Fleetestreet. 1611. I
But when in 1622 a third quarto was printed by
Aug. Matthewes for Thomas Dewe, this " By W.
Sh." had grown to "By W. Shakespeare." The
words, "By the Queenes Maiefties Players," were
dropped, but otherwise the body of the title-page remained the same as in Helme's edition.
The old play is, of course, what was known as a
Chronicle History. It must have been written earlier than would be indicated by the reference in the
prologue to Part I., " To the Gentlemen Readers,"
to Marlowe's Tamburlaine, which was performed in
1590. Indeed, I think that this prologue or preface
was only added on publication of the play. I think
it highly impossible that the old play, with its emphatic libels upon and bold speeches denunciatory of
the Old Faith and of the Catholic Church could
have been performed after Elizabeth's proclamations
of April 7 and May 16, 1599,1 in which all plays were
forbidden "wherein matters of religion or of the
government of the Commonwealth are handled or
treated," which may account- and, to me, does entirely and satisfactorily account -for the removal
of the scurrilous scenes libelling the Roman Church
without the load of discussion as to whether Shakespeare was Catholic or Protestant, with which a commentary upon this play is usually burdened.
The removal need not, however, be referred even
to this simplest of explanations. For the scandalous
matter of the monk and the nun in each other's private apartments occurs in the course of the long
details as to Falconbridge's raid upon the religious
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houses, which he had been ordered to make to meet
the King's expenses. The one hundred and seventeen lines (Q. 1239 to Q. 1356) which dilate upon
these details, Shakespeare rejected, covering the entire episode with just three lines (F. 155 1-1553):The baftard Falconbridge
Is now in England, ranfacking the Church,
Offending Charity:
and then with two more, being a speech of Falconbridge's announcing the success of his rapine
(F. 1855-1856):How I haue fped among the Clergymen,
The fummes I have colle6ted shall expreffe.
With the charge that the monks of Swinsted poisoned the King when he was in their power, Shakespeare, as the charge was never either proven or
disproven, deals perhaps more gingerly, but he
even more ruthlessly abridges the allotment to them
of the old play. Here the one hundred and fifteen
Quarto lines (2859-2973) which show us the King
at the Abbey, his reception there, the banquet in
the garden, the cup of drink concocted from the entrails of a toad, the death of the monk who officiated
as the King's taster, the death of the King himself,
and the stabbing of the Abbot by Falconbridge in
revenge, are entirely discarded and their place in
the action supplied by the single line (F. 2567)
spoken by Hubert to the Bastard, -
The King I feare is poyfon'd by a Monke.
In short, whatever reason may be assigned for the
excision of all the reflections upon the Roman Catholic Church - or however the excision may afford opportunity for argument as to Shakespeare's personal
religious preferences - the Play, as Shakespeare left
it, is patriotic, not polemical, in spirit. The protest
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temporal, not as a spiritual usurper in England. So
far as one may judge of Shakespeare from his dramatic works, he was a man who kept his religious
opinions - if he had any - strictly to himself!
IV.
This old play Shakespeare now took for his own
stage and proceeded, as we have said, to rewrite it
from beginning to end. The old play opens with
some fifty or sixty lines of rambling dialogue, from
which the reader may draw that the King of France
desires some sort of conference or "dicker" with
King John, relative to the old claims of France to
the English crown, and of England to the French
crown (which were continually being bandied about,
back and forth, in the old Plantagenet days, and
concerning which the Historical plays have always
so much to say). Shakespeare drew his pen through
all this dialogue and opened the play with the single
sentence, -
Now say, Chatillion, what would France with us?
-a splendid and imperious utterance, which at once
states the situation, and tells us at once that France
desires an interview not only, but that England does
not, and is disposed not only to refuse it, but, if reluctantly granted, to maintain a stern opposition to
whatever France may intend to offer or to urge.
All this is fairly implied and conveyed to the audience in eight short words of that dramatic diction
which the consummate artist playwright uses to at
once carry his action along, and to state his situation
and infer to the spectator the motive which he finds
adverse to him and proposes to thwart, as well as
his own probable course, whether straightforward or
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cannot imagine a more capital specimen) is an exemplification of the Art Dramatic: the art of telling
a story to ear, eye, and intelligence at once, an art
which, the more I study Shakespeare, seems to me
to have been created by him, independently of its
evolution from classic or anterior models.
But something else is wanting, besides narrative
and action, to a perfect drama. There must be a central character for hero: that is to say, a strong individuality to which the sympathy of the audience may
cling-- one whose fortunes each individual of the
audience will follow, and in whose success, moral or
material, each spectator is himself to feel rewarded.
There was no such personage in The Troublesome
Raigne. There was, however, a character, Falconbridge, who, after a rambling sort of fashion, met and
surmounted obstacles, and this personage Shakespeare immediately seized upon, and around him he
grouped the entire action of his play, making the
success of his motive - this character's personal
success, and the triumph of the purpose of the play
- his personal triumph: which for stage availability
must always be the successful end and aim of every
true dramatic production. But there is more yet.
The perfect piece of dramatic work, written not
for the closet, but for the stage and the spectator,
must not only avoid obscurity, and allot certain situations to words, certain other to action, and certain
other to stage scenery or stage effect, and unite all
these upon every movement, but it must so unify all
these that no situation shall be introduced except as
the result of a preceding, and the exciting cause
of a future, situation. No matter how pathetic,
comic, or eloquent a scene, if it do not belong in
the dramatic progress, it will weary the spectator
and kill the piece. Now, The Troublesome Raigne
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frail child to work upon our sympathies, as Shakespeare saw the opportunity of making him, but a
rather colorless young man, with very little to say
for himself - figures. In one of them Hubert is
sent to put out his eyes in prison. In the old play
Arthur objects upon what we would say were rather
intellectual grounds for a young man about to be tortured. Upon being apprised of his errand he says to
Hubert:Advise thee, Hubert, for the case is hard -
To lose salvation for a king's reward.
Hubert. My lord, a subject dwelling in the land
Is tied to execute the king's command.
Arthur. Yet God commands, whose power reacheth further,
That no command should stand in force to murther.
Hubert. But that same Essence hath ordained a law,
A death for guilt, to keep the world in awe.
This may be exemplary, but it is not dramatic.
We all know what Shakespeare made of it: a piteous
pleading and a relenting, which nowhere in literature or poetry can be touched for pathos. And I
may add that Hubert himself, from a mere figure
in the old play, is rewritten into a human being;
and into a rugged, honest, and rather praiseworthy
person.
Again, in the old play Queen Constance holds a
sort of short didactic dialogue with herself as to
whether, upon classical precedent, she would be
justified in shedding a few tears for the loss of her
child!
My tongue is tuned to story forth mishap:
When did I breathe to tell a pleasing tale?
Must Constance speak? Let tears prevent her talk.
Must I discourse? Let Dido sigh, and say
She weeps again to hear the wrack of Troy:
Two words will serve, and then my tale is done -
Elinor's proud brat hath robbed me of my son!
Those seven stilted and impossible lines Shakespeare



Introduction

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rewrote into that expression of poignant grief whose
eloquence has no match in literature, and which has
made Constance's grief for her child a synonym for
the acme of maternal bereavement, and will always
keep it so! And, in closing the parallelization, what
shall we say of the genius, not only for stage art,
but for that summit of the sublime which could
mould over such commonplaces as
Let England live but true within itself,
And all the world can never wrong her state;
and
If England's peers and people join in one,
Not Pope, nor France, nor Spain can do them wrong!
into the glorious
This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror
But when it first did help to wound itself.
Come the three corners of the world in arms,
And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,
If England to itself do rest but true.
In the rewriting, Shakespeare makes the ten acts
of the old play over into five - the regulation number in which all his other plays are given. But,
although curtailing and cutting very liberally, it is
curious to see that Shakespeare is perfectly willing
to take the sequence of the play as cut. He only
really adds on his own account one new scene: that
between Falconbridge and Hubert to wit: Scena
Sexta, at F. 2537-2589.
Among the minor points where Shakespeare next
saw room for improvement: he forced a tedious old
prophet in the earlier play - Peter of Pomfret, who
makes, in all, three long speeches - to content himself with just one line before he takes himself and his
five moons off the stage forever: cut away the long



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aside soliloquies of Falconbridge as against all stage
form - and there is no canon so inexorable to-day
in stage art as that soliloquy is to be admitted very
charily. One more example of this prophetic knowledge, as we might call it: a case where Shakespeare
does exactly what a stagewright or stage manager
of to-day would do, were that old play brought to
him for mounting. Turn to the scene where there
is a confusion and a hand-to-hand struggle on the
battlefield, Queen Elinor is captured by a party
of the enemy - then Falconbridge recaptures her.
The point, all that is necessary to the course of the
story, is that Elinor has been captured and recaptured. This being all that Shakespeare wants, he
simply brings in a person who makes that statement.
Thus a long episode of purposeless action, which
would only delay, is cut out quite as peremptorily as
Mr. Puff cut out pages of dialogue with his striking
clock.1
Nor did Shakespeare's refining hand omit to remedy the smaller points, where taste and delicacy
might be appealed to. In the old play, for example,
there is a scene where two brothers dispute, in their
mother's presence, concerning their own legitimacy,
one of them going so far as to threaten her with
death if she do not reveal the truth to him. Such a
scene as this, so repulsive to the least filial or manly
instinct, we may be sure went by the board when
the great Dramatist, great in every item and phase
and department of his Art, adapted and made The
Troublesome Raigne over into his sombre and splendid KING JOHN.
APPLETON MORGAN.
1 " I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the
audience - it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about
gilding the eastern hemisphere." - The Critic.



WE, the undersigned, a Committee appointed by
The Shakespee Ses Society of New York to confer and
report upon a Notation for The Bankside Edition
of the plays of William Shakespeare, hereby certify
that the Notation of the present volume: of which
five hundred copies only are printed, of which this
copy is No.: is that resolved upon by us, and
reported by us to, and adopted by, The Shakespeare
Society of New York.
ALVEY A. ADEE, Chairman.
COMMITTEE  THOMAS R. PRICE.
COMMITTEE
WM. H. FLEMING.
APPLETON MORGAN.



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Troublefome Raigne
of John King of England, withthe difl
couerie of I(ingRichardCordelions
Bare fonne (vulgarly named, TheBaflardFawconbridge): al/o the
deathof King John at Swinfclad
t"bkoy'
Asit Tas (jindryfimes) p eblikelyaCed1by the
9euenes Jer.taieflier'l~P1ers, in the hoiourabl/e (itie of
London.
Imprinted at London for Sampxn (lare4,
andareto befolde at bishopon ithe backeadeof theRdysId xchan*g.
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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF
KING IOHN.
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To the Gentlemen Readers.
2      Ou that with friendly grace offmoothed brow
3 Y    Haue entertaind the Scythian Tamburlaine,
4     And giuen applaufe vnto an Infidel:
5 Vouchfafe to welcome (with like curtejie)
t6 A warlike Christian and your Countreyman.
7 For Christs true faith indur'd he many a lorme,
8 Andfet himfelfe against the Man of Rome,
9 Vntill bafe treafon (by a damned wight)
1o Did all his former triumphs put to flight,
i, Accept of it (fweete Gentles) in goodfort,
12 And thinke it was preparde for your disport.



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1 '3 The troublefome Raigne of
'4                King Jokn.
1  15 Enter K.Iohn,Queene Elinorhis mother, William Marikal.
2  16   Earle of Pembrooke, the Earles of EJfex, and of Salisbury
17                   Queene Elianor.
18          a trong; of England, anb my noble twopb;
'J    1     Th ouqg l  ob anb #o tune laue bereft from be0
20o         W Zittoiou0 Richard fcourge of jnfibelo,
21 18       ~atnb clab tlio Lanb in fole of bifmall ieu;
22a  et gitue me leaue to ioy, anb itoy you all,
23 That efrom tli boombe l)atl) fpgung a feconb lbopt
24 A   ing thlat may intrule anub bertue both
25 0uttfbe bio bottl)er in liso  mperie.
26 K. John $y    ractiou0 motler lFueene, aub Iarons all;
27  l)ouqb farre bntoottlgie of Co l)igl a place,
28 3, it thet llteone of mightie Englands Ding:
s29  et lohn yourt Lob, contenteb btcontent,
30 Will (a l)e may) fuftaine the leauie yoke
31 Of pQeffing care%, that bang bpon a Crotbne.
32 $? ItOb of Pembrooke anb 1Lo)b Salsbury,
33 tbmit tie iLogb Shattilion to our pgefence;
34 TDClat Wxe may knos W btat Phil ring of Fraunce
s35 (15Vy )io  mbaffabog;) require0 of b.o
36  Q.Elinor Dare lay my V)anb that Elinor can geffe



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The life and death of King Iohn.
Aflus Primus, Scana Prima.
Enter King John, Queene Elinor, Pembroke, Effex, and Sa-  2
lisbury, with the Chattylion of France.          3



The troublefome Raigne of King lohn

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37M Wireto t1)oi Weigybtie Cmbaffabe botb tenm:
38 3f of mI jfPpljttxb Arthur anb li claitme,
39 TOetn fap mVt   onne 31 laut not midt mV aime.
4o Enter Chattilion and the two Earles.
5  41  John 9 01tob Chattilion, tdelcome into England:
42 0o1u farro our )13otltr Phili Jing of Fraunce?
6  43  Chatt. t2ii  iglnt)   8at m  comming b3ag in ljtaltl,
44 3nb Dilb me to rfalutt 1our  paitfit,
45 nb faV tlCj ieffaC l t l)atj giutn in c)jarge.
46  John anb fpare not man, iot are pt  parbe to leart.
6  47  Chattilion. Phili! bp tlt gract of Iob mot Zli itian n1.
48 Of France, lauinq taktn into l)i0 guarbain anb ptotetion Ar49 thur Dule of Brittaine, on 1 ltire to leffrey tbine elber blo:
50 t1)tt, requiretl in tlrt betalfe of tl)r faib Arthur, tl e  ingbom
1   51 of England, itl) tl) e Lobtlyip of Ireland, Poiters, Aniow,
52 Torain, Main: anb  1 attenb tiinte aunftrt.
21 53   lohn. a (mall requtf: belike te makte account
54 jb)at England, Ireland, Poiters, Aniow, Torain, Main,
s,5  re notling foq a iiing to giue at once:
56 ] Cionbtr bOlat ) metante to letaut fo me,
26 s57  1ell Phi/ip, le maV httpte Olis tio ib at lome,
58 Waitt bgreattr tlonour tIan to fenb tlem tlu0
59 On embaffabet tthat not contcmnt timfelfe,
6o 0; if tEWV bin, i oulb etlb but fmall return.
6z  Chatilion  3  tbl an  to ineo an tattr  f
62  Iohn 31t iso anb too goob an anfiver fo; (o ploub a metage.



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King lohn.                                     4
Ow fay Chatillion, what would France with vs?  5
Chat. Thus (after greeting) fpeakes the King  6
of France,                                 7
In my behauiour to the Maiefly,              8
The borrowed Maiefty of England heere.               9
Elea. A ftrange beginning: borrowed Maiefty?    10
K.lohn. Silence (good mother) heare the Embaffie.  11
Chat. Philip of France, in right and true behalfe  12
Of thy deceafed brother, Geffreyes fonne,           13
Arthur Plantaginet, laies moft lawfull claime       14
To this faire Iland, and the Territories":          15
To Ireland, Poyfliers, Aniowe, Torayne, Maine,      16
Defiring thee to lay afide the fword                17
Which fwaies vfurpingly thefe feuerall titles,      18
And put the fame into yong Arthurs hand,            19
Thy Nephew, and right royall Soueraigne.            20
K.Iohn. What followes if we difallow of this?    21
Chat. The proud controle of fierce and bloudy warre,  22
To inforce thefe rights, fo forcibly with-held,     23
K.Io. Heere haue we war for war, & bloud for bloud,  24
Controlement for controlement: fo anfwer France.    25



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26 63   Chattilion  rtjn Ding of England, in my $affer0 name,
64 2nb in h pince Arthur   uk e of Britaines name,
65 3J boo befit tIee as an enemie,
22 66 anb tuifl t)ee to pgepare fo bloobie tuarreo.
67  Q. Elinor afy t.o0b (tIat fanboo bpon befiance tlus)
68 Commenb me to my pSeepttu, tell thle boy,
69 Tbiat 1 uMenet Elianor (bi0' ranbmotler)
70 Ilpon my bleffing diarge iim leaue li b  armeo,
71 Wbereto bio 1tab.strong ipotber p hico bim fo:
72 etr ppibe tae hnotu, anb knoti 1mer foq a tiame
73   tat Wtill not ftiche to bpin  im to his enbe,
74 4o Ote may bping ler felfe to rule a 3Jealme.
s ftiet tutfa t1im to foqfahe tltte Iing of Fraunce,
76 2nb come to me anb to Ii% ZJucle ljere.
77 2nb je flpall tan t fo notuing at our fanbs.
78  Chattilion. IU)bi tOall 3 boo, anb tbug 3 talte my leaue.
79  John Pembrooke, conUay l)im faftly to the fea,
8o 1I3ut not in b)ar: foe as tWe are abu'ife,
81 W2e meane to be in Fraunce ae foone as hbe,
82 To fogtefie fult totunes ao tWe polffeffe
s36 83 Jn Aniou, Torain anb in Normandy.           Exit Chatt.



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Chat. Then take my Kings defiance from my mouth,  26
The fartheft limit of my Embaffie.                 27
K.Iohn. Beare mine to him, and fo depart in peace,  28
Be thou as lightning in the eies of France;        29
For ere thou canft report, I will be there:        30
The thunder of my Cannon fhall be heard.           31
So hence:be thou the trumpet of our wrath,        32
And fullen prefage of your owne decay:             33
An honourable conduct let him haue,                34
Pembroke looke too't: farewell Chattillion.        35
Exit Chat and Pem. 36
Ele. What now my fonne, haue I not euer faid     37
How that ambitious Constance would not ceafe       38
Till fhe had kindled France and all the world,     39
Vpon the right and party of her fonne.             40
This might haue beene preuented, and made whole    41
With very eafie arguments of loue,                 42
Which now the mannage of two kingdomes muft        43
With fearefull bloudy iffue arbitrate.             44
K. Iohn. Our ftrong poffeffion, and our right for vs.  45
Eli. Your ftrong poffefsi5 much more then your right, 46
Or elfe it muft go wrong with you and me,          47



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o50  84 Enter the Shriue, & whifpers the Earle of Salfin the eare.
85  Salisbury. pleafe it your   aieftie, beere iso tle alQiue of
86 Northamptonhire, tiitl certaine perfon  th)at of late com:
87 mitteb a riot, anb tbaue appealb to your 9aieftie befeedinq
88 vour   igone tfoý fpeciall caufe to bearte tlem.
89  John Wil them come neere, anb tubitlete ltearet the caulte,
go  3oe Salsbury anb makte p*ouifion,
91 WZe meant WIity fpeebt to paffe thle fea to Fraunce,
92 Way  btlieue, ~tbat are tiefe men, itulat )aue tley bone
93 O   ttJberaetw tenb0 the courfe of tli0 appeale?
51  94  Shrieue. 1leafe it your aieaieir tblefe tWuO betlte  t bnna,
95 turally falling at omg; about tbeir fatlbero liuing bate býo*
96 ten your 2iltunes peace, in fecking to right tleir otun W, w,,
97 tUitlout caufe of Laatu, o ober of lufitce, anb Wnlatifully af
98 fembleb tlemfelue0 in mutinous manner,lauing committeb
on a riot, appealing from triall in tteir Countrey to your 2isbfr,oo ne: anbD tere ]j Thomas Nidigate ýDgieue    of Notthamp'or tonjhire, bo beliner taem ouer to tteir triall.
102 10Jhn aft LO)b of EffeX, Will the offenbero to ftanb foogtt,
o103 anb tell ttje caufe of tteir quarrell.
o104 Effex eOrntlemen, it is tie rtingo pleafure ttat you bifcoxos uer your griefre, ' Doubt not but you tall Iate iuftice.
xo6  Philip pleafe it your 9aieftie, tt)e tiong i' mine; yet tWil
107 J3 abibe all Wuýongt, befoerJ1 once open my mouti to bnrippe
108 te lfamefull flaunber oftmy parents,ttbe bift)onour of myfelf,
ros  te tuicteb bealing of my b~otIer in ttis p~incely afftembly.
64 n o  Robert T1Jben by my Vpiince Ii% leaue flall Robert fpeake,.r1 1 nb tell your 9aietie  totat riglt 3 baue
12z To ouer tupon, as g e accouncerb t iong.
13 Ov # atljer(not bnknotuen bnto your Orace)
114 Recriub )i0 o fpurtreof J Utitt tboob in tbe #ielb,



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So much my confcience whifpers in your eare,        48
Which none but heauen, and you, and I, fhall heare.  49
Enter a Sheriffe.                   50
Effex. My Liege, here is the ftrangeft controuerfie  51
Come from the Country to be iudg'd by you           52
That ere I heard: hall I produce the men?         53
K.Iohn. Let them approach:                        54
Our Abbies and our Priories fhall pay               55
This expeditious charge: what men are you?        56
Enter Robert Faulconbridge, and Philip.     57
Philip. Your faithfull fubie6t, I a gentleman,    58
Borne in Northamptonjkire, and eldeft fonne         59
As I fuppofe, to Robert Faulconbridge,             6so
A Souldier by the Honor-giuing-hand                  61
Of Cordelion, Knighted in the field.                62
K.Iohn. What art thou?                            63
Robert. The fon and heire to that fame Faulconbridge.  64



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11s 5 t ttitngly Richards bandb in Palestine,
16 ZWien as the tuallt of Acon aue t)im iaV:
117 ViA name   itr Robert Fauconbridge of Mountbery.
118 Z Wbat b fucceffion from big;i ~unceffouro,
119 z  nb Warlike feruitce nber Englands 2rmer,
120t kis liuing bib amount tco at ig beatdj
121 Who thoufanb Markeo reurnext    eutrr Vearet:
122 anb tliS (mV ilob) 3 rlallenge foq my right,
123 s  latfull breire to Robert Fauconbridge,
124  Philip. 3f firft botne fonne be Ieire inbubitate
125 WVE certaine rigbt of Englands auncient Late,
126 tyobu Vjoulb myfelfe make any otler boubt,
127 13ut 1 am l)eire to Robert Fauconbridge?
128  Iohn fon b   out), to trouble tlefe our ppincly t aret
129 Oý make a queftion in fo plaine a taft
130 fptake, is tlhio man t)ine elber )13otler boyne
131  Robert pleafe it your &Oate iuitlt patience foý to lb)eare;
132 3 not benie but b)e mine CIlber i',
1 33 ine elter r13otlper too: vet in furd fogt,
134 a  l)e can matte no title to th e tLanb
r35  John 2 boubtfull tale as euer }3 bib beare,
65s 136 GTlyy 1otler ant tltine elter, anu no bitre:
137 C-plaine this barke zEnzigma.
138  Robert J1 graunt (my 10otb) lbe it my motlero fonne,
139 l3afe boene, anb bafe begot, no Fauconbridge.
140  1nbeebe thje toolb reputes lim latufull tbeire,
141   y Vfatler in )i0 life bib count im fo,
142 anb )tere my V 0otber fanbo t0 ppooue )im fo:
143 ll3ut 3 (my V 0lob) can pooue, anb boo auerre,44 13ot to my B9ottber Oflame anb i0 repFoact,
145 te is no leire noV yet legitimate.
146  )Cen (gratiouo ilo0b) let Fauconbridge enio?
147  lbe liuing that belonp; to Fauconbridge.
148 Anb let not Iim poffeTte anotber0 rtigt.



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K.Iohn. Is that the elder, and art thou the heyre?
You came not of one mother then it feemes.
Phihp. Moft certain of one mother, mighty King,
That is well knowne, and as I thinke one father:

65
66

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149  John  Joue tI)i, tthe lanb id tI ine bV Englands laWD.
72 150  Q. Elianor    angracious vouti, to rip tbI motIerf Qlame,
151 sI S   toombe from ittlence tbou bibff tIV being take,
152 A11 boneftfearer abblogre tlb ticheltnes,
153 Vut gol 31 fee botI beate tbotne natures laiD.
154  Mother.-2 vgratiou  iLo to, Q iou ttlite reuettenb t  ame,
155  EIbat fee the tearert bitilling from mine ever,
156  ntb ftalting figbrso bloltne from a rentet beart:
157 J fo  ornour ant regart' of tomantloot,
158 Let me entreate to be commauneD b'lence
159 tet not tbefe eartes reciue thee iiffing fount
r6o Of fuclt  a biper, lWbo IWitl poefont' t 'qoo
161 E)oto mafferate tie boielet  of my foule.
79 r62 lohn. iLatie, fantb b p, be patient foý a ltt)ile:
63 ntb fellot, far, tliote baftart io tlv b otlter.
164  Ph pilp pot fo my felfe, no fo my motter notu:
x65 )But foq thte lonour of fo bpaue a a9an,
r66 WbhMom be accufet)  ait ) abulterie:
167 tere 1 befect) your Orace lpon my knees,
x68 TJo count him mat, and fo tifmiffe bo bence.
z6g  Robert Poý mat, noý mate, but WIell abuifet, 3
170 Clarse tIWee befope tie royall pefence here



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But for the cerraine knowledge of that truth,      69
I put you o're to heauen, and to my mother;        70
Of that I doubt, as all mens children may.         71
Eli. Out on thee rude man, j doft fhame thy mother,  72
And wound her honor with this diffidence.          73
Phil. I Madame? No, I haue no reafon for it,    74
That is my brothers plea, and none of mine,        75
The which if he can proue, a pops me out,          76
At leaft from faire flue hundred pound a yeere:   77
Heauen guard my mothers honor, and my Land.        78
K.Iohn. A good blunt fellow:why being yonger born  79
Doth he lay claime to thine inheritance?          80
Phil. I know not why, except to get the land:    81
But once he flanderd me with baftardy:             82.
But where I be as true begot or no,                83
That ftill I lay vpon my mothers head,             84
But that I am as well begot my Liege               85
(Faire fall the bones that tooke the paines for me)  86
Compare our faces, and be Iudge your felfe         87
If old Sir Robert did beget vs both,               88
And were our father, and this fonne like him:      89
0 old fir Robert Father, on my knee                90
I giue heauen thankes I was not like to thee.      91
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171 T-o be a )13affarb to tiing Richards felt,
172 tonne to our Orace, anb 2)3odter to  our 9aieffie.
173 5tbuo blunttV, anb
174  Elianor -ong man tlou    nebft not be af1ameb of t4w kin,
'75 JPlog of tlV  ire. B13ut fqoatrba  tid) t4w ppooft.
176  Robert lhe ppooft to plaint, tit argument t fo frong,
177 as that pour  igtneos anu tbefe noble  ops,
178 lnb all (faut tlofe that Iaue no eres to fee)
179 tb1all fteare lbim to be )13affarb to te 1titing.
180 jfirf tlWmen my fatler ivao  -mbaffabourt
108 i8i 3J n Germanie bunto tt AC-mperour,
111 r182  lt O ing lay often at my Fathter  loute;
183 ln  all toe Etalme fulpeteb ~tit)at befell:
184 2[nb at my #atherr back returne agen
185 gV g9otote ~uaso beliureb aos ti6 feb,
121 186 I ite tokrch  befo e  tlhe account my fatler mabe.
187 1ut molt tlan tisi: looke but on P/ilps face,
188 2i  features, actions, an b  iso lineamento,
i8 ~nb all tlio 1Jinctly ppefence rfall confefte,
Igo We is no otber but iiin% Richards tonne*
191 T1)en3 gratiouo Lop, reft lr ting Rickards ýonne,
192 unb let me reff faft in my fatlers riqht,
193 Etlat am lii rigltfull tfonnt anb onely ljjtir.
92 194 IJohn 3   tl9;tio tI)y pilft, anb all tbou )aft to tay +
195  Robert 31 laue no moe, no nteee 3 greater poft.e,
6    7ohn Jfirft, brrere thou faibft in abtence of tly tire
3g7!9y EL3 ot rr often lobeb in lise loufte:
198 Znb Wbalt of tLat? bate groome to flaunber Iim,
199 Tlat ljonourt b is C-mbaffaboq to mudy,
200 3n abtence of tle man to cteetre tltW tuife?
201or ji i Will not Folb, pýoceDe unto tte nert.
202  Q Elinor   DITou faiot fre tiembe fir Itckh befoqe Ler time,
203 aM    g gob Eir  quire are you fo running grotten
204   o make actcount of 0omeno reckoningo:
205 fpit in your lan b anb to your otber ppafer:
2o6 $any mitldaunces ojap in tucl affaireo
29 0To make a tWoman come befope tier time.



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K Iohn.Why what a mad-cap hath heauen lent vs here?

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97 2o8 Iohn Jnb tid tre tlou faift ie looket) like the Ding
209  n attion, feature anb p~opoetion:
210 Tlbeeitn 3  olbe t it) ttite, fo in mm  life
93 8z  3 nemer fat to liuell rounterfet
212a Of Richard Cordelion, a1 in lini.
213  Robert    len s  toob mV Lo b, be ou inbifferent jubge,
214 a1nb let me iaue mV liuing anb mV riqlbt.
215  Q Elinor fPaV ieare pou tir, ou runne abiaV to faft:
2x6 UInotI iou not, Omnefimile non est idem?
s217 @  iane reab i n. l1arke Ee egoob fir,
ai8 T  xWa tbuo 1 tWarrant, anb no otlertuite,
219  fee laV tutl)b ir Robert tour fatber, anr tlouglt bppon
220t ing Richard mV    onne, antb 0o our )13otlber tt Ia fo meb
221 in ttiW fa tion.



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Elen. He hath a tricke of Cordelions face,       93
The accent of his tongue affe&teth him:           94
Doe you not read fome tokens of my fonne           95
In the large compofition of this man?             96
K.Iohn. Mine eye hath well examined his parts,   97
And findes them perfe& Richard: firra fpeake,      98
What doth moue you to claime your brothers land.   99
Philip. Becaufe he hath a half-face like my father?  100
With halfe that face would he haue all my land,   101
A halfe-fac'd groat, flue hundred pound a yeere?  102
Rob. My gracious Liege, when that my father liu'd,  103
Your brother did imploy my father much.           104
Phil. Well fir, by this you cannot get my land,  105
Your tale muft be how he employ'd my mother.      106
Rob. And once difpatch'd him in an Embaffie      107
To Germany, there with the Emperor                los
To treat of high affaires touching that time:      109
Th'aduantage of his abfence tooke the King,        110
And in the meane time foiourn'd at my fathers;     111
Where how he did preuaile, I fhame to fpeake:      112
But truth is truth, large lengths of feas and ihores  113
Betweene my father, and my mother lay,            114
As I haue heard my father fpeake himfelfe          115
When this fame lufty gentleman was got:            116
Vpon his death-bed he by will bequeath'd          117



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222  Robert.  paba0me, e ou t OWon% me tbus to ieft it out,
223 1 tcraute mm  rtigt *: hiing John a  tlou art ting,
224 Do be tlou iuft, anb let me l)aue mVy riegt.
124 225  John.  )Upb  (o001tif boy) tiy p2oofet are friuoloust,
226 jP o caanf t dou clalenge any tIing thereby,
227 1But tlhou flalt te t)o ot W1 ill t)elpe tvy claime,
228 TWiO; iimty boome, anD tbiso my boome fiall ftanb
229 3rreuocable, ao 3 am ring of England.
230 foq  tou knotft not, tueele afle of tiem tlhat knotu,
23! Qi0 motler anb bimfelfe flall ene tisg itrife:
137 232  nb a tltey fayr, to Oall tl  liuing patfe.
138 233  Robert My t     bLO, Ierein 3 d)alenge you of t tonq,
234 T0o gPue atay mmy riqbt, anb put the boome
235 Into tb)emftlue, Can tbere be lilteltioob
236  ltat le iwillt 0loofe!
237 OI tbe ttill iue the liuinm from  limfelfe
2a38  t may not be my Vtob. WbiUy foulb it be?
239  John ito)b0 leepe tim back, anb let lim beare the boome,
240 Eferx, firf alfke thle  odott)er twie btao ~uao l)i0,ire?
241  Effex Ilabie Margaret Wiiboi of Fauconbridge,
242  tUo ia0 jfatter to thy    osnne Philtp?
243  Mother pleafe it your Maieffie, eit Robert Faulconbridge.
244  Robert T!4i0 i0 trigbt, afte my felotb there if 3q be a tbuief.
24s  John a/fe Philip tofr Wonne l)e is.



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His lands to me, and tooke it on his death         118
That this my mothers fonne was none of his;         119
And if he were, he came into the world             120
Full fourteene weekes before the courfe of time:    121
Then good my Liedge let me haue what is mine,       122
My fathers land, as was my fathers will.           123
K.Iohn. Sirra, your brother is Legittimate,       124
Your fathers wife did after wedlocke beare him:     125
And if fhe did play falfe, the fault was hers,      126
Which fault lyes on the hazards of all husbands     127
That marry wiues: tell me, how if my brother       128
Who as you fay, tooke paines to get this fonne,     129
Had of your father claim'd this fonne for his,      130
Infooth, good friend, your father might haue kept   131
This Calfe, bred from his Cow from all the world:   132
Infooth he might: then if he were my brothers,     133
My brother might not claime him, nor your father   134
Being none of his, refufe him: this concludes,     135
My mothers fonne did get your fathers heyre,       136
Your fathers heyre muft haue your fathers land.    137
Rob. Shal then my fathers Will be of no force,   138
To difpoffeffe that childe which is not his.        139
Phil. Of no more force to difpoffeffe me fir,     140
Then was his will to get me, as I think.            141



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246  Effex Phil', tto0 IVatlOag t  Jatljet?
247  Philip M     o mp 1oLb, anb tlat0 a qucfion: anb Pou iDab
248 not taken feme paineo ibit IeOr bEfoge, 13 ftoulbt laut efiref
249 pOU to afke mp  0otltr.
250  lohn   ap tltjo tvas top fatorr?
s25  Philip faitl (mp dLotb) to anfbvere pou furt le ie mp far
252 trer tlat bas nwrtoM   mn  motler tlWoen 31 Waos gotten, i blim
253   tljinke to be fir Robert Fauconbridge.
254  John Effex, foý faflions fake bemaunb agen,
255 Jnb fo an tenbe to tli0 contention.
256  Robert Wagi euetr man tluo tWongb ao Robert is?
257  Effex Philzp fpeake 31 fap, ubeo teao typ fatjer!
258  lohn  Oug man blowo nowt, b iat art tlou in a traunce1
259  Elianor Philip atuake, tle man is in a Deame.
260  Philz PPhilippus atauis adite Regibus.
261 W   lat faif tlou Philzp, fppung of auncient UingS?
262 Quo me r apit tem pest as
263 Wbtat toinbe of lbonour blotues tliO furie fotF?
264 O   1Dlentce pooecbe tlrfe fumeo of aIaiefie 1
265 a9e toinkes 3 bleare a bollobt i-ccto founb,
266 je)at Philp i0 leo r  aonn  bnto a Ding:
267 Toye  ltiftling leaute bpon toe trembling trees,
268 WIt)itfle in confott J 3am Richards  'onne:
269 Tiote bubling murmur of te t Waters fall,
270 Jrecqo Philippus Regiusfilius:
271 1iirNb  in toteir fligolt make mufticke  iti) toleir uingo,
272 filling toe apte uitl glogie of mn  birdj.:
273 2irbs, bubble0, leaut0, anb mountaine%, c-ctjo, all
274 Uiiin  in mint eareo, ttat j am Richards aDnne.
275 fonb man, alb ~ouetler art tlou carrieD?
276 t2oW  are tp tlbougotst ptiuapt in tpnos leaue n?
277 #oqgetfull tlbat tlou art, anb tvjence toou caml,
278  otp Jf atEers lanb cannot maintaine tlefe tjougbts,
279   lytefe tlougbto are fatrre blfitting Fauconbridge:
280 AnbD totl toep map; foý iujp tbiso monnting minbe
281 JZotl foart too lig) to foupt to Fauconbridge.



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282m WIIp bOb) not i knottreft tlou itletre thou art
283a  nIb knotef tbou Itlo terpets tiine anftttre Iere
284 Wtilt t)ou bpon a franrtic  mabbin  baine
28as5  oe looe tlip lanb, anb fap tdLp fellf bafe bone?
286 jPO, leept dtlp lano, tlougb Richard Wtrer thp Dire,
287 Wbahat evethtou thinkft, far thou art Fauconbridge.
142 288  7ohn   'prakeh man, be fobaine, ttijo thb Jfather baW,
289  Phili  pleafe it pour 9Maieftie,  ir Robert
290 Philip, that Fauconbridge cleaued to thb iabxueo:
291 Jt t Will not out, 31 cannot fo  mV life
292 Oap 1 am    0nnten bnto a Fauconbridge.
293 JLett lan nnb liuing goe, ti honops fire
294 TD)at makes me fteatre iing Richard itva   mp ýire.
295 I3afe to a ting abbey title of mole ttate,
296  1Jan Uniqhto begotten, though legittimate.
154 297  1leaft it pour 4Wace, 3 am  ing Richards    one.
298  Robert Robert treuiue tbl  eart, let fogrotu bie,
299 Vio faltring tongue not fuffers him to lie.
300  Mother Wihat beab.ftrong furie both ench)aunt mp fonne;
301  Philip  Phil p cannot repent, foq )e e)at) bone.
302  Iohn   tbhen  Philzp blame not me, tlp felfe baft loft
303 13V Iilfulneffle, tp liuing anb thV lanb.



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Eli. Whether hadft thou rather be a Faulconbridge,  142
And like thy brother to enioy thy land:              143
Or the reputed fonne of Cordelion,                   144
Lord of thy prefence, and no land befide.            145
Bafi. Madam, and if my brother had my fhape        146
And I had his, fir Roberts his like him,             147
And if my legs were two fuch riding rods,            148
My armes, fuch eele-skins fluft, my face fo thin,    149
That in mine eare I durft not flicke a rofe,         150
Left men fhould fay, looke were three farthings goes,  151
And to his fhape were heyre to all this land,        152
Would I might neuer flirre from off this place,      153
I would giue it euery foot to haue this face:        154
It would not be fir nobbe in any cafe.               155



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304 Robert, tIbou art the IjOrt'r of Fauconbridge,
305 6Ob %iuetI tbttior, greater tljan t~j~bV t'ert.
156 306  QElianor Zib1 2  oW iionotriPhili>5, r iut V a bia~tjnt obxmne
307 Phili>p 9pabamrt,3~ amt boib to makt mV fclfr your nepb~tje
308 T4w poo~rft kinfman tfbat your t~gbnI; atb~
310 Vetp fanbo, 3 bIaur no 1anbo, Ibonour ig; myVbWire;
311  Lrt Philip i  t   lt    Iimn f iotje o      t   ta 're.
312  Elinor Philzitp, 31 tluink tlbou, hntdxff t tljy  ranbamo minbt:
3113 %B5ut ctwcrr t tlj boy, 3q Will not fee tlietWant
314 Ag; long3 a0 Elinor lbatl) foote of lano;
315 ~t11ttfogtl)tlou ibalt bit talwn foqmy fonnet
316 anb Wuaite on me anb on tljint Zlincklt ljtre,
3317 Z~bio f~all giut lbonour to tlby noble mi'nber,.
170 3118 John Philip~ knerle bohxn~tltat tlbou maifftbtlouqblVly nohx
319 ~t~ob3mud) tljiyrefolution pleafeti) ho,
171 320 Uffe bp Oir Richard Plantaginet U. Richards ýbonne.
321  Phil.!3raunt tbeaurn0 tlat Philip once may fl)edvlbimfelf
322 Miogtliie tlhe lonour of Plantaginef,
323 Oý bafeft lopie of a )Iiaftarbo name.,



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Elinor. I like thee well: wilt thou forfake thy fortune, 156
Bequeath thy land to him, and follow me?            157
I am a Souldier, and now bound to France.           158
Baft. Brother, take you my land, Ile take my chance; 159
Your face hath got flue hundred pound a yeere,      160
Yet fell your face for flue pence and 'tis deere:   161
Madam, Ile follow you vnto the death.               162
Elinor. Nay, I would haue you go before me thither. 163
Baft. Our Country manners giue our betters way.   164
K.Iohn. What is thy name?                         165
Baft. Philip my Liege, fo is my name begun,      166
Philip, good old Sir Roberts wiues eldeft fonne.    167
K.Iohn. From henceforth beare his name            168
Whofe forme thou beareft:                          169
Kneele thou downe Philip, but rife more great,     170
Arife Sir Richard, and Plantagenet.                 171
Balf. Brother by th'mothers fide, giue me your hand, 172
My father gaue me honor, yours gaue land:           173
Now bleffed be the houre by night or day            174
When I was got, Sir Robert was away.                175
Ele. The very fpirit of Plantaginet:              176
I am thy grandame Richard, call me fo.              177
BaJZ. Madam by chance, but not by truth, what tho; 178
Something about a little from the right,           179
In at the window, or elfe ore the hatch:            180



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324  John JP.1OW O!3nttemen,lWe WiliIIab~aV to France,
325 Igo cIeeke thle p~ibe of Arthur anb b'i Mateg:
326 Effex, tIbou ft~alt be 1utuer of mV Ueahne,
327 atnb tob~arb tlhe maine eIbargeo of my bWarreo,
328 31ce reaye tljela~ie abbey 1ubberio 1anbo
329 Jinto my Ibanbo to pay my men of itarre.
330 j!34e Pope anb IJoperingofljall not greafe tljemfelue0;
331 WlitIb golbe anb groatro, tIhat are the Cou1bierr bue.
332 T!14uo foý1arb Lpo let our commaunb be bone,
188 333 5ATnb mardj iWe Coýxarb miglbtrety o Fraunce.  Exeunt.
33 Manet Phili~p and his Mother.
33 Phihl, ~abame 31 befeedb you bigeine me Co mud.) leature
336 ao th~e b~earing of a matter tlhat 31 long to impart to you.
337  Mother ZtitUato tlje matter Philip. 31 t1inFie your fute in
338 Cecret,tenb% to Come money matter, Wbtljcl you fuppofe burn%
39 inhle bottome of my cijeft.
340  Phil. Jji pabam, it io no fucj Cute ao to beg oý bo~robx,
341 %Blut Cucb a fute, ao miglit Come otlber grant,
342 31 WuoulIb not noW laue troubleb you WLitbljla.
34   Mother al Owb0name let 30 heave it..p Phizj  Eije  pabame tlbu0, your iLabiftjiipfees;bWell,
34 It~oiutijat my Ccanball. grroo e~by meaneo of you,
346 31n tlhat repogt battj rumo~b bp anb Do~3net
34 31 am a baftarb, anb no Faucoubridge.
348 ZIi.i0 grofe atteint Co tiltedj in my tlbougbto%,
349 Mpaintaitninq combat to ab~ibge my eafet
350 Tljat fielb ant toiune, anb company alone,
351 Wbatfo 31 boot oý bW4jrrfoerre31 am,



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Who dares not flirre by day, muft walke by night,  181
And haue is haue, how euer men doe catch:           182
Neere or farre off, well wonne is flill well ihot,  183
And I am I, how ere I was begot.                    184
KJohn. Goe, Faulconbridge, now haft thou thy defire, 185
A landleffe Knight, makes thee a landed Squire:     186
Come Madam, and come Richard, we muft fpeed         187
For France, for France, for it is more then need.   188
Bail. Brother adieu, good fortune come to thee,  189
For thou waft got i'th way of honefty.             190
Exeunt all but bajfard.    191



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352 3 cannot claftetie flaunber from tlfl2tbou~3lto%.
353  1f it be true, retolue me of mp ýDire,
354 #oq parbon Mabame, if 31 tlftnke ami'ffe.
35515e PhiliP Philzjzp anb no Fauconbridge,
356 Vio#atlier boubtleo iuao ao b~aue a man.
3571To you on 1knees ag; tomtime Phaeton,
358  iftrufttnn filly Merop f   t ji  tre,
359 4traynt'ng a little bafljfult mobeftie,
360 Ji beg tome inftance tuience 3] am ertraugbt.
361 Mother ret mole ai300 to Ijafe nme to my grautt,
254 362 2tnb Wuilt tlbou too become a M9otlbero croffe
363 iouft ]C accuteintel~fC toCdote iuitlti you?
364 ýblaunber mytetf to quiet your affects:
365 YTiou inoouft me P/iilijft i  tljtl~  bletle
366 Z1ZtU'cl) 3 remit, in lbope tliui5 MOOn Will bie.*
367 Philipp.j av iiabie mother, lbeare me furtijer yet,
368 for ftron% conceipt bpiueiv iutie bence abuljite
369 lpour lbutbanb -Fauconbridge ivao?atl~er to tlhat tonne,
370 Thlat carries; marks of p. ature flike thje ire,
371 Th~e tonnetltjat blottetli you ~ivtlj Weblocko b~eaclj,
372  lnb ljolbomy ri'lbt, ag; lineall inbiftcent
373 Jfrom ljim tuljote fo~me ~Wag; fiurebin bl'i0 face.
37  Can p.ature to biffemble in lber frame,
375   O make tlbe onetCO like ag lIkte may be,
376 Alnb in tlhe otler ppint no cliaracter
377   o cljalenge any marke of true iitcent
378 i3y b~otljir0 ininbe io bate, anb too too bull,
379   o mount b~jere Philip lobgetlb lio affedo,
380  tnb 11i0 rternall grac eo that you bieiu
381 (!X4ouqh 3 repogt it) counterpoit'e not mine:+
382 t~tig conffitution plaine bebiitiet',
383 Eequireo the cbay~e, anb mine the teate of ifeele,
384 P-ay, 1DIbat iW leto0 iubat am )1 to bhim'
385 W1fbie any one that knotueth tjobu to carpe,
386 Wiill tcarcely i'ubge bo both one Countrey borne.
387 Tblig;!pabaInetl11i%, hiathb bout me from mytelfe:



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S388 Aib bere by beauens eternall lampet3 J fbteare,
389 a% turfeb Nero Ititi )is motler DiW,
390 oo 31 tuitl you, if you refolue me not.
391  Mother Let motl)er tearte   quentcl out tjy angero fire.
392 Snb b ge no furtber tutlat tlou boof require.
393  Philip. Let fonneo entreatit fiuay thle mottler notl,
3940 1  els le biers: i1le not infringe my bo 3
395  Mother   It11bappy taflke:muft 3 recount my flame,
396 I3lab my mifbeereb, o by toncealing biet
397  flome poitvr ftrike me ffptectleite fo a time,
398 01 take from lim atulile bli0 tearingo bfe.
399 Wly t  uifb 3i1 fo, bntappV a J3 am?
400 1Trte fault it mine, anb be toe faultir frute,
401 3 blul, 3 faint, oI) ioulb )3 miqlt be mute.
262 402  Philip. ipotter be b~iefe, 3 long to knobs my name.
403  Mother anb longing bye to ~Ioto tty 9otlert ftame.
404  Philip. lCome aabame come, you neebe not be fo lotl.
405  lTo IJame is  atreb equall tuirt be boto.
406 3  0 not a ftaclnet in me  Ot oW tie blame,
407 T!o be foolbe, anb cannot inpite my name.
408 0oob Motter refolue me.
409og  Mother. len Philp teart tly fotune   anD m y   ritft,
41o 10M  tonouro lotte by purcoafe of tty felfe,
4111 $  flame, toty name, anb lufblanbo fereut tWong,
412 A11 mainb anb ftainD by youtlbi bnrunly Rfay.
413 Antn kt)en )ttlou knoiEeff from i)mence ttou art ertrauglt,
414 @O if tbou knetuff iuo at futer, tbuat tlteateg, b4Wat feare0,
415 To mooue by lout, o; maffacre by beadj.
416 To yeelb ~oitl loue, o enb by louer contempt.
417  Ftle migltinete of tim tt)at courteb me,
418 WI~o tempoeb terroe tvito oig Luanton talke,
419 Moat fometting may ertenuate tleq guilt.
420 %B3ut let it not abuantage me fo muct:
421 Uipbpaib me ratter tuitIt ttoe Romane Dame
422 Tltat ieb ber bloob to taflj aWay ter rbame.
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424   'tit) pro & contra, nob) the bitbe tobon,
425 tWtlen to conclube tduo  ooqeb mal tell the tale,
426 Jtat Philzis Jfatbter tao0 a p'nte0 r on,
427 UiC) Englands rule, t oolbo onelt terrqo lbee,
428 JFo tonour   lofte left me tuiti) cilote of ttee:
429 ZIWUofe  onne t ou art, tLten parbon me tte rat)er,
268 430 foý faire Jiing Richard tao tlyV noble fatjer.
431  Philip.  tl e  Robin Fauconbridge 31 tuiftj tee i0,
432 M V   irre a JDing, an) ]C a lanble- oO.
433 48ob  iLabie $otter, the too lb is in mt bebt,
434 T  eore' 0fometling Otuing to Plantaginet.
435 J marrie vir, let me alone fo0 game,
436  1le art fome btonbers nou )1 knotu my name.
437 3V bleffeb Marie 31le not fell that pibet
438 jFo Englands bealtt), anb all tle toolb befber.
439 Dit fag the p0oubeft of my fatetr0 foe0,
44o 3ivaV goob   otM)tter, tijere t)e Comfogt gers  Exeunt.



