358 Have done the time 1 Your kindness better. Paui. You are one. Would have him wed W Dis. If you would no of his raci Is 't not the tenour hum- As my Antigonus to break his My lord should to the heavens The crown will find an heir: Left his to the worthieft Was like to be the best. Leo. Good Paulina, Care Great to his Who haft the memory of Hermione, who haft the onour, 10, ther Had Iquar'd me to thy counsel I might have look'd upon my queen Have taken treasure from her lips Paul, And left them Morich, for what they yielded. Leo. Thou speak Nomore fuch And betr fuck K. K. Jobs Our strony noffeffion, and our right for E.s. Your strong poffeffion, much more than your Or else it must go wrong with you, and me: [right So much my confcience whispers in your ear: Which none but heaven, and you, and I, thall bear Enter the Sheriff of Northamptonfort, we Ex. My liere, here is the strangeft controverf What doch sove PBeca Your PWe RA Come from the country to be judg'd by you, Lys ba bruber. This expedition's charge-What men are you? Born in Northamptonshire; and eldest Where how Betwee As have K. Jobe. What art thou? Rd. The fon and heir to that fame Faulconbridge. K. Jobs. Is that the elder, and art thou the hear You came not of one mother then, it seems. Phil Moft certain of one mother, mighty king, lin L That is well known; and, as I think, one tather But, for the certain knowledge of that truth, I put you o'er to heaven, and to my mother; 3536 Of that I doubt, as all men's children may. E... Out on thee, rude man! thou doit fhame And wound her honour with this diffidence. K. Juén. A good blunt fellow-why, benga younger born, Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance Phil. I know not why, except to get the lمحد That full I lay upon my mother's head; And were our father, and this fonike ba * That is, condut, adminiftration. Thar Apro eur-de-lion, -YERS/ brother had my thape, t's his, like him 2; uft; my face so thin, rom off this place, any cafe. [tune, t thou forfake thy for- nd to France. by land, I'll take my C:٠٤ red pound a-year; ice, and 'tis dear. - د ない my name begun; vife's eldest son. ヤハear his name whose A rife more great; net. [hand; Phil. Brother, adieu; Good fortune come to thee, For thou wast got i' the way of honesty! [Exeunt all but Philip. A foot of honour better than I was ; For your conversing. Now your traveller, O fir, says answer, at your best command; No, fir, says question; I, frweet fir, at yours: And talking of the Alps, and Apennines, 25 The Pyrenean, and the river Po) It draws toward supper in conclusion so. And fits the mounting spirit, like myself: ide, give me your 30 That doth not smack of observation; ht or day, 1.TEJs gave land : I away. Il me fo. not by truth: まど・he hatch 5: 15.right, (And so am I, whether I smack, or no) 35 Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth: ٤٠٠٠٦alk by night; 40 What woman-post is this? hath the no husband, do catch: Ow haft thou ed 'squire.- 45 Lady. Where is that slave, thy brother? where is That holds in chase mine honour up and down? Phil. My brother Robert? old Sir Robert's fon? e than need. Colbrand the giant, that fame mighty man? e and dignified appearance. 2 The meaning is, " If I had his is agreeable to the practice of that was believed, I think erroneously, to be a contraction of デニング Robert bis, for Sir Robert's, Poss mhative D a full-blown rofe. We must observe, By obfcure paffage our poet is anticipating the date of another abeth was the first, and indeed the only prince, who coined in L٤٠٣yes, three-half-pence, pence, three-farthings, and half-pence; vere alternately with the rose behind, and without the rofe. The and three-farthings had the refe. But Dr. Warburton ob And when was then all the court-fashion. 4 What then? 5 These ex ! Not that I have the power to clutch my hand, And say, there is no sin, but to be rich; 5 Gain, be my lord; for I will worship thee! [Exit SCENE ACT I. be marry'd! gone to swear a peace! False blood to false blood join'd! Gone to be friends! Shall Lewis have Blanch? and Blanch those pro-20 vinces ? It is not fo; thou hast mif-spoke, mif-heard; Be well advis'd, tell o'er thy tale again: And though thou now confefs, thou didst but jest, III. Full of unpleasing blots, and fightless 2 stains, Lame, foolish, crooked, swart 3, prodigious 4, 15 Patch'd with foul moles, and eye-offending marks, I would not care, I then would be content; For then I should not love thee; no, nor thou Become thy great birth, nor deserve a crown. But thou art fair; and at thy birth, dear boy! Nature and fortune join'd to make thee great: Of nature's gifts thou may'st with lilies boaft, And with the half-blown rose: but fortune, oh! She is corrupted, chang'd, and won from thee; She adulterates hourly with thine uncle John, 25 And with her golden hand hath pluck'd on France To tread down fair respect of sovereignty, And made his majesty the bawd to theirs. France is a bawd to fortune, and king John; That strumpet fortune, that ufurping John:30 Tell me, thou fellow, is not France forfworn? Envenom him with words; or get thee gone, And leave those woes alone, which I alone Am bound to under-bear. Sal. Pardon me, madam, 35 I may not go without you to the kings. Conft. Thou may'st, thou shalt, I will not go I will instruct my forrows to be proud; 40 To me, and to the state of my great grief, Sal. As true, as, I believe, you think them false, 45 Conft. Oh, if thou teach me to believe this forrow, Sal. What other harm have I, good lady, done, K. Phil. 