From forth this morsel of dead royalty, Meet in one line; and vast confusion waits, ACT V. SCENE I. KING JOHN's palace. 150 [Exeunt. Enter KING JOHN, PANDULPH, and Attendants. K. John. Thus have I yielded up into your hand The circle of my glory. [Giving the crown. Take again Pand. K. John. Now keep your holy word: And from his holiness use all your power go ΙΟ This inundation of mistemper'd* humour *Angry. Then pause not; for the present time's so sick, Pand. It was my breath that blew this tempest up, Upon your stubborn usage of the pope; *Convert. My tongue shall hush again this storm of war 20 Go I to make the French lay down their arms. [Exit. K. John. Is this Ascension-day? Did not the prophet Say that before Ascension-day at noon My crown I should give off? Even so I have: But, heaven be thank'd, it is but voluntary. Enter the BASTARD. Bast. All Kent hath yielded; nothing there holds out But Dover castle: London hath received, And wild amazement hurries up and down 30 K. John. Would not my lords return to me again, After they heard young Arthur was alive? Bast. They found him dead and cast into the streets, 40 An empty casket, where the jewel of life live. Bast. So, on my soul, he did, for aught he knew. But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad? Be great in act, as you have been in thought; Let not the world see fear and sad distrust Govern the motion of a kingly eye: Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; Threaten the threatener and outface the brow Of bragging horror: so shall'inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviours from the great, 50 Grow great by your example and put on And fright him there? and make him tremble there? O, let it not be said: forage, and run To meet displeasure farther from the doors, 60 K. John. The legate of the pope hath been with me, And I have made a happy peace with him; Bast. O inglorious league! 70 To arms invasive? shall a beardless boy, They saw we had a purpose of defence. K. John. Have thou the ordering of this present time. Bast. Away, then, with good courage! yet, I know, Our party may well meet a prouder foe. [Exeunt. SCENE II. The DAUPHIN's camp at St. Enter, in arms, LEWIS, SALISBURY, MELUN, Lew. My Lord Melun, let this be copied out, And keep it safe for our remembrance: Return the precedent to these lords again; That, having our fair order written down, Both they and we, perusing o'er these notes, Sal. Upon our sides it never shall be broken. And, noble Dauphin, albeit we swear A voluntary zeal and an unurged faith To your proceedings; yet believe me, prince, I am not glad that such a sore of time Should seek a plaster by contemn'd revolt, And heal the inveterate canker of one wound By making many. O, it grieves my soul, That I must draw this metal from my side To be a widow-maker! O, and there Where honourable rescue and defence Cries out upon the name of Salisbury! But such is the infection of the time, That, for the health and physic of our right, We cannot deal but with the very hand Of stern injustice and confused wrong. And is't not pity, O my grieved friends, That we, the sons and children of this isle, Were born to see so sad an hour as this; Wherein we step after a stranger march Upon her gentle bosom, and fill up ΙΟ 20 30 Her enemies' ranks,-I must withdraw and weep 41 Lew. A noble temper dost thou show in this; And great affections wrestling in thy bosom Doth make an earthquake of nobility. O, what a noble combat hast thou fought Between compulsion and a brave respect! Let me wipe off this honourable dew, That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks: My heart hath melted at a lady's tears, Being an ordinary inundation; But this effusion of such manly drops, This shower, blown up by tempest of the soul, 50 Into the purse of rich prosperity As Lewis himself: so, nobles, shall you all, That knit your sinews to the strength of mine. And even there, methinks, an angel spake: Enter PANDULPH. Look, where the holy legate comes apace, Pand. It may lie gently at the foot of peace, 60 70 Lew. Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back: I am too high-born to be propertied,* *Appropriated. To be a secondary at control, 80 Or useful serving-man and instrument, |