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Bafl. A foot of Honor better then I was,         192
But many a many foot of Land the worfe.             193
Well, now can I make any loane a Lady,              194
Good den Sir Richard, Godamercy fellow,             195
And if his name be George, Ile call him Peter;      196
For new made honor doth forget mens names:          197
'Tis two refpe6tiue, and too fociable              198
For your conuerfion, now your traueller,           199
Hee and his tooth-picke at my worfhips meffe,       200
And when my knightly ftomacke is fuffis'd,          201
Why then I fucke my teeth, and catechize            202
My picked man of Countries: my deare fir,          203
Thus leaning on mine elbow I begin,                 204
I fhall befeech you; that is queftion now,          205
And then comes anfwer like an Abfey booke:          206
0 fir, fayes anfwer, at your beft command,          207
At your employment, at your feruice fir:            208
No fir, faies queftion, I fweet fir at yours,       209
And fo ere anfwer knowes what queftion would,       210



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Sauing in Dialogue of Complement,                    211
And talking of the Alpes and Appenines,              212
The Perennean and the riuer Poe,                     213
It drawes toward fupper in conclufion fo.            214
But this is worfhipfull fociety,                     215
And fits the mounting fpirit like my felfe;          216
For he is but a baftard to the time                  217
That doth not fmoake of obferuation,                 218
And fo am I whether I fmacke or no:                 219
And not alone in habit and deuice,                   220
Exterior forme, outward accoutrement;                221
But from the inward motion to deliuer                222
Sweet, fweet, fweet poyfon for the ages tooth,       223
Which though I will not practice to deceiue,         224
Yet to auoid deceit I meane to learne;               225
For it fhall firew the footfteps of my rifing:       226
But who comes in fuch hafte in riding robes?        227
What woman poft is this? hath ihe no husband         228
That will take paines to blow a horne before her?   229
0 me, 'tis my mother: how now good Lady,            230
What brings you heere to Court fo haftily?          231
Enter Lady Faulconbridge and lames Gurney.       232
Lady. Where is that flaue thy brother? where is he? 233
That holds in chafe mine honour vp and downe.        234
Baft. My brother Robert, old Sir Roberts fonne:   235
Colbrand the Gyant, that fame mighty man,            236
Is it Sir Roberts fonne that you feeke fo?          237
Lady. Sir Roberts fonne, I thou vnreuerend boy,    238
Sir Roberts fonne? why fcorn'ft thou at fir Robert?  239
He is Sir Roberts fonne, and fo art thou.            240
Bafl. lames Gournie, wilt thou giue vs leaue a while? 241
Gour. Good leaue good Philip.                      242
Bat?. Philip, fparrow, lames,                      243
There's toyes abroad, anon Ile tell thee more.       244
Exit lames.          245



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Madam, I was not old Sir Roberts fonne,             246
Sir Robert might haue eat his part in me            247
Vpon good Friday, and nere broke his faft:          248
Sir Robert could doe well, marrie to confeffe       249
Could get me fir Robert could not doe it;           250
We know his handy-worke, therefore good mother      251
To whom am I beholding for thefe limmes?           252
Sir Robert neuer holpe to make this legge.         253
Lady. Haft thou confpired with thy brother too,  254
That for thine owne gaine fhouldft defend mine honor? 255
What meanes this fcorne, thou moft vntoward knaue?  256
Bast. Knight, knight good mother, Bafilifco-like:  257
What, I am dub'd, I haue it on my fhoulder:         258
But mother, I am not Sir Roberts fonne,             259
I haue difclaim'd Sir Robert and my land,           260
Legitimation, name, and all is gone;                261
Then good my mother, let me know my father,        262
Some proper man I hope, who was it mother?         263
Lady. Haft thou denied thy felfe a Faulconbridge?  264
Baft. As faithfully as I denie the deuill.       265
Lady. King Richard Cordelion was thy father,     266
By long and vehement fuit I was feduc'd            267
To make roome for him in my husbands bed:           268
Heauen lay not my transgreffion to my charge,      269
That art the iffue of my deere offence              270
Which was fo ftrongly vrg'd paft my defence.        271
Bajl. Now by this light were I to get againe,     272
Madam I would not wifh a better father:             273
Some finnes doe beare their priuiledge on earth,    274
And fo doth yours: your fault, was not your follie,  275
Needs muft you lay your heart at his difpofe,       276
Subie6ted tribute to commanding loue,              277
Againft whofe furie and vnmatched force,            278
The awleffe Lion could not wage the fight,          279
Nor keepe his Princely heart from Richards hand:    280
He that perforce robs Lions of their hearts,        281



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291 441 Enter Philip the French King, and Lewes, Limoges, Con442 fiance, and her fonne Arthur.
443  King joWb3 gin We bNoac* t'te title of tdO  claime
444 Pong Arthur in tte Albion ~trritopiet,
445 ~caring ppoUb Angiers Wiitl a puiffant fiebye:
297 446 13?anue  Austria, caufe of Cordelions bratl),
299 447  o alfo come to aibe tt)ee in tie bWarrte;
448 Tlnb all our JFoesgr  iotne foq  Arthurs riglJt.
449 3nb, but foq caufes of great confequence,
450 ~pleabing belay till netWe  from England come,
45si fWic St Ioulb not Titan Ji bt E)im in te ~"1Eft,
452 'To coole the fCetock~ of)io biWearie teame,
453 tilt 13 bab l itlj an inreftfteb lboc
454 Controlb tlhe mannage of ppoub Anglers Wvalls,
4ss O; mabe a fo~fet of mV fame to C1iaunce.



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May eafily winne a womans: aye my mother,            282
With all my heart I thanke thee for my father:       283
Who lues and dares but fay, thou didft not well      284
When I was got, Ile fend his foule to hell.          285
Come Lady I will fhew thee to my kinne,              286
And they fhall fay, when Richard me begot,           287
If thou hadit fayd him nay, it had beene finne;      288
Who fayes it was, he lyes, I fay twas not.           289
Exeunt. 290
Scana Secunda.
Enter before Angiers, Philip King of France, Lewis, Daul- 291
phin, Anstria, Conflance, Arthur.                  292
Lewis. Before Angiers well met braue Aujfria,      293
Arthur that great fore-runner of thy bloud,          294
Richard that rob'd the Lion of his heart,            295
And fought the holy Warres in Palef/ine,             296
By this braue Duke came early to his graue:          297
And for amends to his pofteritie,                    298
At our importance hether is he come,                 299
To fpread his colours boy, in thy behalfe,           300
And to rebuke the vfurpation                         301
Of thy vnnaturall Vncle, Englifh lokn,               302
Embrace him, loue him, giue him welcome hether.      303
Arth. God fhall forgiue you Cordelions death       304
The rather, that you giue his off-fpring life,       305
Shadowing their right vnder your wings of warre:     306



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338 456  Conflance 9ap be thtlat Iohn in conktience oq in feare
457 To offer ft Wng  tertt Vou impugne the ill,
458 Wiltu fetrb fuE) talme conbitiono bache to Fraunce,
459;fl jaU rebate thle ebage of fearefull Iarret:
340 460 Jf fo, fo~bearance io a beebe iell bone,
46!  Arthur ATl Motertt, pofflfion of a Crontre it mucl,
462 atnDb ohn ag;] l)aue learb repogteb of,
463  O  pefent bantage iuoulb abuentuve fCarre.
464 ET)e iuOlb can ~UiteCO in bi 1g;3 otletr time,
465 te toohe 0pon )im tule anb almofra igrne:
466  DjEen muff it follo0W ao a boubtfull po0nt,
467 Tl)at )ee'le refigne the rule unto lig jP-epleto.
468 J3 ratjer tl)inlte tl)e mntace of tie b0o0lb
469 OUnDob in io eare ao0 tbteato of no efeme,
470  tnb fooner btoulb be fcotne Europaes potoer,
471 clljan lofe tl)e fmalleft title l)e eniove0;
472 jOf   queftionleg be is an Englit'jman.



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I giue you welcome with a powerleffe hand,           307
But with a heart full of vnftained loue,             308
Welcome before the gates of Angiers Duke.            309
Lewis. A noble boy, who would not doe thee right?  310
Auji. Vpon thy cheeke lay I this zelous kiffe,     311
As feale to this indenture of my loue:               312
That to my home I will no more returne               313
Till Angiers, and the right thou haft in France,     314
Together with that pale, that white-fac'd fhore,     315
Whofe foot fpurnes backe the Oceans roaring tides,   316
And coopes from other lands her Ilanders,            317
Euen till that England hedg'd in with the maine,     318
That Water-walled Bulwarke, ftill fecure             319
And confident from forreine purpofes,                320
Euen till that vtmoft corner of the Weft             321
Salute thee for her King, till then faire boy        322
Will I not thinke of home, but follow Armes.         323
ConJi. 0 take his mothers thanks, a widdows thanks, 324
Till your ftrong hand fhall helpe to giue him ftrength,  325
To make a more requitall to your loue.               326



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473 Lewes WbVUj are t~le (Z1nqjliflj)pirelro 'in compare?
474 )13ýaur Cautater0 ao ere tliat 1~ani)b rbte
475 X~aue lube anb bpbe, anb barbe anb bone inou%4l,
476 Vet neuter %raCtIVtl~eir %Countre)2 foý tlce aufr:
477 England io England, V3~Ebifl!9 goob aub babt
478 aTnb Yrohn of England'i ao otljer Johns.
479   ruft Me Von% Arthur, if t1ou  ike MV ricbet
480oI:P~aif ttou tt te Jreudb tljat tjelpe tt)ie in tl~io neebeo
481  Lymoges 'JJje CngliftpnanIbad) ittle eaufe 31 troii,
482 To fpenb %mb fpeacl~ve on fo p~oub a foe.
483 Z1Wbji Arthur 1jereo bi% fpoVLe tljat nob3 io gout
484 WUOO tuIM en t'elube outroube Ibio )13otloer John:
485 %Blut lOaftie curreo that lie fo long to eateIo,
486 Come lbalting Oome, anb meete tIeitr ouerinatclj.
487 %Blut neb~re0 come0 nobW, Iferet~re embaffabour*
342 488 Enter Chattilion.
489 K Philip anb in %oob time, W~elcome MV ito ýb Chattilion:
490o Moat ne~er f Will John aCCO~b to Our COMMaunbt
347 491 Chattilion )15r.3 not b~irfr to tell your t~igIneo all,



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AuJf. The peace of heauen is theirs y lift their fwords 327
In fuch a iuft and charitable warre.                 328
King. Well, then to worke our Cannon fhall be bent  329
Againft the browes of this refifting towne,          330
Call for our cheefeft men of difcipline,            331
To cull the plots of beft aduantages:                332
Wee'll lay before this towne our Royal bones,       333
Wade to the market-place in French-mens bloud,       334
But we will make it fubie6t to this boy.             335
Con. Stay for an anfwer to your Embaffie,          336
Left vnaduis'd you ftaine your fwords with bloud,    337
My Lord Chattilion may from England bring            338
That right in peace which heere we vrge in warre,    339
And then we fhall repent each drop of bloud,         34o
That hot rafh hafte fo indireftly fhedde.            341
Enter Chattilion.                  342
King. A wonder Lady:lo vpon thy wifh               343
Our Meffenger Chattilion is arriu'd,                 344
What England faies, fay breefely gentle Lord,        345
We coldly paufe for thee, Chatilion fpeake,          346
Chat. Then turne your forces from this paltry fiege,  347



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492 et"r wll app~oad)to interrupt nnv tale:
493#Sq one felfe Ibottome bWou*1jtbo botlb to Fraunce.
494 te on Ibio part Wuill trig tle cijaunce of W~arre,
495 I~3nbif bljibopo;inferreaffureb tutbj,
496 Z1W~ill loofe Ijimfelfe aub all lio follo1Meta
497 CJ1re 12Mtobonto tihe leaft of izour bemaunbo.
498 Tbrefpotljer.Qujkne tgIjtaFhetljonaantaine
499 aintnQtLabie C~onstance, COUt'n% tin r tie caufe
500 Tflbat botlj effed t tlio caime to Albion,
501 COWirn      Arthur tuitl) a O!ranbamro care,,502 TJo leane ljio M~otljer;, iuillng iim fudnie
503 t~i0fRate to John anb ber protection,
504 Wbt~o (ao flje faitb) are ftubiouo foý lji0 goDT:
505 a9oge circumiffance tihe feafon intercepto:
506   jio t'.0tihe fumme, Wbtljc b birft12 )1 Iaue flyo~xne
507 K. P/ill. T2bio bitter bWinbe muff nip fome bobie0; fp~inq,
508bobat'ne anb b~iefe, UulV fotiidoIjarueft ~ueatbjer
509 1i3ut faV Chattilion, ~ubjat perfon%; of accompe are iuitlj Ijim?
510 Chartilion Of England earle Pembrooke anb Salsbury,
511 TIje onelV noteb men of anV name.
358 512 pert tihem a )t5affartb of tbi e 1i~ng  beceafft
513   b larbv bLulbe Ijeab, touO jant)benturou0;,
514 WItitlj many otlier men of ljiqljrefolue.
355 515 ITje i toitere Wxtljtijem nElinor $pottjrrQueene,
Yi6Anti Blanch Ijer p.6fee baugljter to the it'in of SPaine:
365 5r7 Tljefe are tihe pime 2l3irb% of tlji0 Iot abuenture.



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And ftirre them vp againft a mightier taske:         348
England impatient of your iuft demands,              349
Hath put himfelfe in Armes, the aduerfe windes       350
Whofe leifure I haue flaid, haue giuen him time      351
To land his Legions all as foone as I:               352
His marches are expedient to this towne,             353
His forces ftrong, his Souldiers confident:          354
With him along is come the Mother Queene,            355
An Ace ftirring him to bloud and ftrife,             356
With her her Neece, the Lady Blanch of Spaine,       357
With them a Baftard of the Kings deceaft,            358
And all th'vnfetled humors of the Land,              359
Rafh, inconfiderate, fiery voluntaries,              360
With Ladies faces, and fierce Dragons fpleenes,      361
Haue fold their fortunes at their natiue homes,     362
Bearing their birth-rights proudly on their backs,  363
To make a hazard of new fortunes heere:              364
In briefe, a brauer choyfe of dauntleffe fpirits     365
Then now the Englijh bottomes haue waft o're,        366
Did neuer flote vpon the fwelling tide,              367
To doe offence and fcathe in Chriftendome:           368



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378 518 Enter lohn & his followers, Queene, Baftard, Earles, &c
5,   K. Philip get fremedt1 Iohn an ouervbaring fpirit
520 Offeffct ome ffrtnit in tlj ragt app~oact,
521   reabing mV Confines iiitlt ttlw anneb    roupeo,
522 3 ratler loout fo fome fubmiffe rrepl
523  oucbing )tfh  claimet tl? PjepletiD Arthur maket
524  O tohat iWtiic) t ou bniuftD boft bfurpt.
384 525  K Io/hin fo  ttat Chattilion can biftlarge Vou all,
526 ] lift not pleab my   itle buitt mtV tongue.
527 jO) tame 31 bletter x bit' intent of toDong
528 To Fraunce o tlet, o0 any trigt of tlinr;
529 )l3ut in bDefence anb purclaft of my rilgt,
530   je i1h tune of Angiers: xltbitcl tbou booff brgirt
53'1 3n thle bebalft of Labie Conjlance Sonne,
532 Wteretoo noe ljb no; flje can lay iuf claime.
533  Confljance -eg (falfr intruber) if that iuff be iuft,
534 AnD btlabfftrong biurpation put apart,
S535 Arthur my   onne, )itre to tlpy elber I35otltfr,
536 s Witlout ambiguou%   fabobW of ifrent,
s.  30 Doueraigne to tle fubftance tlou tWitllolbft.
538  Q.Elinor $igorournb    otftp, ftaine to to)i% trelfot
S539  ccafton of tef bnbettibeb iarres,
540 3 fay (tiat ktnotu) to cbleth tjy taine fuppofert
541 Mtby   onne latl0 naugtt to bo Ixritj thlat lr claymeO.



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The interruption of their churlifh drums             369
Cuts off more circumftance, they are at hand,        370
Drum beats.       371
To parlie or to fight, therefore prepare.            372
Kin. How much vnlook'd for, is this expedition.    373
AuJI. By how much vnexpe6ted, by fo much           374
We muft awake indeuor for defence,                   375
For courage mounteth with occafion,                  376
Let them be welcome then, we are prepar'd.           377
Enter K. of England, Baftard, Queene, Blanch, Pembroke, 378
and others.                                       379
K.Iohn. Peace be to France: If France in peace permit 380
Our iuft and lineall entrance to our owne;           381
If not, bleede France, and peace afcend to heauen.   382
Whiles we Gods wrathfull agent doe corret            383
Their proud contempt that beats his peace to heauen,  384



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493 542 #Fo p0oft    tettereof, 3 can inferret  a  illu,
543   bat barres the var 1) begetb bp bittent.
496 544  Constance   t Will inbene, a crabbe b  WZomanl to3iut
545     erern the i rtue11 i oan ouerftr,
546 Anb pýeub Dame Elnor feole Cretutreflt:
547 Mopee bills tthan fo, on perdilt of m  foule,
548  tere netter mabe to iintber Arthurs ri'lbt.
549  Arthur )But faV there Ias, as fure there can be none,
550  1Jbe labs intensb fuct) teffaments as bo1b,
55!    b w ere riglt bifcent can no 1xaV be impeact)t.
552 Q Elinor peace Arthur peace, tl tmoetlber mateO tWee tvingo
553 To feare taitt perill after Icarus,
554 anb truft me Veongling foe tf)e #atler0 falte,
55 1 3pitie mucd thle bayarb of tbl Voutl.
556  Constance )13eptjpe Dou ett eloteb pitifull you are,
s557 Reabie to Iwepe t teo bare him  afke )iet' otrne;
5ss Dtroteu betibe fulj Oranbames anb fuct griefe,
ss559 Lat miniffer a peyfon foe pure lone.
560 )3Ut tbbo fo blinbe, as cannot fte tiso beame,
561   bat you foEfootlJ tiOoulb kiepe your coufin botnte,
562 #e) feare bio  9ottler teoulb be bfbe too teWe?
563 31 tberet  thle griefe, confufion catcb the bpaine,
564  1bat l)ammero    Iiftf to ft1op a  gintcr trait'e.
474 565  Q.Elianor Jmpatient, frantike, common flanbterer,
566   mmobeft f  ame,    nurtreb quarreller,
567 3 tell tite j3, not entie to dtl  on,
568 )3ut inflicer maklte  me fpeake a  1 3qbaue bon.



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Fran. Peace be to England, if that warre returne   385
From France to England, there to lue in peace:       388
England we loue, and for that Englands fake,         387
With burden of our armor heere we fweat:             388
This toyle of ours ihould be a worke of thine;       389
But thou from louing England art fo farre,          390
That thou haft vnder-wrought his lawfull King,       391
Cut off the fequence of pofterity,                   392
Out-faced Infant State, and done a rape              393



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403 569 K.Phili~p %Biut ljere%; no pwoof tIat Ortaob t ionr ton a t~in%*
57o K. Aohnd. MoUat bianto, mV Ib~o o pal mo lerat largefret bobwn.



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Vpon the maiden vertue of the Crowne:               394
Looke heere vpon thy brother Geffreyes face,        395
Thefe eyes, thefe browes, were moulded out of his;  396
This little abftraEt doth containe that large,      397
Which died in Geffrey:and the hand of time,        398
Shall draw this breefe into as huge a volume:       399
That Geffrey was thy elder brother borne,          400
And this his fonne, England was Geffreys right,     401
And this is Geffreyes in the name of God:           402
How comes it then that thou art call'd a King,     403
When liuing blood doth in thefe temples beat        404
Which owe the crowne, that thou ore-maftereft?     405
K.Iohn. From whom haft thou this great commiffion  406
To draw my anfwer from thy Articles?       (France, 407
Fra. Fro that fupernal Iudge that ftirs good thoughts  408
In any beaft of ftrong authoritie,                  409
To looke into the blots and ftaines of right,      410
That Iudge hath made me guardian to this boy,       411
Vnder whofe warrant I impeach thy wrong,           412
And by whofe helpe I meane to chaftife it.          413
K. lohn. Alack thou doft vfurpe authoritie.       414
Fran. Excufe it is to beat vfurping downe.        415
Queen. Who is it thou doft call vfurper France?  416
Con/I. Let me make anfwer:thy vfurping fonne.   417
Queen. Out infolent, thy baftard fhall be King,  418
That thou maift be a Queen, and checke the world.   419
Con. My bed was euer to thy fonne as true        420
As thine was to thy husband, and this boy           421
Liker in feature to his father Geffrey             422
Then thou and lohn, in manners being as like,       423
As raine to water, or deuill to his damme;          424
My boy a baftard? by my foule I thinke             425
His father neuer was fo true begot,                426
It cannot be, and if thou wert his mother.   (ther 427
Queen. Theres a good mother boy, that blots thy fa- 428



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57t L ewes )lut tloat map bgeah e foge the trutlj be knottne.
572  Bastard Tom entlbiomap lbolb till all 1)10 ri'gbt be fl~o~xnrs
s73 Lymoges o3oot bvopb fir fance, pour bettero are ini place,.
574 Bajiard JJlot Vou fir bonglotie i ti) tbouV tiong raft.
440 57.5  Blanchab tj ov betibe big; foule, to tuljom tljat fpoile MOP~
576 2b Richard 1)obv tlji2 log'i erle te iu onqb*.577 Lymoges S~e tlbinkeo th)at Richards pýibe, I Richards fall,
578 f1joulb be a pgefbent t'affrig1)t Vou all.
579  Baftard Mo~1Uat Wopbo are t1)efe! 1)obi boo mV finebttiO ~)ahe?
580 $v?at1)erf;foe dlab in mv #atbjero fpoVle,
581 a t1oufanb furieo liinbleWtuiti) reuenbqe,
582 T1)io 1)art t1)at c1)oller kteepeo a confiftoqie,
583  earing m n  Ip ntarbo iutltb a b~anb of bjate:
584 l1~oiubo~t1bAleflo Wtlifper in mine eareo
585  Eela notPhilp, lhill to)e illaine ftrai'1)t,
586 Irifrobe )ini of t)e niatc1eotrnioninient
587 T~v#at1)ero tri'unplb o;e th)e   auageo,
588 )i5afe 1)earbgroonie, cotuarb, peafant, tuo~fe tban a tl)~efl~in
589      ftaue,
590 W1Uat niahfftbt~ou tuitlj tlie  rop1)ei of a L~ing?
59' 1 Oanft t1)ou not copftrell, loat1)fonie bunglbill fiuab,
592 To grace tlbp carkattebtuith) an o;naniet
593 ToO p~eciouo fo; a g9onarc1)o couerture?
594 Orcarce can )1 temper bue obebience
sgsOnto tbie pgefece of nip Doueraigne,
s   #o  ni actin% outrage on tbjio trunhe of bate:
s97 )JLut arnie toree traptoq, bm~onger of renobjnie,



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Confl. There's a good grandame boy               429
That would blot thee.                               430
Au ý. Peace.                                      431
Bafl. Heare the Cryer.                           432
Aufl. What the deuill art thou?                  433
Baft. One that wil play the deuill fir with you,  434
And a may catch your hide and you alone:           435
You are the Hare of whom the Prouerb goes          436
Whofe valour plucks dead Lyons by the beard;        437
Ile fmoake your skin-coat and I catch you right,   438
Sirra lo oke too't, yfaith I will, yfaith.         439
Blan, 0 well did he become that Lyons robe,       440
That did difrobe the Lion of that robe.            441
Baft. It lies as fightly on the backe of, him    442
As great Alcides fhooes vpon an Affe:               443
But Affe, Ile take that burthen from your backe,   444
Or lay on that fhall make your ihoulders cracke.   445



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598 FoU b    i o foule tI fbteare, mp lfatier% foule,
599  Dtaire xWill 31 not rebiebf thle %o) ning  rife,
444 6oo Till 3 tlaue toqne that   ropliei from  tlp back,
601 anb fplit tlp beart, fo bWearing it tfo long.
602 Philip latl) fltoov e, anb if it be not bone,
603 Let not the Ibqolb repute me Richards #onne.
6o4  Lymoges Pap foft firt 13afarb, l)arto are not Cplit Co foone,
6C05 Let tlem rreiopce that at thfe enbe boo ioin:
6o6 anb take tlli0 leffon at tblV foemang tbanb,
607 patmne not tljp life, to get tltb fatler  fkMin.
608  Blanc/h Wi ell map tije tJoolb fpeake of bi' knigltl balo,
6og GIt)tat tuinnet tli0 fibe  to oeare a Labiet fattour.
61o  Baflard 31 map 31 tliuet, anb nothing b~ooke ivittl mee,
611 31f joptlr p3efent it not to tlee.
612  K.Phili    Lop'bin   fo~beare, fogtime is comming faft,
613 TDhat beebes map trie Dl)at t ob0   cannot betermine,
614   nb to the purpofe fo the caufte ou come.
615 ge ftemeo pou fet rit'b  in cliaunce of Ixarre,
6r6 eelbing no otler reafons foý pour claime,
61 17 ut fo anb fo, becaufe it fiall be fo.
6x8 WO touonq fal be fuboqnb bV truft of ffrengtl:
619 3  Elpants pfactise to inueft timfelfe,
620 Where xtoeake refiftance giuetr tv ong the iatp.
62!: o ttoeth thie tulictl, in lbolp latxfull arme0,
622 3 in the rigbt of Arthur Geifreys 0ntne,
623 2m   come befoe  tbtiis Citie of Angiers,
624 Tio barre all otler falfe fuppofeb clapme,
625 from   tibence oý otxfoere tte errtol fpgings.
66   1nbt in l)io quarrell on mp pPinclp tioob,
627  jle figlt it out unto the lateft man.
628  lohn   nobtt ing of Fraunce, )I xtill not be commannbeb
629 %15p anp poier oý pPince in %ICiftaenbome,
630 TO   eerlb an inffance lotu  1 31)olb mine obtne,
63, Mope than to anftere, that mine oitne is mine.
632 IlUt btilt thou fee me parleV tnitb tthe Tobne,
633A Ab   eatre them offer me alleagreance,
634 fealtie aRnb  omage, as true liege men ougqt.



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Aujf. What cracker is this fame that deafes our eares
With this abundance of fuperfluous breath?
King Lewis, determine what we fhall doe ftrait.
Lew. Women & fooles, breake off your conference.
King lohn, this is the very fumme of all:
England and Ireland, Angiers, Toraine, Maine,
In right of Arthur doe I claime of thee:
Wilt thou refigne them, and lay downe thy Armes?
lohn. My life as foone: I doe defie thee France,
Arthur of Britaine, yeeld thee to my hand,
And out of my deere loue Ile giue thee more,
Then ere the coward hand of France can win;
Submit thee boy.

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447
448
449
450
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Queen. Come to thy grandame child.               459
Conf. Doe childe, goe to yt grandame childe,     460
Giue grandame kingdome, and it grandame will       461
Giue yt a plum, a cherry, and a figge,             462
There's a good grandame.                            463
Arthur. Good my mother peace,                     464
I would that I were low laid in my graue,           465
I am not worth this coyle that's made for me. (weepes. 466
Qu. Mo. His mother fhames him fo, poore boy hee 467
Con. Now thame vpon you where the does or no,    468
His grandames wrongs, and not his mothers fhames   469
Drawes thofe heauen-mouing pearles fro his poor eies, 470
Which heauen fhall take in nature of a fee:        471
I, with thefe Chriftall beads heauen fhall be brib'd  472
To doe him Iuftice, and reuenge on you.             473
Qu. Thou monftrous flanderer of heauen and earth.  474
Con. Thou monfirous Iniurer of heauen and earth,  475
Call not me flanderer, thou and thine vfurpe        476
The Dominations, Royalties, and rights              477
Of this oppreffed boy; this is thy eldeft fonnes fonne,  478
Infortunate in nothing but in thee:                479
Thy finnes are vifited in this poore childe,       480
The Canon of the Law is laide on him,               481
Being but the fecond generation                     482
Remoued from thy finne-conceiuing wombe.            483
Iohn. Bedlam haue done.                           484
Con. I haue but this to fay,                     485
That he is not onely plagued for her fin,           486
But God hath made her finne and her, the plague    487
On this remoued iffue, plagued for her,            488
And with her plague her finne:his iniury          489
Her iniurie the Beadle to her finne,               490
All punifh'd in the perfon of this childe,         491
And all for her, a plague vpon her.                 492
Que. Thou vnaduifed fcold, I can produce          493
A Will, that barres the title of thy fonne.         494



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500 635  K.Philp,ummon tletem, 1 tWill not beteete it till t3 fee
636    it, ant btl)en  fee it 3le foone cdange it.
503 637 They fummon the Towne, the Citizens appeare vpon the
638    walls.
50sos 639  K.John Vou men of Angiers, aub a) 3 take it mtn loall
640 o ubiett, J3 baue fummonetb ou to the tiallt:to bifpute on
541 mV riglt, tuere to tlinhe Vou boubtfull tIerein, Ibtiicl 31 am
642 perflabeb tVou are not 3Jn fetr  uo b0, our )i3 otberr bonne,
643 bacht itlt) tjhe Jaingof Fraunce, laue beleagreb your  eobne
644 bpon a falfe pCetenbeb title to tle fame: in befence bjereof
645 3 your liege Lo b baue b ouglt our poWer to fence you from
646 te Zlfurper, to free your intenbeb feruitube, aub btterly to
647 fupplant t)e foemen, to my riglt 1 your reft. Da tit, iDibo
648 t to iteepe you tMt)e Goune foE?



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Con. I who doubts that, a Will: a wicked will,   495
A womans will, a cankred Grandams will.            496
Fra. Peace Lady, paufe, or be more temperate,     497
It ill befeemes this prefence to cry ayme           498
To thefe ill-tuned repetitions:                     499
Some Trumpet fummon hither to the walles            500
Thefe men of Anglers, let vs heare them fpeake,    501
Whofe title they admit, Arthurs or Iohns.           502
Trumpet founds.                    503
Enter a Citizen vpon the walles.         504
Cit. Who is it that hath warn'd vs to the walles?  505
Fra. 'Tis France, for England.                    506
lohn. England for it felfe:                       507
You men of Angiers, and my louing fubie&ts.        508
Fra. You louing men of Angiers, Arthurs fubieCts,  509
Our Trumpet call'd you to this gentle parle.       510
lohn. For our aduantage, therefore heare vs firft:  511
Thefe flagges of France that are aduanced heere     512
Before the eye and profpe6t of your Towne,          513
Haue hither march'd to your endamagement.          514
The Canons haue their bowels full of wrath,         515
And ready mounted are they to fpit forth           516
Their Iron indignation 'gainft your walles:         517
All preparation for a bloody fiedge                518
And merciles proceeding, by thefe French.           519
Comfort yours Citties eies, your winking gates:    520
And but for our approch, thofe fleeping ftones,    521
That as a wafte doth girdle you about               522
By the compulfion of their Ordinance,               523
By this time from their fixed beds of lime          524
Had bin difhabited, and wide hauocke made          525
For bloody power to rufh vppon your peace.          526
But on the fight of vs your lawfull King,           527
Who painefully with much expedient march            528
Haue brought a counter-checke before your gates,    529



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To faue vnfcratch'd your Citties threatned cheekes:  530
Behold the French amaz'd vouchfafe a parle,          531
And now infteed of bulletts wrapt in fire            532
To make a fhaking feuer in your walles,              533
They fhoote but calme words, folded vp in fmoake,    534
To make a faithleffe errour in your eares,           535
Which truft accordingly kinde Cittizens,             536
And let vs in. Your King, whofe labour'd fpirits     537
Fore-wearied in this a6tion of fwift fpeede,         538
Craues harbourage within your Citie walles.          539
France. When I haue faide, make anfwer to vs both.  540
Loe in this right hand, whofe protection             541
Is moft diuinely vow'd vpon the right                542
Of him it holds, ftands yong Plantagenet,            543
Sonne to the elder brother of this man,              544
And King ore him, and all that he enioyes:           545
For this downe-troden equity, we tread               546
In warlike march, thefe greenes before your Towne,   547
Being no further enemy to you                        548
Then the conftraint of hofpitable zeale,             549
In the releefe of this oppreffed childe,             550
Religioufly prouokes. Be pleafed then                551
To pay that dutie which you truly owe,               552
To him that owes it, namely, this yong Prince,       553
And then our Armes, like to a muzled Beare,          554
Saue in afpect, hath all offence feal'd vp:          555
Our Cannons malice vainly fhall be fpent             556
Againft th'involuerable clouds of heauen,            557
And with a bleffed and vn-vext retyre,               558
With vnhack'd fwords, and Helmets all vnbruis'd,     559
We will beare home that luffie blood againe,         560
Which heere we came to fpout againft your Towne,     561
And leaue your children, wiues, and you in peace.    562
But if you fondly paffe our proffer'd offer,         563
'Tis not the rounder of your old-fac'd walles,       564
Can hide you from our meffengers of Warre,          565



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66       ~~The troublefome Raig~ne, of King John         19

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649             Citizen jfoý our lab~fullI Utn~g*
5714 6,5o  7o h n3J baono leffe pert~bateti:.tljen in 000 i~name Open
65T pour %ateo, anti let me enter,
652 Citizen AZnb it pleafet our t~iglyner~We comptroll, not tour
653 title, neitlber W~ill wve raoflj abint t our entrance: f. oube
654 latufUlliDing,~,iWtit all obetiience Woe heepe it to your W, if not
6355 iun'g, our rao~neo to be impeaclbet foý yeeltbingAxiitlout moge
6563 corifitierate triall:++ We anuxtere not ag; men la~uleo, but to tthe
657 beboofe of tim tIhat pýooueO latufull658 John 3 fljall not Come in ttben?
659 Citizen P- o My IL-o~b, tiltl We knoiD mo~re
586 6wo K.Philip TYhlen ljeare me fpeake in tlhe belbalfe of Arthur
661 Donne of Geifrey elber Zp3~ttier to John, lbii title mani~fell
662 titliout contrabiicion to tlhe Crobne anb U'gJ~nboineOf Eng663 land, iit'tj A nglers anb btiuero To~uneo on tljio ftte the fea:*
664 Wuill you achtnokiletige  im your liege io~tWo~ttio fpealhetl in
665 myVtuo b to intertaine you tuitlb all fauouro ao befeemetlj a
6w t~in% to lbio fubieao, oý a frientito lbio uel-ixiller~:o +.oifanti
w7 to tthe peri'll of your contempt, Wor~ntji0 title io ppooueb by
668 toe fiuoýb.
58'? 669 Citizen ~e anfliiere ao befo ýe till you tbaue p ooueti one
&7o ritljt, W~e achnotulebp~ none rigtbt, lbe th~at triesot'Wimfelf our



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Though all thefe Englifh, and their difcipline         566
Were harbour'd in their rude circumference:            567
Then tell vs, Shall your Citie call vs Lord,           568
In that behalfe which we haue challeng'd it?          569
Or fhall we giue the fignall to our rage,              570
And fialke in blood to our poffeffion?                571
Cit. In breefe, we are the King of Englands fubie6ts  572
For him, and in his right, we hold this Towne.         573
lohn. Acknowledge then the King, and let me in.      574
Cit. That can we not: but he that proues the King   575
To him will we proue loyall, till that time            576
Haue we ramm'd vp our gates againft the world.         577
Iohn. Doth not the Crowne of England, prooue the 578
King?                                      579
And if not that, I bring you Witneffes                 580
Twice fifteene thoufand hearts of Englands breed.      581
Baft. Baffards and elfe.                             582
Iohn. To verifie our title with their lues.          583
Fran. As many and as well-borne bloods as thofe.     584
Baif. Some Baftards too.                             585
Fran. Stand in his face to contradi6t his claime.      586
Cit. Till you compound whofe right is worthieft,    587
We for the worthieft hold the right from both.         588



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671r  oueraigne, to bim till tbae rremaine ftrme fubirdt, anb foý
672 tim, anb in lise rigtt tWe Iolb our Wobtne as befirouo to ttnoto
6y73 the trutt as toatt to fubfcribe befoge lte tnobte  a9o e thtan
674 t'i)i! te Cannot fatr, anb moge ttanr tbIi te bare not boo.
675  K.Philzp Setnt lohn1 beffe tjee in the name anb belatfe
676 of Arthur Plantaginet tbI) Wing anb toufin, bi)ofe rigbt anD
677 patrimonie tbou betainet, a; 31 boubt not ere tte bap enbe in
678 a fet battel makte thee confeffe; tublerteunto tuitl a yeale to
679 right 31 t)atenge ter.ee
589 68o  K.Iohn 31 accept tije ct)allenge, anb turne the befitance to
68i t1y% ttboate.
682   Excurfions. The Baftard chafeth Lymoges the Aufirich
683     Duke, and maketh him leaue the Lyons skinne.
684 Bafjard tnb art to)tt gone, miffogtune IOaunt tbV frepo,
685 anb ciill colbe feare affaile ttj times of reff*
686 a  Zorpheus leaue bere ttl) ftient Cban cane,
687 It3eafebqe tis0 tbouttss b3itt bitmall fantafes,
688 anb gltafft1 obiets of pale ti eatning  Mors,



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John. Then God forgiue the finne of all thofe foules,  589
That to their euerlafting refidence,                 590
Before the dew of euening fall, fhall fleete         591
In dreadfull triall of our kingdomes King            592
Fran. Amen, Amen, mount Cheualiers to Armes.       593
Bafl. Saint George that fwindg'd the Dragon,       594
And ere fince fit's on's horfebacke at mine Hofteffe dore 595
Teach vs fome fence. Sirrah, were I at home          596
At your den firrah, with your Lionneffe,             597
I would fet an Oxe-head to your Lyons hide:          598
And make a monfler of you.                           599
AuJI. Peace, no more.                              600
Bafi. 0 tremble: for you heare the Lyon rore.      601
lohn. Vp higher to the plaine, where we'l fet forth  602
In beft appointment all our Regiments.               603
Bay?. Speed then to take aduantage of the field.   604
Fra. It fhall be fo, and at the other hill         605
Command the reft to fland, God and our right.        606
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689 eTffright 1l)m tuter  minute wtitl) fearne looher
6wo Let ~laboore temper terror in OiW tlouqlts,
6gr CAnb let tje terroa  mahe tlt cotoarb mab,
692 anb in li%; mabnes let lim feare purfute,
693 3nb fo in frenqie let thle peafant bie.
694 Pere is tl)e ranfome tlat allave; Oist rage,
695  T   firft frelttolb that Richard left lis fonnet:
69r With fttsid     f att-furpt #ise  lining forof
g697; Heflors fatue bib t)e fainting Greekes. Exit.
8os 698 Enter the Kings Herolds with Trumpets to the wals of
699    Angiers: they fummon the Towne.
700  Eng.Herold lohn bd te gracte of 0ob i ming of England,
701 itoJob of Ireland, Aniou, Toraine, &c. bemaunbet once againe
702 bp  ou jiý fubiett  of Angiers, if ou WUill quietl furrentber
703 bp th)e Iotxne into lio ljanbso1
610 704  Fr.Herold Philip b   to)e grace of ob Jaing of Fraunce, Ov705 maunbetl in tle beIatfFe of Arthur Dukte of Britaine, if OU
70o6 till furrenber bp the Giotone into li0s ýanbo;, to t)e bfe of tbe
707 faib Arthur.



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Heere after excurfions, Enter the Herald of France  608
with Trumpets to the gates.          so9
F. Her. You men of Angiers open wide your gates,  610
And let yong Arthur Duke of Britaine in,            611
Who by the hand of France, this day hath made       612
Much worke for teares in many an Englifh mother,   613
Whofe fonnes lye fcattered on the bleeding ground:  614
Many a widdowes husband groueling lies,             615
Coldly embracing the difcoloured earrh,             616
And vidtorie with little loffe doth play            617
Vpon the dancing banners of the French,             618
Who are at hand triumphantly difplayed             619
To enter Conquerors, and to proclaime               620
Arthur of Britaine, Englands King, and yours.       621
Enter Englý Herald with Trumpet.         622
E.Har. Reioyce you men of Angiers, ring your bels, 623
King lohn, your king and Englands, doth approach,   624
Commander of this hot malicious day,                625
Their Armours that march'd hence fo filuer bright,  626
Hither returne.all gilt with Frenchmens blood:      627
There ftucke no plume in any Englifh Creft,         628



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636 708 Citizens IIerro1oo got tetttoe tiv~o,ittogouo piJlicto,
709 e~ae t IMltpot Op t1nt~abitante; of Angiers, require a parke of
7110 djtor t'ar f
7111:Herolds WC % Ot.*
646 712 Enter the Kings, Queene Elianor, Blaunch, Baftard, Ly713 moges, Lewes, Caftu/ean, Fernbrooke, Salisbury, Conftazce,
71 and Arthur Duke of Britaine.