'Tis true, fair daughter; and this blessed Ever in France shall be kept festival: [day 50 To folemnize this day, the glorious fun Stays in his course, and plays the alchymist; Turning, with splendor of his precious eye, The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold: The yearly course, that brings this day about, 55 Shall never fee it but a holy-day. Conft. A wicked day, and not a holy-day! [Rifing What hath this day deserv'd? what hath it done; That it in golden letters should be fet, 60 Among the high tides', in the kalendar? Nay, rather, turn this day out of the week; This day of shame, oppreffion, perjury: To clutch the hand, is to clasp it clofe. 2 Sightless here means disagreeable to the fight. black, tawny. 4 i. e. portentous, fuch as may seem a prodigy. 5 i. e, folemn seasons. 31. c. Or, i : Or, if it must stand still, let wives with child K. Phil. By heaven, lady, you shall have no caufe Conft. You have beguil'd me with a counterfeit, Resembling majesty; which, being touch'd, and try'd, Proves valueless: You are forsworn, forsworn; Keep Stephen Langton, chosen archbishop 5 K. Jobn. What earthly name to interrogatories To charge me to an answer, as the pope. 10 Tell him this tale; and, from the mouth of England, 15 Where we do reign, we will alone uphold, And our oppreffion hath made up this league:- Wear out the day in peace; but, ere fun-fet, Auft. Lady Constance, peace. Conft. War! war! no peace! peace is to me a war. coward; Thou little valiant, great in villainy! K. Phil. Brother of England, you blafpheme in this. K. Jobn. Though you, and all the kings of Are led so grossly by this meddling priest, 25 Purchase corrupted pardon of a man, Who, in that fale, sells pardon from himself: 30 Against the pope, and count his friends my foes. From his allegiance to an heretic; 35 And meritorious shall that hand be call'd, Conft. O, lawful let it be, 40 That I have room with Rome to curse a while! Auft. O, that a man would speak those words to me! 45 Conft. And for mine too; when law can do no right, limbs. Auft. Thou dar'st not say so, villain, for thy life. Faulc. And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. K. Jobn. We like not this; thou dost forget thyself. Enter Pandulph. K. Phil. Here comes the holy legate of the pope. Let it be lawful, that law bar no wrong: Law cannot give my child his kingdom here; For he, that holds his kingdom, holds the law: Therefore, fince law itself is perfect wrong, 50 How can the law forbid my tongue to curse? Pand. Philip of France, on peril of a curse, Let go the hand of that arch-heretic; And raise the power of France upon his head, Unless he do submit himself to Rome. Pand. Hail, you anointed deputies of heaven! - 55 Eli. Look'ft thou pale, France? do not let go To thee, king John, my holy errand is. I Pandulph, of fair Milan cardinal, And from pope Innocent the legate here, Do, in his name, religiously demand, Why thou against the church, our holy mother, So wilfully dost spurn; and force, perforce, thy hand. Conft. Look to that, devil! lest that France repent, And, by disjoining hands, hell lofe a foul. 60 Faule. And hang a calf's-skin on his recreant limbs. 3 i. e. i. e. be disappointed by the production of a prodigy, or monster. 2 But here fignifies except. put it off. 4 When fools were kept for amusement in great families, they were diftinguished by a calf-skin coat, which had the buttons down the back. This circumstance will explain the sarcasm of Constance and Faulconbridge, who mean to call Austria a fool. 5 i. e. cowardly. Aust. i 1 Auft. Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs, Faulc. Your breeches best may carry them. Is, purchase of a heavy curse from Rome, France, thou may'st hold a ferpent by the tongue, Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold. Blanch. That's the curse of Rome. [here to That is, to be the champion of our church! In likeness of a new untrimmed bride. [faith, Conft. O, if thou grant my need, What fince thou swor'st, is sworn against thyself, For that, which thou hast sworn to do amiss, 15 And being not done, where doing tends to ill, Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down. [this. 20 And falfhood falfhood cures; as fire cools fire, K. John. The king is mov'd, and answers not to K. Phil. I am perplex'd, and know not what to Within the scorched veins of one new burn'd. [fay. 25 And mak'st an oath the furety for thy truth If thou stand excommunicate, and curst? [yours, K. Phil. Good reverend father, make my person 3 And most forsworn to keep what thou dost swear. And tell me, how you would bestow yourself. Pand. All form is formless, order orderless, Therefore, thy latter vows, against thy first, 35 Against these giddy loose suggestions : So heavy, as thou shalt not shake them off, Will not a calf's-skin stop that mouth of thine? 45 Blanch. Upon thy wedding-day? Against the blood that thou hast married? 500 husband, hear me!-aye, alack, how new 55 Conft. O, upon my knee, Made hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee, [may Blanch. Now shall I fee thy love; what motive 60 Be stronger with thee than the name of wife? Conft. That which upholdeth him that thee up[nour! holds, His honour: Oh, thine honour, Lewis, thine ho i. e. undroffed. 2 A regreet is an exchange of falutation. Some editions read chased. |