Hub. Lord Bigot, I am none. Who killed this prince? me, all you, whose souls abhor The uncleanly savors of a slaughter-house, For I am stifled with this smell of sin. Big. Away, toward Bury, to the dauphin there! work? Beyond the infinite and boundless reach Art thou damned, Hubert. Hub. Do but hear me, sir. Bast. Ha! I'll tell thee what; Thou art damned as black-nay, nothing is so black; Thou art more deep damned 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, Bast. If thou didst but consent To this most cruel act, do but despair; And, if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread 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, I do suspect thee very grievously. Hub. If I in act, consent, or sin of thought, Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath Which was imbounded in this beauteous clay, Bast. 1 i. e. confounded. [Exeunt. 2 i. e. the interest which is not at this moment legally possessed by any On the death of Arthur, the right to the crown devolved to his sister Eleanor. one. 3 Girdle. ACT V. SCENE I. 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 To stop their marches, 'fore we are inflamed. Our people quarrel with obedience; Rests by you only to be qualified. Then pause not; for the present time's so sick, That present medicine must be ministered, Or overthrow incurable ensues. Pand. It was my breath that blew this tempest up, stubborn usage of the Upon your pope; But, since you are a gentle convertite, My tongue shall hush again this storm of war, Upon your oath of service to the pope, Go I to make the French lay down their arms. [Exit. K. John. Is this Ascension-day? Did not the prophet I Counties here most probably mean, not the divisions of the kingdom, but the lords and nobility in general. 2 Convert. Say, that, before Ascension-day at noon, But Heaven be thanked, it is but voluntary. Enter the Bastard. Bast. All Kent hath yielded; nothing there holds out, But Dover castle. London hath received, Like a kind host, the dauphin and his powers. And wild amazement hurries up and down 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; An empty casket, where the jewel of life, By some damned hand was robbed and ta'en away. Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; 1 Thus in Hamlet: such a sight as this Becomes the field.” 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; And grapple with him, ere he come so nigh. K. John. The legate of the pope hath been with me, And I have made a happy peace with him; Bast. O inglorious league! To arms invasive? Shall a beardless boy, And find no check? Let us, my liege, to arms. 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, PEмBROKE, BIGOT, and Soldiers. Lew. My lord Melun, let this be copied out, And keep it safe for our remembrance. 1 Forage here seems to mean to range abroad; which Dr. Johnson says is its original sense; but fourrage, the French source of it, is formed from the low Latin, foderagium, food: the sense of ranging, therefore, appears to be secondary. 2 i. e. I know that our party is able to cope with one yet prouder, and more confident of its strength than theirs. |