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That is remoued by a ftaffe of France:               629
Our colours do returne in thofe fame hands           630
That did difplay them when we firft marcht forth:    631
And like a iolly troope of Huntfmen come             632
Our luftie Englifh, all with purpled hands,          633
Dide in the dying flaughter of their foes,           634
Open your gates, and giue the ViEtors way.          635
Hubert.Heralds, from off our towres we might behold  636
From firft to laft, the on-fet and retyre            637
Of both yonr Armies, whofe equality                  638
By our beft eyes cannot be cenfured:        (blowes: 639
Blood hath bought blood, and blowes haue anfwerd     640
Strength matcht with ftrength, and power confronted 641
power,                                    642
Both are alike, and both alike we like:              643
One muft proue greateft,  While they weigh fo euen,  644
We hold our Towne for neither: yet for both.        645
Enter the two Kings with their powers,       646
atfeuerall doores.                 647
lohn. France, haft thou yet more blood to caft away?  648
Say, fhall the currant of our right rome on,         649
Whofe paffage vext with thy impediment,              650
Shall leaue his natiue channell, and ore-fwell       651
with courfe difturb'd euen thy confining fhores,     652
Vnleffe thou let his filuer Water, keepe             653
A peacefull progreffe to the Ocean.                  654
Fra. England thou haft not fau'd one drop of blood  655
In this hot triall more then we of France,           656
Rather loft more. And by this hand I fweare          657
That fwayes the earth this Climate ouer-lookes,      658
Before we will lay downe our iuft-borne Armes,       659
Wee'l put thee downe,'gainft whom thefe Armes wee 660
Or adde a royall number to the dead:         (beare, 661



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675 715  7okhn. etrolb, t owat an tere tboo the Tobnfmen fenb?
76   Philip Willu Angiers VeMb to Phil p 1aing of Fraunce,
717  En.Her.1 - e   0oiunfmen on tle a baL  accept youtr Orace.
718  Fr.Her.-nb traut a parlet of your   aieftie.
719  lohn   OU CitilenM  of Angliers, baue your etes
720 )13eelrb tlij flaugbter that our -nglif bobtes
721 L2aue mabe bpon thLe touarb fratubfull #frencd
722 Anb baue you xuiftly ponbgb tletrte itball
723 pour gaint in yeelbing to the Cngliftl Ding:
724  Philip Et)tic lotte in ' elbinq to the Cnglift) iuing.
725 J3ut John, t   Mey fai 3from out tleir jileftt 'g otutert
726  tOe Ctbeualiesr of Fraunce aub croffeboit flot
727 make lanes of flauqltrab bobtie tblougb tdine tboaft,
728a ntb are refolube to yielbe to Arthurs riigt.
729  John aWhy Philzp, tlougb ttou b2aueft it foge tle t allo,
730  )?T conCietnce knotxeo that lohn Fatl bionne the fielb.
73x  Philip iWbat ere my confcience knoitv, ty Armie feeles
732 Xtat Philip   ab Ctte better of the bay.
733  Bastard Philip i.nbkbe latt got tlj eLyon tcafe,
734 bItic) btetre be olb0 0to Lymoges bifgrace.
735 1alte  uke to ftye anb leaue fuc fpoytle bettinbe:
736 IJ3ut tI)i tlou knetif of foce to make mk fay.v
737 3t farbe  oivtt thte ao vttld tth marriner,



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Gracing the fcroule that tels of this warres loffe,  662
With flaughter coupled to the name of kings.         663
Baji. Ha Maiefty: how high thy glory towres,      664
When the rich blood of kings is fet on fire:         665
Oh now doth death line his dead chaps with fteele,   666
The fwords of fouldiers are his teeth, his phangs,   667
And now he feafts, moufing the flefh of men          668
In vndetermin'd differences of kings.                669
Why ftand thefe royall fronts amazed thus:           670
Cry hauocke kings, backe to the ftained field        671
You equall Potents, fierie kindled fpirits,          672
Then let confufion of one part confirm               673
The others peace: till then, blowes, blood, and death.  674
Iohn. Whofe party do the Townefmen yet admit?     676



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The troublefome Razigne of King lo/n

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738 P       ting  t)e Iugie WMiale, tttofe monftrouobullte
739 Dotl beare tle ittaueo liktte mountaineg fo e ttie tuinbe,
740 15at tl)oites out emptie beffellO, fo to ftaa
741  igt furie, b1file tse fijp bottl faile atiav.
742 Phip ti0 tlMine: anb fope ttoi'  Jitncth  pgefenc,
743,9abame 1 I  umbly ta' it at your feete,
744 13den  ttnte firft abuenture 31 atcieub,
74 atnb ftrft erploVtt your  trace bib enivone:
746  et man? moVe 31 lonag to be enioUnb.
747  Blaunch Philz.p J3 take it, anb 3 toiee commaunb
748 TO  Weare the fame aos eart  ) tt  fatler bib:
749 TYJ)eretmitO receiue tlii0 fauour at my lanbo,
750  'incourage toee to follotu Richards fame.
676 751  Arthur pe Citireno of Angiers, are ye mutet
752 ArthurOý lohn, fay tubic) fpall be your Jing?
753  Citizen Wae care not tljiclb, if once te ktnew tt)e rilbt,
754  3ut till toe knotb ) e tWill not yeelb our riglbt.
S755  Bastard $igt Philip counftel to fo mig ttie rtings,
756 40 are tte U ingo of England anb of Fraunce,
693 757s  e tuoulb abuIfe your &raco to bnite
758 2nb knit your foe0 o gainlf ttlee Cititeno,
759 putling tbeir battereb tuallso about tlieir eareso.
702 760 IToe  otone once toonne ten eftriue about the claime,
761 rFO  tiey are minbeb to belube you both,



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Fra. Spevke Citizens for England, whofe your king.  676
Hub. The king ofEngland, when we know the king.   677
Fra, Know him in vs, that heere hold vp his right.  678
Iohn. In Vs, that are our owne great Deputie,    679
And beare poffeffion of our Perfon heere,          680
Lord of our prefence Angiers, and of you.          681
Fra. A greater powre then We denies all this,    682
And till it be vndoubted, we do locke              683
Our former fcruple in our ftrong barr'd gates:      684
Kings of our feare, vntill our feares refolu'd     685
Be by fome certaine king, purg'd and depos'd.       686
Baf/. By heauen, thefe fcroyles of Angiers flout you 687
And fland fecurely on their battelments,    (kings, 688
As in a Theater, whence they gape and point         689
At your induftrious Scenes and ats of death.       690
Your Royall prefences be rul'd by mee,              691
Do like the Mutines of Ierufalem,                   692
Be friends a-while, and both conioyntly bend        693
Your iharpeft Deeds of malice on this Towne.        694



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By Eaft and Weft let France and England mount.       695
Their battering Canon charged to the mouthes,        696
Till their foule-fearing clamours haue braul'd downe  697
The flintie ribbes of this contemptuous Citie,       698
I'de play inceffantly vpon thefe Iades,              699
Euen till vnfenced defolation                        700
Leaue them as naked as the vulgar ayre:              701
That done, diffeuer your vnited ftrengths,           702
And part your mingled colours once againe,           703
Turne face to face, and bloody point to point:       704
Then in a moment Fortune fhall cull forth            705
Out of one fide her happy Minion,                    706
To whom in fauour fhe fhall giue the day,            707
And kiffe him with a glorious vi6tory:               708
How like you this wilde counfell mighty States,      709
Smackes it not fomething of the policie.             710
lohn. Now by the sky that hangs aboue our heads,   711
I like it well. France, fhall we knit our powres,    712
And lay this Angiers euen with the ground,           713
Then after fight who fhall be king of it?           714
Baf/. And if thou haft the mettle of a king,       715
Being wrong'd as we are by this peeuifh Townc:       716
Turne thou the mouth of thy Artillerie,              717
As we will ours, againft thefe fawcie walles,        718
And when that we haue dafh'd them to the ground,     719
Why then defie each other, and pell-mell,            720
Make worke vpon our felues, for heauen or hell.      721
Fra. Let it be fo:fay, where will you affault?   722
Iohn. We from the Weft will fend deftrution        723
Into this Cities bofome.                             724
AuJf. I from the North.                            725
Fran. Our Thunder from the South,                  726
Shall raine their drift of bullets on this Towne..  727
Ba/f. 0 prudent difcipline! From North to South:  728
Auftria and France fhoot in each others mouth.       729
Ile ftirre them to it: Come, away, away.             730



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731 762 Citizen IJi~ngO, 1Jince0;, iLO~bg; I lfniq3ltoaffflnblrb lvere,
763 TIbe~ Citi~rnoOf Angiers all bV me
764 I1ntreate your MTaieffie to beave tljem fpeake:
765  lnbaU VOn liketlje ttmotion tljev flalt maket
766 ED* to account anb fUollo i tljirabUic
737 767 John. Philip. fpeake on) Wesie gtlr te leaue.
768  Citizen  1I4en tljuo: ~ulereao tlat Vong I luftie ktni'jt
769 ]Cncitro von on to Iknit your kinglV ffrengtbgy+:
770 TE24e motion cannot cijoofe but pleafe tlhe goobt
771 aZnb fncJb a~onetou  te quiet of tlbe #,tate.
772 )l5ut lbob)mVt o y   ot bob)  oulb your ftrengtljo be knit
773 P.ot to opp~effe your fubiecto anti your frieno,
774  lnb fAlt thje io~lb iuitlj b~abilro antimutinits:
775 13ut unto peace your fo~cev fljoulf) be knit
776 To line in P- p'nincelV league anb amitie:
764 777 X)o tIbi0, tlhe ateo of Angiers fl)all giue WaV
778 alnb ftanDb tibe open to your ljarto content.
7791To make thjig peace a lafting bonbi of lone,
780 1Uemain oneutonelV lbonoabte meaneo,
7811 iUticljby y our parbon 3 flall here bifplaV.
782 Lewes tlhe Molplbin anb tlhe leire of Fraunce,
783 at man of noteb bialoq tlfouql) tlje to~
784 30 Vet bnmarierb: let ijim take to Wiufe
738 785 TJh~e beauteous tiaugljter of the Ifting of Spie
786 peece to iU,, John, tlhe lonely air.L~eBlaniche,
787 )Begotten On lbig;, ifter Elianor.
788 W1itlb ler in marriage iWill.Ijer bnchle Siue
789 CAWte   anib  1o~iro ao ftttetlb fucl) a matclb.
790 TflV 1LinR90tbjni iovnti in league of perfect tone,
791 Tb~ley may fo DealetbWitlj Arthur puke of Britaine,
792 WIiUo io but vong, ano Vet bnmeete to raig3ne,
793 as;lbie ft)al t~anb contenteb enerie btav.
794  4juo hane 3bolblv (for the common      3oob)
795 1)lIdilrrb i~jat the Citie sane in clbarge.
796 anti ao upon contitiono von agree,



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Hub. Heare vs great kings, vouchfafe awhile to ftay  731
And I fhall fhew you peace, and faire-fac'd league:  732
Win you this Citie without ftroke, or wound,         733
Refcue thofe breathing liues to dye in beds,         734
That heere come facrifices for the field.            735
Perfeuer not, but heare me mighty kings.            736
lohn. Speake on with fauour, we are bent to heare.  737
Hub. That daughter there of Spaine, the Lady Blanch 738
Is neere to England, looke vpon the yeeres           739
Of Lewes the Dolphin, and that louely maid.          740
Ifluflie loue fhould go in queft of beautie,        741
Where fhould he finde it fairer, then in Blanch:     742
If zealous loue fhould go in fearch of vertue,       743
Where fhould he finde it purer then in Blanch?       744
If loue ambitious, fought a match ofbirth,          745
Whofe veines bound richer blood then Lady Blanch?    746
Such as fhe is, in beautie, vertue, birth,           747
Is the yong Dolphin euery way compleat,              748
If not compleat of, fay he is not fhee,              749
And the againe wants nothing; to name want,          750
If want it be not, that the is not hee:              751
He is the halfe part of a bleffed man,               752
Left to be finifhed by fuch as fhee,                 753
And the a faire diuided excellence,                  754
Whofe fulneffe of perfection lyes in him.            755
O two fuch filuer currents when they ioyne           756
Do glorifie the bankes that bound them in:           757
And two fuch fhores, to two fuch ftreames made one,  758
Two fuch controlling bounds fhall you be, kings,     759
To thefe two Princes, if you marrie them:            760
This Vnion fhall do more then batterie can           761
To our faft clofed gates: for at this match,        762
With fwifter fpleene then powder can enforce         763
The mouth of paffage fhall we fling wide ope,        764
And giue you entrance: but without this match,       765
The fea enraged is not halfe fo deafe,               766



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The troublefome Razigne of King lohn?797 0o Uall tue fanUb content to 3etlb t)e Goxtone

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798
799
8ow
784 8oi
802
803
804
788 8os

Arthur a pboper peace, if fuct a motion  otlb;
bef1e   ings beart armet fo;  me, ant, fo mV right,
anb tbIeV  all t arve mV lanbo to make tdym fritenb.
Q Elianor Oo hne lohn, follotv ttil motion, a ttjou lourtf
tVt motlert,
)ahre league xit#i Philyp, )eerb to anv ti)ing:
Lewes Otall Iaue my Vjeete, aub tlen be furt
Arthur Utall laue fmall fuccour out of Fraunce,

8o6  hon h )ABpotter of Fraunce, yOU Ieare tIe  CitihenW:
807 GfAen tell me, l)oto you meant to beale terein.
8o8  Conflance aWIRy yohn, libat canf tjou gitue bnto tty jeect,
80"g 4at baft no foote oflanb, but Arthurs riqlt#



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Lyons more confident, Mountaines and rockes          767
More free ftom molion, no not death himfelfe         768
In mortall furie halfe fo peremptorie,               769
As we to keepe this Citie.                           770
Bafi. Heeres a flay,                               771
That fhakes the rotten carkaffe of old death         772
Out of his ragges. Here's a large mouth indeede,     773
That fpits forth death, and mountaines, rockes, and feas, 774
Talkes as familiarly of roaring Lyons,               775
As maids of thirteene do of puppi-dogges.            776
What Cannoneere begot this luftie blood,             777
He fpeakes plaine Cannon fire, and fmoake, and bounce, 778
He giues the baftinado with his tongue:              779
Our eares are cudgel'd, not a word of his            780
But buffets better then a fift of France:           781
Zounds, I was neuer fo bethumpt with words,          782
Since I firft cal'd my brothers father Dad.          783
Old Qu. Son, lift to this coniunftion, make this match 784
Giue with our Neece a dowrie large enough,           785
For by this knot, thou fhalt fo furely tye           786
Thy now vnfur d affurance to the Crowne,             787
That yon greene boy fhall haue no Sunne to ripe      788
The bloome that promifeth a mightie fruite.          789
I fee a yeelding in the lookes of France:            790
Marke how they whifper, vrge them while their foules  791
Are capeable of this ambition,                       792
Leaft zeale now melted by the windie breath          793
Of foft petitions, pittie and remorfe,               794
Coole and congeale againe to what it was.            795



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811 8zo  Lewes 1)3V  iLabi  Citientt, 31 like Vour clole,
8xa   louelr iDamfell ti tle Ilabie Blanche,
812 ZtWotloie tl)e etre of Europe fo) ter pieete.
813  Conjfiance WMat mings, b$l fanb gou gajing in a tranceo
824 MbV 0tod nob) i0o0b? accurfeb    itifetn
815 To fill anb tickle tleitr ambieious earme,
816 Witl Ijope of gainet tiat fppings from Arthurs lotTe.
817 Oome bitmall Plannet at tOl birtjbaV raignb,
8M8 jfo nob) ]c fee toe fall of all totlw  oper.
8Sg  K.Philip tLabie, anb Duke of Britaine, knob v3ou bott,
820 IJJAe l in'g of Fraunce refpects OiW Iono; mole,
821 Utlan to betray 1vi  frienbs anb fauourers.
822:pinceffe of Spaine, coulb tou affect mv Donne,
823 JXf  e bpon conbitiono coulb agree.
824  Baftard  Dlounbo8  $ abam, take an Cnglift ornttleman:
825 4auer ao 31 tao, J3 tbouqlt to l)aue mooube toe matcb.
826 Oranbame Vou mabe me balfe a pgomife once,
827 STEat Laby Blanch ffoult b inq me tiealtt) inough,
828 Znb make me oeitre of ftoe of englif4 lanb.
829  QElianor peace PhiliZ, J tuill looke tlee out a uife.
830?JWe muff iWitb pollicie compounb Dti0 ftrife.
83,  Bastard Jf Lewes get ter, Well, 3q fatV n  moe t
832 13ut let toe frolicke  reuctiman take no fcogne,
833 Jf Philip front lim Wiitl an englifl l)oone.
s39 834  Iohn iabie, Wtat anflxere make you to the D1ing of France?
835 Can you affect tije tolpbin fo tyour iLob?
836  Blanch 31 tbanhke tole Ding that likes of me to xWell,
837 To make me 1;3ibe bnto fo great a pJince:
838 IOut iue me leaue my 10o    to paufe on to)i0,
839 treaff being to too fo;tuarb in tle caufe,
84o 3t may be blemifn) to my mobeffie.
841  Q Elinor   onne John, anb tuootlie Philip l, of Fraunce,
842 IDoo you confer aWbile about tt)e  oooter,
843  tnb    1 t  bill ctioole  m  mobeftf PeTeCe to Well,
844 sat Ie fip)all lycelb affoone ao you )aure bone.
845  Constance 31, ttere0 tte tWoetcl that bpoactletI all t1)ui ill,



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846 ttMflV ftl  3 not bpon tij )c1hItamern  fact,
847 anb t  itti mv naviet pulltt foot 1er ratefull t etrs.
848  Arthur,Ub'ettt Ioti)tr traf t tleie bafit mabbing fitst:
849  O   mV latte, tt ml e tmOranbame Ijaue ietr Will.
850 @ bOoult tle titvi  tier Ianbts pulltt fot  mi btart,
s851 3 coutb affoob it to appeaft tetft býoplet.
852 )But motber let bo tftlfei tboinkt at all:
853 ieaft fartt Ibarmnet tnfut our Ibafit fptact.
798 854  Phih p130otiotr of England, btiat botit ibt'it ttou iut
855ss!nto mV bonne in marriatge ivit ttby jPectt?
802 856  John Jfirft Philip knotut% o tr bonp'it out of Spaine
857 To be tfo great as maV content a Uing:
858 )out moge to menb anb amplifie tht fame,
80 859 3tiut min '  ont" tbirtit tloufani marht0.
86o jfoý lant 31 leaut it to t1ine obnt e  tmaunb.
847 s86 Phi/p Wp)etn 31 bemaunb Volquejion, Torain, MAlain,
848 862 Poitersanb Aniou, ttlefe fiue;Jouinctt,
863 WoU1id ttou ag J ing of England bolbtf in Fraunce:
864 4T) n   ti)all our peace be foone conclutet on.
865  Bastard jo tleft tthan fiue fucb:Jaouinrt% at oncet
866  John   9otrt Wtat tfallat  boo?mV biot)tr got theft Lanto
867 Witb mucht effuffon of our 1nglit)il  bloub:
we ~nb llalU 3 giue it all atxap at once:
s86 Q.Elinor lohn giut it btim, fo ftJalt ttou liHeu in patct,
870 An   IUtept the refbute fany itoparbit.



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Hub. Why anfwer not the double Maiefties,          796
This friendly treatie of our threatned Towne.        797
Fra. Speake England firift, that hath bin forward firft 798
To fpeake vnto this Cittie:what fay you?           799
lohn.If that the Dolphin there thy Princely fonne,  800
Can in this booke of beautie read, I loue:           801
Her Dowrie fhall weigh equall with a Queene:         802
For Angiers, and faire Toraine Maine, Poycliers,     803
And all that we vpon this fide the Sea,              804
(Except this Cittie now by vs befiedg'd)             805
Finde liable to our Crowne and Dignitie,             8o6
Shall gild her bridall bed and make her rich         807
In titles, honors, and promotions,                   808
As fhe in beautie, education, blood,                 809
Holdes hand with any Princeffe of the world.         810
Fra. What fai'ft thou boy? looke in the Ladies face.  811
Dol. I do my Lord, and in her eie I find           812
A wonder, or a wondrous miracle,                     813



88

88       Th1 e t-roubleforne Raigne of King John       19

1591

87!  Ion phi  b~inq fogbtI) tV O~nne, IfUe 'o mV J]ecre,
872anoUb ere in mariage 31 boo %muc W  b bIjr
849 873 JWOM Mt anb MV bUCCeffO;,O(1OnSIM) JLting0,



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The fhadow of my felfe form'd in her eye,            814
Which being but the fhadow of your fonne,            815
Becomes a fonne and makes your fonne a fhadow:       816
I do proteft I neuer lou'd my felfe                  817
Till now, infixed I beheld my felfe,                 818
Drawne in the flattering table of her eie.           819
Whifpers with Blanch. 820
Baft. Drawne in the flattering table of her eie,   821
Hang'd in the frowning wrinkle of her brow,          822
And quarter'd in her heart, hee doth efpie           823
Himfelfe loues traytor, this is pittie now;          824
That hang'd, and drawne, and quarter'd there ihould be  825
In fuch a loue, fo vile a Lout as he,                826
Blan. My vnckles will in this refpe&t is mine,     827
If he fee ought in you that makes him like,          828
That any thing he fee's which moues his liking,      829
I can with eafe tranflate it to my will:             830
Or if you will, to fpeake more properly,             831
I will enforce it eaflie to my loue.                 832
Further I will not flatter you, my Lord,             833
That all I fee in you is worthie loue,               834
Then this, that nothing do I fee in you,             835
Though churlifh thoughts themfelues fhould bee your 836
Iudge,                                    837
That I can finde, fhould merit any hate.             838
Iohn. What faie thefe yong-ones? What fay you my 839
Neece?                                               840
Blan. That fhe is bound in honor ftill to do       841
What you in wifedome ftill vouchfafe to fay.         842
Iohn. Speake then Prince Dolphin, can you loue this 843
Ladie?                                              844
Dol. Nay aske me if I can refraine from loue,      845
For I doe loue her moft vnfainedly.                  846
Iohn. Then do I giue Volqueffen, Toraine, Maine,   847
Poy6liers, and Aniow, thefe flue Prouinces           848
With her to thee, and this addition more,            849



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847
850

874 Voiqueffon, Poiters, Aniou, Torain, Main,
875 AInb tl'irt te IOtfaflrJ  tait0 Of ftiPent copne
876 P- Ott) Cit4M~en0, 3Ijob le pou of tbijz;matclji+
877  Citizen Wie 'oV to fee lbfbieete a peace begun*
878  Lewes Lewes lxitlj Blanch Plall euer tine content.
879 )11ut noW U'MgIinJohn, bilbat CaV ponto tlhe Mke?
88o fatljert fpeakle a% Vou map itl'si0beIalfe.
881 Philip J1t.John, be goob bnto ttbv tp.Ireb4bere,
882 aub giue tjim fome lxubat thjat Plall pleafe tbiee beff.
883 %7hn Arthur, altttougb)ttbou troubleft Englands peace:+
884p~et bere 3 O~ue ttbee Brittaine foý ttýine obane,
885 Jiogetljer WitI'tb te 0artebome of Richrnont,
886an Ztbt tio delb itide of Angiers biitlall.

872
873



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Full thirty thoufand Markes of Englifh coyne:        850
Phillip of France, if thou be pleafd withall,        851
Command thy fonne and daughtet to ioyne hands.       852
Fra. It likes vs well young Princes:clofe your hands  853
Aufj. And your lippes too, for I am well affur'd,  854
That I did fo when I was firft affur'd.              855
Fra. Now Cittizens of Angires ope your gates,      856
Let in that amitie which you haue made,              857
For at Saint Maries Chappell prefently,              858
The rights of marriage fhallbe folemniz'd.           859
Is not the Ladie Conflance in this troope?          860
I know the is not for this match made vp,            861
Her prefence would haue interrupted much.            862
Where is fhe and her fonne, tell me, who knowes?     863
Dol. She is fad and pafsionate at your highnes Tent.  864
Fra, And by my faith, this league that we haue made 865
Will giue her fadneffe very little cure:            866
Brother of England, how may we content               867
This widdow Lady? In her right we came,             868
Which we God knowes, haue turn d another way,        869
To our owne vantage.                                 870
lohn. We will heale vp all,                        871
For wee'l create yong Arthur Duke of Britaine        872
And Earle ofRichmond, and this rich faire Towne      873
We make him Lord of. Call the Lady Conflance.        874
Some fpeedy Meffenger bid her repaire                875
To our folemnity: I truft we fhall,                 876
(If not fill vp the meafure of her will)             877
Yet in fome meafure fatisfie her fo,                 878
That we fhall flop her exclamation,                  879
Go we as well as haft will fuffer vs,                880
To this vnlook'd for vnprepared pompe.      Exeunt. 881



92           The troublefome Razigne of King lohn         1591
887  Q. Elianor aub if tItou feeke to pleafe toi' rUneclle Yokn,
8ass Obalt fee mv  onne tjo t 3 Will make of ttee.
88%  Iohn $to teum   ttlin g  i; fogtet to tbio enb,
859 8go iLeto in anb tljtre pgepare tte mariage r)tcs,
8g 1r altit1 in, M0aries Ct1appelt pefentlW
s8s2  talbe perfor meb  t ee tispgfetnce part. Exeunt.



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Baf. Mad world, mad kings, mad compofition:      882
Iohn to flop Arthurs Title in the whole,            883
Hath willingly departed with a part,               884
And France, whofe armour Confcience buckled on,     885
Whom zeale and charitie brought to the field,      886
As Gods owne fouldier, rounded in the eare,         887
With that fame purpofe-changer, that flye diuel,   888
That Broker, that ftill breakes the pate of faith,  889
That dayly breake-vow, he that winnes of all,      890
Of kings, of beggers, old men, yong men, maids,     891
Who hauing no externall thing to loofe,             892
But the word Maid, cheats the poore Maide of that.  893
That fmooth-fac'd Gentleman, tickling commoditie,  894
Commoditie, the byas of the world,                 895
The world, who of it felfe is peyfed well,         896
Made to run euen, vpon euen ground;                 897
Till this aduantage, this vile drawing byas,        898
This fway of motion, this commoditie,              899
Makes it take head from all indifferency,           900
From all dire&tion, purpofe, courfe, intent,       901
And this fame byas, this Commoditie,               902
This Bawd, this Broker, this all-changing-word,     903
Clap'd on the outward eye of fickle France,        904
Hath drawne him from his owne determin'd ayd,       905
From a refolu'd and honourable warre,               906
To a moft bafe and vile-concluded peace.            907
And why rayle I on this Commoditie?                 908
But for becaufe he hath not wooed me yet:           909
Not that I haue the power to clutch my hand,        910
When his faire Angels would falute my palme,        911



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920 893 Manent Conjiance & Arthur.
962 894  Arthur fabam goob ttdere, tlefe   ouping languitomet%
895 abbe no rebtei to falue our atauxibarb Iaps.
896 3f tlrauenm  laut conclubtb tI)ete meunt,
897s  o fmall auaiet is bitter penftuento:
8g8 0 eafong Will dOange, antb fo our pgetfnt grtief
899 9av ctjange tIittl tem, anb all to our rtelief,



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But for my hand, as vnattempted yet,                 912
Like a poore begger, raileth on the rich.            913
Well, whiles I am a begger, I will raile,            914
And fay there is no fin but to be rich:              915
And being rich, my vertue then fhall be,             916
To fay there is no vice, but beggerie:                917
Since Kings breake faith vpon commoditie,            918
Gaine be my Lord, for I will worfhip thee.     Exit. 919
Aftus Secundus
Enter Conflance, Arthur, and Salisbury.      920
Con. Gone to be married? Gone to fweare a peace?   921
Falfe blood to falfe blood ioyn'd. Gone to be freinds?  922
Shall Lewis haue Blaunch, and Blaunch thofe Prouinces? 923
It is not fo, thou haft mifpoke, mifheard,           924
Be well aduif'd, tell ore thy tale againe.           925
It cannot be, thou do'ft but fay 'tis fo             926
I truft I may not truft thee, for thy word           927
Is but the vaine breath of a common man:             928
Beleeue me, I doe not beleeue thee man,              929
I haue a Kings oath to the contrarie.                930
Thou fhalt be punifh'd for thus frighting me,         931
For I am ficke, and capeable of feares,              932
Oppreft with wrongs, and therefore full of feares,   933
A widdow, husbandles, fubieft to feares,              934
A woman naturally borne to feares;                    935
And though thou now confeffe thou didft but ieft      936



96

96        ~~The troublefome Raig~ne of King John        19

1591

963 goo ConjianceabU bop, djrbv earet )1 fee are farre too gremen
901 TEo looIhe into tthe bottome of tlbefe cares.
902 )liut 3t b ~o fee tthe popfe tijat txeigbabtl)Do  ~ne
903 TbV W~tuale MV bWigl), anb alt le t Willing1 meanve;
904    br  b   tijytb  fogtune anb tdW fame floulb mount.
905 Wtb1Uat joytut~at eafe, ~uIat reft can loige in me,
906 Z1Wtl'tilWlom. all Ijope anb b~ap botlb bifagree'.
907  Arthur -Pet iLa~ieo teareo, aub cares, anb folemne fbwo~x,
908 liadjer tlhan belpre0 ljape bp moge W& efoý UWore;
909 ConVlance 3~f any Poiuer Witll lyare a tuibbo~xeo plaint,
910 -aThat from a Wnounbeb foule imploge; reuenge;
911 'eni felt contagion to infec t tIie Zlyme,
912 ~ JTWO curfeb %ZountreV, iDubere the trayto  bgeatlb,
913 Wtb1~ofe periurie aO ppotab Briareus,
914 1eleagurer; all thle  hie  xutlj mifbeliefe.,
915 te p~omilff Arthuranu lbe ftuare it too,
916 Tiofence elby rit,gbanb cliech tIby foenan0 ppibe:
917 1I3ut nobW black-fpotteeb Ieriure ao Ibe is~,



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With my vext fpirits, I cannot take a Truce,       937
But they will quake and tremble all this day.      938
What doft thou meane by fhaking of thy head?      939
Why doft thou looke fo fadly on my fonne?          940
What meanes that hand vpon that breaft of thine?   941
Why holdes thine eie that lamentable rhewme,      942
Like a proud riuer peering ore his bounds?        943
Be thefe fad fignes confirmers of thy words?      944
Then fpeake againe, not all thy former tale,       945
But this one word, whether thy tale be true.      946
Sal. As true as I beleeue you thinke them falfe,  947
That giue you caufe to proue my faying true.      948
Con. Oh if thou teach me to beleeue this forrow,  949
Teach thou this forrow, how to make me dye,       950
And let beleefe, and life. encounter fo,           951
As doth the furie of two defperate men,           952
Which in the very meeting fall, and dye.          953
Lewes marry Blaunch? 0 boy, then where art thou?   954
France friend with England, what becomes of me?   955
Fellow be gone: I cannot brooke thy fight,        956
This newes hath made thee a moft vgly man.         957
Sal. What other harme haue I good Lady done,    958
But fpoke the harme, that is by others done?      959
Con. Which harme within it felfe fo heynous is,  960
As it makes harmefull all that fpeake of it.      961
Ar. I do befeech you Madam be content.           962
Con. If thou that bidft me be content, wert grim  963
Vgly, and flandrous to thy Mothers wombe,          964
Full of vnpleafing blots, and fightleffe ftaines,  965
Lame, foolifh, crooked, fwart, prodigious,         966
Patch'd with foule Moles, and eye-offending markes,  967
I would not care, I then would be content,         968
For then I fhould not loue thee: no, nor thou     969
Become thy great birth, nor deferue a Crowne.     970
But thou art faire, and at thy birth (deere boy)  971



98

The troublefome Raizgnze of King lohn

1591

918 at ta1kes a trute uitt)Elnors bamneb bgat,
99   Tnb marriest Lewes to ter loutvlP J  ttece,
920 faring tOV fortune aub toy birtl-bapte   gift
S92 15ettoetnt treft louetrt: ill betibe tt) mat).
922 anb ao tIreV tloulbter toee from out tljV obone,
923 tanb triump   in a  boibJts tearefull cartes:
924 O l)autrn  crollffe tlem Iuitl a tlfiftt0 courfce,
925 )l3all toe bloub tpilt on eitier part,
926 Clofting th)e craniet of to)e t )irfie eart),
927 Oro=tne to a touegame anb a 3ýiball feaff!
928 aLnbmuf tol birdjrigot bib tie t ebbing bante
929 pooge Ftlplte boy, ljopeles anb lelpleo too,
930  Jo tob)om miffotune feemes no poke at all.
S931  l io fal, tljW ftate, t l  imminent miljapo
932 W3ounbetl tly motberg tl)ougltso bitl) feeling care,
933 W    WA lookR ttou pate! tle colour ftVre ttoV face,
934 31 trouble note toe fountaine of tljn pontlt,
935 Anb make it moobie taitl my boles Difcourfe,
988ss 936 3oe in ivitto me, reply not louely boy,
937 We muft obfture tti% mone tiuitt melobie,
995 938 lreaff iu0fer ivach eufue our malecontent. Exeunt.



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99

Nature and Fortune ioyn'd to make thee great.        972
Of Natures guifts, thou mayft with Lillies boaft,    973
And with the halfe-blowne Rofe. But Fortune, oh,     974
She is corrupted, chang'd, and wonne from thee,      975
Sh'adulterates hourely with thine Vnckle Iohn,       976
And with her golden hand hath pluckt on France       977
To tread downe faire refpeft of Soueraigntie,        978
And made his Maieftie the bawd to theirs.            979
France is a Bawd to Fortune, and king lohn,          980
That ftrumpet Fortune, that vfurping lohn:          981
Tell me thou fellow, is not France forfworne?        982
Euvenom him with words, or get thee gone,            983
And leaue thofe woes alone, which I alone            984
Am bound to vnder-beare.                             985
Sal. Pardon me Madam,                              986
I may not goe without you to the kings.              987
Con. Thou maift, thou fhalt, I will not go with thee,  988
I will inftru&t my forrowes to bee proud,            989
For greefe is proud, and makes his owner ftoope,     990
To me and to the ftate of my great greefe,           991
Let kings affemble:for my greefe's fo great,. 992
That no fupporter but the huge firme earth           993
Can hold it vp: here I and forrowes fit,             994
Heere is my Throne, bid kings come bow to it.        995
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100          The troubleforne Razgne of King John            1591
996 939 Enter the King of England, the King of Fraunce, Arthur,
940    Bajiard, Lewes, Lymoges, Couftance, Blanche, Chatti/ion,
94'    Pembrooke, Salisburie, and Elianor.
998 942  John MW1toi ~tole bar, toeleong bcftvtb baV2,
943 UWerrin to~e Utalmt% of Enzgland aub of Fraunce
944 exan~fb IOi'I0tV bteffeb in a 1afting peace,
946 #vom   tutoft flrrntte Vp3batt fud) a concop fpinqp,
947 TfO Malit Of MO~tal1 fot.0immoqtall fritnbo,



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IOI

Atlus Tertius, Scana prima.
EnterKing lohn, France, Dolphin, Blanch, Elianor, Philip, 996
Auflria, Conflance.                                997
Fran. 'Tis true (faire daughter) and this bleffed day,  998
Euer in France fhall be kept feftiuall:              999
To folemnize this day the glorious funne             1000
Stayes in his courfe, and playes the Alchymift,      1001
Turning with fplendor of his precious eye            1002
The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold:          1003
The yearely courfe that brings this day about,       1004
Shall neuer fee it, but a holy day.                  1005
ConfI. A wicked day, and not a holy day.           1006
What hath this day deferu'd? what hath it done,     1007
That it in golden letters fhould be fet              1008
Among the high tides in the Kalender                 1009
Nay, rather turne this day out of the weeke,         1010
This day of fhame, oppreffion, periury.              1011
Or if it muft fand ftill, let wiues with childe      1012
Pray that their burthens may not fall this day,      1013
Left that their hopes prodigioufly be croft:         1014
But (on this day) let Sea-men feare no wracke,       1015
No bargaines breake that are not this day made;      1016
This day all things begun, come to ill end,          1017
Yea, faith it felfe to hollow falfhood change.       1018
Fra. By heauen Lady, you fhall haue no caufe       1019
To curfe the faire proceedings of this day:          1020
Haue I not pawn'd to you my Maiefty?                1021
Confl. You haue beguil'd me with a counterfeit    1022
Refembling Maiefty, which being touch'd and tride,   1023
Proues valueleffe: you are forfworne, forfworne,    1024
You came in Armes to fpill mine enemies bloud,       1025
But now in Armes, you ftrengthen it with yours.      1026



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The troublefome Raigne of King lohn

1591

1087 948  Conflance  Langobl[ peace mabe bM an otljero tvarre.
949  Philb i  l nbappie peace, tbat tier tiee from reuerge.
950 sRouft tbie Plantaginet, liue not to fee
951 ZAt  butcer of fl)e great Plantiginet.
952 ritnqg, 1Pinces, anb te peere   of eitter tealmeo,
953 sParbOn mn  rafjnes, anmb foqgie tte Ieate
9541  lat carites me in furie to a beebe
955 Of fiqI Defert, of )onour, anb of armeg.
956 a boone @ riD   s, a boone boti) Phil/p beg
957 poffrate bpon lbigh knee: to.tuic knee tall cleaue

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The grapling vigor, and rough frowne of Warre      1027
Is cold in amitie, and painted peace,             1028
And our oppreffion hath made vp this league:       1029
Arme, arme, you heauens, againft thefe periur'd Kings, 1030
A widdow cries, be husband to me (heauens)         1031
Let not the howres of this vngodly day             1032
Weare out the daies in Peace; but ere Sun-fet,     1033
Set armed difcord 'twixt thefe periur'd Kings,     1034
Heare me, Oh, heare me.                            1035
Auf?. Lady Conflance, peace.                     1036
Confl. War, war, no peace, peace is to me a warre:  1037
0 Lymoges, 0 Aufiria, thou doft fhame              1038
That bloudy fpoyle: thou flaue, thou wretch, j coward, 1039
Thou little valiant, great in villanie,            1040
Thou euer ftrong vpon the ftronger fide;           1041
Thou Fortunes Champion, that do'ft neuer fight     1042
But when her humourous Ladifhip is by              1043
To teach thee fafety: thou art periur'd too,      1044
And footh'ft vp greatneffe. What a foole art thou,  1045
A ramping foole, to brag, and ftamp, and fweare,   1046
Vpon my partie:thou cold blooded flaue,           1047
Haft thou not fpoke like thunder on my fide?      1048
Beene fworne my Souldier, bidding me depend        1049
Vpon thy ftarres, thy fortune, and thy ftrength,   1050
And doft thou now fall ouer to my foes?           1051
Thou weare a Lyons hide, doff it for fhame,        1052
And hang a Calues skin on thofe recreant limbes.   1053



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104      ~The troublefome -Raigne of King John          19

1591

958 ZiWnto ttot fuperftci% Of tot eartlj,
959 Mill Fraunce anb En~gland graunt tloi' qlotiou0 boone.
96o John fpeake Philzjp, Englandgraunto toree top requeft.
96x1 Ph ilip anb Fraunce confirmet $bat ere itoin ljio power.
962  Bajiard Torl~n Euke fit faft,3 trlentllat tljw ljiab,
963 Tfoo baft a ranfome foý mp fatljr0 lift.
965 Mo4at b~aueo it in biolonoý of MV ýDire.
966 pour tOb.0b art paff noý can you nob) rtuerfe
967 TbD~it'WJiVclypomInfe tltat rtuiutM myfoule,
968 ZIblIertat me t~tinho -1 fee liio ftnneiv  fijake:
09j:~i M to 'to orboon (bgtab tLpo~b) ~ulicl) granteb once
970 Oý lift oý btatlo are pleafant to my foule;
971ýD'  cj 3ic 1 fijall line anb bit in Richards rigot.
972 Lymoges 1i3afe )l3affarb, mifbtgotten of a Uiq
97 TO interrupt tijift joly nuptiall ryteo
97  WIiitlj b~ab~lt anb tumults to a tuktto bifract:
975 iLet it fffice, 3 fcoýne to ioyVnetin ftilot,
976 W1t'tb one to farre bnequall to my felfe.
977 Bastard al fine ercufe, tUin%0 if you itibe IbUnR'
978 Tom en epe your ivqobV, anb let bo combat it.
979 John Philip, iue cannot fogctotle Muruk to figlott
980 13eing a fubiert bnto neitijer liealme:
981 ii3ut tell Me A;i/1ria, if an C-nqlift  ulte
982 ýlioulb baretltore tIouo, LuoulbiftItoou accept tije clallenbge?
983 Lymoges C-1 let t1ht iWolb account toe Aufl/rich Mukt
984 To~e greateft cotivarb liuinq on tljet eartlj.
985 John Torn coveretl torePhilijp, John UWill keepe ljio w p
986 JIrneele bOb~ne in figolt of Philijp W  qn of Fraunce
987 alnb all tl~ife IJpncelyIV  qo baffembleb lyre,
988 3 girb tiore b3itl)tbtoe fb~o~b of Normandie,
989 aTnb of tlbat lanb )3 boo inuefftorlee Muke:
99o 8D*tljalt tloou be in liuing anb in lanbj
99 p. otlbing inferiour bunt* Ailria.
992 Lyrnoges IaJlohnj tell tor~e tfatly to tijy face
99 T~ou iD~ngff MinetIjonour *: anb thiat tloou maift fee



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1591

99bOW, MUdj 31 fCO~ne tiV W Umabe tulw ant tljee,
995 31ftatlv (art 3 Wbtillnot be compeib:
996 Ant fo tarrbvell ýbir uke of lobs begree,
997 Jle finbC a time to mate!) VOU fo; tltiO geere. Exit,
1058 998  John ýtap Phi/i>!', let Ijim got th)e  ono p tlbine*
999 Bajiard 31 cannot liure ne; b!)t~ ife be mine+
wooo Q.Elianor WTyv foýbWarbnes; tli0 bar ljatb io~b my foule.
10ox 3~nb mabe me t!)inlie mV Richard lUeto in tlfc.
31002 K.Phi/i.p tO~b'0IM lt% n anb fpenb tlje iWebbing bar
1003 31n mafliei anb triumplb0, letting quarrell creafe.
1059 1004 Enter a Cardynall from Rome.
xzoo5 Card. ý.'tay1Ding of France, 3 c!)arge tlree joyn not ljanbo
1006  *itb)!im tliat ftanbs; accurft of Oob anb men.
1063100o7Jft~noWx John, th)at 3f Panduipli Zarbinall of Mi/lamne, anlb
1008 itegate from thie Dea of Rome, bemaunb of tljje in tije name
'oog of our!)oly #atlier tije Pope Innocent, ii4Vytljou boft (contra-.
1010 nre to tlje la~xre of our!)oly motijer tlr)eCIurc!), anb our!)olye
3ofatlber th)e pope) bifturbe th)e quiet of tlhe irbrrcl),anb bifanull
102  je letion f tphen Langhton, ~ulom!)io!Ioliner latl) ele1
31013 iteb 3rrb!bitbgop of Canterburie: tlbi% in!)i!~oline% name ~
10:14 bemaunb of tlbee!
1015  John antnWb ~at!)aft tljou oq thje pope t!)y maifter to boo to
1016 bemaunb Of metboiti3 1employ mine o~ne? JUnoWx fir lpet'ft
10117 % Ji3!onour tlhe C4,urclj anb ljoly rburcb)me, fo 3 fco~ne to
1077:iox8 be fubiect to t!e greateft p~elate in ttje to~lb. Tflll tlby ~ait
1019 ffer fo from meranb fay,John of England faib itts tat neuer an



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107

Auf. 0 that a man fhould fpeake thofe wor ds to me. 1054
Phil. And hang a Calues-skin on thofe recreant limbs 1055
Auf Thou dar'ft not fay fo villaine for thy life.  1056
Phil.And hang a Calues-skin on thofe recreant limbs. 1057
Iohn. We like not this, thou doft forget thy felfe.  1058
Enter Pandulph.                  1059
Fra. Heere comes the holy Legat of the Pope.     1060
Pan. Haile you annointed deputies of heauen;     1061
To thee King lohn my holy errand is:               1062
I Pandulph, of faire Millane Cardinall,            1063
And from Pope Innocent the Legate heere,           1064
Doe in his name religioufly demand                 1065
Why thou againft the Church, our holy Mother,      1066
So wilfully doft fpurne;and force perforce        1067
Keepe Stephen Langton chofen Arfhbifhop            1068
Of Canterbury from that holy Sea:                  1069
This in our forefaid holy Fathers name             1070
Pope Innocent, I doe demand of thee.               1071
lohn. What earthie name to Interrogatories       1072
Can taft the free breath of a facred King?        1073
Thou canft not (Cardinall) deuife a name           1074
So flight, vnworthy, and ridiculous                1075
To charge me to an anfwere, as the Pope:           1076
Tell him this tale, and from the mouth of England,  1077
Adde thus much more, that no Italian Prieft        1078



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The troublefome Raigne of King lohn

1591

1079 1020 1talian pierff of them alt, flall eittler 1)aue tlltte, tole, o) po,
o1021 litng penit out of England, but as JI am Jfing, fo tuil ]C raigne
o1022 nert mber i 4ob, fuppeame 1eab boti ourt fpirituall anb tem%
r1023 rall: anb 1)ee tat contrabitto me in tlit, 31te make iim loppe
o1024 1)ablffe
o025  K.Philzp aWUat M a ing loh(n, kno i  Vou iDbat?ou fal, tluo
0ro26 to blafpleme againut our l)olV fatler the pope.
1087 Qz27 lJo/z  Philzp, tlougI t)ou anb all tole J)inteo of C'Z i-fen
1028 bomre fuffer temfelueo to be abufbe 1b a Ipelateo flauerie,
1029 mV minbe is not of fucl bafe temper. 3f tle Ipope tviil bee
o1030o rin  in England,let im tinne it tuithl t)e ftx)ob, 3 knoitV no
10ro31 oter title 1)e can allrage to mine inleritance.
1032  Card. lohn, tlit io tbline anflvere?
1033  John MWoat tlen
1097 o1034  Card. TlOlen  1 Pandulph of Padoa Legate from thtle tpo,
r1035  otick A ea, boo in tle name of DPeter anb liO fucceffot our
1036 bolh fatler pope Innocent, pgonounce thee acturfeb bifc)ar1037 ging euer  of tV fubiettero of all butie anb fealtie that tbleV
1038 bow otue to ttee,anb parDon anb fogiueneso of finne to tiofe or
1039 tlem  tllatfoeuer, tllicl fljalt carrie armes againft tree, o;
o1040 murbert toe: t+)iO 3 p~onounce, anrb clarge all goob men to
zo04 abtorre tlee as an ercommunicate perfon,
o1042  ohn     fiO r, tie mole the for iv c urf tie better a fareo: if
r043 Oob bletffe me anb mp JLanb, let toe jPope anb bio flauelinq o
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Iog09

Shall tythe or toll in our dominions:               1079
But as we, vnder heauen, are fupreame head,         1080
So vnder him that great fupremacy                   1081
Where we doe reigne, we will alone vphold           1082
Without th'affiftance of a mortall hand:            1083
So tell the Pope, all reuerence fet apart           1084
To him and his vfurp'd authoritie.                  1085
Fra. Brother of England, you blafpheme in this.   1086
lohn. Though you, and all the Kings of Chriftendom  1087
Are led fo groffely by this medling Prieft,         1088
Dreading the curfe that money may buy out,          1089
And by the merit of vilde gold, droffe, duft,       1090
Purchafe corrupted pardon of a man,                 1091
Who in that fale fels pardon from himfelfe:         1092
Though you, and al the reft fo groffely led,        1093
This iugling witchcraft with reuennue cherifh,      1094
Yet I alone, alone doe me oppofe                    1095
Againft the Pope, and count his friends my foes.    1096
Pand. Then by the lawfull power that I haue,      1097
Thou ihalt fland curft, and excommunicate,          1098
And bleffed fhall he be that doth reuolt            1099
From his Allegeance to an heretique,                1100
And meritorious fhall that hand be call'd,          1101
Canonized and worfhip'd as a Saint,                 1102
That takes away by any fecret courfe                1103
Thy hatefull life.                                  1104
Con. 0 lawfull let it be                          1105
That I haue roome with Rome to curfe a while,       1106
Good Father Cardinall, cry thou Amen                1107
To my keene curfes; for without my wrong            1108
There is no tonuge hath power tocurfe him right.    1109



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The troublefome Raigne of King lohn

1591

1117 zo45  Card. jfurtermog t3 rarge tole Philh~ 5JinM of France,
o1046 anb at t lt Joingg; an b Pinve of c) iftbom0t, to mate tuar
o1047 bppon dis mifteant: anl tte4reas tlou jaif mane a leaque
o1048 Did) i imt anb confirmeb it bV oatt, 31 bDo in ttl name 'of our
1o49 fogefaib fatier tle pope, acquit tote of tIat oatt as bnlateful,
Ioso being mabe iWitl an  ercetihe,t)oio faift toou Philip,boof ttjou
zo05 01obe!
1129 z1052  Johns  )otletr of Fraunce, bWoat faM  ou to thie Carbinall
o1053  Phili p  fapt, 3 am  logrit fob pour 9aieftie, requefting
1054 VOU tO fubmit pour felfe to tje CZ)urdt of Rome.



