Is in thyself rebellion to thyself; And better conquest never canst thou make So heavy as thou shalt not shake them off, BAST. Will't not be? Will not a calf's-skin stop that mouth of thine? LEW. Father, to arms! BLANCH. Upon thy wedding-day? Against the blood that thou hast married? What, shall our feast be kept with slaughter'd men? O Husband, hear me! ay, alack, how new Is Husband in my mouth! even for that name, Which till this time my tongue did ne'er pronounce, Against mine uncle. Made hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee, BLANCH. Now shall I see thy love: what motive may When such profound respects1 do pull you on. PAND. I will denounce a curse upon his head. 290 300 310 K. PHI. Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall from thee. CONST. O fair return of banish'd majesty! ELI. O foul revolt of French inconstancy! 320 K. JOHN. France, thou shalt rue this hour within this ACT III Sc. I hour. I weighty and grave conditions. ACT III BAST. Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time, Sc. I Is it as he will? well, then, France shall rue. 330 BLANCH. The Sun's o'ercast with blood: fair Day, adieu! LEW. Lady, with me; with me thy fortune lives. [Exit Bastard. France, I am burn'd up with inflaming wrath, That nothing can allay 't, nothing but blood, 340 K. PHI. Thy rage shall burn thee up, and thou shalt turn K. JOHN. No more than he that threats. To arms let's hie! [exeunt. SCENE II. Plains near Angiers. Alarums, excursions. Enter the Bastard, with BAST. Now, by my life, this day grows wondrous hot; Some airy Devil hovers in the Sky, And pours down mischief. Austria's head lie there, While Richard breathes. Enter KING JOHN, ARTHUR, and HUBERT. K. JOHN. Hubert, keep thou this boy. Richard, make My mother is assailed in our tent, And ta'en, I fear. up: BAST. [exeunt. SCENE III. The Same. Alarums, excursions, retreat. Enter KING JOHN, ELINOR, K. JOHN [to ELINOR.] So shall it be; your Grace shall More strongly guarded. [to ARTHUR.] Cousin, look not sad: Thy grandam loves thee; and thy uncle will As dear be to thee as thy father was. ARTH. O, this will make my mother die with grief! K. JOHN [to the Bastard.] Cousin, away for England; haste before: And, ere our coming, see thou shake the bags Of hoarding abbots; their imprison'd angels Set now at liberty: the fat ribs of Peace Must by the hungry War be fed upon : Use our commission in his utmost force. BAST. Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back, I leave your Highness. Grandam, I will pray 10 Coz, farewell. [Exit Bastard. ELI. Come hither, little Kinsman; hark, a word. K. JOHN. Come hither, Hubert. O my gentle Hubert, We owe thee much! within this wall of flesh There is a soul counts thee her creditor, 1 signs. 20 ACT III Sc. II АСТ III By Heaven, Hubert, I am almost asham'd K. JOHN. Good Friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet, But thou shalt have; and, creep Time ne'er so slow, Yet it shall come for me to do thee good. I had a thing to say; but let it go! The Sun is in the Heaven, and the proud Day, Is all too wanton and too full of gauds To give me audience: if the midnight bell If this same were a churchyard where we stand, Had bak'd thy blood, and made it heavy-thick, A passion hateful to my purposes; Or if that thou could'st see me without eyes, K. JOHN. 30 40 50 Do not I know thou would'st? 60 And, wheresoe'er this foot of mine doth tread, 1 imagination. I could be merry now. Hubert, I love thee; K. JOHN. For England, Cousin: 70 [exeunt. SCENE IV. The French KING'S Tent. Enter KING PHILIP, LEWIS, PANDULPH, and K. PHI. So, by a roaring tempest on the flood, A whole armado1 of convented2 sail Is scatter'd and disjoin'd from fellowship. PAND. Courage and comfort! all shall yet go well. K. PHI. Well could I bear that England had this praise, So we could find some pattern of our shame. |