Sal. Thou art a murderer. Hub. Do not prove me so; Yet I am none: Whose tongue soe'er speaks false, Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies. Pem. Cut him to pieces. Bast. Keep the peace, I say. Sal. Stand by, or I shall gall you, Faulconbridge. Bast. Thou wert better gall the devil, Salisbury: If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot, Second a villain, and a murderer? Who kill'd this prince? Hub. Lord Bigot, I am none. Big. Hub. 'Tis not an hour since I left him well: I honour'd him, I lov'd him; and will weep My date of life out, for his sweet life's loss. Sal. Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, For villany is not without such rheum; And he, long traded in it, makes it seem Like rivers of remorse and innocency. Away, with me, all you, whose souls abhor The uncleanly savours of a slaughter-house, For I am stifled with this smell of sin. Big. Away, toward Bury, to the Dauphin there! out. Pem. There, tell the king, he may inquire us [Exeunt Lords. Bast. Here's a good world !-Knew you of this fair work? Beyond the infinite and boundless reach Hub. Do but bear me, sir. Bast. Ha! I'll tell thee what; Thou art damn'd as black-nay, nothing is so black; Thou art more deep damn'd than prince Lucifer : There is not yet so ugly a fiend of hell As thou shalt be, if thou didst kill this child. Hub. Upon my soul, If thou didst but consent To this most cruel act, do but despair, And, if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread That ever spider twisted from her womb Will serve to strangle thee; a rush will be A beam to hang thee on; or would'st thou drown thyself, Put but a little water in a spoon, And it shall be as all the ocean, Hub. If I in act, consent, or sin of thought Bast. Meet in one line; and vast confusion waits ACT V. SCENE I. The same. A Room in the Palace. Enter KING JOHN, PANDULPH with the Crown, and Attendants. K. John. Thus have I yielded up into your hand The circle of my glory. Pand. Take again [Giving JOHN the Crown. From this my hand, as holding of the Pope, Your sovereign greatness and authority. K. John. Now keep your holy word: go meet the French; And from his holiness use all your power 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: My tongue shall hush again this storm of war, Say, that, before Ascension day at noon, Bast. All Kent hath yielded; nothing there holds out, But Dover castle: London hath receiv'd, Like a kind host, the Dauphin and his powers: And wild amazement hurries up and down After they heard young Arthur was alive? An empty casket, where the jewel of life By some damn'd hand was robb'd and ta'en away. K. John. That villain Hubert told me, he did live. Bast. So, on my soul, he did, for aught he knew. But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad? Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; O, let it not be said!-Forage, and run And I have made a happy peace with him; Bast. O inglorious league! Shall we, upon the footing of our land, Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive? shall a beardless boy, A cocker'd silken wanton brave our fields, Or if he do, let it at least be said, 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. A Plain, near St. Edmund's-Bury. Enter, in arms, LEWIS, SALISBURY, Melun, PEMBROKE, BIGOT, and Soldiers. 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, May know wherefore we took the sacrament, And keep our faiths firm and inviolable. Sal. Upon our sides it never shall be broken. To your proceedings; yet, believe me, prince, |