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III

Pan. There's Law and Warrant (Lady) for my curfe. 1110
Conq  And for mine too, when Law can do no right.  1111
Let it be lawfull, that Law barre no wrong:          1112
Law cannot giue my childe his kingdome heere;        1113
For he that holds his Kingdome, holds the Law:       1114
Therefore fince Law it felfe is perfect wrong,        1115
How can the Law forbid my tongue to curfe?          1116
Pand. Philip of France, on perill of a curfe,      1117
Let goe the hand of that Arch-heretique,             1118
And raife the power of France vpon his head,         1119
Vnleffe he doe fubmit himfelfe to Rome.              1120
Elea.Look'ft thou pale France? do not let go thy hand. 1121
Con. Looke to that Deuill, left that France repent,  1122
And by difioyning hands hell lofe a foule.           1123
AuJi. King Philip, liften to the Cardinall.        1124
Bafl. And hang a Calues-skin on his recreant limbs.  1125
Auf?. Well ruffian, I muft pocket vp thefe wrongs,  1126
Becaufe,                                              1127
Baf?. Your breeches beft may carry them.           1128
lohn. Philip, what faift thou to the Cardinall?   1129
Con. What fhould he fay, but as the Cardinall?    1130
Dolph. Bethinke you father, for the difference     1131
Is purchafe of a heauy curfe from Rome,              1132
Or the light loffe of England, for a friend:         1133
Forgoe the eafier.                                   1134
Bla. That s the curfe of Rome.                     1135
Con. 0 Lewis, fland faft, the deuill tempts thee heere 1136
In likeneffe of a new vntrimmed Bride.               1137
Bla. The Lady ConJfance fpeakes not from her faith, 1138
But from her need.                                   1139



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The troublefomne Raigne of King Jlohn

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Yohn Anb I)at faV ou to ourt league,if 3 boo not fubmit?
Phidip WlMat floulb ] far  1 3muft ober tlt popr.
lohn ObVe the pope, anD b taIke your oat) to  ob
Philip 4Itoe Legate lat) abfolube me of mine oatl:
Tien yeelb to Rome, 0 3 befit ttote btLre.



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113

Con. Oh, if thou grant my need,                   1140
Which onely lues but by the death of faith,         1141
That need, muft needs inferre this principle,       1142
That faith would liue againe by death of need:      1143
O then tread downe my need, and faith mounts vp,    1144
Keepe my need vp, and faith is trodden downe.       1145
Iohn. The king is moud, and anfwers not to this.  1146
Con. 0 be remou'd from him, and anfwere well.     1147
Aujf. Doe fo king Phizp, hang no more in doubt.  1148
Ba2f.Hang nothing but a Calues skin moft fweet lout. 1149
Fra. I am perplext, and know not what to fay.     1150
Pan. What canft thou fay, but wil perplex thee more? 1151
If thou ftand excommunicate, and curft?            1152
Fra. Good reuerend father, make my perfon yours,  1153
And tell me how you would beftow your felfe?       1154
This royall hand and mine are newly knit,           1155
And the coniundi on of our inward foules            1156
Married in league, coupled, and link'd together     1157
With all religous ftrength of facred vowes,         1158
The lateft breath that gaue the found of words      1159
Was deepe-fworne faith, peace, amity, true loue     1160
Betweene our kingdomes and our royall felues,       1161
And euen before this truce, but new before,         1162
No longer then we well could wafh our hands,        1163
To clap this royall bargaine vp of peace,           1164
Heauen knowes they were befmear'd and ouer-ftaind   1165
With flaughters pencill; where reuenge did paint    1166
The fearefull difference of incenfed kings:         1167
And fhall thefe hands fo lately purg'd ofbloud?    1168
So newly ioyn'd in loue? fo ftrong in both,        1169
Vnyoke this feyfure, and this kinde regreete?      1170
Play faft and loofe with faith? fo ieft with heauen,  1171
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Make fuch vnconftant children of onr felues         1172
As now againe to fnatch our palme from palme:       1173
Vn-fweare faith fworne, and on the marriage bed     1174
Of fmiling peace to march a bloody hoaft,           1175
And make a ryot on the gentle brow                  1176
Of true fincerity? 0 holy Sir                      1177
My reuerend father, let it not be fo;               1178
Out of your grace, deuife, ordaine, impofe          1179
Some gentle order, and then we fhall be bleft       1180
To doe your pleafure, and continue friends.         1181
Pand. All forme is formeleffe, Order orderleffe,  1182
Saue what is oppofite to Englands loue.             1183
Therefore to Armes, be Champion of our Church,      1184
Or let the Church our mother breathe her curfe,     1185
A mothers curfe, on her reuolting fonne:            1186
France, thou maift hold a ferpent by the tongue,    1187
A cafed Lion by the mortall paw,                    1188
A fariing Tyger fafer by the tooth,                 1189
Then keepe in peace that hand which thou doft hold.  1190
Fra. I may dif-ioyne my hand, but not my faith.   1191
Pand.So mak'ft thou faith an enemy to faith,      1192
And like a ciuill warre fetft oath to oath,         1193
Thy tongue againft thy tongue. 0 let thy vow        1194
Firft made to heauen, firft be to heauen perform'd,  1195
That is, to be the Champion of our Church,          1196
What fince thou fworft, is fworne againft thy felfe,  1197
And may not be performed by thy felfe,              1198
For that which thou haft fworne to doe amiffe,      1199
Is not amiffe when it is truely done:               1200
And being not done, where doing tends to ill,       1201
The truth is then moft done not doing it:           1202
The better At of purpofes miftooke,                 1203
Is to miftake again, though indiret,                1204
Yet indiredtion thereby growes dire&t,              1205
And falfhood, falfhood cures, as fire cooles fire   1206
Within the fcorched veines of one new burn'd:       1207



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lowo  John WtbUVpPhihi~, 3 beftt tthe ]pope ano biett~
zo6x J1alfe ao tIbou art, anb peri'MUrb *Of Fraunce,
1062 tjfinbot~jie Man to be accompteb Uting#
1063 0~3r' )ft t utO tbV IOxio  'to a  geatrg tbanbe?
1064 Pandui~pk, 1x4ere 3of Thbot0,   onkro anb #riers;
1065 t1)aur taken fometxilat to mamntatne mpVbWarreo,
lo.* W1~oilxIU 1take no mole but allt tbep laue.
zo67 31C Wroti~e t e a~ie lubbers from tIbeir %Zell0,
lwabin befpigbt.t 1l fenb tlbem to tIhe PJope#
xo~ g9otlber, come I2ou tuiti)me, anb toq the veil
1070 ~~bat WillU not folIoiU John in tIbi% attempt,
107 Wonfufton li'%bt Wion tIOi bamnetb fOUleO.
'1072 Coet                                l &  b  or igthtfgtetlb foý pour go



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It is religion that doth make vowes kept,            1208
But thou haft fworne againft religion:               1209
By what thou fwear'ft againft the thing thou fwear'ft,  1210
And mak'ft an oath the furetie for thy truth,        1211
Againft an oath the truth, thou art vnfure           1212
To fweare, fweares onely not to be forfworne,        1213
Elfe what a mockerie fhould it be to fweare?        1214
But thou doft fweare, onely to be forfworne,         1215
And moft forfworne, to keepe what thou doft fweare,  1216
Therefore thy later vowes, againft thy firft,         1217
Is in thy felfe rebellion to thy felfe:             1218
And better conqueft neuer canft thou make,           1219
Then arme thy conftant and thy nobler parts          1220
Againft thefe giddy loofe fuggeftions:                1221
Vpon which better part, our prayrs come in,           1222
If thou vouchfafe them. But if not, then know        1223
The perill of our curfes light on thee               1224
So heauy, as thou fhalt not fhake them off           1225
But in defpaire, dye vnder their blacke weight.      1226
AuJf. Rebellion, flat rebellion.                   1227
Baf?. Wil't not be?                               1228
Will not a Calues-skin flop that mouth of thine?    1229
Daul Father, to Armes.                             1230



1 I 8        The troublefome Raigne of King John           1591
1073  Philip anb are t1ey gone' Pandulpk ti) frf fjalt fee
o1074 otOi Fraunce bill figot foý Rome anb Romi/k r2teM,
o1075 lobtes, to arme0, tlet im not pale tte fCea,
o1076 iets take Iim captiue, anb in triumpi leab
o1077 Tot) r.of England to tte %att0 of Rome.
1078 Arthur;, beftirre tot  man, anD tiou palt fee
y1079 WUat Phil@p J. of Fraunce tWill boo foý to)ee.
1230 io8o  Blanche  nb uWill tour &tace upon tour Webbing baV
io8i foqfake pour 13)3ibe anb followi bearafull bDumsn:
1082 JPav?, goob my iLogb, fal  ou at iiome tUiti met.



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Blanch. Vpon thy wedding day?                   1230
Againft the blood that thou haft married?         1231
What, fhall our feaft be kept with flaughtered men?  1232
Shall braying trumpets, and loud churlifh drums    1233
Clamors of hell, be meafures to our pomp?         1234
0 husband heare me:aye, alacke, how new            1235
Is husband in my mouth? euen for that name        1236
Which till this time my tongue did nere pronounce;  1237
Vpon my knee I beg, goe not to Armes               1238
Againft mine Vncle.                                1239
Confl. 0, vpon my knee made hard with kneeling,  1240
I doe pray to thee, thou vertuous Daulphin,        1241
Alter not the doome fore-thought by heauen.        1242
Blan. Now fhall I fee thy loue, what motiue may  1243
Be ftronger with thee, then the name of wife?     1244
Con. That which vpholdeth him, that thee vpholds,  1245
His Honor, Oh thine Honor, Lewis thine Honor.      1246
Dolph. I mufe your Maiefty doth feeme fo cold,   1247
When fuch profound refpe6ts doe pull you on?      1248
Pand. I will denounce a curfe vpon his head.     1249
Fra. Thou fhalt not need.England, I will fall frO thee. 1250
ConfJ. 0 faire returne of banifh'd Maieftie.     1251
Elea. 0 foule reuolt of French inconftancy.      1252
Eng. France, fhalt rue this houre within this houre. 1253
Bafl.Old Time the clocke fetter, y bald fexton Time: 1254
Is it as he will? well then, France fhall rue.     1255
Bla. The Sun's orecaft with bloud: faire day adieu,  1256
Which is the fide that I muft goe withall?        1257
I am with both, each Army hath a hand,             1258



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1267 10o83 Lewes ýtvtett )eart ontentr t1)t, anb tae ralt agree,
0o84 Philip pfollot me itop0, iLott   %bCarbpnall leab tt)be t taz,
o085 et)5ums talbe muftque to tbi Woebbin qaw. Exeunt.

1279 r086
1087

Excurfions.
him.

The Baftard purfues Austria, and kills

xo88  Bajiard xt)uo l)atl) t. Richards       onne perfoGmbe )isf.foar                              d                        toe4
1o89      botAobe.
'ogo 2[1Z ooffreb Austrias bloub fqO facriftce

aogr   nto tji0 fatIer  euerliuing foule,
1o09  1Baue  Cordelion, no0u mv breart 0otl) (al,



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And in their rage, I hauing hold of both,           1259
They whurle a-funder, and difmember mee.            1260
Husband, I cannot pray that thou maift winne:       1261
Vncle, I needs muft pray that thou maift lofe:      1262
Father, I may not wifh the fortune thine:           1263
Grandam, I will not wifh thy wifhes thriue:         1264
Who-euer wins, on that fide fhall I lofe:           1265
Affured loffe, before the match be plaid.           1266
Dolph. Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.   1267
Bla. There where my fortune liues, there my life dies. 1268
Iohn. Cofen, goe draw our puifance together,      1269
France, I am burn'd vp with inflaming wrath,        1270
A rage, whofe heat hath this condition;             1271
That nothing can allay, nothing but blood,          1272
The blood and deereft valued bloud of France.       1273
Fra. Thy rage fhall burne thee vp, & thou fhalt turne 1274
To afhes, ere our blood fhall quench that fire:     1275
Looke to thy felfe, thou art in ieopardie.          1276
lohn.No more then he that threats. To Arms le'ts hie. 1277
Exeunt. 1278
Sccena Secunda.
Allarums, Excurfions: Enter Bajfard with AufJria's 1279
head.                                         1280
Baft. Now by my life, this day grows wondrous hot, 1281
Some ayery Deuill houers in the skie,               1282
And pour's downe mifchiefe.AufIrias head lye there,  1283
Enter Iohn, Arthur, Hubert.             1284
While Philip breathes.                              1285



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o093 J1IBaue beferube, tlougl not to be topv leire
o1094  et as 31 am, tl W bafe begotten fonne,
r0og5  name as pleafing to tbi  Philps Ieart,
iog6 2o to be ralb t)e muhuke of Normandie.
1097 ie tih)ere a ppaV to tetry ranening fottle:
1os98  nb as my fatler triumplt in toI fpoVler,
o"9 2nob trobe tjinte $nfigne0 onberneatl) Ii0 fkte,
roo     boo o* 3treab bpon top curftD felfe,
zoz tnob leane tbyV bobie to the fotxles 0fo foob.  Exit.
1102 Excurfions. Arthur, Constance, Lewes, hauing taken
110o3 Q Elianor prifoner.
xzo4  Con/iance.  1)n%;atl)t8 h t  40ob of Jingo 1xiit conquering
x110o5 artnme
rIo6 Wdifpeart thie foes to true fucrceftion.
11xo7 poub, an   bifturber of tb ZCountrevet peace,
vio8 Conflance botlline to tame tine infolence,
11ro09  nb on tbV Ieab Will noW auengeb be
1110 foý all ttoe mdifcljiefge iattloeb in tjy bpaine.
3ix1  Q Elinor Contemptuou0 bame btnrent ODutcIe% tlou,
1112z  o bpaue fo great a Ofnene as Elianor,
1113 1afe frolbe baft tb)ou fogot, tlat 31 tas bWife,
1114  nob motl)er to tlree migtie r-ngliU iDingo?
x115s 3 dcarge tI) tlen, anb vou nfofot) firt I3oy,
xii6 To fet your   ranbmotler at libertie,
11z7 2nb Vklb to lohn your Wnckle anb your ting*
Ixx8  Conjflance  Dif not tV tuoobg pýOUb  neene Ijal tcarry it.
119g  Elianor PFo- vet tlv tl eater poub EDame i)jal baunt my
1120      minbe.
112z  Arthur Obeete Oranbame, anb goob        9otoer leant ttefe
1122 bpatuleos
1123  Elianor   1le flibe a time to triump) in tby fall.
1124  Conflance S)V time t0 noI0 to trinmpi) in tiv fall,
125s anb tIbou fjalt knolt tihat Conflance tWill triumpb.
ura6  Artchur   ab ~s~etler iueigt) it i;  ueene Elianor,



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124

124.7the troublefome Raigne of King John         19

1591

1127Xbou O    p )f~ebe raptiur e, feler like lbetfelfr.
1][28 9Dtueee  ranbame beare iuitlj Wblat mV   9ocler fav2e0,
1129 your t~iglnes; ibalbe WOeb onouvablV.
1130 Enter a Meffenger.
1131 Meff. Lewes mV ito~b, MIuke Arthur, anb tlje reft,
1132 To Qavntes;in Ijaft, U.lJohn rel~es; bio men,
"133 Inb ginnes; tle ftilbt afveflj:, anb fieares; butlball.
1134 To oftb~eio life, oý fet 1bio Mrotlbrr free.
1.135 Lewes Arthur atuaV, tio time to looke about..1136  Elianor W1bl bol)0bnobm bameritbat is; our courage coxlb?
1137  Conjiance p-o Elianor, mV courage gatlbers ftrengtlO,
1138 anb Ibopes; to leab botl _7ohn anb tlbee aO flaUeC
1139a~nb in tlhat lyope, 3 lbate tlbee to tlhe ftelb. Exeunt.:1140  Excurfions. Elianor is refcued by John, and Arthur
31141 is taken prifoner. Exeunt. Sound vi~torie.
1298 31142  Enter John, Elianor, and Arthur Prifoner, Bastard, Pem-:1143   brooke, Salisbury, and Hubert de Burgh.
x'ir44John lous;rigb~t triumpbl 0,anb rohn triumply; in Viglbt.
1145 Arthur tlbou feeft, Fraunce cannot bolfter thee:
1146 Mbv ~19t1)er% p~ibe latl~b  ouqlbt th~e to tlbi% fall.
1147 )liut if at laftiP. eplbe1D tljou veelb tlv felfe
1148 31nto MIe %arbance of tlbine Unchle 7ohn,
129831149 ~Tow Ujalt be Wbfejas; becomes; a ppincr#



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Iohn. Hubert, keepe this boy:Philip make vp,       1286
My Mother is affayled in our Tent,                     1287
And tane I feare.                                      1288
Bafl. My Lord I refcued her,                         1289
Her Highneffe is in fafety, feare you not:             1290
But on my Liege, for very little paines                1291
Will bring this labor to an happy end.           Exit. 1292
Alarums, excurfions, Retreat. Enterlohn, Eleanor, Arthur 1293
Baflard, Hubert, Lords.                              1294
Iohn. So Ihall it be:your Grace fhall flay behinde  1295
So ftrongly guarded: Cofen, looke not fad,            1296
Thy Grandame loues thee, and thy Vnkle will            1297
As deere be to thee, as thy father was.                1298



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1150  Arthur  InCtktle, m  rattnbame taugtt jer Ip-epVt) i tb'ig,
1si j5 o beare captiuitie tuittl patience.
1152 $tigt I)at) pýeuavlb not rigt, fo 3 am 1iing
1153 Of England, ttouhI tlou betrae the EDiabem,
1154  Q.Elianor #Donne John, foone fallW e teacbt) Iim to fogget
1155  tefe pgoub pfefumptiono, anb to knowu Ijimfelfr.
1156  John E9Ottet, be neuer taill foget Iis claime,
"157 31 b3OUlb )e liube not to remember it.
130soo0 s118 )But 1eauinq ttis, tWe b3ill to England notb,
1159 aEnb take fome opber tuitt our popetingo ttere,
1160  Ithat (tell tittb pibet, anb fat of lav menu lanbo.
II6I Philhp  i make tt)ee tliefr in tbI)i affaire,
1301i16a aR anfack the abbeiV, tCloV41ro, ppiooies,
1303 163 Conuert tbeir corne bnto mV foutbierr bfWt
1164 anb totiatforre be be WitIin my VLanb,
1i6!;l)at goes to Rome f1O inifice anb foq lat,
1166 ZW ieil be may 1)aue t)ie riqtt tuitbtin thje tLeatme,
1167 Let 1im be iubagbe a traitoq to ttle Dtate,
x168 Ztnb fuffer ao an enemie to England.
1305 r it69 S otte, te teaue you Iitere beyonb thIe fea0,
1170 a  3gegent of our 1pZouinese in Fraunce,
"17'1 1l)ite We to England take a fpeebie courfe,
1172 tnb tbanke our Oob that gaue bs bictopie.



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Arth. 0 this will make my mother die with griefe.  1299
lohn. Cofen away for England, hafte before,      1300
And ere our comming fee thou fhake the bags        1301
Of hoording Abbots, imprifoned angells             1302
Set at libertie:the fat ribs of peace             1303
Muft by the hungry now be fed vpon:                1304
Vfe our Commiffion in his vtmoft force.            1305
Ba]?. Bell, Booke, & Candle, fhall not driue me back, 1306
When gold and filuer becks me to come on.          1307
I leaue your highneffe: Grandame, I will pray      1308
(If euer I remember to be holy )                   1309
For your faire fafety: fo I kiffe your hand.       1310
Ele. Farewell gentle Cofen.                      1311
Iohn. Coz, farewell.                             1312
Ela. Come hether little kinfman, harke, a worde.  1313
Iokn.Come hether Hubert. 0 my gentle Hubert,     1314
We owe thee much:within this wall of flefh         1315
There is a foule counts thee her Creditor,         1316
And with aduantage meanes to pay thy loue:         1317
And my good friend, thy voluntary oath             1318



128          The tronbiejome Ra;igne of King lohn        1591



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Liues in this bofome, deerely cherifhed.          1319
Giue me thy hand, I had a thing to fay,           1320
But I will fit it with fome better tune.          1321
By heauen Hubert, I am almoft afham'd             1322
To fay what good refpe6t I haue of thee.          1323
Hub. I am much bounden to your Maiefly.         1324
Iohn. Good friend, thou haft no caufe to fay fo yet,  1325
But thou fhalt haue: and creepe time nere fo flow,  1326
Yet it fhall come, for me to doe thee good.       1327
I had a thing to fay, but let it goe:             1328
The Sunne is in the heauen, and the proud day,   1329
Attended with the pleafures of the world,         1330
Is all too wanton, and too full of gawdes        1331
To giue me audience:If the mid-night bell         1332
Did with his yron tongue, and brazen mouth        1333
Sound on into the drowzie race of night:         1334
If this fame were a Church-yard where we ftand,   1335
And thou poffeffed with a thoufand wrongs:        1336
Or if that furly fpirit melancholy                1337
Had bak'd thy bloud, and made it heauy, thicke,   1338
Which elfe runnes tickling vp and downe the veines,  1339
Making that idiot laughter keepe mens eyes,      1340
And firaine their cheekes to idle merriment,      1341
A paffion hatefull to my purpofes:                1342
Or if that thou couldft fee me without eyes,      1343
Heare me without thine eares, and make reply     1344
Without a tongue, vfing conceit alone,           1345
Without eyes, eares, and harmefull found of words:  1346
Then, in defpight of brooded watchfull day,.   1347
I would into thy bofome poure my thoughts:        1348
But (ah) I will not, yet I loue thee well,        1349
And by my troth I thinke thou lou'ft me well.     1350
Hub. So well, that what you bid me vndertake,   1351
Though that my death were adiunt to my A&t,       1352
By heauen I would doe it.                         1353
Iohn. Doe not I know thou wouldft?             154



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18.51173 Hubert de Burgh take Arthur 1)ere to tMeet
1174 )11e le to~p wifoner: Hubert kiepe lbim fafe,
1175 f1oý on blwi0 lfe botl) bang topi. Doueraiqneg; crob~ne,
1176 )lIut in bi0 beatlb conftft% top a~ourraignto bliffe:
1177 Torl~n Hubert, aO tljU9ou gotW lbeart1 from me,
1178 #Do 1fe tlhe pgifoner 3 bIaue  iun in diarge.
31179 Hubert flrolick Von% IJgincet tbouglý 31ivour Ikeeper bee,
118o' 1et tjall Vonr hkper ine at tour commaunb+
iir8i Arthur. AO ~pleafe MVp600 f* bf tallbeComeof Me.
1872 1182 Q Elianor $p 0onite to England, 3 Witiit fee toree lbipt,
1183,aZnD pgap to ~oo  to fenotb tre fafe aflooge
1184 Bastard P.tob Warme are Done, 31 tong to be at Ijome
z185 Tfo bine into to~e ponkeo ant aZbboto bago,
ix86 TDo Make fome fpoge among tlhe fmoottj fin JP.unneo,
1187 Atnb ikeepe fome renell taito tfle fauyen #riero.
1378 1188 John TLo England ko~ e aCljlooke but* your djarge,
z 3r% anb arme vourfelue0 againti ttoe itomane pgibr. Exeunt.



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Good Hubert, Hubert, Hubert throw thine eye          1355
On yon young boy: Ile tell thee what my friend,      1356
He is a very ferpent in my way,                      1357
And wherefoere this foot of mine doth tread,          1358
He lies before me: doft thou vnderftand me?        1359
Thou art his keeper.                                  1360
Hub. And Ile keepe him fo,                         1361
That he fhall not offend your Maiefty.                1362
Iohn. Death.                                       1368
Hub. My Lord.                                      1364
Iohn. A Graue.                                     1365
Hub. He fhall not liue.                            1366
Iohn. Enough.                                      1367
I could be merry now, Hubert, I loue thee.           1368
Well, Ile not fay what I intend for thee:             1369
Remember: Madam, Fare you well,                     1370
Ile fend thofe powers o're to your Maiefty.          1371
Ele. My bleffing goe with thee.                    1372
Iohn. For England Cofen, goe.                      1373
Hubert fhall be your man, attend on you               1374
With al true puetie:On toward Callice, hoa.         1375
Exeunt. 1376



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1377 1190o Enter the K~of Fraunce, Lewes his fonne, Cardinall Panugi1     do/ph Legate, and Con~fiance..12Phlp  WbUat ruerv man attacljwt but)tljio miflap,
"193 W1bU)1 frolmne. ou fio, ibV w oop Ve JiLoýW of Fraunce?
1194 Me tbithrnofi t biffero from a buarlilte minbe
1195 To lobu~eit foq a dbecke oq two of ctbaunre,
1196 t~a Lymoges efrapt th~e baftarbo fpiqtjt,
1197 AT little fogrob  miqbt t aue cernbe our loffe.
iz3c8 1i3paue Austria, tbeauen iqove to tjaue ttbee tIbere.
izgg Card. tltio fob~e itofae anb free from purgatopie,
1200 @ur 1)011?  atlber 1at1 bbifpenQ 1bio finne0,
i~D1)TObleffeb Daint0 1)aue 1)earb our opifon,
1202 anb all are Mjebiatop fo bl'0 foule,
1203 ~Tnti in thje riq1)t of tliefe moft 1)oly barreo,
11204 t~ti!5 bolineo free parbon boti) ponounce
1205 To all tijat follobu you gainff O~ngliUj 1eretiqueo,
1206 Wb1o ftanb acrurfeb in our motijer Cb1urc1).



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Sceena Tertia.
Enter France, Dolphin, Pandulpho, Attendants.     1377
Fra. So by a roaring Tempeft on the flood,         1378
A whole Armado of conui6ted faile                   1379
Is fcattered and dif-ioyn'd from fellowfhip.         1380
Pand. Courage and comfort, all fhall yet goe well.  1381
Fra. What can goe well, when we haue runne fo ill? 1382
Are we not beaten? Is not Angiers loft?             1383
Arthur tane prifoner? diuers deere friends flaine?   1384
And bloudy England into England gone,                1385
Ore-bearing interruption fpight of France?           1386
Dol. What he hath won, that hath he fortified:     1387
So hot a fpeed, with fuch aduice difpos'd,           1388
Such temper ate or der in fo fierce a caufe,         1389
Doth want example: who hath read, or heard           1390
Of any kindred-a6tion like to this?                 1391
Fra. Well could I beare that Englandhad this praife, 1392
So we could finde fome patterne of our fhame:       1393



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13941207  Enter Conxlance alone.
xos   Phil@ Wpeo aggrauate tl)e meafure of our griefe,
1395 z1209o 011 malcontent comes  Conflance foq Ier  onne.
'a2o )1e bWitfe goo0 09aDame, fo tpour face impogts
1211a tragicI tale betinbe tiat0 pet bntolbr.
a1212t er paflon0 ftop t)e oggan of tler bopce,
1213 Wrepe fowrotu t1iobbetI mifbefalne euente,
1214 Out 1itl) it itabite, that outr tct map enb
1215 A full Catafrople of fab lament0.
1401a1216  Confl. M9p tongue i0 tunbe to ftogie fogtl mitI)ap:
ian  '1aMlen bib i   bgeatb to tell a pleaftng tale?
121z8 aut Conflance fpeake: let tearre  pmeuent Ier talie:
1219 Mut3F   bifourfe? let Dido figl) anD faV,
1220o bl e t wep  againe to l)eare tl)e Iu)acht of Troy:
1221 Stoo txops tWill ferue, ano tlen mV tale is bone:
a1222 Elnors pgoutb bgat lat trobb me of mp 4onne.
1400 1223  Lewes t1aut patience 9abame, tli% it cljaunce of toarre:
1224 1e map be ranfombe, We reuenge lyio lnaong.
1416 1225  Conflance l3eit ner to foone, 31 flall not line to long.
122e  Philip   Delpaire not pet, tome Conflance, goe tiiti) me,
1227   fele clotubes  tUill ARCeet, the bap bill cleare againeExeunt



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Enter Conflance.                  1394
Looke who comes heere? a graue vnto a foule,         1395
Holding th'eternall fpirit againft her will,          1396
In the vilde prifon of afflidted breath:              1397
I prethee Lady goe away with me.                      1398
Con. Lo; now:now fee the iffue of your peace.       1399
Fra. Patience good Lady, comfort gentle Conflance.  1400
Con. No, I defie all Counfell, all redreffe,       1401
But that which ends all counfell, true Redreffe:      1402
Death, death, 0 amiable, louely death,                1403
Thou o doriferous ftench: found rottenneffe,         1404
Arife forth from the couch of lafting night,          1405
Thou hate and terror to profperitie,                  1406
And I will kiffe thy deteftable bones,                1407
And put my eye-balls in thy vaultie browes,           1408
And ring thefe fingers with thy houfhold wormes,      1409
And flop this gap of breath with fulfome duft,        1410
And be a Carrion Monfter like thy felfe;              1411
Come, grin on me, and I will thinke thou fmil'ft,     1412
And buffe thee as thy wife: Miferies Loue,            1413
0 come to me.                                         1414
Fra. 0 faire afflidfion, peace.                     1415
Con. No, no, I will not, hauing breath to cry:      1416
0 that my tongue were in the thunders mouth,          1417
Then with a paffion would I fhake the world,          1418
And rowze from fleepe that fell Anatomy               1419
Which cannot heare a Ladies feeble voyce,             1420
Which fcornes a moderne Inuocation.                   1421



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Pand. Lady, you vtter madneffe, and not forrow.   1422
Con. Thou art holy to belye me fo,                1423
I am not mad:this haire I teare is mine,           1424
My name is Conflance, I was Geffreyes wife,         1425
Yong Arthur is my fonne, and he is loft:            1426
I am not mad, I would to heauen I were,             1427
For then 'tis like I thould forget my felfe:        1428
O, if I could, what griefe fhould I forget?        1429
Preach fome Philofophy to make me mad,              1430
And thou fhalt be Canoniz'd (Cardinall.)            1431
For, being not mad, but fenfible of greefe,         1432
My reafonable part produces reafon                  1433
How I may be deliuer'd of thefe woes,               1434
And teaches mee to kill or hang my felfe:          1435
If I were mad, I fhould forget my fonne,            1436
Or madly thinke a babe of clowts were he;           1437
I am not mad: too well, too well I feele            1438
The different plague of each calamitie.             1439
Fra. Binde vp thofe treffes: O what loue I note   1440
In the faire multitude of thofe her haires;         1441
Where but by chance a filuer drop hath falne,       1442
Euen to that drop ten thoufand wiery fiends         1443
Doe glew themfelues in fociable griefe,             1444
Like true, infeparable, faithfull loues,            1445
Sticking together in calamitie.                     1446
Con. To England, if you will.                     1447
Fra. Binde vp your haires.                        1448
Con. Yes that I will: and wherefore will I do it?  1449
I tore them from their bonds, and cride aloud,      1450
O, that thefe hands could fo redeeme my fonne,      1451
As they haue giuen thefe hayres their libertie:     1452
But now I enuie at their libertie,                  1453
And will againe commit them to their bonds,.        1454
Becaufe my poore childe is a prifoner.              1455
And Father Cardinall, I haue heard you fay          1456
That we fhall fee and know our friends in heauen:   1457



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If that be true, I fhall fee my boy againe;         1458
For fince the birth of Caine, the firft male-childe  1459
To him that did but yefterday fufpire,              1460
There was not fuch a gracious creature borne:       1461
But now will Canker-forrow eat my bud,              1462
And chafe the natiue beauty from his cheeke,        1463
And he will looke as hollow as a Ghoft,             1464
As dim and meager as an Agues fitte,                1465
And fo hee'll dye:and rifing fo againe,            1466
When I fhall meet him in the Court of heauen        1467
I fhall not know him: therefore neuer, neuer       1468
Muft I behold my pretty Arthur more.                1469
Pand. You hold too heynous a refpe6t of greefe.   1470
Conft. He talkes to me, that neuer had a fonne.   1471
Fra. You are as fond of greefe, as of your childe.  1472
Con. Greefe fils the roome vp of my abfent childe:  1473
Lies in his bed, walkes vp and downe with me,       1474
Put s on his pretty lookes, repeats his words,      1475
Remembets me of all his gracious parts,             1476
Stuffes out his vacant garments with his forme;     1477
Then, haue I reafon to be fond of griefe?           1478
Fareyouwell: had you fuch a loffe as I,             1479
I could giue better comfort then you doe.           1480
I will not keepe this forme vpon my head,           1481
When there is fuch diforder in my witte:            1482
0 Lord, my boy, my Arthur, my faire fonne,          1483
My life, my ioy, my food, my all the world:         1484
My widow-comfort, and my forrowes cure.        Exit. 1485
Fra. I feare fome out-rage, and Ile follow her. Exit. 1486
Dol. There's nothing in this world can make me ioy, 1487
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,            1488
Vexing the dull eare of a drowfie man;              1489
And bitter fhame hath fpoyl'd the fweet words tafte,  1490
That it yeelds nought but fhame and bitterneffe.    1491
Pand. Before the curing of a firong difeafe,      1492
Euen in the inftant of repaire and health,          1493



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1505 1228  Card. J P.0  Lewes, topE fo tune bubg Iitl) bappie fpWing,
1229 Our I)0h2 fattbers pwavers eeffedetbj tblti0
1230 Arthur is Cafe, let   ohn alone tuitbyt bim,
1231 Mlbpt title nerit is;fairft to Englands Crobrne:
1232 J0.oto ftirre tOr fFatlrr to begin biitbt John,
15101233 IUbe:Pope fares; ]t, anb Co if; Albion toi'e.
1234  Lewes T4iankes mp itopoLb J.egaate Coy pour goob tonreipt,
1235  Jis; belt bue follott nob, thje game is faire,
1236   V #atlerW tilants to ito~ke l0im pour    oob tuoxo0
1237  Card, a febi Will ferue to foqttiarb t)im   in totiO,
1238 IUtOofe flyal not bant: but lets; about it tren,  Exeunt.



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The fit is ftrongeft: Euils that take leaue        1494
On their departure, moft of all fhew euill:         1495
What haue you loft by lofing of this day?          1496
Dol. All daies of glory, ioy, and happineffe.     1497
Pan. If you had won it, certainely you had.       1498
No, no:when Fortune meanes to men moft good,       1499
Shee lookes vpon them with a threatning eye:        1500
'Tis ftrange to thinke how much King lohn hath loft  1501
In this which he accounts fo clearely wonne:        1502
Are not you grieu'd that Arthur is his prifoner?   1503
Dol. As heartily as he is glad he hath him.       1504
Pan. Your minde is all as youthfull as your blood.  1505
Now heare me fpeake with a propheticke fpirit:      1506
For euen the breath of what I meane to fpeake,      1507
Shall blow each duft, each ftraw, each little rub   1508
Out of the path which fhall direftly lead           1509
Thy foote to Englands Throne. And therefore marke: 1510
lohn hath feiz'd Arthur, and it cannot be,          1511
That whiles warme life playes in that infants veines,  1512
The mif-plac'd-lokn fhould entertaine an houre,     1513
One minute, nay one quiet breath of reft.           1514
A Scepter fnatch'd with an vnruly hand,             1515
Muft be as boyfteroufly maintain'd as gain'd.       1516
And he that ftands vpon a flipp'ry place,           1517
Makes nice of no vilde hold to flay him vp:         1518
That Iohn may ftand, then Arthur needs muft fall,   1519
So be it, for it cannot be but fo.                  1520
Dol. But what fhall I gaine by yong Arthurs fall?  1521
Pan. You, in the right of Lady Blanch your wife,  1522
May then make all the claime that Arthur did.       1523
Dol. And loofe it, life and all, as Arthur did.   1524
Pan. How green you are, and frefh in this old world? 1525
Iohn layes you plots: the times confpire with you,  1526
For he that fteepes his fafetie in true blood,      1527



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Shall finde but bloodie fafety, and vntrue.         1528
This A&t fo euilly borne fhall coole the hearts     1529
Of all his people, and freeze vp their zeale,       1530
That none fo fmall aduantage fhall ftep forth       1531
To checke his reigne, but they will cherifh it.     1532
No naturall exhalation in the skie,                 1533
No fcope of Nature, no diftemper'd day,             1534
No common winde, no cuftomed euent,                 1535
But they will plucke away his naturall caufe,       1536
And call them Meteors, prodigies, and fignes,       1537
Abbortiues, prefages, and tongues of heauen,        1538
Plainly denouncing vengeance vpon Iohn,             1539
Dol. May be he will not touch yong Arthurs life,  1540
But hold himfelfe fafe in his prifonment.           1541
Pan. 0 Sir, when he fhall heare of your approach,  1542
If that yong Arthur be not gone alreadie,           1543
Euen at that newes he dies:and then the hearts     1544
Of all his people fhall reuolt from him,            1545
And kiffe the lippes of vnacquainted change,        1546
And picke firong matter of reuolt, and wrath        1547
Out of the bloody fingers ends of lohn.             1548
Me thinkes I fee this hurley all on foot;           1549
And O, what better matter breeds for you,           1550
Then I haue nam'd. The Baftard Falconbridge         1551
Is now in England ranfacking the Church,            1552
Offending Charity:If but a dozen French            1553
Were there in Armes, they would be as a Call        1554
To traine ten thoufand Englifh to their fide;       1555
Or, as a little fnow, tumbled about,                1556
Anon becomes a Mountaine. 0 noble Dolphine,         1557
Go with me to the King, 'tis wonderfull,            1558
What may be wrought out of their difcontent,        1559
Now that their foules are topfull of offence,       1560
For England go; I will whet on the King.            1561
Dol. Strong reafons makes ftrange a6tions:let vs go, 1562
If you fay I, the King will not fay no.    Exennt. 1563



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1239 Enter Philip leading a Frier, charging him to fhow where
1240    the Abbots golde lay.
1241  Phili   Come on vou fat francifcans, ballithe no lonsg, but
1242 IOpti me toIlete  tje albboto treafure lve0, o bie.
1243  Frier Benedicamus Domini, Wag; euer Cu) an iniurie.
1244 #Doerttc. Witholdofthv lenitie, befenb be from etremitie,
1245 an   I)eare b  fo0  -. Ztaritie, oppeffeb tvitd aufteritie.
1246 In nomini Domini, makteq mp )omilit,
1247 Ogntle Oentilitie grieme not t~e  Zleargie,
248    PhiZ; pOr' gotbnb goob face, coniure ye,
1249   netOruft me fot  a groate,
1250.1f tti0 Luafte girble )ang t)ee not
1251   tat girbetl) in tt)v coate.
1252 jp.oto balbe anb barefoote Bungie birbo
1253  tlben bp tlb gallotUe climintg,
1254 ý ap Philip l lb     boB  inoulj
1255  to put you botUne tu itt tyming.
x256 Frier A parbon, Oparce,     aaint Fraunces fo  mercie,
1257 fball fljielb tjee from nigtCpells anb bpeaming of biuell%,
1258 3f tlOou iWilt foiue me, anb neuer moe grieue me,
1259 WZiitlt fafing anb ppaying, anb Haile Marie Cating.
1260 From   black JpurqatoPle a penance riglt Copie.
1261 frier Thomas bWill xarme you,
1262 Jt tIall neuer arme vou.
1263  Philip Comeleaue off your rabble,
1264 #Diro bang bp toigs loydL
1265   2.Frier fo tciaritie I3 beg hisi life,
r1266  aint Frauncis ct)iefeft Frier,
1267   411e bet in all our Couent Pir,
1268 to keepe a Wiinter% fler.
1269   @   rftangle not the goob olbe man,
1270 my V oeffte1e olbet ueft,
1271  tAnb 31 bill bing   you by anb by
1272 butO tb)t:pa ops dorf.
1273  Philip 3, faif tIou fo, i if djiou Wilt thie frier is at libertie,
1274 1f not, a 31 am boneft man,le blang vou bottl fo companie.



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1275  Frier.Come otteer, tti0 is0 toe ceft tI'ougb fimple to beholDb
1276  it)at Wantett) not a tIoufanb pounb in filuer anb in golb.
1277 apFelfe tWill tuarrant full fo mucl, 3knotx tlwe albbots ftoge,
1278 31e paivne mV life tIere is no leffe to Ioaue iov)at ere is mole
1279  Philip p 1 take toW tDOb, tl)e outterplu  bnto tl) flttare fjaUt
1280      come,
X28I BLut if ttere  ante of full fo mudj, titn neck tball pay thle fum.
1282 13Igake bp the Cofer, frier.
1283  Frier Oo) 3 am bnbun, faire Alice t)e J1Pun
1284 #Qatlj tooke bp Ijer reft in toje Jbbote cljeft,
1285 Sanle benedicite, parbon my fimplicitite.
1286 fie Alice, confeffion Will not falue tbis tranfrefifon.
X287  Philip WphMat ljaute Wee lere, a loly JjPun  Do khpe mee
1288       3ob in Iealtt,
1289 a fmootl facte jjunne (fog ouglt 3 knoive) it all te atbboto
1290 o    tealtl)
1291 3g; tlvi tlte jPonries cliafitie ) 13edljgebe me but 3 tiinhe
s1292  Oel? goe ao oft to Gentrp, as niggarbs to theic oinke.
1293 Wbi pattrep frier anb panbar too, yee Uameleffe flauen
1294      crobtne,
1295 s tlitoish the cleft tat lelb a lgowb, at leaft a tloufanb pounb?
1296 anb is toe boo b a oly toole grt!tel be te tbangman nimble,
1297 tee'le take toe paine to paye you home, an  teact) you to bi&f
1298      femble.
1299   Nunne.    fpare die frier Anthony, a better neuer tOa
1300 To fing a   irige ffolemnly, o; reai a moanin   paffe.
1301 3f money bettte meanet of tis3, 31 knou an ancient p-unne,
1302 l tat battla bloo b tolis feauen yearet, bib neuerfre die funne;
1303 Anb tlat is youro, anb tutWat i ouro, fo fauour nolD be flotun,
1304  0ou h)allt ommaunb ao commonly, a if it tutere your oine.
1305  Frier 0pour lonourf efepteb.
r1306  Nunne. 3 Thomas, 3J meane fo.
1307  Philip. from all fatue from friero.
1308  Nunne   3oob Dir, boo not. tlinhe fo:
1309  Philip )3 tinke anb fte fo: tuly botot camf ttjou ohe r
13ro  Frier To 0)ibe her from lay men.



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148      ~The iroublefome Raigne of King John           19

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1311 Nunne M-0% true fOr, fO frare.
13p Phli  Jo  frare of tthe laptie:+ a pitifultl b~b
1313 Mtben at P1 unne ftiro foq fuccour to a fat #rift0 beb.
1314 )Iiut nobW fo; pour ranfonte np Clopffrr-b~eb Zonnep,
131.5  o tthe ctbefl ttat pou fpeake of tiutere lpro fo mutt) monep.
13x6 Nunne #aire ýbir, ivittbin ttbi% p~ffr, of plate i nionep i%
1317 Tbr) balein of a ttboufanb marke0, anb ottber ttbing bp %to
1318 iLet bg; atone, anb take it all~tioVpour0 Nr, iiotii ou knoW It.
11319  Philip  on    n       ti ~er, pick tthe locke, ttbi0 gere boott)
1320    Cotton tbanfome,
1321 ~!Tbat courtoufneo fo cunninglp muff pap to letctbere; ranfont.
1322 ~taat iO in tthe too~b?
1323  Frier J1rier Laurence nip.Lo~b, notvi tolp W~ater tbelji ot
1324 ýDome tuitcbt),o; fotnebinell io rent to belube W:#
1325 Haudcredo Laurentius, tthat ttbou floulbft be penb ttbug
1326 3un the p~effe of a p. un Wue are atll bnbon,
1327 Atnb b~ougtbt to bifcrebece if ttbou be frier Laureuce,
1328 Frier Amor vincit omnia., fo C~ato affirnietbt)
1329 ~Tnb ttberefo;e a flrier iutofe fancie foone burnett)
1330 )Jlecaufet be i% mogatalanb mabe of nmouotb
132Phlp  otv o   e g   t;tb'i0  re: the jfrier0 cteft filbe iutat)
11333 at faufen P. unne,
1334 ~ tb )e 1unne again tocko #rier bp to keep tbim froftitbe  un.
113 liIrlike tthe p~rfe to tpurgatogie, oý penance paffing grieouou:
1336 Wtbe frierr.0cteft a bt elfo; p- un0.  oW Do ttbefe bolttbeceiue
1337 3.ttbio tthe labour of ttbeir liueo to fteoie anb hue at Weafe (be;?
1338 T!Eo reutell. fo lafciuiouftp ao often ao ttbep pleafe.
1339 )lt menb tthe fault o; faultmp apine, if 31 Do miffe amenbinq,
1340 Tfig;better burn v cloifter% Do~un tthan leaue tt)'w fo; offenbinq.
11341 %13ut tbotppou, to pou3 -1 peake, to pou religiou  WWIuet,
1342a attbiotthe peffe ttat tbotbe0 tthe fumme to quite pou fo; pour
11343      euitl
1344 Nunne 3 crie Peccaui, parce me, gob #Dir 31 tua0 bequitb.
1345 Frier abblrote inr fo; ctbari'tie ft)e toutb be reconcitbe..1346 Phi. antir fo 3q falatl, Orobinbe ttbm faflt tbit i;to teir abotutio,
1347 E400tang tthem bp foý turting ttbem, tbafft themtto erecution,



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1348 Fr.Lawrence 0 tempus edax rerum,
1349 Ocue tlbilb~en biwkeo tlje teare tlbem.
31350 0 vanitas vanitatis, in tlt'i5 b~aning altatis.,
1351 at tbtlrrfcoge Weneere to got to tbio g~eere,
1352 To ntv confrience a clog to b~e like a b~oa.
1353 Exaudi me Domine, Jiuis meparce
31354 Dabo pecuniam, fi habeo veniam
1355 TIo got anbfub ftcit, 3 Will, bifpat4 it,
1356 ablunb~eb pounti fterling foq mV lium. fparing,
1357     Enter Peter a Prophet, with people.
1358 Peter?t~o, Wb~o ig; lyre, s.' Fraunces be tour fpfrb,
1359 Come in mV flock, anb fMlob) me, pour fo tunto 31 W ill, reeb
1360 Come lbetljer bop, goe get tljiee lome, anb clime not ouerlpe:
1361 90 from aloft tljp fogtuneio ftanbo in bja~arb tlbou flalt bie.
1362 Boy eOob be b~itl) Vou Peter, 3 p~ap pou come to our tjoufe
1363     a bunbav,
1364  Peter ift hoVP lobme tljW banb, blelte tWee MV hop,
1365 9q in tbVj palme )1 fie a manV troubles are Vbent to bb~ell,
1366 )i3ut tlbou fijalt fcapetlthem all anb boo full W~ell.
1367 Boy Ji tlianke pou Peter, tb~rea a clbeefe foý pour labor: mV
1368 fifter p ýape# peto come lbome, I tell lyr lboiv manp lbulbanbe;
x369 fljeflPalllbaue, anb f~vlte'l iue pou a rib of bacon.
1370 Peter a9p mafterio, fap at the tolmni enb foq met 1le come
137.1 topou all anon:*, 3 mufft bifpatclj fome buftuneWt b~il a J1rier,.1372 anb tlhen 31ce reab pour fogtune0,
1373  Philip tpob, nob,,a Ii)oplet? Dir p~opbjt b~bence are pe?
1374 Peter 3 am of thje bWo~b anb in -tbe bvo~lb, but Hue not ao
11375 otjiero;bp tlje too lb *: b~at 3am 3 knob,,anbWn battou bWilt
1376 be 3jknob,.  ftb~ouhkno~rffmcnoivbeanfbvereb:tifunot,mený
11377 quire no mole Wb~at 3~ am,.
1378  P/ill. ýbir,31j nob pou b'ilbea biffemblinu knaue, that
1379 belubet tthe people bWitl) blinbe p~oplbecieg;: pou are ltm, '
1380 looke fo g, pou fijall aivap b~itl me:*.b~inq ab~ap all tb~e rabble,
138, ant) pou grier Laurence remember pour raunfome a lunb ýeb
1382 pounb, anb a parbon foq pour felfe, anb the reft come on. ýDir
1383 JP~opljet, Vou tiall ivito~ me, to receiue a:j~oploeto rebvarbe.
11384                                                  Exeunt.



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1564 1385  Enter Hubert de Burgh with three men.
1386  Hubert I3 mafer, 3 1 bataue letueD?ou Iwbat twarrant 3
1387a taue fo; tfis attempt; 3 percetie b  ourriteanuie countenant
1388 tes, ou Ial ratter be ott erxiife impltweb, anb fo; mV otune
1389 part, 31 Woulb t)e DLing I ab male cjob*ce of fome odtje etreca
1390 tioner: onel tI i% is mV comfot, tlhat a [ing commaunb0,
'39' tWoftepeceptoneglecteb o gomitteb,tlbfeatnetl torture fo; toe
1392 befault. #larefogein biefr, letatueme, anb be reabie to attenub
1393 theabuenture:traV btitlin that entry, anb ttlent outleareme
1394 tcr, God faue the King, iffue tobainy foottl, lal l)anbe% on
1569 1395 Arthur, fet lim in tlyi0 lavge, tulberin (onte faf boun) leante
1396 Iim tmitl me to finiflj tlhe trel
1570 1397  Attendants 1Wite goe, tjougbl loadj. Exeunt.
1398  Hubert MV iLob, tWill it pleaf pour XIonour to take tlhe
1399 benefice of tlhe faire euening I
1573 z400oo  Enter Arthur to Hubert de Burgh.
1579 14o,  Arthur &ramercie Hubert fo0 tly ctare of me,
1402 3n qo to toWom reifraint is tnetuly knoten,
1403 lToe io0 of Walking is (mall benefit,
1404 -et Wittill 3 take toy ofter ivitlb (mall tlanke0,
1405 3 toulbD not lroe the pleafurte of the ere.
1406 l3ut tell me curteono keeper if fou can,
1586 1407 j ott long t)e ting Will ttaue me tarrite lteere.



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Altus Quartus, Scena prima.
Enter Hubert and Executioners.             1564
Hub. Heate me thefe Irons hot, and looke thou ftand 1565
Within the Arras: when I ftrike my foot            1566
Vpon the bofome of the ground, rufh forth           1567
And binde the boy, which you fhall finde with me    1568
Faft to the chaire:be heedfull:hence, and watch.   1569
4xec. I hope your warrant will beare out the deed.  1570
Hub. Vncleanly fcruples feare not you:looke too't.  1571
Yong Lad come forth; I haue to fay with you.        1572
Enter Arthur.                      1573
Ar. Good morrow Hubert.                           1574
Hub. Good morrow, little Prince.                  1575
Ar. As little Prince, hauing fo great a Title     1576
To be more Prince, as may be:you are fad.           1577
Hub. Indeed I haue beene merrier.                 1578
Art. 'Mercie on me:                               1579
Me thinkes no body fhould be fad but I:             1580
Yet I remember, when I was in France,               1581
Yong Gentlemen would be as fad as night             1582
Onely for wantonneffe: by my Chriftendome,         1583
So I were out of prifon, and kept Sheepe            1584
I fhould be as merry as the day is long:            1585
And fo I would be heere, but that I doubt           1586



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1408  Hubeit t1 kunoh not 1Pince, but aO 3j getre not long.
1409 Oob fenb   ou freebome, anb God faue the King,
1410                 They iffue forth.
1411  Arthur Wirt jov t1otD nou fitr0, Iuljat ma   tljig outrage
1412    meane?
1413     ojelpe me Hubert, gentle keeper tjielpe:
144 00 )enb tloi0 fobaine mutinoust app~oad)
4315 TEenb not to reaue a Wuretdoeb   uitleo; life.
1655 1416  Hubert ýbo fir0, bepart, ano leaue tole reft fo  me.
1417  Arthur Tojen Arthur VQlbt, eatlj ofrol  netlo in toV face,
1418 Mo3f1Utat meanetl toig; Ioob Hubert pleab tie cafet
1419  Hubert PJpatience ong iLotb, anb liffen WoýbD of Wxoe,
1420 t2larmfull anb oarfl, O tdelle; loopor to be lrearb:
1421,[ iifmall tale fit fob  a furies; tongue,
1422 J faint to tell, Dbpe foqrobW it toe founb.
1423  A rthur.   Uattmuff     bie?
1424 Hubert. p o neboer of beatoj, but tibina; of mole late,
1425 a ~uatlfull boome, anb moff bnluckie fate:
1426 j~eatoo DiU iWere baintie at fo fell a feaff,
X427 Ite beafe, Ijeare not, itf Ijell to tell tioe reff.
1428  Artrhur. ~?laa0 toou W~onqff mV outb uittl ~uo~b    of feare,
1429  Eii Io ell, tio oolroý, not foq one to jeare +
1430 Mo~att io it man if it muff neebev be bon,
1431 41ct it, anb enb it, that tihe paine Wuere gou.
1599 1432  Hubert 31 qlill not Cijaunt fuclj bolour bWitlj mV tongue,
1433 =et muff 3   act the outrage Wlitbl mn Vjanb.
1434!M  Ijeart mV  jeab, anb all my pouetrreotfibe,
1435 To aibe the office Iaue at once benibe.
1436 PJerufe titi letter, line0 of treble Wuoe,
16001437 itReab o e my ctjarge, anb parbon IWoern you knoWu.



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My Vnckle pradlifes more harme to me:                1587
He is affraid of me, and I of him:                   1588
Is it my fault, that I was Geffreyes fonne?          1589
No in deede is't not: and I would to heauen          1590
I were your fonne, fo you would loue me, Hubert:     1591
Hub. If I talke to him, with his innocent prate    1592
He will awake my mercie, which lies dead:            1593
Therefore I will be fodaine, and difpatch.         1594
Ar. Are you ficke Hubert? you looke pale to day,   1595
Infooth I would you were a little ficke,             1596
That I might fit all night, and watch with you.      1597
I warrant I loue you more then you do me.            1598
Hub. His words do take poffeffion of my bofome.    1599
Reade heere yong Arthur. How now foolifh rheume?     1600
Turning difpitious torture out of doore?             1601
I muft be breefe, leaft refolution drop              1602
Out at mine eyes, in tender womanifh teares.         1603
Can you not reade it? Is it not faire writ?         1604



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1438 Hubert thefe are to conimaund thee, as thou tendreff our
1439     quiet in mindc and the eflate of our perfon, that pre1440     fently vpon the receipt of our commaund, thou put out
1441     the eyes of Arthur Plantaginet.
1605,442  Arthur Ab)moniftrous;rjamnei, man, 1)io,erv Wbe*at'M r
1443    fftt% to)e elemuito,
140   Contagious; benvmr ertultett)in 1)io 1)art,
1"5 O~ffettting meanes; to poVfon all ttje Wo~lb.
1446 Vllnreuerent maV 3 be tto blame th)e jeauens;
1448 iL-urg to opp~elte ttoee innoeent0 uit1) iW~onq
1449 aU) Hubert, makeo 1be tljee 1)1 inftruntent
1450O~o founb thje tromp thjat can fedj bell tri'umplj?
1451 t~eauen Wiiepeo, toje katnts;rboo Iljeb celeftiall. teareo,
1452 ~ J$1eV feare t1)r fall, anb cVte tb)ee Uitlb remo~fe,
11453 TYJbev knock t1)p con fence, inoouing pitie tIbere,
1454 Willing to fence t1)ee from thet rage of b)ell
1455 l12ell Hubert, truft me all thje plagues; of b)ell
1456 t~angs; on perfo~mance of t1)io bamneb brebe.
'457 TOO)j0feale, t)e iWarrant of th)e bbieo; bliffe,
1458 enfuretlj batan c1)ieftamne of tbV foule:
11459 #ubfcri'be not Hubert, giue not 000o part alxap.
'460 3 (peake not onelV tfo reseo p~iuilebqe,
1461 To$1e c1)iefe erterioq that 3q Wjuonb eniov:.1462 %BLut foq t1) pert'l, farre beVonb mv paine,
X463 TIb fkteerte fouleo loffe, mole th)an mp v res; aine lackt;
1464 al caufe internall, anb tternahlttxD.
1465 3Thuife ttitt Hubert, foq the cafe ig 1barb,
'466 TJo too ft faluation foq  a DLings; rtiarb,
1629 z467 Hubert MvJLopb, a fubiert bbvelling in th)e lanb
1468 30 t~eb to erecute th)e Iftings; commaunb,
1631 1469 Arthuro9et 6J0oriommanbot Imbofe po~ier reactbet1) furttjer,



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Ar. Too fairely Hubert, for fo foule effe6t,   1605
Muft you with hot Irons burne out both mine eyes?  1606
Hub. Yong Boy, I muff.                          1607
Art. And will you?                              1608
Hub. And I will.                               1609
Art. Haue you the heart? When your head did but  1610
ake,                                    1611
I knit my hand-kercher about your browes         1612
(The beft I had, a Princeffe wrought it me)       1613
And I did neuer aske it you againe:               1614
And with my hand, at midnight held your head;     1615
And like the watchfull minutes, to the houre,     1616
Still and anon cheer'd vp the heauy time;         1617
Saying, what lacke you? and where lies your greefe?  1618
Or what good loue may I performe for you?        1619
Many a poore mans fonne would haue lyen ftill,   1620
And nere haue fpoke a louing word to you:        1621
But you, at your ficke feruice had a Prince:      1622
Nay, you may thinke my loue was craftie loue,    1623
And call it cunning. Do, and if you will,        1624
If heauen be pleas'd that you muft vfe me ill,   1625
Why then you muft. Will you put out mine eyes?    1626
Thefe eyes, that neuer did, nor neuer fhall       1627
So much as frowne on you.                        1628
Hub. I haue fworne to do it:                    1629
And with hot Irons muft I burne them out.         1630
Ar. Ah, none but in this Iron Age, would do it:  1631



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1639 1470 mD)at no commannb     0oulb ftan  in fo0ce to muttIter,
1471  Hubert 13But that fame    ffence I)atl) obainb a lab,
1472 3 breat) fo  guilt, to heepe t1e oqlbm tn awe*
1473 Arthur 3 pleab not quiltic, treafonlee ano free.

1474
1475
1476
'477

Hubert i13ut tlat appeale mv tLopb concernes not me.
Arthur Mopt, tlou art loe tlat maif omit toe perill.
Hubert 3, if mp 4oueraigne Ioultb remit O)iW quarrell.
Arthur t2i quarrtell is tbnalloteb fatfe anb tpong.



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The Iron of it felfe, though he ate red hot,        1632
Approaching neere thefe eyes, would drinke my teares, 1633
And quench this fierie indignation,                 1634
Euen in the matter of mine innocence:               1635
Nay, after that, confume away in ruft,              1636
But for containing fire to harme mine eyes:         1637
Are you more ftubborne hard, then hammer'd Iron?    1638
And if an Angell fhould haue come to me,            1639
And told me Hubert fhould put out mine eye,         1640
I would not haue beleeu'd him: no tongue but Huberts. 1641
Hub. Come forth: Do as I bid you do.             1642
Art. 0 faue me Hubert, faue me: my eyes are out   1643
Euen with the fierce 1 ookes of thefe bloody men.   1644
Hub. Giue me the Iron I fay, and binde him heere.  1Q45
Art. Alas, what neede you be fo boiftrous rough?  1646
I will not ftruggle, I will fland ftone flill:      1647
For heauen fake Hubert let me not be bound:         1648
Nay heare me Hubert, driue thefe men away,          1649
And I will fit as quiet as a Lambe.                 1650
I will not ftirre, nor winch, nor fpeake a word,    1651
Nor looke vpon the Iron angerly:                    1652
Thruft but thefe men away, and Ile forgiue you,     1653
What euer torment you do put me too.                1654
Hub. Go ftand within: let me alone with him.      1655
Exec. I am beft pleas'd to be from fuch a deede.  1656
Art. Alas, I then haue chid away my friend,       1657
He hath a fterne looke, but a gentle heart:         1658
Let him come backe, that his compaffion may         1659
Giue life to yours.                                 1660
Hub. Come (Boy) prepare your felfe.               1661
Art. Is there no remedie?                        1662
Hub. None, but to lofe your eyes.                 1663
Art. 0 heauen: that there were but a moth in yours,  1664
A graine, a duft, a gnat, a wandering haire,        1665



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169 1478  Hubert T   men be the blame to b3lom it botl belong.
1479  Arthur MWop tI)at0 to tlee if tIou as tbr pýotetbe,,480 Cotttnclube teir iubgreent trtlt fo bile a t abe,,48,  Hubert woip t)en no   rCUtttion tan be laWftull,
1482 3f J 3U es bomeo muff be reputeb boubtfull.
1483  Arthur -tso blyere in fotme of iLate in place anb time,
1484  JITe offenber is conuidteb of the crime.
1485  Hubert. pM VLob, my to b, tl i0 long erpoftulation,
1486  crapes bp moge griefe, tlan pgomife of rebeffe;
1487 jSo  tlii ) 3knob), anb fo refolube 1r enb,
1488 MoIat fubittd liue% on Dings commaunbo bepenb.
1489   muftf not reafont bp I)be i oypour foe,
1490 l3ut bo  ii8 lrbargte fince be tommaunbo ft fo.
1491  Arthur Toem boo tIjy cbarge, anDb targeb be top foule
1492 as iti toponfull perfecution bone tli0 Day.
1493 0ou rototling eye, bjDofe fuperftcir Vet
3494 31 boo bebolb taitl) eyes that jpature lent:
1495 enb foo0t) thie terro  of youtr 9oouert frotune,
x496  0To Iieake mpy tong upon the murtl)erer
1497 D)jat rob me of your faire refleteing biiex+:
1498 Let tlell to tijem  (a  eartl t)ey? WUif4 to mic)
1499 We barke anb birefull uerbontt fo their gulit,
1boo anb let the black topmentero of beepe Tartary



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Any annoyance in that precious fenfe:                 1666
Then feeling what fmall things are boyfterous there,  1667
Your vilde intent muft needs feeme horrible.          1668
Hub. Is this your promife? Go too, hold your toong.  1669
Art. Hubert, the vtterance of a brace of tongues,  1670
Muft needes want pleading for a paire of eyes:       1671
Let me not hold my tongue: let me not Hubert,        1672
Or Hubert, if you will cut out my tongue,            1673
So I may keepe mine eyes. 0 fpare mine eyes,         1674
Though to no vfe, but ftill to looke on you.          1675
Loe, by my troth, the Inftrument is cold,            1676
And would not harme me.                              1677
Hub. I can heate it, Boy.                          1678
Art. No, in good footh: the fire is dead with griefe,  1679
Being create for comfort, to be vs'd                 1680
In vndeferued extreames: See elfe your felfe,        1681
There is no malice in this burning cole,              1682
The breath of heauen, hath blowne his fpirit out,    1683
And flrew'd repentant afhes on his head.             1684
Hub. But with my breath I can reuiue it Boy.       1685
Art. And if you do, you will but make it blufh,    1686
And glow with fhame of your proceedings, Hubert:     1687
Nay, it perchance will fparkle in your eyes:        1688
And, like a dogge that is compell'd to fight,        1689
Snatch at his Mafter that doth tarre him on.         1690
All things that you fhould vfe to do me wrong        1691
Deny their office: onely you do lacke               1692
That mercie, which fierce fire, and Iron extends,    1693
Creatures of note for mercy, lacking vfes.           1694

II



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sor ~tipbga' r them tWitt t is bamueD enterpife,
1502 ]Jnftitting  d)ange of togtures on tlteir foulfro.
1503 rDelaV not Hubert, mp opifono are tnbeb,
1504 ie3tifl 3 1 pa  tble, rcauw me of mV fiIt:
1505 13ut to perfogme a tragebie intbir,
1506 Conclube the perioD t~itI a motall ifab.
1507 Conflance farrWetll, tomento   come auav,
1508 i9ake mV Difpatcb the Tirants fratin g Da1.
1695 1509  Hubert 3 faint, 3J feare, m  conftience bits  ettfit:
ISO0 faint bib 31 fap, frart teao it that 3 namet*
zSI p1   t Jing commaunb, that Warrant fCet me fMe:
1s52 )3ut   ob fo bibt, anb 1) tommaunbtetI   Dingo,
1513  lt)at great Commaunber countercdecks      mV clarge,
1514 PCe ffaUe  mV ljanb, We maket foft my Ieart,
1515  oe turfeb tooles, your office is trempt,
1695 '516 Cleere tbte t ong ltob, ttou ftlalt not loofe an rae,
1517 TbIoug   3 1 foulbt purchafe it Uiitt loate of life,
1702 1518 rle to tlie ting, anD fay hisi Lill istDone,
1519  tnb of thle langoq tell bim thou art Deab,
1520 4 oe in ituit) me, fo  Hubert ita0 not bone
1521 To blinoe  tftoe lampes that jPTature polliff)t fo,
1707 1522 Arthur Hubert, if euer Arthur be in ftate,
1523s Lmte fo) amenbs of this reeriueb gift
1524 31 twoe my tyfiiglt by tby curtefie,
1525 a Tbou lentl thiem me, 31 till not be ingrate.
1526 %3But nob  pocraftination may offenb
1527 Dt)e ifrue that tly lkinanegs bnbertahies:
1528 IDepart IWe Hubert to ptmuent the tIooff.           Exeunt.



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Hub. Well, fee to liue: I will not touch thine eye,  1695
For all the Treafure that thine Vnckle owes,        1696
Yet am I fworne, and I did purpofe, Boy,            1697
With this fame very Iron, to burne them out.        1698
Art, 0 now you looke like Hubert. All this while  1699
You were difguis'd.                                 1700
Hub. Peace:no more. Adieu,                        1701
Your Vnckle muft not know but you are dead.         1702
Ile fill thefe dogged Spies with falfe reports:    1703
And, pretty childe, fleepe doubtleffe, and fecure,  1704
That Hubert for the wealth of all the world,        1705
Will not offend thee.                               1706
Art. 0 heauen! I thanke you Hubert.              1707
Hub. Silence, no more; go clofely in with mee,    1708
Much danger do I vndergo for thee.          Exeunt 1709



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164      ~The troublefome Raigne of King John         19

1691

1710 1529    Enter King John, Effex, Salisbury, Penbrooke.
1530  John. P. obu Wartfir teoltobxiero reftetIb ougIot bnbon
1531 To~at utavIimpead) bo of fonb ouerfgt I1.
1532 TIoe #rendj Iaue felt tole temper of our ftboW,
1533 CA b   errog keepe0 poffefflon in tljwir foitrle,
11534 C~clung tlWir ouerbarinug arrog~ance
1535 fog buck~ling Wtuttb fo great an ouermatcj.
1536 To~e atriepgouti titleb pgieft of 3'taly,
1537 TElbat calle0 Iýimfelfe 3ranb tJIicrar bber 3ob
1538 3o0bufteb noiW  iitl trentall obfrquiro,
1539!9affe anb moutlyo minbe, birge anb 3 hIiotv not bWlat
1540 T!o rafe tlreir fotule*o in painefuUt purgatogV,
1541 TUJ~at ljaue miftarieb in tlyfr bloubV ~uarreo.
1542 tl~tatb Vou not togbo ~ulen AMfirfoliololinto
1543 t~ab tibinixe of our fmall account of ýim
1544 VOW   Uittlba taunt,aunting,pon lbiiltore;
11545 fVe bpgta reafon ~ulV tloe   -nglig) Mtfe
1546  ~if bai'uqb tije bleffeb *ogbinance of Rome?
1547 To~je title (reuerentlV miqbtjt3 inferre)
11548 )l3trame t~e Jtinge;tijat rarft ljaue bogne tloe loab,
11549 To)e ftauiflg Ueiilot of tlhat controlling pperft:
1550 Wiblo at ljio pleafure temperb tl~em ik'e tWare
1551 To carrie arme05 on banger of loi; curfe,
1552 jl3anWinq tIbeir fotulro Wjitl ivarranto of loi'o Ianb,.
155 3  rieue to tI~inke Iob3 iDingo in agropaft
1554 (,8itmplV bruoteb to to~e  ea Of Rome)
1555 ~auertun into a tlooufanb ados of fljame.
17111556lI3ut noWi fog confirmation of our ýDtate,
31557 e*Dtto WLe ljaue pgo~3nb tlje mote tIoan nccbfuU b~aunclj
1558 TJolat bib oppgette ttoe true ivel-groixvinc( ifork,
1559 3t reftetto We tog)ouql~out our T1erritogieo
156o Wie rep~orlaimeb ant iniuefteb Di%



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Scena Secunda.

Enter John, Pembroke, Salisbury, and other Lordes,  171o
lohn, Heere once againe we fit: once againif crown'd 1711
And look'd vpon, I hope, with chearefull eyes.     1712



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1713 1561  Pembrook wV iLiege, tthat tore to bulie men taid) boubtO,
1562 once Were you trotunb, Poclaimb, anb tukitl applaufe
1563 pOUr Citie firtetes laue ectdoeb to the care,
1564!ob Cane tthe iing,  ob Canut our  oueraiqne John.
1565 parbon my feare, my tenfure botl infer
1566 p1our pigblneo not bepofbet from Regall tate,
1567 Z6WoulD breeb a mutinie in people0 minbes,
1718 1568 ZW1Iat it tioulb meane to tlane you rrotnb againt.
1569  John Pembrooke perfoqme v t1at 31 laue bib tlee boo,
1570 1TOU   tnob3ft not iubat inbucetlj me to tliis,
1571 Effex got in, tanb Lopbings all be gou
1572  tbout tbio taflke, t  ill be croionb anon.



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Pem.This once again (but that your Highnes pleas'd) 1713
Was once fuperfluous:you were Crown'd before,        1714
And that high Royalty was nere pluck'd off:           1715
The faiths of men, nere flained with reuolt:          1716
Frefh expe6tation troubled not the Land               1717
With any long'd-for-change, or better State.          1718
Sal. Therefore, to be poffefs'd with double pompe,  1719
To guard a Title, that was rich before;               1720
To gilde refined Gold, to paint the Lilly;            1721
To throw a perfume on the Violet,                     1722
To fmooth the yce, or adde another hew                1723
Vnto the Raine-bow; or with Taper-light               1724
To feeke the beauteous eye of heauen to garnifh,      1725
Is waftefull, and ridiculous exceffe.                 1726
Pem. But that your Royall pleafure muft be done,    1727
Thi s afte, is as an ancient tale new told,           1728
And, in the laft repeating, troublefome,              1729
Being vrged at a time vnfeafonable.                   1730
Sal. In this the Anticke, and well noted face       1731
Of plaine old forme, is much disfigured,              1732
And like a fhifted winde vnto a faile,                1733
It makes the courfe of thoughts to fetch about,       1734
Startles, and frights confideration:                  1735
Makes found opinion ficke, and truth fufpected,       1736
For putting on fo new a fafhion'd robe.               1737
Pem. When Workemen ftriue to do better then wel, 1738
They do confound their skill in couetoufneffe,        1739
And oftentimes excufing of a fault,                   1740
Doth make the fault the worfe by th'excufe:           1741
As patches fet vpon a little breach,                  1742



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Difcredite more in hiding of the fault,              1743
Then did the fault before it was fo patch'd.         1744
Sal. To this effe6t, before you were new crown'd   1745
We breath'd our Councell: but it pleas'd your Highnes 1746
To ouer-beare it, and we are all well pleas'd,       1747
Since all, and euery part of what we would           1748
Doth make a ftand, at what your Highneffe will.      1749
Ioh. Some reafons of this double Corronation       1750
I haue poffeft you with, and thinke them firong.     1751
And more, more firong, then leffer is my feare       1752
I fhall indue you with: Meane time, but aske        1753
What you would haue reform'd. that is not well,      1754
And well fhall you perceiue, how willingly           1755
I wile both heare, and grant you your requefts.      1756
Pem, Then I, as one that am the tongue of thefe    1757
To found the purpofes of all their hearts,           1758
Both for my felfe, and them: but chiefe of all      1759
Your fafety:for the which, my felfe and them        1760
Bend their beft ftudies, heartily requeft            1761
Th'infranchifement of Arthur, whofe reftraint        1762
Doth moue the murmuring lips of difcontent           1763
To breake into this dangerous argument.              1764
If what in reft you haue, in right you hold,         1765
Why then your feares, which (as they fay) attend     1766
The fteppes of wrong, fhould moue you to mew vp      1767
Your tender kinfman, and to choake his dayes         1768
With barbarous ignorance, and deny his youth         1769
The rich aduantage of good exercife,                  1770
That the times enemies may not haue this             1771
To grace occafions: let it be our fuite,            1772
That you haue bid vs aske his libertie,              1773
Which for our goods, we do no further aske,          1774
Then, whereupon our weale on you depending,          1775
Counts it your weale: he haue his liberty.          1776
Enter Hubert.                     1777
Iohn, Let it be fo: I do commit his youth          1778
To your direftion:Hubert, what newes with you?       1779



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Per. This is the man fhould do the bloody deed:   1780
He fhew'd his warrant to a friend of mine,          1781
The image of a wicked heynous fault                 1782
Liues in his eye: that clofe afpe6t of his,        1783
Do fhew the mood of a much troubled breft,          1784
And I do fearefully beleeue 'tis done,              1785
What we fo fear'd he had a charge to do.            1786
Sal. The colour of the King doth come, and go     1787
Betweene his purpofe and his confcience,            1788
Like Heralds 'twixt two dreadfull battailes fet:    1789
His pafsion is fo ripe, it needs muft breake.       1790
Per. And when it breakes, I feare will iffue thence  1791
The foule corruption of a fweet childes death.      1792
lohn. We cannot hold mortalities firong hand.     1793
Good Lords, although my will to giue, is liuing,    1794
The fuite which you demand is gone, and dead.       1795
He tels vs Arthur is deceas'd to night.             1796
Sal. Indeed we fear'd his fickneffe was paft cure.  1797
Pem. Indeed we heard how neere his death he was,  1798
Before the childe himfelfe felt he was ficke:      1799
This muft be anfwer'd either heere, or hence.       1800
loh. Why do you bend fuch folemne browes on me?   1801
Thinke you I beare the Sheeres of deftiny?         1802
Haue I commandement on the pulfe of life?          1803
Sal. It is apparant foule-play, and'tis fhame     1804
That Greatneffe fhould fo groffely offer it;        1805
So thriue it in your game, and fo farewell.         1806
Pem. Stay yet (Lord Salisbury) Ile go with thee,  1807
And finde th'inheritance of this poore childe,      1808
His little kingdome of a forced graue.              1809
That blood which ow'd the bredth of all this Ile,   1810
Three foot of it doth hold; bad world the while:    1811
This muft not be thus borne, this will breake out   1812
To all our forrowes, and ere long I doubt.   Exeunt 1813
Io. They burn in indignation: I repent:  Enter Mef 1814
There is no fure foundation fet on blood:           1815



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1.591

1844 1573    Enter the Baftard.



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173

No certaine life atchieu'd by others death:         1816
A fearefull eye thou haft. Where is that blood,     1817
That I haue feene inhabite in thofe cheekes?       1818
So foule a skie, cleeres not without a ftorme,      1819
Poure downe thy weather: how goes all in France?   1820
Mef. From France to England, neuer fuch a powre   1821
For any forraigne preparation,                      1822
Was leuied in the body of a land.                   1823
The Copie of your fpeede is learn'd by them:        1824
For when you fhould be told they do prepare,        1825
The tydings comes, that they are all arriu'd.       1826
JIo. Oh where hath our Intelligence bin drunke?   1827
Where hath it flept? Where is my Mothers care?     1828
That fuch an Army could be drawne in France,        1829
And fhe not heare of it?                           1830
Mef My Liege, her eare                            1831
Is flopt with duft: the firft of Aprill di'de      1832
Your noble mother;and as I heare, my Lord,         1833
The Lady ConfJance in a frenzie di'de               1834
Three dayes before:but this from Rumors tongue      1835
I idely heard: if true, or falfe I know not.       1836
lohn. With-hold thy fpeed, dreadfull Occafion:    1837
O make a league with me, 'till I haue pleas'd       1838
My difcontented Peeres. What? Mother dead?         1839
How wildely then walkes my Eftate in France?        1840
Vnder whofe condu& came thofe powres of France,     1841
That thou for truth giu'ft out are landed heere?   1842
Mef Vnder the Dolphin.                            1843
Enter Baflard and Peter of Pomfret.       1844
Joh. Thou haft made me giddy                      1845
With thefe ill tydings: Now? What fayes the world  1846
To your proceedings? Do not feeke to fluffe         1847
My head with more ill newes:for it is full.        1848
Ba/f. But if you be a-feard to heare the worft,   1849
Then let the worft vn-heard, fall on your head.     1850



174

The troublefome Razigne of King lohn

1591

1574 PhilbP, t bat nrbtes, t)o0 bob )O e tetbbotso djtlft?
1575 ar frieritr  fatter than ttle jaunee  are fairte?
1576s  W at cItuere iit) JCurcrnmnt, tbab tew golbe o) no n
577 Tell me botob t)att tdv office tooke effect?
1855i 1578  Phil p  p ILo b, t ]baut perfo mb pour itig)netg ctarge:
1579  Et)r taft barb  abbot0 ani the bare fcote frier0,
z580 f lt-e )onkte tle IJpiop an b   olv clopvftrtb J]unnes,
158ss1 art all in bealtl), anb txere mV Lob in turalttt),
1582 TEill 3 lab tptltbe anb tobe thteir toltp tboops.
185861583   boubt not tuben pour    iglneti fic  mp p2iye,
1584  0ou map p     0opogtion all tleir fogmer ptibt.
1585  lohn WbtVp fo, noUt 0fot' it Phili  aO it  OUlb:
1586 T)i Ofall intruffion tinto labbet trunhes,
15ss 87Wil mahe tl) popelinge ercommunicate,
1588 Curfe, ban, anr bytattl out bamnet opifons,
1ss8 ao tbich ao 1)aileffonesg foge the fppinegs appgoact:
1590 )o3ut pet as l)armles anb ~uittout effect,
s591  s is tlthe tctio of a Cannons tracI
1592 Mif(bargb againft tte battlementn   of etaurn.
s 1593  3ut ~ulat n  tesb edl befell ttre Philip?
1594  Baftard Otrante ntt n       i mp iloEb: iuittin pour territo1861 se595 jtre Pomfret is a Pjopb)tt netw fppong bp,          (rite,
1596 s Wlofe btiination bollev oon euero foogt);
186315e97 To oim the Commons tbLong ititb Countrep gifto,
1598 a  e fett a bate unto t)te Ielbames  beat),
1599 Welcribte 1)obo  long the t irging ftate Iall laft,
1600 Miftinguifettl the mooning of tte )beautsn,
x6oo  uines limits bnto 1)olV nuptiall rtteo,
1602 fogetelletb famine, abounbetbl plentir fotb,
r1603 Of fate, of fogtune, life anD beatl) bet djats,
1604   1ittb fu    affurancet, fctruplt put apart,
x6o5 30  if e t knet  tlet certaint bomet of ttautn,
1606 @  h ktpt a 3etgifter of all t) e meffinite.



1623

The life and death of King lohn

I75

Iohn. Beare with me Cofen, for I was amaz'd       1851
Vnder the tide;but now I breath againe             1852
Aloft the flood, and can giue audience              1853
To any tongue, fpeake it of what it will.           1854
Bajt. How I haue fped among the Clergy men,       1855
The fummes I haue colle&ed fhall expreffe:          1856
But as I trauail'd hither through the land,         1857
I finde the people ftrangely fantafied,             1858
Poffeft with rumors, full of idle dreames,          1859
Not knowing what they feare, but full of feare.     1860
And here's a Prophet that I brought with me         1861
From forth the ftreets of Pomfret, whom I found     1862
With many hundreds treading on his heeles:          1863
To whom he fung in rude harfh founding rimes,       1864
That ere the next Afcenfion day at noone,           1865
Your Highnes fhould deliuer vp your Crowne.         1866



176          The troublefome Raigne of King lohn           1591
1867 o607  John 4I0ou telft me meruailed, toulbo ttou Oabff boult,
o08 aire miglt Ijaue queftionb ftim of tlingto come, (tle man
6oog  Bastard apf Lo0, 3 tooke a tare of t)at i  vivft,
i6io 3nb bpougIt toe IPoppoet ititt me to toe %Court,
A6i pe fape% mV iLoob  but at tole Ipefence booge:
16xz IpleafetI) oour tigSne%, 31 tWill call Iim in.



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177

Iohn. Thou idle Dreamer, wherefore didft thou fo?  1867
Pet. Foreknowing that the truth will fall out fo.  1868
Iohn. Hubert, away with him: imprifon him,        1869
And on that day at noone, whereon he fayes            1870
I fhall yeeld vp my Crowne, let him be hang'd.       1871
Deliuer him to fafety, and returne,                  1872
For I muft vfe thee. 0 my gentle Cofen,              1873
Hear'ft thou the newes abroad, who are arriu'd?      1874
Baf/.The French (my Lord) mens mouths are ful of it: 1875
Befides I met Lord Bigot, and Lord Salisburie        1876
With eyes as red as new enkindled fire,               1877
And others more, going to feeke the graue             1878
Of Arthur, whom they fay is kill'd to night, on your  1879
Iohn. Gentle kinfman, go                (fuggeftion. 1880
And thruft thy felfe into their Companies,           1881
I haue a way to winne their loues againe:            1882
Bring them before me.                                 1883
Baft. I will feeke them out.                       1884
John. Nay, but make hafte: the better foote before.  1885
O, let me haue no fubiet6 enemies,                   1886
When aduerfe Forreyners affright my Townes           1887
With dreadfull pompe of flout inuafion.              1888
Be Mercurie, fet feathers to thy heeles,             1889
And flye (like thought) from them, to me againe.     1890
BaIt, The fpirit of the time fhall teach me fpeed.Exit 1891
Iohn. Spoke like a fprightfull Noble Gentleman.    1892
Go after him: for he perhaps fhall neede            1893
Some Meffenger betwixt me, and the Peeres,           1894
And be thou hee.                                      1895
Mef. With all my heart, my Liege.                  1896
lohn. My mother dead?                              1897
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1591

x 613  John  ap fap Oarb4~ofe, We~l l oaute loin Ileranon,
1614 aTIt0in% of tuei'lt fi0frff to be perfoqmb,
x615 Enter the Nobles and crowne King Jo/in, and then erie
x616     God faue the King.
x617 John iio~bhncm ano frienbo futppo~terrg;Of our ftate,
x618 aTlbnue not at tot'.0 bnaccuftomb rourfe,
i61g j   to  n pour ttoougolto blame not tlji'3 beebe of VouV0.
1620 @nre ere tltio tine tWOa%3 j nuefteb DLin!&,
A=621 our fealtie ftvo~ne ao JLiegmen to our ftate:
1622 Confirm'= Wiarrant of pour lopaltie0,
1623 t'ifnxiffe pour couutfell, fbvap nVipftate,
1624 Let /ohn boo notoiing but bp pour ronfento.
1625  IfOp loox) nobW Philip,1iaterate       tlj+
1626 MOTlP caft0 tljou tp tIop epeo to loeauen fo 1
A627     There the flue Moones appeare.
1c628  Bastard 'Eer, fee mVpiL~o~b fOrangse apparitions
x629 6Mauncing mane epe to fee toje tiabem
1630 Placte bp toe 13)JJiope; on pour pt'gnrl rie ~aot
1c631 #rom foogtl)a gloomie eloube, Wt'4)id) rtai~ne lik'e
1632    f~plai~be it felfe, 31 fobatinlp efptaeb
1899 x633 #iute 9poone% reffteaing, ao pou fie t~ern nob)~
1634 CUen intthe moment tijat t~e 'Zrotune tuao platte
1901 1635 40an tloep appeare, lbolbing to~e courfe pou fee.
1636 John ~Uat miglbt pogteno tloefe apparition0,.1637 ZI1~nfualt figneo, foperunners; of euent,
1638 jpefa~erw of Otrange terro; to tije 1xo~lb:
1639 1l3eleeue me L~opb0tihe object feare% me mucbi.
1640 Phili~p tljou tolbift me of me of Wt'il3iarb late,
1641 S#e  't   o ntijeMan to befeant Of tto' f~It,
1642 Pembrooke To~e ljeauen% froitme upon toje finfull eartl).
1643 MbUMn Wxtl) pýObuiou0   naccuftomb figneo
x644 lr~leV fpot thijer fuperficie' oxiitl) fuel)b  onber.



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180

The troublefome Razgne of King lohn

1645  E fex )3fote ttle mUine  of lerufalem,
x646 #ud   A9rt to% Wtere tle $ enfTgne  of bi) g;iWatb
1647   bat 1,afntbe  to beftroV thle faultfull ot ne,
1648     Enter the Baftard with the Prophet.

1649
1650
165i
1652
1653
r1654
1655

John 3s t~i' t.3totoe manh
Ba/fard 37t i0 mV t   0b,
lohn:pJoplet of Pomfret, foq fo 3 beare tlou art,
Toyat calculataf of manu tlings to com:e
Wi)o b   a potier repleate ititli oeaurlnt  gift
Once ftnct tbat time ambitious xo ieb ijaue fpuung
To faine ttoe beautie of our garben plot:



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181

Enter Hubert.                    1898
Hub. My Lord, they fay flue Moones were feene to  1899
Foure fixed, and the fift did whirle about   (night: 1900oo
The other foure, in wondrous motion.                1901
loh. Fiue Moones?                                1902
Hub. Old men, and Beldames, in the ftreets        1903
Do prophefie vpon it dangeroufly:                   1904
Yong Arthurs death is common in their mouths,       1905
And when they talke of him, they fhake their heads,  1906
And whifper one another in the eare.                1907
And he that fpeakes, doth gripe the hearers wrift,  1908
Whilft he that heares, makes fearefull aftion       1909
With wrinkled browes, with nods, with rolling eyes.  1910
I faw a Smith ftand with his hammer (thus)          1911
The whilft his Iron did on the Anuile coole,        1912
With open mouth fwallowing a Taylors newes,         1913
Who with his Sheeres, and Meafure in his hand,      1914
Standing on flippers, which his nimble hafte        1915
Had falfely thruft vpon contrary feete,             1916
Told of a many thoufand warlike French,             1917
That were embattailed, and rank'd in Kent.          1918
Another leane, vnwafh'd Artificer,                  1919
Cuts off his tale, and talkes of Arthurs death.     1920



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182      ~The ztroublefome Raig~ne of King John        19

1591

1656, Vut jtarntnin our conbutt rooting tlbtnct
1657 WTO falfe intrubtrm, boeaktr% of bvo~lbq peact,
1658 lI~aue to our ior, mabe bun0#in1cclbafe the ftome.
1659 Waftr tbe bhicl), to trV your conftancit,
x66o Th1at nowu 31 fete i 1WogtIeiof your names,
i66i T1We cranbe onct mole your belpo fo; to inueft bo
x662 3jrto thje rigbt tlhat tnuit fouqljbt to triack,
1663 Once ivao;)1 not Depofbe, your former clboyCe;
1664 P.o x' tticr bcmn crotuneb anb applaubeb Uing:
11665 pour cjjeereb action to inflatll me fo,
x666 31nferro affureb tuitneo of your loue%0
1667 ~Tnb binbo me oner in a D~ingly care
1668 TJo renber lout uitl lout, rtexarbo of W3ogtI
1669 TYo baltance bokintrtrquitall to tlht full.
1670 )1BUt ttanlhe# tICe bhl~tetl~anheO 00'. %6in cto you all:
1671 Wlhe me a-nb bfe me, try mt anb finbt mt your0.
1672  Effez vTa boon myVJkopb at b3auntage of your 1xo~Ibo
31673 We Mtate to ~qnerbon aUl our loyalties.
1674 Pembrooke Wi~t take tbt timt your t~iglneg; bib% bo aflie:
1675:pleafe it you graunt, von make your p~omi'fe goob,
1676 Mtitlb lefrer loffe tlhan one fuperftuouo ýaire
1677 That not remtmbgeb fallvtti from your tbeab.
17-56 1678 John!MV 3y ito bipaft, rtceiut your bwone Vto my
ixg ZlMiat may it bte 1+ Xhe it, anb it ti; yours.
1761 x68o  Effer We~ crane myViiUob, to pleafe tlht Zommone kiitlb
x681 b4e hbertit of i.Labit Confiance #Donne:
1,682 WbUofe burance barheneti) your t~i'FneYri; tht,
1683 ao if VOn kept 1)im pgiOntr, to th~e ub
1684 Pour frfeifWkert bo*ubtfull of thie tbing Von laue.
177631685 X~ifmite hc im tbtnct, your piqJjnto ntxber not ftart,
x686 T Wirie by confent you art p~oclaimb our Diing.
1687  Fernbrooke ~b4is; if ybu graunt, Wuere all 1bnto your goob:
x688 sq fimple peoplt mufe you Iteepe him clofe.
1689  John P'our iuo~bo taue fearcijt the rtnter of my tlbougbto,
x690 Zanft blab the counfell of thy 9pahere;tWill.,69-T 3f fame bt true, *; truth bteiW~ongb by thee,



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184

The troublefome Razigne of King iohn

1591

1692 Wenibe in tcvpitring iuljat t1ere ftue ot oones
z693 POtenb t't isi ZlWme, if tle  p efage at all.
1694 1l5eatl) out tlg sift, anb if 3 liue to fee
1695   ov bitination take a true effet,
i696 31e lonour toee aboute all eartl)W men.
1697  Peter  Tol4e hkie bWierein trefe  ooneft 1laue refibence,
16g8  prefetetlr  Rome toe great Metropolis,
x699 WoUere fits toe pope in all tii io0l0 pompt.
1700oo  otue  of to)e toone  ptefent feomt e pouineer,
1701 To Wit, Spaine, Denmarke, Germanie, anb Fraunce,
1702 Mloat beare toe poke of p)oub tommaunbing Rome,
1703  nb fanb in feare to tempt tt)e prelates curfe.
1704  oel)e fmalleft 0poone toat virles about te reft,
1705 3mpatient of toy place 1)e 1bolbs iittl ttem,
1706 Moto figure foogtt) tt)id llanb Albion,
1707 WOo gins to fcoýne tlte o ea anb ýDtate of Rome,
1708 Snb feetes to giun tole -bict of tlte pope:
1709 T  'isi ~lotose tote beauen, anb tti'g J] boo auerttre
o1710 31 figureb in trefe apparitions.
1711  John Wb1i1 tben it feemes toe beauens fmile on be,
r1712  iuiug applaufet fo leauing of to~e pope.
1713 1ut foý toe claunce in our $eribian,
1714 WOO tl)oe? effet no ptiuate groiting ill
1715 To be infliteb on Win toit;Clme*
1716  Peter Tl)e poone0 effedt no mole tian ulWat 3 lai(:
1717 lIut on fome ot)er knotxlebge toat 3laue
1718 I3V my p~efrience, ere atenfion bay
1719 tIaue btouqot tole Eunne buto 1)hi bfuall orteigt,
1720 Of Crotine, Oftate, anb 1oyall bignitie,
1721 1tiou  1)alt be cleane bifpoylb anb bifpofeft.
1722  Jokn falfe rIeamer, peril tAbit) tyto viitctoeb nebeo,
1723 ilillaine thou btounbft me iit t) t) fallacie0:
1724 31f it be true, bye fo toV tibings paice;
1725 Wf falfe, foq fearing me tuitt) baine fuppofe:
1726 tente tuitt) t)e Witc), bells bamneb fecretariet.
1727 iock tim bp fure: fo     m by my fait 3 fiveare,



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186

i86      ~The troublefome Raigne of King John         19

1591

1728 ~rut oý not true, tlje W&iarb fijll rnot liue,
1729 1I3d~op  Tfcenfion bap*aivlobo f iub be raufe lbereof
11730 %ut off tlje raufe aub tlbentlhe effect Iwill bve,
i73.T~ut, tut, mp merici ferue% to maime mv f felfr
X732 TD1) ro~te botblj hue, from tuljence tljefe tlbopne fpp'ng bpt
1   *1 ~1alto mV pomift paftfo l b, betury
'17340#oiune frienbo, faide fatit, tthe bittell got bivtlja~l
173  JI-Tbe blat iOalt byetltbat terrifieo me tljuo.
1736 Pembrooke aub Effex 3 recall my graunt,
~ 173 3ivmilnot buy your fautouro tivtltbmy frare:
1738P.tap murmur not, my tWill 1,0 lab) eougo,
1739   toue you bivell, but if 31 loube you better,
17403~ tuoulb not buy it titi)myb   ifVedontent*
1898S17411                  Enter Hubert.
1742 *2obi nobtu, mx4at neb~re; b3itl)tl tee.
1743 Hubert accoqbinq to your t~igljneo ftricltt commaunb
11744 pofl. Arthurs reye are blinbeb anb ertinct,
1745 7o h n Zibv fo, then b~e may feeletlthe crob~ne, but neuter fie it.
1746 Hubert jj o; fee noý f~ice, fo; of tlhe ertreame paine,
1747 witlin onetIjotuer gaue lbebp tlhe 60loff.
11748 -7ohn MbtUat i.0 oe beab #:1749  Hubert t~vi0 my L~b.1750  John TbeniUitloli     y    ycr~
1751 Effex P.oWt' oy betibe dby foule.
1752  Pembrooke ~Tnb lbeaueno.reutenge tlV yrbea*
1753  Effex Z 1Uat lbaue you bone MyIL~O~b? Wag; eer lbearb
1754 2l beebe of mope inlumane confequencef
11755 p~our foes tatill, curfe, your frienbotWill erie reutenge.
1756 lankinbly rage mope rou~l) tan p- ogolern. tuinbe,
11757 TIo djuip toe beautie of fo fitxeete a ftotuer.
31758 M1U~at ijope in bo foý merrie on a fault,
1759 Mbrljn liinfman bye0ttiidtout impeaclj of caufe,



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187

Io.Why feek'ft thou to poffeffe me with thefe feares?  1921
Why vrgeft thou fo oft yong Arthurs death?       1922
Thy hand hath murdred him: I had a mighty caufe  1923
To wifh him dead, but thou hadft none to kill him.  1924
H.No had (my Lord?)why, did you not prouoke me? 1925



I88

The troublefome Raigwe of King lohn

1760!vo A ou baue Done, fo come to dtere you itit),
2762 iJle guilt flall neuer be taft me in my teeth. Exeunt.
1762  lohn atnDb are you gone?    )e biutell be your guibe:
I7~3 PIoub Nebels as you are to bgaue   me fo:
1764 8D'aucit, bnctiuill, 4echr0 of my Wuill.
1765 pour tongue   giue ebge bnto the fatall knife:
1766  JJbat flall laue paffage ttboulj your traittrouo tbloato.
1767 )l3ut Iutt, bgeatd not buggg ~uoobo to foone ab'oab,
1768 Lreaft time p~euent tie iltue of titj reatl
1769 Arthur is beDrab, J3 there thle toýie grobetr:
1770 )Jut ltl)ile be liube, the Danger Wag; the moe;
I77r  2io  eatI) hatt) free me from a tboufant feares,
1772 1iIut it batb purcaft me ten times ten toufanub foes.
773 Wtit)y all is one, furt) luck flall t)aunt Ijio game,
i774 6O toujome dte biuell o0le0 an open O ame:
1775 Wi life a foe that lete b at my troune,
1776 t2io beatly a frame to puttl my builbing Doone.
1777 Vpy t)ouglto )arpt ftill on quiet by pis enb,
1778 WUo liuing atme b   flotlly at my roome:
I779 13ut to pgeunt that plea txicie uau 3j trotnb,
1780;   ite rbib my fobiect0s fteare me fealtie,
1781 anb in myt confience loube me as tteir liege,
1782 3n olt)ofe befence tiey tvoulb taue pauonb tteir liue0*
1783 1ut nob   ttbey 4un me as a Erpento fing,
1784 aT tragick h  yant t fterne anb pitiler,
1785 2tnb not a title follobi s after lohn.
1786 )13ut )l3utcder, bloubfucker anb murttberer,
1787 WZ  at planet gourmnbe my natiuitie,
1788 To bobe me fouetraigne types of tigl) eftate,
1789 ýb  interlacte Waitb belltg bifcontent,
1790 Wterein fell furie batb no intereft.
1791 Curft be tthe Crotune tciefe autlob of my care,
1792 jP-a  turft  my Will that mabe the Crotnet my tcare:
793  Curft be my birt)bay, turt ten timesi the toombe
1794  Tat yeelbeb me aliue into tt)e Wtogb.
1795 atrt t)ou thtere billaine, furies iaunt thee ifill,
1796 9o killing bim tul)om all thte  ooglo lament%.



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Igo90         The troublefome Raigne of King Jlohn          1591
1933 797 Hubert batlp Itres mp J0o b?our 1igIflnes tbanb   fra1e,
1798 Clarging on lieu tregarb to boo t*)t bebtr.
1934 1799  7ohn   ) Dull conctteipteb prayant Iknoftf tbou not,
i8oo 0 t U1te a Damm b m tbccrable btebe:
8Sor  1)oxDft me a fealc?  1) i billaine, botl our foultes
8so. 802 aue fole tbteir freebome to tlpe tljall of bell,
ao803  nbert thte iarrant of that curfeb ftale,



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lohn. It is the curfe of Kings, to be attended   1926
By flaues, that take their humors for a warrant,   1927
To breake within the bloody houfe of life,         1928
And on the winking of Authoritie                   1929
To vnderftand a Law; to know the meaning           1930
Of dangerous Maiefty, when perchance it frownes    1931
More vpon humor, then aduis'd refpe6t.             1932
Hub.Heere is your hand and Seale for what I did.  1933
loh. Oh, when the laft accompt twixt heauen & earth 1934
Is to be made, then fhall this hand and Seale      1935
Witneffe againft vs to damnation.                  1936
How oft the fight of meanes to do ill deeds,      1937
Make deeds ill done? Had'ft not thou beene by,     1938
A fellow by the hand of Nature mark'd,             1939
Quoted, and fign'd to do a deede of fhame,         1940
This murther had not come into my minde.           1941
But taking note of thy abhorr'd Afpe&t,            1942
Finding thee fit for bloody villanie:              1943
Apt, liable to be employ'd in danger,              1944
I faintly broke with thee of Arthurs death:        1945
And thou, to be endeered to a King,                1946
Made it no confcience to defiroy a Prince.         1947
Hub. My Lord.                                    1948
Ioh.Had'ft thou but fhooke thy head, or made a paufe 1949
When I fpake darkely, what I purpofed:             1950
Or turn'd an eye of doubt vpon my face;            1951
As bid me tell my tale in expreffe words:          1952
Deepe fhame had ftruck me dumbe, made me break off, 1953
And thofe thy feares, might haue wrought feares in me. 1954
But, thou didft vnderftand me by my fignes,        1955
And didft in fignes againe parley with finne,      1956
Yea, without flop, didft let thy heart confent,    1957
And confequently, thy rude hand to a6te            1958



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o1960 1804 Iee Willaine, 'iang tOt Ce fe, anb faV in lell
1805 j5tat 3 am tomming foý a kingbome tbere.,8o6  Hubert af 1LO0b attenb tle l)appie tale 1 tell,
1807 jFo lieaueno 1ealt) fenb eatoan pjachting  ence
1808 08M at inftigates your atignet to befpaire.
80og 9Jf Arthurs beat) be bifmall to be bearb,
18io ll3anbie tle neirue fo rumos of bntrutl:
1969 a81i x  e liue  my VLOP tle ftueeeft  youtOl aliue,
1812 Jn tealdtt, titl) eofIglt, not a ijaire amifte.
1813  D13 iO )art tooke bigoq from tli0 foqxarb banb,
1814 $ahing it eakte to erecute tourctloartge.
1978 x8i  J lohn Wo)at liuer be!te O1en feetre Iope come lot1e agen,
ir16 Clafe Itence b efpatre, toe purueVer foq jell.
1817 t2ye Hubert, tell ttjefe tibingo to my iLo)bD
1818 Mo)at ttlob in paffions fo  Vong Arthurs b eat
1985 ix8ig  etnce Hubert, ifay not till tlou lat1 reuealb
1820  Tole biiftleb netero of Arthurs Iappy lteatlj.
1821 3 goe my felfe, ttie iofulft manaliue
1822 To ftorie out tlis tneb fuppofeb tcrime. Exeunt.

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The deed, which both our tongues held vilde to name.  1959
Out of my fight, and neuer fee me more:            1960
My Nobles leaue me, and my State is braued,        1961
Euen at my gates, with rankes of forraigne powres;  1962
Nay, in the body of this flefhly Land,             1963
This kingdome, this Confine of blood, and breathe  1964
Hoftilitie, and ciuill tumult reignes              1965
Betweene my confcience, and my Cofins death.       1966
Hub. Arme you againft your other enemies:        1967
Ile make a peace betweene your foule, and you.     1968
Yong Arthur is aliue: This hand of mine           1969
Is yet a maiden, and an innocent hand.             1970
Not painted with the Crimfon fpots of blood,       1971
Within this bofome, neuer entred yet               1972
The dreadfull motion of a murderous thought,       1973
And you haue flander'd Nature in my forme,         1974
Which howfoeuer rude exteriorly,                   1975
Is yet the couer of a fayrer minde,                1976
Then to be butcher of an innocent childe.          1977
lohn. Doth Arthur liue? O haft thee to the Peeres,  1978
Throw this report on their incenfad rage,          1979
And make them tame to their obedience.             1980
Forgiue the Comment that my paffion made           1981
Vpon thy feature, for my rage was blinde,          1982
And foule immaginarie eyes of blood                1983
Prefented thee more hideous then thou art.         1984
Oh, anfwer not; but to my Cloffet bring            1985
The angry Lords, with all expedient haft,          1986
I coniure thee but flowly: run more faft.  Exeunt. 1987

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1823      To the Gentimen Readers.
1824      He changelespurpofe of determinde Fate
1825      Giues period to our care, or harts content,
1826      When heauens fxt time for this or that hath end:
1827 Nor can earths pomp orpollicie preuent
1828 The doome ordained in their fecret will.
1829    Gentles we left King Iohn repleate with bliffe
1830 That Arthur liude, whom he fuppofedlaine;
r831 And Hubert posting to returne thofe Lords,
1832 Who deemd him dead, and parted difcontent:
1833 Arthur himfelfe begins our latter ARi,
1834 Our ARt of outrage, despratefurie, death;
1835 Wherein fond rajhnes murdreth first a Prince,
1836 And MVonkh falfnes poyfneth last a King.
1837 First Scene hews Arthurs death in infancie,
1838 And last concludes Iohns fatall tragedie.



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198

198       Thne troub/efome Raig~ne of King John

1839    The fecond piart of       the  troublejome Raigne:1840      of King John, containing the entraunce of Lewes
1841        the French King fonne: with the poyfoning of King
1842       John by a Monke.
1988 x843            Enter yong Arthur on the walls.
1844           OW 4l~epe goob I4ap to further mine entent,
1845           %Zrofte not mp youtl )iutlt4 any mo~reertreamee:
1846           3} benter life to gainle my libertie,
31847          ~Tlnb if 3 Dir, t bo ýlbgtroubleo l4aue an cnb.
1848 Start gin% bifftiabe flie ftrengtl)of my refolue,
31849 a$y Olbo1e Will faifleanb tl~en ala0 I3 fall,
1850  lnb if 3 fall, no queft In  at  tne:
1851 ViJetter befiff, anb iner in p~ifon fti'lL
1996 1852 1P~ion fai'b 31. nay ratl~er breatl4 than fo:+
31853 Comfoge anb courage come agai'ne to me*
1854 31ve benter fure:+ tio but a leapt fo; litfe.
1855      He leapes, and brufing his bones, after he was from:1856        his traunce, fpeakes thus;
1857 x~oe, b40t'lO ini'g? fome bobie take me bp.
x858 W1l~rr i0 my mother 1.let me (peake xtlt  herr,
1859 W1U)O hjrt% me tItn0? (peake l4oe, tulbere are you gone



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Sccena Tertia.
Enter Arthur on the walles.             1988
Ar. The Wall is high, and yet will I leape downe.  1989
Good ground be pittifull, and hurt me not:          1990
There's few or none do know me, if they did,        1991
This Ship-boyes femblance hath difguis'd me quite.  1992
I am afraide, and yet Ile venture it.               1993
If I get downe, and do not breake my limbes,        1994
Ile finde a thoufand fhifts to get away;            1995
As good to dye, and go; as dye, and flay.           1996



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s86o St me poole Arthur, J1 3am Iet) alone,
186Ox Wfl talb 1 motertb, lCoto bib 31 foget f
186a gor fall, mv fall, batb hilbe mv gootbere Oonne,
1863 tOot  taill leW tikpe at tibing  of mv beatl?
1864 goI beatt inbkb, @ 0 ob mv bones are burft.
1865 Oweete 1efu faue mv foule, foggiue mV rafl attempt.
is866 Comfogt m! g9otaer, ft ielb ler from befpaire,,867 Wben ftje p all lbeare mV tragick ouertb;otre,
x868  p beart controulte tle office of my tmong,
1869 3V bitall potueras fofake mV baufeb trunct,
1998 1870 J be b   bD3e, 3 teauen take my fteeting foule,
1871 aub Labp $otber all goob bap to tl)e,. He dyes.
1999 1872  Enter Penbrooke, Sal/burie, Efex.
1873  Effex g% )V LoDb% of Penbroke anb of Salsbury
1874 Wte muff be carefull in our pollicie
1875 TDo bnbermine thle kpers of tlie0 place,
1876 lffe flall tue neuer finb tl)e Ipinces graue,
x877 Penbrooke MV] L0o)b of Effe take no tcare fO that,
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Oh me, my Vnckles fpirit is in thefe fiones,        1997
Heauen take my foule, and England keep my bones. Dies 1998
Enter Pembroke, Salisbury, & Bigot.        1099
Sal, Lords, I will meet him at S. Edmondsbury,    2000
It is our fafetie, and we muft embrace              2001
This gentle offer of the perillous time.            2002
Pem. Who brought that Letter from the Cardinall?  2003
Sal. The Count Meloone, a Noble Lord ofFrance,    2004
Whofe priuate with me of the Dolphines loue,        2005
Is much more generall, then thefe lines import.     2006
Big. To morrow morning let vs meete him then.     2007
Sal. Or rather then fet forward, for 'twill be    2008
Two long dayes iourney (Lords) or ere we meete.     2009
Enter Bajfard.                   2010
BaJl.Once more to day well met, diftemper'd Lords,  2011
The King by me requefts your prefence ftraight.     2012
Sal. The king hath difpoffeft himfelfe of vs,     2013
We will not lyne his thin-beftained cloake          2014



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2025 1879 )l5ut WtD o i0tbt'!i!o oo th de iitijeteb ftoivm
M8o ZiiUo in big;I0 ie O~t'nbe like the a9o~ninqo blufl,
1881 Caft out a bwp benibe lýi0 luriall rigIbt,
1882 3 ppavfoý bivbo aub beafto; to qo~e bpon*
x883 Saisburie @ rtbjfull fpectacle, @ bamneb beebe;
1884 S!MV finneiue0 flahe, mV   erp lbeart bodj blerbe*
1885 Effex tL-aue djilbi114 teare.0 bpaue L~o~bo of England.
1886 3~f 3aterftwo c~ oulb fetdj io i~life againe,
1887 aft  eyes flOpulb eonbluit fmgb~ a fea of teareo,
x888 )3f fobbo bWoulb Ibelpe, oý fogroite ferue tlhe turne,
1889 90Vtbeart ploulb bolie out bieepe pierrdn'  plainto,
1890 1l3ut bootleffe Wiert to bgeat) ao many figIeo
7.8g91 aWmiqbtjitclipfe the bpi'Jiteft  ommerrofunne,
1892 Peere reft t4he Ielpe, a feruire to tjis Iboft.
1893 iL-et not tlhe typant raufer of tljig; bole
1894 tline to triumpi) in ruttbfult maftacreo,
1895 6, iue lanb anb Ijart, aub engliftbmen to arme0,
1896 Ti%!o 600becree to Wpaikealw    of ttbefe arme%,



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With our pure Honors:nor attend the foote            2015
That leaues the print of blood where ere it walkes.  2016
Returne, and tell him fo:we know the worft.          2017
Bafl. What ere you thinke, good words I thinke     2018
were beft.                                    2019
Sal. Our greefes, and not our manners reafon now.  2020
Baf?. But there is little reafon in your greefe.   2021
Therefore 'twere reafon you had manners now.       2022
Pem. Sir, fir, impatience hath his priuiledge.     2023
Baf?. 'Tis true, to hurt his mafter, no mans elfe.  2024
Sal. This is the prifon:What is he lyes heere?   2025
P.Oh death,made proud with pure & princely beuty, 2026
The earth had not a hole to hide this deede.         2027
Sal. Murther, as hating what himfelfe hath done,   2028
Doth lay it open to vrge on reuenge.                 2029
Big. Or when he doom'd this Beautie to a graue,    2030
Found it too precious Princely, for a graue.         2031
Sal. Sir Richard, what thinke you? you haue beheld, 2032
Or haue you read, or heard, or could you thinke?    2033
Or do you almoft thinke, although you fee,           2034
That you do fee? Could thought, without this obieft  2085



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2064 1897 Penbrok  1)e beft abuife:tluc vb4o commes pofting bt)etre.
2065 z898    Enter Hughbert.
899 Utigt noble itotb, 3 Epeake bnto ou all,
2067 zgoo  )e T in intreatets pour fmCrnoft (fpe
90oT WO bitft bim, tlW)o on tour pefent bant,
1902;ib ban anb curt&e I)i birtl, tlimfflfre anl me,
1904S fx cre)cuting of fwn  oariat commaun,
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Forme fuch another? This is the very top,             2036
The heighth, the Creft:or Creft vnto the Creft       2037
Of murthers Armes: This is the bloodieft ihame,       2038
The wildeft Sauagery, the vildeft ftroke              2039
That euer wall-ey'd wrath, or flaring rage            2040
Prefented to the teares of foft remorfe.              2041
Pem. All murthers paft, do ftand excus'd in this:   2042
And this fo fole, and fo vnmatcheable,                2043
Shall giue a holineffe, a puritie,                    2044
To the yet vnbegotten finne of times;                 2045
And proue a deadly blood-fhed, but a ieft,            2046
Exampled by this heynous fpe6acle.                    2047
Baft. It is a damned, and a bloody worke,           2048
The graceleffe a6tion of a heauy hand,                2049
If that it be the worke of any hand.                  2050
Sal. If that it be the worke of any hand?          2051
We had a kinde of light, what would enfue:            2052
It is the fhamefull worke of Huberts hand,            2053
The pra6tice, and the purpofe of the king:            2054
From whofe obedience I forbid my foule,               2055
Kneeling before this ruine of fweete life,            2056
And breathing to his breathleffe Excellence           2057
The Incenfe of a Vow, a holy Vow:                     2058
Neuer to tafte the pleafures of the world,            2059
Neuer to be infested with delight,                    2060
Nor conuerfant with Eafe, and Idleneffe,              2061
Till I haue fet a glory to this hand,                 2062
By giuing it the worfhip of Reuengc.                  2063
Perm. Big. Our foules religioufly confirme thy words. 2064
Enter Hubert.                     2065
Hub. Lords, I am hot with hafte, in feeking you,    2066
Arthur doth liue, the king hath fent for you.         2067



206          The troublefome Raigne of King lohn          1591
1905 tffurte bim of pi              ^ coufna  being faFe,
1go6 Iwtbome pittie ixoulb not let me booA to beati),
1o907  e traue  tour company my Vtobo in t afe,
1908 T  bo lome 3  oill conbuct young Arthur rceiglt,
1909 Wbo i0 in )ealtt ntbeV my cuftobie.
xgxo Effe  2nz nbealttt bafe billaint, tivrt not 3T leaue tby cime
1911 To 4obs;rungte, to Wb4ome trutqne belongo,
S1912terae *toulbft ttou perifl on my Vtapireo point.
191r3 Calft tou ttiso tbaltl ful jtralttl btibe tVy frienmb,
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Sal. Oh he is bold, and blufhes not at death,        2068
Auant thou hatefull villain, get thee gone.  (the Law? 2069
Hu. I am no villaine.                Sal. Muft I rob 2070
Baf?. Your fword is bright fir, put it vp againe.    2071
Sal. Not till I fheath it in a murtherers skin.     2072
Hub. Stand backe Lord Salsbury, fland backe I fay' 2073
By heauen, I thinke my fword's as fharpe as yours.     2074
I would not haue you (Lord) forget your felfe,         2075
Nor tempt the danger of my true defence;               2076
Leaft I, by marking of your rage, forget               2077
your Worth, your Greatneffe, and Nobility.             2078
Big. Out dunghill: dar'ft thou braue a Nobleman?   2079
Hub. Not for my life: But yet I dare defend         2080
My innocent life againft an Emperor.                   2081
Sal. Thou art a Murtherer.                          2082
Hub. Do not proue me fo:                             2083
Yet I am none. Whofe tongue fo ere fpeakes falfe,     2084
Not truely fpeakes: who fpeakes not truly, Lies.      2085
Pem. Cut him to peeces.                              2086
Baf?. Keepe the peace, I fay.                        2087
Sal. Stand by, or I fhall gaul you Faulconbridge.   2088
Baf?. Thou wer't better gaul the diuell Salsbury.    2089
If thou but frowne on me, or ftirre thy foote,         2090
Or teach thy haftie fpleene to do me fhame,           2091
Ile ftrike thee dead. Put vp thy fword betime,         2092
Or Ile fo maule you, and your tofting-Iron,            2093
That you fhall thinke the diuell is come from hell.    2094
Big. What wilt thou do, renowned Faulconbridge?     2095
Second a Villaine, and a Murtherer?                   2096



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1915  Hughbert!Mp ltotbo, but Ieare me fpeake, khil me toen,
2099 xgi6 3  vf teetre  l left not t)is% ton% pince aliue,
1917 f9aure toe   aft ODidi of tI)e rting,
i3r8 MolO gaue me cdarge to put out bot) isi eves,
ii99 maat 0ob tlat gaue me tiuing to ttig boote,
1920 TIounber reuenge ipon me in tli0 place:
1921  lub as 3 tenberb lim   uiti) eameft loue,
1922  o   ob toutne me, anb toren 3 qtall be eWell.
1923 Salof t2ence traVto ý pence tljn countel i lbeerein. Exit Hughb.
1924 ýome in tbio place appoVnteb bV toe Ming
1925 taue tl)ohne   l im from  ttis lobging uere aboue,
1926 Znb fure toie murttiberatI bin netul bone,
1927 jfo Vet toe bobV is not fully colber.
1928  Effez  01V faV you JLoWb, ljall lWe iitl) fpeeb bifpatctb
1929 Ziunber our banbs a packet into Fraunce
1930 To bib t)e tMolplbin enter iitol lisv fogce
1931 To claime to)e  ingbome fo olis p~oper rigqt,
1932O ti' title maketly latfull ftrengtbl tereto.
933 I3effibes toe Ipope, on perill of big; curtte,
1934 JPatly barb be of obebience unto lohn,
935s Stoi  batefull murber, Lewes l i0 true bilcent,
1936 TOs e  boly ctlarge toat boee rectiube from Rome,
1937 are tWeigoltie reafons if you like my reebe,
r1938 1o make bo all perfeuer in tlis beebe.
1939  Pembrooke ay Jtopb of Effie, WDell laue tou abuifoe,
1940 J 13ill acco b to furtrier you in tlio.
1941  Salsbury anb Salsbury tuil not gainfar toe fame.
1942  5ut aib tloat courfe ao far foo0tb a% ie can.
1943  Effex  Tmn eact) of bg fetb ftraiglt to tig lllye0.
1944 To o  inne tl)em to tlbi% famnous enterpgife,
1945 anb let Wo all yclab in Valmers tueebe,
1946  l)oe tentl of tpbil at Daint Edmonds Bury
2947 Meete to confer, anb on toje latar there
1948 'Wieare fecrecie anb aib to tbis abuite.



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Hub. Lord Bigot, I am none.                         2097
Big. Who kill'd this Prince?                        2098
Hnb, 'Tis not an houre fince I left him well:       2099
I honour'd him, I lou'd him, and will weepe           2100
My date of life out, for his fweete lues loffe.       2101
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Sal. Truft not thofe cunning waters of his eyes,  2102
For villanie is not without fuch rheume,            2103
And he, long traded in it, makes it feeme            2104
Like Riuers of remorfe and innocencie.               2105
Away with me, all you whofe foules abhorre           2106
Th'vncleanly fauours of a Slaughter-houfe,           2107
For I am ftifled with this fmell of finne.           2108
Big-. Away, toward Burie, to the Dolphin there.    2109
P.There tel the king, he may inquire vs out.Ex.Lords. 2110
Ba.Here's a good world:knew you of this faire work? 2111
Beyond the infinite and boundleffe reach of mercie,  2112
(If thou didft this deed of death) art f damn'd Hubert.  2113
Hub Do but heare me fir.                           2114
Baft. Ha? Ile tell thee what.                     2115
Thou'rt damn'd as blacke, nay nothing is fo blacke,  2116
Thou art more deepe damn'd then Prince Lucifer:      2117
There is not yet fo vgly a fiend of hell             2118
As thou fhalt be, if thou didft kill this childe.   2119
Hub. Vpon my foule.                                2120
Baft. If thou didft but confent                   2121
To this moft cruell At: do but difpaire,            2122
And if thou want'ft a Cord, the fmalleft thred       2123
That euer Spider twifted from her wombe              2124
Will ferue to ftrangle thee: A rufh will be a beame  2125
To hang thee on. Or wouldft thou drowne thy felfe,   2126
Put but a little water in a fpoone,                  2127
And it fhall be as all the Ocean,                    2128
Enough to flifle fuch a villaine vp.                 2129
I do fufpe6t thee very greeuoufly.                   2130



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1957 Enter King lohn with two or three and the Prophet.
1958 lohn tDifturbeb t)oug)ts, foreboomer- of mine ill,
n959  titfratteb paffions, fgnei of brotiing tarmes,
i960o trange popperieti  of imminent mifbapo,
Irae ConfounDb mv tits, anb Dull m  fenfesr fo,
rI962 Jbtat eutrr oblett d efe mine efe betbolb
1963 Demme intrumentso to bping me to my en.b
1964 Cfenfton bar  i C tome, lohn featre not tjen
1965 SJ)be plobigies tijio patling Popbet tbgeater.



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Hub. If I in a&t, confent, or finne of thought,   2131
Be guiltie of the ftealing that fweete breath       2132
Which was embounded in this beauteous clay,         2133
Let hell want paines enough to torture me:          2134
I left him well.                                    2135
Baft. Go, beare him in thine armes:               2136
I am amaz'd me thinkes, and loofe my way            2137
Among the thornes, and dangers of this world.       2138
How eafie doft thou take all England vp,            2139
From forth this morcell of dead Royaltie?          2140
The life, the right, and truth of all this Realme   2141
Is fled to heauen: and England now is left         2142
To tug and fcamble, and to part by th'teeth         2143
The vn-owed intereft of proud fwelling State:       2144
Now for the bare-pickt bone of Maiefty,             2145
Doth dogged warre briftle his angry creft,          2146
And fnarleth in the gentle eyes of peace:           2147
Now Powers from home, and difcontents at home       2148
Meet in one line: and vaft confufion waites        2149
As doth a Rauen on a ficke-falne beaft,             2150
The iminent decay of wrefted pompe.                 2151
Now happy he, whofe cloake and center can           2152
Hold out this tempeft. Beare away that childe,      2153
And follow me with fpeed: Ile to the King:          2154
A thoufand bufineffes are briefe in hand,           2155
And heauen it felfe doth frowne vpon the Land.      2156
Exit. 2157



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1591

ig66  tio come inbeebe: af) tAere it full paft,
1967 Tbrn biere 3 carele; of a tloufanb fearer,
i968 TIO e rIiall tell0 me, it i0 tbelue at noone.
'1969 Were ttuelue at mibnit1jt paft, then miglt )1 baunt
1970 faIfe feerts p~oplecies of no impogt.
1971 Coulb 3j ae; bell bIitL) tjis rigblt lanb of mine
X972 tRemoue tle tunne from our      eritbian,
'973 Utnto the moonfteb circle of tlantipobes,
1974 a. turne tli0 ffeele from tioelue to tieluer agen,
1975 Zit1en lohn tlje bate of fatall ptopbecis
1976 1Dboulb tuit) t he Popblets life togeter enb.
1977 )B3ut Multa cadunt inter calicem/fiupremaque labre.
1978 Peter, bnfar tbtV foolift) boting beame,
1979 tnb b b  tlje Crotune of England bere 31 flueare,
1980 To make tItee great, anb greateft of tVht kin.
x981  Peter ting lohn, altlough thle time 3 blaue pefcribreb
r1982 1e but ttelue rlourte  remapning vet V belinbe,
1983 -et bo 31 knotb bp infpiration,
1984 Cre that fitt time be fully come about,
1985 Jing lohn fall not be Diing ao beeretofore.
x986  lohk  Iain buýyarb, touat mifctlaunce can ciaunce to fone,
1987 To fet a Ding beftbe  )i regall tfeate:
1988  yif beart is goob, my boby paffing ftrong,
1989p y lanb in peace, my enemies tfubbetob,
1990 0nly my v3arono folme at Arthurs beatl,
1991 Z13ut Arthur liue&, 3 thlere the clallenrge grotevo,
1992 Wiere le bitfpatcbt bnto lis longeft Iome,
r993 TJ4eWn tere tt)he Jing fecure of tloutantb foes..994 Hubert tDIuat neu  tuWith tige, tiberte are mVy 0oDo
1995  Hubert   arb netued my VLopD, Arthur theJ louely ptnce
r996 eeching to efcape ouer the aftcale taller,
1997 f1elt teablong botune, anb in tile turfeb fall
r1998  e blake hisi bones, anb thlere befoe thle gate
1999 pour lMaron0 fountb lim beab, anb bteattleffe quite.
2000  lohn 15 Arthur beab + tien Hubert litijout mope bo00be
2001            bang the pJopbret.



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2002 altap 1X~tI)b Peter, biienz out of mp figTflt,
2003   am Draft, lbt gonetlett im not fptaIht a WXoýb,
2004 ]OW   John, t1V ftarto arte,anit~t into fmoakt,
2005 Arthur i0 Dabtlouguiltlttfft of Iu b'   al
2006 ýbivttt youtlj, but tijat 3 aft'rbu ifoý a.Zroiunt,
2007 3I toulo lbaut LwrlI affoopro to tt'jnr age
2008 tJongld if, anDb Iappinto to tbp conttnt.
2009            Enter the Baftard.
2010  John Phil4p, Inlat nrti  bt't b t tbrl+ lj:2011  Baftard ~4itntiutif 3   ljarbb1xao Peters p~a~tr0,
2012 W2ZiU* bIiflt liket fo~tunr to lbtfall b  all:
2014 JUipt ljim from falling Itablonq to tI~t grounD.
2015  John  TA~rrtitbt i'm Fans, anD blittlhet  auten.0foot',
2016 Z1~Uflt John triumpI) tnin f pitlt of V~opIbttito.
2017 )Sut ~i4ato tMettit'ingofrom t~e poptlingo now+i
2018 MwL14a fap tMt iponkt0 ant' jitfte;to our p~ottt'ingo
2019 Oý ~ubirtr tlto)1L3arono thjat fo fot'ainlp
2020 Etit'D itaut tl Ift Jing bpon a falft furmiftr?
2021  Bastard   ITO  Prtatt0 ftoqmt I tIirft foý ftarpt rrcutg
2023 3 t littlt f1lilt':* a greater tDanger grorooxt,
2024 WtR~idb muff   ebt li t ixi'tout li cartfull fpcet't,
2025 Oý all it o oftfoý all io Itutlt'at.
2026  John  I13ortfrigbtot ant' ftarto, ti$at tret tttioting3 lit,
2027 3 am p~tpart't: torn Philip~ quirldp far,
2028!Meant tlotV to murt'tr, oý imppifon mt,
2029 To giutt mV ttoiunt ab~ap to Romze o; Fraunce;
2030 @O iWilltIt tbe  actof tt~tm btcome a IMuig?
2031 Wo~flt tI~an J3i tteintt tt i, t cannot lit.
2032 -Baftard P- ot b~o~t mymV.topt, but turt'rit1 it kao bat'.
2033  4TbeP Jjobllc  iauctlte  ttt'Lewes Ilings
2034 31u ri'glt of tat'it Blanche your P. ttct, bto i0 Ife:



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2036MbD1P. Motle, ommon~, Clerrgiet all eftateO,
2037 3}nciteo 13 lefe1t 13 tlhe Cardinall,
2038 Pandui~ph tloat lhi0  ere L~egate fog the pope,
2039 lzbiinho long to fleetlbeir neb 1xr elecfte1 ing*
2Q40 aTnb fo* rn1oubteb pgoofe, fiele re mV Liege
2041 LJettero to me from tour p- obilaiti,
2042 TJo be a partie in toioi~ action:
2043 MU)3 bnber PW f jb  ffaineb folineo,
2044 ~TppoIpnt tlbeir meetin!g at S.Edmonds Bury,
2045 XJbjre to confult, con fpire, anb conclu13e
2046 ThJ4e ourrtlgotu anb o Dnfall of tour 9tate.,
2047 J1ohn ZWMW fo it muff be: oneblotuer of content
2048 Mat*d  Wtb1il a montlj of pafflonate effretto
2049 WItV ~Jinero thle!unne to fauour tbio confogt?
2050 MbVIf DO*0 tbe iWin13eonot bgealhe tljew bgayen  ateo,
2051 aZn13 fcatter all tlbefe perturb3 complicefh
2052 Va~t#j all tlheir counfello an13 tlirir 13amne13 btif't-S.
2053 Ibut fee tlhe Welkin tolletlj ~entIp on,
2054 Tbjree! not a loiuging clo~xi1e to frotune on tljem;
2055 TJJAe beauen, thje eartlj, thje funne, thje mwone an1 all
2056 Confpire   xtl'tb tofe confeberateg; mV 13ecap.
2057 Tbfnlbenlle fog me if any poiver be tlbere,
2058?ogfalrtehlat place, an13 qui13e me ftepbV ftep
2059 TDo poyfon, ffrangle, murber in tlbeir ftepco
2060 'TJbefe trafto g ol+jo that name io too goob fog tbm,
206T  1nb Drbeal io eafie:io there notlbifnq tuo fe
2062 To!Wroieake me on tlbio pgoub peace-bgeaking crebi
2063 MUjat faiti tlbou Philip? Wbvj affithf ttjou not,
2064 Bajiard Tlbefe curfe0 (goob myV.Logb) fit not tlje feafon:.
2065 Xelp muff befcenb from lbeauen againfft tli0 treafon?
2066  John P. ay tlbou Wuilt pgooue a traitog liitl thje veil,
2067 45oe get tliee to tljem, itjame come to you all.
2068 Bastard 31 Ixoulb be loatlj to leaue your t~iglneo tbue;,
2069 -Pet you commant3, anb 3 tbou~l) grieub WLill %oe*
2070 John ill Philip tubetljer goefft tbou, come againe. (man*
2071 Baflard $y0V1tog13tlyfe motions are as; pafflong of a ma13



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2072  lohn a mab man Philip, 1 am mab inbeeb,
2073 $V part is magb, mp fenfer all fogebone.
2074 lnb John Of England not ito quite bnDone.
2075 Wao ter Ding asg 31 oppetgf toit tatrero
2076 Ziame Elianor nm  noble eotler utene,
2077 $p onelV Ijope anb comfogt in biftreffe,
2078 3o Mab, anb England e ttommunitate,
2079 ant  1 am interbicteb bV the pope,
208o 11 Curcoes curft, teitr booges are fealeb  p,
o2081  nb fqo the pleafure of tihe Romig) Jieft,
2082 Tole feruire of tie tigteft is neglerteb;
2083 Tioe multitube (a beaft of manp teabs)
2084 rw bwivl confufion to tteitr rourraigne;
2085 Toe j poblet blinbeb tuitb ambition0 fumes,
2086 Xaemble pototrr to beat mine Cmpire botbne,
2087 2lnb moge t an thisi, elert a fogren Ring.
2088 @ England, IWert tou euert miferable,
2089 Diin Jlohn of England fik  tl1) miferable:
2090 lohn, tio tlip finneo tIat mate0 it miferable,
2091 Quicquid delirunt Reges, pleluntur Achiui,
2092 Philip, a0 tlou tbaft ener loube top Uing,
2093 o O fl O it noi3: pot to,.Edmnonds Bury,
2094 mifemble tuitl) tthe jobles, tkno  tloieir bpifts,
2095 Confounb treir biutelil plots, anb bamnb beuitee.
2096 Tblouqb lohn be faultie, Vet let fubierto beare,
2097 We tWill amenb anb right t)e peoples tWongs.
2098 A a9otlber tlougo fe tuere bnnaturall,
2099 3]5 better than tole kinbef ýttpbame it:*
210o Let neuer englitman trut fofraine rule.
2101 Torn PhilZ eiu1 tip fealtie to tt)i riing,
2102 AnD monftga tle jpobles pleab tlou tfo t)e ring.
2zo3  Bastard   got mV 0Lob: fM   o  b)e is bitrauttgt,
2104 Motoit i0 tte curfeb jFfief of Jtaly
2105 tatl) 1)apt tlefe mifdiefesi on thlis l)ap lete Lanb.
1o6 A obu Philip, jabft tIou Tullyes eloquence,
2107!Zlen misltft tlou 1)ope to pleab t)it) goob fuCtreffe, Exit.



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2o08  lon adnb art tlou gont i fuctaffe may follobw tliet
2109 TItu0 l ag tbou ftuxib tjy k inbnt0 to tily iiing.
z2110o  rra, in baft got grert tthe Carbinall,
z2111 Pandulphk  j meane, tt e JLegate tfrom the Iope.
2112 Day that thte Uiing befitr  to fptalte tWitlj )im.
2113P poWt  Yohn betlinke ti)t e )otb tl)ou mait refolue:
2114 anb if tlou toilt continue Englands 1ing,
2115 T ten aft about to leept tbly E iabem;
2116 #oý life anb lant, anb all is letulb at.
2117 l4e pope of Rome, tiO bt that is tl)e cauft,
2118 lta curfettl tt)b, e fet tby fubirdts  free
2119r from    et obtiience to tbleir  outraiqne:
2120 lte animatet tte poblest in thteir tWarrte,
2121 Ie giUegt  aitay the Crtolne to Philtps i one,
2122 atnD partbons all that feete to mnrtler tbet:
2123 ~nt tbusn blintbe yeale is fill p~ebominant.
2124 TI)en John tflbtt t0 no luay to htepe tlV C  roi0ne,
2125 IUt fintely to biffemble  iti) the pope:
2126 Tbat banit that gaut ae te  ounti muft iue tte faie
2127 To cure the bturt, els quite incurable.
2128s  ty finnes are farre too great to be tte man
2x129  'abolifb pope, anto popery from ty Eeralme:
2130 )13ut in ti y ýeate, if 31 may etge at all,
2131 a Ding lall raigne tbat P1all fupprete t lem all.
2132a pstace Yohn, lere comes tlte Legate of tle )pope,
2133 MDifemble tbou, an b WIatforce tion faif,
2134 jfrt W  )ti)b 1)f ttb a  p10  tbeir tconfuffon,
2135                 Enter Pandupli.
2136  Pand. J)oit lohn, inuoptlbie man to byeato on eartlj,
2137!tbat boft oppugne againr tbly V otber C)urc):
2138 Wb y am J] fent foq to tiy curftt felfe
2139  lohn coiou man of obt, aitcegerttt fo0 the Iope,
2140 ET OiOly vMticar of,Peters Zurctl),
2141 Ulpon my knees, 3 parbon craue of tl)ee,



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2142 aTnD boo fubmit me to thje fea of Rome,
2143 aTnb bowu fog penaunce of My lbiqb ioffence,
2r44 To tahe on me thie 1)011? roffe of Cbtj'ftt
2145 aTnD carp armeo in 1)olp Z1pffian ~Warme.
2146  anduph. P. o John, tb)ycroicdtinq anb biteffmbling t1~uo
2147 Cannot beceiue tje L-egate of th)e 1Jopet
2r48 ýDay 1DIat t1)ou Wilt, ]C imll not crebit t1)ee
2149 'TE1Vy rolnne anb JDingbome bottb are tane aiuay,
2150 2Tnb tlbou art curft ivitlout rebemption.
2151 John alCCUrft inbfteb to k1neele to fUClj a Dgubgtt
2152 atnb get no ljelp IlitI)tb ty fubmiffion,
2153 1J2n1Ijatlb tlj ftogbt anb fiey th)e mi'fpgowb b Ijift
2154 TZiat t1)uo triumpbyo oge t1)ie a mi'g1ty Ding +
2155 P. 0 John fubmtit againe biffemble vet,
2156 fog   Jgieft0 ant) Women muff be ftattereb.
2157 -Pet 1oly fatbjer tlbou tijy felfe Doff hno*W
2158 P. o time to late fog finnero to repent,
2159 albfolue me tijen, anb John botlb ftueare to DO~
2160 TY$1je ttermoff Iuljat euer t1)ou bemaunbif.
2161 Pandui~ph John, noIu )j fee tijy larty penitence,
2162 3j rebx3 anb pitty t1)y biftreft effate,
2163 One iuay io left to reconcile t1)y felfe,
2164 ~tnb only one iulbiclb 3  ft~all fljetuto tlree
2165 T!IAou muff furrenber to th)e fea, of Rome
2x66 TbV y  rotune aub Miabemetljien fljIalt te 1j0ope
2167 Mefenb t1)ee from tb~inuafton of tlby froe0
2168 aZnb Wbjere ljio bolinfeltblatl tkinbleb Fraunce,
2169 Ztnb fet t1)y fubiect0 lbeart0 at bWarre Ixuti) tijee,
2170 Tbnftju fall Ibe curife t1)y foes, anb beate tlrem bobnne,
2171 T4bat freee th)e bifcontentment of th)e iiinq.
2172 John #rom bab) to bxoogfe og 3 muff ltwfemy realmr,
2173 @g giue MyVZCrobine fog pennance unto Romef
2174 a miferie moge ptercing thjan th)e barto
2175 Th)at bgeahe from burning er1)alationo poiuer.
2176 wtUat * 0alt 3] giue my Zro~ne t ivt1)tl i0 riltgbl anb:+
2177 P po:++xivt1)tb tit'!anb befenb t1)y robvne anb tlbee.



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2179       Enter Meffenger.
21180 pJleafe it tour MIaieffie, tbere ito bfcrierb on tl~e Zoaft of
2181   Kent an ljUnob e      avle of 0Ijipo, iuljjtd  of all Mtn io
2182   ttbougblt to be tIhe JfencijS#lete, bnbrth le tonucJtt of tlje
2183 Mrolplbin, fo tljat it puts thje Zuntrie 'in a mutinie, fo tbjer
2184 fenb to Vour!3race foý fuccour.
2185 K.JIohn t~oiv nobli to ýb.arbinall, Wb~ato your beft abuife,
2186 TErbeft mutinie%; mugf be allayb In timec
2187 )132 polli'cy oý ljabfrong rage at leaft.
2188 0 Jo/zn, tijefe troubleo qptybe ljjaryeb foule,
2189 3~nb lilke to Luna in a fab e-clipfet
2190 00 are tljy tbouqljto anb paffiono fo ttlji0 nebxie5*
2191 WiItelt may it be Wbm L Jingo are griturb fo,
2192 Tflrje  ulgar fogt io&ke 1J'nceg;ouvrtlobpW,
2193 Cardinalli Ji. John, foq not effecting of tijy pliqIjtrb b.obi.
2194 j1I1ig fOrange annoyance lbappeno to tijy lanb:+
2195 )i5ut yet bet reconcilb unto tlje ljurtlj,
2196 A'nb notljinq iPall be grituoute to tijy ftate.
2197 John On Pandui~ph be it ao; tion Ijaff bectreeb,
2198 John Wuill not fpurne againif t ti founb abuife,
2199 Come let% a~xay, anb tuitbtbVt y jilpe J3 trobW
2200 aft 1Uealme Ptall floqipljanb my Zro~xne tin peame
2201   Enter the Nobles, Penbrooke, Eff'ex, Chejier, Bewchampe,
2202    C/are, with others.
2203  Penbrooke J~OW3fb~eet S.Edmond boly 9.0a'ntinIeu,
2204 W11Iofe Obpine io; facreb, ljiqlj eilemb on eartlj,
2205 Jinfufe a conftant yeale in all our tjearto
2206 TDo ppofecute tbtji0 act of miclile iuaiqljt,
2207 ito~b Bewehampe fay, fb~jat frienbg ljaue you P~ocurbe,
2208 Bewchamp. Tor eIL.,Fitz Water, Lt. Percy, anb ILt. Roffec,
2209 MiIWb bMetitng Ijeere tbjiobay tihe leuetlj Ioure.
2210 Effex UDnber tihe cloke of Ijolie pilgrimage,
2211 %3vy tiat fame Ijoure on Wiarrant of tijeir faitlb,



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2212 Phil)ol Plantagenet, a bitb  of fiftet toing,
2213 togo Eufjace, Vefcy, tLOb Creffy, anb Lob Mowbrey,
2214 ~ppolfttb meetinq at SEdmonds          Iginte,
2215  Pembroke     Jnttill tbteir ptfence ie conctalt mv tate,
22166 ý tutete complict0 in boli t Ciftiian acts,
2217  J1t)at benturt fo  ttt purcbaft of tenotbne,
2218 /TIict  Welcomnte to thie league of Iist) refolue,
2219 T!bat paiunt tteir bobiet fo   trtbit foute rtegarb.
2220  Effex  P-ZoU lantet) but the retf to enb tIie itookt,
2221 3n Iilgrimsn     abit commes our tbolie troupe
2222 A furl0ong Itnce   uitt fbiift binbonttteb pact,
2223 $aaV be tbe   are tthe perfon  you trfptct.             (taOle,
2224  Pembroke Wiith tbftift bn~uonttb gate,t fi e   biat a ttin t io
2225 'tlat fpurro them on Iuittl) feruence to tIie  ttitgne,
2226 JPotU joy come to thetm fo tieir true intent
2227 tnb in goob time bette tome the tt wlarmen all
2228 MoIat fiutate in bobp by ttoe minbs bifafte
2229 tyap anb iartstaft btaut qltoing     be your lot.
2230     Enter the Baftard Phillip. &c.
2231 almen my V.Loo s, t)e like betibe your luckt,
2232 aZnb all that trauaile in a Cbtiffian cauft.
2233  Effe%  Clterrly replieb btaut b~aunct) of kingly fock,
2234 3 riblt Plantaginet joulb rtafon fo.
2235 %But filencte iLo)b, attenb our commingo cauft,
2236  to)t feruilt yoke that paynet beo titi) toyle,
2237 On   trong inftinct Iatl) framb tlii conuenticktt,
2238 Teo raft our nechk  of feruitubet contempt.
2239 ýAboulb   1 not name t)e fonman of our rteft,
2240 Witicl of you all fo barraine in conceipt,
2241 ao cannot Imuell at tti man J meant +
2242 1)3ut leaft Enigma        00 a; aoa x fxpinign trutt
2243 IJlaintly to paint ao trutl) requitrr  no artet.
2244 Ctoeffect of tbio rtfo t ipotttf)   toi0,
2245 To roott anb cleant trtirpate tirant lohn,
2246 Tfirant 31 fay, appealing to toe man,
2247 J1f any tjtrt tl)at lout0 1 im, anb t1 a3kt



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2248 Zbat18 lunbfip, lenitiie, oý C)0ifian traigne
2249 Uiiue8 in tC)e man, to barre tl)is foule impeact).
2250 J    3st 1 J inferre tl)e Chejers bannifment:
2251 fog reptelenbing Iim in moft bdncbiftian crimes,
2252 Mae;I fpeciall notice of a t pant; tWill.
2253 )Lut Were tliis all, tlte beuill tl)oulI be faub,
2254 lUt tlig tblCje leaft of manp tloUtanb fauilt,
2255 Tlatt circumftance titl) leifure migit bitplap.
2256 OUtr piuate tIxoug, no parcell of mV tale
2257 WtUict) notu in petence, but fog fome great caute
2258 $iglyt Dia) to limn as to a nmogtall fore,
2259 I3ut tall 3JI dlofte tie periob tiitl an acte
2260 ablbogring in tte earte  of CZgiftian men,
2261 t2io cofm    D breat, that ftert nqguilt' tthilot,
2262 Mantimelt butcterb bp tie ttpgants  meane0,
2263 Jerre is mn  poofer as cleere a e;grauell bgooie,
2264  Znb on tlhe fame 3 furtfer muff inferre,
2265  rIbat tb)o bplbolt  a tpVant in lis5 courte,
2266 J3o culpable of all bis damneb guilt.
2267 To   ElObW the i11)it), i0 pet to be beftcribb,
2268 af t. ogb of Penbrooke ljrEi tutat is belinbe,
2269 Onlp    fa3ta tlat ttere ttere notbing elte
2270 TJo moue be but thie popes moft      eabfull curfte,
2271 Wibtereof Woe are affureb if te faple,
2272 Jt tere inouglb to infigate bo all
2273 WIitd earnefOnete of tfpit to teeltte a meant
2274  O  biftpolteffe lohn of l)i0 regiment.
2275  Penbrooke PWell latlj mip   aLm   of Effex tOle lbi% tale,
2276 WUid) 31 auer fo; moft fubtantiall trutb,
2277 Anb moge to make t)e matter to our minbe,
2278 31 fa  that Lewes in claletne of lis tuife,
2279 latlb title of an  tcontrouleb plea
2280 To all thlat longetlb to our  nglif lCrotxne.
s2281 o)ogt tale to make, tte ea apofolick
2282 X1atb offerb bifpenfation fog te)e fault,
2283 3f anp be, as truft me none 31 knot



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2284 j5Vplant' q Lewes ip     Ie~~fupr       w   e
228,5s   o JIto c~tot~ caufe of all our pefence tetre,
2286 TIJ4at on toje loolie atltar UWe p~oteff
2287 TJo arbe tloe rigljt of Lewes Luiti) qwbo anb life,
2288M~ Zi1Uon01our hflotlebgr to UT Artreo foqEngland.
2289 mo~flat fav Vi~u tJ.o~bo
2290 Saisburie,aTI Pembrooke Cartl), affirmed) Saisburie:
2291 #aire Lewes of Fraunce tlat fpoufeib]Labp Blanch,
2292 t1~atl) title of an Uncontrouleri frengstl
2293 TIo England, anb itoat longeto to toe Zroune:
2294 3jn riql~t iul~reof, ao 1xe are true infoqmb,
2295 To4e   Jpince io marcomjinoftoitjriuarb in  trmeo.
2296 Our purpofe to conclulie tl.oat tuiti) a wwotJ
2297 31o to inueft ljim ao bWe may beuife,
2298 UIiinq of our ltountrey in toje ty~anto greab:
2299 aTnb Co toe LWarrant ou toe 5atltar ftqone,
2300 Anb rCo toe intent foý ivlicl) We lfidrercame.
2301  Baftard. aftLo~     of Salsbury, 31 cannot couch
2302!My fpeecl~oroiiti) doe ninfull iuopIo of arte,
2303 AJo btiot brefeme in fuclj a tuaigljtie tuohke
2304 %BIut iioat my confcience anti MyVtutie tWill
2305 3J purpofe to impart.
2306 f1oý Chejiers erile, blame lOiO bufie LWit,
2307 Tloat metileti tulre loio tutie quite fo~babre
2308 #oý any p~iuate caufe0 tloat younl0aue,
2309 Me tloinlte tljey fljulti not mount to Cucb a ljeigot,
2310 30 to tiepofe a Lin  in toeir reuenge.
2311 JSoý Arthurs tieatl Ding John tuao innocent,
2312 Pi eftiefprat biao tloe tieatlffman to loimfelfe,
2313 Zi~toit) ou to maike a colour to your crime iniuffly Do impute
23114 1lIut bWiere fell traytopifme latl) refitience,  (to 0io tDefault,
23115 Torere iuanto no Wxoqto to fet bdepiglot on ~uo&*e
23x6 )3 fayti0 %ljame, anti otuopt all rep~owfe,
2317 TEo kieff Cud) pettie tu~ongo in tearmeo of ritlot,
233r8 AgIainff a Di~ng annoynteti by tloe t~
2319 MiOlV Salsburie atimit toe Wilo11g0 are true,



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234     ~The troub/efome Raigne of King John          19

1591

2320 ptt fubirto map not take in ljanb reuenge,
2321 alnb rob tlje Ibraueno of tijeir p~oper poiver,
2322 MIUere fittedt lbe to iWlOmc reuenge belongo.
2323 aTnD boti) a pope, a l1gieff, a man of pgibr
2324 Ot'ut Cljartero foq tle liue0 of lakifull Li~ngo
2325 W1tlat can Ibe bleffe, oq ~ulioregarbo bio rurife,
2326 Viut furl) ao giur to man, anb takes from 00b.
2327 3} (peake it in th~e figbt of Oo about,
2328 Tb4ere0; not a man thjat bpro in pour beliefe,
2329 )B~ut frig lbio foule perpetuallp to papne.
2330 aZt4 Lewes, Ieaue 03bkill John, pleafe Ijell
2331 $ake ljauock of t~e ~ivelfare of pour foulco,
2332 foý l)mrr 31 leauc pou in th~e figlbt of ljeauen,
2333 aJ troupe of traptop foobe foý lbdlift feenbo;
2334 I1ff ou befifft, tljje follotu me ao; frienbo,
2335 I]1f not, tlben w pour iuoff ao lbatefult traptqo,.
2336 fqo Lewes lbi* riqljt alas; tio to to lame,
2337 2tI fenfeleffe clapme, if truti) be titles frienb.
2338 3~n b~iefe, if tlbi0 be caufe of our refogt,
2339 Our pilgrimage iv to tlhe Meuilo     Dlnin.
2340 r ame not tJo~bo to troup ao trapto~s;bcD,
2341 W1z~~ill 31 rounfaile in fo bab a caufe:*
2342 Pleafe pou returne, tuee go againe ae; frienbo,
2343 3jf not, J3 to mp JDing, anb Vou tulere trapto pletafe. Exit.
2344  Percy a1 lote poung man, ano fo mpViJ.o~bo p~oceeb,
2345 3J let lbim qo, anb better lofft tlen founb.
2346 Penbrooke ~blat fap pou Lopiu ill all th~e reft p~oreeb,
2347 WiLiill pou all bivtl) me fAware bpon th~e Julter
2348 T1Ilat pou Wtui to th~e beatl) be apb to Lewes, I enemp to John?
2349 e-uerp man lap lbio bl)b bp- mine, in itiitne0 of btio larto acco~b,
2350 WIlell tbjen, euerp man to 2Ztrme0 to meete th~e 1iing
23511 Wilo i4 atreabie befoge London.
2352       Meffenger Enter.

2353  Penbrooke w1~lat newero p~arrolb.



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236

The troublefome Razigne of King lohn

1691

2354 tre riqlt t1 iftian pince mv    Saifter, Lewes of Fraunce, is
2355   at banb, comming to bizft your   onop, birecteb betler by
2356   thle rigbt blono~able Richard Carle of Bzgot, to conferre
2357s  titt) yOur   onoqo.
2358  Penbrooke tIotW nere is 1io    Iigbineffe,
2359 Meffenger Uteaby to enter your pefence.
2360      Enter Lewes, Earle Bigot, with his troupe.
2361  Lewes faire tLopb    of England, Lewes falutee you all
2362 3; frientb, anb flrme txelthillers of bi0 bteale,
2363 at tulofe requeft from plenty ffobing   Fraunce
2364 Croffing the Otean btiitl a ) outierm  gale,
2365 te is in perfon come at your commaunbo
2366 To knbertake anb gratifle tit)all
2367 T)e fulneffe of your fauour0; poffrteb  im.
2368 1l3ut toolbEs bgaue  men, omitting pgomifet,
2369 Till time be minifter of moge amenso,
2370 31 muf acquaint you biitl) our fogtuneo courfe.
2371 Tah e Ieauueno bbeini  fauouro on my beab,
2372 taue in tleir conburt fafe tuitl bictotie,
2373 1lE3ouqbt.me along your b ell manureb bounbo,
2374 MI 1itt  fmal repulfe, anb little croffe of ciaunce.
2375 pour Citie JNottcefter iit  great applaufe
2376 13y fome benine inftinct latb armeso afibe:
2377 Anb from   the ljollotu loles of Tljamefio
2378 ecclo apace replibe Viue la roy.
2379 from tuence, along the Lanton rtolling glabe
2380 T!o Troynouant your fagre Metropolis,
2381 MIWith luch came Lewes to fl)etb  lio trouper of Fraunce,
2382 lWauing our Onftignet btit) t1ie ballying toiinbe0,
2383  tle fearefull obiect of fell frobtning tbarre;
2384 Wbiere after fome afftault, anb fmall befence,
2385  eaureno maiy J] far, anb not my tWarlike troupe,
2386   Xemperb tteir learts to take a frienbly foe
2387 W1itlin the compaffe of etieir ljigh built tualler,



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238

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1591

2388  3euitn  me title as it feemb tle" twilf.
2389s lI)U  fogtunte (Logb) arts to your fogtuarbnes
2390 ateane0 of content in liteu of fo0mer griefe:
2391 anb may    1 lihue but to requite you all,
2392 Wogb0o toi     uere mine in bin g noteb tours.
2393  Salisbury WZelcome t)e balme that clofet bop our tounbe,
2394 El)e fouetraigne mebcine fog our quick recure,
2395 ltbe anctio of our lope, the onely pgop,
2396 WZbereton bepenbo our liues, our lante, our tueale,
2397 W1itlout the ijiclj, as  eepe btitlout tleir bearb,
2398 (E-rcept a Oleptearb tWinking at the tuolfe)
2399 W2e ffray, te pine, hte run to tloufanb lamrme.
2400 j-o meruaile tben tlougt itt bnwtonteb0 io.
2401 W100e tWelcome lim tt at )eatetWl)  oooe0 atay.
2402  Lewes    )TDanhk to you all of t)io religiouO league,
240o3 aj Oly knot Of Catlolique confent.
2404  1c cannot name you togings, man by man,
2405 I3ut likre a ffraner bnaicquainteb yet,
2406 Jn generall J3 pomife faittfull loue:
2407 LOgb Bzgot, bgougbt me to E.Edmonds ýDjinte,
2408 Oiuing me tuarrant of a Cbgiffiian oatt,
2409 Tlbat tbis aftembly came beuoteb l eere,
24o10  o ftueare actcobinO alg  your packets ffot0b,
2411 XOmtage an  10oyal fetitce  to ourt felfe,
2412 3 nkbre not boubt tthe furetie of your tuillt;
2413 tince tWell 1 knot     fog many of your fake0
2414 T1be tottune lbatue  reelbe on tieir otone accogb:
2415 Pet fog a faflion, not fog mifbeliefe,
2416 )9y eyes mu ffrt itneo, anb tiefCe eare; muff ieatre
2417 pourt oati bpon tie tIoly V ltar floone,
2418 tnb aftert marci) to enb outr comming   catufe.
2419  Sal' -  t t tue intenb no oter tt)len goob truth,
2420 all tthat are pgefent of tlio lboly vLeaue,
2421 fog confirmation of our better truff,
2422 ]tn pefence of b)i0 tigtt neo fteare tuitl me,
2423 Tore fequel that my felfe ffal btter leere,



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240

240      The troublefome Raigne of King John

24,24 31 Thomas Plantaginet Carle of Salisbury, liueare b~pon to~e
2425  Ttltar, anIb bVtloe IOolp?rmt'eof Daint-Otlomage anD alleag.
2426 ante to tote ri~lot Itoliftian }Pince Lewes of Fraunce, aO true
2427 anb riglotfull Ifting to England, Cornwallanb Wales, I to tijeir
2428 Tgerritogie0, in tole befence Wloereof ]C 3ppon tljtelOly Altare
2429 ftueare all foquarbneo.      All the Eng. Lords fweare,
2430     ao to le noble Carle tjatlji Oo~ne, fo fiveare Wue all*
2431 Lewes 3 reff affureb on your l0oly oatoi,
2432 au~b on tl~i0 attar 'in like fogt 31 f~neare
2433 iLout to you all, anb IJ~intely recompence
2434 Tfo querbon your cob Wiillo but*totte full,
2435 2Znb finte Ji am at tlbio relig~iouo; ýloine,
2436 ~ 9y  oob iuildxillero, qiue boleaue aotx"Ile
2437 TYo WTefome oqifono our feluets apart
2438 sIio all th~e joly companie of ljiauent
2439 ~ TAat tljey Will fminie upon our purpofe0,
2440 /Znb bginq tloem to a fo~tunate tuent.
2441  Salsbury   WIe leaue your t~go     to ty our goob intent*
2442                                Exeunt Lords of England.
2443  Lewes Jf oWx MJicount Meloun, juiat remaineo beljinbe?
2444 T13ruft me tloefe traitog; to tijeir fouereigne ýDtate
2445 A~Tre not to be belkube in any fog*.
2446 Meloun 3inbieb my Lo tltey ttoat infringe tojeir oatlji,
2447 AZnt' play th~e rebello; gainfftotjjir natiue iUin~,
2448 WIlill foq ao little caufe reuolt from you,
2449 )lf euer oppogtunitie incite tIoem fo:+
2450 #Oq once tbfoWfiýne, anb netter after founb,
24511 UIorre0 no affiance after periurie.
2452  Lewes W1ell Meloun W~ell, lets; fmootto 1iitotorijm atijoile,
2453 tilnt'Ile beljaue afmuct ao tloey tan boo:
2454 3Tnb b31)entojir 3ertue io erijaleb birie
2455 31l ljang tloem foý to~e querOn. of ttoeir tjilp,
2456 ~ 9eane Ix'lilbeWe'l bfe tloem ag; a pgeciouo poyfon
2457 To bnbertake tote iffue of our ljope.
2458  Fr. Lord ~j~io policie (myVitopb) to bait our olt)o~Ie
2459 Z1~tltb merry fmile0, anb p~omift of mutto baigljt:+



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242

242      ~The troubleforne Raigne of King John         19

1591

2460 )lBut biljen tour titlbneo neebetlj thjemino MOM
2461 TDio goob make Cure kio~k lxaitlj tlbm, leaft in'ieeIbe
2462 TE1rv p~ooue to yOU ao to tbeir naturall Diing.,
2463  Me/un TJruft me my Lop ib VTIt Uwell aue you abuifbe
2464 ZJ3enme fbý Wf, but neuer foq   a fpogt
2465 319; to be DAM) e b 1utl leaft it ifedt.
2466 W1ere you inffalb, a0 foone 31 jope you fblaU
2467 1I3c free from traitop0, an bibtfpatclb tlem all.
2468  L ewes ~b~at fo 1 meane, 3 f~uare befoge you all
246 On tlbio;fame attar, an by l beaueno poiuer,
2470 T4ereo not an Cnglig1j traytoý of tijim all,
247:1 John once Dtifpatcljt, anb j3 faire Englands Dig
'2472 ýDbll Uon lbio; floulbero beare lbio leab one nay,
2473 )B~ut ]CLillcrop it foq tleir guiltio Wert:+
244joý fbljaUtleir lýeireo enioy tbeirttiqnqtie9;,
245 ut peri'fljby tbeir parents; fotule amilte+,2476 Tbi0 ljaue 31 fblnoneanb tl~ioLWillt 3 perfo~me,
-2477 3jf ere 31 come ibnto the heiqlbt ] hope.
'2478 JLay Do~une your ljanbo, anb fiueare the fame ~vi'tl mee.
2479        The French Lords fweare..2480 bft Z1Uyfo, nb Call tbem 'inallb fpeake them faire,,48 flfinite of France W'11 feeb an C-nqlifl) foote.,2482 )lieare them in banb ao frienbo, foý Co tbey be:*
-2483 )l3ut in the bart lik'e trayto~e;ae; tbey are.
'2484           Enter the Englith Lords,
2485 p1 otu famous follotuer0, cljieftaineo of the tuo~lbt
2486 t~yauetuWe folticiteb Wtuih atepae
2487 Tbe heauen in, fauour of our biqb attempt,
2488 iLeaue tue tbig; place, anb marchtue btuith our potuer
-2489 Tflo rotufe the Ty~ant from bio chiefeft hoib:+
2490 A uh ~en our labouro haue a p~ofp~ouo enb,
2491 aChb man fljall, reape the finite of bio befert.
2492 Ztnb Co refolube, bWaue follotuero let be; hence,



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244

The troublefome Raigne of King lokhn

2158 2493     Enter K.Iohn, Bastard, Pandu(lph, and a many priefts
2494       with them.
2495 SToug lohn tlou art abfolube from all ttV finneo,
2496 tnb freeb bV opber from our fatter0 curfe.
21612497 1eeliue ttV Zrob3ne agaire, i itl) tti  0 ptouifo,
2498    aCt ljou remaine truet liegeman to t)e pope,
2499 Anb carr  armte int riglt of 0ol1 Rome.
2500  lokhn ] oolbe tfe fame as tenaunt to toe pope,
2501 1nb toanhe tour    oline0 fo  tour kinbner  lotoirne.
5so2  PhilZ pa ppoper ieft, Woen lrinWgo muff ffop to #riers,
2503 JP-eebe  atn) no latW, otrn frierz muff be kiinq.



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Aelus Quartus, Scana prima.
Enter King lohn and Pandolpk, attendants.   2158
K.Iohn. Thus haue I yeelded vp into your hand    2159
The Circle of my glory.                            2160
Pan. Take againe                                 2161
From this my hand, as holding of the Pope          2162
Your Soueraigne greatneffe and authoritie.         2163
lohn. Now keep your holy word, go meet the French, 2164
And from his holineffe vfe all your power          2165
To flop their marches 'fore we are enflam'd:       2166
Our difcontented Counties doe reuolt:              2167
Our people quarrell with obedience,                2168
Swearing Allegiance, and the loue of foule         2169
To ftranger-bloud, to forren Royalty;              2170
This inundation of miftempred humor,               2171
Refts by you onely to be qualified.                2172
Then paufe not:for the prefent time's fo ficke,    2173
That prefent medcine muft be miniftred,            2174
Or ouerthrow incureable enfues.                    2175
Pand. It was my breath that blew this Tempeft vp,  2176
Vpon your flubborne vfage of the Pope:             2177
But fince you are a gentle conuertite,             2178
My tongue ihall hufh againe this florme of warre,  2179
And make faire weather in your bluftring land:     2180
On this Afcention day, remember well,              2181



246
2189 2504
2192 2505
2506
2507
2508
2509
2190 25o10

The troublefome Raigne of King rohn           1
Enter a Meffenger.
Meff. pleafe it Vour i9aiefir, t Ie 1JPinc of Fraunce,
WIittI all tlOe jFPoble of ouvr Oract oLanb,
Art martding bettertIarb in gpob ara.
Wler tre ttre1t2 fet tleir foott, all place0 1 lb:
TIyb  Lanb i0 tleitr, anb not a foott lolo  out
%But Douer Caftle, btoicl is tarb beffegb.



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247

Vpon your oath of feruice to the Pope,             2182
Goe I to make the French lay downe their Armes. Exit. 2183
lohn. Is this Afcenfion day? did not the Prophet  2184
Say, that before Afcenfion day at noone,           2185
My Crowne I fhould giue off? euen fo I haue:       2186
I did fuppofe it fhould be on conftraint,          2187
But (heau'n be thank'd) it is but voluntary.       2188
Enter Bajfard.                  2189
Baft. All Kent hath yeelded:nothing there holds out 2190
But Douer Caftle: London hath receiu'd             2191
Like a kinde Hoft, the Dolphin and his powers.     2192
Your Nobles will not heare you, but are gone       2193
To offer feruice to your enemy:                    2194
And wilde amazement hurries vp and downe           2195
The little number of your doubtfull friends.       2196
lohn. Would not my Lords returne to me againe    2197
After they heard yong Arthur was aliue?            2198
Bast. They found him dead, and caft into the ftreets, 2199
An empty Casket, where the Iewell of life          2200
By fome damn'd hand was rob'd, and tane away.      2201
lohn. That villaine Hubert told me he did liue.  2202
Baft. So on my foule he did, for ought he knew:  2203
But wherefore doe you droope? why looke you fad?  2204
Be great in a&t, as you haue beene in thought:     2205
Let not the world fee feare and fad diffruft       2206
Gouerne the motion of a kinglye eye:               2207
Be ftirringas the time, be fire with fire,         2208
Threaten the threatner, and out-face the brow      2209
Of bragging horror: So fhall inferior eyes         2210
That borrow their behauiours from the great,       2211
Grow great by your example, and put on             2212
The dauntleffe fpirit of refolution.               2213
Away, and glifter like the god of warre            2214
When he intendeth to become the field:             2215



248

Th e troub/efome Raigne of King Iohn

1591

251  Paduph #gare not Jfting John, tljipkinomr tp pes,~
2513 To brate tutin foone from tDIocce orie Iatl) to boo.#



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249

Shew boldneffe and afpiring confidence:             2216
What, fhall they feeke the Lion in his denne,        2217
And fright him there?and make him tremble there?   2218
Oh let it not be faid: forrage, and runne           2219
To meet difpleafure farther from the dores,         2220
And grapple with him ere he come fo nye.             2221
lohn. The Legat of the Pope hath beene with mee,  2222
And I haue made a happy peace with him,             2223
And he hath promis'd to difmiffe the Powers         2224
Led by the Dolphin.                                 2225
Bafl. Oh inglorious league:                       2226
Shall we vpon the footing of our land,              2227
Send fayre-play-orders, and make comprimife,        2228
Infinuation, parley, and bafe truce                 2229
To Armes Inuafiue? Shall a beardleffe boy,         2230
A cockred-filken wanton braue our fields,           2231
And flefh his fpirit in a warre-like foyle,         2232
Mocking the ayre with colours idlely fpred,         2233
And finde no checke? Let vs my Liege to Armes:     2234
Perchance the Cardinall cannot make your peace;     2235
Or if he doe, let it at leaft be faid               2236
They faw we had a purpofe of defence.               2237
lohn. Haue thou the ordering of this prefent time.  2238
Baft. Away then with good courage: yet I know    2239
Our Partie may well meet a prowder foe.     Exeunt. 2240



250          The troublefome Raigne of King lohn             1591
2241 2514       Drums and Trumpets. Enter Lewes, Melun, Salis2515          bury, Effex, Pembrooke, and all the Nobles from
2516          Fraunce, and England.
2517  Lewes Pandulph, ag gau tisg r;olined in tdarge,
251S E0 toatt) ttje Dolpkin muftreb tp 1is troupt~
2519 ianb toonne the greateft part of all tis;Lanb.
2520 )1ut ill becomr~ tour Orace itoýb Carbinall,
2521 TIb)U   to conuerfe Wtittl Iohn that is accurtt.



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251

Sceana Secunda.
Enter (in Armes) Dolphin, Salisbury, Meloone, Pem- 2241
broke, Bigot, Souldiers.                          2242
Dol. My Lord Melloone, let this be coppied out,   2243
And keepe it fafe for our remembrance:              2244
Returne the prefident to thefe Lords againe,        2245
That hauing our faire order written downe,          2246
Both they and we, perufing ore thefe notes          2247
May know wherefore we tooke the Sacrament,          2248
And keepe our faithes firme and inuiolable.         2249
Sal. Vpon our fides it neuer fhall be broken.     2250
And Noble Dolphin, albeit we fweare                 2251
A voluntary zeale, and an vn-urg'd Faith            2252
To your proceedings:yet beleeue me Prince,          2253
I am not glad that fuch a fore of Time              2254
Should feeke a plafter by contemn'd reuolt,         2255
And heale the inueterate Canker of one wound,       2256
By making many: Oh it grieues my foule,             2257
That I muft draw this mettle from my fide           2258
To be a widdow-maker: oh, and there                2259
Where honourable refcue, and defence                2260
Cries out vpon the name of Salisbury.               2261
But fuch is the infe6tion of the time,              2262
That for the health and Phyficke of our right,      2263
We cannot deale but with the very hand              2264
Of fterne Iniuftice, and confufed wrong:            2265



252          The troublefome Raigne of King  okhn       1591



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And is't not pitty, (oh my grieued friends)         2266
That we, the fonnes and children of this Ifle,      2267
Was borne to fee fo fad an houre as this,           2268
Wherein we ftep after a ftranger, march             2269
Vpon her gentle bofom, and fill vp                  2270
Her Enemies rankes? I muft withdraw, and weepe     2271
Vpon the fpot of this inforced caufe,               2272
To grace the Gentry of a Land remote,               2273
And follow vnacquainted colours heere:              2274
What heere?  Nation that thou couldft remoue,      2275
That Neftunes Armes who clippeth thee about,        2276
Would beare thee from the knowledge of thy felfe,   2277
And cripple thee vnto a Pagan fhore,                2278
Where thefe two Chriftian Armies might combine      2279
The bloud of malice, in a vaine of league,          2280
And not to fpend it fo vn-neighbourly.              2281
Dolph. A noble temper doft thou fhow in this,     2282
And great affe6tions wraffling in thy bofome        2283
Doth make an earth-quake of Nobility:               2284
Oh, what a noble combat haft fought                 2285
Between compulfion, and a braue refpe6:            2286
Let me wipe off this honourable dewe,               2287
That filuerly doth progreffe on thy cheekes:        2288
My heart hath melted at a Ladies teares,            2289
Being an ordinary Inundation:                       2290
But this effufion of fuch manly drops,              2291
This fhowre, blowne vp by tempeft of the foule,     2292
Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amaz'd        2293
Then had I feene the vaultie top of heauen          2294
Figur'd quite ore wirh burning Meteors.             2295
Lift vp thy brow (renowned Salisburie)              2296
And with a great heart heaue away this florme:      2297
Commend thefe waters to thofe baby-eyes             2298
That neuer faw the giant-world enrag'd,             2299
Nor met with Fortune, other then at feafts,         2300
Full warm of blood, of mirth, of goffipping:        2301



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2312 2522  Panduiph Lewes of France, bitqOioug Conqueroq,
2523s iWjfilofe xtob bad mabe t)ih 1lanb quake foq fear;
2524 1tj  foqharbneo to figbt foq lolV Rome,
2525 lDbalbte  remunerateb to dte full:
2526 )1ut Inobt  mV tlopb, Jfohn it onoti abfolube,
2527  ltbre pope iso pleafbe, tte Lantb isto bleft agen,
2528 4nb tlou Ibaft bFougt)t earI) tling to goob effe4t.
2317 2529 7Jt refet  t)en  titat tijou tnittbbaWtt tlV po ) txiero,
2530  nb quietlV returue to Fraunce againe:
2531 FOq  all isto bone t)e pope ioulb tutXiI td& boo.
2332 2532  Lewes %I3ut alO not bone that Lewes came to boO,
2533  t WhI  Panduplk, )atl) J. Philip fent Uio fonne
2534 tnb been at fut) erceffiue ctharge in tuarreo,
2535 To be bifmif i  ittbtt) tbo b# j1.Iohzn ball lnobt,



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Come, come; for thou fhalt thruft thy hand as deepe  2302
Into the purfe of rich profperity                  2303
As Lewis himfelfe:fo (Nobles) fhall you all,      2304
That knit your finewes to the ftrength of mine.    2305
Enter Pandulpho.                  2306
And euen there, methinkes an Angell fpake,         2307
Looke where the holy Legate comes apace,           2308
To giue vs warrant from the hand of heauen,        2309
And on our aCtions fet the name of right           2310
With holy breath.                                  2311
Pand. Haile noble Prince of France:              2312
The next is this:King lohn hath reconcil'd         2313
Himfelfe to Rome, his fpirit is come in,           2314
That fo flood out againft the holy Church,         2315
The great Metropolis and Sea of Rome:              2316
Therefore thy threatning Colours now winde vp,     2317
And tame the fauage fpirit of wilde warre,         2318
That like a Lion foftered vp at hand,              2319
It may lie gently at the foot of peace,            2320
And be no further harmefull then in fhewe.         2321
Dol. Your Grace fhall pardon me, I will not backe:  2322
I am too high-borne to be proportied               2323
To be a fecondary at controll,                     2324
Or vfefull feruing-man, and Inftrument             2325
To any Soueraigne State throughout the world.      2326
Your breath firft kindled the dead coale of warres,  2327
Betweene this chaftiz'd kingdome and my felfe,     2328
And brought in matter that fhould feed this fire;  2329
And now 'tis farre too huge to be blowne out       2380
With that fame weake winde, which enkindled it:    2331
You taught me how to know the face of right,       2332
Acquainted me with intereft to this Land,          2333
Yea, thruft this enterprize into my heart,         2334
And come ye now to tell me lohn hath made          2335
His peace with Rome? what is that peace to me?     2336
I (by the honour of my marriage bed)               2337



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2338 2536 Englandi~omint'e, anb o e rurps; mp ri'gt,

2353 2537
2538
2539
2540
2541

Pand. Lewes, 31rIoarge tWee anb tI)v ompliceo
Uapon toje paine of Pandzdplzs lOo1 cur fe,
T!bat t~iou Wkxoit) ~Jtl)v potxero to Fraunce againct
aZnb v~erlb b3p London anb to~e fleiglbour iTJoiinet
Son~a tlou NOaf tane in England bV to~e ftuopb

2542  Melun iLOPb    arbinall, bp Lewes pýincelV leaue,
2543 3t can be nougljt but bfurpation
2544 3n tlbee, tlje pope, anb all thje Ziburcl Of -Rome,
2545 TI~uo tohinfult on 1aingoof ZljJiffenbortne
2546 P- oiv tuitlb a iiooti to matte thein carte armceo,
2547sbtje b~itl) a 1iop to make thmlj eaue tlbeir armeo.
2548 ~ Tbin  muff not be: + VinCe Lewes kjeepe tlbinrUne  t
2549 iJ.et PJope anb Popetingo curfe tbeir be~lleo full.



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After yong Arthur, claime this Land for mine,       2338
And now it is halfe conquer'd, muft I backe,        2339
Becaufe that John hath made his peace with Rome?    2340
Am I Romes flaue? What penny hath Rome borne?       2341
What men prouided? What munition fent              2342
To vnder-prop this Aftion? Is't not I               2343
That vnder-goe this charge? Who elfe but I,         2344
And fuch as to my claime are liable,                2345
Sweat in this bufineffe, and maintaine this warre?  2346
Haue I not heard thefe Iflanders fhout out          2347
Viue le Roy, as I haue bank'd their Townes?         2348
Haue I not heere the beft Cards for the game        2349
To winne this eafie match, plaid for a Crowne?      2350
And fhall I now giue ore the yeelded Set?           2351
No, no, on my foule it neuer fhall be faid.         2352
Pand. You looke but on the out-fide of this worke.  2353
Dol. Out-fide or in-fide, I will not returne      2354
Till my attempt fo much be glorified,               2355
As to my ample hope was promifed,                   2356
Before I drew this gallant head of warre,           2357
And cull'd thefe fiery fpirits from the world       2358
To out-looke Conqueft, and to winne renowne         2359
Euen in the iawes of danger, and of death:          2360
What lufty Trumpet thus doth fummon vs?             2361

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2365 2550  Bast, S9 i1top of Melun, Il)at title jab the Ipince
2551 TO England anb tl)e Crob3ne of Albion,
2552 23ut futl a title as dte pope confitrmbe re:
2553 TOlje Pelate nObl let fall tiv faineb elaime
2554 Lewes it but thje agent fo tle pope,
2555  leln muff the Dolphin crafe, fitly lbe atl treaft:
2556) 13ut ceafte o no, it greatlp matters not,
2557 31f ou m n top  s anb 2Darronof of tle Land
2558 aWill leane tte frend), an b cleaut bnto pour Ding*
2559 Y0 qfame pe peerte   of England, fuffer not
2560 pour feluer, Pour l)onouro, anb pour lanb to fall:
2561 ii3ut iuitly refolueb tjougqto beate back tbe Jfrencl,
2562 anb free te tLanb from poke of feruituber.
2563  Salisbury PRilz, not fo, 10o  Lewes i Our o  itrD,
2564 anb D  e iWill f0ollo Iibim  nto tl)e beatl.
23692565  Pand. TImn in tlje name of Innocent tfle pOpe,
2566 31 curfe te pince anb all that take lbig part,
2567 TnD etcommunicate tle rebell rpeere
2568 3o traptop to the Jhing, anD to thle pope.
2569  Lewes Pandolph, our ftorop o   allt bleffe our felues agen:
2570 pepare t)ee Iohtn, Lopo folloW me pour king. Exeunt.
2571  Iohn 2crtroCb  lokn, the& bisti obost tbit' Oame,
2572 Eefiffing Rome, 0 peelbing to tle pope, allf one.
2573 TOD biuell take tije pope, tlte peerte, anb Frannce:
2574 4bjame be m   fjare foq peeling to the pViedf
2575  Pand. Comfot tl) frelf tJ.oohn, thie Caatrnall goe
2576 iMpon lioe turfe to make them leaue their armeo.  Exit,
2372 2577  Bastard Comfogt mp V  q, an    curfe thtle Carbinall,
2578 i3etake pour felf to arme, myn troupes are peft
2579 To anfdhere Lewes tiithj a lufie jocke:
2580   hje Ongli t archerr! haue their quiuetr full,
2581 Ctlei booate  are bent, the pptes are pgef to pul:
2582 0ob dtere mIn  totb, JaRickards fogtune lango
2583 saUpon tte plume of Darlike Phtilips telme,
2584 STben let them knot hbio bfotber anb hbig fonne
2585  re leaber% of the Ongligtmen at armeo.



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Enter Bajfard.                   2362
Baf?. According to the faire-play of the world,   2363
Let me haue audience: I am fent to fpeake:         2364
My holy Lord of Millane, from the King              2365
I come to learne how you haue dealt for him:        2366
And, as you anfwer, I doe know the fcope            2367
And warrant limited vnto my tongue.                 2368
Pand. The Dolphin is too wilfull oppofite         2369
And will not temporize with my intreaties:          2370
He flatly faies, hee 11 not lay downe his Armes.    2371
Baf?. By all the bloud that euer fury breath'd,   2372
The youth faies well. Now heare our Englih King,    2373
For thus his Royaltie doth fpeake in me:            2374
He is prepar'd, and reafon to he fhould,            2375
This apifh and vnmannerly approach,                 2376
This harnefs'd Maske, and vnaduifed Reuell,         2377
This vn-heard fawrineffe and boyifh Troopes,        2378
The King doth fmile at, and is well prepar'd        2379



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2586 John Phili~p 3 knobti not Iboto to anirnre tIbee
2587 13utt let b0 toence, tO aubtert Lewes P~ibr



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To whip this dwarfifh warre, this Pigmy Armes       2380
From out the circle of his Territories.             2381
That hand which had the ftrength, euen at your dore,  2382
To cudgell you, and make you take the hatch,        2383
To diue like Buckets in concealed Welles,           2384
To crowch in litter of your ftable plankes,         2385
To lye like pawnes, lock'd vp in chefts and truncks,  2386
To hug with fwine, to feeke fweet fafety out        2387
In vaults and prifons, and to thrill and fhake,     2388
Euen at the crying of your Nations crow,            2389
Thinking this voyce an armed Englifhman.            2390
Shall that vidtorious hand be feebled heere,        2391
That in your Chambers gaue you chafticement?       2392
No: know the gallant Monarch is in Armes,           2393
And like an Eagle, o're his ayerie towres,          2394
To fowffe annoyance that comes neere his Neft;      2395
And you degenerate, you ingrate Reuolts,            2396
you bloudy Nero's, ripping vp the wombe             2397
Of your deere Mother-England: blufh for fhame:      2398
For your owne Ladies, and pale-vifag'd Maides,      2399
Like Amazons, come tripping after drummes:          2400
Their thimbles into armed Gantlets change,          2401
Their Needl's to Lances, and their gentle hearts    2402
To fierce and bloody inclination.                   2403
Dol. There end thy braue, and turn thy face in peace, 2404
We grant thou canft out-fcold vs: Far thee well,    2405
We hold our time too precious to be fpent           2406
With fuch a brabler.                                2407
Pan. Giue me leaue to fpeake.                     2408
Baft. No, I will fpeake.                          2409
Dol. We will attend to neyther:                   2410
Strike vp the drummes, and let the tongue of warre  2411
Pleade for our intereft, and our being heere.       2412
Bafl. Indeede your drums being beaten, wil cry out; 2413



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And fo fhall you, being beaten:Do but ftart        2414
An eccho with the clamor of thy drumme,             2415
And euen at hand, a drumme is readie brac'd,        2416
That fhall reuerberate all, as lowd as thine.       2417
Sound but another, and another fhall                2418
(As lowd as thine) rattle the Welkins eare,         2419
And mocke the deepe mouth'd Thunder:for at hand     2420
(Not trufting to this halting Legate heere,         2421
Whom he hath vs'd rather for fport, then neede)     2422
Is warlike lohn: and in his fore-head fits          2423
A bare-rib'd death, whofe office is this day        2424
To feaft vpon whole thoufands of the French.        2425
Dol. Strike vp our drummes, to finde this danger out. 2426
Baft, And thou fhalt finde it (Dolphin) do not doubt 2427
Exeunt. 2428
Scana Tertia.
Alarums. Enter lohn and Hubert.            2429
lohn. How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert.  2430
Hub. Badly I feare;how fares your Maiefty?      2431
lohn. This Feauer that hath troubled me fo long,  2432
Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is ficke.           2433
Enter a Meffenger.                 2434
1ef. My Lord:your valiant kinfman Falconbridge,  2435
Defires your Maieftie to leaue the field,           2436
And fend him word by me, which way you go.          2437
lohn. Tell him toward Swinfled, to the Abbey there. 2438
Mef Be of good comfort:for rhe great fupply       2439
That was expedted by the Dolphin heere,             2440
Are wrack'd three nights ago on Goodwin fands.      2441
This newes was brought to Richard but euen now,     2442
The French fight coldly, and retyre themfelues.     2443



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2455 2588 Excurfions. Enter Meloun with Englifli Lords.
2589 Mel. t0 3 am flaine, P- obleot Saisbury, Pembrooke,
2590 9pVfoule 10ocrjargeb, ljeareme: foý ~a ~    a
2591 Coneerueo tlhe1p~rerr  of England, anb tbeir ttatr2592 Jiiften, t bue JLobot a frarfull mourning tale
2593 To be tieliuereb br a man of beatlb.
2594 I1Jftbotb ttiefe fcarreo, the bole of Watou Afe ars
2595 are blarbingero from natureo common foet
2596 Zyting tbio trunIhe to Tellus pdion Ijoufr;
2597 Jtife0 ebarter (iLqobingo) laftetl not an boiuer:
2598 aTnb fearfull tbjouqbtot, fogerunnero; of my enb,
2509  1itbs me gtiue pIiftcke to a ficthly foule.
24600260o0 @Perreo of England, knoi Vyou Dlat you boot,
2601  JJAereo but a ijaire thjat funlbero you from barme,
2602 IJ4e lbwke o baVteb, anb thje trai'ne 10O mabe,
2603 2tnrb mplV Von runue boating to your beatlbo.



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lohn. Aye me, this tyrant Feauer burnes mee vp,    2444
And will not let me welcome this good newes.          2445
Set on toward Swinjfed: to my Litter ftraight,       2446
Weakneffe poffeffeth me, and I am faint.     Exeunt. 2447

Scena Quarta.

Enter Salisbury, Pembroke, and Bigot.
Sal. I did not thinke the King fo ftor'd with friends.
Pem. Vp once againe: put fpirit in the French,
If they mifcarry: we mifcarry too.
Sal. That misbegotten diuell Falconbridge,
In fpight of fpight, alone vpholds the day.
Pem. They fay King lohn fore fick, hath left the field.
Enter Meloon wounded.
Mel. Lead me to the Reuolts of England heere.
Sal. When we were happie, we had other names.
Pem. It is the Count Meloone.
Sal. Wounded to death.
Mel. Fly Noble Englifh, you are bought and fold,
Vnthred the rude eye of Rebellion,
And welcome home againe difcarded faith,
Seeke out King lohn, and fall before his feete:

2448
2449
2450
2451
2452
2453
2454
2455
2456
2457
2458
2459
2460
2461
2462
2463



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2604 )13ut fraft J De, anb leaue mp tale bntolte,
2605 Wittl filenre faugotering to bgaue    a creWx,
2464 2606  (ig 3)i  auevre, if Lewes itin t)t Iaiz,
2607  tores not an     nglift)man toat lifts lPi ltant
2608 o gainft IDing John to plant thew ljire of Fraunce,
2609 o13ut is alrrabV bamntb to cruell brat,
261o 3   ear b it bobt3; mV ffee amongI the reQ
2469 26z11 t0o0  on t)te Altar atib to tl)i  $-Obit,.
2612  tWO cauet    itoPbs, male% me     ifplav tlis bDift,
2613    )e greateft fo; toe frerbome of mV foult,
2614 TIat longo to leaut tbig manfion free from     guilt:
2615 lTe otler on a naturall inaftinct,
2492 2616 Yfo; tjat mV Otranibre    af an C-nglifl)man.
2617 aifboubt not tLopb    toe truti) of m  bitfcourfe,
2618 jPo freniet, noq  no bgainficl ible fit,
26ig Vut oell abuffbe, anb tbotting tbt3at 3 fav,
2620 IPonounce 3 lbere befoge te face of jeauen,
2621   o)at notbing is Diftouere bbut a truth,
2468 2622 Tis0 time to fli, fubmit vour Mflume to John,
2623 TI)e fmile; of Fraunce iaJbe in tole frotune   of beato,
2624 Lift bp pour ft IOqbo, turne face againft tloe #rncj,
2625 crpell tle   oke tlato frameb fo; Vour necth.
2626 iiackt tarmen, bacl, imboixell not tije clVme,
2627 pour feate, tour nurfe, tour birtl      bates bgeatling  place,
2628   ljat bgeb tou, bearte you, bgouqlbt   ou bp in armes.
2629 3U0 be not to ingrate to bige your      otloers graur,
2630 peferure your lambe% anb beate ab3ap tte Wolft*
2631 *7y foule l atl faib, contritiono penitence
2632J tlats  ol b on mane reemption foý my fine.
2633 faretuell my V  op, toitnes   my faitl) Ioren tute are met in
2494 2634  lnDb fO0 my kinbnDe giue me   raue roome leere.    (Ijeaen,
2635 $y foule Dotb fleete, tioolbe  banitiev fare xelL.



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For if the French be Lords of this loud day,        2464
He meanes to recompence the paines you take,        2465
By cutting off your heads: Thus hath he fworne,     2466
And I with him, and many moe with mee,              2467
Vpon the Altar at S. Edmondsbury,                   2468
Euen on that Altar, where we fwore to you           2469
Deere Amity, and euerlafting loue.                  2470
Sal. May this be poffible? May this be true?     2471
Mel. Haue I not hideous death within my view,     2472
Retaining but a quantity of life,                   2473
Which bleeds away, euen as a forme of waxe          2474
Refolueth from his figure 'gainft the fire?         2475
What in the world fhould make me now deceiue,       2476
Since I muft loofe the vfe of all deceite?          2477
Why fhould I then be falfe, fince it is true        2478
That I muft dye heere, and liue hence, by Truth?    2479
I fay againe, if Lewis do win the day,              2480
He is forfworne, if ere thofe eyes of yours         2481
Behold another day breake in the Eaft:              2482
But euen this night, whofe blacke contagious breath  2483
Already fmoakes about the burning Creft             2484
Of the old, feeble, and day-wearied Sunne,          2485
Euen this ill night, your breathing fhall expire,   2486
Paying the fine of rated Treachery,                 2487
Euen with a treacherous fine of all your liues:     2488
If Lewis, by your afsiftance win the day.           2489
Commend me to one Hubert, with your King;           2490
The loue of him, and this refpe& befides            2491
(For that my Grandfire was an Englifhman)           2492
Awakes my Confcience to confeffe all this.          2493
In lieu whereof, I pray you beare me hence          2494
From forth the noife and rumour of the Field;       2495
Where I may thinke the remnant of my thoughts       2496
In peace: and part this bodie and my foule         2497
With contemplation, and deuout defires.             2489



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24992636  Saf jPjotu ior betibe ty ofoule tWel-meaning man,
2637 totu nobt  mV  opb, toat tooling carb i.0 tlis,
2638 3E greater griefet grotue notu than earft batl been,
2639 WMat counfell giue you, " 1)all te 0ai anb by
2507 2640 O  f)all te o   amte, anb kttneele unto tM)e tming.
2641  Pemb, MV9   a Ifart mifgaue tiz Cab accurfeb netrer ++
2642 ZJbat laue Wte bone, fie t, tItuijat frentie moueb
2643 @ur lbeagrto to elb trnto tle ppibe of Fraunce
2644 3lfWte perfeurc, te are Curre to bte
2645 lf Wue befift Cmal l)op againe of life.
2646  Salsb. 3earte bence the bobie of tlik tgettleb man,
2647 Jlat mabe bo0 tetc)eb titl i)ie bVing tale,
2648 anD fanb not Wavlinq on our pedente larmnes,
2649 as0 tomen tuont: but Ceete our barmes rebelffe.
2650 o  0foq mV felfe, 31 Will in )aft be gon:
2651  nb kneele foq parbon to our.ouetreine lohn.
2652  Pemb. 3J, tterer te) tuat lets ratter htneele to iim,
2653 TI4an to the frentrl that tWoulb tonfounbt be all. Exeunt.
2654   Enter King lohn carried betweene 2. Lords.
2655s lohn!et botne, fCet botune the loab not toobtl your pain,
2656 foq bone 3 am tuit beably tuounbting griefet
2657 Nickly anb fuccourle0, Iopele0 of any goob,
2658 J)e tuoolb batL tWearieb me, anb 3 Ilaue tueareb it:
2659 3t toat  3 linue, 31 line anb load) my felfe.
266o tM o pities me to tuom lJaue 3 been tinbe i
266  13uut to a fetu; a fe  tuWill pitie me.
2662 1Wb y bye 3 not? DIeamt fcogne0 to bilbe a ppay.
2663 Wij linue I   not, life tiates to fab a pýie.



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Sal. We do beleeue thee, and befhrew my foule,   2499
But I do loue the fauour, and the forme            2500
Of this moft faire occafion, by the which          2501.We will vntread the fteps of damned flight,       2502
And like a bated and retired Flood,                2503
Leauing our rankneffe and irregular courfe,        2504
Stoope lowe within thofe bounds we haue ore-look'd,  2505
And calmely run on in obedience                    2506
Euen to our Ocean, to our great King lohn.         2507
My arme fhall giue thee helpe to beare thee hence,  2508
For I do fee the cruell pangs of death             2509
Right in thine eye. Away, my friends, new flight,  2510
And happie newneffe, that intends old right.  Exeunt 2511



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2664 3} Cue to botlj to be retavnb of vitlber,
2665 )i3ut botIb are beafr, 3 ran be lbearb of neitlber.
2666 P. oý beatlb noý life, vget life anb neare tlje neeve,
2667:Ytirt liutl) batl) bibing 3 Wiot not ix~jre.*
2668 Philip. 1yoiv fare0 my Lqbthat lbe io tarVeb tlbu0,
2669 P-Zot all the aukiuarb fogtuneo vet befalne,
2670 ipabe furl) impgeffion of lament in Me.
2671 P- q euer DO my eve attapnt my lbeart
2672 Wa~tl) any obiect moutng mole remoqfet
2673 Tfloan noii belbolbing of a milt'bV Dng
2674 )13o ne byli0 iL~opb in fuctb tiftreffeb ftate,
2675  John Z3lbat ne1o ititbtbertl~e if bab, repogt it ftraite:
2676 31f goob, be mute, it botl) but flatter me.
2677  Phillip    tcja      tot iaub lbeauie tlbouglb it be
2679 Once Wtuill bgeatl) to agrautate th~e reft,
2680 alnotber moane to mahe th~e meafure full.
26811 Tot~ bpaueffbotxinan ljabnot Vet Cent fogtl)
2682 TflWu arro*ie0 from th~e quiuter at lbio fibe,
2683 )i3ut th~at a rumoq  Went t)opuglbout our Campe,
2684 Mo~at John Wag; flea, the Diing lbab left tlhe fitlb.
2685 2~t laft th~e rumor fcalb tbefe eareo of mine,
2686 WoU~o ratb~rr lbofe ao facrifire foq  Mars,
2687 TJhAan ignominioluo fanball by rretve.
2688 31 clberb th~e troupes ao bib tlje 1pince of Troy
2689   tueo errv foltoiuero gainft th~e firmibono,
2690 'Zrvinq alo~beEie.George, th~e bay i0 ours.
26911 I13ut feare ljab raptiuateb rourag~e quite,
2692 aZnb It'e tlhe Lamb before the gurebie Wolfe,
2693 to ijartleffe fle our Luarmen from th~e feelb.*
2694 ýDbo~t tale to malke, my felfe amongff th~e reft,
2695 Mtao; faint to fli befoge the eager foe.
2696 )13V tbji0 time nilut  Ijtab flaboiueb all tije eartb,,
2697 Wt1?tl) fable rurteiners of th~e blacheft Ibut,
2698 Alnb fenif 1o from th~e fury of th~e #rencb,j
2699 32; Jo from th~e iealmou0 unos reye



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2700~tn Z1t~ni  lem~i~our troupe0 bib qatlber lbab,
2701 ]JPaffing tlbe tafl)e%;ibtl# our carriage%,
2702 G~ri4t mpartiall tvbe beablp anb ineroable,
2703 %ame raging in i.Jtl)b billo~Xro tlfleatninq3 beati),
2704 ainb Ib~altorb b p tlje moft of all our men,
2705 MV3 felfe upon a!3allo~xaV ri'ljt frc, bWell pacoe,
2706 out fir'pt tlhe fiouiao ttat folloiueb mane bv iuane,
2707 31 to etcapt to tell tljio trasich tale.
2708 John 4lriefe bpon griefe, vet none to great a griefe,
2709 To rnb tljio life, anb tljereIp rib mV griefe,
2710 eanerurany to infowtnate,
27111 Tlhe ri~jt 'jbe a of a curiteb man,
27112 agT 3qt, pwpe 31,a trinmplb foq brfpit3lbt
2713 My fener grrotue, IWlat ague ~lalie me to:
2714 t~,oWx farre to O~lxinfteeb, tell me bo you hnobW,
2715 PJfeten   ut*i nOrtteabbot ~uopbof my repaire.
27A6 ipV ficlneffe rageo, to tiranniye ipon me,
2717 31 cannot linte bunlee tlbio fenerrleane me.
2718  Pilp. 3oob clbeare my i.opb, tlje    bbey io at ljanb,
2719 )13e1)olb my iUp btlhe ZIbrclbmen come to meete you.
2720      Enter the Abbot, and certayne Monks.
2721  Abbot altll baltlb i lappineo to our toneraigne JLqob tlhe
2722 John po q bealtbj noý lbappine-0lbatbl~ ohn at all. (tDin~,
2723 #Day Abbot am ]ClWelcome to tlby lonte,
2724  Abbot tuncb Wlelcome ao our aTbbey can afftop,~
2725 -your a9aieftW lalbe atTureb of.
2726  Phi/li    i     t p 1Jbe Iftinq tlbonteeft WiWrithae anb bery faint,
2727 W1?bUat bitndal9 lbafltlbouto refre0lj lio O&ace.
2728 A bbot ~wb ftope myVJtob, of th~at von neebe not feare,
2729 Jfo JMncolnegijire, anb tljete our abbey grounbo;
2730 Wlere nenter fatter, noq in better pliqljt.
27311 John Phi/li~p, tbiou neuer neebft to b~oubt of cate0,
2732 jpo  Jiing noý ito~b is; teateb jalfe to bWell,
2733 Ao are tlhe ATbbryo tl~onulbont all tije lanbt
2734 3f any plot of grounb to patte anotlber,
2735 TDbe Priero fallen on it fftreibjt.



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2736 %3But let be in to taftfe of tlbeic repaft,
27373 t goes againf my leart to feeb wtitl tl iem,
2738 O  be be1doling to fucl abber   groomeo.     Exeunt.
2739       Manet the Monke.
2740  Monk. 30 ti)iO tl)e JIting t)at neutte lou  a #frierl
2741 3s0 tbgis tole man tjat botd contemne t1)e pope
2742 31 tblio te)e man th)at robb t)e Ijoly 4Curct),
2743 unb tet Imill aty  bnto a jFrio.
2744 30 tbjis the tting that ayme  at atbbeyo lanbos
2745 3o tlt' thie man Itbtome all tlhe toolb abl4oreo,
2746 anb vet Will ftye unto a friow
2747 atcrfta be  iointfreb abber,   tbbot, Jfriero,
2748 $oncko, pun0, anb       larltro, anb aller tjat bxell0 t)erein,
2749 31f  ichteb lo/zn efrape aliue abtay.
2750 Jotu if that tjou twilt lWlte to merit bieauen,
2751 21nb be canonitb fo a bol1W Daint:
2752 sO  pleafe th)e b ople xiittb a beferuing boothe,
2753 13e t1)ou th)e man to fet tb)y runtrey free,
2754 2nb murber )im t1)at feeteh to murber t)ee.
2755        Enter the Abbot.
2756  Abbot Wb)y are not you iuittin to treare the iUing i
2757 lte notw begins to menb, anb till to meate.
2758  Monk IWI)at if 31 fa to ftrangle )im in iso ftepe 1
2759  Abbot Mo1at at tby mumrpfimus? atDay,
2760  llnb feke fome meanesO fo to paftime t1)e Iting
2761  Monk 3le fet a bubgeon bagger at bio 1)eart,
2762   nbW bDit) a mallet hnock 1)im on t)e 1)eab,
2763  Abbot   llaO, nb)at meane tt)io' 9onke to murt)ter me
2764 Darte lay my life beet kill me fo my place.
2765  Monk 3le poyfon bim, anb it g)all neare be knotune,
2766 Ant toen fltall 31 be coiefef of my Voufe.
2767 Abbot 31f 3 ttere beab, inbeeb b)e iso t1)e nert,
2768 )Iut ile atiay, vfo tul)y t1)e  onke is mab,
2769  it)n in 1io mabneffe be bill murtber me.



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2770o  Monk  rL.31 cry your itoobfjip mercy, J3 3aM you not.
2771 Abbot ala0 goob Thomas bDo not murtler me, anb tlou
2772 falt laute my place litt tloufanb tbanks.
2773 Monk 31 murttler you, 0ob l0eeCb from ful) a tjoug)t.
2774 Abbot 1f tlou tWilt neebe0, yet let me fay my platero.
2775 Monk     WDill not lurt your to b Ijip goob my LoV b: but
2776 if you pleaft, 31 lill impart a tbling that ftallbe beneficiall to
2777 bO all.
2778 Abbot Wtilt thou not burt me loly v onkle, fay on.
2779 Monk Pou lnoWt my VLob tle Dingg is in our Ooufe,
2780 Abbot True.
2781  Monk -ou Iknoblilteblife tle tDing abbog; a frier,
2782 Abbot tjrte.
2783 Monk   unb le that louer not a frier it our enemy.
2784 Abbot TL)ou faft true.
2785  Monk   Jtjen t)e king is outr ememy.
2786 Abbot True.
2787 Monk Z1)? thlen t  odDulb We not hit our enemy, I tote iDing
2788 being our enemy, iully then loulb iWe not hill the tiinq.
2789 Abbot @ bleflteb  onhe, J3 fee Oob mouer tljy minbe to
2790 free tise latnb from tyante flautery.
2791 V13ut bI)o bare benter foq to bo tjiO Debee!
2792 Monk Who bare i btOly    my Vopb bare bo t)oe beebe,
2793 3Jle free my Countrey anb the CIurcL from foes,
2794 ATnb merit beauem by hilling of a U'inq.
2795 Abbot Thomas kneele bolxne, anb if tbou art ttrefolube,
2796 3 Will abfolue tlee Ibeere from all t)y finnet,
2797  o tl)by to)e beebe i% meritogiouo.
2798 fotubarb anD feare not man, foX euery montl,
2799 Our jfrier0 fall fin% a  affe foX Thomas foule.
2800 Monk 6ob anb.Francis pgolper my attempt,
2801 foX notu my iLopb 31 goe about my tWoohe.  Exeuut.



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215122802 Enter Lewes and his armnie.
2803  Lewes     OU; idu jcogr in btoubiV iiakire11  ab,
2804 #o11orotoe ~e fogtune of voung Lodowicke,
2515 2805 TJr OnCuli~tmen ao baunteb at our 40~t,
2806 #all ao toe fo~x~e befoge tote eag1eo epeo.
2807 @nWtr bo croffeo of rontrary royange
2808 W1o n'ip nioIcart, anb bere me Wito nt) reft..
2809 ]L-ogo Melons beatl), tot one part of mV foule,
2810 aI bgauer man bib neuerr hue in Fraunce.
2811 Tote otljirr riefc, 3q tloato a %all in beebr,
28312 TIo tloinke ttiat LDouer Caftdl ~lyoutb Ioitb out
2813!3ainff all affault0, anb reft impgeqnabte.
2814 per iWarlike rare of Francus Hellors founne,
2815 Triumplj in ronqueft of tljat tpgant John,
2520 2816 To~e better lbalfe of England 10 our odune,
2817 anti tobmarbo toe ronqueft of tote otber part,
2818 Wte loauetlthe face of all tlhe enghip 1ogb
2819 W1~jt torn remainto but ouerrun tlhe laub#
2820 11e refolute mp Wiarlike follo~xer0,
2821 Alnt if goob fogtune ferue ao Ple begino,
2822 Totj poogeft peafant of tloe 3iealme of Fraunce
2823 ftltah be a maifter oge an Ongtip1ji.ogb.
2521 2824      Enter a Meffenger.
2825 Lewes #ehltolxibloat neiueo.
2826 Meffen. IJPleafetl Vour O3race, to~e Carle of Salsbury, Pen2827 broke, EffTex, Clare, anb A rundell, lxit) all the )lIaron0 tljat bib
2525 2828 ftil& fog tlbee, are on a fubbei'ne fleb biitlj alltbt~eir poiver0, to
2829 1oVne tt'titl)ohn, to bgiuetvjWe bark againe,
2830       Enter another Meffenger.
2831  Meffen. Lewes my i.ogb ivlop ftanbft tljou in a maye,



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---

Scena Quinta.

Enter Dolphin, and his Traine.
Dol. The Sun of heauen(me thought)was loth to fet;
But flaid, and made the Wefterne Welkin blufh,
When Englifh meafure backward their owne ground
In faint Retire:Oh brauely came we off,
When with a volley of our needleffe fhot,
After fuch bloody toile, we bid good night,
And woon'd our tott'ring colours clearly vp,
Laft in the field, and almoft Lords of it.
Enter a Meffenger.
Mef. Where is my Prince, the Dolphin?
Dol. Heere:what newes?
Mef. The Count Meloone is flaine: The Englifh Lords
By his perfwafion, are againe falne off,

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2513
2514
2515
2516
2517
2518
2519
2520
2521
2522
2523
2524
2525
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2832 6atler 1V troup%, l ope out of lelp from Fraunce,
2526 2833 SO  all tly foV ce% being fiftie farle,
2834 Contr2ingn% tWnetVt tjoufanb foulbters,
2835 W1itl bittuall anb munition foq  te Wuarre,
2836 putting from   Callis in bnlucltie time,
2527 2837 WtDib tcroe tl)e feao0, anb on te) GoodwinW fans,
a838 ITe  men, munition, anb to)e UIips are loft,
2839        Enter another Meffenger.
2840  Lewes   9ofe tnttex i fat on.
a2841  Meieffen. John (mv to0b) iWitl all b)ig fcattereb troupeo,
2842 #lSing te)e fury of tour conquering ftloop,
2843 as Pharaoh earft fityitn toe blomb  fea,
2844 Do be anb bi enui'roneb iitl) to)e tpbe,
2845 On Lincolne ixafl)e0 all Wtre ouerriielmeb,
2846 rl) )Tr arons fteb, our fogced taCf aftaR.
2528 2847  Lewes Was euer learD Wuc bnetttfpeteb nttese:
2848  Meffenger Yet Lodowike reuitue tbV Dbing t)eart,
25312849  ing lohn anb all tis fo ce0 are confumbe.
a85o T  re leffe tjou nkbft the ayb of engligt  Carles,
2851   oie leffe ttlou nW fft to grieue to jpPames tugache,
2852f tnb follotiu tmers abuantage iuito futcefft.
2853  Lewes   3ýaure Frenchmen armbe Iitdb magnanimitie,
2854 $ard) after Lewes bo0 tDill lteabe ou on
2855 To djafe toe 13arons poitier tat Wants a brab,
2856 foq lohn i b~otob n, anb 3J am Englands ting,
2857s  otDouB  our munition anb our men be loft,
2858 Phillip of Fraunce Will (enb  o frelyl fupptleo*  Exeunt.



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And your fupply, which you haue wifh'd fo long,
Are caft away, and funke on Goodwin fands.
Dol. Ah fowle, threw'd newes. Befhrew thy very
I did not thinke to be fo fad to night     (hart
As this hath made me. Who was he that faid
King lohn did flie an houre or two before
The flumbling night did part our wearie powres?
Mef. Who euer fpoke it, it is true my Lord.

2526
2527
2528: 2529
2530
2531
2532
2533

Dol.Well: keepe good quarter, & good care to night, 2534
The day fhall not be vp fo foone as I,             2535
To try the faire aduenture of to morrow.    Exeunt 2536



282          The troublefotne Razgne of King John



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283

Scena Sexta.
Enter Baf/ard and Hubert, feuerally.       2537
Hub. Whofe there? Speake hoa, fpeake quickely, or 2538
I fhoote.                                   2539
Baft, A Friend. What art thou?                    2540
Hub. Of the part of England.                      2541
Baft. Whether doeft thou go?                      2542
Hub. What's that to thee?                         2543
Why may not I demand of thine affaires,             2544
As well as thou of mine?                           2545
Baft. Hubert, I thinke.                           2546
Hub. Thou haft a perfeE thought:                  2547
I will vpon all hazards well beleeue                2548
Thou art my friend, that know'ft my tongue fo well:  2549
Who art thou?                                      2550
Baft. Who thou wilt: and if thou pleafe           2551
Thou maift be-friend me fo much, as to thinke       2552
I come one way of the Plantagenets.                 2553
Hub. Vnkinde remembrance: thou, & endles night, 2554
Haue done me fhame: Braue Soldier, pardon me,       2555
That any accent breaking from thy tongue,           2556
Should fcape the true acquaintance of mine eare.    2557
Baft. Come, come: fans complement, What newes 2558
abroad?                                     2559
Hub. Why heere walke I, in the black brow of night 2560
To finde you out.                                   2561
Baft. Brcefe then: and what's the newes?         2562
Hub. 0 my fweet fir, newes fitting to the night,  2563
Blacke, fearefull, comfortleffe, and horrible.      2564
Ba/f. Shew me the very wound of this ill newes,   2565
I am no woman, Ile not fwound at it,                2566
Hub. The King I feare is poyfon'd by a Monke,     2567
I left him almoft fpeechleffe, and broke out        2568



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284       ~The troubs'efome Razg-ne of King John         19

1591

2859     Enter two Friers laying a Cloth.
2860  Frier Mdipatc),bifbpatclj, the Ding beftrro to tate,
286! Mioulb a minibt tate bt'i5 laft foý thje lout b~ee bearerv to
2862 CbIurtlflltfl
2863  Frier3~ am   of tbre minbie to, anb fo it 1~oulb be anb tWe
2864 ntigblt be our otvne caruero.
2865 3j meruat'le Wptbel otlj~ ne lberre il inthe@Odbarb
2866  Frier )j knotu not, noý 3 rare nout. D4e 1ting Como*
2867  lohn (ome on tq~ob 2Tbbot, fl~all Wue fit togetlber
2868 Abbot 70leafetl) pour!3race fit botune.
2869  John make pour place0; fire, no pomp tin penunp, all be%,2870 %ttiI anb frtenbg iMap CometuWere nCeft~it e kepe~tl te
287! ljoutfe curtefie if; barb tthe table, fit botune Phillip.
287:2 Bafl. 190V.L~o~b, 3 am lotIb to allube Co mutt) to V, p~ouerb
2873 tbonop0ctbange maner0:+a aiUng to a iint tbougt) fo ýtune bo



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To acquaint you with this euill, that you might     2569
The better arme you to the fodaine time,            2570
Then if you had at leifure knowne of this.          2571
Baft. How did he take it? Who did tafte to him?  2572
Hub. A Monke I tell you, a refolued villaine      2573
Whofe Bowels fodainly burft out:The King            2574
Yet fpeakes, and peraduenture may recouer.          2575
Baft. Who didft thou leaue to tend his Maiefty?   2576
Hub. Why know you not? The Lords are all come     2577
backe,                                        2578
And brought Prince Henry in their companie,         2579
At whofe requeft the king hath pardon'd them,       2580
And they are all about his Maieftie.                2581
Bai?. With-hold thine indignation, mighty heauen,  2582
And tempt vs not to beare aboue our power.          2583
Ile tell thee Hubert, halfe my power this night     2584
Pafsing thefe Flats, are taken by the Tide,         2585
Thefe Lincolne-Wafhes haue deuoured them,           2586
My felfe, well mounted, hardly haue efcap'd.        2587
Away before: Conduct me to the king,               2588
I doubt he will be dead, or ere I come.     Exeunt 2589



286

The troublefome Raigne of King John

1591

2874 tier bo0f, an b We ao butifull in bepigit of )ert frobtme, ag if
2875 tour bignefe oetre rnotw in the big)tef type of bignitie.
2876  lohn Come, no moge abo, anb ou tell me muc) of bigni%
2877 tie, roule mar mv appetite in a furfet of fogrotu.
2878 W1at d)eere tLo b Abbot, me tbink0 ou froiune like an floft
2a879 that knoeto0 l)i( queft batl no moner to par the reckning
2880  Abbot JPo m   iLierge, if 31 frolne at all, it i fog 31 feare
2881 tlisi  teetre too bomelp to entertaine fo migltV a gueft a
28as82 tour  atieft,
2883  Ba/fard 31 tiinke ratler mv iLogb Abbot ou remember
2884 my laft being beere, tx ben 3 tuent in p ogreffe fog pototcles,
2885 anb the rantog of Ii0 lieart bgeake0 out in b)ig countenance,
2886 to flbei e lbatl not foggot me.
2887  Abbot j ot fo my Vtop, you, anb te) meanet follotter
2888 of bi; maietft, are batrtely iwelcome to me.
2889  Monke Watell my Liege, anD ag a pooge        ponke may
2890 far, telcome to ýabinfteb.
2891  lohn liegin gonke, anb repot btereafter tlou taft tafter
2892 to a Jing.
2893 Mlonk A5 mu) bleltd to your bigt)ne0, as to my olwn bart.
2894  Iohn  j plebge tbiee kinbe  onke.
2895  Monke STe merieft bauglt t euetr Iag bonk in Engldd.
2896 tlm 31 not too bolb iuitt) your 2igtlneffe.
2897  John j]ot a tublit, all frietb  anb felloues% fog a time.
2898  Monke Jf the inbtartb  of a MJoab be a compounb of any
2899 pgoofe: tuijy fo it tuogkh.
2900  lohn   tay Phillp ptberet the a9onke?
2901  Baftard 2e is breab my topb.
2902  lohn  TDen bginke not Phillip fo a b8o0b of boealtl.
2903  Bafl, Wbat dt eere my   ieege, your cullog gino to d)angte
2904  John   o b ot my life, @ PhiZlli   am pofonb.
2905 STbe $onke, t e reuill, thie porfon  ins to rage,
2906 J3t will bepofe my felfe a 1ing from raigne.
2907  Ballard TWii Oabbot atl) an intereft in tli0 act.
2908 At all abuentures take tlou that from me.
a2s9  T1erItlye th e )Abbot, tabbe, itubber, IDeuill.



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z88       The troub/efome Razgne of King John

2910 gIpardrb ivt1b thet gonkt unto the g atte;of bell.
2911 t~obfart0 my Lo~b
29112 John Ph illip fomet ý'inetoI foý thet fro~en alptt,
2913 To tumble on anboti etIbio intuarb 1btatt,
2914 LTb1at ragett1  ao tthefo~nact ftutnfolb 1bott
2915 TDo burnethtlt 1olp trtt in Baby/on,
29x6 PJoixvtr after poU~tr ro~fakrtbtrir p~oprr po~xer,
2917 @Ity lr the1art impugnto 1xuit1b faint rtfift
2918 ~T41 fierce inuabt of 1bim t1hat contquero; ingo,
2919 1Ityip ob, @ payne, byt John, @ plague
2920 JjnfttitteJ on t~tbrefoý t1by ricuouo fInnto,.
2921 Phillip a dbay~t, anti by anb by a g3raut,
2922 aft9leggobifbainethe tcarriage of a Itingo
2923 Bajiard. a goob my J.tege b~xtb patitnte conquer gritfe,
2924 aZnt~btbarrt tbio paint xitvi1tbingty fogtitubt,.
2925  John for t tIinlt0 I fte a cattalogtzt of finnt
2926 ZM~ott by a fitnt' in i9arblt cbaracttro,
2927 TYJ4e Iraft tnougbto tooft my part in tjtautn
2928 M ~t tinkh ot theuDiU ttWifptro in mint tarts
2929 ~tnb ttio mt tio in 1baynt to Ijopr foý grace,
2930 31 muff bt bamnb foý Arthurs fobaint btattj,
29311 3 ftt 31 ftteaaEijoufanb tbjoufanb mtn
2932 Come to accuft met foý my iv~onq on tarti),
2933 aZnb tbtrrtoi nont fo mtrcifult. a Oob
2934 T4jat Wil,iUfboqiurthel number of my finnto,
2935 t~olD tbaut ]C tub, but by anottbtre; bitt?
2936 WbUat 1baut )1 oub but b,~ach of otttrolWeakt?
2937 WbrJU~n Ijaur )1 bob~b, ant not infring3b mint oatb?
2938 Z1ilort l iaut 31 bone a bttbt btftruing jWell?
2939 t~oiim, ~tqat, UWjtn, anb Wbe~re, taut 31 btftoiub a bay
2940 Tb~1at ttnbtb not to foein noto~iouo ill,
29431 ef9ytlife rtpttat boittb rage anb ty~anit,
2942 Crauto little pittit foý fo ftrangt a btatb.
2943 @ý tDbo bWill fay thjat John bifctafb twfoont,
290 W~o iWitllnot fayr1be rattbtr ub too long.
2945 mrifljonoý bib attaynt met in my life,



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290

The troublefome Raigne of King lohn

1591

2946 lnb flame attenbetl Johnk bnto big beati),
2947 MI4PU bib 3] fape tl)e fury of tle frerncl,
2948 anb bpbe not bV ttoe temper of tIeir fbopo:
2949 Iiuiamehete Mt life, anb fjamefull vit enB0,
2950 Dcognb bV mV foer, bifbaineb of mV frienbe.
2951  Bastard foFgiue tlte ioolb anb all Vour eartbltl foes,
2952 Anb call on CZ;ift, tlWo is tour lateft frienb.
2953  lohn Sa totongue bot falter: Philip, 3 tell tlee man,
2954 Dince lohn DiD Veelb bnto tole?iet of Rome,
2955 j    bOe be noe lio 1)aue pofprpeb on the eartl:
2956 Curft are ie; bleffings, ab lbis0 curfe is bliffe.
2957 13ut in to1e fpirit 31 cr bnto mv  ob,
2958 aO bMt the rJinglt  I0oploet Dauid try,
2959 (MI4Uofe tlanbts, as mine, Witbi murber Were attaint)
2960 3 am not be ftall buylb toe Logb a loufe,
2961r 0   orte tefe Lotufts from the fact of eartl:
2962 )3ut if my bping leart bectante me not,
2963 from out tlefe loynes thall fpping a Dtingly bFaunct
2964 Mtiofe atrmee flatl reac e bnto lte gates of Rome,
2965 anb b itlo li0 feete treabo botune thte  trumpet0 p~ibe,
2966 TFlat fits ipon tle cbaire of Babylon.
2967 Philip, m2 y leart (tringe  breake, toe poefone flame
2968 tatly ouercome in me tWeale JP-ature; potber,
2969 Anb in the faith of 31efu Iohn both bye.
2970  Bajfard  le otW lre ftriue; fo; life, bnbappy to0b,
o297r  MiUofe boWell0s are beuibeb in tjemfelues.
29a72  blyit is ite fruite of Popetrie, ttlmen true iingS
2973 are flaime anb flyoulbPeb out by raonke5 anb Jfriero,
2974         Enter a Meffenger.
2975  Meff pleafe it your   race, thee V3arone of toe Laane,
2976 Wbhico all thisgI tile bare armes againft the Jing,
2977 Conbucteb by the Legate of toe pope,
2978 iogether tuith toe 1 Jince his 2ighne   ronnre,
2979 IDOO craue to be abmitteb to th)e Pefence of toe tDing.



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292

292      ~The troub/eome Raigne of King John           19

1591

2900 Bastard pour ýbonne MV iJLO~bt Von% Henry MUM to ffC
29811 POut 9aifftir, anb bp'incw;xddtolOim beftbe
2982 ~tbc )Iiaron% tthat rtuolteb from your &ract.
-2984 J1ti0 fptrtct boti) faite: lift Ibp your ftlfc myVito ýb
-2985 4nb fiettoe ~Ipnce to romfoqt you in Drub#..2590 2986 Enter Panduiph, yong Henry, the Barons with daggers
2987       in their hands.
2591 2988 Prince @ let me fee my #atlber ere ~ebye De
2989 @0  IIunrle lWere you lberet anb fufferb Olim
2990 TJo be tIbu% poyfueb by a bamneb a9ontte.
2596 299!241)or)eio Drabfatljer fteete #attoir fpeaher.
2992 Bastard tpi% 5fpeacl) boti)fadle,1be 1)aftletlto big; eub.



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The life and death of Kfing Iohn

293

Scena Septima.
Enter Prince Henry, Salisburie, and Bigot.      2590
Hen. It is too late, the life of all his blood      2591
Is touch'd, corruptibly:and his pure braine           2592
(Which fome fuppofe the foules fraile dwelling houfe)  2593
Doth by the idle Comments that it makes,              2594
Fore-tell the ending of mortality.                    2595
Enter Pembroke.                    2596
Pem. His Highneffe yet doth fpeak, & holds beleefe, 2597
That being brought into the open ayre,                2598
It would allay the burning qualitie                   2599
Of that fell poifon which affayleth him.              2600
Hen. Let him be brought into the Orchard heere:     2601
Doth he ftill rage?                                  2602
Pem. He is more patient                             2603
Then when you left him;euen now he fung.             2604
Hen. Oh vanity of fickneffe: fierce extreames       2605
In their continuance, will not feele themfelues.      2606
Death hauing praide vpon the outward parts            2607
Leaues them inuifible, and his feige is now           2608
Againft the winde, the which he prickes and wounds    2609
With many legions of ftrange fantafies,               2610
Which in their throng, and preffe to that laft hold,  2611
Counfound themfelues. 'Tis ftrange r death ihold fing: 2612



294         The troublefome Raigne of King Iokn      1691



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I am the Symet to this pale faint Swan,             2613
Who chaunts a dolefull hymne to his owne death,     2614
And from the organ-pipe of frailety fings           2615
His foule and body to their lafting reft.           2616
Sal. Be of good comfort (Prince) for you are borne  2617
To fet a forme vpon that indigeft                   2618
Which he hath left fo fhapeleffe, and fo rude.      2619
Iohn brought in.                   2620
Iohn. I marrie, now my foule hath elbow roome,    2621
It would not out at windowes, nor at doores,        2622
There is fo hot a fummer in my bofome,              2623
That all my bowels crumble vp to duft:              2624
I am a fcribled forme drawne with a pen             2625
Vpon a Parchment, and againft this fire             2626
Do I fhrinke vp.                                    2627
Hen. How fares your Maiefty?                      2628
Joh. Poyfon'd, ill fare:dead, forfooke, caft off,  2629
And none of you will bid the winter come            2630
To thruft his ycie fingers in my maw;               2631
Nor let my kingdomes Riuers take their courfe       2632
Through my burn'd bofome:nor intreat the North      2633
To make his bleake windes kiffe my parched lips,    2634
And comfort me with cold. I do not aske you much,   2635
I begge cold comfort:and you are fo ftraight        2636
And fo ingratefull, you deny me that.               2637
Hen. Oh that there were fome vertue in my teares,  2638
That might releeue you.                             2639
Iohn. The falt in them is hot.                    2640
Within me is a hell, and there the poyfon           2641
Is, as a fiend, confin'd to tyrannize,              2642
On vnrepreeuable condemned blood.                   2643
Enter Baflard.                     2644
Bafl. Oh, I am fcalded with my violent motion     2645
And fpleene of fpeede, to fee your Maiefty.         2646
Iohn. Oh Cozen, thou art come to fet mine eye:    2647
The tackle of my heart, is crack'd and burnt,       2648



296

296       The troublefome Rzigne of King John

2993 Panduiph i1LO~bg, giur me traur t tp tjoty tII(e byint i~
2994Z11t)fltoftifli0jobeInelnlir
2995 Wi~1to ) igero in tlbeir ljanbo, iivjo offer bp
2996 Tl~eir 1iuro foý ranfome of toreir folxIle offence,
2997 TOMjenoob mV tqi, f you fo~qiur towm all$
2998 tift bip your loanb in token yvou fo~qiue.
2999  Salisbury  Wi;et Oumbly tijanhe your royall iaieftie,
3000 aTnb bob) to ftigot foq  England anboIirr ting +
3001 aZnb 'n toje figojt of Jo/zn our foueraigne iL~o ý1
3002 3jn fpi'got of Lewes anb toje polver of Fraunce
3003 fW1Uo ljit~jriuarb are marcljin tinall Ijaft,
3 004 ZW~e erobine von% Henry in ljii; #atljero fleb.
3005  Henry tj~elp, oljep, or ebyes, a #atljir, loohe on me.
3006  Legat Ua.Jo/in farerx~el: in token of tljy faitot
3007 3lnb Agu~e tljou byefftotle feruant of totie Lop,
3008 Ltift bp tojy Janb, tijat Joe may ivitne; ljjre
3009 ~t)OU bytbif toje feruant of our!baui'our Copift
3010 p. oW  ioy betirbe tojiyfoule: blat noyfe  tljto0+
3011         Enter a Meffenger.
260'3012  Meff. ~elp toottoe mrolpo~in tnahetljiojitlbertarb
3013 ZW11idj nfigneo of beftance in thjebivinrjet
3014 ATnb all our armieiftanbetij at a gaye
3015  JJrpecting ibijat tt~eir iJeabero biU w cmmannb*



1623

The life and death of King ohn

And all the fhrowds wherewith my life fhould faile,
Are turned to one thred, one little haire:
My heart hath one poore firing to flay it by,
Which holds but till thy newes be vttered,
And then all this thou feeft, is but a clod,
And module of confounded royalty.
Baf/. The Dolphin is preparing hither-ward,
Where heauen he knowes how we fhall anfwer him.
For in a night the beft part of my powre,
As I vpon aduantage did remoue,
Were in the Wajhes all vnwarily,
Deuoured by the vnexpedted flood.
Sal. You breath thefe dead newes in as dead an eare
My Liege, my Lord:but now a King, now thus.
Hen. Euen fo muft I run on, and euen fo flop.

297
2649
2650
2651
2652
2653
2654
2655
2656
2657
2658
2659
2660
2661
2662
2663



298

The troublefome Raigne of King lohn

1591 -
3016  Bastard Itett arme outr feluts in vong it. Henries rigtt,
3017 AntD beate tie poxtr of Fraunce to fea againt.
3018  Legat Phil/. not fo, but 3 Wvil to tt)t IPinct,
3019,AnD bping  1im face to fact to parle Iit) you.
3020  Bastard topb Salsbury, your frIfe 1tall marco taitt me,
3021  So Upalt xWe baing toete troubtes to an enbe.
3022  King #Dbatte nWcktle, if ttou lout t ty   outraignt,
3023 iet not a font0 of Swin/led  Ibbey fanb,
3024 llut pull toet Iouft about tote friero tarrs:
3025 foý dty Ijaut hilbe my fatotrr anb my V    ing. Exeunt.



t    fon #-*

PT   POP   -.
1O3 zIhe tife and ceat/ of AKing lo/tn              299
What furety of the world, what hope, what flay,     2664
When this was now a King, and now is clay?         2665
Bafl. Art thou gone fo? I do but flay behinde,   2666
To do the office for thee, of reuenge,              2667
And then my foule fhall waite on thee to heauen,    2668
As it on earth hath bene thy feruant ftill.         2669
Now, now you Starres, that moue in your right fpheres, 2670
Where be your powres? Shew now your mended faiths, 2671
And inftantly returne with me againe.               2672
To pufh deftru6tion, and perpetuall fhame           2673
Out of the weake doore of our fainting Land:        2674
Straight let vs feeke, or firaight we fhall be fought,  2675
The Dolphine rages at our verie heeles.             2676
Sal. It feemes you know not then fo much as we,   2677
The Cardinall Pandulph is within at reft,           2678
Who halfe an houre fince came from the Dolphin,     2679
And brings from him fuch offers of our peace,       2680
As we with honor and refpedt may take,              2681
With purpofe prefently to leaue this warre.         2682
Baft. He will the rather do it, when he fees      2683
Our felues well finew'd to our defence.             2684
Sal. Nay, 'tis in a manner done already,          2685
For many carriages hee hath difpatch'd              2680
To the fea fide, and put his caufe and quarrell     2687
To the difpofing of the Cardinall,                  2688
With whom your felfe, my felfe, and other Lords,    2689
If you thinke meete, this afternoone will poaft     2690
To confummate this bufineffe happily.               2691



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The troublefome Razigne of King lohn

3026     A parle founded, Lewes, Pandulph, Salsbury, &c.
3027  Panduiph Lewes of Fraunce, pong Henry Englands lring
3028 Ltequire to knoWt tt)e reafon of tie claime
3029 MLoat tIou cana make to anp tling of t)is.
3030 j     Jing lohn tiat bib offenD is eDrab anb gone,
3031 Dee ubrt ere tie b~eattles trunke in pfmence 1trse,
3032 anb lOe as ljeire apparant to toe crotbne
3033e;0 novt fucceebeb in 11i% fatoters roome.
3034  Henry Lewes, uIWoat tabv of Ttrmee botl erab to& toue;,
3035 To keepe polteffion of mV latufull riglt!
3036 Anftuere in fine if t)ou tailt take a peace,
3037 ntb make furrenber of mV rigot againe,
3038 O@  trie top title tbitt ttoe bint of ftoo?
3039 ]3 tell to& toolphlin, Henry feareo tltje not,
3040 Jo0 noWtu tlie )13arone drane rnto tleir it ing,
3041  nb i)at tiou 0 )aff in England tlep bib get,
3042 Lewes Henry of England, noiu tiat John ig bDrab
3043 MoJ al t I ag t;e triefeft enemie to Fraunce,
3044 3 map toe rat)er be inbucbe to peace.
3045 1I3ut Salsbury, anb poou 13arone of toe tetalme.
3046   )iei Otrange teruolt agreed notC tit to e oa0j
3047 MoCat pou on Bury atltatte lateip fare.
3048  Salsbury jJPO  bib tde oatt) pout Vignrned tlerebiD take
3049 agree titoi t)onoutr of tote Pinte of Fraunce.
3050  Ba/fard f9 o LoDb, ttloat anftuete  make pon to tloe iing.
3051  Dolphin Saitt) Phil: tot);1 fap:3 t bootee not me,
3052 P.oq anp 1pince, noý potuer of CZI)iftn bome
3053 TO  feeke to toin tliis Jlanb Albion,
3054 1nle; te r) aure a partie in toe Jtealme
3055 13V treafon fo0 to ljelp liim in t)i0 Dtarreo.
3056 Tie pierre tubicj tWere toie partie on mp fibe,
3057 are fleb from me: toen bootee not me to figot,
3058  3ut on conbitions, as mine Ionour tuills,
3059 ]3 am contenteb to Depart toe JIealme.
3060  Henry On tivoat conbitions tuil pour tigtne; peeltb



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302

302      ~The troublefome Raigwe of King John            19

1591

306! Lewes ~ijbat Pall Wet flinkt Ipon 1w mole abuict.
3062  Ba/lard T1yn    t~no 0  1JAinrtOitttl trfr Noilo I0aut tn~.
30632aub at nto~etrlafure taltt upon thet League.
2695 3064 Mepant bWuittto Worster itttb.0 btarethe Jtlit f
3066 %Blut firti, in f(iq~t of Lewes betirt of Fraunce,
3067 itopbo taie toe~ crolint, anb ftt it on ljio blatai
3068 TD4at bp fucctttton 10 our iavfuii JIUing.
3069           They crowne yong Henry.
3070 Tf~Iug; Englands peact betine; in Henryes Uaignt,
3071 a~Tnt iobl? txWarm oaret cloftt tito 1appit league.
3072 Lett England hiut but true bWit1in tftlfeft,
3073 anti all tithe Wo~ii can ntutr 1xonq Iýtr  tatt.
3074 Lewes, tIbou fall bet b~autlp Utlipt to France.,
3075 irol ntutr #rtntlflan got fOf 1nqlit) grounIb
3076 ([Ibe tivtntitlj part tijat tl~ou 1ýaft ronqutrtb,, ophin tijV Ianbt to Worster We W~ill marcbi,
3078 tigio ball laV btanbo to litart tour 0outraignt
3079 i~tbjobfquito of lbonoqto OW g raut:+



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303

Baji. Let it be fo, and you my noble Prince,       2692
With other Princes that may beft be fpar'd,          2693
Shall waite vpon your Fathers Funerall.              2694
Hen. At Worfter muft his bodie be interr'd,        2695
For fo he will'd it.                                 2696
Baft. Thither fhall it then,                       2697
And happily may your fweet felfe put on              2698
The lineall flate, and glorie of the Land,           2699
To whom with all fubmifsion on my knee,              2700
I do bequeath my faithfull feruices                  2701
And true fubiention euerlaftingly.                   2702
Sal. And the like tender of our loue wee make     2703
To reft without a fpot for euermore.                 2704
Hen. I haue a kinde foule, that would giue thankes,  2705
And knowes not how to do it, but with teares.       2706
Baft. Oh let vs pay the time: but needfull woe,   2707
Since it hath beene before hand with our greefes.   2708
This England neuer did, nor neuer fhall             2709
Lye at the proud foote of a Conqueror,               2710
But when it firft did helpe to wound it felfe.       2711
Now, thefe her Princes are come home againe,         2712



304         The troublefome Razigne of King John       1591
2714 3080  f Englands:preerts anb people ione in one,
2715 3081 nJO 1Ope, to0 Fraunce, no Spaine can boo tt)em t ong.
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1623        The life and death of King lohn         305
Come the three corners of the world in Armes,       2713
And we fhall fhocke them:Naught fhall make vs rue,  2714
If England to it felfe, do reft but true.   Exeunt. 2715
FINIS.



THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN.
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